Thomas R. Carper: “Good morning, everybody. I hope we remember how to do this.”

I want to thank our members for being here today.

For too long, the seats have not been filled, and not been filled properly.

I think that's really disgraceful, and it's unacceptable that the local DC courts have vacancies that last years because the Senate fails to act in a timely way.

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.