Bolton's already been nominated -- already been confirmed four times by the Senate for other diplomatic posts. Why is this time different?

Bolton's already been confirmed four times by the Senate for other diplomatic posts. Why is this time different?

look we don't want to go forward with this vote unless we get the documents we've been looking for.

This is not a process where we're a rubber stamp parliament for the Bush administration.

I think it's a positive step for us to be able to set aside the nuclear option.

It will retain the individual rights and responsibilities of each senator.

For me, even though I have been here only a period of approximately five months, what I have found most troubling about Washington, D.C., is the poisonous atmosphere of partisanship that exists in this Capitol.

What bound us was the belief, the strong belief, that exercising the pending motion of this constitutional option would be detrimental to the long-term well-being of the United States Senate.

Senator McCain asserts the Senate won and the country won.

We're here, 14 Republicans and Democrats, seven on each side, to announce that we have reached an agreement to try to avert a crisis in the United States Senate and pull the institution back from a precipice that would have had, in the…

I'm grateful for the efforts of Senator Frist and Senator Reid to come to an agreement on this issue.

This agreement is meant in the finest traditions of the Senate it was entered into: trust, respect and mutual desire to see the institution of the Senate function in ways that protect the rights of the minority.

I was frankly concerned about the idea of 12 United States senators doing the job that should be done by 100, of selecting which judges get through and which don't.

This came as a result of perspiration not inspiration.

I think this is a good day for the United States Senate but I think more important it's a good day for the country.

The duties of the United States Senate are set forth in the Constitution of the United States. Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees a vote.

Unfortunately, the stripping of Indian lands has not stopped.

Although I do not personally support gaming, I served as the primary sponsor of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act because of the matter of sovereignty.