Political Quotes

“I share the perplexed attitude of the Senator from Iowa about our friends' concern about nominations. The President has even talked about it. I have gone back and looked at the record. There was a Washington Post article 3 weeks ago. I gave a copy of it to the President. This is what it said: On Cabinet nominations, this Senate has considered President Obama's Cabinet nominations more rapidly than they did the last three Presidents. That is Cabinet nominations. Never in the history of the Senate has the Senate denied a Cabinet nomination by filibuster, with the exception of the Democrats blocking John Bolton in the George W. Bush administration. So the President is treated better on Cabinet nominations. Evidence from the Congressional Research Service says President Obama's circuit judges in his first term were considered more rapidly than President George W. Bush's circuit judges. Senator Grassley just pointed out that in the second term of President Bush he had 1 judge confirmed by this time; President Obama has 13. On district judges, according to the Congressional Research Service, during the first term of President Obama his district judges were considered a little more slowly than President George W. Bush's, but the Senate changed the rules earlier this year to cut down the postcloture debate time to make it easier to bring judges to the floor and get them through more rapidly.…”