Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, this is the sixth or seventh time that I have come to the floor to stop my colleagues on the left from cramming these nominations down our throat, but I will come to the floor as many times as possible. We have spent almost 12, 13 hours--or I have--during the last few weeks with these UCs. Last night, we were here debating this for about 2 hours. That is fine. That is what we are supposed to do in the Senate. We are supposed to debate, and I am not against that, but we also could have spent time voting. I understand the Senator from Nevada has someone she wants promoted. I am fine with that. If she brings it to the floor, Senator Schumer brings it to the floor, I will vote for them. I am not here blocking nominees; I am here blocking promotion of all of these nominees at one time. I would love to vote for her nominee, but Leader Schumer is responsible for that. He is responsible for the floor. Bring nominations one at a time, and I will vote for them. I am all for the military. That is one of the reasons I am here. But we have got to use our time better. That is what Senator Schumer says. Our time is spent on nominations. We have been here for about 5 months. We have been on vacation 30 days, and we could have done all of those nominations in that amount of time. It is amazing to me how we don't want to do our job one at a time instead of just doing them all at once.…”