With respect to the Paez nomination, is it not also true that a majority of the Republicans supported the cloture motion vote so that Judge Paez could get a vote but that many of those very same Senators then voted against him? Having given everyone in this body an opportunity to vote, they exercised their right to vote against him but did not deny the right of all the other Senators to vote for him, and that he was confirmed?
Discussing the confirmation process of Judge Paez during Senate debate.
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Mr. Chairman, Representative Jacobs, the fact is that our current system has deteriorated and aged to the point that we wouldn't be confident in the deterrent value of it on out into the future.
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