Barbara Boxer: “I believe it is critical we move forward with these nominations so that our agencies can fulfill their missions to serve…”

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.

We have to have the people who were Republicans before really just drop that label and either become Democrats, if they can’t get themselves to do that, to become nonpartisan, independent voters.

They've sold their soul, this party used to be called the Grand Old Party. And now it's a cowardly party of lies.

The way the Senate works, as you know, it’s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.