Barbara Boxer: “I had the privilege to address the Senate for about 15 minutes on the quality of two wonderful Ninth Circuit court…”

“I had the privilege to address the Senate for about 15 minutes on the quality of two wonderful Ninth Circuit court nominees who are coming up for cloture votes today at 5 o'clock. I am very hopeful we can, in fact, shut off debate on this and get to the votes themselves tomorrow. These are two excellent people, wonderful human beings, wonderful family members. Their families and they have gone through a difficult time because they have been kind of twisting in the wind--for 2 years, in Marsha's case; in Richard's case, for 4 years--while awaiting this moment. I hope if they are watching today, they feel as optimistic as do I that hopefully it is going to have a happy ending.”