Political Quotes

“it has been an eventful week already. We have seen a number of Members come to the Senate floor and debate the qualifications of Judge Neil Gorsuch, the President's nominee to the highest Court, the U.S. Supreme Court. Many have come to the floor talking about his high qualifications--the fact that he has the highest American Bar Association rating; the fact that he has the support of the 2008 cochair of the Democratic National Convention; the fact that Neal Katyal, a high-ranking former official in the Obama administration, supports the confirmation of Neal Gorsuch. We have had others come to the floor, of course, and express their opposition. We have had them come and express their opposition to an individual who has proved himself to be a mainstream judge, who has proved time and again that he has the respect of his colleagues on the Tenth Circuit Court--the bench of the Tenth Circuit Court, as well as circuit courts around the country, and that he has the respect and admiration of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, where Judge Gorsuch clerked for Justice White, the last Coloradan to be on the Nation's High Court, and where he clerked for sitting Justice Anthony Kennedy. Judge Gorsuch has been known and has become known as a feeder judge-- somebody who provides clerks to the Supreme Court because they understand the quality and caliber of Judge Gorsuch's work.…”