Political Quotes

“I rise to support the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hopefully, we will see his confirmation in the weeks to come. As I have come to the floor and talked about before, Judge Gorsuch is a fourth-generation Coloradan who serves on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the U.S. circuit court that is housed in Denver, CO. It is the circuit court that oversees about 20 percent of the land mass in the States of Colorado, Oklahoma, and places in between. Once he is confirmed to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch will become the second Coloradan to have served on the Court. We have a great history of another Supreme Court Justice who served on the highest Court. Associate Justice Byron White had the distinction of being the only Supreme Court Justice to lead the NFL in rushing, and he was also from Colorado. If Judge Gorsuch is confirmed, Justice Gorsuch will join Byron White as another Coloradan on the High Court. Justice Rutledge also received his bachelor's of law degree from the University of Colorado. So we do have a great history of Colorado westerners joining our Nation's highest Court. Mr. Gorsuch was confirmed to the Tenth Circuit Court a little over 10 years ago--11 years ago--in 2006, by a unanimous voice vote. He was so popular and so well supported that there was not even a rollcall vote taken in this Chamber. It was a simple acclamation by a voice vote.…”