If you were outvoted on a three-judge panel, does that mean to you in any way that your legal analysis or your position was wrong?

In my view, when a President submits a qualified candidate of high character and sound legal mind, absent exceptional circumstances, that candidate is entitled to a vote.

To have President Obama, who is in his fifth year in office, not have a single nominee confirmed... is wrong.

the DC Circuit is the least busy circuit in the country.

I share very strongly the views expressed by some of my colleagues that it was shameful that Caitlin Halligan, the nominee to the DC Circuit, was filibustered and denied a vote on the floor.

I hope that my colleagues will join with me to show the American people the Senate is not broken and that regular order is capable of addressing the vacancy crisis on the DC Circuit.

I do think that you cannot allow agreements to be broken and have there be no consequences.

the Senate has been doing its job and doing it quickly.

I am introducing the Court Efficiency Act.

I am grateful for the opportunity to proceed to hear from our nominee.

As Chief Justice Roberts has said, "It is a tradition of the American Bar that goes back before the founding of our Nation that lawyers are not identified with the positions of their clients."

Thank you, Mr. President. We have heard a great deal about balance in the debates on the Senate floor. As we move toward voting on a budget resolution, I just want to remind all of us in this Chamber today to keep in mind that a balanced…