Political Quotes

“If the Senator will yield, let me give an example of what you just said. I know you know, but it is important for the Record. I meet every year--I will not now because I am not the top Democrat on the committee. But every year for, I don't know, 14 or 15 years, I meet with what is called the Judicial Conference --a legislatively organized body where the Congress says the court can have such a function, where we look for recommendations. I might add, by the way, you may remember when there was a Republican President named Reagan, the Senator from Delaware introduced a bill to increase the number of Federal judgeships by 84. Why did I do that? I did that because the Federal court came to us, the Judicial Conference, and said, ``Here is our problem. We don't have enough judges to administer justice in a timely fashion in this country. And there is a backlog on all these criminal cases.'' I must admit to the Senator, when they came to me with that request, I knew the problem I was going to have.”