David Perdue: “I rise tonight after having listened to several floor speeches today. I don't understand it. Here we are again with…”

“I rise tonight after having listened to several floor speeches today. I don't understand it. Here we are again with problems such as the debt, the Zika virus, funding our military, and yet we spent the majority of the day in this body talking about something I think we have already decided is not going to change this year, and that is the potential nomination to the vacancy on the Supreme Court. I just think I need to do this one more time. I have spoken before about my position, and I want to rise in support of Senator Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. I think it is important that I again discuss why I believe the Senate should not hold hearings or schedule a vote on any Supreme Court nominee until the American people have chosen whom they want to be their next President. I would first like to address this issue of the Senate's responsibility under the Constitution with respect to judicial matters and judicial nominees in particular. According to article II, section 2, the President has the power to nominate Supreme Court Justices-- nothing new there. We in this body have the power to either consent or withhold our consent from this nominee. The minority leader himself said at that time when referring to the Senate's constitutional responsibility to confirm President George W. Bush's judicial nominee: Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees a vote.…”