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On the recordJanuary 18, 2022
Remember what I said, and I just said this. So you obviously heard me. We warned, in 2013, when I think all Republicans voted against reducing the 60-vote threshold for district court and circuit court judges, so you could pack the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, that you would regret that, and you have regretted it because Republicans were saying in 2017: What is good for the goose is good for the gander. And we voted to reduce it then for a Supreme Court Justice. Now, I am sure that, from your point of view, you have a Supreme Court that is not very favorable to what you think a Supreme Court ought to be doing, with the three people that Trump put on there. So that is where I am coming from.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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