Political Quotes

“I will be urging the people in my caucus to vote for these nominees, both of them. Today, the Senate is expected to confirm these two nominees: Judge Russell to the District of Maryland and Mr. Tharp to the Northern District of Illinois. As I said, I support the nominees, and I do, in fact, expect that both of them will be confirmed. We continue to confirm the President's nominees at a brisk pace. In fact, with today's confirmations, we will have confirmed 145 of President Obama's district and circuit court nominees. I would like to put this in perspective. We confirmed two Supreme Court nominees during President Obama's term so far. Everyone knows it takes a tremendous amount of time and resources to consider Supreme Court nominees. The last time the Senate confirmed two Supreme Court nominees was during President Bush's second term. During President Bush's entire second term, the Senate confirmed only 120 district and circuit court nominees. Compare that, if you will, to the 145 district and circuit court nominees we have confirmed so far since President Obama has become President. Let me say that same thing a different way. We have confirmed 25 more nominees for President Obama than we did for President Bush in a similar time period. Of course, President Obama's term is not over yet.…”