Political Quotes

“today the Senate will consider the 10th judicial nomination this year. With today's expected action, we will have confirmed four circuit and six district nominees. At this point in 2005--and that was the beginning of President Bush's second term, comparable to what we are talking about for President Obama--the Senate had confirmed zero judicial nominees. Let me repeat that. At this point in 2005, the Senate had confirmed not 10, not 4, not even 1 judicial nominee, so that comes out to be zero. The quick pace of this year comes on top of a very productive 112th Congress in which 111 judges were confirmed. In the last Congress, we confirmed more judges than any other Congress--going back 20 years to the 103rd Congress. Despite this progress and our continued cooperation with the President and Senate Democrats, we continue to hear unfounded criticism. For example, last week the White House spokesperson criticized the Senate for what he characterized as arbitrary and unique delays in getting nominees confirmed. In a previous post on its website, the White House complained about unprecedented delays in the Senate confirmation process.…”