Political Quotes

“another thing that I shouldn't have to come to the floor to talk about--and it will only take me about 3 or 4 minutes--is that I am still hearing questions about my intent to object to the nomination of William Evanina. These are the same questions I heard last year when I initially placed my hold on Evanina. By the way, my hold is printed in the Record, and the rules of this Senate require all Members who put a hold on a nomination or a bill, within 2 days after doing that, to put something in the Record, and most Senators aren't following that rule of the Senate. So if you have some disagreement about something and you put a secret hold on and somebody wants to sit down and talk with you to see what is wrong, how are they going to know who it is? That is why, in 2011, on a vote of 96 to 4, Senator Wyden and I got these rules, so there should be no secret holds in the U.S. Senate. So I am back here again. This statement will be the fourth time since June 4, 2018, that I have publicly expressed my reason for this hold here on the Senate floor. It seems to me no one has been listening to what I have been saying, but what is unusual about that? As I have said repeatedly, the Judiciary Committee has experienced difficulty in obtaining relevant documents and briefings from the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.…”