Tom Harkin: “I knew it would be objected to. But I am going to do it every day to make the point that her name is unfairly being…”

“I knew it would be objected to. But I am going to do it every day to make the point that her name is unfairly being bottled up in the Judiciary Committee. No one has said she is unqualified, or anything such as that. I can only assume it's that the Republicans figure maybe their nominee will win the Presidency, and all of these will fall by the wayside, and, rather than Bonnie Campbell, we will have somebody else. Maybe that is the way they feel. But that is not the way to run this place. Once you go far down that road, it may be pretty hard to turn back. Times change. There will be a time when there will be a Republican in the White House and the Senate will be Democratic. Do we want to repeat the same thing this year? Do we want to go down that road? Is that what this place has become? If you start it on that side, that is what is going to happen, because when the Democrats take charge, they'll look back at what happened in the year 2000. We shouldn't go down that road.”