Political Quotes

“for 3 straight days, the Senate Republican leader has come to the floor and has given us a history of Presidential nominations to the Supreme Court, but clearly an investigation is necessary. There must have been a hacking into his computer because he can't print the name ``Merrick Garland'' to include in his speech. The Senator from Kentucky, the Republican leader, has failed to mention that name because that name is the reason we are in this spot today. When Justice Antonin Scalia passed away, President Obama exercised his constitutional responsibility to send a nominee to the Senate to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. For the first time in the history of the Senate--for the first time ever--this Republican-led Senate refused to give this nominee a hearing and a vote. It had never--underline the word ``never''--happened before. Was the reason that he was unqualified? Of course not: he was unanimously ``well qualified,'' serving on the DC Circuit Court. The reason was stated clearly by Senator McConnell: We are going to place a bet that the next President will be a Republican, and we will let them fill this vacancy. When the Republicans come to the floor, as they have this morning talking about the politicization of this process, the reason we are here, when we should be celebrating the 1-year anniversary of Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court, is because they kept that position vacant so it could be filled by a Republican President.…”