Political Quotes

“If this is not an ego trip between titanic Senate egos as to who is going to prevail, I ask the Senator from New York, what is the agenda here? Why would the Republicans in the new majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee change the rules, change the traditions, change the approach, take away power of individual Members of the Senate to ask questions of nominees, to have the time to try to come to understand the values they are going to bring to the judiciary, to have time to at least debate the nominations? What is the larger question here? What is it that is driving this kind of radical transformation of the Senate Judiciary Committee? At this moment in our history, having just come off the last Presidential election so closely decided, followed by a congressional biennial election which, again, was closely decided, what is it that is driving this effort, does the Senator believe, on the Senate Judiciary Committee to make such radical changes in the way we choose Federal judges?”