Dick Durbin said "I ask this question in relation to Richard Paez, and I will not go to the question of the cloture vote necessary to bring him to the floor, but I ask the then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee if it was fair to Richard Paez, nominated by the President, to the Ninth Circuit, well-qualified by the ABA, to have waited 3 years and then to have faced a motion to proceed on the floor which the Senator from Utah and a majority of the Republicans voted against after this man had waited for 3 years for a vote? Was that fair to Richard Paez?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 12, 2003

I ask this question in relation to Richard Paez, and I will not go to the question of the cloture vote necessary to bring him to the floor, but I ask the then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee if it was fair to Richard Paez, nominated by the President, to the Ninth Circuit, well-qualified by the ABA, to have waited 3 years and then to have faced a motion to proceed on the floor which the Senator from Utah and a majority of the Republicans voted against after this man had waited for 3 years for a vote? Was that fair to Richard Paez?

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Dick Durbin

Democratic · Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the nomination of Richard Paez to the Ninth Circuit during Senate floor debate.

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