Political Quotes

“next to the Senator from Texas, who just spoke, is the Executive Calendar of the U.S. Senate. There are about 30 pages of that calendar on his desk that contain the names of individuals nominated by the Obama administration, then sent to committee, approved by the committee, then sent to the calendar to be approved on the floor of the Senate. The Republican majority in the Senate refuses to call these names. The plea that is being made by the senior Senator from Texas is, why can't we just get along? Well, I hope we can, but this is a bad place to start, with all of these names sitting right in front of us, waiting patiently--some of them for over a year--to be called for a vote on the floor of the Senate. They all were reported out by committees that have a majority Republican membership. Of course, there is exhibit A in this, and that is Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland was President Obama's nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court after the death of Antonin Scalia. Since February of this year, the process has been going forward by the President and the White House to send a name to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. For the first time in the history of the Senate, the Republican majority refused to give the President's Supreme Court nominee a hearing or a vote. It has never--underline that word--never happened before. So we hear the plea from the Senator from Texas for cooperation: We have to get along here. Well, we should.…”