Dick Durbin: “This report has uncovered more of what we’ve come to expect from the Trump Administration—cavalier and wasteful spending…”

Mr. Chairman, there are many things we still can do… One of them is not to expedite nominees who have not been carefully vetted. I hope we don’t accept that as a standard in this Committee.

Before appointing a person to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, shouldn’t we take a close look at their background?

Unfortunately, it appears our Republican colleagues, who I thought learned a lesson from last Tuesday’s election, did not get the message…

What we are seeing here is an effort to scramble quickly to resurrect defeated candidates in Texas and others to fill positions on the federal district court before Senator Talarico is sworn in on January 3.