Thomas R. Carper: “I had expected to come in, coming in on a train today, to see a different Chairman up here.”

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.

I hope is that the issues we just discussed... we can keep at it today and see if we can't find a way to yes.

I think that's really disgraceful, and it's unacceptable that the local DC courts have vacancies that last years because the Senate fails to act in a timely way.