Political Quotes

“I just wanted to take a minute. I know we have several people waiting to speak, but I wanted to respond to my colleague from South Dakota because I think for Senator Thune to come to the floor and castigate Democrats for holding up Judge Gorsuch, who has just been nominated, and for suggesting we are going to filibuster, the fact is, throughout most of last year, we saw the Republican majority in this body hold up the nominee Merrick Garland, President Obama's nominee. For the first time in history, this body refused to hold a hearing on a nominee for the Supreme Court, refused to give an up-or-down vote, and to suggest that we should not get a fair hearing on the nominee to the Supreme Court--Judge Gorsuch--I think is just not someone who is going to be good for the American people. Unlike the Republican majority, I haven't heard any Democrats saying: We don't think that Judge Gorsuch should get a hearing or that he should get an up-or-down vote. Everybody I have talked to agrees he should get a hearing and an up-or-down vote. As for the time that it is taking us to review the nominees of this administration, the fact is, the Trump administration was delayed in putting forward nominees. They were much later than the previous two Presidents.…”