Political Quotes

“Madam President, I am here to join my colleagues to raise our concerns about what is undoubtedly a deliberate attempt to keep President Obama's nominees from getting through the Senate and taking over their jobs, regardless of whether it is a court justice or whether it is the Director of the Office of Violence Against Women. I was on the floor a couple months ago because the Director of the Office of Violence Against Women, from New Hampshire, had been held up 2 months after unanimously being approved in the committee. She was held up not because it had anything to do with her qualifications but because somebody objected to something else--who knows what. The person who objected never had to tell why they were objecting. That is the situation we are in now. We have 94 nominees being held up by the other side of the aisle, and they are not telling us why they are holding up these nominees. They have to come forward and allow a vote. It is time for us to move forward on the judiciary nominees--on all of those 94 nominees--and get a vote and keep government moving.”