On the recordMay 7, 2010
This is a very serious issue for the Senate in terms of how we move forward on the rules. I kind of liken it--and I have some history here, and I know everybody has their history when it comes to administrations. We have this administration elected a little over a year and a half ago, trying to put their people in place. They are trying to put people in place to run, for example--I am going to be talking about the Tennessee Valley Authority and talking about the EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. They are trying to put their people in place to run these agencies and to get the government to work. Sometimes in the past--and my father passed recently, but he used to visit with me about the way they used to do it in the old days. In the old days you got to put your people into place within the first couple of weeks of an administration. I remember my father telling me he took over as Secretary of the Interior in January. Within 2 weeks, he had all of his Presidential appointees in place. He had his team in place. He could start carrying out the responsibilities that had been given him by the President.
