Political Quotes

“No, I am going to finish my statement. What happens in these committees is they ask all the questions they want, but 28 questions is not enough for them. For example, on Gina McCarthy--the President asked her to be the Director of the EPA--more than 1,100 questions were submitted to her after the hearing. Jack Lew--who has basically had many jobs in government--had a full hearing. They gave him more than 700 questions to answer. This has gotten way out of hand. Anything they can do to slow things down, that is what they do. Executive and judicial nominees who are ready to be confirmed by the Senate have been pending an average of 200 days--more than 6 months. Let me repeat that: Executive and judicial nominees who are ready to be confirmed by the Senate have been pending an average of 200 days. That is more than 6 months. The confirmation process has moved at a glacial pace because of extraordinary Republican obstruction. Cloture has been filed on 58 of President Obama's nominees--58. By this point in President Bush's term, cloture had been filed on a handful of nominees. Republicans are not blocking these nominations because they object to the qualifications of the nominees. This body passed something called Dodd-Frank. It was an answer to what was going on on Wall Street--the collapse of Wall Street. Richard Cordray, the nominee to lead the Consumer Finance Bureau--which is part of that bill that is now law--is a perfect example.…”