Political Quotes

“my friend also talked about the accomplishments of the various committees. My caucus knows how much I believe in the committee system. I think it is very important that committees work well. We know one committee that is not working well, led by the senior Senator from Iowa. The senior Senator from Iowa claims that he feels no pressure over blocking President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. If that is really true, Senator Grassley must not read the papers from Iowa. To date, there have been two dozen Iowa editorials condemning Senator Grassley's refusal to consider President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, and there are many more letters to the editor. This is only Iowa. Around the country there have been scores and scores of editorials talking about how wrong it is that the Judiciary Committee is taking a vacation. In Iowa there was a column published in the Des Moines Register over the weekend that was especially discerning. It was authored by veteran Iowa political journalist Kathie Obradovich. This is what she wrote: Senator Grassley keeps offering new reasons for refusing to give Judge Merrick Garland a hearing and a vote on his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. He may as well keep trying, as the explanations he's given so far for waiting until after the next presidential election are mostly nonsense. I am only going to mention a few of the excuses that the senior Senator from Iowa has invented in an effort to avoid his job.…”