Harry Reid: “just so everyone understands, my friend from Idaho talks about the need to move forward on airport security. Let us move…”

“just so everyone understands, my friend from Idaho talks about the need to move forward on airport security. Let us move forward. There is no one preventing us from moving forward on this side of the aisle. We want to move forward. We have been trying, for a week, to get to this bill, but we are having to jump over all kinds of hurdles. We invoked cloture with a vote of 97-0 yesterday. And they--the minority--have said, OK, we are going to use the whole 30 hours postcloture. We have been stymied. We have tried to move to other things. They will not let us. Last week, we tried to move to a matter dealing with appropriations. We have Agriculture appropriations we tried to get to. No thanks. We tried to get to foreign operations. No thanks. Why? Because of some unrelated issue. That unrelated issue is that we are not moving enough judges for them. The people at home in Nebraska or in Nevada, I bet they are not coming to you, I say to the Presiding Officer, asking: How many judges is the Senate moving this week? They are concerned about the ability to fly out of Omaha to Las Vegas and back. That is what they are concerned about. We want to move forward on airport security. We are not stopping anyone from moving forward to airport security. We should have been on that last Wednesday. Here it is a week later, and we are still not on it. We are postcloture on the motion to proceed to airport security.”