Political Quotes

“I have deep respect for my friend the senior Senator from Iowa. But he has been listening to himself talk too much and he is starting to believe it. Everyone knows we are in this situation because the Republicans are slow-walking every nomination-- every nomination. There is no reason, no reason whatsoever, that we are having votes on cloture on these judges, as Senator Leahy pointed out earlier, reported out unanimously. It is a waste of the taxpayers' time to go through the process we have been going through. We are going to continue working to move the backlog. We have scores of judges, district court judges, and we have a number of circuit court judges. We are going to, in the near future, file cloture on all of them. If that is what the Republicans want us to do, then that is what we will do. The American people will see the colossal waste of time we have been going through, not only on district court judges but circuit court judges and all nominations. I would suggest to my friend the senior Senator from Iowa he not believe his own words because they are simply not true. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is expired. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of James Donato, of California, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California? The yeas and nays were ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.”