Political Quotes

“I, frankly, wish I could spend more time on the most important highway bill. I was chairman of the full committee on two separate occasions, and I am interested in the jurisdiction of the highway bill. I am sorry my attention is diverted from all we are doing on judges. Let me say this to my distinguished counterpart, the Republican leader, the senior Senator from the State of Tennessee, I have said in the Senate on a number of occasions, I cannot justify what went on during the 8 years Clinton was President. I am not here to go into a dissertation of what happened the last 4 years during the Bush years. But I say this: We never got into any problem with filibusters during the Clinton years because these people never got any kind of attention. They were buried in the committee. I hope the American public understand that 69 people were nominated by a President of the United States, nominations came to the Hill and were lost. Some of them waited years and years, almost 5 years. We are not here to debate every 1 of the 10. We have narrowed it down to a fairly small number. We have to go forward. I don't know if the distinguished Republican leader and I can come up with a formula that satisfies our two caucuses. We realize the time is of the essence. Not only has the country had enough of the judicial problem we call the nuclear option, but the Senator from Tennessee and the Senator from Nevada have had enough. We have to move on. We have work we have to do in this Senate.…”