Harry Reid: “we were unable to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the foreign operations appropriations bill. These pieces of…”

“we were unable to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the foreign operations appropriations bill. These pieces of legislation, as important as they are to the Senate, are more important to the President. I hope someone will report to the President from the minority why they are holding up these bills that are so important to the administration. We cannot move forward on these bills, and the holdup is we are not moving, they say, quickly enough on the judicial nominations. I say to the American public, that is not very good reasoning.”