I respect very much, of course, the decision made by the minority leader. I just disagree with him. It seems to me it is going to unnecessarily create a lot of work for a lot of people. Sending those two names back--if the President wishes to resubmit them, he can do that, but there is no need to belabor that any further today.
Discussing the decision of the minority leader regarding presidential nominations.
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Get rid of the filibuster. It’s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis’ funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It’s very bad.
Never in the history of the country, never in the history of the country have we produced more for a president and somebody that’s led his party than we’ve done together.
Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.
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