Political Quotes

“I am not going to speak at great length about why we are in the position we are. I have already spoken. As I have said, Senator Leahy has a hearing scheduled this week. He is going to have some hearings next week. The report I received recently is that we have not done any U.S. marshals because we do not have them. They have not been sent to the committee. We cannot do it. We approved 14 U.S. attorneys last Thursday. We are moving these nominations along just as quickly as we can. The Senator from Wyoming is absolutely right we need to do; an energy bill, but we cannot do an energy bill. We have had 2 weeks where we have done nothing. We still have five appropriations bills to handle, plus all the conferences, and they are not letting us move to them. Sure, we can do two things on the floor at once; we agree. But they are not letting us do one thing on the floor. The leader has said that we will get to energy as soon as we can, and that means we have to get rid of all these other items first. We are approaching Thanksgiving. We have already had two continuing resolutions. This is not the time to dillydally. We have very important things we need to do for this country, and we are in quicksand on judges. We are going to go forward the best we can and jump through all the procedural hoops they are making us jump through. I would think sometime in the near future the administration might get involved. The administration has more to lose than anyone else.”