Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today to praise the majority and minority leaders for coming together to make sure we get our pending judicial nominees confirmed in a timely manner. Today, the Senate is back on track to do what we have always done for decades: confirm judicial nominees--the vast majority of whom are totally uncontroversial--as part of our day-to-day business. Thanks to the hard work of the leaders of both caucuses, and to Chairman Leahy, who has been persistent and smart and focused on this issue, we were able to avoid having 17 cloture votes this afternoon on judicial nominees--most of whom were unopposed; 13, in fact, were supported by their Republican home State Senators. While the details of the agreement have not yet been announced publicly--and they will be by Senator Leahy and Leader Reid and Senator McConnell--we know there is an agreement, and that is a good thing. The bottom line is, I hope we can continue at least at the same pace, when we have cleared the backlog that has existed. Let's be clear: This is what doing our job is, and it is doing exactly what we have done literally for decades--nothing more, nothing less. I suppose each side could point fingers at the other as to why this degenerated, but that is not the point today.…”