Chuck Schumer actually said...

"Sometimes my colleagues and I--hopefully not me--will put a hold on someone's name in order to get some kind of leverage for an entirely unrelated item."

"I think it is ideological as opposed to looking at the facts."

"Yes, that is why I want to get involved. It is not rocket science, so I can probably deal with it."

"This idea that they are at the center of the crisis, as I say, I believe is ideologically driven as opposed to fact-based driven."