Chuck Schumer: “I thank my colleague. But I say my good friend from Utah had another method even more effective in bottling up judges…”

“I thank my colleague. But I say my good friend from Utah had another method even more effective in bottling up judges, and that was never bringing them up for a vote. I think it is hard to see how keeping someone from a vote in the Judiciary Committee when there were vacancies on the bench, when those nominees waited and waited and waited, is anymore commendable. To me, it seems certainly less commendable than bringing them up for a vote and then having a large number of Senators--not a majority but certainly more than 40 percent of this body, as the rules of the Senate allow--not do it.”