Chuck Schumer actually said...

"As you know, I have been working on legislation on this for a long time."

"I think we are going to try to take about 400 or 450 out of that so that we reduce by about 30, 35 percent the number of positions that require confirmation."

"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."

"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."