Political Quotes

“I close just begging, urging, imploring, and beseeching my colleagues on the Republican side to move forward on the Supreme Court nominee. We have not had a Supreme Court vacancy for as long as a year since the Civil War because we were at war in the 1860s. The average nomination process for confirming a Supreme Court nominee when there are 8 members of the Supreme Court is only about 6 weeks. The longest, Justice Thomas, took 99 days. The President of the United States is elected for 4 years--not a 3-year term. A 4-year term has 300-plus days in the term. This Senator is disappointed--I will leave it at that--to hear that my colleagues have said there will not be hearings. Then they said that not only will there not be hearings for the President's nomination, they will not even meet with a nominee. This Senator finds it rather shameful for an institution with this kind of heritage and this kind of reputation that we don't do better than that. I urge my colleagues to do our jobs, do what we were elected to do, what we were sworn in to do, and do what we are paid to do to bring this nominee--vote against them if you like but bring up this nominee for real Senate consideration. I yield the floor, and I thank Senator Grassley for allowing me more time. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa.”