Political Quotes

“I rise today appalled that an extremist minority in the other body has forced Miguel Estrada, an excellent and well-qualified attorney, to withdraw his name as a candidate for nomination to the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. As chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee and as cochairman of the Working Group on Judicial Accountability, I have been actively following the fight over the President's nominations, and I am shocked by the obstructionism that has taken place. Prohibiting an up-or-down vote on this outstanding nominee is not only a disservice to Miguel Estrada, it is a disservice to the American people. In a time of rampant Federal judicial vacancies, the partisan politics employed by the minority in the other body is nothing short of an outrage and it has to stop.”