Political Quotes

“Republicans believe, regardless of who the President is, they should be able to hire their staff. I can say we not only believe that, we practice that. In 2013, there was an ongoing debate over nominations with President Obama. Democrats and Republicans came together to resolve the time issue for nominations under President Obama. Democrats asked Republicans to join them to say: Let's fix the problem we have with the length of time on nominations because it is taking too long, and so they made a proposal. It was 2 hours, equally divided--so it would actually be 1 hour--for district court judges, 8 hours for other nominees, which again equally divided would actually be 4 hours total for other lower nominees, 30 hours for circuit court, Supreme Court, Cabinet officers. Republicans joined with Democrats in 2013 and with 78 votes at the beginning of President Obama's second term--and may I remind this body, Republicans were not excited about President Obama's second term-- Republicans joined with Democrats on this one principle: Every President should be able to hire their own staff and their staff not be blocked. When the American people vote for a President, this body should respect the vote of the American people and allow that President to hire their staff. Now, when President Trump was elected, Democrats have 128 times blocked President Trump from getting his nominees--128 times.…”