09/09/2014
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"None of us want to handicap our President in terms of the advisers that he can have, and to clarify, we want him to have the best and brightest."
"He has raised the important questions. It is not in a partisan manner but, in fact, to protect the very document that he and I are sworn to protect."
"Senator Durbin and I can work and accomplish through our colleagues in the Senate and the House, what has happened over the last 2 years."
"I do not see it as a partisan issue."