Political Quotes

“If a Member of the Senate is being considered for nomination, and we are exercising our advice and consent power, and if there is factual conduct in that individual's background that is presented on the floor that is uncomplimentary, would presenting the facts of that conduct in the process of debating an individual be considered in violation of rule XIX? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The rule makes no distinction between those Senators who are nominees and those who are not. The rule does not permit truth to be a defense of the slight.”