Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I understand there has just been an agreement reached and entered into the Record regarding a number of appointments that were on the Executive Calendar. I understand further that--in fact, I discovered just recently--there is a rule anybody who is pending on the Executive Calendar when there is a recess of longer than 30 days needs to be resubmitted. There are a number of judges who, applying that rule and the order, would need to be resubmitted by the President. Two of them, as I understand it, are district judges. What I would like to do is ask unanimous consent regarding those two. I know there is nobody from the minority party on the floor of the Senate right now, so I am not going to ask that unanimous consent and take advantage of the lack of their presence on the floor. But I would like to ask that someone come to the floor so I may ask unanimous consent, as to district court judges who are pending on the Executive Calendar, that the application of that rule be waived for this recess. These are names that are going to be resubmitted anyway. It adds nothing to the process other than just an extra, sort of deliberate and unnecessary hassle to require those submission and committee procedures to be replayed.…”