Political Quotes

“Mr. President, to borrow from Yogi Berra, it is deja vu all over again in the Senate this week. Once again, the Senate is taking up a lot of judicial nominations, and, once again, we will spend a lot of time considering noncontroversial nominees. Now my colleagues across the aisle have started to complain about the Senate's focus on nominations. I am pretty frustrated myself, not because we are considering these nominees--it is our constitutional duty, after all--but because we are being forced to spend so much time on their nominations, but that is what my Democratic colleagues have obliged us to do. Back in the day, most of the judicial nominees we are considering would have been confirmed without the time-consuming cloture vote process. By this point in President Obama's first term, Republicans had required cloture votes on just three of President Obama's judicial nominees--three, Mr. President. Contrast that with today. As of June 5, Democrats have required cloture votes on 76 of President Trump's judicial nominees--76 to 3. Now, of course, some might leap to the conclusion that this is not obstruction for obstruction's sake.…”