Political Quotes

“Madam President, if the Senator from Arizona will yield, just to put a final point on that, again, 454 days before the administration put forward this nominee, there have been 79 days since, and they are blaming Republicans for holding up this nominee--again, notwithstanding the fact that it was 454 days before they ever put it forward. If we don't have a hearing and he doesn't have to come in and answer questions about these at least what I would characterize as outlandish statements, again, it is an abrogation of the responsibility the administration has of working with the Senate, the Senate's power of advise and consent, to at least have a hearing, to at least have a vote, to at least have some public discussion about this gentleman's qualifications and his attributes with regard to this important position to which they are going to appoint him. I wish to point out as well that there is one other example of this. The TSA Administrator, which is another very important job, by the time they actually got somebody submitted who could be acted upon here in the Senate, 482 days had lapsed. It was 521 days when the new TSA Administrator was finally approved, but we went 240 days when the post was vacant, from the time the post was vacated in January of 2009 until they appointed their first nominee, who then had to withdraw because of problems. Then they appointed somebody else who withdrew because of problems.…”