Thomas Daschle: “I first want to commend the distinguished majority leader for his work in helping us clear the Executive Calendar. I…”

“I first want to commend the distinguished majority leader for his work in helping us clear the Executive Calendar. I regret, frankly, that there are still a number of nominees... that are not covered by this unanimous-consent request. I guess most particularly, Mr. President, I am concerned that there are a number of judicial nominees that have been on the calendar for many, many months. And I hope that we can reach some accommodation with regard to those nominees as well. It has been requested of me, and I am happy to do so, that we would ask unanimous consent that the majority leader's request be amended to include the four other judicial nominees on the Executive Calendar and the five that were reported from the Judiciary Committee today. Many of those, as I said, have been pending now for a long period of time. And it would mean a good deal to a lot of Members, and certainly to the families of these judicial nominees, if they could be included.”