John Cornyn: “I know sometimes people get the impression that in Washington nothing gets done on a bipartisan basis. But that is just…”

The more you cast the validity of the voting system in doubt it discourages more people from participating.

We want to express our gratitude to Mr Blanche and his staff for working with us on this, and we look forward to voting to advance his nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee soon.

This is unfortunately shaping up to be a close and I hope not disastrous election.

There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.