Political Quotes

“I wish to quote our friend Senator Reid, the majority leader of the Senate. His candor is, again, remarkable and very clear. He said: We are focusing very intently on the DC Circuit. We need at least one more. By that he means one more judge. Continuing: There are three vacancies. We need at least one more and that will switch the majority. When the court sits en banc, when all judges decide to sit on the most important cases, then President Obama will have a majority of nominees on that court. They will be able to outvote the Republican nominees on the court. Senator Schumer is complaining about some of the cases I mentioned a moment ago, and he concludes: ``We will fill up the DC Circuit one way or another.'' I believe that the evidence is overwhelming that the motivation at play here is one to make sure that this court becomes a rubberstamp for the big government policies of this administration. That is why they are ignoring appellate courts that actually need the help, and they are trying to stack the court in the second highest court in the land. That is why they are also threatening--we heard a little bit of that today, rattling that saber once again--the nuclear option to try to confirm judges with a simple majority rather than the 60-vote cloture requirement under the Senate rules. We have a good-faith solution. This is Senator Grassley's bill, which would allocate these three unneeded judges to places where they are actually needed.…”