John Cornyn: “I appreciate your clarifying that. I agree with, I think, every member of the committee or all the witnesses who said…”

I don’t know whether they think they can wait us out or … we’ll cave. But I assure you, we won’t.

If there’s not enough votes to confirm him, then Senator Grassley might decide to postpone it. But I don’t think that’s the No. 1 goal right now.

It would be a monumental mistake for Blanche to attempt to resurrect the $1.8 billion program in another form.

We didn’t have the authority to sort that out.