Political Quotes

“Madam President, the Senate has just restored itself to an almost unbroken tradition of never filibustering judges. We have actually restored the status quo before the administration of President George W. Bush. It was during that administration when some of our friends across the aisle, along with some of their liberal law professor allies, dreamed up a way of blocking President George W. Bush's judicial nominees, and that was by suggesting that 60 votes was really the threshold for confirming judges, rather than the constitutional requirement of a majority vote. It has been a long journey back to the normal functioning of the United States Senate, and it is amazing that it has taken a nominee like Judge Gorsuch to bring us back to where we were back around 2001. We have been debating and discussing this nominee for a long time now, and the opponents of Judge Gorsuch have tried time and time again to raise objections to this outstanding nominee--a nomination that no one in the Senate opposed 10 years ago when he was confirmed to a position on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. They claimed he wasn't mainstream enough. They said this was a seat that really should have gone to Merrick Garland. They have even accused him of plagiarism. All of these arguments have no merit whatsoever and really represent desperate attempts to try to block this outstanding nominee.…”