Pete Sessions: “I want to ask, would the Senator want to apologize for his remarks that he made in 1998 when he, Senator Leahy, in the…”

“I want to ask, would the Senator want to apologize for his remarks that he made in 1998 when he, Senator Leahy, in the Congressional Record, said: I cannot recall a judicial nomination being successfully filibustered. I do recall earlier this year the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee and I noted how improper it would be to filibuster a nomination. That was when President Clinton was in office and Chairman Hatch, a Republican, was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Chairman Hatch said on the floor of the Senate and in committee and in private Republican conferences that a filibuster was not good. Senator Leahy and the Democratic leadership all said filibusters were not good. We did not have those filibusters. So it is amazing to me, now that within a year or two after making statements such as that, and taking that position, we now have those very same people leading a filibuster. I would say apologies need to come from the other side.”