Bob Bennett: “I think it was a very smart thing for the President-elect to do.”

I do not use holds as a regular device. Very, very seldom, do I put a hold on any nomination, and I always do it publically.

Yes. Norm, that is why they called it the Nuclear Option.

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

This Administration performed something--that I thought was absolutely egregious and outrageous, and the only way I could demonstrate my concern about that was to put a hold on a nomination.