Bob Bennett: “We underestimate the importance of a distribution system.”

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.

It may very well be that the solution to the problems that we talk about as a dysfunctional Senate lies somewhere other than amending the filibuster rule.

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.