Bob Bennett: “It may very well be that the solution to the problems that we talk about as a dysfunctional Senate lies somewhere other…”

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

I do not think that that is a violation of anything the founders had in mind, and I do think that is something that a member of the House could never, ever do.

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.

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.