Orrin Hatch: “I hate to say this, but this is worse than Robert Bork, and I did not think it could get any worse than that.”

I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? Hearing none, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (H.R. 1551), as amended, was passed.

I am grateful to my colleagues and especially my colleague from Louisiana for his kind remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate. It means so much to me. I want him to know that. I want the others to realize how much I appreciated their…

Those backlogs at the Social Security Administration are unacceptable to many, if not most, of us here in the Senate.

This is a long-overdue nomination.