On the recordMay 23, 2005
And spend a lot of time on the Senate floor. Mr. McCONNELL. Yes. It does not mean the nomination is on the way to nowhere. It could mean the nomination is on the way to somewhere because you invoke cloture and then you get an up-or-down vote. And I remember you, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, advocating that step, even though we all ended up, many of us, voting against those nominations once we got to the up-or-down vote.
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