Political Quotes

“Today we confirmed three nominations for high level positions in the Department of Justice. The Senate is moving forward to confirm the nomination of Gregory Katsas to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice. This is a nomination that was set to be confirmed before the Easter recess until it was blocked by a last-minute, anonymous Republican hold and additional complications in our relationship with the Department of Justice arose. We have made sufficient progress to move forward today. We also confirmed today two additional nominations, Kelly H. Rankin to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming and Clyde R. Cook to be U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Those are among the many presidential nominations that we have expedited through the Judiciary Committee. They were considered and reported by the Committee yesterday and being confirmed today. With the confirmations today, we will have confirmed 35 executive nominations so far this Congress, including the confirmations of 12 U.S. attorneys, 7 U.S. marshals, and the top 3 positions at the Justice Department. When the President and Senate Republicans play to rightwing special interests with constant complaints about judicial nominations, they ignore the progress we have made to restock the leadership ranks at the Department of Justice that were decimated by the scandals of the Gonzales era.”