Patrick Leahy actually said...

It is hard to understand why it took the President nearly three and a half years of a four-year term to send up the nominees.

Government works only if you trust it, and if people feel they cannot be trusted with information, then we do have problems.

I hope we can move quickly.

But we also have to have meaningful checks and balances. We are going to safeguard our fundamental values as we try to secure the Nation.