Political Quotes

“one, so we fully understand, we are perfectly willing to have--even though we don't hold Judiciary Committee meetings every week as we used to--we would be perfectly willing to have a meeting that was not in a backroom but open so the press would see it. It is important to have such meetings open, for the press and anybody who wants to come in. It is unfortunate that we have had--with the Supreme Court vacancy--there has been a closed-door, back-room meeting. That is when a small handful of Republican Senators decided, with the Republican leader, to say the President should not follow his constitutional duty and nominate a Supreme Court nominee, and, in an unprecedented fashion, the Senate Judiciary Committee would not follow its constitutional obligation of advice and consent. In that small closed-door meeting, it was decided that Senators should not follow the solemn oath they have taken on this floor when they say they will uphold the Constitution ``so help me God.'' We have had enough closed-door meetings, especially closed-door meetings that tell us to violate an oath where they said ``so help me God'' and to not follow the Constitution. I think it is important that we have these meetings since the untimely passing of Justice Antonin Scalia. There is certainly a disagreement over how to move forward in filling the Supreme Court vacancy, but I think the American people want us to do our job.…”