[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 165 (Tuesday, November 19, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S8144]
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                              NOMINATIONS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, it is hard for me to find the words to 
express my disappointment for our country in yesterday's vote on 
another person to go to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
  The last three people have been filibustered, and they are good 
people. They are qualified. Their records are outstanding for their 
work in the courts--scholastically brilliant, every one of them. But 
Republican obstruction has become endemic in the Senate over the last 
five years, grinding the work of this institution to a halt, 
threatening the integrity of this institution and damaging our country. 
No President should have to put up with what President Obama has had to 
put up with.

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