[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 17413-17414]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              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 D.C. 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

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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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