Advice Quote by Joe Biden

While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This function is…

— Mike DeWine

I would hope that the Senate would do its job and confirm the nominee that President [Barack] Obama has sent to them. That's the…

— Hillary Clinton

The Senate should consider a rule ensuring that every judicial nominee receives a vote by the Senate within 180 days of being nominated by…

— Brett Kavanaugh

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution…

— Robert Byrd

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its…

— George Mason

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .

— Orrin Hatch

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check…

— Mitch McConnell

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty…

— Gary Bauer

I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well,…

— Nina Totenberg

No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of…

— Arlen Specter

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a…

— Patrick Leahy

But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination…

— Alexander Hamilton