Appointments Quote by John Podhoretz

“we senators get recesses, but Senate recesses aren’t really breaks. They’re just periods of time where we’re doing different kinds of work, like traveling…

— Al Franken

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

— Robert Byrd

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does…

— John Jay Hooker

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my…

— Hillary Clinton

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

— Arlen Specter

The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees,…

— Mitch McConnell

The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose…

— Mitch McConnell

In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance…

— Sam Brownback

It is absurd to suggest a president whose party controls the Senate should jointly decline to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat - ever.

— Tom Fitton

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

— Spencer Abraham

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

— Mo Brooks

You know, the notion that one senator who represents a state smaller than my congressional district could have the power to unilaterally derail the…

— Ritchie Torres