Confirmation Quote by Lawrence O'Donnell

That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an unacceptable nomination…

— Terry Eastland

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he…

— Arlen Specter

I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority in the…

— Ron Johnson

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House…

— Harry Reid

Having been on the front lines of the confirmation battles involving Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, I know firsthand what is at stake…

— Wendy Long

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce,…

— Elena Kagan

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce,…

— Elena Kagan

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

— Matt Gaetz

Rudy Giuliani would bring conflicts of interest into any Senate confirmation hearing that would be impossible to clear if confirmation hearings operate under the…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at…

— Alberto Gonzales

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are…

— Rachel Maddow

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

— G. Edward Griffin