"The issue is not cloture votes, per se. It's the partisan, leadership-led use of cloture vote to kill, to defeat, to assassinate these nominees." - Bill Frist answering Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) who asked him if he had voted on March 8, 2000, to uphold a filibuster on Judge Richard Paez, a Clinton nominee. Frist did. It's the hypocrisy, stupid.
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