[The day the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the party leaders placed a call to the White House to report the good news.] You must have made a hell of a speech out there today, ... We are proud.

The Senate and the House are at loggerheads, and it would be virtually impossible for the leaders of those two houses to be close friends under those circumstances. It would lead to suspicions from their respective caucuses.

If the Senate fails to act and move forward on those nominees,

[O]n the day after that happened, the beneficiary was George W. Bush. The Senate, the Congress united, and the American people lost through the Patriot Act and the American people lost through a war on the basis of a lie and $340 billion of the taxpayers' money has been spent and there is no end in sight,

in the hope the Senate will act on your nomination by February.

In the bill that was introduced in the Senate, in the bill that I introduced along with some members, we preserve the tactical intelligence part of the equation, ... And so, I hope we can change their minds.