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>> what happens if romney gets elected or frankly any other republicans, one of the things that is odd about the moment all these are expiring they all expire in the lame duck. you could actually imagine everything happening when the senate is going to change hands in three weeks, when the house is going to change hands and white house changes hands. every single branch of the government could be in turmoil at that exact moment. i dont know how you handle that, you kick the can down the road? >>...

Past ten years on votes you find its a vehicle for partisan posturing and sort of speeches that signify nothing. just as an example, what happens is the presidents party, the members of the presidents party line up, and they all vote to raise the debt ceiling because they know they have to, and the minority party gets together and makes speeches about how terrible debt is. when the white house changes hands, the people who are making speeches about how terrible it was to raise the debt ceiling t...

In this committee, should continue to apply, regardless of who is president. if what were seeing now is the new normal for every time control of the white house changes hands, the sfath, quite frankly, will be a much lesser institution. unfortunately, our committee has not been entirely immune to the hyperpoliticization of the nomination process. we saw that last week with the mnuchin hearing and i regret to say i think well see more of it today. i hope not. but i think during todays hearing, we...