Senator Coons Floor Remarks After Nuclear Option for Gorsuch Nomination

Delaware Senator Chris Coons engages in the debate over Judge Neil Gorsuch after the nuclear option on Supreme Court nominees was invoked, recalling reminders of late Senator Robert Byrd that the Senate is the sure refuge and protector protector of the rights of political minorities, following a simple set by the Gorsuch by that there was discussion lasting consequences of the nuclear option, invoking the imagery the marble statues, falls outside the chamber, quoting Senate limits on its power spoken by former Vice President Adlai Stevenson, that the nuclear option was an assault on rules, that he was not ready to end debate on the nomination of Gorsuch, that he came over time to regret joining Democrats in changing the rules for lower court nominees in 2013, that those who served in the Senate longest know best the record of grievance, that he anticipates colleagues will regret those decisions and actions, that he wants to work together not to continue to down the traditions and rules of the Senate but to find ways to strengthen and fortify and sustain them.