Harry Reid Vote Quotations

We're going to have a vote Tuesday morning. Everyone knows there are not enough votes to support a filibuster, but it's an opportunity to people to express their opinion on what a bad choice it was to replace Sandra Day O'Connor.

There are no commitments of a date certain to vote on the nomination, so everyone should understand that,

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Justice O'Connor has been the deciding vote in key cases protecting individual rights and freedoms on a narrowly divided court. The stakes in selecting her replacement are high,

We're almost there. We're not there. We still have some obstacles. The leader and I have spoken about them the last few hours. There's other pieces of legislation that may interfere. We have some amendments we have to vote on that are going to be hurtful to some people and not to others.

vote of no confidence on the Bush administration's policy in Iraq.

The United States Senate said the policy must change; staying the course will not do, ... It was a vote of no confidence on the president's policies in Iraq.

At a time when the president is abusing his power at every turn, I cannot vote to confirm a judge who won't be an independent check on the executive branch.

Democrats and Republicans acknowledged that staying the course is not the way to go, ... Therefore, this is a vote of no confidence on the Bush administration policy in Iraq.

I intend to cast my vote against the nomination when the Senate meets here next week,

I have too many unanswered questions about the nominee to justify a vote confirming him to this enormously important lifetime position.