Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Barrasso thank you, mr. President. This week, the senate is moving through a series of votes to fill vacancies in the federal appeals court. President trump has nominated highly qualified, mainstream judges and legal scholars to do these jobs. Now, democrats have responded once again with delay and with obstruction. It is clear to me that we need to change the rules in the senate that govern how we debate nominations in this body. All year, democrats have been putting up roadblocks to nominations. They have forced the majority leader to file cloture so that they we can confirm nominees like these four judges. President trump, as of last mister president , as of last friday, democrats have forced the senate to file cloture 47 times when we had to have cloture vote on Donald Trumps nominees. There are only 6 cloture votes of the previous president , 5 for obama, none for georg