“One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.”

— Mitch McConnell

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/34561-2#sthash.QvX3UEVR.dpuf 2016

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