
Senate Judiciary chair says panel will move quickly on Biden's Supreme Court nominee
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will move quickly once President Joe Biden announces his pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the panel's chair said Sunday.
"We'll be ready from a staff viewpoint and logistic viewpoint, but the decision really starts with the President and as it should," Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, told ABC News.
"When he chooses a nominee and sends it to the Senate, then we're off and running. And that nominee and the background of the nominee, in terms of whether they've been before the committee, how recently they were there, and how much information we can bring together quickly, we'll decide the timeline," the chairman added.

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