“Make no mistake about it: We are moving forward,” said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is leading the effort. “When a situation becomes so serious that there’s a crisis in leadership of this magnitude, a Congress not only has the right to weigh in, we have a responsibility to take action. And we will.”

“Former FEMA Director Mike Brown used to be the symbol of the administration’s lack of competence and credibility,” Schumer said. “But now, unfortunately, there’s a new one. I know the president thinks Attorney General Gonzales is ‘doing a heck of a job,’ but nobody else seems to agree.”

While Gonzales has never been popular with Democrats, the firing of several U.S. attorneys and his handling of the situation have allowed them to aggressively go after the attorney general. Democrats have been joined by several Republicans who have either called for Gonzales’s resignation or voiced their displeasure with how the former White House counsel is running the Department of Justice. Schumer hopes that this will be enough to get his no-confidence resolution the 60 votes it needs to pass.

“You can’t announce a vote or count your chickens before they hatch,” Schumer told reporters, “but I think it’s a very good chance we’ll get the 60 votes.”