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I think those two questions are completely connected to each other in the sense that our effectiveness in being able to get China to do more, or to signal to North Korea the credibility of our deterrence, or any of our policies, greatly…

For every $1 spent funding the Consumer Bureau, more than $4 is put back into consumers' pockets.

For every dollar that your agency gets there is $4 returned to consumers. I think that Americans would say this is awesome.

We are the most prosperous nation in the world, not just economically, culturally, our democracy, our religious tolerance, because of the work that men and women in uniform do.

We owe it to them to invest in the work that they do, but we also owe it to the country to ensure that we continue to be prosperous by investing in good schools, safe neighborhoods, a clean environment, and health care.

I am deeply troubled about the potential impact that this proposed funding cut would have to the cybersecurity for energy delivery systems R&D program.

Fair is fair and right is right.

Are these leaders sitting before us today, ladies and gentlemen of this committee, less legitimate than any other mayor, like Phil Roe was, or any other elected leader?

In order to prevent future NLRB overreach, Congress must pass the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act.

This legislation is not about union workers versus non-union workers.

Tribal governments are sovereign and are free to self-govern.

I thank the chairwoman. I am really proud, Mr. Speaker, of the Budget Committee. We did great work last week, and everyone was heard: six motions on the Republican side, six motions on the Democratic side, and the debate was civil. Tones…

This is the money versus the many, plain and simple.

I have come to the conclusion that originalism is used as a tool and a justification to restrict the rights of vulnerable Americans.

We are seeing States and localities put voting restrictions on the books that not only have a discriminatory effect.

They made it very plain their discriminatory intent.

So my question really was whether you think that, on the Supreme Court, he would continue a very restrained view of workers' rights.

It matters a great deal for our rights what is the judicial philosophy or, as my colleague, Senator Blumenthal, would put it, core beliefs of the judges who serve on the Supreme Court.

The real-life impact of the Shelby County decision was that 13 States passed laws that could be deemed voter suppression laws.

And after the obstacles to voting we have seen since Shelby County, we now know that Congress got it right, that the evidence showed a continuing need for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, and the Supreme Court got it wrong when it…

Both the process and the outcome in the Shelby County case raise exactly the kind of concerns that make it so important for us on the Committee and in the Senate to understand your judicial philosophy.

Many of them cited that speech to justify their opposition to her nomination.

Apples and oranges do not begin to describe the differences between what Donald Trump said and what we are seeking to do here.

Some have even gone so far as to conflate the questions we are raising about your record in the course of our advise and consent responsibilities with Donald Trump's abhorrent attacks on Federal judges.