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A Supreme Court Justice performs a crucial, but limited function in our political system, namely, to interpret and fairly apply the text of the law as written and as understood at the time it was adopted.

Today, the Senate takes up our constitutional duty to advise the President on his nominee to the Supreme Court.

The idea that judges sitting before this panel should not weigh in on hypothetical cases that are likely to come before the Court, nominees do, nonetheless, have a duty to be very clear about their judicial philosophy, their legal views…

The Senate's Advice and Consent Clause and our role is especially important these days when we all, Republicans and Democrats, agree that the nine Justices of the Court exercise a lot of power over policy decisions.

The Court has ignored restrictions on its authority, inserting itself into policy debates that are supposed to be entrusted exclusively to the two political branches.

We're here in part because of decades and decades of recklessness by all three branches.

I am asking a really simple question: Do you think a single person that your Twitter self-pleasuring was for--do you think a single person that voted against it voted against it because they were against Ukrainian aid?

So let me just see if I understand what you just said. Eight-tenths of 1 percent of the bill that was passed in the middle of the night last week is about Ukraine aid. Do you believe that the people who voted against it voted against it…

We know from backchannel stuff that some encrypted apps that a lot Russian military were using afterwards, they were cheering the fact that they had killed children. This wasn`t some accidental bombing.

I will oppose it and I hope the Congress does.

There's only one aggressor here, and that's the jackass who's killing women and children.

I would like to go back to the escalation ladder, though, with these types of weapons.

In World War II, there were planes dragged across the U.S.-Canadian border.

Xi wants to see the West destabilized. He wants to see Europe and the U.S. humiliated and embarrassed.

There is no moral limit to what the guy will do.

Having a U.S. flag there, a permanent one, is a deterrence.

The number one feedback we do hear from them is they would like to have U.S. troops permanently assigned in the Baltics for deterrence.

The fact that America is going to be giving Russia today $70 million to purchase oil... is propping up their economy.