I will not engage everyone on it now, but I would certainly be interested in following up with you on that.
I want to start by just thanking you for your remarkable leadership as Secretary of State.
I want to thank Senator Menendez for chairing this critically important hearing and to thank you, Secretary Clinton, for...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your time and for your consideration of Raymond Moore.
I am pleased we have been able to move so quickly in this new Congress to convene this hearing today.
It is my only hope that the Senate could begin to model that behavior of being fair, prompt, and decisive.
And a reminder to those of us who serve in Congress to draw what lines we draw with precision and clarity.
I thank you for being here today and congratulate you on your nominations, and I know I share the wish of all of you and...
We now turn to Senator Gillibrand, who will speak in support of Analisa Torres.
We deeply regretted you were unable to appear before due to your illness, and I am thrilled to see you have made a full ...
I encourage any Members who are here for introduction who need to do so to feel comfortable excusing yourselves.
Today, as we begin the 113th Congress, there are 83 vacancies in our judiciary.
This hearing is an important step in the process of filling some of these many vacancies.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have never, never, never in the history of America asked so much of a generation. And you have ...
You have met every challenge this country has faced and you have done it in every generation with such extraordinary bra...
I have no illusions about what we`re up against or how hard the task is in front of us, but I also have never seen the n...
I'm proud to be president of the United States. But I'm prouder to be (INAUDIBLE).
I know we don't have absolute unanimity in this -- in this ballroom nor do we in any ballroom, but we all know, everyone...