In my view, when a President submits a qualified candidate of high character and sound legal mind, absent exceptional circumstances, that candidate is entitled to a vote.

the Senate has been doing its job and doing it quickly.

I am introducing the Court Efficiency Act.

I am grateful for the opportunity to proceed to hear from our nominee.

I would like to recognize that five Members of the House were also here to lend their support.

We are going to move to five-minute questioning rounds, and I would also like to ask unanimous consent...

Humility is always a good thing in public service.

I think the hard right wants to use the DC Circuit to undo all kinds of government decisions.

the DC Circuit is the least busy circuit in the country.

I would like to invite our nominee, Mr. Srinivasan, to stand.

I think the guiding principle to me, though, would be an impartial adherence to the rule of law.

I do think that you cannot allow agreements to be broken and have there be no consequences.

If you were outvoted on a three-judge panel, does that mean to you in any way that your legal analysis or your position was wrong?

To have President Obama, who is in his fifth year in office, not have a single nominee confirmed... is wrong.

I would invite my colleagues to join us in the idea that there can be better health care results for the same amount of money or less money by going after some of the fraud that we all know exists, some of the waste and inefficiencies that…

I think we are getting along better in the Senate than we have in a while.

I think you bring us the kind of service and leadership that we need.

Obesity is literally killing us, literally and figuratively.