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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

I think I am the third or fourth most conservative guy in the U.S. Senate by voting record but I am not particularly partisan.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

I think that people who have watched these hearings... know that comments like Leader Pelosi's... are absurd.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

I worry about what comes next for public discourse broadly.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

They primarily see political parties. And our Founders did not intend that.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

I think that this Congress does not function as it should on a broad range of issues.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

Our role is to decide cases and controversies between the people under law as it is, not as we would wish it to be.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

The theory behind it, in short order, was to divide liberty--to divide power the better to protect liberty.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

The Constitution is a negative document. It is not the Government giving us freedoms.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

Well said. And would it be that more who taught legal ethics, and business ethics, and medical ethics, and theological ethics, would assign their students the obituary challenge.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

He once wrote that our religious freedom statutes 'do not just apply to protect popular religious beliefs. It does perhaps its most important work in protecting unpopular religious beliefs.'

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

Judge Gorsuch has cautioned against 'governmental encroachment on the people's liberties,' which could occur should the political majorities of the legislative and executive branches be permitted to decide cases.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

With Judge Gorsuch, I think the record shows that we can be confident that he will read the law as written and not legislate from the Bench.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

We have an opportunity to stand back from more than 200 years of our history to evaluate our civic health and to recommit ourselves to a government that is intentionally limited, to powers that are intentionally distinguished and divided.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

His nomination carries with it a super legitimacy that is also unprecedented in our Nation's history.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

Issuing such a list was a move without precedent in our country's Presidential history.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 19, 2017

The people chose originalism, textualism, and rule of law.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Mar 15, 2017

I think this Congress is set to do that. We are going to work hard to put us in a better spot to do deterrence and make sure that we keep the peace.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Mar 15, 2017

Someone who has served almost three decades in the Air Force doing electronic warfare, I do know we are falling behind.

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