Well, that seems a little bit exaggerated. I think we followed proper regular order throughout the whole committee process.

as we showed earlier, when certain amici come before the D.C. Circuit, amici who tend to be associated with and funded by very powerful, very wealthy right-wing interests, they seem to have a better than 90 percent win rate in front of…

a President has to answer a subpoena applies equally to a trial court and a grand jury subpoena alike

Presidentially approved smear campaign.

When you have a judicial nominee whose name has been put forward by the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation and by someone who has been named in open court as directing other criminal activity, in the event that those criminal…

I have read Judge Kavanaugh's decisions on mens rea, which have focused so far on individual defendants.

I argued against them in the Supreme Court at one point.

We've never seen anything like this. There is -- not that I've ever seen. I mean, when the five Republicans go off and change the law for the benefit of big Republican interests, that does leave four dismayed Democratic appointees saying…

a disgraceful effort to undermine the rule of law.

I think there are two. One is to raise concerns about the way in which this was done and try to get more Americans interested in the fact that we're being so badly and so unprecedentedly rolled on this nominee. And the second is to lead…

The separation between candidates and independent expenditures negates the possibility of corruption.

The First Amendment ends where efforts to corrupt begin, correct? You do not have a First Amendment right to corrupt your Government.

Sincere and thorough investigation is critical to these claims in a prosecutor's world.

an episode that will forever stand as a dark chapter in American Presidential history.

I have a number of letters that I would ask to be submitted into the record that relate to the importance of proper investigation by trained professionals.

the President has tried to disgrace Starr and his office with a sustained propaganda campaign that would make Nixon blush, and he should be forced to account for that.

I have known him for 25 years.

Mr. President, I rise today to honor our late colleague and friend, Senator John McCain. I want to begin by offering my deepest sympathies to John's loving wife, Cindy; to his children, Sidney, Meghan, Jack, Jimmy, Bridget, Doug, and Andy…