
Mr. President, today I rise to speak in opposition to the nomination of Nancy Abudu to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Ms. Abudu may well be the most radical judicial nominee nominated to date by President…
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Mr. President, today I rise to speak in opposition to the nomination of Nancy Abudu to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Ms. Abudu may well be the most radical judicial nominee nominated to date by President…

She has shown marked hostility toward Alabamians, Floridians, and Georgians. She has accused them of suppressing minorities and poor people from voting. She has accused their police officers of targeting minorities, and all throughout her…

Mr. President, this National Police Week, along with my colleague Senator Hagerty, I would like to honor the unbelievably courageous officers of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. On March 27, a depraved individual attacked the…

I thank Mr. Nadler for the time. I served the first 3\1/2\ years of my legal career in the police department. I had a badge and a gun. I know policemen as well, if not better, than almost anybody in this body. I tried to give them a gun…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB, was designed by liberals to harass American businesses and has been compromising American consumers' access to financial services. The CFPB is unconstitutional, duplicative, and full of…

Mr. President, today I rise to oppose the nomination of Nancy Abudu as President Biden's nominee for appointment as a U.S. circuit judge for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, in a government as divided as ours is at this time, we…

I think it is important to know what your involvement was with the FBI in pushing for that.

The wait times and the backlogs are continuing to grow, and I think that is a problem.

People do not want to see two tiers of justice.

People do not want to see two tiers of justice.

I think it is important to know what your involvement was with the FBI in pushing for that.

The wait times and the backlogs are continuing to grow, and I think that is a problem.

Mr. President, the argument made by my friend and my distinguished colleague from Colorado resonates with me. He doesn't want this to be treated ``unlike every other medical procedure.'' I couldn't agree more. That is all Senator…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, again, when faced with a problem, the Department of Defense has decided to anoint itself a lawmaker, even though it is not in charge of making laws. It doesn't have that power. That power is…

Mr. President, the statute prohibits the use of Federal funds to pay for an abortion--can't possibly be interpreted as having nothing to say about paying most of the cost associated with an abortion. By the time you pay someone to travel…

Mr. President, here again, the Senate has procedures for dealing with any nomination, including these military promotions. These could be brought up individually; they could be voted on; and those whose promotions have the greatest urgency…

Mr. President, I appreciate the thoughtful insight provided by my friend and colleague, the distinguished Senator from Colorado. In particular, I appreciate his acknowledgment that issues related to abortion really involve deep and…

Mr. President, to the extent any one of these nominations-- or all of them taken together--to the extent military readiness is invoked, implicated, is threatened, challenged, by all means, let's figure out a workaround. By all means, let's…