I think these numbers just--round about, California had a $60 billion surplus last year, and ARP sent them $40 billion more.

I do not know how, when the economy is doing well, we can keep adding $1 trillion a year to the debt without at some point reaching calamity.

We simply cannot continue on a road of adding $1 trillion of debt every year.

If we are ever going to get a handle on our debt we are going to have to find a way to either increase revenue, which I do not favor, or find a way to adjust our long-term benefits.

Authoritarianism is the default setting of world history, and of the authoritarian regimes that have prevailed through history one of longest surviving is China.

The topic that we are discussing today is of great significance to each of us in this room and to people around the world. That is the freedom of expression--including the freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and association.

Is it fair for you to characterize Senator Hawley`s questions or the questions raised by any of us has an attack? It`s not a personal attack. This is a legitimate question regarding our sentencing, regarding the most heinous crimes…

Utah announced a shift to meet or exceed the federally recommended reimbursement rate (75th percentile of the current market rates).

I'm sickened every time I see or hear or experience one of those efforts to delegitimize it.

One of the reasons court packing concerns me, one of the many reasons, is because it's not prohibited.

We must protect the Court. We may not protect the Court.

Once you do that, it becomes something of a one-way ratchet, always expanding, never contracting.

It could change its rulings, that portion of the Court's docket that tends to be more politically contentious.

Another thing that can delegitimize the Court are arguments made in favor of packing the Supreme Court.

I say, 'damn right.'

We've raised a legitimate question regarding sentencing regarding the most heinous crimes imaginable.

the idea of what the law should be is left to other branches of Government

justice should be blind