This is the law.

There's certainly interest in looking at options that might enable us to break the logjam and expedite consideration of nominees in a way that, in the end, would benefit both parties when their party has the presidency.

The overwhelming majority are addicted to drugs or have mental health disorders or both. We want to take care of them. But they have to be off our streets.

He is a Trumpian henchman — the extreme of the extreme of the extreme. He is openly hostile to the rule of law. He is fundamentally opposed to democratic norms. He lacks the temperament to serve as a jurist.

We cannot continue to spend taxpayer money on a government which has killed some 60,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 143,000—most of whom are women, children, and the elderly.

At some point, we may need to look at doing things differently on nominees generally, if the Democrats continue this path of obstruction that they're on right now.

Shame on you. This is a dark, dark day.

Hello Derrick, I didn’t see you back there.

The time is long overdue for Congress to use the leverage we have—tens of billions in arms and military aid—to demand that Israel end these atrocities.

We are standing at a moment where our president is eviscerating the Constitution of the United States of America, and we’re willing to go along with that today. No, no, not on my watch.

What I am tired of is when the president of the United States of America violates the Constitution, trashes our norms and traditions, and what does the Democratic Party do? Comply? Allow him? Beg for scraps? No, I demand justice.

It’s time for Democrats have a backbone. It’s time for us to fight. It’s time for us to draw lines.

We are actually not looking to do reforms, but we don't have a choice.

Nancy Pelosi became rich by having inside information. She made a fortune with her husband, and I think that's disgraceful.

I say we reject this and, in a bipartisan way, that we demand and end this kind of constitutionally unjust carving up of the resources that we approve.

Even as the lawless Emil Bove appears to have misled the committee about multiple, credible, backstopped allegations of misconduct, this body has sunk to simply being a partisan rubber stamp for President Trump.

this sham, hide-the-ball confirmation process is a new low for subservient Senate Republicans.

Calling this a five-alarm fire is an understatement, and between Bessent’s comments and the harm DOGE has already done to the agency, it’s clear Trump was lying all along about protecting Social Security.