Dianne Feinstein

Gina Haspel said that she would.

Director Pompeo said at one point early on that he would support the return of waterboarding.

During his campaign, President-elect Trump publicly called for U.S. forces to use torture in the war on terror.

The U.S. Government must begin working to improve our forecasting ability to help protect American lives and infrastructure.

So this nomination is not the usual nomination. It comes in a different way, and it has proceed in a way of excessive spending of dark money that in the time I have been on this committee, I have never seen before.

This is about China.

He may be the perfect human being.

Judge Garland has no weaknesses.

Garland is the best there is. He is the finest judge I have ever met. There is no one who is his peer.

Garland's integrity is off the scales.

I happen to hold the view that a Member of this Government is held to a different standard than an attorney may be in private life.

I have seen people die horrible deaths, family, of cancer, when there was no hope.

I sat on 5,000 cases. These were women convicted of felonies in the State of California.

This is America, and it is not what we stand for.

I would like to put three letters of opposition in the record.

We are still fighting for equal pay for equal work.

I have sentenced women to State prison for committing abortion.

The goal is--I have read articles that say there will be 54 miles by 2025 if this continues.

I am concerned when I hear that Judge Gorsuch is an originalist and a strict constructionist.

If these judgments, when combined, do not constitute super precedent, I do not know what does.

President Trump repeatedly promised that his judicial nominees would be pro-life and 'automatically' overturn Roe v. Wade.

Roe ensured that women and their doctors will decide what is best for their care, not politicians.

The Supreme Court has the final say on whether a woman will continue to have control over her own body.

Our job is to assess how this nominee's decisions will impact the American people.

Merrick Garland was widely regarded as a mainstream moderate nominee.