Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I believe Dr. Ford, this survivor. There's every reason to believe her. She has come forward knowing that she faces a nightmare of hostile and probably vicious scrutiny."

"But wouldn't you agree, Ms. Quigley, that the results of that investigation would be valuable to this committee, to our colleagues, in----"

"I wonder if you could tell the Committee how have existing fuel economy standards resulted in innovation within GE and the electric vehicle market?"

"Have these rollbacks in the standards stifled innovation?"