Richard Blumenthal actually said...

Thank you very much, Senator Whitehouse, for taking the gavel.

I would also ask consent to submit an op-ed printed in the record today by somebody who directly benefited from Ms. Pillard's work.

the workload of this court is certainly a tremendous challenge and growing rather than diminishing.

In my opinion, the Article III judges that I currently work with are really the gold standard of those principles.