Richard Blumenthal

The Midnight Rules Relief Act is based on several faulty premises, starting with its name.

We strongly urge you to vote no on the 'Midnight Rules Relief Act.'

H.R. 26 would politicize the regulatory process by requiring any major science-based public health, safety, and environmental safeguard to be approved by both houses of Congress.

I know that you're offering that answer in good faith. It's an abstract, abstruse answer that frankly I find equally unsatisfactory as a Senator and as a human being.

The ill-advised H.R. 26 would jeopardize the public interest and radically alter the separation of powers.

Wouldn't you agree that some rule or standard--nobody likes the word 'regulation' these days--that could help save children's lives ought to be implemented?

No business has the right to sell a product that can kill children and destroy their families.

Congress should not create new barriers to saving lives from tobacco, but rather should permit the FDA to act.

Midnight Rules Relief Act is the opposite of a 'good government reform' bill.

Congress does not have near the capacity to adequately review hundreds of science-based safeguards within such a tight deadline.

This bill would throw such caution to the winds.

It is also crucial to underscore the far-reaching and negative consequences that such en bloc disapproval resolutions would have.

H.R. 26 is merely an attempt to add yet another roadblock in using science to protect the public.

Right. We are working toward it, but over the opposition of the industry. And that's why I am sending today a letter to the CPSC and the WCMA asking that they finally, finally implement a standard that will save children's lives, literally…

I was proud to be among your supporting cast.

I hope that you will lend your complete support to that program as well.

I would pledge to you my total and complete support, at whatever level, in whatever way that I can help.

If confirmed, will you commit to cracking down on colleges that are essentially lying to our veterans?

We will not fix this problem without legislation to fix it.

I plan to champion it again. Thank you for your support.

You have brought new leadership and vision to an agency that needs it.

I don't want to repeat what happened to Judge Merrick Garland. That was a travesty, an outrage. I'm still angry about it.

All of Pres. Obama's nominees required 60 votes, so should Pres. Trump's. And I'm going to reach a conclusion after I have a chance to scrutinize his record and ask tough questions during the hearing.

A judge who fails to respect established precedent and the doctrine as known as stare decisis... coming to court with a determination or an intention to overturn Roe v. Wade is part of an agenda.

I will use every tool at my disposal to block his nomination.