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Richard Blumenthal is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Connecticut since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Blumenthal has focused on issues such as consumer protection, healthcare, and veterans' affairs during his tenure. He previously served as the Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011, where he gained recognition for his advocacy on behalf of consumers and his efforts to hold corporations accountable. Blumenthal has been an active voice in the Senate, participating in various committees and addressing key national issues.
Ari, as I watch the scenes, I relive what happened at Sandy Hook, just about 10 years ago, and I've kept as friends, these families who lost children and I know they still have a hole in their hearts, there's still a place in their homes…
We focus on these massacres, but the day-by-day shootings in Hartford and in New Haven and all around the country and cities and rural and suburban community, more than half the gun deaths are suicides.
What I'd say to them very emphatically, Ari, is that there are common-sense actions we can take to separate dangerous killers from firearms.
The PACT Act is a great start. It is very important. It will change people's lives.
It is the result of a lot of years' work on a bipartisan basis, and I think it will accomplish a great deal.
When we go into a war, these kinds of health care coverage are part of the cost of that war.
What we`re doing is really bringing forth who she is. So, the American people can make judgments, it is probably the longest exposure she`ll have to everyday Americans.
She showed today that she`s going to make the court look more like America, but also hopefully, think more like America.
Probably the single most skillful, insightful, adroit, but very candid performance and a confirmation hearing that I`ve seen in my close to 12 years in the Senate.
The decisions of the Court in Shelby County and Brnovich that, essentially, have set us back and especially in this area of voting rights.
It's a leap into the present in the historic nomination by President Biden of the first Black woman to the United States Supreme Court.
I don't think anybody has ever said about us that we have the perfect temperament for a Senator.
I really appreciate your candor and the completeness of the work you've done.
If you were given more time to do this assessment, it strikes me you've done it very, very thoroughly and carefully.
I think that's really what comes through, that everybody gets a fair shake, that she listens so intently and carefully to everybody who comes into her courtroom.
I hope that you will bring the energy that you have demonstrated in this room, the energy and the work ethic to the United States Supreme Court.
I hope that you will bring to the Court that deliberate, careful methodology that you described earlier.
The Supreme Court has hacked away at it in an exercise of judicial activism that has been historic in magnitude.
The most recent exercise of unfortunate decisionmaking in the voting rights area came just hours ago.
It opened the ballot box to millions and millions of Americans and it became regarded as the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement.
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