I come here with real pleasure, pride, excitement, joy, and real exuberance not often felt on the floor of the U.S. Senate because we are going to be making history this week. As confident as I am of anything ever in the U.S. Senate…

I ask unanimous consent that my very able legislative fellow Alexander Nabavi-Noori be granted floor privileges until the end of August 2022. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

What we need in health care for veterans is an unrebuttable presumption.

It is the result of a lot of years' work on a bipartisan basis, and I think it will accomplish a great deal.

The PACT Act is a great start. It is very important. It will change people's lives.

When we go into a war, these kinds of health care coverage are part of the cost of that war.

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.

She showed today that she`s going to make the court look more like America, but also hopefully, think more like America.

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.

I don't think anybody has ever said about us that we have the perfect temperament for a Senator.

the Supreme Court has hacked away at it in an exercise of judicial activism that has been historic in magnitude.

I look forward, as I hope many of us do, to a bipartisan majority in support of your candidacy.

the right to vote is foundational of all other rights

The decisions of the Court in Shelby County and Brnovich that, essentially, have set us back and especially in this area of voting rights.

I am a supporter of Senator Grassley's Sunshine in the Courtroom Act as well as Senator Durbin's Cameras in the Courtroom Act.

We have an obligation to preserve them and my hope is that your nomination will help us do so.

I do not know what Congress meant to do in this kind of situation, because this law was written at a time when none of this stuff now existed.

I hope that you will urge your colleagues... to support a code of ethics.

Access to the courts should be available to everyone.

The people of Ukraine are fighting for it. They are dying in their neighborhoods and streets and their homes.

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.

The simple fact of the matter is, Judge Jackson, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

If you were given more time to do this assessment, it strikes me you've done it very, very thoroughly and carefully.

There are a lot of people who are book-smart. There are not as many people who are person-smart, and you are both.

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.