Richard Blumenthal

The Russian cyberattack made him both alarmed and scared.

The move to appoint a special counsel, is that there's absolutely no reason for it.

What it means is, frankly, that we need to make the Russians pay a price and reset our relationship with them so that they actually fear us.

What made me so alarmed, and scared, and frankly, angry was the apparent scope and magnitude of this breach. And frustratingly to me, I'm not at liberty to disclose most of what I know. But the fact is, the American people deserve to know…

Stunning. Today's classified briefing on Russia's cyberattack left me deeply alarmed, in fact, downright scared. Americans deserve to know what's going on. Declassify what's known and unknown.

I would like to see that debate. I don't think there's any real rational or fact-based argument against it.

I think there is a really solid persuasive argument that in fact the Constitution doesn't permit the president to pardon himself.

The idea of the president pardoning himself or members of his family or cronies is really a legal atrocity that never would have been imaginable, certainly not to the founders.

The so-called external matters go to the heart of fairness in the workplace, equal pay for equal work, discriminatory practices, other kinds of injustices that have existed for years--women ought to have the right to challenge them and…

Just to remind my colleague, this measure doesn't pertain only to dangerous felons. It protects innocent women against dangerous people. There is already the provision for protective orders to provide that kind of safeguard after a period…

What my colleague calls procedural harassment, it is actually democracy. It is legislation. It was passed by the House. It is bipartisan. The majority was bipartisan. It will save lives. I fail to understand why my Republican colleagues…

Griswold involves a ban on contraception, criminal ban. Correctly decided?

The Loving case, do you think that was correctly decided?

Brown vs. Board of Education, do you think it was correctly decided?

Public trust in public health is absolutely critical.

It is a homeland security issue, and it requires a whole of government all-hands-on-deck approach, just as President Obama did with Ebola.

The amount of funding it's proposed, $2.5 billion, is tremendously inadequate.

If you were to pick someone in the United States government right now to perform that role, the last person or one of the last would be secretary -- the vice president.

What we need is not happy talk, but action and the kind of resource -- swift, strategic, smart responses and preparedness that depends on science.

There is really deepening bipartisan alarm at this happy talk, the apparent intent of the administration to clamp down on information and control the message more than keeping people safe.

Mr. Chief Justice, I have a question for the counsel for the President. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senator Blumenthal asks: Did anyone in the White House, or outside the White House, tell anyone in the White House Counsel's Office that publication…

I think that saying that there's no abuse of power, nothing wrong as long as the president feels it aids him in his reelection is absolutely reprehensible and irresponsible.

It's more than opening the door. It is kind of throwing it wide for all kinds of views. Anything that's done for reelection purposes is OK? That can't be the law.

I deeply worry about it. I am alarmed because of the polarization, in fact, the weaponization of national security for political purposes by this White House.

Still an uphill battle to get witnesses. But I feel those kinds of questions that we saw today from the moderates, when was the hold put on this aid? When was interest first expressed about Biden? Couldn't be answered because we don't have…