I urge their swift consideration and confirmation.

I think diversity is important, both personal and professional diversity on the bench, because a diverse bench represents the community that it serves.

I think diversity in its broadest sense is very important.

over the next days and weeks and months, we are going to hear a lot about our dear friend Dianne Feinstein, and I am so glad that some of her friends from California and the Speaker-- former Speaker--Nancy Pelosi and her family are here to…

thank you for your patience. I want to begin today by reiterating my sadness about the passing of our friend Senator Dianne Feinstein. Senator Feinstein's death strikes at the heart of so many of us committed to public service, as she was…

I would suggest to you that you include sexual military trauma in this list that you have.

I do have a question about some of the categories or the--some specific populations that have a higher incidence of suicides.

I think that is what should concern us because as more and more women enter the service, their suicide numbers, sadly, are going up.

Thank you for telling us that opioid overdoses are not counted as suicides, because I think that it would be enlightening.

So would you say that that is a significant number of opioid overdoses that involve veterans?

Is there any evidence that says that exposure to certain kinds of books leads to harm to a community?

I should think that there is more harm to a young person who thinks that he or she can be shot to death in a school than being exposed to certain kinds of subjects in books.