Chuck Grassley

Democratic Senators interrupted the hearing 63 times before lunch, and in the audience, 70 people were arrested yesterday.

I want everybody to know that right now, so that Members and their staff can be working on written questions throughout the week.

You probably heard the first sentence of something I said after our break, and that was, that I first started talking about expecting a million documents, and we end up, I think, with 488,000.

It just seems unfair to me, and it could easily be solved by us putting a pause here in this process, waiting for the documents.

What I do not understand is, what is the jeopardy of just waiting, not just to digest these documents but other documents?

I just believe what we are doing here, just on the objective view of fairness, is sincerely unfair and is insulting to the ideals that we try to achieve with some sense of comity and some sense of rules.

You would think that Republicans and Democrats do not talk to each other, but I would like to remind the public that when they think that happens, they ought to think of the record of this Committee.

I believe that the heroes will be our independent judiciary and our free press.

I want to urge the Department of Justice to stand strong and hold fast against this onslaught which threatens the basic principles of our democracy.

This vote and this proceeding could not be more consequential in light of what is at stake: whether women can decide when they want to have children and become pregnant; whether the people of America can decide whom they would like to…

That is what sustains democracy, that commitment to ordinary, everyday Americans participating and engaging in this process.

For our Constitution places power not in the hands of this city's bureaucracy, which cannot be fired, but our Constitution places the policymaking power in the 535 of our hands.

It is not to exercise empathy. It is to follow written laws.

The question is does he have the character and temperament to do that.

This is why we talk about an independent judiciary. This is why they wear robes.

Some of my colleagues keep saying that we have only 6 percent of Judge Kavanaugh's White House records but that 99 percent of Justice Kagan's White House records were made public before the hearing.

I am confident that Judge Kavanaugh will become Justice Kavanaugh and will be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.

The reason the Democrats are fighting so loudly on this issue is they are making a demand they know is impossible to meet.

Those documents written by other people say nothing, zero, about Judge Kavanaugh's views.

The over a half million documents turned over to this Committee is more than the last five nominees submitted to this Committee combined.

Judge Kavanaugh has produced 511,948 pages of documents.

The claims that the Democrats are putting forward on documents do not withstand any serious scrutiny.

The Senate is not and never should be a rubber stamp, particularly when it comes to issuing lifetime appointments.

Some of the greatest moments in American judicial history have been when judges stood up to the other branches, were not cowed, and enforced the law.

Without getting into any of the gory details here, I think it suffices to say that Senator Ted Kennedy and Judge Bork did not agree on certain matters of constitutional law.