millions of Americans woke up this morning and started the day with their doses of prescription medications. Their daily regimens are prescribed by their healthcare providers to treat illnesses and to improve the quality of their lives…

I am here to give thanks. Just a few days ago our country celebrated a national day of Thanksgiving. We celebrated food, fellowship, and freedom with family and friends. By any measure we are a people endowed with an abundance of…

You cannot possibly know what is going on, and with my experience with whistleblowers, I have found that almost all of them, obviously not every one of them, because some do have an ax to grind, but they just want to government to do what…

today I wish to highlight the excellent work being done by the Justice Department under this administration in ensuring an accountable asbestos bankruptcy trust system. In 1994, in response to widespread asbestos litigation in our Nation's…

the people who have called themselves Latvians have been in existence for centuries and centuries, but the nation state that we call Latvia has only existed for 100 years. So I come to the floor to express the fact that on Saturday, the…

today I wish to pay tribute to a fallen soldier from Iowa, PFC Matthew A. Cox. Private Cox, of Leon, joined the Iowa National Guard in October 2017 after completing home-schooling. He was a member of the Iowa National Guard's 186th…

I ask unanimous consent that Colleen Ernst, special counsel on my Judiciary Committee staff, be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I come to the floor to speak on two different subjects. The most important one is the first one: to thank a lot of people who helped me to chair and oversee the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. I should have given this speech 72…

would you inform me of the amount of time I have to speak. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. There has been no time agreement made.

I thank the Acting President pro tempore. Madam President, 100 days ago, Justice Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, on July 9, the President announced the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to…

before I speak, I ask unanimous consent that following my remarks and those of Senators Schumer and McConnell, all postcloture time be considered expired on this nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I come one final time in support of Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation to serve as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Democratic leaders did everything in their power to make Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation about anything…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. (Disturbance in the Visitors' Gallery.) The VICE PRESIDENT. The Sergeant at Arms will restore order in the Senate. The…

What they have endured ought to be considered by all of us as unacceptable and a poor reflection on the state of civility in our democracy.

I want to apologize to you both for the way you have been treated, and I intend, hopefully, for today's hearing to be safe, comfortable, and dignified for both of our witnesses.

Before I ask a couple of questions, I hope we all would agree, even though we are raising concerns about what is going on right now, that if the President accomplishes his goals of getting intellectual property rights protected and…

The problem with the tariffs is, they are a kind of unintended consequence.

last night was a great moment for the Senate. We have been able to pass a broad legislative package that will address the opioid epidemic in many ways. As we all know, the opioid crisis is not nearing its end. We are seeing more and more…

As the Judiciary Committee has recognized and done before, an FBI investigation of the incident should be the first step in addressing her allegations.

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.

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.

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

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.

The judiciary must continue to be the least political and least dangerous branch.

We have to follow the Presidential Records Act, and that is what we are following, is the law.