It is a critical question.

I still do not understand your answer in terms of how you could state clearly and unequivocally, 'I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants.'

The last time a President attempted to hide a Supreme Court nominee's record by invoking executive privilege was when President Reagan did this for Justice William Rehnquist.

You were involved with President Bush's 2005 signing statement on Senator John McCain's amendment banning cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees.

This Committee is failing the American people by proceeding in this way, and I fully support the motions made by my colleagues.

I am concerned your loyalty would be to the President who appointed you and not to the Constitution of the United States.

The Bush administration did everything in its power to stop John McCain's Torture Amendment.

Mr. Chairman, the National Archives have stated publicly that the way we are handling the records for this nomination is unprecedented, and they have had nothing to do with it.

This situation, when we say it is unprecedented, is truly without parallel in our history.

I am just a judge, I just follow precedent.

There are many of us who are concerned about the future of this country and the future of democracy.

I fear that Judge Kavanaugh's record indicates that is exactly what he may very well be.

she was the victim of sexual assault at your hands.

This is a different hearing for the Supreme Court than I have ever been through. It is different in what has happened in this room just this morning. What we have heard is the noise of democracy.

We are seeing hundreds of thousands of documents characterized as 'committee confidential' unilaterally.

The President has handpicked a nominee to the Court with the most expansive view of Presidential power possible.

Senator Cruz pointed out what was really at stake.

It is extremely disturbing that Senate Republicans have prevented this body and, most importantly, the American people, from fully reviewing Judge Kavanaugh's record.

Since undocumented aliens are not among the few groups of workers expressly exempted by Congress, they plainly come within the broad statutory definition of employee.

President Trump selected Brett Kavanaugh because of his fealty to the partisan political movement he has been a part of his entire professional life.

I renew my motion to adjourn so that we have time to conclude our review of these documents.

The clock is ticking, 20-week clock is ticking.

This abuse of corporation consolidation is driving so many farmers out of business.

No one said it better than our former colleague, Senator McCain, who once asked about America, what makes us exceptional?

Senate Republicans have worked to keep 'committee confidential' nearly 200,000 pages of documents so that the public cannot view them.