And I hope we will return to a hearing process that respects the Rules of the Senate and that treats each other and particularly the nominee with the civility that he and this process is entitled to.

I am fearful of Judge Kavanaugh refereeing these questions for three reasons: First, he explicitly adheres to the tenets of a theory of the Constitution called unitary executive theory.

The FBI should have investigated your charges, as they did in the Anita Hill hearing, but they did not.

Once on the Supreme Court, Judge Kavanaugh would be able to cast this precedent aside, and in doing so, restructure modern government.

In the 2006 hearing you told Senator Arlen Specter you gave President Bush advice on signing statements.

I cannot understand, and I said this in my opening statement here, the authority that we have given to a man named Bill Burck.

It is a theory subversive of effective checks and balances, which misreads our constitutional history and which the Supreme Court has so far wisely rejected.

Judge Kavanaugh's service in the George W. Bush White House coincided with that administration's advocacy of a host of dangerous and unprecedented claims for the reach of Presidential power.

I have a granddaughter who is going into the second grade, and she came home from school in first grade last year to tell her mom that there had been an instruction from the teacher about what to do in her first-grade classroom if a…

He is a President who has been characterized in this hearing publicly, on the record, as an unindicted co-conspirator.

I am one not afraid at all, through my record of 12 years, to invalidate Executive power when it violates the law.

Judge Kavanaugh has thus taken an instrument that is aimed at checking concentrated power--that is, the separation of powers--and turned it into an instrument calibrated to increase the power of the already most powerful person in the…

A polished liar can create a seamless story, but a trauma survivor cannot be expected to remember every painful detail.

I would just say this. If you, Judge Kavanaugh, turn to Don McGahn and to this Committee and say for the sake of my reputation, my family name, and to get to the bottom of the truth of this, I am not going to be an obstacle to an FBI…

it is reasonable--it is reasonable--that we should want to review his entire record

It was done in a confidential setting in fairness to the nominee.

By what authority is this man holding back hundreds of thousands of documents from the American people?

There is a coherent plan here where, actually, the judicial selection and the deregulatory effort are really the flip side of the same coin.

following the Presidential Records Act involves the National Archives.

Your record prior to joining the bench places you in the midst of some of the most pitched and partisan battles in our lifetimes.

You have suggested... that the President has the authority to refuse to enforce a law such as the Affordable Care Act.

this is a sad time for the Senate and our Nation. With the passing of John McCain, our country lost a legend, and this Senate has lost a towering figure. I have lost a friend. America owes John McCain and his family our gratitude and…

I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Johnson). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 26, as follows…

I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Ex.] YEAS--69 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito…

I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall…