Mitch McConnell

The American people may well elect a president who decides to nominate Judge Garland for Senate consideration. The next president may also nominate somebody very different. Either way, our view is this, give the people a voice in filling…

The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.

Senate Majority Leader McConnell has already made clear that he wants to bring President Trump's nominee to the floor for a vote though he did not say whether or not that would be before the election of perhaps in the lame duck period.

Yes, yes. And he makes very clear that the nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg will receive a vote in the United States Senate this year.

Mitch McConnell will say this is different from Merrick Garland, and he's saying this is because there's a Republican Senate and a Republican White House.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader has made very clear that he would confirm serve any nominee, any vacancy this year despite his position in 2016.

Every one of us has an obligation to distinguish peaceful protests from the violent riots that continue to see innocent people hurt.

Look, I didn't look at the Woodward book. I will later, but I haven't even seen what you're referring to yet. Clearly, that's a question for the White House anyway.

I do not feel the urgency to act immediately.

He's comfortable in the skin of gridlock, right? He's a no on Merrick Garland, no on Obama appointees, no on gun violence prevention, no, no, no.

This election will happen on November 3rd.

we call on you to include emergency supplemental funding to preserve Amtrak, the critical services it provides, and the livelihoods of its employees.

We must have no stigma, none, about wearing masks when we leave our homes and come near other people. Wearing simple face coverings is not about protecting ourselves, it is about protecting everyone we encounter.

That is why the NEA supports the Heroes Act because it includes $902 billion in direct relief for State and local governments and $900 billion in additional revenue for education.

We thank the House for boldly taking action to pass the Heroes Act, and we call on Mitch McConnell and the Senate to demonstrate they care about the education of all students.

Mitch McConnell's Senate majority must get the HEROES Act over the legislative finish line with its $3.6 billion for State and local governments.

Well, as I said, what we've been talking about here in the Senate Republican Conference is what we think is the appropriate response to the events over the last few weeks.

As I said, we are discussing in the Senate Republican Conference what response we think is appropriate to the events of the last two weeks.

I'm not going to critic -- critique other people's performances. It was certainly something of a performance.

Democrats were saying, no, the Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that he was putting unnecessary voting guidelines in a way to sort of make the Democrats look bad.

Let's get back to the business --

I have a motion at the desk to table the amendment.

My view was that we were entitled to witnesses. I voted for live witnesses myself. I voted for the one live witness the House asked for. And I voted to allow the videotaping of the witnesses that they asked for.

If we're going to have witnesses, then we're going to look at this evidence. We're going to look at all the way this evidence was compiled, whether it's hearsay, whether it's inadmissible, and we're going to have Members take votes on all…

Mitch McConnell is determined to--