"If you're confirmed, will you follow all higher court precedent?"
"America caught the disease of slavery, but we beat it back. We should be able to talk about that."
"I think your personal beliefs do matter, and I think you ought to be able to discuss with us things like race in society, things like, when does life begin?"
"When you come before this body and you refuse to answer a question about your personal beliefs, people are going to assume what they want."
"I just have to dissent from my Chairman that your personal beliefs don't matter, because they do."
"I think Supreme Court nominees are in somewhat of a different position because they're going to be making the ultimate law of the land."
"Each one of these individuals, if they're confirmed, are unelected. They're there for life."
"I would like to hear what thinking people believe about, for example, is sex a biological fact or a social construct?"
"The Biden administration is still giving money to the Wuhan lab, is it not?"
"The Biden administration is still giving a lot of foreign aid. And what I am asking is, is it reviewing that foreign aid with the same national security standards that you are proposing to restrict th..."
"the Biden administration is leaning on American businesses and individuals to forgive debt that foreign countries owe them, but China is refusing, is it not?"
"the Biden administration is leaning on these Americans to whom these foreign countries owe money to forgive that money, is it not?"