Ben Sasse

With Judge Gorsuch, I think the record shows that we can be confident that he will read the law as written and not legislate from the Bench.

Well said. And would it be that more who taught legal ethics, and business ethics, and medical ethics, and theological ethics, would assign their students the obituary challenge.

We have an opportunity to stand back from more than 200 years of our history to evaluate our civic health and to recommit ourselves to a government that is intentionally limited, to powers that are intentionally distinguished and divided.

I hope that some of the folks on the other side of the aisle... will also speak out against the kind of reckless nonsense.

We need a more engaged public.

I think that people who have watched these hearings... know that comments like Leader Pelosi's... are absurd.

Our role is to decide cases and controversies between the people under law as it is, not as we would wish it to be.

I think I am the third or fourth most conservative guy in the U.S. Senate by voting record but I am not particularly partisan.

His nomination carries with it a super legitimacy that is also unprecedented in our Nation's history.

I submit that most people would not find it mainstream to believe a person of one ethnicity or gender would reach a better conclusion than a person of a different ethnicity or gender.

He once wrote that our religious freedom statutes 'do not just apply to protect popular religious beliefs. It does perhaps its most important work in protecting unpopular religious beliefs.'

The aspiration to impartiality is just that--an aspiration.

I worry about what comes next for public discourse broadly.

The President nominates someone to serve on the Supreme Court, and we have the constitutional duty in the Article I branch of providing advice and consent.

I think that this Congress does not function as it should on a broad range of issues.

When they see a final vote... if it is not something overwhelming... we will have in this body done something to further erode the public trust.

Issuing such a list was a move without precedent in our country's Presidential history.

The people chose originalism, textualism, and rule of law.

The theory behind it, in short order, was to divide liberty--to divide power the better to protect liberty.

Judge Gorsuch has cautioned against 'governmental encroachment on the people's liberties,' which could occur should the political majorities of the legislative and executive branches be permitted to decide cases.

The Constitution is a negative document. It is not the Government giving us freedoms.

I thank Chairman Grassley for that question and the invitation to join him in the colloquy. As two of the only non- attorneys on the Judiciary Committee, it is important that we, on behalf of the majority of Americans, who are non-lawyers…

I rise to restate my support for H.J. Res. 58, a resolution to overturn the Obama administration Department of Education's rule regulating future teacher preparation programs from Washington, DC. This teacher preparation mandate actually…

Thank you, Mr. President. I yield back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, all time on the joint resolution has expired. The joint resolution was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I ask unanimous consent that at 2:30 p.m. today, all remaining time on H.J. Res. 58 be yielded back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.