Ben Sasse

His idea would be to pass the repeal immediately and then set a one-year deadline for the Congress to come up with the replacement plan.

Please just stop. This isn't normal and it's beneath the dignity of your office.

There is not a more critical global national security issue than this. This is crazy and cannot be allowed to continue.

There is a long tradition that this Subcommittee has been very bipartisan and nonpartisan.

Is it possible and is it advisable to employ secondary sanctions against these Chinese institutions and individuals?

He calls the Comey firing very troubling.

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

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.

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.

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.

We need a more engaged public.

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

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.

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

I worry about what comes next for public discourse broadly.

They primarily see political parties. And our Founders did not intend that.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.