Political Quotes

“First, let me thank my good friend--who did a great and outstanding job this morning on the Judiciary Committee--for his graciousness and thoughtfulness as always. I also thank my friend from New Mexico. Mr. President, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings today on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. Democrats on the committee have pointed out that over 40,000 of Judge Kavanaugh's documents were handed over to the committee last night. It is the latest insult in what has been an insulting process for reviewing the nominee's record on the issues. It has not just been insulting to Democrats in the Senate but insulting to the Senate as a whole and insulting to the American people: We can jam this through, and it doesn't matter what you think and what you need to know. More than 90 percent of the nominee's record has been shielded from public scrutiny. The chairman keeps claiming that there are several hundred thousand pages that have been made available. That is not the point. If only 7 percent of the documents are made available, the question is, What looms in the other 93 percent? It is the percentage that matters because we want to know what is hidden. Furthermore, we have no knowledge of why we were given these documents and not given the vast bulk of the documents. What is the rule? Is there some objective rule finding? They should make it public. Why? They haven't, and the reason is simple.…”