"Thank you for stepping up and going through this very long, difficult process, because our Nation needs people to both be good counsel for the intelligence community and to be good inspectors general for that community."
"This Committee would have an expectation that if there are things you do not have access to, that you need access to for oversight, that you would come back to us."
"In Oklahoma, there is currently a physician going through the process right now that saw 90 patients a day and was writing narcotics 'scripts to almost every one of them as they came through."
"Obviously, there was a question on cost on that for physicians."
"The existence of this black market for buprenorphine has more to do with the fact that we are not making that treatment available to the people who need it."
"I do not think that diverted buprenorphine is becoming a recreational drug causing new cases of addiction."
"That was actually my next question. Is there cooperation with other States and sharing that information?"
"we are gaining muscle memory that every nominee... we are going to still go through the cloture."
"My state does expect me to vote."
"cloture still should not be used--and his term was--except in extraordinary circumstances."
"At the end of the day, if the pause on this is to say, well, let us wait 3 years and we will see if a Democratic President is elected and then we will want to talk about changing the rules on that, I ..."