Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I have a number of letters that I would ask to be submitted into the record that relate to the importance of proper investigation by trained professionals."

"I have read Judge Kavanaugh's decisions on mens rea, which have focused so far on individual defendants."

"When you have a judicial nominee whose name has been put forward by the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation and by someone who has been named in open court as directing other criminal activit..."

"Gentlemen, your evaluation of the nominee related to his qualifications and produced a conclusion that he was 'well qualified'?"