I would just add, that was not what Senator Daines or anybody else on the Republican side said at the time. I was here at the time, and what was said at the time, particularly by Senator Daines is ``I don't think it's right to bring a…

reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island

Go ahead, Senator. I just wanted to see if we are going into the vote now, and, if so, whatever procedural steps you needed to take us into the vote, but I yield to the Senator from Maine. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine.

I had the chance to hear Chairman Inhofe's remarks. I speak for many of us when I offer my appreciation for his chairmanship of the Armed Services Committee, for his commitment to our troops, and, in my case, particularly, for the great…

I do want to say that we are here at a time when the Republican Party is jamming yet another nominee through bizarre procedural practices onto the Supreme Court. We have examined in the Judiciary Committee some of the ways in which the…

It's not three schemes but it's one scheme with the same funders selecting judges, funding campaigns for the judges, and then showing up in court in these orchestrated advocates flotillas to tell the judges what to do.

There's been a steady Roberts Five that has delivered now 80 of these decisions. And the last characteristic of them is that there is an identical Republican donor interest in those cases, and in every single case that donor interest won…

This Supreme Court nominee has signaled in the judicial equivalent of all caps that she believes the Affordable Care Act must go and the precedent protecting the ACA doesn't matter.

This slapdash hearing targets the Affordable Care Act.

This Supreme Court nominee has signaled in the judicial equal of all caps that she believes the Affordable Care Act must go and that the president -- precedent protecting the ACA doesn't matter. The big secretive influences behind this…

If they do -- then we will make damn sure we restore it bigger and stronger.

I am back again, thee and me once again together, to discuss climate change as unprecedented wildfires scorch the west coast and a deadly hurricane season turns in the Atlantic and Americans cry out for action. Powerful players outside…

may I inquire if the Senators are concluded with their discussion? The PRESIDING OFFICER. They have both yielded. It appears they are.

this is a ``Time to Wake Up'' good news-bad news speech. The good news from last week is on business community support for carbon pricing. What is carbon pricing? Well, remember that IMF--the International Monetary Fund--pegs the fossil…

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from the Judiciary Committee is on THE BEAT tomorrow.

I stand in a distressing place of speaking after Senator Brown, of Ohio, and before Senator Blumenthal, of Connecticut, but I am delighted to be here tonight because the issues are so important. We are in a place in the Senate that is…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Meyers nomination?

the same sixteen foundations had given over $33 million to the Federalist Society over the same period

Control the court and they deliver it.

She deserves a special place in America's pantheon.

Dark money is a plague anywhere in our political system.

If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable.

sixteen right-wing foundations gave nearly $69 million to groups urging the Supreme Court to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since 2014

The Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Ginsburg's death makes this hearing salient as well as poignant.

A small group of very big donor interests powered up by Citizens United dark money -- this is a new phenomenon, Citizens United -- has now the power to pull strings and to drive behavior, and they've determined that they want to control…