The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) would have voted ``yea.''

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue).

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr…

The legislature to enact laws, the executive to enforce them, and the judicial branch to settle disputes about the meaning of those laws and the Constitution.

We have rules in the Senate. We have norms for decorum.

The level of disingenuousness and hyperbole even by today's standards is extraordinary.

In my view, it is not because your opponents do not know enough about you. It is because they do know all they need to know.

I am proud to support your nomination based on my personal knowledge of your skills and your temperament and your character and your fidelity to the rule of law.

I am confident that the Senate will find that Judge Kavanaugh will faithfully and fairly interpret the Constitution and the laws of this great Nation.

Our Constitution provides for a Federal Government of limited and delegated powers with a Bill of Rights to further protect our individual liberties.

This is the first confirmation hearing for a Supreme Court Justice I have seen basically according to mob rule.

Upholding and enforcing this distinction between legislators and judges was the great project of the late Justice Scalia's career.