Orrin Hatch: “I rise to discuss the confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. For the last few weeks, Democrats have complained…”

“I rise to discuss the confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. For the last few weeks, Democrats have complained endlessly about documents. First, they said there weren't enough documents. Then, when the Judiciary Committee released a recordbreaking number of documents, Democrats complained there wasn't enough time to review them all. They then complained that the documents were not public. When we made the documents public, the Democrats were disappointed to find they contained no smoking gun. There has been much ado about documents, but in the end it is much ado about nothing. One thing I have heard many of my colleagues say is, because we reviewed all of Justice Elena Kagan's records from her time in the executive branch, we must review every last scrap of paper that crossed Judge Kavanaugh's desk while he was in the executive branch. That just isn't so. When Justice Kagan was nominated, the Senate did not ask for, nor did it receive, all of her records from her time in the Obama administration. In fact, the Senate never requested, and the Obama administration never provided, any of Justice Kagan's records from her time as Solicitor General.…”