Patrick Leahy actually said...

"It is one of the most important hearings the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold this year."

"I invited him to come forward to tell the truth, the complete truth, before the Committee."

"Let us listen to the witnesses who are going to be testifying rather than raising hypotheses and facts really not in the record."

"I would like to go forward in a nonpartisan commission, as I have said before, but that is going to require support from both sides of the aisle, one that could get to all the truth of what happened."