I have a feeling you are going to need a lot more for humanitarian demining.

The world is going to see this, because there is no question that it is crimes against humanity.

among the many barbaric atrocities committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine where civilian infrastructure including hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings have been repeatedly bombed and shelled and countless civilians have been…

today is a historic day. Today, each Member of the Senate will have the opportunity to cast a vote on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. I say ``historic'' because throughout…

Today is an historic day.

16 years ago the United Nations General Assembly designated April 4 as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. Today, I am introducing a Senate resolution recognizing that designation and reaffirming United…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 48, as…

Let`s get back to regular order.

That`s an abrogation of everything the Senate should stand for. You had a Republican member who went way over the time allotted and ignore the rules of the committee, badgered the nominee with would not even let her answer the questions…

I couldn’t help but think, was this aimed for this hearing or aimed for a political campaign? What are some of these senators doing? Making sound bites for their political campaigns, some of them running for president?

I contrast that with Republicans' treatment of then Judge Merrick Garland. We're still waiting today for Republicans to explain on the record what kind of substantive concerns they had with Merrick Garland that they blocked him for over a…

Those of us who have spent time in courtrooms know you have to have both a skilled prosecutor and a skilled defender.

I believe that--in fact, I don't think of it as a liability. I think it's going to be a major asset to you, and I think it should be welcomed on the Supreme Court.

I've authored and I've long championed the bipartisan John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

you said you were the lucky first inheritor of Dr. King's civil rights legacy.

we do have areas where we agree on things on this Committee, Judge. Senators Grassley and Senator Cornyn, myself and others, believe in transparency as part of our democracy.

Judge Jackson is no judicial activist. She is not a puppet of the so-called radical left.

I'm so proud of your answers and I appreciate it.

I think it would help curtail the growing wave of voter suppression sweeping across our country.

I've always believed that our democracy is stronger when we expand, not shrink, the ranks where our citizens are fully participated.

I believe that your experience as a Federal public defender has made you a better judge, helped you maintain impartial and balanced perspective in criminal and other cases.

Every single Member of this Committee...should know better than to conflate a nominee's past representation with their policy positions.

I want to agree with you.

Any nomination--any nomination--to the Court is historic.

And it also guarantees that our Constitution is going to be followed.