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On the recordSeptember 26, 2018
I am here this afternoon to join the voices of my colleagues--Democrats and Republicans--in making sure this process that is going to continue to play out over the next several days is a fair one. I will say to people right now that I am not for Judge Kavanaugh. I don't believe that his decisions and his views are in the mainstream of judicial opinion in the United States of America. I believe that not just about a woman's right to choose. I believe that not just about his decision on net neutrality. I definitely believe that about his decision on executive branch power. My views are known. I would expound on them if I thought that is what we are here to debate today, and maybe that will happen in the future. But I am here this afternoon to ask my colleagues to think about this issue of sexual assault in a new way. It is not a new way that you have never thought of before, but a way that says it is time for us to slow down and have a nonpartisan investigation into the accusations that have been made by three women. The reason that is so important is that in the last several days there have been comments that she is mixed up or confused or can't remember. I will tell you this: I guarantee you that any woman in the United States of America who has been assaulted remembers that she was assaulted.…
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington
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Sep 26, 2018

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