Let me tell you, the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat. And every president since, Democrat and Republican, have stood closely with Israel.

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We must institute reasonable, common-sense limits, such as barring those with a history of mental instability, those with a history of violent crime or adjudged dangerous and subject to restraining orders, and those whose names have been placed on a terrorist watch list from owning weapons.

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I certainly want to be the whip, and that's an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.

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This idea of dumping these helpless people on buses and trucking them off to New York and Washington and Chicago is cruel and it's inhumane, it does not represent who we are as Americans.

I have never been called to a meeting of ActBlue. I have never been asked to approve their agenda or their website.

The FDA is supposed to protect all Americans, and particularly our children. I'm calling on FDA to finally come to its senses. Err on the side of public safety, on the side of kids, not tobacco companies. This free fall in the legal department at the FDA is unimaginable. It's not safe for America. And it's not safe for our future.

I know what Kamala is going to say, she's fed up with this, and I am too.

This has gone way beyond any Second Amendment right that someone can purchase a weapon that creates that much devastation, voters need to elect people who want real gun safety.

If this turns out to be the opinion of Supreme Court and it's issued, it could have a major impact on the outcome of this election, when you go to an issue as fundamental as privacy and an individual's right to privacy, control of their bodies and their ability to make their own decision and Supreme Court just basically eliminates it, it is certainly a mobilizing factor in the next election.

I would not want it weighing on my conscience that we are turning over these pre-sentence reports to this committee for the first time in history and that information out of this … would somehow compromise or endanger any victim as a result.

You've made a mess of their stereotype, the endorsement of the Fraternal Order Police, the International Association of Chiefs of Police just doesn't fit with their stereotype of a Harvard grad Black woman who is aspiring to the highest court in the land.

The committee will meet in executive session to consider Judge Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court on this Monday, March the 28th at 3 p.m..

Ketanji Brown Jackson patience, dignity and grace in the face of what was, frankly, so offensive treatment is a real testament to Ketanji Brown Jackson judicial temperament.

I'm not naming names, i'm just saying a few people have gone off the rails, and I'm disappointed, but we're going to continue to do our work.

There will not be a separate set of rules for Democrats in control of this committee. That was used as a response time and time again by those senators, and it was accepted. If what I said was somehow problematic or painful yesterday, I'm sorry, but the Democrats are going to use the same mechanism that Republicans have used on this committee.

It's called chairman's time. It is a tradition on this committee exercised by Sen. Lindsey Graham as chairman and Sen. Grassley.

For many of senators, yesterday was an opportunity to showcase talking points for the November election, for example, all Democrats are soft on crime. Therefore, this nominee must be soft on crime. Well, you've made a mess of their stereotype. The endorsement of the Fraternal Order Police, the International Association of Chiefs of Police just doesn't fit with their stereotype of a Harvard grad black woman who is aspiring to the highest court in the land.

Law enforcement is on your side because you’ve been on their side at critical moments, and your family has dedicated a big part of their lives to law enforcement and you obviously believe it at your core, so the soft on crime charge, which leads all others, falls on its face.

So you had to be clairvoyant and know they had it? so I would be expected to say, geez, after Sen. Hawley asked questions, I'd better call the White House and see if they can help me research this?

How would you have reacted if, say, during the Kavanaugh confirmation, the White House shared judicial materials with Republicans and did not share it with Democrats?

There are two issues that came up repeatedly yesterday from the other side of the aisle that I want to address at the outset. One of them was a question of judicial philosophy, lo and behold, I've discovered the answer. It turns out that during the course of your time as a judge, you have… written opinions – 573, to be exact. I think maybe I'm off, what, one or two? And they more or less express your view of the law.