We now have an uncorroborated accusation, rooted only in unnamed sources, with no direct knowledge of the event, and that the alleged victim doesnt even remember, since when did that become something fit to printby the supposed American paper of record?

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They shouldn't be transparently self-serving attempts to justify whatever the president or an attorney general wants to do for political reasons.

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Ironically, this nominee might be especially well-equipped to advise the Obama administration on inversion policy.

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When the Democrats were investigating the U.S. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure, that I joined Senator Leahy in efforts to get transparency of all of the documents.

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You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

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When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

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Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

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I think that less presidential interference the better.

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It’s unacceptable that the FBI continues to take a secretive approach, hiding behind classification as an excuse to withhold information that all Americans deserve to have.

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Well, I think, historically, it's a big issue because this is the first time a former president's home has ever been invaded. Secondly, it's important because it looks like there's political bias, and the people, in the people that decided to do it. Because you have a whole opposite of what they did with Hillary Clinton, with her e-mails, and they were compromised, and she destroyed some property, and nothing was done, and they negotiated with her, but they didn't invade her home. So what's different now?

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It won't only be what I hear at the state fair, but what I've heard in my county meetings that I hold regularly. Inflation is number one. Some people call it cost of living, saying gas prices. And the fact is, the president is not enforcing law at the border. It just irritates people. You can't come to America without our permission. And we've had 2 million people just willy-nilly cross the border.

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I think that would solve a lot of the public relations problem, if they would [make it public].

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I'm not making a judgment about the culpability of somebody that was involved in this. The information we're after. But I do believe because of the great historical significance of this invasion of the home, that we need total transparency. And I believe particularly Director Wray of the FBI needs to make very clear that he understands, and I know to some extent he understands because I had whistleblowers tell me about the political bias that some people that are high up making decisions to investigate or not investigate. And he moved that person out of it. So he knows he has a problem. How big the problem is, I don't really know how big it is.

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Less than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI’s credibility is on the line following its inconsistent handling of politically sensitive investigations, failure to hold its own employees accountable for misconduct and consistent disregard for congressional oversight, last night’s raid on the home of a former U.S. president without explanation will only further erode confidence in the FBI and the Justice Department.

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The President may choose to characterize protests, riots, and incitements of violence as mere passion, but these attempts to influence and intimidate members of the federal judiciary are an affront to judicial independence.

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The only election I'm worried about is the 2022 election, and then I worry about the 2024 election after that, and I'm looking to the future.

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No, no. It's kind of like, how can you not have a judicial philosophy? like that’d be saying – how can I run for office [when] I don't have a political philosophy?

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I want to address that issue that was raised yesterday about records, sen. [Ted] Cruz, R-Texas, raised a very legitimate question about data related to U.S. probation officer recommendations. The White House and members of this committee use that information to attempt to discredit information raised by Senator Hawley and others about the nominee's sentencing record as a district judge. No one on our side of the aisle had access to this information.

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The most important thing that I look for is a nominee's view of the law, judicial philosophy and view on the role of a judge in our constitutional system, there are a number of dark money groups on the left that argue federal judges should make policy decisions based on judge's own values.

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The relevant agencies ought to rapidly implement the OIG’s recommendations, congress should not even begin to considerproposals related tosweepingimmigrationstatus changes for evacuees,such as an Afghan Adjustment Act,until theBiden administration, at the very least,guarantees the integrity ofand fully responds to long-standing congressional oversight requests regardingthe vettingand evacuee resettlementprocess.

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And worse, the administration cannot locate some evacuees with problematic records who were released into the United States before their background checks were completed.

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