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If Democratic Senate fails, Democratic Senate's it -- I can't require passage, what I can require is that Democratic Senate be brought to a vote.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We need to do judges -- we've done that on the floor... of the Senate.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I hope that [ Democrats ] continue to push for that, but the first step has to be having this bill [ pass ], if we can do that first, there's a far greater likelihood that it will be attached as part of the spending bill.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
How in the world my colleagues don't see this as a priority now, I just don't understand, it does need to come to the Senate floor, and I think its worth using a little leverage here.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The President now has this investigation in The President sights, and we all know it.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The President has said that The President's not going to move on the special counsel. But that's not enough, and perhaps that's what gives comfort to the majority leader. ... But it doesn't give comfort to me.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We have been told that the bill that Sen. Chris Coons and I will move to bring up shortly is not necessary, as there have been no indications that the independence of Mr. Mueller's investigation is in jeopardy, that may have been an arguable position before last week. But it is not arguable anymore.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'm waiting just like you, certainly, if they find something, I'm going to take that into consideration.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Yesterday, we heard compelling testimony from Dr. Ford, as well as Christine Blasey Ford from Judge Kavanaugh. I wish that I could express the confidence that some of my colleagues have conveyed about what either did or did not happen in the early 1980s, but I left the hearing yesterday with as much doubt as certainty.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We ought to do what we can to make sure that we do all due diligence with a nomination this important.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This isn't easy for anybody, some of us have been talking for a while -- similar questions I guess.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I must also say that separate and apart from this nomination and the facts that pertain to it, I do not believe that the claim of sexual assault is invalid because a 15-year-old girl didn't promptly report the assault to the authorities, as the President of the United States said just two days ago.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
And so these witnesses who will testify in a very important hearing tomorrow, these unwitting combatants in an undeclared war -- these people are not props for us to make our political points, nor are they to be' demolished like Anita Hill' as was said on conservative media the other night, nor is one them a' proven sex criminal' as has been circulating on the left side of the Internet.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I am not psychic, i am not gifted with clairvoyance. Given these limitations, I'll have to listen to the testimony before I make up my mind about the testimony.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's tough to imagine politics without John McCain. But we need to go on.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
He serves at the President's pleasure, so The President can fire The President. I sincerely hope that he doesn't. People worry about about the domino — if Attorney General Sessions goes, who's next ? Is it Rod Rosenstein ? Obviously, the President's comments yesterday, The President just keeps going further and further, attorney General Sessions did the right thing to recuse Attorney General Sessions. And for The President to say otherwise just is simply wrong. So I hope that The President stops trying to undermine the credibility of the Department of Justice, and let Attorney General Sessions serve.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There are typically notes that are taken. I'm assuming that some of the information could only be given in a classified setting so I would think that before the relevant committees, I'm not saying it ought to be done in a public hearing, we at least ought to get access to the notes that the translators keep.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I have a chapter in there about some doctors that saved my father-in-law. They came from majority-Muslim countries that under the current travel ban, they probably wouldn't be here, so I think we ought to look as Republicans, I hope we are always welcoming of immigrants.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's always' let's wait and get through the midterms and then we'll rein the President in' or' then we'll assert our constitutional prerogatives,' but we've got to be all together now.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If you value re-election above all else, then find a way to accommodate the President, i don't know what other message you can draw from what's happened. This is the President's Party.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I doubt we ’ll be there the whole time, typically when people smell jet fumes, they find a way to be a little more cooperative.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I've said many times, this is a tough party right now for a Republican like me, so, it is tough to get through a primary, if you agree with the President's positions or condone his behavior. So, I just can't do that.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This is the first time that a number of senators have actually stood up, a number of Senators from the President's party and said,' No, Jeff Flake can't do that, and we're going to pass legislation to rein this in,' and so that is our prerogative, that's what we should be doing, that's what we should have been doing sooner than now.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The Constitution gives Congress the primary role in regulating trade, and certainly tariffs, not the President, so, the President is using an exemption that was never intended for that purpose.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We were talking specifically about connectivity, but also about the challenges that have come up. Obviously we have had some setbacks.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The president had this diversion tactic, obviously, with so-called Spygate, there is concern that the president is laying the groundwork to move on Bob Mueller or Rosenstein. If that were to happen, obviously, that would cause a constitutional crisis.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
While I thank Ms. Haspel for Gina Haspel long and dedicated service to the CIA, as a country we need to turn the page on the unfortunate chapter in the agency's history having to do with torture.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
While I thank Ms. Haspel for her long and dedicated service to the CIA, as a country we need to turn the page on the unfortunate chapter in the agency's history having to do with torture.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
When they saw the President and other officials -- the RNC -- backing someone like Roy Moore, too many people are saying,' That's not my party,'.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I wouldn't gauge what support there is a year-and-a-half from now from what support there is now, certainly, now, Donald Trump party is Donald Trump party. The base is with Donald Trump in a big way. Believe me, we all know. But that's not to say that will hold.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Fully automatic weapons have been justifiably illegal for civilian use for over 30 years. Any device which circumvents that law by increasing a weapon’s rate of fire from semi-automatic to fully automatic ought to be illegal as well, i am encouraged by the president’s directive... to regulate these devices, but a temporary regulatory fix is no substitute for permanent law.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
But, if there is a problem in the end, and we can't reach that, I think that these Dreamers need to be protected.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It is clear in this moment that a traditional conservative, who believes in limited government and free markets, who is devoted to free-trade, who is pro-immigration, has a narrower and narrower path to nomination in the Republican Party, the party that has for so long defined itself by its belief in those things.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The end is going to be sitting down with our colleagues from the other side of the aisle and getting something passed.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
A fair and functioning judiciary is one of the pillars of our democracy, but the oversized and overburdened 9th Circuit has Arizonans waiting too long for justice, establishing a new circuit with stronger local, regional, and cultural ties will ease the burden across the West and ensure that the people of Arizona finally get the swift access to the courts they deserve.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
No negotiations. No gang. Just some conversation among some of my friends, but certainly not a gang. Certainly not even negotiations. Just conversation.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Well, I'm not saying that I believe that the Trump campaign was involved with Russians on this. Frankly, my guess is that they didn't, i wouldn't want to believe that about anybody. But the accusations about the former president wiretapping, that's a serious allegation that you make about somebody. And that's not well-advised. And I would hope that the President would apologize and move on.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Hopefully we're together on this, i think we will be. We just want to make sure that whatever we do, pushes in the right direction.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We ought to reevaluate a system that spends federal funds looking for America’s next top model over a cure for cancer.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I would rather have a less liberal nominee like Merrick Garland than a nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put forward.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I probably would have stopped at, 'He wants to make the country orange.' That was pretty good.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's a concern to have Trump on the top of the ticket. It's a concern for anyone on the ballot, some of us feel we have a responsibility to speak out when he makes outlandish, crazy statements like the Muslim ban or a number of others.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
On the front end, it is a very thorough vetting that they get. So of all the things that we ought to be concerned about, that is not at the top of the list.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I haven't called for a halt or a moratorium. So I'm sympathetic to the administration's position here, but instead of blaming people or assuming people are bigots, come out and explain what the vetting process is and I think people will feel more comfortable.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Fans should not be unknowing viewers of a paid-marketing campaign. I am pleased that the Department of Defense has banned paid patriotism and the NFL has called on clubs to stop accepting payment for patriotic salutes, professional sports teams do a lot of good for our military, but paid patriotism on the taxpayers’ dime cheapens true displays of patriotism.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The bottom line is that I can only support an agreement that can endure.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
A lot of people say [earmarks] grease the skids of legislating, that it helps us pass legislation, but it is not worth it.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Even long beyond their expiration date, they live on – they find a way.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Unless they can demonstrate some ability to actually recruit with this money, then they shouldn't be spending it. And I, myself, I'm pretty skeptical.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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