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The House and the Senate should take up this bill and pass it without delay, this process was far from perfect, but ultimately it allowed Republican red lines to be adhered to and because of that I will urge my colleagues to support this package.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Judge Jackson is Judge Jackson. She is not a puppet of the so-called radical left. She's been praised by Republican-appointed judges for her jurisprudence.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don’t think Republicans want to be involved inshutting down the government, they've done that before [and] it backfired.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While I will continue to serve Vermont, Marcelle and I have reached a conclusion : it is time to put down the gavel, it is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter, who'll carry on this work for our great state. It's time to come home.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The job of the DOJ is not to back an administration, our job is to represent the American people.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I consider holding the office of the president pro tempore and the responsibilities that come with it to be one of the highest honors and most serious responsibilities of my career, when I preside over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, I will not waver from my constitutional and sworn obligations to administer the trial with fairness, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The president pro tempore has historically presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents, when presiding over an impeachment trial, the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws. It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The nice thing about medicine is I was able to have a registered nurse come home and spend the night with me.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The latest poll shows me winning easily, you all know this, I never make up my mind'til November or December the year before -- and I'm not going to do( it earlier) now.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The president pro tempore has historically presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents.When presiding over an impeachment trial, the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws, it is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I can't tell you how many hundreds of hours my staff and I have gone over the Constitution procedure, because it appears I may well be the one presiding over the trial.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I wish we would do some legislation, they had passed over 300 pieces of legislation in White House. Most of it with strong bipartisan support. McConnell won't even bring them up for a vote.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Some are so terrified of the White House and that the President might speak against them that they are receptive, but' Pat don't tell anybody,'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We had a couple of members in both parties who were all' oh Patrick Leahy didn't talk to us.' It was irrelevant. We went in there and Patrick Leahy had from the most conservative to the most liberal( members), kicking ideas back and forth. And the seriousness of what we were doing, Patrick Leahy could feel it settle in... and we ended up getting procedures.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Maybe you can explain why a dictator like Egypt's President al-Sisi is feted at the White House, Russia's President (Vladimir) Putin, North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Turkey's President (Tayyip) Erdogan are praised as strong leaders and the Saudi Crown Prince is treated as an indispensable friend and ally.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I was looking forward to asking Secretary Ross why Secretary Ross misled me during Secretary Ross last appearance, one year ago, when Secretary Ross asserted that Commerce Department was' the one who made the request' to include a controversial citizenship question on the Census.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Instead of standing with our neighbors, our fellow Americans, the president has chosen to hold petty grudges that are way beneath the office of the presidency.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A lot of the Republicans told me they wished he (Trump) would not do that.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
So many of the scandals it's hard to -- we don't have time to go through all of them.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Judge Judge Kavanaugh, I'm trying to get a straight answer from you under oath.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
You vehemently opposed any compensation for the victims' families.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It had immunization for the airlines, nothing for the victims.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I hope as a nation that we are beginning to come to terms with the systematic problem of sexual harassment and assault, but we still have a long way to go.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I have often said that the Senate, at its best, can be the conscience of the Nation—I must now vote my conscience.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I fear the Senate I would be defending no longer exists, i have often said that the Senate, at its best, can be the conscience of the Nation—I must now vote my conscience.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I've often said the Senate at its best and can should be the conscience of the nation, but I must first and foremost vote my conscience, i will not and cannot support advancing this nomination.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Remember the Judiciary Committee once stood against a court-packing scheme of a Democratic president that would have eroded judicial independence, and that was a proud moment, now Republicans on this committee are guilty of their own court-unpacking scheme.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Senate Republicans made a big show last year about respecting the voice of the American people in this process, now they're arguing that the Senate should rubber-stamp their nominees selected by extreme interest groups and nominated by a president who lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I hope next week, when the president’s Supreme Court nominee will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he provides transparent, truthful answers to Senators’ questions, i will insist on real answers from Judge Neil Gorsuch, because there are real concerns about his record and his judicial philosophy.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If the Republican leadership refuses to even hold a hearing, I think that is going to guarantee they're going to lose control of the Senate.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
And it would be a sheer dereliction of duty for the Senate not to have a hearing, not to have a vote.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The fact is, when you elect a president, you have to assume a Supreme Court vacancy, he is going to make the nomination, and it would be a sheer dereliction of duty for the Senate not to have a hearing, not to have a vote.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Election season always brings out crazy ideas, but this is one of the craziest, if Marcelle’s( Democratic Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy wife's) parents were still here they would say the same thing, but in French.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Otherwise the Iraqi units involved should be deemed ineligible for U.S. aid.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If their (ABC's) information is accurate, the burden is on the Iraqi Government to punish those involved and on the Departments of State and Defense to insist that they do so and to offer support in investigating and punishing those involved as the law calls for, otherwise the Iraqi units involved should be deemed ineligible for U.S. aid.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is going to be an ongoing issue and we should always bring it up.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Name an issue. They're involved. It's not like we're negotiating with countries we've been at war with.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That was said to President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon, President Ford, President Carter — you see what I'm driving at, the fact is they are there. The fact is, Cuba is still there.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The conduct described suggests an alarming lack of concern for the safety of the Cubans involved, and anyone who knows Cuba could predict it would fail, uSAID never informed Congress about this and should never have been associated with anything so incompetent and reckless. It's just plain stupid.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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