Good morning. I appreciate you all of my colleagues being here promptly. As you know, our democratic colleagues informed the Committee Last night they will not participate the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. Were not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days, 22 days to be questioned. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the kavanaugh road. I want to complement the republican members of this committee for asking questions that mattered to you about showing tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. Each of you, when this is over, i hope you feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. Its moments like this that make ever
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Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. Senate debate on Amy Coney Barretts nomination begins at noon eastern. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee voted yesterday to move the nomination from the committee to the floor for consideration. Democrats boycotted the vote. The committee voted to authorize subpoenas for the heads of tech and social media companies. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I appreciate all of my colleagues being here properly. As you know, our democratic colleagues informed the Committee Last night they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. Were not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days, two days to the question. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged but not inappropriately. What to co
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Sen. Graham good morning. I appreciate all of you, all of my colleagues being here promptly. As you know, our Democratic Politics informed the Committee Last night that they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days to be questioned. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged, but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the kavanaugh road. I want to complement the republican members for asking questions that matter to you, but showing a tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. And each of you, when this is over, i hope you feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. It is moments like this that ma