if votes are called on the senate floor, which is a possibility, we'll do our best to keep the hearing going as members go back and forth. as i mentioned yesterday, we welcome all of our friends in the audience and ask that they be quiet and respectful during the hearing. so, let's get started with the questioning, and i'll begin at this point. judge jackson, 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. no one questions either your academic law school credentials or your service as clerk and as federal judge, but time and again, you have been asked, what is your judicial philosophy? does it fit into scalia's originalism, kavanaugh's textualism, is it liberal, is it