senator, call a vote! [ indistinct shouting from protesters ] okay. i call for order. it is regular order for us to receive all documents to receive all the documents this committee is entitled to. [ indistinct shouting from protester ] mr. chairman, it is also i think that mr. chairman, it is also not regular order senator to require the minority to preclear questions or documents and the videos we would like to use at this hearing. that is unprecedented. that is not regular order. since when do we have to submit the questions and the process we wish to follow to question this nominee? i d like your clarification. on why you are requesting in order to submit our questions
why are we rushing? if i answer those questions, it s going to fit into the effort of the minority to continue to obstruct and i don t thing that s fair to our judges. it s not fair to our process. let me respond to those now. and then maybe we can proceed. my colleagues on the other side are accusing the administration of using executive privilege to hide documents from the committee. unlike president obama s assertion of executive privilege during fast and furious is one example. this assertion is not legitimate. judge kavanaugh was a senior lawyer in the white house.
the majority staff began reviewing the documents as soon as they arrived and has already completed its review. there is, thus, absolutely no reason that s no reason to delay the hearing. we ve received and read every page of judge kavanaugh s extensive public record. this includes 12 years of his judicial service on the most important federal circuit court in the country where he authored 307 opinions and joined hundreds more amounts to more than 10,000 pages of judicial writing. we also received and read more than 17,000 pages of his speeches, articles, teaching materials, other documents, judge kavanaugh submitted with his questionnaire. the most robust questionnaire this committee has ever issued. and of course we received and read more than 483,000 pages of
point, that on rare occasion something happened at these hearings that is not scripted and part of the binder going in. right. of course, the problem with these is all the rough edges have long since been smoothed off. you can be sure that kavanaugh has done several mock hearings before the committee to react to hostile questions, to adjust his tone. we ve seen excerpts from his opening statements which have echoes of 13 years ago and the supreme court confirmation hearing for john roberts who notably said he wanted to be like an umpire, just to call the balls and strikes. and according to excerpts of his opening statements. i m not pro dfefense, i m a pro law judge. you heard about the strong feelings that many democrats still have about the rough treatment for merrick garland who never even got a
we re not in an executive session mr. chairman, i ask for a roll call vote on my motion to adjourn. please, don t please vote no! please vote no! okay. mr. chairman, i move to adjourn. i ask for a roll call vote. we re not in executive session. we will continue as planned. mr. chairman, may i be recognized, sir? i appeal to the chair to recognize myself or one of my colleagues. you re out of order. mr. chairman, i appeal to be recognized on your sense of decency and integrity. even the documents you ve requested, mr. chairman, even the ones you said, the limited documents you ve requested this committee has not received. and the documents we have, you, sir, have legal duty gentlemen, i ask for order. this committee, sir, is a