one senator wants to make a 30-second comment i am willing to turn to that, but let me say, each of our 21 senators on the committee get to ask questions for 20 minute rounds. every couple of hours we will take a break, and that would include a lunch break. judge, if you need a break at any time, have your staff informed my staff. as a standard practice for every judicial nominee, the fbi conducts a background investigation and provides to the senate a background report. moreover, like with prior nominees including justices kagan and gore such, there are a number of presidential records that are restricted by federal law for public release because they contain sensitive information. including highly confidential advice delivered to the
president, and personally identifying information such as full names, date of birth, and social security numbers. so, at the end of the questions today, we will move as we have before into a closed session with the nominee where we we will review the fairport and any confidential records that any member would like to discuss. this is standard practice, we do it for all supreme court nominees. every member is invited to participate. now, i would like to call on senator ronald. thank you very much. i would like to set the rord straight on a manner that was brought up late last night with regard to me and my questioning of judge kavanaugh and his relationship to judge krasinski and whether i would ask them the same questions. i would like to quote from my response to the washington times on september 4th, 2018. that quote is and this is for me if president trump would be so enlightened as to withdraw
done things in this committee. mr. chairman? i m going to call on senator lee, and then you. before that, a couple things. she just reminded me, and her comments. a number one, to take care of all the people that didn t act promptly like you did, senator klobuchar. that s why we extended it and gave the courtesy of doing whatever anybody else wants now. can either be brought up? those that you ve got can be brought up right now to him, and the things that aren t clear that you want to bring up with the judge, you can bring up in the closed session today. everything is, when you talk about getting all the documents, i don t know who might work for members of this committee sometimes. they want to be on the supreme court. for instance, we didn t ask for
that does not exist this time. i have documents that are not personal, not classified, not confidential, not sensitive, that are nevertheless covered under this senator kennedy. i was in the chair last night when this issue came up. i made the call, and i wanted to explain why i made it. my colleague raised the point, i allowed senator booker to continue, sometimes patients ceases to be a virtue, but i didn t think of these hearings following the chairman s example that that was appropriate. senator booker examined judge kavanaugh about the racial disparities in this country. i gave judge kavanaugh i think i was 6 minutes and 39 seconds to respond, uninterrupted. i was trying to be, and will continue, was trying to be fair
sandra: okay. i think we lost the texas attorney general. we think and for his time. he started by weighing a nonthese hearings, and he s been looking on on some of the intense exchanges on the last couple of days. bill: local commercials are not supposed interruptus. sandra: [laughs] we apologize to the attorney general for that. bill: chuck grassley, he said we are not going to dip into begin a cover today of brett kavanaugh s hearing as we continue. we ll see where we left off last night as we start now. 9:40:00 a.m. on the hill. to reduce this, but i think we have the department of justice cooperating with that. before this day is over, members will have the documents that they need to ask the questions that they wanted to ask. before i ask my questions and