member. but the ranking member didn t ask judge kavanaugh about the allegations when she met with him privately in august. the senate judiciary committee held its four-day public hearing from september 4th to september 7th. judge kavanaugh testified for more than 32 hours in public. we held a closed session for members ask sensitive questions on the last evening, which the ranking member did not attend. judge kavanaugh answered nearly 1300 written questions submitted by senators after the hearing. more than all prior supreme court nominees. throughout this period, we did not know about the ranking member s secret evidence. then, only at an 11th hour, on the eve of judge kavanaugh s confirmation vote, did the ranking member refer the allegations to the fbi.
ask judge kavanaugh about the allegations when she met with him privately in august. the senate judiciary committee held her there for a from september 4th to september 7th. judge kavanaugh testified for more than 32 hours in public. we held a closed session for members to ask sensitive questions on the last evening, which the ranking member did not attend. it judge kavanaugh answered nearly 1300 written questions submitted by senators after the hearing. more than all prior nominees. throughout this period, we did not know about the ranking members of secret evidence. then, only at the 11th hour, on the evening of his confirmation board, did the ranking member refer the allegations to the fb fbi. and then, sadly, the allegations were linked to the press.
but first we must addressed and we begin tonight with the democrats blatant attempt to derail the cavanaugh confirmation. the first scheduled both in the senate have now been delayed. one week from tonight or today i ve actually come at the senate judiciary committee will hold an open question and judge kavanaugh will be there in order to address what is a 36-year-old sexual misconduct allegations from his teenage years. his accuser has also been asked to testify. no word of confirmation if she will be at the lack of hearing. this comes after dianne feinstein out of the blue released a cryptic statement last week about an anonymous individual who is now accusing brett kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. when they were both in high school, and like 1982 but they don t know the exact year. keep in mind, dianne feinstein, and all her fellow democrats, they have had this information since july. but she didn t ask judge
act, but he reluctant to do it because his friends in new york was call him they were going to use money. we shouldn t even have the jones act. it is a relic of the past. we should not have it. it s designed to feed the pockets of rich people in new york. and yet this president continues to create his own narrative of what a great job. even fema has admitted the shortcomings. and fema can t go to argue with the president, but they know what they ve got to do. they know they did not have enough assets on the ground. they know they didn t respond quick enough. they know they did not request the military soon enough. look, i beat general buchanan to puerto rico, and i flew there on a delta jet. what s wrong with that picture? our military is an expeditionary force. can go anywhere in the world any time. they asked for it late and didn t ask for 12,000 federal people in federal reserve
time. they asked for it late and didn t ask for 12,000 federal people in federal reserve compared to 20,000 federal troops, 20 ships and 40,000 national guard troops in katrina. what s wrong with that picture? so, general, the president again today defended the response by saying it was more of a challenge because puerto rico is an island surrounded by water. there any validity to that? time and distance does add to the difficulty of getting to a place. look, during a real disaster, john, whether it s katrina, harvey, maria, wherever, you ll never be there on time when people have been devastated by the wrath of a heavy, big storm like maria. you ll never be there on time. but we should have sped up the response by making the military be the primary responder, working in support and helping fema. fema was already overloaded with harvey and irma, something they had never done before. and here they trying to manage