hearings. in the end, i hope that judge kavanaugh that the decisions are based on his real qualifications, not some political ideology. sandra: while i have got you, ken, if i could ask you about the justice department saying it will investigate the social media giants like facebook and twitter and whether or not they are intentionally censoring conservatives. this has been a big question for a while now. do you believe that that is the case? i am really pleased that the justice department is looking at this. we have started looking at it, i have directed my office to look at it, because we have incidences in my state we had a church he was advertising for easter services, and some have facebook blocked them. we had to intervene and undo that. we were able to come and there was never a good exultation. they talk about these algorithms that we don t understand. as we go through the process, we
it was labeled as confidential exposes the dis- process is a bit of a sham. this is never been done. we have holding back not only documents labeling confidential, but not even giving us the timeo review those documents. in addition to that, this is just the tip of the iceberg of all of the documents that will continue to be released, i assume come up until the point that we have a vote on the senate floor and beyond that. i m sure you can understand, sir, how it puts all of us in a very difficult situation. it s not you, it s somebody you have to go back to a person named bill burke to decide if some document, an associate and colleague of the nominee, to figure out which documents are going to be released. by the way, if all these documents were things, as you characterize them, personal information if these were things that were delicate information. if i read these, the nights we got the night before the hearing including the ones before the
problem, and i think for the future we ought to settle that problem with some kind of a written agreement between the two sides, whether that is an agreement between the two sides of the entire committee, or between the chairman in the raking member. i think it doesn t matter much, but the fact is, we should agree on who determines something is committee confidential. what the criteria are for age, and the release of the public. and, particularly in the event of a supreme court hearing. senator durbin. thank you, mr. chairman. like my colleague senator whitehouse, i don t want my silence to be interpreted as a consent to the process that we have faced before this senate judiciary committee. it is unlike any process i have ever seen. this designation of committee confidential should be put in