were roe v. wade was correctly decided. mr. chairman i m going to be asking mr. chairman, may i ask a question? i was under the impression each of us had ten minutes for an opening statement. we will have 50 minutes for questions, but let me clarify plus i would ask, mr. chairman, the various members have been making speeches all day long and have not been confined to their ten minute opening statement. okay. well, like i told you i think i have time left on my ten minutes. you will have time. i m going to let you finish. just a minute. thank you. i was hoping that the ten-minute rule would stand, but we got off to a very bad start. motion to adjourn. and we got off to a bad start and everybody started exceeding their time limit. so i guess as long as we have we have to stay here and get this all done today, if we have
republican colleagues, before you will have to answer for what s in these documents. we don t know what s in them, but the question is what are they concealing that you will have to answer to history for? mr. chairman, i renew my motion to adjourn. you quote the rules very accurately, but those rules apply to executive business session. we are not in executive business session, so i deny your motion. mr. chairman, with all due respect, i ask you to point to me the language in rule 4 or anywhere else in our rules that limits its scope to executive business meetings. there is no such language, mr. chairman. i would have you quote language to the contrary. could you quote me that language? no, i m asking you. you quote me a language to the contrary of what i wrote. there is no language to the
follow this rule, mr. chairman. and i respectfully ask that we follow our rules, that we proceed in accordance with those norms and i know the chairman has great respect for open government, for whistle-blowers, for sunlight as the best dis inif he can tanlt. we need sunlight in this process. thank you, mr. chairman. i again, renew my motion to adjourn, which has been seconded by senator whitehouse. denied because we re not in executive session. i will proceed mr. chairman, before you proceed, i d just like to make one correction. there is a misconception as to what white house staff secretaries do and, in fact, two past staff secretaries todd stern and john podesta wrote an op ed in july 30th, 2018, the washington post titled, staff secretaries aren t traffic cops. stop treating kavanaugh like he
there is a motion to adjourn. we re not in executive session. mr. chairman, i ask for a roll call vote on my motion to adjourn. [ shouting ] 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? mr. chairman, 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 have requested, mr. chairman, even the ones that you said, the limited documents you have requested this committee has not received and the documents we have you, sir, have
process. it is to say majority, give us the time to do our work so that we can have a positive and comprehensive hearing on the man who may well be the deciding vote for many of america s futures. mr. chairman, i renew my motion to adjourn and senator harris s motion. i ask for a second. second. you ask for a vote. i ask i shouldn t have to explain to you we re having a hearing. its out of order. we re not in executive session. that would be the proper forum for entertaining motions i ask that we reconvene in executive session we wouldn t vote on senator blumenthal s suggestion. we won t follow your suggestion. its a motion, mr. chairman. to go into executive session. motions will not be proper at this time. mr. chairman, its a pending