Cornyn: Committee Should Hear from Kavanaugh, Dr. Ford

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Today at a press conference, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed the importance of hearing from both Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in a bipartisan setting next Monday. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn's remarks are below, and video can be found here.

"So far, Dr. Ford's lawyer has refused to respond to invitations to participate."

"We certainly hope that she takes advantage of this opportunity if she still would like to."

"We've offered her basically either an open or closed setting. But again, to reiterate what Leader McConnell, the point he made, we wouldn't find ourselves, nor would Dr. Ford find herself in this situation, if Sen. Feinstein hadn't sat on this letter she's had since July, said nothing about it during the course of the hearing for Judge Kavanaugh, and now raising it at this late date."

"But we believe that the process of confirming judges should continue to be bipartisan. We're hopeful that our Democratic colleagues will join us in making sure that we can restore some dignity and civility and decorum to the process rather than just have another repetition of what we saw during Judge Kavanaugh's earlier hearing."

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