WASHINGTON, D.C. – At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) summarized the slew of unwarranted accusations made against Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

On COVID Relief

“Senator Harris mentioned, as did others, that they would like to see us working on Covid relief again. I want to remind my colleagues that they had the opportunity to vote on this a couple of weeks back. And, if Senator Harris chooses to come in next week, she will have the opportunity to vote on Covid relief once again.”

On Health Care

“Judge Barrett, I think it is no secret that the Democrats are trying to drum up a lot of hysteria about you to spread some fear and misinformation, much of this is centered on American health care. Here's the reality, our friends across the dais here are wanting to do a single-payer government-run system… I feel like our friends across the dais have really tried to paint you as a monster with an agenda. I have appreciated that you have said repeatedly ‘I have no agenda.’ We know, as I said, they have their goals. They have their goals on health care, socialized medicine, ending the doctor-patient relationship, making it a bureaucrat-patient relationship.”

On Judicial Nominations

“We don't want activist judges for the left or the right. My colleagues should be comforted in the fact that we don't want judicial activism, period, end of sentence. We want jurists who will call balls and strikes that are constitutionalist, textualist, originalist.”

On Getting to Know Judge Barrett

“In Nashville, we say that everything begins and ends with a song. One of my old neighbors, Eddie Arnold, had a song…called, ‘You Don't Know Me… Many times we miss the richness of a relationship because we don't stop and take the time to get to know someone. That is what my colleagues [did]… They made it about the issues that they wanted to talk about because we are 20 days away from an election… They projected their thoughts onto the American people. They projected stereotypes onto you. Those stereotypes are what they think about us as women on the political right.”

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