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"You're just trying to ram through this justice against your own words," Klobuchar tells Graham after he schedules committee vote on Barrett’s nomination on Oct. 22

"It's going to create a lot of bad will that doesn't need to be created," Feinstein warns

Graham cites Reid's 2013 rule change on lower court nominees.

"That set in motion a lot of things that have taken the Senate in the wrong direction," he says

"I would be afraid to ask her about the presence of gravity on Earth because she would decline to answer," Durbin says of Barrett

"Anybody who has doubts about climate change is weird in your world...I personally reject the idea she wasn't forthcoming," Graham, who was very climate friendly before Trump, tells Durbin

"Y'all have a good chance of winning the White House," Graham says

"Thank you for acknowledging that," Klobuchar responds

Leahy tells Graham of his vow not to confirm a SCOTUS justice this year: "We have another precedent. Senators keep their word....I think about what you said. I wish you kept what you said then. You haven't.

"I just want the people of Texas to know the truth, that he is a closet vegan," Booker jokes of Cruz

"This is a contentious time. Twitter's blocking a story about Biden," Graham says as an aside

Whitehouse with a not so subtle warning about future rule changes if Dems take power:

"Don't think when you have established the rule of 'Because we can,' that should the shoe be on the other foot, you'll have the credibility to say, 'Yeah I know you can but you shouldn't'"

So after a brief lovefest between senators, Senate Judiciary Committee votes down Blumenthal's motion to postpone Barrett's nomination