And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
I could be on the court for two hours, and it felt like 10 minutes. It made time go by.
I didn't get to the Senate by accident.
I was privileged to serve as a judge.
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.
I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that.
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