true, whatthat is are they hiding? why do they need to conceal them? we should have the opportunity to determine whether judge kavanaugh truly was an honest rocher, just a traffic cop, just passing documents through his hands without any input, the best way to do it is by reviewing those documents. mr. president, judge kavanaugh made this point when he was an appellate court nominee at his confirmation hearing. he answered "that is done through an assessment of going back, in my case, 16 years of my career and looking at the kinds of things i have done in the staff secretary's office, we should heed those words, they are the words of judge kavanaugh. we should examine all the documents. it may take some additional time to review all those documents, .ut maybe not if there is nothing in there that relates to his view and his opinion and his role, if he was just a traffic cop or an honest rocher, we can get through them quickly. that regardless of the time involved, there is no more important task that we will undertake as united states senators then dec