Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony
She SaidChristine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony began with her reading an opening statement at the September 27, 2018, hearing. The moment brought her account into the formal proceedings: as the hearing came to order, Ford began to speak from a prepared statement.
Opening the Proceedings
The account places Ford’s first act of testimony at the start of the hearing. Rather than beginning with an exchange of questions, she began by reading her statement as the proceedings came to order.
Form and Significance
The recorded action is specific but limited: Ford read her opening statement at the hearing. That detail marks the transition from the proceedings’ opening to her own formal testimony; the available account does not provide the statement’s contents or describe what followed.
