Supreme court caused by the death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. President trump is expected to announce a replacement for Justice Ginsburg this week. Two days ago the democratic leader threatened that if the Senate Majority dares to play by the rules, and behave like a majority, it would mean quotes, the end of this supposedly great deliberative body. The end of the supposedly great deliberative body. Yesterday, we learned what he smeant. We saw Important Senate business hurt by what amounted to a temper tantrum. For some reason, the democratic leader decided to vet his frustration by blocking the Intelligence Committee, listen to this, from holding a bipartisan counterintelligence hearing. By blocking the Intelligence Committee from holding ald bipartisan counterintelligence hearing. The committee was set to hear from bill, the director of the National Counterintelligence and security center, this is the nations top counterintelligence official, among other things he works directly on protecting our election. Our elections. And our politics from foreign interference, that is his job. They were going to hear from him. This is the same democratic leader who declared a few weeks ago, that if the Intelligent Committee did not stay close to congress on election just last week he wrote a letter saying Election Security had to be above partisan politics. But now, now, Democratic Leaders temper is more important. He denied chairman rubio, routine permission with a Bipartisan Committee to meet. He said we wont have business as usual here in the senate. Both the Intelligence Committee in the armed s Services Committee is scheduled to meet. Theyre set to speak with top intelligence and military officials, will find out if its embarrassing the objects are one date matinee or whether he means to make this a series. Ourto Bipartisan Committees have a great deal of work to do to safeguard our nation. And in particular, to protect our elections. So i would hope our colleague from new york, gets out of the way. But the democratic leader did not stop there. A few minutes later he decided to cheapen a solomon unified moment and turn unanimous resolution honoring Justice Ginsburg into one more depressing stunt for booktv s cameras. Over the weekend, i wrote a resolution honoring the late justice amazing life. Normally such measures are adopted with unanimous bipartisan support. Icthat is exactly what we did after Justice Scalia past. Every senator recognize that our collective eulogy was no place to debate political questions. Oh, but not this time. This time the democratic leader copy pasted the tribune i had written, put his name on top, and added to divisive referencesat to our debate over what to doo next. He did not devote any time or attention to the life praising Justice Ginsburgs life and career, he did not suggest a that. His sole focus was turning on a solemn routine and unanimous moment for Justice Ginsburg into a platform for himself. Justice ginsburg could not be more deserving of the honor of a formal senate tribune. I hope our colleague from new york let us pass one sometime soon. Re now madam president , and another matter. A verdict talked a lot about history this week but before we shift to president trumps nominee, we need to review history one more time. As we await the hurricane of misrepresentations its almost guaranteed to pourte out, we need to understand it very clear terms why our colleague from new york is uniquely, uniquely non credible messenger when it comes to the senates role and judicial confirmations. It was Senate Democrats who began our modern challenges with their treatment in 1987. But the acrimony really got going in the early 2000 when a group of Senate Democrats took the almost never used tactic of filibuster nominations and turned it into a constant routine for the first time ever. So, madam president , who was the Main Driving Force behind these tactics . Lets consult the new york newspapers from the year 2003 quotes, schumer decided to put ideology on the front burner in the confirmation process, i am the leader of the filibuster movement. And you know, i am proud of it. Said the senator from brooklyn. Quotes, mr. Schumer urge democratic colleagues use a tactic to somewhat initially to pursue, that has since the senate. Throughout president bushs 432 terms, our colleague built an entire personal brand out of filibustering judicial nominees. Talented hardworking peoples were destroyed by the brilliant lawyer a close friend who says he is extraordinary and thoughtful and would have made an excellent addition to any federal court. People like that, literally destroyed by democratic tactics. This version of the now Democratic Leaders said filibustering judges was an essential part, an essential arpart of the senate pretty said that that as republicans every is a Nuclear Option to change rules midstream because they cannot get their way on every judge, it will be doomsday for democracy. Doomsday for democracy. But of course, the very next president ial administration, the democratic leader leapt at the chance to press that doomsday button himself, democrats could not abide president obama being in with the same rosanna president bush for they had no measure and taste in their own medicine princes the democratic leader decided to quote, the old rules need to be modified for it he voted to use a Nuclear Option to lower the bar. So they are actually has been one consistent principle all this time. For the democratic leader, two things qualify as a crisis when it comes to the courts. The sky is falling on a democratic president does not get to confirm every last judge he or she wants, and the sky is falling what a republican president gets to confirm any judges. Six months ago our colleague walked across the street to the Supreme Court steps, stood in front of a crowd and yelled, i want to tell you, i want to tell you kavanaugh, you will pay the price. You wont know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. That is a democratic leader in front of the Supreme Court of the united states. Just last night he said this, i tell the American People, everything you need and want, just about everything will be taken away, month after month, year after year, decision by decision by this new court. That is the argument. That is apparently the argument. Everything you need or want will be taken away . Is this a discussion among senators or over dramatic line from a bad movie . Madame president , the American People do not need anymore history lectures, anymore threats, or anymore performance outrage from the side that launched this unfortunate fight and escalated it time after time after time. There is one right path before us, it does right by the judiciary, the senate, the unnamed nominee and the American People. It is a fair hearing, a fair process, and a fair vote. That is what the American People insured in 2018 after the democratic leader explicitly asked for a referendum on this approach to the judiciary. He got that referendum in 2018, the people decided, they shrunk his minority even further. Americans took care to ensure Senate Democrats could not stand in the way of a fair process. So that is exactly what the senate will provide. Now madam president on another matter, yesterday the house at asked the governments funding resolution on a bipartisan basis it will now make its way to the senate. A few days ago when House Democrats released their first draft, republicans immediately spoke out about a huge omission and intentionally neglected the needs of farm country and rural america. They tried to use our nations farmers and ranchers as a bargaining chip. Fortunately because the leadership of our colleagues, senator, along with many other republican colleagues, we made it clear right away that we would not let democrats leave farmers behind. The Commodity Credit Corporation is an essential source of funding for our farmers. For years it has been routinely refilled, refilled with bipartisan support. But this year, Speaker Pelosi took Middle America hostage for brinksmanship. So i am grateful to senator ernst and everyone who fought hard to fix the democrats bill. Republicans kept the speaker of the house from adding insult to injury on such a challenging year for rural america. So all members will carefully review the resolution sent over by the house, i am optimistic that with bipartisan cooperation we will be able to make law well before the funding deadline at the end of this month. Thank you madam president. First on a thank my colleagues were here until late last night and made such persuasive arguments as to why the new Supreme CourtJustice Matters so much to the