Is angry. Why . Because we democrats have exposed that he is defiled the senate as an institution more than any person in this generation and many generations because we democrats have exposed the hypocrisy of holding up marek garland because it was eight months before election and rushing through Amy Coney Barrett decodes it something we can do. The bottom line is leader mcconnell of course he doesnt like hearing these things but they are the truth and they will live on in history a man who defiled. The senate man who created one of the greatest hypocritical acts in the history of the senate sits in that chair. The republican majority is in the senate towards one of the lowest moments in its long history and the damage it does to this chamber may be very well be irreparable after thwarting thele constitutional prerogative of a duly elected democratic president to appoint a Supreme Court justice because it was an Election Year the republican majority is rushing to confirm a justice or republican president one week, one week before election day. Four short years ago all of our republican friends argued that it was principled, thats a word they use principle to let the American People have a voice in the selection of a Supreme Court justice because the election was eight months away. Those same republicans are preparing to confirm a justice with an election that is eight days away. What a stench of hypocrisy. In the process the majority has trampled over every norm rule or standard that could possibly stand in its way. Its ignored Health Guidelines hearings innperson the middle of ars pandemic after republican members of the committee themselves have contracted covid. It has broke and Longstanding Senate president nevermind, never in the history of the senate has a Supreme Court nominee of a lifetime appointment been considered so closeo to election or the presiding officer of the Senate Confirmed this yesterday in response to the senators inquiry. Never in the history of the senate has the Supreme Court nominee been confirmed after july of an Election Year but before even we arrived at this eordid chapter at the republican majority broke the rules of the senate to change the rules of the senate lowering the number of votes required for Supreme Court nomination nominations so that republicans could confirm whoever they want but they change the rules of the senate again to limit the amount of time the senate spends consideringom judicial nominatis so they could pass the court ntwith their rightwing appoints even faster. Madam president its a hallmark of democracy that might does not make right that the republicans are blatantly ignoring this principle. Here in Leader Mcconnell Senate the majority wins by the rule of because we can and they completely ignore the question of whether they should. Morality, principles and values consistency all out the window and here now we have the culmination of this republican majority systemic erosion of rules and norms in pursuit of raw political power for the Supreme Court nominee who will be confirmed on a partyline vote after the rules were changed toe allow a complete contradiction to the supposed that principle that the p same party so vehemently argued only four years ago. Eight days before an election in which the American People will choose exactly who they want to pick the Supreme Court justices for them. This idea that he can as now the senate is controlled by the president , the end us in the dark controlling the senate and the presidency of one party the rule doesnt apply. Said that when they they merrick garland. State three. Again part of the house of lies that is being built by the majority to rush a Supreme Court justice like this. It is absurd and it is outrageous. It is a stain on this body and an indelible mark on the Senate Majority that will live in history. The Senate Republican majority is conducting the most rushed, most partisan and least legitimate process in the long history of Supreme Court nominations and democrats will not lend announce of legitimacy to that process. Today the members of the minority on the Judiciary Committee have White Cottage the markup of Amy Coney Barrett. The t rules of the Judiciary Committee required that two members of the minority be present in order to conduct the markup picture to r form chairmn graham decided to break the rules to v move forward with a vote on judge barrett anyway. Steamrolling over the rules of Committee Just like republicans have steamrolled over principles, honesty, fairness consistency and decency in their madras to confirm a justice before the election. To steamroll overrules is the mark of an autocratic society not the mark of the democracy and a republican majority is going along with that kind of autocracy at the same time exhibited by President Trump and its a shame the principles of the Republican Party are out the window. Today the democratic seats on the dais in a committee roomoo remain empty. In their place are reminders of what is almost at daschle to me it lay at stake in the nomination of fundamental rights of the American People and in their place were photographs of americans whose lives would be devastated if Justice Baird delivers this vote to strike down theon affordable gerecht ripping away health care from tens of millions of americans in eliminating protections for 130 million americans with preexisting conditions. You could imagine alongside the faces of women who chairs the right to make their own private medical decisions. The faces of lgbtq americans who want to marry who they love and not be fired f for who they are, the faces of American Workers who are breakingo their backs fr their union to get a better wage and the faces of young people who h know the planet is in perl in their lifetimes but i hope when republican members of the committee took their seats this morning they looked at those faces. They are to think about what this nomination means for them. I hope they actually took one moment to think about what it says about the sham of a process that democrats were forced to take the extraordinary step of refusing to participate. While they may realize it or not they may not even care. The republican majority monomaniacal drive to affirm this justice is the most hypocritical of the most hypocritical circumstances and will ever forever defiled the senate in curtail the fundamental rights of the American People for generations to come. To everyone of my colleagues history will remember what you have done. Democrats will play no part in it. Now madam president while the senatete majority brushes to confirm the Supreme Court justice its ignoring a number of important parties where earlier this week the republicans had a series of stunt votes on covid relief they stun an emaciated bill that left most americans behind and that was designated to fail. Now ino want to mention a forein policies in the republican majority is ignoring. We have a resolution by senators menendez and murphy to invoke Statutory Authority under the foreign assistance act to require the secretary of state to assess and report to the congress the potential human rights abuses in syria. My colleague has introduced this resolution as a result of turkeys invasion in northeast syria and its campaign to ethnically cleanse kurds from the region which has resulted in numerous reports of horrific human rights abuses. The tragic events were the result of the presence decision to abandoning our kurdish partners. The administration did with the finger with the atrocities by turkish proxies and president erdogan in its conflict between armenia and azerbaijan. Present erdogan this ending individuals responsible for the atrocities in syria to this region now