Yield the floor. The past several years have heard some pretty remarkable story istories from the other sf the aisle and from the national media. We heard from an atlantic article that the president called Service Members killed in action losers spread all over the place until it was refuted by 14 officialsff on the trip. We heard claims that the Trump Administration deployed federal troops to portland that were taking over the streets of portland until they came to congress and reported what actually happened starting with a therthat there were no federal troops that went. There was federal Law Enforcement but its because its a Federal Building that was under attack and they were not just aimlessly roaming the streets though they did arrest people that through cocktails at the building. I urged the post office cannot handle the increased volume of mail and the Trump Administration is intentionally trying to slow the post office down so the mail cant come in saying with frantic breathless voices it could be 100 million coming in, can the post office handle it until you find out two weeks before christmas last year the post office handled 2. 5 billion pieces of firstclass mail just in that one week. Certainly they can handle 100 million over a month. I heard last summer the president was taking away toothbrushes from children at the border. A group of us were at the border the next week and went into that exact facility and we saw a storage room full of toiletries yes including toothbrushes. I read the story and followed up with the leadership about muslims and our detention in oun facilities being forced to eat pork, tormenting them until we followed up on the facts that found it was completely false. It seems every day sometimes multiple times a day theres an accusation that comes out to be them on everynge angle of every direction you can possibly do it. Then for the presiding officer, you knowi this well because i st in the same chair for two hours last night during our 30 hours of continuous debate following the senate rules to conclude a confirmation of the Supreme Court justice and i was amazed at some of the things i heard while i sat in the chair. I heard things like Amy Coney Barrett never should have even come out of the judiciary because democrats boycotted coming to the hearing. Because they broke that rule we will break the next rule. Except they leave out one little thing. But thats happened multiple times before. There wasnt a breaking of the rule in the committee. Spin fact one of the members speaking last night said so far as they broke the rule to accept the parliamentary so they were wrongia as well. In these seven times at least since 2006 and 2014 when the democratic chair man sent a Circuit Court judge and two district judges to the floor our of committee when only one member of the minority was present not fulfilling the rule republicans didnt break the rule as they came out of committee with Amy Coney Barrett. I heard over and over again theres never been a time like this except when you go back and look through the history which ive recounted and most of my colleagues have recounted but last night i heard once again even Abraham Lincoln could have put in a nominee for the Supreme Court and he chose not to, to erit for the election and all i could do is sit with my mask covered face in the presiding chair and a smile an smile and t the Washington Post article that came out just a few weeks ago when senator harris gave the same lesson about Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court and the Washington Post wrote an article titled little History Lesson about lincoln Supreme Court vacancy wasnt exactly true. Abraham lincoln didnt hold back and say i will wait until after. The senate wasnt even in session during that time period and in the middle of a civil war, he was waiting it out trying to be able to keep his coalition together and not fracture it by naming someone. In fact he ended up naming one of his opponents in the Republican Party as the nominee that would come after he was reelected. Iits interesting to me how things seem to get it twisted around and some of this debate. I heard last night during the debate time that Amy Coney Barrett refused to answer the mostst basic questions about wht she believes about things. The shocking thing about it is she did the same thing Ruth Bader Ginsburg did during her nomination and every other nominee has said. Dave said im a judge. I cant tell you how im going to rule because it has to be based on the facts of the case. Its not something i can make up on the spot. In fact this is what was quoted from Justice Ginsburg when she was judge ginsburg at the time going through the nomination process. She said i come to the proceeding to be judged as a judge, not as an advocate because i am and hope to be judge and ita would be wrong for me to say or preview in this legislative chamber how i would cast my vote. Were i to rehearse hear what i would say and how i would reason such questions would act in judiciously. Judges are bound to decide concrete cases not abstract issues. Each comes based on particular facts and if a decision should turn on those facts and the governingig law explained in particular arguments the parties or their representatives. The judges sworn to decide in partially and can offer no forecast for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, but it would display disdain for the entire judicial process. For some reason Justice Ginsburg was celebrated for not saying how she would rule that Amy Coney Barrett has been showing disdain for not telling how she would rule on every single issue. The most painful thing i heard last night and that ive heard over and over again in the dialogue has been a sad personal destruction and deception pushing barrett as a racist and segregationist. I am disappointed that even this candidate is being challenged as a racist segregationist. Its the fire bomb thrown into the middle of the dialogue. Inover and over again she was challenged by saying what would she do with brown the board of education as if quietly shes a segregationist. Over and over again her concept on of regionalism was pushed and heres how it was framed in the debate on the floor. Shes an originalist that means backward looking that means supportive of those white men who supported slavery and wouldnt allow women to be able to vote because in their perspective thats what an originalist is. They want to go back to slavery and segregation and removing the rights of women to vote even last night saying it goes back to the time of child labor. It is a personal attack and its an act of desperation. Its an attempt to be able tor terrify the American People that this mother of seven is to be feared because she will take away your healthcare and will remove every option that protects the rights of individuals in a free society and as was stated last night afraid of we the people. We have a responsibility to be able to set the tone for debates. We disagree on things strongly and so do the American People. But this shouldnt be a place of personal attacks and disdain for each other and labeling people that if we were to sit down facetoface and i were to ask the members on the other side of the chamber do you really think that she is a racist i have every confidence members on the other side would say no, but it plays well to the base. What have we become . Future justice Amy Coney Barrett was labeled as a person that doesnt have her own mind that is running big dollar Federalist Society and is just a puppet of the right someone labeled to be groomed by the right for this position as if that judge hasnt studied, worked and prepared her entire life to serve. She has her own mind and is well prepared. Shes eminently qualified and isnt a secret racist segregationist coming to take away healthcare from americans. She is a judge that has heard 600 cases and graduated first in her Law School Class and taught law for 15 years at Notre Dame University and is well prepared and does have this originalist view of the constitution meaning you cant just look at it and make it say what you want it to. People can try to put words into her mouth that she has not said as i heard over and over like her desire to suppress voters. You cannot change how well prepared she is for this task and in this moment. Im grateful america continues to produce great leaders and individuals that work hard in their personal life and study and prepare themselves to be ready whatever god calls them to do and they are intentionally focused on serving their fellow americans and th in the best way possibly can. We ask th asked the justices ong at least i do, follow the law. It seems my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are terrified someone may just come follow the law and arguments may have to be debated in congress again. I hope thats true because there are policy arguments we need to resolve as a country, but lets resolve them in this chamber and not in the one across the street. Lets focus on helping americans follow the law. I look forward to voting for Amy Coney Barrett later on tonight and i look forward to the day when full speculations