We take you live to a conversation with senator cory booker. Celebrate the illustrious career of our beloved colleague, distant wrist university professor, james a server. Jim is retiring this year after 47 illustrious years studying american democracy, contribute into it, and enlightening others about it. During that time, jim has done many things. Im sure hell be angry with me, the am going to embarrass him a little bit. [indiscernible] longtime advisor to both congress and the executive branch, a documentarian, acting dean, director of many things, including this center, which he founded. A sponsor of more than three to 50 events of converses, principal invested conferences, principal investigator, an author and editor of over 50 books and monographs, peerreviewed journal articles, and well over 100 book chapters and publications. As my colleague said earlier this week, jim is american university. When we started talking about these dialogues, we asked jim who he would like to inter
The hearing will come back to order. Senator klobuchar. Klobuchar thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Hello, judge. I want to start out again by reminding our friends at home, people at home, that this isnt normal, we shouldnt be here right now. We are in the middle of a pandemic and people are sick. We are in the middle of an election and people are voting. And here we are, stuck in a nomination hearing. I know what my constituents care about, what they have been calling and writing me about. And that is they are afraid of losing their health care in the middle of the pandemic. Peoples lives depend on the Affordable Care act like steve, a senior from minnesota who has a heart condition and relies on his prescription medication. Emily from minneapolis, her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Janet from rochester whose brother has a mental illness. Or christie, a mom from bloomington whose daughter had a tumor. That is what is on the line. Health care is on the line and judge, that is
Company and the Public Service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Day three ofrom judge Amy Coney Barretts confirmation hearing. This includes lessons from senator klobuchar, codes, and on thought. Among others. Thank you. The hearing will come back to order. Senator klobuchar. Sen. Klobuchar thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Hello, judge. Judge barrett hi senator. Sen. Klobuchar hello. I want to start out again by reminding our friends at home, people at home, that this isnt normal. We shouldnt be here right now. We are in the middle of a pandemic, and people are sick. We are in the middle of an election, and people are voting. And yet here we are, stuck in a nomination hearing. I know what my constituents care about, what they have been calling and writing me about. And that is they are afraid of losing their health care in the middle of the pandemic. Peoples lives depend on the Affordable Care act like steve, a senior from minnesota who has a heart condition and
The discussion now on the 25th amendment. Our guest inn a law professor at Michigan State university. You wrote on friday morning that the law is clear about handling president ial illness but it can get murky fast. Talk about what is clear. The 25th amendmenter gives procedures for transferring power from the president to the Vice President things get murky if the president contests thein cabinet and things get really problematic if the president and Vice President are both incapacitated because then we have a lot of gaps in the law. You watch this unfold since friday. What concerns you the most . I think again there is an area where the president might think that he is able and its hard to know how the president is doing and what the side effects of the medication might be. Still not incapacitated enough that the 25th amendment was necessary going to kick in. But theres a potential were the president has been paired but not incapacitated and that is what worries me most now when we m
We talked about it last night. What is going to happen after that . I dont know. Mr. Meadows . Thank, chairman. , you can take a bit of a breather on your return to the committee. What i want to do is go through with the people who are watching the conversation that you and i had when we spoke on the telephone. You were kind enough to hear out a presentation that i made and i intend to have some questions in that area. It does not make sense if i have not laid the predicate particularly for our viewers who are watching this. I guess the reason i want to do this is because people who are watching this need to understand that this small hearing room and the little tv box you are looking at, the little screen you are looking at are a little bit like the frame of a puppet theater. If you only look at what is going on in the puppet theater, you are not going to understand the whole story, you are not going to understand the real dynamic of what is going on here. You are certainly not going