As we now face a battle over the vacancy in the u. S. Supreme court, we want to focus on what senator joe biden said back in 1992 on the senate floor. Senator biden it is my view that particularly if the reality of a divided government during the time of great change at the Court Continues in the next administration, future confirmations must be conducted differently than the preceding ones. Mr. President , the president s intentions on the existing process which exploded during the thomas nomination fight make restoration of what came before judge thomas nomination even if it was desirable, a practical impossibility. Having said that, mr. President , we face one immediate question, can our Supreme Court confirmation process sow discord and bitterness in an Election Year . Mr. President , history teaches us this is extremely unlikely. Some of our nations most bitter and heated confirmation fights have come in president ial Election Years. A bruising confirmation fight over roger taunys
She faced many obstacles in her life even from a young age. Though chosen as the valedictorian of her high school class, she gave no graduation speech. Instead, she grieved at home with her father after burying her beloved mother one day before graduation. Her family had already suffered terrible loss with the death of her sister when Justice Ginsburg as only 14 months old. But Justice Ginsburg kept ising. A full scholarship to cornell niversity and only one of nine women in her Harvard Law School class. After transferring to columbia law school, she graduated first in her class. Yet, she could not find a job. No firm in new york would hire her because she was a woman. These obstacles didnt deter her. She pressed on. As she said in an interview with her dear friend, nina totenberg, and i quote, i get out of law school with top grades, no law firm in the city of new york will hire me. I end up teaching. That gave me time to devote to the movement of evening out the rights excuse me of w
Susan ferrechio discuss the political career of Vice President joe biden. Bob using the cspan video library, we welcome susan, chief Congressional Correspondent for washington examiner. We want to turn back to what joe biden said on the senate floor. It is my view that particularly if the reality of a divided government during the time of great change at the Court Continues in the next administration, future confirmations must be conducted differently than the precedings ones. Mr. President , the president s intentions on the existing process which exploded during the thomas nomination fight make restoration of what came before judge thomas nomination even if it was desirable, a practical impossible bill. Having said that, mr. President , we face one immediate question, can our Supreme Court confirmation process sow discord and bitterness in an Election Year . Mr. President , history teaches us this is extremely unlikely. Some of our nations most bitter and heated confirmation fights h
Now is the time for a better choice. I thank you for your attention. Mr. President of the general assembly, mr. Secretarygeneral of the United Nations, ladies and gentlemen, heads of state and government. Last year, we met in new york for the general assembly, and i called on all of you to have the courage to build peace and carry shoulder our responsibilities together. This courage, i must say, has been put to a harsh test by the andth, economic, Social Security shock of an unprecedented scope, and immediate global crisis, the most immediate one since the creation of our organization 75 years ago. That courage which was first seen from the men and women on the front lines around the world and who still are to heal us, nourish us, accompany us and hold us, our health care and are humanitarian workers. I want to first take these words to think of them. They expect that we commit and Work Together to build concrete responses together, because this crisis, no doubt, more than any other cr
I will tell you about some of the stocks benefiting from all of this. Well revisit iposs that were launched in great fanfare last week. How they are holding up today. Well be monitoring what make as bear Market Correction as you know. Many market averages themselves are at or close to corrections from highs. Some of them reached a little more than a few weeks ago. So as stuart was pointing out some perspective is in order here. A lot of this has to do with, well a lot of things. Not only renewed spike in cases were seeing in the likes of the United Kingdom and france. In fact the uk theyre revisiting another possibility of another lockdown. That is what is going on in israel, they are in their second lockdown and theyre not very happy about it. Then we have cases here. Four states in the United States that have 15,000 or more deaths recorded. California joining the likes of new york and new jersey and texas. So were monitoring that. But the numbers here are actually stablizing even as