Focusing on rushing through a nominee to the United States Supreme Court rather than doing everything we can to work across the aisle to craft a solution. To the problems, the crises facing our nation. Tens of millions of americans, unemployed. Hundreds of thousands of businesses permanentlylo closed. Schools all over the country either not yet open or just barely opened, and thousands upon thousands of americans died alone in pain, and comforted by family, uncertain of how they came to be in this place and cared for by their country. Eight. 5million infected 220,000 or more dead. We are in the middle of a tragic pandemic and a recession made worse by our presence bungled mishandling of the pandemic, and instead of coming together to provide the reliefteng that all states d all people are calling for, we are doing this. We are doing this. Instead, my republican colleagues are walking over dangerous precipice doing something according to graham was unthinkable just two years ago , in th
Chuck schumer and democratic members of the committee who boycotted the vote on judge barretts nomination talked to reporters. Okay. Lets go over why we are here. [background chanting] okay, everybody. Thank you very much for coming, and thank you for joining us this morning. I am here to stand with my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee who are boycotting todays Committee Markup on the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This is not a decision the members of the committee have taken lightly, but a republican majority have left us no choice. We are boycotting this illegitimate hearing. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process i have ever witnessed in the senate, and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the senate, for the Supreme Court, and our entire country for generations to come. The Senate Republican majority is conducting the most rushed, partisan and least legitimate nomination to the Supreme Court
Okay. Lets go over why we are here. [background chanting] okay, everybody. Thank you very much for coming, and thank you for joining us this morning. I am here to stand with my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee who are boycotting todays Committee Markup on the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This is not a decision the members of the committee have taken lightly, but a republican majority have left us no choice. We are boycotting this illegitimate hearing. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process i have ever witnessed in the senate, and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the senate, for the Supreme Court, and our entire country for generations to come. The Senate Republican majority is conducting the most rushed, partisan and least legitimate nomination to the Supreme Court in the nations history. Her potential confirmation will have dire consequences for the senate, for the Supreme Court, and our
This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of the internet are under attack, soon we will hear from the ceos of three of the most prominent internet platforms, facebook, google and twitter, with this is include mr. Jack dorsey of twitter, of alphabet inc. And mr. Marx a burger facebook. On october 1 this committee voted on a bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives of the companies witnesses agreed to attend it voluntarily and remotely the stronger agreement on both sides of the aisle t
[inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Ms. Cantwell will join us remotely at the beginning of the hearing. We convene to continue work to make sure the laws that govern it are sufficiently uptodate the internet is a Great Success story thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure that we cannot take that for granted and with those prominent internet platforms the witnesses include mr. Jack dorsey. And Mark Zuckerberg of facebook. On october 1st the committee voted on bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives and the Committee Witnesses have agreed to voluntarily and remotely appear there is a strong agreement on both sides of these aisled that hearing frm these witnesses with those deliberations before this committee with legislative reformss with a free and open internet i was 25 years it has been the hallmark of a driving Digital Economy in the United States this has been attributed b