Her confirmation to the highest court in the land could put health care for hundreds of millions of americans at risk. As youd imagine, taking away health care is deeply unpopular with the American People. So it seems the strategy from the republican majority is to invent some new distraction of fresh outrage to talk about. My colleagues on the other side would rather talk about anything besides the fact that their president , their party, and their Supreme Court nominee poses a dire threat to Americans Health care. Today, the outrage from the republican leader was directed once again at the idea that democrats would attack the nominees religious beliefs. But, of course, in their zeal to manufacture this issue, republican senators began telegraphing this line of attack even before a nominee had been named. One republican senator wrote me a letter to warn against anticatholic attacks that happened yet against a nominee who hadnt been named. Thats how transparent this republican diversio
For 45 years, 45 years that every Supreme Court vacancy under a republican president was going to bring about the apocalypse. John paul stevens, they said was antiwomen. David souter, they said, wanted to hurt vulnerable people. John roberts was out to get health insurance. And wouldnt you know, the president had barely finished saying judge Amy Coney Barrett before the same old attacks begin rolling in. Our 77yearold male for Vice President and our 69yearold male senatede democratic leader have tried to inform american women that this 48yearold working mama wants to roll back her own rights as as a woman, l back her own rights as a woman. Democrats have tried to fearmonger around a fouryearold academic paper tthat reinforced one unfair penalty in obamacare which congress by the way has already eliminated three years ago. As an aside, madam president , if the American People are interested in which senators are serious about protecting americans with existing conditions, they can s sim
Murphy and others. This runs 25 minutes. [background sounds]. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming. And proud to be joined by the senators here. We want to talk or before we talk about what is at stake for millions of americans. On a touch on the sites debate. We have seen President Trump mouse down when confronted with facts any times. But its obscene performance, thats what it was. The performance not a debate. It was extremely filled with right wing bile that include lie after lie after lie. President trump insulted the Vice President s son the veteran in Public Servant and try to smear his living one. And give a fringe of white supremacist sloth, new rallying cry. Stand back and stand by. Those immediately embraced by the proud boys look on the website. The following. The president of the United States casting doubt on our election tarnishing our democracy. Shakespeare said it best. President trumps debate performance, was a tale told by an idiot full of sound and theor
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Regarding a democratic motion to begin work on a bill dropping the Justice Department from supporting lawsuits to strike the Affordable Care act. Live now to the floor of the u. S. Senate on cspan 2. Eternal god, our heavenly father, we cry to you, but sometimes you seem so far away. In our despair you sometimes seem distant, and we are tempted to surmise that we are all alone. When we shout, we seem to hear the echoes of our anguish. Nonetheless, we know that you are holy, mighty, and good. We have trusted you too long to let go. Empower our senators for these challenging times. Remove from their minds all bitterness and contempt for one another. Keep their hearts clean, their spirits courageous, and their minds clear, as they face these daunting times. We pray in your omnipotent name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation unde