President trump announced your nomination, he tweeted obamacare will be replaced with a much better and far cheaper alternative. In reality, there is no alternative that protects the millions of americans who depend on the Affordable Care act every day. The truth is President Trump and the republicans in congress are fighting to take Health Care Away from the American People in the middle of a pandemic. President trump has said he wants to protect the American Peoples health care. The reality is right now hes asking the Supreme Court to take it away. Klobuchar asked you earlier today but did not receive an answer, prior to your nomination, were you aware of President Trumps statement committing to nominate judges who will strike down the Affordable Care act . I would appreciate a yes or no answer. Be barrett i want to careful. As im sitting here, i do not recall seeing those statements. I do not recall seeing or hearing those statements, but i do not know what context they were in. I c
To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Affordable Care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address . Sen. Hirono senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the Affordable Care act. You set the policies. And i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a Certain Circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants before the co
Confirmation hearings. This portion included hearings from senators kamala harris, john kennedy and marsha blackburn. I apologize. Senator harris, is she available . Harris. There you are. We see you. Can you Say Something . Can you hear me, senator . Sen harris yes i can. Great. The floor is yours. Sen harris thank you. I want to extend greetings to judge barrett. I look forward to our conversation this evening. Judge barrett thank you, senator. Sen harris before i begin, i want to take a moment to talk directly to the American People. About where we are and how we got here. We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has hit our country harder than any other country in the world. More than 215,000 of our fellow americans have died. Millions more, including the president , republican members of this committee, and more than 100 frontline workers here at the capitol complex have been infected. This pandemic has led to a crash, causingic millions of workers to lose their jobs without
Shielded from the responsibility for adopting irresponsible practices that fostered the spread of this virus at their facilities. For the sake of this country that i know that we all love, i urge you to Work Together to do what is right for these workers, and again, thank you for your time. I will be pleased to answer any questions you may have. Chairman thank you very much. Ms. Dixon. Afternoon,good chairman graham, Ranking Member feinstein and members of the committee. I am rebecca dixon, executive director of the National Employment law project. Nonprofit Research Policy organization that has fought to strengthen protections and build a powerful workers in the u. S. , including the unemployed. My testimony is based on policy expertise and a direct connection to frontline workers and communities. Workers held is Public Health. Workers rights to a selfie and healthy workplace must come for profits must come before. Rofits we cannot reopen businesses if workers are not safe and do not
Announcement from San Francisco mayor london breed. As we said, it was not a big surprise to anyone that this was coming. She has been the face of the stay at home order for the bay area and we expected this announcement was coming. On friday, she said it was likely the order was going to be extended through may. And today she made it official. This has been pretty much the most difficult thing ive had to do is to ask the people of this city to basically stay at home and only leave your house for essential services or if youre an essential worker or to get fresh air and exercise. Adeadlih the to do that hopes of maybe moving back to allowing the city to open. And today, unfortunately, we will need to extend the deadline for the stay at home order through the month of may. It has already been very difficult im sure for many of you, especially kids who cannot play with their friends or a lot of the seniors who are graduating high school. The kids who want to go to the parks, not being ab