The presiding officer thank you. Mrs. Feinstein i rise to oppose the nomination of mr. Bress. This is a california seat on the ninth circuit, and the fact is that mr. Bress is neither a California Attorney nor a california resident. In fact, hes not been a resident of the state for over a decade. Hes lived and practiced in the washington, d. C. , area for almost his entire adult life. As california senators, senator harris and i know that the kind of experience and connection to california is really necessary for a ninth circuit judge to be effective on the bench. We know our state, we know our constituents, and we know the challenges they face, and thats why the blue slip is so important. Honoring the blue slip ensures that the senators who understand are and are accountable to their constituents have a say in judicial nominations for their home states. Our blue slips, senator harris and mine, were not returned. Ultimately that symbolizes our objections. I was very disappointed that t
For roll call talks about campaign 2020. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Welcome to washington journal. Likely coincidental, the first democratic debate occurred as the Supreme Court was winding down with notable decisions. They became part of the discussion at the debates. We will spend the first hour asking you, how important is the Supreme Court in your 2020 both . 202 7488000 for democrats, 202 7488001 for republicans, 202 7488002 for independents. We will look for your tweets cspanwj also on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Bloomberg focuses the Supreme Court as a Campaign Issue for democrats. Democrats are attempting to turn the Supreme Court into a Campaign Issue in front of donald trump success, reshaping the federal judiciary with young, conservative justice, with abortionrights close to being a laminated. It is a shift eliminated. It is a shift. The dynamic laste
Cspan2. The Supreme Court just wrapped up its current term with a number of significant decisions. Host we have briand goron and john malcolm here. Thank you for being in this morning. Breanna, i will start with you and ask what your take is on the decisions that came down in the recent term. There were two Big Decisions that came down the last day of the term. Guest i think this was a deeply different disappointing decision from the court because the chief justice threw up their hands and acknowledged that extreme partisan gerrymanders are inconsistent with what quit to do anything about them. Justice kagan got it right in her decision when she recognized , when do the courts can do things when can the courts do things . Otherwhat was the decision last week you thought was important . Case, it the sentence challenged the Trump Administrations decision to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 census. The chief justice got right on this one. I agree with some of his legal reasoning, bu
Senator whitehouse good morning. I call this committee to order. We have multiple committees on which we serve in the senate and from time to time its important to go check in at another committee to get in the queue properly and so senator grassley will be along. Ill make my ope ill introduce the first three witnesses. Senator grassley will introduce a witness, senator lee wnd then well proceed. We are here today to discuss womens rights, their right to bodilyght to set the course of their own life. And their right to economic freedom. I hear often that the Budget Committee should only be concerned with debt and deficits but any serious conversation about debt and deficits must also analyze threats to Economic Growth and stability. Debt and deficits do not occur in a vacuum. Welcome. E result from the fiscal decisions that we make and from what we do that strengthens or that weakens our economy. Reproductive rights, it turns out, are intrinsically tied to eeconomic opportunity. Repron
Cigarettes wouldnt exist and now im in congress realizing how we were targeted to smoke the cigarettes and might hurt them with some voters but, i mean, its going to save so many lives, so many lives. Thats all i have for today. Thanks so much to everyone for watching a long and thanks for being here. Thank you. [applause]■k hello. Im here to with the hs secretary. We have a lot to be■ getting. Congress is still wrestling with the healthcare budget and the f. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on two major abortion cases. We are, of course, coming up on a pivotal election. We have a different vision for healthcare looks like. The secretary is in the middle of all of these fire storms. We are excited to have him weighin on drug prices and ivf and still fighting over obamacare and what a second term healthcare agenda looks like for the Biden Administration. Thank you so much for joining us. Very much. So to focus on the news. You are headed to capitol hill to argue for budgets th