Or that it violates the clear president of the senate is simply false. The effect of the attacks on the members of this committee, on the republican side, and frankly against the president , it says that we are trying to engage in Court Packing. That is a novel one because it is actually the Senate Following standard procedure with regard to a vacancy that is now being accused of being Court Packing when my colleagues on the others are actually proposing Court Packing. That is statutorily, and with the signature of the president , changing the law to add more members of the court. Fdr tried this, and his effort was rejected. Threatening to pass a law and change the courts Court Packing. What were the arguments that were actually leveled against judge merrick . Well, the standard arguments. She is going to overturn all protections for women, she is going to change all of the laws in the country that protect Peoples Health care, and everyone in this country who has a preexisting conditio
Kamala harris also delivered remarks. This is under two hours. Tens of thousands of children are living in poverty and going hungry because their parents lost their jobs and cannot afford to buy food. Hundreds of thousands of Small Businesses have closed their doors forever, shattering dreams and livelihoods. The white house has become a covid19 hotspot driven by the president s ongoing denial of how serious this pandemic is. Not even contracting the virus and being hospitalized seems to have shaken him back to reality. In normal times, the senate would be focused on passing legislation to help the millions of americans suffering during the pandemic. But these are not normal times. Senate republicans are rushing to put a nominee onto the Supreme Court to be the deciding vote to take Health Care Away from millions of people. President trump has been clear about what he is doing, he has repeatedly promised to appoint Supreme Court justices who will , and byown the aca nominating judge ba
About the blockbuster revelations about hunter biden, biden got a pass, the network fix was in, beat up trump, give biden a pass. We do have news on the stimulus. A little give on the part of the white house, Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin have agreed on the democrats Virus Testing strategy. It is not much, a strong report on retail sales just came out, a halfhour ago, big loss for the stocks yesterday but a rebound today in part on the back of the retail sales report. The dow is up triple digits 130 points, the nasdaq, 93 94 points higher. Censorship are very much in the news, social media may be in trouble after blocking coverage of the bombshell allegations against hunter biden, the authorities are taking a close look at facebook, twitter and other social media liability immunity after four years of obvious media biased in social media censorships and is there any doubt that you are blocked so frequently from seeing or hearing conservative opinion. We will get more on that com
Sen. Graham good morning. I appreciate all of you, all of my colleagues being here promptly. As you know, our Democratic Politics informed the Committee Last night that they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days to be questioned. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged, but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the kavanaugh road. I want to complement the republican members for asking questions that matter to you, but showing a tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. And each of you, when this is over, i hope you feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. It is moments like this that ma
[cameras shuttering] [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. You look good. Today is to door our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge merrick and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. Today, not get it done but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had very emotional obamacare, charts of people with preexisting conditions. I went to give you my si