The presiding officer pursuant to rule 4, paragraph 2, the senate having been in continuous session, the senate will suspend for a prayer from the senate chaplain. The chaplain let us pray. Holy god, as our lawmakers strive on this decisive day in history to accomplish your purposes, show them how to discern your will. May they renew their minds through the in yourishment of your an hourishment of your holly word. Lord, prepare them to be sober minded and filled with your spirit, accomplishing the tasks that receive your approval. Lord, keep them from conforming to worldly impulses, as they strive to ensure that their conduct will rightly represent you. May they conduct themselves with holiness, godliness, and civility, waiting for the day when you will return to establish your kingdom on earth. Lord, prepare us all to stand before you in peace without spot or blemish. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. Mr. Lee mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Lee mr. P
Saying she wont follow the lead of her mentor, the late Justice Scalia. I believe thats her family. Whatever difficulties we were having they have not yet been solved, to the l it would nobody appear. Shannon bream is inside the hearing room. Chris steier walt is here. Shannon, ive got you now. Explain as best you can. Shannon the audio equipment seems to be on the fritz this afternoon. It went out during senator blumenthals questioning. Some of the senators microphones are working. Judge barretts was not working. It is audio feed that goes out so you can see it on t. V. And people that are skyping or zooming in to be a part of the hearing. Theyve got to get that ironed out. The last time they had this happen an hour or so ago they said she knew what was wrong, fixed it, less than 30 minutes it was out again. They take judge barrett and her family out. The senators are free to roam around. They gather together in the room with their masks on a little bit of social distances. But the on
Do our first round of 30minute questioning, each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett, then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes, thats what weve been doing in the committee since ive been here. I know we wont get it all done today but the goal is to get through the first 30minute period today, then come back wednesday and finish up, then we will go on about our business. So i will try to i will make sure i stay within 30 minutes for sure and if i can shorten it up i will. So lets get to it. You can start the clock. So you can relax a bit here, judge, and take your mask off. So yesterday we had a lot of discussion about the Affordable Health care act. What im going to try to do very briefly this morning is to demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had very emotional pleas about obamacare, charts of people with preexisting conditions. I want to give you my side of the story about obamacare. No