Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
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So i will not tell you my great, great grandparents settled in 1850, or in 1860 my mother was born in what, because that is not quite gather. We gather for the sake of our nation, the state of the world, and for the sake of the country we will pass that too. We have to make sure donald trump is a one term president. It is more than that. It is soundly rejecting the behavior he is normalizing. Iver in my life did i think would utter you have a president that gives aid and comfort to insightses abroad and those who fight against decency at home come the lies, statements dividing us by race, gender, geography. We expect more out of our preschoolers now than the president of the united states. It is more than just that. It is rejecting the crony capitalism he has created. Who ever tears down the stage tonight will pay more in taxes than amazon, chevron, and 60 fortune 500 companies. Folks expect more. It is about making washington, d. C. Work for them and get rid of the corrupting influenc
Committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a vereces of the committee at any time. This full Committee Hearing is convened regarding the administration ee administrations attack on the aca. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. We are hear today because of on march 25th, 2019, the Trump Administration filed a two sentence letter with the United States court of appeals with the fifth circuit reversing its own previous position in the case of texas versus United States and asserting for the first time that it would not defend any portion of the Affordable Care act in the court. If the Trump Administrations position prevails and the entire aca is struck down, there will be catastrophic implications for millions of americans in the entire United States Health Care System. Ive often said that voting for the Affordable Care act was the most important vote of my career. And let me tell you why. When Congress Passed the aca in
We gather for the sake of our nation, the state of the world, and for the sake of the country we will pass that too. We have to make sure donald trump is a one term president. It is more than that. It is soundly rejecting the behavior he is normalizing. Never in my life did i think i would utter you have a president that gives aid and comfort to our enemies abroad and insights those who fight against decency at home come the lies, statements dividing us by race, gender, geography. We expect more out of our preschoolers now than the president of the United States. It is more than just that. It is rejecting the crony capitalism he has created. Who ever tears down the stage tonight will pay more in taxes than amazon, chevron, and 60 fortune 500 companies. Folks expect more. It is about making washington, d. C. Work for them and get rid of the corrupting influence of money in our elections. When Lindsey Graham says we have to make her donors happy, 44 of americans dont have 400 in the pock