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Stanton. She is a historian of womens history. We are delighted to have her here tonight. Elizabeth griffith, thank you for being here. [applause] hello, everybody. We are making a few adjustments here. The light relates to cspan filming, so we are stuck with the light, which is affecting some of the colors. I hope you have already noticed that the background was suffrage for all. [laughter] hello, welcome, and thank you for being here. Thank you to the smithsonian for the invitation and the opportunity to talk about what im learning as i write a new book. This book is about women in the 20th century between the two betweenon washington, the march 1913 suffrage march, organized by alice paul the day before Woodrow Wilson was a nigra, and the march january here, around the country and around the world the day after president trumps inauguration. Spanhundredyour encompasses economic, legal rights for women, large cultural shift, sexual expectations, as and. As sexism, misogyny, historian
Substantive concerns with this very, very broad and expansive bill. And those concerns and objections have been laid out. They have been laid out by my staff, in meetings with the staff of the senator from vermont. They have been laid out by the republican Ranking Member on the committee, senator burr. I share his general concerns about the bill. So if the distinguished senator from vermont doesnt understand those concerns, quite frankly, hasnt been listening very hard. We have laid them out, and they are shared by 43 senators versus a bill amended at the desk with no objection to its substance. None. 1000. Big difference. Big difference. So on behalf of a total of 43 senators, i do object. The presiding officer objection is heard. Mr. Vitter madam president . The presiding officer the senator from louisiana. Mr. Vitter retearing the tphraorbgs i would ask the retaining the floor i would ask the distinguished senator from vermont through the chair, he mentioned senator landrieu, has se
Mr. Franken madam president . The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Mr. Franken i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Franken madam president , i have eight unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Frank enmr. Franken madam , im just going to come out and say it. Citizens united was one of the worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court. It was a disaster, a radical exercise of procorporate judicial activism. It was seriously flawed, both legally and factually. Legally, the court trampled its own precedence. Cases like austin v. Michigan chamber of commerce and mcconnell v. Federal elections commission, which had been on the books for years and stood for the o
There were people able to preregister when they were 17 so they could vote at 18. If you ask the vast majority, did they like the early vote period, did they like the right to exercise their constitutional privilege, the answer would be resoundingly yes. And professor raskin, youve heard someone characterize the udall amendment were considering today as an effort to repeal the First Amendment. Now, i dont believe thats accurate, but i hear it in paid ads and others and i guess if some of the billionaires are going to profit by this pay for that enough time advertisements were americans may believe it. Youre a constitutional school lore. If this proposed constitutional amendment were to be ratified would it repeal the First Amendment . Of course not. The first thing we have to remark is that the Citizens United case did not endow a single individual with any right to speak that he or did did not have. All of the employees of the corporation, all of the members of the board, all of the e