Ms. Cortez masto madam president. The presiding officer the senator from nevada. Ms. Cortez masto i rise today to join my colleagues in opposing the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett as justice of the Supreme Court. This is the wrong time to be choosing a Supreme Court justice. And judge barrett is the wrong candidate for a seat on that court. The timing for todays confirmation vote is shocking. The majority of americans want to be able to weigh in on who should sit in Justice Ruth Bader ginsburgs seat on the highest court in the land. They want to vote to choose a president to fill that vacancy. We are eight days away from americans casting the final votes in the 20 election. Over 58 million americans have already voted, including more than 649,000 nevadans. The American People are making their voices heard in response to this administrations disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic which has led to the loss of 225,000 american lives including 1,48 nevadans and sickened o
First of all, whether you chose to sort of target a very niche group of women when you were writing this book and how and whether you deal with issues of race and class with all of these issues of perfection. Yeah. Its a really good question, and i know its one im going to be getting a lot. The book is largely about white women, women of privilege and straight women. And its that way because thats who i am. And i made the decision early on in writing the book that that was really what, for me, was the only honest route to take. If i had tried to include chapters oh, and this is what its like to be poor and black, i would have had to write a very different book. And so i decided to be what felt honest to me and say, you know, this is the world that ive experienced x it is a very and it is a very elite world, you know . Im not struggling to feed my family, thank goodness. But i think its worth at least conveying these problems even from the iewb rah elite if thats what most of us in this