All right, how right. Thank, you thank you. Thank you, thank you very much. I cant i have to have my practice. Im sorry that the microphones are in your way, but they have to be where they are because i have to be able to see what im doing. As i always am able to see what im doing. [applause] i can tell you how very much i appreciate the honor, which youve just conferred upon me. I shall continue to try to deserve it. I accept the nomination. [applause] and i want to thank this convention for its unanimous nomination of my good friend and colleague, senator berkeley, of kentucky. Hes a great man, and a great public servant. Senator berkeley and i will win this election, and make these republicans, like dont forget that. We will do that by proving to you in a few minutes, that we are right and they are wrong. This convention met to express the will and reaffirmed the bliss of the Democratic Party, there have been differences of opinion and that is the democratic way. Those differences h
Wicker, graham, perdue, grassley, inhofe, cotton, hoeven, crapo, burr, alexander, mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell colleagues, my First Experience with Supreme Court confirmations here in the senate, i was a young staffer for a Junior Member of the judiciary committee. That was also the same time i met a young guy named Lamar Alexander who left the senate to go down to the white house to work in congressional affairs. So ive had an opportunity for quite a long time to observe the confirmation process through various ups and downs, periods when nominees were confirmed almost overwhelmingly and periods during which they were heated, to put it mildly, contests over the nomination. What i think i can safely say about the senate over the last 40 or 50 years is that its in an assertive period. In other words, viewing the whole process as a joint thing that the president has a role to play and the senate has a role to play and at various ti
Stay with the website in the network as we continue to Cover Campaign 2020. With that said, we go to the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 30, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties and time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 10 350 a. M. The chair now 10 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman fr
The directions for the problems with voting by mail. The mail seems to have been a National Story now is with you can can trust the meal or not and that is what covid19 has brought to the fore. We need to we should have put some his health at risk to exercise a constitutional right to vote so thats what people have turned to the mail including West Virginia. What weve done is within the bounds of law, thats one of the key points you enjoy set to stay within your state state bar, te elections are run by the states and within states and then by the counties. Why people may hear something happening and in the state that may be working the vote by mail system arena, they have to take that into context that in those states perhaps they been working on that for ten or 15 years, if you talk to him wideman in washington and an organ and somebodys other states doing vote by mail. Theyve been working on the voter list maintenance and getting the proper machinery in place to be able to count the
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Lower the microphones. I cant. I have to have them up where i can see. Im sorry that the microphones are in your way but they have to be where they are because i have to be able to see what im doing, as im always able to see what im doing. [ applause ] i cant tell you how very much i appreciate the honor which youve just conferred upon me. I shall continue to try to deserve it. [ applause ] i accept the nomination. I want to thank this convention for its unanimous nomination of my good friend and colleague senator barkley of kentucky. Hes a great man and a great public servant. Senator barkley and i will win this election and make these republicans like it. Dont you forget that. Well do that because they are wrong and were right, and ill prove it to you in just a few minutes. This convention met to express the will and reaffirm the beliefs of the Democratic Party. There have been differences of opinion, and thats the demo