Do you solemnly swear the testimony youre about to get this committee is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god . I do. Committee, tothe your family. The floor is yours, judge. Ranking member feinstein and members of the committee, i am honored and humbled to appear before you today as the nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. I think the president for entrusting me with his profound responsibility this profound responsibility and the graciousness he and his family have shown me throughout the process. I think senator young for introducing me, as he did at my hearing, to serve on the seventh circuit and i also think senator braun for his support. Well she could not be with us via satellite i am also grateful to former dean patty ohara of the notre dame law school. She hired me as a professor nearly 20 years ago and she has been a mentor, colleague, and friend ever sense. I thank the members of this committee other colleagues in the senate wh
American medical association showing there were 20 more deaths across the country between march 1st and august 1st. This is a total of 1. 3 million with covid19 officially accounting for about twothirds of them, bolstering beliefs that deaths tied to the pandemic have likely been undercounted. Tom foreman is with me now. Tom, were seeing records set for new cases in a single day as well as sevenday averages. Tell us which states are reporting these numbers. Reporter well, as a practical matter, more than 30 are headed up but if you look at the states seeing the biggest increase in the sevenday average, what you do see is a greater propensity for that as you move into the more northern states. You see it worse in the northern states. Easy reasons. We went back to school and because, by the way, getting cooler. Get north of the line there where you see more of the states clustered, you see the two down there, oklahoma and new mexico are the only two below that line. Well, above that line
My staff to get me a quick summary of it, that put, as i indicated somewhere between 5 and 600 billion into more Small Business loans, unemployment insurance, agriculture and farming assistance, Postal Service assistance, Education Assistance at the Higher Education levels and k through 12, Health Care Assistance for pandemic preparation for strategic stockpiles for testing, for contract tracing, billions for vaccine and therapeutic and diagnostic development, and the list goes on. We were stopped from proceeding with this legislation by a filibuster by those who now accuse of us not wanting to do something. We stand ready if you let us go to the legislation and pass it. So, now judge barrett, let me talk about you. Judge, you have an exemplary academic record and legal credentials and you are qualified to serve on our Supreme Court. Following your graduation from law school you clerk for the u. S. Court of appeals for the district of columbia and the u. S. Supreme court. At the Suprem
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