Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change their votes . If not, the ayes are 89, the nays are 11, and the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, h. Con. Res. 121 and h. Con. Res. 123 are considered and agreed to en bloc and the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table en bloc. The republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have attention the attention of the senate. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr. Mcconnell i want to take just a moment to speak on something that is an overwhelming bipartisan desire to achieve and this is to finish tonight. And theres no good reason not to. Were working to clear an agreement on our side to process the c. R. omnibus, the extenders bill, and tria tonight. Tonight. And as for right now, i can tell you were prepared to go forward on the extenders bill and therefore i would ask unanimous consent at the time determined by the majority leader after consultation
For representative government. When people at the bottom of the economic ladder feel that the government is not helping them, and in fact may be stacked against them, they will cease to vote or they will turn to the siren song of extreme elements in our society. History proves this to be true. Now, i dont have a cookie cutter answer or solution, but it must include more fair tax laws and trade laws, more job training and restraining, rebuilding our physical infrastructure and manufacturing. And i believe it must include some things seemingly unrelated like quality, free Early Education for every child in america. The answer to closing the inequality gap must include rebuilding labor unions and collective bargaining. If you trace the line over the last 40 years of the growing economic quality in america and also put that over another line showing the loss in the number of union workers, they are almost identical. I do not believe it is a stretch to say that organized labor, unions, buil
But this court also recognized, for example, in justice oconnellers, applying the same analysis to marriage, theres a difference between private conduct and public recognition when you think about the fundamental right thats at issue. This court has to look at the guide post the Supreme Court has recognized. The reason for that goes back to the importance of democracy in our system. This is something where the most basic right we have as a people is to decide Public Policy questions on your own and we can do that by amending the constitution, but it shouldnt be up to the courts to take these out of the hands of people. And it seems particularly interesting here where there does seem to be a particular trend that the political that society is moving in. So, it may this is one of the points and one of the descents in windsor, but it recognizes that the victory that is earned through the political process a truer victory. And it deprives to the court deprives people an honest victory and
May it please the court. For 50 years the Supreme Court has recognize that the freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life are libertied protected by due process. April and jane have a constitutional right to share a life, to marry, to form a family, to raise their children. We show in this case that no matter what standard of scrutiny the court uses, no matter what doctrine the court applies, the state cant prevail here. The michigan marriage amendment is unconstitutional. A starting disagreement between the parties as the court has already observed, is an articulation of the right itself, its the right to marry i realize before windsor, the first and Second Circuit said that baker is binding, post wind sorry, theres no majority recognizing that, i have to say, i find that a very serious issue, the thing thats coming on is you, oddly enough, we treat some reversals as binding precedent no less than a fully written opinion. Everyone understands thats true, theres
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