Grieves for the court and they will take a vote at 1 45 eastern. Now, live coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of might and mercy, thank you for providing our lawmakers with opportunities for courageous and noble service. Inspire them to labor for your glory in all they say and do. Illuminate their minds with the light of your divine precepts. Equip our senators for their tasks that they may be physically fit, mentally alert, morally straight, and spiritually strong. Create in them the life of purity, honesty, and altruism that contributes solutions to the problems they face. May they work with perseverance and magnanimity for the new and better day toward which your divine intentions guide them. We pray in your faithful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the
About the most difficult period of our familys lives. What did you find out that your parents had been communists at one point i knew as i was growing up but it was never talked about. It was a shadow of our familys life. But the time i knew my dad he was conscious of him, he had moved on and survived very well and taught me all the lessons i used in my own journalistic career, dont fall for any rigid ideology, search for the truth wherever it takes you. It was only a shadow in our family after that. But at the same time, you didnt talk about it within the family was it was it because tothey wanted to keep it camped down or why . I dont think my father was embarrassed by it but i think he didnt want to be defined by it. He had learned some lessons from that soperiod he always ma clear his idealism and optimism. It was different times. He was in a different place he wanted his family to flourish so it wasnt brought up. How did it affect your life growing up . It affected my life mostly
Patrick,ernor deval the question everyone is asking is, why are you running . Ive had a range of professional and Life Experiences solving problems in business, government, in this country and overseas, and the opportunity to have big ideas on the agenda and bring people together in order to address those big ideas is just endlessly appealing to me, and we are at a time i think in this country, where the anxiety, economically, socially, that you see a broad is something that is very familiar to me having grown up on the southside of chicago, where we saw the steel mills u. P and move, and all the calamity and disruption a left of peoples lives, the way that opioids and other unhappy things came in and destructive things came in to fill the void. The over policing, the sense that the attention paid to those issues and to us came at campaign time, if then, and disappeared from the agenda in between. Those are things folks are feeling in a lot more places than the southside of chicago. We
Is, why are you running . Ive had a range of professional and Life Experiences solving problems in business, government, in this country and overseas, and the opportunity to have big ideas on the agenda and bring people together in order to address those big ideas is just endlessly appealing to me, and we are at a time i think in this country, where the anxiety, economically, socially, that you see a broad is something that is very familiar to me having grown up on the southside of chicago, where we saw the steel mills up and move, and all the calamity and disruption a left of peoples lives, the way that opioids and other unhappy things came in and destructive things came in to fill the void. The over policing, the sense that the attention paid to those issues and to us came at campaign time, if then, and disappeared from the agenda in between. Those are things folks are feeling in a lot more places than the southside of chicago. We have that in common. So the opportunity to have broad
P and move, and all the calamity and disruption a left of peoples lives, the way that opioids and other unhappy things came in and destructive things came in to fill the void. The over policing, the sense that the attention paid to those issues and to us came at campaign time, if then, and disappeared from the agenda in between. Those are things folks are feeling in a lot more places than the southside of chicago. We have that in common. So the opportunity to have broad, focused, and sustained attention in solving those problems, and bringing all the perspectives we know we need from all of these different in which i have solved problems in the past, i think it is a service i want to be able to offer i want to talk about your chicago roots. First, lets talk about your entry in the race. It has only been a couple of weeks. Goin fact, we were ready to about a year ago and some change. We were within a week and half of announcing when my wife was a diagnosed with uterine cancer. It made s