Others physically present in the room for guidance from the office of attending physician, masks must be worn at all times during todays proceedings except for the member or witnesses speaking, please also sanitize yourss seating area we use these chairs as a safety issue in an important matter of order and quorum for this proceeding. For members participating remotely, keep your video function on all times, when you are not recognized by the chai. Members are responsible for mutating and on muting themselves and please remember to meet yourself after you finish speaking. Consistent with House Resolution 965 in the accompaniedr regulation, staff only mute members and witnesses as appropriate when they are not under recognition to eliminate background noise. I see that we have a quorum and i now recognize myself for opening remarks, let me welcome or witnesses as i let the Ranking Member know, ill be going considerably longer than the customary five minutes by my this morning and ill yi
The clerk for justice scalia, but she has views that make are not qualified to serve on the supreme court. President trump has said he would overturn the Affordable Care act, taking away Health Care Protections for more than 100 million americans. Both President Trump and members of the majority on this committee have said they would only vote for a nominee that would overturn roe v. Wade. As i will lay out in my questioning this week, we should not be having this hearing with two members of the committee infected with covid. It is rushed, constitutes court packing, and her views are too extreme to qualify her to serve on this court. If elected, will you try to change one of the three branches by adding the number of justices on the court . Can he hold out on that issue for three weeks . For the coming weeks, what i am holding out his hope that there are still two more republicans that might join with the republicans who have already said it, based on what they did four years ago and r
We are demanding today that the hearings be postponed. They are grasping at straws to block this exceedingly well qualified nominee. Chris we will talk with republican ben sasse and democrat chris coons, key members of the Senate Judiciary committee. Plus, we will ask our sunday panel what democrats will try to do to block barretts confirmation. And our power player of the week, the former white House Counsel credited as the architect of the president s judicial makeover. All right now on fox news sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. Even by donald trump standards, theres a lot to cover this hour. The president held a public event yesterday just nine days after testing positive for covid19 as doctors say he is no longer a transmission risk but did not say the president tested negative for the virus. Hundreds attended that event on the south lawn, two weeks after a rose garden ceremony for a Supreme Court nominee thats now being called a superspreader. Tomorrow, th
Administration, it is already manufacturing tens of millions of doses of six vaccines. And by the end of the year there will be tens of millions of doses of these vaccines already manufactured, ready to distribute. First, of course, to the priority individuals, those who are most vulnerable, Health Care Workers and others. Then according to the administration, they expect to be able to produce 300 million to 700 million doses of vaccines by march or april of next year. That is unprecedented. When i was a kid, we were terrified by polio. I had classmates who were in an iron lung and parents who were worried their children might be just as well. It took ten years to get a polio vaccine and polio is now eradicated. Most of the vaccines that our children take before they go to school, like mumps, measles, chicken pox, you have to take these vaccines, all 50 states and the district of columbia before you go to school. Most of them took ten years to develop. If the optimism of the administra
Views that make her nonqualified to serve. President trump has said he would only nominate someone who would overturn the Affordable Care act, taking away Health Care Protections for more than 100 million americans. Both President Trump and members of the majority on this committee have said they would only vote for a nominee that would overturn roe v. Wade. As i will lay out in my questioning this week, we should not be having this hearing with two members of the committee infected with covid. It is rushed, constitutes court packing, and her views are too extreme to qualify her to serve on this court. If elected, will you try to change one of the three branches of government by adding the number of justices on the court . Can he hold out on that issue for three weeks . For the coming week, what i am holding out is hope that there are still two more republicans that might join with the republicans who have already said based on what they did four years ago in refusing to give a hearing