Of endorsements, beginning with gerald ford, followed by remarks of senator several senators. Then it ends with the Opening Statement and a portion of the Committee Hearing and vote. Joe biden i welcome everyone here this morning, judge bork, his distinguished panel of introducers, my colleagues, and the public. And i would like to take just a moment at the outset to explain how we are going to proceed today and from here on i hope. , it is the ordinary practice of the committee in a hearing like this, judge, to have Opening Statements from all of my colleagues, and then to invite the presenters of the nominee to speak, and then ask the nominee for his or her statement. But we are going to change the beginning just a little bit today to accommodate some very busy and, quite frankly, very important people. Today, you have a distinguished panel of introducers that are here, and what i would like to suggest that we do, and i have checked this with my colleagues. I believe they are all in
Of endorsements, beginning with gerald ford, followed by remarks of senator several senators. Then it ends with the Opening Statement and a portion of the Committee Hearing and vote. Joe biden i welcome everyone here this morning, judge bork, his distinguished panel of introducers, my colleagues, and the public. And i would like to take just a moment at the outset to explain how we are going to proceed today and from here on i hope. , it is the ordinary practice of the committee in a hearing like this, judge, to have Opening Statements from all of my colleagues, and then to invite the presenters of the nominee to speak, and then ask the nominee for his or her statement. But we are going to change the beginning just a little bit today to accommodate some very busy and, quite frankly, very important people. Today, you have a distinguished panel of introducers that are here, and what i would like to suggest that we do, and i have checked this with my colleagues. I believe they are all in
The public. And i would like to take just a moment at the outset to explain how we are going to proceed today and from here on, i hope. It is the ordinary practice of the committee in a hearing like this, judge, to have Opening Statements from all of my colleagues, and then to invite the presenters of the nominee to speak, and then ask the nominee for his or her statement. But we are going to change the beginning just a little bit today to accommodate some very busy and, quite frankly, very important people. Today, you have a distinguished panel of introducers that are here, and what i would like to suggest that we do, and i have checked this with my colleagues. I believe they are all in agreement. What we will do today, even though every senator will have up to 10 minutes to make an Opening Statement, i will, for the time being, forego my Opening Statement. And i understand the distinguished Ranking Member, senator thurmond, will also. Then we will yield to president ford, and it is a
After an historic election were talking about adoption. There are a few reasons why. We anticipated at this point that people may be exhausted by the campaign and election and need Something Else to think about. That may be the case. Been remindedll that as important as this election is, there is still work to be done in so many areas that were never mentioned during the campaign and seldom get mentioned at all in the context of national politics. Out of the support of our job is to provide a platform for issues and perspectives that dont often get heard. November is National Adoption awareness month. An annual campaign to raise awareness for children who are waiting for permanent families. More than 107,000 children are currently in foster care. While this Awareness Campaign is only two decades old, the formal Legal Practice of adoption dates back to the 1850s when massachusetts passed what is considered to be the first modern adoption law. Since then, adoption has evolved and changed
To provide very clear language on voter eligibility. When we do it on paper now we have to check those boxes under penalty of perjury, yes im a citizen and eligible and im filling out this form thats true and correct and so that language is going to be glaring for people going through new motor voter just as an extra caution. We are also through automatic Voter Registration providing serials in the nine languages other than english required in california under the federal Voting Rights act and we are able to do that because as i describe in a minute were sort of doing it as a counter, a pointofsale at dmv. Look at this in oregon for those of you taking detailed notes. In oregon the way it works is after people come to the dmv to do their business, they are sent a letter after the fact saying we captured your information, youre going to be registered unless you tell us otherwise and by the way, since government cant pick a Political Party for you, check box if you like and return this f