Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order. The senate has been carrying out its duties in 1789. The framers believed the senate should be the venue through which statesmen would lift america to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. We should act like a senate instead of a kindergarten. Wait until you see what happens with this bill. Made up of 100 members, two from each state, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putting up roadblocks one after another. It is not what the founders had in mind. There is a great deal of human affection around here. It is in private. You came to the wrong town at the wrong time. With a history of conflict and compromise, we will go inside the senate to tell its story. Its informal workings, we will learn about it as a legislative body. Following the footsteps of members in the core doors around the chamber, we w
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
Years ago this month, and the occasion was the first day of permanent television of the United States senate. We are going to use the opportunity of the 30th anniversary to look back at the senate and how it is changed in the era of television. We have two guests that have been with the senate for 40 years and their careers there, theretired, and they span age of the television before senate and after, so they are ideally suited to help us understand how the institution adapted to the coming of Television Cameras. Let me introduce them to you. Alan frumin is a Senate Parliamentarian emeritus, and as i mentioned he spent 40 years in , the Parliamentarian Office rising to the chief parliamentarian position. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Frumin i am delighted to be here. Don ritchie has set down at our table many times. Historian emeritus, again, 40 years in the United States senate and served as the chief to 2016 androm 2009 has written a number of books. Nice to see you and thank you