Blocking the commonsense multihundred billion dollars measure that republicans have been ready to deliver for months. Now come first, all of my colleagues had a fine a fine thanksgiving well know that across the country we celebrated a thanksgiving, all of us, every american, unlike any in recent memory. Too many loved ones spent this holiday alone unable to join with loved ones out of concern for their safety. As painful as it is to refrain from seeing family and friends, these are tough choices that we sometimes have to make it and we need to maintain a result more than ever while the hope of a vaccine shimmers on the near horizon, were living through the worst stretch of the pandemic right now. Last friday for the first time over 200,000 new cases of government were reported in ina single day. The United States is averaging over 1 million new cases a week. Some 20 of of all patients now hospitalized in the United States have covid19. The worst andpa most unalterable part of this pan
Decision to extend federal funding past the december 11 deadline to avoid a Government Shutdown. Your watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Bay black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who in your wisdom has so ordered our earthly lives that we must walk by faith and not by sight, increase our trust in your sovereign care. Remind our lawmakers that no problem is too difficult for you to solve. Lord, give our senators a faith th triumphs over despair, love that triumphs over hate, and courage that triumphs over faintheartedness. Empower them to be bold participants rather than timid spectators in meeting the daunting challenges of these times. We we pray in our powerful name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I edge allegiance to the fla of the United States of erica, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
Election day. Thats cutting it close. And while Mitch Mcconnell is confident he has the votes to confirm the president s choice for the high court, the radical dems are acting like agents of a foreign power rather than members of the loyal opposition. The democrats have already attacked judge barretts role as a working mother of seven. Thats right, attacking her as a mother of seven. They have implied she is racist, they have further implied she is a religious fanatic. President trump calls the attacks of the left on her straightforwardly anticatholic prejudice. I thought we settled this 60 years ago with the election of john f. Kennedy, but seriously theyre going after her catholicism. I will stand with her, fight with her, and we will make sure that these attacks stop, because they really its unprecedented. Theyre basically fighting a major religion in our country. This is incredible. Lou at least four of the radical dem senators say they wont even meet with judge barrett, they refus
Election day. Thats cutting it close. And while Mitch Mcconnell is confident he has the votes to confirm the president s choice for the high court, the radical dems are acting like agents of a foreign power rather than members of the loyal opposition. The democrats have already attacked judge barretts role as a working mother of seven. Thats right, attacking her as a mother of seven. They have implied she is racist, they have further implied she is a religious fanatic. President trump calls the attacks of the left on her straightforwardly anticatholic prejudice. I thought we settled this 60 years ago with the election of john f. Kennedy, but seriously theyre going after her catholicism. I will stand with her, fight with her, and we will make sure that these attacks stop, because they really its unprecedented. Theyre basically fighting a major religion in our country. This is incredible. Lou at least four of the radical dem senators say they wont even meet with judge barrett, they refus