Are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change his or her vote . If not, the ayes are 51. The nays are 46. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, Supreme Court of the United States, Amy Coney Barrett of indiana to be an associate justice. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett of indiana to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States signed by 18 senators as follows. Mcconnell, thune, ernst, hide smith, blackburn, blunt, capito, wicker, graham, perdue, grassley, inhofe, cotton, hoeven, crapo,
Independent dr. Al gross who is here in the studio and senator sullivan is joining us remotely from washington, d. C. Welcome to both of you. Mike you might have noticed were having some technical complications with this setup. If you hear a little screech every once in a while, dr. Gross is wearing an earpiece so he can hear what the senator is saying. Taylor perez will be getting questions from our viewers on social media. Were distanced here because of the pandemic. We are taking precautions. Well feature video questions from rural alaska and young alaska here in anchorage. Be sure to tune into Facebook Live immediately after this program for some debate analysis. Lori all questions and answers will be timed. A single bell will signal 10 seconds left and the bell will ring twice when the time is up. The candidates will have an opportunity to ask a question of each other during the debate. The candidate also start with a oneminute opening statement. The order was determined earlier b
Of the moon. Thank you for joining us the World Health Organization is warning that europe needs to seriously accelerate its response to the coronavirus pandemic it says a lack of effective Contact Tracing is making it even more difficult to stamp out the virus cases in europe are rising shoppy with several countries reporting record numbers of infections on sunday france amounts more than 50000 new cases for the 1st time italy and spain are struggling with a 2nd wave while hopes for a vaccine are growing in the u. K. The British Health secretary says a government this repairing for a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year but in the United States the Trump Administration has been accused of giving up the fight against covert 19 white house chief of staff mark meadows has conceded the u. S. Is not going to control the pandemic lets get more from our White House Correspondent Kimberly Hockett who joins us now President Trump has been making the argument kimberly that you know this wa
The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Hawley madam president , some months ago, in july of this year, i came to this floor shortly after the conclusion of the Supreme Courts most recent term to lament the ongoing judicial activism, the judicial imperialism that we have seen from this court over this past term and from the Supreme Court for years on end. I quoted the late Justice Scalia who said the imperial judiciary lives, and i said on the floor of this senate it was a shame to say but undeniable that the imperial judiciary continued to live in this country, a judiciary intent, a Supreme Court intent on legislating from the bench, on making up laws that went along with no regard for what the people actually wrote in their statutes or in their laws, and i particularly lamented the position of religious conservatives, people of faith who had seen in this past term for the United States Supreme Court decision after decision, tossing aside the concerns of religious conserv
Watch our president ial debate video from the cspan video library. With just four weeks to go now until election day, 2020 we take a look at the battle for control of the senate were joined by Jessica Taylor of the nonpartisan political report Jessica Taylor it will take a net game of four seats for democrats to take the senate, three if they also take the white house. S how likely is that outcome as you survey the senate battlefield today . You know in july we were saying thatel democrats had a slight edge. And i think that that edge has now really grown. And especially over the past, you know, very tumultuous week with trump that clearly turned off a lot of voters were seeing that reflected in. National pols of the president ial race, and sundays nbc washington journal poll, that had him up 14. But excuse me joe biden up 14. Cnn poll had him up 16. Those kind of numbers have a major effect on down ballot senate races and you know republicans strategist that ive been talking to yester