[cameras shuttering] [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. You look good. Today is to door our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge merrick and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. Today, not get it done but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had very emotional obamacare, charts of people with preexisting conditions. I went to give you my si
Of their choice, including abortion, Voting Rights, the Affordable Care act, and religious liberty. [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. Cleanup well. You look good. The game plan for today is to do our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. We will not get it done today, but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had
Economy would reopen but perhaps listening to the guidance of his Top Public Health officials dr Deborah Burkes as well as dr tony there that in fact he has really ceded to them the understanding that it will need to be a regional approach and that the state governors are the ones that will really have the ultimate decision on when this occurs and i think one of the other big headlines out of this briefing is the fact that some of this could occur as early as tomorrow meaning that there are some states that have already gave it in as they call it in terms of the 1st set of criteria or phase one that would allow some of the population that is under 65. 00 that does not have preexisting Health Conditions to get out into the workplace potentially as long as social distancing guidelines are still met in terms of keeping far apart not congregating in large groups meeting still under 10 people and also that there is extreme hygiene practices that are taking place in terms of hand washing and
Family has become harder and more expensive than ever before. The New York Times recently reported that based on the surveyed adults between the ages of 20 to 45 who were parents or planned to be, they discovered interesting trends. One in four had fewer children. Or expected that during their lifetimes they would have fewer children than they considered to be within the range of ideal. Economic concerns were foremost among the reasons that they either fell short or believed that in the future they would fall short of what they considered ideal. Over the past few years, the joint economic committees social Capital Project has been documenting trends in what we refer to as our Association Al life as americans. The web of social relationships for which we has americans pursue various endeavors. Our families, communities, friendships, religious congregations. A critical source of meaning and social capital is, of course, the family. In fact, it is the central set of head waters for social
Now, welcome to another week and senator mcconnell his legislative graveyard. Does anyone know how monday bills the senate is scheduled to vote on this big . Any guesses. While it is zero. Every day the leader mcconnell is that the republicans failed to allow us on bipartisan bills, there are hurting the working people in this country. There is no good reason why President Trump cant be working with democrats right now. On important bipartisan legislation. When it comes to mind is what happened this week, background checks. President trump, after el paso, were going to do something on background checks he said. We have to do it. Well, he just sent an abandoned those efforts. Not doing anything on gun violence. Instead having the department of justice continue to work on bipartisan gun proposals, gun safety proposals, President Trump since his attorney general globetrotting. Chasing conspiracy theories that undermine our intelligence agencies. Instead of working with congress on a plan