Later, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer talks about the Trump Presidency and his new book leading america. Host u. S. Seventh Circuit Court of appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett yesterday completed her two days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee in consideration of her nomination to serve on the u. S. Supreme court. Is thursday, it october 15, 2020. This is washington journal. Outside Witnesses Today with a full Committee Vote a week from today. The full Senate Voting the week of october 26. We will spend this first hour asking you a simple question, should Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the Supreme Court . If you support judge barrett the 202 7488000, if you , ifse, it is 202 7488001 you are undecided 202 74880 2 2. Wj. Twitter cspan facebook. Com cspan. We will play some of the highlighted questions from some members of the Judiciary Committee in this first hour. The reporting this morning in the wall street journal on the hearing and what is ahead in th
Lawmakers will be working on a bill to temporarily extend government funding through december 11th. Current funding runs out tonight at midnight eastern. We accept the final passage later today. Senators also starting to consider Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee, amy barrett. We expect lots of debate on the nomination as well. Now live to the senate floor on cspan2. Almighty god, we praise you with our whole hearts. We refuse to forget how you have led our nation in the past and trust you to guard our future. Lord, encourage our lawmakers to be a part of your solutions and not a part of the problems that confront our land. Give them the courage to carry on, knowing that nothing is too difficult for your sovereign might. May the light of your truth illumine their way, as they find in you a sure guide. Help them to commit their lives to goals that will cause justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. We pray in your sacred name, amen. The president pro te
The wait is over. Many businesses are finally allowed to reopen for Indoor Services. Including gyms and restaurants. Because of the county decision, this gym and dozens of others are closed. How that decision could put people out of business. The move to have Mental Health experts on hand. How several bay area cities plan to improve policing. Tracking heat, high winds and fire danger. Ill have your forecast coming up. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Tonight, a sobering and Unthinkable New coronavirus milestone. More than 200,000 people in the United States have now died because of the virus. Here in the bay area, there is some good news. The numbers are stabilizing. Thats allowed three more counties to join most of the region in loosening covid19 related restrictions. S tier to the red tier status on the states color coded blueprint for reopening. But the counties are taking very different approaches to re
Time in a bipartisan way. And so i want to yield to the distinguished chair because the bill that the Senate Passed is identical to our instructions to the budget as we said to them. Get behind the microphone. Yeah. The speaker is right. We got the same amount in instructions back from the senate that we passed, so we can pass it with a simple vote today and intend to. Then the committees will draft the legislation that actually creates the assignment of those dollars, and well bring that back to the floor in just a couple of weeks. And, you know, we only lost two democrats in the vote. They just voted for 1. 9 trillion. So we dont anticipate a problem. Madam speaker, do you have any concerns that a package this large approaching 2 trillion might sacrifice progressive policies Going Forward . Absolutely not. One of the things that we always discuss is, as we try to address the emergency that we have now, to crush the virus, to save the lives and livelihood of the American People, were
Virtually all of is no choking on smoke. That is what ar you all are inse or outside at this point. Countless thousands of oregonians are under evacuation orders. Many are quite literally fleeing for their lives when i was home this weekend i initially thought bnumber of my communities had been hit by a wrecking ball. That really understates the bysituation because usually when you get hit by a wrecking ball its a little bit left its not just ashes. The. Theyve lost their businesses and lifelong memories. We brought a picture to a family of a loved one and it struck me that this kind of memories and losing them and its painful in many instances with as many houses and businesses and the like. All the panic in aspects that left they came back to washington to and we lost so much that we didnt lose our spirit. Neighbor helping neighbor, a helping get food and water. Everybody steps up on the crisis arrives. Nobody cares about anybodys politics. Li ive come to the floor today with a speci