Bill despite talks on capitol hill last week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says lawmakers will be given 24 24 hours notice to return to capitol hill to vote if a deal is reached. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god our refuge and strength, give us reverence for your greatness. Guide our senators around the pitfalls of their work, enabling them to have hearts sustained by your peace. May they surrender their will to you, as they trust you to guide their lives. Lord, give them the wisdom to receive your reproof with the understanding that you chastise those whom you love for their good. Make their lives productive for the glory of your name. Mighty god, protect the oppressed and helpless, preserving them from evil. We pray in your great name, amen. The presiding officer join me in reciting the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic
Affiliation. This is the first opportunity on the senate floor to offer a word about kamala harris, one of our colleagues in a historic move was asked by another former Senate Colleague of the Vice President joe biden in his preferred nominee to be Vice President of the United States. Ive come to know senator harrison or four years in the senate through her service on then Judiciary Committee and the intelligence committee, her publicservice track record is a significant one worthy of praise from her work as a District Attorney in the line prosecuteds no untrained and in San Francisco where she focused on trying to keep her Community Safe to services, California Attorney general running the portfolio toe include Environmental Justice and Consumer Protection and her work tin the senate since 2016. What i find so compelling about senator harris to her track record of Public Service during her long career as her personal story raises the child into immigrants and jamaican father and india
Rights issues. Shes also chair of the institutes Human Trafficking advisory consults. This is vickie kennedy, an accomplished attorney and a nonprofit leaders. She advises government issues and regulatory issues. Shes the president of the board and the cofounder of the Kennedy Institute for the study of the senate and a nonpartisan and nonprofit, dazzling and a beautiful building here in boston that educates the public of the unique role of the United States senate in our democracy. Theyll be in conferring with gary hill. Those of us in massachusetts know of her public leadership and Lieutenant Governor, she was the president and a former resident fellow here at the institute. Join me welcoming Lieutenant Governor healy and mrs. Mccain and mrs. Kennedy. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for those kinds introductions. I am so excited to be able to have this conversation with both of you today. I think with the backdrop of everything that is going on with the country r
Leeway, freedom and human rights issues and chairs the institutes Human Trafficking advisory coup. Mrs. Vicki kennedy is both an accomplished attorney and not for profit leader, the senior counsel of greenberg and she advises clients on government issues and regulatory issues. She is the president of the board and the cofounder of the edward m. Kent institute for the study of the senate and a nonpartisan and nonprofit dazzlingly beautiful billing right here in about at the Columbia Point that educates the public but the unique role of the United States senate in our democracy. Tonight they will belling be in conversation with will both by in conversation with kerry healey,. Those in massachusetts know of her public leadership well. The was former Lieutenant Governor, the President College president as well and with pride a former resident fellow here at the institute of politics. So join me in welcoming Lieutenant Governor healey, with mrs. Mccain and vicki kennedy. [applause] thank yo
Judiciary committee will come to order. Welcome, everyone. We have a conflict with the Senate Appropriations committee. Several of us on both committees. We will be starting the meeting sometime this morning. And we may be called to attend. Senator, for example, has a bill, if im not mistaken, before the committee. We will work to accommodate everyone schedule here. Trying to keep things moving forward. Two atoms on todays agenda. We will vote on one judicial nominee, julia kaine lemonade, middle district judge for the middle district of pennsylvania. We will also vote on s 3 59. The Supreme Court ethics, transparency, and recruit youll act of 2023, sponsored by senator feinstein, klobuchar, booker, padilla and wells. It was 11 years ago in a very different Supreme Court when we first called and chief Justice Roberts to adopt a binding cold contact for all Supreme Court justices. Today, the Senate Judicial committee will vote on a bill that will finally bring at the Supreme Court justi