Where are people falling behind in america . In small towns. We need to bring affordable rapid broadband to every small town in america. People will build their own future. [applause] she believes that we ought to put up 500 million solar panels in the next four years. She believes that we ought to make it to where every home can be electrified by energy the people own. Coming from the wind sun, and other sources. You cant export those dollars. You have to do that work right here. Put the American People to work. I will give an example. I have a project to my foundation where we try to work on the american economy. I have this crazy idea that brought to the labor movement. I said, what if we take the pension fund of the public unions that are in good shape and they put private members into making our Country Energy is sufficie efficient. First, people looked at me like i needed an appointment with the doctor. Eventually, the Union Movement came up with 16 billion to do this. The larges
Now. We have had three of them in iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and one going on on in nevada. The election is well under way. So i believe the overwhelming view of the republican conference of the senate is that this nomination should not be filled, this vacancy should not be failed by this lame duck president. That was the view of joe biden when he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee in 1992. Chuck schumer who will be my counterpart next year had the view that you shouldnt fill a vacancy in the last 18 months going into a president ial Election Year and that was senator reids view as well in a different era. So i think this is where this will end up. I expect the president will make a nomination. Senator cornyn is on the Judiciary Committee and i would like him to address another aspect of this. Senator cornyn he was talking about his experience with Justice Scalia. He administered the oath of office to me on the texas Supreme Court. We have our own personal memories of