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The presiding officer thank you. Mrs. Feinstein i rise to oppose the nomination of mr. Bress. This is a california seat on the ninth circuit, and the fact is that mr. Bress is neither a California Attorney nor a california resident. In fact, hes not been a resident of the state for over a decade. Hes lived and practiced in the washington, d. C. , area for almost his entire adult life. As california senators, senator harris and i know that the kind of experience and connection to california is really necessary for a ninth circuit judge to be effective on the bench. We know our state, we know our constituents, and we know the challenges they face, and thats why the blue slip is so important. Honoring the blue slip ensures that the senators who understand are and are accountable to their constituents have a say in judicial nominations for their home states. Our blue slips, senator harris and mine, were not returned. Ultimately t ....
Of you from Msnbc Roe Headquarters here in new york. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We are beginning with this Breaking News. Hundreds on capitol hill as the federal government heads towards a, potential, shut down in just 12 hours. Soon the house will vote on speaker Kevin Mccarthys new plan to keep Government Open. We see those votes being cast, in fact, as we speak. However, mccarthy is leaning on democrats to support it admitting that there is no guarantee that his own caucus would do it. The house is going to actually government will not shut down. We will put a clean Funding Stopgap on the florida keep Government Open for 45 days d ....
Career politicians together without having a goal in mind also supporting the constitutional line item veto to help residents cut out unnecessary spending in a constitutional way. Will we need to do to get by Budget Priorities in line is to prioritize to demand accountability in to not have everything centralized at the federal level. As it relates to our deficits to pay down the dead of the grandkids to move forward we have to get this economy going again. It is in growing and hasnt been talking about fewer jobs than seven years ago there are 13 million fewer working and the economy this stage in the recovery. If we have revenues we can have the deficit reduction and longterm Debt Reduction that this economy needs to keep a strong viable economic leader in the world. To talk about the needy citizens we cant do that if we dont have a healthy growing economy. Standiford unf ....