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Focusing on rushing through a nominee to the United States Supreme Court rather than doing everything we can to work across the aisle to craft a solution. To the problems, the crises facing our nation. Tens of millions of americans, unemployed. Hundreds of thousands of businesses permanentlylo closed. Schools all over the country either not yet open or just barely opened, and thousands upon thousands of americans died alone in pain, and comforted by family, uncertain of how they came to be in this place and cared for by their country. Eight. 5million infected 220,000 or more dead. We are in the middle of a tragic pandemic and a recession made worse by our presence bungled mishandling of the pandemic, and instead of coming together to provide the reliefteng that all states d all people are calling for, we are doing this. We are doing this. Instead, my republican colleagues are walking over dangerous precipice doing something according to graham was unthinkable just two years ago , in th
The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Hawley madam president , some months ago, in july of this year, i came to this floor shortly after the conclusion of the Supreme Courts most recent term to lament the ongoing judicial activism, the judicial imperialism that we have seen from this court over this past term and from the Supreme Court for years on end. I quoted the late Justice Scalia who said the imperial judiciary lives, and i said on the floor of this senate it was a shame to say but undeniable that the imperial judiciary continued to live in this country, a judiciary intent, a Supreme Court intent on legislating from the bench, on making up laws that went along with no regard for what the people actually wrote in their statutes or in their laws, and i particularly lamented the position of religious conservatives, people of faith who had seen in this past term for the United States Supreme Court decision after decision, tossing aside the concerns of religious conserv
October 26, 2020 will go down as one of the darkest days in the history of the United States senate. Like the record show that decided toe majority thwart the will of the people and confirm a lifetime appointment to the court in the middle of a president ial election after more than 60 million americans have voted. Tonightrecord show that the republican majority will break 231 years and become the first majority to confirm a Supreme Court justice this close to election day. Tonightrecord show that the republican majority will make a mockery of its own rentable that the American People deserve a voice in the selection of Supreme Court justices, completing the partisan theft of two seats on the Supreme Court using completely contradictory rationales. Let the record show that the American People, their lives and freedoms, will suffer the consequences of this nomination for a generation. Be summede debate can up in three lies propagated by that publican majority and one great terrible trut
Alive cablecast did online, too. This is the same channel as the regular Board Meetings. The live video stream will also be available online. Welcome to the district Staff Members and members of the public. Thank you to the budget staff in advance for their the hard work and getting information ready for this special meeting. The process for this afternoon, i would like to turn it over first to superintendent matthews and the staff who will start out with a presentation. I will then open it up to Public Comment and depending upon how many speakers we have requested, i will also put a time limit in case, again, really wanting the purpose of todays meeting to have dialogue amongst the commissioners. We have had a lot we had lots of engagement as well the past tuesday evening at our Board Meeting and we will also have an opportunity this upcoming week as well. So at this time, i would like to turn it over actually, before i turn it over to dr. Matthews, you know, the purpose of the meetin