way, we had a good day, yesterday. almost a million people got vaccinated. so i m hopeful that people are beginning to realize how essential it is. the president, today, signaling some tougher tactics against this tougher adversary. the cdc study was based on a large outbreak in the massachusetts-vacation spot provi provincetown at the tip of cape cod. we started to get reports of some strange infection rates among vaccinated individuals. and then, as time went on, we saw more and more cases. until we, eventually, saw a number that was large enough to make a lot of us kind of scratch our head and say, wait a minute, is this something? and it was. but because the vast number of people in provincetown are vaccinated, few people have gotten seriously ill. that s the good news. bit later in the hour, we will speak with a doctor who was vaccinated, visited provincetown, and caught a breakthrough infection, she believes, from other vaccinated people there. the war has changed
bit more of that in this town and so i appreciate that. and i was glad when you mentioned that president biden nominated, you ed levy who taught a class at university of chicago that i took and like edward levi, who took office after watergate, you will take on the department of justice at a critical time and will have the great task of restoring its ideals of independence and fidelity to the constitution and to the law. what is the number one thing that you want to do to boost moral in the department of justice on day one? well, on day one, i m hopefully, if i m confirmed, will take an only in which i say all of the things that you just said. i want to make clear to the career prosecutors, the career lawyers and agents of the department, that my job is to protect them from bipartisan or other improper motives. i then hope to have an opportunity over the next few months to visit with as many members of the justice department as possible. in a pandemic, unfortunately, this w
of endorsements, beginning with gerald ford, followed by remarks of senator several senators. then it ends with the opening statement and a portion of the committee hearing and vote. joe biden: i welcome everyone here this morning, judge bork, his distinguished panel of introducers, my colleagues, and the public. and i would like to take just a moment at the outset to explain how we are going to proceed today and from here on i hope. , it is the ordinary practice of the committee in a hearing like this, judge, to have opening statements from all of my colleagues, and then to invite the presenters of the nominee to speak, and then ask the nominee for his or her statement. but we are going to change the beginning just a little bit today to accommodate some very busy and, quite frankly, very important people. today, you have a distinguished panel of introducers that are here, and what i would like to suggest that we do, and i have checked this with my colleagues. i believe the
the public. and i would like to take just a moment at the outset to explain how we are going to proceed today and from here on, i hope. it is the ordinary practice of the committee in a hearing like this, judge, to have opening statements from all of my colleagues, and then to invite the presenters of the nominee to speak, and then ask the nominee for his or her statement. but we are going to change the beginning just a little bit today to accommodate some very busy and, quite frankly, very important people. today, you have a distinguished panel of introducers that are here, and what i would like to suggest that we do, and i have checked this with my colleagues. i believe they are all in agreement. what we will do today, even though every senator will have up to 10 minutes to make an opening statement, i will, for the time being, forego my opening statement. and i understand the distinguished ranking member, senator thurmond, will also. then we will yield to president ford, a
with respect to intelligence activities and took on the nickname of the chairman, frank church and it was known as the church committee. the committee met for 16 months, reviewed 10,000 documents, called 800 witnesses before the committee and the staff. the legacy includes it creation of the senate select intelligence committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the foreign intelligence surveilness act of 1978 fisa. they were held in the historic senate caucus room scene of the hearings two years earlier. we go to meet kate scott, who explains how and why the church committee came about and sets the stage for september 16, 1975 hearing with cia director, william colby. the church committee was created in january of 1975 by the senate. in response to a series of revelations and allegations about domestic intelligence abuses in the united states, and the senate created this committee by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, a vote of 8