the hearing will come back to order. senator klobuchar. klobuchar: thank you very much, mr. chairman. hello, judge. i want to start out again by reminding our friends at home, people at home, that this isn t normal, we shouldn t be here right now. we are in the middle of a pandemic and people are sick. we are in the middle of an election and people are voting. and here we are, stuck in a nomination hearing. i know what my constituents care about, what they have been calling and writing me about. and that is they are afraid of losing their health care in the middle of the pandemic. people s lives depend on the affordable care act like steve, a senior from minnesota who has a heart condition and relies on his prescription medication. emily from minneapolis, her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. janet from rochester whose brother has a mental illness. or christie, a mom from bloomington whose daughter had a tumor. that is what is on the line. health care is on the line and
to the stories that you have told, including the story of veronica s family. very moving. if i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. i would not be coming in with any agenda. i would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. sen. hirono: so are you saying that the impact of the affordable care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address? sen. hirono: senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the affordable care act. you set the policies. and i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a certain circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants b
company and the public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. day three ofrom judge amy coney barrett s confirmation hearing. this includes lessons from senator klobuchar, codes, and on thought. among others. thank you. the hearing will come back to order. senator klobuchar. sen. klobuchar: thank you very much, mr. chairman. hello, judge. judge barrett: hi senator. sen. klobuchar: hello. i want to start out again by reminding our friends at home, people at home, that this isn t normal. we shouldn t be here right now. we are in the middle of a pandemic, and people are sick. we are in the middle of an election, and people are voting. and yet here we are, stuck in a nomination hearing. i know what my constituents care about, what they have been calling and writing me about. and that is they are afraid of losing their health care in the middle of the pandemic. people s lives depend on the affordable care act like steve, a senior from minnesota who ha
and questions, i think there was at least an implication from what was just said that you would not be sensitive to their need for equal justice for all under the law. , for all peoples in america. would you like to respond to that at all before i go ahead? judge barrett: i am fully committed to equal justice under the law for all persons. i am fully committed to enforcing all laws to limit racial discrimination. in my private life, i bore racial discrimination and for both personal reasons and professional reasons want to ensure that there is equal justice for all. and all of my children i think have made an escape but if they washed this one day i would want all of them to know and especially and john peter, i condemn racism and want to do everything that i can in my own capacity personally and as a judge to end it. sen. crapo: thank you. i appreciate you making that point. afind it just incredible that mother of children of different races could be accused of not being s
[inaudible] senator blumenthal. thank you very much. thank you for being back. you very much, mr. chairman, thank you for being back, your honor, and thank you to your family as well. i want to begin by saying, perhaps not surprisingly to you, that i was really disappointed by your responses to a number of my colleague s most recently on the coons issue of whether you would purchase fate in a decision involving the upcoming election if you were confirmed. i continue to believe that if you were to participate in a decision involving that enduring,it would do explosive damage to the court. i think you know it would be wrong, not because of anything you have done. fact, i am not raising the issue of whether you have done any sort of deal or commitment because of what donald trump has and my republican colleagues, because they have indelibly put at issue your integrity through their statements. the president has said that he is putting you on the court as the ninth justic