Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 186, the nays are 235 with zero answering present. The motion is not adopted. The question is on passage of the bill. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Scott meerks madam speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is requested. Those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote
Consortium and my amazing staff, policy director candell who came up with the idea of lighting city hall purple, lets acknowledge her. [ applause ] and i want to thank our policy members for putting together all of these signs. And i want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. See you same time next year. Thank you very much. [ applause ]presents. Boarden, present. Heinicke, present. Shoe shoe, present. Nolan, present. Ramos, present, rubke, present. You have a quorum. Item 3, announcement of sounds producing e devices. The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any personnss responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices. Announcement of sounds produce devices. The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are
Boarden, present. Heinicke, present. Shoe shoe, present. Nolan, present. Ramos, present, rubke, present. You have a quorum. Item 3, announcement of sounds producing e devices. The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any personnss responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices. Announcement of sounds produce devices. The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any personnss responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices. Cell phones set on vibrate so request turned off. Approval of minutes september 20. Motion of the minutes. Motion to
Every one of you for being a wonderful attentive audience. Thank you so much. [ applause ] questions for our speaker . Lincoln approached notnothing voters during the 1860 campaign. Did he announce them or try to win them over to the republican . Or how did he fdo that . He said how do you want to welcome those people . I will welcome the nonothings if they will accept in the entirety the republican platform, which does not include exclusion. When lincolns people went out and campaigned and somebody would say, well, what does your boy think about immigration . Lincoln instructed them to tell them that there will be no prejudice at all based on immigration and ethnicity, and theyre more than welcome to vote for the republican ticket, meaning him, but they should not expect the naturalization laws will be increased. They should not expect theres going to be any one group preferable for the other. They should expect there immigrants to fulfill the labor shortage that the civil war created