Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 92, the nays are 4. And the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of john w. Holcomb of california to be United States district judge for the Central District of california. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of john w. Holcomb of california to be United States district judge for the Central District of california shall
Achieve, to participate in and contribute to society violates the equal protection clause. 81, massive victory. I thought it was very interesting her points she often made in the dissent. The Supreme Court argued in the 2007 case ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and rubber company, the majority saitd, you know what . If you have been discriminated against in pay in your job, and you learn about it years later, you can no longer appeal for redress because you had to have come to the court at the moment the discrimination first occurred. Of course, that was a catch22, an impossible situation. If you didnt know about it, you couldnt possibly come to the court. And she addressed this, and she said comprehend she said the majority does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. So she called on congress to act to address really this mistaken opinion of the court, and we did in 2009, the first year i came to the senate. And anothe
To coast. And here in the district, temperature dropping into the teens overnight. And as you step outside this morning it will feel even colder. Abcs Angelica Spanos has more on the arctic cold temperatures. Stay connected with the stormwatch 7 team for the latest temperatures, foras log on to wjladotcom. You can also stay connected by downloading the stormwatch app. Developing now. A Controversial Police shooting is now the subject of a 50 Million Dollar lawsuit. Terrence sterling was shot to death by an officer after reportedly ramming a Police Cruiser with his motorcycle. Sterlings family claims officer brian trainer used Excessive Force and failed to record the deadly shooting on his body camera. Sterlings friends say the 31year old could not stop because the officers pulled in front of him and then shot him while he was unarmed. An mpd spokesperson says the department can not comment on a pending legal case. Now to the trump transition. Donald trump is still working on how hell e
Meeting with conservatives over charges of news bias, and apples ceo tim cook fielding tough questions on working conditions in china. Donald trump punching back at jeff bezos, saying that bezos is using his ownership of the Washington Post to slam him so that politicians dont tax amazon as they should. With me now, former republican president ial candidate, successful businessman herman cain. Herman, it is great to see you. Happy friday. Thank you. Happy to be here. Deirdre you are always a wonderful guest for us to have, but particularly today because there are a lot of issues. That is to say, the Business World and the political world overlapping. Yes. Deirdre so i want to ask you first and foremost if you look at a boxing ring with donald trump in one corner, jeff bezos in the other, what do you think . Billionaire against billionaire. Deirdre thats right. I think donald trump is going to come out in this particular fight, and heres why. The big question isnt whether or not bezos i
Cspan kiron skinner, coeditor of reagan in his own hand, what do people get if they buy this book . Guest they see unvarnished Ronald Reagan, long before the presidency, writing, reading, thinking about every major issue facing the united states, and also drafting a strategy, quite surprisingly for many, to end the cold war peacefully without a major hegemonic war. Cspan can you remember the first time you ever heard of all this . Guest what do you mean, the Radio Broadcasts, his writing . Cspan the Radio Broadcasts, where youyou got yourself involved in it. Guest i was working in the Reagan Library. Id written nancy reagan, i believe it was in 1996; i wrote her aa letter about my research on the end of the cold war, and i said, im deeply fascinated by the american side of the story. Most of the research in the 1990s that i saw in the scholarly literature focused on the soviet side and on Eastern Europe and, you know, for good reasons. The revolutions were fascinating to people, and al