The week lawmakers are excited to start the week with 2020 federal spending bills. Focus will be in a culture, commerce and interior environment and transportation hud department. First vote at 5 30 pm eastern eastern. Not to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, in spite of our d shortcomings, you have shortcomings, you have promised never to forsake us. In this decisive season of our nations history, grant our lawmakers wisdom and courage. May they remember that history is a fateful stenographer that will judge their words and deeds in the shining light of truth. Lord, provide our senators with the grace to glorify you as they remember you have appointed them for this moment in time. And, lord, we thank you for the courage and professionalism of the men and women in our nations military. We also thank you for the life and
G. R. Funeral homes versus the equal Employment Opportunity commission. Mr. Cole . Mr. Chief justice, may it please the court, Aimee Stephens is a transgender woman, a valued employee for six years until she told her boss she was going to live and identify as a woman. When harris homes responded by firing her it discriminated against her because of her sex for three reasons, first in firing her for failing to conform to its owners explicitly stated stereotypes about how men and women should behave, it discriminated against her in the same way that Price Waterhouse discriminated against ann hopkins for failing to walk and talk more femininely. It cant be that ann hopkins would lose her case on the same facts were she transgender. Second, Harris Holmes fired her for identifying as a woman only because she was assigned a male sex at birth. In doing so, it fired her for controvening only people assigned a male sex at birth namely that they live as a male their entire lives. Second, fired f
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I thought that was very good thing t was very much in our countrys interest. I think it has worked out well. But i think we have to wait and see what the president comes up with. And you know i dont know what that is going to be. I know at the moment the ayatollah and u. S. Congress are not making his life and that effort any easier. But, i i just urge you once again, weve had many estimates of iranian capabilities. Im not persuaded given what i saw in iraq that we know much more about iran than we knew about iraq. I hope we do but i couldnt count on it and im not actively reporting that right now anyway. There is plenty more material in the book. So we hope you buy the book and buy it here in support of the wonderful work that brad and elissa do at politics prose. Thank you all for coming. [applause] booktv is on twitter. Follow us to get publishing news scheduling updates author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. Twitter. Com slash booktv. Next on