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 they are all in
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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, and it is a
Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for getting up early. Great to see so many of you here today. Howard core, lillian pinkiss, bob cohen and of course all the kentuckyians that are here with us. Thousands of students and, of course, its great to be with you this year. Just after i last address third degree conference in 2015, Prime Minister netanyahu gave an important address to congress. He warned about the dangers of then president obamas plan for a nuclear deal with iran. The Obama Administration ignored him. It was hardly the only time israel would feel let down over the last eight years. That culminated in what we saw at the u. N. In december. U. S. israel relationship was in a terrible state when the new administration took office. We all agree on the importance of reaffirming our relationship and charting a new way forward. But first we need to examine what went wrong over the last eight years. And that starts at the beginning. Former president obama and i have ver
Good morning. Thank you for getting up early. Our core and the students its great to be with you this year. Just after i addressed this conference in 2015, Prime Minister netanyahu gave an important address to congress. He warned about the dangers of then president obamas plan for a nuclear deal with iran. The Obama Administration ignored him. It was hardly the only time israel would let feel down over the last eight years. The u. S. Israel relationship was in a terrible state when the new administration took office. We all agree on the importance of reaffirming our relationship and charting a new way forward. But we first need to examine what went wrong over the last eight years and that starts at the beginning. Former president obama and i have very different opinions about americas role in the world. We disagreed about our lives with israel, we disagreed whether the post world order remains in our nations interests, we just had a fundamentally different approach to the world. Presid