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Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not ca...

Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett was back on capitol hill free third day in a row to answer another round of questions at her confirmation hearing. This time, Committee Members had up to 20 minutes each to question judge barrett on her legal philosophy and other issues including abortion, Voting Rights and the Affordable Care act. Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a...

Unfiltered view of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Nominee amyourt Coney Barrett was back on capitol hill for a third day in a row to answer another round of questions at her confirmation hearing. This time, Committee Members had up to 20 minutes each to question judge merrick on her judge barrett on her legal philosophies and other issues. Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagu...

Heretics,d we were but we try to be nice heretics, and it was not until the late 70s that the governor of missouri lifted that ban. Would haveosh hawley lifted it for us had it not been lifted by then. Religious liberty has always been interesting to me for that reason, and also just as a lawyer. ,y late father, also a lawyer worked on and advised Congress Regarding the religious freedom restoration act. My longtime professional mentor was someone that i worked with in establishing a first of it...

Shuster was touting the open process laid out a Leadership Conference today to reporters. Its boasting that this process, which basically splits consideration of the highway bill from the house policy portions today and the senate and other provisions tomorrow and for the rest of the week as a process that gives members greater time and greater levels of consideration on both bills. However, the house rules process limits amendments on the floor. So technically, this isnt the most open process b...

What this gets at or what this requires courts to do is to decide who is a minister. On the one hand, there may be some which you could plainly it might be more obvious questions like someone who teaches religion, religion teachers. What the court has said is those were follow more in the heartland. It gets a little more difficult if you have a Religious School like the Jewish School or the Catholic School in our lady of guadalupe who has a teacher who, lets say, is teaching math. The courts hav...

She was such a great listener. Kindness and empathy throughout. Of course, lets dont forget the notepad moment im here. Ask your questions, all i need is my United States senate notepad and Starbucks Coffee and were doing great. Thanks to all of you. Stand by. Senator graham gavels to order. Women conservatives have had a hard time. Some want to marginalize the contribution because you come out on a different side of an issue, abortion. This hearing is not to punch through a Glass Ceiling but a ...

Thomas well start right back at 1 00. Thomas im a Research Fellow here at the cato Institutes Center for constitutional studies and managing editor of the cato review. I know how insanely cooperative and timely and patient for them to make it happen. Thanks everyone that trevor named and thanked in the First Amendment. We have a First Amendment panel at constitutional day. Its smack dab at the wheelhouse here at the levy center. This year was unusually light in one respect in i believe there was...

Testified. This hearing is just under four hours. [no audio] we have more than 200 people here today and hundreds more watching on our Committee Web cast. I expect everybody in this room to be respectful of the senators and the witnesses speaking about this very serious subject. I do not want applause for or against any position. The Capitol Police have been notified to remove any audience interference in an effort to have orderly conduct for that. That is a warning i give the many hearings. We ...

Judiciary Community Committee hearing on gun violence and an initial statement will be given by former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who was shot two years ago in arizona. Her husband, mark kelly will testify and wayne lapierre, executive Vice President and ceo of the nra. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] we have more than 200 people here today and hun...