Remarks from three former president s, george w. Bush, bill clinton, and barack obama. Live coverage is here on cspan3. Amen. This is john lewis favorite poem, invictus. Out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole, i think whatever god may be to my inconquerable soul. In the fell clutches of circumstance, i have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeons of chance, my head is bloody, but im bound. Beyond this place looms but the horror of the shade. And yet menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, im the master of my fate. Im the captain of my soul. John lewis was my hero and my friend, lets honor him by getting in good trouble. [ applause ] only the inconquerable spirit and the magnanimous soul of john lewis could summon all of us together in this place at this time. Only john lewis could compel three living american president s to come to this house of god. To celebra
Do we have remote people . E td okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The hearing will come to order. I believe we have some of our colleagues who are going to be remote. Opening eally have anit. Statement. Well hear from judge wilson here in a bit and well let our two colleagues from mississippi introduction. But ill defer to senator feinstein if she wants to say anything first. Hear fro i will, mr. Chairman. O a thank you very much. Today, as youve stated, were going to hearr from cory wilson nominated to a mississippi seat on the fifth Circuit Court of j appeals. Stated during the nomination hearing for the view District Court in january, i am interested in judge wilsons views on a a number of issues including health care, Voting Rights, womens reproductive afo rights, gun safety, and the rights of lgbt americans. His record of opposition to the Affordable Care act is troubling, particularly because wereorte concernedd ju with co. I hope he will straighten us out on that. A it has been reported that
People . Have remote 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The hearing will come to order. I believe we have some of our colleagues who will be remote. I dont really have an opening statement. We will hear from judge wilson and a bit. We will let our colleagues from mississippi to the introduction. I will defer to senator feinstein if she was to seining first. Senator feinstein thank you very much. Today we will hear from cory wilson, nominated to a mississippi seat on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals. As i stated during the nomination hearing for the District Court in january, i am interested in judge wilsons views on a number of issues including health care, Voting Rights, womens reproductive rights, gun safety and the rights of lgbt americans. His record of opposition to the Affordable Care act is troubling, particularly because we are concerned with covid19. I hope people straighten us out on that. It has been reported judge wilson has a commitment to undermining the Affordable Care act. He has called
But in the stand your ground case that now we are all very well aware of, i think it goes back to what we spoke about earlier. And that is the pressure. Guess what . If people started to make phone calls and putting the pressure on, it would be different. And then that would help encourage you as a legislator help encourage Law Enforcement to speak out. Because now they are not alone. As long as youre going behind and whispering and say hey, im with you. But, you know, what . Every day we are losing eight kids and teenagers a day daily to gun violence to eight kids a day. I think is still pricing to legislation of gun violence. I have been at numerous protests and ive seen, i have seen prolife Supporters Holding up a 16 by 20 or even large posters of fetuses and mothers have been impacted by abortion. And again, im in the business of pictures. Im in the business of narrative. Im in the business of storytelling. And it still stuns me why, if i am protesting that im kind of get an issue
In the traditional or nontraditional media. Continue toat there be hearings in congress that move from one committee to another committee about what happened in benghazi . Is there any possibility that that is going to end up in some legislation or some meaningful thing . No. It is just a show. You give doing it over and over again, you hijacked other Committee Meetings to talk about this topic because the people organizing understand there is an audience i will react to that and overtime there is a lot of News Coverage of it and there is a tremendous amount of activity around it on the internet. So i would ask when was the last time any of us saw a story and maybe we have seen them but when was the last time there was a story about the origins of a gun that ways used to kill a Police Officer . Have we seen a story . That story . Shouldnt it be that if you are a policymaker or legislature that is concerned about this, shouldnt it be that not just the terrible, tragedy stories we are mo