Of the president s choice or at least his nominee to head the supreme court, Amy Coney Barrett who had her confirmation hearinglast week and that process resumed this week and to highlight that for us Alexander Bolton of the hill who serves as Senior Reporter for that publication. Thanksfor joining us. Good morning. Walk us throughthe next steps and whats going on behind the scenes as this week starts off . The next steps are on october 22 which is thursday. Theres going to be a vote on barretts nomination. Shes expected to get every single republican vote on the Judiciary Committee and every stdemocrat is expected to vote against her and then Mitch Mcconnell says hes going to take up her nomination on the floor friday, october 23 so what that means is hes going to file cloture on her so the expectation then is there would be a procedural vote on advancing the nomination on the floor, a cloture vote on tuesday. You need an intervening day between when cloture is invoked but when its fi
We have all long operated we covered the white house together, weve done that. We know how all president s and their Communications Team try to throw information out there because they want us, they want us to echo that. They want to put that out there. In an amendment such as this that so challenge with the subject of the continued influence the fact, do you change the way you put that information out there . How do you address that reality . You are muted, mara, sorry. This is a really, really, really tough problem. Because were so tribal, because of the tribalizing effects of social media, you know, whatever we do to discuss a piece of misinformation or disinformation, we putting that piece of this information out there and by definition i guess were giving it more life for airtime. Npr is a mainstream News Organization. We try to surround this piece of misinformation or disinformation with as much context and Fact Checking as we can, but what we found, maybe we can talk about this,
30 hours to talk about a nomination. And then it is in the books. Host so whats them for the democrats involved in this process . What is the strategy of the speed going into next . Guest this not a lot they can do. Grandma slapped in the vote for the 22nd. Typically what happens is democrats on the committee hold over a nomination for an extra week. But that is not going too happen. Graham has locked the vote for the 22nd. There is really nothing they can do. They can try boycotting the meeting on the 22nd. But the republicans say theyre going to rewrite the rules. Theres a corm rule in the committee you need to have minority members present to vote on something. If the democrats skip to deprive the republicans of that corm does not make a difference. Theyll vote on a new set of rules. That is something that ted cruz member of the Judiciary Committee has said to keep in contact with Lindsey Graham theyre going to do whatever it takes to get this nomination moving. Some democrats have
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The Senate Returns today and they vote later on a house passed resolution disapproving a new federal rule revising oversight oflow income banking services. Later in the week , a vote on a gop backed coronavirus Economic Relief bill. They will also take up the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Live now to the senate floor on cspan2. In the law and the prophets. We praise you for this profound maxim to guide our ethical conduct. May it provide our lawmakers with wisdom to make sound decisions and strength to walk in the way of justice and freedom for all. We pray in your wonderful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the president pro tempore. Mr. Grassley one minute for morning business, please. Th