unshakably committed to the core constitutional principle of an independent, federal judiciary. the core constitutional principle of an independent, federal judiciary. as long as this majority holds the gavel, we will never let the minority leaders become policy. this majority will make sure the only casualties of this recklessness are the reputations of those who engage in it. >> now madam president, i just listen to theis republican leader and there is a glaring omission in his speech. he did not mention what the rally yesterday, my speech, or the case before the court was about.

a woman's constitutional right to choose.we to the women of america, what we are talking about here, what i am fighting for here is your right to choose. an issue of course leader mcconnell completely ignored in his speech. i feel so passionately about this issue, and i feel so deeply, the anger of women all across america about senate republicans in the courts working hand in glove to take down roe vi wade. i just read about a woman in shreveport who wandered the louisiana law between the supreme court, would have to travel over 300 miles to exercise her constitutional freedoms. and this is happening in states across the country. republican state legislatures are restricting a woman's right to choose so severely, as to make it a nonexistent.

and the courts are now likely to go along because senate republicans have confirmed nominees they believe will strip away women's rights and fundamentally change this country. going so far as to deny a duly elected president the right pick of supreme george cut justice. republicans are afraid here in the senate, to confront this issue directly, so they try to accomplish through the court, what they have never accomplished in the court of public opinion. and they leave women out in the cold. so yes, i am angry, the women of america are angry, and yes we will continue to fight for a woman's right to choose. i will continue to fight for the women of america. now i should not have use the words i use yesterday.

they did not come out the way i intended to. my pointnt was that there would be political consequences, political consequences, for president trump and senate republicans if theou supreme court, with the newly confirmed justices,to stripped away a woman's right to choose. of course, i did not intend to suggest anything other than political and public opinion consequences for the supreme court and its gross distortion to imply otherwise. i am from brooklyn. we speak in strong language. i should not have use the words i did but in no way was i making a threat. i never, never would do such a thing. and leader mcconnell knows that. and republicans who are busy manufacturing outrage over theseen comments, they know that too. now what will remain, long

after the clamor over my comments died down, is the issue at hand. ato woman's constitutional right to choose, and republican attempts to invalidate it. the fact that my republican colleagues have worked systematically over the course of decades to install the judicial infrastructure to take down roe v wade and do very real damage to the country and to the american way of life. that is the issue that will remain. and we owe, i owe and obligation to the women of america toic fight for their constitutional rights. i yield the floor. >> the president comes to the floor this morning as a senate calling who may know chuck schumer better than most. we lived under the same brew for almost 20no years. we know one another. we know each other's families, we have been together through