speaking out against the attacks on israel and standing in the proud tradition like daniel patrick moynihan gene kirkpatrick. less than two weeks ago, she once again responded to an attack on israel, demanding that the u.n. retract the report that viciously and outrageously attacked israel as an apartheid state. and her action had impact. soon after the secretary-general required retraction of the report. [ applause ] following a recent u.n. security council meeting on the middle east, ambassador haley came out to the press and articulated some plain truth. here's what she said -- "the discussion today on the middle east was not about hezbollah's illegal buildup of rockets, it was not about the money and weapons that iran provides to terrorists. it was not about how we defeat isis. it was not about how we hold bashar assad accountable. ambassador haley said, and i quote, instead, the meeting focused on criticizing israel, the one true democracy in the middle east." [ applause ] and she closed her statement by saying, "i'm here to say the united states will not turn a blind eye to this anymo

justice ginsberg: one vivid a very bright, then ,oung man, who was my guide daniel patrick moynihan.ound theake me congressional office buildings. bob would be walking and he would say -- this is what she is interested in. to talkould be wise not about this, that, or the other thing. that was the honorable robert katzman. remember is the collegiality and the stability of that entire process. on june 14, 1993 3. i was confirmed on august there was a truly bipartisan spirit in the congress. my biggest supporter on the judiciary committee was orrin hatch. the vote was 96-3. thermind that i had been on board of the aclu and the cofounder of the women's rights process. not a single question was asked about my aclu connections. prior who came one year after, it was pretty much the same. a collegial atmosphere. recentg the most confirmation, i wish there was a way that we could wave a magic want and get back to the way it was and the way it should be. we can onlynn: help. we can only hope. what i remember about that process was that the white house brings in experts to talk to the nominee.

and daniel patrick moynihan, in a debate on the nomination of ruth bader ginsburg, back in 1993, he said, the senate is perhaps most acutely attentive to its duty when it considers a nominee to the supreme court. that this is so reflects not only the importance of our nation's highest tribunal but also our recognition that while members of the congress and presidents come and go, the tenure of supreme court justices can span generations. we are not here on the floor debating who will serve in some office in the executive branch for the next couple years. we are here debating a nomination to the highest court that could span generations, in the words of daniel patrick moynihan. so where else would we consider more important than a supreme court nomination to adhere to the traditions of the senate and to honor the 60-vote requirement in our rules? we don't always like the nominee the other side has selected, and we question them vigorously in confirmation hearings, and we end up voting against them. but until the situation last year with the death of antonin scalia, every vacancy in an ele

celebrity when i accompanied her to capitol hill at the imitation of her senate sponsor, daniel patrick moynihan that is an experience i will always test. for me, the most telling moment of that confirmation came in response to a question from senator cole of wisconsin. he asked her how would she want the american people to think of her. ruth bader ginsburg replied quietly, i would like to be thought of as a person who cares about people and does the best she can with the talent she has to make a contribution to a better world. that i think, captures her at. [inaudible] she's a person with seemingly limitless capacity for friendship and kindness, large and small. no matter the weighty burdens of her daily life. she is a friend for the chilly winters of life, someone who places others before her own convenience as i have observed. someone of conviction and termination, a person with a true sense of the aesthetic. taken by the pleasures that life has to offer, a beloved aria or a horseback ride. to know her, her family, her partner in her accomplished children, her entire family to have a sense of

black babies born out of wedlock today, that triples the rate in 1965, triple the rate when daniel patrick moynihan famously decried the chaos and craziness of black families in the way for a babies born out of wedlock is now higher than the black rate was when moynihan conducted his analysis in 1965. it's an extraordinarily devastating development. and of course leads to development that we don't seem to know very much about solving your it's not for want of study and after. it is a really, really hard problem. a third cause of poverty is so-called disappearing jobs. and here again, i have a lot to say and discuss the analysis and some of the response is to concerns about disappearing jobs. very interesting finding how low a percentage of working age unemployed men site is the reason for their unemployment, lack of jobs she had some of these people are disabled but when i come to discussion of disability, i will have some more to say about that. a fourth possible cause, almost certainly a causes educational deficits. bit here, it is important to emphasize what we often forget, which is while we ar

triple the rate that it was when daniel patrick moynihan famously decried the chaos and crisis of of black families and the white rate of babies born out of wedlock is higher than the black rate when moynihan conducted his analysis in 1965. so an extraordinarily devastating development. and unfortunately a development that we don't seem to know very much about solving. it's not for want of study and effort. it's a really, really hard problem. a third cause of poverty is disappearing jobs. here i again i have a lot to say itch discussion william julius wilson's analysis and his concerns about disappearing jobs. very interesting finding, kind of shocked me is how low a personal of working age unemployed men cite as the reason for their unemployment lack of jobs. now, some of these people are disabled but when i come to discussion of disability i will have something more to say about that. a fourth of possible causes, although certain lay accuse, is educational deficits. but here it's important to emphasize what we often forget, which is that while we're blaming poor schools, we really

heads. 72% of black babies born out of wedlock today that is triple the rate that it was when daniel patrick moynihan famously decried the chaos and crisis of black families and the great of babies born out of wedlock is now higher than when he conducted his analysis so it's an extraordinarily devastating and it's a development that we don't seem to know much about solving. it's not for want of study and effort. it is a really hard problem. the third cause of poverty is the so-called disappearing jobs. and here again i have a lot to say on the analysis and some of the responses to the concerns. very interesting finding and what shocked me is how low of a percentage of unemployed men cite as the reason for their unemployment lack of jobs. some of these people are disabled but when i come to discussion of disability i will have more to say about that. the fourth possible cause is educational deficits. but here it's important to emphasize that they often forget which is we are blaming poor schools and we really ought to realize that in fact, the deficits that exist in children's opportunities and achiev

had an outcome which would be a broad leadership consensus -- this is where the wonderful daniel patrick moynihan on target talking about how, we don't make social policy without broad leadership consensus and by persons consensus. if you lost, you would still say, i have a chance to get my view point across. now that is policy, let's try to make it better. athink he would be appalled laterct that, 240 years we were more immature that a lot of people were at the beginning, worrying how we get out of it. big is a significant problem. it's not the only problem. mickey's right, redistricting to supply apply to the senate. the fact is, you've got a lot of quite that are heterogeneous and diverse. and you do have a difference in the senate -- the immigration bill back during the obama term the past the senate with a broad bipartisan vote that couldn't even come up in the house of representatives. the tribalism has taken over in the senate. think what madison also knew was , aou can set up a system constitution with glaucoma rules , but norms drive it. they're like the endoskeleton of resistance. if yo