mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i'm very glad to stand with senator cortez masto to support this legislation and also recognize the leadership of senator murray on this issue as we fight to protect fundamental rights belonging to the women of america. for nearly half a century women relied on roe's recognition that the constitution protects their right to decide if and when to have children. a radical and captured supreme court has revoked this constitutional right, disrupting constitutional right, disrupting constitutional right disrupting the reliance antitrust of generations of women to make fundamental decisions about their own health and their own futures. overturning is wildly unpopular. the deep-pocketed extremist interests invested hundreds of millions of dollars over decades to build a court where that kind of stuff could get done. it is an outrage women across the country are angry and democrats are angry and we are fighting back in every way we can. in addition to state abortion bands and bold

mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i'm very glad to stand with senator cortez masto to support this legislation and also recognize the leadership of senator murray on this issue as we fight to protect fundamental rights belonging to the women of america. for nearly half a century women relied on roe's recognition that the constitution protects their right to decide if and when to have children. a radical and captured supreme court has revoked this constitutional right, disrupting the reliance and trust of generations of women to make fundamental decisions about their own health and their own futures. overturning roe is wildly unpopular, which is why extremists went to the captured court to get a change that they could not get through the democratic process. deep-pocketed extremist interests invested hundreds of millions of dollars over decades to build a court where that kind of stuff could get done. it is an outrage. women across this country are angry, democrats in congress are angry, and we are fighting b

paying for the product and do it now. working on it, mr. president, in the meantime, have a happy 4th of july. and please make sure that whitehouse intern who posted this twit registers for the calling 11 for the fall semester. now when it comes to state level politicians, they really aren't doing much top either here and they're actually responding to the problems that americans are seeing now by using it to argue back and forth when it comes to politics, which is of course, where many of them do best here is the latest that they had to say on that. i urge all of you live in, in florida to join the fight or join us in california. we still believe in freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from 8, the freedom to love. don't let them take your freedom. so definitely a lot of problems, but unfortunately not many solutions being introduced there. all president biting continues to blame really, anyone other than himself. we've heard him spend months trying to put the blame on russia, even as polls show that americans just aren't buying that excuse. and his administration really isn't helping him here. i mean, we've got

whitehouse. >> thank you mr. chairman thank you to the witnesses for being here.re has been a lot of talk during this hearing about the environment in which the justices and the dobbs decision have had to operate the decision and i just wanted to flag in the general category of protest behavior the experience that i had with clinics and rhode island in the 90s when i was u.s. attorney in rhode island. and i flag it impart because during justice ketanji brown jackson's hearing the witness proposed a narrative that these engagements between protesters and people seeking services and clinics there was peaceful and loving engagement and i've lived a very different experience in rhode island and massachusetts when i became u.s. attorney for the environment outside of our planned parenthood clinic in providence was so hostile we are well aware that planned parenthood had to figure out ways to have people escort women coming for services into their premises through extremely hostile and abusive crowds. it reached a very bloody culmination in december of 1994 when the cli

whitehouse. senator booker. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. to all the three people in the panel, thank you for being here. your bios are extraordinary. your commitment to the country and willingness to serve is both humbling to me and very inspiring. i want to thank your families that are here too. this is not an easy path you have chosen and you do not do it alone, as you said in your introductory remarks. i want to thank them for their commitment to the country and their willingness to support you in this path. i will be supporting you happily, maybe even gleefully on the floor of the u.s. senate. i look forward to taking the vote. i look forward -- as most people have, you all are very fortunate that you're sitting next to a man trying to be the head of the a.t.f., which hasn't had a leader in eight for years. i want to say to mr. dettelbach, i am looking forward to supporting you. there is a lot being said about you. i find it astonishing to look at the law enforcement list that my colleague just read off of the incredible folks that are

mr. coons who has been waiting. >> thank you senator whitehouse, thank you to our three nominees in front of us today. i am not a rude man but i will tell you i have genuinely struggled today as a number of reporters were just talking to me in the hallway, i and my wife and my whole family our heart is broken for parents, teachers, faculty and community members and school children who are today living through every family's worst nightmare. to have again 19 elementary school students massacred in their classrooms, to have their teachers killed defending them, to have some describe this as unthinkable, unimaginable, when it is entirely too predictable now. the pain that the rob elementary school community and uvalde, texas, it's living through today it's perhaps incomprehensible for those of us who have children, but it is entirely predictable. i will make a bold prediction, it will happen again, and again, until we collectively decide to find a way forward to responsibly address it. we in the senate need to have a better answer. while i am a praying man and i believe in the power of praye

. >> thank you, senator whitehouse parade senator cruz. >> thank you, mr. chairman.he supreme court's decision in dobbs was a victory for democracy in america. abortion is an issue on which the american people have strong and passionate views and disagree. as the witnesses here at this hearing demonstrate. those disagreements have been long-standing. in the way our constitution operates typically on issues in which their sharp disagreement, it is the democratic process that resolves that disagreement. when the supreme court decided roe versus wade in 19737 unelected judges such of the american people your views don't matter. your desire to protect innocent life does not matter. we know better than you. and we are going to prevent you from making decisions about protecting life. the consequence of that has been five decades of deep political division because the democratic process was prevented from operating. now six -- three of the supreme court is overturned that decision. questions of abortion will return to the elected branches of government. the democratic proce

whitehouse correspond? thanks very much. well, sir, join either tango the senior fellow at the time he institute jose now by scott from beijing could help you with us on the program. again. mr. tangle mean, china is in the sense that the thought of the us house speaker, potentially visiting taiwan is really what's brought this meeting between the 2 presidents you might say, fast, forwarded and by the telephone. well, it definitely is going to be the main contention here. they've talked 5 times since by and came into office in the last time was about 4 months ago. and before that was about 4 months. so it's about time that they had a regular call, but definitely this is the top of the agenda. beijing is a sense they sense that the tween biden's saying that he is going to come to the aid of taiwan that the u. s. is backsliding on the basis of the relationship, which is this one, china policy clinical trial, and he's talking about the consequences of the visit, all the consequences that the u. s. would experience if this went ahead. i mean, what are the options on the table? what do you think china would do? well, this is all speculation. i mean, there could be military, there

mr. whitehouse: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 384, s. 3470. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 384, s. 3470, a bill to provide for the implementation of certain trafficking and contracting provisions and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: madam president, i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 413, s. r