and speaking of that, senator mazie hirono from hawaii, mazie, interesting toki put it, kindly comment aboutut the constitution on capitol hill today. >> that's the attitude or the approach of originalism. they the justicesin who take tht approach go all the wayba back to our founding fathers and pretend that they know what our founding fatherst meant whn they drafted the constitution. >> i use the word pretensee because who the heck should wouldhe know what our founding fathers meant? why should why should kids havey any respect for our foundingcu document that she basically is just blowing it all off like it doesn't matter ? er >> h yeah, that's another head scratcher for mazie hirono. scgosh, how could you possiblynd understand, laura , what our founding fathersrs thought the constitution the declaration meant? maybe it's thattu james madison and alexander hamilton wrote eighty five different newspaper columns and collected in something called the federalist papers or that madison and jefferson, adams and washington wrote letters and speeches and ordinances ro and resolutions that t

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable mazie hirono, a senator from the state of hawaii, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, nina nin-yuen wang, of colorado, to be united states district judge for the district of colorado. mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: madam president, first, let me thank all of my colleagues for their kind words during my time isolating due to covid last week. as you can see, i made a full recovery after experiencing only mild symptoms, thank god. covid has done inkalg usual -- incalculable damage to scores of families, but because i was fortunate to be vaccinated and double boosted, my case was not as bad as it could

right to confra session act with my colleagues -- contraception act with my colleagues senators mazie hirono and tammy duckworth and with senator blumenthal and chair patty murray on the committee on health, education, labor, and pensions and joined by more than half of the democratic senate caucus. the right to contraception act would codify the supreme court's decision in griswold recognizing the right to obtain and use contraception, the right to contraception act would enshrine that right in federal law and it would guarantee a health care provider's right to prescribe contraceptive products and services and information related to them. the bill would also protect a range of contraceptives that are legally marketed under the federal food, drug and cosmetic act and the right to contraception act would authorize the u.s. attorney general as well as individuals and health care providers harm by unlawful restrictions to go to court to enforce the rights the bill establishes. in short, the right to contraception act would safeguard the rights established by more than 50 years of supreme court

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3 of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable mazie k. hirono, a senator from the state of hawaii, to perform the duties of the chair, signed patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, department of defense, ashish s. vazirani, of maryland, to be a deputy under secretary. : >> this week we must get into the january sex committee in the spotlight so let's start there on the title of the two hearings were expecting this week and what we know about the subject matter . >> so there's hearings both on tuesday and thursday this week and what we anticipate is a deep dive into connections between this lot to overturn the 20/20 election results from within the trump white house and threads between that core group of leaders in the trump world with extreme right wing militias.

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable mazie k. hirono, a senator from the state of hawaii, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of the house message to accompany s. 3373 which the clerk will report. the clerk: house message to accompany s. 3373, an act to improve the iraq and afghanistan service grant and the children of fallen heroes grant. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: now, madam president, the senate gavels back in for another busy week of an exceedingly busy work period. there's a lot we must continue working on to lower costs for the american people, to strengthen health care and prescription drug costs, make sure they're lower, confirm highly qualified nominees, protect our fundamental rights, and forty fight u.s. national security interests. none of this is easy, but we are moving ahead.