mr. bennett of colorado. >> aye. >> mr. bennett of utah. >> aye. >> mr. bond. >> aye. >> mrs. boxer. >> aye. >> mr. brown. >> aye. >> mr. brownback. >> no. >> mr. burr. >> no. >> mr. burris. >> aye. >> mr. byrd. >> aye. >> mr. cardin. >> aye. >> mr. caper. >> aye. >> mr. casey. >> aye. >> mr. cockburburn. >> no. >> mr. cochran. >> no. >> mr. corker. >> no. >> mr. cornyn. >> no. >> mr. crapo. . >> no. >> mr. dodd. >> aye. >> mr. durbin. >> aye. >> mr. ensign. >> no. >> mr. enzi. >> no. >> mr. franken. >> aye. >> mrs. joelgillibrand. >> aye. >> mr. graham. >> aye. >> mr. grassley. >> no. >> mr. gregg. >> aye. >> mrs. hagan. >> aye. >> mr. hatch. >> no. >> mrs. hutchison. mr. inhofe. mr. johnson. mr. kaufman. >> aye. >> mr. kennedy. >> aye. >> mr. kerry. >> aye. >> mr. kohcole. >> aye. >> mr. kyl. >> no. >> mr. lautenberg. >> aye. >> mr. leahy. >> aye. >> mr. levin. >> aye. >> mr. lieberman. >> aye. >> mrs. lincoln. >> aye. >> mr. lugar. >> aye. >> mr. martinez. >> aye. >> mr. mccain. >> no. >> mrs. ms. ccaskill. >> aye. >> mr. mcconnell. >> no. >> mr. menendez. >> aye. >> mr. bm

mr. bennett. it turns out in medicare part b, which was passed by republican congress, they had the exact same provision. so when i had people who just a couple of years ago thought this was a good idea, now getting on television, suggesting it is a plot against grandma or to seek -- to sneak euthanasia into our system, that feels this honesty. we have enough stuff to deal with without having these kinds of arguments. [applause] it is a woman's turn here. i have neglected this area. the lady there with a black dress. >> i am a small business owner from colorado springs. i am also a republican that voted for you. [applause] >> what is your business? >> we make software. >> excellent, we need that. >> i hope so. i grew up in a blue-collar family, and my husband and i work very hard at our small business. we have always treated our employees like family, given them great benefits, any time of the need with their family. i volunteer in my professional community and my children's schools, and that is s

mr. bennett of utah. no. mr. bayh. i. mrs. hutchison. no. mr. inhoff. no. mr. begich. i. >> they are just about to announce the final tally here. they've collected all the votes. so we're going to hear the announcement here in just a moment so we'll continue to listen. we're seeing the figure passed up from the clek there from the first row to second row, which will be passed to the presiding officer, which is al franken, and he will announce the result. what will often hold this up now if there is one or two members who came late or have not voted or changed their vote. there's a small period of time, a window of opportunity for them to do so and again, it's unclear exactly what the discussion is right now, but we expect at any moment we'll see al franken slam the gavel. >> the white house is saying judge sotomayor is going to stay out of the public view today. she's at a federal courthouse in new york watching this as well with a number of people with her. we hope to speak with someone who's with the judge and get the reaction. let's listen back in. >> no. >> okay. w

mr. bennett of utah, no. mr. bye, no. mrs. hutchinson, no. mr. inhauf, no. mr. beckett, aye. >> there is that famous up or down vote that we had told you or that the republicans had promised sonia sotomayor. you are hearing it now. we are staying with it for a few moments to see if they have an actual confirmation. that's file video you are looking at on the right of sonia sotomayor. by all indications, she will be confirmed. what we are looking for here is -- what's the vote up to andy? tell me that number. have they passed 60. i'm being told by my executive producer while we are doing that segment, she was, in fact, all but confirmed. they have passed the magic number of 60. it would be difficult for her not to be confirmed given who is controlling the senate. regardless of that, there could be as many as three, four, maybe five republicans who cross over and actually vote for sotomayor. the biggest resistance that they are getting at this point, at least the last reports that we read, was that the nra was threatening to actually reduce their rank if they did

mr. bennett, has dropped.ter insight in to the republicans and the conservatives -- >> right. >> -- and basically trying to keep them on what he thought was the straight and narrow. >> it was. but he knew what was going on and people would call him, sources were unbelievable. i mean, the people that he talked to every day. and he talked to a lot of democrats, too. i mean, he had very -- and people trusted bob. it wasn't -- you saw on television was an ideological guy, fire-breathing right-wing guy. but when he was in here, he was a columnist, but he still had the sort of ethos of the reporter. if you said, bob, it is off the record, it was off the record, even fit wif it wasn't advantag to his side. i think it adds to people that have known bob for a long time, i think what people can find out about bob's life that they didn't realize was that he was a heck of a reporter. and he broke any number of significant stories. but his sources -- his republican sources were pristine. >> yeah. james, we have bill bennet

mr. bennett. turns out in medicare part d which was passed by a republican congress, they had the exact same provision. so when i had people who just a couple of years ago thought that was a good idea, now getting on television suggesting that it's a plot against grandma or to sneak euthanasia into our health care system, that feels dishonest to me. and we have got enough stuff to deal with without having these kinds of arguments. all right, so it's -- [ applause ] all right. it's a woman's turn here. i have sort of neglected this area right here. . >> hi, my name is julie and i'm a small business owner from colorado springs, i'm also a republican that voted for you. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> what's your business? >> we make software. >> excellent. >> we need that. >> i hope so. so i grew up in a blue collar family. and my husband and i worked very hard at our small business, we have always treated our emplo e employees like family, given them great benefits, any time off they need with

mr. bennett. turns out in medicare part b, which was passed by a republican congress, they had the exact same provision. so when i have people who just a couple years ago thought this was a good idea now getting on television suggesting that it's a plot against grandma or to sneak euthanasia into our health care system, that feels dishonest to me and we've got enough stuff to deal with without having these kinds of arguments. all right. [ applause ] a woman's turn here. sort of neglected this area right here. young lady right there, blond hair, black dress. right there. >> hi, my name is julie, i'm a small owner from -- business owner from colorado brings. i'm also a republican who voted for you. >> thank you. >> what's your business? >> we make software. >> we need that. >> i hope so. i grew up in a blue collar family and my husband and i work very hard at our business. we've always treated our employees like family, given them great benefits and any time they need off with their family, i volunt

mr. bennett. it turns out in medicare part b, which was passed by republican congress, they had the exact same provision. so when i had people who just a couple of years ago thought this was a good idea, now getting on television, suggesting it is a plot against grandma or to seek -- to sneak euthanasia into our system, that feels this honesty. we have enough stuff to deal with without having these kinds of arguments. [applause] it is a woman's turn here. i have neglected this area. the lady there with a black dress. >> i am a small business owner from colorado springs. i am also a republican that voted for you. [applause] >> what is your business? >> we make software. >> excellent, we need that. >> i hope so. i grew up in a blue-collar family, and my husband and i work very hard at our small business. we have always treated our employees like family, given them great benefits, any time of the need with their family. i volunteer in my professional community and my children's schools, and that is s

mr. bennett. it turns out in medicare part b, which was passed by republican congress, they had the exact same provision. so when i had people who just a couple of years ago thought this was a good idea, now getting on television, suggesting it is a plot against grandma or to seek -- to sneak euthanasia into our system, that feels this honesty. we have enough stuff to deal with without having these kinds of arguments. [applause] it is a woman's turn here. i have neglected this area. the lady there with a black dress. >> i am a small business owner from colorado springs. i am also a republican that voted for you. [applause] >> what is your business? >> we make software. >> excellent, we need that. >> i hope so. i grew up in a blue-collar family, and my husband and i work very hard at our small business. we have always treated our employees like family, given them great benefits, any time of the need with their family. i volunteer in my pfessional community and my children's schools, and that is sti

senator bennett of colorado. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to pick up right where you left off and were senator johanns of golf, because i think, this is a fascinating conversation. i appreciate you all being here today. i think this is fraught with incredible amount of potential unintended consequences. and we need to be enormously careful updating our mind, or our focus on what is the problem that we are trying to solve here, because i'm enormously skeptical of our ability to prict other regulatory agencies ability to predict these economic cycles and to be able to respond in a way that doesn't actually compound the problem that we are facing. and i think we have just seen 20 years of leverage piling up on our system, and lack of attention to that that has led to the destruction of, you, our economy and the dreams of a lot of people in my state and other states. i fully agree that we need to -- that having a resolution authority in place would have made an enormous difference in this case and kept us out of the house in wonderland wo

bennett, cochran, bond, mcconnell, and collins. a senator: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: i ask that the call of the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, supreme court of the united states, sonia sotomayor of new york to be an associate justice. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the first hour of debate the senate control of the chair and the ranking committee. mr. leahy: i thank the distinguished presiding officer and also himself a member of the judiciary committee who has participated in all of the hearings on judge sonia sotomayor. when the judiciary committee began the confirmation hearing on the nomination of judge sotomayor to supreme court, in my opening statement i recounted an insight from dr. martin luthe martinluther king, jr. i did it because it is often quoted by president obama, the man who nominated her.

mr. room for the vaccine and injected into the population in africa which is actually the focal point of the disease. lastly, leron bennett jr. has a detailed book about abraham lincoln and his racism and how he wanted to free the slaves to break the back of the south. host: judge, you have the final word. guest: we are not in agreement about fox, but we are in agreement about the need to study history. i do not want to point a finger from the woman from germany. she is hardly responsible for german history, that any people who do not look backward will have difficulty looking forward. the specially when we see a painful history. we have to learn those lessons. we cannot be afraid to discuss these things openly. host: thank you very much for being on the program. "dread scott's revenge." we are going to open up the phones for the next 20 minutes or so to give you a chance to weigh in on the items we have been talking about today as well as other items that you have heard locally or watched on other channels. republicans, 202-737-0001. democrats, 202-737-0002. independents, 202-628-0205. in "the new york times" this had do