ms. baldwin will go first. ms. baldwin: thank you. i want to thank the hosts and moderators, and audience and the viewers. i have to say it is an enormous privilege to serve as your united states senator. but i think what you saw tonight is the choice that you face this election. i am on the side of wisconsinites, working people, families, small businesses. what you heard from my opponent shows that she favors the big corporations, the insurance companies, rather than wisconsinites. i support buy america legislation and stand up to multinational corporations in order to advance them. i support the drug act and stand up to the pharmaceutical manufacturers every day. i opposed repealing glass-steagall and the revolving door between wall street and the treasury department and government. i stand up to wall street every day. supported a tax giveaway that gave 83% of its benefits to the top 1% and big corporations. even one corporation, exxon mobil, will make more in a here that all wisconsin families combined off of this tax cut. i am fig

ms. baldwin. sen. baldwin: thank you. one thing we have found is that too many victims, women, have held these painful attacks or assaults for years. we find male victims also. and what i think that the #metoo movement has done and said is that we need to speak our truths, we need to tell our stories, and we need to be heard. that means due process. it means due process on all sides. but it does mean that we have to create an environment in the country where it is ok for people to speak out and tell their truths. and i do want to say, especially to the young people who watched the hearing with dr. ford. i personally found her to be credible and compelling. i believe her. but despite the outcome, i don't want that to silence a whole new generation, who i know are scared right now. >> just a follow-up. is there a public policy implication? are there laws? is there some guidance that a person in the u.s. senate can provide? sen. baldwin: well, i certainly think that a more respectful proceeding in front of the senate two wee

ms. baldwin, but an expecting mother on essential care benefits. right now there is no republican plan or bill on the books or in congress that addresses the medical care of maternity. i am just asking, how would you approach dealing with that subject matter on essential care benefits, maternity care specifically? ms. vukmir: this is why you need more reinforcement from the u.s. senate. the nurse is going to show them what to do. what we need and health care is to get rid of the affordable care act. in your plan, the affordable care act does go away. we need an army of consumers to make decisions about their health care. we have to unleash consumerism. we need information. the ability to purchase health care. then we have the consumerism. people will buy products tailored to their needs. given the changes the affordable care act has undergone in the first two years of the trump administration, do you believe it is irrevocably broken? to your question, last year in the summer, that memorable night when john mccain cast the deciding no vote to preven

ms. baldwin: there is one standard. the presiding officer: the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. ms. baldwin: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from wisconsin. ms. baldwin: madam president, there is one standard that beshould all apply to -- that we should all apply to any nominee to the supreme court, honesty. while some have chosen not to apply that standard to judge kavanaugh, i must. at the very least, we should expect a nominee for our highest court to be honest. i do not believe judge kavanaugh has met this standard. in fact, there is a long record of this nominee not being truthful when he came before the senate judiciary committee. i don't believe that he was truthful in 2006 in his testimony before the senate just as i don't believe he was honest in 2018. last week i joined millions of americans in watching dr. christine blasey ford and her powerful testimony before the senate judiciary committee in which she cr

ms. vukmir. >> actually senator baldwin starts. senator baldwin: this question issue does come up more than people realize on the federal level. let me start with where it would be on the referendum spirit i have not seen all of them, but i think there is one on my ballot at home, and i will be supporting it. here is the problem with the schedule one designation. when something is deemed to have no medical value, then there is no publicly funded research. so we don't know the facts except for what has been discovered through research in other countries or what ever privately funded research has been done. and that is a problem, because we need to know if this is an effective alternative to other drugs for glaucoma or wasting syndrome or any number of other conditions. how about an alternative treatment to pain that is less addictive than opioids, that have killed so many people in this country? we also have other issues in the federal government. in states where it is legal to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, federally employe

ms. baldwin. mr. barato? mr. bennet? mr. blumenthal. >> no. >> mr. blunt? mr. booker? mr. poseman? mr. brown? >> no. >> mr. burr? ms. cantwell? mrs. capito? mr. cardin? mr. carper? mr. casey? >> no. >> mr. cassidy? ms. collins? >> the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. continue. >> mr. coon? mr. corker? mr. cornyn? >> snoenator will suffered. sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. resume. >> mr. cornyn? mr. cortez-masskil? >> mr. cotton? mr. crapo? mr. cruz? >> aye. >> mr. dans? mr. donnelly? ms. duckworth? >> no. >> mr. durbin? mr. enzi? mrs. ernst? mrs. feinstein? mrs. fisher? >> the sergeant-at-arms will restore order in the gallery. continue. >> mr. flake? mr. gardner? >> aye. >> mrs. gillibrand? mr. graham? mr. grassley? >> aye. >> ms. harris? >> no. >> ms. hassan? mr. hatch? mr. hinerich? ms. heitkamp? mr. heller? ms. hirono? >> no. >> mr. hoven? mrs. hyde-smith? mr. inhoff? >> aye. >> mr. isaacson? >> aye. >> mr. johnson? >> aye. >> mr. jones? mr. kaine? >> no. >> mr. kennedy? mr. king? >> no. >

ms. baldwin. ba>> mr. bennett. mr. blumenthal. >> no. >> mr. blunt. >> [ indiscernible ] >> mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. brown. >> no. >> mr. burr. >> [ indiscernible ] >> ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cardin. mr. carper. >> [ indiscernible ] >> mr. casey. >> no. >> mr. cassidy. >> [ indiscernible ] >> ms. collins. [yelling] >> the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. continue. >> mr. coons. >> no. >> mr. corker. [ indiscernible ] >> mr. corning. >> [yelling] >> senator will suspend. sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. [yelling] >> the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. resume. >> mr. corning. mrs. cortez masto. mr. cotton. >> [ indiscernible ] >> mr. krepo. mr. cruz. >> aye. >> mr. danes. mr. donnelly. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. >> no. >> mr. ens. >> mrs. ernst. >> aye. >> mrs. feinstein. mrs. fisher. >> aye. >> [yelling] >> the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. continue. >> mr. flake? >> aye. >> mr. gardner. >> aye. >> mrs. gilibrand. mr. graham. >> aye. >> mr. grassley. >> aye. >> ms. harris. >> no. >> ms. house in. >

ms. baldwin? >> no. >> you are listening now to the roll call. 30 minutes now the clock starts to thr voe cast of the vote. we are watching three critical people. susan collins came out and ended some of the drama surrounding this particular vote. she is a yes on the procedural vote to continued forward with the nomination of brett kavanaugh. doesn't mean she will vote definitely for brett kavanaugh, right now she said she will move to proproceed, this cloture vot. so all eyes are on jeff flake, and others. >> susan collins did say she would proceed to the final vote here. as you pointed out we should not look at this as a proxy for how she'll vote in the end. in the case of betsy devoss, she voted to get to the end and then voted against devoss. this is similar to john mccain during the healthcare vote. he voted to get the final healthcare vote on the floor, continued to look over it and ultimately voted against it. you have these undecided senators who have still been going over this fbi report.

baldwin's campaign. the family has also called the ad your campaign is airing which mentions jason as shameful. why have you continued to air that ad? ms. vukmir: that family is to be commended for forgiving senator baldwin for her lack of action at what happened. but it was more than jason who was affected. countless veterans have been affected and have been overprescribed. the drugs were leeching into the community. senator baldwin only acted when she was found out. >> the closing statements are two minutes in length. the coin toss says leah vukmir will go first. i am going to give you a little advice. the timer will show you 30 seconds and one minute and 30. it is a quirk, just know i have your back. ms. vukmir: thank you for sponsoring this debate. i think the viewers can see the stark differences. senator baldwin, someone who represents the extreme of her party. senator baldwin looks to government for all her solutions. i am a mom with a cause. i was concerned about the overreach of government in my daughter's classroom. the people of wisconsin are looking for leaders. i grew up in that factory teaching my aunts and uncles english

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ms. baldwin: mr. president, just over a year ago in this chamber three brave republican colleagues -- senator john mccain, senator susan collins and senator lisa murkowski -- joined all democrats in voting against health care repeal legislation. they listened to the families of their states. i too voted against that repeal legislation because the people of wisconsin did not send me to washington to take away their health care. when congressional republicans tried to pass repeal plans that would allow insurance companies to charge more for preexisting conditions, families across our country fought back. when the republican majority tried to charge older americans an age tax and make people pay more for less care, people let their voices be heard and sent a loud message to washington: protect our care. they sent us all a clear message that they want us to work across party lines to protect the health care guarantees they depend on and to stand up for those with preexisting health conditions. but defeati