Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett

Floor Speech

The Senate is currently considering the qualifications of an excellent nominee to be on the Supreme Court of the United States. That is why we are here. It is very important work. This request is nothing more than another form of procedural harassment by the minority to try and stop our process of considering Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court of the United States. It is certainly unfair to her. It is unbecoming of this Chamber.

If this bill was so important to the Democrats in the Senate, they wouldn't have voted four times to adjourn until after the election. So, clearly, this is just a stunt.

By the way, if that wasn't reason enough, the bill that the Senator is suggesting we get into would put onerous burdens on law-abiding Americans who just want to protect themselves at a time when Democratic mayors and Governors are overseeing all kinds of damage to life and health and property unchecked. In fact, calling off the law enforcement of their communities to protect our citizens, they now want to take away the rights of those citizens to be able to purchase arms or at least make it much more difficult.

This is yet one more obstructionist move to prevent us from taking up Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States, a highly- qualified nominee who deserves her time in the Chamber. She deserves her time in debate and not these other external matters that, by the way, if they were important to the Senate minority, they would not have voted four times this week to adjourn until after the election.

I will not allow the Senate to be diverted from the issue at hand, and that is the consideration and of Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. She is a highly-qualified nominee and deserves this debate.

Again, if the minority was serious about passing legislation, they would not have voted four times to adjourn until after the election, so it is a little hard to take this seriously, but it is especially difficult on this one because Federal law already prohibits violent felons from owning and purchasing firearms.

Again, should I remind the Senate and the country that Democratic mayors and Governors all over this country have failed to protect their citizens. The last thing we would want to do at a time like this when citizens are left to defend themselves against violent crime is to prohibit law-abiding Americans or make it more difficult for law- abiding Americans to own firearms.

Can we just be a little more honest? This is not about childcare. What is going on here is not about childcare, for veterans, or for anybody else. This is another attempt to prevent us from talking about the outstanding qualifications of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be on the Supreme Court of the United States.

I will stand here all day and object if that is what it takes for my other colleagues to get to the floor and talk about the merits of this outstanding judge.

The only interference going on here is by Senate Democrats trying to interfere in our discussion about an outstanding nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. For that reason, I object.

It is really time to move on and hear from other colleagues about the incredible, outstanding qualifications of President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. These distractions cannot prevent us from doing that.

On this bill in particular, I think people should know that most of the documents that they are talking about are--in fact, almost all of them are online today.

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