and then thursday attorney general garland will be before the house judiciary committee for an oversight hearing of the justice department. and there is a lot of issues he will be grilled on that day from january 6 committee but also on abortion more generally and texas abortion law. immigration is a huge one that republicans are pointing to there is a huge range ofs topics. a lot is happening this week at the hearing level that we haven't seen. sometimes a play out in the background to dominate the news coverage and we will see what else. host: independent line go ahead. >> number one i don't like either one of the's bills they are full of things we do not need. why aren't they talking about getting the deficit down instead of spending all this money? >> thank you for that. a lot of people are talking about getting it down. democrats in particular but also they had been saying we cannot be spending as much as we have been with these two packages together will be trillions of dollars. the argument from the white house is they are really trying to make a broader social spending package. n

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house judiciary committee chair and brian fitzpatrick. like the house passed bill the legislation will modernize and improve the progress we've made. this new version the violence against women act will not only provide funding to organizations and resources, it will invest in critical education and access to services for survivors in rural areas. it will help keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of abusers and provide survivors with the support they need by expanding access to legal services and other programs. we know we will send it to the desk of a leader that is not just sympathetic but wildly supportive of this measure, the man that originally sponsored the first violence against women act, president joe biden now i hiturn to the ranking member grassley. >> thank you mr. chairman and i welcome all the witnesses and guests to the hearing. they voted to reauthorize the grant programs authorized multiple times. when i wasn't able to support a democratic led effort to reauthorize, i introduced my own proposal that would have protecte

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house judiciary committee chair nadler and kmong fitzpatrick. our legislation will modernize and improve the final law and won't roll back the progress we've made. the new version of violence against women act will not only provide funding to organizations and resources that support survivors, it will invest in education and improve access to survivors for survivors in rural areas and those who require culturally specific services. it will enhance protections for native american, women and children. it will help keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of abusers and it will provide survivors with the support they need by expanding access to legal services and other crucial programs. and once we join in passing the -- join the house in passing this legislation, we know we're going to send it to the desk of a leader who is synthetic, not just sympathetic. but wildly supportive of this measure. i can think of no better way for us to do our part in honoring domestic violence awareness month. senator grassley. >> thank you mr. chairman. i welcome eve

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judiciary committee and they would not allow a vote. why would they allow a vote? this is not been so popular they knew it would pass overwhelmingly when it is placed on the floor. and when it was after a discharge petition and i had the pleasure to work with hereginning of my own career path 354 -- 24 people great overwhelmingly i would say. to get it going in the senate we disrupted the hearings of the 18-year-old vote. and got a promise a cosponsor in the senate or the major sponsor in the senate they would finally hold hearings on it. so in 1972 we won 84 -- eight. these are not close votes. because why? we are way ahead in the polls. people wanted equality for women. but we had to keep fighting. at first he might really, really fast but it got bottled up again and delays, delays, delays. for example were thankful the 38th state ratifying. we should say for about 50 years when it comes up we passed it. they did not come out until r now what happened in between? we hear all the time out title vii, title ix, we work to put those thing

i hope that this report from the senate judiciary committee will reopen the conversation. i hope as well that the select committee in the house on the january 6 occurrence, the mob insurrection here at the capitol, we submitted this evidence to them, i hope it is of benefit to them as they move forward. and i certainly hope on a bipartisan basis we can decide that the ordinary course of action with a valid, legal election deciding the future of this country is always the best route in a democracy. madam president, i ask that my next statement be placed in a separate part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: madam president, there's been a controversy going on for the last several years which has really been to the detriment of many good people. in 2007, congress made a promise to college students. here's what we said 14 years agn years of your life in public service and you make your student loan payments during that ten-year period of time, at the end of it america will forgive the remainder of your student debt. we said that, and more than

we've seen it in their testimony before the judiciary committee, and we've seen it in the broad support they have from the legal communities where they live. now, let me tell you a bit about each of them. first is jia cobb, nominated to the d.c. court for the district of columbia. ms. cobb has more nan 15 years' experience as a -- has more than 15 years' experience sasse a litigator. this depth of experience is one of reasons she was rated unanimously, unanimously well qualified by the american bar association. for nearly a decade, she has been represented people when it comes to housing and employment discrimination laws and critically, ms. cobb understands the distinction between being an advocate and a judge. as a judge on the district of d.c., she has promised to rule based on the law and facts before her. next is judge karen women -- karen williams. she was unanimously rated well qualified by the a.b.a. that's a testament to her experience, which includes two decades as a prosecuting litigator. she has the strong support of both senators from new jersey. we'll also be voting this w

in march 2019, for example, justices kagan testified before the house appropriations committee about such topics as whether the judicial code of conduct should apply to the supreme court. with her that day was none other than justice alito. the senate judiciary committee has frequently and proposely been the forum for many -- appropriately been the forum for many debates over the supreme court's operations. i remember in 2011 when justices scalia and breyer appeared before the judiciary committee for a wide range of discussion under the constitution. our committee also has robust debates about appropriate degree of transparency and the court's operation. earlier this year the committee approved bipartisan legislation to allow cameras in the supreme court so that all americans can see what's going on. we're going to continue this debate in judiciary committee over the shadow docket. it's not politicizing the court to do so. and republicans have no standing to accuse democrats of politicizing the court, especially after their unprecedented politically motivated blockade of president ob