Senate Proceeding on Aug 6th, 2009 :: 4:23:05 to 4:26:10
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Harry Reid: "sonia sotomayor is a well-loved colleague on our court. everybody from every point of view knows that she's fair and

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Speech By: Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer: she's decent in all her dealings. the fact is, she is truly a superior human being." mr. president, we all bring different experiences to our work. the justice has experiences growing up as a young la tee latina. she have shaped her life and she

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Barbara Boxer: has a firsthand appreciation of the american dream. she was raised in a south bronx housing project. her father, a factory worker, died when she was only nine years of age. her mother worked support the family. from this humble background, she graduated summa cum laude princeton and she became an

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Barbara Boxer: editor of the yale law review. now, as a woman, judge sotomayor will bring a different perspective than they are male counterparts on the court. and as we have said, those of us who have women represented, whether it's in the senate, the house, or in corporate boardrooms board

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Barbara Boxer: the supreme court, what we have said is that the different perspective is important. i'll give you an example of why i believe this. during recent supreme court case involving a 13-year-old girl who was stripsearched, justice ruth bader ginsburg pointed her male colleagues didn't

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Barbara Boxer: understand t the humiliation a teenage girl would feel from being stripsearched. and justice ginsburg said the obvious. she said -- quote -- "they have never been a 13-year-old girl. it is a very sensitive age for a girl. i didn't think that my colleagues, some of them, quite understood."

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Barbara Boxer: so justice ginsburg has pointed out in that one case how important it is type of diver as the nation's first latina supreme court justice, judge sotomayor will bring a unique set of experiences to her role, and the court will be a richer

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Barbara Boxer: place because of her perspective. i commend our president for selecting such an outstanding, well-qualified nominee. i congratulation -- not cot greaicongratulate judge sotomayor the very dignified manner in which s throughout this long, grueling process. as president obama said when he

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Barbara Boxer: nominated her -- quote -- "when sonia sotomayor ascends those marble steps to assume her seat on the highest court of the land, america will have taken another important sp toward realizing the ideal that is etched abo its entrance 'equal justice under the

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Barbara Boxer: i look forward to seeing her sworn in as our next supreme co mr. president, and i would note the absence