the terror of January 6th, told for 1st time by @PattyMurray "this vision of my husband putting his foot against a door, like he might be able to hold down this loud, angry mob outside..was beyond belief.. terror in his eyes was something I have not seen" pbs.org/newshour/show/…
more @PattyMurray "That kind of fear is horrible. I was in the Capitol on 9/11..I was in an office looking out across the Mall towards the Pentagon..all of a sudden, I could see the smoke rise..That's the only other time I ever felt I was not safe in the Capitol, until January 6"
Murray adds: "today, when I see some members of Congress wanting to dismiss this or wanting to say put it in the past or move on, they're being instilled by fear...We cannot allow that to be what runs our country. We have to be a country that runs by strength, not by fear."
more @PattyMurray: "And I don't want to talk about this because I don't want to show my fear. But you show your fear is overcome by strength, by speaking out and speaking against what happened in the Capitol. That's what I want for my country. That's what I want for my grandkids"
to her colleagues @PattyMurray says, don't let fear drive you: "for the future of our country & our democracy, whether it's fear of brute power or fear of a constituency that's loud, or fear of a president who is loud. Speak up for our democracy now, or you may lose it forever."
as for 2 Republican colleagues @HawleyMO & @tedcruz, @PattyMurray says "It was clear to me, through the words they used, through the actions they used, through the incitement that they used, that they knew what this crowd was capable of, and they didn't do anything to stop them."

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more Merrick Garland "...one for the powerful, one for the powerless...different rules depending on one's race or ethnicity..." 2/4
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this, after Acting Dir of White House Domestic Policy Council Brooke Rollins, told me one reason #Covid relief plan has been held up, is: "the idea of sending 100's of billions of $$ to bail out states and cities that have been poorly run isn't fair to the American taxpayer."
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett begins her opening statement repeating what she said when announced, that she's "used to being in a group of nine," w/several sentences on each of her 7 children, as well as mentions of her six sisters, and her parents, who she says are watching from home
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now @SenatorDurbin charges Republicans with a “shameless, self serving, venal reversal” in pushing Barrett nomination with only 22 days before 2020 election, after they denied Merrick Garland a hearing 269 days before 2016 election
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President Trump extends period of social distancing guidelines for another month, until April 30
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