credit cards and being able to take offense of rewards programs tical part of the business operation. some ofg able to reinvest tens of thousands of dollars back into their business suffered because of rewards programs that allow them to buy inventory. i use it for fly because i do quite a bit of travel battled nationally and internationally.ly and so understanding that the fees that we pay pay into the risk programs does that reward programs that i didn't understand that. i think it's important because it allows the senate has been in recess but is now gaveling back into session we take you there live here on c-span2. the clerk: ms. baldwin.

the clerk: mr. barrasso. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. the clerk: mr. boozman. mr. braun.

mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cardin. mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons.

mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono.e: mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith.

mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. ell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch.romney.

ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young.

senators voting in the affirmative -- baldwin, bennet booker blumenthal booker butler are cardin carper cortez masto, duckworth, durbin hassan heinrich kaine, kelly, king klobuchar, menendez ossoff, padilla, peters rosen, smith, van hollen warner warnock, and warren. mr. casey, aye. senators voting in the negative -- barasso, boozman, britt, cassidy, cramer cruz ernst, fischer, graham gafl hawley hoeven hyde-smith johnson, kennedy,

lankford marshall risch, romney roun rubio, schmitt, tillis tuberville and young. mr. cornyn, no. shaheen, aye.

the clerk: ms. lummis, no. mr. lee, no.

the clerk: mr. wicker, no.@/ the clerk: mr. markey, aye. mr. tester,

aye. mr. wyden, aye. mr. braun, no. mr. fetterman, aye.

the clerk: mr. thune, no.e clerk:

mr. cotton, no.

the clerk: mr.welch, aye. ms. cantwell, aye. mr. reed, e. mr. merkley, aye. mrs. mrs. murray, aye. mr. daines, no. mr. mcconnell, no. mr. coons, aye. mr. schumer, aye.

the clerk: mr. the clerk: mr. schatz, aye.

the clerk: ms. stabenow aye. ms. collins, no.

the clerk: mr. scott of south carolina no.

the clerk: mr. paul, no the clerk: mr. ricketts

the clerk: mr. no.

the clerk: ms. sinema, aye.:b

the clerk: ms. hirono aye. mr. murphy aye. mr. vance, no« the clerk: mrs. blackburn, no.

the clerk: ms. murkowski, no. mr. brown, aye.

the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, aye.

the clerk: mr. sanders, aye. the clerk: mr. hagerty, no.

the clerk: mr. moran, no.

the clerk: mr. sullivan, no.

the clerk: mr. lujan, aye.

the clerk: mr. scott of florida no. mr. whitehouse, aye.

the clerk: mr. manchin, no. the presiding officer: have all senators voted? does any senator wish to change his or vote? if not the yeas are 50 the nays are 49. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. the clerk will report the motion

to invoke cloture. the clerk: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on thenation of executive calendar number 463 eumi k. lee of california to be united states district judge for the northern district of california signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is is it the sense of the senate nomination of eumi k. lee of california to be united states district judge for the northern district of california sll be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso.

mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler. ms. cantwell.apito. mr. cardin. mr. carper. mr. casey. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton.

mr. cramer. mr. crapo. the clerk: mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper.

ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. central mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. sna mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy.s. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul.

mr. peters.. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds.ñ mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock.

ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- baldwin, heinrich lujan, peters schatz and sinema. senators voting in the negative -- manchin, moran, and sullivan. mrs. blackburn, no.

the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye.

the clerk: mr. brown, aye. the clerk: mr. paul, no.

the clerk: mr. warnock, aye. mrs. hyde-smith, no. mr. bennet, aye. the clerk: ms. hirono, aye.

mr. wicker, no.

the clerk: mr. booker, aye. ms. warren, aye. mr. king, aye.

the clerk: mr. tester, aye. vote:

the clerk: mr. schatz, aye. mr. merkley, aye.

the clerk: mr. kaine, aye. cs

the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye. mr. menendez, aye. vu the clerk: mr. budd, no.

the clerk: mr. cornyn, no.

mr. rubio, no. mr. cotton, no. mr. johnson, no. mr. romney, no. ms. collin

the clerk: mr. scott of florida, no.

the clerk: mr. van hollen, aye. mr. markey, aye. mr. barrasso, no. mr. cardin, aye. mr. cramer, no. ms.

the clerk: mr. tuberville, no. mr. scott of south carolina, no. mr. lee, no. ricketts, no. mr. cruz, no.

the clerk: ms. hassan, aye. edon. vote: the clerk: mr. marshall, no.

ms. smith, aye. the clerk: mr. rounds, no. mr. reed, aye.

the clerk: mrs. capito, no. the clerk: mr. boozman, no. mr. hagerty, no.

the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, aye. mr. thune, no. mr. welch, aye.

the clerk: mr. vance, no.

thkelly, aye. mr. grassley, no. mr. mc the clerk: mr. tillis, no. mr. crapo, no.

the clerk: mr. braun, no. ms. ernst, no. the erk: mr. whitehouse, aye.

the clerk: mr. wyden, aye.

the clerk: mr. coons, aye. mr. warner, aye. mr. cassidy, no. the clerk: mr. schmitt, no.

the clerk: carper, aye.

mrs. fischer, no. mrs. shaheen, aye.

the clerk: mr. lankford, no. mr. risch, no.

vote: the clerk: mr. daines, no.=t

the clerk: mr. graham, no. mr. young, no. ms. rosen, aye.

the clerk: ms. cortez masto aye. ms. butler, aye. ms. murkowski, no.

the clerk: mrs. britt, no.

the clerk: mr. padilla, i would. -- mr. padilla, aye.

the clerk: mr. sanders, aye.

the clerk: mr. kennedy it no. -- mr. kennedy, no. ms. cantwell, aye. durbin, aye. the clerk: mr. hoeven, no.

the clerk: mr. schumer, aye.

the clerk: mr. ossoff, aye.

vote: the clerk: mr. blumenthal, aye.

the clerk: ms. klobuchar, aye. the clerk: mr. hickenlooper, aye.

the clerk: ms. duckworth, aye.

the clerk: mr. casey, aye.

the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are the nays are 49 and the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. tion the judiciary, eumi k. lee of california to be united states the northern district of california.

are told to do that's right be allowed to own tik tok

and if they do, they should not be allowed to operate in the united states. >> i think part of it could be but the reason they are classified is if someone finds out what you know, they will out how you know it and it will deny you the ability to find out more in the future so that's why things are classified by -- we arty know by dance own the algorithm that runs to talk. what messages get out there in the algorithm is owned with whatever the chinese communist party tells him but under chinese plenty of examples that has to do with it. the rich guy could s wanted and disappear for 30 days. there's no independence and what they truly want to do.

and white dance owns tik tok and could be used against america. >> doesn't have to be american it has to be a company not with the national security law. >> lengthening the window is that something -- >> i don't think that is. >> it can be worked on. >> i want whatever modification and the impact of the bill but . we do want to overshoot the target. mark warner is. >> i think -- i like to get as

much of the contents as possible but i think it was a reason this was given on the house side and "afterwards" they voted 50 to move the legislation board. it's making a transition the current control to another owner and they are american investors tik tok/like dance making role in and why is this important? 170 million americans 90 minutes one day and of tik tok didn't exist can we get a chinese party controlled entity? the most powerful propaganda tool evernd there's no way we

would allow that. where we are right now we have the rally we have a entity and not much to manipulate content on number one national security system. >> an american company. >> my view is chinese law dictates the party and any chinese company is not yourolder the communist china. the american, brazilian french company, just making sure not a

nationstate. >> how -- >> is going to be much longer one. and those of us very active. >> i don't have the foggiest idea but they move aggressivelan house. >> a hearing with the intelligence community. >> i think it is a top priority for me andubio. anything we can do to make clear and tik tok in the front trying

to get rid of it in the ability to make sure the creativity can't be manipulated and i have yet to hear zero gosh, i better make sure the company.

week. we are working together in good faith to fund the government. i'm hopeful we can avert a shutdown. we're not there yet but you know

we are close. this week i joined congressional leaders in the white house agreement on the final bill. these will make a significant investment and well-being of our service members making the less competitive against the communist government. more importantly avoid the senseless damaging shutdown. we're still waiting for action and making good progress. it's no secret it's a squeeze hoopla weekend deadline to be flexible and prepared to finish the process.

anna to make all as the biden made the announcement to historic grant to expand production in the u.s. something i care a lot about and pushed hard for 40 years to get it done but now the hard work we did this investment along 10000 jobs, 40000 construction jobs and thousand of indirect jobs with 100 billing dollars in t in new york to further new york a global hub to

manufacture.ñp the most front tier, i love that name. people thought it was about covered wagons or something so we changed it to chips in science. change of back to the u.s. once again top which is great for economic and national security. >> it's been a long road and we are finally nearly r.

we had a very difficult complaint and harsh almost unthinkable cuts proposed by house republicans. essential investments in american people. i will have a lot more to say soon but these every pattern. six bills help determine how we invest funding childcare pre-k k-12 public schools a invest in infrastructure and efforts to treat addiction to stop the flow fentanyl and cutting edge resource and how

much they can best in defense and diplomatic programs essential to america's security and global leadership. with so much on the line there's no reason for costly down and was bipartisan appropriation we can get this passed. no one should cause a shutdown. democrats understand and we have been ready to move quickly and responsibly so excuse the former teacher any that here's a and when we listen to each other in the loudest voices we can

pass meaningful bills and help people back home. as appropriators and staff the american people government and that's what this is about and always going to work with republicans. the important work of finding these appropriations will jointly compete and invest other

critical services as well. these investments reflecton made to the american people and when the affordable care act. since that time, 46 million americans. 100 milli americans invested because of the work we did. forty states for low income families that have to babies in the country are born another in lead on mental health care was the more and more and medicare and.

the affordable care act and ready to cut. >> thank you. nobody wins in a shutdown. we seen this before and weakens our national security with two ongoing wars and a "humanitarian crisis". people rely on government programs essential support and

medicaref2 enrollment or preventing kids from getting an education. good news is we can avoid a shutdown. all of us are working as hard as we can and we need to do our jobs and recognize what's at stake and get. even the ones that i like is not a political policy and enough time. so aga everyone knows what we need to do, we're almost there. >> in anti- israel spotlight

what you think about porn in >> i care about the future. when you make the issue partisan >> netanyahu -- [inaudible] >> when you make these issues partisan -- [inaudible] >> interfering in a foreign election between the united states i gave the speech out of a real love for israel and you read the speech he election after hamas was. >> called to expel senator

menendez. >> as i said t standards and way below it. >> i'm talking to the members of my caucus to decide the best path forward. >> hello, everyone. netanyahu called me last week indicated want to the opportunity to speak to all senate republicans. he made presentation and had questions and answers. i made it clear for a democratic ally for an election for the campaign he maybe conducted. we obviously have a lot in common and it seems to me the bipa israel

seems to be racking. this country i something out of this policy to knock it democratic allies advised about we have an election, overrun the government or how to conduct military campaign. second we also have in common concern about the best way to handle iran the fact that there providing assistance to gaza, terrorist lebanon yemen it's a serious situation and at page all you know we can get assistance to ukraine. >> was a leader said a

discussion back and forth asking questions and our members conveyed to the minister support for their efforts get rid of the influence of hamas in our region of the world. the past three years president biden administration have been pursuing their costly and radical new deal which not only lessened our energy security -- ing, less than a year being' lekted as our nation's first president, george washington set out in carriage drawn by six horses. to fulfill his duty under our new constitution which read the president shall from time to time give congress information of the state of the union. one of the few firsthand accounts of that speech came from senator mc who said the president was dressed in

second morning and read his speech well. notly take but senator mcclay was not one for glowing praise. more than two centuries later, i had the privile of watching from a few rows back as president biden delivered the state of the union address earlier this month. madam president, i must tell you, joe biden didn't just read his speech well. he was electrifying. despite the tremendous world today, i came away feeling optimistic about our nation's future. and as chair of the senate came away strongly supportive of many of the administration's foreign policypriorities. to appreciate what this president has accomplished we need to remember where he started. we nee uncertainty and isolation of the covid pandemic a pandemic that experts estimate killed almost 30 million people worldwide.

we need to remember how the global economy was on the brink of collapse. supply chainsfailed. unemployment surged. there were fears we were headed for a repeat of the great depression. and we need to remember the disenchantment of our allies. one senior european diplomat said back in 2020 the relationship has never been this bad. the trust between the united states and europe is not there anymore. now i'm not going to sugar coat the world we face today. the hamas attacks against israel were one of the worst jewish history and has led to terrible humanitarian crisis for the palestinians in gaza. china's efforts to expand itsfrom the small -- stretches from the smallest pacific island nation to the largest continent ever the world africa. ire and annihilate the

ukrainian nation. these are serious threats. to counter them we need serious american leadership around the world. leadership that is rootedt promote human rights that defend democracy, and are driven by something i know joe biden has, basic decency. sitting and watching the state of the union i was struck by the strength of president biden's moralis is not a president who stands only for himself. he stands for all of us. this is not a president who idly by as our climate is destroyed. he's passed landmark legislation, like the inflation reduction act. this is not a president who seeks revenge against public servants for their personal views. he revitalizes our foreign policy and nationalec workforce. this is not a president who invites the russians to do whatever the hell they want or threatens to pull out of nato. heies together to stand up for ukraine's

independence. this is not a president who idolizes dictators and encourages autocrats. his priorities human rights and civil society movements around the world. president bide focused on the future. a future for europe whole and free. a future for an thriving and at peace, a future with a two-state solution that gives security and dignity for israel and the palestinian for generations to come. this will not be easy. but sitting at the state of the union, i was earn couraged by the bipartisan support i felt in a room when it came to foreign policy. even speaker johnson seemed to be nods his head as the president talked about state of the union speeches since george washington spoke more than 200 years ago. they have been printed on paper, broadcast over the radio, and on television shared in clips across the internet. but throughout history,

presidents speeches to congress have ghope. in 1947 at the dawn of the cold war, president truman said in his state of the union address, if we maintgthen our cherished ideals and if we share our great founding with war stricken people over the world, then the faith of our citizens and freedom of democracy will be spread over the whole earth. madam president, this is still true today. so to the political prisoners in putin's jails, do not give up hope on freedom. to the humders uncovering violence and assassinations do not give up hope for justice. to the war stricken people of the forced to flee their homes, do not give up your hope for democracy. to our allies and partners around the globeno that the united states stands with you. and remember that if we come together and stand up for each other, wehat is safe and peaceful and

prosperous. madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the cl

you know we have conversation and we had questions and awers will. i meant to him that the business of the united s and by someone to have an election conducting conducting. we obviously have a lot in common. it seems the bipartisan support for israel political level and i still

think our best policy is not get any democratic ally advised went to have an election when the run the the military campaign. secondly the best way to handle iran particularly given the fact that there providing assistance international all of you know we can get assistance ukraine quickly. >> a good discussion back and forth in the israeli prime

minister of our strong support for effor the influence of hamas. here at home the past three years the administration has been pursuing costly radical green new deal which not o has lessened our energy security the cost for consumers office on average 35%. this week they are back at it the president announced his mandate of the american people to drive electric vehicles. the average cost of electric vehicle is $52000. americans it go down by

4.2% elbow in office it's 18.6% so he's asking americans to buy electric vehicles, $52000 for electric vehicle gone down since office what degree new deal so we have a number of members will file they all have legislation that would unrealistic mandate on the american is not realistic ill-advised policy and do everything we can see that it

stops.umer came to the floor in the u.s. senate and attacked the elected government of israel. i invited the prime minister israel is it with publicans today she did and he knows the people on the republican side of the style stand with the people of israel. we ask for him for an update we got more on the released of hostages in thomas israel has a right to defend itself and that's what they continue to attacks an attack upon democracy. tumor has threatened indicted of the of the leadership to the people of israel. he's done all of this outrageous interference in the lives of democracy.

called netanyahu the obstacle. hamas is terrorist those of the people for the obstacles. the people of israel of everybody to elect whomever they want. democrats talk about the two state solution and they are most worried about nevada which is very worried he terms of his own reelection. santa but the people of israel. dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. blackburn: thank you, madam pres month an illegal alien from venezuela was arrested for allegedly murdering laken riley, a22-year-old nursing student, while she went for a run on the university of georgia campus. the suspectedmurderer

26-year-old jose iberra should have never been allowed to set foot in our country. but the biden administration paroled him into america after he illegally crossed the southern border along with more than two million other migrants who are now eligible for work authorizationsnd from the federal government. madam president, that's the difference when someone gets paroled. they get benefits. they get work permits. and while president obama and president trump each paroled only about 5,600 a year president biden paroled 800,000 in 2022 and 1.2 million in 2023. now when you look at this what you can say is that this administration failed laken

riley. they failed her more than once. and also you look at sanctuary city policies what you know is this -- that new york city with t city policies failed laken riley. athens georgia, another sanctuary city failed laken riley. last year in new york city iberra was arrested for endangerment of a child. but instead of working with federal law enforcement to get him deported for hisime, city officials there in new york city released him before immigration and customs enforcement, i.c.e. could request his custody. now a month later police in athens georgia, whose city government passed a resolution in 2019 welcomingllegal

immigrants of all statuses release ibarra after he shoplifted goods. it is no coincidence york city and athens georgia, are sanctuary cities. in sanctuary cities across the country, we have seen illegal alienss with impunity as local governments refuse to work with law enforcement to deport criminalaliens. just last month the "new york post" reported that the violent venezuela gang is directing members to come to our southern border apply for asylum and once waived into the country, establish robbery rings in major u.s. cities. i couldn't believe this.

and then as i talk to law enforcement in tennessee, i found out that those gangs are there. they are moving in. and i was so surprised that we had gangs in addition to ms come in on parole status and also as asylum seekers. now gang members are recruiting migrants in new york city shelters to join their operations in which they steal phones from innocent bystanders so they can resell those phones in colombia.chicago, another sanctuary city authorities are tracking the gangs growing crime network which includes human trafficking, drug smuggling and sexual exploitation. no city in america should be

allowed to illegal immigration legal and harbor criminal illegalaliens. they ought not to be able to do it. it makes our communities less safe. earlier this month i reintroduced the clear law enforcement for criminal alien re or the clear act, which would ensure state and local law enforcement officials that work with federal law enforcement to deport criminal illegal aliens that are in communities, under the provisions in this legislation, it would require states and localities to provide the department of homeland security with information about every alien apprehended in their state, including the name description, and the reason for their arrest.

at the same time the bill would ensure their compliance by federal funds to any jurisdiction that refuses to work with federal immigration law enforcement. it would also require the department of homeland security to take illegal aliens into custody within 48 hours receiving a request from a state and local government provide essential information about illegal immigradepartment and supply resources to help localities enforce immigration law, including grants and increase space for detention facilities. see, madam president, what has happened with all of you've got entities that say we're just not going to enforce the law, we're going to do somethingt, and we're going to ignore immigration law, what happens is every town becomes a border town.

every becomes a border state. and this is one of the reasons that crime and the border are two of the top issues that people talk about. any person who is in this country illegally and committing a crime that endangers our immediately removed and barred from coming back. unfortunately, our nation'scrime issues go beyond the criminal illegal aliens. across the country, from new york and washington to l.a. and chicago, we have seen far-left d.a.'s and bail policies including easing cash bail requirements or prohibiting cash bailaltogether. far from improving public safety these so-called bail

reforms put criminals back on the streets and place law-abiding citizens in danger. after the shelby county's district attorney's office made it easier for criminals to avoid pretrial detention, homicides in memphis last year reached a record-breaking number. 398 homicides in memphis, tennessee. many of these were committed by criminals that were out on onth a violent criminal who was out on bail for attempted murder set off a citywide manhunt after going on a horrific rampage through the city of memphis. across his five-hour long crime spreeshgs the offender carjacked a woman in a church parking lot, shot two people after breaking into a hair salon, andneenager outside

of a strip mall. in may, a repeat criminal posted bail after shooting and injuring an off-duty memphis police department officer while attempting to break into a parked later a gunman while out on bail for carjacking and employing a firearm with felony shot and killed a man during an attempted carjacking. in november a memphis judge released the suspected murderer of a 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed outside h grandmother's house on thanksgiving morning. and just this month a memph just a $175,000 bond for a man charged with attempted first-degree a police officer. these tragedies should never happen to anyone but far-left

bail policies continue to prioritize criminals over law enforcement, families and hardworking taxpayers. you tennesseans are tired of seeing criminals being prioritized over hardworking taxpayers and families. while addressing crime is the primary responsibility of local governments, there are important steps the federal government can take to ensure public safety. that's why i'm irodu keep violent criminals off our streets act. it would deter states and localities fromolicies that make cities like memphis less safe. this legislation would block any state or local government from receiving federal funds if they have a policy that prohibits the use of cash bail for offenders. it would also federal funds -- it would also block federal funds if they refused to

go pretrial -- for even juvenile offenders. with cri spiking in memphis and across the country, it is essential that local governments protect their residents and put violent criminals about behind bars where they belong. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the rol6;l. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin.

good afternoon to everybody. we have pending for us i think the end of our preparation cycle of 2024. as a member of the appropriations committee i'm

pleased that this weekend we will be passing the last six bills. least that's our great hope and we aren't sure exactly when. i'm the ranking committee member on thehe second-largest domestic spending bill after defense. we were able to maintain important provisions in that bill that are important to our members the hyde amendment and others. it's a little b less spending which is good news as well and it sets a priority for the coming year. so i want to thank particularly her leadership her steadfast leadership to work these bills and she's been a tireless advocate to try to make sure we didn't end up in a continuing resolution omnibus and this week i think she's to be able to fulfill that promise. i would also like to say in terms of the ev mandate they came through where

regulation bill that came through today i want to suggest to all of you if you've ever been seen as snow shoe penne valley or timberline don't drive your electric car over there. you might not get there. it's deep and cold but if you do get stuck there there are nice coalminers nearby and they will help you push your car up the hills so you can recharge. the fact that the president us all and force the country into a buying pattern of something that a lot of people can't afford and don't want an dude doesn't fit their lifestyle or the direction that they need to drive every day shows the arrogance of this administration and how they are willin use regulation to force people into certain habits that are counter to their best interest. thank you. >> i've observed over the last couple of weeks have biden and his democratic allies in congress, they care more about installing ev charging

stations at the border than stopping. you call it the inflation reduction act which every senate democrat supported. obviously it did nothing to stop inflation, only actually accelerated it. it's being their border climate obsession. according to the gsa this funding will support and i will be introducing a resolution here in a moment. our national debt to put it in perspective had never been much before the year 2000. cumulatively it was 5 $5 trillion, that's a lot of zeros behind a 5, that's a lot. most of it did occur from the

1960's to 1980 is when we started doing deficits. but it really started to get where they became entrenched and standard operating procedure in the year 2000. we the credit card and that took our debt in 2000 to 2008, we went up to $10 trillion. all of a sudden a lot more zeros with an extra zero and a one. from 2008 to 2016, we went from $10 trillion to $16 trillion. now it gets to be a little more repetitive. i got here electedn 18, by 18 we're adding a trillion dollars a year. stick with me here that's $16 trillion, $18 trillion. get here as a senator alarmed by

that when you come from a place like indiana business for 37 years, and if you did anything close to that, your line of credit wouldn't get red. then and we've had a pandemic in there, it's gotten to where we put a burden on future generations i never imagined. i never thought we'd see it pa period. we did roughly put $4 trillion more on the books through the worst pandemic we ever ha us questioned whether that was necessary or not, probably could have done better but we had already gotten into the routine of maybe erring on the side of doing more rather than less. well since then we gone into enterprising through government that when we were borrowing just a few years ago a annually now we're doing it every six months. and if you're good at math out try

taking interest rates which are now around 5 to government is borrowing it start applying that to $35 trillion, and the only for us would be from the biden administration that put us $52 trillion in debt in ten years. that is a burden on our kids and grandkids. they'll have to figure out how to pay it off. all of us here unconcerned about it and i think it would be a little different if we were knocking things out of the park. numbers never go away. sooner or later interest is going to well, it's going to be sooner. here next year we're going to spend as much on our entire defense industry and budget as we will on interest. and it doesn't take long to where that's going to amount to three to four years, five, what

discretionary spending here domestic and defense. the government has growne than 20% of our gross domestic product to now the new baseline is 25% of our product. our economy is only -- has only grown maybe a couple percent a year. that is digging a hole deeper and deeper than anyone that is in the category of being grandkids out there, look out. it's not going to be easy to get back to where you're actually paying your bills accumulate them and if we don't, it will be the same thing, greece italy, portugal spain had go through when they fell off the wagon as small economies, we're the largest economy in the world. there's no good ending to it. so no more difficult than just not spending more than we take

in. any good manager would figure out real quickly how to get back in line. your banker would never allow you to renew a line of credit if you didn't. here we have the printing press in the basement and the credit card gets renewedachuse that you should keep performing poorly when you know what the end result is going to be. it's even aea t to our national security. for instance we spend $850 billion, roughly, on defense. china, our main geopolitical foe, spends less than a third of that. russia who causes all that trouble around the $90 billion. it begs the question why can't we do better when we're spending all that money? it's because we don't have any of the safeguards. we're not running it like the biggest business in the world. we're running it like kids with their hands in the cookie jar,

and that's not a good business plan. it's unsustainable. i'm nothe numbers, but if you take this out ten years, that is going to be a mountain that is so high to climb, so hard to tear down that it will be tough to do. and we could do it easily by just not digging the hole any deeper, meaning freezing our spending allocating our resources better just like all states do. we choose not to do it. we need i'm on the budget committee. we haven't done a budget in the federal government that we've adhered to in over two decades. so finally, we're going to have to start knuckling down and having discipline like everyone else does or it will end like a chapter 11 does in the real world when you've not paid attention to the details, you borrow too many money and youf years to work it out with your creditors. so hopefully we will he never

get to that. i am introducing this resolution called the recognizing the national debt as a threat to national security. as if in legislative session, and notwithstanding rule 22 ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of senate resolution 600 which is the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 600 recognizing the national debt as a threat to national security. the presiding officer: is there an objection to proceeding to the measure? without a senator: i know of no further debate on the measure. the presiding officer: if there's no further debate. the question is on resolution. all in favor say aye. a senator: aye. the presiding officer: all opposed no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the resolution is agreed to.

a senator: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the preamble be agreed to and that ot be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. braun: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that i complete my remarks which i've done followed by senator padilla up to five minutes prior to the scheduled roll call vote. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. padilla: madam president. the presiding officer:rnia. mr. padilla: madam president, the senate will soon consider the nomination of judge eumi lee to serve on the u.s. district court for the northern district of california. i rise today to share brief my more about this dedicated public servant and to encourage myn me in supporting her nomination. the proud daughter of parents who survived the korean war

before united states judge eumi lee was born in wisconsin and raised in tennessee. she earned her bachelor's degree from pamona college and her law degree from the georgetown university law center. after law school judge lee clerked for several judges on the federal bench. first for the western district of tennessee. then in the san francisco bay area circuit court of appeals. now those early days also included time working on complex litigation and white collar defense matters in private practice as well as developing a strong bono practice. after a number of years of developing core litigation skills she began teaching as a professor at college of law supervising clinical students and direct representation and appearing alongside her students in it's there that judge lee also cofounded the hastings institute

for criminal justice. recognizing her remarkable record and diverse experience practicing law, in 2018 then california governor jerry brown appointed judge lee to the al need came court where she became the first korean american ever appointed to serve on that bench. in the more than two decades that she has spent learning teaching and practicing law, lee has not only gained a wealth of legal expertise but she has constantly -- h support others on her path as well. she's consistently worked to meantor women, people of color, and those typically underrepresented in the legal because judge lee knows that public service doesn't stop at the courthouse doors. in private in the classroom, and in the courtroom, she's demonstrated the intel lekt and the -- intellect and independent mind needed to ser northern district with

distinction. i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting her confirmation. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the question occurs on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler.

the clerk: ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cardin. mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins.

the clerk: mr. rn mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth.

mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed.

mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young.

the clerk: ms. stabenow aye. mr. whitehouse aye. mr. cornyn no. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, aye.

mr. cassidy, no.

the clerk: mr. hagerty, no.the clerk: mrs. murray aye. mr. merkley, aye.

the clerk: mr. f mr. barrasso, no. the clerk: mr. hawley, no.

the clerk: ms. smith, aye. vote:

the clerk: mrs. hide no. mr. reed, aye. cantwell, aye.athe clerk: mr. sullivan,

no. the clerk: mr. cardin aye. mr. wyden, aye.

mr. budd, no o -- no. mr. kelly, aye. the clerk: ms. hassan, aye.

the clerk: mr. ricketts no. ms. sinema, aye. mrs. fischer, no. the clerk: mr. scot mr. grassley, no.q

the clerk: mr. lujan, aye. the clerk: mr. hickenlooper, aye.

the clerk: mr. rounds, no. the clerk: mr. sanders aye.paul, no. mr. romney, no.

the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye.óú

the clerk: mr. marshall, no. ms. warren, aye. mr.ar ms. lummis, no.

the clerk: mr. booker, aye.

the clerk: mr. tester, aye. the clerk: mr. schatz, aye.

the clerk: mr. cramer, no. .

vote: the clerk: mr. peters, aye. the clerk: mr. murphy mr. welch, aye.

the clerk: mrs.

the clerk: mr. graham, no.

the clerk: mr.

the clerk: mrs. blackburn, no.

the presiding officer: mr. kaine, aye.

the clerk: mr. mcconnell, no.

the clerk: mr. blumenthal, aye. ms. rosen, aye.

the clerk: mr. thune, no.

the clerk: mr. ossoff, aye. the clerk: mr. young, no.

ms. hirono, aye.

the clerk: mr. heinrich, aye.

the clerk: ms. baldwin, aye. mr. durbin, aye. the clerk: mr. cruz, no.

the clerk: mr. carper, aye. the clerk: ms. collins, no.

the clerk: mr. daines, no. the clerk: mr. schumer, aye.

the clerk: ms. murkowski, no. the clerk: ms. ernst, no. mr. king, aye.

the clerk: mr. lee, no. mr.

the clerk: mrs.ay

the clerk: mr. van hollen, aye. the clerk: ms. duckworth, aye.

vote:

the clerk: mr. rkey

the clerk: mr. hoeven, no.

the clerk: mr. bennet, aye.

the presiding officer: the yeas are 50, the nays are 49, and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is the table, and and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's actions. mr. van hollen: mr. maryland. mr. van hollen: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. van hollen: i understand that there is a pill at the -- a bill at the desk. ask for its first reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 7024, an act to make i credit and so forth and for other purposes. mr. van hollen: i now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the b provisions of rule 14, i object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will for a second time on the next legislative day. mr. van hollen: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed

to the immediate consideration of calendar number 253 and s.1332. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 253 require the office of management and budget to revise the standard occupational classification system and so forth and for other purposes. mr. van hollen: i further ask -- the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. van hollen: mr. president. i further askhe reported substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed the committee agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no inteing action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. slowly van hollen i ask -- mr. van hollen: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate conderation of number 348 and s.3648. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 348s.3648 a bill to amend the

post-katrina management reform act of 2006 to repeal certainsolete requirements and so forth and for other purposesed. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. van hollen: i further ask that theagreed to the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table . the presiding officer: without objection. mr. van hollen: i ask that the committee on health education, labor and pensions be discharge from further consideration and the senate now proceed to s. res. 567. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 567 recognizin the seriousness of widespread health care worker burnout in the united states and so forth. the presiding officer: discharged and the senate will proceed proceed. mr. van hollen: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to thee motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. van hollen: mr. president, i

as the committee on the judiciary be discharged from further consideration and the senate now proceed to the consideration of s. res. 583. the presid the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 583 recognizing the 100th anniversary of the national league of cities and the support it provides to municipalities across the united states. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed. mr. van hollen: i know of no further debate on the resolution. the presiding officer: is there further debate? hearing none the question is on th resolution. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the resolution is adopted. mr. van hollen: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the preamble be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no interveniaction or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. van hollen: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that thenate proceed to an en bloc consideration of the following

senate resolutions, s. res. 601, s. res. 603, s. res. 604, and s. res. 605. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed en bloc. mr. van hollen: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to the preambles be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. van hollen: mr. president, i have 13 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted.n hollen: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on thursday march following the prayer and pledge the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date

the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. that upon the conclusion of morning business the senate proceed to executive session to resume consideration of executive calendar number 117, jose javier rodriguez to be an further, that at 11:30 a.m. the motion to proceed to the vote by which cloture was not agreed to on the rodriguez nomination be agreed to the motion to reconsider the failed cloture vote be agreed to and the senate vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the rodriguez nonation u reconsideration. further, mr. president, that if cloture is invoked, all time be considered expired at 2:00 p.m. that following the confirmation legislative session for the consideration of calendar number 340, s. res. -- and s.j. res. 62 that the m and that the senate immediately vote on passionage of the joint resolution and that upon disposition of the joint resolution the senate are you seem -- resume executive session and resume consideration of the

schydlower nominati nominations are confirmed during thursday's session, the motions to consider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of t the presiding officer: without objection. mr. van hollen: mr. president, if there is no further business to come before the senate i ask that it stand adjourned under the -- under the previous order following the remarks of senator sanders. the presiding officer: without objection.

mr. sanders: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: mr. president, we are currently witnessing one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history and the united states is complicit. anyone who turns on the television or opens a can see the unbelievable devastation now taking place in gaza. we can see if we choose to see

the images of starving emaciate ed children. and that is because one of our closest allies israel a country we have poured billion, of dollars into -- billions of dollars into has created a situation in which hundreds of thousands of people are slowly starving to death. mr. t, united states of america cannot and must not be complicit in this unspeakable tragedy. we cannot be complicit in starvation as a mil strategy. we cannot be complicit in the physical and emotional destructionn entire generation of beautiful palestinian children.

for months the united nations and other aid organizations have warned about imminent starvation and possible famine in gaza. and now that is exactly what is happening. how did we get to this point? how have we the congress of the united states allowed situation to reach this point? mr. president, nobody disputes the hamasation started this war with its barbaric brutal attack against israel on octer7, which killed 1200 innocent people and took more than 250 hostages. and as i have consistently said israel had the right to respond to that to war

against hamas, but it did not and it does not have the r go to war against the entire palestinian people which is exactly what it has done and what it is doing right now. mr. president, almost 32,000 palestinians and almost 74,000 have been wounded. two-thirds of whom are women and children children. 1.8 million palestinians 80% of the population of gaza have been driven from their homes. nearly 70% of the housinghan half of all buildings in gaza have been damaged ordestroyed. nothing has been spared not refugee camps, not schools, not

hospitals, not u.n. facilities. all have been bombed. in the wak attack israeli defense minister yoav gallant said we are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly. there will be no electricity, no food no fuel. everything is closed, end quote. well he has kept his word. in many parts of gaza today, there is no electricity or fuel. hospitals have been destroyed and water infrastructure has been made inoperable. israel has also blocked communications networks making it impossible for humanitarian organizations to safelyid deliveries.

mr. president, in this context over four months ago in u.n. first began to warn of severe shortages of food and water in gaza four months ago. and of the imminent risk of starvation and possible famine. aside from a brief pause in the fighting in late november which allowed aid to come in very little has changed. in d that israel's blockade of food and water meant that a quarter of the population of gaza over half a million step away from famine. in january, senatorslen and murphy went to the rafah crossing in egypt to learn what was preventing humanitarian aid from getting into gaza. they saw milescks waiting often for weeks to be cleared by the israelis. they reported that trucks are unloaded and reloaded

repeatedly and if a single item is rejected the entire cargo must start the week's long process all over again. and they heard about items being rejected for no reason such as tents, medical filters. in other words, our colleagues saw a process that was completely broken and no israeli interest in fixing it despite the profound humanitarian crisis that was developing. mr. president, it is difficult to look at these facts and not intentional israeli effort to starve the people of gaza of what they need to survive and at best at best a complete disregard for palestinian lives. and sure enough in january, israeli prime minister netanyahu said at a press conference that

night, and i vx provide minimal humanitarian aid. if we want to achieve our war goals, we give the minimal aid, end of quote. the situation as a result has worse and worse and worse. in the north, almost no humanitarian aid has gotte february. the israelis rejected most u.n. attempts to deliver aid to the north and then began actlly targeting the police that he is courts u.n. aid -- escorts u.n. aid trucks. amid the desperation of north gaza this has led to incidents in which hundreds of starving palestinians food were shot by israeli troops or trampled in the chaos. for three emerged of people eating leaves

and to try to stay alive, and the first long-feared reports are coming in of children dying from malnutrition and dehydration. mr. president, a few aid convoys are now getting food to the u.s. pressure, israel has allowed about half -- half of the requested humanitarian missions t proceed in recent weeks. but that is still nowhere near enough to reverse months of starvation and stave off a wave of deaths from malnutrition dehydration and preventable diseases. earlier this week the u.n. and other humanitarian ngo's released add version of their most comprehensive assessment of the food crisis called the ipc. i would just l read the

headline here, and i quote, famine is imminent as 1.1 million gaza, experience catastrophic food insecurity end of quote. that is t the report goes on to say that quote, extremely critical levels of pennsylvania nutrition and immortality -- are imminent for more than two-thirds of the people in the noh. that technical way of saying that more than 200,000 people are now starving to death and that if nothing changes, more than a million people could starve. at least 31 people including children have already died of starvation and dehydration and the real toll is likely much medical teams are unable to reach the hardest-hit areas. unicef said on friday that

nearly one in three children under two years of age in north gaza suffer from acuteon d. malnutrition. we put billions and billions of dollars into israel year after year and today nearly one in three children under two years of age in northern gaza suffer from acute malnutrition. once a young child reaches that point, it is very difficult to reverse the process. the child's body consumes from within and only through very careful medical treatment can they be saved. treatment that is impossible thout a functioning health care system a system that certainly does not exist in gaza today. let me repeat, mr. president, now we can hide our eyes we can talk about a million other things we can talk about this

andhat and everything else but right now the reality is that tens of thousands of children are dying slow painful deaths and we are complicit in that reality. president all of this is preventable. as of yesterday 1,200 trucks were waiting to enter gaza, more than 00 of which were carrying food supplies. hundreds and hundreds of carrying food sitting just a short distance from starving children.d states and other countries have had to resort to air-dropping supplies to trying to find ways to deliver aid by sea. in other words we have put billions of dollars of aid, military aid, iel and we are now trying to figure out a way to get beyond israel's

blocking at the borders by air or coming in through the sea all of which is very expensive and very inefficient. these contortions are absurd. there is no reason as to why trucks should not be able to drive across the border into gaza including through crossings in the north. log week the u.n. senior human rights official said that quote, israel's continued restrictions on entry of aid into gaza may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war. starvation as a method of war. which is a war crime, end ever quote. the president of the united states the secretary of state the national security advisor, the whole unite been begging the

israeli government to change their approach for months now. aside from opening one border crossing there is nothing to show for all of that begging. prime minister netanyahu has taken the billions of dollars in military aidxpayers have given him. he has taken our bombs and our military equipment, h exactly what he wants to do. we give him the money, we tell him w right. he ignores us. he does what weigh wants to do -- he does what he wants to do. mr. president, far from flooding the zone with aid, which has been the united states' position -- we want to flood the zone with humanitarian aid -- as is in fact necessary to avert mass death from starvation

dehydration and israelis this week denied entry to gaza for the head of unrwa, the backbone of the hit there. indeed attacking unrwa seems to be a primary concern of the israeli government. tens of thousands of people are starving. unrwa is trying to feed them andhe its allies like aipac spend much of their time lobbying to defund unrwa, the major organization which is feeding starving people. sadly, tragically, many members of congress seem to be happy to be part of this starvation caucus happy to cut funding unrwa and make it harder to get aid to palestinians in the midst of this crisis. mr. p passed a supplemental bill prohibiting funding to

unrwa against my vote and it seems likely that the house will soon pass an appropriations bill containing additional provisions to defund this agency. israel has said the 12 unrwa employees involved in the october 7 attack. these are serious charges, and they are being investigated in a serious way. unrwa immediately fired the accused employees and the u.n. launched an investigation, as it should. i should note by the way, that israel has refused to with the u.n. investigation. mr. president, unrwa plays a critical role in desperately needed humanitarian aid to millions of gazans and it is essential to gaza but in jordan and in neighbors countries. whatever the outcome of this

investigation, you do not starve millions of people and hundreds of thousands of children because of the alleged actions of 12 unrwa employees out of a workforce of 30,000. and we should remember, by the way that the israeli military has killed 171 staff since this war began. but somehow my colleagues here in congress -- or many of them -- seem not to pay much attention to that. mr. president, i think that all over this country there is a lot of anguish in the hearts and the souls american people. whether you are a conservative republican whether you are an independent, whether you are a progressive, youant to see hundreds of thousands of

children starve to death while a few miles away. i don't think there are many americans who want to see that. the american people do not want to see a situation in which a longtime american ally -- israel -- i u.s. weapons and equipment to block the delivery of u.s. humanitarian aid, which, by theagainst the law. any country that blocks american humanitarian aid, by law, should have its funding ended. the american in my view no matter what your politics may be do not want to be complicit in the slaughter of kids who are bombed to death while they sleep. the a in my view, do not want us to continue

funding netanyahu's cruel war. think maybe it's time we start listening to the american people. in my view mr. president, when we listen to american people what we have got to do is stop begging the israeli government to end this humanitarian disaster got to stop begginge have to start telling them that if they want united states aid they're going to have to fundamentally change what they are doing. the fact of the matter is -- and no one disagrees with this -- that if you want the kind of aid that is needed to prevent the starvation that is taking place, what you need is a massive sustained ground deliveries. that means many many many

hundreds of trucks every single day and going into the most desperate areas. you want to feed people that is the only way you can do it efficiently. the borders and allow the u.n. to deliver supplies in sufficient quantities throughout all gaza. israel must stop military operations ceasefire tohappen. mr. president, the bottom line here is that the united states must make it absolutely right-wing extremist israeli government led by netanyahu that failure to open up immediately, failure to allow starving children to get the food they need and the medical equipment that they need will result in the complete shut-off of the full range of american assistance to israel. the american people are not stupid. they understand that you can't

go around criticizing netanyahu attacking netanyahu, doing this and doing that and then say, oh by the way, we were just kidding because here's your check for $10 billion to continue your military assault against the palestinian people. history will judge what we do right now. history will judge whether we whether we uphold american values or will we provide id to a war machine that is operating in an unbelievably barbaric way. mr.de united states must make 2 clear -- make it clear, not another nickel for netanyahu's war machine. and with that, i yield the fl the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> the u.s. senate today confirmed u.s. district court nominees for new jersey and

northern california. lawmakers are a awaiting text on an agreement to fund more than half the government to avert a partial government shutdown. live coverage of the u.s. senate when lawmakers return here on c-span2. >> israeli leader benjamin netanyahu briefed s in gaza. here texas senator john cornyn shares a picture of the video link. punch bowl news is reporting that missouri if senator josh hawley commented after the meeting that the prime minister said that by far the greatest part of their operations in gaza are but that the israe d finished. want to put president a timeline on it. meanwhile, chad pergram from fox news p is posting mr. netanyahu offered a similar briefinginging with senate democrats which senator schumer rejected. quote, senator schumer a made it clear that he does not think

these discussions should happen in a partisan manner. that's not helpful to israel. ♪ ♪ >> celebrating the 20th anni student come documentary -- cam documentary competition asking students to look forward while considering the milestone of -- the past. in response, we received inspiring and thought-provoking documentaries from more than 3,200 students across 42 states. through conducting in-depth research and interviews with expert students tackled critical topics such as technology and social media -- >> or for one a started replacing humans, eliminating entire fields of work -- >> challenges of climate. >> our tapestry can no longer sustain business and diversity. >> discussions about criminal justice.

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