and amend the marine debris act, and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding? without objection. mr. boozman: i ask consent that the sullivan amendment at the desk be agreed to, the committee-reported substitute amendment as amended be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on veterans' affairs be discharged from further consideration of s. 3112, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 3112, a bill to amend title 38 united states code, and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is

discharged. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on veterans' affairs be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 960, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 960, an act to designate the department of veterans' affairs community-based outpatient clinic in newark, ohio, as the daniel l. canard v.a. clinic. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made

and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 2726, which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 2726, an act to require the secretary of the treasury to mint commemorative coins, and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i know of no further debate on the bill. the presiding officer: if there is no further debate, the question is on passage of the bill. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the bill is passed. mr. boozman: i ask consent that the motion to reconsider be

considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on banking, housing and urban affairs be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 3784, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 3784, an act to amend the securities exchange act of 1934, and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on environment and public works be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 4618, and

the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 4618, an act to designate the federal building and united states court house, and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged. the sonja will proceed to the measure. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed, and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on commerce be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 5065 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5065, an act to direct the administrator of the transportation security administration, and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged. the senate will proceed to the

measure. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 5877, which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5877, an act to amend the homeland security act of 2002, and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding? without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the commerce committee be discharged from further consideration of s. res. 335, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration.

the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 335, supporting the goals and ideals of national aviation maintenance technician day, and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection. the committee is discharged. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. boozman: i further ask that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on veterans' affairs be discharged from further consideration of s. 290 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 290, a bill to amend title 38 united states code, and so forth and for other

purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the moran substitute be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 6416, which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 6416, an act to amend title 38 united states code, and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding? without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i know of no further debate on the bill. the presiding officer: if there is no further debate, the question is on passage of the

bill. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the measure passes. mr. boozman: i ask consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 5015 which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5015 an act to restore amounts improperly withheld for tax purposes and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. boozman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate now

proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following senate resolutions which were submitted earlier today: s. res. 635, bicentennial. s. res. 636, s. res. 637, s. res. 638, s. res. 639. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the resolutions en bloc. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection.

mr. wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, in just a few minutes, because it is very late -- or very earl if one might characterize the hour of the morning, i will be offering a unanimous consent request to pass calendar 527, h.r. 5456, the family first prevention services act. just to give a short description of this bill, there has been an

enormous amount of bipartisan effort and goodwill to enact this legislation that many policy experts consider the most significant improvement in child welfare policy in decades. in the other body, mr. president, the legislation passed unanimously, and there was superb work done by chairman brady, speaker, mr. ryan, mr. bf colleagues on the democratic side, sandy levin, lloyd dogget, a whole host of members. leader pelosi, enormous effort. you had the leadership, you had the ways and means committee; they came together and passed the legislation unanimously. and the reason they did,

mr. president, is 500 organizations, groups representing children and pediatricians and the catholic bishops, the children's defense fund all came together, and they said that the current policy today with respect to vulnerable children just defies common sense. in effect, you can't get help to the families when it really is most critical, when a family member, a parent, say, for example, is dealing with drug abuse or mental health or a challenge where if they were able to get a modest amount assistance, the family could come together again, be healthy. the youngster would be able to stay in the home. and very often in these kinds of

instances a grandparent or an uncle, if we made some modest changes in federal policy, could step in as well, something i feel very strongly about having written the kinship care law a number of years ago to reward grandparents and aunts and uncles when they could meet the strict standards for qualifying to take care of a youngster in these circumstances. and chairman hatch, chairman grassley, many of our senior members have worked very hard with me and our colleagues, senator bennet from colorado who has devoted an enormous amount of attention to the needs of youngsters. and i've been on the floor tonight really for the last five or six hours trying to resolve

remaining concerns. now, we had a hotline months and months ago on this bill, and there really wasn't much reaction at the outset. finally there were three members that had concerns. we moved to address them. chairman brady has been particularly gracious on the other side of the capitol saying if a state needed more time, if there were questions with respect to whether they could meet some of the criteria, he was open to giving them that kind of additional time. but i'll tell you, mr. president, i told my constituents this fall that probably nothing is more important to me than to come back here and pursue what i call principled bipartisanship. bipartisanship is not about taking each other's bad ideas.

anybody can do that. that's a piece of cake. principled bipartisanship is about taking good ideas, taking good ideas from both sides of the aisle. for example, i know with the presiding officer, there was a question about the type of providers in his home state that might be eligible for this service. so we said we had heard from a number of conservatives that they wanted to make sure that one type of provider over another wasn't favored. so we said all the providers can participate as long as they meet the quality standards. that was essentially a conservative concept. we had a number on our side of the aisle who wanted to make sure that there really were wrap-around services for these kinds of families. there's good foster care, mr. president. nobody has ever said that's not

the case. but we know that federal policy shouldn't create an incentive to rip these families apart. it should create incentives to keep families together. so i wanted to come tonight to make one more appeal to pass what is, according to many of the most authoritative experts on compiled welfare, the most significant improvement in child welfare law in decades. there are no objections on our side of the aisle. this is the second time i brought up this unanimous consent request, and substantively no senator has come to the floor on the other side of the aisle to raise an

objection in terms of policy and substance. frankly, i wish that somebody would, mr. president, because i think we could accommodate them. and because of the graciousness of chairman brady, the republican chair on the other side, i think we could accommodate them. but no senator has come now for the second time this week to actually offer a substantive objection. so if you want what i call principled bipartisanship, which is what chairman hatch, chairman grassley, chairman brady, so many colleagues on both sides of the aisle have been working for, we've got to have colleagues who will come and actually voice their substantive objection. and i'm making it clear again tonight that if anyone on the other side of the aisle has a substantive objection, my guess is we could resolve it because

there's been a lot of goodwill on both sides. but if people won't come and make a substantive objection, then it's hard to know what might satisfy them and allow us to proceed with this very important child welfare reform. so, mr. president, i want it understood, i am going to prosecute this case of improving the lives of these vulnerable youngsters and these families for as long as i have the honor to represent oregon in the united states senate. i think this is what public service is supposed to be all about. i'll continue to work in a bipartisan way. i think that's how you tackle the big issues, the big challenges facing our country. nobody's really got enough votes to have it all their way. certainly if you want to have a policy that you can sustain, it's got to be bipartisan. so we're going to stay at this until we get it done, and with

that in mind, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 527, h.r. 5456, family first prevention services act, that the wyden substitute amendment be agreed to and the bill as amended be read a third time and passed. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. boozman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. mr. boozman: i do not personally object to this bill, but on behalf of senator enzi, i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. boozman: i ask consent that the senate stand in recess subject to the call of the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate stands in recess subject to the call of the chair. the

senate will come to order. the senator from ohio. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to immediate consideration of s. res. 640 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 640, recognizing the death of john glenn, former senator for the state of ohio, and the first individual from the united states to orbit the earth. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. mr. portman: mr. president? i appreciate the fact that the senate has just passed a

resolution honoring john glenn. in fact, if you look at this resolution, at the end of it, it indicates that the adjournment today will be adjournment in further respect to the memory of the late john glenn. i appreciate the fact that the senate has done that as well. i spoke on the floor yesterday regarding my friend john glenn. my colleague sherrod brown and i have introduced this resolution. senator brown also spoke with regard to john glenn's incredible life history. this is a true icon who we have lost sadly this week at the age of 95. he was a true hero in so many respects. long before he was an astronaut, he was a marine aviator. he actually flew 59 combat missions in world war ii. he also flew combat missions in the korean war and was highly decorated. after that, he was a test pilot. in fact, he broke the

transcontinental speed record as a test pilot before becoming an astronaut. as an astronaut, we all know the story of friendship 7. it was a capsule that was about the size of two or three of these desks. you can see it in the space museum. he somehow was able to get inside of this capsule and orbit the earth at a time when the united states was in a space race with the soviet union. and his splashing down in the atlantic ocean off the coast of the caribbean was considered to be a -- a major change in terms of the u.s. positioning on space and our ability to show that, yes, u.s. technology and innovation could work. he then came to the united states congress to speak to a joint session of congress, imagine that, at age 40. you have an astronaut speaking to a joint session, something normally reserved only for heads of state. he then was successful in business and decided that he would actually want to try his hand in politics after his --

politics. after his military service, he decided to try public service, and of course became a senator from the state of ohio. i have the honor and am humbled to be in the seat that he once held. a couple weeks ago, i called senator glenn to ask him to walk down this aisle with me on january 3 of next year, in just a few weeks while i was being sworn in for the second time in his seat. i will say he was not just re-elected, he was re-elected with resounding numbers. and at the end of the day, he ended up being the longest serving united states senator ever in the history of our state. so after this amazing career in the military as an astronaut, then serving in the senate, he ended up being the longest serving senator ever from the buckeye state. what an amazing guy. after he left, he went to the ohio state university and asked if they would like to start a leadership institute to encourage public service called the glenn institute. it later became the glenn school. i actually taught there before running for the united states senate.

i taught four courses there, cotaught with a -- co-taught with a wonderful professor there at the glenn school, and i also joined the board of advisors at john glenn's request and am still on that board. in fact, we had a meeting in october only about six weeks ago where john glenn presided, he chaired the meeting, as he always does. he was in good humor, he was energetic, he was energized about a new project, a leadership institute for young legislators to help encourage even more people to not just get into public service but gain the skills to be able to be better public servants. that's what really excited him. i had the privilege of getting to know him through the work we did also in the united states senate and in the house of representatives. i was in the house, he was in the senate. one of the pagz he had was -- passions he had was to ensure

that we had good government in this country, and that included not having the federal government send unfunded mandates down to the state and local governments. i was the house author on the republican side, he was the senate author on the democratic side, and that legislation was passed to curb unfunded mandates and went to president clinton to his desk for signature. i got to be in the rose garden with senator glenn for that signing ceremony. what an honor to be with him. he was a guy who was willing to take on tasks like that, even when perhaps it wasn't as popular in his party as it was in ours. so i stand here today as someone who has benefited from the model of service that he has shown our country. i will say, too, that my wife jane and me benefit from the model that annie glenn and john glenn have shown. i believe they were married for 76 years, and they knew each other when they were children, and never was annie glenn far from his side and an incredible

woman in her own right and a brave and courageous woman who overcame some obstacles in her life that became very public, her stuttering and her ability to get over that disability gave hope to so many, so many people, young people particularly all over the country who continue to look to annie glenn as a great hero. but annie glenn was not just at his side. they were partners in everything. and she was the indispensable partner. our condolences today from the entire united states senate to annie glenn, to the glenn family who we love so dearly and to our state of ohio who has lost a true icon, a true american hero. tom wolf wrote a book equaled "the right stuff." john glenn was one of those friendship astronauts who were part of the right stuff. today as we adjourn, we pay tribute to john glenn who had the right stuff and to showed us how someone as a public servant

can make a difference and encourage others to do the same. mr. president, i yield back. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate stand in recess subject to the call of the chair. the presiding officer: without

objection.