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the chaplain: let us pray. eternal spirit, the fountain of light and truth, we rise and stand because of your mercies; you make our plans succeed. today, shine the light of your presence upon our senators. as they wrestle with complexity, show them the way. lord, give them the wisdom you have promised to all who will simply request it. remind them of your mission to bring deliverance to captives and liberty to the bruised. may our lawmakers focus on

pleasing you and not on political consequences. give them contrite and humble spirits. teach them new and creative ways to cooperate with each other for the common good. we pray in european merciful name. -- we pray in your merciful name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c, february 9, 2023. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate,

i hereby appoint the honorable raphael g. warnock, a senator from the state of georgia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. deandrea gist benjamin of south carolina to be united states circuit judge for the fourth circuit judge for the fourth

the 16th district thanks for being here. let's talk about the state of the union address, the president nichols who joined all of you at the state of the union and talking about police reform. what did you hear from him and what is the push by democrats and others up on capitol hill? is or a bipartisan proposal? >> guest: not yet. i'm hoping a bipartisan proposal comes pretty quickly. the next couple of weeks is going to be really important, just like the unfortunate horrific you've all the

shooting, you know after that happened you saw the senate mobilized pretty quickly to get something done. they sent over to us in the house and we get legislation passed. we need to see that same sense of urgency right now. first of all, the state of being addressed i felt was very, very good. i give the president and a because it was uplifting, it was inspiring, it was celebratory in terms of what we have gotten bent over the last couple of years, like the infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act, chips act and many others. and he spoke to the pocketbook and kitchen table issues of the american people around price gouging, making sure the wealthy contribute their fair share, et cetera, et cetera. but what i also heard was something i had never heard before. he spoke with a certain level of empathy and compassion towards the victims of police violence. this was not just about tyree nichols.

and by the way tamir rice mom was also here for the state of the union. we finally heard a president say something like i don't understand this issue. i haven't had to have the talk with my children in the same way black families have to have the talk with their children. it brought america in the hopefully have more empathy towards the victims. it's a complex issue peer we get it that what we are saying as black people in this country, when police commit a crime they should be -- there should be accountability. and stop killing us when we are not harming you or don't have weapons or anything like that. it was the first time i heard that and it was really good to hear. >> host: before the state of the union you had been critical of the president. he said the president is missing opportunity to be a stork president when it comes to social issues that continue to plague our country. what did you mean? >> guest: that's exactly what i meant.

we need him to be a a historic leader in this moment in the vein of roosevelt or lakin or someone like that. here's what i mean. the use of donald trump were very traumatizing for the american people. america is a beautiful, mosaic of different cultures and ethnicities in people. donald trump used to attack, demonize, and marginalize millions of people in our country. that creates trauma and stress. in addition to that we had a global pandemic, the first in 100 years, which obviously adds another layer of trauma and stress. then we had an insurrection. first attack on the u.s. ul since the war of 1812. on top of that we continue to have children going to bed hungry, issues of poverty, lack of affordable housing. we need a president who is going to provide a vision for our country and how we will come how we can finally come together across our differences to build

a nation that works for everyone. we need him to be that, and that speech was a great step in the right direction towards creating that america. >> host: we will talk about education because that is in your wheelhouse. explain your career and then we'll talk about legislation that you reintroduced with senator cory booker, the african american history act. >> guest: prior to coming to caucus i worked in education for 20 years, started my career as an elementary school teacher in the south bronx. did that for about five or six years. before moving on to becoming a high school dean of students and guidance counselor for three years. and then i realized the education system had more to offer to our kids. i didn't think the system was really unlocking their unlimited potential. so i wrote a proposal and submitted it to new york city for me to start my own district public middle school in the northeast bronx. the proposal was supported. they said yes, and in 2009

september 2009 i opened up opened up my own middle school that i ran for ten and a half years. it was a project based interdisciplinary culturally responsive curriculum they're really tapped into students creativity. our school system and our teachers do great work with kids who come from challenging circumstances but there's so much more we can do if we intimate the right curriculum. we did that for about ten and a half years, did great work there, and then i ran for congress because when you were in education use all of the issues, all of the social issues, all of the family issues. they land on your doorstep everyday. it's hard for kids to learn when they are hungry, when their family is criminal justice involved, when you're struggling with housing, struggling with poverty, when you're not teaching about emotional intelligence. it was hard for kids to learn. the year before i ran for office, 34 kids died within the

k-12 school system in the bronx, in 17 died via suicide. so i i knew, i saw and lived a mental health crisis before covid even came. we had one with our kids. that pushed me into running for office. we were fortunate enough to win and now that i am here i hope to elevate these issues, issues of mental health, issues of culturally responsive education, issues a project-based learning and that's one of the reasons why we introduce the african-american history act trauma tell us about the act and then we'll get to calls. >> guest: african history as american history just the same way every other group that in this country who make up the beauty of our country, their history matters and should be taught in our schools. what i i experienced as a youg student and what i saw in public education curriculum as an educator was the lack of african-american history being taught. maybe during black history month you will learn a a little bit about the civil rights movement,

you learn mostly about dr. king and you might learn a little bit more about the transatlantic slave trade at how my ancestors came here. but african-americans have a history that predates the transatlantic slave trade. my history didn't start as a slave. my people had nations in africa. we have democracies in africa. we had infrastructure in africa. we built the pyramids in africa. like that's my ancestral history and is important for me to know that so i can have self esteem and self worth that i need to do well in school and in life so the african-american history act seeks to appropriate $10 million, which is not a large amount of money here in washington, $10 billion for the smithsonian museum to create curriculum that is accurate, that school district scanned him and use for free to implement in their schools. so it's critically important. it's also in response to

governors like desantis and others who claimed that there's not as much value in african-american history versus other history, like that's just preposterous. one of the reasons why we continue to have racial strife, missed understanding, and issues with public safety is because of lack of knowledge of our history, collective history in our country. >> host: let's hear from sean who's in baltimore, independent caller. go ahead. you were on with the congressman, i just want to say people like this congressman are the reason why i'm leaving the democratic party because of his far left his ideas can him, cory booker, aoc, ilhan omar. i was a democrat all my life and kill him -- >> host: what are the ideas that you are rejecting? >> caller: the whole defund the police movement. i am most definitely the police

accountability. police need to be held accountable but what they are doing is they are destroying police department. he should look at his own city. look how everybody is leaving. they are leaving new york if they are leaving california because they hate the police. they don't want the police. and look at all the retirement. nobody wants to do the job. and because of that can police departments are struggling to get people, and because they're struggling so bad, they are hiring the reject of society. when i say the reject of society, because they are lower in standards. >> host: i will have the congressman respond. >> guest: first of all, the police department in new york city has not been defunded. police departments across the country are not being defunded. so that is not happening, number one. number two, when we talk about public safety we talk about it from the perspective of public health. police respond at best after a

crime has been committed, and then they do their jobs of arresting and making sure the person is held accountable. what we are saying, or what i am saying is we need a proactive preventative approach. we know the majority of people who are incarcerated have suffered or struggled with mental health disorder, a substance abuse disorder, or some form of trauma, a learning disability or some form of trauma related to poverty, housing and the like. so we want to invest money in being more preventative so people don't commit crime in the first place. in addition there are many people who are justice entangled that just as entangled once they get out a return back to their communities there are no resources for that and this is why they continue to escalate and two other crimes. what we are saying is let's take a step back and let have a fresh look at public safety through the lens of public health.

that is what we are pushing of that's the conversation we want to have. >> host: a democrat in shreveport, louisiana, your next. >> caller: yes, i would like to make a comment, add to, i think that we get misinterpretation of what black history. they think the whole world, the whole united states have misinterpretation of what black history. my american legion magazine got a beautiful story down here. i did know about black panthers. i did know nothing about the trooper nichols. that's some black groups in the military. this kind of stuff, that's what we would like to see more than stuff like tulsa. we know it happened, but i hope

i'm making good sense. and thank you for your time. >> host: all right. >> guest: that's a great point that is being made. often when we are taught black history where taught about the horrors of black history. we talk about the ku klux klan in lynching and jim crow and out city was burned down. all essential history absolutely but are so many black americans that persevered through the toughest of times and did remarkable things. when you talk about our impact during world war ii, that history, there was a movie recently made about that history that so many americans learned about. when you talk about hidden figures i didn't realize a black woman was essential to our space travel program. like, it's stuff like that that must be in our history books so the little black girl a a blak boy can grow up learning that they had contributed to this

great nation. and guess what? that black boy will be less likely to commit a crime when they become a young man. >> host: barbara in oklahoma city, independent, good morning. >> caller: high. i get nervous when i get on your trek to take your time, take your time. >> caller: there's a couple of things here that it want to say. they keep saying what's a problem? our problem is agreed your greed, period, period. that's all. causes poor people. poor people don't, are not most in the country but the act like we are. and i just would like to see one trillionaire, i'd like to go with them to a bank and let them see if they can get 1 trillion at of the bank. there is no trillion dollars anywhere. anywhere. you can get 1 billion of the bank much less 1 trillion. and they want us to get online and get on board we don't have to have money. we're not going to deal with money. that's a huge problem, people.

we better snap about this. this can't go on. i just, i go crazy because i don't see very many people even seeing this. >> host: the congressman is shaking his head so let's listen tragic preach. preach, barbara. hank is a a much, you're absolutely right. we haven't economic and political system that allows, allows wealthy individuals to not only contribute their fair share and businesses not only to not contribute their fair share but they had trillions of dollars overseas. they had money sitting on the side in unrealized capital gains that is never taxed that the use to build more wealth and more wealth and more wealth. we had moved away from our democracy and in many ways we become an oligarchy. and because of that, that is why the political bipartisanship continues to happen to how we are moving more towards a

government that is a dictatorship. your plain language and your understanding of the issue is exactly what the american people need to hear. so barbara, thank you so much for that. >> host: i want to get your reaction to republicans commitment to america on education policy. they want to advance the parents bill of rights, recover lost learning from school closures, expand school choice and defend fares by ensuring only when can compete in women's sports. that was part of their commitment to america that the role that before the election on education policy. your reaction tragic i agree with the first two actually. the third, school choice, i disagree with that because it's simply a way to take public dollars and invest them in private catholic and charter schools which is completely unacceptable. the women sports thing is a fear mongering a tool. is that something that is happening disproportionally around the country. this is something they're trying to weaponized to fearmonger the

american people. but they also support investing in committee, and making college more accessible and affordable to people. i support freak unity college or very, very, very and expensive commute to college. they also support workforce development which is absolutely key to making sure that we have kids prepared for a 21st century economy. as a learning loss thing is been a bit exaggerated. there was a learning stagnation because we had to close schools, but the brain is malleable. it adapts. as soon as kids get back into the swing of learning they catch up and are able to do okay. if republicans agree with that, we need to continue to invest in public schools and not take money away from the u.s. department of education. >> host: it sounded like there's a middle ground there, some compromise. >> guest: we had a hearing yesterday that one witness -- two focus on community college,

workforce development, apsley space for us to work together and invest in those thing specifically, c-span covered that hearing yesterday. we were there so if you missed it you can go to our website c-span.org. focusing on k-12 it also higher education. what was the take away? >> guest: the take away was what you just said. there is a middle ground on workforce development and community college, but also we have the governor from colorado here yesterday. he was talking about the reports of the cares act money and the american rescue plan money in terms of reopening schools safely and dealing with the issue of learning stagnation. they did very innovative and remarkable things to get additional teachers and classrooms, additional summer programming for kids, and that'll help kids to get back on track after they were shut down from the pandemic. >> host: congressman jamal bowman is our guest or two represents the 16th district

in new york, democrats serves on and workforce committee. clarence in maryland, independent. >> caller: hello, good morning. what i want to say, i told her part of this. i would you know what all he's been talking about, but i live about 50 miles from baltimore city. now, i know i'm a redneck. i am and 86-year-old redneck so want to tell you to start with. baltimore city, years ago we would go down and really enjoy ourselves. today you couldn't pay me to go down there. and it's not because, i'm telling you, there's a lot of your good black people but i'm going to tell you then cities are not safe to go in. baltimore city, i listen to the news. every day there's murder after murder, and it's black on black dirt now -- >> host: i'm going to jump in

and have the congressman respond to your. >> guest: i don't know which part to exact respond to come but what i will say is this. gun trafficking continues to be an issue in our country and those guns are often trafficked to vulnerable communities. baltimore city, like the bronx, new york, like other parts of the country haven't been invested in in several decades. we defunded education. we defunded housing. you know, guns are trafficked and drugs have been trafficked in, and this is all led to a lot of violence in certain areas, yes. but again in order to deal with the issue of public safety, we have to get to the core, get to the root of the problem. the root of the problem is poverty and lack of opportunity. one of the things the federal

government needs to do is invest more. one of the things the private sector needs to do is invest more because the investments have not been there. people who look the other way and as we have looked the other way what we have is people harming themselves and others in the self-destruction of communities. it's our responsibility as the federal government to do more on all of these issues. >> host: debbie in philadelphia democratic caller, yes, thank you. comment and in question. i didn't have a comment until the gentleman just called. i hope the first caller, the young black man, he said he was a black man, joined the group with the manager said have good black people in baltimore but anyway, i saw a documentary last night on a school in hate typing something you i don't know if you're familiar with that.

and they are trying to have that school deemed under historical society of regulation where they can't tear down, it's a black and very old black community there. and they want to keep their school because of the history of learning under segregation. and the positive results that came out of learning under segregation and how, when the integrated the school, they diminished the humanity of the black children in that school. and they talk about how today, because of how they retreated, they were treated when they were integrated that school, have the

mental capacity was affected. so if you could respond to that. >> guest: so thank you for bringing that up, debbie. what we've seen and what research has shown and what the data shows, excuse me, with school integration happened, tens of thousands of black teachers lost their jobs. that was one of the unintended consequences of integration. also happens when schools are integrated, there's this often an unconscious bias towards children of color as if they cannot perform at the same level of white children. and they are treated in that way inside those classrooms. and it becomes, and then they behave and act in the way in which they are treated.

it's often referred to its the soft bigotry of low expectations. if you have teachers who have low expectations of you simply because you are black or brown or indifferent, you'll meet those low expectations. and i believe that's what the caller was referring to, versus when we were forced to have segregated all-black schools, the teachers in that were revolutionaries. they knew would have to prepare you to be at 200%, let alone 100%. you hundred%. you got to go above and beyond, the deeper than anyone else so you can survive in america. like that was a mentality of the expectations were through the roof. we need the same expectations in every school for every child across the country. >> host: congressman jamal bowman thank you for joining us and talking to our viewers this morning. >> guest: thanks for having me.

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: 13% of the american people believe the state of our union is strong. 13%. just 16% say they're better off financially today than they were two years ago. but on tuesday night, it took president biden the most words in the history of the state of the union to declare that everything is actually going swimmingly, and he doesn't plan to change a thing. the working families who have been crushed by historic inflation because of his policies, president biden offered to cut a few dollars off the fees of concert tickets and

hotel stays they can't afford anyway. to americans who are worried that he just let a chinese spy balloon surveil our country from coast to coast, the president described his slow and unsteady reaction as a big success. to a country that is already teetering on the brink of recession because of him, president biden proposed even more gigantic new tax hikes. to the american people who are frightened and curious about surging violent crime, president biden took aim at the second amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and implied that taxpayers need to pay even more welfare spending before we can expect people not to commit murder. the president paid lip service to the obscene quantities of foreign fentanyl that flow across our open border and kill

our people, but his main border proposal was to dangle the prospect of amnesty for people who come here illegally. he repeated his broken promise not to sign tax hikes that hit the middle class when he has already hiked taxes on american jobs and american energy. the country got to hear a lecture about treating political opponents with respect from the president who lied about state voting laws and compared half the country to bull connor and jefferson davis. elect about our institutions from the president who endorsed breaking the senate so his party could grab more power. president biden expressed not one ounce of contrition or accountability for the fares that have hurt families, cost his party the house and left only 16% of americans better off financially now than they were

on inauguration day. and the president's thin and paltry discussion of his failing foreign policy was down right alarming. europe is in the grip of the couldn't none of the's worst -- continent's worst conflict since world war ii. china is gaining as the largest strategic threat to american security since the soviet union. the taliban reinstated their oppressive regime and safe terrorist haven that america and our allies chased out more than two decades ago. north korea continues to modernize its nuclear and missile programs, making steady progress towards the leader's goal of being able to deliver armageddon to our doorstep. the iranian regime continues to advance its own wmd programs while sponsoring terror campaigns all across the middle east. make no mistake, this radical regime is willing and eager to kill americans if it's not deterred.

while l religious people protest nationwide against a brutal theocracy, president biden couldn't even muster one mention of their struggle. this, mr. president, is the state of the world on president biden's watch. this, the state of america's interest under his leadership. but president biden did not even mention the grave and growing challenges we face from abroad until the tail end of his lengthy remarks. the president downplayed the threat posed by the people's republic of china and claimed, without any evidence, that the united states was in its strongest position to compete with china in decades. i'm not sure in what universe these remarks apply. here's the real world -- china's intelligence services just got a close-up look at the entire u.s. mainland. reports indicate chinese hypersonic weapons and

land-based icbm launchers exceed our own and president biden's last budget proposed cutting our national defense funding after inflation. the commander in chief seems more preoccupied with hidden resort fees than hidden chinese malware in our phones, computers, and high-tech infrastructure. and then there's ukraine. president biden says putin's invasion of ukraine has been a test of america's and our allies' resolve. that's certainly true. but like the chinese balloon, the ukraine crisis was also a test of the biden administration's response time, and they failed quite short. republicans tried to push the administration to better equip ukraine and defend itself before the tanks rolled and to act more quickly and decisively in the early weeks to try to prevent a protracted stalemate. the indecision, hand-wringing,

sluggishness have carried the heavy price indeed. the president can't even get the bully pulpit right. this is an overwhelmingly persuasive -- there is an overwhelmingly persuasive case that aiding ukraine strongly and directly serves our core american national interests. but president biden seems incapable of articulating any of it. it is top republicans who are filling the leadership vacuum, connecting the dots and making the case. yet again presidential leadership is missing in action, and it's republicans filling the void. so let's hope president biden's upcoming defense budget request will treat our national security challenges more seriously than his speech did on tuesday night. with fewer than one in five americans calling the state of our union strong, president biden needed to pivot, but he failed to.

he spent the wordiest state of the union in american history making excuses, doubling down, and spinning alter national -- alternate realties. the american people will pivot away from them, it's already started. sitting behind the president was the new speaker of the house, and following him on the airwaves was the youngest american governor, sarah huckabee sanders of arkansas. the american people know which principles and solutions solutions will bring our country back and they're seeing which party actually provides them.

i i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

mr. mr. reed: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: mr. president, i would ask to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without

objection. mr. reed: i ask unanimous consent that following the 11:00 a.m. vote today, the senate recess until 1:00 pam. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reed: mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

mr. mr. thune: mr. president. the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. thune: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: mr. president, on tuesday, president biden delivered his state of the union address to congress. in this time of divided government, i was glad to see the president making more than one nod to bipartisan. i do think this moment with power split between republicans and democrats provides an opportunity to work together to moveway from the extreme partisanship of the past couple of years and make some progress on the issues facings us. but the president's speech also left me concerned because the

president demonstrated no awareness of what actually happened as a result of his policies. indeed, at times it seemed as if the president had lived through a different reality from the one most americans have been experiencing over the past two years. the president rattled off a list of his supposed economic achievements, and i say supposed because he left out some vitally important context. he claimed credit for the historic job creation while leaving out the essential detail that a lot of that job creation was simply a result of the economy, naturalling adding back jobs temporarily lost during the pandemic. he talked about wage growth while leaving out the fact that real wages have declined -- have declined -- because of inflation over his presidency. and he appeared to take credit for the fact that inflation has declined somewhat in recent months while neglecting to mention that it was his administration and congressional

democrats who helped create our inflation crisis with their american rescue plan spend something spree. -- spendingspree. nor did the president spend any time discussing just how bad inflation still is it and how much americans are still suffering. inflation in december was 6.5%. the last time inflags was that -- inflation was that bad was in 1982. 1982. 40 years ago. i'm glad inflation has declined somewhat, but i don't think the president has a lot to be congratulating himself about. even if prices stopped increasing tomorrow, americans would still be paying thousands of dollars more over the next year to achieve the same standard of living that they had when the president took office. again, the president and congressional democrats, and their american rescue plan spending spree, bear a huge part of the responsibility for this

situation. to quote former obama economic adviser jason furman, and i quote, the original sin was an oversized american rescue plan, end quote. mr. president, another of the supposed economic achievements the president talked about on tuesday night was cutting the deficit. yes, cutting the deficit. let me quote cnn on that claim, and this is a quote, independent analysis say biden's own actions, including his laws and executive orders, have had the overall effect of adding to currents and projected future deficits, not reducing those deficits, end quote. let me just repeat that. independent analysis say biden's own actions, includes his laws and and executive orders, have had the overall effect of adding to current and projected future deficits, not reducing those

deficits. mr. president, the president failed to meaningfully address the economic crisis that his policies have helped create. instead, he spent considerable time calling for spending proposals that would cost taxpayers trillions of more dollars. he also failed to meaningfully address another crisis that's been raging over the past two years, and that's the security and humanitarian crisis at our southern border. it's a crisis that the president has spent two years ignoring. and tuesday night, he essentially ignored it again. in a speech that was notable for being the most wordy state of the union speech in the past six decades, clocking in at 9,191 words, the president devoted just 120 words, approximately one minute, to immigration. he spent a good chunk of that minute attempting to suggest

that it is congress, not he himself, that needs to act. in fact, the president's brief 120 words on immigration managed to convey the impression that the president has been trying to secure the border all along, instead of reflecting the reality that the president ignored this crisis, a crisis, i might add that he himself triggered. for two years, and only began to somewhat acknowledge it a mere month ago. the president's speech was also strikingly light on a vision for our national security, despite a war of aggression from russia, which has made its imperial ambitions very clear and continued troubling activity from china. there wasn't even a mention of iran, which continues to be the leading state sponsor of terrorism, or north korea, which just unveiled an alarming quantity of icbm's. the president devoted just nine words to the importance of modernizing our military, even

though the past year, and indeed the past week, has underscored the necessity of making sure our military is the top fighting force in the world so that we can deter and, if necessary, cob front any -- confront any threat. mr. president, while the president's speech was light onism gration and national security -- onism gration and national security solutions and recognition of the crisis his policies helped create, one thing it was not light on was the democrat playbook on taxes and spending. the democrat kept encouraging congress to, quote, finish the job. it quickly became clear that that was code for spend more taxpayer dollars. or maybe expand government. even though it was excessive government spending that helped get us into this inflation crisis in the first place. if there's one thing that became clear tuesday night it was that the president wants to have it

both ways. he wants to cut the deficit, but simultaneously expand and grow government. he celebrates made in america, but in nearly the same breath demonizes businesses. he wants to boost american innovation, but also wants to raise taxes and impose price controls. perhaps no example of this wanting to have it both ways was more telling than the president's clear believe that oil companies should increase domestic oil production, despite the fact that the president campaigned on eliminating fossil fuels. the president recounted an exchange with an oil industry representative who, representatives who told them they were reluctant to invest, because they were concerned the president would shut down oil, wells, and refineries. the president clearly intended to indicate the selfishness of big oil or big business.

but the the an ek dote did a h better job of showing that the president thinks he should get as much oil production as he wants, while simultaneously working to sunset, to get rid of, oil companies. mr. president, the president might like to have it both ways, but he can't, because policies have consequences, spending has consequences, taxation has consequences, and the result of the big government tax-and-spend policies the president laid out tuesday night would not be the prosperous future he imagine, but more economic pain for american families and businesses. any bipartisan work that we do over the next two years needs to move away from the failed policies of the past two years and toward a more fiscally responsible future. the upcoming debt limit debate represents an outstanding opportunity to take a good, hard

look at government spending and see how we can handle taxpayer dollars more responsibly. i was disappointed that despite his calls for bipartisanship, the president decided to call for a clean debt limit increase tuesday night, in other words, an increase in the nation's credit card limit on a company -- unaccompanied by any effort to stop adding to our bill. the president's attitude was all too reminiscent of democrats' partisan my way or the highway approach over the past two years, and i sincerely hope he will rethink that position. i was also disturbed by the president's attempt to suggest, falsely, that republicans are interested in paying for the debt limit increase by cutting medicare and social security. i suspect the president is well aware that that is not the position of the republican party. and his scaremongering was not

reflective of the kind of bipartisanship i hope we can achieve over the next two years. what democrats and republicans should be doing is working together to put medicare and social security on a more secure financial footing going forward. and that would be greatly helped by addressing excessive government spending and working to rein in our national debt. mr. president, i appreciated, as i said earlier, the fact that despite trotting out far too many of the same old tax-and-spending policies tuesday night, the president made a real nod towards bipartisanship. and i truly believe we can do a lot together over the next two years, from passing the farm bill to reauthorizing the federal aviation administration and improving the nation's air traffic control system to create securing more transparency and accountability from big tech.

i hope that the president's words in support of bipartisanship will be borne out by his actions in the coming months and working together we can achieve a record of achievement and help make life better for the american people. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. the clerk will call the roll. vote: .

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the presiding officer: under the previous order -- the vote was 53 with yeas, 44 nays. 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. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of the chung nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, cindy k. chung of pennsylvania to be united states circuit judge for the third circuit. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate the previous order, the senate

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