the clerk: ms. duckworth, aye.. the presiding officer: on this vote the yeah, are 95. the nays are one. and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion on to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. the clirk will report the motion

to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, 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 the nomination of executive calendar 333, lieutenant general christopher j. mahoney for appointment as assistant commandant of the marine corps and to be general signed by 18 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of lieutenant general christopher j. mahoney for appointment as assistant commandant of the marine corps, an appointment to the grade indicated while assigned to a position of importance and responsibility under title 10, usc section 601 and 844 to be general shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll.

vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet.

the clerk: mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler.

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. mr. hoeven. 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. 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: senators voting in the affirmative -- barrasso, bennet, blackburn, blumenthal, britt, brown, budd, butler, cantwell, cardin, carper, casey, cassidy, collins, coons, cornyn, cortez masto,

daines, duckworth, durbin, ernst, fisher, gillibrand, graham, hassan, heinrich, hickenlooper, hirono, hoeven, johnson, kennedy, lummis, manchin, markey, marshall, menendez, merkley, moran, mullin, murkowski, purposery, ossoff, padilla, paul, peters, reed, ricketts, risch, rosen, rounds, rubio, schmitt, schumer, shaheen, smith, tester, thune, warner, welsh, whitehouse, and wicker. no senator voted in the negative. ms. sinema, aye. mr. romney, aye. mr. van hollen, aye. mr. king, aye.

the clerk: mr. lankford, aye. mr. vance, aye.

ms. warren, aye. the clerk: mr. wyden, aye. mr. tuberville, aye. mr. hagerty, aye. mr. kelly, aye.

mr. booker, aye. mr. lujan, aye. mr. warnock, aye. mrs. capito, aye. mr. schatz, aye. mr. kaine, aye.

ms. baldwin, aye. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, aye.

the clerk: mr. murphy, aye.

the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye. mr. mcconnell, aye.

vote: the clerk: mr. grassley, aye. mr. fetterman, aye. the clerk: mr. crapo, aye.

the clerk: mr. young, aye. mr. boozman, aye.

the clerk: mr. sanders, aye.

mr. hawley, aye. the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are 91, the nays are zero and the motion is agreed to. the clerk will record the nominations. the clerk: nomination, lieutenant general christopher j. mahoney for appointment of assistant commandant of the marine corps and to be general. mr. reed: madam president. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. reed: i know of no debate on the nominees. -- nomination. the presiding officer: is there

further debate? hearing none, the question is on the nomination. all those in favor say aye. opposed -- is there a sufficient second? there is a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin.

mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler. 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. mr. hoeven. 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. 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. senators voting in the affirmative -- baldwin, barasso, blackburn, blumenthal, boozman, britt, brown, budd, butler, capito, casey, collins, cortez masto, crapo, daines, durbin, fischer, graham, grassley, hagerty, hassan, hawley, heinrich, hickenlooper, hirono, johnson, kelly, kennedy, king, klobuchar, lujan, lummis, manchin, marshall, menendez, mullin, murray, padilla, reed,

ricketts, romney, rounds, rubio, sanders, shaheen, smith, stabenow, sullivan, tuberville, vance, warnock, warren, whitehouse, wyden, and young. no senator voted in the negative. mr. mcconnell, aye. mr. tester, aye.

the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye. mr. cardin, aye. mr. welch, aye. aye. mr. ossoff, aye.

mr. peters, aye. mr. lankford, aye. mr. carper, aye.

the clerk: mr. hoeven, aye. the clerk: mr. murphy, aye. the clerk: mr. thune, aye.

mr. schatz, aye.

the clerk: mr. cassidy, aye. the clerk: ms. sinema, aye.

the clerk: mr. warner, aye.

the clerk: ms. ernst, aye. the clerk: mr. merkley, aye.

the clerk: ms. murkowski, aye.

the clerk: mr. cornyn, aye.

the clerk: mr. schumer, aye.

the clerk: mr. van hollen, aye.

the clerk: mr. bennet, aye.

the clerk: mr. risch, aye.

the clerk: ms. duckworth, aye. ms. rosen, aye. vote:

the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, aye. the clerk: mr. booker, aye.

the clerk: mr. kaine, aye.

the clerk: ms. cantwell, aye.

the clerk: mr. coons, aye.

vote:

the presiding officer: the yeas are 86. the nays are zero. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is made -- is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action.

a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. ms. duckworth: thank you, mr. president. i've come to the floor today to honor one of the fiercest advocates for illinois i've ever known, cameron youst. i've had the privilege of working with cameron for the past seven years now, and other that time she has been my state director, my campaign manager, my sounding board, and perhaps most importantly, my friend. it's hard to find the words to express what cam has meant to both my office and to me. she's an expert in everything from the nuance politics in the small towns to nap dresses. she can tell you every detail of how the latest bill for a vote here in d.c. will affect chicagoans and she can plan the most fon netically perfect campaign r.v. tour that illinois has ever seen with ten passengers on board ranging in

age from 4 to 81 and lasting over two weeks. but most of all, she is our team's moral compass. you know, all too often when people think of american service, they only think of military service. but the truth is, service in this country isn't just limited to picking up a rifle to defend our democracy. american service also means picking up a soup spoon to feed the less fortunate, a hammer to rebuild a home destroyed by a wildfire, or in cam's case, picking up a pen and a notebook and going to work day after day trying to better the lives of all those who call illinois home. striving to ensure that they have access to the health care, education, snap benefits, you name it that they deserve. pushing to help families recover from flooding on the mississippi river, to help parents in cairo to get access to the safe and affordable housing the kids deserve, to help afghan refugees and their loved ones. ever dedicated to serving others in every way she could through

it all she's had one enduring trait. she is a problem solver. i'll never forget the first day i met her. president obama was flying back to springfield to deliver a speech and i was lucky enough to catch a ride on air force one with the president and a few other members of the illinois delegation. but one thing that i knew and my colleagues does not -- did not is that it was a oneway ticket on air force one. they were not flying us back which no one else except for myself realized. one by one my colleagues came up to me in the illinois state senate chamber and they asked if they knew that air force one wasn't going back to d.c. and did i know how was i going to get back to d.c. making the two-hour drive to stl flight i told them and one by one my colleagues followed up with oh, well, in that case can i catch a ride with you? of course, i said yes but i wasn't the one in charge of logistics or the driving. my schedule in d.c. quickly reached out to one of our brand new staffers, the staffer's

first day on the job but she was based nearby and had a car. a toyota corolla. that was how cameron learned not only would she be meeting me the first time that afternoon but would also be in charge of driving four members of congress or roughly a quarter of the entire illinois delegation, the hundred miles across state lines and oh, yeah, it was in the middle of a snowstorm and we were all the female members of the illinois delegation. so somehow she got us there. somehow she didn't lose a single one of us and we didn't make it easy for her. that tells you a lot of what you need to know about cam, nerves of steel. she can handle whatever you throw at her, always doing so with the best of intentions and biggest of smiles and in the next few weeks, cam will be moving on to help elite illinois' department of commerce and economic opportunity where she will continue her career-long mission of looking out for others. and while i'm sad that our office will no longer have cam to ourselves, i am so, so excited to see all the good that she is about to do in springfield.

cam, i could go on for hours about all the accomplishments as state director but know this. you have made a difference. you have changed lives. and you have probably saved lives. through your efforts, through your leadership, countless veterans have received the vital health care and benefits that they have earned. countless families have gotten the social security checks she desperately needed or reunited with loved ones who were stranded across borders or have gained access to a hot meal and a warm bed. you have made illinois proud. you have made us all proud. i will miss you dearly but i can't wait to follow your next steps. no longer as your boss but as your biggest fan and i hope that you will forever be willing to give me a ride in the middle of a snowstorm. i yield back. and i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

the clerk: ms. baldwin.

quorum call:

to the month frustration. tommy to provoke president biden's nominees driving colleagues urging senators to make action and the impasse. the associate press this morning report tuberville of alabama stood to nominee during the four hours -- mr. lankford: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: i understand the senate is in a qerk. dis -- quorum call, i ask to dispense the quorum call. the presiding officer: without

objection. mr. lankford: mr. whitaker was nominated to be the faa administrator. i support that, this body has had a churn to look at faa administrators, and they have been able to put someone very qualified forward. oklahoma has a special relationship with the faa and have for 70 years, for 70 years the mike maroney headquarters has been in oklahoma city for aeronautical. it establishes things like how to do testing, research, occupational health wing, medical certification, a lot of education that happens there for airspace, air mobility is being tested there. is 1100 acres on 133 buildings

on the airport site in oklahoma city. it is one of the hidden jewels of the united states there is oklahoma city, as many of our states has different tasks that's there, oklahoma city is very proud to be a leader in aviation for the country. there's a vital component that is the faa academy. most people don't think about the air traffic controllers in the tower, but when you fly in any airport in the country, the folks in that tower were trained in oklahoma city. it's the academy, it's the first 60 days of training and it's done consistently, because no matter where an air trafficker controller goes, you want them to have the same consistent training in every location they go to so whoever they work next to in the tower, they have been trained in the same way in the basics. that academy is important to set the standard for all the basics in air traffic control and then they advance to the next level to get out on the job and to be

trained by the folks in the towers. it is incredibly important as a task. now, for years that academy has trained literally every single person that the faa has sent them. there hasn't been a time where they said, you can't someone else. in fact right now we need more air traffic controllers, luckily the mike maloney aeronautical training is ready to go. they can expand and double in size if we wanted to double the number of air traffic controllers across the country, we can do it. the challenge has been to get enough students to actually do it to get the training, not actually training space or trainers. i would say oklahoma city is proud of that heritage, we're grateful to mike whitaker and we look forward to him being back in oklahoma city, he has been in oklahoma city multitimes in previous tasks he has had --

multiple times in previous tasks he has had and i look forward to a lot more folks to be air traffic controllers in the days ahead because our trainers and the folks that are there are ready to put more folks in more towers. i will yield and i ask to put a separate speech in a separate part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lankford: mr. president, lots of conversations happening right now about border security. rightfully so. it's not news in this chamber or nationwide. the number also that increase in people crossing the border that are not legal. millions of them in the past three years have crossed the border asking for asylum. now, a lot of folks have said, we want to help people all over the world, we are the united states of america. that's who we are. i would say, i agree. we're the united states of america and we're dominantly

made up of immigrants in our country. that's a good thing and it's a strength of this culture that we have of people who want to succeed, work hard and be able to contribute to their neighbors and their families. let's draw them from all over the world. but things have significantly changed. americans see it on the headlines in the news, but they may not understand how significant the change has been. if i go back to 2010, ancient history, 2010, that year we had 21,000 people cross our southern border and ask for asylum that year. 21,000 in the year 2010. we now have 21,000 asking for asylum in three days now. there's a huge sift. what has occurred is that the cartels have found a gap in our

law, a gap in our laws that not new, it's being exploited in a new way. they are recruiting people worldwide and say i can get you into america for a fee and they're asking people worldwide to give them thousands of dollars, they will get them across the border, teach them the magic words to say, i have fear in my country, that meets the minimal threshold, no matter how many countries they have been through, we allow them in to get to an immigration judge. than line currently in new york is ten yearlong to get to a judge. so they wait ten years to get to a judge on the first stage and then the next stage, it could be up to 20 years now with a backlog before they get an answer to the question, are you eligible for asylum. by the way, statistics show the vast majority are not eligible

for asylum, everyone knows the joke. but there's a gap in our law that is being exploited by cartels. how can i say this so certainly? well, canada closed that gap two decades ago. canada also saw the same gap that was being exploited there and so they made a simple change in their law, that is, if you have crossed in another safe country and then come to canada and want to ask for asylum, they'll just respond to you, you should have asked in the previous country. that's the international standard, by the way. it's not crazy. that's actually normal. you see, asylum is the same as fiewng stampus -- riewj status. it's -- refugee status. a refugee flees and gets and says to the u.n. i have fear of my country and if they do they share them all over the world including here. asylum seekers are on the same

standard. they're supposed to go to the next safe place, get there, and request asylum. that is the international standard, but we don't do that here. can i give you more evidence? so far this year we had 45,000 people from india that have crossed our southern border, paid or cartels, crossed into our country and said they have fear in their country from india. they take about four flights to be able to get to mexico, the closest airports and then take a bus rented by the cartels up to the border to be dropped off for their last delivery. just about everyone in the world has shifted on this except for us. we're literally inviting people from all over the world to exploit our system. i am a tall fences wide gates

person. i think we need good border security so we know who is coming in but have wide gates so we are open to legal immigration and say we want the interchange of people all over the world to come here, work here, grow their families here and invest in the future of america. but when we're encouraging illegal immigration, that is a real threat to us as a country. don't just take my word for it, ask mayors all over america. they'll tell you. they don't know what to do with the people who are coming. this is not a red state-blue state issue, whether they're people in new york city who are saying make it stop or whether it's areas in sowsdzern texas -- southern texas or arizona. none of those folks are opposed to immigration. they're opposed to illegal immigration. what everyone knows is an

exploitation of the system. we should fix the system. this is more than dollars. it's been a lot of conversation in this body lately, we'll add more money to it. they just need more dollars. well, i would say not only do i not agree with that, secretary mayorkas, the head of homeland security doesn't agree with that. this week on wednesday of this week he released an opinion piece published in "the washington post," which i would encourage every one of these members be able to read. there you go, you heard a republican say, read "the washington post," it's a new day. if you read that opinion piece from secretary mayorkas, in it he calls the funding request for dhs a tourniquet saying what they really need is a change in law to be able to make a difference for what's happening on the southern border. it's not dollars that are needed. it's policy changes that are

needed. both this administration enforcing different policies, but also us fixing obvious gaps. around 6,000 people are crossing the border illegally. 6,000 is the current number. half of those are released under something called withholding. i would dare say most of the folks in this room and of the five people watching c-span right now, most of those folks are not familiar with the term withholding. withhold something a new things exploited by the cartels. it's another gap in our system like asylum is. it says basically, hey i'm not afraid of asylum necessarily, but i'm afraid of violence in my country, i want to go to an immigration judge and as soon as they say that, they end up in a line that is 10 to 20 years to get to an immigration judge. once they're in, they snap a

picture of the new document they have, send is it back to their family, i paid this cartel, said these words and i'm in the country. everybody else comes from there. we should fix this gap if we know there's a problem. why? because it's just being exploited in sheer numbers. es it's because we don't know who the folks are. many of the folks that are coming to work and connect with family, i get that. they should come through a legal route and we should encourage them to be able to do that. but some of these folks are not coming for good. in the past year, 150 people were picked up that are on our terror watch list coming across our southern border. that is more than the last five years combined. just in the past year. and those are the people we picked up. this past year over a million people crossed our border that literally the border patrol could see in the desert but couldn't get to. we have no idea for those million. they weren't turning themselves in like some other folks are. they are in camo and running

from border patrol. and right now border patrol can't get to them because they're processing so many other folks, they don't have the manpower to do it. so the conversation is let's add more manpower. the problem still remains. we may have more manpower but we still have millions of people crossing and mayors all over the country saying make it stop. we want a legal process to go through. there is a way to be able to do this. and we should. in the past two years 70,000 people in the last two years have been released into the country considered by dhs special interest aliens. these are folks from syria, from iran, from iraq, from other areas of known terrorism. they weren't on our terror watch list, but we don't have any criminal records for them, but where they're from and their

specific areas caused national concerns. what happened to those folks? those 70,000 were released into our country awaiting a hearing ten years from now. that's what happened to them. because the system is being gamed. if there's any lesson we should have learned from 9/11, we're -- where 19 people that were not legally present in the country killed thousands of americans, it should be we've got to been to manage legal immigration, to encourage meeting immigration, discourage illegal immigration. it's an issue i talked about over and over again in this body but it's an issue that continues to rise in the hearts and the minds of the american people because more people are feeling it nationwide and in more states and they're just asking a simple question, and they usually catch me and say a simple statement. i'm not anti-immigrant. i just want it to be legal. that shouldn't seem like a radical idea to a body that

makes law that we would want things to be legal in america. but for whatever roarch, it's become more and more challenging -- whatever reason, it's become more and more challenging to just follow the law and to make clear law. one other thing. the administration a year ago, just last week, put in a new venezuela policy, the one-year anniversary of it. they put a new venezuela policy where they would limit access to only a certain number. they did see a decline a year ago for a couple of months. but if you go back to october of last year, we had 22,000 people that were crossing from venezuela a month. if you look at september of this year, we had 66,000 people from venezuela crossing a month. the venezuela policy didn't work. so you know what the administration did in october? they started actually returning people back to venezuela if they

crossed. and said you're not eligible for asylum. within days the number of venezuelans trying to cross the border plummeted. just enforcing the law changes dramatically the policy. and the reality on the ground. right now border patrol and cbp are processing people that they know are a threat to the united states. they know. when i vimpted with bored -- visit with border patrol, they will often say to me i picked up a person between ports of intli that was running, 25 years old with two other 20 somethings all dressed in camo in the night trying to get across. we encountered them within 24 hours they were released. and they're nervous. because they have no idea where they're going or what they're

going to do. and as law enforcement, they did their best to interdict, but the current policy just releases them into the country anyway. that's not right. this body should find a way to be able to solve the border crisis and not just ignore it. we should be able to come together and figure this out. our country is at risk. this is a national security issue. not to mention drugs and everything else that the border patrol can't go interdict because they're processing so many migrants at this time. it's not that migrants are going everywhere and i've heard it a lot. there's migrants all over the world. that's true. but the folks that are coming here because it's the greatest country in the world, and i don't blame them for coming here, but let's encourage them to do it legally, not through a process that we all know is being gamed and is illegal. let's empower those families to be able to move here if they fit

who we are as americans and that value and they passed their background checks. let's invite them to be a part of us as americans. let's not have the person screening people coming into the country, the cartels in mexico because that's who is currently controlling our immigration policy are the mexican cartels, not us. that should not be so. and i would hope this body would work in the very short period of time in the days ahead to resolve that. with that i yield the floor.

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mr. schumer: mr. president. mr. schumer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 372. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it.

the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, department of health and human services, monica m. bertagnolli of massachusetts to be director of the national institutes of health. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of executive calendar number 372, monica m. bertagnolli of massachusetts to be director of the national institutes of health, signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. schumer: i send a -- i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 28.

the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. kenly kiya kato of california to be united states district judge for the central district of california. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: cloture motion, 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 the nomination of executive calendar number 28, kenly kiya kato of california to be united states district judge for the central district of california signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. schumer: i ask consent the reading of the names be wavered. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: i move to proceed

to executive session to consider calendar number 36. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: cloture motion, -- nomination. julia e. kobick of massachusetts to be united states district judge for the district of massachusetts. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: cloture motion, 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 the nomination of executive calendar number 36, julia e. kobick of massachusetts to be united states district judge for the district of massachusetts signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. schumer: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye.

all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 38. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. ramon ernesto reyes, jr. of new york to be united states district judge for the eastern district of new york. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion, 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 the nomination of executive calendar number 38, ramon ernesto reyes, jr. of new york to be united states district judge for the eastern district of new york, signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. schumer: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: finally i ask

unanimous consent the mandatory quorum calls for the cloture motions filed today, november 2, be waived. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the senate consider the following nominations, all nominations on the secretary's desk in the air force, army, marine corps, navy and space force, that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order to any of the nominations and that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i have six 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. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar 197,

s. 1973. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 19 , s. 19 3, a bill to require the purchase of domestically made flags of the united states of america for use by the federal government. the presiding officer: is there an objection proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. schumer: i further ask the committee-reported amendment be considered and agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar 52 s. con. res. 7. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 52, s. con. res., condemning russia's unjust and arbitrary detention of russian opposition leader vladimir kara-murza and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed. mr. schumer: i further ask the

committee-reported substitute amendment to the concurrent resolution be withdrawn, the cardin substitute amendment at the desk to the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the concurrent resolution as amended be agreed to, the committee-reported substitute amendment to the preamble be withdrawn, the cardin substitute amendment at the desk to the preamble be agreed to, the preamble as amended be agreed to 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. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the committee on veterans' affairs be discharged from further consideration of s. 656, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 656, a bill to amend title 38 united states code and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent 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. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on veterans' affairs be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 1226 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 1226, an act to amend title 38 united states code to allow for the electronic request of certain records and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 3222 introduced earlier today by senator klobuchar. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 3222, a bill to ensure the security of office

space rented by senators and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. schumer: i further ask the bill be considered read three times and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i understand there is a bill at the desk and i 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. 340, an act to impose sanctions with respect to foreign support for terrorist organizations, including hamas and the palestinian islamic jihad. mr. schumer: i now ask for a second reading and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule 14, i object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the bill will receive its second reading on the next legislative day. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate now

proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following senate resolutions introduced earlier today. s. res. 447, s. res. 448, s. res. 449. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measures en bloc? without objection. mr. schumer: i know of no further debate on the resolutions en bloc. the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not all those in favor say aye. all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the resolutions are agreed to en bloc. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that 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. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 499 and senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 499, a bill to amend the dna analysis back lock

elimination act of 2000, and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the committee is discharged and senate will proceed. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the cornyn amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask that the bill be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i know of no further debate on the bill as amended. the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not all those in favor say aye, all opposed say nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the bill as amended is passed. mr. schumer: i finally ask that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it stand adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, november 6. that following the prayer and pledge, the journal of

proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour deemed expired, 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 the bertagnolli nomination. that the cloture motions filed ripen at 5:30 p.m. on monday. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. schumer: if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate of the united states of america stands adjourned until

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