that was phase two and got us from $1 million in phase one to tense of millions of dollars in phase two. and then we said, okay, that's a nice, you know, a good step in the right direction, but what else can we do. and, you know, we came up with a bunch of ideas, sold a bunch of ideas and amc for carbon removal was one of the ideas that we couldn't kill, and that led us to frontier. i think it's a combination of in the long run stripe is in the business of growth, economic can we incurow changes -- and in the short-ter- >> backhe now live to the u.s. senate where lawmakers are expected to vote on a judicial nomination this afternoon. a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote:

the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. the clerk: 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. helmy. 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. 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 -- baldwin, cantwell, cardin, carper, casey, collins, coons, cortez masto, duckworth, hassan, heinrich, helmy, hickenlooper, kaine, kelly, lujan, markey, merkley, murray, ossoff, padilla, peters, schatz, shaheen, sinema, smith, stabenow, tester, warner, warnock, warren, welch, and wyden. senators voting in the negative -- barrasso, cornyn, cotton, daines, ernst, fisher, grassley, hyde-smith, lee, marshall, mcconnell, mullin, ricketts, schmitt, and thune.

the clerk: mr. reed, aye. mrs. capito, no. mr. bennet, aye.

the clerk: mr. van hollen, aye. mrs. gillibrand, aye.

the clerk: ms. rosen, aye.

the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. ms. klobuchar, aye. mr. tillis, no.

the clerk: mr. graham, no. vote:

the clerk: mr. moran, no.

mr. scott of florida, no. mr. braun, no. mr. schumer, aye.

the clerk: mr. durbin, aye. mr. fetterman, aye. the clerk: mr. johnson, no.

the clerk: mr. cassidy, no.

the clerk: mr. hoeven, no. mr. boozman, no.

the clerk: mr. paul, aye.

the clerk: mr. king, aye. mr. booker, aye. mr. murphy, aye.

the clerk: ms. lummis, no.

the clerk: mr. tuberville, no. the clerk: mr. cramer, no. the clerk: mr. young, no.

the clerk: mr. risch, no. vote:

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

the clerk: mr. cruz, no. mr. kennedy, no.

the clerk: mrs. britt, no.

the clerk: ms. murkowski, aye.

the clerk: mr. plank ford, no. -- mr. lankford, no.

the clerk: mr. wicker, no.

the clerk: mr. scott of south carolina, no.

the clerk: mr. brown, aye.

the clerk: mr. manchin, aye. vote:

the clerk: mr. budd, no. the clerk: mr. budd, no.

they are struggling because of the crises, created. a lifetime because of failed , economic facing ranging border crisis that has devastated american communities because of kamala harris is rolled and joe biden's open borders are and a week of

policy is punishing the world into a state of chaos we cannot afford four more years of failure and weakness under kamala harris. this week house republicans will bring bills to combat biden harris of the appeasement that has emboldened. i wanted touch on the oversight committee hearing members of select committee was long overdue answers in the habitable against the committee and cover formal himself and senior aide and execute the deadly nursing home feeling over 16000 seniors. the former governor and top aides during of guilt in an

attempt to to selfishly save the reputation. governor cuomo is responsible for the death of nursing home seniors. i want to turn it over to john and then we will hear from mike and the rest of the leadership. >> thank you and good morning, everyone. what you think the leadership training two dozen bills competition and ccp that on from the american heartland. the speaker has been supportive the boat confidence in the next congress. recommendations are included along with important legislation from the house foreign affairs

committee led by the standing committee and the greatest threat to american national security. instead of by defending our values reducing the parties leverage of the united states. congress will take action to secure our supply chain from electric to critical infrastructure chinese communist party wants to make us dependent on companies subject in the direction. legislation will take steps to advance leverage over critical supply and success american technology. we need to stem the flow american technology are adversary drinking export

controls. legislation brought up by the select committee china prevents accountability and close loopholes permitting the flow of sensitive technology. most important, spent our values. this week defend human rights in hong kong and the counter aligned influence around the world. this week will draw a line in the sand with one voice u.s. congress she she he is far for the thank you for bringing his fourth the german the ball. >> i want to thank speaker johnson drove particularly for inviting will start families today for presentation and on

behalf of their children classify suicide bomber and it didn't have to have. honoring their sacrifice in those families. we've been working three years but really to. the first year democrats were empowered and did nothing to investigate the events and what happened that day. after this comprehensive investigation witnesses and documents, it's not political bias. my investigator before you

criticize it, read it. we made our case. we didn't draw conclusions. we built a case all the way up and what we found was quite disturbing. we found on day one joe biden and care about the agreement and that agreement had placed cannot attack u.s. forces. they cannot protect al qaeda which they were doing. it was protected in afghanistan so when they read president

trump will is violation, will keep 2500 troops was 6500 nato contractors. on day one president biden comes into office with a political agenda. i campaign promise and a built-in timeline to withdraw for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. had nothing to do with policy or national security. everything to do with political timeline. for those who say factored into the president's team, i would refer you, immaterial to this evacuation, hell-bent to figure

out. all here counter and intelligence pulling out of afghanistan leaving the afghan army defenseless. state department is charged with evacuation plan they didn't have a plan. they didn't initiate the plan until the day the taliban couple on their way to the embassy runs airport and leaves employees of the embassy including the afghans to promise we will protect the taliban, thousands of classified documents and

passwords burned most important thousands of isis k prisoners, the worst of the worst released far from bottom. all of the afghan partners and go through the taliban to decide if they can get through. for the arts they will let you through? the suicide bomber the checkpoint and then kill 13 investment and women but it

didn't have to have it because there's a plan, there is chaos. that time that day, sure enough. 170 afghans killed, 45 afghan personnel a massive blast that didn't have to happen. first of all, we need to fix this. this will never happen again

like pompeo did open a crisis open to this the biden shutdown discount the office it was designed to protect. we will bring that back in legislation. where are we? project weakness and conflict in the war. they're becoming allies, xi jinping threatening the taiwan and south pacific in the ayatollah and hamas has 50 rebels threatening is not

separated, it's all ties together. i throw can join in their as well. they and this whole nightmare when you take failed foreign policy and connected to a broken border policy. what you get? when you release thousands of k afghanistan, and external operations. those are the ones coming into the united states and they got

through the p1 of released society later to be caught by the fbi. god knows how many were in this. >> yesterday hakeem jeffries democrat leaders sent a letter. house democrats will have consistently will people over politics. i would like to correct the record. house democrats gently put illegal immigrants over a lot abiding american citizens. proof of citizenship voter

registration and remove noncitizens from order rules. savings here all over the country. the harris biden administration issued a veto threat claiming this legislation is unnecessary. if that's true, why are they afraid of making the same law? can have it both ways. the common sense bill quote was and build american people are fools, they can the lines. the grand design. democrats would rather shut the government down and stop them

voting in federal elections. there is evidence that shows noncitizens have made their way minds this is about the american people and 87% of american citizens agree proof of citizenship a requirement before registering to vote. partisan and extreme. the american people call it common sense. >> extraordinary issues and either of them could go all morning and we address just have a couple we are supposed to be

in the rotunda for the gold-medal reward ceremony and i'm grateful we are doing that. we will be honoring the lives of 13 members killed by terrorists. they lost their lives because of this administration's catastrophic withdrawal from afghanistan. they are unavoidable in the administration has failed these families and joe biden and kamala harris have not even have the courtesy to this day say the names of the we are going to do that, all of them give them gold-medal and let us the highest honor we can bestow. they are taking important measures.

this is something we must do. i was recently with our earners in the speaker meeting and our allied nations are deeply concerned about what china is doing and they look to us for leadership. we are the last superpower on the earth to take action. a moment of silence campuswide. 8:46 a.m. we are reminded on week like this will honor gold-medal families and remember september 11 freedom is precious and people willing to devote and offer their lives in service should be honored. we had a good meeting and

thoughtful discussion with the house republicans. let me explain briefly and simply why i think this is appropriate. we to chimeric response abilities right now and that is to responsibly fund the government and do everything within our constitutional authority to ensure that free and fair election, everyone in this country is concerned about the. i've been traveling the country nonstop. i've done campaign and large events in 198 cities across the united states to coast from washington state and miami maine to california and all in between, it doesn't matter where i am what public form, every single time was without exception every time i've open the audience questions states and red states, big cities and

rural america, worried about this. we have to do we can get a response to one of the immediate threats. they say it's not a problem, it is against federal law and so is minors buying alcohol but we still require identification to do it. why? is because something is on the, it doesn't mean people comply. integral a signal box say i'm 21, that's not how it works, it's not logical. to require the states to request -- will be immediately notified of the senate's action. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to legislative session.

the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. 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 number 649. 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, the judiciary, kevin gafford ritz of tennessee to be united states circuit judge for the sixth circuit. 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 649, kevin gafford ritz of tennessee to be united states circuit judge for the sixth circuit, signed by 17 senators as followed. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk -- sorry, i

ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum call for the -- be waived. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. schumer: mr. president, as if in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 807 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution, 807, to constitution the majority party's membership on certain committees where the 118th congress or until their successors are chosen. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding with the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, 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: i yield the floor and -- oh, excuse me. i do not yield the floor as of yet. i have two, mr. president, i

have two 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: i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin.

a quorum call:

is yet again wasting time. that we have to fund the government and appeal to the right wing and the narrow partisan ideology things they can force everybody, even republicans alone democrats and the president but of course it

doesn't happen. a bipartisan agreement. it is certainly groundhog day again and repeat the same mistake over and over again. as i've said, we seen this play out time and time again, is it any surprise it's purely partisan. the house should stop wasting time on the proposal that cannot become law. the house should stop wasting it's time gathering together among themselves, not even all of them being together until without consulting hakeem jeffries myself or the president. it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

instead they should work on a bipartisan package, input from both sides. because proposal is not entirely bad news. because johnson's proposals held on in a bipartisan topline spending agreement that i reached with the speaker earlier this year. how he produce will have to include. not serious to kick the can down the road for six months funding the government. the most basic responsibility we have in congress so to say let's

hold off should be a nonstarter. risks through a and efforts to outcompete the chinese government. you cannot run an army and put everything on hold for six months and allow for russia and the chinese government to gain on them, it's that simple. the head of the joint chief sent a letter that said just that. it's not serious for the against to say i want to pass vcr and fails to extend verify and other border security programs that stop drugs like mental and talk about the border the fundamental

ways we took the enforcement on the border and e-verify, they ignore. a shows how political this document is, particularly agree just the beakers own proposal disbands critical law enforcement effort to stop drug smuggling, money laundering but it keeps going, it doesn't end there. it's not. as for wilkins and he forgets fund to fund critical help program. an telehealth will be armed and we know how important it is for rural america and made healthcare better, cheaper and more effective. they need medical help. senate

quorum call? the presiding officer: it is. mr. thune: i would ask unanimous consent the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: mr. president, it's no secret that democrats increasingly subdescribe to the philosophy if you don't like the way the game is going, you change the rules. we've seen it in striking fashion with the supreme court. democrats respond to pretty much every supreme court decision that they don't like these days with claims not just that the court's decision was wrong but that the court itself is ill legitimate. as the president made clear with the release of his de facto court-packing plan this summer, if democrats are elected, we can confidently expect them to lose no time in remaking the court to their liking to ensure they get the policy outcomes that they want. but of course the supreme court is not the only institution the democrats have a problem with. democrats are also frustrated they haven't gotten a blank check for their far-left

priorities in the senate. and so if democrats win in november, they intend to change the rules of the senate specifically the filibuster rule to ensure that they can steamroll through their plans to remake the government and the country. the democrat leader made that very explicit last month at the democrat national convention when he said that his party would change the rules to pass democrats' so-called voting rights legislation, more accurately described as a federal takeover of elections designed to give democrats a permanent electoral advantage. he also indicated that his conference would move to change the rules to pass abortion legislation. prance democrats' bill to codify abortion up until the moment of birth. really the only question remaining seems to be whether democrats will abolish the filibuster completely or just render it meaningless by carving

out exemptions for all democrats' most cherished priorities. mr. president, i've spoken on the floor more than once about the importance of the filibuster. the founders intended the senate to be a counter balance to the house. it was designed as a more stable, nor thoughtful -- more thoughtful and more deliberative legislative body to consider or to check, i should say ill-considered or intemperate legislation or tyranny by the majority. and as time has gone on, the legislative fig buster is the senate -- filibuster is the senate rule that has had perhaps the greatest impact in preserving the founders' vision of the senate. the filibuster acts as a check on imprudent or highly partisan legislation. it forces discussion and compromise ensures that americans whose party is not in power also have a voice in congress. as one senator said a few years ago when abolishing the filibuster was under

consideration, he said, and i quote, folks who want to see this change want to eliminate one of the procedural mechanisms designed for the express purpose of guaranteeing individual rights and would undermine the protections of the minority point of view in the heat of majority excess. that senator was joe biden. or as another senator once said when a change to the phil buster rule was under discussion, and i quote, the bottom line is very simple. the ideologues in the senate want to turn what the founding fathers called the cooling saucer of democracy into the rubber stamp of dictatorship. they want because they can't get their way to change the rules in midstream, to wash away 200 years of history. they want to make this country interest a ban -- into a banana republic where if you don't get your way, you change the rules. it will be a doomsday for

democracy if we do. end quote. it will be a doomsday for democracy if we do. the senator who said that, of course, was the current democrat leader of the senate. the same leader who has announced that his party will, quote, change the rules in midstream, end quote, to force through democrats' priorities. mr. president, i suppose the democrat leader could have chad a change of -- could have had a change of heart. this once fierce defender of the filibuster could have become convinced that the filibuster no longer serves a useful purpose. but if that's what this is, if this is truly a principled change, then i would like to hear the democrat leader endorse the abolition of the filibuster if republicans win the election. would also like to hear him argue that a republican congress and republican president should be able to force through every legislative priority republicans want whether that's a real

border security legislation or a ban on killing unborn children past the point in a pregnancy where they can feel pain. i suspect, however, that the democrat leader has not had this change of heart. in fact, i suspect that if president trump wins the election, republicans take the house and the senate, the democrat leader will be happy to use the filibuster to check republican legislation just as he did during president trump's first term. fundamentally enough, i don't recall hearing much from democrats about the need to abolish the filibuster back then. in fact, 32 democrats including then-senator kamala harris signed a letter in april of 2017 calling on senate leadership to preserve, preserve the legislative filibuster. in short, mr. president, it's pretty clear that the democrat leader's change of heart isn't in principle.

it's political expediency. democrats believe that the rules should apply when they serve the aims of the democrat party and that the rules should be abolished whenever they interfere with democrats' far-left agenda. mr. president, if democrats abolish the filibuster, in whole or in part, it would, to quote the current democrat whip, be the end of the senate as it was originally devised and created going back to our founding fat fathers. end quote. the minority party in the senate and in the country would no longer have any meaningful voice in legislation. the loss of the filibuster would also create legislative whiplash with one party passing all its most controversial proposals when it has unified power in washington and then the other party undoing all of that legislation and passing its own proposals when it gains unified

power. to say that that kind of legislative instability would be bad for our country is an understatement. sharp changes in federal policy every few years would mean endless confusion for americans. and could spell serious trouble for the economy. and, mr. president, abolishing the filibuster would not only be bad for our country, i suspect democrats would regret it on their own behalf. and sooner rather than later. i realize the democrats have hopes that if they pass their so-called voting rights legislation, it will help them stay in power. but surely, surely democrats don't believe that they can maintain a permanent hold on government. there have been some pretty robust senate -- jorpts in american history but sooner or later, power has always shifted.

and when it inevitably does, democrats are likely to bitterly regret the loss of the legislative filibuster. democrats have already had cause to regret the loss of the filibuster for traditional nominations. more than one democrat senator has openly admitted are he greating -- regretting the democrats' move to abolish the filibuster for judges and other nominees. they ought to take a lesson from that. and if democrats have the incredibly naive idea that they can? how preserve the bill fuster by simply creating a carve-out for their top legislative priorities, they should think again. the unravelling of the filibuster for judicial nominees should be a lesson to both parties on how well weakening the filibuster or creating a filibuster carve-out would work. democrats carve the out a filibuster exception for

executive and judicial nominees. and republicans when they got power took it to its logical conclusion. a legislative filibuster carve-out would be the end of the legislative filibuster, period. mr. president, it's become disturbingly clear that the democrat party is committed to getting its way in whatever way it can, no matter how many institutions it damages or how many rules it breaks in the process. i would hope that at least some of my democrat colleagues might think about the fact that their operating principle of the rules t don't apply to us is more associated with despites than -- despots than democratic republics and that they would put the long-term health of our country and our institutions above short-term partisan game.

mr. president, i yield the floor. and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin.

quorum call:

we've seen it with the court, every court decision like late claiming the decision was wrong with the court itself is illegitimate. the president made clear with the release of his court packing plan if democrats are elected and remaking it to ensure they get policy outcome what they want so of course the supreme court is not the only institution they have problem with. democrats are frustrated they haven't got up late check and

democrats went in november they will change the rules of the senate to quickly the filibuster rule in short we can go to their plans to remake the government and the country. they made the explicit last month in the national convention in the rules to pass democrats voting rights legislation described as a federal takeover designed to get democrats electoral advantage. change the rules to pass the abortion legislation democrats and the only remaining whether they will abolish the filibuster clearly or render it meaningless carving out for all cherished

priorities. i've spoken on the floor more than once about the importance of the filibuster. the founders intent the senate to be a counterbalance to the house designed as a stable thoughtful deliberative body to consider intemperate legislation or tierney by the majority. the legislative filibuster has had the greatest impact preserving the founders in the senate. check for highly partisan legislation that forces discussion and optimize one senator said you years ago abolishing the filibuster under

consideration look similar to see this to eliminate the mechanisms designed for the purpose of guaranteeing individuals fighting and point of view assess. with joe biden's formula to underwent said the filibuster slowly under discussion in the bottom line simple. the ideologues want to turn the democracy into the rubberstamp of they want because they can't get their way, to change the rules and 200 years of history and make this country into a banana republic or if you quote don't pua, you don't rules. doomsday for democracy if we do.

for democracy. senator said that was a current democrat leader of the senate. the same amount party will change the rules and forster press priorities. but have. this was here is the center of the filibuster no longer serves purpose. if that is what it is, truly a principal agent like to hear them endorse the filibuster if republicans win the election. i'd like to hear him argue of can present of course every priority is what others will 30

legislation on killing unborn children past feeling pain. i suspect the democrat leader has not had this change of heart. i suspected president trump wednesday election, thinking that has the democrat leader will be happy to use the filibuster law to check legislation to says he did during president trump return. i don't recall hearing about abolishing the filibuster back then. thirty-two democrats including kamala harris signed a letter of april 2017 calling on tenant leadership to preserve the legislative filibuster. it is clear and expediency.

the democrat party and the rule should be abolished in the far left agenda. democrats abolished the filibuster. in whole or in part democrat would be the end of the senate as it was originally created going back to our founding fathers. the filibuster create legislative whiplash with one party and the power in washington in the other party.

the same with that kind of legislative instability would be bad for our country is an understatement. sharp changes in federal policy the endless confusion for americans. in the filibuster. on their own behalf sooner rather than later. most dangero

our country has experienced since world war ii, due to the axis of autocracies as it's sometimes called, ranging from iran to russia to china to north korea. but right here at home we have a huge, gaping national security threat called the southern border. we know it's being exploited by drug traffickers, human smugglers and, yes, perhaps even by terrorists. out of the roughly ten million or so people that we estimate that have crossed the border during the biden-harris administration, about 2 million of them are what the border patrol calls got-aways, people evading law enforcement and perhaps with good reason. either they're carrying drugs, they have criminal records or,

heaven forbid, they want to do us harm through some sort of terrorist attack. but as we look around the world, we see countries like israel, our close ally in the middle east, defending its right to exist following a brutal and unprovoked attack by the terrorist group hamas, which is a proxy of iran. iran and its proxies are even more emboldened than ever as they continue to wreak havoc across the region. and, oh, by the way, they're also enriching uranium in pursuit perhaps of a nuclear weapon. in europe, we know that ukraine continues to defend its sovereignty in the wake of russia's invasion more than two years ago. it actually goes back to earlier than that. russia actually invaded ukraine in 2014 and basically took over

the crimea, and nobody seemed to do much about it, which putin thought, okay, i got away with that. i'm going to come back for another bite. and then following the devastating withdrawal of american and allied troops in afghanistan two years ago, we were just over in the rotunda honoring the lives of the servicemembers who lost their life at, in kabul two years ago as a result of the withdrawal inning sfa. but -- withdrawal in afghanistan. putin lonlically thought the taliban got to take over afghanistan without a shot being fired. united states, it coughed up tens of billions of dollars of equipment, ammunition, and transportation. and so maybe, just maybe this is putin's thinking -- i believe

maybe i can go ahead and invade ukraine and i can march on kiev and not a shot will be fired. while, he underestimated the will of the ukranian people, to be sure. in the indo-pacific, china continues to be ago depressive and belligerent and threaten the stability of the region, especially the future of taiwan. there's a lot at stake, and the eyes of the world are on the united states. i've had a chance, like so many of us, to travel around the world and to talk to our friend and allies, and what i've learned is that no one, no nation can substitute for the leadership of the united states of america. if america acts, others will follow. they will join us perhaps. but no one will take the initiative if the united states is standing back.

and it's true that terrorists and dictators are watching to see how we respond. vladimir putin watches what we do. president xi in china, kim jong-un in north korea, the supreme leader in tehran, they all watch what kind of action we take if they push. if there is no push back, they keep coming. the question is will we brush all of this off and try to explain it just as reasonable nal conflicts -- regional conflicts or will we stiffen our spine, lock arms with our friends and allies and commit to defeating evil and aggression in all its forms? to meetconflicts. this moment, we need to solidify

support. that is the number one job of the federal government. no local government or state government, no private entity can provide for the common defense. that is the number one job of the federal government. everything else comes after that. because if you don't do that, none of the rest matters. well, we are currently contemplating a short-term spending bill called a continuing resolution, but our commanders, the secretary of defense, current and past, will tell you that a continuing resolution is one of the worst things you can do to the military because there are no new starts, no programs that we've authorized can plan for the future, particularly if you're looking at a funding bill of three months or six months in duration. even president biden's own

defense secretary acknowledges that any delay in a funding and in the national defense authorization act hampers their ability to plan. so it's not just the funding, it's also the annual exercise known as the national defense authorization act. we know that our committees here in the senate, the armed services committee, both in the senate and in the house, have done a lot of work on a bipartisan basis to prepare the national defense authorization act. but here in the senate, this seems to be the last thing on the majority leader's schedule and the last thing on his mind. we're scheduled to be here roughly two and a half more weeks before we break for the november 5 election. in other words, we won't even be in session in october. so then we'll come back after

the election and the so-called lame duck, and one of the must-do bills we have to pass is the national defense authorization act. it didn't have to be this way. we could have scheduled, the majority leader could have scheduled both an appropriations process that would make sure that we didn't have to pass short-term continuing resolutions. we could have taken up the good bipartisan work of the armed services committee and put the national defense authorization act on the floor, but the majority leader would have none of that. it's just not a priority for him. so what are we doing instead? well, we're taking up judicial nominations, which are not insignificant, but they pale in comparison to the responsibility that congress has to provide for the common defense, and we do that two ways. one, we pass the defense

authorization act each year, and number two, with we fund the military and the rest of government. well, when we do this, when the majority leader makes this choice, it doesn't give our commanders the senator they need to make decisions that will serve both our short-term and long-term interests. for our forces to continue the fight, where ever necessary around the world, they need resources, they need stability, they need predictability and they need to be able to start new, important programs like multiyear procurement programs to shore up our industrial base to make sure we have the resources we need to deter aggression anywhere in the world. and there's nobody else to do it. it's a responsibility -- it's the responsibility of congress. nobody can do this for us.

we can't say, well, this is too hard or it's inconvenient or we have to go campaign for reelection. there's nobody else to do it. it's up to us. for more than 60 years in a row, six decades, congress has passed an annual national defense authorization act. that's in significant jeopardy. we're certainly not going to get it done in next two and a half weeks that the majority leader has scheduled and he's decided to wait until the last minute to even think about it. so in all reality this is going to be an exercise in the lame duck after the election, but it's not the only thing we need to do. as the presiding officer knows, we run out of money at the end of this month. it's the end of the annual fiscal year.

and so we're going to have to pass some sort of funding bill because the majority leader did not schedule votes on appropriation bills, all 12 appropriation bills like he should have so we don't have to resort to a continuing resolution. in my home state of texas alone, there's roughly 225,000 servicemembers stationed at places like for the cavosels, fort bliss, joint base san antonio and the army depot in he'llington field. -- in ellington field. i think of them and their families because while the servicemember wears the uniform, families also serve our nation.

well, the money and the programs that we should be authorizing under the defense authorization bill include money for training, technology, and equipment, and the pay and the benefits that families rely on. supporting all of these people and this -- these facilities is a herculean task and the defense authorization bill is a very important way that we do just that. this year's defense bill must also include efforts to strengthen military readiness. we know the nature of war fare has changed. it's not just tanks and aircraft and aircraft carriers, we've seen what happened in ukraine, where ukrainians are using relatively inexpensive drones to knock out russian tanks. in yemen, they are using drones

to shoot down $2 million missiles. so the nature of warfare has changed so we can not fight wars but deter those wars. we know that deterrence is the primary objective and we know that war is a whole lot more expensive both in terms of treasure and blood than keeping the peace by maintaining deterrence. well, this defense authorization bill should have a focus on reforming our procurement process so we can quickly replenish our defense stockpiles, this has been a major problem because the pentagon is the world's biggest bureaucracy, and because of layers and layers of red tape and processes, it's difficult to

do business with the pending. we are denied access to the latest and greatest technology because the -- pentagon isn't postured to deal with that. so what you have to do in the case of companies like space x and others, space x had to sue the air force so they could compete in space because the air force wouldn't allow them to compete for those projects, now space x, head quartered in texas launch the mass majority of pay loads into space. and boeing can't safely bring two astronauts back, so space x is going to have to go get them sometime in february. but the point is we have a lot

of heavy lift toing do, a -- lifting to do, a lot of hard work to do when it comes to our national security and pt way that the -- and the way that the majority leader has decided to schedule the senate is a disservice not only to the men and women in uniform, but it's frankly dangerous because it doesn't allow us to maintain a maximum readiness and deterrence which is so critical. well, one of the things that i think should be part of the defense authorization bill is something called the paid off act. this is critical legislation that will prevent foreign agents from acting on behalf of our adversaries from influencing u.s. policymakers. i know it's no surprise to anybody who follows the news here in washington, d.c., but foreign countries come in and they hire lobbyists and unbeknownst to members of congress, those lobbyist are

working on behalf sometimes of foreign governments, not the american people. and yet because of a failure of a foreign agent registration act, we need to reform that legislation, there needs to be more transparency and disclosure so we know who we're talking to and whose constituency they represent. it's not just the paid-off act that needs to be part of the ndaa. i'm hopeful that this bill ultimately in the lame-duck session will include key outbound investment measures to help the united states gather more information needed to better evaluate our national security vulnerabilities, he's a well as con frequent threats from -- confront threats from our adversaries. these are important goals that are becoming more and more urgent with each passing day. but despite all of this, we have yet to formally begin the

process of considering the national defense authorization act, again, because this is apparently not a priority of the majority -- or the majority leader. in a rational world, this would already be done. at the very least this legislation should reach the president's desk before the end of this month. but, as i said earlier, senator schumer's only scheduled about 11 more days between now and the time we break for the election. the election actually isn't for eight weeks, but the senate's going to be in session 11 days. i think that's not doing our job. and the only person who can schedule the senate agenda is the majority leader. i can't do it, the other 98 senators can't do it, only the majority leader, and he refuses

to do it. well, unfortunately this has become standard operating procedure. we lurch from one potential shutdown to the next, we pass continuing resolutions which tie the hands of our military commanders and -- and the pentagon, and it just makes it impossible for government to operate as efficiently as it should. so this has become standard operating procedure in a dysfunctional democrat-led senate. we spent weeks voting on president biden's controversial nominees, like we're doing today, many of whom are unqualified for the jobs they've been nominated to fill. but the majority knows the -- the democratic majority knows if they lose the majority, they won't be able to get those nominations confirmed so they are trying to get as many of

those nominees nominees moved as fast as they can but what it means is that national defense is kicked to the backseat. in addition to finding time on nominations, where we should spend it on national defense, we will cap off the week with a vote that has no chance of becoming law. that's what we call a show vote. it's designed for advantage, for political advantage. it is not designed for the goal of passing legislation and getting it signed into law. we saw these same sort of show votes used primarily to try to gain political advantage in the upcoming election. we saw this on proposed legislation on the border, on contraception, on abortion, on in vitro fertilization, and on tax policy. in each instance, these were not efforts to try to work out

differences and build consensus, this was designed to fail. that was the point. to have a show vote and then have a tv ad or use it in some campaign. that's my definition of partisan gamesmanship, and it's a waste of the senate's time, especially when so many priorities remain unaddressed like the defense authorization bill and the appropriation bills. again, all of this could have been avoided, but it is by -- but by design it was not. the majority leader has given us precious little time to do our job this year and he's wasted a lot of time on partisan show votes. as a result one of our most important responsibilities is jut standing -- outstanding. just to remind everybody, the defense authorization bill was completed by the armed services committee more than two months

ago. they did their job in a bipartisan way. that in and of itself is a miracle, but it should have been brought to the floor and open for debate and vote and passage. i want to commend senator reed of rhode island, the chairman, ranking member wicker and all of our colleagues on the armed services committee for doing their job. now the majority leader needs to do his job so that we can do our job. it's long past time for senator schumer to bring this vital legislation to the floor. we're playing with fire, i believe, at a time when the national security threats loom so large. and i hope we will soon get a chance to debate and to vote on this bill. given the great power competition and the fact that

conflicts have unfolded in europe, the middle east, the indo-pacific, the ndaa should be a top priority. it's regrettable that the majority leader doesn't see it as a priority. well, mr. president, when you can't plan, you can't get ready. so it's no exaggeration to say we now find ourselves in a true readiness crisis. we can't delay consideration of the defense authorization bill. we can delay it but we can't postpone our problems. and our adversaries are not acting on majority leader schumer's timeline. america's strength in leadership are vital to global security and equally vital to protecting our homeland. so the democratic-led senate should not ignore its responsibility to bolster our

readiness and certainly should not stand in the way of the rest of us who are interested in addressing these challenges. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. as if in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 806 which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 806 recognizing may 22, 2024, as the 205th anniversary of of the founding of memphis, tennessee, and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mrs. blackburn: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.

the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. it's september which means that across the country, america's 54 million k-12 students are starting the new school year. for so many parents and students, this is an exciting time with new classes and teachers and projects and friends and opportunities for academic success. but for too many others, the new school year brings a growing risk, and that is juvenile crime. across the country, 64% of violent juvenile crime happens on school days peaking between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. at a time when violent juvenile crime is rising across the country, i know many communities, including tennessee, are looking to the

new year with apprehension. after years of steadily declining juvenile crime, in 2023 shelby county saw a staggering 4,546 juvenile charges. now, that is up 37% from 2021. and that spike in memphis follows spikes we're seeing in cities like washington, d.c. and new york city where the average age of a carjacking suspect last year was 15 years old. now, young people are facing little supervision at the end of the school day and before their parents get home from work, and they're being lured into gangs that plague cities with theft, drug dealing, and murder. in memphis there are at least 30

criminal gangs that are out recruiting children as young as 8 years old into their operations. every young american and tennessean deserves the opportunity to succeed and avoid the dangers of criminal activity and congress has an incredible opportunity to help ensure that. alongside senator cortez masto, i've introduced the after school act which would create a grant program administered through the justice department for local communities like memphis to establish, maintain, and strengthen after-school programs with the goal of reducing violent crime among juveniles. time and again after-school programs ranging from athletics and tutoring to music and volunteer work have proven to be

successful at keeping young children out of trouble and focused on their own personal development. across two different studies conducted by researchers at the university of chicago, after-school programs helped reduce arrests among at-risk teens by 28% to 35% and violent crime by 45% to 50%. recidivism rates among participants meanwhile failed 21%. at the same time studies have shown that after-school programs improve behavior in class, decreased the likelihood of drug abuse, and promote academic success. the success of these programs is the big reason why the memphis city council unanimously endorsed and support this

bipartisan legislation. with juvenile crime on the rise, the lives of countless young tennesseans and americans are at stake. and i call on all of my colleagues to support the after-school act to secure a brighter future for our nation's youth. mr. president, i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin.

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i believe this is the most dangerous time our country has experienced since world war ii due to the acts of autocracies as it is sometimes called ranging from iran to russia to

china to north korea. right here at home, we have a huge gaping national security threat called the southern border. we know it is being exploited by drug traffickers, human smugglers and yes perhaps even by terrorists. out of the roughly 10 million or so people that we estimate crossing the border during the biden harris administration, about 2 million of them are what the border patrol calls got a ways. they are people evading law enforcement. perhaps for good reason. either they are carrying drugs, they have criminal records or heaven forbid they want to do us harm through some sort of terrorist attack. as we look around the world we see countries like israel, our close allies in the middle east

defending its right to exist. following a brutal and unprovoked attack by the terrorist group which is a proxy of iran. the proxies are even more emboldened than ever. as they continue to wreak havoc across the region. and, oh, by the way, they are also enriching uranium in pursuit perhaps of a nuclear weapon. in europe, we know that ukraine continues to defend its sovereignty in the wake of russia's invasion more than two years ago. it actually goes back to earlier than that. russia actually invaded ukraine in 2014 and basically took over the crimea and nobody seem to do anything about it which putin thought i got away with that. i will come away for another bite.

follow the devastating withdrawal of american and allied troops in afghanistan two years ago, we were just over the rotunda honoring the lives of the service members who lost their life in kabul two years ago as a result of their withdrawal from afghanistan. after that, putin logically thinks, well, the taliban got to take over afghanistan without a shot being fired had united states get coughed up tens of millions of dollars of equipment , ammunition and transportation. so maybe, just maybe, this is putin's thinking, i believe, maybe i can go ahead and invade ukraine and i can go ahead and march on keith. not a shot will be fired. he underestimated the will of the ukrainian people. to be sure.

china continues to be aggressive and belligerent and threaten the stability of a region especially the future of taiwan. so, there is a lot at stake. the eyes of the world are on the united states. i've had a chance like so many of us to travel around the world and talk to our friends and allies. what i have learned is that no one, no nation can substitute the leadership of the united states of america. if america acts, others will follow and they will join us perhaps but no one will take the initiative of the united states for standing back. it is true that terrorists and dictators are watching. to see how we respond. vladimir putin watches what we

do. the president in china, kim's young loon and north korea, the supreme leader and tehran, they watch what kind of reaction they get when they push. if there is no pushback, they keep coming. the question is, will we brush all of this often try to explain it just as regional conflicts or will we stiffen our spine, lock arms with our friends and allies and commit to defeating evil and aggression in all of its forms. to me this crucial moment we need to solidify support for our military and national security. that is the number one job of the federal government. no local government or state government. no private entity can provide for the common defense, that is

the number one job with the federal government. everything else comes after that because if you don't do that, none of the rest matters. we are contemplating a short-term spending bill called the short-term resolution. but our commanders, secretary of defense, current and past will tell you that a continued resolution is one of the worst things you can do to the military. no programs that we have authorized can plan for the future, particularly if you're looking at a funding bill of three months or six months in duration. even president biden's own defense secretary acknowledges any delay in the funding and the national defense act.

it is the funding of the annual exercise known as the national defense authorization act. we know that archimedes here in the senate, the armed services committee, both in the senate and in the house have done a lot of work on a bipartisan basis to prepare the nassar -- national authorization act. this seems to be the last thing on the majority leader schedule and the last thing on his mind. we are scheduled to be here roughly two and a half more weeks before we break for the november the fifth election. in other words, we won't even be in session in october. coming back after the election and the so-called lame-duck and one of the most due bills that we have to passes the national defense authorization act. it did not have to be this way.

we could have scheduled the majority leader scheduling both and appropriations process that would make sure we did not have to pass short-term continuing resolutions. we could have taken up the good bipartisan work of the armed services committee and put the national defense authorization bill on the floor. but the majority leader would have none of that. the judicial nominations which are not insignificant, but they pale in comparison to the responsibility that congress has to provide for the common defense. we do that to ways. we passed the defense authorization act each year and refund the military. and the rest of government.

when the majority meet makes a choice it does not give them the certainty they need to make decisions that will serve both our short-term and long-term interest. our forces to continue the fight , wherever necessary around the world, they need resources. they need stability. they need predictability. they need to be able to start new important programs like multiyear procurement programs to shore up our industrial base to make sure we have the resources we need to deter aggression anywhere in the world there is nobody else to do it. it is a responsibility of congress. nobody can do this for us. too hard or inconvenient or we have to go campaign for reelection. there is nobody else to do it. it is up to us.

for more than 60 years in a row, six decades, congress has passed and authorization act. that is insignificant jeopardy. we certainly will not get it done in the next two and half weeks. he has decided to wait until the last minute to even think about it. so, in all reality this will be an exercise in the lame-duck after the election. but it is not the only thing we need to do. as the presiding officer knows, we've run out of money at the end of this month. the end of the annual fiscal year. we are going to have to pass some sort of funding bill because the majority leader did not schedule votes on appropriation bills all 12 appropriation bills like he should have so we do not have to

resort to a continuing resolution. in my home state of texas alone, roughly 225,000 service members stationed that places like fort bliss, joint base san antonio, the red river army dapo in ellington field. those are the people i think of each year will be take up the defense authorization bill. i think of them and i think of their families because while a servicemember wears a uniform, families also serve our nation. the money in the programs we should be authorizing under the defense authorization bill include money for training, technology and equipment and the pay and benefits that families rely on.

supporting all of these people and these facilities is a herculean task. in the defense authorization bill is a very important way that we do just that. the defense bill must also include military readiness. we know military warfare has changed. it is not just tanks and airplanes and aircraft carriers. we've seen what is happening in ukraine where the ukrainians are using drones relatively inexpensive drones to knock out russian tanks and armored. so this has changed quite a bit. using inexpensive drones that are now being shot down by two million-dollar missiles launched from shifts. we have to keep up with it. not that we can fight wars but so we can deter those.

keeping it by maintaining deterrence. you should have a focus on reforming our procurement process so we can quickly replenish our defense stockpiles this has been a major problem because the pentagon is probably the world's biggest bureaucracy. because of layers and layers of red tape and difficult processes , it is hard for innovators and creators and startups to do business with the pentagon and with the federal government speared i am literally denied access for the latest and greatest tech analogy because the pentagon simply is not postured to deal with that.

spacex, well, spacex having to sue the air force so they can compete in space. the air force would not allow them to compete for those projects. now spacex headquartered in texas launches the vast majority of payloads into space. in fact, boeing whose space ship went to the international space station cannot safely bring two of those astronauts back. spacex will have to go get them sometime in february. but the point is, we have a lot of heavy lifting to do. a lot of work when it comes to our national security. the way that the majority leader has decided to schedule the

senate is a disservice not only to the men and women in uniform, but frankly it is dangerous. it does not allow us to maintain a maximum readiness and deterrent which is so critical. one of the things that i think should be part of the defense authorization bill is the paid off act. critical legislation that will prevent foreign agents from acting on behalf of our adversaries from influencing u.s. policymakers. i know it is no surprise for anybody that follows the news here in washington, d.c. foreign countries, and they hire lobbyists. unbeknownst to members of congress, those members are working behalf of foreign governments not the american people. and yet because of the failure of the foreign agents registration act the need to reform that legislation, there

needs to be more transparency and disclosure. whose constituency they represent. it is not just the paid off act that needs to be part of this nda. i am hoping this bill ultimately in the lame-duck session will include key out sound investment to help gather more information needed to help our security vulnerabilities as well as confront threats from our adversaries that maintain competitiveness on the global stage. these are important goals that are becoming more and more urgent with each passing day. despite all of this, we have yet to formally begin the process of considering the national defense authorization bill. this is apparently not a priority of the majority. for the majority leader.

in a congressional world, this would already be done. at the very thesis legislation should reach the president's desk before the end of this month. but as i said earlier, senator schumer only scheduled about 11 more days between now and the time that we break for the election. the election actually is not for eight weeks. but the senate will be in senate session for 11 days. i think that that is not doing our job. and the only person that can schedule the senate agenda is the majority leader. i cannot do it. the other 98 senators cannot do it. only the majority leader and he refuses to do it. unfortunately this has become standard operating procedure. one potential shutdown to the next. we passed continuing resolutions

which tied the hands of our military commanders and the pentagon. it just makes it impossible for government to operate as efficiently as it should. so this has become standard operating procedure in a democrat led senate. we spent weeks voting on president biden's controversial nominees like we are doing today many who are unqualified for the job they been nominated to fill. but the majority knows that if they lose the majority they will not be able to get those people confirmed self course they are trying to build as many of them as they can, when they can. but, what that means is national security is kicked to the back seat. it is no longer a priority. in addition to spending time on nominations will be should be

spending time on national defense, we will cap off the vote of the week with a controversial bill that stands no chance of becoming law. that is what we call a showboat around here. it is designed to embarrass. it's designed for political advantage. the goal of passing legislation and signing it into law. we saw the same short of showboat speared using primarily to try to gain political advantage in the upcoming election. we saw this on proposed legislation from the border on contraception on abortion on in vitro fertilization and on tax policy. in each instance, these were not efforts to try to work out differences. having a tv ad or using it in

some campaign. that is my definition of partisan gamesmanship. it is a waste of the citizens time especially when so many priorities remain unaddressed like the defense authorization bill and the appropriation bills again, all of this could have been avoided but it is by design the majority leader has given us precious time to do our job this year. he has wasted a lot of time on partisan showboat speared as a result, one of our most important responsibilities is outstanding. just to remind everybody the defense authorization bill was completed by the armed services committee more than two months ago. they did their job in a bipartisan way. that in and of itself is a miracle. it should have been brought to the floor and open for debate

and votes and passage. i want to commend senator reid of rhode island, the chairman and all of our colleagues on the armed services committee for doing their job. now the majority leader needs to do his job. so that we can do our job. long past time for senator schumer to bring death by legislation to the floor. we are playing with fire. when the national security threat looms so large. soon getting a chance to debate and vote on this bill. given the great power of competition and the fact that conflicts have unfolded in europe and the middle east the indo pacific, the nda should be a top priority. it is regrettable that the majority does not see it as a

priority. well, mr. president, when you cannot plan, you cannot get ready. so, it is no exaggeration to say we now find ourselves in a true readiness crisis. we cannot delay consideration of the defense authorization bill. we can delay it, but we cannot postpone our problems in our adversaries are not acting on majority leader schumer's timeline. america's strength and leadership is vital to global security and equally vital to protecting our homeland. so the democrat led senate should not ignore its responsibility to bolster our readiness and certainly should not stand in the way of the rest of us who are interested in addressing these challenges. mr. president, i healed the floor.

good afternoon, everyone and welcome back. today in the congress we are watching a movie we have seen over and over again. house republicans are trying to pass a bill so partisan that it even splits their own caucus.

the proposal is not even serious , it is dangerous. it would endanger troop readiness, risk troop pay, and are our efforts to outcompete the chinese government. even the head of the joint chief sent a letter. you cannot do this when you have to sign contracts, build weapon systems et cetera et cetera that takes so much effort. it is not serious for republicans to say they want to pass a cr that fails properly to fund e-verify, border security. these guys talk about border security, but they don't fund it the house republican proposal disbands a critical law enforcement effort to stop drug smuggling, cartels and money laundering. it is not serious when republicans say they want to pass the cr that forgets vital health programs that rely on federal funding. the cr has no plans to address the looming cliff for health programs, people with diabetes who struggled to get what they

need community health centers will be endangered for closing because they don't have funding. if all of that was not enough, the republicans have no plan for extending farm bill funding. we will approach a dairy cliff in december. that could cause such loss to our farmers, farmers in new york tell me they go out of business if this occurs. it is estimated it could as much as double the price of milk talking about inflation and cost .... the only thing bipartisan about this proposal is the disdain in both parties. now it's time for republicans to

work with us in the bipartisan package with input from both sides to avoid the poison pill. we done before and we can do it again. i'm ready when they are. well thank you. there's an lot happening in the world to leave our house republicans on autopilot for six months. their real consequences to a reckless month cr, the program's alumni get started, finished programs that will not wind down opportunities missed, agencies like social security administration will be spread thinner and thinner and despite doing important work for the american people. we are keeping our food supply safe work to stop deadly illegal drugs prepare for string extreme weather events or respond to public health threats and even to counter aggression from her ever series.

why would house republicans keep our military from moving forward blacks when it comes to keeping our military strong and ready and properly funded we cannot afford to be our own enemy and that house republicans kick the can down the road for entire six months that's not just a de facto cut across the entire government at beans will be staring down even more damaging sequester cuts. some republicans actively want damaging cuts. some want a disaster shutdown. they want more chaos for trump so they've been demanding exactly the kind of partisan cr for speaker johnson is putting forward, one that they know will not pass. we should not of our government to teeter on the verge of a mug of republican shutdown is donald trump wants to pick another fight. how many times that we had to learn that lesson? how many more times would have to go through trump driven chaos

cycle before republicans let it move forward? everyone knows including to act on the house republicans here is a partisan scare tactic and a poison pill. if house republicans want to show how serious they are about avoiding a damaging shutdown, avoiding a spending freeze believes our nation unresponsive and unprepared for the future and avoiding devastating sequester cuts that would set us back decades, i have a solution rate it's not rocket science. in fact two years running now senator and i have written some incredibly bipartisan spending bills here on the senate floor and here's how we did it. we don't attack your wish list two must have government spending bill, we sit down and figure out what both of us can agree to and we focus on what will make life better for the american people. so i'm here today to urge the house republicans to get to the

table, get serious and put the american people first. >> thank you patty. any questions? c.s.. >> you believe that this year negotiation needs to be the four corners of leadership or is this something you in later mcconnell could negotiate? >> look its best to use the four corners of leadership and in the senate you need republican votes 04 corners is best. >> what is kamala harris going to do in the debates tonight -- [inaudible] >> look i think she's going to do great at the date. she is going to not only talk about what has already been is at the thing she wants to accomplish for the american people for working families and i think she will do real well. [inaudible] >> donald trump ran into trouble

years ago when he said he would on shutting down the government at the bottom line is we want a bipartisan negotiation. we will sit down and do a bipartisan negotiation and that's the only way to pass this. as i said we want a bipartisan negotiation period. i'm not going to get in the details. we don't want chaos. there's no reason for it and the american people want to do our jobs and that's what we are doing in the senate. >> sit down with us and about the film we can come up with a bipartisan agreement. >> we are at the risk of election fraud and are you worried about the potential for violence? >> i hope not and i hope any responsible leader democrat republican liberal conservative would discourage it. we want to make sure everything is on the up-and-up when people vote but you want to make sure people aren't blocked from voting when they have a legitimate right to vote.

okay, thanks everybody. >> i'm sure you are excited to have us all back, right? i think we all know the world is literally at war here and far be it for me to criticize anybody about focusing on judges but when you compare confirming district court judges to not having national defense authorization act you have to question the priorities of the majority. this is an important piece of legislation that passes every year in the thing for 60 years in a row and we are spending our

time doing district judges. i think it's misplaced priorities. we can't stop doing everything just because there's a presidential election year. we started the year trying to address -- mr. schumer: senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 7032, which was received from the house and is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 7032, to amend the congressional budget and impoundment control act of 1974 and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i further ask the bill 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 that the senate proceed to the consideration of h. con. res. 124, which was received from the house and is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h. con. res. 14, authorizing the use of emancipation hall in the capital visit center and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i ask he -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on judiciary be discharged from further consideration and the senate now proceed to s. res. 794. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 794 designating september 25, 2024 as national ataxia awareness day and for other purposes. the presiding officer:

without objection, the committee is discharged. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 11:00 a.m. on wednesday, september 11. that following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hours be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. following the conclusion of morning business, the senate proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the ritz nomination. further, that the cloture motions filed during yesterday's session ripen at 2:15 p.m. that if cloture is invoked on the lanthier nomination, all time be considered expired at 5:30 p.m. finally, that if any nominations are confirmed during wednesday's

session, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection. 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 the presiding officer: the

i'm from sampson alabama. my vaguest issue this election season is the bias of the media. if you like we don't have adequate coverage of both parties and you know we just have a very leftist media. my top issues as women's and reproductive rights. i have a wife and i have two daughters and two sons and most important thing for me to make sure my daughters are safe and my wife is safe and every woman is safe. not just people's rights but every woman has a choice. >> the preservation of democracy and freedom. seems like our freedoms are being eroded here at the natural mall with the world war ii museum is right next door. lot of people paid a heavy price for that freedom. that's why i think we need to focus on that.

>> it will center on health care and women's rights, our right to choose our right to be in charge of their own bodies and better access to health care for everyone. an equal playing field for all. >> my top issue for the u.s. right now is immigration and illegal. to close up the border but keep an open to people immigrating legally and that would be fine but that's how we get corrected and the lot more other issues that stem from that's opoku we get that corrected soon.