the clerk: nomination, department of homeland security, alejandro nicholas mayorkas of the district of columbia to be deputy secretary. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i'm sorry, i couldn't hear you. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. reid qulon i woul: i would k to report a cloture motion. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of alejandro nicholas mayorkas of the district of columbia to be deputy secretary of homeland security. signed by 18 senators as follows. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: i move to proceed to legislative session. mr. mcconnellmr. mcconnell: i ae yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a second? mr. reid: mr. president, i got ahead of myself. i ask we move to legislative session. mr. mcco

the clerk: department of homeland security, alejandro nicholas mayorkas of the district of columbia to be deputy secretary. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business for debate only with senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. the majority leader. mr. reid: move to lay that on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. ' the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. mr. pryor: mr. president, i understand that we are not in a quorum call. so i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h. con. res. 71, which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h. con. res. 71, providing for corrections to the enrollment of the bill h.r. 3304. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. pryor: i ask unanimous consent that the concurrent resolution be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. the presiding officer: witho

the clerk: nomination, department of homeland security, alejandro nicholas mayorkas of the district of columbia to be deputy secretary. the president pro tempore: and under the previous order, there will now be one hour of debate on the nomination equally divided and controlled between the senator from delaware, mr. carper, and the senator from oklahoma, mr. coburn, or their designees. who seeks recognition? mr. carper: mr. president? the presiding officerer: mr. pre senator from delaware. mr. carper: thank you very much. i would like to speak very briefly and then i'd like to yield to senator leahy for some comments he might like to make on the -- the president's nominee to be our next deputy secretary of homeland security and government -- homeland security. and he's know mr. mayorkas for a number of years, worked very closely with him through his oversight, his committee's oversight of the eb-5 program. and as a result, i'm delighted that he's willing to take the floor and move from presiding to speaking. i'm happy to yield to the senator from vermont for, say, five minutes. mr. lea