senator carper? >> let me preface my questions again with how much we appreciate your commitment to e defending us and the hard work your teams are doing on our behalf. communicate and compromise and collaborate are the three answers i hear to what makes a marriage work. i see the three c's with you. keep it up. we don't always look at the root cause but it is important to us. we want to see why people would risk life and limb to go from getting the border to face an uncertain future. when i look at the cyber threats directed at the country over the years, one of them is the chinese. they know what is going on. they know full well their enitites within the country. we underwrite the cost for them. i want to commend secretary johnson and everybody else who is involved, the president and others, who were involved in convincing the chinese it was time to mend their ways. i am not sure what the prospects are for proceeding this but the agreement struck is a very encouraging sign. i didn't think we would

carper: mr. president, i wans to respond very briefly to what our colleague from oregon has said, and senator feinstein shared with me a copy of the -- the text of the managers' amendment. i would make two points. one, if a private company elects to share information -- they don't have to -- but they elect to share information, as senator feinstein has said, it's their call. but if they do, there is a requirement under the law that they scrub it, the reporting entity that's submitting the indicator to d.h.s., the federal entity, they've got to scrub it. they have the responsibility, whoever initiating it, to personally scrub that information. the way they don't -- the way the legislation comes before us today, in order for a company that chooses to submit threat indicators to the federal government, they -- in order to get the liability, help on the liability protection that they're looking for, they have to submit it through the department of homeland security, through the portal of the departme

senator carper? >> let me preface my questions by again just emphasizing how much we appreciate your commitment to our country, commitment to defending us and the hard work you and your team, the teams you lead are doing. on our behalf. i like to talk to my colleagues and talk about what's the secret to long marriage between two people and best answer i ever heard communicate and compromise. i would add a third "c" is collaborate and when i look at the three of us i see communicate, compromise, collaborate embodied. thank you. set a good example for us. our chairman and i and others on the committee like to focus not just addressing symptoms of problems. we are good at that as a nation. we don't look at the underlying or root cause. the senator johnson are doing to lead -- i think senator highcamp and a couple house colleagues go down with us and go to honduras, maybe guatemala and get a better handle on why tens of thousands of people risk life and limb to get through mexico to get to the border to

2615, carper 2627, coats 2604, flake 2580, gardener 2631, kirk 2603, tester 2632, wyden, 2622. and i might add a handful of amendments that have been worked out in addition to those that were part of that unanimous consent request by both the vice chair and myself. the vice chair and i have a number of amendments to be made pending under the previous consent order, and i would like to ask that they be called up and reported by number. i call up the cotton amendment 2581 as modified to correct the instruction line. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from north carolina, mr. r burr, for mr. cotton proposes an amendment numbered 2581 as modified to amendment number 2716. mr. burr: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. burr: let me add at this time that the vice chairman and i have worked aggressively, and our staffs, to incorporate the suggestions, the concerns that members and companies have raised with us. if we believed that it made the legislation stronger, stronger from a standpoint much minimizing data lo

carper: we have seven minutes out of our 25? the presiding officer: yes. mr. carper: mr. president, if i could be recognized, please. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: six years ago, senator feinstein, you along with senator collins, joe lieberman, jay rockefeller offered the first comprehensive bill dealing with information-sharing. we had a vote in late-2012, came up short and started all over again in the last congress. you've shown great leadership from the start. i want to thank you. i have been joined on the floor by senator burr. i want to thank you for cooperating with us and with others to make sure we have not just a good bill but a really good bill that addresses one of the greatest challenges we face today in this country of ours. the -- i've heard senator feinstein say it time and again. if companies don't want to share information with the federal government rkt the, they don't . in some cases they can form their own groups. they don't have to share information on -- attacks with the federal government. they can share it with other pierpe

senator carper. >> i thank you, mr. secretary you've heard me say they times i that what works, do more of that. if you go back about colombia 20 years ago, failed nation. we supported, funded, they had good leadership, a lot of leadership from the private sector and bit by bit they have turned things around. somebody has done this before. so were other folks. i would say with respect to central america and the movement all these folks after country, special last year, not as much as this you but there is a root cause. you nailed it. but picture the system there's a lot of wisdom in that as well. it's not a choice but to one or the other. we need to do both. and walk and chew gum at the same time? i think we can and i think we must. nick, i'm going to take is that you today i'm going to get you and again here for all of it. does the name jessica stern mean anything to you? >> yes, sir. she's a terrorist expert academic in the world. >> and husband does. her husband, chet atkins, was a former colleague of a number of us

now, senator carper has played a very positive role in all of this. he's the ranking member on the homeland security committee. he has sat down with both senator burr and myself. he has proposed some very good changes, and this is one of them that is in the manager's package. also, the clarification ensures that such agreed upon delays will apply across the board uniformly to all appropriate federal entities, including the department of homeland security. so this was an important change for both senators carper and senator coons and for the department of homeland security, and i'm pleased we were able to reach agreement on it because essentially what it allowed is a fast real-time filter -- and i understand this can be done -- that it can do an additional scrub of things going through that portal before they go to other departments to take out anything that might be related to personal information -- a driver's license, a health care account, a social security number, whatever it may be, that they believe that they can put together the technology to b

but i wanted to dove tail on some of the requests senator carper asked in his first round relating to the syrian refugee crisis, and in particular a number of you testified that we are getting better at the vetting process over time, but we're not error-proof -- 100% error-proof yet. there was also, i think, chairman johnson talked about prioritization in terms of family members, of syrian americans, et cetera. i guess in this public setting i'm wondering if you can outline for me how we make this process more efficient and swift without sacrificing the thoroughness and quality, and if you can talk a little bit, secretary johnson, about the prioritization process so the degree it exists, that deal with family members. i would assume the vetting for a child is different than a vetting for an adult, and other ties to the united states. recognizing that we are currently in a public setting, please tell me as much as you income this setting. >> yes. there are several agencies involved in the process. the uscis, state department, and when a refugee is referred to us, they're referred to us

>> callahan refused to comply with carper's orders and continued working on the case. >> those two guysto keep going. >> he soon discovered a number of leads in the case that were never followed. >> there were any number of suspects. it was like murder on the orient express or something. >> when i reviewed the case, there were several other suspects that for whatever reasons the original investigators didn't follow those leads. one of the suspects in the case, phil stark, he was a banker by day. there was rumors that he was a peeping tom that was seen in the rhoads' neighborhood at that time. that was never really investigated by the police. he would tell both his wife and family members that he remembered seeing a knife going up and down, and he believed that he was the one that killed dyke and karen rhoads. >> six months before randy's trial, phil stark was found dead of an alleged suicide. >> of course none of those reports made it into the discovery before randy's trial. and the interesting thing is about phil stark's suicide, phil stark, when he allegedly committed suicide was shot

blunt: thank you, senator carper. you and i have worked on -- the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mr. blunt: -- worked on issues to try to protect data breach, to try to have one standard for notifying people whose information has been accessed by people who shouldn't have it. and we're going to continue to work on that and look for opportunities, whether it's this bill or some other bill, to add that important element to what we're doing here. but, mr. president, i come to the floor today, as i'm sure many others are, to express support for this bill, for the cybersecurity information sharing act bill that gives us tools that we don't currently have, and in fact allows us to get beyond some of the barriers that we do currently have, a bill that would allow individuals who see the information that they're responsible for being attacked, to call others in their same business and say here's what's happening to us right now. if you're not seeing it already, you should be looking for it. and when they do tha

secretary johnson. >> chairman, senator carper, i have appreciated our constructive working relationship. i appreciate the town that you said at these hearings command i appreciate your friendship. >> director rasmussen? >> i wish we had more time. mr. chairman, on the governmental affairs side of your committee sat, i think that you would be pleased, aspleased, as senator carper said, with how well and closely our organizations are working together. as many of you know, it is an organization that relies on contributions from other organizations. it's found in the contribution of other organizations. just a couple weeks ago i had the opportunity to host director call me as he spoke to fbi deep tale -- detail ease it were doing terrific work on behalf of us all. to say there is always room for improvement and away we are working together, there is constantly room for improvement, but i'm trying be proud ofto be proud of my workforce in the workforce is that i get support from and deal to have dhs and fbi. >> we talked earlier about the cooperation between your agency and state and local g

senators carper and congress john carney are hosting the event to hire workers for the holiday season. store representatives will be on hand from 3:00 to 7:00 at the mall. king of prussia mall is getting ready for the shopping sochblt can you believe we're talking about holiday shopping already. get ready for it. now the mall wants to hire between 1,500 and 2,000 workers to help during the time between thanksgiving and new year's. mall officials say they are hiring early to get people trained and ready. >>> in addition to that holiday help, some full-time permanent jobs coming. hiring more than 600 employees for a new king of prussia store. the clothing store will occupy 100,000 square feet in the old sears building. >>> happening today, the philadelphia police department is honoring 80 officers today during a merit commendation ceremony. this is from another ceremony earlier this year. the department says the officers being honored have performed highly intelligent and valuable acts of police service. >>> six minutes after 5:00. skies are dry this morning. it's a cooler start, a nice

carper: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. carper: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. so ordered. mr. carper: mr. president, in recent weeks i've spoken, three, four, five times on the question of whether or not we're going to realistically fund, honestly fund the transportation improvements that our country so badly needs. i don't know if it's my imagination or not, but every time i'm here speaking on the subject, you are here, and we have any number of people, 50 some republican senators in the majority party who cycle in on the presiding officer, and yet you always seem to draw the short straw and get to hear me wax eloquently about transportation infrastructure. i'm honored that you'd be back today for the same presentation. pretty soon, you'll be able to give these talks for me and i'll sit up there. i won't ask unanimous consent for that but it is a good thought. mr. president, this question was

senator carper. >> let me preface my questions but it didn't just emphasize how much we appreciate yourtment to our country, commitment to defending us and the hard work you and your teams actually are doing on our behalf. i'd like to talk to my colleagues at the but what is the secret to a long marriage between two people? the best answer, communicate and compromised. i would add collaborate. but i look to the three of you i see the three c's, communicate, compromise and collaborate. thank you and set a good example. we like to focus not just on addressing symptoms. we are pretty good at that if we don't always at the underlying cause or the root cause. senator johnson and i believe that kordell. maybe a couple households with him was will go to honduras, maybe guatemala and try to get a better handle on what tens of thousands risked life and limbs to go 15 miles to a terrible situation to get our border. we spend a trillion dollars in the last decade targeted at how to stop people getting injured we spent less than 1% to figure what the root causes are compelling people to come. when

carper: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. carper: mr. president, i would just note right from the top, you andry on the same schedule because -- you and i are on the same schedule because i come here a couple times a week and you are here more often. this is cruel and unusual punishment, i suspect for you. thank you for showing up. otherwise i wouldn't have a chance to share these thoughts today with the folks in the chamber and anybody else who may have tuned in. earlier this year, mr. president, the senate actually took up legislation that was reported out of the environment and public works committee which was a six-year transportation authorization bill. and a lot of people who don't work here don't realize that for us to spend money, taxpayer money, we in most cases have to authorize a program at certain funding levels. then we have to come back and do a certain step and that's to actually approp

i think that was true of tom carper, in the senate in and out and other people who have been elected in delaware. we're small, you know each other. you go to the same events. on the weekend you may bump into each other ten times. you might be at a delaware football game or a chicken festival. whatever the heck it may be. as a result, it's different than when you're sort of lobbing grenades at each other from television stations all over a big state. because of that personal knowledge, i think we have a sort of easier politics, if you will where he run gentz each other, but tend it to be more gentlemanly about it than you'll sigh in most states, i believe. >> that extrapolated to his national career in a way we're all appreciated now. >> absolutely. >> thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, rachel. my pleasure. >>> we still have lots ade tonight, including some breaking but slightly confusing news about whether we have a new speaker of the house. we'll have that straight ahead. stay with us. >> so i've known him a very long time. i didn't stop liking him when hillary and h

an area my boss takes senator carper, seriously. you'll hear him say in nomination hearing new york matter what organization the size, scope, what they do, leadership is an important thing for an effective organization. that's why we work incredibly hard when we get a presidential nomination to do due diligence, do it quickly under the circumstances and move that nomination. this year, we've moved two nominees, in the dhs realm, admiral nefinger and russ d. o for undersecretary for management. last congress, there was upwards over a dozen vacancies at dhs from the secretary on down. we worked hard to move nominees through the committee and fill vacancies. today there's very few. but by and large, we've worked hard for -- to fill vacancies. so that's on leadership. and again, this is something that's incredibly important to not only dhs but every agency out there. on the oversite front, you know, at the end of the day oversite, we want to ensure that the federal agencies are carrying out responsibilities in awe way that is consistent

but tom carper is up for re-election -- >> wait a minute. >> hubert humphrey was the vice president, gave it up to run for president, lost, missed it so much, he came back two years later and reclaimed his senate seat. >> could he do that? >> hubert humphrey was able to get his old job back. joe biden's old job doesn't exist. whether he was in the minority or majority, spent most of his time in the majority, he wouldn't be in the majority there. it's a completely undesirable job. the interesting thing in this campaign now is that joe biden is going to be campaigning against hillary clinton and bernie sanders on the pacific trade deal, which is the single biggest obama administration agenda left. and he was saying that to them today, without saying pacific trade deal. he was saying very clearly to hillary clinton in that speech, i am going to be out there, i am going to be pushing this, along with the president, and every time you say something about it, i will be there. and so this is going to be a fascinating fight to watch. and they can't possibly think about endorsements until aft

. >> reporter: his boss, john carper, seen here working to keep him awake as rescuers fought to keep him alive. >> three minutes out. >> just wanted to keep him alive. that's all i was thinking about, just keeping him conscious. >> reporter: according to lifeguards, 25-year-old colin cook was surfing near oahu's north shore friday when a large shark latched on to his left leg severing it from the knee down. >> they say he got his leg bit off. i thought big giant gash on it but then when we brought him to the beach, i mean, you know, it's gone. it's gone. >> reporter: officials say a paddleboarder came to the surfer's rescue helping him out of the water. and a nearby kayaker towing him to shore where a group of good samaritans jumped into action using a surfboard leash as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. >> we definitely first off want to commend those people that were quick to action. they did the right thing. >> reporter: medics rush cook to the hospital in critical condition but his cousin saying he was in good spirits before going into surgery. >> i got there and i'm all, what's

show liberal party leader justin trudeau, the son of late prime minister pierre trudeau, leading carperwith the new democratic party in third. trudeau has accused harper of islamophobia for seeking to ban muslim women from covering their faces with the veil while they are taking their canadian citizenship oath. a newly published email shows former british prime minister tony abbott vowed to support u.s. military action in iraq in 2002 -- a year before members of -- a year before the invasion. the memo, written by u.s. secretary of state colin powell, was obtained by the daily mail as part of a batch of emails on democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton's private server. powell writes, "on iraq, blair wille wi us ouldilitary opatio be cessy." e memo is dated a week befor blair met with president george w. bush at bush's ranch in crawford, texas, and publicly said, "we are not proposing military action at this point in time." republican presidential candidate donald trump has claimed the 9/11 attacks would not have happened if he had been president. speaking on fox news sunday, t

. >> and one of clinton's birthday gif gifts was an endorsement from tom carper, he is now ready to back with joe biden now officially out of the mix. but senator bernie sanders did not give clinton a pass on her birthday. he touted his record on trade policy, taking subtle jabs on the pacific trade deal and also on president clinton's nafta deal. >> do you think you're able to make the tough political decisions that she can't? >> i do. and i'll tell you why. when i was elected to the congress in 1990, i had to deal with trade issues. and you had all of corporate america, and in fact the clinton administration, all these trade agreements are great. i said no to them, and it turns out that i was right. >> the comments follow a weekend where sanders didn't pull any punches at a major gathering of the democratic faithful in iowa, a gathering that featured all of the democratic candidates. >> i listen carefully to what bush and cheney and rumsfeld had to say, and i said no, they're not telling the truth. and i was right. i came to that fork in the road and i took the right road, even though

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are you early birds going to get a little angry now, these people joining up like tom carper, all thesether people joining the hillary band wagon, gonna lose some -- lose some clout, won't ya? >> listen, the best clout is having your candidate win. so i'm delighted to have everybody come on who has seen the light. i have to say, until you run those polls through the averages somebody like nate silver or 538 runs them through, i -- i am a little hesitant to believe there is a 40-point lead. you just got to keep your nose to the grind stone. when you're down, got to keep working. when you're up, got to keep working. see what happens. >> what does it look like out there, governor? hillary clinton looks like she has found her sea legs after the last debate. >> i think she has come across as the person she is. i think people are seeing that and seeing that she is not, you know, restrained. she is a natural person. people have always, you know, if you talk to people that knew them -- both president clinton and secretary clinton in the late '90s, more people gravit e gravitated to secretary cl

cyber security is one of those things, and i am quite hopeful with your help and senator carper and everyoneon this committee. our next witnesses director james komi, director of the federal bureau of investigation and has also served as us attorney for the southern district of new york, deputy attorney general for the department of justice and general counsel for organization of the private sector. my friends and colleagues with whom we do so much work. his description of a new reality is that and i simply want to amplify it because it bears stressing a lot of us or something but the terrorism threat to the paradigm. it is important the american people understand how things have changed. isi l has broken the core al qaeda paradigm by using social media to broadcast a twin pronged call. thousands and thousands of cars around the world. first, comment participate in the final battle between good and evil on the outside and find meaning in your life. if you can't travel, killer you are, anyone, but especially if you could, people in military or law enforcement uniform and video it, that would

carper: mr. president? i understand we're in a quorum call. i would ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carpet: mr. president, i've come to the floor -- i don't come to the floor every day, but every day that i come here, you're presiding. either i'm coming here more often than i thought or you're presiding more than most people do or maybe you just drew the short straw. at the end of the day, i enjoy having these conversations with you, even when most of my colleagues have packed up and headed for places near and far, mostly far. i have a couple charts here today i'd like for us to go over. the first one is i like these bar graphs. this is an interesting one. it sort of ranks from -- from right over here, this is -- great britain, great britain. we have great britain over here on this axis right here. we have information about who has -- the relative amount of fuel taxes that the countries have. and great britain, they are the world champs, they have the biggest fuel taxes of anybody

don't like as the opener to begin building that consensus that went first with tom, then with senator carper coming on,ing then with our merkley-booker-whitehouse contingent and now most recently with senators durbin and markey joining us, he has been the thread that has made all that possible. and so i just wanted to close by expressing a personal appreciation to him for hanging in there through particularly that early period when there was not a lot of support for this in our caucus. and working with us and working with is senator inhofe and senar vitter to make the coalition we have today. congratulations to senator udall and thanks for letting me say a few words. mr. udall: senator whitehouse, thank you so much. i just want to say about senator whitehouse, i mean, this bill would not be where it is today unless we had that trio working in the environment and public works committee. i really believe that. they took the bill that was coming up, we had a hearing on it, and they really looked and analyzed it and applied all the principles that senator whitehouse and i both talked about, and

carper: i'm pleased to follow my colleague and friend from missouri. and i just want to mention -- i didn't come to the ploor to talk about what we're doing for our veterans. let me take a minute or two to talk about what we're doing that we can actually be proud of and maybe to touch on a couple of areas where we could do a better job. i am a veteran myself, a navy shipman for four years, went on to become a naval flight officer. i served in southeast asia as a naval flight officer and then as a p-3 aircraft officer until the end of the cold war. i loved serving and got an education, undergraduate and graduate school, and so very privileged to have the opportunity at the end of my active duty tour to use a v.a. hospital very close to wilmington, delaware. i remember the first time i went there, i was there for some dental benefits. it turned out that my dentist -- a young dentist told me that the morale was pretty bad and didn't do good work. they had 16-bed wards. they didn't do much in the way of outpatient surgery. the pharmacy was a mess. i said,

. >> i am tom carper and i agree with this message. >> this hearing record will remain open for 50 days until october to record at 5:00 p.m. so you have time senator baldwin for submission of statements and questions for the record. thank you all. this hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] just hours before the expected elections for the speaker of house majority leader kevin mccarthy removed himself from consideration. it's been reported that outgoing speaker john boehner only learned about the decision moments before mr. mccarthy spoke to members of the caucus. we spoke to a capitol hill reporter for an update on the situation. prescod joining us on the phone from phone from the "washington post" newsroom is someone who covers congress. thank you for being with us and what has been a very busy day. >> guest: it has indeed. we started out today thank you we knew the end result and we know was going to happen for her would be the next speaker of the house of representatives. that was of course kevin mccarthy republican from -

i particularly want to thank senator mccain, senator ron johnson, senator tom carper who worked hard to move this bill forward. i appreciate in particular the outstanding work of our chairman senator burke from north carolina and our vice chair senator feinstein from california. they work together seamlessly to move this challenging bill forward. it's worth noting something the vice chair recently said. she said one of the things i've learned from two prior bills of this type is that you really want to get a bill done it's got to be bipartisan particularly if the bill is technical and difficult and hard to put together. after watching the senate failed to act on cyber threat information sharing for years the new senate majority resolve to move forward instead. as a democratic colleague from california put it we stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the right things happen. yesterday's bipartisan vote was an important step or work for her country. it represents the latest notable comp was not bad but the american people. we remained determined to keep pushing ahead as congress continues its w

one of the things that i've worked on for the last three years, senator carper and i have worked together on this, senator warner has been very engaged in this discussion, as has chairman thune, and that's the protection of sensitive personal information as well as how do we protect the systems themselves. now, clearly, this information sharing will help in that fight. there is no doubt about that, but in addition to supporting this bill, i want to continue to work with my colleagues to see that we have a way to notify people in a consistent way when their information has been shared. there are at least a dozen different state laws that address how you secure personal information, and there are 47 different state laws that address how you tell people if their information has been stolen. that's too much to comply with. we need to find one standard. this patchwork of laws really is a nightmare for everybody trying to comply, and frankly a nightmare for citizens who get all kinds of difficult notices and all -- in all kinds of different ways. without a consistent national standard pertainin

am pleased to say, in our bill were incorporated into an amendment that has been filed by senator carper along with the chairman of the homeland security and governmental affairs committee, senator johnson, senator warner, my chief cosponsor of the bill we introduced and, of course, myself. our amendment has been included in the manager's substitute amendment, and i want to thank chairman burr and vice chairman feinstein for their willingness to include these much-needed provisions to boost the security of the networks at federal civilian agencies. madam president, just think of the kind of data that civilian agencies have in the federal government. whether you're talking about the social security administration or the medicare agency or the i.r.s. or the v.a. or the department of defense, it's evident that millions of americans, indeed most americans, have personal data, sensitive data like social security numbers that are stored in these networks of federal civilian agencies, and we have an obligation to protect as best we can that data. i've also filed another amendment to the cyber b

carper: thanks, mr. president. mr. president, i want to go back in time a little more than 12, 13, 14 years, if you will. go back to 9/11. and one of the lessons learned by the committee on which you and i serve, now homeland security, governmental affairs committee, was learned from former governor caine of new jersey, former congressman lee hamilton from indiana, former chair of the house foreign affairs committee. they were the cochairs of the 9/11 commission. and one of the things that they brought to us after a lot of work by a number of good men and women who served on that commission, they brought to our committee, to the congress root causes for how that disaster occurred. how could those four aircraft take down the twin towers and crash into the -- crash into the pentagon, crash into a field in shanksville, pennsylvania, instead of this building right here? how could that have happened? there are a number of reasons why it happened, but one of the reasons why it happened is that we had stovepiped our intellige

we worked this out in an amendment with senator carper. this does more and could prevent parts of the government from quickly learning about cyber threats at machine speed because it would require an additional privacy review for any information going through the d.h.s. portal. the carper amendment that i spoke about was adopted as part of the managers' package which made it clear that the government should take automated steps to ensure that the realtime information-sharing system can both protect privacy and allow for the speed necessary to stop cyber threats. because the coons amendment will slow down sharing via the d.h.s. portal, i ask my colleagues to join me in voting "no." mr. coons: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: mr. president, i rise today to urge my colleagues to support my amendment to make sure that this bill strikes the right balance between privacy and security. now, i respect the very hard work of senators burr and feinstein and the constructive amendment that my senior senator,