amendments en bloc number 1. amendmenting en bloc number 2. amendment number 4. motion to recommit if offered. and passage of the bill if ordered. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the question on amendment en bloc number 1 printed in part f of house report 117-320 offered by the gentlewoman from oregon. the clerk will redesignate the amendments en bloc. the clerk: en bloc number 1 consisting of amendments numbered 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 printed in part f of house report number 117-320 offered by ms. bonamici of oregon. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from oregon. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives any use of the closed-captioned coverage o

amendments en bloc number 1. amendments en bloc number 2. amendments en bloc number 3. amendment 28. motion to recommit if offered. passage of the bill if ordered. and motions to suspend the rules with respect to the following. s. 2520, h.r. 6873, h.r. 6868, s. 3527, s. 1760, s. 2514, h.r. 7500, h.r. 5754, h.r. 6604, h.r. 6376 and h.r. 7153. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20rbgs replaining electronic -- 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the question on amendments en bloc 1 offered by the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott. the clerk will redesignate the amendments en bloc. the clerk: en bloc number 1 consisting of amendments numbered 1, 4, 8, 12, 13, 21, 25, 26, 30, 32 and 36 printed in part c of house report 117-325 offered by mr. scott of virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentleman from virginia. members will record their votes by electronic device. this

the clerk: en bloc number 3. consisting of amendments numbered 11, 18 and 27, printed in part c of house report 117-325 behaved mr. scott of virginia. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 1119, the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, and the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, each will control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scott: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, this en bloc amendment contains several amendments which i oppose. i therefore reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i yield three minutes to the gentleman from virginia, m mr. good. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. good: thank you, madam speaker. democrats believe

en bloc. the clerk: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 printed in part d of house report 117-320 offered by mr. scott of virginia pursuant to house resolution 1097, the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, and the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, each will control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. there are eight amendments in this en bloc amendment one by the gentlelady from pennsylvania which includes review of the science on gin logical cancers to study the potential risk and likelihood of developing those cancers. one offered by the gentlelady from texas which adds the study regarding the health and safety impacts. one from the nasm arizona, mr. stanton, to require the secretary to notify congress in approving or denying petitions to add diseases, one from the gentlelady from michigan to add a reporting requirement on data with firefighters with diseases and recommendations for additional steps to be taken to minimize the impacts on

curtis will vote nay on en bloc 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. craw ford, i pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. crawford will vote no on en bloc 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. pete stauber of minnesota, i inform the house that mr. stauber will vote no on en bloc one. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. price of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yes on the amendments en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. tiffany of wisconsin, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. tiffany will vote no on the amendment. the speaker pro tempo

the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate consider the following nominations, calendars 927 through 963. and all nominations on the secretary's desk in the air force, army, marine corps, navy, and space force. that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order to any of the nominations, and the president will be immediately notified on the senate's actions and the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cardin: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: i have six requests for committees to meet today. they have approval of the majority leader and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. cardin: madam president, another mass shooting. another elementary school. 19 children, ages 7 through 10, gunned down. two adults killed. they were in our schools, an e

the nominations are confirmed en bloc. ms. stabenow: thank you, mr. president. understand that there are four bills -- let's see here. i understand that there are four bills at the desk due for a second reading en bloc. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the titles of the bills for the time. the clerk: h.r. 3540, an an act within the department of homeland security, the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require the federal government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism. s. 4261 is a bill to suspend duties and other restrictions on the importation of infant formula to address the shortage of infant formula in the united states and for other purposes. h.r. 7688, an act to prevent consumers from price gouging of consumer fuels and for other purposes. h.r. 7790, an act making emergency supplemental appropriations to address the shortage of infant formula in the united states for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2022, and for other purposes. ms. stabenow: in order t

eams en bloc -- amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be considered as read. shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on homeland security or their respective designees, shall not be subject to amendment and shall not be subject to demand for division of the question. section 4. all points of order against the further amendments printed in part b of the report of the committee on rules or amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution are waived. section 5. upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house a bill, h.r. 2499, to amend chapter 81 of title 5 united states code, to create -- 5, united states code, to create a presumption this that a disability or death of a federal employee in fire action activities caused by any of certain diseases is the result of the performance of such employee's duty and for other purposes. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a subs

the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. ossoff: mr.resident, we look forward to ambassador goldberg's service in seoul. he continue his distinguished career in the foreign service. and we look forward to working with him. i now ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 3:00 p.m. on monday, may 9. and that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day and morning business be closed. that upon the conclusion of morning business, the senate proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the phillips nomination. the cloture motions filed during today's session of the senate ripen at 5:30 p.m. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. ossoff: if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask it adjourn offered the provisions of s. res. 621. the presiding officer: pursuant to s. res. 621, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00

president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate now proceed en bloc -- to en bloc consideration of the following senate resolutions -- s. res. 633, s. res. 634,s. res. 6356789. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measures en bloc? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate be authorized to appoint a committee on the part of the senate to join with the like committee on the part of the house of representatives toes court his excellence isy, mitsotakis into the house joint meeting on may 17, 2022. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the notice of issuance of final regulations pursuant to the to the congressional accountability act be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: fina

the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i have five requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 3:00 p.m. monday, may 16. that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day and morning business be closed, that upon conclusion of morning business the senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to calendar 368, h.r. 7691, a bill to provide aid to ukraine. further, that the cloture motions filed during today's session ripen at 5:30 p.m. the presiding office

republican leader, the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations en bloc. calendar number 807 and 809, that there be two hours for debate equally divided in the usual form on the nominations en bloc, that upon the use or yielding back of time, the senate vote without intervening action or debate on the nominations in the order listed, if confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that any related statements be printed in the record, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. padilla: thank you, madam president. i also ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it recess until 10:00 a.m. on wednesday, may 11, that following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the senate proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the motion to discharge the sweeney nomination, as provided under the previo

finally, the rule provides the majority leader or his he is dig i -- designee the ability to en bloc requested roll call votes on certain suspension bills. this authority last lose it may 19, 2022. mr. speaker, this rule provides for consideration of several critical measures and i'd like it begin by saying a few words about h.r. 350, the domestic terrorism prevention act. just this past weekend, the entire nation watched in horror as a white supremacist with a history of violent threats brutally slaughtered 10 people, almost all of whom were black in the city of buffalo, new york. my heartbreaks for the community still reeling this from this senseless tragedy only 75 miles down the flood my home in rochester. the f.b.i. is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and the gunman wrote a racist an anti-semitic 180-page document outlining his motivation for the attack. the gunman intentionally targeted a predominantly black neighborhood and had plans to attack multiple locations afterwards, including in rochester, as has been ridely -- widely reported in the media. mr. speaker, there

into nato will strengthen the security of the euro-atlantic region, said the head of the military bloc ense ready to help stockholm helsinki with entry, but the united states believes that the consensus on nato expansion and sweden with finland in anyway they will find it. now we'll take a break for a couple of minutes after we continue and switch. fox in russia are burning on an area of ​​28 thousand hectares during the day, the territory engulfed in fire increased by almost 20 percent, this was reported in the air defense. the largest fire area was recorded in the krasnoyarsk territory. it accounts for almost half of the fires in the irkutsk region in the capital of the jewish autonomy, birobidzhan for dragging. there is a strong smell of smoke in the air. burning forests, grass are burning in three districts of the region, and dry, calm weather contributes to the rapid spread of smoke over long distances. and i believe the guards threw paratroopers from the kurgan region to the krasnoyarsk territory, khakassia, and now in these regions the most difficult fire situation is developing, an

work with nato allies in order to achieve sweden's entry into the bloc in finland as soon as possible, well, nato secretary general enstoltenberg also promised that the applications of stockholm and helsinki would be considered quickly, but quickly is no longer possible. turkey has become a liquid obstacle, which today has already blocked consideration of applications in finland and sweden, the formal reason is the support of stockholm and helsinki for kurdish organizations, first of all, uh, the workers' parties of kurdistan ankara demanded that the scandinavians completely abandon any support for the pkk and similar structures in syria and iraq but now, it seems to me that the point here is not only and not so much in the kurds as in the principle of the philosophy of foreign policy, turkey requires that it be consulted and that its interests be taken into account. listen to what he said about this today president of turkey recepta and perga. on that takes steps to expand the eastern borders. we see how, in the conditions of the ukrainian crisis, they open their arms to someone and show goodwill. we, as a nato ally,

that is motion to allow a vote en bloc on the floor. so vulan opportunity to vote against mr. -- so you will have an opportunity to vote against mr. cadre -- mr. khaudaay or others. that's all i am seeking. so my request basically would guarantee your vote on all of these nominations, if you drop your objection. mr. hawley: is this a recorded vote on the floor, senator? mr. kaine: it would be -- yes. it would be en bloc, but it is a reasonable doubt ared vote is my understanding. -- but it is a recorded vote is my understanding. again, madam president, just to clarify, my motion is only that the senate be allowed to vote on these nominees -- alex wagner for assistant secretary of the air force, ashish desrani, lester martinez lopez, ago necessary schaefer, lynn parker, musetta johnson, and ravi chaudry. i understand my colleague will vote no, but all i am moving is for the senate to have a vote on these nominees. mr. hawley: on all eight at one time? you don't want to voten each one? -- mr. kaine: my motion is to consider them en bloc.

that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. stabenow: thank you. madam president, i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: >> mr. president, there is a plague, a plague upon this nation, a plague of gun violence country. two weeks ago that plague claimed the lives of ten black americans who were massacred in broad daylight on shopping at a grocery store in buffalo. they were black and they were in a grocery store. that is the reason they were shot by an 18-year-old with an ar-15. and then yesterday, just ten days after buffalo, that plague struck again in uvalde, , texas, where 19, 19 innocent children and two teachers were gunned down at rob elementary in the middle of the school day just before the start of summer when these kids were looking forward to having such a wonderful time with their family and friends. gone, they are gone. the shooter crashes truck near the school, overpowered the police already at the sce

i understand there are four bills at the desk and i ask for their first reading en bloc. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the fights of the bills for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 350,en act to authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the department of homeland security at the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require the federal government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism. s. 4261, a bill to suspend duties and other restrictions on the importation of infant formula to address the shortage of infant formula in the united states and for other purposes. h.r. 7688, aen act to prevent consumers from price gouging of consumer fuels and for other purposes. h.r. 7790, an act making emergency supplemental appropriations to address the shortage of infant formula in the united states for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2022, and for other purposes. ms. stabenow: i now ask for a second reading and i object to my own request, all en bloc. the presiding officer: o

if the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. schumer: now, madam president, we have just confirmed bridget a. brink of michigan to become the ambassador to ukraine. this was very important. i'm so glad we could finally do this by unanimous consent. as we all know, the relationships between the united states and ukraine are so vital, and to have no ambassador really hinders our relationship in ways that nobody would want to see. to have an ambassador there at this crucial link, as the united states continues to help the ukrainian people resist the brutal and vicious attacks by russia is a wonderful thing, is a good thing, and will help advance the cause of peace, security, and freedom. so i'm very glad we did this, and i congratulate bridget a. brink. i have every confidence she'll be an outstanding ambassador and help ukraine overcome the attacks by putin. now, madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the small business committee be discharged from further consideration and the senate now proceed to senate res 612. the pres

the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration and the senate now proceed to s. res. 605. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 605, designating april 2022 as second chance month. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the committee is discharged, and the senate will proceed to the measure. sure schumer 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. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to consideration of s. res. 639, submitted earlier today a. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 609, congratulating aims laboratory on the one hand 75 years of outstanding service. the presiding officer: is there 0 objection to proceeding to the measure? without

reading en bloc. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the titles of the bills for the second time. the clerk: s. 4190, a bill to provide for the independent and objective conduct and supervision of audits and so forth. s. 4191, a bill to prohibit the expenditure of federal funds for the establishment or operation of the disinformation governor unanimous board in the -- never unanimous board in the department of homeland security. h.r. 6191, a bill for emergency sum supplements. ms. cantwell: in order to put the bills on the calendar, i object. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, i bill the will be placed on the calendar. ms. cantwell: i ask that the senate proceed to s. res. 630, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 630, expressing support for the designation of the week of may 1, 2022 through may 7, 2022 as national small business week and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to

blumenthal: thank you, in a position of authority thet reading en bloc. ,. the presiding officer: the clerk will right the titles. the clerk: h.r. 1446, a an act to amend title chapter 44 of title 18 united states code and so forth. mr. blumenthal: i now ask for a second reading and object to my own request, all en bloc. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bills will receive their second reading on the next legislative day. mr. blumenthal: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. on wednesday, may 25, following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and that morning business be closed. that upon conclusion of morning business, the senate proceed to executive session to remove consideration of the thompson nomination. finally, if any nominations are confirmed during wednesday's serks the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upo