chair barrasso: the delegate from maine. >> thank you, mr. chair. -- ilinen page think the lines are inaccurate. chair barrasso: lines 17 to 24. >> oh, i am sorry. chair barrasso: they are on page 12. we want to get back to the amendments that is in front of us from you on page 10, is that correct? >> it looks like it is on page 12, my apologies. if i can hold it off until page 12 -- chair barrasso: we can go right ahead. so page 12? >> i made an error as i was preparing this very hastily last night, so i apologize. 6 page 12, this effects line line 13.to this would strike this language which calls for -- essentially a eliminatingimposing our trade and relationship with cuba. the reason for this -- i want to tale of two countries -- cuba and vietnam. over the last half-century, we have seen these two countries very differently, but we actually went to war with the adopter and since that time, we have had open trade relations, opened a promisee, open dialogue with them, and they have become one of our best trading partners, they have also becom

mr. chairman. chair barrasso: that is what the vote is on now. the ayes have it. the motion is now the language in yellow. discussion on the language in yellow. the delegate from the district of columbia. >> i would like to offer an amendment to the text that is currently before us to read, and the second sentence, i guess it is the third sentence. the terrorist attack on lgbt americans in orlando. i bring this for two reasons to bring our language in line with mr. trump's response to the attack and to test how far this committee is willing to go to avoid a single positive reference to the lgbt community and to continue to alienate the lgbt community. we are all americans. the republican party is about protecting all americans, not any one group because of our religion, our race, our sexual orientation. us, not forant for any one of us as delegates, to do something that is a personal agenda. should be what is in the best interest of the entire united states of america and that is what our party stands for. detecting the interest of every american. look at 9/11. no

mr. barrasso: senator thune was just on the floor talking about executive overreach. let me tell you, two weeks ago the supreme court of the united states issued a stinging rebuke and a stinging defeet to the -- defeat to the obama administration and its immigration am he nesty -- amnesty plan. it has been a string of stinging defeats for the president's approach of what i believe is executive overreach. the courts agree with me. for years president obama has been acting like he believes he has unlimited power, unlimited power to do whatever he wants to do regardless of what the law of the land says. now, the courts have finally said enough is enough. in this case president obama decided that for political purposes, he was going to stop enforcing some of the country's immigration laws. 26 states said that was outrageous and they filed a lawsuit. it is the president's job to enforce the laws of the united states, and the law is very clear. the law is clear when it comes to immigration and the president's deciding to change it. basically says he is willing to ignore the

mr. chairman, for purposes explained in the report only, i am honored to yield to the senator john barrasso. [cheers] order, point of order, point of order. >> you cannot ignore the delegates. >> point of order. states.st represent 50 you cannot ignore the delegates. turn on the microphone. point of order. >> i am not going to do this here. >> [indiscernible] >> you are ignoring delegates who have been elected to this convention. usa.usa, [indiscernible] >> point of order, point of order.point of party unity. >> this is not how you unify the american -- the republican party. 11 states, the majority of the delegates from 11 states have submitted written petitions asking for a rollcall. [indiscernible] that is all we are wanting. something that is array provided for. that is not so much. i cannot fathom what they are thinking, why this makes sense. is are the same people around the country who need to be the engine for our nominee. and in the months leading up to november. those calling for unity, calling for unity, need to keep that in mind. if they want unity, they need to be respectful of

mr. chairman, for the purposes of explaining the report only, i am honored to yield to the co-chair of the committee, senator john barrassoor mary fallin and congress mom virginia fox. >> the delegates from west virginia, interrupted briefly by ken cuccinelli, now on the floor. >> the platform committee, united states senator john barrasso. >> james rosen, you should come back again to explain what we just saw. >> it would appear the steam rolling process is continuing. the chair and the convention are moving along from the rules, which was the central venue of this fight between the never trumpers and the cruz forces and the rnc and donald trump, and they're proceeding to the platform committee so they're trying to proceed with business as usual here. but there has been a lot of behind the scenes negotiations over the last 24 hours. the rnc chairman, reince priebus, spend last night huddling with approvals committee people in ais unusual for for the chairman on the eve of the session, normally that is spent with ceremonial duties so they knew the fight was coming. the negotiations what kind of role ted cruz would have, w

mr. chairman, for the purposes of explaining only, i am honored [indiscernible] -- ] hanting introducew proud to united states senator john barrassong] >> you cannot ignore the delegates! >> point of order! >> turn on the microphone's! >> i am not going to do this here. [crowd chanting] >> you are ignoring delegates that have been elected to this convention. chanting "usa"] party unity"] g " vote!lcall for delegates, the majority of delegates from 11 states have submitted petitions asking for a rollcall vote. are they allowed to get a rollcall vote in that circumstance? something already divided for. >> i don't know. i cannot imagine, i cannot fathom what they're thinking is. these are the very same people around the country who are going to need to be the engine for our nominee. those who are calling for unity need to keep that in mind. if what they want is unity. >> it is not clear what they have done. been abandoned. there is no one standing at the podium. mine.uess is as good as >> i have no right to occupy that podium. i do not want to occupy that podium. i want a rollcall vote, which is our right. we need to be able to speak

mr. chairman, for the purposes of explaining the report only, i am honored to yield to the cochairs of the committee, senator john barrasso, governor mary fallin, and congresswoman virginia foxx. thank you. ♪ >> good evening and welcome to c-span's live gavel to gavel coverage of the republican national convention. delegates are returning to the quicken loans arena and cleveland, ohio after an afternoon session that included a spoiled rules challenge. 7:50java will come down at p.m., and the event focuses on national security issues and a speech by melania trump. skyboxgs from c-span's overlooking the podium here at quicken loans center. we are setting the stage what is happening tonight, both from a policy and politics standpoint. we have the washington bureau chief of the wall street journal, and he begins the -- after this afternoon's events, how does this all play out for the party, its message of unity around donald trump's candidacy? >> what happened was the last gasp of the stop trump, never trump movement. this is an attempt to force a vote on the floor, a public vote that would allow delegates to be unbound, to v

mr. mcconnell: i move the senate disagree to the amendment of the house, agree to the request by the house for a conference, and the presiding officer appoint the following conferees. senator mikulski, barrasso, risch, cornyn, cantswell, wyden and sanders. and i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 223 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to disagree to the house amendment, agree to the request from the house for a conference, and the presiding officer appoint the following conferees, murkowski, barrasso, risch, cornyn, cantswell, wyden and sanders with respect to s. 2012, an original bill to provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the united states and for other purposes. signed by 17 senators. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the mandatory quorum call be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: and i ask consent this cloture vote

mr. chairman. to my fellow delegates, the concept that i want to share this morning that we talked about with chairman barrasson principles. it's been said that ideas go booming through the world like cannons. that thoughts are more powerful than armies, and that principles have won more victories than horsemen and chariots. so inspiring ideas, transformational thoughts and powerful principles. these have been the center and driving force of the republican party from the very beginning. when lincoln launched a beginning to really save a nation and reform our party. years ago when i was chief of staff to senator mike lee, on occasion we'd get together with dr. larry arndt from hillsdale college. on one of those nights, dr. arne raised the idea of a platform similar to 1860 that lincoln ran on. was 1,200 words in length. written directly to the american people. speaking very powerful language. it's convenient that i'm sitting next to our colleague dr. david barton here from texas, because david actually has in his possession the 1860 platform. and you're welcome to come see it after. but it is a platform of prin

mr. chairman. to my fellow delegates, the concept that i want to share this morning that we talked about with chairman barrassous on principles. it's been said that ideas go booming through the world like cannons, that thoughts are more powerful than armies, and that principles have won more victories than horsemen and chariots. so inspiring ideas, transformational thoughts, and powerful principles, these have been the center and driving force of the republican party from the very beginning. when lincoln launched a movement to really save a nation and to form our party, years ago when i was chief of staff to senator mike lee, on occasion we'd get together with dr. larry arm from hillsdale college and philosophize the world to death and solve all the problems, and on one of the nights, dr. arn raised the idea of a platform similar to 1860, that lincoln ran on. it was 1,200 words in length, written directly to the american people, speaking very powerful language. it's convenient that i'm sitting next to our colleague, dr. david barton here from texas, because david actually has in his possession the 1860 platfor

mr. barrasso: at the amount requested. mr. wicker: at the amount requested by the c.d.c. i was disappointed to hear the gentleman say that he believes democrats will come in and once again block this funding this afternoon. if that happens, when will be the next opportunity that this body will have to vote on this vital funding? mr. barrasso: i think, madam president, we're talking at least seven weeks from now. if the democrats don't change their tune, there's a lot of damage that's going to occur over that period of time. it's time to kill the mosquitoes now. remember, as my colleague knows from mississippi, it's the mosquitoes that carry the virus, the virus that if bitten and that person gets that virus, it can cause all these very consequential health impacts to babies who are yet to be born as well as to adults. mr. wicker: i would just observe and there may be others that want to speak in the very short time we have. i would just observe, madam president, that we have a bill before us that gives the administration what they've been requesting, that gives our friend