mr. barrasso: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, water infrastructure, a move we have just moved positive cloture vote 96-3, water infrastructure is important to every state, as we see about this vote, every territory, and community, and every tribe in this country. it supports our economic growth and competitiveness, they deliver drinking water and provide water for crops, cattle, and small businesses, ships american-made goods from the heartland to the coast and around the world. they keep homes safe from dangerous floodwaters and store water for times of drowvment these systems are vital to our country. we must maintain, upgrade, and where necessary, build them. during the state of the union address this year, president trump called on congress to act on infrastructure. he said, we will build america's infrastructure, he said, with american heart, american hands, and american grit. water infrastructure is a major part of the president's call. that's why i introduced america's infrastructure act, along with my fellow le

mr. barrasso: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: thank you, mr. president. i rise this week as well to speak about the nomination of judge kavanaugh, who was nominated 66 days ago today. -- he 86 days ago today. even before he was nominated, a number of members of this body said they would oppose the nomination not even knowing who or she might have been. but they would oppose the nomination to the supreme court. after the name was -- came out that evening, other members of the senate said i would oppose that. chuck schumer, the democrat minority leader, said he would oppose the nomination, he said, with everything that he had. you know, it used to be that we could just disregard language like this as empty rhetoric. not anymore. now we know exactly what democrats had in mind from the very start. we have seen the kind of a smear campaign that they have been planning from the very beginning. but i've heard from people at home in wyoming -- what i've heard from people at home in wyoming is that they didn't think things could

mr. barrasso. >> aye. mr. blumenthal. mr. blunt. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. brown. >> no. >> mr. burr. ms. cantwell. ms. capito. >> aye. >> mr. cardin. >> no. >> mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. corker. >> aye. >> mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. >> aye. >> mr. crapo. mr. cruz. >> aye. >> mr. daines. >> aye. >> mr. donnelly. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. >> no. >> mr. insy. >> aye. >> ms. burnes. >> aye. >> ms. feinstein. ms. fisher. >> aye. >> mr. flake. >> aye. >> mr. gardner. >> aye. >> ms. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. >> aye. >> ms. harris. >> no. >> ms. hassan. mr. hatch. mr. hinrich. >> no. >> ms. heitkamp. mr. heller. >> aye. >> ms. hirono. r. hoeven. ms. height smith. >> aye. >> mr. inhofe. mr. isakson. mr. johnson. mr. jones. mr. kaine. mr. kennedy. >> aye. >> mr. king. ms. klobuchar. >> no. >> mr. kyl. >> aye. >> mr. lankford. >> aye. >> mr. leahy. mr. lee. mr. manchin. mr. markey. ms. mccaskill. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. >> no. >> mr. moran. ms. murkowski. r. murphy. ms. murray. mr. nelson. r. paul. mr. perd

mr. trauner. >> public hands. >> senator barrasso chair of platform committee in republican platform in 2016 and he said that the states should sell land, federal government should land, i disagree. >> the champion of this candidate right now is elizabeth warren who has been fundraising for him, the darling of the liberal left and wants no energy developments on public lands which would kill wyoming. >> senator barrasso, preexisting conditions. >> my wife is brother and sister cancer survivor and chemotherapy, i will tell you as husband and way to do it without trapping people in obamacare, people with preexisting needs to be able to find insurance that is affordable and appropriate for them. >> mr. trauner, they vote today gut and take away individual mandate you can't protect conditions without having sick people and healthy in the same pool. he has tried to gut preexisting conditions and to say otherwise it's not true. >> livable sphwhaij. >> i'm totally for living wage, you know what, right now we subsidize the wal-mart, mcdonalds because people who work there full-time are still in governme

mr. trauner: the senate and senator barrasso voted repeatedly to take away obamacare and the pre-existing mandate. he has repeatedly tried to get rid of pre-existing conditions and to say otherwise is not true. craig: livable wage. mr. trauner: i'm totally for a livable wage. right now we subsidize the private profits of mcdonald's and walmart another big companies, because people that work there are still on government subsidies. that is wrong. we need to make sure that if you work hard and work full-time, you can live a life of dignity and support your family. has barrasso: minimum wage gone up and living wage have gone up, signing bonuses, there are lots of opportunities. i don't think you need to legislate any of this. kristin: race rhetoric? sen. barasso: there is no place for it. we are the equality state and it shouldn't be part of our society. mr. trauner: i think we agree on this one. absolutely. there is no place for discrimination in our society against race or anybody else. we need to nip that in the bud and stop it called. -- stop it cold. kristin: campaign-finance? mr. traun

almost barrasso. >> aye. mr. bennett. >> no. plaintiff brumen that will. >> no. >> mr. blunt yirks. >> mr. booker, mr. boseman. >> aye. mr. brown next. >> mr. burr. miss cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cardin. >> no. >> mr. carper. . casey. >> no. >> mr. cassidy. >> aye. >> miss collins. >> aye. >> the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. continue. mr. coons. >> no. >> mr. corker. >> aye. >> mr. cornyn senator will suspend. sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. >> mr. cornyn. >> aye. >> miss cortes masto. >> no. >> mr. cotton. >> aye. >> mr. crapo. >> aye. >> mr. cruz. >> aye. >> mr. daines. mr. donnelly. miss duckworth. >> no. >> mr. durbin. >> no. >> mr. enzi. >> aye. >> mrs. earns. >> aye. mrs. feinstein. >> no. >> mrs. fisher. >> aye. the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. continue. >> mr. flake. >> aye. >> mr. gardener. >> aye. >> mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. >> aye. >> mr. grassley. >> aye. >> miss harris. >> no. >> miss hassan. >> hassan votes no. >> mr. hatch. >> aye

mr. trauner: i am a huge fan of campaign-finance, you know that. senator barrassoas taken money s.om corporate pack we need to make sure we get money out of politics. >> in the state of wyoming, i have close to 2000 owners. for every person who has donated to his campaign, 10 has donated to mine. the person who is moving across the state right now is elizabeth warren, who has endorsed him and is trying to get money funneled from massachusetts & to wyoming in the way that it on the money to send to candidates who have liberal views. mr. trauner: no endorsement, by the way. i think what: happened in turkey is wrong, i think we will find a connection between the saudi prince and that. i call for sanctions and i want the magnitsky act to be called into play. moderator: mr. trauner? mr. trauner: heck yeah, what we need to do is put sanctions on them. oil is a worldwide commodity, so even if we are trailing oil here, we are subject to saudi arabia, if we don't get off of that. moderator: dr. christine a lobby -- dr. christine blasey ford? sen. barasso: she made credible

mr young. aye. senators voting in the affirmative. alexander, barrasso, one.oran, paul, perdue, portman, roberts, rounds, rubio, size, scott, shelby, sullivan, tillis, wicker and young. mr mansion, aye. senators voting in the negative. baldwin, bennett. brown, cantwell, carden, casey, kunz, cortes, duckworth, durbin, finds time, julie brand, harris, heinrich, kane, leahy, markey, murky, matkowski, murphy, murray, nelson, peters, smith, stubbing out, tester, udall, warren, white house and wyden. mrsanders, tester, udall, warren, white house and wyden. mr sanders, no. mr lee, aye. miss harrison, no. mr jones, mrjones, no. mr johnson, mrjohnson, aye. mr mr johnson, aye. mr schumer, mrjohnson, aye. mr schumer, no. mr donnelly, no. miss high camp, no. mrs mccaskill, no. mr menendez, no. mr reid, no. mr king are no. mr van holland, mr king are no. mrvan holland, no. miss serono, no. mr blumenthal, no. so, that voting under way. quite tense on the senate floor. the professor of us politics at richmond university, what is your reading of the voting we had so far? it i

mr. president, in closing, i want to thank our colleagues, senator barrasso and senator carper, as well as the leadership of the house transportation and infrastructure committee for all of the hard work on this bipartisan legislation. infrastructure investment when it comes to our waterways means jobs. it means the continued protection of clean water and for us in the northwest helping us preserve our salmon population. i'm so happy that we have finally taken another step towards the competitiveness of our ports in the northwest. these are real jobs. we will now be able to serve in the future, near future with this deepening larger cargo container ships that will help us keep our competitiveness in moving product. and while we move about 10 billion products of washington, we move about seven times more of that from all states of the united states moving through our ports. so while it sounds like an investment in two very large port infrastructures on the west coast, i guarantee you it affects many midwestern states and many products in their ability to cost-effectively ship to other parts

mr. hugin. >> two live campaign 2018 debates coming up later today on the the companion neck, c-span. from south carolina, henry mcmaster debates james smith and then at 9:00 p.m. a debate between john barrasso and gary return toker and with 12 days, c-spans is your prime more source for campaign 2018. >> the mid-term elections days away, watch the competition for the control of congress. on c-span. seer fours the candidates and the debates from key house and senate races. make c-span your primary source for campaign 2018. >> michigan governor rick snyder is term-limited in the race to replace him human beings bill schuette and democrat gretchen whitmer debated yesterday in detroit. >> in just 12 days michigan picks a new governor. tonight the candidates answer the questions you care about. live from the wdiv studios in downtown detroit, this is decision 2018. the michigan gubernatorial debate. >> good evening and welcome to the second and final debate between the democratic and republican candidate for governor. live from the wdiv studios here in downtown detroit. the stakes are high and we want you to have as much information as possible before you head to the polls. >> this debate is bein

mr. barrasso: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to complete my brief statement before the roll call is taken. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. barrasso: i want to thank my friend and colleague from delaware, senator carper, for his great contributions to this piece of legislation. it is an important bill, has broad, bipartisan support, broad bicameral support. 95 groups have edge ambassadorsed it. they represent a broad group from the sierra club to the american petroleum institute. all agree that this important legislation is good for our country, good for our communities, good for our economy, good for our environment. from the wyoming wool growers association to the arkansas rural water association, to the milwaukee sewer, all praise the bill. the water infrastructure bill passed our committee, passed the house hon a unanimous voice vote. it is too i am to send it to the president for his signature. thank you, mr. president. i just ask our members to join us in