mr. bennet: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. i ask the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bennet: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. res. 491 submitted earlier today by senators coons and boosman. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 491, commending the participants in the 44th international chemistry olympiad and recognizing the importance of education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics to the future of the united states. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. bennet: i further ask that the resolution be

mr. bennet: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. first i'd like to thank the senator from alabama for calling this body's attention once again to the debt crisis we face as a country. i was with some people just a little while ago and i was telling them a story about a conversation i had in colorado about our debt and our deficit and the moral obligation we have to our kids to actually deal with this problem, face up to the facts and my then-ten-year-old daughter with a es with me, caroline, and we walked out on the front stoop of this place. she said to me, daddy? i said what? she said just to be clear -- making fun of me because i say that sometimes. "just to be clear, i'm not paying that back." which is the right attitude for her to have, the attitude children across this country ought to have and the attitude we ought to have. i want the senator to know i look forward as we get into this discussion this summer to figure out how we find a bipartisan comprehensive path through this morass so that caroline bennet doesn't

mr. president. i ask unanimous consent the bennet-crapo amendment 2022 which is cleared by both sides be in order. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. ms. stabenow: thank you. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i ask the quorum call be dispensed with -- the presiding officer: we're not in a quorum call. mrs. boxer: i ask the time on the motion to proceed on s.j. res. 37 be in order even though the motion will not be made until wednesday's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: mr. president, i am going to make a unanimous consent request that senator carper open this debate, and i give thanks to senator inhofe, for allowing that, for eight minutes and then senator inhofe will use 15 minutes at his discretion, then we'll go to senator shaheen for up to ten minutes, then back to senator inhofe for another 15 minutes from his side, and then our side will be lautenberg for ten, mercury for ten and whitehouse for ten. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: it was my understandi

stabenow, levin, conrad, bingaman, kohl, leahy, bennet, coons, franken, baucus, mikulski, nelson of nebraska, klobuchar, brown of ohio, merkley and casey. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. ms. mikulski: mr. speaker, would you yield for a question? mr. reid: i yield to my friend. ms. mikulski: mr. leader, i noted on the last vote, you voted no. was that so that the bill could be reconsidered? mr. reid: i say to my friend through the chair there is no one in this body that has a reputation for a bigger and better fighter than barbara mikulski, the senator from maryland, senior senator from maryland, and i entered the motion to reconsider the vote because i want the fight to continue. ms. mikulski: well, i would like to respond to the majority leader. we want to fight, too. we thank you for your vote and your voice. i just want you to know that although we lost the vote today, we're not going to give up on this vote. it is a very sad day here in the united states senate, but it's a sadder day every day when paycheck

mr. president, this is a broad bipartisan amendment. warner-crapo-kirk-shaheen-bennet -webb. it accelerates access to those areas that are underserved. we have a 2009 usda i.g.a. report that shows many loans that went toward underserved communities. it creates greater access in transparency. these are items brought forward from the g.a.o. and the i.g.a. at the usda and c.r.s. third, it also allows greater levels of accountability in ensuring that those states that correct -- that collect data by address, that that information is relayed to r.u.s. so we don't have counties where a certain part of the county is served and other parts of the county are left unserved. it has broad support of the u.s. conference of catholic bishops, national taxpayers unions and the legal of rural voters. i'd ask bipartisan support of this amendment. the presiding officer: who yields time in opposition? the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: i'm not yielding time in opposition. i want to commend senator warner and everyone on this amendment for the tremendous amount of work. it's a bipartisan am