mr. cardin: i ask unanimous consent to be recognized notwithstanding the order that no business be conducted during today's pro forma session. the vice president: is there an objection? without objection. mr. cardin: madam president, i ask consent that notwithstanding the order that no business be conducted during today's pro forma session, it be in order to receive h.r. 5085 from the house, that the senate proceed to its immediate consideration, that the bill be considered read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered married and laid upon the table -- need and laid pofned table all without entire conveniencing action or debate. the senate stand adjourned to the order of -- to september 3. the vice president: under the previous order, the senate previous order, the senate >> senators return for legislative work monday september 13 at 3 p.m. for more work on executive nominations. later in the week majority leader schumer has scheduled time for voting rights and election reform legislation. watch the senate live here on c-span2. now we return to booktv programming. >>

mr. cardin: i would ask that the quorum call be dispensed with.he presiding officer: we are not in quorum call. mr. cardin: madam president, i rise in support of the legislation that is before us, the bipartisan infrastructure package. i applaud all those who worked so hard so that we could have this legislation before us. it is desperately needed. when we look at the status of our infrastructure today, the aged systems that we have across our nation, in maryland we have some infrastructure that dates back over a century and a half ago. we need a generational investment to modernize our infrastructure, and the legislation before us does exactly that. it will make the united states more competitive and create a lot of good-paying jobs. it will deal with the growing backlog of infrastructure projects that we have in each one of our states. i applaud the work that brought us to this point. i particularly am pleased that the legislation incorporates the work done by the environment and public works committee as it relates to transportation infrastruct

mr. cardin: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: i thank my friend from oklahoma. the two of us arrived in the house of representatives on the same day. we've been friends for all this period of time, and i thank him for his generosity. madam president, i take this time to talk about legislation we'll be considering tomorrow which will be the budget resolution. it gives us a once-in-a-generation opportunity. i would just like to pause for a moment because it's part of president biden's build back better that we can have a more competitive nation and we can create the jobs that we need for the future. i was with secretary blinken earlier today in college park, and he talked specifically about the challenges our nation faces. we go back a generation ago america was clearly in the forefront of creating jobs, of taking advantage of all innovation in new emerging fields. we were the envy of the world. today the rest of the world has caught up, in some cases exceed us. and this once-in-a-generation opportunity to build back better

kennedy to appeal to cardinal kushing. mr.ennedy's own superior in boston too, present to the vatican, his sincere statement, in the united states and religious freedom, as represented in the constitution of the united states in order that the vatican may officially authorize such a belief for all roman catholics in the united states. >> may i say i do not accept the right of someone telling me what i shall dee. i do not propose also to ask cardinal kushing to ask the vatican to take some action. i do not propose to interfere with their free right to do what they want. there's no doubt in my mind that -- there's no doubt in my mind that the viewpoint i have expressed tonight publicly represents the opinion of the overwhelming majority of american catholics. and it's my view, i have no doubt is known to catholics around the world. so, i'm hopeful that my stateding it quite precisely and i think i did in the tradition of the american catholic, way back to bishop john carol. i hope this will clarify it without my having to take a

cardinal. i first learned of it through my administrative assistant, who knew a mr. doyle who worked at the welfare conference who stated there was a good deal of concern among many of the church people in philadelphia because of the location of the chapel and because no service would ever be held in it because it was located in the basement of another church. it was an entirely different situation than the one that i had confronted when i first happily accepted it. now, there were three speakers, kennedy was one of them, taft was the second, senator lehman was the third. one was supposed to speak for the catholic faith, one for the protestant faith and one for the jewish faith. all i can say to you, sir, is this chapel, i was glad to accept the invitation. it was only when i was informed that i was speaking and i was invited, obviously, as a serviceman because i came from a prominent catholic family, that i was informed that i was there really in a sense without any credentials, the chapel as i've said, has never had a catholic service. it is not an interfaith chape

mr. biden is handling this. senator ben ben cardinup a mess left bye-bye three presidents before him. what do you make of that spin? >> no one believes that. no one in our country, no one across the world. when you listened to president biden yesterday, he not only blamed everybody, he fought with everybody, everybody but one person, the taliban. this isn't about leaving, this is about american legacy, and biden's lack of leadership. this isn't just about today. this will last for decades. our allies will question, we watched china utilize this now, when it comes to taiwan, we watched russia, he emboldened our adversaries this is an embarrassment, and to have the president sit there and tell us that they had planned every scenario, why do they continue? steve: mr. leader i'll tell you what, we're not going to continue we're having a problem with your audio so we'll go ahead and pull some wires and fix it, so we're going to go back to kevin mccarthy who is in jackson hole, wyoming, i think the locate or said where it sounds like it's r

mr. president, i was proud to work with my colleague and friend from maryland, senator cardin, to secure some key elements that will directly support our home state of maryland and people who live there, and i'd like to take a moment to discuss the impact of this legislation here in maryland. starting with the funds that it provides to repair and restore our roads, our bridges, and our tunnels, under this plan, the state of maryland will receive $4.1 billion for federal highways and $409 billion for bridge replacement and repairs over the next five years. these funds will be absolutely vital as we work to restore 273 bridges and over 2,000 miles of maryland highway that are in poor condition and in desperate need of repair. this plan also makes an historic investment in public transit and rail systems in maryland and the d.m.v. area. maryland will receive $1.7 billion over five years to improve public transportation options across our entire state, and this legislation will make an important down payment on our amtrak passenger rail systems by addressing the big repair backlog along amtr

cardinals lose the world series. don't make it to the playoffs, got forbid. don't like it when a lot of things happen. i accept them. mr. jordcombran: you didn't accept 2016. mr. morelle: dy accept it, actually. mr. jordan. i have never been on national tv saying i shouldn't accept the results of any election. mr. jordan: i haven't, either. mr. perlmutter: the gentleman's time. please. mr. desaulnier, you are recognized. mr. desaulnier: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to associate myself with mr. morelle's comments. i just agree that equivalency i don't see at all with the proportional it. my perspective. -- proportionality. my perspective. yield back. mr. perlmutter: ms. ross, are you recognized. ms. ross: thank you, mr. chairman. since my home state of north carolina was brought up, i think it's very important for me explain my support for this bill and the need for this bill given the events that have gone all in north carolina. we would say since reconstruction. but certainly -- we could say since reconstruction. but certainly since shelby. i want to thank mr. raskin for pointing out that the supreme court invited

mr. cardin: thank you, mr. president. i rise to speak about the restaurant revitalization fund, and then i will be asking unanimous consent to consider legislation. we included the restaurant revitalization fund in our march legislation on covid relief. we did that because of all of the industries affected by covid-19, restaurants have been some of the most difficult businesses to survive covid-19. they were ordered by government basically to shut down at the beginning of covid-19. then as we started to make progress, they were at much restricted operations. and into this day, restaurants are still not up to their full capacity. their revenues have been very much decimated as a result of covid-19. we came together in march with bipartisan legislation in order to do something about that, and we included that in our legislation, $28.6 billion of relief for restaurants. what it did is cover some of their revenue loss as a result of covid-19. it gave them a lifeline to be able to survive this pandemic, and we projected that $

mr. cardin, number 2478, for mr. daines, number 2449, and for mr. scott of florida, number 2238. a senator: mr. president? the presiding the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will now be four minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to peters-rand amendment number 2464. the senator from michigan. mr. peters: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise to urge adoption of the peters-rounds amendment number 2464. i first want to thank chairman manchin and ranking member barrasso of the energy and natural resources committee for working with me on this amendment. i'd also like to thank senators rounds, portman, and warner for joining me in the offering of this amendment. it's very straightforward. it simply with a align several cybersecurity provisions for the department of energy in this infrastructure legislation with existing law. it would require the department of energy, the sector of risk management agency for the energy sector, to coordinate with the department of homeland security on cybersecurity efforts. d.h.s. is the lead federal