mr. cornyn: thank you. madam president, over the last months our country has been consumed by a single word, one that we don't use often in our ordinary parlance. that word of course is impeachment. it's filled our news channels, twitter feeds, and dinner conversations. it's led to a wide-ranging debate on everything from the constitutional doctrines, separation of powers to due process of law, something concepts which are the most fundamental building blocks of who we are as a nation. it even prompted those who typically have no interest in politics to tune into c-span or their favorite cable news channel. the impeachment of a president of the united states is simply the gravest undertaking we can pursue in this country. it is the nuclear option in our constitution. it's a choice of last resort. when a president has committed a crime so serious that congress must act rather than leave the choice to the voters in the election. the framers of the constitution granted this awesome power to the united states c

mr. cornyn. mr. cornyn, not guilty. ms. cortez masto. ms. cortez masmasto, guilty. mr. cotton. mr. cotton, not guilty. mr. kramer. mr. kramer not guilty. mr. crapcrapo. mr. crapo, not guilty. mr. cruz. mr. cruz, not guilty. mr. daines. mr. daines, not guilty. ms. duckworth. ms. duckworth, guilty. mr. durbin. mr. durbin, guilty. mr. enzi. mr. enzi not guilty. ms. ernst. ms. ernst, not guilty. ms. feinstein. mrs. feinstein, guilty. mrs. fisher. mrs. fisher, not guilty. mr. gardener. mr. gardener, not guilty. ms. gillibrand. mrs. gillibrand, guilty. mr. graham. mr. graham, not guilty. mr. grassley. mr. grassley, not guilty. ms. harris. ms. harris, guilty. ms. hassan. ms. hassan, guilty. mr. hawley. mr. hawley, not guilty. mr. hinrich, guilty. ms. hirono, guilty. mr. hoeven, guilty. ms. hide smith, not guilty. mr. inhofe, not guilty. mr. johnson, not guilty. mr. jones. mr. jones guilty. mr. kaine. mr. kaine, guilty. mr. kennedy. mr. kennedy, not guilty. mr. king. mr. king, guilty. mrs. klobuchar. ms. klobuchar, guilty. mr. lankford. mr. lankford, not guilty. mr. leahy. mr. leahy, guilt

mr. cornyn: madam president, i i ask unanimous consent that following my oral

mr cornyn, not guilty. mr cortez —— ms. cortez, guilty. mr cotton, not guilty.t guilty. mr crapo, not guilty. mr cruz, not guilty. mr daines, not guilty. ms. duckworth, guilty. mr durbin, guilty. mr enzi, not guilty. mr ernst, ms. ernst, guilty. mrs fisher, not guilty. mr gardner, not guilty. mrs gillibrand, guilty. mr graham, not guilty. mr grassley, not guilty. ms. harris, guilty. mr holly, not guilty. mr heinrich, guilty. ms. geraldo, guilty, mr hoven, not guilty. mrs heitzman, not guilty. mr and i , not guilty. mrjohnson, not guilty. mrjones, guilty. mr kane, guilty. mrjones, guilty. mr kane, guilty. mrjones, guilty. mr kane, guilty. mr kennedy, not guilty. mr king, guilty. mr langford, not guilty. mr lahey, guilty. mr lee, not guilty. mrs leffler, not guilty. mr mansion, guilty. mr markey, guilty. mr mcconnell, not guilty. this week mr menendez, guilty. mr markley, guilty. mr moran, not guilty. mr murkowski, —— miss murkowski, not guilty. mr murphy, guilty. and with that, but the president has 3a senators floating him not guilty which means that he has been

mr. cornyn. mr. cornyn, not guilty. >> it was a second article and a similar exercise on the charge of obstruction of justice. >> it is therefore ordered and judge that donald john from b and is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles. >> there are two republicans who wanted to hear from or witnesses. romney was emotional in announcing his decision on the senate floor that he would vote to convict on abuse of power, a quick on obstruction of congress. >> the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. what he did was not perfect. it was a flagrant assault on electoral rights, our national security, and our fundamental values. >> romney acknowledged it would not make a final difference on the outcomes but he had to vote his conscience and make his oath to god. republicans >> the speaker of the houserefus acquittal. maybe she'll tear up the oak >> senate democrats tried to push for conviction. >> the verdict of this kangaroo court will be meaningless. republican majority has plac

mr. cornyn? >> mr. cornyn, not guilty. mr. cotton? mr. cotton not guilty. mr. kramer? mr. kramer not guilty. mr.? mr. not guilty. mr. cruz? mr. cruz did not guilty mr. daines? mr. daines not guilty. miss duckworth? miss duckworth guilty. mr. durbin? mr. durbin guilty. mr. enzi? mr. enzi not guilty. mr. ernst? mr. ernst, not guilty. mrs. feinstein? mrs. feinstein guilty. mrs. fisher? mrs. fisher not guilty. mr. gardner? mr. gardner not guilty. mrs. gillibrand? mrs. gillibrand, guilty. mr. graham? mr. graham, not guilty. mr. grassley? mr. grassley, not guilty. ms. harris? ms. harris, guilty. ms. hassan? ms. hassan, guilty. mr. holly? mr. holly, not guilty. mr. heinrich? mr. heinrich, guilty. ms. hirano? mr. ronald, guilty guilty. -- misses high and smith not guil guilty. mr. johnson? mr. johnson, not guilty. mr. jones? mr. jones, guilty. mr. kane? mr. kane, guilty. mr. kennedy? mr. kennedy, not guilty. mr. king? mr. king, guilty. ms. clover chart? ms. clover chart guilty. mr. lankford, not guilty. mr. lahey? mr. lahey, guilty. mr. lee? mr. lee, not guilty. -- mr. mansion? mr

mr. cornyn, not guilty. >> ms. cortez masto, guilty. >> mr. cotton, not guilty. >> mr. kramer, not guilty. >> mr. crapo, not guilty. >> mr. cruz, not guilty. it's a mac mr. daines, north guilty printed. >> this duckworth, guilty. mr. durbin, guilty. >> mr. enzi, not guilty. mr. ernst, not guilty. missu feinstein, guilty. ms. fisher, not guilty. mr. gardiner, not guilty. missus gillibrand, guilty. mr. graham, not guilty. mr. grassley, not guilty. ms. harris, guilty. ms. hassan, guilty. mr. holy, not guilty. mr. heimlich, guilty. mr. ono, guilty. mr. hoban, not guilty. ms. highsmith, not guilty. mr. inhofe, not guilty. mr. johnson, not guilty. mr. jim, most skinny guilty. this again. guilty. mr. kennedy. not guilty. mr. king, guilty. ms. clover chart, guilty. langford. not guilty mr. lee heath, guilty. mr. lee, not guilty. not guilty. mr. manchin, guilty. mr. markey,mi guilty. mr. mcconnell, not guilty. ms. mcsally, nott guilty. mr. menendez, guilty. mr. merkley, guilty. mr. moran, not guilty. ms. markowski, not guilty. mr. murphy, guilty. missus murray, guilty. guilty.,

guilty mr cornyn. not guilty ms cortez mastro. guilty mister cotton. not guilty mister kramer. not guilty mr credo. not guilty mr cruise. not guilty mr danes. not guilty miss duckworth. guilty mister durbin. guilty mr nz. not guilty he ms ernst. not be this is not. he is sure not. not guilty mister gardner. guilty this is jill a brand. t. mr gramm. not 02/05/20 02/05/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! pres. trump: my fellow citizens, three years ago we launched the great american comeback. tonight i stand before you to share the incredible results. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is

mr. cornyn: madam president, debates between the executive branch and congress over the power to conduct war is not a new topic, but i think in many ways this debate has been blown out of proportion. a lot of this has to do with the decision made

mr. cornyn, not guilty. mr. cortez-masto, guilty. mr. cotton. mr. cotton, not guilty. mr. cramer? mr. cramer, not guilty. mr. crapo. mr. krapy, not guilty. mr. cruz. mr. cruz, not guilty. mr. dames, not guilty. ms. duckworth? ms. duckworth, guilty. mr. durbin? guilty. mr. insey? not guilty. mr. ernst? ms. ernst, not guilty. mrs. feinstein, guilty. mrs. fisher? mrs. fisher, not guilty. mr. gardner? mr. gardner, not guilty. mrs. gillibrand, guilty. mr. graham? mr. graham, not guilty. mr. grassley? not guilty. ms. harris? ms. harris, guilty. ms. housen, guilty. mr. holly. mr. holly not guilty. mr. hinrich? guilty. mr. roano? ms. hirono, guilty. mr. hoven, not guilty. mrs. hidesmith? ms. hydesmith, not guilty. mr. inhofe, not guilty. mr. johnson? mr. johnson not guilty. mr. jones? mr. jones guilty. mr. king? mr. king guilty. mr. kennedy? mr. kennedy, not guilty. mr. king? mr. king, guilty. ms. klobuchar? plds klobuchar, guilty. mr. langford, not guilty. mr. leahy? guilty. mr. lee? mr. lee, not guilty. mrs. lofler, not guilty. mr. mansion, guilty. mr. marquee? guilty. mr. mcconnell? mr. mc

mr corning mr cornyn not guilty miss cortez masto. we scorches most guilty mr khan so the senate is voting the 1st charge of abuse of power let's bring in castrate recently i 1st saw on capitol hill so the members tony as far as i can figure out is not a 10 yes. crew guilty and 10 or 11 now not guilty and this is building up quite quickly to the crucial figure that will need isn't it not just today that's right in that figure on that not guilty i would be so ready for that would officially acquit president of this 1st article of the peach of impeachment abuse of power why that is the magic number here is because the bar for a conviction for an up for a guilty finding in an impeachment trial is so high it is a 2 thirds majority much more than a simple half and that's why $34.00 is that magic number here which i believe we will be fastly approaching and the result here not a surprise at all because of course republicans have the majority in this chamber and all but one have said they do intend to vote not guilty on this article. and in t

mr. cornyn: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: madam president, this week the senate will vote on two bills that will protect our most vulnerable citizens, literally our babies. the first bill we'll vote on is the born-alive abortion survivor's protection act which was introduced by our colleague from nebraska, senator sasse. this legislation is simple and straightforward. it requires physicians and health care providers to treat babies who survive an abortion with the same lifesaving care that other infants born at the same stage receive. while you might be forgiven for wondering, why would we need such a bill? surely that standard must already exist in our law. unfortunately, no. there are no federal laws requiring health care providers to care for abortion survivors just as they would for any other infant in their care. and one of the most notorious reasons why we need this law sits in th

mr. cornyn: thank you. madam president, over the last months our country has been consumed by a single word, one that we don't use often in our ordinary parlance. that word of course is impeachment. it's filled our news channels, twitter feeds, and dinner conversations. it's led to a wide-ranging debate on everything from the constitutional doctrines, separation of powers to due process of law, something concepts which are the most fundamental building blocks of who we are as a nation. it even prompted those who typically have no interest in politics to tune into c-span or their favorite cable news channel. the impeachment of a president of the united states is simply the gravest undertaking we can pursue in this country. it is the nuclear option in our constitution. it's a choice of last resort. when a president has committed a crime so serious that congress must act rather than leave the choice to the voters in the election. the framers of the constitution granted this awesome power to the united states c

mr. cornyn: madam president, debates between the executive branch and congress over the power to conduct war is not a new topic, but i think in many ways this debate has been blown out of proportion. a lot of this has to do with the decision made by president trump to -- with the advice of his advisors to eliminate one of the worst terrorists in the middle east, qasem soleimani, who was plotting to burn down the american embassy in iraq and also threaten the lives of american troops, to take him off the battlefield. this is clearly within the president's authority under the constitution. it really isn't a matter whether congress needed to give him the authority to do that or not. i think we all agree that the president as commander in chief has to have his constitutional authority to defend american lives and american interests, and we don't have -- when congress doesn't have the time or, frankly, is not built for speed when it comes to addressing threats to national security like that. we do have a shared responsibility, but primarily the responsibility of the congress can be exercised

mr. secretary, there's been a coup here. three senators aren't here, so senator cornyn, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you mr. secretary. please send our thanks to the folks at hhs doing the work day in and day out. i appreciate it. i guess i'm going to take the bait. many of our colleagues have talked about the lawsuit involving the constitutionality of the individual mandate in affordable care act. as you point out, it could be years before that litigation is finally concluded by the supreme court. in the meantime, the leading candidate for the democratic nomination for president of the united states is proprosing to do away with all private health insurance including the affordable care act and replace it with medicare for all. if you're a member of a labor union and negotiated a good health care coverage, you would be prohibited from keeping that coverage and everybody would be forced into medicare. without having even paid the premiums over your lifetime to be able to help contribute to the cost of it. what would be the consequence to our public health system in america if medicare for all became the law

mr. roy were still here but apparently he was staffer for senator cornyn forgot key of voting right actsin 2006, that was 98 to 0, bipartisan unanimity on that and in the house of representatives it was 390 to 33. tons of our republican friends were enthusiastic and renewing the voting rights act only to be undercut by the supreme court. so i'm hopeful we will pass hr1, i'm hopeful it will get through the senate because, the house already passed it and i'm hopeful because most people don't realize there's affirmative constitutional right in our constitution for the right to vote. we have many voting rights amendments but that's mainly to prevent discrimination which allows states a free reign to re invent james crow. would it be nice if the 29th amendment absolutely guarantied the people right to vote and we could have reforms that people are talking about and that we sometimes take for granted because it's not really written down in our own constitution but if we could all just show some of the courage that dianne nash showed when she was 29 year's old, went to jail while pregnant to st

cornyn and cruz and representative crenshaw and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back. the gentlelady from new mexico reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. creb mr. crenshaw: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. haghag i rise in strong -- mr. hagedorn: i rise in support of the food and agriculture act. this is a great example of how the house can work together. we have homeland security and agriculture folks working together and in the house and the senate. and we need to do everything possible to protect our food supply. i have been focused on this whole african swine fever threat for many, many months. and when you look at it in china, it has ravaged their hug supply. 50% of the hogs in china had to be slaughtered and that has moved to thailand, phillipines and in poland and european union and it is an incredible threat and caused a lot of destruction. in my district in southern minnesota, i represent some of the finest agricultural producers in all the world, including livestock producers and many in the pork production. our district is number two in the country for pork production. when you look at what is going

mr. cornyn: madam president, debates between the executive branch and congress over the power to conduct war is not a new topic, but i think in many ways this debate has been blown out of proportion. a lot of this has to do with the decision made by president trump to -- with the advice of his advisors to eliminate one of the worst terrorists in the middle east, qasem soleimani, who was plotting to burn down the american embassy in iraq and also threaten the lives of american troops, to take him off the battlefield. this is clearly within the president's authority under the constitution. it really isn't a matter whether congress needed to give him the authority to do that or not. i think we all agree that the president as commander in chief has to have his constitutional authority to defend american lives and american interests, and we don't have -- when congress doesn't have the time or, frankly, is not built for speed when it comes to addressing threats to national security like that. we do have a shared responsibility, but primarily the responsibility of the congress can be exercised

mr. cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, the impeachment process that has consumed our country over the last several months is finally at an end. every member of this chamber has spent dozens of hours, if not more, studying the precedence, listening to the house managers and the president's legal team as they present their arts, including the testimony of 13 witnesses whose sworn testimony was presented during the senate trial. in the end, the majority of the senators agreed that president trump should be acquitted of the charges brought by the house. no matter how each senator voted or felt about the end result, i can hope that we would all agree on one thing, and that is it's time to move forward. impeachment has paralyzed the work of congress for far too long and we can't continue to allow the divisions and t

mr. cornyn: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be be dispense -- quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, earlier this week the senate judiciary committee held a hearing to discuss the level of care babies who are born alive should receive. you heard me correctly. we had a hearing in the senate judiciary committee to discuss the level of medical care a baby that's born alive should receive. as heartbreaking as it is to even ask that question as if there were more than one option, this is a real debate and something that needs to be paid attention to. there are actually some folks who think it's appropriate for doctors to provide something less than the highest standard of care to babies who survive abortions, thereon are those who believe that babies who survive abortions should receive the same level of medical assistance as any other baby. that's certainly where i stand. i believe that all life is precious and that