mr. franken proposes amendment numbered 282. mr. harkin: i ask that the further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that at 2:30 p.m. today, the senate proceed to votes in relation to the following pending amendments in the order lists: endisee amendment number 2812 and franken amendment number 2822, furthering that no second-degree amendments be in order to either amendment prior to the votes. the presiding officer: is there objection to the request sp?without objection. harass harold like to modify my unanimous consent that the second vote be a 10-minute vote. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. harkin: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. franken: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. frank mr. president, i rise in strong support of the child care development and block grant act -- the presiding officer: th

mr. franken: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. mr. franken: thank you, mr. president. thank you, senator boxer. thank you, senator schatz and senator whitehouse for organizing this. first, mr. president, i would like to ask unanimous consent that samuel bachenhower, a fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 113th congress. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. franken: mr. president, i rise tonight to talk about climate change, along with 25 to 30 of my colleagues who will be speaking through the night. the recent extreme weather events that we've experienced across the united states are a call to action. we in this body need to not just talk about climate change but to take action to address it. if we fail to act, the extreme weather events we have seen will only grow more extreme in the future. this winter has been exceptionally cold in many areas of the united states, including minnesota. some deniers have taken this as a sig

mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator franken. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to talk about a tool that students can use early on in the process of looking at colleges. the net price calculator. i'm going to introduce some legit creation on that to prove it. that price calculator allows kids, before they are even decided whether to apply to a college, can see how much is actually going to cost. now, we have a free net price calculator available for colleges. some put their own. some are better than others. you know, i think about, a college board a recent survey. more than half of the students ruled out schools based on sticker price without considering the full effect of financial aid, and i think, and it said many of, chose to attend less selective colleges than they were qualified for because they incorrectly believed that are priced out of the other schools. i was wondering if you had any thoughts about the net to calculator and what the department of education can do to incentivize colleges to make these calculations more user-friendly for students?

mr. chairman. >> i have in order warren, senator warner, -- center in see, senator murphy and senator casey. and senator franken. senator warren. >> thank you very much mr. chairman, ranking member alexander. welcome, dr. hamburg. so the cdc estimates that more than 2 million people develop antibiotic resistance infections in the united states every year. and there's increasing scientific evidence that the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture is contributing to the rise of antibiotic resistance. the more we use an antibiotic, the less effective it becomes at fighting resistant infections. if we continue to use 30 million pounds as antibiotics in food animals every year, which is about four times as much as we using people, we are likely to have a lot more resistant infections and fewer antibiotics that work when we need them. so the fda's most recent guidance documents on the subject concluded that the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture for production purposes to promote growth in animals, i'll quote you, may contribute to animal testing antibiotic resistance. but the fda says that antibiotic use

mr. president, let me come to maybe the end of my remarks here and suggest the following: and that is, the time is now for us to take bold and decisive action. as my colleague, senator franken, mentioned, those of us who have kids -- and i have four -- those of us who have grandchildren -- and i have seven beautiful grandchildren -- they will look us in the eye 20 years from now and say, why did you let this happen? didn't you know what was happening? didn't you understand what lack of action would do for our country and the planet? that is the issue that we face. we need to have the courage now to stand up to extremely wealthy and powerful forces in big energy -- and that's the coal companies, that's the oil companies, the gas companies -- and come up with an alternative vision for energy in america. and in that regard, i am proud to have joined with my colleague, the chair of the environmental committee, senator barbara boxer, to introduce last year the climate protection act. and our bill does what at the end of the day every serious person understands must be done, and that is to establish a fee on carbon pollution emissions, an approach, by the way, endorsed not just b