mr. hagerty: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. hagerty: mr. president, reserving the right to object. since last year, i've been asking for a commitment from my democratic colleagues that any future reconciliation legislation in this congressional will not reduce access to care in nonexpansion states such as tennessee. specifically, my concern is that the reconciliation legislation that the house of representatives passed last fall, which is the very vehicle for the reconciliation bill currently being discussed in the senate, included provisions that cut uncompensated care pool payments for nonexpansion states. this would result in less health care for vulnerable populations in my state. it would accelerate hospital closures, and disadvantage rural communities of these are places and populations for which we're trying to secure more quality health care, not less. because i still have not received confirmation that these provisions will not be included in the final text of the partisan reconciliation bill, i cannot consent to expediting confirm

mr. hagerty: thank you. this same policy was adopted 53-46 during the budget resolution process last august with four of my democrat colleagues joining me. now, one year later, we have a worse crisis and an opportunity to provide real funding to protect our citizens from individuals who endanger our communities. i hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will maintain their previous support to fund law enforcement and put public safety and national security over partisan politics. we have a chance to address this in a real manner right now. solving a major crisis like this is worth taking a little more time. i urge my colleagues to support this motion. the presiding officer: deputy majority leader. mr. durbin: mr. president, members, the senator from tennessee just provided with us this copy of his new amendment, and i hope you'll take a look at it because it is recommitting this measure for three days. end of conversation, end of debate, end of any possibility of passing what we consider to be a ma