mr. kaine: mr. president, i rise for multiple occasions. to begin, i want -- the presiding officer: we are in a quorum call. mr. kaine: i ask that the quorum call be sus suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaine: kaine i rise to acknowledge earlier this week, we mark the bicentennial, we share a border. our cultural ties are particularly deep. 40 million americans have mexican heritage, many of whom are proud residents of virginia. people of mexican origin represent nearly 60% of our hispanic population. these people-to-people ties are invaluable. these two countries share an important tradition of democracy, and it requires consistent work and maintenance to ensure strong and independent institutions, rule of. law. we know this is a vital endeavor and bedrock of our partnership. as we celebrate the bicentennial, it is important to continue all efforts to advance this relationship. i want to commend the biden administration for working side by side with mexican leaders and

kaine: thank you. i appreciate your letk me go over. mr. casey: thank you. sen. cassidy: i think more for the audience watching, i want to you kind of document by your telephone, if somebody does have an i.e.p. in high school that ender trying to transfer to xavier or another university, justs -- are you able to access that information at all? dr. wright: we can't access it unless they bring it to us. what we will do is provisionally provide those accommodations and set them up with coordinated care plan to get them the evaluations they need. but unless they bring it to us, we don't have access to that because in our admissions process we're not allowed to ask them information about their mental health. >> i was going to add, i think what you demonstrated so beautifully is that when there are -- when there is a mental health team involved with a high school student that's going to be transitioning to college or to a job, whatever they want, you know, we're very aware of what is going on the senior year of high school and so we're sort of anticipating and preparin

ranking member kaine the gentleman from wisconsin for five minutes per statistics show you are far worse than a regular school. there's not maybe the appropriate alarm here in your testimony. mr. hogue, why are you worse than an average, you know, school district that hired teachers? why a result from behind? >> thank you for the question. i don't know the numbers that you're speaking of. sorry i can't speak with any familiarity of how we stack up against regular high schools in allegations that a face within district concerning teachers, but i assure you we are very alarmed at every instance that's reported in the "new york times" article or that we become aware of otherwise. >> that's what it says here. do any of you know that you're worse than average school district? should you be more afraid to put your kid in a jrotc program, then a regular school? have you heard that before? >> if i could, i visited some of our jrotc units last week in preparation for the string to make sure i have some understanding of what the conditions look like in local units. and i had this conversation with two principles. in both cases those principal said to me, and 23 instances out of 100,000

kain. scott of pennsylvania to be united states district judge for the eastern district of pennsylvania. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mrtuberville: thank you, mr. president. you know, for more than 60 years congress has passed the ndaa to ensure our armed forces are able to keep up and keep america safe. the armed services is committee agreed on a robust, bipartisan bill in june, june of this year. what i don't understand is why it took six months to schedule a vote on this critical bill for our national security. waiting until the last minute to pass the ndaa is playing a game of chicken with our national security and with american servicemembers. it puts them in harm's way. i know most of my democrat colleagues in both the house and the senate did not control the timing of this bill. but senator schumer did. and he decided to wait so long that our chairman and ranking member were forced to conference the bill prior to it coming to the senate floor. so let's not wait until december 2023 to get the ndaa on the floor. it makes no sense. let's get the physical year 2024 to the floor in regular order. because of the conse