mr. vought: no. sen. kaine: you don't want the people inspecting our food, our medicine, our infant formula, you don't want them to go to work traumatized, do you? mr. vought: no, sir. senator kaine: you don't want people interdicting drugs of the border going to work traumatized? mr. vought: no. sen. kaine: and you don't want people working for you, who many would people with think they are in the way, you don't want them traumatized, do you? mr. vought: no, thank you for expanding on that. senator kaine: yeah. i felt like i had to because i got 140,000 people and most of them have families, and they're trying to do a good job. was your comment about people being traumatized just focused on the federal workforce or was it more broadly about state employees and local government employees, too? mr. vought: senator, it was about the weaponized bureaucracy. senator kaine: i will get to the weaponized in a moment. you were talking about the federal workforce. mr. vought: i was talking about the bureaucracy i experi

mr. kaine: mr.sident. the presiding officer: the chair recognizes the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: mr. president, i rise to join my colleagues from kansas and senator warner, i believe will be here in a few minutes, to support the resolution described by senator moran. this is personal to me in two ways. obviouslials the senator from virginia, many -- obviously as the senator from virginia, many of the victims on the american airlines flight and two of the three soldiers who were killed on the military helicopter flight deployed from for the belvoir were virginians so our community has been very touched by this. i was oan vigil on the riverbank last night with members of the first responder community, and others who feel this wound very deeply. that is the first personal connection i have to this tragic vent. but i also rise as a kid who grew up in kansas, and my mother grew up in a town actually went to the same high school with senator marshall, not far from wichita, the airport from which th

mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr.lujan. ms. lummis. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. mccormick. mr. merkley. mrs. moody. mr. moran. mr. moreno. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. plan is to help the wealthy get wealthier tax giveaways families paying the bill. how massive giveaways going to be paid for? slashing services to families and families try to get on their feet so they can thrive and get to the middle-class. great betrayal. today we will consider russell the office of management and the budget really the place for this campaign is coordinated. we will hear very different ideas have to take our country forward. from my friends across the aisle will hear we need to continue to give massive tax giveaways to the wealthiest americans and we will hear how nonpartisan expertise that makes our country run smoothly should be

mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. mccormick. mr. merkley. mrs. moody. mr. moran. mr. moreno. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the presiding officer: a quorum is present. the ske is is it the sense of the senate that the debate on the nomination of russell vought of virginia to be director. office of management and budget shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. alsobrooks. ms. baldwin. mr. banks. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. >

mr. kaine: mr. president, i rise to continue the discussion about russell vought, the president's nominee to be the director of the office of office of management and budget, but before i do i thought i would just share with my colleagues and all who are in the chamber a vigil that i just attended. there was a vigil at a riverfront park in alexandria near the site where the flight went down a week ago, killing 67 people on the american airlines flight and the army helicopter that had deployed out of fort belvoir. it was a simple, moving, candlelight vigil that was organized by my friend don byer in the house of representatives. it was attended by a few hundred people, mostly residents of alexandria and arlington, nearby communities. there was a heavy representation of law enforcement there because the alexandria police and fire departments were very integral to the rescue and recovery operations that were ongoing. it was somber. it was somber. you struggle for words at a time like that. i couldn't t

mr. kaine: madam president, i rise to talk a little bit about what i'm hearing from constituents in the commonwealth in the last week and then in particular to direct a message to federal employees. there's about 1340,000 -- 140,000 people who work for the federal government in virginia. i was attending a fairly standard annual celebration by the fredricksburg chamber of commerce to open up the tax year. organizations around the world train volunteers to help low and moderate income people to do taxes. it was the kickoff of this 21st annual event to help folks in the fredricksburg area. it was a chance to thank volunteers. someone came up to me and told me that they were a veteran and that they had tried to log on to the v.a. portal and were shut out of the portal. someone else heard someone telling me that story, the fredricksburg area is very heavily populated with veterans and others started to share their experience. it just so happens that we have just constructed at the cost of $370 milli

mr. trump. they have no shared understanding of why they lost the election. never mind how they can win in the future. virginia senator tim kaine, offering this advice to his fellow democrats. >> i think sometimes national democrats don't. we focus on competent government and running the economy in a great way that focuses on innovation and advancing. we call we have what we call a make, build, grow agenda. while the republicans are talking about cutting taxes and cutting regulation, and most people understand that tax cutting is just for the wealthiest. on the democratic side in virginia. and i think we can do this nationally. >> all right. our panel is back. megan hayes, is that a fair assessment from the new york times of where democrats are right now? >> yes. i think that there is a big divide still of what what the messaging should be. i think you have a lot of people who want to move back to the middle and talk about the economy and talk about how to build back out the middle class from the bottom up. and then you have a lot of people who are still in the identity politics and still want to move further to the left. so i

mr. vogt's quote that he wants to quote, put them in trauma, something that was so sadistic he didn't stand by it when pressed by tim kainean, look, i think about those kids who are dyslexic. i think about all of the nonprofits that i work with, that and the students that i work with to try and get into school. like, i think about all of these people who are suffering because what they're doing is, as we talked about, sort of destroying everything and consolidating power. there was a report today that he's trying to take over the kennedy center. so with respect. to trump that he's trying to replace the board of the kennedy center, because and i'm just like, why? it's true, of course. but that's my point. >> oh, it. >> is so i'm thinking because that's the only thing they could be thinking. >> can we black people and too many women at the kennedy honors every year? >> that's the thing i'm thinking. right. and so my point is, with all of this, they really want control. control of who you are, who you love, what you eat, how you how you act day to day, what you like, what you don't like, what you watch. that there is a there

mr. kaine: madam president, i rise to talk a little bit about what i'm hearing from constituents in the commonwealth in the last week and then in particular to direct a message to federal