mr. president? the presiding officer: republican whip. mr. thune: mr. president, not content with their $1.9 trillion so-called covid relief bill borrowed entirely from our children and grandchildren, democrats are readying -- readying another partisan spending spree. democrats are preparing to consider a $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending package, this one at least partially paid for by massive tax hikes, tax hikes on small businesses, tax hikes on large businesses, tax hikes on investment, tax hikes on well-off americans, and tax hikes on the middle class. that's right, tax hikes on the middle class. now, president biden is fond of repeating that he won't raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 a year. but the new death tax he's proposing will definitely hit some middle-class americans. let's talk about that new tax. president biden and congressional democrats are proposing to eliminate a part of the tax code known as step up in basis, or referred to oftenly as stepped-up basis. under our current tax code, when with you inherent something from an estat

mr. president, and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the question occurs on the jenkins nomination. is there a second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: have all senators voted? does any senator wish to change his or her vote? if not, the yeas are 52, the nays are 48, and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 100, h.r. 3684, an act to authorize funds for federal-aid highways, highway safety programs and transit programs, and for other purposes, signed by 18 senators. the presiding officer: by un

mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. ley: i ask that the quorum call be eliminated. the presiding officer: the senate is not in a quorum call. mr. merkley: thank you very much. mr. president, this is a critical time for america. it is a moment in which the actions we take or don't take will affect the very design of our government for generations to come. our founders had a vision that we're all created equal. in our initial constitution, it wasn't fully manifested, but we have worked through several hundred years to come to that point that we recognize that every american should be able to participate in the direction of their country. and we had some key moments in that national debate. i was always fascinated that when my father was born in 1919, women couldn't vote in america. and we had all kinds of other barriers for communities of color, for black americans, for native americans. and those barriers we struck down time after time after time, and then we came to 1965, and we said there are still so many ways that com

mr. president. mrs. blackburn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee is recognized. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. i am pleased to come and join my colleagues on the floor today and have a discussion about what is taking place here in this capitol building. now my colleague from utah just mentioned something that i think is so important. being able to disagree agreeably, having a difference of opinion and showing respect to other people. this nation has remained strong and vibrant and free because we believe in robust, respectful bipartisan debate. we do not lock up or silence or push or disappear people who disagree with us and our beliefs. and what we see happening in the house where the capitol police would have the ability to -- to haul staffers and visitors to jail for not wearing a mask. think about that. it would be not wearing a mask, a choice, making a choice to not wear a mask. so it is important for us to realize this is a difference of opinion. we have told the american people, ge

mr. president. >> reporter: mr. president. >> reporter: -- taliban -- about the wu drawl. >> reporter: mr. president. the taliban in russia today -- >> reporter: mr. president, thank you. i wanted to ask, with the benefit of hindsight you have spoken to the fact that the taliban are sort of at their militarily strongest point you have seen in 20 years. how do you feel personally about that with the benefit of hindsight and all of the dollars and investments and american troops that were sent there? >> relative to the training and capacity of the ansf and the training of the federal police, they're not even close in terms of their capacity. i was making the point. the point was that here we were, i was -- the argument is, well, we could stay because no one was dying, no americans were being shot, so why leave. once the agreement was made by the last administration we were going to leave by may 1st, it was very clear take a taliban that had always been a problem was even a more sophisticated problem than they were, tha

mr. president. given the amount of money that has been spent and the number of lives that have been lost, in your view with making this decision, were the last 20 years worth it? pres. biden: you know my record. i can tell by the way you asked the question. i opposed permanently having american forces in afghanistan. i argued from the beginning, as you may recall. it came to light after the administration was over, our administration. no nation has ever unified afghanistan. no nation. empires have gone there and not done it. the focus we had, and i strongly support it, and i physically went to afghanistan. i was up in that pass where osama bin laden was allegedly -- allegedly escaped out of harm's way. we went for two reasons. one, to bring osama bin laden to the gates of hell, as i said at the time. the second reason was to eliminate al qaeda's capacity to deal with more attacks on the united states from that territory. we accomplished both of those objectives, period. that is what i believed from

mr. president . the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. daines: mr. president, today i rise to bring attention to new revelations about president biden's nominee at the bureau of land management. tracy stonning-manning. i would have welcomed having a nominee with such strong ties to montana to be the director of bureau of land management and until recently, i believed as did most montanans that based on her testimony before the montana state legislature back in 2013, that her role in the tree-spiking crime was minimal, her actions were helpful and she helped bring criminals to justice. unfortunately, new information has revealed that this simply was not the case. in fact, rather than bringing criminals to justice, ms. stone-manning assisted and helped them evade justice for years. i'm going to lay this out because there are certain facts that i want to share before this body. first, it shares she withheld the truth from investigators for several years. second, it reveals that she harshly criticized federal law enforcement at the very same time she was

mr. president. first, i just want to thank the president for prioritizing this for his administration.s is a personal issue for me as a daughter of california. and i say hello to my governor, gavin newsom. i grew up with drought warnings. my brother-in-law is a california firefighter. as a senator, i have visited the scene, while the embers were still smoldering -- of the fires -- paradise, for example, california. and when i arrived there, a whole community had been wiped out by the fire. the families still hadn't been let back in. but the only thing standing in that community were the chimneys, which looked, in that scene, like tombstones. the firefighters that were there pointed out to me: if you look at the driveway, it may be a tragic situation if the cars are in the driveway because that means the folks didn't get out in time. we have so much work to do on this. my -- my home -- our family home was under an evacuation order in los angeles. so i've been in that experience of also saying, “look, the most things we can grab that are the most valuable are family photographs. everythi

mr. president, for your leadership. back over to you. >> well, madam governor, i'm not being solicitous when i say we're grateful for your leadership. i really mean it. and one of the things that i'd like to ask before we move on is, what would you be looking for us to do at the federal level to strengthen this agreement to build off the lessons that, you know, the good neighbor agreement? and is there anything in particular that is, you've learned from last season that would be added to the needs of this season? >> well, you mentioned it in your remarks, mr. president, making sure we have resources to train our national guardsmen and women prior to fire season has been extremely helpful the last two fire seasons. this should be universal practice nationwide. it's incredibly helpful. we have relied on our national guard every step of the way throughout the pandemic, and we certainly rely on them in support activities and firefighting. the other piece, and i see chief christiansen there, in terms of the good neighbor aut

mr. president. >> mr. president. >> mr. president. >> will you -- >> the people of afghanistan -- >> mr. president, thank you very much, your own intelligence community has assessed that the afghan government will likely collapse -- >> that is not true. >> can you please clarify what they have told you about whether that will happen or not. >> that is not true. they did not reach that conclusion. >> so what is the level of confidence that they have that it will not collapse? >> the afghan government and leadership has to come together. they clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place. the question is will they generate the kind of cohesion to do it, and it is not whether or not they have the capacity, because they have the capacity, they have the forces, they have the equipment. the question is will they do it. and it is what i made clear to ghaani, we will not walk away and not give them the ability to maintain that force, we are. we will also make sure that we help them from everything from food and necess

the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. gillibrand: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mrs. gillibrand: i rise once again to call for every senator to have the chance to vote on the military justice improvement increasing prevention act. it's time for us to move serious crimes like sexual assault and murder out of the chain of command and put them in the hands of the most capable people in the military to do this, independent, impartial, highly trained uniformed prosecutors. i want to first acknowledge and express my gratitude to my colleagues in the armed services subcommittee on personnel who recognize the importance of this legislation and this morning voted to include it as an amendment to the senate armed services personal subcommittee markup of the ndaa. the reason we are calling for this reform is because our current system is just not working for our service members. it's not delivering justice on the values of justice and equality that they have sacrificed so much to defend. we are here to serve them. any reform

mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. humer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: now i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 232. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. opposed, say nay. the ayes have it. the motion is greed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, department of homeland security, ur mendoza jaddou, of california, to be the director of the united states citizenship and immigration services. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: the clerk: , cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, do hereby bring to a close debate on the nominat

mr. president. i hate to bring this up, but i think i but he's going to but i am going to i believe it is true that mrs. reagan standing in the polls is even higher than yours is right now and i can understand that and i didn't vote for me i voted for her and some people said after the trip to europe that she was the star. how do you feel about occasionally taking second billing? as long as it is to her. i'm very happy. no that well. no. i mean that's nice and everything. but but he had all the hard work. see we're disagreeing but that's certainly isn't a fight by the way that i see most of wise fight. during the economic summit. i think it was the first dinner much of that dinner apparently was spent talking about your wife's drug efforts and the first ladies conference. and out of that summit came a decision that there's going to be an international crackdown on drugs. what did that mean to both of you to see mrs. reagan's work being taken so seriously on an international level. meant a lot to me.

mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i first ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. so ordered. mr. whitehouse: and i ask unanimous consent to speak up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, this series of scheme speeches is designed to chronicle a long-running covert scheme to capture the supreme court. regulatory agencies have often and notoriously been captured by regulated interests. there's a whole doctrine of regulatory capture found in economics and administrative law that revolves around this history of regulatory capture of administrative agencies. so if you can capture administrative agencies to serve special interests, why not capture a court? the trajectory of these scheme speeches has been through time, beginning with with the lewis-powell strategy report to the u.s. chambe

mr. president, you didn't close the door. mr. are you going out at this time for? you know, it's a wonderful honor. as you can tell i hope i have very good manners, but i'm not very hung up on protocol. and i -- and the secret service is wonderful. and because things are so -- and because things are so crazy out there, it is very hard to get comfortable like i would ordinarily be. for example, i think all of the help that's there providing meals and all the rest, i think they love us. they say don't come in for breakfast, we can get our own breakfast because i like to walk out in my robe and go in. you think i'm joking. i'm not. you know what i mean? and so it's just a -- you know, the only place i've felt like what the office connotes is when i went to europe and watched the rest of the heads of state react to me -- not me because i'm the president of the united states of america. and here's what happened. it's the first time i ever felt like you always hearsay leader of the free world. i realize when i'm sitting across from put

mr. president.ithout our state's commitment - and we've shared this with forest service and blm, and they've been very cooperative - to aggressive initial attack, montana - without that commitment, we would have had many more largescale fires. and we ask that our federal partners join us in applying this operating principle. whether it's a fire that starts on private, state, or federal land - pres. biden: yeah. gov. gianforte: - fires are easier to manage when they're smaller. and when we get after them, we do much better. as we continue to confront this wildfire season, we are also focused on addressing montana's forest health crisis. we published, earlier this year, the montana forest action plan, which identifies 9 million acres of forest land with significant forest health issues and an elevated risk of wildfire. of those acres at risk, we found about 4 million acres that would benefit most from cross foundry forest management. given the need to actively manage our forests, i have charged our de

mr. president, mr. president, mr. t. >> how many troops would you like to see in iraq by the end of this year, and how does the relationship changes considering this is the last strategic tie that you have with iraq and the prime minister? >> this most recent dialogue, you mean? we've been talking a lot. our foreign ministers, our cabinet members have been talking. we're looking forward to seeing an election in october. we're working very hard with the iraqi government to make sure the u.n. and the gcc are -- we have oversight, that these are full and fair elections. i've been in contact with kadhimi. i have -- anyway, i think things are going well. our role in iraq will be as a dealing with not -- it's just to be available to continue to train, to assist, to help, and to deal with isis as it arrives. but we are not going to be in a combat mission. >> thank you guys. >> mr. president, veterans affairs have a mandate -- >> you are such a pain in the neck but i'm going to answer your question because we've known each oth

mr. president, did you press the taliban, mr. president? >> is the taliban takeover of afghanistan now inevitable? >> no, it is not. >> why? >> because you have the afghan troops have 300,000 well equipped, as well equipped as any army in the world, and an air force against something like 75,000 taliban. it is not inevitable. >> mr. president, do you trust the taliban, sir? >> is that a serious question? >> absolutely a serious question. do you trust the taliban. >> no, i do not trust the taliban. >> mr. president, will you amplify that question, please? will you amplify your answer, please, why don't you trust the taliban. >> it's a silly question, do i trust the taliban, no, but i trust the capacity of the afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped and more competent in terms of conducting war. yes, ma'am. >> reporter: thank you, mr. president. given the amount of money that has been spent and the number of lives that have been lost, in your view making this decision, were the last 20 years worth it? >> you know my record. i

mr. president. i am a pediatrician who utilizes social media to educate about health and i am very concerned about the rise in misinformation from the antivaccine community that is eroding trust in life saving vaccines. spread of this misinformation and declining vaccination rates could leave americans vulnerable to vaccine preventible diseases in the future. so what i want to know is what is the white house doing to combat medical misinformation and to restore america's faith in science? >> what we're doing is, number one, restore america's faith in science is listen to the scientists. i'm not joking. i mean, literally listening to the scientists and not interfere. not rush anything, just make -- let the scientists proceed. they desperately want to get this right, number one. number two, you may have heard, i never get myself in trouble as you know politically, but you may have heard that i was critical of some of the things that were on facebook and i was attacking facebook. i wasn't attacking fac

mr. president? >> i have heard that, i will tell you they know who shot ashli babbitt, their protecting their person, i've heard also it was the head of security for a certain high official, democrat. and we will see, it is going to come out, it is going to come out, what happened to ashli babbitt and what's happening currently to people that are incarcerated and it would be one thing if you did that, but why blm, the death and the destruction that they caused the manhattan, new york, chicago and if you take a look at l.a. in minnesota, look at what they did in seattle, they're not paying apart enterprise in new york they release 400 people who practically burned down fifth avenue and burn down our stores and kill people and they're all released, they're released, don't worry about it, just leave it was just announced. you have people with no guns that walked down and frankly the doors were open and the police in many cases they have hundreds of hours of tape and they're not releasing the tape, they

mr. president, this is not without some risk to them. i'm advised that they were on federal property and referred to a website this is actually a fund raising site for their efforts. we all know that there are limits, in fact strict limits on any fund raising on federal property. so they may have crossed a line unwittingly or not. but this is simply an embarrassing dereliction of their duty and a shameful political stunt, as i said. they can't win so they're doing the equivalent of i'll take my ball and go home. or in this case i'm simply running away. but as texans standing up to a fight is part of who we are, even if you know in the end you may not prevail. but instead they turned their backs, hopped on a private jet, and ran from this fight. like our democratic colleagues in congress, texas state lawmakers have tried to create a false choice between voter access and election security. i think it boils down to this. we should be making it easier to vote and tougher to cheat, plain and simple. it's disingenuous and downright false to cl

mr. president. you'll meet some outstanding colleagues. >> hey, guys. >> how are you? john, do me a favor, work on your biceps. >> of course, it's a pleasure. >> what's your name? >> glenn gray. >> good to see you, glenn. joe biden. >> my pleasure. my pleasure. >> gentlemen, please, go ahead. >> welcome, mr. president, it's a pleasure and an honor to have you here today at lehigh valley at mack truck, i'm glenn gray, a production supervisor for the engine room on second shift. currently we have 2400 employees that are here and out of the 2400-- >> all right. >> out of the 2400, 21 #00 are united auto worker union technicians. we currently are hiring an additional 400 to-- >> good for you. >> to be able to support the chasse insourcing we've done really, really hard so we can now make the chasse and the rails in-house. >> you make them in-house now. >> we'll be making them in-house. >> we were outsourcing. >> that's what i thought. and we wanted the jobs to be in the factory uaw jobs and we brought it in two phases over the thats two years completed last fall. it's star

mr. president. mr. president, i ask that the following words be placed in the a different place in it the record. ifer if he without objection. mr. brown: thank you. for the first time in decades, workers are beginning to gain some power in our economy. because of president biden's leadership, because of the american rescue plan, america's economy is roaring back. we've had record job creation, we gained more than three million jobs since this president took office, more jobs created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history. it's not only the jobs numbers. those are important, but those of course don't tell the full story. it is the quality of those jobs. we're starting to see signs of increased bargaining power, solid worker conditions, more control over their schedules, opportunities for career advancement -- all the things that turn into good, stable, middle-class careers. i want to see employers competing for workers. that's a good thing. it's how you get rising wages, which gets

mr. president -- >> mr. ident, and then i'm going to take off shortly here. >> what actions are you going to take to encourage private business to follow this type of model to either require vaccines or require testing or other preventative procedures? >> i just did. i'm going to keep at it. i'm going to be talking about it around the country. >> are you going to reach out to private business, meet with them, try and actively encourage them to follow this model? >> well, i have. that's why we have folks from the chamber of commerce from the manufacturers, et cetera. so, you know, i am -- am i going to call a meeting of every, you know, business in the country to come to washington or go -- i have made the case repeatedly. i doubt whether there's a single solitary business that doesn't understand that i think it's smart for them to require testing, require -- and if you can't demonstrate, you can't prove you've been vaccinated, you have to be tested. >> secretary austin said he was already considering mandatin

mr. president, in a democracy, no right is more sacred than the right giving partisan election bodies more control, even firing members of county election boards, this is what republican legislatures are doing. mr. schumer: not for fairness. not for bipartisanship. but to jaundiced elections, and if the consequences, americans of all parties feel that the elections are not fair, what is going to happen to this sacred and wonderful democracy? republicans are actively dismantling all the barriers that prevented donald trump from subverting our elections in 2020. imagine if they hadn't been in effect, imagine. all of these efforts have an orwellian logic. under the guise of, quote, election integrity, republican legislatures are sowing more doubt about our elections through phony audits and fact-free claims of voter fraud. they are lying. i just saw on tv this morning how the trump lawyers are being lambasted in court and even rudy giuliani has lost his license to practice because they lied about the election. that they perpetrated the big lie in legal documents. the same thing is happening e

mr. president, you have fought so many years against nord stream 2. now there will only be a few days left until the pipeline comes into operation. will you allow it go ahead, to put it in operation, or will the people who operate the system have to contend with sanctions? translator: well, we've worked a lot, not only germany, but the whole of the european commission, for talking to russia and ukraine, and negotiating a treaty that ensures until the 2023 contract. and after that gas gas -- after that, gas deliveries must be possible as well. that is what i have heard, at least. let me be very careful here in my wording. then should that not go ahead, we have a number of instruments at our disposal which are not necessarily on the german side, but more on the european side. for example, sanctions with regards to crimea. and the treaty has shown we have those instruments at our disposal. we have the possibility to react. we are in contact with our european friends on this. but at this point in time, of which i hope we will never have to make those deci

mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, it was one week ago that the senate held a procedural vote on a bill that hadn't even been written and to no one's surprise it failed. republicans for our part said it made no sense to advance to more than $1 trillion infrastructure plan before knowing what was in the plan and how it would be paid for. our democratic colleagues argue that the bill text was imminent coming any moment, any second, and it was critical to get the process started. well here we are one week later. i guess the bill text wasn't imminent because we still haven't seen it yet. earlier today we heard that there was an agreement, i assume in principle, on the major portions of the proposed plan which i can see as a major sign of progress. i want to commend all of our colleagues, including senators portman, collins, romney, and cassidy who have been working hard on our side of the aisle to achieve consensus and on the democratic side senators like senator manchin and sinema and others. but this infrastruc

mr. president? >> president walton: thank you. seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, on the motion i made to continue this hearing and associates motions to the october 5 meeting, seconded by supervisor ronen, will you please call the roll? >> clerk: on the motion to continue items 60 through 63 to october 5 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. without objection, the motion to continue items 60 through 63 to october 5 is approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call the last 3:00 p.m. special order, items 64 through 67. >> clerk: items 64 through 67 comspries the special -- comprise the special order hearing and motion to continue this item. >> president walton: supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: mr. president, i'd like to make a motion to continue this item to sept -- sorry. september 21 or 28 meeting. >> president walton: got to pick one. >> supervisor safai: whichever one the clerk recommends. >> president walton: thank you

mr. president. esident biden: now, i'm not good [indiscernible] [laughter] president biden: you won't know which one was signed. [indiscernible] >> somebody's back here, mr. president. president biden: we have two more. who doesn't have one? [laughter] president biden: anybody that doesn't have one, i promise you -- >> i gave them away. [laughter] president biden: would you happen to have one of my pens? come here. ms. jackson lee: here's one coming. [applause] >> look right there. >> i'm going to sneak down. >> one, two, three. president biden: this is one of those deals what they did is literally, not figuratively, changed the lives of women and children and some men out there. so thank you. [applause] ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> the house committee investigating the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol holds its first hearing t

mr. president. mrs. blackburn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. begin i before my remarks, i do want to respond to my colleagues and his comments about the for the people act. which the democratic party is continuing to push. now, i will say that i am pleased to learn that many of my democratic colleagues are standing up against the jim crow era policies that their party put in place, the would, that their party did with the kkk and other ents

mr. president. ident biden: now, i'm not good [indiscernible] [laughter] you won't know which one was signed. [indiscernible conversations] >> somebody's back here, mr. president. president biden: we have two more. >> al get one. president biden: who doesn't have one? [indiscernible] [laughter] anybody that doesn't have one, i promise you -- >> i gave them away. [laughter] president biden: would you happen to have one of my pens? [laughter] come here. ms. jackson lee: here's one coming. [indiscernible] [laughter] [applause] president biden: did you get the picture? >> alright, everybody in. he is going to sit down. >> and there we go -- one, two, three. president biden: this is one of those deals, what they did has literally, not figuratively, changed the lives of women and children and some men out there. so thank you. [applause] ♪ >> c-span's washington journal. every day we take your calls live on the air of the news of the day a discussed policy issues that impact you. coming up already morning,

mr. president? >> president walton: thank you. i am going to just be reporting briefly on three outside boards. one is the bay area air quality management district. i wanted to highlight the fact that we know we have a site pier 94 where we have 120 rvs. the bay area, air quality management district provided each rv with their own air filters. we did that last week. our residents at the site, we're excited about that. we've been putting the pressure on the surrounding businesses to make sure that they have the proper permits and are taking care of the proper control in the area. one of the corporations we had to shut down their operations until they get the appropriate permits. caltrain project has been delayed to 2024 due to cost overruns and issues with the pandemic. there's also been a request made for $82 million from city and county of san francisco and santa clara county which is inflated calculation that was owed to samtrans. there was a settlement great in 2008 that asked city and county to pay $8 million, we owe couple of

mr. president, for the reasons i just discussed, i object. >> mr. president? >> the objection is heard. >> my colleague has made some serious misstatements and allegations in his remarks. i have never said white commanders are racist. nor would i ever. in fact, all i've done is cite to three years of evidence published by the department of defense about disparities in sentencing and punishment. with the marines, for example, having 2.6 times more likely to be punished for black service members versus white service members. it is d.o.d. data. it is d.o.d. information. as the senator knows, this bill was written eight years ago. and the reason it was written with a bright line were for three reasons. the first is that our allies already have done this. they created a bright line of felonies for both plaintiffs and defendants' rights. the u.k., israel, canada, germany, netherlands, and australia. they did this because they believed service members deserve basic civil liberties. the commander isn't a trained lawyer. they thought a trained military prosecutor shoul

mr. president? >> president walton: thank you. seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, on the motion i made to continue this hearing and associates motions to the october 5 meeting, seconded by supervisor ronen, will you please call the roll? >> clerk: on the motion to continue items 60 through 63 to october 5 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. without objection, the motion to continue items 60 through 63 to october 5 is approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call the last 3:00 p.m. special order, items 64 through 67. >> clerk: items 64 through 67 comspries the special -- comprise the special order hearing and motion to continue this item. >> president walton: supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: mr. president, i'd like to make a motion to continue this item to sept -- sorry. september 21 or 28 meeting. >> president walton: got to pick one. >> supervisor safai: whichever one the clerk recommends. >> president walton: thank you

mr. president. >> mr. president. >> the senator from tennessee. >> thank you, mr. president.i begin my remarks, i do want to respond to my colleague and his comments about the

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