mr. rubio: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. rubio: in december of 2019, a new virus was emerging on the opposite side of the world. i spoke at the national defense university. the title of the speech i gave was called american industrial policy in the rise of china. the reaction of many people to that at the time was skepticism. from wall street investors who frankly saw no problem with the status quo on china, from these think tank experts who mocked my claim at the time that our country relied too much on china economically and our supply chain, from tech giants in silicon valley who obsessed with access to the chinese marketplace. but the problem i pointed to at that time in that speech almost two years ago, a year and a half ago, was that for over a quarter of a century, our economic policies have been mostly about one thing -- how american investors and companies can make money by doing business with china. and in that vein, it didn't matter if making money meant allowing china

mr. rubio ago saturday, the trump administration launched something called operation warp speed. it was -- at that time it was a $10 billion program by the government, and it was designed to incentivize pharmaceutical companies to invest and develop -- to invest in developing, researching, and producing effective treatments and a vaccine for a disease that was ravaging and continues to ravage the world today. less than four months later, a new antibody treatment was beginning to save american lives and improving the outcomes of patients with covid-19 here in america, and less than seven months after that operation warp speed program began, americans began receiving the first dose of two different and highly effective vaccines. why did the government have to step in? why did the government have to provide the money? wouldn't the market have solved this? there was certainly a demand. there was certainly a need for it. in fact, i would argue that people probably would have paid whatever it took to

rubio. however, if we take the approach proposed by mr. mchenry, small businesses will continue to be ripped off. moreover, i would add h.r. 2547 includes several other bipartisan provisions, including title 2, which is based on a bill by representative dean to protect service members from harassment and threats from debt collectors. the house has unanimously passed title 2 as a stand alone bill twice, both last year and this year. additionally title 6 would enhance protections related to federal agency debt based on a bill by representative cleaver that has been bipartisan for a number of years. but when we tried to move it on the suspension calendar last year, republicans changed their mind. unfortunately, at a time when consumers are suffering while debt collectors make record profits. the house republican alternative is not a serious effort to reform and modendize our debt collection laws. so i would urge my colleagues to reject the mchenry substitute amendment. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the g

rubio 2016. kaine 2090. the presiding officer: is there objection? the senator from wisconsin. mr. johnson: reserve the right to object. the sponsors and managers of this bill made the point that this, this legislation has followed regular order. and i will admit, versus how things have been passed in the last ten years since i've been here, this is a little bit better regular order than i've experienced in general. but it still does not even come close to giving members time to fully consider what we're voting on here. i don't even have a total score on this. i've been told it's approaching a quarter of a trillion dollars. the history of this bill is on may 13, about 730 pages was reported out of committee. this wasn't exactly the bill that was voted out of committee, though. somewhere, somehow the chair modified at least one amendment that was not particularly recognizable to those that offered the amendment. on may 19, the bill grew to 1,445 pages. and just today we voted on amendment, 900 pages. so now here we are at 11:00, we've come to the chamber, for the first time i see wh

mr. rubio: i call up the rubio amendment 1802 to the cantwell amendment 1527. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from florida, mr. rubio, proposes an amendment numbered 1802 to amendment numbered 1527. mr. rubio: i ask the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. crapo: madam president, i call up my amendment 1562 as modified with the changes at the desk and ask that it be reported by number. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from idaho, mr. crapo, for himself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 1562 as modified. mr. crapo: madam president and members of the senate, what we're going to be voting on shortly here, senate amendment numbered 1562, is an example of the bipartisanship that can be achieved if we put in the hard work to work out the details and the differences between us on very critical issues. this is not just an amendment on one topic. this is an entire title, the finance committee's title. the chairman of the finance committee,

senator marco rubio talked about the progress technology has made during the pandemic and his idea of improving on that. >> mr. president, winston churchill is often credited with the apocryphal quote that we quote that we sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm quote. this still true but the 21st century has gotten more complicated and we live in an era of hybrid wars with fewer djs on enemy beaches and many more zero day exploits in enemy servers. america's sleep slime late at night because in addition to these rough men at the ready brilliant men and women work around the clock to develop national security technology that defends our interests and undermines our enemies. the defense advanced research project agency is on the front lines of that work. they are racing against our adversaries. our technology struggle against the chinese, his party is the defining national security challenge of our time and chairman she and his authoritarian regime are fundamentally opposed to not just a wreck and values but american interest all arou