mr. sanders: mr. president, let me begin by thanking president biden and majority leader schumer for their leadership in the arduous process whichas

mr. sanders: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that for the duration of the senate's consideration of s. con. res. 14, the budget resolution for fiscal year 2021, the majority and the republican managers of the resolution, while seated or standing at the managers' desks, be permitted to deliver floor remarks, retrieve, review, and edit documents, and send e-mail and other data communications from texts displayed on wireless personal digital assistance devices and tablet devices. i further ask unanimous consent that the use of calculators be permitted on the floor during consideration of the budget resolution. further, that the staff be permitted to make technical and conforming changes to the resolution, if necessary, consistent with the amendments adopted during senate consideration, including calculating the associated change and the net interest function and incorporating the effect of such adopted amendments on the budgetary aggregates of federal revenues, the amount by which the federal reve

mr. sanders: mr. president, let me begin by thanking president biden and majority leader schumer for their leadership in the arduous process which has gotten us to where we are right now. mr. president, i do understand that many of my republican colleagues are in a bit of shock. they're in a bit of shock now. they are finding it hard to believe that the president and the democratic caucus are prepared to go forward in addressing the long-neglected needs of working families and not just the 1% and wealthy campaign contributors. that's not the way things usually happen around here. usually, it's the big-money interests, the campaign contributors, and the lobbyists who call the tunes. but not today. today we move this country in a very different direction. mr. president, the american people are sick and tired of growing income and wealth inequality in our country, where two people now own more wealth than the bottom 40%, where the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 92%, and where 45% of all new inco

mr. sanders, i never have and i don't believe you bring people down in order to raise people up.ames: i'm sorry before we get to liz do you think the three and half trillion aspiration for bernie sanders and debbie much smaller? >> i do believe it'll be much smaller, obviously both know very well this is the very, very beginning of and argue his process and the legislative development process. committees will be submitting their data and their details for what they want in this and that just begins a debate of negotiation and compromise and we just found infrastructure bill. james: liz, this is bound to concern people. >> i think it is really a mystery why we have turned over economic programs to bernie sanders, remember it wasn't that long ago when democrat leaders fell that he was way too far left and way too progressive to appeal to the average american voter, or even the average democratic voter, only 15% of democrats are very liberal that really suggested a tiny fraction of the overall electric but was curious to me senator durbin tweeted out about the 300, 3.5 trigon dollar

mr. sanders: reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: mr. president, as i understand it, the senator from alabama is interested in increasing military spending by some $50 billion. you know, there's a headline in "the new york times" today and it doesn't talk about the fact that the united states now spends more than the next ten nations on the military. it doesn't talk about the fact that the pentagon is the only agency major agency of government that has not submitted successfully to an independent audit. it doesn't talk about the fact of huge profits among defense contractors. what it does talk about is a hotter future is now inevitable a u.n. report says. scientists urge immediate switch from fossil fuels to avert greater peril. i would say to my from from alabama, if we're going to invest $50 billion let us in fact invest in transforming our energy system so that we can save this planet for future generations and prevent the kind of unhealthy deterioration that we will inevitably see if we do not act. so mr. president i obje

mr. sanders: this amendment is a poison pill that would defeat everything that many of us are trying to accomplish tonight in this historic budget. no reduction in childhood poverty, no expansion in child care pre-k or medicare, no investment in affordable housing or home health care, no paid family and medical leave. no effort to combat the existential threat of climate change, no creation of millions of good-paying jobs. using an arbitrary inflation number, it would end all of that. this amendment must be defeated. the presiding officer: the question is on the amendment. is there a sufficient second? there is. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are 49. the nays are 50. the amendment is not agreed to. the presiding officer: the junior senator from louisiana. mr. kennedy: madam president, i call up my amendment number 3753 and ask that it be reported by number and while they're doing that, for someone to check on senator tillis. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from louisiana, mr. kennedy, proposes an amendment numbe

mr. brown: thank you, madam president. i first thank senator sanders for his passionate support for housing. he understands, having traveled the country and connected with so many people, that there is almost nothing more important -- maybe nothing more important to people's lives, to the material lives than having a safe, accessible, affordable house, place to live. and senator sanders mentioned that 25% of renters in this country pay half their income in rent -- in -- for housing costs and one thing goes bad in their lives, their car breaks down, their child gets sick, they miss a few days of work because of a minor injury, and their whole lives can turn upside down. senator sanders recognizes that and the legislation we beginning -- we begin later in the week is such an important step. we're going take that position on housing. i ask that my staff be granted floor frivolous for the remainder of the session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you. i rise today for a longer speech than i norm ailly give but in support of legisl

mr. brown: thank you, madam president. i first thank senator sanders for his passionate support for housing. he understands, having traveled the country and connected with so many people, that there is almost nothing more important -- maybe nothing more important to people's lives, to the material lives than having a safe, accessible, affordable house, place to live. and senator sanders mentioned that 25% of renters in this country pay half their income in rent -- in -- for housing costs and one thing goes bad in their lives, their car breaks down, their child gets sick, they miss a few days of work because of a minor injury, and their whole lives can turn upside down. senator sanders recognizes that and the legislation we beginning -- we begin later in the week is such an important step. we're going take that position on housing. i ask that my staff be granted floor frivolous for the remainder of the session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you. i rise today for a longer speech than i norm ailly give but in support of legisl

sanders fans. >> kerry! >> i wonder if kerry knows them. >> how do you feel mr. rock star?don't have a monitor here, but wow. i feel honored. >> you have fans all over the planet and we love you, too. we'll talk to you in just a bit. thank you, kerry. >>> we have something to highlight for you this morning. we'll have it on our streaming channel tomorrow. covid in the classroom. >> yeah. we know parents all across the country have questions for returning to school, kids under 12 not yet eligible for the vaccine. we're going to bring in our experts to bring in all your most pressing questions during an hour-long special all day on "today all day." that's tomorrow. watch starting at 10:30 a.m. eastern on today.com. >>> news at 8:00, more than 20 people are dead, many still missing in tennessee after record rainfall caused catastrophic flooding. sam brock joins us from waverly, tennessee, with the latest. sam, good morning. >> reporter: sheinelle, good morning, tom, good morning. this is rainfall of historic proportions. what you're looking at this morning is the haunting afte

sanders. in a state that the former guy handily won in 2020, does dr. jones have a prayer? joining me now is minister physicist and democratic candidate for governor of arkansas, chris jones. mr, why are you running in a state that donald trump won handily? >> yeah, look, jonathan, thank you for having me on. i'm super excited. i'm running because arkansas deserves better, and arkansans deserve better. arkansans across the state made it clear to me they want better. my family has lived in arkansas over 200 years, and i love this state. i graduated from pine bluff high school -- high school in pine bluff. i could have lived anywhere in the world, but i chose to raise my family here. right now the reason i'm running is because i'm fighting for an arkansas future where every family has an opportunity to succeed no matter what difficulty they come from. >> okay. so in the first two weeks of your campaigning you raised $575,000. that's some hefty coin in arkansas. but sarah huckabee sanders, she's raised $4.2 million for her bid for arkansas governor. are you concerned that she's just -- if you two end up going head to head, she's just going to swamp you in the money race? >> no,

sanders, that's why it's bernie's budget. it came from him. he's the one sponsored the legislation. it they didn't even have a hearing in his own committee. that's a problem. mrs. fischbach: thank you, ranking member. i have real concerns about the transparency and about the process. just not the way i am used to dealing with the budget and getting input from the public and input from other members of the legislative body. i have real strong concerns about that. i just wanted, ranking member, to give you the opportunity to add to anything. i know you have been listening very politely to a lot of the questions and the responses. i'm wondering if you had anything else you would like to add. mr. smith: representative, i appreciate that. i will point out that there's been a lot of talk that republicans never have items to offer. republican offer items all the time. just in the last couple weeks every member, every republican member of the house budget committee sent a letter to every member of house leadership and senate leadership coming up with variousing budgetary fiscal restraints and reforms prior to the deadline of the debt limit on july 31. we have heard cr

mr. sanders: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that following the lankford amendment, the following amendments be in order the amendments be reported by number with no amendments in order prior to a vote in relation to the amendment -- sullivan 3627, paul 3150. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lankford: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: i call up my amendment numbered 3792, and i ask it be reported by number. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from alaska mr. sullivan, proposes amendment numbered 3627. mr. lankford: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: i would ask that my amendment numbered 3792 be reported by number. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from oklahoma mr. lankford, for himself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 3792. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: thank you mr. president. this

mr. sanders: i yield the majority's remaining time on the resolution. the presiding officer: the senator has that right. all time on the resolution has been yielded back. mr. barrasso: madam president, i call up my amendment number 3055 and ask that it be reported by number. the presiding officer: the clerk will record the amendment by number. the clerk: the senator from wyoming, mr. barrasso, proposes an amendment numbered 3055. the presiding officer: there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided. mr. barrasso: madam president, i'm offering this amendment to spare the country from the so-called green new deal. the green new deal is not about protecting the environment. it's about making big government even bigger. this socialist scheme would destroy jobs, it will reduce the quality of life for the american people, millions and millions of americans will suffer. it would worsen already high inflation. it will drive a stake through the economy and eventually bankrupt the nation. senate democrats have made it clear that they want to use this reck

mr. sanders: i ask unanimous consent that following the brawn amendment, the following amendments be in order, that the amendments being reported by number with no amendments in order prior to a vote in relation to the amendment. fisher 3128, ernst 3115, scott, florida, 3383, young, 3444, lankford it 3792. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection o. mrs. capito: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mrs. capito: thank you, madam president. i call up my amendment number 3284 and ask that it be reported by number. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from west virginia, mrs. capito, proposes amendment numbered 3284. mrs. capito: thank you, madam president. i am a strong supporter of carbon capture, utilization and sequestration. this technology allows us to turn carbon dioxide into a valuable product. some anti-fossil fuel keep-it-in-the-ground advocates only support it when it has nothing to do with fossil fuels, and i believe that is a misguided approach. if we're serious about supporting and increasing the

mr. sanders: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. sanders: mr. president, as a former mayor, i have a sense as to how important physical infrastructure, roads, bridges, water systems, wastewater plants are, and i'm delighted that we are finally beginning to address our long-neglected physical infrastructure. that is enormously important. but i will tell you what is even more important, and that is to address the human infrastructure, the needs of the working class of this country, the middle class of this country, the low-income people of our country, whether they are black or white or latino, native american, asian american, needs that have been neglected for decades. it is no secret that the american people, that for a very long time, the united states congress has paid keen attention to the needs of the people on top, and yet we have turned our backs on millions of people who are struggling to put food on the table, to take care of their kids, to take care of their parents, and on top of that, obviously we have ignored the great existential cr