mr. schatz: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent -- excuse me, let's start over. i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. the price of everything is going up, outbreaks of measles and bird flu are killing people, airplanes are almost crashing or actually crashing, and falling out of the sky, tens of thousands of federal workers, including veterans, are being laid off, and donald trump's government purge -- in donald trump's government purge. and so, obviously, it's a monday and we've got two votes tonight, and so we're going to address one of those critical issues -- oh, no, actually, we're going to do something totally irrelevant to 99.9% of all people across the country. now, let's just start with the basics, which is that everyone has and deserves human dignity, without stipulations or preconditions. not just the people you like, not just the people you understand, not just the people you agree with. every