mr. toomey: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. toomey: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. toomey: thank you, mr. president. i rise this afternoon to address what is -- hatch would the senator quelled for a unanimous consent request? too many timed be happy to yield. mr. hatch: i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to speak immediately following the distinguished senator from pennsylvania. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. toomey: and, mr. president, i'd like to thank the senator from utah because i got here late and i'm intrude being on his time, so he's been kind enough to paritily wait for me to -- patiently wait for me to make a few pointse pointses. a very, very serious problem is happening in america. we see increasing numbers of what we call corporate inversions, american corporations establishing their headquarters overseas, typically through the mechanism of purchasing a company overseas and establishing that as the headquarters. it's a p

mr. toomey, proposes an amendment number 3585 -- mr. toomey: i ask unanimous consent we dispense with any reading. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. toomey: thank you. let me start by complimenting my colleagues, the chairman and ranking member of this committee for a genuine, sincere effort at a bipartisan solution to a difficult problem. there are things that i like in this legislation, there are things i don't like, but i do like the fact that at least with respect to this legislation, at the moment the senate is functioning, the committee was functioning, and had a vigorous debate and discussion, came up with a reasonable approach, and i want to thank chairman wyden and ranking member hatch for their cooperative effort to do this. i want to address this particular amendment, senate amendment 3585. i want to thank my cosponsor on this amendment, senator mcconnell. what this amendment does in short, mr. president, it allows communities recovering from a natural disaster to rebuild damaged infrastructure without having to ac

mr. toomey: and the amendment simply says if a bridge or a road is damaged or destroyed by a declared natural disaster or emergency, then you -- and you rebuild the bridge or road in the exact same place, the same footprint, the same dimensions, everything's the same, then you don't have to go through the entire environmental permitting process all over again. this would save a lot of time and money and allow us to maintain our roads and bridges. i know, madam president, my friends on the other side think this problem was solved. it was not solved. the department of transportation can, can exclude certain projects but can choose not to and does not have the discretion to provide an exclusion from the army corps of engineers or the fish and wildlife service the very reviews that take the most time and cost the most money, so i urge my colleagues to vote yes. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: madam president, this -- this issue was dealt with in map-21 in the committee. my friend from pennsylvania talks about using regular order. we did. a

mr. toomey: thank you, mr. president. since we are not in a quorum, i rise today to speak on a bill that -- that i have introduced. it's senate bill 1596. it's the protecting students from sexual and violent predators act. i want to thank my cosponsors on this legislation. this is a bipartisan bill. senator joe manchin and i have introduced this together, and i'm grateful to senators mcconnell and inhofe for their cosponsorship. this bill was inspired by a terrible story. it's a story of jaicial bell. it -- of jeremy bell. it begins at a school in delaware county, pennsylvania. one of the schoolteachers molested several boys and raped one of them. prosecutors decided they didn't have enough evidence to bring a case, but the school was aware of what happened, and so they dismissed the teacher for this outrageous behavior. but then amazingly the school also decided that they would help this teacher get another job at another school so that they could be rid of him. they did exactly that. in fact, passing along the letter of

mr. toomey: i thank the senator from utah. let me just respond to my colleagues from maryland and california. briefly, first of all, i'm -- i'm perfectly glad that the committee of jurisdiction addressed this. one of the great things about the senate is when it's actually functioning, members who are not on a particular committee still have the opportunity to weigh in on an issue and have that debate on the senate floor, and that's exactly what we're doing today. i'm glad we're doing that. i would also observe that my colleagues seem to have very, very little faith in the ability and willingness of states to protect their own environments. they should spend some more time in pennsylvania. we care a lot about our environment in pennsylvania, and we have a department of environmental protection that takes that responsibility very seriously. finally, i would point out that the so-called fix in map-21 is extremely incomplete, and it's incomplete because, first, it occurs at the discretion of the department of transportation. they

senators should expect five roll call votes this evening regarding wyden, toomey -- i don't have them all listed here, mr. president. there's carper, there's toomey, there's wyden, and i'm missing one. a republican. lee; i'm sore sorry. we'll be notified when those votes are scheduled. i would note the absence of a quorum. the president pro tempore: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: there are two bills at the desk due for second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bills for the second time. the clerk: a bill to enhance strategic partnership between the united states and israel. h.r. 3393, an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to consolidate certain tax benefits for educational expenses and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: i object to any further proceedings with this matter, these two matters. the presiding officer: objections having been heard, the bills will be placed on the

have a chance if we pass the mansion -- manchin to me at -- toomey to protect women who are victims of domestic violence and stalking. thank you mr. dana for being here. >> will the witnesses please stand to be sworn. do you affirm the testimony you will get here today will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? thank you. i will introduce the whole panel and then we will go to their testimony. i will first introduce jacqueline campbell who is the anna d both chair of the johns hopkins university school of nursing and the national program director of the robert wood johnson foundation nurse faculty scholars program. in 2012 she was wrecked and i said the centers for disease control and prevention is one of 20 national leaders in injury and violence prevention for her work related to domestic violence. dr. campbell is on the board of directors of futures without violence and served on the board of five domestic violence shelters and was a member of the congressional department of defense task force on domestic violence. she has published more than 225 articles and seven books and has extensive pol

who might have a chance if we pass the manchin-toomey bill to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons and people mentally unstable . thank you, mr. daniel for being here. >> thank you, senator. will the witnesses please stand to be sworn. do you affirm the testimony you will give here today will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? thank you. i'll introduce the whole panel and then we'll go through their testimony. i will first introduce jacqueline campbell who is the anna d. wolf chair of the johns hopkins university school of nursing and the national program director of the robert wood johnson foundation nurse faculty scholars program. in 2012 she was recognized by the centers for disease control and prevention as one of 20 national leaders in injury and violence prevention for her work related to domestic violence. dr. campbell is on the board of droekt tors of futures without violence, served on the board of five domestic violence shelters and was a member of the congressionally appointed department of defense task force on domestic violence. she has published more than 225 articles and se