mr. whitehouse: i think you want to object -- my colleague may care to object. mr. marshall: i object to senator whitehouse. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. marshall: thank you. mr. whitehouse: or at least to the motion i propounded anyway. mr. marshall: i specifically object to the motion. mr. whitehouse: he might object to senator whitehouse as well, but i think the intention was to object to the measure. i see my friend senator barrasso has entered. i mentioned zettajoules. i want to add one other figure, this from a report from the accounting firm deloitte consulting which has said that if we don't get ahead of this climate problem that my colleague seems so scrupulously interested in ignoring, the cost to society in the next five decades will be, if i remember correctly, the number is $178 trillion in economic harm across those years. you want to talk about big numbers. and if we do get it right, if we grow up, treat this as a factual scientific problem and put in serious, real economic solutions, then the win side is $43 trillion. so the swing is

mr. whitehouse: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, this week marks the 250th anniversary of the first blow struck in the american colonies' struggle for independence from the british crown. i come to the senate floor every year to commemorate this moment, because it took place in rhode island, at the hands of some brave and bold rhode islanders. before recounting the tale of those bold rhode islanders, i would like to acknowledge a special guest with us in the gallery today, michael tathum, deputy head of mission for the british embassy here in washington. a lot has happened over the last 250 years, and great britain is now america's closest ally and great, great friend. it is an honor to have the deputy ambassador here today. so, it was 1772, and the royal navy's revenue cutter, the h.m.s. gaspee, patrolled narragansett bay, in the wake of the seven years war, where great britain had emerged the victor, the crown owed, by some estimates, between 74 million and 133 million pounds. that was a colossal burden o

mr. whitehouse: in order to move on to the vote, i would yield my time. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. cornyn -- mr. cornyn: mr. president, tomorrow will mark one month since the tragic shooting in uvalde, texas, a high school dropout with a history of violence and mental health struggles, purchased two ar-15's within days turning 18, and he passed a background check. he then shot his own grandmother because she wanted him to go back into the classroom rather than drop out of school and then went to the robb elementary school through an unlocked door. he then opened fire on two fourth grade classrooms, killing 19 students and two teachers. the american people were shocked, outraged, and devastated by this attack and collectively asked, how can we prevent this from happening again? while the discussions surrounding this topic causes emotions to run high, and i understand why, for too long some politicians have tried to pit the right to live in a safe community against the iewnl right to keep -- constitutional right to keep and bare arms, th

whitehouse. ms. blackburn. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. whitfield we all express our condolences to you and your family for your loss. mr. herdman, i'd like to come to you and kind of pick up where senator lee left off. when we talk about the requirements, the domestic terrorists prevention act proposed puts in place on doj, fbi, you're looking at the organizational structure of the agencies involved in this and your work and experience as a u.s. attorney, your experience leading that group in the advisory committee, talk to me a little bit when you look at reorganizing the changes that are mandated, how that affects the resources, and then the structure at the agency and out in the field, just very quickly, kind of wrap that up. >> well, those-- any reorganization or restructuring is necessarily going to drive substance and what the ultimate outcomes are going to be. so, if if there are changes that are mandated by fbi headquarters, for example, that trickle down to the individual field offices, where there's a prioritization of one type

alone for a period of time before whitehouse lawyers and other staff discovered the group was there and rushed to intervene. a little more than an hour after miss pal, mr. juliani, general flynn and the others. finally left the white house president trump sent the tweet on the screen. now telling people to come to washington on january 6. be there, he instructed them. will be wild. as you will see, this was a pivotal moment. this tweet initiated a chain of events. the tweet led to the planning for what occurred on january 6th, including by the proud boys who ultimately led the invasion of the capital and the violence on that day. the indictment of a group of proud boys alleges, as they planned, quote, to oppose by force the authority of the government of the united states. and according to the department of justice. on january 6th, 2021, the defendants directed, mobilized, and led members of the crowd on to the capital grounds and into the capital leading to the dismantling of metal barricades, the destruction of property, the breaching of the capital building. and the assaults on law enforcement. although certain former trump officials have argued tha

whitehouse. >> welcome to the witnesses, particularly mr. winfield.at 86, your mom deserve to have a lot better. i want to welcome mike german back. he came to rhode island when i was a u.s. attorney and was one of the agents in our fbi field office. we've had the chance to see the quality of his work firsthand, so it's great to have him here. a couple of questions. let's start with professor pape. does history show incidents when violence against a particular population was preceded by propaganda against that population? >> yes, sir. northern ireland is probably our key case we should focus on. in northern ireland, there was community support for violence among catholics in the late 1960s. immediately preceding the rise of the ira. >> so, let me jump in and ask, if the lesson of history here is also that the propaganda against a population is deliberate? >> yes, sir. the key part of the deliberative that matters, and this is also critical in the great replacement, is the intentionality that is attributed to the act of being evil, malicious. so, what

whitehouse, senator booker. thank you very much, mister chairman. doctor szilagyi i thank you for your commentary, i thank mr. willingham and i appreciate what it is like to live in a community where you are afraid. i know you have a feeling like i do, you have known young people who have died. i have watched kids who i watched grow up, and i am tired of seeing sidewalk shrines with teddy bears and candles around my neighborhood. it is the horror of the family losing a child but the entire community suffers. we. in communities like mine where the fourth of july is coming up, i know what will happen when fireworks are going off. parents will tell me stories about their kids hiding under beds, calling the police, hiding in closets, and you see what's that constant cortisol pumping the brain does to their development, to their directions with others. we had a kid bring a gun to school in my city just last week, not because he was seeking to hurt anybody but because he thought he needed it for protection. i have been championing a bill for a long time and included it in the build back better program called break

mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i have 12 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate, with the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noticed note theed -- duly noted mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i rise now for the 284th time with my increasingly at that time ird -- tattered and battered time to wake up poster to urge this chamber to wake up on the issue of climate change. human beings dumped 36.3 billioe gasses into the atmosphere last year, last year, after all our big talk, after all the plans and the cops and the commitments , 36.3 billion tons. that's the highest total ever recorded. we're not doing any better. we continue to do worse, and here in congress we continue to do nothing. we've seen this coming for many years, and even with all that warning nothing. noaa reports there's clushts more carbon -- currently more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any time during the last four million years. humankind has never