mrs. shaheen: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and to call up amendment number 11 1120. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from new hampshire, mrs. shaheen, for herself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 1120. at the end of subtitle b of title 7, add the following: section 714. mrs. shaheen: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. shaheen: thank you, mr. president. mr. cardin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: mr. president, first, let me thank senator levin and senator mccain in regards to the amendment 1188, which was hotels for heroes. i'm going to be very, very brief. hotels for heroes follows on the hero miles, a successful program where our wounded warriors are able to get their families together using frequent flyer miles that are donat

mrs. shaheen: i ask the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. shaheen: i came to the floor to speak to the legislation that is pending before us, s. 1769, the rebuild america jobs act. this legislation in fact would put literally millions of americans back to work rebuilding our nation's roads, our bridges, our airports and our railways. the bill that's before us has two components. the first is a direct direct $50 billion federal investment in our infrastructure and it would be split between roads, rail, transit and airport projects. more than half of that would go to our well-established -- well-established formula-driven highway and transit programs and that would include about $132 million for new hampshire. the second piece of this proposal would create an infrastructure bank. that's legislation that i've cosponsored and it has had bipartisan cosponsorship here in the senate. the bank as it's structured would be able to leverage public dollars to attract private capital and that would if it's successful lead to hundreds of billions of

mrs. shaheen: mr.resident, i rise this evening to join my colleague from rhode island and those who have been to the floor throughout the day today to join them in strong opposition to the efforts by senator paul to nullify the environmental protection agency's cross-state air pollution rule. as we've heard on the floor, his resolution would strip the e.p.a. of its authority to protect our air from certain kinds of air pollution emitted by power plants. that rule was put in place specifically to protect downwind states like new hampshire and those of us in the northeast and on the east coast from air pollution that originates from outside our borders. i am particularly concerned by the attempts to stop these protections because in new hampshire, we've been fighting for them for over a decade, and they are long overdue. clean air is a bipartisan matter for us in new hampshire. as my friend and colleague senator ayotte noted on the floor last night, in new hampshire, we have a long bipartisan tradition o

hereby appoint the honorable jeanne shaheen, a senator from the state of new hampshire, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business for an hour. the majority will control the first half. following morning business we will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h.r. 674. at noon the senate will be in executive session to consider the nomination of evan wallach to be united states circuit judge for the federal circuit. at 2:15 p.m. the united states will -- i'm sorry. i was behind myself a little bit. sorry about that. at 12:15 the senate will vote on the confirmation of the wallach nomination. following that vote the senate will be in recess until 2:15. expect to be in consideration of h.r. 674 today. senators will be notified when additional votes are scheduled. madam president, there are two bills at the desk. they're both due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bills for the second time. the clerk: h.r. 29