ms. klobuchar: now resolutions en bloc. i ask unanimous consent that the senate now proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following senate resolutions introduced earlier today. senate resolution 793, senate resolution 794, and senate reduction 795. the presiding officer: woangs, -- without objection, the senate will proceed en bloc. ms. klobuchar: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. all en bloc. the pr the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. resolution 796 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 796, honoring the life and legacy of the late senator robert bob charles kruger. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed. ms. klobuchar: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the

klobuchar: thank you very much. ms. nelson, remote. ms. nelson: q very much chair klobuchar and ricky member want and members of the committee. my name is jenae nelson. i join my colleagues in commending the work of this committee and celebrating the unanimity of support on reform of the eca. i thank you for the opportunity to testify on our democracy and on the need to enact responsive and expensive federal legislation that prevents the sabotage of our elections. sabotage that can happen through discriminatory barriers to the ballot and the manipulation of election results in ways that disproportionately target communities of color. historians will study the. -- will study the period between 2020 and 2025 for decades to come as a sick to explain the next century of american life. they will ask the question, did we act when we had the chance or did we squander our last best hope to protect the freedom to vote and save our democracy. the answer to that question lies in part in the absence of this committee. i come before you today to sound a

ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i rise today to report back from a trip that senator portman and i took to ukraine last week. and the number-one thing i'd like to report is that president zelenskyy personally asked us -- and i know that senator portman addressed senate last night and reported this, but he personally asked us to thank the united states senate, to thank the people of this country for the generous and unending continuing help that senate has given to ukraine in their fight for democracy. this is a country that has given it all. sometimes we wonder in our own country, what are we going to put on the line for our democracy? are we going to go over and vote today? how much do we care? there, the people of ukraine are putting their lives on the line every single day. the balance reknee who put -- the ballerina who puts on camo and goes to the front lines, the exhausted workers at the nuclear plant trying to protect not just the country of ukraine but surrounding countries because it is the bigge

ms. klobuchar: i ask that theta. quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. o, senator portman to share with the senate and the country some of the things that we learned from our recent trip to ukraine. i want to thank senator portman. he comes to the floor every week. never gives up when things are good or bad to talk what's happening in ukraine. and president zelenskyy was incredibly grateful. that was the first thing he wanted us to report back to the senate and to the country. incredibly grateful for all america has done to stand with ukraine. we know that this is a country that has given its all. sometimes we wonder in our own country what with would we -- what would we put on the line for democracy? are we going to vote or things like that? the people in this country put their lives on the line every day, ballerinas going to the front line, exhausted workers at a nuclear plant trying to protect not just ukraine but all of europe in whatthe biggest -- what is the biggest nuclear plant. the bombed out town screen, that reminds people no what vladimir puti

klobuchar and -- in the senate and my senator. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i yield the gentlelady an extra 30 second. ms. schakowsky: i would also like to put into the record to submit the gentleman's testimony for the record. and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. jordan: before yielding to my friend from california, i wanted to comment or respond to comments made by my friend from colorado. he used the term overcooked theory. let me tell you what's not theory. the department of justice's raid on a former president's home not theory. the department of justice taking the phone of a city member of this body, not theory. 14 whistleblowers coming to our office talking about the political nature of the justice department, not theory. those are facts. that is scary stuff. now this bill, if passed, will give that agency $140 million each year for the next five years. that's what we want to do? that is not -- that is scary -- that is why we should -- for that reason alone we should be against this