ms. baldwin: as if in executive session, i ask unanimous consent that the cloture motions presented earlier be considered to have been presented in the following order -- miller, mccabend kahl. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. baldwin: i ask unanimous consent that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. baldwin: mr. president, i have 11 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. ms. baldwin: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 177, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 177, designating april 2021 as financial literacy month. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. ms. baldwin: i know of no further debate on the measure. the presiding officer: if there is no further debate the question is on the adoption of the resolution. ing all in faye say aye. all -- all in favor say aye.

ms. mccabe knows that while e.p.a. is working to protect clean air and clean water and address climate change, the agency must seize the opportunity to protect and create good-paying jobs across our country. she understands that the environmental and climate changes we face are not just a problem, they offer economic and competitive opportunity. president biden's american jobs plan embraces these principles, and janet mccabe has the experience, she has the intelligence to work with her agency colleagues to translate into action at e.p.a. president biden's americans job plan embraces these principles. and janet mccabe has the experience and the intelligence to work with her agency colleagues to translate them into action at e.p.a. the association of equipment manufacturers put it very well when they wrote last month -- and this is their quote -- ms. mccabe will bring leadership and collaborative spirit needed to address difficult environmental cheadged improve regulatory processes and ensure we can continue to build pow

ms. mccabe is set to join an administration whose job-killing policies would make the obama e.p.a. blush. of course, president biden's war on coal predates his administration's. back in 2008 as a candidate for the vice-presidency, he insisted there would be, quote, no coal plants here in america. build them, if you're going to build them, over there, obviously meaning some other country. sadly, this was one area where the obama administration unfortunately kept its promises. it was a terrible time to be a working american whose livelihood the democrats happened to dislike. but our new president's left ward sprint is set to make these bad old days merely -- remember, joining the paris climate agreement was number one for this administration. these signatories who largely ignored their commitments for the past five years, a deal that proved unable to keep china from significantly increasing its greenhouse gas emissions and proved unnecessary for the united states to decrease our own. we decreased our own. but despite it all, the administration is rushing back in to signal virtue on t