because they are responsible for blocking the global provision from the final ndaa agreement. and these are the same people that are happy to talk about human rights and how important human rights is and then they issue press release it's and call for -- releases and call for sanctions when there's a human rights atrocity that they want to be involved in. but when it comes to making sure that the u.s. government can maintain the tools it needs to advance human rights, they just said no. can i ask for an additional -- ms. scanlon: i yield an additional minute. mr. mcgovern: they should know. shame on those who derail this in the negotiations between the house and senate. you know, it's not enough to issue press releases. we inside to -- need to take action. mr. speaker, mark my words we will re-authorize an strengthen -- and strengthen the global in country and whether he do so hand in hand with allies of both sides of the aisle in the house and in the senate. because at the end of the day it's important that we just don't talk the talk, that we walk the walk. and again, i can'

it's just basically, is there a plan to attach either of these bills to the ndaa? so maybe you can talk about the vision for moving forward. >> yeah, of course. you know, listen, ndaa has become a very potent vehicle to get legislation passed that sometimes may be slow to get going on its own. we have an excellent working relationship with that -- the folks in that area and ask how some services committee. we have several bills put into ndaa this year and we're hopeful, if and when it goes to conference, i'm going to on the conference committee to make sure those bills stay in there. so yes, absolutely, has to become a potent ground to do that. we need to do the markups and all the things we need to do but it's a very potent source for us. yeah, it's a great vehicle for sure. >> i've got four more questions while you two were talking. we're not going to make it. but we'll try. >> i'm having a hard time keeping up with all the acronyms. you just threw another one at me, pisces. i'll never catch up with you guys. >> it's better than sicky. >> i'll give you that, no d

democrats can't pass the ndaa on their own. even in discussions with democrat staff, they don't think they could pass it. everybody looks to the fact -- let's go back on this question about the debt limit. it's another thing that we knew all along when is it due? the democrats have the ability of one-party rule to get this done. they have the ability to get it done in the senate without having any republicans to do it. what have they dop to make it happen? here we are on friday and late last night just government funding we had it to do it last minute to get something through. the management of this house is unbelievable in every shape and form. we knew this had to take place. and at the same time that it needs to take place, the democrats want to add trillions of dollars. why haven't they taken care of this? why do they put the financial jeopardy of america on the line? i don't get t now they want to do some gimmick? i don't think anyone will abide by a gimmick. if they believe spending $5 trillion makes america stronger, they

one way to do that is ndaa, go back to that for a second. that vehicle, bite-sized chunks of legislation that can be put into the ndaa bill and have real meaningful legislation. it's the foundational approach to what we need to start doing in that critical infrastructure around. start with that and then build upon slowly. i think if you try to do everything at once and i think that take that incremental approach, there will be more divergence. generally speaking, we are all on the same page and we've got to do more to help. i think one of the best examples, we all agree cisa needs to be a five billion dollar agency in the next five years. and that's not money pulled out of the year, or figure pulled out of the year. looking at no long term needs, they need it. there's a lot of areas where we agree and we're going to continue to agree going forward. and you know what? and i'm not trying to blow smoke at my friend there who likes 80s rock like i do, but having good leaders at cisa and -- we have good leaders that are collaborative minded, and

madam speaker, this ndaa bolsters our national security. it improvings the lives of our service members and it will help us counter the theres of china and russia -- the threats of china and russia. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, madam speaker. i'm pleased to yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from connecticut and chairman of the sea power and projection forces subcommittee, mr. courtney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. courtney: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in strong support of the 2022 national defense authorization act which is before us this evening. as chair of the sea power projection forces subcommittee this bill is proof our panel upheld its duty under article i section 8 to provide and maintain a navy. our bill authorizes 13 new ships, continuing our tradition to independently scrub the budget and augment our navy fleet responsibly. within that total we support the rapid deployment of equipme

the ndaa keeps the commander as the convening authority.e court-martial will still begin with the words, this court-martial was convened by order of the commander. it tells you everything you need to know. the ndaa also continues to offer commanders the ability to choose the members of the jury panel. i want to address this point specifically because i've heard a few misleading statements about jury selection. the ndaa allows the commander to pick other members of this command to be the jury pool from which the jury will be formed. our bill, on the other hand, would put this responsibility in the hands of an independent attorney without a stake in the outcome. unlike what some who lack an understanding of the ucmj have said, under our bill, the independent prosecutor is not the same person as the independent convening authority. those are two separate military attorneys. doc christianscenario said about the ndaa that, quote, because commanders retain commanding authority and associated powers such as equity having jury court members, comman

president, the other element here in the ndaa which is so important, of course, is taking care of our troops and their families. it authorizes this bill a pay raise of almost 3% for both military members and department of defense civilians. it has numerous initiatives related to military health and housing and leave policies. and one that i was proud to get into this bill is an important provision that allows the department of defense and the veterans administration to do facility sharing. what does that mean? it enables both the pentagon and the v.a. to work on agreements to plan, design, construct facilities to operate as v.a. and d.o.d.-shared medical facilities. that's going to help with readiness. that's going to help train our young active duty medical forces. it's going to help with taking care of our veterans. and it's going to save money. these are the kind of provisions that we need. they're win-win-win between the v.a. and our veterans. and the active duty and reserve forces that also need health care. and we're looking forward to taking advantage of that in alaska and othe

that ndaa, which was overwhelmingly bipartisan, contains many victories. we are proud it provides a pay raise for our military, supports military families' financial security and health, modernizes our defenses and fortifies our technological edge and combats adversaries, supports our partners. i was proud that it contains historic reforms to combat sexual assault in the military. i commend jackie for her lifetime of service on the subject, even before she came to congress, but now as the chair of the subcommittee. i was very proud of the action that was taken to secure the full faith and credit of the united states, which is written into the constitution. as you are probably aware, the legislation provided a process under which we could pass, lift the debt ceiling is a simple majority rather than 60 votes in the senate. in doing so, we are protecting families in the u.s. and global economies, preventing a loss of millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of household wealth. drastic increases in interest, you have a car loan, mortgage, credit card bills,

basically is there a plan to attach either of these bills to the ndaa? maybe you can talk about the vision for moving forward. >> yeah, of course. listen, ndaa has become a very potent vehicle to get legislation passed that sometimes may struggle to get going on its own. and we have an excellent working relationship with that -- the folks in that area and the house services committee. we have several bills to put in this year. and we're hopeful when it goes to conference i'll going to be on the conference committee to make sure those bills stay in there. we need to do the markups and all the other things we need to do. >> i've gotten far more questions while you two are talking. we're not going to make it but we'll try. >> i'll note i have a hard time keeping up with all the acronyms, and you just through another one at me. >> better than sice man. >> i'll give you that. no doubt about it. >> sice was not a good choice. you mentioned the executive order and how many tasks cisa has as a result of it. tell us how your implementing that. you have a year dea

now on the ndaa. once again, madam president, republican dysfunction. that seems to be what's going on on the other chamber. not by all republican members but by some who seem to run the show. republican dysfunction has sadly -- the republican show, that is. republican dysfunction has sadly caused immense damage on another routine, important and largely bipartisan priority, the ndaa. democrats have been working in good faith with the other side for weeks since before the thanksgiving holiday to secure an agreement to approve our annual defense bill. last night because of the objections of one republican, the ndaa has once again been prevented from moving forward. as i said last night, the amendment pushed by my colleague would certainly raise a blue slip objection in the house and thus kill the entire ndaa. now, the senator from florida says there are no blue ship issues, -- slip issues. but this isn't a matter of opinion. the authority here rests with the ways and means committee in the house and they have stated unequivocally that his proposal would r

the ndaa bill does not provide meaningful change to the status quo. our bill would provide it by moving serious crimes like sexual assault out of the chain of command completely, putting them in the hands of the most capable people in the military -- those independent, impartial, highly trained, uniformed prosecutors. that is a system our servicemembers can trust. i know that because that is the reform that survivors have asked for over and over and over again. since i started calling for this vote in may, we estimated more than 11,000 servicemembers will have been raped or sexually assaulted and more will have been victims of other serious crimes. two and three of those survivors will not even report those crimes because they know that under the current system, they are more likely to face retaliation than to receive justice. it's clear we cannot wait for committee leadership to recognize the importance of this reform. madam president, as if in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent that a time to be determined by the majority leader, in consul

i even offered a bill last month as an amendment toed ndaa -- to the ndaa to do just that, and i am hopeful we'll see some of that language in a final product. but i also believe it is important that our security partners know that we will uphold our commitments and prioritize security arrangements that protect civilians. for that reason, i will oppose efforts to stop this particular sale. i will continue to hold sales as i have -- there are many other sales that have not moved forward that i have not permit permitted to get out of the committee, and continue my efforts to hold saudi leadership accountabilitiable, and encourage my colleagues to do the same. with that, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. risch: i rise to oppose the matter before us, and i want to rise in support of the sale of these particular weapons to the saudis. saudis are an ally of ours, as with many allies they have items that we don't agree with, and those obviously have been highlighted here on the floor today. my colleague, the chairman of the foreign rela

one way to that is ndaa, that vehicle, bite sized chunks of legislation that can be put into the ndaa bill and have real meaning. to start with sticky, is the foundation approach to what we need to start doing on critical infrastructure. start with that and build upon it slowly. if you try to do everything at once and don't take the incremental approach, there will be more divergence of opinion but generally speaking, if we are all on the same page. one of the best examples is we all agree that cisa needs to be a $5 billion agency in the next years. looking at the long-term needs, they need to be beefed up significantly. we all agreed. there is a lot of areas where we agreed we will continue to agree going forward. i'm not trying to blow 80 smoke to my friend but having good leaders at cisa we have good leaders that are collaborative minded and that can be important. when we see them doing that, we do better ourselves. >> it's not fair when you answer my next question before i can ask it. i will try to salvage it stop people want to know your views on resources for cisa also want to k

for four years under leader mcconnell on the ndaa bill, more here now. people say we're moving too quickly. you know what we did on those bills? we sat on the floor for days without doing anything. we sat on the floor the last few weeks getting nominations through, even as some others are making it. so to sit on the floor and do nothing, makes no sense. here we have 21 amendments that we're willing to do to, again, i repeat, to do more bills than in 230-- 2016 or, 2017, 02018, 2019. let the republicans hit the play button. democrats have been exceedingly reasonable by offering robust process with ample input from are the other side. -- from the other side. i know many on the other side want to get this done as well. that's good and we'll keep working until we have a deal to move forward. now on dale ho. earlier today i had the honor to come before the senate judiciary committee to introduce a remarkable candidate to sit on the federal bench. dale ho, who/proudly recommended to president biden as a nominee to the district court of the southern district of

the ndaa recognizes that and addresses it. this bill will keep the modernization of our strategic nuclear deterrent on schedule. this is crucial because even though our nuclear forces are still effective, we have pushed our weapons far beyond their designed lifetimes, in some cases by decades. this bill authorizes the resources necessary to keep modernization on track, and it will help make sure the next generation of systems is available before our current nuclear triad ages out. perhaps most importantly, the ndaa tries to keep defense spending on pace with rising inflation. inflation is at its highest level in decades, and it doesn't look like it's slowing down any time soon. the biden administration originally proposed a top-line defense spending increase of just1.6%. that would not have kept pace with inflation even in a normal year. but in a year when it is threatening to spiral out of control, it would have meant an unacceptable cut in resources for our military. the ndaa takes this year's runaway inflation into account.

chatter at the moment is that they're going to try to use the annual defense bill, referred to as the ndaa lift it. >> yeah. >> but they've got to actually move forward because the clock is ticking >> yeah, i was actually going to bring that up next because, you know, we haven't talked a lot about defense, but it's a massive sector it's basically reinvented the real estate market around washington d.c., the big defense companies are all headquartered there. do you think the massive defense bill does get done in its current form >> the simple answer is yes. we've had about 60 years straight where congress has been able to clear that annual defense bill, the ndaa i think they'll do it again. it may slip into next year by a few days, but that doesn't really matter. the core message for investors is clear another $770 billion or so that's going into different priorities under the defense umbrella and thankfully, i think that lawmakers are going to start a little bit earlier next year on this process to ensure that we don't have to deal with it around christmastime it's nice we have the midterm

i'm in the middle of that, trying to negotiate the ndaa. if i clear one screen, i got to have this, i gotta have that. we have to get the work done and increasingly, the country is rewarding that type of individual approach to legislation. you can blame it on congress if you want, but we are the ones electing people acting like that. marjorie taylor greene raise $3 million in the third does first quarter of this year. some people like the approach, right and left. there are still a lot of people who do understand all of that. we have appropriation bills and have to pass the ndaa and raise the debt ceiling. we have the skill set to get it done but it is difficult because we try to do it and if i am against that, i will bring these people with me and you won't have the votes to bring it down. cut the deal, come back, and everybody says good. they're gone. we have to bring these people in. it is a 50-50 call. the most important thing is between now and february 18, to get all of the appropriators in a room and actually start negotiating. we ca

aren't hard deadlines, although the national defense bill, ndaa, has been passed on a bipartisan basisecades it would be embarrassing for this crop of congressional leaders to fail to do so. but the build back better in particular is a matter of getting all the ducks in the a row and whether it slips into the new year, which i think is entirely possible. it'll be a task that falls to chuck schumer, who is going to have an unpleasant december ahead of him. >> hold on a second, build back better is a big priority for democrats. but when biden looks at his poll numbers dropping are any dropping because build back better hasn't passed? >> not if you ask the white house, right. the white house sees the poll numbers working in tandem with covid, a little bit on the inflation front. but garrett's broader point that schumer is going to have a tough december still stands. the white house can punt on all these things with the exception of the debt celling. that's a hard, firm, fast deadline. and the jet fumes point garrett made is going to hold. so my advice is take the next 11 days off, come ba

those may be pushed back because the ndaa hasn't passed yet, but we'll start reporting as soon as we get the information. you know, also depends really depends on how much we get access to a lot of this stuff. so i set up the teams, and this is all we're working on. we have a couple more audits we're just finishing, but this is all we're working on, full blast. but i'm hoping we'll start releasing stuff as soon as we can put it together and analyze it. now, remember, there's a lot of allegations out there. and i want to just clarify one thing. there are allegations that some senior officials, including president ghani walked off with $500 million or whatever. these are all allegations. we have been asked to look at them. they're allegations. we have to determine, and you know how difficult it is in afghanistan determining what is truth and fiction. we have to determine that. because congress has asked us to do it. so give us time. and also, give us support. you know, we got to get access to that data. we got to get access to those people. and to talk to. and to see what we can do to

two other things done on a bipartisan basis that are worth mentioning, the ndaa, after a little shakiness, managed to get there. 61 years straight. and the china bill, which did clear the senate on a bipartisan basis. finally, before going to your questions, i noticed the emphasis on the other side seems to have changed from reckless tax and spending spree to the voting issue again. let me repeat for the umpteenth time, there is not a single state in america that has passed a law that is making it more difficult to vote based upon race. the voting rights act is still fully intact, it has been against the law since the 1960's and remains against the law today to discriminate against people based upon race. there are, however, things that states do engage in to ensure ballot security, things like voter id at the polls, that most americans think is a perfectly reasonable suggestion. the state of new york just in this recently completed election had votes on the ballot on same-day registration and no excuse absentee voting and liberal new york defeated both of them. so most americans understa

host: the president signed the ndaa yesterday with $25 billion more than what he asked for.ongress was able to add that much more to the legislation. your thoughts on that? caller: these people have no shame. joe biden does not have any shame either. he should not have signed it. he should have asked for a reduction, which he did not. do you know who has no shame? these progressive caucus like they say they are standing up against excess. if you read the letter they sign onto led by barbara lee back when president biden proposed his ndaa, they rubberstamped his request, which was an increase. these swirly progressives say they are playing against an increase in then they sign onto an increase in that process. host: you mentioned congresswoman jayapal, the chair of the congressional progressive caucus. she focuses on today on the build back better. the headline, "broken promises cannot deter the path of build back better." here is what she writes in that column in today's paper two -- "the washington post," "legislation remains the best path, nor can we underestimate the urge

host: the president signed the ndaa yesterday with $25 billion more than what he asked for.ongress was able to add that much more to the legislation. your thoughts on that? caller: these people have no shame. joe biden does not have any shame either. he should not have signed it. he should have asked for a reduction, which he did not. do you know who has no shame? these progressive caucus like they say they are standing up against excess. if you read the letter they sign onto led by barbara lee back when president biden proposed his ndaa, they rubberstamped his request, which was an increase. these swirly progressives say they are playing against an increase in then they sign onto an increase in that process. host: you mentioned congresswoman jayapal, the chair of the congressional progressive caucus. she focuses on today on the build back better. the headline, "broken promises cannot deter the path of build back better." here is what she writes in that column in today's paper two -- "the washington post," "legislation remains the best path, nor can we underestimate the urge

and certainly this one did, and to be honest cisa, benefited found a lot of things that was in the ndaa. one of those was the joint cyber planning office. the idea behind this is really bringing people together from the government and from the private sector to plan proactively against major threats to the nation. but if you actually look at the legislation, it's much more than planning. it's creating a common output and picture. it's implementing cyber defense plans. so when i came on board, being a retired military officer as somebody who has done a lot of planning in my life, i just thought this was a fabulous opportunity to do something early on, to really be that signal on both, we are going to be proactive, not reactive. and we are going to be that agency that is not another lumbering government bureaucracy. but something that's much more akin to the private sector. this idea of a private, public collaborative -- so i pointed to unique things, because people always ask how is this different? so one, it's the only federal cyber entity in statute, in law that combines the power of t

and to be honest, cisa, before i was even nominated, benefitted a lot from what was in the ndaa. one of those things was the jcpo. the joint cyber planning office. and the idea behind this is really bringing people together from the government and from fr the government and from the private sector to plan proactively against major threats to the nation. but if you look at the legislation it is much more than planning. creating a common picture, planning, exercising and then implementing cyber defense plans. so when i came on board, you know, being a retired military officer and somebody who's done a lot of planning in my life, i just thought this was a fabulous opportunity do something early on to really be that signal on both, we're going to be proactive, not reactive. >> right. >> and we're gonna be that agency that is not another lumbering government bureaucracy but something that is much more akin to the private sector. this idea of a private/public collaborative. so you know, i point to two unique things. people always ask well how is this different. so one, it is the only f

and this procedure you just outlined, coming over from the house with the ndaa, having a separate 51ng would take care of that. better that republicans help us, but at least get it out of the way. >> thank you very much, senator. appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >> and the mead yacht trick surge. covid cases in kids spiking 30% in two weeks. what could it mean coming into winter? that is next. (gasps) ♪ did it work? only pay for what you need ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ spider-man no way home in theaters december 17th if you wake up thinking about the market and want to make the right moves fast... get decision tech from fidelity. [ cellphone vibrates ] you'll get proactive alerts for market events before they happen... and insights on every buy and sell decision. with zero-commission online u.s. stock and etf trades. for smarter trading decisions, get decision tech from fidelity. (vo) subaru and our retailers believe in giving back. that's why, in difficult times, we provided one hundred and fifty million meals to feeding america. and now through the subaru share t

i propose the sweep of options last month in an amendment to the ndaa, the russian banking sector would be wiped out, sovereign debt would be blocked, russia would be removed from the swift payment system, satoro sanctions would cripple the russian economy. putin himself as well as his inner circle would lose access to bank accounts in the west. russia would effectively be cut off and isolated from the international economic system. let me be clear -- these are not run-of-the-mill sanctions. what is being discussed is at the maximum end of the spectrum, or as i have called it, the mother of all sanctions. and i hope that we can come together in a bipartisan way to find a legislative path forward soon so we can achieve that. if putin invades ukraine the implications will be devastating for the russian economy but also the russian people. the ukrainian military forces of 2021 are not the ukrainian military forces of 2014. they are well-equipped thanks to the united states and our allies. they are well-trained. they have years of combat experience, and most importantly, they have every inc

because you can't do that and the ndaa is on the floor so we will see if that stays on the floor and crazy. >> thank you for being here again you mentioned build back better what is your favorite part? >> but the two things for me right now is universal child care and pre- k the best dollars we can spend to invest in oure babies and particularly withre childcare and we also invest in moms and dads to go backe' to work and in the childcare workers right now it is a annual turnover before the pandemic because it doesn't pay it doesn't matter the work is important is not like childcare centers keep all the money for themselves it doesn't pay because parents cannot afford to pay more if we don't ask parents to pay for second grade we make that investment so the children get a good education we need to do the same thing of universal child care. on the other side we have a minimum corporate tax. [applause] [laughter] and let me say something and why this is so important is not just an alternative minimum tax first of all and counting on the fact here of all places that i have a room of tot

>> i believe in the house version of the ndaa there are deadlines on the report in march or april and those may pushed back because it hasn't passed yet. we will start reporting as soon as we get the information. it also depends, really depends on how much we get access to a lot of this stuff. i set up the teams and this is all we are working on step we have a couple of more audits we are finishing but that's all we are irking on full blast. i'm hoping we will start releasing stuff as soon as we can put together and analyze it step there is a lot of allegations out there and i am want to clarify one thing stuff there are allegations that some senior officials including presidentghani walked up with $5 million. these are allegations that we been asked to look at all step we have to determine and you know how difficult it is to determine was truth and fiction in afghanistan, we have to determine that. because congress has asked us to do it. give us time and give his support. we have to get access to that data in get access to those people. we have to see what we can do to answer all the

just three republicans and eight members of the democratic caucus voted against the ndaa, which includes $25 billion more in pentagon funding than requested by president biden. progressives slammed the senate for passing a record-shattering pentagon budget without approving the build back better act to fund social programs and battle the climate emergency. congressional progressive caucus chair pramila jayapal noted the u.s. is spending more than the military budgets of the next 11 countries combined. she tweeted -- "don't tell me we can't afford to fight poverty, cancel student debt, pass paid leave, and defeat the climate crisis." on wednesday, democrats said they may delay a vote on the build back better act until the new year as west virginia democratic senator joe manchin signaled he will oppose an extension of the expanded child tax credit. unless the senate acts soon, families will no longer receive monthly payments of up to $300 per child. the center for budget priorities warns ending t credit would plunge millions of u.s. children ck into poverty. calls are growing for democrats

let's talk about the defense ndaa, did a deal go there? is one that came out over the summer with several measures she wanted in the legislation. do we have a sense of whether she and the other senators are okay with what they're going to have to vote on? >> listen, this is something that's been negotiated again, among the four leaders here. and i think that vote in the house really is strong. i mean, almost 200 republicans supporting this bill, going forward. i do think there's going to be different negotiations and you're going to see probably senator warren and others trying to say, hey, we want amendments. you're going to have leadership on both sides, republicans and democrats, kill those amendments, but this is the bill, right? they are not going to have a bunch of changes in the senate and then bringing it back to the house. the house is out after the end of this week. so right now, for the rest of the year. so, this is going to be the bill that passes, like most things in congress, it's never just easy up or down. i would expect a

in fact, the ndaa that just passed this week gives them another hundred million for this. i'm not disputing whether or not, though, an extra billion dollars would help them. i'll vote for the extra billion dollars and that's what i will propose today. but it should be offset with spending cuts elsewhere. there's a $3 billion fund that is left over from money we were giving to the afghan national government. there is no afghan national government. there's a bunch of hoodlums the taliban have taken over and i asked secretary blinken. can you assure me you're not going to give these funds to the taliban. he says it depends on how they behave. so it isn't so certain that this money isn't go to the taliban. the cunchts law may say future money goes but this is old money. we don't want it going to the taliban. we think it should be better spent. it's money that can be reclaimed. why wouldn't it be a good thing that take money that might go to our enemy and actually give it on our ally. makes perfect sense. why would be so obstinate that we're until willing to take a pay-for. it'

they just pass the ndaa i believe. talk about a waste of money. national defense authorization. geez, oh pete. host: why do you think it's a waste of money? caller: because it's our largest expenditure as a country. it's not serving our security. we have thousands of bases around the world. the war on terror was go beau gus. we are -- was bogus. we are still trying to overthrow countries around the world. we don't have health care. we have homeless -- host: lexington, kentucky. paul, democrats line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i just wanted to say my top story about not happy with how supreme court is deciding things. but i'm also embarrassed our senator from kentucky, mitch, is just atowningly -- just astoundingly representing just party politics. it's not what is best for our nation. host: how so? caller: well, partly over -- he was using the build back better, he's saying, there's nothing -- no bridges and that type of thing. that's not what the build back better was. that was the infrastructure. he was adamant against that. but he voted for it when it c