signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. on friday, august 27, 2021. t ca, literally designed it on the ca, ship where he had these polls pretty wish i had a picture of it, would lift it up and they had these >> back to our booktv programming and progress. >> youer know, it was really a clever invention. he had a model of it, it is now in the smithsonian. it was a beautiful looking crown. it wasut not built on the model stage as far as i know. and the dual challenge was lincoln had issues with depression and he had several courtships, one of his sweethearts died, and rutledge. madly in love with her and he gets very depressed and he needs mary todd, who is very intelligent, politically savvy and corrupt without whole culture in louisville. lincoln was very awkward socially unless he was giving a speech. things did not go well at first with mary todd and then they broke it off and he was horribly depressed and has fred took away his r

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore.

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 10:30 a.m. on tuesday, >> and that wraps up the senate pro forma session held in the hart senate office building on capitol hill while members are in their district work period. while legislatures return for business september 13th. and back to book tv, join it in progress. >> i'm constantly thinking what can be best practice and what can we do to enhance board activity and i address this specific questions around employees and i talk about ways to really upgrade boards and i'm sure we'll get to that point. but to the question about employees, it's a really interesting one, and the board in germany in particular is slightly different. as you know it's a two-tiered system so there's a sense that the managerial board as well as as well and it's different from what you might see elsewhere. i will say again before i address the specific question that there's a lot of overlap in terms of the governance respo

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. on friday, august 20, 2021. >> senators return for work for for work on nominations. and senator shuler has time for voting rights and legislation. watch the senate live here on c-span2. we'll return to book it. v programming. >> we have on the visual there, what would be -- there were several of these, sort of what would you call them, these sort of architecture and celebration where you have the laurel wreathed arch and then the bridge and then the music and sometimes you'd see a attachment from the local militia. this is a picture much washington crossing the schuylkill into philadelphia, for those of you familiar with that area. so this would be characteristic. that is caesar in the best sense, i think. and we can talk about that later, but what's going on here, it seems to me, is in this occasion, as indeed through the whole trip itself, it's the kind of -- seems to me this is interpretiv

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 9:30 a.m. on tuesday, august 17, 2021.

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is leadership time is reserved. mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: first, i ask unanimous consent that benjamin lockshin be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: secondly, madam president, before my remarks i ask unanimous consent that the cloture vote on the lee nomination occur today. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection,so ordered. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. now all we week, as we all know, senators have worked together to move forward on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. since the text of the bipartisan proposal was finalized on sunday, both sides have had extensive opportunities to offer amendments. senators have certainly taken advantage. so far the senate has considered 22 amendments on this bipartisan piece of legislation. we considered 14

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. the presiding officer: are we in a quorum? -- we are not in a quorum call. mr. schumer: the senate has voted to advance the bipartisan infrastructure bill and bring debate on the substitute amendment to an end. i repeat that democrats are ready and willing to vote on additional amendments to the bill before moving to final passage. once again that will require the cooperation of our republican colleagues. i hope they will cooperate so we can move more quickly. otherwise we'll proceed by the book and finish the bill. i said yesterday we could do this the easy way or the hard way. yesterday it appeared that some republicans would like the senate to do this the hard way. in any case we'll keep proceeding until we get this bill done. now on another related matter, as the senate approaches final passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bi

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 3684, which the clerk will report. cloim calendar number 100, h.r. 3684, a federal fund to highway programs, transit programs and for other purposes. mr. schumer: mr. president, are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. schumer: now, mr. president, it may have taken all weekend, but the senate is now finally on the precipice of passing major bipartisan infrastructure legislation. last night, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of senators voted to surmount the final few procedural hurdles and put the bill on a glide path for passage tomorrow morning. the bill will represent a substantial down payment towards the level of infrastructure investment our country needs, and for the first time, the senate has come together around such a package in decades. i will have more to say about it before fina

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 9:30 a.m. on tuesday, august 17, 2021. senators return for legislative work at 3 a.m. eastern for more work on executive nominations. later in the week, majority leader schumer scheduled time for voting rights and election reform legislation. watch the senate live here on c-span2. now we return to our book tv program already in progress. >> you know, not reading the constitution, but there are ways to write anything, you know? i mean, and i have seen good books for young people, kids, that i'm talking about now, certainly through elementary school, middle school and natalie has done a book about thomas jefferson that talks about all of this in an age appropriate way, so kids, i think there's a way to do it, as for coming down there to talk about it, there are plenty of people in texas who can hold down the fort on that matter. i do know that people have gotten very, very aggressive about this, but this

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from maine is recognized. ms. collins: mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. schumer: good morning, mr. president. are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: we are. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: now, mr. president, senators continue to work through the bipartisan infrastructure bill here on the floor. members from both sides want to be able to consider as many germane amendments as possible, but we must work efficiently to allow those votes. yesterday was a positive day in that respect. democrats and republicans agreed to vote on three amendments, two of which were led by republicans, two bipartisan amendments, one led by senators thune and tillis, another led by senators padilla and moran with adopted with over 90 votes. we have one, potentially two more amendment votes lined u

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 3684, which the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 3684, calendar number 100, an act to authorize funds for federal aid, highways, highway safety programs and transit programs, and for other purposes. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent -- okay. i ask unanimous consent that following senator kelly's maiden speech, that senators johnson, peters, and carper be permitted to speak for up to five minutes each prior to the start of the vote. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. schumer: for the information of senators, the vote scheduled for 12. a 15 will likely begin closer to 12:30 p.m. now, mr. president, for my remarks. as you have seen, as america has seen, the senate is moving full steam ahead on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. since the legislative text of the b