tammy patrick of the non- partisan democracy fund was as an arizona elections official for more than a dede. so, tammy patrick, what are these arizona lawthat were being challenged, and what's the argument that they are discriminatory >> so the first law had to do with provisional ballots beng voted out of precinct, and that commonly occurs when a voter moves and then returns to their previous voting location where they don't live any longer, and that requires a provisional ballot. some states, they allow you to cast a provisional ballot and they'll count a portion of it that you're eligible for. other states will throw out the ballot entirely and not count any oft. part of the challenge with that is in arizona there were almost 1500 of those across the year and across the country there are literally tens of thousands of voters who don't have their votes counted for president or statewide offices because they went to the wrong polling place. so this disproportionately affects voters who move frequently or those who are at locations where they don't have good addressing such as tribal

rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tammy duckworth, a senator from the state of illinois, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, july 12, 2021. my leadership skills come fromy the more i realize that is where it came from. and there are an awful lot of eagle scouts running around the halls of nasa. the astronaut office >> in the astronaut office and a flight director office. you touched on it but you learn that stop there. a lot of people who learn leadership in military organizations or in sports or in clubs in college, and so you bring that in with you. and then i think that a large part of the kind of thing you had to learn was just how to put your nose to the grindstone and learn the technical aspects. p and then learning how to deal with people. we used to in my house we really loved watching the big bang theory. not just because we knew those people, it's because we were those people. >> that's exact same thing in my household. >> yes. you know, you discovered that you h

rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tammy baldwin, a senator from the state of wisconsin, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: last night, madam president, the senate took a vote on whether to proceed to a debate on infrastructure. unfortunately, our republican colleagues blocked the senate from taking this first entirely procedural step. i understand that the effort to finish the text of the bipartisan bill has progressed since i announced this vote last week. the negotiators have made significant progress but there is still some outstanding issues. therefore, at the end of the vote yesterday, i changed my response to a no so that i may move to reconsider the vote at a future time. my colleagues on both sides should be assured as majority leader i have every intention of passing both major -- my colleagues on both sides of the aisle should be assured as majority leader i have every intention of passing both ma