December 2, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7157 (Applause, Senators rising.) Waller, of Minnesota, to be a Member FAREWELL TO THE SENATE f of the Board of Governors of the Fed- Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, this morn- eral Reserve System for a term of four- ing we got to hear the farewell speech EXECUTIVE CALENDAR—Continued teen years from February 1, 2016. of my friend . He is The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- a fantastic and legislator. It TILLIS). The question is, Will the Sen- jority leader. has been an honor to serve with him ate advise and consent to the Davis f and to learn from him. Now you get to nomination? hear from the accountant. Mr. CORNYN. I ask for the yeas and LEGISLATIVE SESSION I rise today to give my farewell nays. speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a It has been the honor of a lifetime to ALS DISABILITY INSURANCE sufficient second? serve the great people of in ACCESS ACT OF 2019 There appears to be a sufficient sec- this position for the last 24 years. I ond. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, have really enjoyed being a Senator— The clerk will call the roll. under the order obtained yesterday, I not for the title, not for the recogni- The senior assistant legislative clerk ask that the Senate proceed to S. 578. tion, and certainly not for the pub- called the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under licity. Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is the previous order, the Finance Com- I love solving problems for folks in necessarily absent: the Senator from mittee is discharged from further con- Wyoming and America. I like working Georgia (Mrs. LOEFFLER). sideration. on legislation. It might shock those Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the The clerk will report the bill by title. who know me, but I never intended to Senator from (Ms. HARRIS), The senior assistant legislative clerk get into politics. While I always had the Senator from Vermont (Mr. SAND- read as follows: great respect for those who served in ERS), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. A bill (S. 578) to amend title II of the So- public office, it wasn’t my calling when SCHATZ) are necessarily absent. cial Security Act to eliminate the five- I left college. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. month waiting period for disability insur- But over 50 years ago, when I joined ance benefits under such title for individuals DAINES). Are there any other Senators the young men’s leadership training in the Chamber desiring to vote? with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. group known as the Jaycees, at a State The result was announced—yeas 51, AMENDMENT NO. 2689 convention in Cody I spoke about the nays 45, as follows: Mr. MCCONNELL. I call up the value of leadership in communities. [Rollcall Vote No. 248 Ex.] Grassley amendment at the desk. The keynote speaker was Al Simp- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The YEAS—51 son, who would go on to serve three clerk will report. terms in the U.S. Senate. After I gave Alexander Ernst Perdue The senior assistant legislative clerk Barrasso Fischer Portman my pitch on the importance of leader- Blackburn Gardner Risch read as follows: ship training, Senator Simpson did his Blunt Graham Roberts The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- usual fascinating and humorous speech Boozman Grassley Romney NELL], for Mr. GRASSLEY, proposes an amend- and then took me aside and said: I Braun Hawley Rounds ment numbered 2689. Burr Hoeven Rubio don’t even know what party you are in, Capito Hyde-Smith Sasse The amendment (No. 2689) is as fol- but it is time you put your money Cassidy Inhofe Scott (FL) lows: where your mouth is on this leadership Collins Johnson Scott (SC) Cornyn Kennedy Shelby (Purpose: To increase the overpayment col- stuff and get into politics. That town Cotton Lankford Sullivan lection threshold for old-age, survivors, you live in, Gillette, needs a mayor. Cramer Lee Thune and disability insurance benefits) My wife Diana and I had only moved Crapo McConnell Tillis Insert the following after section 2: to Gillette a few years earlier. The Cruz Moran Toomey Daines Murkowski Wicker SEC. 3. INCREASING THE OVERPAYMENT COL- town was facing a crisis as the dis- Enzi Paul Young LECTION THRESHOLD FOR OLD-AGE, covery of oil, gas, and coal turned it SURVIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSUR- into a boomtown. The population start- NAYS—45 ANCE BENEFITS. ed to skyrocket, and city services were Baldwin Hassan Peters (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 204(a)(1)(A) of the Bennet Heinrich Reed Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 404(a)(1)(A)) is not keeping up. Blumenthal Hirono Rosen amended— On the way home from that Cody Booker Jones Schumer (1) by striking ‘‘With respect to’’ and in- meeting, while my wife was driving, I Brown Kaine Shaheen serting ‘‘(i) Subject to clause (ii), with re- Cantwell Kelly Sinema told her what Senator Simpson had Cardin King Smith spect to’’; and said and that I was thinking maybe I Carper Klobuchar Stabenow (2) by adding at the end the following new should run for mayor. It must have Casey Leahy Tester clause: come as quite a shock because she Coons Manchin Udall ‘‘(ii) For purposes of clause (i), if the Com- ended up swerving into the borrow pit Cortez Masto Markey Van Hollen missioner of Social Security determines that Duckworth Menendez Warner decreasing a payment under this title to an and then coming back up onto the Durbin Merkley Warren individual by 100 percent would defeat the road. Feinstein Murphy Whitehouse We ended up talking about it seri- Gillibrand Murray Wyden purpose of this title, the Commissioner may decrease such payment by a smaller amount, ously for the 4 hours that it took to NOT VOTING—4 provided that such smaller amount is not drive back to Gillette and thought of a Harris Sanders less than 10 percent of the amount of such lot of things that needed to be done to Loeffler Schatz payment.’’. make a difference in our town. The nomination was confirmed. ORDER OF BUSINESS I was new to the community and just The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Mr. MCCONNELL. For the informa- 29 years old, but I thought that Gillette the previous order, the motion to re- tion of all Senators, at 4 p.m. today the was in need of a budget, agendas, and consider is considered made and laid Senate will vote on the Grassley planning—not the most exciting topics upon the table, and the President will amendment to S. 578 and passage of the to get people’s attention. I ran anyway, be immediately notified of the Senate’s bill. and I did win. actions. Until that time, the Senate will re- Nearly five decades later, having f sume consideration of the Waller nomi- served as mayor, having served in the nation. State house, having served as a State EXECUTIVE CALENDAR f senator and then as a U.S. Senator, I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The still find myself motivated by the urge clerk will report the Waller nomina- EXECUTIVE CALENDAR—Continued to help my community and my coun- tion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The try. The senior assistant legislative clerk Waller nomination is pending. I also find myself still pushing those read the nomination of Christopher The Senator from Wyoming. same three ideas that I did when I first

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We made an effort to argue some The Senate is a very different place why I suggest my 80 percent tool. to be on both lists. Then we worked on than when I arrived in 1997, and it is a Generally speaking, people can talk the ones on both lists. We usually had very different place than it was in 1789 civilly on 80 percent of the issues. It is a duplication of about 80 percent of the when the very first Senate met. But only on about 20 percent of the issues issues. Then we could pick out any over all those years, it has been a place that we find real contention. Now, even issue and work on it, usually agreeing for folks rising to the challenge of picking a single issue out of the 80 per- on 80 percent of that issue. If we being a leader. We are looking to make cent, you might still find disagree- couldn’t find a new way to do the part our communities and country a better ment, but once again, you can probably that had been argued for years, we sim- place. We might not always agree on focus on 80 percent of the issue that ply left it out, believing that 80 percent what the solutions are, but we can re- you can agree on. finished is better than 20 percent that spect each other for working to find It is all about focusing on what you only makes the press. one. can get done and not focusing on the The 80-percent tool is where all of Over the years, I have learned a great points of disagreement, the weeds of our energy, attention, and talents deal from those around me. Just like I debate that have choked issues, or, to could be focused. If we just worked on listened to Senator Al Simpson all say it another way, it is all about what the 20 percent that we don’t agree on, those years back, I have tried to keep you leave out. and never will agree on, we will only an open mind to learning from others. Former Senator , from generate headlines about how hard we Now that my time in the Senate is Massachusetts, and I used this tool are working, with nothing actually coming to a close, I would like to pass when we led the Health, Education, getting done, just gridlock. along some of the lessons I was Labor, and Pensions Committee to- When the news comes on, if we are taught—and some I learned the hard gether, and it worked great. It worked here in the Chamber arguing and bick- way—in the hopes that it may be use- even though we were on complete oppo- ering and getting nothing done, we are ful for my colleagues working to get site sides of the political spectrum. focusing too much on the 20 percent. If things accomplished in the Senate and I once showed Senator Kennedy an people do not see much of us, that for anybody who wants to be a leader article that mentioned how unusual it means we are taking on the 80 percent in their community. was for the most conservative Senator and making progress without headlines In my office we have a mission state- and the third most liberal Senator to and often with unanimous consent. ment. It reads: work together, to which he said: So What we are really talking about is We have been given a sacred trust to work who is ahead of me? working together. That is what the for our families, grandparents, and grand- We were able to get legislation heart of the 80-percent tool is. Often- children. We will respect the wisdom of those passed that others had been trying to times, people say what we need is more before and the future of those to follow. We do for years. Here is how we started bipartisanship, and there is a very will discharge this trust through our legisla- working together. When I first got to practical reason for that. In the Sen- tive policy, our constituent services, and the the Senate, I wanted to change some ate, you can’t get anything done with- way we treat each other, guided by these things with OSHA—the Occupational three principles: out working with the other side unless Doing What Is Right Safety and Health. Senator Kennedy, one party has 60 votes or more, which Doing Our Best at the urging of my predecessor, Sen- is rare. And even with 60 votes from Treating others as They Wish to be Treat- ator Simpson, did let me sit down and one party, the bills that party passes ed take him through the bill a section at when they have a often These last three principles are advice a time. That is something we always are flawed. It turns out that when we my mom gave me often, and they re- did in the Wyoming Legislature. When work together, we can create a better main my core values. Every member of we marked up the bill in committee, bill than when we just try do it alone my staff is given that mission state- Senator Kennedy said: In all my years or force others to accept our ideas. ment when they start, and we rely on in the Senate, I have never had any- That is why success is not really about it to remind us why we are here and body take me through a bill a section compromise. It is really about what how we should act. at a time, but I am still going to have you leave out—or finding a way to ac- It isn’t just a saying. It is a way to to vote against it. It still got out of complish it doing a mutually agreeable work, a way to build trust, and a way committee. But later he called me new way. to govern. These values are not always about a safety bill he had been working We used to take the people who had easy to live by. We are all human, and on for over a decade—a bill to save similar amendments and send them off we all struggle to live up to these nurses and medical janitors from acci- to see if they could come up with one ideals we set for ourselves, but that is dental needlesticks—and asked if I amendment. Quite often, they could. It why we call them ideals. would take a look at it. I did. The big- was fascinating, when they came back, I believe these are values we can all gest suggestion that I gave was to they said: It was my idea. And when all agree on, and by remembering the val- leave out a couple of small parts that of them report to you that it was their ues we share, we can work together to had been jamming up the bill. The bill idea, you know that you have enough tackle tough problems and find shared passed the Senate and the House votes to pass it. solutions. unamended and was signed. And now That is why success is not really ‘‘Do what is right’’ is a great slogan, you see needle disposals in restrooms about compromise; it is about what but you might ask what it means at a and all sorts of places. And the issue you leave out or finding a third way to practical level. People see a mess in has never had to be readdressed. come up with a mutually agreeable , so how do we actually Later, I became the Health, Edu- goal. Here are a few key steps that I make progress? I believe it involves fo- cation, Labor, and Pensions chair, and used to find that common ground to cusing on common ground over com- Senator Kennedy was the ranking pass legislation. First, find someone promise, especially when it comes to member. We used the 80-percent tool. from the other side of the aisle who legislating. We were able to get 35 bills through the likes to legislate. People sometimes think that com- HELP Committee in the 109th Con- Second, discover and agree on com- promise is the answer. I think it means gress. Twenty-seven of them made mon goals. that I give in to something I don’t like, their way to the President’s desk and Third, consult with stakeholders that and you give in to something you don’t were signed into public law. In be- will or could affect the changes being like, and we both wind up with some- tween, we were able to report out 352 discussed.

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Sometimes we Finally, you set aside the part of the worried about the next election, look- are criticized for being overrepresented issues you can’t agree on for another ing to hold on to the majority, that ev- in the Senate. We have two Senators, day. Now you will have a bill that has erybody is either trying to force the the same as California, , and a good chance of being passed and other side to take politically perilous Texas. But in this argument of unfair signed into law. That is the heart of votes or trying to avoid taking those representation for States, we find the the 80-percent tool. votes themselves. No matter which same inherent issues we do with the fil- This way of working also ensures party is in charge, we end up blocking ibuster; our government was not set up that we can disagree without being dis- amendments and shying away from al- to be majority rule by population agreeable. There is a lot of vitriol in lowing legislation to be altered on the alone. Our Founders, through their own our politics and our world right now, floor of the Senate. And usually those debate, were able to understand the but you can stay true to what you be- tough votes don’t really make any dif- risk of pure democracy and the benefits lieve in without treating others badly. ference. of a federalist system, where ideas were Nothing gets done when we are just It might help if Members made it represented not just by population but telling each other how wrong we are. clear to leadership they would be will- by regions and shared cultures. Wyo- Just ask yourself, has anyone ever ing to take some tough votes in return mingites deserve to have their cultural really changed your opinion by getting for more chances to amend major legis- say in our system protected against in your face and yelling at you or say- lation on the floor. People might be the majority. We are all in the United ing how wrong you are? Usually, that less likely to demand votes on a poison States of America. doesn’t change hearts or minds. That pill or messaging designed to put the The Senate represents more than just might make the attacker feel better in other party in a tough spot if they the people. To protect the individuality the moment, but it doesn’t do much for knew they could face the same treat- of the States, of the culture of those getting anything accomplished. Fol- ment. In the end, the onus is on the who live in the regions of the country lowing the 80-percent tool will not get Members of the Senate, on us, to take less populated, and it also represents you notoriety. It won’t get you fame. It on a responsibility to work together in States that founded our federalist sys- won’t get you headlines. Most media return for a chance to pass legislation. tem. Of course, at that time, several of coverage requires ‘‘blood in the water.’’ I suggest that amendments should have them had little population. However, the ability to work among to have 60 votes. If it was so bad that I have covered a lot of ground, but your peers using this method can, and it needed a filibuster, the 60 votes for my last piece of advice, I would call will, move us forward and get things would be required to end that. But that on my colleagues to recognize that it is done. takes about 3 days. So many have been time to formally allow electronics on This tool is only successful if we are willing to allow their amendment to the floor of the U.S. Senate. It is an actually working on passing legislation have a 60-vote threshold, and if it was issue near and dear to my heart and together, and that means letting the strong enough, it passed anyway. one I think will help how we work in Senate work as it was intended. One of I also ask you to avoid comprehen- the Senate. It is clear that anyone who the best ways to do that is to allow the sive. Comprehensive bills make it so watches C–SPAN that all of us are al- members of each committee to actu- large that everyone can find a reason ready breaking the spirit of the law, ally take time to craft bills. The com- to vote against it. Senator ALEXANDER checking our phones on occasion as we mittees are where the experts are and is a big promoter of step-by-step. That walk off or onto the floor. Those de- where I think some of the best work is taking a piece of legislation and vices are often inseparable from our gets done. I have already made it clear solving it, and then taking the next ability to do our work. We rely on that I don’t think hearings are overly step and solving it, and so on. This them to do almost everything. It is useful and are often wasted on col- practical solution would avoid passing time to make this commonsense lecting soundbites for the evening comprehensive legislation. Comprehen- change, allowing iPads to be used for news. Instead, we should be encour- sive legislation is usually a byproduct speeches, as long as they are laid on aging committees to give their mem- of compromise, not common ground, the lectern like a paper speech. And if bers more say in crafting legislation and often ends up being incomprehen- Senators could do some work from and working together on best solu- sible. Giant bills that try to do every- their desks, like early Senators had to tions. If you look at bills that pass thing usually end up with too many un- do, we would listen to more of the with strong bipartisan support, they intended consequences and include a speeches and get something done. are usually because flaws were ironed litany of unrelated pieces of legislation I do remember when I brought that out in committee. Legislation is often- that are merely hitching a ride because one up before, that it was covered by— times at its best when it has taken otherwise they would never be able to in 1997, I thought it was important that time in committees being hashed out stand on their own merits. we have that use. TIME magazine did a until it is ready for prime time. You These ‘‘Christmas tree’’ bills are special article on it. I remember Sen- might not always be able to get every- often designed so that if you vote ator MCCONNELL going to New York one on board, but if you have done it against it, you would be voting against City and coming back to report to me right, you should see strong bipartisan some key legislation for your constitu- that he got in a cab and the cabdriver support. ents. Once again, the ugly nature of said: You are a Senator, Sometimes this also means letting compromise over common ground is aren’t you? Of course, he proudly was. others take credit for your ideas. An clear. The guy said: So when are you going to old salesman’s trick is to convince oth- A simple solution I have proposed let the guy from Wyoming have his ers that your good idea was really their would be to pass more bills as indi- computer on the floor? Senator MCCON- good idea. Don’t let your vanity stand vidual pieces of legislation, that step- NELL told me if I had lobbied it down to in the way of getting the job done. by-step. In Wyoming, bills have to be cabbies, that it was time to do it. But Too often, in the modern Senate, leg- focused on a single subject, and all we still haven’t done it. islation is rushed out of committee to amendments need to be relevant. In the As we move forward, of course, our the Senate floor. And then once it hits past, I have introduced a bill that country has no shortage of problems the Senate floor, both sides try to pre- would require that here, but it never we need to address. Some are out of our vent amendments, but the process of was really treated seriously. control, but many of our own making. allowing amendments and debates is a To talk on a little different article, If my experience over the years has core component of how the Senate was my favorite article of the Constitution taught me anything, it is that we will

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Throughout home and where his heart is. He served best. Treat others as they wish to be four terms in the U.S. Senate, he has 2 terms as Gillette’s mayor. During his treated. never wavered in his commitment to 8 years as mayor, MIKE led Gillette to I truly believe if we adhered to these God, to family, to country, and, of their first economic boom. He served 10 ideals, the world would be a better course, to Wyoming. He is known by years in the Wyoming State Legisla- place for our children and grand- many as the Senate’s moral compass. ture as a State rep, as well as a State children. He is a remarkable spiritual leader of senator. Wyoming is MIKE’s world. I want, again, to thank the people of our bipartisan Prayer Breakfast. I am Family means the world to MIKE. Wyoming for giving me the oppor- a member of that group and a number They are the proud parents of three: tunity to serve them. I also want to of Senators are as well. We met today, Amy, Emily, and Brad; and even thank my colleagues and friends who and MIKE led us in prayer. prouder grandparents of four: Megan, supported me over the years. I want to I have seen firsthand just how much Allison, Trey, and Lilly. thank all the amazing staff I have had Republican and Democrat Members de- Now, anyone who knows MIKE knows over the years in my personal office, in pend on MIKE for his moral and ethical that he loves to fish. Even during Pray- the DC office, in my State offices in guidance. He really is a bipartisan not er Breakfast today, when you watched Wyoming; and my staff on the Health, just policymaker but also a peace- on the Zoom call, behind MIKE you Education, Labor, and Pensions Com- maker, and we have all seen it within could see on the wall the fishing rod mittee and on the Budget Committee. this body. and all the lures he uses in fishing on Over the years, I have gotten to work His legislation—he talked about the display. He is an accomplished and avid with incredible staff that made it pos- 80–20 rule. It has a long history of gar- fly-fisherman. In August 2015, he sible to do more than a Senator by nering overwhelming bipartisan sup- achieved every fly-fisherman’s dream, himself or herself could ever do. Thank port. Over 100 Enzi bills have become completing his Wyoming Cutt-Slam. you for working so hard over the years. law. I have been proud to sponsor and This Wyoming Game and Fish Depart- I also want to give the most thanks cosponsor many of them with him in ment program increases appreciation to my family for all of their support my time in the Senate. The thing he for our native cutthroat trout. If you want to talk to MIKE about over the years, especially to my wife didn’t point out is that most of the anything, talk to him about fishing. Diana. It has been a long journey since bills passed with over 80 votes. It is His passion comes through with his I told Diana that I was thinking of run- rare for an Enzi bill to get to the floor love of nature for spending so much ning for mayor. and pass with any more than 15 to 18 time in nature’s cathedral of the great You have supported me more than ‘‘no’’ votes. It is a remarkable accom- outdoors. He fishes in majestic spots anyone can truly comprehend, and, in plishment. throughout Wyoming and all over the no uncertain terms, I couldn’t have It is important to note that these world. done it without you. It has been more bills have been signed by Republican Well, here in Washington, MIKE has and Democrat Presidents. When you go than 50 amazing years together, and I been a leading voice on budget, on tax, into his office, his whole conference look forward to our next adventure. and on healthcare issues. He serves on I yield the floor. room walls are filled with bills and the Senate Budget Committee and has (Applause, Senators rising.) pens—signed into law with the pens been chairman since 2015. As the first The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COT- being used by Bill Clinton, by George accountant to chair the Budget Com- TON). The Senator from Wyoming. W. Bush, by , and by mittee, MIKE is committed to making Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I President . government more accountable to hard- come to the floor today to pay tribute Behind all of these, as he just talked working American taxpayers. He has to this great Wyoming leader. For about, is that very successful 80–20 been a tremendous Budget chairman. nearly a quarter of a century, MIKE rule—a rule that he learned while in That is because he learned valuable ENZI has represented the people of Wy- the Wyoming State Legislature, and it lessons in the Wyoming Legislature oming in Washington, and he has done has worked extremely well for him where, like all American families, you it with intelligence, with intensity, here in Washington as well. need to balance your budget every year and with integrity. But such is the practical Western and live within your means. The Cowboy State and the Capitol wisdom in . Born in 1944 in Under MIKE’s leadership, Congress are going to sorely miss MIKE ENZI. He Bremerton, WA, his father was there passed balanced budget resolutions for has truly supplemented his legacy as serving in the naval shipyards during fiscal years 2016 and 2017 and 2018. He the trusted trail boss of the Wyoming World War II. He moved his family to worked tirelessly to pass these budg- congressional delegation, and it has Wyoming shortly thereafter, and that ets—even working through the night been an incredible honor and a great is when he started elementary school all week for the marathon floor debates privilege for my wife Bobbi and me to in Thermopolis, WY. They moved to called vote-aramas. His budget blue- serve the people of Wyoming alongside Sheridan, where he graduated from prints offered a better fiscal path by re- MIKE and his wife, Diana, who is with high school. ducing wasteful spending, by light- us today. MIKE didn’t talk about this today, ening tax burdens, and by boosting eco- MIKE is truly a devoted family man, but there MIKE earned his Eagle Scout nomic growth. as well as a man of great and deep award. He is a proud Eagle Scout, as is MIKE’s fiscal year 2018 budget not faith. In fact, MIKE taught Sunday his son Brad. His grandson is working only provided a path to balance; it school over the decades. Many in the on it as well. MIKE has been named a paved the way for pro-growth, pro-jobs Wyoming faith community know that ‘‘Distinguished Eagle’’ by the Scouts. tax relief legislation, the most com- MIKE’s first Sunday schoolteacher in He has a bachelor’s degree in ac- prehensive reform in the Tax Code in Thermopolis, WY, was my wife Bobbi’s counting from George Washington Uni- over a generation. As a reconciliation mother Jerry Brown. versity and an MBA in retail mar- bill, this historic 2017 tax reform bill, Jerry and her husband Bob, a World keting from the University of Denver the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, went War II and Korean war veteran, both in . through MIKE’s Budget Committee. passed away this past year, and they MIKE and Diana moved to Gillette in As Budget chairman, MIKE has also had been married 70 years. She taught 1969, where they started their own focused on the soaring national debt, Sunday school in Thermopolis, WY, small business. It is wonderful to listen budget process reform, and oversight of and her star pupil was MIKE ENZI, to to MIKE talk about small businesses. It Federal programs.

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He expanded access someone who will always be a great tive, and then a State senator, he was to affordable, quality healthcare, and friend and a mentor to me, to younger always still the small business man he spearheaded the most significant people in Wyoming, and to everyone from Gillette. pension reform in 30 years, securing here in the Senate. In 1996, when he was recovering from millions of Americans’ retirement. In my office, there is a picture on the open-heart surgery, then-Senator Alan He is also a member of the Senate Fi- wall of my first day in the Senate, Simpson decided not to run for reelec- nance Committee, Homeland Security right here in 2007, being sworn in by tion. Local leaders kept trying to talk and Governmental Affairs Committee, then-Vice President Cheney, with Sen- MIKE into running. He really just want- and the Joint Committee on Taxation. ator ENZI, along with former Senator ed to have more time to hunt and fish. Other policy successes include im- , standing behind. It In the end, he made an important deci- proving mine safety, helping end the has been a tremendous privilege to sion. He ran, and he won. His career AIDS epidemic in Africa, and passing serve with MIKE from the very first day has had many legislative successes in mental health parity. in the U.S. Senate. having used his 80–20 rule. MIKE’s highest priority, of course, The people of Wyoming owe him an I will never forget the days when Ted has always been helping the people of incredible debt of gratitude for his tire- Kennedy would come to the floor and Wyoming. As he said in announcing his less and faithful service. MIKE’s char- talk about the compromise and the retirement, ‘‘I am an advocate for Gil- acter, his courage, and his credibility bargain he had struck with you. I had lette and Campbell County and Wyo- have cemented his legacy as a highly thought what a political odd couple, ming.’’ He went on to say, ‘‘I point out respected leader of the Senate. but the two of you did some remark- that everyone lives at the local level. So today many Senators are here able things. Poles apart in terms of political phi- No one lives at the Federal level—or gathering to listen to, to honor, and to thank MIKE ENZI for his decades of dis- losophy, they treated each other with even the state level.’’ He said, ‘‘So tinguished service to the Nation. respect, and they had amazing suc- Diana and I are your Chamber of Com- I yield the floor. cesses to show for it. Even when he has merce and economic development peo- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as- differing views on the best ways to re- ple for every town and county in Wyo- sistant Democratic leader. solve issues, MIKE ENZI shows a willing- ming all the time.’’ Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, it is ness to come to the table and discuss MIKE started several annual events to hard to follow those heartfelt words the areas in which we can agree. boost our State—the Inventors Con- from Senator BARRASSO about his col- In 2012, Democratic Senator Byron ference, the Procurement Conference, league and friend and our friend MIKE Dorgan retired. I called MIKE after and Wyoming Works Tours. ENZI, but I am going to make a try. Byron left and asked if I could take up In 2009, MIKE and I started Wyoming Just as our tribute to LAMAR ALEX- Byron’s position in his fight for the Wednesdays, and it quickly became a ANDER was a tribute to the better an- Marketplace Fairness Act. He said: big hit. This is a great tradition. When gels of nature as they are shown in the Let’s do it. We brought in Senator people of Wyoming come to Wash- lives of Senators, so, too, was MIKE LAMAR ALEXANDER—that was a pretty ington, we greet them every week and ENZI. I join my colleagues in thanking smart move—and then Senator Heidi get together for coffee and host a time MIKE for his service to Wyoming and to Heitkamp, who both made great con- of doughnuts and friendship, and people America. tributions to our work. It was our luck love to attend. One of the most frequent questions that Heidi Heitkamp was the petitioner But MIKE, as well as Diana, are a many of us are asked is, Why can’t you of the 1992 Supreme Court case Quill force in the Senate. Diana did it again folks get along in Washington? Why Corp. v. North Dakota, which made the just recently. MIKE has called Diana can’t you just do things together? I say Marketplace Fairness Act necessary. ‘‘the most thoughtful person’’ in the to them that there are times when we We were an unexpected group of Sen- world, and that is no exaggeration. do, and the many times are very impor- ators—two Republicans and two Demo- Here in the Senate, every year Diana tant. When we do come together, it is crats who were literally from all over hosts a Christmas cookie party to because of people like MIKE, who the United States. We disagreed on thank, as they describe, the ‘‘real worked under his so-called 80–20 rule. some things, sure, but we agreed that workers’’ who keep the Senate run- We know that well, don’t we? He would Main Street business needed a break ning—the janitors, cleaning crews, tell you he believes both sides could and deserved fair treatment. We kept electricians, police officers, and food agree on 80 percent of the substance, working on it with MIKE ENZI’s leader- service workers. Every year, Diana and and if negotiators are willing to give ship, and, in 2013, the Marketplace her friends work hundreds of hours and up the other 20 percent, we could actu- Fairness Act passed the Senate, over- bake hundreds of dozens of cookies. All ally get some things done around here. whelmingly, with 69 votes. Unfortu- the Senate workers look forward to Wouldn’t that be refreshing? nately, the House of Representatives, Diana’s 200-dozen cookie thank-you One of those items was the Market- once again, broke our heart and didn’t event. That is not 200 cookies. It is 200 place Fairness Act. MIKE helped to lead act on it. We kept introducing the bill. dozen cookies. It is not unusual for the fight for local brick-and-mortar re- Main Street businesses were still people to come up to Diana in the hall- tailers in order to give them a chance struggling against the unfair advan- way and ask when the party is. MIKE is to compete on an equal and level play- tage that internet-only retailers had. the wonderful cohost. ing field with online sellers, email Visitors to my office might have no- This year, because of coronavirus, companies, and internet companies and ticed a little something that was in my she couldn’t do all the baking, but they to allow the States and localities to office that I have brought to the floor have the cookie festival with baked collect much needed sales tax revenue. today and wondered what this was all cookies. Those who couldn’t get to re- It is hard to imagine how many years about. This was a gift from MIKE ENZI ceive them in locations, MIKE and MIKE put into that effort, but the Mar- after we were successful in the U.S. Diana walked the halls of this building ketplace Fairness Act would have Senate. It is a small, wooden, three- and the Senate office buildings to given the States the option to require note train whistle. It would be a viola- make sure that the guards and the from out-of-State businesses, such as tion of the Senate rules to blow the custodians and janitors and others got those selling online, the collection of whistle, but I want to tell you that it their Christmas cookies. taxes owed under State law in the same was a gift from MIKE for our work we MIKE is usually a man of few words, way local businesses are required. did together in helping to get the bill but in a recent Prayer Breakfast, he re- MIKE knew a lot about local business. down the tracks of the legislative proc- minded everyone about the importance As was mentioned on the floor by Sen- ess.

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A lot of work to be a part of that bipartisan coali- Senate who had more different polit- went in at the committee level. Then a tion. In Illinois, it has meant a lot. We ical philosophies than he and Ted Ken- bicameral committee was created to estimate that our State has received nedy. You could probably say that this look at budget reform, primarily out of $460 million in annual revenue by vir- is true with his current ranking mem- the House, and I had the opportunity to tue of MIKE ENZI’s determination and ber of the Budget Committee. Yet, to- serve on that bicameral committee. leadership on the marketplace fairness gether, he and Senator Kennedy craft- That was an opportunity that I owe to front. ed dozens of laws. Neither side got 100 Chairman ENZI. He both advocated for In this pandemic crisis, this revenue percent of what it wanted. They put me to his leader that I should be on is more important than ever. MIKE has aside the areas of disagreement. For that committee, and he gave up a spot always been a force for fairness, a them, it was far more important that on that committee to make sure there friend, and a leader for whom I have progress was made for the American was a spot for me there. I hope and be- great respect. As we fight this pan- people. lieve that I conducted myself in due ac- demic, we should strive to abide by In serving with MIKE on the HELP cord with Chairman ENZI’s wishes and MIKE’s 80–20 rule and remember that Committee, I have seen him employ principles in the course of that. Main Street businesses are really hurt- this rule over and over again to bring We had the ability to use that bi- ing and need our help. about real progress. He has led efforts cameral committee process to do a test I know MIKE will have more time to help to ensure that everyone can re- run of our budget reform, and I am now for fishing and hunting. I wish him ceive a quality education. He has pleased to report that, although the and Diana, his wonderful wife—and she helped to provide Americans with ac- end product was never adopted between is a wonderful person—and their grand- cess to affordable, quality healthcare. the two bodies, the product that came children happiness. I look forward to He has helped to protect workers and out of the committee included our reading about the next chapter in MIKE foster job training opportunities. As budget reform as it was then con- ENZI’s life of giving and caring. the leader of the committee, he has stituted. We raised our aspiration from I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- worked to oversee the biggest revision the budget reform as it was then con- ator from Maine. in pension laws in 30 years—to stituted, which was entirely voluntary, Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, MIKE strengthen funding rules to enhance re- to actually try to change the Budget ENZI and I were both sworn in to do our tirement security for millions of Amer- Committee’s rules to force the process first terms in the U.S. Senate on Janu- icans. of the Budget Committee into the mold ary 7, 1997. I immediately saw in the MIKE comes from a small business of the voluntary structure. We did good gentleman from Wyoming a quiet, ef- background, and as Senator DURBIN work on that, and we came to an agree- fective, and ethical leader who was fo- just described, he was passionate about ment. I am sorry to say that its failure cused not on partisan advantage but, the Marketplace Fairness Act—to en- to pass into law arose not from prob- rather, on results—results that would able States to collect sales and use lems on the Republican side of the aisle benefit the people who had sent him to taxes from out-of-State online retail- but from problems on my side of the Washington and results that would ers. He recognized that the brick-and- aisle that I have been unable to yet benefit the American people as a mortar Main Street businesses that surmount. whole. provide local jobs should not be penal- My pledge to you, Chairman ENZI, is The nearly 24 years since then have ized. MIKE and I also worked together that I will keep at it. Senator BLUNT is only confirmed my initial impression. on successful legislation to improve here, and he is helpful in that regard. For the first 14 of those years, MIKE workplace safety for postal employees Senator LANKFORD and Senator PERDUE was the sole accountant in the Senate. and to better protect the American are here, and we have a good team, That discipline, combined with his ex- people from deceptive mailings that along with Senator KAINE, Senator perience as a small business owner, mimic official government documents. KING, myself, and others on our side— have served him so well in his role as Senator MIKE ENZI has compiled a another being Senator SHAHEEN. chairman of the Senate Committee on long record of selfless service as a busi- So I will continue the work. I vow to the Budget. He knows how important it ness leader, as a member of the Wyo- you that I will somehow find a way to is to set a budget, to follow it, and to ming Air National Guard, as a mayor, get this done, and if I can find a way to control spending. His priority has al- as a State legislator, and as an in- call it the Enzi reform, I will find a ways been the American taxpayer. As volved citizen. When he announced his way to call it the Enzi reform. chairman of the Committee on the intention early last year to leave the I will long remember the relationship Budget and as a member of the Senate Senate, he said that he had no definite we had and the good work we did to- Committee on Finance, he has been a plans other than to find other ways to gether. I will long remember your 80/20 leader on tax issues as well. He helped serve. I am 100 percent certain that the rule. And maybe—because I have a to shape the 2017 tax reform act, which author of the 80–20 rule will continue similar proposal in Rules—maybe we has helped to boost economic growth to contribute to his community, his will even be able to get your phones and the creation of more jobs. State, and our Nation. I wish him and and electronics amendment passed. MIKE’s leadership style is character- his beloved wife Diana all the best in So thank you to you, sir, for doing ized by his willingness to always search the years to come. what is right, doing your best, and for common ground. He described in I thank the Presiding Officer. treating others as they would want to great depth today what he calls his 80– The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- be treated. 20 rule, and anyone who has ever ator from Rhode Island. I yield the floor. worked with MIKE ENZI on any issue Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- quickly learns about the 80–20 rule. have had the pleasure of working with ator from Missouri. Through it, he forges solutions where my chairman on the Budget Committee Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I feel a many others see only impasse. The key on budget reform initiatives, and I little guilty, as the chairman of the to success in moving legislation, as he want to take this occasion to thank Rules Committee, standing in between told us today, is to focus on the 80 per- him for the wonderful way in which he the Enzi desire to get the devices on cent of issues on which agreement can worked with me on those issues and for the floor. be found and not waste time on the 20 all of his support. I have watched in recent weeks. If percent on which the disagreements I want to make a pledge to him as you looked around on the floor, you are insurmountable. well. The effort began with a lot of would assume that we had adopted that

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I came to ing problems for America. sufficient second? the House, and he came to the Senate. There is some great teamwork that There is a sufficient second. He and Diana and I were together on never gets any publicity but that actu- The clerk will call the roll. travel fairly early in that we had an ally functions around here, and I can’t The bill clerk called the roll. opportunity to go to Lithuania, as they thank my friends enough, particularly Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is were desperately trying to get included Senator BARRASSO, who has been a part necessarily absent: the Senator from in NATO. of this team and has helped to bring me Georgia (Mrs. LOEFFLER). And, MIKE, you remember walking on along. I have learned a lot from him Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the that little square where people had and gotten to do a lot with him, and he Senator from California (Ms. HARRIS) their signs up: We want in NATO. They and his wife are good friends of ours. It and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. had been left behind one time; they is not all that common to be good SANDERS) are necessarily absent. didn’t want to be left behind another friends with the other person in your The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. time. delegation, but we have a strong dele- BLACKBURN). Are there any other Sen- But that is one of the many memo- gation and get along well that way. ators in the Chamber desiring to vote? ries I have with MIKE. I want to thank Senator WHITEHOUSE The result was announced—yeas 48, Another is just MIKE’s incredible ca- for his comments and particularly his nays 49, as follows: pacity to listen. I think without ques- promise that he is going to get some [Rollcall Vote No. 249 Leg.] tion and by plenty of evidence, MIKE is reform done so that the committee is YEAS—48 the best listener in the Senate. In fact, actually doing what everybody thinks Alexander Fischer Portman he has listening sessions in his State, it does—providing a budget that we Barrasso Gardner Risch where what he does, shockingly, is lis- will follow. Those were goods reform Blackburn Graham Roberts ten. His talking is at a minimum at principles that we put together. Blunt Grassley Romney Boozman Hoeven Rounds those sessions. His interest in taking in I have always said that the only time Braun Hyde-Smith Rubio input from whoever wants to talk—you we are going to have reform to the Burr Inhofe Sasse can envision MIKE at the front of the budget is if we can do it just before a Capito Johnson Scott (FL) room with his notepad, taking notes on Cassidy Kennedy Scott (SC) Presidential election year because no- Cornyn Lankford Shelby what everybody says, and then often body knows who is going to be in the Cramer Lee Sullivan the move from one speaker to the next majority in the Senate and the House, Crapo McConnell Thune is ‘‘Thank you’’ and ‘‘Let’s hear what and nobody knows who is going to be Cruz Moran Tillis Daines Murkowski Toomey other people have to say,’’ and he ab- the President. Otherwise, we want to Enzi Paul Wicker sorbs that in a great way. make sure that we can keep all of the Ernst Perdue Young There are many times when I have control for our party that we can. NAYS—49 come to MIKE in the Senate and said: I want to thank Senator BLUNT. I ac- Tell me what you are thinking about Baldwin Hassan Reed tually remember trying to get some Bennet Hawley Rosen this. And it is amazing how much you local food and running into Senator Blumenthal Heinrich Schatz can learn by listening. MIKE so often BLUNT, who was also looking for local Booker Hirono Schumer has a different view, a more nuanced Brown Jones Shaheen food overseas, and so we had local food Cantwell Kaine view than others do because of that. Sinema together. That was our first year in Cardin Kelly Smith IKE I also thought, M , as you were Congress. I have known him for a long Carper King Stabenow Casey Klobuchar speaking today—I know that your driv- time, and I appreciate your comments. Tester Collins Leahy er in the State is usually Diana. And Udall So thank you, everybody. Thank you, Coons Manchin Van Hollen even describing the return from the all the people from Wyoming. Cortez Masto Markey Jaycees event back to Gillette, I no- Cotton Menendez Warner I suggest the absence of a quorum. Warren ticed who was driving, that you spent Duckworth Merkley The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Durbin Murphy Whitehouse so many hours together and miles to- clerk will call the roll. Feinstein Murray Wyden gether in a State that maybe doesn’t The bill clerk proceeded to call the Gillibrand Peters have the most people, but it sure has roll. NOT VOTING—3 lots of distance, and I know it was just The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Harris Loeffler Sanders a challenge to get home to Wyoming ator from Rhode Island. every week and then to get to the place Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under you live in Wyoming, in Gillette, as ask unanimous consent that the order the previous order requiring 60 votes often as you can, and that is not often for the quorum call be rescinded. for the adoption of this amendment, possible. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the amendment is not agreed to. But what an honor and privilege to objection, it is so ordered. The amendment (No. 2689) was re- serve with you, to spend these 24 years Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I ask unanimous jected. in the Congress together, and for me to consent that the scheduled votes com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The get to spend the last 10 years of your mence. clerk will read the title of the bill for Senate time here in the Senate with The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a third time. you. It is a great honor. It is a great objection? The bill was ordered to be engrossed privilege. Without objection, it is so ordered. for a third reading and was read the I am trying to learn all I can about third time. f listening from the master listener who The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill then takes all that information and ac- LEGISLATIVE SESSION having been read the third time, the tually produces, as we have heard here question is, Shall the bill pass? today, real results. Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I ask for the yeas The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ALS DISABILITY INSURANCE and nays. ator from Wyoming. ACCESS ACT OF 2019—Continued The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I just want The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under sufficient second? to thank all the people who came and the previous order, the Senate will re- There appears to be a sufficient sec- listened, and I hope there were other sume legislative session and consider- ond. Senators who were watching on their ation of S. 578. The clerk will call the roll.

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