September 9, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5487 [Rollcall Vote No. 160 Ex.] the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. KLO- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a YEAS—80 BUCHAR), the Senator from Vermont sufficient second? Alexander Feinstein Perdue (Mr. SANDERS), and the Senator from There appears to be a sufficient sec- Baldwin Fischer Peters Michigan (Ms. STABENOW), are nec- ond. Barrasso Gardner Portman essarily absent. The clerk will call the roll. Bennet Graham Reed Blackburn Grassley Risch The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. ROM- The legislative clerk called the roll. Blunt Hassan Roberts NEY). Are there any other Senators in Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Boozman Hawley Romney the Chamber desiring to vote or change Senator from California (Ms. HARRIS), Braun Heinrich Rosen Burr Hoeven their vote? the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. KLO- Rounds The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 80, Capito Hyde-Smith Rubio BUCHAR), the Senator from Vermont Cardin Inhofe Sasse nays 15, as follows: (Mr. SANDERS), and the Senator from Carper Johnson Scott (FL) [Rollcall Vote No. 161 Ex.] TABENOW Casey Jones Michigan (Ms. S ) are nec- Scott (SC) Cassidy Kaine YEAS—80 essarily absent. Shaheen Collins Kennedy Baldwin Fischer Peters (Mr. DAINES assumed the Chair.) Coons King Shelby Sinema Barrasso Gardner Portman The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COT- Cornyn Lankford Bennet Graham Sullivan Reed TON). Are there any other Senators in Cortez Masto Leahy Blackburn Grassley Risch Cotton Lee Tester Blunt Hassan Roberts the Chamber desiring to vote? Cramer Loeffler Thune Boozman Hawley Romney The result was announced—yeas 82, Crapo Manchin Tillis Braun Heinrich Rosen Cruz McConnell Toomey nays 14, as follows: Burr Hoeven Rounds Daines McSally Udall Capito Hyde-Smith [Rollcall Vote No. 162 Ex.] Duckworth Moran Warner Rubio Cardin Inhofe Sasse YEAS—82 Durbin Murkowski Whitehouse Carper Johnson Scott (FL) Alexander Feinstein Enzi Murphy Wicker Casey Jones Perdue Scott (SC) Baldwin Fischer Ernst Paul Young Cassidy Kaine Peters Shaheen Barrasso Gardner Collins Kennedy Portman NAYS—16 Shelby Bennet Graham Coons King Reed Blackburn Grassley Blumenthal Markey Smith Cornyn Lankford Sinema Risch Blunt Hassan Booker Menendez Van Hollen Cortez Masto Leahy Smith Roberts Boozman Hawley Brown Merkley Warren Cotton Lee Sullivan Romney Braun Heinrich Cantwell Murray Wyden Cramer Loeffler Tester Rosen Brown Hirono Gillibrand Schatz Crapo Manchin Thune Rounds Burr Hoeven Hirono Schumer Cruz McConnell Tillis Rubio Capito Hyde-Smith Daines McSally Toomey NOT VOTING—4 Cardin Inhofe Sasse Duckworth Moran Udall Carper Johnson Scott (FL) Harris Sanders Durbin Murkowski Warner Casey Jones Scott (SC) Klobuchar Stabenow Enzi Murphy Whitehouse Cassidy Kaine Shaheen Ernst Paul Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this Collins Kennedy Shelby Feinstein Perdue Young vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 16. Coons King Sinema The motion is agreed to. NAYS—15 Cornyn Lankford Sullivan Cortez Masto Leahy Tester Blumenthal Hirono Schatz f Cotton Lee Thune Booker Markey Schumer Cramer Loeffler CLOTURE MOTION Brown Menendez Van Hollen Tillis Crapo Manchin Cantwell Merkley Warren Toomey Cruz McConnell The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant Gillibrand Murray Wyden Udall to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Daines McSally Warner NOT VOTING—5 Duckworth Moran Whitehouse Senate the pending cloture motion, Durbin Murkowski Alexander Klobuchar Stabenow Wicker which the clerk will state. Enzi Murphy Harris Sanders Young The legislative clerk read as follows: Ernst Paul CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this NAYS—14 We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 15. The motion is agreed to. Blumenthal Menendez Smith ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Booker Merkley Van Hollen Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby f Cantwell Murray Warren move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- Gillibrand Schatz Wyden nation of Hala Y. Jarbou, of Michigan, to be EXECUTIVE CALENDAR Markey Schumer United States District Judge for the Western The PRESIDING OFFICER. The NOT VOTING—4 District of Michigan. clerk will report the nomination. Mitch McConnell, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Harris Sanders The bill clerk read the nomination of Klobuchar Stabenow , , Kevin Hala Y. Jarbou, of Michigan, to be Cramer, , James E. Risch, The nomination was confirmed. United States District Judge for the Michael B. Enzi, , John Bar- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Western District of Michigan. rasso, , , the previous order, the motion to re- , , Steve f consider is considered made and laid Daines, , . RECESS upon the table, and the President will The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under be immediately notified of the Senate’s imous consent, the mandatory quorum action. call has been waived. the previous order, the Senate stands The question is, Is it the sense of the in recess until 2:15 p.m. f Senate that debate on the nomination Thereupon, the Senate, at 1:10 p.m., CLOTURE MOTION of Hala Y. Jarbou, of Michigan, to be recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassem- bled when called to order by the Pre- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant United States District Judge for the to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the siding Officer (Mr. SASSE). Western District of Michigan, shall be Senate the pending cloture motion, brought to a close? f which the clerk will state. The yeas and nays are mandatory EXECUTIVE CALENDAR—Continued The legislative clerk read as follows: under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. VOTE ON WIEGAND NOMINATION CLOTURE MOTION The bill clerk called the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is the previous order, all postcloture time ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the necessarily absent: the Senator from has expired on the Wiegand nomina- Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby tion. move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- Tennessee (Mr. ALEXANDER). nation of Thomas T. Cullen, of Virginia, to Further, if present and voting, the The question is, Shall the Senate ad- be United States District Judge for the West- Senator from Tennessee (Mr. ALEX- vise and consent to the Wiegand nomi- ern District of Virginia. ANDER) would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ nation? Mitch McConnell, Richard C. Shelby, Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask Lamar Alexander, Pat Roberts, Mike Senator from California (Ms. HARRIS), for the yeas and nays. Crapo, Marsha Blackburn, David

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:17 Sep 10, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09SE6.002 S09SEPT1 ctelli on DSK11ZRN23PROD with SENATE S5488 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE September 9, 2020 Perdue, Kevin Cramer, , United States District Judge for the Eastern of New York, to be United States Dis- , John Thune, District of New York. trict Judge for Eastern District of New Cindy Hyde-Smith, Cory Gardner, Roy Mitch McConnell, , Thom York. Blunt, Martha McSally, , Tillis, , John Hoeven, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- . Roger F. Wicker, Pat Roberts, John ator from Oklahoma. Thune, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Booz- The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- CORONAVIRUS imous consent, the mandatory quorum man, Tom Cotton, , Kevin Cramer, , Todd Mr. LANKFORD. Madam President, call has been waived. Young, John Cornyn, . for the past several weeks I have had The question is, Is it the sense of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- the opportunity to be able to travel Senate that debate on the nomination around the great State of Oklahoma. I of Thomas T. Cullen, of Virginia, to be imous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. have literally been from Guymon to United States District Judge for the Talihina, to Bartlesville, to Lawton to Western District of Virginia, shall be The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the nomination cover as much space as I could and talk brought to a close? to as many people as I could. The yeas and nays are mandatory of Diane Gujarati, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Obviously, we were in smaller groups, under the rule. with masks and social distancing and The clerk will call the roll. Eastern District of New York, shall be brought to a close? doing all the things we could to take The bill clerk called the roll. care of each other, but taking the mo- Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. ment to meet with school superintend- Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. BALDWIN), ents, parents, teachers, healthcare pro- the Senator from California (Ms. HAR- The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk viders and hospital administrators, RIS), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. small business owners and employees KLOBUCHAR), the Senator from called the roll. Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the of large and small businesses, not-for- Vermont (Mr. SANDERS), and the Sen- profits and their volunteers, law en- ator from Michigan (Ms. STABENOW) Senator from California (Ms. HARRIS), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. KLO- forcement individuals, city managers, are necessarily absent. mayors, city councilmen, State leader- The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 77, BUCHAR), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. SANDERS), and the Senator from ship. nays 18, as follows: I wanted to hear what was happening [Rollcall Vote No. 163 Ex.] Michigan (Ms. STABENOW) are nec- essarily absent. on the ground in my State in order to YEAS—77 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there know what needs to be addressed be- Alexander Feinstein Perdue any other Senators in the Chamber de- cause there has been a lot of noise in Barrasso Fischer Peters Washington, DC, about what needs to Blackburn siring to vote? Gardner Portman be done on COVID. Blunt Graham Reed The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 94, There are many people in the na- Boozman Grassley Risch nays 2, as follows: Braun Hassan Roberts tional press who are struck by the fact Brown Hawley Romney [Rollcall Vote No. 164 Ex.] that $3 trillion has already been allo- Burr Hoeven Rosen YEAS—94 Capito Hyde-Smith cated to deal with COVID–19 and a tre- Rounds Alexander Fischer Peters Cardin Inhofe Rubio mendous number of changes have al- Carper Johnson Baldwin Gardner Portman Sasse ready occurred. But in this town there Casey Jones Barrasso Gillibrand Reed Scott (FL) Cassidy Kaine Bennet Graham Risch are a significant number of people who Scott (SC) Collins Kennedy Blackburn Grassley Roberts say: We just spent $3 trillion. That was Shaheen Coons King Blumenthal Hassan Romney Shelby fun. Let’s do it all over again and see Cornyn Lankford Blunt Hawley Rosen Sinema how we can spend even more. Cortez Masto Leahy Booker Heinrich Rounds Sullivan Boozman Hoeven My focus has been very simple: What Cotton Lee Rubio Tester Braun Hyde-Smith Cramer Loeffler Sasse is needed to be able to beat the virus? Thune Brown Inhofe Crapo Manchin Schatz What I heard all over Oklahoma wasn’t Tillis Burr Johnson Cruz McConnell Schumer ‘‘Go do more; just spend more and cre- Daines McSally Toomey Cantwell Jones Scott (FL) Duckworth Moran Warner Capito Kaine ate new programs’’ but ‘‘How can we Scott (SC) Durbin Murkowski Whitehouse Cardin Kennedy beat this virus back so that we can ac- Shaheen Enzi Murphy Wicker Carper King tually get to a moment where we can Ernst Paul Young Casey Lankford Shelby Cassidy Leahy Sinema function again economically as a na- NAYS— 18 Collins Lee Smith tion?’’ Bennet Hirono Schumer Coons Loeffler Sullivan People are returning to work, but Blumenthal Markey Smith Cornyn Manchin Tester they are asking very basic questions. Booker Menendez Udall Cortez Masto Markey Thune Cantwell Merkley Van Hollen Cotton McConnell Tillis The first of those is ‘‘This is a health Gillibrand Murray Warren Cramer McSally Toomey crisis. What do we do?’’ Heinrich Schatz Wyden Crapo Menendez Udall The bill that has just been released, Cruz Merkley Warner Daines which we are voting on in the Senate NOT VOTING—5 Moran Warren Duckworth Murkowski tomorrow, has a whole series of issues Baldwin Klobuchar Stabenow Whitehouse Durbin Murphy Harris Sanders Wicker tailored to actually work on beating Enzi Murray Wyden the virus back and getting our econ- The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this Ernst Paul Young omy going and helping to protect our vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 18. Feinstein Perdue families. That is the design of this. It The motion is agreed to. NAYS—2 is not just doing something; it is trying f Hirono Van Hollen to do the right things to actually help CLOTURE MOTION NOT VOTING—4 us get through this and get to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant Harris Sanders other side, starting with money for to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Klobuchar Stabenow testing—not just additional testing but Senate the pending cloture motion, The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this new types of testing to make sure that which the clerk will state. vote, the yeas are 94, the nays are 2. we have even faster tests out there and The senior assistant legislative clerk The motion is agreed to. that we have more testing that actu- read as follows: f ally addresses the issue of how we can do it on-site, get an accurate result, CLOTURE MOTION EXECUTIVE CALENDAR and not wait weeks. While we literally We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The have millions of tests that have been Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby clerk will report the nomination. done, we have some tests that take a move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- The senior assistant legislative clerk long time to get back. In March, we nation of Diane Gujarati, of New York, to be read the nomination of Diane Gujarati, were dealing with ‘‘Let’s get a test,’’

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