S128 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2019 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without This is just the wrong way to do busi- Ernst Lankford Rubio objection, it is so ordered. ness. We are the U.S. Senate. We are Fischer Lee Sasse Gardner Manchin Scott (FL) Mr. RISCH. Mr. President, I rise open for business. We are doing busi- Graham McConnell Scott (SC) today, again, to discuss S. 1 and to urge ness. In the last shutdown, we did busi- Grassley McSally Shelby my colleagues to vote in favor of this. ness, and there is no reason we can’t do Hawley Menendez Sinema Hoeven Murkowski We had a vote just the other day on this. Sullivan Hyde-Smith Paul Thune this, and it has been reconsidered. All Inhofe Portman Mr. President, fellow Senators, for Tillis Republicans voted for it. Four of our Isakson Risch all of the reasons I have just said, I Toomey Johnson Roberts friends on the other side of the aisle urge an affirmative vote on this good Wicker also voted with us on this, and I would Jones Romney legislation. Get it on its way, and get Kennedy Rounds Young urge a few more to do so. If that hap- it doing the things that we want to see NAYS—43 pens, we will actually pass this pack- done. age of bills, which is so important. Baldwin Harris Sanders These have been kicked around for CLOTURE MOTION Bennet Hassan Schatz Blumenthal Heinrich some time. The substance of these bills The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant Schumer to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Booker Hirono Shaheen have near—although not complete— Brown Kaine Smith unanimous approval of this body. In- Senate the pending cloture motion, Cantwell King Stabenow deed, Members of this body have voted which the clerk will state. Cardin Klobuchar Tester Carper Leahy Udall for these, both in committee and on The senior assistant legislative clerk Casey Markey Van Hollen read as follows: Coons Merkley the floor, individually in the past, but Warner Cortez Masto Murphy they have not gotten across the finish CLOTURE MOTION Warren Duckworth Murray line because we ran out of time in the We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Durbin Peters Whitehouse last Congress. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Feinstein Reed Wyden Essentially, it is a package of three Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby Gillibrand Rosen bills that support our friends. One, of move to bring to a close debate on the mo- NOT VOTING—4 course, supports Israel. One supports tion to proceed to Calendar No. 1, S. 1, a bill to make improvements to certain defense Cornyn Moran Jordan, one of our best friends in the Cruz Perdue Middle East. And, lastly, one of the and security assistance provisions and to au- thorize the appropriation of funds to Israel, The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this bills refreshes and strengthens the to reauthorize the United States-Jordan De- vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 43. sanctions against Bashar al-Assad and fense Cooperation Act of 2015, and to halt the Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- his government in Syria. wholesale slaughter of the Syrian people, sen and sworn not having voted in the These should pass. You might ask and for other purposes. affirmative, the motion is rejected. yourself: Well, what is going on here? Mitch McConnell, John Hoeven, Roger F. Why are we having these party-line Wicker, John Cornyn, Rick Scott, Mitt f votes on this? Well, my friends on the Romney, Cory Gardner, Marco Rubio, CLOTURE MOTION other side of the aisle have said: We are John Thune, Chuck Grassley, Todd Young, John Barrasso, Deb Fischer, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I not going to vote on anything while send a cloture motion to the desk. the government is shut down, and we Lindsey Graham, Johnny Isakson, James E. Risch, John Boozman. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- should be focused on this. I would re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- ture motion having been presented mind my friends that there are a lot of under rule XXII, the Chair directs the us around here who are veterans of the imous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. clerk to read the motion. 2013 Obama-Harry Reid shutdown. The senior assistant legislative clerk The question is, Is it the sense of the During that shutdown, the U.S. Sen- read as follows: ate continued to do its job, continued Senate that debate on the motion to CLOTURE MOTION to consider resolutions, continued to proceed to S. 1, a bill to make improve- ments to certain defense and security We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- pass bills, and continued to do con- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the firmations, as it was required to do. assistance provisions and to authorize Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby That is what we have here today— the appropriation of funds to Israel, to move to bring to a close debate on the mo- something that we should be doing reauthorize the United States-Jordan tion to proceed to Calendar No. 1, S. 1, a bill that reinforces our friends in the Mid- Defense Cooperation Act of 2015, and to to make improvements to certain defense dle East. Particularly with times being halt the wholesale slaughter of the and security assistance provisions and to au- somewhat tumultuous there, it is im- Syrian people, and for other purposes, thorize the appropriation of funds to Israel, portant that we support our friends in shall be brought to a close? to reauthorize the United States-Jordan De- the Middle East, and it is important The yeas and nays are mandatory fense Cooperation Act of 2015, and to halt the that we put these sanctions on the peo- wholesale slaughter of the Syrian people, under the rule. and for other purposes. ple of Syria. The clerk will call the roll. Todd Young, Mike Rounds, Richard C. I would also remind my friends on The senior assistant legislative clerk Shelby, James E. Risch, Mike Lee, the other side of the aisle that they are called the roll. Josh Hawley, John Boozman, Shelley forcing a vote on the Treasury regula- Mr. THUNE. The following Senators Moore Capito, Mike Crapo, Tim Scott, tions surrounding Mr. Deripaska, the are necessarily absent: the Senator Cory Gardner, Roy Blunt, Steve Daines, Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Russian person who has had sanctions from Texas (Mr. CORNYN), the Senator John Barrasso, Mitch McConnell. placed on him and who has gone from Texas (Mr. CRUZ), the Senator through the process of getting them re- from Kansas (Mr. MORAN), and the Sen- Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous moved. My friends on the other side are ator from Georgia (Mr. PERDUE). consent that the mandatory quorum requiring that we debate and then vote Further, if present and voting, the call be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without on those, which is a good thing to do. Senator from Texas (Mr. CORNYN) First of all, there are some issues that would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ objection, it is so ordered. need to be aired there, and, secondly, it The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CAS- is important that we have the process ator from South Carolina. SIDY). Are there any other Senators in for reviewing actions by the Treasury the Chamber desiring to vote? CIVILITY, FAIRNESS, AND OPPORTUNITY Department under the sanctions legis- Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 53, lation in the past. It is good that we do President, each new year brings with it nays 43, as follows: that. But to say ‘‘We can’t do this, but a range of different emotions. We look we can do that’’ because they want to [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Leg.] back on what we have accomplished in do it really doesn’t make sense. They YEAS—53 the last year, what we hope to achieve also want to do this. I think if we had Alexander Braun Cotton in the year to come, and think of ways a straight-up vote on this, I would sus- Barrasso Burr Cramer we can better ourselves. Blackburn Capito Crapo pect the Democrats would vote unani- Blunt Cassidy Daines Some of our objectives may include mously to do this. Boozman Collins Enzi eating just a little less. For me, that

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:05 Jan 11, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.024 S10JAPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with SENATE January 10, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S129 means eating a little less sour cream too often, when we leave the comfort of of us—are celebrating the absolute pound cake or sweet potato pie, which those mornings, we tend to want more overwhelming success of the Clemson is something I can completely control, for ourselves than we want for others. Tigers. You can’t help but appreciate and I am trying. We want people to treat us in a way and admire the amazing leadership at As a nation, though, we need to look that gives us the benefit of the doubt, Clemson University, the leadership of at some goals for the new year that but sometimes we don’t want to give it Jim Clements, the President of will help us move forward together— in return. Being fair means first seek- Clemson University. goals that may be a little tougher and ing to understand before being under- Clemson has been an amazing testa- require all of us to work together. stood. ment to the goodwill and good effort of While we may have some uncomfort- Finally, opportunity. I want to look programs focused on character first. As able conversations—and we will—we back at a Christmas tradition in my Coach Swinney has created an absolute must recognize that at the end of the hometown of North Charleston, a place powerhouse in Clemson, it is hard to day, we are family, both inside our where we see amazing things happen deny that he is not one of the best homes and as Americans, in the land of around the Christmas holidays. We see coaches in college football in America the free and the home of the brave. police officers, firefighters, and com- today. He has surrounded himself with As we look to 2019, I am hopeful we munity volunteers coming together amazing players such as Deshaun Wat- can take three lessons and carry them about 6 a.m. on Christmas morning to son, DeAndre Hopkins, Vic Beasley, forward. Those who follow me know I go knock on doors, where they know and now Trevor Lawrence, Travis have focused my time in the Senate on definitively there are kids without Etienne, and Christian Wilkins. an opportunity agenda that focuses on Christmas trees, much less Christmas I want to extend my congratulations helping people rise from poverty in dis- presents. These police officers, fire- to Clemson University on their second tressed communities, helping folks who fighters, and community volunteers national championship in just the last are living paycheck to paycheck to ex- join hands and raise a ton of dollars 4 years and their third overall national perience the greatness that is, in fact, and bring presents to the doors. Any- championship. I wish I could be in the American dream, and I will con- one who has experienced this, as I Clemson on Saturday morning at 9 tinue to focus on those issues in 2019, have, cannot fully describe the joy on a a.m. as they—they don’t have to paint but you will also hear from me in 2019 child’s face, the emotion and the tears the streets orange because they are al- what I believe are some missing keys of happiness for someone who didn’t ex- ready orange—but as they blow out the to American progress. Those keys are pect a single thing for the holidays, be- great city they live in. I will say that civility, fairness, and opportunity. cause opportunity is just not about not only am I heartened and excited So when you are having dinner and a ourselves and our families. While we about the success of Clemson Univer- family member tries to tell you that certainly strive to be successful, the sity on the field, I thought, listening to the reigning Super Bowl Champion true meaning of the Christmas and the Dabo Swinney as he talked about suc- Philadelphia Eagles—lucky, of course, holiday season lies in what we do for cess in life, it reminded me of my civil- to be in the playoffs at all—are in fact others. ity, fairness, and opportunity agenda the best football team in America, we For Congress, that means everything for 2019. all know the truth: It is America’s we do—everything we do—should be He said something to this effect. When asked about his success and the team, the Dallas Cowboys. You will with an eye toward improving the lives greatness of his football team and the have a discussion with your family of all Americans. For folks at home, re- wonders of winning a national cham- friend who believes otherwise, and I member, there are folks in your com- pionship, what did he celebrate the hope you will disagree strongly, that munity who are less fortunate. This be- most? He said it in this fashion. He you will argue with facts, history—the came the greatest Nation on Earth be- said: When I think about being selfless, history of Roger Staubach or Troy cause of our hearts and our minds, the when I think about real success, it is in Aikman or Emmitt Smith or Tony hearts and minds of the American peo- this order. First, it is about honoring Dorsett or ‘‘Too Tall’’ Jones—and you ple, the power and endurance of the the Lord Jesus Christ, his Lord and argue that with history and with pas- American dream, and the graciousness Savior; second, it is about honoring sion, but you know, at the end of the and strength of the American spirit; in others; and third, finally, it comes day, your crazy uncle is still your other words, American exceptionalism. down to self. There is something to crazy uncle. You will see each other Civility, fairness, and opportunity are learn about putting others before our- next weekend. You will hug, and you three words that can help our Nation selves as we look toward a more civil will start the same fight all over again, heal and move us forward toward a bet- society, filled with fairness, brimming but you see what you have done is you ter future. with opportunity. have agreed to disagree without being My hope this year is that we will I yield the floor. disagreeable. That, at its core, is the take some time to think about what The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- civility our Nation is sorely missing each of us can do to further these ator from Rhode Island. right now. goals. Resolutions are good. Being res- Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Thank you, Sen- Too often too many seem too focused olute in our mission to strengthen our ator, and if I may congratulate the jun- on saying whatever they want to say Nation is great. Soon I will speak ior Senator from South Carolina on the and saying it more loudly, without any about my vision for the future, my spectacular win that Clemson had and concern for the actual content. We America 2030 plan. also congratulate him about being so need to return to civility, where the I want to say happy new year and ask true to the spirit of civility he dis- other side isn’t evil or a traitor or try- everyone to remember the true spirit cussed and not trash-talking the other ing to destroy our country, but they of what makes America great. team involved. simply have a different vision for how RECOGNIZING THE CLEMSON TIGERS’ 2019 NCAA It was a truly splendid victory be- to achieve success. CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY tween two extraordinarily talented and Second, sometimes we struggle to Mr. President, before I close, I would capable teams, and I congratulate the make sure our loved ones, especially like to talk, just for a few minutes, Senator. our kids around Christmastime, are about an epic celebration in a small up- Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Would treated fairly. So as they open their state city in the great State of South the Senator yield for a moment? presents, we want to make sure every- Carolina—a celebration that is because Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Gladly. one has a chance to play with every- of a game. Now, in South Carolina, we Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. I will thing. This is what we call trying to be have real division. The divisions can be concede that while I am exuberant and fair. As a parent—or in my case as the seen between those who support the excited for the enthusiasm for giver of cool gifts—we want to make Clemson Tigers and those like myself Clemson’s success this year, I am sure the kids are being fair with their who support the Carolina Gamecocks. aware that next year Clemson and Ala- siblings as they play with the new toys. After the Clemson national champion- bama may meet again. So the more There is something in each and every ship victory, both sides of the great you celebrate this year, perhaps the one of us that yearns for fairness, but State of South Carolina—at least most more you will regret it next year.

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The Mr. President, 2018 saw the release of driven changes. new 116th Congress brings new hope for two landmark climate science re- Michael Mann, the professor of at- the Senate to face up to the clear and ports—one from the Intergovernmental mospheric science at Penn State Uni- present danger of climate change. The Panel on Climate Change on the effects versity, told PBS recently: House of Representatives being in of warming 1.5 degrees Celsius above It’s not rocket science. . . . You warm the Democratic hands augments that hope. preindustrial levels, and the second, planet, you’re going to get more frequent The Senate Republican majority has the Trump administration’s own ‘‘Na- and intense heat waves. You warm the soils, failed to address climate change. This tional Climate Assessment.’’ Together, you dry them out, you get worse drought. is no accident. This is the Senate in these reports delivered the starkest You bring all that together, and those are all the Citizens United era. I was here be- warning on climate change to date. the ingredients for unprecedented wildfires. fore Citizens United, and for years we Damage from climate change is al- Mr. President, 2018 saw the east coast saw Senate climate bipartisanship, be- ready occurring. Economies are now at slammed by hurricanes that were su- fore Citizens United. After Citizens risk, and we are almost out of time to percharged by warming oceans. Hurri- United, what we see is immensely pow- prevent the worst consequences. canes gain strength from heat energy erful climate-denying, dark-money The IPCC report told us that ac- in the oceans they pass over. Warmer front groups for the fossil fuel indus- counting for the costs of carbon pollu- oceans also evaporate more water up try, all likely funded by fossil fuel in- tion by charging a price for carbon into the storms, generating more terests, and we see no Republican Sen- emissions is the ‘‘central’’ policy that storm rainfall. So stronger and wetter ator willing to cross them. The spend- will allow us to hold the global tem- storms then ride ashore on higher and ing they do in politics—and the more perature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer seas and push larger storm silent threat of spending—is a block- or less. Even this dire endorsement was surges ahead of them. ade. It reeks. not enough to move a single Repub- Hurricane Florence intensified over Here is a case study on how dark and lican colleague to join a bill to estab- water 1 to 2 degrees Celsius above aver- unlimited money play in Senate elec- lish a carbon fee. age and dumped record rainfall and tions. In 2016, in Ohio, Indiana, and More telling was the spectacle of the flooding on the Carolinas. Preliminary Wisconsin, three Democratic Senate Trump administration’s ‘‘National Cli- analysis suggests that its rainfall was candidates stood a good early chance of mate Assessment.’’ This report, writ- more than 50 percent higher due to cli- winning Republican-held seats in 2016. ten by 13 Federal Agencies, described mate change. All were solid, experienced candidates the monumental damage the United When Hurricane Michael hit Florida, who had been Senators before. All were States is facing from climate change, it passed over water 2 to 3 degrees Cel- ahead in early polling. Then the big flatly contradicting the climate denial sius warmer than average. Passing over influencers came in hard, launching at- assertions of the President and his fos- that heat, its winds spun up by 80 miles tack ads, in some cases, well more than sil fuel-flunky Cabinet. The adminis- per hour in just 48 hours, becoming the 1 year before the election. It is a little tration tried to bury the report by re- strongest storm ever to make an Octo- like strafing the other side’s planes leasing it on Black Friday during the ber landfall in the United States and while they are still on the airfield. Thanksgiving holiday. That cynical almost completely flattening the town The pile-on of so-called outside group move happily backfired, with more of Mexico Beach, FL. spending against these three can- than 140 newspapers around the coun- Scientists are increasingly able to didates came to almost $70 million. All try featuring the report’s stark find- identify the role of climate change in three ultimately lost their races, and ings on front pages and Google extreme weather. The American Mete- their losses meant Republicans kept searches for ‘‘climate change’’ hitting orological Society reported in Decem- majority control of this Chamber. their highest level for the year. ber that 15 extreme weather events in Let’s look at that $70 million that ac- Tellingly, the fossil fuel industry and 2017 were made more likely due to quired the continued Republican ma- its bevy of stooges in the Trump ad- human-caused climate change, includ- jority control of this Chamber. Of that ministration did not contest the ing a devastating marine heat wave off $70 million, only about $11 million science in the report—an admission by the coast of Australia that would have came from donors and PACs that ap- inaction that they know their science been ‘‘virtually impossible’’ without pear unconnected to the fossil fuel in- denial campaign is phony. They know human-induced warming. The report dustry. At least two-thirds of that out- the real science is irrefutable. It is bet- drew attention to the role of oceans in side spending—more than $46 million— ter to hide from it. many of these extreme events. Jeff can be directly traced to groups that Unfortunately, we witnessed the ir- Rosenfeld, the Meteorological Soci- received significant funding from fossil refutable contribution of climate ety’s editor-in-chief, said that ‘‘the energy, and $12 million, the remainder change to the most devastating natural ocean is actively playing a role in the of that 70, came through dark money disasters of 2018. extremes that we’re seeing’’ and that channels. In this day and age in Amer- ‘‘Irrefutable,’’ by the way, is one way ‘‘we’re seeing the oceans as a link in a ica, powerful influencers can obscure to describe climate science. Another chain of causes that ultimately tie their identities by running their polit- way to describe it is ‘‘incontrovert- human causes to extreme weather ical spending through these dark ible.’’ The description of climate events on land.’’ money channels so it is impossible for science as ‘‘incontrovertible’’ was pub- The changes occurring in the ocean us to know whether or how much of lished in a New York Times full-page are imposing an increasing threat to this remaining $12 million was from advertisement in 2009 that was signed our coastal communities, from gulf polluter dollars—fossil fuel dollars. I by, among others, Donald Trump, Don- communities in Louisiana to shoreline strongly suspect all of it was. In any ald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric communities in Rhode Island. event, when one industry can deliver Trump, and the Trump Organization. The Union of Concerned Scientists that kind of political artillery, the vast How things change. released a report last year finding that majority of a $70 million barrage Anyway, out West, wildfires in Cali- over 300,000 coastal homes, with a col- against three specific candidates, that fornia broke records. The Mendocino lective market value of over $130 bil- gives that industry remarkable polit- Complex Fire in July and August was lion, are at risk of chronic flooding by ical power with the side that is advan- the largest in the State’s recorded his- 2045. By the end of the century, 2.4 mil- taged—climate action stopping polit- tory. The Camp Fire—this photo- lion homes, worth more than $1 tril- ical power, it would seem. graph—was the deadliest and most de- lion, are expected to be at risk. As the mounting effects of climate structive wildfire in California history, A 2018 report from Climate Central change have grown ever more dire and killing 86 people. Scientists linked and Zillow found that thousands of

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The campaign against the industry know to make this transition. corporation, has taken a look at this carbon fee outspent the campaign sup- Out of the States, California has and warned of a coastal property val- porting it by 2 to 1, dumping more passed a law requiring 100-percent zero ues crash as those houses become unin- money into this ballot fight than any carbon electricity by 2045—100 percent. surable or unmortgageable to the next ballot initiative campaign in the The Governors of New York and Wash- buyer. State’s history. And who funded the ington States recently announced 100 A second economic crash we face is a campaign against the initiative? Oil percent zero carbon electricity goals. ‘‘carbon bubble’’ in fossil fuel compa- companies. BP, Phillips 66, and, of Hawaii has a law requiring 100 percent nies. The ‘‘carbon bubble’’ collapse course, our friends Marathon Petro- renewable electricity by 2045. On the happens when fossil fuel reserves now leum were the top spenders by far. same day in late December, the Dis- on the books of fossil fuel companies Oil companies claim to support car- trict of Columbia passed a bill requir- turn out to be undevelopable ‘‘stranded bon pricing, but the giant trade asso- ing 100 percent renewable electricity by assets.’’ Research published by econo- ciations they fund to go out and do 2032, and nine Northeastern States—I mists in the journal Nature Climate their political work—the American Pe- am proud to say it includes my Rhode Change estimated that in a world troleum Institute, the so-called U.S. Island—committed to cap emissions where we succeed in limiting warming Chamber of Commerce, the National from the transportation sector. to 2 degrees Celsius, $12 trillion of fi- Association of Manufacturers—all op- Here in the Senate, we can expect the nancial value could vanish from bal- pose any proposals to reduce carbon new Democratic House to send climate ance sheets globally in the form of pollution. The CEOs say one thing, and legislation our way. Whether my Re- stranded fossil fuel assets. That is over their political electioneering and lob- publican colleagues like it or not and 15 percent of global GDP, and that is bying apparatus is instructed to go out whether the fossil fuel industry likes it why the Bank of England calls this a and do the exact opposite. or not, this will be an issue in the 116th systemic risk—i.e., a risk to the entire Another telling aspect of the Wash- Congress. global economy. ington State ballot initiative is who My new year’s wish is that my Re- Financial managers are waking up to did not show up. Conspicuously absent publican Senate colleagues will finally these risks. At the recent U.N. climate are any of the good-guy corporations wake up to the damage that climate summit in December, a group of 415 from the tech, financial, and food and change is causing, to the looming global investors, managing $32 trillion beverage sectors that talk such a good threat that climate change presents, of investments—these are men and game on climate change. That is tell- and will help us to pass bills addressing women who have been trusted with ing because it matches what happens the huge climate risk that we face. managing $32 trillion worth of invest- here in Congress. The good-guy cor- This is not impossible. This is the ments—came together to warn that the porations do not lift a political finger way the Senate behaved until January world faces a financial crash worse to advance climate legislation here in of 2010. From when I was sworn in in than the 2008 crisis unless carbon emis- the Senate. In fact, these are the good 2007, through the rest of that year and sions are urgently cut. The group guys. Set aside the fossil fuel pirates through 2008 and 2009, we had bipar- called for the end of fossil fuel sub- and what they are all up to through tisan climate bills. We had bipartisan sidies and the introduction of substan- their front groups and their dark climate hearings. We had bipartisan tial prices on carbon emissions. They money and all the nonsense that they climate negotiations. We had bipar- understand that to limit the worst cli- drive. These are the supposed good tisan climate discussions. It was pos- mate risks, including economic catas- guys. In fact, they have a net negative sible to do that because the five Repub- trophes, we must cut carbon emissions presence here in the Senate on climate lican judges on the Supreme Court had immediately and substantially. legislation because they do virtually not yet given the fossil fuel industry But back home, the Trump adminis- nothing, and the trade associations the massive, new political artillery tration—clearly and completely cor- they help to fund, like the Chamber of they had given them in the Citizens rupted by the fossil fuel industry—has Commerce, lobby against climate ac- United decision. Once the fossil fuel in- now taken more than 90 actions to tion. dustry had that new artillery, the weaken climate policies. Regrettably, So you have American corporations game changed, and it brought it to after years of decline, U.S. carbon with good climate policies taking sus- bear on our friends on the other side, emissions grew 3.4 percent in 2018. tainability seriously within their cor- and there has not been a single Repub- Global carbon emissions also grew by porate precincts. Then, those compa- lican Senator on a single serious car- 2.7 percent to reach a new carbon emis- nies come to the Senate, and their po- bon emissions bill since that moment. sions record. sitions, as they appear here in the Sen- It shows what happens when you give a If the Trump administration’s 2018 ate, are against the climate policies big special interest a massive, new regulatory actions read like a fossil they claim to support because they piece of political weaponry. fuel industry wish list, it is because work through these intermediary It doesn’t mean it has to be this way. they are. Just one example is the fuel groups that have been co-opted by fos- The good guys could show up and coun- economy rollback for automobiles. It is sil fuel interests and because they terbalance the political hydraulics a perfect example. The new, weaker don’t show up themselves. In 2019, let’s here of the fossil fuel industry’s power. standards were pushed by—guess who— hope the good-guy American corpora- Our colleagues could say: Guys, we the largest oil refiner in the country, tions get off the bench, clean up the gave you a heck of a good run. For Marathon Petroleum. Marathon also acts of their trade groups, and get onto years, we did nothing, but it is time distinguished itself as a top donor to the field on the good side of the cli- now. We have taken a look at where ethically challenged EPA Adminis- mate policy fight. voters are. We have even taken a look trator Scott Pruitt during his time in Let me wrap up, through all of that at where Republican voters are. We political office in Oklahoma. Marathon gloom, with the good news for the new have taken a look at where the science worked with the creepy Koch Brothers’ year and beyond. is, and we are going to do something. network and oil industry lobby groups Record low prices for wind and solar There are a lot of ways that we can to run a stealth campaign, including a projects are now cheaper than fossil go back to the bipartisan legislation, Facebook ad campaign using a phony fuels in many places. Battery costs are the bipartisan hearings, and the bipar- front group called Energy4US that hid falling rapidly. Amazing electric vehi- tisan conversations that characterized its oil industry origin. cles keep coming to market. New car- this issue before Citizens United. It has Fossil fuel energy companies claim bon capture technologies emerge. Xcel been too long that big polluter donors to be cleaning up their act. They issue Energy, a Colorado-based utility that have had their way around here. They statements voicing support for carbon serves over 3 million customers, has pay the fee, but our Nation pays the pricing. Look at what they do when the announced a commitment to reduce price. We have a responsibility here to

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The promote understanding between reli- Union were still somewhat ambiguous, clerk will call the roll. gious groups while demonstrating a but they were improving. A lot of peo- The senior assistant bill clerk pro- firm commitment to the Jewish tradi- ple believed that a Soviet-born player ceeded to call the roll. tion of tikkun olam—improving the coming to play professional basketball Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask world. That is something Jews feel in my hometown in Portland would unanimous consent that the order for very strongly about. Whether it is help that along. So on this trip to the the quorum call be rescinded. healthcare or foreign relations, what- Soviet Union, Larry asked me to meet The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ever, we want to be part of making the with the Soviet Sports Federation. I objection, it is so ordered. world a better place, perfecting the was to, in effect, hand over a letter to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- world. That is what tikkun olam the Soviet Sports Federation, making ator from Oregon. means. it clear—and this was a courtesy let- REMEMBERING LARRY WEINBERG Larry and Barbi Weinberg supported ter—that if Mr. Sabonis were permitted Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I come the development of concrete scholar- to come to Oregon to play basketball to the floor today to talk about Larry ship on issues that face not only Israel for the Trail Blazers—the letter indi- Weinberg, who was beloved by many but the entire Middle East, under- cated—Mr. Sabonis would be well Oregonians, one of the original owners standing that the difficulties affecting treated. He would have comfortable ac- of our wonderful basketball team, the one’s neighbors are really part of a commodations, good training facilities, Portland Trail Blazers—the owner who shared burden, demanding a shared so- and there would be people to advise won eternal gratitude from the people lution. him on nutrition and get him accli- of my State as he guided our Trail Portlanders like myself know Larry mated to our country. Blazers to their first title. He passed for another reason. If you are a Well, when I walked into this meet- away last week at the age of 92. He was Portlander of my age and an ardent ing in Moscow, I really felt like I was a soft-spoken man who was never one Blazer fan, you cheered on Bill Wal- starring in Rocky IV. There I was—a to drone on, so in that spirit, I am ton’s Trail Blazers because they won a young Congressman from the United going to keep these remarks brief. championship for Rip City in 1977. If States, a former basketball player my- The first thing we want everybody to you are a young basketball fan in Port- self—trying to make the case on behalf know about Larry is that he was a land today, you probably root for of my hometown and the Portland wonderful family man. I met him for Dame—that is Mr. Lillard—or C.J.— Trail Blazers to these men, all of whom the first time in the early 1980s. I was that is C.J. McCollum. All of us in were at least 20 or 30 years older than a young Member of the other body, the Portland and in Oregon owe Larry me. I was trying to make the case that House of Representatives, and Larry Weinberg a debt of gratitude because if the Soviet Sports Federation were could have made our first conversation he brought the NBA to our State, and willing to allow Mr. Sabonis to come, about politics. We were very inter- had he not done that, all of us who root he would be well treated. ested, for example, in ways to promote for the Trail Blazers today wouldn’t be What I got from these stern looking a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. There able to turn out and see Dame and C.J. Soviet Sports Federation officials were were plenty of things we could have and all of our wonderful players who essentially monosyllabic answers, talked about with respect to politics, are really community leaders. much like you heard in the Rocky but he made the conversation about I remember back then seeing Larry movies—maybe somebody would say basketball, which was one of the great and his wife Barbi cheering at our ‘‘nyet.’’ I didn’t know everything about loves of his life, and I think people home games, and they were always the language of my host, but I got the know around here that my great hope wearing our colors. I particularly saw sense that wasn’t a good thing when was to play in the NBA. Larry knew that bright-red blazer. Whether it was they said that. I could get the sense that. back in the seventies at the Memorial about their skepticism as if they be- Because Larry was a family man, Coliseum or even in their later years at lieved that this young American Con- that first conversation we had was Moda Center, when you looked at Barbi gressman in front of them was pulling about family, and he had an enormous and Larry Weinberg, you got a sense of some sly trick of geopolitical strategy family. If you look at the family photo what it meant not just to be a fan, but as we tried to bring Arvydas Sabonis to on the holiday cards that Larry and his the Weinbergs really looked at our Portland. wife Barbi sent each year, you would town and those Trail Blazers as part of I tried to make the point to these So- think about half of the 320 million peo- their extended family. viet leaders that we were not exactly ple in our country were actually With respect to sports and the inter- talking about arms control. We were Weinbergs. The cards were wonderful, section of sports and how sports fit talking about playing basketball, and and they just seemed to go on and on into the world, I want to relate some- we were talking about building bridges. and on. thing that happened in the late 1980s That, if anything, is what Larry During that first conversation, Larry when Larry approached me with a par- Weinberg’s life was all about. He was asked me about my family. I told him ticular request, something he wanted about building bridges in sports. He did about my great-uncle Max, who was me to do. it in terms of housing, when he was one of last Jews to be murdered in I was traveling to the Soviet Union trying to create housing opportunities Auschwitz. I told him about my par- with a group of Jewish community for people of modest means, when he ents, who fled Nazi Germany as refu- leaders from Portland. At that time, was creating opportunities for people gees and settled in America before they the Trail Blazers were very interested to learn from each other. There he was pitched in to the war effort during in bringing a wonderfully talented cen- with this young Congressman, just World War II. ter, Arvydas Sabonis, to Portland. wanting to offer a guarantee that Mr. That was one of the first bonds I had There was a discussion. It was a period Sabonis, the best Soviet player of his with Larry Weinberg, and I think that when the United States and the Soviet time, would be well cared for. It took a was true of many of his friends. We had Union were still talking about the rela- few more years. Eventually he made it family who were veterans themselves, tionship being so ambiguous. Reagan to Portland, where Larry and Trail loved ones who had wanted to make and Gorbachev were trying to sort it Blazer fans got to watch him play and sure the United States prevailed in out. Larry asked me to present a letter play well. World War II, and that was Larry. He to the Soviet Sports Federation about I cannot find the picture, but back served in Europe during the war and Arvydas Sabonis. He had actually been then there was a picture that ensured sustained serious injuries in France. drafted a few years before, and the idea that Oregonians across the State were

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I mean, we thought he might does what I think all of us have said we er is here. We had some words earlier. have been 7 feet 5 inches, which was want to make sure is done; that is, I want to thank the majority leader for much taller than was listed. when we reopen government, those who accommodating this unanimous con- It was a wonderful experience for me, have been working without pay and sent. It is consistent with what the and it was a chance to see what Larry those who are on furlough without pay leader has said in the past, that we will Weinberg was all about. He always told will get their backpay. I think that is make sure our workers get paid when me: It is a chance for you to learn a lit- at least some assurance to our govern- the government is open. tle bit more about the world, RON, a ment workforce that when we finally I yield the floor. chance for you to go to the Soviet reopen government, they know they The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- Union—it was the Soviet Union at that will be getting their paychecks. I think jority leader. time—and see the connection between it is a very important point to give f reforms and what Ronald Reagan and them at least that comfort. Gorbachev were trying to do and the I don’t want to minimize the risk fac- GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE FAIR role of sports in terms of bringing peo- tors that we have for the 800,000 Fed- TREATMENT ACT OF 2019 ple together. eral workers who are not getting their Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I I was so honored that Larry Weinberg paychecks. Just today, I found a letter had an opportunity to talk to Presi- would give me a window into that kind from a constituent. I am going to read dent Trump a few moments ago and of opportunity and allow me, in a real- it very briefly. wanted to indicate to our colleagues ly small way, as a young Congressman ‘‘Dear Senator CARDIN, As an Air that he will sign the bill that we have to be part of what his life was always Traffic Controller and Maryland con- been discussing here to guarantee that about, which is building bridges. stituent, I want you to know how the government workers who have been So I am going to close this way. I partial government shutdown is affect- displaced as a result of the shutdown think some of my colleagues are going ing me and my family. Today, I re- will ultimately be compensated. So I to speak about Larry as well. When the ceived my Earnings and Leave state- want to ease their anxiety about that Jewish people really want to com- ment from the Department of Trans- particular possibility. pliment somebody and say somebody is portation, indicating I received $0 for With that in mind, I ask unanimous really special and has exceptional char- my last 2 weeks of working at the consent that the Senate proceed to the acter, what we say is that person is a FAA-Washington Enroute Air Traffic immediate consideration of Calendar mensch. What I am here to tell the Control Center in Leesburg, VA. I have No. 3, S. 24. Senate today is my friend Larry proudly gone to work for this job that The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Weinberg, whom we lost just a few days I love, and always maintain the highest YOUNG). The clerk will report the bill ago, was really a super mensch, a true level of safety. My husband Brad is also by title. mensch, a person of enormous integ- a controller with me at Washington The legislative clerk read as follows: rity, decent at his core. I just want to Center, and his Earnings and Leave A bill (S. 24) to provide for the compensa- say that Larry and his wife Barbi were Statement was for $1.34. We cannot tion of Federal and other government em- the essence of Rip City pride. He was a sustain our financial obligations on a ployees affected by lapses in appropriations. soft spoken guy, but he was Portland’s total of $1.34 for our last two weeks of There being no objection, the Senate loudest fan. work! We recently were able to build a Tonight, I want to say to his family proceeded to consider the bill. new house to try to start a family, and and friends—all, seemingly, 100 million Mr. MCCONNELL. I know of no fur- we still have increased financial obli- of them—that we are always going to ther debate on the bill. gations because of that and all that en- remember Larry Weinberg with great The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there tails. In addition, my family, my fun and appreciation for his enormous further debate? brother and father, has minimal in- Hearing none, the bill was ordered to contributions to our city and for all come now, and we are supporting them. be engrossed for a third reading and that he did during his lifetime to be in My father is 69 years old and currently was read the third time. that bridge building business, for work- has an enlarged hernia that requires an The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill ing to perfect the world—tikkun operation, he has no health insurance, having been read the third time, the olam—a wonderful, wonderful man. Our Larry Weinberg we Oregonians and no income. He lives in NH, and is question is, Shall the bill pass? will always remember in our hearts. on even more medication now. The side The bill (S. 24) was passed, as follows: I yield the floor. effects are greatly affecting him. He S. 24 I suggest the absence of a quorum. needs my help, and I don’t have the re- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sources now to help him. He is suf- resentatives of the United States of America in clerk will the call roll. fering so much, and I love him greatly. Congress assembled, The senior assistant legislative clerk My brother recently had to weather a SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. proceeded to call the roll. separation from his wife, and has been This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Government Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask unable to find affordable housing in Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019’’. unanimous consent that the order for MD on a single income for him and my SEC. 2. COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL AND the quorum call be rescinded. niece and nephew—Ayden 10 years and OTHER GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY A LAPSE IN APPRO- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Ava 7 years old. They have been living PRIATIONS. objection, it is so ordered. in our basement since August 2018, and Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, GOVERNMENT FUNDING we have been supporting them in every is amended— Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, in a few way we can until he can get back on (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘An of- moments I am going to yield the floor his feet. I love them so much, and now ficer’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as specified in to Senator KAINE to make a unanimous I can’t continue to help them. This this subchapter or any other provision of consent request that has been cleared hurts so much, we need our pay checks law, an officer’’; and by both sides, and I am very pleased (2) by adding at the end the following: to support our family now!’’ ‘‘(c)(1) In this subsection— about that. This is in regard to S. 24, It ends by saying: ‘‘Please help in ‘‘(A) the term ‘covered lapse in appropria- legislation that I have filed with sev- any way you can to END THIS SHUT- tions’ means any lapse in appropriations eral of my colleagues. DOWN NOW!’’ that begins on or after December 22, 2018; I particularly thank Senator KAINE, I couldn’t agree more. I urge our col- ‘‘(B) the term ‘District of Columbia public but I also want to thank my colleagues leagues, hopefully in the next couple of employer’ means—

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