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October 7, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7195 could matter most—in Afghanistan, in Budget Act of 1974 and the waiver pro- The clerk will call the roll. the Pacific, in Ukraine, in Iraq, and in visions of applicable budget resolu- The senior assistant legislative clerk Syria. Vetoing the NDAA would be yet tions, I move to waive all applicable called the roll. another of these failures, and it would sections of that act and applicable Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators be reminiscent of a bygone day, when budget resolutions for purposes of the are necessarily absent: the Senator the fecklessness of those days were so conference report to accompany H.R. from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), the accurately described by Winston 1735, and I ask for the yeas and nays. Senator from Kansas (Mr. ROBERTS), Churchill. On the floor of the House of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Commons, he said: sufficient second? RUBIO). When the situation was manageable it was There appears to be a sufficient sec- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out ond. TOOMEY). Are there any other Senators of hand we apply too late the remedies which The yeas and nays were ordered. in the Chamber desiring to vote? then might have effected a cure. There is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under The result was announced—yeas 70, nothing new in the story. It is as old as the the previous order, all postcloture time nays 27, as follows: sibylline books. It falls into that long, dis- has expired. mal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experi- [Rollcall Vote No. 277 Leg.] The question is on agreeing to the ence and the confirmed unteachability of YEAS—70 mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to motion to waive. The yeas and nays have been ordered. Alexander Fischer Murphy act when action would be simple and effec- Ayotte Flake Murray tive, lack of clear thinking, confusion of The clerk will call the roll. Barrasso Gardner Perdue counsel until the emergency comes, until The bill clerk called the roll. Bennet Grassley Peters self-preservation strikes its jarring gong— Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators Blumenthal Hatch Portman these are the features which constitute the are necessarily absent: the Senator Blunt Heinrich Risch Boozman Heitkamp endless repetition of history. from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), the Rounds Burr Heller Sasse My colleagues, for 53 years Congress OBERTS Cantwell Hoeven Senator from Kansas (Mr. R ), Scott Capito Inhofe has passed a National Defense Author- and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Sessions ization Act, and at perhaps no time in Casey Isakson RUBIO). Cassidy Johnson Shaheen the past half century has this legisla- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there Coats Kaine Shelby tion been more important. Everywhere any other Senators in the Chamber de- Cochran King Stabenow we look around the world there are re- siring to vote? Collins Kirk Sullivan Corker Klobuchar Tester minders of exactly why we need this The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 71, Cornyn Lankford Thune National Defense Authorization Act. I nays 26, as follows: Cotton Lee Tillis understand the deeply held beliefs of [Rollcall Vote No. 276 Leg.] Crapo McCain Toomey Daines McCaskill Udall many of my colleagues about the YEAS—71 Donnelly McConnell Vitter spending issues that have divided the Alexander Feinstein Murkowski Enzi Menendez Warner Congress for the last 4 years. But this Ayotte Fischer Murphy Ernst Moran Wicker is not a spending bill. It is a policy bill. Barrasso Flake Murray Feinstein Murkowski Bennet Gardner It is a reform bill. It is a bill that ac- Perdue NAYS—27 Blumenthal Grassley Peters complishes what the Constitution de- Blunt Hatch Portman Baldwin Franken Paul mands of us and what the American Boozman Heinrich Risch Booker Gillibrand Reed people expect of us. It is a bill that Burr Heitkamp Rounds Boxer Hirono Reid Cantwell Heller Sasse Brown Leahy Sanders gives our men and women in uniform, Capito Hoeven Scott Cardin Manchin Schatz many of whom are still in harm’s way Casey Inhofe Sessions Carper Markey Schumer Cassidy Isakson around the world today, the vital au- Shaheen Coons Merkley Warren Coats Johnson Cruz Mikulski Whitehouse thorities and support they need to de- Shelby Cochran Kaine Durbin Nelson Wyden fend our Nation. And it is a bill that Collins King Stabenow deserves the support of the Senate. Corker Kirk Sullivan NOT VOTING—3 Tester I suggest the absence of a quorum. Cornyn Klobuchar Graham Roberts Rubio Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Cotton Lankford Crapo Lee Tillis The conference report was agreed to. clerk will call the roll. Cruz McCain Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- The bill clerk proceeded to call the Udall Daines McCaskill jority leader. roll. Donnelly McConnell Vitter Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- Enzi Menendez Warner f Ernst Moran Wicker imous consent that the order for the ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOP- quorum call be rescinded. NAYS—26 MENT AND RELATED AGENCIES The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Baldwin Gillibrand Reed APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2016—MO- FLAKE). Without objection, it is so or- Booker Hirono Reid TION TO PROCEED Boxer Leahy Sanders dered. Brown Manchin Mr. REID. Mr. President, the bill be- Schatz Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Cardin Markey Schumer move to proceed to Calendar No. 96, fore us is not fiscally responsible. Our Carper Merkley Warren H.R. 2028. troops deserve real funding, not budget Coons Mikulski Whitehouse Durbin Nelson Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. The gimmickry. This bill does not do the Franken Paul job. My Republican friends like to talk clerk will report the motion. about the deficit and the debt and the NOT VOTING—3 The bill clerk read as follows: need to get our fiscal house in order, Graham Roberts Rubio Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 96, H.R. but their actions speak louder than The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this 2028, a bill making appropriations for energy vote, the yeas are 71, the nays are 26. and water development and related agencies their words. Now they are supporting for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, legislation that increases deficit spend- Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- and for other purposes. ing and increases the burden on our sen and sworn having voted in the af- The Senator from Utah. children and grandchildren. As a re- firmative, the motion is agreed to and sult, this bill violates the budget law. the point of order falls. TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP Mr. President, I raise a point of order The question occurs on adoption of Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise to that the pending measure violates sec- the conference report to accompany talk about the recent developments in tion 3101 of S. Con. Res. 11, the concur- H.R. 1735. U.S. trade policy and their implica- rent resolution on the budget for fiscal Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask for tions for the future. Over this past year 2016. the yeas and nays. weekend, officials from the Obama ad- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a ministration, along with 11 other coun- ator from Arizona. sufficient second? tries, reached what they believed will Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, pursuant There appears to be a sufficient sec- be the final agreement on the terms of to section 904 of the Congressional ond. the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:30 Oct 08, 2015 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G07OC6.037 S07OCPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S7196 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE October 7, 2015 If enacted, the TPP would be the larg- ities for trade agreements but those of this administration achieved that kind est trade agreement in history, encom- a bipartisan majority in both the of an outcome for American passing approximately and roughly 40 House and the Senate. innovators. percent of the world economy and set- The congressional negotiating objec- Aside from biologics, there are other ting standards for one of the most dy- tives that we included in the statute elements that, according to initial re- namic parts of the world, the Asia-Pa- spell out in detail what must be in- ports, may have fallen short of cific. cluded in a trade agreement in order Congress’s negotiating standards. For I will repeat what I have said many for it to get Congress’s approval. The example, there are issues with some of times before. I believe a strong TPP negotiating objectives we included in the market-access provisions on agri- agreement is essential for advancing our TPA law are not just pro forma, culture, the inclusion of product—and our Nation’s economic and strategic in- they are not suggestions or mere state- sector-specific carveouts from some of terests in the Asia-Pacific region. How- ments of Members’ preferences. They the obligations, as well as some poten- ever, while I have often touted the po- represent the view of the bipartisan tial of overreaching on labor commit- tential benefits of the TPP, I have also majority in Congress as to the rights ments. While we can’t make final de- been very clear that I will not support and obligations a trade agreement terminations on any of these issues just any TPP agreement. The United must contain when it is finalized and without seeing the final text of the States has only one chance to nego- submitted for our consideration. agreement, initial indications are that tiate, consider, and implement the I have to say no one in Congress these items could be problematic when TPP.