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Senate the Senate Met at 9:30 A.M E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 112 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 158 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012 No. 117 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was from the State of New Mexico, to perform RECOGNITION OF THE REPUBLICAN LEADER called to order by the Honorable TOM the duties of the Chair. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- DANIEL K. INOUYE, UDALL, a Senator from the State of President pro tempore. pore. The Republican leader is recog- New Mexico. nized. Mr. UDALL of New Mexico thereupon CYBER SECURITY PRAYER assumed the chair as Acting President pro tempore. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY LEADER would like to start this morning with a fered the following prayer: word about cyber security. No one The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Let us pray. doubts the need to strengthen our Na- pore. The majority leader is recog- Lord, You have given us a world full tion’s cyber security defenses. Open nized. of rich resources. Make us responsible source reporting clearly shows that our stewards of Your generous gifts. Help f defense industrial base, financial sec- us to remember that to whom much is VETERANS JOBS CORPS ACT OF tor, and government networks are all given, much is expected. 2012—MOTION TO PROCEED under attack by nation states as well May our accountability to You guide as independent hackers. The U.S. Cyber the choices our lawmakers make as Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now move Command, the NSA, and the FBI are they seek to serve You and country to proceed to Calendar No. 476, S. 3457, working hard to counter these threats. today. Lord, fill their minds with wis- which is the Veterans Jobs Corps Act. So we all recognize the problem. That dom and their hearts with hope so they The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- is really not the issue. The issue is the will believe all things are possible with pore. The clerk will report the motion. manner in which the Democratic lead- You. Open their minds to the inflow of The assistant legislative clerk read ership has tried to steamroll a bill that Your spirit to prepare them for the de- as follows: would address it. cisions they must make this day. Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 476, S. Members on both sides of the aisle We pray in Your great Name. Amen. 3457, a bill to require the Secretary of Vet- have recommendations for improving erans Affairs to establish a Veterans Jobs our cyber defenses, and some of them f Corps, and for other purposes. thought this bill would provide an op- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- portunity to propose those ideas pore. The majority leader. The Honorable TOM UDALL led the through amendments, especially since Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: SCHEDULE Democrats did not allow for an oppor- Mr. REID. Mr. President, the next tunity to do so in committee. Yet, de- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the spite preventing Members from amend- United States of America, and to the Repub- half hour will be for debate on the lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Coburn amendment on the AGOA- ing the bill in committee, the antici- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Burma sanctions bill. Following that pated open amendment process, once debate, the time until 11 a.m. will be this new bill got to the Senate floor, f equally divided and controlled between never happened. It just never happened. APPOINTMENT OF ACTING the two leaders or their designees. At Despite being on the bill now for the PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE 11 a.m. there will be two votes. The third day, no Senator from either party first vote will be a cloture vote on the has been allowed to vote on any The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cyber security bill, followed by a vote amendment. clerk will please read a communication in relation to the Coburn amendment Look, this is a big, complicated, far- to the Senate from the President pro to the AGOA-Burma sanctions bill. The reaching bill that involves several tempore (Mr. INOUYE). filing deadline for second-degree committees of jurisdiction. Democratic The assistant legislative clerk read amendments to the cyber security bill leaders have not allowed any of those as follows: is 10 a.m. today. Additional votes are committees to improve the bill or even U.S. SENATE, possible today, and we will notify Sen- vote on it. Frankly, I was a little sur- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, ators when and if they are scheduled. Washington, DC, August 2, 2012. prised the majority leader decided to To the Senate: We will vote at 11 o’clock, so those peo- file cloture and end debate before it Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, ple debating the cloture motion may even started. An issue of this impor- of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby not get the full hour. They should un- tance deserves serious consideration appoint the Honorable TOM UDALL, a Senator derstand that. and open debate. Instead, the majority ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S5901 . VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:47 Sep 14, 2012 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD12\RECFILES\S02AU2.REC S02AU2 bjneal on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S5902 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 2, 2012 leader waited until the last week be- Senate supports them, and remove provi- to recovery, it is now obvious that fore August to even take it up. Rather sions if such support does not exist. For that President Obama’s policies have made than give this issue the time and atten- reason, I have committed to my colleagues a bad situation worse. tion it deserves, Democratic leaders that we will have an amendment process Secretary Geithner was right to say that will be fair and reasonable . this leg- brought it up with only 3 days left be- islation will have been subject to as fair, that the President’s policies were hav- fore recess and then tried to jam some- thorough, and open a process as is conceiv- ing an effect on the economy. He was thing through without any chance for able. clearly wrong to conclude that they amendment. That was the majority leader in Feb- were anything approaching a lasting, The few days the bill was on the ruary of this year. positive effect on the economy. On the floor, the majority limited its consid- There is widespread agreement that a contrary, we can see that the policies eration to debate only and then filled cyber security bill should eventually of the President’s first 2 years in office the tree and filed cloture. But, of pass. We need to improve information put us decidedly on the wrong path. Two years after Secretary Geithner’s course, that is kind of par for the sharing between the private and public op-ed, 23 million Americans are either course around here. This is the 65th sectors. And there is a clear indication unemployed, underemployed, or have time the majority leader has filled the that we will need to responsibly debate given up looking for work altogether. amendment tree and filed cloture—the this matter in the very near future. If Half of the college graduates cannot 65th time. Just to give a point of com- cloture is not invoked today, I suggest find a decent job, and with little or no parison, the last 6 party leaders did it we work in a bipartisan fashion to income, many have decided to move 40 times combined. The last 6 party complete the bill, and I suggest that back home with mom and dad. Two leaders did it 40 times combined. So the the next time we take it up, we allow years after Secretary Geithner all but majority leader has set a historic pace the Senate to be the Senate. Let Sen- declared victory, GDP growth is still at for blocking amendments. No amend- ators have their proposals considered an anemic 1.5 percent. Foreclosures are ments in committee, no amendments on the floor, especially if the Demo- still quite common. More Americans on the floor—take it or leave it. That cratic leadership is not going to allow than ever are on food stamps. Two is the story of the Senate under the them to be considered in committee. years after Secretary Geithner wel- current leadership. Mr. President, on another matter—— comed Americans to the recovery, The notion that we should just roll Mr. MCCAIN. Will the Senator yield more Americans are signing up for dis- over and wave through these bills with- for a question? ability than are finding jobs. More out having a chance to improve them Mr. MCCONNELL. I yield to the Sen- Americans are signing up for disability and that Democratic Senators would be ator from Arizona for a question. than are finding jobs. All of this after willing to be rolled in such a way is ri- Mr. MCCAIN. I see the majority lead- the President and a Democrat-led Con- diculous, especially on a bill of this er wants to speak, but my question is, gress passed his major policy initia- significance. I remind my Democratic isn’t it true that there has been a se- tives.
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