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Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 110 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 110 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 153 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2007 No. 93 Senate The Senate met at 2 p.m. and was hereby appoint the Honorable BENJAMIN L. and we listened to hour after hour of called to order by the Honorable KENT CARDIN, a Senator from the State of Mary- debate. I don’t think there is a single CONRAD, a Senator from the State of land, to perform the duties of the Chair. Senator, no matter how one may have North Dakota. ROBERT C. BYRD, finally voted on the motion to proceed President Pro tempore. or not to proceed to the bill, who PRAYER Mr. CARDIN thereupon assumed the doesn’t see an urgent need to fix our The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- chair as Acting President pro tempore. badly broken immigration system. fered the following prayer: f Even those people who oppose this leg- Let us pray. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY islation vehemently believe the system O God, our Father, speak to us today LEADER is broken and needs to be fixed. that here in Your presence we may find So everyone agrees that we need to knowledge of what You want us to do. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- fix it, and I think the best way to fix it Guide our Senators this week so that pore. The majority leader is recog- is to legislate. When it came time to they clearly understand Your desires nized. vote on the bipartisan compromise last and give them the wisdom to obey. f Thursday, 7 Republicans joined with 38 Provide them with daily strength to SCHEDULE Democrats to invoke cloture. Let us honor You with their service. May they put that in proper perspective. Fourth- never act in such a way that they lose Mr. REID. Mr. President, today the fifths of Democrats voted to proceed to their self-respect. Keep them from Senate will be in a period of morning complete this legislation, and one-sev- being the kind of people who want to business until 3:30 p.m., with the time enth of the Republicans voted to pro- get everything out of life while only equally divided and controlled between ceed. That is 80 percent and 14 per- putting a little into it. Remind them the two leaders or their designees. At cent—80 percent of the Democrats said that they will answer to You for the 3:30 p.m., the Senate will have 2 hours move forward and 14 percent of the Re- way they have used their talents to of debate as follows: an hour on the publicans said move forward. Eighty- serve others. Give them the ambition motion to proceed to the energy legis- six percent of the Republicans said no. to honor You with faithfulness and hu- lation, and the second hour will be de- Today, in an hour or so, I am going mility. bate on the motion to proceed to the to send a letter to President Bush to We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen. legislation expressing no confidence in lay out my hope that we can still move Attorney General Gonzales. Starting at f forward on this legislation, but I want 5:30 p.m. today, the Senate will con- him to know that further progress will PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE duct a rollcall vote on the motion to require active support from more Re- The Honorable KENT CONRAD led the invoke cloture on the motion to pro- publicans, which is something he has Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: ceed to the Gonzales legislation. If that to make sure his Republicans under- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the cloture vote fails, then the Senate will stand. United States of America, and to the Repub- have a vote on the motion to proceed I see in today’s Roll Call newspaper lic for which it stands, one nation under God, to the energy legislation. that one Republican Senator said: I indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ORDER OF PROCEDURE think the Democrats are going to have f I now ask unanimous consent that at to take care of most of those votes, the APPOINTMENT OF ACTING 5:10 today, until the vote at 5:30, the newspaper article says. Without men- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE time be equally divided and controlled tioning the Senator’s name, the article between the two leaders, with the ma- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The states: jority leader controlling the final 10 clerk will please read a communication Put the onus on Democrats to make up the minutes. to the Senate from the President pro 15-vote deficit on cloture, saying Repub- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- licans have nearly maxed out support on tempore (Mr. BYRD). pore. Without objection, it is so or- their side. The assistant legislative clerk read dered. This appears on page 24 of Roll Call: the following letter: f ‘‘I think the Democrats are going to U.S. SENATE, have to deal with most of those PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, CONSIDERATION OF IMMIGRATION [votes],’’ the Senator said. Washington, DC, June 11, 2007. AND ENERGY ISSUES To the Senate: Mr. President, 80 percent and 14 per- Under the provisions of Rule I, paragraph Mr. REID. Mr. President, we have cent. It is the President’s bill. So if 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I spent 2 weeks on the immigration bill, other Republican Senators feel the ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S7417 . VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:51 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S11JN7.REC S11JN7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S7418 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 11, 2007 same as the Senator who is expressed The bill we begin debate on today— amendment before any additional on page 24 of Roll Call, saying we have the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Pro- amendments are offered on this bill. to overcome the 15-vote deficit, it tection Energy Efficiency Act of 2007— I hope my colleagues will vote in won’t happen. We have about maxed takes several major steps toward re- favor of the motion to proceed. In fact, out at 80 percent. ducing our dependence on foreign oil, I hope we can proceed to the bill imme- The letter I am going to send to the promoting renewable energy that we diately and not have to use the 30 President will say a number of things. produce right here in America, and pro- hours. That will allow time for more Among other things, it will say: tecting our environment from global amendments. A strong spirit of bipartisanship has held warming. This bill is a substitute to f together the coalition of Democrats and Re- H.R. 6. This bill is a bipartisan bill. publicans who negotiated the compromise A number of my chairmen came to RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY and has sustained the Senate through 2 full me and said: We have this great legisla- LEADER weeks of debate on the bill. Unfortunately, tion in my committee; can we bring it that bipartisanship was largely absent in a The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- crucial vote last Thursday. forward? I said: No, we have to have an pore. The minority leader is recog- energy bill; our initial energy bill has nized. Then I will go on to state to the to be bipartisan. So the Energy Com- f President the percentages I just out- mittee, under the direction of Senators lined. BINGAMAN and DOMENICI, came up with IMMIGRATION I further say in the letter to the a good package. That is part of what President: Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, just we are going to be debating in the Sen- a brief word about the immigration We appreciate the efforts of you and other ate. Republicans who have worked with us to get bill. We could have been wrapping it up the bill this far. But we believe it will take Then, in the Commerce Committee, tonight. stronger leadership by you to ensure that op- Senator STEVENS and Senator INOUYE As I indicated to my good friend, the ponents of the bill do not block the path to also came up with an extremely impor- majority leader, on Thursday after- final passage. Simply put, we need many tant piece of legislation dealing with noon, I thought there was every reason more than seven Republicans to vote for clo- CAFE standards, which is making cars to believe we could have finished the ture and final passage of the bill. more efficient. That is going to be in immigration bill by tonight. Instead, This letter will be signed by Senators the bill to be brought to the floor. we ended up having another cloture REID, DURBIN, SCHUMER, and MURRAY, Senator BOXER and Senator INHOFE vote—in my view, a day or two pre- the Democratic leadership team. also worked together to come up with mature—taking Friday off, and today I want to get the bill done. The over- another piece of legislation that we spending our time on a meaningless whelming majority of the Democratic have put in this one bill. Their part of resolution giving the President advice caucus has already voted for cloture. this bill is also excellent and deals with about whom the Attorney General The American people are certainly green buildings and making the mas- ought to be.
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