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Senate Section 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, MARCH 8, 2012 No. 38 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was Mr. UDALL of New Mexico thereupon A bill (S. 2173) to preserve and protect the called to order by the Honorable TOM assumed the chair as Acting President free choice of individual employees to form, UDALL, a Senator from the State of pro tempore. join, or assist labor organizations, or to re- frain from such activities. New Mexico. f Mr. REID. Mr. President, I object to PRAYER RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY any further proceedings with respect to The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- LEADER this bill. fered the following prayer: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Let us pray. pore. The majority leader is recog- pore. Objection is heard. The bill will Eternal spirit, You are our strength nized. be placed on the calendar. and song. Who is like You, majestic in f f holiness and wondrous in mighty deeds? Give our Senators this day un- SCHEDULE RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY derstanding minds to legislate respon- Mr. REID. Mr. President, following LEADER sibly. As they seek to govern in a way leader remarks, the Senate will be in a The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- worthy of Your goodness, guide them period of morning business for an pore. The Republican leader is recog- by the light of Your truth. Infuse them hour—The majority will control the nized. with Your perfect peace as they keep first half, Republicans the final half. f their minds focused on You. May they Following morning business, the Sen- overcome cynicism with civility in ate will resume consideration of the SURFACE TRANSPORTATION ACT their relationships and work. surface transportation bill. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, last O Lord, we wait for You and ac- As most know, late last night we night the two parties reached an agree- knowledge that You alone are sov- reached an agreement to move forward ment on amendments to the highway ereign. Amen. on the highway bill. Under the order bill. As the majority leader will indi- f that has been issued, I can schedule cate shortly, or may already have be- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE those votes anytime after consultation fore I came to the floor, we will be able with the Republican leader, so we have to move forward on that later today. The Honorable TOM UDALL led the some 30 votes to complete today. We I am also happy to report there are a Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: will see how this works. I think we will number of strong, very strong, job-cre- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the have the first vote about 2:15 today and ating measures in the mix. One that United States of America, and to the Repub- start working through these amend- stands out is Senator HOEVEN’s amend- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ments. ment on the Keystone XL Pipeline, There is not going to be a lot of de- that massive private sector project f bate, so if anybody wants to speak on that will create 20,000 jobs almost im- APPOINTMENT OF ACTING these amendments they better come mediately. PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE over after the morning business hour Most Americans strongly support The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and start telling people how they feel building the pipeline and, of course, the clerk will please read a communication about some amendments, because there significant number of construction jobs to the Senate from the President pro is not going to be a lot of time during that would come along with it. It is in- tempore (Mr. INOUYE). the voting on the amendments. comprehensible to me that the Presi- The assistant legislative clerk read f dent of the United States, as I read, is the following letter: actually lobbying against the Keystone MEASURE PLACED ON THE U.S. SENATE, Pipeline amendment. There is a report CALENDAR—S. 2173 PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, this morning that the President is per- Washington, DC, March 8, 2012. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I believe S. sonally making phone calls to Demo- To the Senate: 2173 is at the desk and due for a second cratic Senators he thinks might vote Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, reading. for the amendment, asking them not of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- to. Frankly, it is hard to comprehend appoint the Honorable TOM UDALL, a Senator from the State of New Mexico, to perform pore. The clerk will read the bill by how completely out of touch he is on the duties of the Chair. title for the second time. this issue. DANIEL K. INOUYE, The assistant legislative clerk read Think about it. At a moment when President pro tempore. as follows: millions are out of work, gas prices are ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S1495 . VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:17 Mar 09, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08MR6.000 S08MRPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with SENATE S1496 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 8, 2012 literally skyrocketing, and the Middle Just a little side note; as we were would write off the rest of this Con- East is in turmoil, we have a President struggling, trying to come up with gress, but I am not going to do that. who is up making phone calls trying to these amendments, I was happy to hear We have a lot more to do and we need block a pipeline here at home. It is al- from BARBARA BOXER. She said to me to get it done. When we complete our most unbelievable. What we are seeing privately: I have talked to Senator work, we need to look back and say in Congress this week is a study in con- INHOFE and he thinks, as we are coming what has happened that is good. trasts. On the one hand, you have a Re- to this agreement, this is not what ‘‘There is no single piece of legisla- publican-controlled House that is should be done. tion now before Congress that will do about to pass a bipartisan jobs bill that That was important to me in reach- more to create American jobs and would help entrepreneurs and ing consensus on how we move forward sharpen our global competitiveness’’ innovators by getting Washington out on this bill. As I have said many times, than this legislation said Dennis Slater of the way, and today we have a Demo- not everything we do this year should on behalf of I Make America, the pro- cratic-controlled Senate trying to line be a big fight. We should be able to gram I just talked about. up votes against an amendment that move things forward without waiting We need to push this bill over the fin- would create jobs, and a Democratic for a month to get things done. This ish line and I think the finish line is President lobbying against the biggest bill is truly indicative of how we have now in sight. This is one of the most private sector job creation project in to get these done and why I appreciate important pieces of legislation we can our country. the cooperation of Senators BOXER and consider. I indicated earlier why. But We have an opportunity to work to- INHOFE. even as I recognize the bipartisanship gether to create jobs. We can do that We have a dilapidated system of that made this progress possible, I will with these amendments and we can do highways. We have 70,000—I am not sound a note of caution. Eighty-five that by taking up the bipartisan jobs misspeaking, not 7,000—70,000 bridges Senators voted to begin on this legisla- bill the House will pass later today. in America that are in dire need of re- tion. Only a handful—it wasn’t 15, be- Let me say a word about that. The pair—or replacement even. Twenty per- cause we had absent Senators that bipartisan jobs bill the House will pass cent, 1 out of every 5 miles of your day—said we should not begin voting later today is supported by the Presi- roads in America are not up to safety on it. Yet it has taken a month to dent. It is ready to go. I hope that once standards. Thousands of pedestrians begin voting on the amendments. Re- it gets over to the Senate we will sim- are killed because they relied on unsafe publican leaders have wasted weeks of ply take it up and pass it. It is an ex- sidewalks or nonexisting sidewalks. the Senate’s time directing this valu- ample of a measure supported by Re- Every day millions of Americans—a able jobs bill to extract purely political publicans and Democrats and the disproportionate number who are low votes on unrelated matters, completely President that we believe will clear the income, minority, disabled, or old—are unrelated matters. Weeks were wasted House with a very large majority. I forced to rely on overcrowded mass on this vital legislation with an iconic think the sooner we pass that here in transit systems, straining to meet the attack on women’s health.
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