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Vol. 164 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2018 No. 12 Senate The Senate met at 11 a.m. and was lions of Americans rely on—veterans Now that we are 13 hours away from called to order by the President pro services, opioid treatment centers, a government shutdown that the tempore (Mr. HATCH). death benefits for the families of fallen Democrats would initiate and Demo- f soldiers, and health insurance for 9 crats would own, the craziness of this million vulnerable children—would be seems to be dawning on my friend the PRAYER thrown into chaos. Democratic leader. Perhaps he is re- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- Last night the Senate began consid- membering his own words from 2013. fered the following prayer: eration of a bill passed by the House Here is what he said back then about Let us pray. that would erase all of these threats. threatening a government shutdown. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on The bill keeps the Federal Government No matter how strongly one feels about an us. As the clock ticks toward another open. It extends the State Children’s issue, you shouldn’t hold millions of people deadline, inspire our lawmakers to be Health Insurance Program, which pro- hostage . . . that’s wrong. instruments of Your purposes. May vides coverage for 9 million children A few days later, the Democratic they humbly seek to do what is best for and low-income families for 6 years. leader added: our Nation and world, achieving to- This vote should be a no-brainer, and it It’s sort of like this. Someone goes into gether what cannot be done without al- would be, except that the Democratic your house, takes your wife and children lies. leader has convinced his Members to hostage, and then says, ‘‘Let’s negotiate over Lord, give them the wisdom to see filibuster any funding bill that doesn’t the price of your house.’’ that there is a practical morality based include legislation they are demanding He went on to say. on absolutes that they should follow. for people who came into the United We’re shutting down the government, Remind them that they are account- States illegally. What has been we’re not gonna raise the debt ceiling until able to You for their thoughts, words, shoehorned into this discussion is an you pass immigration reform. It would be and deeds. May they speak truth as insistence that we deal with an illegal governmental chaos. You give them the ability to com- immigration issue. Now maybe he is remembering those prehend it, finding workable solutions He has insisted that he will not sup- words today because now he is saying: to challenging problems. port any legislation at all for the Never mind, I really didn’t mean it, We pray in Your great Name. Amen. American people no matter how non- and he himself is calling for an even f controversial or how bipartisan unless shorter short-term funding bill. Of we pass a bill on illegal immigration course, his last-ditch proposals would PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE first. If that means shutting down the do nothing for the Children’s Health The President pro tempore led the funding for veterans, military families, Insurance Program or the 9 million Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: opioid treatment centers, and even children who are waiting on us to I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Federal grants to his home State of renew it. What is more, the incredibly United States of America, and to the Repub- New York, so be it. If it means throw- short-term continuing resolutions he is lic for which it stands, one nation under God, ing a wrench into the gears of the U.S. now proposing do not meet any of the indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. economy, just as Americans are start- demands—none of them—that he and f ing to feel the benefits of historic tax his own conference and Democrats in reform, so be it. If it means failing to the House have been making for weeks. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY renew the Children’s Health Insurance None of that would be solved in a LEADER Program, which the House-passed bill short-term CR—the stuff they have The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. funded for a full 6 years, apparently been calling for. CAPITO). The majority leader is recog- that is just fine with those on the other So apparently now he wants his nized. side. Members to default on their own de- f Nearly every Democrat in the House mands. He has spent days apparently made the same demand. That has been persuading all of his colleagues to in- FUNDING THE GOVERNMENT their stated position: Nothing for hun- sist that we cannot pass another con- Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, dreds of millions of Americans and no tinuing resolution. Now he wants them the deadline to fund the government is healthcare for 9 million vulnerable to pass one. He spent weeks getting his nearly upon us. The Senate is now just children until we solve a non-imminent Members to proclaim that we should hours away from an entirely avoidable issue related to illegal immigration. To not do anything to fund the govern- government shutdown. At midnight to- even repeat this position out loud is to ment unless we address the DACA night, funding for programs that mil- see how completely ridiculous it is. issue, and now apparently he is calling

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Democrats have declared they cannot on. What are they offering us? The accept. I would recommend to stop the wild- fourth CR. Now, CR is Washington Now, I wish for all of our sakes that goose chase. Don’t go to a destination talk. It is a continuing resolution. the Democratic leader would figure out that cannot be explained. Let’s fulfill What does it mean? It means that the what he actually wants. I feel bad for the core responsibilities of Congress. Republican majority has failed in 119 his own Members. He has painted them Let’s fund the government, provide for days to produce a budget for the United into a corner, but I especially feel bad the American people, and then resume States of America. The Republican ma- for the American people whose govern- serious negotiations on the issues that jority in the House and Senate—with ment the Democrats are threatening to matter most. Let’s fund the govern- their President—has failed to come up shut down and the 9 million children ment for a full month so we can actu- with a blueprint for spending for this whose health insurance could be ally get something done. great Nation that we serve and are thrown into jeopardy because Senate f proud to be part of. Democrats cannot get their story Their fourth failure to produce a straight. RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME budget in this fiscal year, which began Now, my friend the Democratic lead- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under er now wants his Members to pass a October 1, is before us now. Was it ne- the previous order, the leadership time gotiated between the Republicans and bill that allows SCHIP to expire. Ap- is reserved. parently, he now wants every Demo- Democrats? No. It was produced in the crat in the House of Representatives to f House of Representatives and with the break their word and pass a separate Senate. It was passed there by the Re- CONCLUSION OF MORNING publicans and a handful of Democrats funding bill of his own that does not BUSINESS address the illegal immigration issue who supported it, and it was sent over they said they must have. So let’s The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning here on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. think about this for a minute. First, he business is closed. Well, you say, at least we are going leads his own troops into a box canyon, f to keep the lights on. And that is all a and then tells them it was really all for continuing resolution does—keeps the FEDERAL REGISTER PRINTING nothing. Maybe it is time to come back lights on. It doesn’t allow agencies to SAVINGS ACT OF 2017 to reality. make important decisions that invest We already have a bill that we know The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under taxpayers’ dollars wisely and save tax- can pass the House because it already the previous order, the Senate will re- payers’ dollars. did. We have a bill that we know the sume consideration of the motion to Last night, the Department of De- President will sign into law because he concur in the House amendment to the fense reported to us. They are sick and has already committed to do just that. Senate amendment to H.R. 195, which tired of the continuing resolutions that We know that with one noncontrover- the clerk will report. they have faced for 3 years—note that sial and bipartisan vote we can keep The legislative clerk read as follows: I said 3 years—because we have failed, the government up and running. We House message to accompany H.R. 195, a even on the Democratic side, to come can fund the children’s healthcare pro- bill to amend title 44, United States Code, to up with appropriations and budgets in gram for 6 years, and we can give our- restrict the distribution of free printed cop- the past. So I am being very honest selves the time we need to finish ongo- ies of the Federal Register to Members of about it. ing negotiations on DACA, border secu- Congress and other officers and employees of the United States, and for other purposes. If we are going to change this men- rity, and the long-term needs of our Pending: tality of never producing a budget, military. We could do all of that never producing appropriations bills— today—all of it—or our Democratic McConnell motion to concur in the amend- ment of the House to the amendment of the kind of stumbling into the fiscal year friends can continue to take the Demo- for month after weary month—if that cratic leader’s advice and vote to shut Senate to the bill. McConnell motion to concur in the amend- is the new norm around here, shame on down the government, destabilize fund- ment of the House to the amendment of the us. And shame on the majority party, ing for our troops, shut down the chil- Senate to the bill, with McConnell amend- the Republicans, for saying that is the dren’s healthcare program, and still ment No. 1903 (to the House amendment to best they can do. We can do better. not get what they are demanding on il- the Senate amendment to the bill), to legal immigration. It is really up to change the enactment date. We need to get beyond this world of them. McConnell amendment No. 1904 (to amend- continuing resolutions, and we need to I look forward to voting soon on clo- ment No. 1903), of a perfecting nature. get into a world where we actually ture on the House bill. The American McConnell motion to refer the message of make a decision that is good for the people, the citizens who actually elect- the House on the bill to the Committee on taxpayers, as well as the security of Appropriations, with instructions, McCon- the United States of America. The best ed us, will be watching. They will see nell amendment No. 1905, to change the en- which Senators make the patriotic de- the Republican leader in the Senate actment date. can offer us is another bandaid, an- cision to stand up for the American McConnell amendment No. 1906 (to (the in- people and vote to continue govern- structions) amendment No. 1905), of a per- other 4 weeks of temporary funding—a ment funding and extend children’s fecting nature. wasteful gesture, a wasteful exercise, healthcare while we continue our bi- McConnell amendment No. 1907 (to amend- and he knows it. partisan talks, and they will see which ment No. 1906), of a perfecting nature. There is more to this issue. Senator Senators vote to shove aside veterans, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The MCCONNELL brings it up regularly. Last military families, and vulnerable chil- Democratic whip. night he did and again today. He glo- dren and to hold the entire country Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, let’s ries in saying that this is all about ille- hostage until we pass an immigration look at the reality of what we face at gal immigrants. Let’s be honest about bill they haven’t even written yet. this moment in this country in this what we are talking about here. We are It is completely unfair and Chamber. The Republicans are in ma- talking about those who were pro- uncompassionate for my Democratic jority control of the Senate. The Re- tected and allowed to live in the United colleagues to filibuster government publicans are in majority control of States legally under an Executive funding, harm our troops, and jeop- the House of Representatives. The Re- order of President Obama’s until Sep- ardize health coverage for 9 million publicans are in control of the White tember 5 of last year when President

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 Jan 19, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G19JA6.002 S19JAPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE January 19, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S317 Donald Trump announced he was elimi- At a point when I was talking to get when it comes to the policies and nating this program. As that protec- them, I said: We are going to do every- direction and leadership of this admin- tion is eliminated, as their 2-year pro- thing we can to help your parents. istration. We need to do our job, and I tection expires, yes, they move into il- They all broke down crying. That is hope he will be part of it. I hope the legal categories. So are they illegal what this is about. This is about a President will join us. If he will, we can technically after they have lost DACA? heart-wrenching issue that is before us solve this problem. If he stands on the Yes. What caused it? President Donald because President Trump made a deci- sidelines, we cannot. Trump caused it by his announcement sion on September 5 to end a program I think we can find common ground. on September 5 that this program is that allowed these young people to go That is what the American people ex- finished by March 5. That is the re- to school and to work in the United pect. We should give them nothing less. ality. States of America. It was President And of course we should solve the prob- Do you know what he also told us? I Trump who challenged us to do some- lems involving the Children’s Health am going to end this program. Now I thing about it, and we have done noth- Insurance Program, community clin- challenge you in Congress to pass a law ing—nothing. And that is the challenge ics, helping our veterans, the opioid to replace it. we face. To say we are in no hurry— crisis, defense spending, and a sane ap- So what has the Republican majority well, we may not be as Senators and proach, a reasonable approach when it in the House and Senate done in the 41⁄2 Congressmen, but these young people comes to these young people who have months since we received that chal- are in a hurry to find out whether they become illegal because of the decision lenge from President Trump? Nothing. have a life. That is what it comes down by President Trump on September 5 of Then I hear Senator MCCONNELL say: to. last year. We haven’t even seen a written pro- There was an announcement just a Together, we can get this done but posal from the Democrats on this. few minutes ago from the House side. not if the House Republicans leave The Senator knows better. A group of The Republican leadership in the House town. We need to continue to be here in us—six of us, three Democrats and of Representatives—despite the fact Washington doing our job and making three Republicans—accepted President that we do not have an agreement mov- sure that we spend every waking mo- Trump’s challenge and produced a bi- ing forward—is going to leave. They ment serving the people who elected partisan solution. We have described it are going to leave Washington. I don’t us. to everyone, Democrat and Republican know for how long, and I don’t know Madam President, I yield the floor. alike. It was a good-faith effort, real what they are going to do when they The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- compromise and pain on both sides. It leave, but I would beg them: Don’t turn ator from Utah. is ready. It is ready to be brought to your backs on your responsibility right Mr. HATCH. Madam President, I lis- the floor of the Senate. It is ready to here in Washington to work with us, to tened to the distinguished Senator be passed into law. For Senator find a way to move forward. from Illinois. The Democrats never do MCCONNELL to say he doesn’t know We have come up with a proposal. It anything wrong, do they? They are al- anything about it—I am sorry, but we is a short-term, last-step continuing ways right. I have to tell you, they do have been very open about what is in- resolution of just a few days. I have a lot of things that are wrong, and they cluded in there. He knows it is a prod- been around here for a while. If you are not always right. And this is a situ- uct of long and hard bipartisan work. ation where they have literally pushed I would like to address another as- give the Senate and House a couple of pect of what he has said about these so- weeks, it turns into a couple of everybody in this country into the cor- called illegal immigrants. Late last months. If we do this in a matter of 3 ner. Republicans want to do DACA. night, after using that term, I noticed or 4 days to reach an agreement on They want to take care of these young the Gallery was filled over here with these key issues—everything included people. They have even interfered with young people who appeared to be, at in the CR that we have before us and that. I could go on and on. first glance, here to watch the debate everything that should be—I think we All I can say is, I get a little sick of on the Dream Act, the debate on will roll up our sleeves, get down to hearing some of these arguments that DACA. After the meeting of the Sen- work, and do it. We don’t want to shut are made like they are holier than ate, I invited them into my office. down this government. We want to thou. They are not holier than thou; There were about 40 of them. They are solve the problems facing this govern- they are more political than thou. from all across the United States but ment and this Nation. That means I think it is time that we work to- primarily from the State of Oregon. working together—something Senator gether and get some things done here They came all the way out here to try MCCONNELL is not engaged in when it that make a difference in people’s lives to see if this Senate was going to meet comes to this CR. and especially in these young DACA President Trump’s challenge and It is time for us as Democrats and kids’ lives. We can do that, but we produce an alternative. It turns out Republicans to sit down in a room to- can’t do it by just Democrats saying: that most of them were protected by gether and think about this great Na- Well, we are just going to give them ev- DACA, the Executive order that is tion and the frustration they have with erything they want. We are not going being abolished by President Trump. our political system and those of us in to worry about U.S. laws or immigra- One of them said to me: I am skip- political life. Nine out of ten—maybe tion laws or anything else, for that ping my first week of classes at the even more—would say to us: For good- matter. University of Texas. ness’ sake, will you stop your fighting? It is incredible to me. I have put up I said: What is your major? Will you stop your bickering? Will you with this all these years in the Senate, She said: Neuroscience. stop your debating? Will you go into a and they get away with it because the I said: Don’t skip too many classes. room and act like grownups and do media in this country is primarily fo- That has to be a tough thing to do, something together for the good of this cused on them and basically supports but she came here because what is at Nation? them. And they admit it. That is the stake in this Chamber, what is at stake That is what we are proposing—to sit thing that is really mind-boggling—the in this debate, will decide whether she down together for the good of this Na- media admits it. And the reason they can continue to live in the United tion and to move forward. do is because they know they would be States of America. When he was asked just a few days laughed out of town if they didn’t For Senator MCCONNELL to dismiss ago, Senator MCCONNELL said his big- admit it. this issue and say that we will get gest problem was that he didn’t know All I can say is, we have a desire to around to it later is to ignore the obvi- what President Trump wants. I can un- resolve these problems in a reasonable ous. For many of these young people, derstand that. I have been in meetings and good manner. The majority leader this debate, this moment, may decide with the President where he said one has indicated that time after time. Pol- their future. It may decide the future thing on a Tuesday and a different itics always takes preference with our of their families. Are they worried? To thing on a Thursday, and then he friends on the other side. They are say the least—half of them were crying tweeted something entirely different good at it. They are really good at it, as they came into my office. the next morning. He is a moving tar- even though, if you really look at the

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But politics rears its ugly head al- that efforts to reauthorize CHIP were they championed those causes? Are most every time in such a way that it ongoing. Yet many of our colleagues they prepared to vote in favor of this is almost impossible to get anything accused Republicans of neglecting vul- bill? Apparently not. The question is, done around here. I have to admit, we nerable children. Why? Why are Democrats willing to fil- have some on our side who fit that I was leading the fight as one of the ibuster this continuing resolution and mode, as well. leading Republicans, as chairman of shut down the government? What I just wish we could do a better job. the Finance Committee, the author of crazy, rightwing fantasy have we in- There are some of us who would do a the original bill, the one who has al- serted into the bill? Of course I am better job if we knew that there was a ways voted for it. I just want a bill being sarcastic. There is really nothing way of bringing both sides together. that works and not the political brou- wrong with the substance of the bill, or Having said that, we are now just a haha that it always becomes whenever at least very few of our Democratic few hours away from a government some of the Democrats think they can colleagues are complaining about what shutdown, unless, of course, enough score some political points. The at- is actually in the bill. Instead, they are Senators can find a way to come to- tacks on this front were fierce and usu- complaining about what is not in it. gether in order to avert it. Unfortu- ally high volume. I was personally at- The Democrats think they have struck nately, it appears that our Democratic tacked by colleagues in committee, political gold with immigration this colleagues would prefer a shutdown to here on the floor, and in the media. All week, so they are holding everything compromise. The Democrats have ac- kinds of vitriol was thrown in my di- hostage so that they can stage another tivists and pundits cheering for that rection both here in the Senate and out ‘‘righteous’’ crusade on the floor and in result. They have their Members in in the political intelligentsia. No one TV interviews. line to vote against the alternative. needs to worry about me, Madam It should go without saying that I They have set the stage for a grand President. I can take it and throw it personally would like to see a legisla- demonstration of their commitment. right back, if it is necessary. But for tive fix for the so-called Dreamers—un- But for the life of me, I can’t see months, colleagues have been coming documented immigrants brought to the what they are committed to with this to the floor or going on TV—pretty United States as children. This is an latest gesture to their political base. much anywhere with a camera—to ac- important matter that needs to be ad- First of all, most of them don’t object cuse Republicans of wanting to take dressed. Not only are there myriad ele- to the substance of the House-passed away health insurance for vulnerable ments to our Nation’s immigration continuing resolution. That bill would children. Total BS. Yet they do it all system that are in dire need of reform, keep the government open and address the time because they, with their immigration isn’t something that can a number of bipartisan healthcare pri- friends in the media, know they can be solved with a few roundtables with orities. I don’t know any Democrats get away with it in spite of the wrong the President and some quick negotia- who are against those. I am sure there they are doing. tions behind the scenes. It certainly may be some, but the rest of them, I Throughout all of this time, they isn’t something we can or should try to think, are pretty much for it. conveniently neglected to mention solve under the threat of an imminent The bill before us includes what that bipartisan efforts with regard to government shutdown. Unless you have would be the longest extension of the CHIP were moving forward, even been hiding in a cave or trapped under Children’s Health Insurance Program though they clearly knew that such something very heavy for the past 15 in history. CHIP has given children and was the case. In fact, one of the years, you know that immigration re- their families access to quality harshest critics was an original cospon- form—even piecemeal reform—is an ex- healthcare. Maybe I have a right to sor of our bill and a Senator who voted tremely difficult lift. There are Mem- speak on CHIP since I am the author of in support of our bill in committee. bers of both parties willing to work on the CHIP bill and I believe in it. I be- This new bill before us would reau- this. The President has indicated his lieve it has done so much good for our thorize CHIP for 6 years—something willingness as well. But some don’t young people in this society. I really that has never been done before. A 6- want to go the reasonable route, so resent it being played politics with all year extension would be the largest here we are. the time, which our friends on the and longest in the history of the pro- I get that there is an adage in this other side just can’t resist. gram. We had already done that in the town that no one should let a good cri- CHIP has given children and their Finance Committee. In all other re- sis go to waste, and I certainly under- families access to quality healthcare spects, the bill is identical to the one stand the desire to strike when a polit- coverage for over two decades. It was the Finance Committee reported with ical iron is hot. And in the eyes of most founded on the belief that the health of broad bipartisan support. Democrats, that time is now. However, our future is too important to be So where are our colleagues today? Is if they filibuster this legislation, they dragged down by the political bick- Senator WYDEN, who coauthored the will be filibustering authorized funding ering of the present. Approximately 9 committee’s CHIP bill, prepared to for the Children’s Health Insurance million children depend on this critical vote for an even longer extension of the Program. They will be voting to pre- program. It is important to me. After CHIP program? Apparently not. Are vent this bipartisan effort—the one we several months of uncertainty, those 9 other Democrats on the Finance Com- have been talking about for years million children deserve the peace of mittee, including those who publicly now—from moving forward; the one mind that comes with a long-term touted their support for the committee they have been harping about for years CHIP extension. bill, prepared to vote for this exten- now from moving forward. As I noted here on the floor the other sion? Apparently not. What about There is another political adage that day, as chairman of the Finance Com- those Senate Democrats—both on and goes around this town, one that hor- mittee, I have been working with my off the Finance Committee—who have ribly misquotes Napoleon. That axiom Democratic counterparts on a bipar- been on their own righteous crusades goes something like this: Never inter- tisan CHIP extension bill for months with respect to CHIP? Are they pre- rupt your opponent when they are now. The committee’s ranking mem- pared to vote for it today? Apparently making a mistake. Truthfully, I don’t ber, Senator WYDEN, and I introduced not. consider my Democratic colleagues to our initial bill earlier, last fall. That What has changed? Do they oppose be my opponents, but a number of peo- bill would have reauthorized CHIP for 5 something in the broader bill? No. ple, unfortunately, view Congress that years. It was promptly reported out of Most Democrats have supported the way.

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CHIP does not. been a lot of talk here in the U.S. Sen- they will unequivocally be voting CHIP is something that we all know ate about fighting the opioid epidemic, against a historically long-term Chil- works and works in the best interests but we have no resources to do that. dren’s Health Insurance Program ex- of our children. It is something that we We need a budget to get that done. tension—the longest it has ever been, as Federal employees can all work on So, yes, we should extend the Chil- and I have had a lot to do with that. and do, that we go home and feel really dren’s Health Insurance Program. We They will be voting to prolong the very good about it and know we have done need to do that. But we also need to do crisis—that is their word, not mine— something really worthwhile. I can say our job—which we should have done that they have been lamenting for the that because I am the original author back on October 1, the first day of this past several months. If they don’t of the CHIP bill, and I have been for it fiscal year—and actually adopt a bipar- know that, the CHIP’s advocates and ever since. I was the one who got Sen- tisan budget for the United States of stakeholders throughout the country ator Kennedy to come on board and to America. know it, and the families and children help with it, and that brought a lot of The tragedy right now is that at mid- who depend on CHIP will know it as Democrats on board, as well, because if night tonight the government will shut well. Kennedy was on board, they could be down unless the Senate Republican There is no reason for my colleagues on board. I was the one who got a lot of leadership comes to its senses and sup- to pit their righteous crusade on immi- Republicans on board, like he was get- ports a bipartisan budget agreement—a gration against their righteous crusade ting Democrats. In other words, the bipartisan agreement, which is really for CHIP. This is simply a matter of two of us made this system work—and in plain sight right here in the U.S. priorities. Today, the priority should not just the two of us but people in the Senate. be to keep the government open and to House and other Senators here in the Look, the American people under- ensure funding for CHIP well into the Senate. A lot of people deserve a lot of stand very clearly that Republicans future. credit for the CHIP bill. control the White House, Republicans As I said, offering my colleagues this Now we are sitting here arguing control both Houses of Congress, and advice may amount to stepping in the about something that we shouldn’t with that comes a responsibility to way of an opponent’s mistake, but the have to argue about. It is disappointing govern for the good of the entire coun- politics on this issue must stop. The to me, and I am disappointed in the try and not focus on narrow, partisan right answer in this case is pretty obvi- politics that are being played around interests. Instead, what we have here ous. The right vote is one in favor of CHIP. There are better arguments on as the clock ticks is dysfunction and the House-passed continuing resolu- other bills than there are on the CHIP chaos. tion. bill. Everybody knows that CHIP is Yesterday I heard the Republican I urge all of my colleagues to join me going to pass one way or the other, so leader, Senator MCCONNELL, say on the in voting for this bill. naturally our friends on the other Senate floor that he would not support Look, I get so tired of the cheap poli- side—maybe even some on our side— a bipartisan agreement, reached by tics that are played. When they are want to hang whatever they can on the Senators right here, unless he knew played on a bill like CHIP—virtually CHIP bill, knowing that the American where President Trump stood on those everybody is going to vote for it. Ev- people want it, that Senators want it, issues. Then, in the same breath, he in- erybody agrees with or wants to agree that the House of Representatives has dicated he did not know where Presi- with or has claimed credit for it. That proven that they want it, and they dent Trump stood on those key issues. makes you wonder what is going on. might be able to score a few political The Senate is a separate and equal I think I have the right to speak on points. branch of the U.S. Government with its this because I am the original author Well, I want the two leaders to get own constitutional responsibilities. We of CHIP. I wrote the original language. together and get this matter resolved, have a bipartisan agreement here on so I was the one who got the committee and let’s quit playing these silly games many of these issues. We should not to go for it. I was the one who went to that are so often played around here. I now be outsourcing our constitutional Ted Kennedy—representing the Demo- don’t mind them maybe on the bills duties to a White House that, accord- crats—to come on board, and he did, that are lesser in import and nature, ing to Senator MCCONNELL, doesn’t and it brought both sides together. I but to do it on the CHIP bill, my gosh, know where it stands on these issues. am sure he is up there wondering, what it is incredible to me. Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM had it right is the matter with my side down there? This is the greatest country in the when he said that we don’t have a reli- And he ought to be. world, but we do have some really stu- able negotiating partner at the White It hasn’t been easy to do all that, but pid people representing it from time to House. And, in the last week, we heard we did it. It works. It has helped mil- time. With that—I probably have gone President Trump’s own Chief of Staff, lions of children. It will help 9 million too far saying that, but it is true, and General Kelly, acknowledge that the children now. It is something every- it is disappointing to me. President was ‘‘uninformed’’ on some body in this Senate ought to be for and With that, I yield the floor. of the issues being debated here. ought to quit playing games with. Un- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- So let’s do our job as the U.S. Senate, fortunately, some people think they ator from Maryland. with our own responsibilities under the can score points by playing games with Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Presi- Constitution, and not say that we have something like CHIP. It is not only dent, let me start by agreeing with the to wait on a dysfunctional White House wrong, it is abysmal. Senator from Utah that we should ex- and not say that we have to wait on a I love my colleagues. There are some tend the Children’s Health Insurance President who once tweeted out that I love more than others, but I love all Program. We should do it for 6 years. I we need ‘‘a good government shut- of them. I have to say, the ones I love want to commend the Senator from down.’’ There are no good government more than others are those who really Utah for his work in creating the CHIP shutdowns, and we should be doing ev- are honest and deliberative, who really program, along with Senator KENNEDY. erything we can to avoid one at mid- want to do what is right while they are It is good work, and we need to extend night tonight. here and who are willing to work with it. So let’s actually do our job here, and others to get there, who are willing to We also have an obligation as Sen- let’s come up with a budget for the work in a bipartisan manner to be able ators, on a bipartisan basis, to get to- United States for this fiscal year. to bring these things to pass. gether and put together a budget for A small business could not survive I understand the differences between the United States of America. We are without putting together its budget. It the two parties. I understand the poli- now 4 months into the current fiscal does great harm to our country and to

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It’s time Congress stop the cycle of Democrats came up with a plan, which Mr. MARKEY. Mr. President, we are dysfunction, grow up, and act con- now has very broad support, including here today because Republicans and sistent with the values of a great na- the support of seven Republican Sen- President Trump have failed in their tion.’’ ators. So they did exactly what Presi- most basic responsibility as the gov- Amen to that. That is our constitu- dent Trump asked them to do, and they erning party, bringing us mere hours tional duty. That is what we need to do addressed all of the issues that Presi- away from an unnecessary and con- in order to protect our military and dent Trump outlined. sequential government shutdown. other vital investments important to I think we know what happened after Let’s be clear. With Republicans in our country and our economy. that. Senators GRAHAM and DURBIN control of the White House, the Senate, Here is what the Pentagon’s chief went to the White House to present and the House of Representatives, the spokesperson said about continuing their bipartisan agreement to the only person to blame if the government resolutions: They are wasteful, they President, and, meanwhile, he invited shuts down will be President Donald are destructive, and the longer they go some other Senators over. They sabo- Trump. the worse it is. taged the deal, and the President made Later today, I plan to vote no on the She went on to say that these con- repulsive, racist remarks at that meet- government funding bill that the House tinuing resolutions erode our defense ing. So the President, who had asked of Representatives has sent over to the capabilities and have negative con- Senators to come up with a solution on Senate because it provides no certainty sequences for them. a bipartisan basis, when they did what or resolution for Dreamers, pensioners, Why in the world do we want to kick he asked, threw it back in their face. veterans, the people of Puerto Rico, or the can down the road another 30 days Why is the Republican leader, Sen- vulnerable children and patients across when we can get it done right now and ator MCCONNELL, now saying to the the country. I cannot support legisla- avert a government shutdown? Senate that we can’t do our job here We need that budget to support our tion that fails to ensure that we are until I know what is going to happen at fulfilling our moral and constitutional military. We also need it to support the the White House? Why should we be critical investment in our kids’ edu- obligation to the American people. outsourcing our constitutional respon- Sadly, this budget process is just a cation. We need a budget plan that is sibilities to the White House when we going to provide veterans the continuation of a pattern from Repub- have an agreement which, if it were licans in Congress: Draft major policy healthcare they deserve. We need a put on the floor of the Senate today, budget that is going to fight the opioid in secret, with no debate, no Demo- would pass? It is a bipartisan solution. crats, no real opportunity to negotiate. epidemic—one that keeps community I really believe it is time for us to do First, they did it on healthcare. Then, health centers open. The Social Secu- our job here, Republicans and Demo- they did it on tax reform. Now, they rity Administration has faced hundreds crats alike. are doing it again on the continuing of millions of dollars of cuts. They are Here is what President Trump said at budget resolution. not going to be able to do their job in the time of the last government shut- making sure folks get their Social Se- down. That is when we had a 16-day There is a great song in the musical curity benefits on time if we continue shutdown because some of the Repub- ‘‘Hamilton’’ titled ‘‘The Room Where It to strangle their budget. lican Senators didn’t want to fund the Happens.’’ Well, the Democrats aren’t The sad thing is, we have known Affordable Care Act at the time and even told where the room is. Repub- about all of these issues since last Sep- shut down the government for 16 days. licans aren’t negotiating deals. They tember. I am glad we have come to Then Citizen Trump said: ‘‘It always are delivering fiats, not just to the some resolution on the issue of the happens to be the top. I mean, the Democrats but to the American people, Children’s Health Insurance Program. problems start from the top and have and the American people are the ones We have known about that since last to get solved from the top.’’ paying the price. September. But we have also known This is what Citizen Donald Trump We cannot let this craven, half-meas- about the need to fight the opioid epi- was saying about President Obama at ure of a bill fool us. Yes, this legisla- demic. We have known about the need the time of the last shutdown. tion does finally reauthorize and fund a to fund community health centers. We He went on to say: ‘‘The president is program that provides healthcare for 9 have known about the need to make the leader, and he’s got to get every- million children across this country, sure our veterans have the healthcare body in a room, and he’s got to lead.’’ known as the Children’s Health Insur- they deserve. And we have known How times change when Citizen ance Program, or CHIP. But remember, about the need to address the DACA Trump becomes President Trump. You just like they are abdicating their role issue—the Dreamers—because it was have a White House in chaos, dysfunc- in governing today and have been last September when President Trump tion. Senator GRAHAM himself said it: throughout the budget negotiations, revoked the DACA Program, effective a an unreliable negotiating partner. Republicans in Congress allowed CHIP very short time from now. That pro- Yet, the Republican leader wants this to expire at the end of September— gram had made sure that Dreamers Senate to outsource our job to the more than 100 days ago. could be here legally in the United President of the United States and says Why would Republicans do such a States, contributing to our country. So that we are going to shut down the thing for a program they now say is so when President Trump took that ac- government here because we don’t vital and bipartisan? Because 100 days tion, he manufactured the crisis we are know what President Trump thinks ago the Republican caucus was pre- in now. about all this. That is a dereliction of occupied with their unsuccessful at- But he also said: OK, I am going to the duty of the Senate, and we need to tempt at repealing the Affordable Care revoke this legal status—this pro- do our job today and avoid a govern- Act. For weeks on end, they held gram—but I want Congress, on a bipar- ment shutdown. America in suspension as they secretly tisan basis, to come up with a long- The answer is in plain sight. Let’s wrote and rewrote a bill that would rip term solution. That is what he said get to work. Let’s get it done. healthcare coverage away from tens of back then, and he said the same thing I yield the floor. millions of Americans while taking a just a few weeks ago. I think the Na- I suggest the absence of a quorum. machete to Medicaid. tion saw him on TV, when he invited a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Thankfully, this dangerous bill failed bipartisan group of Senators and Mem- clerk will call the roll. to gain support from enough Senate

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Community health business of providing low- and middle- practice Republicans performed on the centers in Massachusetts have created income children healthcare, the Repub- continuing resolution. more than 12,000 jobs, including more licans decided to use their energy to But that wasn’t the first time Repub- than 8,500 direct full-time employees. jam through a massive tax scam with licans tried to pay for one healthcare Much like CHIP, unfortunately, Repub- giveaways for millionaires and billion- need with another, and CHIP is not the licans have denied community health aires, once again leaving children’s only victim of Republican political centers the certainty of funding they health and working families in limbo. games. I cannot support the House leg- need, forcing them to make tough deci- Republicans were more interested in a islation because it provides no funding sions that ultimately impact their tax bill of corporate welfare than in to address the greatest public health ability to fulfill their mission and care children’s healthcare. crisis facing our Nation today—the for the people of their communities. Congress provided a Band-Aid for opioid crisis. I have heard from community health CHIP at the end of last year, enough When President Trump declared the centers across the Commonwealth that funding to support some States opioid crisis a national public health Congress’s inability to reauthorize through today. Yet the absence of a emergency in October, he laid out his funding has made new physicians reluc- real solution has consequences. CHIP vision that ‘‘we can be the generation tant to practice at their facilities, fur- families remain worried about paying that ends the opioid epidemic.’’ On ther straining an already depleting for their children’s medications, get- that, he is right. But we know that a workforce. New staff to address bur- ting them a checkup, or receiving that vision without funding is a halluci- geoning infectious health outbreaks, unexpected, devastating, and expensive nation. We need real funding to imple- like the flu, cannot be hired, ham- diagnosis for their young child. ment real solutions. pering the health center’s ability to re- Healthcare providers remain terrified The White House Council of Eco- spond to the needs of the community. that they will have to cut services to nomic Advisers estimated that the These facilities are often the back- medically complex children and other opioid epidemic cost the country $500 bones of their communities, and for pediatric patients they serve. States billion in 2015. How much has the more than 100 days, we have been still lack the certainty and assurances Trump administration devoted to this hamstringing their ability to do their needed to fully operate CHIP for their crisis? Zero dollars, not a nickel, since jobs. It is shameful, and it is unaccept- residents. Many are still contemplating Donald Trump was sworn in as Presi- able. contingency plans should the Federal dent. Now there is news that the Throughout the 100-day war on some Government not meet their end of the Trump administration might slash the of our most important healthcare pro- bargain and provide funds needed for budget of the Office of National Drug grams, Democrats have been calling on CHIP to succeed. Control Policy by 95 percent. That isn’t Republicans to invite us into the room, These last 100 days of anxiety and un- a commitment to the crisis. That is an to sit down on a bipartisan basis and certainty represent uncharted terri- abdication. work through our differences to come tory for this popular program. For two Asking our States, our cities, and to a solution on CHIP, on community decades, CHIP has provided affordable, towns to continue fighting this scourge health centers, on opioid funding, and, comprehensive health insurance to of opioid overdoses without additional of course, on our Dreamers. Instead, we children of working families and preg- Federal funding is irresponsible, it is are in a governmental paralysis, fixing nant women. In 2016, CHIP covered cruel, and it will come back to haunt only a fraction of the problems Repub- nearly 9 million children throughout us as a Nation. These budget negotia- licans created while the President con- the United States. Some 2 million of tions were an ideal opportunity to fund tinues to focus on the campaign trail them are chronically ill, with asthma, what my colleagues in both parties and fails in finding a solution for our diabetes, epilepsy, or developmental have said publicly is important—com- country. For Republicans, this newest disorders. In Massachusetts, CHIP has bating the opioid crisis. Instead, we are CR, yet again, means nothing more been instrumental in getting nearly all leaving families without hope or help. than ‘‘Can’t Resolve.’’ The American of our children covered. We owe it to them and the millions people deserve so much more than Without continued Federal funding, like them across the country to fight that. The American people are tired of Massachusetts alone could lose ap- as hard as possible for the funding they waiting on their government to do the proximately $295 million annually in need. right thing. Lives are depending on it. Federal CHIP dollars. That would be We should also remember as we look It has been 5 months since the fiscal devastating for the 172,000 Bay State at this House legislation that so many year started, and we still don’t have a children who rely on CHIP for their of the patients seeking treatment and budget. That is unacceptable. health coverage. recovery services for opioid addiction Republicans are shedding crocodile Ironically, over 3 months ago, Senate rely on their community health cen- tears about our military and national leaders in both parties came up with a ters. But if this funding measure security being at risk during a govern- bipartisan agreement on what the next passes, Republicans will have irrespon- ment shutdown. Do you know what is 5 years of CHIP would look like. But sibly and unfairly left funding for com- harmful to our national defense— Republicans insisted we had to pay for munity health centers in limbo. That month-to-month budgets and operating CHIP by raiding other important pro- funding also expired more than 100 by way of continuing resolutions. That grams, like the Prevention and Public days ago. is no way to run the Defense Depart- Health Fund, which is used to help pre- For more than 50 years, community ment, but that is exactly what the Re- vent child illness by providing vac- health centers have been an integral publicans have done with these short- cines, among things. The stopgap fund- component of our social safety net. term budget fixes. Spare me, spare ing measure passed in December cut This movement, which started in Mas- America your crocodile tears because $750 million from the Prevention and sachusetts, has transformed how we it is time to sit down, on a bipartisan Public Health Fund for a short-term treat some of our most medically vul- basis, and get a budget done—a budget spending patch. It was robbing Peter to nerable citizens, while also improving that would take care of the Defense De- pay Paul. the health and wellness of our commu- partment, the opioid crisis, pensions, So we are hours away from shutting nities. In fact, for many Americans, veterans, CHIP, community health cen- down the government, with the community health centers are the only ters, and it would give some certitude superrich still celebrating their $1 tril- access point for affordable healthcare. to the American people that this body lion tax break and congressional Re- In Massachusetts, it treats more than knows how to govern. Instead of engag- publicans still scheming at ways to cut 750,000 patients, and 16 percent of these ing in budget brinksmanship, we need Social Security, Medicare, and Med- patients are uninsured and nearly half Republicans and President Trump to icaid, and still punting a solution for are on Medicaid. In addition to the engage in bipartisanship. It is time we Dreamers, veterans, pensioners, and for quality, comprehensive care they pro- end this waiting game now and provide

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We don’t believe in government, but they The Nation’s conscience was not point out that the unborn child can have to run for office in order to make deadened by Roe’s euphemisms and yawn, react to pain, and even suck her sure the government doesn’t work, and evasions. Rather, it was brought to thumb. We point out that the thumb now that they control the House, the life. Like a firebell in the night, Roe even has a unique one-of-a-kind finger- Senate, and Presidency, we have awakened a generation of Americans to print. reached their perfect state where the the injustice of abortion. Countless We don’t mention these characteris- government cannot work because it is thousands of them are marching in tics because they are what give chil- being paralyzed by the party that con- Washington, DC, in Salt Lake City, and dren their worth. It is not our finger- trols all of these branches. They refuse in cities all across the country today, prints or even our beating hearts or our to talk to Democrats. They refuse to but the institution of abortion still has ability to yawn that make us human, ensure that the Constitution is imple- its stalwart defenders—vociferous de- that make us people. Rather, we point mented, where Democrats and Repub- fenders even. to these characteristics because they licans, working together on both sides One may ask, Why does this issue in turn point to something far more of this building, plus the President, sit arouse such anger and such passion, as fundamental. They point to the ines- down in the room in order to cut the it so often does? I argue that it is be- capable fact that the unborn child is a deals. Until President Trump is willing cause the pro-life and pro-abortion human being, just like us. It is that en- movements offer competing and mutu- to sit down with CHUCK SCHUMER and dowment, it is that shared humanity ally inconsistent visions, moral visions NANCY PELOSI and MITCH MCCONNELL that gives us all moral worth. for our society; indeed, competing ar- and PAUL RYAN in the room, we will To summarize the pro-life position, guments about human dignity and even not get a resolution on these issues. we have only to repeat those five words Mr. President, come to the Hill. Mr. about what it means to be human in in the Declaration of Independence: President, sit down with all of the peo- the first place. Both moral visions are, ‘‘All men are created equal.’’ All, ple who want to resolve these issues for in one sense, as old as the Nation. They therefore, are entitled to life, but to be the American people. Mr. President, do have appeared in various guises sure, not everyone shares all men are your job. throughout American history. created equal. At various times, this There is a consistent trend in how Bill Belichick says to the New Eng- very belief that is so much at the core the clash of visions has played out in land Patriots: If you want to win, do of who we are and what we believe as every era. The vision advanced by the your job. pro-life movement has inspired right- Americans has been called an ‘‘erro[r] The same thing is true for you, Mr. of the past generation.’’ It has even President. Do your job. Come together eous protests. The other vision has been used to rationalize hideous injus- been called a ‘‘self-evident lie!’’ with Democrats and Republicans. Stop Few today would denounce the Dec- tices. The pro-life vision embraces our carping critically from the outside at laration of Independence in such terms, country’s noblest truth. The pro-abor- any move Democrats or Republicans but defenders of abortion still repu- tion vision twists it. make. Instead, get in the room. We can Let me explain what I mean. Our diate the declaration by their very ac- resolve these issues for the American Declaration of Independence contains tions and by the arguments they ad- people. The time is now, Mr. President. some of the most succinct, profound, vance to protect abortion. Defenders of Do your job. and revolutionary statements in abortion no longer dispute that unborn I yield back the remainder of my human history. ‘‘We hold these Truths children are living human beings. How time. to be self-evident, that all Men are cre- could they? Science testifies unequivo- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The able ated equal, that they are endowed by cally to our shared humanity. Most so- Senator from Utah. their Creator with certain unalienable phisticated defenders of abortion do MARCH FOR LIFE Rights, that among these are Life, Lib- not even dispute that abortion is a vio- Mr. LEE. Mr. President, today hun- erty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.’’ lent act. dreds of thousands of Americans from We know the United States has not If you don’t believe me on this point, all walks of life will participate in the always acted on this high principle. It perhaps you will believe Ronald 45th annual March for Life. This begs has not always behaved in a manner Dworkin, a prominent apologist for the the question, Why do all these citizens consistent with it. We have, at times, pro-choice position: ‘‘Abortion,’’ march year after year? It certainly denied life, liberty, and opportunity to Dworkin writes, ‘‘[is] deliberately kill- isn’t for their health or for the media our fellow beings in countless cruel and ing a developing human embryo.’’ He coverage. No, these Americans march unfortunate ways, but even in the goes on to describe abortion as a on behalf of those who cannot. They darkest times, patriots and reformers ‘‘choic[e] for death.’’ march for uniquely vulnerable mem- have looked to this passage as a guid- If abortion defenders do not deny the bers of the human family. They march ing light because it is, in many re- humanity of the fetus, and if they do for the unborn, for those threatened by spects, the conscience of our Nation. not deny that abortion kills the fetus, abortion, and for the countless millions Abraham Lincoln referred to the Dec- how then do they defend abortion? In of innocent lives already lost. These laration of Independence constantly in short, they do it by segregating the Americans march to protest the legal his speeches, calling it the ‘‘sheet an- human family into two classes: human regime that sustains abortion. chor of American republicanism’’ and beings who are worthy of life—some- The cornerstone of that crumbling the ‘‘Father of all moral principle.’’ He times called human persons—and edifice is Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Su- called the Declaration of Independence human beings who are unworthy of life, preme Court case that invented a right a statement on human equality, the human nonpersons. to abortion in the Constitution, and in ‘‘electric cord’’ that links Patriotic According to this view, human beings so doing, it stripped the unborn of their Americans through the ages. Now that do not deserve protection on the basis right to life. The principal effect of Roe electric cord has reached us. It is a di- of their humanity alone. Rather, they v. Wade on our culture has been to rect line that runs from the founding acquire the right to life when they at- cheapen the value of humanity itself. generation to the very heart of the pro- tain certain characteristics—usually Roe has insinuated into the law a poi- life movement today. The core convic- some level of cognitive ability or bod- sonous notion, the notion that some tion of the pro-life movement is that ily development. Since the unborn lack human beings may be treated as ‘‘all men are created equal’’ and that these magical personhood qualities, things, as objects to be discarded when all have a right to life. We believe that they lack the right to life and may be they are inconvenient. We have seen every human being has dignity and dismembered in the womb. They are this before in human history, but an merits protection simply by virtue of human nonpersons or so the argument unintended effect of Roe has been to being human. goes.

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A government shutdown will be our military.’’ been artificially divided into classes, extremely painful for millions of Fed- Let’s not forget that we are 31⁄2 into persons and nonpersons—based on eral employees who depend upon their months into the fiscal year. There are their race, sex, genetic fitness, or any paychecks to provide for their families. 31⁄2 months that have come and gone, other attribute—the result has been ca- A government shutdown will make it and the Republican leadership here has lamity, which leads to a very simple much more difficult for U.S. military still not given us an annual budget. question that has never been satisfac- personnel, the men and women who are It is not just the military that faces torily answered by abortion defenders: putting their lives on the line to defend a crisis situation because of the lack of Why should we believe that this time is us, to do their jobs. an annual budget. Today, 27 million any different? The American people do not want a Americans get their primary Abortion is a very difficult subject government shutdown. I do not want a healthcare, dental care, mental health matter for so many reasons, but on an- government shutdown, and I believe counseling, and low-cost prescription other level, it is really quite simple. that most of my Republican colleagues drugs through the community health Our society has to choose between the do not want a government shutdown. It center program. In my State of two visions of human dignity described is imperative that President Trump un- Vermont, one out of four Vermonters above. derstand that despite what he said in gets his primary healthcare through a Put simply, do we believe that all May, that statement is wrong. When he community health center. There are men are created equal or that some, said our country needs a good shut- 31⁄2 months that have come and gone perhaps, are somehow more equal than down, that is wrong. Our country does since the beginning of this fiscal year, others? not need a good shutdown. What we and the Republicans have not yet reau- This simple question deserves a sim- need is an annual budget that address- thorized funding for the community ple response. We must choose the first es the many needs of the American health center program, which is now of these options and affirm that all people. facing a severe crisis in terms of re- human beings are created with dignity, Just last night, this is what a spokes- cruiting and retaining the doctors, and we must reject all attempts to sep- person from the Pentagon stated: nurses, and other medical staff it needs arate the human family into higher We have been working under a Continuing to maintain the quality of service it and lower classes. Let us see these at- Resolution for three years now. Our current must maintain. tempts for what they are—cruel CR expires tomorrow, 19 Jan. This is waste- What doctor or what nurse is going fictions that cheapen life itself. ful and destructive. We need a fully-funded to go to a community health center Just as there is no such thing as life FY18 budget or face ramifications on our when he or she doesn’t even know if unworthy of life, there is no such thing military. that facility is going to receive fund- as a human nonperson. There are just This afternoon, I say to Senator ing? There are 27 million Americans people, and we are each fearfully and MCCONNELL, the Republican leader who depend upon community health wonderfully made. here in the Senate: Please do not shut centers. As I understand it—and I am Yes, dignity was ours before we the government down. You know, Sen- glad—the Republicans are now pre- stirred in the womb. It is stamped onto ator MCCONNELL, the political reality pared to reauthorize the CHIP pro- the very fabric of our genome. It is as well as anybody in our country. In gram. There are 9 million kids who printed onto our souls. This is the the Senate, you need 60 votes to pass need that program. In the 31⁄2 months truth so brilliantly proclaimed in our this budget agreement. You don’t have that have come and gone, finally, they Nation’s founding documents, even as 60 votes. Please, sit down with Demo- are talking about reauthorizing CHIP. it is denied by our legal system, start- crats, and start negotiating in good That is good, but you cannot forget the ing with Roe v. Wade. Yet, even though faith. Please, do not shut the govern- community health centers. the laws of man are against us for now, ment down. The community health center pro- the truth is with us, and the truth can More and more Democrats are sick gram in this country is 50 years old. It erode even the most formidable edifice and tired of kicking the can down the was developed in the 1960s. It is sup- of lies. road, tired of our not addressing the ported by virtually every Democrat So, on this 45th anniversary of Roe v. major crises that are facing this coun- and, I think, the vast majority of the Wade, let’s respond to Roe as Frederick try, tired of running a $4 trillion oper- Republicans. Yet it has not been reau- Douglass responded to a similar indig- ation, which is what the U.S. Govern- thorized. This is a crisis that cannot be nity in Dred Scott v. Sandford: ‘‘Hap- ment is, on a month-to-month basis. kicked down the road. It has to be ad- pily for the whole human family,’’ Yet it is not just the Democrats who dressed and addressed now. Douglass thundered, ‘‘their rights have are demanding that we finally have an On Veterans Day, everybody here been defined, declared, and decided in a annual budget. It is the Republicans as goes running all over the country, giv- court higher than the Supreme Court.’’ well. My understanding—what I have ing great speeches about how much Those words are as true today as heard from the news media—is that they love the veterans, but the Vet- they were when they were spoken. there are now five Republicans who are erans Health Administration cannot They call on us to continue the wind- prepared to vote against this con- continue to provide decent, quality ing march for justice and for life until tinuing resolution and even more who care to those of our veterans who put the unalienable rights of every human have voiced deep concerns about the their lives on the line to defend us being are respected in our land. lack of an annual budget. They know when they have over 30,000 vacancies. I thank the Presiding Officer. and I know that just passing another In Vermont and around the country, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The dis- temporary budget is totally irrespon- the VA provides good, quality care, but tinguished Senator from Vermont. sible and is abdicating the job that we you cannot provide care in a timely Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, I come were elected to do. manner when you have 30,000 vacancies before my colleagues in the Senate to What the American people under- at the VA. This issue cannot be kicked urge in the strongest possible terms stand—what every businessperson in down the road. It must be addressed that the Republican leadership here ac- this country understands, what every now, not next year. cept its responsibility and not allow family in America understands—is that As everybody knows, in Louisiana the Government of the United States of you cannot run a government, given and in Vermont and all over this coun- America to shut down. Republicans the many crises that we face, on a try, there is a horrible, horrific opioid control the Senate. They control the month-to-month basis. We cannot con- and heroin epidemic that is sweeping U.S. House. And a Republican is in the tinue to abdicate our responsibility. this country. It has hit my State of

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How long does it take for This is a crisis that cannot be kicked to ignore these problems. We cannot this Congress to respond to the crises down the road. It must be addressed continue to kick the can down the facing our fellow Americans? now, not through a continuing resolu- road. What I say is, we were elected to do tion that absolutely ignores this crisis. Once again, I say to the majority our jobs in representing the American It must be addressed now. leader: Let us begin to negotiate in people. That is what we are paid to do. Last year, unbelievably, some 10,000 good faith. Let us reach decisions that We cannot run a government on a people with disabilities died while will improve life for the American peo- month-to-month basis. Senator MCCON- awaiting decisions for the applications ple, not simply ignore their needs. NELL does not have the 60 votes he they made to the Social Security Ad- When we talk about the crises facing needs, and now is the time for him to ministration for their disability bene- this country, we are also talking about sit down with the Democratic leader- fits to be approved. People with dis- a crisis precipitated by President ship and negotiate a serious agreement abilities apply for benefits. They wait, Trump in September of last year. As a on the budget situation, on parity be- they wait, and they wait. Last year, result of President Trump’s rescinding tween defense and nondefense spending. 10,000 people with disabilities died of President Obama’s Executive order Negotiate a serious agreement on while waiting for decisions. Many of on DACA, some 800,000 young people in DACA, providing legal status and a them died because the Social Security our country are today living in fear, path toward citizenship for our 800,000 Administration is, today, grossly un- uncertainty, and anxiety. If we do not young people; negotiate a serious derfunded, understaffed, and simply act—and act now—it is possible that agreement on disaster relief. not able to deal with the volume of many of these young people will lose The truth of the matter is, we can do claims they have received. their legal status and be subjected to it. We can do it. The differences of It is not just people with disabilities. the possibility of deportation. This opinion are not that wide, but we can- In my State of Vermont—I hear this must not be allowed to happen. not do it and will not do it unless we fi- every day—there are older Americans This issue to my mind is one of the nally sit down and start negotiating in who are not getting the quality of serv- great moral issues of our time. These a serious manner. That is what I im- ice they need from the Social Security young people, who were brought into plore Senator MCCONNELL to do. Administration. Our job is to ade- this country, some at 2 years of age, 3 With that, I yield the floor and sug- quately fund the Social Security Ad- years, 5 years of age, are people who gest the absence of a quorum. ministration so it can protect the have lived virtually their entire lives The PRESIDING OFFICER. The needs of senior citizens and people with in the United States of America. They clerk will call the roll. disabilities in our country. This is a are working, they are in school, they The senior assistant legislative clerk crisis that cannot be kicked down the are in the military, and 20,000 of these proceeded to call the roll. road. It has to be addressed now, and young DACA people are now teaching Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask this continuing resolution, which I pre- in schools throughout the country. unanimous consent that the order for sume we are going to vote on later It would be one of the cruelest acts in the quorum call be rescinded. today, does not deal with it. modern American history or our his- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. President, 11⁄2 million Americans tory in general if we said to these objection, it is so ordered. are in danger of seeing their pensions young people, who know no other coun- MARCH FOR LIFE cut by up to 60 percent. These are try but the United States of America, Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, today, as truckdrivers, construction workers, that they could be deported from our they do every year at this time, tens of machinists, and others who have shores. It would be an unspeakable thousands of Americans from across worked their entire careers with the crime, and we must not allow that to the country, including from my home expectation that they would receive a happen. That is not just the opinion of State of South Dakota, will march decent pension when they retired. We Senator BERNIE SANDERS; that is the from the National Mall to the U.S. Su- have a responsibility to protect the overwhelming point of view of the preme Court to stand up for the right pensions of these hard-working Ameri- American people, of Democrats, Repub- to life. The march is always inspiring cans and keep the promises that were licans, and Independents. with the huge crowds who come year made to them. This is another crisis A poll just came out last night from after year, the commitment and enthu- that cannot be kicked down the road. CBS. The poll showed that 87 percent of siasm of the participants, and most of It has to be addressed now, and the the American people believe that we all, the young people—teenagers, col- continuing resolution that is going to should protect the legal status of the lege students, young adults. come before us has not one word to say Dreamers—87 percent—and that poll is Abortion has been an ugly scar on about that. consistent with poll after poll after our Nation for a long while now, but Then we have a child care crisis in poll. The people of the United States seeing all these young people at the this country. Millions of working fami- across the political spectrum are say- March for Life every year fills me with lies can’t find quality, affordable child ing that we cannot turn our backs on hope because I know that these young care. We have a student debt crisis in these Dreamers. The vast majority of people get it. They know that life mat- this country—40 million people, many people believe we must provide a path ters, and they are ready and willing to of them deeply in debt, unable to get toward citizenship. stand up and say that, to stand up for on with their lives for the crime of hav- There is now bipartisan legislation the hundreds of thousands of unborn ing gone to college. That is a crisis that has been written by Senator DUR- Americans who are killed every year in that we have to deal with. We have an BIN, Senator GRAHAM, and others, and I this country by abortion. infrastructure crisis in this country. say to Senator MCCONNELL: If 87 per- This year, I hope to see Congress con- All over America, roads, bridges, water cent of the American people think we sider the Pain-Capable Unborn Child systems, waste water plants are col- should provide legal status to the Protection Act. This legislation would lapsing. How do we continue to ignore Dreamers, let us do our job. Let us pass protect unborn children who have those crises? At a time of massive in- this legislation. This is not a profile in reached the age of 20 weeks—that is 5 come and wealth inequality, when the courage. This is what the American months of pregnancy—from being rich are getting richer and everybody people want, and let us do what the killed by abortion. Right now, there else is getting poorer, our job in Con- American people want. are only seven countries in the world gress is not just to give tax breaks to As we well know, terrible, terrible that allow elective abortion after 20 billionaires. Our job is not just to try hurricanes struck Texas, Florida, Puer- weeks of pregnancy. Among those

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You see, To me, there is an alternative to this abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the Maryland General Assembly will date that we need to consider, and that and that doesn’t surprise me. Take a shortly be receiving from Governor is, let’s complete our work. I know we look at a 5-month-old unborn baby on Hogan the fiscal year 2019 budget. A have a deadline of midnight tonight. I an ultrasound. It is pretty darn obvious good part of any State’s budget is the know the government will shut down that is a human being in there. I think Federal funding programs. Neither the unless we get something done. I must most people instinctively know that State of Maryland nor any of our local tell you, we should make sure the gov- human beings, no matter how small jurisdictions had the fiscal year 2018 ernment stays open. No one wins when they are, are worthy of protection. budget, let alone a blueprint for likely there is a government shutdown. But Five months into a pregnancy, babies action by Congress for the fiscal year we are not doing anyone any favors if are doing a lot. They are sucking their 2019 budget. we don’t commit ourselves to get the thumbs. They are yawning and stretch- The budget should have been passed job done. ing. They are actively moving around. by October 1 of last year. That is the What I would urge Leader MCCON- They are responding to noises, and beginning of the fiscal year. We have NELL to do is to allow us to vote on a they feel and respond to pain. The sci- been operating under continuing reso- very short-term continuing resolution entific evidence on this point is clear: 5 lutions during the entire part of this and keep us here over this weekend; months into a pregnancy, unborn ba- year. In fact, we have been operating keep us here until we get the basics of bies feel pain. Yet, in our country, it is under continuing resolutions for years, the fiscal year 2018 budget complete. legal to abort these babies. The proce- and it is causing significant damage to That, we can do. dures used to perform these abortions this country. We know that there have been re- are so brutal and inhuman that it is The Republicans control the House, ported conversations between the lead- difficult to even talk about them. Most the Senate, and the White House, and ership on the Appropriations Com- Americans would rightly shrink from they can’t pass a budget for our coun- mittee and the leadership in the Senate treating an animal the way we treat try. So when the Republican leadership and that there is a deal here. There is a deal that can be made, but we have to unborn human beings. asked us in September of last year for Every year, there are hundreds of a continuing resolution to have more have a deadline. Here is the danger of another long- thousands of abortions in this country. time to negotiate a budget for fiscal term CR, another month CR, without Planned Parenthood reports that it year 2018, we had no choice but to go having that. We hear that there is a performed 321,384 abortions in 2016. along with the continuing resolution to group in the House of Representatives That number is so large that it is hard give more time. But then on three ad- that is controlling the debate over ditional occasions the Republican lead- to fathom. To put that into some kind there. They don’t represent a majority ership has come forward saying: We of perspective, that is equivalent to in the House—far from it. They cer- need additional time. more than one-third of the population tainly don’t represent the views of the I remember the debate we had in De- of my home State of South Dakota. majority of the Members of the U.S. cember before the holidays. The leader- Unfortunately, the Pain-Capable Un- Senate or the American people. But un- ship was very clear that this would be born Child Protection Act would not less we have a deadline now and get the last continuing resolution that was eliminate all of these abortions, but it this done, we are going to be faced with going to be needed. They were close to would make a difference, and it would the same concerns a month from now, bring us one step closer to the day working out deals, et cetera, only to and we are not going to be able to get when every child born and unborn is find out today that we are still no clos- a budget done so that we can deal with protected in law. er to getting it resolved. the problems of this country. To all those who are marching for Here is the tragedy: Our agencies We should not have a shutdown. All life today, thank you for being here. cannot exist on continuing resolutions. of us should be committed to pass a Thank you for reminding all of us They hit a point where they are no short-term CR to keep us here and about an injustice that it is all too longer able to carry out their mission avoid a government shutdown. Every- easy for us to ignore. Thank you for in the best interests of the American one loses on a shutdown. standing up for all those babies. The people. We heard that last night on the I have the honor of representing one fight may be long, but I know that at floor of the Senate when the represent- of the largest numbers of Federal em- the end of the day, it is life that will ative of the Department of Defense in- ployees of any State in the country. win. dicated that our Nation’s preparedness, Maryland is the proud home to many I yield the floor. readiness, cannot be maintained by a incredibly important Federal facilities I suggest the absence of a quorum. continuing resolution with last year’s and installations and many talented The PRESIDING OFFICER. The budget. Federal workers who are on the front- clerk will call the roll. You see, a continuing resolution does line of public service. They work very The legislative clerk proceeded to not reflect our current priorities. It is hard for the American people every sin- call the roll. where we were the last time we passed gle day. I am proud to represent them Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask the budget, which was over a year ago. in the U.S. Senate. unanimous consent that the order for Those are the spending priorities an Our Federal workforce has already the quorum call be rescinded. agency must comply with. sacrificed on behalf of our budget. They The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without For the Department of Defense, a lot have gone through too many con- objection, it is so ordered. has happened during that period of tinuing resolutions that compromise Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, before time. Look at what is happening in their ability to get the job done. They coming to Washington today, I went to North Korea. Look at what is hap- have gone through too many threats of Annapolis. The Maryland General As- pening with Russia. Look at what is sequestration, too many pay freezes or sembly is in session. I had a chance to happening around the world. Our De- pay adjustments that are inadequate, meet with several of our regional dele- partment of Defense needs to have a at additional costs to their pensions. gations in the Maryland General As- current-year budget, not another con- They have contributed. What they ex- sembly, our senators and members of tinuing resolution. We have to reach pect from us is to keep the government the house, and obviously the question this decision. open and to give them a budget so that that was asked the most is, What is So here is our concern: If we just con- they can get their mission done. happening in regard to the Federal tinue to go along with these continuing For the sake of our Federal work- Government? What is happening in re- resolutions, we are going to hurt our force, let’s keep the government open.

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We need going to get a paycheck, yet they still have that until the President initiated to make sure that the Federal partner- have to make their mortgage payments this problem. ship is strong to deal with this na- and support their families. Those who When the President did that in Sep- tional crisis. are not excepted will go on unpaid tember, I applauded colleagues on both What should we do? Well, let’s work leave. That is wrong. sides of the aisle, Democrats and Re- together. I must tell you, my constitu- People who depend on Federal con- publicans, who said: Let us come to- ents, your constituents are not inter- tracts in order to keep their businesses gether and fix it in the legislation. We ested in a blame game. They are inter- going will not have that assurance and need that, and I agree with that. We ested in making sure that their Federal will be faced with the prospect of lay- should have legislation for the Dream- workers have a check to pay their ing off workers. ers, so they have a pathway to citizen- mortgage payments. If they are in need Individuals who need government ship and know that America is their of VA services, they want to make sure services are going to find it much more home and their future is here. That those services are available to them. difficult, if not impossible, to be able should be done. They want to make sure they are get- to get those Federal services, whether We had bipartisan legislation ready ting the best value for their tax dollar, it is tracking down a check they des- to go. We were ready to move forward and they want the U.S. Senate and the perately need, getting the type of as- on it, only to find out that while the Congress to work and resolve these sistance they need in order to process a President said that he was for legisla- issues. concern with the VA, or whether it is a tion, he then said: Well, we have to They expect us to pass a budget, and matter of security and they need to deal with other issues. I have this wall they expect us to deal with these contact our government. All of that is I am concerned about and border secu- issues. We have a game plan to get all going to be put at risk, and the tax- rity I am concerned about. that done in a matter of days if we payers of this country will be left hold- So the bipartisan group entered into make the commitment to get it done. ing the bill. good-faith negotiations with the Presi- That is why I have suggested to the We have gone through government dent, and they narrowed the issues that majority leader that there is support shutdowns before, and we have done needed to be resolved to a few. They for us to stay and get the job done. analyses each time, and every time it talked about border security. They Keep us in session. Keep government costs the taxpayers more. It costs the talked about the issues concerning the open, and we will get the work done. Let us come together with a truly bi- taxpayers more. family and family reunification and partisan budget that reflects the will of All of us who are concerned about fis- dealing with the lottery system on di- the American people and the input of cal responsibility need to find a path versity visas. They took up those all Members of the U.S. Senate and the forward to make sure we don’t shut issues, and they reached a bipartisan House of Representatives, a budget down the Federal Government. It agreement as requested by the Presi- that makes sense for our Department makes no sense. dent and, they thought, with support of of Defense, makes sense for those doing I have introduced legislation that I the President of the United States. the research at the National Institutes urge my colleagues to make sure we Yes, it does protect the Dreamers, and of Health, those who are keeping our pass. You may be surprised to find out I am proud to say it also protects those food safe at FDA, and those who are on that if we miss the deadline and we go in temporary protected status. the frontlines of the Social Security a few days and then we get it done, Maryland has a large population Administration, handling the issues of those Federal workers who are put on from El Salvador and Haiti that are on our seniors. Let’s give them the tools furlough will not be paid for our neg- TPS status. They are all protected they need in a budget that makes sense ligence in not keeping the Federal Gov- under this compromise that was for this country. ernment open. That is not right. Each reached. Everybody thought ‘‘Oh, my Let’s make sure that we pass these time we have corrected that by legisla- goodness, we have finally resolved this open issues that are urgent, some of tion, but there shouldn’t be that uncer- issue; we can go on to the next issue,’’ which have been created by the Presi- tainty for the Federal workforce. only to find that the President of the dent, such as the immigration issues. I urge my colleagues to pass the leg- United States flipped his position on it. We have a path forward to resolve islation I have authored. I have the I want to be engaged with the Presi- those issues now. Let’s do that. If we support of over 20 of my colleagues who dent. As the majority leader said, he do all of that, then we really are serv- have cosponsored this legislation to has to sign bills. I get it. But it is ing the interests of the American peo- make sure that our Federal workforce tough to negotiate with someone who ple. knows they will receive their full com- tells you one thing on one day and then I urge my colleagues on both sides of pensation. does the exact opposite on the next the aisle that our first responsibility is It is also important that we move day. to the people of this country. Let’s not forward on getting this budget done We have a responsibility to act. We blame each other. Let’s stay together and getting work done. If we just take have a bill that is bipartisan and has and do something that we don’t do the House’s approach and we say ‘‘OK, enough support to clearly pass the U.S. enough of: Let’s listen to each other. everything is fine,’’ we will be back in Senate and the House of Representa- Let’s get our work done, keep the gov- 28 days, and we will see this movie tives. It protects the Dreamers. It pro- ernment open, and do what is right for again. We have issues that cannot wait tects those with TPS status, and it the American people. to be resolved. We have to resolve these deals with border security. We need to With that, I suggest the absence of a issues. get that done now also. quorum. There are a lot of issues out there, We all know we have healthcare ex- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The but the one that has gotten a good deal tenders that need to be completed in clerk will call the roll. of attention is the Dreamers. This addition to CHIP. CHIP is very impor- The legislative clerk proceeded to shouldn’t be a problem. I agree with tant to get done. It should be made per- call the roll. some of my colleagues who say: Where manent, I might tell you. We also have Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask is the problem? Well, the problem was community health centers and many unanimous consent that the order for created by the President of the United other issues that need to be dealt with the quorum call be rescinded. States last September when he set a 6- in this legislation. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. month deadline on the removal of the We have disaster relief. We have BOOZMAN). Without objection, it is so Dreamers. talked about this many times. We ordered. We didn’t have a problem until then. come together as a nation to help those Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President and col- We needed to fix our immigration sys- who have been distressed through nat- leagues, Chairman HATCH was on the

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This is a time friend, earlier, I thought it was the Republican priorities than bor- crisis made over the last few months important to come to the floor this rowing $1.5 trillion in order to give ad- by the governing party here in Wash- afternoon and set the record straight ditional money to multinational cor- ington, and it ought to end here, today, about the Children’s Health Insurance porations and the political donor class, with the governing party, the Repub- Program. when the multinational corporations licans, releasing the hostage, passing— The fact is, the chairman and I did were already awash in cash. all of us together—a clean, very short negotiate an important Children’s Since the fall, there has been a near spending bill that would allow this con- Health Insurance Program extension constant stream of Republicans appear- tinuing resolution nonsense to end back in September—bipartisan—and I ing on television and in print saying once and for all. put in a lot of time, both inside this again and again that they are all for I believe it is in the country’s inter- Congress and outside the Halls of Con- the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- est to have a permanent extension of gress, in order to line up bipartisan gram—by God, they just want to take the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- support for that effort. And we did, in care of the kids. The fact is, those Re- gram. It is an extension that saves the fact, in the Finance Committee, have publicans speaking out on television taxpayers money. What you do by near unanimous bipartisan support. had months to act. They had almost a making this program permanent is you That was months and months ago. year. The program expired 111 days give more youngsters in America the The fact is, at that point, the Chil- ago, and the Finance Committee passed opportunity for better health, which dren’s Health Insurance Program could a bipartisan bill that really kicked this gives them more opportunity to have passed the Congress within days, all off. I felt very strongly about doing achieve their full potential in the years but unfortunately the Republicans in that. The chairman has a long history ahead. the other body had some other ideas. of working on it, and I wanted to make I will close with this. More than any- From the moment the Senate Finance sure that we were coming right out of thing else, what I have tried to do is Committee passed the bill in a bipar- the box and getting a strong, bipar- dedicate my time in public service to tisan way, the kids became hostage to tisan bill, knowing that perhaps the working in a bipartisan way on the Republican political agenda. chairman of the committee would re- healthcare. I have always felt that First, the House Republicans tried to tire. So if there was an up-or-down vote healthcare was the most important force ideological cuts in important on the Children’s Health Insurance issue. I was director of the senior citi- health programs, including Medicare, Program in the Senate after we moved zens for almost 7 years. The group was in order to allow this deal to go for- last fall, it would have gotten 80 called the Gray Panthers. I ran the ward. Then they conditioned helping votes—probably more—and probably legal aid office. I decided then that if the vulnerable kids on kicking Ameri- 300 votes in the other body, if that bi- you and your loved ones—my good cans off their private health insurance. partisan measure that came out of the friend, the Presiding Officer, has When that didn’t work, they took yet Finance Committee in the fall had had worked with me and did such good another hostage: vaccines and preven- an up-or-down vote. The fact is, the work with us on the veterans bill, an- tive health. For some reason, the other only reason that hasn’t happened is the other important issue—I always felt body, the House, wanted to cut off pro- cynical political strategy which I have that if you and your family didn’t have grams that make Americans healthier described that evolved over the months your health, then everything else by preventing disease in the first place. since the Finance Committee acted in didn’t matter. You couldn’t go to the For obvious reasons, Democrats a bipartisan way and which has pro- football game. You couldn’t find a way weren’t willing to sacrifice that hos- duced this crisis this body faces now. to pick up a new skill and have some tage, either. Even the President, apparently in a exciting job options in the future be- Now, months after there was a bipar- moment of unsupervised so-called exec- cause if you didn’t have your health, it tisan deal to finally give peace of mind utive time, said that a long-term CHIP went by the board. to these parents and children, the bill ought to move forward unob- Everything I have tried to do in House Republicans have taken yet an- structed. healthcare—everything—I have tried to other hostage. This time, we are talk- A few weeks ago, the Congress say ought to be bipartisan. Usually ing about the proper functioning of the learned—and I made a special push for there is a set of options for finding Federal Government. this because it was clear, as a result of common ground. So often, for example, The Republicans have been stumbling these ill-advised changes that were I felt that my party was right about from one continuing resolution to an- part of the tax bill, that coverage wanting to expand coverage because if other continuing resolution since they would be more expensive in the private you don’t get everybody covered, you took power, sacrificing the readiness of exchanges and that CHIP would look have a lot of cost-shifting and not the military, impeding the Federal re- like an even better investment than it much prevention. I thought Repub- sponse to natural disasters, and handi- already was. As a result of that infor- licans had some valid points, as well, capping rural hospitals that don’t mation we obtained, it, in fact, saves with respect to a role for the private know when they are going to get paid money to make the Children’s Health sector. for the care they provide. We are not Insurance Program permanent. Making When it came time to get the Chil- going to sacrifice this hostage, either. it permanent, as amazing as it sounds, dren’s Health Insurance Program ex- The minority leader, Senator SCHU- is a better deal than a 6-year extension tended and do it in a bipartisan way, I MER, has made a good-faith offer to and less of an expense for the tax- was very pleased to meet the chairman give the Senate a week to actually payers. of our committee, my friend Senator come to an agreement to keep the gov- True fiscal conservatives, in my HATCH, in a bipartisan way for a long- ernment functioning. I think this view, ought to be tripping over them- term extension with additional funds. makes sense because the cycle of de- selves in order to pass a permanent That could have been done in the fall. structive, nakedly political, bad-faith Children’s Health Insurance Program Yet, over the months since then—I governing can’t continue. without preconditions. Yet, at every have described all of the hurdles, all of What we have is a display of the turn in this program for the future of the obstacles that Republicans have worst of American politics. The fact is, so many vulnerable kids—9 million put in front of making that bipartisan Republicans control the White House, kids—what we saw was not action but effort, which, as I just indicated, has the Senate, and the House of Rep- Republican leaders taking yet another gotten even more attractive with the resentatives. That means that you get hostage. new estimates that permanent exten- to set the agenda, and you get to set So I want to be clear. I think what sions save money. Republicans have the schedule. But Republican leaders we have seen over the last few months made it harder to take that bipartisan

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We are going to do it by working ceived orders to fly B–24s across the ther pass the House’s continuing reso- in a bipartisan fashion. Himalayas during World War II—a mis- lution that passed yesterday so as to With that, I yield the floor. sion in an area famously known simply continue to fund our government and I suggest the absence of a quorum. as the Hump. George earned the Distin- our military and, importantly, to reau- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The guished Flying Cross and Air Medal for thorize the Children’s Health Insurance clerk will call the roll. his bravery and service during World Program, CHIP, for 6 years or to shut The bill clerk proceeded to call the War II. down the Federal Government. Yet, if roll. Incidentally, the late, great Senator you are watching the Senate floor de- Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask Ted Stevens from Alaska, whose desk I bates about all of this from home or in unanimous consent that the order for occupy here on the floor, also flew the the Gallery, you might be a bit con- the quorum call be rescinded. Hump with the Army Air Corps during fused. Actually, I was almost confused The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without World War II, and I know he was a last night. Particularly, if you were lis- objection, it is so ordered. friend of George’s. tening to the minority leader and mi- REMEMBERING GEORGE BROWN After the war, George and Peggy and nority whip’s new talking points that Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I try their two children made their way to they were using last night in their re- to get down on the Senate floor every Alaska to forge a new life. Eventually, marks and have been using over the week and talk about someone in my that life took shape in a building that past few days, you might really be con- State who is making or who has made George built by hand in downtown An- fused. Let me give you a little back- our State a better place for all of us. It chorage—the Lucky Wishbone. Its ground as to why. is, actually, one of my favorite parts of doors opened on November 30, 1955, and Like the Presiding Officer—actually, the whole week. I know the pages real- a kind of living room for the commu- more than the Presiding Officer. He has ly enjoy it. It is what I call our Alas- nity—where you could also get great been around the Senate for quite some kan of the Week. It is one of the most food—was born in Anchorage. time. As someone who is relatively fulfilling things that I do. As you know, most walls don’t talk, new, I sit in that Presiding Officer’s No doubt, many here in the Chamber but the walls of the Lucky Wishbone do chair a lot—as a matter of fact, during and people watching from home and talk. They are filled with pictures that the 11 a.m. hour on Wednesdays and from up in the Gallery have seen pic- chart Anchorage and Alaska’s history Thursdays—so I get to listen to the tures or television shows about Alaska. throughout the decades. These photos majority and minority leaders and the Hopefully, they have been up there. My tell the story of a hardscrabble terri- majority and minority whips give their State has captured the country’s tory—Alaska—that fought for self-de- opening statements. A couple of times imagination. There are cable shows on termination and gained citizenship and a week, I watch it on C–SPAN—like a Alaska, wonderful shows, and for good statehood in 1959. They tell a story of lot—and you get to hear the different reason. There is so much about Alaska the town of Anchorage, rebuilt after priorities of the different leaders of the that is awe-inspiring—our long ex- being hit by the most powerful earth- parties. Every day, I hear this. I re- panses of tundra, mountain ranges, gla- quake ever recorded in North Amer- spect everybody, and I respect our ciers, our salmon-filled streams. To ev- ica—9.2 on the Richter scale. It lasted Members on the other side of the aisle, erybody watching back home or listen- for 5 minutes. The walls of the Lucky as we all have different areas that we ing, we want them to go to Alaska if Wishbone tell the story of a State focus on. I will tell you this, rebuilding they haven’t already been or to go brimming with excitement when the the military, increasing military readi- again. It will be the trip of a lifetime, largest oilfield in North America, ness, increasing defense funding has I guarantee you. Yet a State is dif- Prudhoe Bay, was discovered on the not been a key area of focus for the mi- ferent from a community. A State is North Slope, and tens of thousands of nority leader or minority whip. It is where people go, and a community is jobs were created for Alaskans and just a fact—not bad or good—just a dif- where people live. It takes good, Americans. They tell the story of the ferent priority. strong, and generous people to build a crash in oil prices in the 1980s and of I also sit on the Armed Services Com- community. the hard and long recovery. They tell mittee and the Veterans Affairs’ Com- This week, I recognize someone in the story about how, through it all, a mittee, and there is a lot that we focus Alaska who spent his entire adult life- community and our citizens in Alaska on in those committees, particularly time building community. His name relied on each other. Armed Services, and a lot of us have was George Brown, who, with his wife, As all of this history was in the mak- been concerned about the dramatic Peggy, had run one of the most popular ing, George and his wife, Peggy—who cuts in spending. From 2010 to 2016, the diners—one of the greatest restaurants by then had four children—went to military has been cut by 25 percent, in Anchorage—since 1955. The Lucky work every day. They knew their cus- even though we have had a dramatic Wishbone is that place that for dec- tomers by name, and they continued to increase in national security chal- ades, people from all walks of life have make the best food in town. lenges. gone—veterans, politicians, oil work- Sadly, Peggy died in 2011 after she There is a certain group of Senators, ers, hospital employees. You name it, and George celebrated 67 years to- I would say led by the Senator from they have gone to the Lucky Wishbone. gether. George continued to go to work Arizona, the chairman of the Armed They have converged on this wonderful every day. I saw him there. He contin- Services Committee, Mr. MCCAIN, who establishment in Anchorage for some ued to fly his plane until he was 94 focus on military issues, military read- of the best fried chicken and best years old—a wonderful, gracious, iness, increasing funding for the strawberry shakes ever. I guarantee it tough, patriotic Alaskan and a great troops, who really care about these if you go. I know from firsthand experi- American. issues and focus on them daily. I con- ence. Trust me. George passed away earlier this sider myself one of them—a lot of Re- George Brown was born in rural Wis- week—an amazing life. He was 96 years publicans, some Democrats. The Mem- consin in 1922. He joined the National old. He left behind two of his four chil- bers of this body know who they are, Guard at the tender age of 17, and his dren—Patricia and Corky—lots of and we focus on this a lot. Imagine my unit was sent to Alcatraz Island to grandchildren, great-grandchildren, surprise yesterday and last night when guard the Golden Gate Bridge. At 21, he nieces, and nephews. the minority whip and the minority had already risen to the rank of master The Lucky Wishbone, one of his leader started with new talking points sergeant when he qualified for Officer many legacies, will live on. This great emphasizing that this impasse we are

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Well, with all due respect, that is about how much the minority leader This is about funding our government. the first time in 3 years that I have cares about military readiness and It is not that tough, but we have hit heard the leadership of the other party military funding, when, to be truthful, deadline after deadline after deadline, really emphasize that issue. Again, I that is the first I have heard in 3 years and what we have been told is, look, we have a lot of respect for these men, but an emphasis in that area. Let’s fund will extend about another month or they just don’t talk about this issue. the military, certainly. Let’s fund the two, and then we will get an agree- They don’t. That is what they were government, but let’s not shut down ment. Oh, we will extend out another doing. That is the new talking point. the government tonight. That is not month, and we will get an agreement. This isn’t about something else, it is going to help anyone, and it cer- At Christmastime I was ready to about our troops. tainly—certainly—is not going to help work here through Christmas to get Well, I think the newest talking our troops. this done because families in this coun- points are something that is trying to I yield the floor. try deserve the certainty of the basic confuse the American people. Don’t be The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- job of setting up a budget. This is the confused by this. These are not the ator from Montana. basic job we are elected for in this Senators who come out every day and Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, before I body. I believe on December 19, once battle for more spending for our troops. get into my prepared remarks I want again, we kicked the can down the These are not the Senators who come to say, we have been at war for 16 road, and it was said: You know what, down and care about readiness. The years, and the Senator from Alaska is we are going to have a deal by January new talking points are a little bit hard correct, we do need to rebuild our mili- 19. Well, guess what. It is January 19, to swallow. tary. There is no ifs, ands, or buts and now we are going to move the goal What was also surprising last night is about it. It is not something that just post again. that the new talking points—how little came about last night. It is something Each of those previous patches I the minority leader talked about actu- we should have been doing with this voted for. Why? Because I believed ally the real issue—the real issue, and budget that should have been passed to them. I expected the leaders of this it is a serious issue. Everybody in this go into effect the end of September. body to work in good faith and get the body and everybody in this city knows If you really want to talk about the job done. I was wrong because, for 111 it is the real issue. Here it is. The other hypocrisy of this body, and there is days, they have refused to provide side is saying, unless there is a deal on plenty of it, the fact that we have folks long-term funding for community the DACA issue—which is a serious coming to the floor who haven’t said a health centers. For 111 days, they have issue—they will shut down the govern- peep about CHIP—it also, by the way, failed to pass a bill that secures our ment. That is the real issue. There is ran out of money the end of Sep- borders. For 111 days, they have ne- no debating it. It is not about the mi- tember—and talk about how important glected our children by refusing to re- nority leader’s newfound concern about it is for those kids. By the way, it is authorize CHIP. For 111 days, they military readiness. That is the issue we very important for those kids. It is the have failed to do the most basic and are debating. first time we have heard a peep out of fundamental aspect of our job; that is, Now, I think it is a serious issue, the them. That is interesting. pass a long-term budget that works for Dreamers. I have met with them. We The fact is, we do need to come to- this country and works for my home have about 150 in Alaska. I think we gether, and we do need a long-term State of Montana. need to help those young men and budget deal. By the way, when I am Now, today we are about 9 hours be- women. They are great Americans—not talking about long term, I am not talk- fore the government is set to run out of Americans yet, but they are great ing about years and years, I am talking money. Folks on the other side of the young people. We also need to focus on about until the end of September of aisle are pointing their finger over here border security and immigration re- this year. That is all we have to have is and saying: We have to reauthorize form. I certainly want to help them. a budget deal to the end of September CHIP. If we don’t, all these kids—guess Here is the final point. What was of this year that addresses more than what. That same argument could have missed last night is this talk about— just CHIP, and CHIP is important. It been made 6 months ago and was not. we heard the minority leader saying needs to address our military. It needs We have 24,000 kids in Montana who, I the CR is going to be bad for the mili- to address our southern border secu- am telling you, have been watching. tary. A continuing resolution is bad for rity. The chairman knows this. We Those families have been watching. the military—again, a newfound focus work together on the Appropriations They ask: Why? Why hasn’t it already on the military. I hope he joins us as Subcommittee on Homeland Security. been done? part of the number of Senators who He understands how important this is. Why are we 111 days after the budget really care and focus on military readi- We have to make sure our borders are has been passed, and we still have ness and defense spending every day, secure. We have to make sure we have nothing? There is a CHIP bill that has not just last night. What is worse for domestic programs that working fami- been sitting on the majority leader’s the military beyond the continuing lies and businesses depend upon in this desk for many a month to reauthorize resolution—and a continuing resolu- country, such as CHIP, funding for CHIP. I believe it has 24 cosponsors on tion is bad—but what is worse, there is community health centers, making it. There are Members of this body who no doubt about it, the Deputy Sec- sure there are dollars there for rural are not even cosponsors of that bill retary of Defense said it today, is a ambulance services. who have found religion and have come shutdown of the government. The list goes on and on. to the floor to passionately talk about A shutdown of the government really We have had an incredible failure of CHIP, and we haven’t heard crickets hurts the military. I want to encourage leadership here. I think we have had from them until the last day or two. my colleagues, let’s not do that. Let’s three patches to this budget—three of So the folks who have been down not do that. We will definitely be hurt- them. This was supposed to be done 111 here on the floor and on cable tele- ing the military then. Let’s get back to days ago. Over 111 days ago, we were vision talking about what a great pro- work. Let’s fund the government. Let’s supposed to have a budget that lasted gram CHIP is—and it has been a great pass this continuing resolution. Let’s for the fiscal year 2018. We were sup- program. It is one of the first major pass the reauthorization to CHIP, posed to have a bill that kept services pieces of legislation I voted on when I which a lot of my colleagues, in the for the U.S. Government open and op- was in the Montana Senate. Where last several months, have been saying erating so Montanans and Americans have you been? Why haven’t we had it we need to do. I agree. Let’s do it to- could have the certainty they elected on the floor and voted on it? It is im- night. Let’s find a resolution for the us to create, but for 111 days, the lead- portant. It is pure hypocrisy. It is what

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I have been a places like RiverStone and Flathead, it is a failure of leadership. It is a fail- part of a bipartisan working group— up in Kalispell and Bullock and Havre. ure of vision. very proud of the work we are doing— I tell you what, these folks are sweat- In any other business in this country, trying to find a solution on a very im- ing bullets. They are afraid they are if managers acted like the leadership of portant issue dealing with many thou- going to have to close their facilities this body, they would lose their jobs. It sands of children around our country down. They provide primary healthcare is almost as if the majority had and around our State. In Colorado, this to 100,000 folks. That may not sound planned this all along to get us to this issue of DACA, of Dreamers, is incred- like a lot of people, but in Montana, a point for political purposes. Well, guess ibly important, not just to part of the State of just over 1 million folks, it is what, we should not be here for polit- State, not just to Denver or the Front a big deal. These are essential facilities ical purposes; we should be here as Range. Two kids of mine go to school to our communities across Montana. Americans doing our best to give peo- with people who were brought here at a They provide basic healthcare, and ple the certainty they need rather than very young age through no fault of they keep families alive. The folks who playing with a hot potato, saying: You their own, and we all agree there needs run these community health centers know what, we will do it next month. to be a solution for those kids. have told me face-to-face: If we don’t We were sent here to govern. We We agree we should address the opi- get the funding, we are going to have ought to govern and put politics in the ate crisis that is gripping this Nation, to close the doors. closet. We have 9 hours to do a job, and that is tearing families apart, and that It has been 111 days, and we should we need to do it. If the majority leader- is resulting in the deaths of far too have had a budget to fund community ship and the White House are going to many people. When you have a crisis health centers, and we are still stand- continue to sit back and twiddle their that is resulting in the age and life ex- ing here today saying: Guess what. thumbs, let’s bypass them and let’s get pectancy of Americans declining, like When we come back here in February, a deal. There are good people in this the opiate crisis has, we should address things are going to be just fine, just body. We need to sit down and get a that. like they said in December. I have news We have men and women in uniform deal that works for the rest of this for you, nothing is going to change be- around the country defending this Na- year—that is, until the end of Sep- tween now and February so let’s get a tion. There are hundreds of thousands tember, not until the 19th of Feb- long-term budget deal today that ad- in Korea facing down a threat from ruary—that strengthens our borders, dresses some of these issues. North Korea. An article in the Wall reauthorizes CHIP, funds our commu- This bill also fails to make our bor- Street Journal today talked about the nity health centers, supports rural hos- ders secure. As I said earlier, the Pre- special operators who are now in the pitals, and fixes DACA. siding Officer and I have worked on the Philippines directly intervening in the I know there are scores and scores of Appropriations Homeland Security War on Terror in the Philippines, fight- folks on the other side of the aisle who Subcommittee to draft a bill that ing radical Islamic terrorists. Of course want to do this. Nobody should leave works. It invests in a wall where a wall we all know about the work that is their desk in this body until this job is makes sense. It hires more Border Pa- taking place in the Middle East, the done. We are nearly 4 months into this trol agents. That bill was never conflict in Syria, the conflict in Iraq, fiscal year. At some point in time, the brought up to full committee. I am the conflict in Afghanistan, and the sorry that never happened because it Appropriations Committee should be progress we have made fighting back would have been great, and it is not in- starting to work on the 2019 fiscal year on ISIS, fighting back on terrorists, cluded in the bill before us today. budget, but we are not because we the fact that we have shrunk the Time and again, over the last 4 can’t even get through 2018. We need to ground they have taken. It is one of months, good bipartisan bills have been stop governing from crisis to crisis. No- the great victories people haven’t real- piled up on the leadership’s desk. Rath- body wants a shutdown, and that is ly talked about yet because they would er than bring these bipartisan bills to why we need to stay here and do our rather talk about divisive issues. And the floor, rather than pass a long-term jobs. to think that we are hours away from budget, a more fiscally responsible I yield the floor. a government shutdown, and somehow The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. MUR- budget, the Senate has just said: No. people think it is going to make it bet- KOWSKI). The Senator from Colorado. Guess what. We will do it next month— ter. They are going to shut down the Mr. GARDNER. Madam President, I and we will do it the month after that government, and somehow that makes realized a long time ago something and we will do it the month after that. it better for the military. It is time to stop putting the bandaid unique and unfortunate about the way They are willing to shut down the on our budget because in 4 weeks we Congress can work. It seems sometimes government because they object to a 4- will be back here again if this passes, that in Washington, and only in Wash- week CR so they can get a 5-day CR or and it will be the same problems. In ington, the more people agree on some- a 3-day continuing resolution. Only in fact, we can solve them today, and we thing, the less likely it is to get done. Washington can a bad solution be fixed need to solve them today. Enough is In the real world, back in Colorado and by a worse solution, but that is exactly enough. in Alaska, where the Presiding Officer what people want to do. Congress has three times passed is from, the more people agree on It seems to me that this place ought short-term, stopgap, crisis-funding something, the more likely it is to get to get to work, and it doesn’t get to bills. These bills fail my constituents, done and the more likely you will see work by shutting things down, by and they waste taxpayer dollars. progress on an important issue to the going to your partisan corners, picking Enough is enough. People are tired of people of Colorado and to the people of up your sticks, and going home. Yet this, and I know they are tired on the Alaska. But here in Washington, the that is what some in this body would other side of the aisle because they more you agree, the more people seem like to do. have told me. They told me it is time to want to push back to fight and to di- We have a continuing resolution that to do our job here. They are as frus- vide. represents policies that people support. trated as I am. They are as frustrated So here we are approaching the zero There is not a thing in there that peo- as Montanans are when I meet them hour of a government shutdown, and I ple disagree with that they would vote face-to-face in townhalls and coffee hear from my colleagues on the other against—at least that is what we have shops. They tell me it is time for Con- side of the aisle—where is the good been told. gress to get off their duff and do their faith, they say. It has been 111 days, In fact, let’s look at the CHIP reau- jobs. and these programs haven’t been per- thorization. I heard my colleague from

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Well, here is vides the longest extension of women and that is exactly what the argument what the New York Times said on its and children’s healthcare since it was seems to be. They don’t like it, so front page this morning: ‘‘Senate Shut- created? make it worse. That is not fair to the down Looms As Spending Bill Ad- I hear from my colleagues on the American people. It is not fair that col- vances. House approves a stopgap other side of the aisle: Well, they didn’t lateral damage hurts men, women, and measure while Democrats dig in on im- talk about it. They didn’t care. children across this country when we migration.’’ That is the reason the I have been a cosponsor of that bill can do the right thing and we can bring Democrats want to shut down the gov- for months because I believe it is im- a solution to our immigration crisis, ernment of this entire country—over portant. It is important to the people we can bring a solution to the chal- the issue of immigration. That is the of my State. lenge our military faces, and we can New York Times. Here is the Wash- The fact is, people across this coun- bring a solution to the opiate crisis. ington Post this morning: ‘‘Shutdown try are tired of the finger-pointing, Let me tell you about a business in looms despite House action. Democrats they are tired of the blame game, and Fort Collins called Indivior. They have tie ‘dreamers’ to passage of budget they are tired of the shutdown politics made a breakthrough in the way that deal.’’ that we are just hours away from see- treatment is delivered for people who There it is—the New York Times and ing played out because people would are addicted to opiates. It is a liquid the Washington Post. The minority take this country, this government medication, and when it is injected, it leader is forcing a shutdown over the hostage to the politics of their choice. solidifies. It is time-released over a issue of illegal immigration. Demo- I am old enough to remember back in month, so it doesn’t rely on day-to-day crats are ready to set aside all other 2013 when President Obama thought a injections. It doesn’t rely on a person issues, all other deadlines, all other government shutdown was a bad idea, faithfully taking their medication be- priorities. Republicans have written and passed when the Democratic leader believed cause if they have a relapse, it can dis- legislation that funds the government. that a government shutdown could re- rupt their medication and what they That means funding for our military, sult in governmental chaos, when you are doing in their treatment. This funding for our veterans. It means shut the government down over the takes away that concern and gives them that treatment for a month. That funding for opioid treatment. It means politics of your choice. Yet here we are funding for everything that our Fed- hours away from people wishing to do was approved through an FDA emer- gency expedited review process, but eral Government does now, and it funds just that. the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- We can find solutions to our Nation’s there is legislation that this body needs to pass in order to make sure it gram—not just for a week or a month, biggest challenges. I am part of a bi- it funds it for the next 6 years. This is partisan working group to work on is available in a way that will help the American people. Shut down the gov- a program that helped provide medical these solutions, but it makes it more care for almost 9 million children and difficult, not less difficult, to find solu- ernment, and we can’t get that done. Committees can’t meet and the work needy families across this country. tions when people shut down the gov- There are more than 7,300 people in my ernment, and not only that—collateral can’t proceed. But I guess that is the solution that people want. I guess shut- home State of Wyoming who benefit damage occurs as a result. from this program. The money for this There is collateral damage on the ting down the government seems to be the cure-all for them. Take a hostage, program is going to start running out men and women across this country in some places very soon. The funding who are hurt because of what this gov- push it off, and somehow that makes it better. has been in limbo since last fall. Some ernment cannot do to help them. We States are getting ready to send letters are in one of the most severe flu sea- The American people just want us to find an answer. They want us to have to families—letters that tell those fam- sons this country has seen. The CDC ilies their coverage is going to be dis- has a lot of work to do. If you shut good-faith solutions to our problems, and men and women of good faith in continued because this Senate didn’t down the government, the CDC can no act. longer get information from the States this body and the House of Representa- tives are trying each and every day to States have been asking for cer- about where that flu epidemic is head- do that. But don’t prove to the Amer- tainty, and that is what we are doing ing, and that makes a difference on ican people their worse suspicions that with this legislation. We are providing where they send vaccines. If you don’t Washington doesn’t care. Pass the con- that certainty. We are taking care of vote for this bill to keep the govern- tinuing resolution. Continue negotia- this program, which is so vital to fami- ment open, 8.9 million women and chil- tions. We have time to talk. We have lies across every State in this country, dren could be affected because of the time to communicate. We have time to for the next 6 years. Democrats are risk it puts to SCHIP. work. Stop the temper tantrums. The blocking it. It does seem to be that Let me talk about a story from my American people deserve better. what they really want to do is make a hometown. There are five military Madam President, I yield the floor. political point at the expense of every- bases in the city of Colorado Springs. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- thing else and everyone else. They are Here is the headline from a local news- ator from Wyoming. willing to hold 9 million children and paper: ‘‘Potential shutdown would hit Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, their families hostage to do it. They hardest at Colorado Springs military as I come to the floor today, we are are willing to hold hostage more than bases.’’ There are men and women at facing the prospect of a government 300 million Americans who could be Fort Carson, CO, and across Colorado shutdown. At midnight tonight, fund- harmed by a prolonged government Springs, overseas, deployed on our War ing runs out, the lights will go dark, shutdown. And it is all over the immi- on Terror, protecting us at home so we and when that happens, everyone suf- gration issue, as they talk about in the can come to work each and every day fers. No one wins; everyone suffers. I Washington Post and the New York so we can have debates on the Senate know that, and you know that. Repub- Times, an issue known as DACA, which floor. Some 6,000 civilians are going to licans know that, and we have offered a stands for ‘‘deferred action for child- be furloughed if this government shut- solution that keeps the government hood arrivals.’’ It was intended as a down occurs. These are civilians who open and extends the Children’s Health temporary program to deal with the support the War on Terror, who sup- Insurance Program. As a doctor, I will problem of people who were brought to port our men and women in uniform tell you how valuable that program is this country illegally when they were around the globe. Yet, somehow, shut- for children all across the country. just young children. The program was ting down the government and fur- The House has already passed this set up by an Executive action by Presi- loughing 6,000 civilians is deemed to be legislation. Democrats in the Senate dent Obama. It wasn’t done by law. It

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That is no way to operate the govern- tion—are very tough, and we need to Nobody benefits from the Democrats ment of the greatest country on Earth. keep working toward a solution. There shutting down the government. Nobody What we need to be about is finding are discussions going on every day benefits from the game the Democrats a final budget deal. What is wrong with within the Senate—Republican and are playing with the security and the continuing resolutions? I think a piv- Democrat—between the House and the safety of American families. To me, it otal moment in this discussion—as we Senate. Why do people want to risk is irresponsible for them to seek this are sort of looking at how it has devel- blowing up these discussions? shutdown over their agenda on this oped—occurred about 8 days ago. I am Well, it seems that whatever we issue of immigration. on the Armed Services Committee. I agree to needs to include important We should pass the resolution that am the father of a U.S. Marine. The matters of border security because, to we have before us today. It is time for Secretary of Defense, General Mattis, me, border security is national secu- Democrats to step back from the dam- came to talk to both the Democratic rity, and that has to be included in age this shutdown will cause to chil- caucus and the Republican caucus that discussion and deliberation. Any dren, to our military, to our veterans, lunches. solution is going to have to include to our economy, and return to the I don’t know what he said to the Re- real fixes to our broken immigration table to discuss the issues in which publican lunch, but I know what he system so that we are not just having they are focused. said to us. The Secretary looked us in the same argument again in a couple of I would recommend to my colleagues the eye—this was, I think, on January years. across the aisle that they follow the 8—and said: Do not give me another I think coming up with a solution advice from Senator SCHUMER in 2013: continuing resolution. The pattern of like this does continue to take time. Don’t play politics with people’s lives continuing resolutions has hurt the Certainly, it is not something we can and create ‘‘governmental chaos.’’ Nation’s defense. Do not give me an- do by midnight tonight. There is not Thank you. other continuing resolution. even a good reason we need to rush to I yield the floor. When the Secretary of Defense looks solve this problem in a few hours. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- at us and tells us that, I take that seri- fact is, no current DACA recipients are ator from Virginia. ously. going to lose their benefits under the Mr. KAINE. Madam President, I rise Yesterday, we had an Armed Services program for 6 months. to talk about why we are here, but I hearing, and four Trump administra- Democrats are setting an arbitrary will just begin with a definitive state- tion nominees for key positions dealing deadline of midnight tonight, and they ment: There is not one of the 49 Demo- with research, acquisitions, installa- are threatening to shut down the gov- crats in this Chamber who wants the tions, and energy were before us. Be- ernment if their deadline is not met. government to shut down. And I will cause they each have experience work- The legislation Republicans have of- conclude with this, but I will just state ing with the DOD or other Federal fered takes care of one emergency, and that if the government of the United agencies, I asked each of them: What it gives negotiators time to reach con- States shuts down, it is for one reason do you think of continuing resolutions? sensus on this separate and unrelated and one reason only, and that is that To a person, these men and women subject. the majority leadership does not want said: They are horrible. We shouldn’t The continuing resolution already to work weekends. I will come back to live under continuing resolutions. passed by the House provides certainty that in a minute. Don’t do them. Do a budget. to the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- Why are we here? We are here debat- When they were done testifying, I gram, and it allows us the chance to ing on a House continuing resolution said: The interesting thing is that you work out some certainty on the DACA drafted without Democratic support or are actually here on the day when the issue. consultation at the eleventh hour and House is going to be voting on a con- Some Democrats are saying that sent over to us on the last day of a tinuing resolution that is directly con- they refuse to do that. Well, it is inter- spending authorization period. trary to what Secretary Mattis asked esting because in 2013, the minority Most folks in the Chamber know— of us and what you are testifying to leader, Senator SCHUMER, thought that but those watching on television may today. a government shutdown at that time not—we were supposed to have a budg- Last night, as we were on the floor was a terrible idea. He said: et and an appropriations bill by Octo- awaiting the House message to come No matter how strongly one feels about an ber 1. That did not happen. So the lead- over with the continuing resolution, issue, you shouldn’t hold millions of people ership suggested that we agree to work the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson hostage. . . . That’s wrong, and we can’t give and find an appropriations bill and a tweeted: Continuing resolutions are in to that. budget by December 8. That didn’t hap- wasteful, and they hurt the military. He even spelled out the exact situa- pen. Then there was the suggestion Don’t do another continuing resolu- tion we are facing today. He did it not that we delay until December 22, and tion. We need a full budget for 2018. just on the Senate floor; he did it on that didn’t happen. Then there was a This morning, Secretary Mattis television in 2013. On ABC’s ‘‘This vote on December 22 to delay until spoke, giving a national security Week,’’ October 6, 2013, he said: January 19—today. Apparently, that is speech, and he was asked about this We believe strongly in immigration re- not going to happen. budgetary debate. He said: ‘‘The value form. We could say, ‘‘we’re shutting down The request today is that we pass a of the American military is grossly en- the government, we’re not gonna raise the continuing resolution that would put hanced by the sense that the American debt ceiling, until you pass immigration re- this matter to the 16th of February, model of government, of the people, by form.’’ It would be governmental chaos. and we would then be in the fifth the people, for the people, can function He is right. It would be governmental month of the fiscal year without a and carry out its governmental respon- chaos. That is what Senator SCHUMER budget deal. Why would we want to do sibilities.’’ He continues to say that said in 2013. Now he is trying to create that? What we should want to do is not the right thing for our troops is to do exactly that same governmental chaos budget by continuing resolution, but a full budget, not a continuing resolu- that he described back then. It is for actually do a budget deal. tion. the exact same reason that he talked For folks who aren’t schooled in the So to hear my colleagues stand up about in 2013—the exact same reason insider phrases we use, a continuing and say that the Democrats want to that the Washington Post cites as the resolution is like driving your car shut government down: No, we don’t. reason on today’s front page: ‘‘Demo- looking in the rearview mirror. We We want to do what the Secretary of crats tie ‘dreamers’ to passage of budg- ought to be driving our car looking Defense said we should do.

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I am a Federal employee in ci- next few days to try to do what Sec- does not need to follow that path vilian service. I live in Quantico. Don’t retary Mattis asked and find a final again. make us live under continuing continu- budget deal, I believe we can find one, As a potential shutdown looms, the ations. The uncertainty of it is just too especially if the President were to say: President’s opioid public health emer- great. Find a final budget deal. Congress, stay at your job. Find a final gency declaration is on the verge of ex- That is the task that is really before budget deal. It has to be bipartisan, piring. According to reports today, the us right now, on January 19. Can we and I will support it. If the President administration is planning to cut the find a final budget deal? What should were to say those things, we could find Office of National Drug Control Policy we do? It is not that hard. The deadline a deal. That would be the best thing for by 95 percent. Let me say that again. tonight is completely artificial. There all concerned. The President’s opioid public health is nothing magic about January 19. Instead of kicking it down the road emergency declaration is on the verge What we should do is commit, as Sen- for a month, we might have to say that of expiring, and according to reports ators and House Members, to stay here we are going to kick it down for 3 days today, the administration is planning and get a final budget deal done. There or 4 days or 5 days while we negotiate. to cut the Office of National Drug Con- are a series of discrete items. There are Let’s put the pressure on to negotiate trol Policy by 95 percent. the budgetary numbers for defense and and not do this month-long extension ONDCP coordinates Federal efforts other important priorities—healthcare, that we have done since October 1, to combat opioid abuse and heroin use, education, transportation, mental which has gotten us nowhere. as well as drug trafficking in Indiana health. There are emergency relief That is what I meant when I said and across the country. In addition, packages for the hurricanes and that the only reason this government ONDCP administers the High Intensity wildfires of the last few months. Those would shut down over this is if the Drug Trafficking Area Program, or are important. leadership decides they don’t want to HIDTA, which supports and enhances There are a number of healthcare pri- work on weekends. Federal employees cooperation between Federal, State, orities like the CHIP program. That is work on weekends. Go out to Dulles and local law enforcement agencies to important. and look at TSA employees doing their combat drug trafficking. It is a pro- I would argue that a resolution of the jobs as people are traveling around. A gram that effectively brings together issue with Dreamers is important. Why whole lot of folks who are my constitu- critical law enforcement partners in ents in Virginia, our neighbors in Rich- do I say it is important? Because Presi- Indiana, and the reported cuts to mond, work on weekends. I know my dent Trump told us to do it in Sep- ONDCP could upend the good progress Senate colleagues work hard in their tember. He said: I am going to end the that is being made. Dreamer program in 6 months. I will districts. We work on weekends. As we work to confront the opioid We can work on weekends here. We end DACA in 6 months. I disagreed crisis, we should be investing in crit- can scrap some plans for the weekend. with that, but what I did agree with ical tools for Hoosier law enforcement We can commit to finding a final budg- was when he said that this was for Con- and communities to combat drug abuse et deal that would meet what Sec- gress to fix. He put a burden on our retary Mattis asked us to do. We and trafficking. This is a crisis. It is shoulders to fix it in September. should do that. not a time for the Federal Government It is 5 months later, and there is a bi- No one wants to shut this govern- to take critical tools for Hoosiers com- partisan proposal on the table. Presi- ment down. There is only one person munities off the table. We should be dent Trump said: Send me a proposal, who has been talking about it with doubling down on effective efforts. We and I am going to sign it. You work it glee. But even today, when President must confront the opioid epidemic with out, and I am going to sign it. Trump asked Senator SCHUMER to all possible tools available and every- We now have a proposal that I believe come and have a dialogue, I think that one working together to address this is ready to be voted on and, I believe, was a tacit admission that he now real- public health emergency. would pass in both bodies. izes it would be a bad idea. If it is a bad I yield back. What we should do is avoid the short idea, let’s just stay here and get a Mr. TILLIS. Madam President, I ask term—avoid the continuing resolutions budget deal done. That is what the unanimous consent that I be allowed to that the Secretary of Defense has told folks sent us here to do, and I know we enter into a colloquy with the Senator us not to pass, follow his advice and can do it. from Oklahoma. stay here at the table over the weekend I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. and into next week, and find a final The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ERNST). Without objection, it is so or- budget deal. That is how we can best ator from Indiana. dered. serve our constituents. OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY Mr. TILLIS. Madam President, we I think there is only one person who Mr. DONNELLY. Madam President, I are here to talk a little bit about im- has talked about shutdown with glee rise today to discuss two important migration reform and maybe a little and with interest that it happen—the issues: keeping our government run- bit about the looming government President. This is a tweet from May: ning and protecting an important tool shutdown. I want to start with the gov- ‘‘Our country needs a good ‘shut- in the fight against the opioid epi- ernment shutdown because it is intrin- down.’’’ demic. I know how strong the Pre- sically linked with some of the argu- I remember the tweet well because I siding Officer is on that as well. ments that are being made by my col- am on the Budget Committee, and we Today we face a deadline to fund the leagues on the other side of the aisle. were having budget hearings then. We government. It is the most basic duty What we are trying to do is fairly had a Trump administration nominee of Congress to keep our government simple. We are trying to fund our serv- before us for a key position—OMB, I running. icemembers. We are trying to fund our believe. I asked him: Do you think I was elected by the people of Indiana veterans. We want to get a long-term there is such a thing as a good shut- to work every day on behalf of Hoosiers authorization for the CHIP program. down of the U.S. Government? I have to do my job as a U.S. Senator. Keep- The CHIP program actually expired been asking that question to many wit- ing the government running is our job, last year, but there were sufficient nesses before the committee. Most say: and I will vote to keep the government funds on account to continue funding, No, there is in never such a thing as a open. but they are running out. In States good shutdown of the U.S. Govern- I hope that Republicans and Demo- like North Carolina and other States, ment. That is what we believe, and I crats will join together to reach an this program is going to start being

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That is all we are trying do tion reform sounds good, except it has along the border. I met with Border Pa- with this spending bill. failed every time they attempted it. trol agents. Some of them had been The other thing we are trying to do is We decided we should start with a more shot at. They had stories about some of create a bridge for a month so we can focused effort to address some of the their colleagues who had been killed. I get our colleagues on both sides of the border security concerns and certainty was in Laredo where they showed me aisle talking and hopefully get some for the DACA population. It sounded the door of a helicopter that had just certainty in terms of funding going like a good idea, so we decided we been shot through a couple of weeks into next year—if it were up to me and would have the No. 2 leaders in the earlier by someone across the Rio I think up to Senator LANKFORD, for House and the Senate—the Democrats Grande in what they call Nuevo La- several years, but it would be good to and Republicans, four people—get to- redo. It is a dangerous place down get some long-term certainty in the gether the following day and develop a there. funding process because right now schedule so a subset of that group of a There is a compassionate basis for these continuing resolutions are kill- couple of dozen people who met with trying to keep our border security and ing us. We are living paycheck to pay- the President could get together and CIS agents safe. There is also a com- check. It creates all kinds of inefficient work out our differences. passionate case for knowing who is processes. It is wasting taxpayer dol- Senator LANKFORD and I knew going crossing the border and where they are. lars. into it that in order to compromise, we Why? Because 10,000 people have died We have to at least start with fund- were going to have to accept positions crossing that border over the last 20 ing the government tonight. At mid- that were short of what we wanted, but years. Almost 1,000 of them were kids night tonight, if we don’t act on a con- that is the whole purpose of compro- or minors. That doesn’t include the tinuing resolution, then we will be mising. Nobody gets everything they number who get killed or die long be- shutting down the government. I, for want. We were looking forward to what fore they ever get to the southern bor- one, am going to vote for the con- we would hope would be a schedule der. tinuing resolution like I have every coming out from the whips—the Demo- The way it works is they have these resolution for the last 3 years I have crats and the Republicans, the four human traffickers, or human smug- been here because I believe we need to who were in the meeting—and that glers, who charge thousands of dollars pay our bills. I believe we need to fund never happened. What we instead found to get somebody across the border. our servicemembers. I believe the civil- out was on Thursday, a subset of the Sometimes they get across; oftentimes ian employees should know they can group, without talking with any of us, they don’t. It is a moneymaker. As a come back to work on Monday, and we decided to have a meeting with the matter of fact, the cartels that run the need to do a better job of actually get- President and see if they could offer different plazas—that is the geog- ting together and coming up with cen- their solution. That is what a lot of raphies along the southern border. It is tered solutions that gain enough sup- them have been talking about on the sort of like if you go through this port on both sides of the aisle to do floor. They are saying: Our solution is plaza, you better be paying a toll or that. ready to go. We can put it in the year- you are probably going to die. We have Now I want to talk about why we are end spending bill. We have bipartisan one example where 72 people were all at the shutdown. We are mainly at the support. We can let it go. murdered, one family—men, women, shutdown because some Members want Last night, I finally got the full text and children—because the person who to put all of our government funding at of their solution. I want to share it was smuggling them apparently got risk—all the funding I was talking with you. There it is. It is a title. It is crosswise with the cartel. So to send a about here at risk—because we have nothing. There are no specific provi- message, they killed these people. not yet reached an agreement on immi- sions. There is not a bill filed. There is They died because we didn’t know they gration reform. no evidence they have spoken with peo- were there. We didn’t know they Senator LANKFORD and I have spent a ple to try to bridge the gaps. It is com- crossed the border. We didn’t have the lot of time on this. In September of pletely counter to what we agreed to situational awareness that we are try- last year, we introduced the SUCCEED do that Tuesday, a week or so ago. ing to get done with the border secu- Act, which was an honest effort to get I am asking my colleagues to recog- rity provisions that are in a com- into the discussion on how we could nize that people like I and Senator promise bill that we offered. come up with a long-term solution for LANKFORD care about the DACA popu- I can also talk about the millions of the DACA population. We got together lation. We want to provide them with doses of drugs that cross our border with Senator DURBIN, Senator GRAHAM, certainty. We also want to make sure every week. Every week millions of and a number of other Members to try we put balance into the proposal so we doses of poison cross our border. We and negotiate out our differences. We are not here again 10 years from now, talk about the opioid epidemic, and we made some progress. so we can make sure we have some- know a vast majority of the opioids— Now I will bring you forward to a thing of enduring value. We don’t want the heroin, the fentanyl, the variants couple of weeks ago. We met with the to do something quick, where maybe of opioids that are coming across the President 2 weeks ago, on a Thursday. you play gotcha and you put some border—are coming from south of the Republican Members—it included my- pressure on someone and you get a bill border, either by water or by land. If self, Senator LANKFORD, and other because those sorts of bills are always that is not a compelling case, a com- Members, and we told the President we at risk of being reversed. passionate case, for American border thought we were making progress. Sen- We have already taken hits in our security with what we are trying to do ator GRAHAM was in the meeting as States. There are people who think we with immigration reform, I don’t know well. But we thought to really get the never should have had this discussion, what is. We are not talking about a deal done, we needed a bicameral, bi- but we care about the DACA popu- wall. We are not talking about a 2,300- partisan meeting. The President lation. We care about border security. mile wall. thought it was a good idea, and he We care about Homeland Security and I have been criticized for several hosted the first meeting that following a number of the things that have to go years because I sit on the Judiciary Tuesday. That meeting—actually, the together so we provide a solution, but Committee. We have had a number of majority of it, about 55 minutes of it— then we also make sure it is highly un- hearings that would have never made was televised. People could see the dis- likely that Senators 10, 12, 15 years sense. The President has been briefed cussion going on. Actually, people saw from now are in the same place. by Border Patrol. He understands it is

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That had never been of- fences and roads, reconnaissance, and has brought utter confusion to every- fered like that before. just intelligence-gathering devices in one, especially when you know the his- We worked through all of the details some places. That is all we are asking tory of this dialogue. Let me walk ev- of that and laid out a proposal and for. There is a deal to be struck here eryone backward through a span of a said: This is a section of a larger bill. very quickly, but you don’t do it by few months here. We feel that this is a way to get past going around a process that, 2 days be- In September, the Nation was sur- what has blocked the DREAM Act year fore, you agreed to participate in. prised when President Trump an- after year after year and what has been I thank Senator LANKFORD because nounced that he was not going to the biggest frustration for many of the Senator LANKFORD has done an ex- renew DACA and that he wanted a leg- people in the country with the DREAM traordinary job. I also want to thank islative, long-term fix for DACA. The Act. Yet our caveat was very con- our staffs because they have done an very day that he made that announce- sistent. We wanted to be able to resolve amazing amount of work to really ment, I released a statement, saying: this, but it had to be resolved with bor- come up with something that had been In America, we do not hold children ac- der security attached to it. well received, to a certain extent, by countable for the acts of their parents. I didn’t think that was an unreason- Senator DURBIN and others. In fact, We don’t do that in American law. able request. I was surprised to hear they embraced some of the provisions, Just a couple of days after that, the that it might have been since, in the but then things just broke down be- President called me late one night. He previous Gang of 8 versions several cause all they wanted to talk about said: Hey, I saw your statement in a re- years ago that had come out of the was the DACA component. They didn’t port about that. Can we talk about it? Senate, there had been a large section want to talk about the other things We spent about 20 minutes late that in it about border security. I assumed that make it an enduring and evening just talking about immigra- this would be a nonissue to be able to impactful and compassionate solution tion policy and his interest in getting a pair those issues together. It seems ir- for which, I think, we could easily get legislative, long-term resolution for responsible to deal with the DACA 60 votes. DACA, for these kids who have to issue and to not address: How did that I would appreciate Senator renew every 2 or 3 years, and they have happen in the first place? To say that LANKFORD’s thoughts and comments on no idea what is going to happen. He we have a secure border and that we this. wanted to have some semblance of per- don’t need to address anything would I yield the floor to Senator manence for them but, at the same be to ignore 12 million examples in our LANKFORD. time, also resolve some of the issues country of that rule being violated ei- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- around border security that were not ther through visa overstays or through ator from Oklahoma. controversial a few years ago. He said individuals coming across the border Mr. LANKFORD. Madam President, that we need to deal with some issues who want to be in our country but who Senator TILLIS and I have come to the with border security, and we need to have crossed illegally instead of floor today because we have just some deal with the issue of DACA and give through a legal process. incredible frustration and wanted to be them some semblance of permanence. We are a very open, receiving coun- able to bring some facts to this con- Can we put this together? try. Every day, a half a million people versation. Actually, at that time, Senator cross our southern border legally—a I absolutely grieve for the Federal TILLIS and I were already working to half a million every day. A million peo- workers in my State. I mean, there are get something together because, for ple a year legally become citizens of some phenomenal people who do an the last 15 years, the DREAM Act has the United States. We are not a coun- amazing job. Most people will never come up before the House and the Sen- try that is anti-immigration. We just know their names, but, every day, they ate, and for 15 years, it has failed every want it done the right way. We think are getting up to serve the American single time. The DREAM Act failed the law should apply to everyone people. when there was a Democratic Presi- equally all the time and don’t like any- Every day, there are folks who are in dent, a Democratic Senate, and a one circumventing the law. our military who are serving the Amer- Democratic House of Representatives. So here is a history lesson. ican people. The civilians who surround That bill was not going to pass. We On September 5, the President makes them, though they are not listed as knew that, so we went to work, asking: that announcement. Within days, we Federal employees, are intimately con- What is a better solution that will pro- have conversations with the President nected to what we are doing for the vide some semblance of permanence on about it. He agrees we need to be able Federal task—for people. They are try- this? to have something that is a long-term ing to figure out this afternoon what is Our conversation was about a lot of solution for border security and for going to happen to them this weekend the pushback as to why the DREAM DACA. Within about 2 weeks, Senator and next week. They are frantically Act had not passed in the past. A lot of TILLIS and I release the SUCCEED Act getting together in offices all over Americans feel like: I understand this and say this has to be part of our bor- Oklahoma and, quite frankly, all over group of individuals has grown up in der security. Thankfully, in our con- America and are trying to piece to- our country, pledges allegiance to our ference, at the same time, Senator gether the ‘‘now whats?’’ of a govern- flag, speaks English, is passionate CORNYN is also working through border ment shutdown, which is distracting about where they live, that this feels security to be able to partner it with them from getting all of the things like home to them, but it is not home. this. At the same time, Senator COT- done that they already need to get They wanted them to be able to have TON and Senator PERDUE are also work- done that they are backlogged on now. that opportunity, but they didn’t want ing on other areas dealing with chain For what? them to be able to cut in line. migration, knowing these could all be The frustration of this whole focus So we put in a process to say that partnered together to be able to put on ‘‘let’s do a government shutdown here is a way those individuals can into a final bill. They were individual over not having to have real discus- earn the right to be naturalized citi- titles of a larger proposal. We were sions about DACA and immigration’’ is zens of the United States, but they bringing those out. not only not accurate, but it is also have to earn it through a process, just In October, the President of the something that is already in the proc- as someone who is international would United States released a long report, ess that is somehow being short- have to go through that process to be saying here is what he would like to circuited. All of these Federal workers here. The exception would be they are have in a bill. He put great detail into and all of these civilian employees who already here, and they wouldn’t have it and said that this is what he expects are going through all of this turmoil in what DACA provided. DACA provided 2 the bill to be like when it is resolved.

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To stand up and say that the only just say that we are very close to nego- the bipartisan group, all that our reason you think this is because you tiating this, that people have actually Democratic colleagues want to talk are a racist is trying to shut down the acted in good faith in negotiations. But about is DACA—every day. Our staffs conversation, not engage in it. These saying ‘‘We will shut down the govern- meet every day. We are meeting every are my friends and neighbors as well, ment until you do it our way’’—and other day as Members, going through but we are legislators, and we have a their way was an end run around the this—sometimes every day going responsibility to solve issues, not to whole stated process that we all agreed through it. Every day, it is DACA, and, belittle each other and not to make on—seems absurd to me, and it cer- every day, we bring up: Hey, there are false accusations. tainly seems absurd to the Federal other aspects of this that we have There are millions of people who workers in my State who are now agreed to. Yet, every day, they say: have crossed our border to be able to going through chaos this afternoon be- Well, let’s work on DACA some more. work or connect with family. I fully cause some people wanted to make an It finally hits a point in December understand that. Many of them live end run around the process that was al- that I ask: When are we going to get to around my place, go to church with ready in place. talking about border security? We have me. I get that completely. There are Let’s finish the process and not cre- to talk about that. Well, guess what also many people who cross our borders ate some artificial cliff and chaos to happened. The next meeting I was not because of crime, and we would be fool- try to say ‘‘Do it my way, or I will shut invited to attend. Neither was I invited ish to ignore that reality as well. There down the government.’’ Let’s finish the to the next one. Neither was Senator are people who cross that border to be process. There are willing partners on TILLIS. Our staffs find out they are still able to traffic drugs, to be able to traf- both sides, and there are reasonable meeting and contact them and say: fic in terrorism, to be able to move proposals to finish out what we have Hey, we are still interested in getting people—human trafficking, labor traf- already started and worked on for to a bipartisan agreement. They do not ficking. We should have a secure border months to get through this process. respond to our staffs’ emails. They will set up for that. I thank Senator TILLIS for the en- not even tell us when or where they are Again, this used to not be a partisan gagement he has on this because he meeting. issue. In 2006, Senator SCHUMER and, at and his team have worked exception- We didn’t walk away from the nego- that time, Senator Obama voted for ally hard. My team and I, both in my tiations. We were kicked out of the ne- the Secure Fence Act, which put in 650 State and here, have worked exception- gotiations because we believed that miles of fencing on the southern bor- ally hard on these issues, and we want this deal needed to have border secu- der. Let me say that again. Senator to get them right. Senator CORNYN and rity in it and DACA. For a group that SCHUMER and Senator Obama and a lot his team have worked exceptionally said, basically, we don’t want to deal of other Democratic Senators, who are hard on these issues. with border security, they were no still here, voted for the Secure Fence Let’s do it, and let’s get it right, but longer interested in us, which took us Act in 2006 to put in 650 miles of fenc- let’s not shut down the government to a stalemate of really getting this re- ing on our southern border. This didn’t while in the middle of negotiations be- solved, which took us to 2 weeks ago. used to be a partisan issue, and it cause people want to have it their way On Tuesday, the President invites us shouldn’t be today. Border security is and not actually finish the negotia- over in a bipartisan, bicameral con- not partisan. It is national security. tions we started. versation to say: We have to get a plan The proposals that have come out at With that, I yield back. here. This is stuck. During that meet- times amaze me. Let’s actually get se- Mr. TILLIS. Madam President, I am ing with the President, with 26 House rious about trying to resolve these pleased to see Senator CORNYN here. He Members and Senators together from issues. Basic border security issues has done an extraordinary job. As a both parties, we make an agreement should involve not just some fencing in matter of fact, it was Senator CORNYN that there will be four areas of this some areas or walls in some areas or who hosted the trip that I made down final agreement and that these will be technology in some other areas or add- to the border that gave me an incred- the negotiators to be able to pull it to- ing additional manpower in other ibly important perspective on the case gether—the Republican and Demo- areas. Those are reasonable things for border security. I appreciate his cratic whips from both the House and along our border that every country in leadership on this issue. the Senate. Those four individuals will the world has organized. I want to leave a final comment for be the individuals to pull it together, It also involves dealing with some of the DACA population. Some people and they are going to get that done. the gaps in our law if someone crosses say: What is the crisis? We have until That was on Tuesday. into the United States. These are March 5. By Thursday of that week, a smaller things that need to be addressed—for I understand that every single day subgroup of the group that I had been instance, the removal of multiple fel- you wake up, that day seems like kicked out of went back to the Presi- ony criminal illegal aliens. Why is this today. I know we need to move more dent and said: No. We have a better controversial? This shouldn’t be a con- quickly. Quite honestly, we could have idea. Let’s try to do this instead. I troversial issue at all, but for some gotten this done a couple of months know, on Tuesday, we agreed to the reason, it is. To end the practice with ago if people had engaged, recognized other process, but we have another idea greater fines and penalties for people their differences, and accepted a com- to kind of end-run that whole process. who smuggle in people for profit, why promise. We are doing everything we Clearly, it upset a lot of us to say would that be controversial? For some can to get done much sooner than that we are trying to do a bipartisan reason, it is. March 5 because we understand that deal, that we are trying to work this We are dealing with additional judges they are our teachers, our EMTs. There through the process, that we are trying because we have 600,000 people in a are 900 serving in the military. They to be of good faith in this. So far, there backlog in our immigration courts— are hard-working people. They are kids have not been good faith negotiations 600,000 people in our immigration in school. There are hundreds of thou- on border security at all. We cannot courts in a backlog. Why would that be sands of good people—in a proposal deal with the issue of individuals who controversial to have to deal with a that we put together, over a million— are in our country illegally, even if we backlog? We are behind on family that we want to welcome into this Na- as Americans see them as neighbors members who have petitioned to be a tion because they are great citizens, and friends and future citizens of our part of this country but who were—get they love this country, they are pro- country, and ignore how it happened in this—20 years in a backlog. Why would ductive citizens, and I want them to

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This every day that we are here to make terms like ‘‘DACA.’’ People may be lis- is not something the President can do sure that we deliver on that promise. tening on TV, saying: What in the heck by himself or herself; this is something Madam President, thank you. is DACA? in which Congress needs to get in- I yield the floor. We say: That is a easy. It is deferred volved. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- action for childhood arrivals. So he kicked it over to Congress. jority whip. They ask: What is that? Thankfully, he gave us some time to Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, let We say: We are talking about the act. I believe the date is March 5, after me say publicly what I have said pri- Dreamers. which DACA beneficiaries or recipients vately to Senator TILLIS and Senator That is what Senator DURBIN and can no longer apply for a 2-year period LANKFORD. others have talked about because there of deferred action. That is exactly the Thank you for your leadership. is something called the Dream Act that right thing to do because it has precip- They have done an extraordinary job has been introduced and has been advo- itated this debate, it has precipitated trying to come up with a solution to cated for. Basically, what we are talk- these negotiations, and it has precip- the issue, the problem, the challenge ing about are children—now young itated a reality check for many of our that they have already described. I adults—who were brought into the Democratic friends that, you know, we would like to add a little color to some United States by their parents, and are a nation of immigrants but we are of that, but they have done extraor- their parents came into the country il- also a nation of laws. dinary work to try to come up with a legally—that is, they didn’t comply One reason why I believe this Presi- compassionate but legal framework by with the normal process of applying for dent was elected was because people which we can resolve this issue. citizenship; they came into the coun- were enormously frustrated with the I have been in the Senate since 2002, try. We all understand why, what moti- lack of border security, with the fail- and I have been through the immigra- vates a lot of people. A lot of people ure to enforce our immigration laws, tion wars more times than I care to think, well, I am going to short-circuit and with President Obama’s end run count. We keep working very hard on the process, jump to the head of the around Congress to try to do this uni- this issue, and we always seem to come line. laterally. This is what precipitated the The fact is—and I think Senator up short. I come from a State that is sorts of negotiations in which we have LANKFORD said this—in the United one of the most diverse States eth- all been engaged. Senator TILLIS and States, we don’t hold children respon- nically in the country, and that is be- Senator LANKFORD have been leaders in sible for the mistakes of their parents. cause we have been a big job creator, that effort, putting together an incred- So these children—now young adults— and a lot of people have been moving ible effort to come up with a compas- who maybe are able to pursue an edu- there looking for opportunities. We sionate and lawful solution and one cation, many of whom have become have a large Hispanic population. It that respects both of those pillars of very accomplished, simply are in a box. our legacy—a nation of immigrants makes sense. We are Texas, after all— I think we have a moral obligation. We used to be a part of Mexico. About 38 and a nation of laws. have an obligation to ourselves and to That is why it is so offensive to me percent of my constituents are His- our great country to try to take advan- for the Democratic leader to decide he panic, and I know that is a large part tage of the talent they have to offer is going to ignore the needs of all the of the population we are looking at and to help them become full-fledged children. I think there are roughly 9 when it comes to the Dreamers. There participants in this great country of million children who benefit from the are about 124,000 Dreamers in my State ours. Children’s Health Insurance Program. and others who are eligible who, frank- I remember being over at the White He is going to give our military the ly, are in a little bit of a box, not House in 2012 after the November elec- back of his hand—and military fami- knowing how to deal with their situa- tion. Speaker Boehner was there. Con- lies—by holding our needed support for tion. gressman MCCARTHY, the majority them hostage so that they can some- When I think about immigration, I leader, was there. Senator MCCONNELL, how force us to deal with this DACA think about the two great pillars that the Senate majority leader, was there. situation today or last night, and if we have made our country great. No. 1, we I was there. President Obama was don’t do it, they are going to shut down are a nation of immigrants. We have there, along with his staff. The Presi- the U.S. Government. benefited from the fact that people dent had for some time threatened to These 690,000 young men and women have fled religious persecution. They try to deal with this population, this truly should be the subject of our com- have fled poverty. They have come to sympathetic population that we are passion, but why would we hold 320 the United States to experience the talking about, that we want to try to million people hostage to try to get a sort of freedom that our country has provide some assistance to. He was solution for these 690,000, when we are guaranteed to each and every one of us frustrated with the slow pace of Con- already hard at work to try to nego- and the opportunity to pursue the gress, and so he was just going to do it tiate in good faith an outcome? It just American dream. That, to me, is one of by himself. That is what we mean when makes no sense at all to me. the great things that have made our we talk about deferred action for child- I appreciate the meetings that we country the envy of the world. The hood arrivals. President Obama decided had that Senator TILLIS alluded to. The other part and the part that I think to make an end run around Congress, one at the White House—I think it was sometimes people tend to overlook and which has the primary responsibility Tuesday. Was it last week? It seems forget is, what makes America great? on immigration matters under the Con- like a year ago. President Trump in- We are a nation of laws. We are a na- stitution, and to do it by himself. vited the press into this bipartisan, bi- tion of immigrants, and we are a na- Well, haste makes waste sometimes. cameral meeting. Ordinarily, what hap- tion of laws. When we forget either one What happened is that these 690,000—I pens after the press comes in and takes of those pillars, I think we risk dam- think at one point it was as many as pictures and asks a few questions is aging this wonderful inheritance that 700,000 or 800,000 who have actually that they are ushered out, but Presi- we have gotten from our parents and qualified. Many have dropped off. dent Trump let them stay in the Cabi- grandparents and people who have gone About 690,000 young adults signed up net Room for about 45 or 50 minutes. It before us. for this deferred action for childhood was the most incredible experience I I view this responsibility that we all arrivals, which allowed them some se- have ever had, certainly, in that sort of share together here in the Congress as curity but also gave them access to context dealing with sensitive issues a sacred trust. We are the stewards of work permits. like immigration.

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We were from a noncontiguous country, like trusting government even when gov- instructed to do what Senator TILLIS Central America—Guatemala, El Sal- ernment is trying to help them in the described earlier: come up with a solu- vador, for example, Honduras. So what United States. tion to this problem and address the we have seen is thousands of people My constituents want a solution, but DACA population. coming across our southern border ex- they are sick and tired of the Federal How do we show some compassion? ploiting that loophole in our law. Government failing to do its job on the How do we get these young adults out Let me give one example. I asked border. An international border is by of a quandary not of their making but Secretary Nielsen the other day: If definition a Federal responsibility, but also deal with border security? I hap- there is a 17-year-old man—you may the taxpayers in Texas are required to pen to come from a State that has 1,200 call him a boy, but for all practical pick up the tab when the Federal Gov- miles of common border with Mexico. purposes, he is a man, but he has not ernment doesn’t live up to its respon- Senator TILLIS described his experience yet reached 18. If you know from his sibilities, and that has been the status with Senator HELLER. I was happy to tattoos—frequently, that is how gang quo for as long as I can remember. host them because I think seeing it is members are identified by the Border It is frankly galling to hear politi- worth a thousand words. Hopefully, Patrol law enforcement officials, from cians here in Washington, DC, say: they enjoyed the experience and the tattoos they bear. So you know Well, we need to do something to help learned something from it as well. they are members of the MS–13 gang, immigrants—and I am happy to do it The Texas-Mexico border is about one of the most violent gangs ema- as the occasion arises, where it is ap- 2,000 miles long. What the Border Pa- nating from Central America and actu- propriate, particularly like the DACA trol has told me is that they need var- ally Los Angeles, as well, and many of recipients. Others, I think, need to be ious tools to secure the border. They them have migrated back to Central deported as soon as we can because need infrastructure like the Secure America. Many of them prey on chil- frankly they are a danger to the rest of Fence Act that we voted on in 2006. dren back there but come up here as the law-abiding communities here in Then-Senator Obama and then-Senator part of the drug distribution networks the country. Clinton and Senator SCHUMER, the in the United States. It is frustrating to hear people talk Democratic leader, all voted in favor of If you know this is a member of MS– about just one of those two pillars I the Secure Fence Act. Some people call 13, but they are 17 years old, is there mentioned. They say: Yeah, we are a it a wall. Some people call it a fence. anything you can do under existing law nation of immigrants, and we should Some people call it tactical infrastruc- to bar them from the country? She said welcome immigrants. But they don’t ture. Whatever you call it, it is a bar- no. want to do anything about our porous rier. It is an essential component of Under the law, they are required to borders, and they couldn’t care less border security at some parts of the process that person because he is a about making sure we have enough border, but it is only part of the sys- minor technically, even though he is a border security to protect us from the tem. man for all practical purposes, and drugs, the traffickers, and the violence The system needs to include tech- then Health and Human Services must that finds its way into communities all nology—whether it is unmanned aerial then place him with a sponsor in the across our country. vehicles, ground sensors, radars, United States. It might be a relative. It So here is the problem: Funding for aerostats that we saw high in the sky— doesn’t have to be a relative. The pre- the Federal Government expires at to try to protect our country against vious administration didn’t even vet midnight tonight, and a partial govern- transnational criminal organizations those sponsors adequately, so we don’t ment shutdown will occur if we don’t that exploit our porous border to im- know how many children who were pass a continuing resolution. Our col- port poison, illegal drugs; that traffic placed with those sponsors may have leagues in the House did their job; they in children for sex or other illicit pur- been preyed upon, trafficked, recruited passed a continuing resolution to keep poses; or that import their gang mem- as gang members, or otherwise abused. the government up and running until bers into the United States, only to But this 17-year-old young man, a February 16. wreak havoc on communities here in member of MS–13, would then be placed I really had a hard time believing the United States. The object of most with a sponsor in the United States and what I heard my friend Senator SCHU- of the mayhem associated with that be told, if he had claimed asylum, to MER say last night. He said we need to porous border is the immigrant com- come back in a couple of years for his kill this continuing resolution because munities in the United States. People court hearing before an immigration we need to pass another continuing res- act as if there is no negative downside judge. olution because continuing resolutions to this porous border and illegal immi- Senator LANKFORD, I believe, stated are bad for the military. Well, he lost gration, but I will tell you that fre- that hundreds of thousands people are me on that argument because it makes quently the devastation that is backlogged for hearings before immi- no sense. It is true that continuing res- wreaked on Americans and on people gration judges. We need more immigra- olutions are bad for the military. That living here in the United States is in tion judges. In the process, they are is why we need to get into a regular ap- immigrant communities, where these told to show back up for a court hear- propriations process. But does he think folks do most of their harm. ing years in the future, and only about a shutdown is good for the military? We are working very hard to try to 10 percent show up. I used to say this Does he think a shutdown is good for come up with a solution, and it is was sort of an intelligence test— the 9 million children who depend upon frankly insulting that the Democratic tongue-in-cheek. If you showed up, you the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- leader would try to jam this through flunked the intelligence test, because gram? I think his priorities are com- and hold hostage all of these other very what most people do is they exploit pletely out of whack. important programs when we are work- that vulnerability to simply melt into In my home State, just to take one ing in good faith to try to meet that the great American landscape and be- example, the Army Medical Command March 5 deadline, and I have every con- come a danger, frankly, to the commu- said that 2,539 civilian employees at fidence we will. But the border is a lit- nities in which they ultimately settle. Joint Base San Antonio will be subject tle more complicated. So this is serious business. to furlough, representing $188 million One of the things Secretary Nielsen, My constituents in Texas—all 28 mil- in salaries. Some 12,000 Texas Guards- the Secretary of the Department of lion of them—want a compassionate so- men won’t be able to drill either. I am Homeland Security, has pointed out is lution for these DACA recipients. I aware of the Presiding Officer’s distin- that because of a provision in the U.S. mentioned that there are 124,000 of guished service in the Guard, and she

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All of won’t get paid. ment to provide some service but be- them will be affected, and everybody It is estimated that 200,000 Texans cause the bills aren’t being paid be- else who depends on them to protect will be furloughed with the government cause Democrats have shut down the our State and our communities—or to shutdown, so it is not just the folks government—well, you are being de- provide services that benefit everybody who live in the DC area here in Wash- nied access to the services you have a else—they are going to be negatively ington, Virginia, and Maryland, where right to expect. impacted too. Paychecks could cease, we have a lot of government employ- Our Democratic colleagues are en- services will be disrupted, all because ees; people across the country will be gaged in a dangerous game of chicken, of an unrelated immigration issue that negatively affected too. and they could well crash the govern- will not get resolved if the government Our Democratic colleagues’ strategy ment just to appease extreme elements shuts down. to hold the military funding and chil- in their party, and all of it, every bit of That is what is so maddening. Shut- dren’s health insurance hostage is a it, is absolutely unnecessary. ting down the government will not complete and shameless reversal of Let’s call this what it is. Our col- solve that problem. I think they are what they claimed in the past. It is a leagues are playing favorites and turn- out over their skis, and they are trying complete and shameless reversal. In ing their backs on military families to figure out how do we get this thing 2013, the senior Senator from Illinois and the security needs of the American back and save face in the process. They said that a shutdown is ‘‘no way to run people. I think that after they had a are realizing this is a very bad judg- a country.’’ He decried what he called good night’s sleep last night, they ment call and that their action was en- ‘‘political brinkmanship,’’ saying we probably woke up this morning think- tirely disproportionate to resolving the need to stop ‘‘manufacturing one crisis ing: What have we done? How do we get issue they want to resolve—and one we after the next.’’ Well, I wish he and his out of this? That is why I know the are determined to resolve with them in colleagues would look in the mirror President called Senator SCHUMER, the due course. and listen to their own previous com- Democratic leader, over to the White Let’s recall that the 2013 shutdown ments. America needs them to. House earlier today. The report I got resulted in the furlough of 850,000 em- The truth is, as the Senate majority was that Senator SCHUMER said: Let’s ployees and billions of dollars of lost leader has said, our friends on the have another short-term continuing economic productivity. So when the other side of the aisle do not oppose a resolution, maybe until next Tuesday. senior Senator from California said single thing in the bill that the House Well, that wouldn’t solve anything. yesterday that the results of a shut- passed yesterday. They don’t oppose That would make none of this better. down are extremely dire, she wasn’t anything in the bill. The Senate major- It would just continue the chaos and being hyperbolic. She wasn’t exag- ity leader is right that this should be leave all the things we need to settle, gerating when she talked about the big an easy ‘‘yes’’ vote for every Senator in unsettled. risks that lie ahead if we don’t act. the Chamber. The bill continues gov- Well, the President did the right Well, I pray she and her Democratic ernment funding, prevents a needless thing. He told him: Look, you go back colleagues will stop stalling, stop play- shutdown, and, as I said, extends a key and you talk to the Speaker and the ing favorites, and stop daring us to en- health insurance program for vulner- Senate majority leader and you guys gage in a game of chicken. able children. work that out. This is what you get I will say it again one last time. We How in the heck did we get here? paid for. Get her done. have been negotiating in good faith on How did the Democrats decide that no That is good advice. a solution for the DACA recipients, and was the right answer? Well, we worked The threat of a shutdown by the we will continue to do so, but shutting hard last month and all this month to Democratic leader and his colleagues down the government will not solve try to negotiate long-term spending ignores the overwhelming majority of that problem, and millions of people, caps that would bring stability back to this country that suddenly feels they including our military, law enforce- government funding. One of the biggest are not as important as the few they ment, and emergency personnel, could issues was to try to make sure we fund- are focused on—the DACA recipients. lose their paycheck if Democrats fol- ed our military in a way that helped All Senate Finance Committee Demo- low through on their threat. The time to stop playing games is them prepare and get ready to fight crats voted for a 5-year SCHIP exten- now. We urge them—no—we implore our Nation’s wars or, better yet, to pre- sion in October, so they are now actu- them: Do not shut down the govern- vent future wars by demonstrating the ally threatening to vote against a pro- ment. kind of strength and leadership the gram that Senate Democrats on the Fi- I yield the floor. people have come to expect from the nance Committee voted for. I guess, in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- U.S. military. But our Democratic the immortal words of John Kerry, ator from Arkansas. leadership made it clear that they they were for it before they were Mr. BOOZMAN. Madam President, I would stall a final agreement on those against it. Have they forgotten that if rise to express my support and to high- spending caps until this unrelated issue Democrats shut down the government, light the importance of reauthorizing of deferred action for childhood arriv- nearly 9 million kids could lose their the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- als that we have been talking about, CHIP coverage? And why? Because we gram, CHIP. which doesn’t expire until March 5— haven’t yet been able to come up with CHIP expired in September, causing they were going to hold all the rest of an agreement on something—an immi- great concern and worry for families that hostage until it was resolved. gration issue—but our deadline isn’t and providers who depend on this pro- They made it clear that they were will- until March. It is not yesterday. It is gram to care for our Nation’s neediest ing to shut down vital programs for the not today. It is not until March 5. We children. Many States have been oper- rest of the country because we haven’t hope to get it done earlier. I expect we ating on reserve funds, which will soon agreed on how to resolve that issue, will. run out. It is time we provide the pro- but we are working hard on it. I had Have they forgotten the 78 percent of gram with the necessary funding to another meeting here today on that. I defense workers who could be fur- take care of America’s children. have actually had three meetings loughed, laid off; that Active-Duty I know Arkansas families who rely today on that topic, and we are going troops, as well as Guard and Reserve on the program to provide medical care to get it done before the deadline. members, would not get paid? In Vir- for their children are pleased with the While that issue is important and af- ginia, there are some 178,000 Federal inclusion of a 6-year reauthorization fects roughly 690,000 people, our coun- workers. In Maryland, there are over for CHIP, including in the legislation try is made up of over 320 million peo- 145,000. I hope they are on the phone before this Chamber. This would mark ple—people who pay taxes, people who calling their Senators and their the longest extension for the program expect the Federal Government to Congresspeople. Those are two States since its inception.

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We need to keep the ought to be agreeable to both sides— CHIP reauthorization out of the Senate government open and solve our dif- something pretty clean, not a tax with Finance Committee last fall. ferences through regular order, under- a bunch of political, divisive kind of Approximately, 50,000 children in Ar- standing, and compromise. Governing issues. No, we are going to extend the kansas—and nearly 9 million low-in- by hostage and crisis does not fulfill funding of the government, avoid a come children nationwide—receive our moral and our constitutional du- government shutdown, and let’s perma- healthcare through CHIP. Currently, ties to the American people. nently reauthorize, for 6 years, the these children, their families, and pro- We must not lose sight of our shared Children’s Health Insurance Program. viders are living in a cloud of anxious goals and purpose or the impact our de- It is very popular with the American uncertainty. cisions here have. We must aim to use people. Either we do that or we shut Take for instance this story of a the power of our offices for good. Sup- the government down. young Arkansan: porting children’s healthcare and pass- Here is where we are. There will be a In Little Rock, a precious little girl marks ing this continuing resolution is cer- lot of folks spinning a lot of different the milestone of turning 8 months old tomor- tainly a component of that goal. messages, but let me try to articulate row in the care of Arkansas Children’s Hos- I hope my colleagues remember the exactly where we are in as simple pital fighting an infection. She has been in story I shared today—and the stories I terms as possible. The House has the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and other know they have heard from their con- floors there since the day she turned 2 passed an agreement to keep the lights months old. stituents—and vote in favor of chil- on and to fund Children’s Health Insur- Her mother has four other children and dren’s health. ance. They passed it. The President has spends every hour she can at her daughter’s I yield the floor. said he will sign that agreement to bedside. Every one of those hours is an hour The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- keep the lights on and to fund Chil- spent away from the baby’s brothers and sis- ator from Montana. dren’s Health Insurance. The House has ters, two and a half hours away in Fort Mr. DAINES. Madam President, mid- Smith. passed it, the President says he will night is approaching and a government sign it, and now it is up to this body. Again, she has other children she is shutdown is looming in front of us. I Will we get 60 Senators—it will take trying to take care of at the present would say—as we can tell in this city— time. Republicans and Democrats—because there are not a lot of things Senators there are only 51 Republican Senators, In addition to her child’s medical condi- will agree on, but I think there is one tion, her mother is worried because her and the rules of the Senate require 60. thing that just about every Senator I Will we get 60 Senators—a good bipar- daughter’s care is covered by CHIP. have spoken with does agree on; that As much as she looks forward to bringing tisan vote—to keep the lights on and her daughter home, this mother knows that is, we have a budgeting and spending fund Children’s Health Insurance? That even those supplies she needs to make that process that is broken. is the question. We have less than 7 happen—the tubes, the medicines, the In fact, the first bill I introduced in hours to figure that out. Congress was a bill that simply said: If fluids—all of those are at risk without that I implore my Democratic colleagues coverage. Members of Congress can’t pass a bal- not to follow their leader, who insists anced budget, they shouldn’t get paid. This story highlights the reality so that DACA and illegal immigration get Nobody here likes to see CR after CR. many families are currently facing. fixed today, in the next 7 hours. We all CR stands for continuing resolution. Failing to reauthorize this important know illegal immigration is a very im- program would have real, direct, and Think about it. We have a govern- ment that starts its fiscal year every portant issue for our Nation. It has to serious consequences. be addressed. We must secure our bor- We must work to ensure these fami- year on October 1. I spent 28 years in ders, and we must resolve this issue, lies need not worry every year—or, as the private sector, and 13 of those but let’s keep it all in perspective. of now, months—about continued ac- years were with Procter & Gamble, a cess to benefits for the health and well- Fortune 500 company. I spent time in a In my home State of Montana, there being of their children. We must com- small family business, and I spent time are less than 100 DACA residents versus mit to passing this extension to pro- as part of a cloud computing startup 1 million Montanans who would be hurt vide these families peace of mind and that grew over 1,000 jobs. We took the by a government shutdown. A shut- stability. company public. So I have had a lot of down hurts our men and women who Arkansans recognize how important experience in budgets, management wear the uniform. To say it another this program is. My office has received spending, and ensuring that you actu- way, the choice is between 100 DACA significant amounts of inquiries on the ally take in more money than you recipients—less than 100 in Montana— issue. Our response has always been the spend because that is all profit in busi- or the 24,000 children who depend on same: Everyone in Congress is working ness. the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- in good faith to find a solution—at Here in Washington, DC, we are gram. least it seemed that way until a few now—October, November, December, Don’t let these issues get confused by days ago. I would have supported a 5- middle of January—we are 31⁄2 months smoke and mirrors. That is the funda- year reauthorization like the one my into the fiscal year without having mental issue right now that CHUCK colleagues on the other side of the aisle nailed down the spending plan. It is SCHUMER and the leaders of our friends were pushing for, and guess what. We broken. That needs to be reformed. across the aisle are talking about shut- did even better with a 6-year reauthor- On a more optimistic note, there is a ting down the government over. ization attached to the current CR. group of Republican and Democratic The right thing to do here is to vote Now those same Members who had Senators who are having discussions yes today. Let’s continue to fund the been asking for a 5-year reauthoriza- about how to change the way the budg- government while we work to address tion just days ago are refusing to sup- eting and spending works in Wash- these issues related to illegal immigra- port the longest extension of the pro- ington, DC, to deliver a better outcome tion and border security. gram since its inception. That is not for the American people. Senator LANKFORD was here earlier. negotiating in good faith. That is not Here we are at this moment, just There are good bipartisan discussions being part of the solution. That is hours away from a looming govern- going on as we speak. These are dif- being part of the problem. ment shutdown. So whether we are in ficult issues to get sorted out. They are Additionally, I continue to be frus- business or dealing with issues in per- divisive issues, but I think there is a trated by this unfortunate new normal sonal life, we have a choice to make path forward. To me, to say they have of continuing resolutions and stop-gap right here in front of us—a choice we to get resolved tonight or shut down measures to fund the government year have to make in less than 7 hours. We the government is the wrong position after year. can either keep the Federal Govern- to take.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:15 Jan 20, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G19JA6.042 S19JAPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE January 19, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S341 A shutdown means no long-term cer- real trouble with—a lot of gaping holes and devastating impact on my family.’’ tainty for Montana’s children. A shut- in that proposal, a lot of urgent mat- He goes on from there. down hurts our military. A shutdown ters for many Americans that have not We have even more letters. A letter hurts our veterans. been addressed in that proposal—but from the same corner of the State, I don’t like another CR. I would rath- even if you favor that, you can also Fayette County—one of the great coun- er not have another CR. But guess still hold the position you don’t favor ties of Pennsylvania in the most south- what. You get paid to come here and continuing resolution after continuing western corner, right next to Greene make a choice. Sometimes it is be- resolution. I guess we are on our fourth County, right on the Ohio or West Vir- tween two options; neither one is very resolution, if we have the right count, ginia border, depending on which side appealing. I don’t like the idea of hav- since October 1—not that long ago. you are looking at. ing another CR. It is just an example of So that is at least my sense of where This individual said to me in the let- a broken budgeting process. But the we could be in the next couple of days: ter: choice is that either we buy some more not leaving Washington and staying at [T]here are so many retired miners, widows time to resolve these issues of illegal the negotiating table on a range of and families that rely upon those benefits immigration or we shut down the gov- issues. That is the reasonable thing to each month. Including my mother and me, she is a widow and I have cerebral palsy and ernment, harming our military, our do, not only to keep the government we depend on my dad’s pension to survive on veterans, our seniors, and compro- operating and open but also to finally the limited income. mising national security. I believe a resolve some major issues, which I So the miner is speaking about the government shutdown is a mistake. think most of both parties want to pension they earned and their hope and Mr. CASEY. Madam President, I ask solve. expectation, which is a reasonable ex- unanimous consent to speak as in Let me start tonight with some per- pectation that the promise made in morning business. sonal letters. One of the major issues that pension would be fulfilled, or it is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without which is not resolved, but there has the perspective of a son or a daughter objection, it is so ordered. been a lot of effort made which is bi- or a wife or even, unfortunately, in Mr. CASEY. Madam President, I rise partisan, is the issue of pensions. I many cases, a widow talking about a to talk about some of the issues we are have received letters from a lot of miner who had passed away. facing as we approach a deadline to- Pennsylvanians who say: Look, it is up Here is another letter from South- night, but I really wanted to start with to you and up to the people in both par- western Pennsylvania, talking about one observation about where we are ties to solve this pension crisis which that word I just used, ‘‘promise.’’ and where we could be in the next cou- has engulfed so many families. In This [pension] was a promise made by the ple of days. Pennsylvania, if you add up the cat- government. . . . we kept ours . . . and now Some of the debate is focused on sim- egories of people affected—retirees and we hope that you will continue to KEEP ply what could happen at midnight their families—you are talking about THE PROMISE. were there to be a shutdown of the Fed- at least 35,000 families, usually because ‘‘KEEP THE PROMISE,’’ all in cap- eral Government, but there is another the largest share of retirees are coal ital letters, by this individual. alternative, of course, and that is— miners in Pennsylvania. I am sure it is I am 73 years old and if I was to lose my well, two, really: to have an agreement true in other States as well. pension, my wife & I would be forced to live that would carry forward before the I got a letter from a woman in Wash- in poverty. deadline. That is, in my judgment, less ington County, PA, right in the south- Here is another pension letter. This likely to happen. I don’t think anybody western corner of our State. I will not is not from a coal miner but from a re- believes that would happen, nec- read the whole letter, but she was talk- tired truckdriver—another group of essarily, but the other option, of ing about her husband who is a retired Americans affected when the U.S. Sen- course, is to have a number of days miner. She said: ‘‘He worked for many ate doesn’t get pension legislation ahead of us—3 days, 4 days, whatever years in the coal mines and endured done, like we can do in the next couple the leadership on the two sides can dangerous conditions, unsafe work haz- of days. ‘‘I am a retired truck driver agree to—to continue negotiations be- ards, and a mine fire which he nar- . . . spent 25 years of my life in this oc- cause, of course, we have a range of rowly escaped and closed the mine forc- cupation . . .’’ and asking me as his issues. Sometimes we haven’t talked ing him to lose his job.’’ Senator ‘‘if you could do whatever you enough about the long list of issues. I She concludes by saying: ‘‘This pen- can do to preserve that pension for my will get into a few tonight, but there is sion is so important to him and to wife and I.’’ a rather long list of issues, some of us’’—and she goes on from there. Another letter from the northeastern which have already been the subject of That is one person talking about her corner of Pennsylvania, not far from not just consensus but a bipartisan husband doing the most dangerous where I live, talks about the same act, piece of legislation, actual bill text work imaginable. I am not sure there is the Butch Lewis Act. In this case, the that has been introduced or could be a more dangerous job in the world than letter is about his father: My father, introduced in short order, in the next coal mining, and I know of what I for over 25 years, was paying into a few days or even the next couple of speak because of the corner of Pennsyl- pension. He was a dock worker, phys- hours. vania I am from, the anthracite coal ically loading trucks by hand. He did Then there are other issues where region. this to provide for my family and to there have been ongoing issues for a Here is another letter from the same ensure we had medical coverage and long period of time, haven’t reached corner of the State, Southwestern also a pension. consensus, but if we all give ourselves Pennsylvania, in this case, in par- Then it talks about a pension. His a deadline and stay here—and I hope ticular, talking about the pension leg- dad was told at one point that the pen- people in both parties will stay for the islation which is before the Senate sion was wiped out, that everything he next few days no matter what happens right now, the so-called Butch Lewis had worked for was taken away. He tonight. If there is an extension of 3 or Act. Here is what this man says about worked hard for 25 years—nights, 4 days, that doesn’t make it any less his family, talking about the way he weekends, double shifts sometimes, on challenging because that just means earned a pension. He said: and on and on. there will be a short-term deadline. I We gave up pay raises, to get a meager I heard from the majority leader last don’t think it makes any sense to go pension, and as we get older we can’t start night that somehow these kinds of another month because the can, in es- over. Please [pass . . .] the Butch Lewis act. issues that are part of this larger de- sence, will be kicked down the road A third letter, also from South- bate are not urgent. He said the only again. western Pennsylvania—in this case urgent matter is the government fund- We need to make decisions about from Westmoreland County, one coun- ing bill. I would agree that is urgent, some big issues. There are some who ty over, just to the east of Pittsburgh. but I would also agree that if you are a have observed that even if you were in This individual talks about the pension retired coal miner or the family of a favor of the measure that came over he received. He said: ‘‘I am facing pen- retired coal miner or a retired truck- from the House last night, which I have sion cuts that will have an immediate driver or you are owed a pension of any

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We have been working under a Continuing other. There is a lot of talk around Here is another letter that talks Resolution for three years now. here as if it isn’t. It is very, very ur- about health centers. This individual Meaning the Defense Department. gent. says: Our current CR expires tomorrow, 19 Jan. This is wasteful and destructive. I will give you another urgent issue— If Congress kicks this can down the road the issue of community health centers. one more time, it will be a signal to health She hopes and I think our military Here is a letter I received from South- centers that we need to implement measures hopes that we don’t keep kicking the eastern Pennsylvania—just outside of that will result in site closures, layoffs and can down the road. Let’s come together Philadelphia—about funding for com- reduced services. and get so much done for the American munity health centers, which, just like I guess community health centers are people that we can get done tonight, the pension issue, is not addressed in not urgent. tomorrow morning, tomorrow night, the House proposal or the House bill How about this program that is also Sunday morning, Sunday night, Mon- that passed. They don’t address pen- not addressed in the House legisla- day morning, Monday afternoon, Mon- sions. They don’t address community tion—the Maternal, Infant, and Early day night, Tuesday. We can stay here health centers. By the way, the dead- Childhood Home Visiting Program. and get a lot of this done, and then we line for community health centers, just This is an evidenced-based home vis- can move on to other things. We can get a major list of problems solved, not like children’s health, was way back in iting program that supports at-risk this House bill full of holes that leaves October—October 1. pregnant women and young families. It I am glad that some Republicans are is a great program that has been in so many Americans out, leaves coal finally—finally, after more than 100 place for the last couple of years. In miners out, leaves truckdrivers out. It days—starting to clue in a little bit to fiscal year 2017, funding was about $400 leaves millions out. By one estimate, 27 children’s health insurance. They are million. That is not addressed either. I million people in the country get their talking about it. It is great that they guess that is not urgent, just like com- healthcare at community health cen- ters, 800,000 in Pennsylvania. We could are finally talking about children’s munity health centers and just like do all that, bring the country together, health insurance, which they haven’t pensions for retired coal miners and and then move on to other issues that talked about much since they let the truckdrivers and others. None of this, we haven’t discussed yet, such as infra- deadline expire months ago. The ma- apparently, according to the majority, structure, fixing roads and bridges, and jority party allowed that to happen. is urgent. None of this is urgent. bringing broadband to rural America. Maybe by midnight tonight they will I will tell you what was urgent for Fill in the blank with whatever else start talking about community health the majority at the end of last year, you want to work on, but there is a lot centers that serve 800,000 people in November and December: an obsession with getting a tax bill passed, which we could do. Pennsylvania. I hope they start talking The President said that he wanted to did pretty well for the superrich and about it at least, and maybe we can make infrastructure a priority. It is big corporations. There was all kinds of come together and get something done. going to be difficult to get to that if we time for that—negotiations between Here is what she says about commu- keep getting stuck on these 3-week or and among Republicans, discussions nity health centers: We serve hundreds 2-month continuing resolutions. of thousands of underserved people who and changes in the bill, between and I know there has been a lot of chatter deserve the quality of care we provide. among Republicans only, for a tax bill. today about blame games. Look, ac- They have lives filled with trauma and That was very urgent. To get that tax cording to my count, there might be in turn suffer from social, physical, and bill rammed through—that was very only one politician in the country who behavioral issues that will go un- urgent, so children’s health insurance has spoken directly and I think repeat- treated if funding for community had to wait even though in December it edly, but at least once that we know of, health centers go away. was already 2 months overdue, 2 about a government shutdown, and I guess that is not urgent. If you rely months after expiration. Community that happens to be the President. upon a community health center for health centers had to wait, as well, be- I will hold up this poster, which is a your healthcare, it is urgent. It is cause you had to get your Republican statement dated May 2. ‘‘Our country every bit as urgent as anything we tax bill done. All of that had to wait. needs a good shutdown,’’ said the have talked about in the last couple of Coal miners’ pensions had to wait, too, President on May 2, 2017. I hope the days and weeks. The House bill does because you had to get the tax bill majority will not agree with that, that nothing on that, nothing on miners’ done for the rich and for corporations. our country needs that. We need to pensions, nothing on pensions, nothing How about the issue that received a come together and use this opportunity on community health centers. And we lot of attention, the so-called DACA to do the following: Fund the Federal are supposed to just accept that and Program, the Dreamers? Right now, we Government. Make sure retirees have move on and have another continuing have seven Senate Republicans, at last the pension they have been waiting for resolution when they don’t even ad- count—it might have gone higher— for a long time. Coal miners have been dress it in their proposal. seven Senate Republicans have joined coming to this town for years now try- Here is another letter about commu- with Senate Democrats on a bipartisan ing to get their healthcare. They were nity health centers. This one is about bill to do a lot of things but principally promised that in early 2016. It didn’t the patients who live in rural and un- improve border security and help happen because the majority made derserved areas, who are in areas where young Dreamers. That is a bill that is them wait. They were promised in there is a great need for health centers. ready to go right now, and it is urgent 2016—later in the year—that it would I guess it is not urgent for those folks because people have been deported, and happen in the fall when the Finance in rural areas who depend upon these both parties assert that they are con- Committee got the coal miners health centers. As I said, in Pennsyl- cerned about these Dreamers. We could healthcare bill done. It didn’t happen vania, if you look at the total—rural get it done right now. One Republican in the fall. The majority made them and urban and everything in between— Senator said he could get it done in wait. Then, of course, they said: Oh, no, it is 800,000 people. I guess it is not ur- half an hour. Let’s say he is way off— but after the election, in December of gent for them. This House bill does maybe an hour and certainly a few 2016, it will get done then. But the ma- nothing for those community health days. We could get that done as well. jority made them wait. After months centers and those people who live in There is a lot that is urgent, and and months of pressing, these coal min- rural and urban areas who depend upon there is a lot that is left on the table ers finally got the promise fulfilled by

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That was We can do all of this in the next num- selves, give us all types of information, part of the original bill, but we were ber of hours and days. We can get all of trust us, and they did. Now the govern- only able to get the healthcare part of this done, and then we can move for- ment must respond to them, but what it done. So miners’ pensions goes back ward in a bipartisan way on to other is going on here is beyond Dreamers. much further than the early part of priorities. We cannot, simply, accept a This is the Federal Government hur- 2017; it goes back to 2016 and 2015 and measure from the House that is full of tling from short-term funding resolu- years before that. holes—that does nothing for those re- tion to short-term funding resolution I would hope that before we move to tirees, that does nothing for commu- instead of having the appropriate ap- bringing the sides together, that we nity health centers, that does nothing propriations pass when they were due would make those pensions and those to address the opioid crisis. We didn’t last October—last October—instead of retirees a priority. I would hope we get into that, but we could easily be working to pass the necessary appro- would make community health centers funding more for our local commu- priations to keep the government not a priority, as well as getting done for nities. just operating but to do it efficiently, children what we should get done. I hope we don’t listen to this state- on an annual basis, so our institutions One point about the Children’s ment here that somehow this is some- can appropriately plan and so we can Health Insurance Program. I am glad thing that is good for the country. We save money instead of spending more that my Republican friends are finally need to stay here and continue negotia- money because of what it costs for talking about the program. They were tions and, in some cases, wrap up short-term preparations. Our Republican colleagues were busy, rather quiet the last couple of months promising negotiations that have al- yes, but they were busy in October and when they refused to bring it up on the ready reached a consensus. We should November and December not preparing floor. Of course, everyone knows that if stay here tonight and Saturday and for the government’s needs but to have you put a CHIP bill on this floor to- Sunday and Monday and Tuesday at a drive in ecstasy toward tax cuts for night, it would pass in minutes. We least. That is not asking much to nego- the wealthiest people in the country would get an overwhelming vote. If the tiate hard for 4 days. Let’s see what we and large corporations on the backs of majority really cares about it, they can get done in a couple of days and see would do just that, just as we have middle class and working families. where we are. That is what they spent their time on. been asking for months. But, of course, I yield the floor. Then they come and say: Oh, but it is children weren’t a priority because I suggest the absence of a quorum. urgent that we do this now. You had they had to get a tax bill done. That The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. months in which you did nothing— was the big priority. They had to get CRUZ). The clerk will call the roll. that big tax bill done so that the cor- nothing. The senior assistant legislative clerk Now, I must say to my friends—and I porations would be happy with Repub- proceeded to call the roll. have heard many of them who are lican Senators. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Let me make one point about chil- budget hawks and deficits hawks—this I ask unanimous consent that the order is no way to run a government, much dren’s health. We have to get that done for the quorum call be rescinded. as well, but the problem is, for a lot of less the greatest country on the face of The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. the Earth. Who wants to dictate to reasons, the cost has changed a good FISCHER). Without objection, it is so countries about being responsible, bit. Here is the reality. The CHIP pro- ordered. when we want to give them assistance gram, according to this proposal, is Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, or we are trying to get them to do limited in time to 6 years. If Repub- I ask unanimous consent that notwith- trade things, and this is the image we licans included a 10-year extension, it standing rule XXII, the Senate vote on send to the world? would actually save billions of dollars the motion to invoke cloture on the Now, only in Washington—I have and, more importantly, would remove motion to concur in the House amend- been here a while. Only in Washington us from the cycle of funding crises to ment to the Senate amendment at 10 could Republicans, who control the which we have grown accustomed. p.m. tonight. House of Representatives, the U.S. Sen- If it is less expensive and provides The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ate, and the President of the United more certainty, why don’t we do CHIP objection, it is so ordered. States at the White House, try to for 10 years? I would like to make it Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, blame a Democratic minority for their permanent. That would be the best re- I suggest the absence of a quorum. failure to govern. Let’s be clear why we sult, the optimal result. But why not 10 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The are here today. Instead of providing years? Because of a whole series of dy- clerk will call the roll. our military, our first responders, our namics that happened over the last The senior assistant legislative clerk healthcare centers, and all of our Fed- couple of months, the cost has actually proceeded to call the roll. eral agencies with the long-term fund- gone down. If you can get a cheaper Mr. MENENDEZ. Madam President, I ing they need to efficiently and effec- rate, so to speak, for a 10-year exten- ask unanimous consent that the order tively serve the American people, Sen- sion, why not make it 10 years? I know for the quorum call be rescinded. ate Republicans want to pass yet an- the Freedom Caucus and House Repub- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without other—another—another stop-gap, woe- licans came up with 6, but I thought objection, it is so ordered. fully insufficient, short-term con- they wanted to save money, and I hope Mr. MENENDEZ. Madam President, I tinuing resolution. they want to save money and help kids. come to the floor on the verge of what In fairness, I tried to give my Repub- I hope we can come together on that as could be a government shutdown. lican colleagues the benefit of the well. Let’s make it a 10-year commit- I have listened to my colleagues doubt. I voted for the first continuing ment to our kids. I think the Senate throughout the day suggest—particu- resolution. I voted for the second con- Republicans passed a tax bill that had larly on the other side of the aisle— tinuing resolution, but enough is a corporate tax break that is perma- that this is only about Dreamers. enough. nent—permanent tax relief for big cor- Dreamers should be able to realize I got my start in local government. I porations. Why not at least give chil- their dream. I have been as passionate was a member of a school board, and I dren’s health insurance and the chil- as anyone about believing that these was a mayor, and then I served in the dren who depend on it at least 10 years. young people, who only know one flag, State legislature. Let me just say, Give them a decade, right? That is not the flag of the United States, its stars there is no place from my past experi- a big sacrifice. Of course, it would be and stripes; who only sing one national ence that you could do what we do

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You couldn’t do that in the State have a resolution at last. millions? legislature for the State budget, Let me just say, I know the Presi- This is an opportunity to deal with couldn’t do it on the city council, dent has said that maybe the country the pensions that people who worked a couldn’t do it on the school board. needs—would benefit from a good shut- lifetime and, through no fault of their Families can’t do it in their own lives. down. I don’t ever think there is a good own, now find themselves possibly We shouldn’t do it on behalf of the 320- shutdown. I know, in the past, when shortchanged. Let’s help them retire some-odd million people who call President Obama was in the White with the dignity they deserve. America home. House, then Mr. Trump said: Oh, it is This is an opportunity to make sure Now, the CR—this continuing resolu- the President who is the leader. It is the National Institutes of Health— tion to keep the government open one the President who has to bring every- which is doing ground-breaking re- more time, for the fourth time; not the body into the room. It is the President search on the Alzheimer’s that took first time, not the second time, not the who has to get people to come to a con- my mother’s life, on the Parkinson’s third time but the fourth time because clusion. that affects our neighbors, on the dis- we are all basically about tax cuts for Well, you showed up late in the eases that affect our people, but you the wealthy but not taking care of ev- game—very late in the game—the final can’t do long-term trials if you don’t erybody in terms of government fund- hours. know what your funding is going to be. ing—kicks the can down the road again Finally, I think all of us who have The list goes on and on. without making the necessary invest- been around either this institution or The people of America deserve far ments into our communities. It con- the Congress know that you need 60 better than what they are getting, and tinues the chaos and the dysfunction votes in the U.S. Senate. I have com- I reject the proposition that you can that has defined the last year of Repub- promised many times on foreign pol- just stick it to us and suggest that we lican control. It doesn’t fund commu- icy. I compromised with my colleagues have to accept it. You create the crisis nity health centers, something I am so to try to achieve a solution for the and then you want us to accept it. proud of in my home State of New Jer- DACA legislation. There were hard Well, it is time to get the job done on sey—federally qualified health centers. choices to be made and things I don’t behalf of the American people. That is They take everybody who comes like, but I compromised. Let me tell why some of us will not support a through the door—all taken. You have you something. Sixty votes, you don’t longer term funding resolution, be- insurance? Great. You don’t have in- even have your 60 votes. Two of our Re- cause all it will do is get us right back surance? We will take care of you. You publican colleagues have said—I under- to where we are today. The American have Medicaid or Medicare? Fine. Bot- stand why because they don’t want to people deserve much more than that. tom line, a system that delivers qual- keep kicking the can down the road: They deserve that, and there is no ity healthcare. This doesn’t do it. It No, we are not going to vote for this. reason we can’t deliver that. leaves them in the lurch out there. One of our colleagues is infirm, not With that, I yield the floor. The CR doesn’t set budget numbers here. So they are not anywhere even f to fund national security or domestic near their numbers. investment priorities. We talk about So that means, when you need 60 and MORNING BUSINESS our national defense—and, yes, I am you are far from it, that you have to one of those who is willing to plus-up engage in a negotiation and a com- national defense—but guess what, the promise. It is not just stick it and ac- NOMINATION OBJECTION nondefense side of the budget is about cept it because when that happens, Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I in- homeland security, the FBI, the Secret then we are on the dangerous path that tend to object to any unanimous con- Service, the Treasury Department, the when this short-term resolution sent request at the present time relat- National Institutes of Health that pro- doesn’t solve itself—if we agree to a ing to the nomination of David J. tects us in terms of illnesses, the month—then ultimately we will have Ryder, of New Jersey, to be Director of CDC—all of these elements are in the another CR, and maybe we will like the Mint, PN1355. domestic discretionary side of the even less what is in that CR. Maybe I will object because the Department budget so they are important, too, but there will be language that we will find of the Treasury has failed to respond to we don’t fund budget numbers that particularly problematic. Maybe there a letter I sent on September 29, 2017, to allow the national security or domestic will even be numbers we don’t care for. a bureau within the Department seek- investment priorities to take place. The point is, if you know you need 60, ing documents relevant to an ongoing I heard Leader MCCONNELL say last you don’t wait until the final hours to investigation by the Senate Committee night that the CR is about helping all try to come to a negotiation. on the Judiciary. Despite several phone Americans. Well, I will tell you, it I would rather live a day on my feet calls between committee staff and doesn’t do squat for the 3.5 million than a life on my knees, in defense of Treasury personnel to prioritize par- Americans who call Puerto Rico their the 9 million people who call New Jer- ticular requests within that letter, the home and who are suffering in an ap- sey home, to make sure they get what Treasury Department has to date failed palling human catastrophe in the wake they need, not what I am shafted to try to provide any documents. of devastating storms. It doesn’t ade- to have to accept. My objection is not intended to ques- quately assist communities in Texas So I personally am for a very short- tion the credentials of Mr. Ryder in and Florida and Western States that term resolution that makes leadership any way. However, the Department are ravaged by fires that are still wait- and the White House and all of us, as must recognize that it has an ongoing ing for Congress to act on disaster re- far as I am concerned, stay here work- obligation to respond to congressional lief. Even the Secretary of Defense’s ing to achieve what the American peo- inquiries in a timely and reasonable spokesperson said we have been work- ple deserve, which is a full funding of manner. ing under a continuing resolution for 3 their government—no more short-term f years now. Our current CR expires to- lurching from crisis to crisis. This is an morrow. This is wasteful. This is the opportunity to take care of those MARCH FOR LIFE Secretary of Defense’s spokesperson: Americans who have been hurt in hur- Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I This is wasteful and destructive. We ricanes and storms and fires and the would like to take this opportunity to need a fully funded fiscal year 2018 people of Puerto Rico; an opportunity welcome the Iowans who have traveled budget or face ramifications for our to give Dreamers their dream; an op- to the Capitol today to be with us for military. portunity to fund our public health the March for Life. I would add that these young peo- centers; an opportunity to fund the I commend them and the many other ple—many of them who wear the uni- Children’s Health Insurance Program Americans who have traveled here

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We learned that process new rockets and satellites are to join us in supporting the immediate about a quarter of the babies born pre- being built in record speed to further passage of the Pain-Capable Unborn maturely, around 5 months, will sur- advance America’s leadership in space. Child Protection Act. This common- vive long term if given proper medical The successes of space exploration sense measure, which I have cospon- assistance. today are built upon the brave efforts sored, recognizes that the government One of the doctors who testified, Col- of NASA’s past pioneers. I am saddened has an interest in protecting the un- leen Malloy, is an associate professor to note that, on January 5 of this year, born from the excruciating pain they in the pediatrics department at North- we lost one of those national heroes, are capable of experiencing during a western University’s School of Medi- astronaut and retired U.S. Navy CAPT late-term abortion. cine. According to Dr. Malloy, by 20 John Young. Some people call this measure weeks of development, the unborn Captain Young has been called the ‘‘Micah’s Law,’’ in honor of an Iowa baby’s pain receptors are present and astronaut’s astronaut. Indeed, if you boy, Micah Pickering, who was born at linked. As further explained by Dr. ask around the astronaut corps who 20 weeks postfertilization. I have met Malloy, at 20 weeks’ fetal age, pre- they most looked up to, my guess is Micah and his parents. Micah didn’t mature babies are ‘‘kicking, moving, John Young’s name would come up just survive. He is a beautiful little boy reacting, and developing right before quite a bit. who is thriving. our eyes in the Neonatal Intensive Care Captain Young was among the second Research suggests that, after the Unit. We can easily witness their hu- group of astronauts chosen for the fifth month of pregnancy, the nervous manity, as well as their experiences early space program. He flew to space system of the unborn child has devel- with pain.’’ six times, the only astronaut to fly in oped to the point where that child is Dr. Anthony Levatino, a practicing the Gemini, Apollo, and space shuttle capable of detecting and responding to gynecologist with decades of experi- programs. In addition to walking and painful stimuli. This also is around the ence, testified similarly at a House driving a rover on the surface of the time when the unborn baby is soothed hearing several years ago. Dr. Levatino moon, Captain Young commanded the by the mother’s voice. We are hearing estimates that he performed over 1,000 very first space shuttle mission. that babies may learn within the abortions in private practice, until his Taking off like a rocket and landing womb, absorbing language sooner than adopted daughter died in a car crash. like an airplane, the space shuttle we previously thought, so it should His child’s death was a life-changing could not be tested in space without a surprise no one that these same unborn event that led him to stop performing crew. It was perhaps the riskiest flight, babies can experience intense pain dur- abortions. Performing an abortion on a spaceflight ever endeavored; yet ing a late-term abortion when their 24-week-old unborn child is undoubt- whether it was landing on the Moon or limbs are being torn apart in their edly painful for that baby, Dr. rocketing off the pad in the space shut- mother’s wombs. Levatino testified. Scientific studies tle, Captain Young was the essence of Currently, the United States is one of confirm that the unborn can experience cool, his heart never topping 90 beats only about seven countries in the world pain after the fifth month. per minute. that permit elective abortions past 5 The Judiciary Committee in 2016 also By the time John Young retired, he months. Among the very few that em- heard testimony from Dr. Kathi had spent over four decades at NASA. brace late-term abortions are Vietnam, Aultman, a former abortion provider. First at the Navy and later at NASA, Singapore, and North Korea. Passing She told us, an ‘‘abortionist knows ex- Young dedicated his entire career to this bill, which imposes restrictions actly what he or she is doing because public service. only on elective abortions and only they must count the body parts after Throughout his career, Captain after the fifth month of pregnancy, each procedure’’ to make sure they Young was a tireless advocate for safe- would bring the United States in line have cut the whole baby out of the ty at the agency. He was a brilliant with the vast majority of countries mother. and intuitive engineer. He was known around the globe. Lawmakers in these Dr. Aultman also questioned why an for writing scathing memos regarding other countries have grasped the con- unborn baby who can live outside the safety problems at the agency, asking cept that late-term abortions are es- womb should be given no consider- penetrating technical questions at re- sentially barbaric and often unneces- ation, no protection, and no rights just views, and doing it all with a simple sary. because the child is unwanted, and she ‘‘tell it like it is’’ country-boy men- Many of my colleagues actively sup- is right. Why shouldn’t we have com- tality that he never lost from his cen- ported the Americans with Disability passion for babies whose nervous sys- tral Florida upbringing. Act. How could you support a measure tems are developed enough for them to It may seem a contradiction that the like that and not also seek to protect experience pain? Why shouldn’t we pro- man who commanded perhaps the the unborn babies whose parents might tect them from dismemberment with riskiest space mission in history was choose to end their lives late in preg- steel tools? also one of the agency’s most out- nancy merely due to a disability like This is a measure that the majority spoken advocates for safety, but it is Down syndrome? I believe that the of Americans—including a majority of not. lives of unborn babies with this condi- women—broadly support. Once again, I Captain Young strongly believed we tion have the same value as those of urge my colleagues to embrace the must explore the unknown and push other unborn babies. sanctity of innocent human life and further out into the cosmos, but he If you do not support restrictions on vote for this landmark legislation. also believed the men and women who abortions after the fifth month of preg- bravely venture into space on all our f nancy, when infants at the same stage behalves deserve the very best we can of development are being born pre- ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS do to bring them home safely. maturely and, like Micah Pickering, We are seeing the fruits of nearly a surviving long term, then what, ex- decade of transformation and renewal, actly, is your limit—if any—on abor- REMEMBERING CAPTAIN JOHN while at the same time reverently tion? YOUNG marking the passing of the first gen- I remind my colleagues that the ∑ Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, we are eration of space explorers. Just in the American people overwhelmingly sup- on the eve of a new era of space explo- last few years, in addition to John port restrictions on late-term abor- ration. We are constructing the world’s Young, we have lost John Glenn, Scott tions. Numerous States, including largest rocket and a deep space capsule Carpenter, Gene Cernan, Dick Gordon,

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Tam- f contributions to humanity. arack will soon be representing Idaho MEASURES REFERRED I am so grateful NASA has had over internationally at the Singapore Air- The following bills were read the first the years the kinds of wisdom, experi- show next month, showcasing their and the second times by unanimous ence, and technical skills in its leader- new technological innovations in col- consent, and referred as indicated: ship that were so embodied by heroes laboration with the Idaho Department like Captain Young. We are extremely H.R. 1660. An act to direct the Adminis- of Commerce’s exhibit at the airshow. trator of the United States Agency for Inter- fortunate to have, in NASA Acting Ad- It is very exciting to see these accom- national Development to submit to Congress ministrator Robert Lightfoot, a leader plished entrepreneurs represent Idaho a report on the development and use of glob- who is universally acclaimed for his and the United States on the inter- al health innovations in the programs, competence and professionalism. I have national stage. projects, and activities of the Agency; to the the utmost confidence in Acting Ad- The Tamarack Aerospace Group is Committee on Foreign Relations. ministrator Lightfoot and am thankful making an outsized impact in a highly H.R. 2954. An act to amend the Home Mort- to have his steady hand on the tiller. I technical field and recently received gage Disclosure Act of 1975 to specify which will continue to fight to see that NASA depository institutions are subject to the much deserved recognition for these maintenance of records and disclosure re- has leadership that carries on the tra- contributions by being named a winner quirements of such Act, and for other pur- dition of having true space profes- of the 61st Annual Laureate Award by poses; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- sionals at the helm of such an impor- Aviation Week & Space Technology. ing, and Urban Affairs. ∑ tant agency. The award recognizes those who inspire f f innovation and show leadership in the world of aviation. It is this kind of in- ENROLLED BILLS PRESENTED RECOGNIZING TAMARACK novation that continues to set our The Secretary of the Senate reported AEROSPACE GROUP great Nation apart and propel us for- that on today, January 19, 2018, she had ∑ Mr. RISCH. Mr. President, over the ward. Mr. Guida and the team at Tam- presented to the President of the past 20 years the aerospace industry in arack have also shown tremendous re- United States the following enrolled my home State of Idaho has grown by sourcefulness, resilience, and persever- bills: an astonishing 40 percent, with a num- ance in navigating the certification S. 117. An act to designate a mountain ber of small business firms leading the and regulatory processes to bring their peak in the State of Montana as ‘‘Alex way. As you may know, the aerospace winglets to market, which is no easy Diekmann Peak.’’ industry is a complex field that re- feat. S. 139. An act to amend the Foreign Intel- quires a passion for innovation and I would like to extend my sincerest ligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to improve foreign intelligence collection and the safe- great attention to detail. I am pleased congratulations to Mr. Guida and all of to say that, in my home State of Idaho, guards, accountability, and oversight of ac- the employees at Tamarack Aerospace quisitions of foreign intelligence, to extend these qualities are found in successful Group for being selected as the Janu- title VII of such Act, and for other purposes. small businesses all across the State. ary 2018 Small Business of the Month. f As chairman of the Senate Committee You make Idaho proud, and I look for- on Small Business and Entrepreneur- ward to watching your continued PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS ship, it is my privilege to honor Tama- growth and success.∑ The following petitions and memo- rack Aerospace Group as the Small f rials were laid before the Senate and Business of the Month for January 2018. were referred or ordered to lie on the Tamarack Aerospace is a pioneer in a MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT table as indicated: variety of aerospace engineering prod- Messages from the President of the POM–156. A concurrent resolution adopted ucts that are used in airplanes across United States were communicated to by the Legislature of the State of Texas urg- the Nation and the world. This small the Senate by Ms. Cuccia, one of his ing the United States Congress to pass legis- business contributes significantly to secretaries. lation or adopt policies allowing Texas to Idaho’s reputation as a destination for manage the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fish- trailblazers in the aerospace industry f ery out to 200 nautical miles; to the Com- and is a remarkable example of entre- EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- tation. preneurial innovation. As in executive session the Presiding In 2010, Mr. Nicholas Guida founded HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 105 Officer laid before the Senate messages Tamarack Aerospace Group in Whereas, in recent years, the Gulf of Mex- from the President of the United Sandpoint, ID. Mr. Guida has over 25 ico has contained the highest total allowable States submitting sundry nominations years of experience in the aerospace in- catch of red snapper in decades, but in 2016, which were referred to the appropriate anglers experienced the shortest recreational dustry, including time spent as an committees. fishing season to date, lasting less than two aerospace engineer, a safety consult- (The messages received today are weeks; and ant, and as a test pilot. Since printed at the end of the Senate pro- Whereas, the U.S. government has over- Tamarack’s founding, Mr. Guida as- ceedings.) seen the Gulf recreational red snapper fish- sembled an impressive team of six di- ery for nearly four decades; today, federal verse professionals with years of expe- f management systems attempt to regulate red snapper fishing by the pound with tools rience across various sectors of the MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE aerospace industry. From veteran Navy specifically designed to manage the commer- cial sector, despite the fact that federal data pilots to skilled mechanical engineers, At 11:04 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered by collection systems are incapable of account- the team at Tamarack combines expe- ing to such a level of specificity for rec- rience with a passion for innovation. Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, an- nounced that the House has passed the reational harvests; and Tamarack Aerospace specializes in Whereas, the U.S. government has, more- something called active winglet inno- following bills, in which it requests the over, neglected to use recent data to provide vation with their product, ATLAS, concurrence of the Senate: meaningful guidelines and requirements for which actively reduces the load placed H.R. 1660. An act to direct the Adminis- a systematic reallocation of federal fisheries; on each wing of an aircraft. trator of the United States Agency for Inter- except for minor adjustments to account for Tamarack’s winglets allow for optimal national Development to submit to Congress errors in its own data collection system, the a report on the development and use of glob- Gulf red snapper fishery allocation is based efficiency without compromising an al health innovations in the programs, on highly suspect data from 1979–1986 and has aircraft’s structural integrity. As a re- projects, and activities of the Agency. remained unchanged since 1991; and sult, aircraft equipped with this tech- H.R. 2954. An act to amend the Home Mort- Whereas, the federal government is cur- nology have lower operating costs, as gage Disclosure Act of 1975 to specify which rently promoting a management strategy to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:44 Jan 20, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G19JA6.059 S19JAPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE January 19, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S347 privatize the Gulf red snapper fishery; ap- (Taiwan) on their 106th National Day on Oc- dom as members of the United States Armed proximately 50 percent of the fishery is al- tober 10, 2017; and be it further Forces; and ready held by private businesses, while an- Resolved, That we continue to support Tai- Whereas, As a result of the Manhattan other 20 percent has been designated to be wan’s meaningful participation in inter- Project, the United States conducted the sold; shares of this public resource have also national organizations which impact the Trinity Atomic Test, the first detonation of been given away for free, based on a commer- health, safety and well-being of its people, a nuclear device, in New Mexico on July 16, cial operator’s past catch history; and and support its aspiration to make more con- 1945; and Whereas, because of extraordinarily remiss tributions in international societies; and be Whereas, Over 200,000 American service requirements in its conflict of interest it further members, including those from Michigan, guidelines, the federal fisheries management Resolved, That copies of this resolution be participated in aboveground nuclear tests be- system allows commercial operators who al- transmitted to the U.S. Secretary of State; tween 1945 and 1962, and veterans who par- ready own red snapper shares or who may be the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in ticipated in the cleanup of the Enewetak gifted shares to serve on the Gulf of Mexico Chicago Illinois; and the members of the Atoll in the Marshall Islands between 1977 Fishery Management Council and to cast Michigan congressional delegation. and 1980, and also those who were part of the votes on issues that will result in direct fi- United States military occupation forces in nancial benefit for them; and POM–158. A resolution adopted by the Sen- or around Hiroshima and Nagasaki before Whereas, by creating a prohibitive environ- ate of the State of Michigan memorializing 1946, and some were held as a prisoner of war ment for anglers and ethical issues among their opposition to violent terrorism, totali- during this time; and user groups and stakeholders, the U.S. gov- tarian impulses, xenophobic biases, and big- Whereas, These atomic veterans were ex- ernment has proved itself incapable of prop- oted ideologies that are promoted by radical posed to radiation during their military erly managing red snapper fishing in the hate groups and declaring these groups to be service and, due to that exposure, developed Gulf of Mexico, and all five states along the domestic terrorist organizations; to the several types of medical conditions that are Gulf Coast have increasingly needed to im- Committee on the Judiciary. not currently listed under the Radiation Ex- plement regulations and seasons that are not SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 82 posure Compensation Act (RECA); and consistent with the federal management Whereas, The United States was founded Whereas, Many atomic veterans were pre- plan; and on the principles that all men are created vented by secrecy laws or oaths from seeking Whereas, numerous studies, including some equal and have the unalienable right to life, medical care or disability compensation funded by NOAA Fisheries, indicate that the liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the from the United States Department of Vet- greatest economic engine in the Gulf reef more than 240 years since this declaration, erans Affairs (VA) for conditions they may fishery is the recreational angling sector, our nation has strived, struggled, and made have developed as a result of radiation expo- and federal control should be relinquished to great progress toward achieving these lofty sure; and the Gulf states, which depend most on this ideals. Ending slavery, women’s suffrage, the Whereas, In 1996, the United States Con- vital public resource: Now, therefore, be it civil rights movement, and marriage equal- gress repealed the Nuclear Radiation and Se- Resolved, That the 85th Legislature of the ity were all major moments in our history crecy Agreements Act, freeing atomic vet- State of Texas hereby encourage Congress to where we recognized injustice and inequality erans to describe their military involvement pass legislation or adopt policies allowing and worked to end it; and in nuclear testing in order to file for VA ben- Texas to manage the Gulf of Mexico red Whereas, White nationalist and neo-Nazi efits; and snapper fishery out to 200 nautical miles; and groups endorse agendas that are in irrecon- Whereas, Atomic veterans will now be eli- be it further cilable conflict with our nation’s gible for free medical care from the VA and Resolved, That the Texas secretary of state foundational principles of liberty and justice compensation in the form of full service-con- forward official copies of this resolution to for all. Throughout the course of our na- nected disability allowance, including pay- the president of the United States, to the tion’s history, these groups have promoted ments to a surviving spouse or children; and president of the Senate and to the speaker of intimidation and violent repression of indi- Whereas, The Michigan Veteran’s Affairs the House of Representatives of the United viduals solely on the basis of their race, eth- Agency will provide free assistance to Michi- States Congress, and to all the members of nicity, religion, sexual orientation, or immi- gan veterans and their dependents in devel- the Texas delegation to Congress with the gration status; and oping and submitting disability compensa- request that this resolution be entered in the Whereas, Although white nationalism has tion claims to the VA and the Department of Congressional Record as a memorial to the attempted to reinvent itself, self-identifying Justice for death benefits; and Congress of the United States of America. as the ‘‘Alt-Right,’’ its present-day rhetoric Whereas, The National Association of and terrorism conjure painful memories of Atomic Veterans was formed in 1979 to help POM–157. A resolution adopted by the Sen- our nation’s past. Race-based hatred remains atomic veterans obtain medical care and as- ate of the State of Michigan memorializing an integral component of these groups’ core sistance; Now, therefore, be it the celebration of the Republic of China’s orientations as they seek to reignite social Resolved by the Senate, That the members (Taiwan) 106th National Day on October 10, animosities, reverse improvements in race of this legislative body find it proper and fit- 2017; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. relations, divide the nation, and provoke ha- ting that atomic veterans be recognized for SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 103 tred, classism, and ethnic eradication, and their service and sacrifice for our nation and Whereas, Relations between the Republic Whereas, The white nationalist and neo- that they should be provided the necessary of China (Taiwan) and the United States are Nazi message of racial and social intolerance medical services and compensation for their marked by strong bilateral trade, education, has led to senseless acts of violence that ter- service; and be it further and cultural exchanges. In 2016, bilateral rorize members of ethnic and religious mi- Resolved, That we memorialize the United trade totaled more than $65.4 billion in ex- nority communities. The tragic events that States Congress to do all it can to support changed goods, making the U.S. the third- took place on August 12, 2017, in Charlottes- atomic veterans, their spouses, and depend- largest trading partner of Taiwan, and Tai- ville, Virginia, prove that white nationalism ents in receiving medical care and disability wan the tenth-largest trading partner of the and neo-Nazism remain very real threats to compensation; and be it further United States; and social and racial progress and peace in our Resolved, That copies of this resolution be Whereas, Taiwan and the state of Michigan nation, now, therefore, be it transmitted to the National Associations of have long benefited from this relationship. Resolved by the Senate, That we strongly de- Atomic Veterans, the Michigan Veteran’s Af- In 2016 Taiwan was Michigan’s sixth-largest nounce and oppose the violent terrorism, to- fairs Agency, the Speaker of the United market in Asia and Michigan exports to Tai- talitarian impulses, xenophobic biases, and States House of Representatives, the Presi- wan amounted to $298.59 million, a 20 percent bigoted ideologies that are promoted by rad- dent of the United States Senate, and the increase from 2015. From 2013 to 2016, Michi- ical hate groups and declare these groups to members of the Michigan congressional dele- gan imports from Taiwan increased from $705 be domestic terrorist organizations, and be it gation. million to $867 million, a 23 percent increase, further making the outlook for joint economic and Resolved, That copies of this resolution be POM–160. A resolution adopted by the cultural growth in the future bright: and transmitted to the President of the United Township Council of Livingston, New Jersey, Whereas, Taiwan is capable of and willing States, the Governor, and the members of urging their delegation to the United States to fulfill its responsibilities and to collabo- the Michigan congressional delegation. Congress to oppose any proposal to eliminate rate with the world to deal with the chal- the state and local taxes deductibility provi- lenges of humanitarian aids and disease con- POM–159. A resolution adopted by the Sen- sion from the Federal tax code; to the Com- trol. Taiwan’s meaningful participation in ate of the State of Michigan memorializing mittee on Finance. atomic veterans for their service and sac- international organizations benefits the f international community as a whole, includ- rifice for our nation; to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. ing the state of Michigan: Now, therefore, be INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 73 it JOINT RESOLUTIONS Resolved by the Senate, That the members Whereas, Throughout the nation’s history, of this legislative body congratulate the gov- brave Michigan citizens have answered the The following bills and joint resolu- ernment and people of the Republic of China call of duty and service, defending our free- tions were introduced, read the first

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At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the By Mr. KENNEDY: S. 2326. A bill to prohibit discrimination S. 1168 name of the Senator from New Jersey against the unborn on the basis of sex, and At the request of Mr. WARNER, the (Mr. BOOKER) was added as a cosponsor for other purposes; to the Committee on the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. of S. 2208, a bill to provide for the Judiciary. CORNYN) was added as a cosponsor of S. issuance of an Alzheimer’s Disease Re- By Ms. HEITKAMP (for herself, Mrs. 1168, a bill to facilitate efficient invest- search Semipostal Stamp. MCCASKILL, Mr. TESTER, Ms. STABE- ments and financing of infrastructure S. 2235 NOW, Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. BROWN, Ms. projects and new, long-term job cre- HASSAN, Ms. SMITH, Mr. PETERS, and ation through the establishment of an At the request of Mr. DONNELLY, the Mr. CASEY): name of the Senator from Delaware S. 2327. A bill to prohibit paying Members Infrastructure Financing Authority, of Congress during periods during which a and for other purposes. (Mr. COONS) was added as a cosponsor Government shutdown is in effect, and for S. 1218 of S. 2235, a bill to establish a tiered other purposes; to the Committee on Home- At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the hiring preference for members of the land Security and Governmental Affairs. name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. reserve components of the Armed By Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. REED, RISCH) was added as a cosponsor of S. Forces. Mr. TESTER, Mr. KAINE, Mr. WARNER, 1218, a bill to promote Federal employ- Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. S. 2274 ment for veterans, and for other pur- BENNET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the poses. BROWN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. CARPER, names of the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Mr. CASEY, Mr. COONS, Mr. DONNELLY, S. 1304 DUCKWORTH), the Senator from West Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mrs. At the request of Mr. ROBERTS, the Virginia (Mr. MANCHIN) and the Sen- GILLIBRAND, Ms. HARRIS, Ms. HASSAN, name of the Senator from North Caro- ator from New Jersey (Mr. MENENDEZ) Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. HEITKAMP, Ms. URR) was added as a cospon- lina (Mr. B were added as cosponsors of S. 2274, a HIRONO, Mr. JONES, Mr. KING, Ms. sor of S. 1304, a bill to amend part B of bill to provide for the compensation of KLOBUCHAR, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. MANCHIN, title XVIII of the Social Security Act Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. Federal employees affected by lapses in to exclude customary prompt pay dis- MENENDEZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. MUR- appropriations. PHY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON, Mr. counts from manufacturers to whole- PETERS, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. SCHUMER, salers from the average sales price for S. RES. 367 Mrs. SHAHEEN, Ms. SMITH, Ms. STABE- drugs and biologicals under Medicare, At the request of Mr. CRUZ, the NOW, Mr. UDALL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, and for other purposes. names of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ms. WARREN, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. S. 1676 HELLER) and the Senator from Okla- WYDEN, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. CARDIN, and At the request of Mrs. GILLIBRAND, ANKFORD Mr. SANDERS): homa (Mr. L ) were added as S. 2328. A bill making continuing appro- the name of the Senator from Nevada cosponsors of S. Res. 367, a resolution priations for military pay and death benefits (Ms. CORTEZ MASTO) was added as a co- condemning the Government of Iran in the event of a Government shutdown; to sponsor of S. 1676, a bill to amend the for its violence against demonstrators the Committee on Appropriations. Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to pro- and calling for peaceful resolution to f vide grants for access to broadband the concerns of the citizens of Iran. telecommunications services in rural ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS areas, and for other purposes. f S. 14 S. 1719 At the request of Mr. HELLER, the At the request of Mr. BLUNT, the STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED name of the Senator from Iowa (Mrs. name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS ERNST) was added as a cosponsor of S. ROBERTS) was added as a cosponsor of 14, a bill to provide that Members of S. 1719, a bill to eliminate duties on im- By Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Congress may not receive pay after Oc- ports of recreational performance out- REED, Mr. TESTER, Mr. KAINE, tober 1 of any fiscal year in which Con- erwear, to establish the Sustainable Mr. WARNER, Ms. CORTEZ gress has not approved a concurrent Textile and Apparel Research Fund, MASTO, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BEN- resolution on the budget and passed and for other purposes. NET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BROWN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. the regular appropriations bills. S. 1809 CARPER, Mr. CASEY, Mr. COONS, S. 299 At the request of Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, At the request of Mr. LEE, the name the name of the Senator from Florida Mr. DONNELLY, Ms. DUCKWORTH, of the Senator from Texas (Mr. CRUZ) (Mr. NELSON) was added as a cosponsor Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mrs. GILLI- was added as a cosponsor of S. 299, a of S. 1809, a bill to direct the Secretary BRAND, Ms. HARRIS, Ms. HAS- bill to require the appropriation of of Transportation to establish the SAN, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. funds to use a fee, fine, penalty, or pro- Strengthening Mobility and Revolu- HEITKAMP, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. ceeds from a settlement received by a tionizing Transportation (SMART) JONES, Mr. KING, Ms. KLO- Federal agency, and for other purposes. Challenge Grant Program to promote BUCHAR, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. S. 792 technological innovation in our Na- MANCHIN, Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. At the request of Mr. TILLIS, the tion’s cities. MCCASKILL, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. S. 2114 MERKLEY, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. ROBERTS) was added as a cosponsor of At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the MURRAY, Mr. NELSON, Mr. S. 792, a bill to amend the Immigration name of the Senator from Michigan PETERS, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. SCHU- and Nationality Act to establish an H– (Ms. STABENOW) was added as a cospon- MER, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Ms. SMITH, 2B temporary non-agricultural work sor of S. 2114, a bill to award a Congres- Ms. STABENOW, Mr. UDALL, Mr. visa program, and for other purposes. sional Gold Medal to the 5307th Com- VAN HOLLEN, Ms. WARREN, Mr. S. 915 posite Unit (Provisional), commonly WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. At the request of Mr. BROWN, the known as ‘‘Merrill’s Marauders’’, in BOOKER, Mr. CARDIN, and Mr. name of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. recognition of their bravery and out- SANDERS): CORTEZ MASTO) was added as a cospon- standing service in the jungles of S. 2328. A bill making continuing ap- sor of S. 915, a bill to amend title II of Burma during World War II. propriations for military pay and death the Social Security Act to repeal the S. 2173 benefits in the event of a Government Government pension offset and wind- At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the shutdown; to the Committee on Appro- fall elimination provisions. name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. priations.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:01 Apr 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD18\JANUARY\S19JA8.REC S19JA8 January 19, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S349 Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask United States, and for other purposes; which States person or a person inside the United unanimous consent that the text of the was ordered to lie on the table. States. (b) CONCURRENT AUTHORIZATION AND EXCEP- bill be printed in the RECORD. SA 1909. Mr. PAUL submitted an amend- TION FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.—Sub- There being no objection, the text of ment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 195, supra; which was ordered to lie section (a) shall not apply to a query for the bill was ordered to be printed in on the table. communications related to a particular the RECORD, as follows: SA 1910. Mr. PAUL submitted an amend- United States person or person inside the S. 2328 ment intended to be proposed by him to the United States if— (1) such United States person or person in- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- bill H.R. 195, supra; which was ordered to lie side the United States is the subject of an resentatives of the United States of America in on the table. order or emergency authorization author- Congress assembled, SA 1911. Mr. HELLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him izing electronic surveillance or physical SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. to the bill H.R. 195, supra; which was ordered search under section 105, 304, 703, 704, or 705 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pay Our to lie on the table. of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Military Act of 2018’’. SA 1912. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amend- of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1805, 1824, 1881b, and 1881d), SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PAY ment intended to be proposed by him to the or under title 18, United States Code, for the AND DEATH BENEFITS FOR MEM- bill H.R. 195, supra; which was ordered to lie effective period of that order; BERS OF THE ARMED FORCES. on the table. (2) the entity carrying out the query has a (a) IN GENERAL.—There are hereby appro- SA 1913. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an reasonable belief that the life or safety of priated for fiscal year 2018, out of any money amendment intended to be proposed by him such United States person or person inside in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the bill H.R. 195, supra; which was ordered the United States is threatened and the in- for any period during which interim or full- to lie on the table. formation is sought for the purpose of assist- year appropriations for fiscal year 2018 are SA 1914. Mr. HELLER submitted an ing that person; not in effect— amendment intended to be proposed by him (3) such United States person or person in (1) such sums as are necessary to provide to the bill H.R. 195, supra; which was ordered the United States is a corporation; or pay and allowances to members of the Armed to lie on the table. (4) such United States person or person in- Forces (as defined in section 101(a)(4) of title SA 1915. Mr. HELLER submitted an side the United States has consented to the 10, United States Code), including reserve amendment intended to be proposed by him query. (c) QUERIES OF FEDERATED DATA SETS AND components thereof, who perform active to the bill H.R. 195, supra; which was ordered MIXED DATA.—In addition to subsection (a), service, including drill, during such period; to lie on the table. none of the amounts appropriated or other- (2) such sums as are necessary for the pay- SA 1916. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. wise made available by this Act may be used ment of death benefits authorized by sub- REED, Mr. TESTER, Mr. KAINE, Mr. WARNER, to conduct a query of a data set, or of fed- chapter II of chapter 75 of title 10, United Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BEN- States Code, for individuals who die during erated data sets, that includes any informa- NET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BROWN, Ms. CANT- tion acquired under Section 702 of the For- such period; WELL, Mr. CARPER, Mr. CASEY, Mr. COONS, (3) such sums as are necessary to provide eign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 Mr. DONNELLY, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mrs. FEIN- U.S.C. 1881a), unless the system has been pay and allowances to the civilian personnel STEIN, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Ms. HARRIS, Ms. of the Department of Defense (and the De- configured to not return such information HASSAN, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. HEITKAMP, Ms. unless the officer or employee enters a code partment of Homeland Security in the case HIRONO, Mr. JONES, Mr. KING, Ms. KLO- of the Coast Guard) whom the Secretary con- or other information indicating that— BUCHAR, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. MAR- (1) the person associated with the search cerned determines are providing support to KEY, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. members of the Armed Forces described in term is not a United States person or person MERKLEY, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. inside the United States; or paragraph (1) and in connection with the NELSON, Mr. PETERS, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. SCHU- payment of benefits described in paragraph (2) if the person associated with the search MER, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Ms. SMITH, Ms. STABE- term is a United States person or person in- (2); and NOW, Mr. UDALL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. WAR- side the United States, one or more of the (4) such sums as are necessary to provide REN, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. BOOK- conditions of paragraph (2) is satisfied. pay and allowances to contractors of the De- ER, Mr. CARDIN, and Mr. SANDERS) submitted (d) MATTERS RELATING TO EMERGENCY QUE- partment of Defense (and the Department of an amendment intended to be proposed to RIES.—In the event that a query for commu- Homeland Security in the case of the Coast amendment SA 1913 submitted by Mr. SCHU- nications related to a particular United Guard) whom the Secretary concerned deter- MER and intended to be proposed to the bill States person or a person inside the United mines are providing support to members of H.R. 195, supra; which was ordered to lie on States is conducted pursuant to an emer- the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1) the table. gency authorization authorizing electronic and in connection with the payment of bene- SA 1917. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an surveillance or a physical search described in fits described in paragraph (2). amendment to the bill H.R. 195, supra. subsection (b)(1) and the application for such (b) SECRETARY CONCERNED DEFINED.—In SA 1918. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an emergency authorization is denied, or in any this section, the term ‘‘Secretary concerned’’ amendment to the bill H.R. 195, supra. other case in which the query has been con- means— ducted and no order is issued approving the f (1) the Secretary of Defense with respect to query, none of the amounts appropriated or matters concerning the Department of De- TEXT OF AMENDMENTS otherwise made available by this Act shall fense; and be used— (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security SA 1908. Mr. PAUL (for himself and (1) to introduce or otherwise disclose infor- with respect to matters concerning the Coast Mr. WYDEN) submitted an amendment mation obtained or evidence derived from Guard. intended to be proposed by him to the such query in any trial, hearing, or other SEC. 3. TERMINATION. bill H.R. 195, to amend title 44, United proceeding in or before any court, grand Appropriations and funds made available States Code, to restrict the distribu- jury, department, office, agency, regulatory and authority granted pursuant to this Act tion of free printed copies of the Fed- body, legislative committee, or other au- shall be available until whichever of the fol- eral Register to Members of Congress thority of the United States, a State, or po- lowing first occurs: (1) the enactment into and other officers and employees of the litical subdivision thereof; or law of an appropriation (including a con- (2) to use or disclose information con- United States, and for other purposes; cerning any United States person acquired tinuing appropriation) for any purpose for which was ordered to lie on the table; which amounts are made available in section from such query in any other manner by 2; (2) the enactment into law of the applica- as follows: Federal officers or employees without the ble regular or continuing appropriations res- At the appropriate place, insert the fol- consent of such person, except with the ap- olution or other Act without any appropria- lowing: proval of the Attorney General if the infor- tion for such purpose; or (3) September 30, SEC. lll. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO mation indicates a threat of death or serious 2018. QUERY CERTAIN COLLECTIONS OF bodily harm to any person. COMMUNICATIONS OBTAINED f UNDER CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF SA 1909. Mr. PAUL submitted an AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SUR- amendment intended to be proposed by PROPOSED VEILLANCE ACT OF 1978. him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 44, United States Code, to restrict the SA 1908. Mr. PAUL (for himself and Mr. subsection (b), none of the amounts appro- distribution of free printed copies of WYDEN) submitted an amendment intended priated or otherwise made available by this to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 195, to Act may be used to conduct a query of infor- the Federal Register to Members of amend title 44, United States Code, to re- mation acquired under Section 702 of the Congress and other officers and em- strict the distribution of free printed copies Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ployees of the United States, and for of the Federal Register to Members of Con- (50 U.S.C. 1881a) in an effort to find commu- other purposes; which was ordered to gress and other officers and employees of the nications of or about a particular United lie on the table; as follows:

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Cole, Deputy Attorney General, entitled Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, ‘‘Guidance Regarding Marijuana Financial determined by the Chairpersons of the Com- mittee on the Budget and the Committee on is amended— Crimes’’, and the memoranda incorporated (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘An of- therein. Appropriations of the Senate or the Chair- persons of the Committee on the Budget and ficer’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as specified in the Committee on Appropriations of the this subchapter or any other provision of SA 1910. Mr. PAUL submitted an law, an officer’’; and amendment intended to be proposed by House of Representatives under section 6005. (b) NO RETROACTIVE PAY.—A Member of (2) by adding at the end the following: him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title Congress may not receive pay for any period ‘‘(c)(1) In this subsection— 44, United States Code, to restrict the determined by the Chairpersons of the Com- ‘‘(A) the term ‘covered lapse in appropria- distribution of free printed copies of mittee on the Budget and the Committee on tions’ means any lapse in appropriations the Federal Register to Members of Appropriations of the Senate or the Chair- that begins on or after January 19, 2018; and Congress and other officers and em- persons of the Committee on the Budget and ‘‘(B) the term ‘excepted employee’ means an excepted employee or an employee per- ployees of the United States, and for the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives under section 6005, forming emergency work, as such terms are other purposes; which was ordered to defined by the Office of Personnel Manage- lie on the table; as follows: at any time after the end of that period. SEC. 6005. DETERMINATIONS. ment. ‘‘(2) Each Federal employee furloughed as At the appropriate place, insert the fol- (a) SENATE.— a result of a covered lapse in appropriations lowing: (1) REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATIONS.—On Octo- SEC. ll. None of the funds made available ber 1 of each year, the Secretary of the Sen- shall be paid for the period of the lapse in ap- by this Act to the Department of Justice ate shall submit a request to the Chair- propriations, and each excepted employee may be used, with respect to any of the persons of the Committee on the Budget and who is required to perform work during a States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkan- the Committee on Appropriations of the Sen- covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid sas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Dela- ate for certification of determinations made for such work, at the employee’s standard ware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of para- rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mary- graph (2). the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. land, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, (2) DETERMINATIONS.—The Chairpersons of Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New the Committee on the Budget and the Com- ‘‘(3) During a covered lapse in appropria- Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New mittee on Appropriations of the Senate tions, each excepted employee who is re- York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, shall— quired to perform work shall be entitled to Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is- (A) on October 1 of each year, make a de- use leave under chapter 63 of title 5, or any land, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, termination of whether Congress is in com- other applicable law governing the use of Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West pliance with section 6003 and whether Sen- leave by the excepted employee, for which Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, to pre- ators may not be paid under that section; compensation shall be paid at the earliest vent the State from implementing State (B) determine the period of days following date possible after the lapse in appropria- laws that authorize the use, distribution, each October 1 that Senators may not be tions ends, regardless of scheduled pay possession, or cultivation of marijuana on paid under section 6003; and dates.’’. non-Federal lands within the respective ju- (C) provide timely certification of the de- Mr. SCHUMER submitted an risdiction of the State. terminations under subparagraphs (A) and SA 1913. (B) upon the request of the Secretary of the amendment intended to be proposed by SA 1911. Mr. HELLER submitted an Senate. him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title amendment intended to be proposed by (b) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 44, United States Code, to restrict the him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title (1) REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATIONS.—On Octo- distribution of free printed copies of 44, United States Code, to restrict the ber 1 of each year, the Chief Administrative the Federal Register to Members of distribution of free printed copies of Officer of the House of Representatives shall Congress and other officers and em- the Federal Register to Members of submit a request to the Chairpersons of the ployees of the United States, and for Congress and other officers and em- Committee on the Budget and the Com- mittee on Appropriations of the House of other purposes; which was ordered to ployees of the United States, and for Representatives for certification of deter- lie on the table; as follows: other purposes; which was ordered to minations made under subparagraphs (A) and In lieu of the matter proposed to be in- lie on the table; as follows: (B) of paragraph (2). serted, insert the following: At the end, add the following: (2) DETERMINATIONS.—The Chairpersons of EXTENSION OF CONTINUING DIVISION F—NO BUDGET, NO PAY the Committee on the Budget and the Com- APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 mittee on Appropriations of the House of SEC. 6001. SHORT TITLE. SEC. 101. The Continuing Appropriations Representatives shall— Act, 2018 (division D of Public Law 115–56) is This division may be cited as the ‘‘No (A) on October 1 of each year, make a de- Budget, No Pay Act’’. amended by striking the date specified in termination of whether Congress is in com- section 106(3) and inserting ‘‘January 20, SEC. 6002. DEFINITION. pliance with section 6003 and whether Mem- 2018’’. In this division, the term ‘‘Member of Con- bers of the House of Representatives may not gress’’— be paid under that section; (1) has the meaning given the term under (B) determine the period of days following SA 1914. Mr. HELLER submitted an section 2106 of title 5, United States Code; each October 1 that Members of the House of amendment intended to be proposed by and Representatives may not be paid under sec- him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title (2) does not include the Vice President. tion 6003; and 44, United States Code, to restrict the SEC. 6003. TIMELY APPROVAL OF CONCURRENT (C) provide timely certification of the de- distribution of free printed copies of RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET AND terminations under subparagraphs (A) and the Federal Register to Members of THE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS. (B) upon the request of the Chief Administra- Congress and other officers and em- If both Houses of Congress have not ap- tive Officer of the House of Representatives. proved a concurrent resolution on the budget ployees of the United States, and for SEC. 6006. EFFECTIVE DATE. other purposes; which was ordered to as described under section 301 of the Congres- This division shall take effect on February sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act 1, 2019. lie on the table; as follows: of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632) for a fiscal year before At the appropriate place, insert the fol- October 1 of that fiscal year and have not SA 1912. Mr. CARDIN submitted an lowing: passed all the regular appropriations bills for amendment intended to be proposed by SEC. lll. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF the next fiscal year before October 1 of that him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR VETERANS fiscal year, the pay of each Member of Con- 44, United States Code, to restrict the BENEFITS AND SERVICES. gress may not be paid for each day following (a) APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR VETERANS that October 1 until the date on which both distribution of free printed copies of BENEFITS AND SERVICES.—During a funding Houses of Congress approve a concurrent res- the Federal Register to Members of gap impacting the Department of Veterans olution on the budget for that fiscal year and Congress and other officers and em- Affairs, the Secretary of the Treasury shall all the regular appropriations bills. ployees of the United States, and for make available to the Secretary of Veterans

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United States Code. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON, Mr. PETERS, Mr. (b) FUNDING GAP DEFINED.—In this section, SCHATZ, Mr. SCHUMER, Mrs. SHAHEEN, SA 1917. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed the term ‘‘funding gap’’ means any period of Ms. SMITH, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. UDALL, an amendment to the bill H.R. 195, to time after the beginning of a fiscal year for Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. WARREN, Mr. amend title 44, United States Code, to which interim or full-year appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for that WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. BOOKER, restrict the distribution of free printed fiscal year have not been enacted. Mr. CARDIN, and Mr. SANDERS) sub- copies of the Federal Register to Mem- mitted an amendment intended to be bers of Congress and other officers and SA 1915. Mr. HELLER submitted an proposed to amendment SA 1913 sub- employees of the United States, and for amendment intended to be proposed by mitted by Mr. SCHUMER and intended other purposes; as follows: him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title to be proposed to the bill H.R. 195, to On page 1, line 6 of the House Amendment 44, United States Code, to restrict the amend title 44, United States Code, to Strike ‘‘February 16’’ and insert ‘‘February distribution of free printed copies of restrict the distribution of free printed 8’’ the Federal Register to Members of copies of the Federal Register to Mem- Congress and other officers and em- bers of Congress and other officers and SA 1918. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed ployees of the United States, and for employees of the United States, and for an amendment to the bill H.R. 195, to other purposes; which was ordered to other purposes; which was ordered to amend title 44, United States Code, to lie on the table; as follows: lie on the table; as follows: restrict the distribution of free printed At the appropriate place, insert the fol- At the end, add the following: copies of the Federal Register to Mem- lowing: TITLE lll—CONTINUING APPROPRIA- bers of Congress and other officers and TITLE ll—EMERGENCY APPROPRIA- TIONS FOR PAY AND DEATH BENEFITS employees of the United States, and for TIONS FOR MILITARY AND SUPPORTING FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES other purposes; as follows: CONTRACTOR PAY SEC. lll01. SHORT TITLE. At the end add the following. This title may be cited as the ‘‘Pay Our SEC. lll01. SHORT TITLE. ‘‘This act shall be effective 1 day after en- Military Act of 2018’’. This title may be cited as the ‘‘Ensuring actment.’’ Pay for Our Military Act’’. SEC. lll02. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS SEC. lll02. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FOR PAY AND DEATH BENEFITS FOR FUNDS TO PROVIDE PAY AND AL- MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES. f LOWANCES FOR MEMBERS OF THE (a) IN GENERAL.—There are hereby appro- ARMED FORCES AND SUPPORTING priated for fiscal year 2018, out of any money NOTICE OF INTENT TO OBJECT TO CIVILIAN AND CONTRACTOR PER- in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, SONNEL DURING FUNDING GAP IM- for any period during which interim or full- PROCEEDING PACTING THE DEPARTMENT OF DE- year appropriations for fiscal year 2018 are I, Senator CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, in- FENSE OR DEPARTMENT OF HOME- not in effect— LAND SECURITY. tend to object to proceeding to the (1) such sums as are necessary to provide (a) APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR MILITARY nomination of David J. Ryder, of New pay and allowances to members of the Armed PAY AND ALLOWANCES.—During a funding gap Forces (as defined in section 101(a)(4) of title Jersey, to be Director of the Mint for impacting the Armed Forces, the Secretary 10, United States Code), including reserve the Department of Treasury, dated of the Treasury shall make available to the components thereof, who perform active January 19, 2018. Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of service, including drill, during such period; Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Mr. MENENDEZ. I suggest the ab- (2) such sums as are necessary for the pay- Guard), out of any amounts in the general sence of a quorum. ment of death benefits authorized by sub- fund of the Treasury not otherwise appro- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. chapter II of chapter 75 of title 10, United priated, such amounts as the Secretary of ALEXANDER). The clerk will call the States Code, for individuals who die during Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Se- such period; roll. curity in the case of the Coast Guard) deter- (3) such sums as are necessary to provide The bill clerk proceeded to call the mines to be necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances to the civilian personnel roll. pay and allowances (without interruption) to of the Department of Defense (and the De- the following: (Mr. TILLIS assumed the Chair.) partment of Homeland Security in the case (1) Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I of the Coast Guard) whom the Secretary con- Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including re- ask unanimous consent that the order cerned determines are providing support to serve components thereof, who perform ac- members of the Armed Forces described in for the quorum call be rescinded. tive service during the funding gap. paragraph (1) and in connection with the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. (2) At the discretion of the Secretary of payment of benefits described in paragraph ROUNDS). Without objection, it is so or- Defense, such civilian personnel of the De- (2); and dered. partment of Defense who are providing sup- (4) such sums as are necessary to provide port to the members of the Armed Forces de- pay and allowances to contractors of the De- scribed in paragraph (1) as the Secretary f partment of Defense (and the Department of considers appropriate. Homeland Security in the case of the Coast (3) At the discretion of the Secretary of Guard) whom the Secretary concerned deter- FEDERAL REGISTER PRINTING Defense, such personnel of contractors of the mines are providing support to members of SAVINGS ACT OF 2017—Continued Department of Defense who are providing di- the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1) rect support to the members of the Armed Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I and in connection with the payment of bene- Forces described in paragraph (1) as the Sec- fits described in paragraph (2). ask unanimous consent that the man- retary considers appropriate. (b) SECRETARY CONCERNED DEFINED.—In datory quorum call be waived. (b) FUNDING GAP DEFINED.—In this section, this section, the term ‘‘Secretary concerned’’ the term ‘‘funding gap’’ means any period of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there means— time after the beginning of a fiscal year for objection? (1) the Secretary of Defense with respect to which interim or full-year appropriations for Without objection, it is so ordered. matters concerning the Department of De- the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces fense; and CLOTURE MOTION for that fiscal year have not been enacted. (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays SA 1916. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, with respect to matters concerning the Coast before the Senate the pending cloture Guard. Mr. REED, Mr. TESTER, Mr. KAINE, Mr. motion, which the clerk will state. SEC. lll03. TERMINATION. The legislative clerk read as follows: WARNER, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. BALD- Appropriations and funds made available WIN, Mr. BENNET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. and authority granted pursuant to this Act CLOTURE MOTION BROWN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. CARPER, shall be available until whichever of the fol- We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Mr. CASEY, Mr. COONS, Mr. DONNELLY, lowing first occurs: (1) the enactment into ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the

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Shelby, citizens hostage over their reckless de- aisle remember who it is they actually Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, James M. mands. represent, we will be ready to come to- Inhofe, Shelley Moore Capito, Steve That appropriately represents the gether in a bipartisan discussion that Daines, James Lankford, and Roy White House view of where we are. And will be necessary to clean up all of this Blunt. what we have just witnessed on the mess. The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- floor was a cynical decision by Senate We have all been having private con- imous consent, the mandatory quorum Democrats to shove aside millions of versations here on the floor. Almost call has been waived. Americans for the sake of irresponsible everybody on both sides doesn’t under- The question is, Is it the sense of the political gains. A government shut- stand how we ended up here, because Senate that debate on the motion to down was 100 percent avoidable—com- most of the stuff, we agree on. Well, concur in the House amendment to the pletely avoidable. Now it is imminent, there is only one reason we ended up Senate amendment to H.R. 195 shall be all because Senate Democrats chose to here: the shoehorning of illegal immi- brought to a close? filibuster a noncontroversial funding gration into this debate. The yeas and nays are mandatory bill that contains nothing, not a thing, Now, having said that, there is a lot under the rule. they do not support—nothing they do of sympathy in this body for doing The clerk will call the roll. not support. something about the DACA kids. It is The senior assistant legislative clerk Perhaps across the aisle some of our not like nobody is interested in that. called the roll. Democratic colleagues are feeling We have been talking about it for 3 Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator proud of themselves, but what has months. But the one reason we are is necessarily absent: the Senator from their filibuster accomplished? What where we are is because we couldn’t Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN). has it accomplished? The answer is close out any of these other component The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. simple: their very own government parts because our friends on the other LANKFORD). Are there any other Sen- shutdown. side said: You have to deal with this ators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The shutdown effects on the Amer- issue. This issue is the key to getting The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 50, ican people will come as no surprise. defense spending, this issue is the key nays 49, as follows: All week, as we have stood on the floor to getting help for SCHIP kids, and on [Rollcall Vote No. 14 Leg.] and begged our colleagues to come to and on and on. YEAS—50 their senses, Senate Republicans have I think most of the American people Alexander Ernst Murkowski described exactly what this will mean. believe that shutting down the govern- Barrasso Fischer Perdue For America’s men and women in ment over this issue, which doesn’t Blunt Gardner Portman uniform, shutting down the govern- even ripen until March, is irrespon- Boozman Grassley Risch Burr Hatch Roberts ment means delayed pay. For the many sible. And I have just listed all of the Capito Heitkamp Rounds thousands of civilian employees who people who are going to be adversely Cassidy Heller Rubio support their missions, it means fur- impacted by this action. Cochran Hoeven Sasse Collins Inhofe loughs. And for the families of fallen So we are going to keep on voting, Scott Corker Isakson heroes, it may well mean a freeze on and the government may be heading Shelby Cornyn Johnson Sullivan survivor death benefits. For veterans into a shutdown, but the Senate is not Cotton Jones who rely on our promise of care, shut- shutting down. We are open to talk and Crapo Kennedy Thune Cruz Lankford Tillis ting down the government means to resolve this. I don’t think it makes Daines Manchin Toomey threatening their access to treatment. the institution look very responsible. Donnelly McCaskill Wicker For so many Americans struggling The American people should expect Young Enzi Moran with opioid addiction, the same is true. better from us than this. NAYS—49 Thanks to the Democratic leader’s de- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Baldwin Harris Peters cision to filibuster an extension of the Democratic leader. Bennet Hassan Reed State Children’s Health Insurance Pro- Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, very Blumenthal Heinrich Sanders sadly, we are on the precipice of a gov- Booker Hirono Schatz gram, low-income families will slip Brown Kaine Schumer closer to losing health coverage for ernment shutdown. The majority lead- Cantwell King Shaheen their kids, and in many States, this is er only just allowed us to vote on a Cardin Klobuchar Smith an emergency. continuing resolution that he knew Carper Leahy Stabenow Casey Lee I am having trouble understanding lacked the votes long before this hour. Tester Coons Markey It is not just Democrats who oppose Udall which one of these outcomes my Demo- Cortez Masto McConnell Van Hollen cratic colleagues could possibly be this CR; several Republicans did as Duckworth Menendez Durbin Merkley Warner proud of. Which one of them? I think well. Feinstein Murphy Warren our friends on the other side took some All of today, we have endeavored to Flake Murray Whitehouse bad advice—really bad advice. I would reach an agreement with President Wyden Gillibrand Nelson hate to have to be trying to explain Trump and the Republicans that would Graham Paul this myself. have not only spared a government NOT VOTING—1 They ignored the Governors, includ- shutdown but cemented an agreement McCain ing seven Democrats who wrote Con- on spending caps, including those for The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. gress begging us to extend SCHIP for 9 our military, the healthcare issues, dis- JOHNSON). On this vote, the yeas are 50, million children. They ignored the aster relief, and immigration issues. the nays are 49. needs of millions of Americans who President Trump reached out to me Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- rely on the Federal Government for im- this morning to invite me to the White sen and sworn not having voted in the portant services. They held all this House to talk over all of these issues, affirmative, the motion is rejected. hostage—all of this hostage over the and I accepted. We had a lengthy and The majority leader is recognized. completely unrelated issue of illegal substantive discussion. During the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I immigration. meeting, in exchange for strong DACA enter a motion to reconsider the vote. Republicans in the Senate have done protections, I reluctantly put the bor- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- all we can to continue the normal oper- der wall on the table for discussion. tion is entered. ations of the Federal Government and Even that was not enough to entice the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I secure certainty for these SCHIP kids. President to finish the deal. Many want to call to the attention of my col- We could pass it tonight, it could go to Democrats don’t want to go that far on

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I be- want to particularly commend the five how positive our discussion felt. We lieve many of my Republican col- Democrats who voted not to shut the had a good meeting, but what has tran- leagues sincerely want to get a deal. I government down. The new Senator spired since that meeting in the Oval know their hearts are in the right from Alabama, during his campaign, Office is indicative of the entire tumul- place. I know they lament the fact that said it was important to fund the S- tuous and chaotic process Republicans we now accept brinksmanship where bi- CHIP program before it ran out of have engaged in in the negotiations partisanship used to be. In the past, money, and he listened to the seven thus far. there was always discussions on these Democratic Governors who said: This Even though President Trump issues. Everyone knew in the Senate is an emergency; we need help. seemed to like an outline of a deal in you needed both parties to work to- There were five courageous Demo- the room, he did not press his party in gether. None of that happened here crats on the other side who stood up to this ridiculous argument that it made Congress to accept it. Speaker RYAN today. sense somehow to shut down the gov- and Leader MCCONNELL, without the Now, all of this problem is because ernment over an illegal immigration commitment of the President, would Republican leadership can’t get to yes issue that the vast majority of this not agree to accept anything either. because President Trump refuses to. What happened to the President President Trump, if you are listen- body would like to do something about Trump who asked us to come up with a ing, I am urging you, please take yes anyway. I want to particularly commend the deal and promised that he would take for an answer. The way things went five Democrats who had the courage to heat for it? What happened to that today, the way you turned from a bi- stand up to this ridiculous strategy President? He backed off at the first partisan deal, it is almost as if you that put their whole party in an in- sign of pressure. were rooting for a shutdown, and now We had the outline of a deal on caps. we will have one, and the blame should credible predicament because, as the White House just indicated, the Presi- We had the outline of a deal on crash entirely on President Trump’s dent is not going to talk about the healthcare. We had the outline of a shoulders. This will be called a Trump shut- issue at all while the government is deal on immigration, the toughest down. This will be called a Trump shut- shut down. He made it quite clear. He issue. It was real, and it was an honest- down because there is no one—no one— said: ‘‘When Democrats start paying to-goodness breakthrough. We could who deserves the blame for the position our armed forces and first responders, have passed a short-term extension of we find ourselves in more than Presi- we will reopen negotiations on immi- funding so that we could cross the t’s, dent Trump. He walked away from two gration reform.’’ dot the i’s, and be done with it all, but bipartisan deals, including one today in So this particular strategy has elimi- the dynamic of the past few weeks dur- which I even put the border wall on the nated the possibility of getting a signa- ing which the congressional Repub- table. What will it take for President ture on the thing they shut the govern- licans looked to the President for guid- Trump to say yes and learn how to exe- ment down over. Can anybody explain ance and the President provided none cute the rudiments of government? to me this strategy? I am perplexed. I prevailed again today, unfortunately. Tomorrow marks a year to the day wasn’t first in my class, but I wasn’t The same chaos, the same disarray, the President Trump took the oath of of- last either. How does this get them same division and discord on the Re- fice on the Capitol steps. Unfortu- what they are looking for? publican side that has been in the nately, a Trump shutdown would be a We will continue to talk because background of these negotiations for perfect encapsulation of the chaos he when all the games stop, the issues are months unfortunately appears en- has unleashed on our government. In- still there—every single one of them demic, and it is standing in the way of stead of bringing us all together, he are still there. The American people bipartisan solutions to all of the issues has pulled us apart. Instead of gov- expect us to act like adults, to get to- now before us. erning from the middle, he has gether and solve the problems. Every American knows the Repub- outsourced his Presidency to the ex- Now I will be offering an amendment lican Party controls the White House, tremes. Instead of living up to the to change the date to February 8. We the Senate, and the House. It is their great dealmaker he marketed himself will, unfortunately, not be able to get job to keep the government open. It is to be, he has been the single driving that vote tonight, but I will be subse- their job to work with us on a way to force in scuttling bipartisan deals in quently asking for consent, but at move things forward. But they didn’t Congress. some point here, we will be voting on reach out to us once on this CR—no Now, at this late hour, his behavior is February 8. That is the date the senior discussion, no debate, nothing at all. It on the verge of grinding our govern- Senator from South Carolina and I was produced without an ounce of ment to a halt—a Trump shutdown. have been talking about, and the Democratic input and dropped in our Democrats will continue to strive for a Democratic leader and I have been laps. Meanwhile, they can’t even get on bipartisan agreement on all of the out- talking about—which begins to move a the same page as a party. They control standing issues. I know there are men little bit closer to where our friends on every branch of the legislative process, and women of good will on the other the other side said they wanted to be— and it is their responsibility to govern, side of the aisle who are just as upset but a reasonable period of time that and here they have failed. as I am with the direction we are head- takes into account the State of the Several Republicans voted against ed in. I plead with them to see reason Union, our party conferences, and the the CR, as well as Democrats, for the and prevail upon their leaders—and amount of time it takes to actually same reason we voted against it. One of most of all the President—to give us write a bill once you have an agree- the most serious consequences of hav- the space to work together, to let us do ment. You can’t just reach an agree- ing continuing resolution after con- the job the American people sent us ment, snap your fingers, and every- tinuing resolution is the damage it here to do. thing falls into place and you are ready does to our military. As the Pentagon When President Trump decides he is to go. It is a reasonable period to first spokesman said last night, another CR finally ready to lead his party to a agree, and then write, get ready to ne- would be wasteful and destructive to deal, Democrats will be ready, willing, gotiate a settlement that we have been our military. The Navy Secretary said and eager to clinch it. There is a path working on for months. February 8 is a that because of CRs, ‘‘[the Navy has] forward. We can reach it quickly. very reasonable time. I hear there is put $4 billion in the trash can, poured Tomorrow, the President and the sentiment for that on both sides of the lighter fluid on it, and burned it.’’ That four leaders should immediately sit aisle. I hope so.

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On Page 1, line 6 of the House Amendment work they do on behalf of our national The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Strike ‘‘February 16’’ and insert ‘‘February security. question is on agreeing to the motion. 8’’ Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- sent that the Senate proceed to the im- Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask CLOTURE MOTION mediate consideration of Calendar No. for the yeas and nays. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a 36, H.R. 1301; that the amendment at send a cloture motion to the desk on the desk, providing for continuing ap- sufficient second? the motion to concur with amendment. There appears to be a sufficient sec- propriations for pay and death benefits The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- for members of the Armed Services, be ond. ture motion having been presented The clerk will call the roll. considered and agreed to, the bill, as under rule XXII, the Chair directs the amended, be considered read a third The legislative clerk called the roll. clerk to read the motion. Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator time and passed, and the motion to re- The senior assistant legislative clerk read consider be considered made and laid is necessarily absent: the Senator from as follows: Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN). upon the table with no intervening ac- CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. tion or debate. We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- PERDUE). Are there any other Senators The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the in the Chamber desiring to vote? objection? Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, re- The result was announced—yeas 55, move to bring to a close debate on the mo- nays 44, as follows: serving the right to object, we passed tion to concur with a further amendment in similar legislation during the govern- [Rollcall Vote No. 15 Leg.] the House amendment to the Senate amend- ment shutdown back in 2013. My hope YEAS—55 ment to H.R. 195. Mitch McConnell, Joni Ernst, Shelley is that we can restore funding for the Alexander Flake Murkowski Moore Capito, Deb Fischer, David entire government before this becomes Barrasso Gardner Paul necessary. I am going to object for to- Blunt Graham Perdue Perdue, John Kennedy, John Hoeven, Boozman Grassley Portman John Thune, John Barrasso, Roy Blunt, night, but we will discuss it again to- Burr Hatch Risch Lisa Murkowski, Susan M. Collins, Bill morrow. Therefore, I object. Capito Heitkamp Roberts Cassidy, Richard C. Shelby, Pat Rob- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- Cassidy Heller Rounds erts, James E. Risch, Johnny Isakson. tion is heard. Cochran Hoeven Rubio Collins Inhofe MOTION TO REFER WITH AMENDMENT NO. 1918 The Senator from Florida. Sasse Corker Isakson UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST—H.R. 1301 Scott Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Cornyn Johnson Shelby move to refer the House message on Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, many of Cotton Jones Crapo Kennedy Sullivan H.R. 195 to the Committee on Appro- us have participated over the last few Cruz Lankford Thune priations to report back forthwith with hours in several conversations trying Daines Lee Tillis instructions. to bring the parties together, and, in- Donnelly Manchin Toomey deed, a lot of movement has occurred. Enzi McCaskill Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Ernst McConnell Young clerk will report the motion. There seems to be one substantial issue Fischer Moran The senior assistant legislative clerk remaining in which things could come NAYS—44 read as follows: together. So I am going to ask that we The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- delay the shutdown for at least 1 day. Baldwin Harris Reed Most of us on this floor do not want Bennet Hassan Sanders NELL] moves to refer the House message on Blumenthal Heinrich Schatz H.R. 195 to the Committee on Appropriations a shutdown. Since there were discus- Booker Hirono Schumer to report back forthwith with instructions, sions here in earnest in a bipartisan Brown Kaine Shaheen amendment numbered 1918. way, we ought to give those discussions Cantwell King Smith Cardin Klobuchar The amendment is as follows: a chance to bear fruit. Stabenow Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- Carper Leahy Tester At the end add the following. Casey Markey Udall ‘‘This act shall be effective 1 day after en- sent that the Senate proceed to the im- Coons Menendez Van Hollen mediate consideration of Calendar No. Cortez Masto Merkley actment.’’ Warner 36, H.R. 1301; that the amendment at Duckworth Murphy Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Warren Durbin Murray ask unanimous consent that notwith- the desk that would provide for a con- Feinstein Nelson Whitehouse tinuing resolution to fund the govern- Wyden standing rule XXII, the mandatory Gillibrand Peters ment through Saturday, January 20, quorum call be waived and the Senate NOT VOTING—1 2018, be considered and agreed to, the immediately vote on the motion to in- bill, as amended, be considered read a McCain voke cloture without any intervening third time and passed, and the motion The motion was agreed to. action or debate. to reconsider be considered made and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there laid upon the table with no intervening jority leader. objection? action or debate. VOTE ON MOTION TO CONCUR WITH AMENDMENT Mr. SCHUMER. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there NO. 1903 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- objection? Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I tion is heard. Mr. MCCONNELL. I object. move to table the motion to concur The Senator from Missouri. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- with further amendment. UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST—H.R. 1301 tion is heard. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mrs. MCCASKILL. Mr. President, The Senator from Montana. question is on agreeing to the motion. this shouldn’t take very long. UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST—H.R. 1301 The motion was agreed to. I was most disappointed tonight Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I had MOTION TO CONCUR WITH AMENDMENT NO. 1917 when the President of the United the feeling at one point in time tonight Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I States put out a statement that tried that we were very, very close to an move to concur in the House amend- to divide us based on party when it agreement. I think, as we look around ment to the Senate amendment to H.R. came to support of our military. There this body, we see folks on both sides of 195, with a further amendment. is no such division. Everyone in this the aisle who want to come to an The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chamber knows it. So, as we have in agreement and will work hard for an clerk will report the motion. other instances where we have had a agreement.

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ROBERT J. LOVE It is a fact that we need a better ary 20; further, that following the pray- PATRICIA A. MACSPARRAN budget. We need a budget that works er and pledge, the morning hour be SHELLY D. MARTIN STEPHEN C. MATURO for America. We need a budget that deemed expired, the Journal of pro- MARIEFRANCE M. MCINTEE goes to the end of the fiscal year, ceedings be approved to date, the time RYAN G. K. MIHATA MARSHA D. MITCHUM which isn’t that long from now, by the for the two leaders be reserved for their SHAWNN D. NICHOLS way—only the end of September. It is a use later in the day, and morning busi- JON J. OPRY LUIS B. OTERO fact that we need CHIP funding and ness be closed; finally, that following JOHN C. ROCKWELL money for our community health cen- leader remarks, the Senate resume GREENE D. ROYSTER IV LUKE B. SIMONET ters, certainly for our military, and consideration of the House message to BARTON C. STAAT money for the northern and southern accompany H.R. 195. ADAM M. STARR KARA M. VANDEKIEFT borders and for opioids and the list The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there WENDI E. WOHLTMANN goes on. objection? LESLIE A. WOOD TORY W. WOODARD The majority leader has said that Without objection, it is so ordered. HEATHER C. YUN they have been working on a budget f THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT settlement for weeks. I think most of TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR us, if not all of us, are willing to stay ADJOURNMENT UNTIL TODAY FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: To be major here and work until this work gets Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, if NATALIYA A. ABLES done. I am certainly willing to. there is no further business to come be- OMAR S. AHMED This is supposed to be the most delib- fore the Senate, I ask unanimous con- ANDREW J. AMACK erative body in the world. I know that MICHAEL R. ARGYLE sent that it stand adjourned under the SUMIT S. BAGGA some will say there is just not enough previous order. GREGORY A. BAKER time, but there is. I have watched this NICOLE C. BAKER There being no objection, the Senate, MATTHEW G. BALDERSTON body work very quickly when nec- at 1:28 a.m., adjourned until Saturday, AUSTIN R. BALTENSPERGER essary. I think a government shutdown KATHERINE A. BANARES January 20, 2018, at 12 noon. AUSTIN N. BARBER would require that. SARAH J. BARNETTE f We have pushed this budget off now JOSEPH A. BAXTER JASON A. BEACHLER for 112 days. That is why I am pro- NOMINATIONS BRADLEY W. BEELER posing a 3-day continuing resolution so ANGEL Z. BELGARD Executive nominations received by KAREN A. BELLINI we can work together to come to a con- the Senate: RICHARD J. BENNETT clusion to do what the American people JOHN L. BENNION DEPARTMENT OF STATE BRIAN C. BENTELE want; that is, have a budget that works JACOB R. BERRY until the end of the fiscal year that EDWARD CHARLES PRADO, OF TEXAS, TO BE AMBAS- AMIT BHARDWAJ SADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF PREETINDER S. BHULLAR funds critical programs for our mili- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE ARGENTINE JEREMY V. BIGHAM tary and domestic. REPUBLIC. SARA S. BIRDSONG IN THE AIR FORCE CAROLINE A. BOLDUC Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- PETER N. BONNEAU sent that the Senate proceed to the im- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT CLINTON J. BORCHARDT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR GRIGORII G. BOULDO mediate consideration of Calendar No. FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JARED G. BRINKERHOFF 36, H.R. 1301; that the amendment at To be lieutenant colonel MATTHEW J. BROWN the desk that would provide for a con- SAMANTHA E. BROWN CARL P. BHEND CARL BRYCE tinuing resolution to fund the govern- KUN J. CHANG KAREN G. BUCHER ment through Monday, January 22, SARRA E. CUSHEN JASON A. BURCHETT MICHAEL L. EINHORN PAUL H. BUTLER 2018, be considered and agreed to, the SUZANA M. GJEKAJ SHAUNA M. BUTLER bill, as amended, be considered read a AARON B. HARDING ROBERT R. BYRNE CHRISTOPHER R. JORDAN STEPHEN D. CAGLE, JR. third time and passed, and the motion ROBERT B. KIM JONATHON J. CAMPBELL to reconsider be considered made and JEREMY B. LAKE PHILIP A. CANNADY STEPHEN P. LAMBERT MICHAEL J. CARCHEDI laid upon the table with no intervening GARY S. MAYNE KATHERINE M. CARLIN action or debate. JAMES P. MURPHY GEOFFREY S. CARLSON STEPHEN S. POTTER PATRICIA K. CATROW The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there ANITA M. SHADE MATTHEW J. CELLINI objection? DEMITRI VILLARREAL MICHAEL J. CHIAPPONE THOMAS K. WEBER CHAD T. CHRISTENSEN Mr. MCCONNELL. I object. CHRISTOPHER M. WOLBERT ELLE S. CLEAVES PHILIP G. CLERC The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT KELLY E. CLINTONCIROCCO tion is heard. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR JOSHUA A. COKER The majority leader. FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JASON A. CROSKREY To be colonel JENNIFER A. CROSS PROGRAM MICHELLE A. CUNNINGHAM STEVEN J. ACEVEDO DAVID N. DADO Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, for JOHAN K. AHN MICAELA J. DAGUCON the information of all our colleagues, ANTOIN M. ALEXANDER BRADLEY R. DAYTON JONATHAN L. ARNHOLT MAURICIO DE CASTRO PRETELT the Senate will convene at 12 noon to- RICHARD J. BARNETT KAITLIN P. DEBBINK morrow. JOHN P. BARON STEPHANIE A. DEGEN LAURA M. BAUGH CHRISTOPHER B. DELANGE My hope is that an agreement can be BRADLEY J. BOETIG SARA M. DESPAIN reached. We will be here in session to- KAREN E. BOWMAN SARAH M. DITCH MICHELLE R. BROWN CHAD R. DOUGLAS morrow working to finally resolve the GLENN D. BURNS DAVID J. DOWNEY way forward. Senators should expect CHRISTINE L. CAMPBELL KIMBERLY M. DUARTE ELIZABETH A. CASSTEVENS JENNIFER A. DUNN votes tomorrow. NATHAN D. CECAVA ROBERT J. EDMONDS I suggest the absence of a quorum. ERIC M. CHUMBLEY GEORGE S. EDWARDSON, JR. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The JOHNATHAN M. COMPTON JOSEPH L. EINHORN AMY A. COSTELLO WILLIAM S. ELLIS clerk will call the roll. ROBERT M. CROMER JENNIFER R. ENMAN BOURGON The senior assistant legislative clerk RICHARD L. DAGROSA DANIEL C. ENSLEY STEVEN W. DAVIS STEPHEN P. ERLACH proceeded to call the roll. PAUL T. DEFLORIO ANGELINA J. ESCANO Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I AN T. DUONG OSCAR J. ESCANO GEOFFREY L. EWING JARRETT J. EYER ask unanimous consent that the order ERIC M. FLAKE NICOLE S. FANNING for the quorum call be rescinded. HEIDI L. GADDEY MATTHEW J. FEELEY SANJAY A. GOGATE PAUL W. FERNANDES The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ALAN D. GUHLKE JASON E. FISHER objection, it is so ordered. MARSHALL T. HAYES EMILY J. FLETCHER KEVIN D. HETTINGER CHRISTOPHER D. FONTIMAYOR ORDERS FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2018 AQUILLA L. HIGHSMITH TYLER JASON T. FORBUSH Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I JOSHUA A. HODGE BRENT D. FORREST DAVID T. HSIEH ANDREW L. FRANKLIN ask unanimous consent that when the JULIA C. JACKSON ASHLEY J. FUKUOKA Senate completes its business today, it MARIA R. J. LAHTI MICHAEL C. GALANTE PETER A. LEARN STEVEN W. GALE adjourn until 12 noon, Saturday, Janu- JEFFREY D. LEWIS KARA W. GARCIA

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APRIL L. A. GARING KIMBERLY E. PORTALE CHRISTOPHER B. HINAHON PAUL A. GARRETT WILLIAM M. PRYOR HANS C. IGOU MELANIE B. GATES SARAH A. PULLEN ASHLEY E. IVEY ZACHARY J. GENANT MITCHELL J. RADIGAN KEVIN E. KEMARLY JAMES H. GENTRY ROBERT RAKOSI HILLARY R. KEY ZACHARY A. GIBSON RUSTIN A. RAWLINGS HYUNGJOO T. KIM ELIZABETH M. GOLDEN ERIN E. REDDIS CINDY L. LAN KEVIN T. GOULD EVAN J. RICHARDS SEUNG Y. LEE CAROLINE M. GREEN JANINE C. RICHARDSON NICHOLAS S. LIEB MATTHEW W. GREENE DAVID C. ROGERS JEFFREY D. LOBERG ANDREW J. GROBERG PATRICK D. SAAS JOHN R. LOVELL ESTHER L. GUARD RAMIN SADEGHI MEGAN E. MILBURN MARIYA GUSMAN ELLIOTT J. SALLY CHRISTIANNA L. MOORE TAYLOR A. HAHN SANDRA M. SALZMAN JENS D. NELSON MATTHEW S. HAMM CHRISTOPHER D. SANDERS HEATHER D. NORTON SALLY HAMM CONG Z. SANTOSO ROSS K. OATES ERIN R. HANLIN CHRISTOPHER J. SARDON THOMAS J. OCONNOR DEREK S. HATCH ERIC E. SCHOTT BENJAMIN J. PASS ADAM T. HAUSSLER KENNETH P. SEASTEDT HEATHER E. PRATHER REBECCA W. HAYES ALEC J. W. SHARP PAUL T. PRYOR SETH W. HEIMER AMANDA R. SHAUB MICHAEL R. REDISKE ANTONIA R. HELBLING MICHAEL A. SHAUB CANDICE M. REITER JONATHAN D. HENDERSON CAMERON M. SHAWVER SARAH M. RINGDAHL JUSTIN D. HESER JAMES T. SHEN STEVEN SAVAGE NORMAN L. HESSER XIAOMING SHI BRANDON J. SEUBERT COURTNEY N. HINTZ MERYL A. SIMON LOGAN LUCAS L. SHEPPARD LAUREN C. B. HITE ERICA M. SIMON EVAN M. SHIPP MICHELLE L. HOBBS SAMANTHA G. SIMPSON ALISHA C. SIMMONS ALLEN R. HOLMES KATHERINE M. SLOGIC DEREK R. SNARE STEPHEN M. HORRAS JOSEPH C. SMATHERS MICHAEL W. STRUTHERS ADAM M. HOTZ ALEXANDRA J. SMITH MELISSA S. THOMAS MATTHEW J. HUBBARD ELIZABETH R. SMITH ANDREW L. THOMASSON GARRETT W. HUCK DREW W. SMITHERS CHRISTOPHER L. TRACY SCOTT T. HULSE TIMOTHY A. SOEKEN JOHN M. VANN JOHN C. HUNNINGHAKE JEFFREY A. SORENSEN DAVID T. WELCH CHARLES L. HUTCHINGS JOSE M. SOSA ERIN G. WYRICK JANE S. HWANG JOHN D. STACEY VERANIKA ZAKHARYEVA ELIAS N. HYDRICK DOUGLAS M. STEIN DOREEN O. JACKSON THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT BRIAN N. STEINER AMANDA L. JAINCHILL TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR BRIAN D. STEPHENS MEGHAN L. JARMAN FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: KELLY M. STONEHAM RACHEL JEANTY JEAN V. STOREY To be lieutenant colonel TYLER W. KALLSEN JORDAN T. STOUFFER SCOTT D. KASER KEVIN D. ALFORD JEREMY M. STROHMAYER DEVIN C. KELLY NATHAN S. ANDERSON JOSEPH C. STUART ANDREA M. KEOHANE PETER A. BALDWIN CHENGHUI SU AMANDA N. KILLINGER SCOTT D. BARNES KENNETH L. TANYI DOMINIC C. KIM JEFFREY G. BELISLE ALAN D. TATE JARED D. KIRKLAND CRAIG S. BERG, JR. JOSHUA M. TATE DACRE R. T. KNIGHT HALTON W. BEUMER AARON C. THOMAS MATTHEW D. KOLOK ANDREW G. BOSTON JONATHAN O. THOMAS COURTNEY R. KONKEL MICHAEL BREWER SPENCER D. THOMAS ANN M. KRONENWETTER KIMBERLY K. BROUGHTON RICHARD S. THORSTED JEFFREY S. KURZ ALLISON R. BUEL EMILY M. TIBBITS MARK A. LAMSON OMAR L. CABAN VINCENT G. TICHENOR MICHAEL A. LANG DAVID R. CARLSEN JODIE K. TIMBERLAKE ALEXANDER T. LE SHIHSHIANG CHENG WILLIAM T. TIMBERLAKE LAUREN E. M. LEE STEPHEN B. CHIPMAN SCOTT A. TONDER NICOLE R. LEONARD DANIEL X. CHOI JONATHAN D. TOPHAM BENJAMIN S. LEVY JOONE H. CHOI DAVID K. TREFFLICH BRIAN S. LIDDELL REBECCA A. CHRISTI STEVEN D. TRIGG MATTHEW H. LINDSEY RICHARD A. CLARK ANNA S. TRIKHACHEVA CLAYTON L. LIVELY JAMES D. COVELLI IAN S. TUZNIK ANDREW M. LONG JEAN M. COVIELLO COLBY C. UPTEGRAFT BRIT J. LONG JASON W. CROMAR MATTHEW J. VARGAS LEIF E. MAGNUSSON RAETASHA S. DABNEY JEFFREY T. VASSALLI, JR. KATHERINE L. MALCZEWSKI SONJA I. DARDENELLE DOUGLAS B. WALTON JESSICA M. MALONE BRETT W. DAVIES STEVEN B. WALTON JORDAN K. MARSHALL RYAN E. DAVIS HEIDI N. WELCH KEISHA D. MARTIN MARK L. DEARDEN RYAN M. WEST IAN S. MATTHEWS ROBERT M. DEWITT CHRISTOPHER R. WILD PHILLIP J. MATTHEWS EMANUEL DIAZALONSO DAVID J. WILDT JOHN P. MAWN ELIZABETH A. DWYER BRIAN C. WOLF MICHAEL A. MCCORMICK STEPHEN B. EDSTROM HEATHER L. WOLFE KYLE R. MCINTOSH ANTHONY C. ESCHLIMAN RICHARD M. WOOD CHANTELL R. MCKEE ERIN E. EZZELL ADAM N. WORK NICHOLAS A. MCKENZIE BRENT A. FELDT BART D. WORTHINGTON CONNOR B. MCKEOWN PHILIP FLATAU RANDALL S. YALE BRIAN C. MCMULLIN RODERICK W. FONTENETTE ADAM N. YOUNG PHILLIP M. MCPEAK AVEN W. FORD JOHN J. YUN ANTHONY J. MEELAN JUSTIN P. FOX MICHELLE L. ZIELINSKI JOSEPH M. MIGLIURI ELIZABETH M. GAIDA BENJAMIN D. MILLER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT KATHRYN K. GARNER PAUL R. MILLER TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR KATHRYN T. GATTONE JASON A. MINER FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: STARRINA A. GIANELLONI MILTON R. MIRANDA ROSA To be major MATTHEW D. GRAHAM LAUREN C. MITCHELL ROSS F. GRAHAM JESSE W. MIX GEORGE Z. ABERTH AARON D. GRANT NICHOLAS K. MOLBY KEVIN R. ADAMS HEATHER M. HANCOCK PRESTON S. MOORE DAVID Y. AHN JONI K. HODGSON AARON O. MORGAN JULIE A. ANDERSON JUSTIN R. HOLLON ANDREW C. MORTON DENYS ANDRIYENKO CHARLES T. HOWARD JOSIAH MOULTON VINCENT W. ARCHER ANDREA W. JOHNSON MATTHEW J. MUSCARA ANDREW P. BENFIELD LINDA B. JONES DAVID J. MYERS SCOTT A. BRYANT STEPHEN A. KUJANSUU BENJAMIN A. NAPIER AUSTIN R. CARR DAVID B. LEARY DANIEL R. NASSERY DANIEL P. CHARTRAND TOBY F. LEES LEAH N. NAVE JENNA L. CHASE FREDILYN M. LIPATA TRACY N. NELSON BRANDON CHAVEZ CARRIE A. R. LITKE WAGER PHONG T. NGO KIEN K. CHIBAYERE KEVIN C. LOH ALEXANDER H. D. NGUYEN CODY J. CHRISTENSEN RICHARD K. LUGER NHU A. T. NGUYEN COLEMAN K. CHRISTENSEN STEPHEN N. LUKER GARRETT NORTON JESSICA M. DEFAZIO BRANDY E. R. LYBECK JAMES T. NUGENT SARAH E. DEVEAUX MARK E. LYTLE ADAM H. OBAIDI JOHN E. DINAN JOSEPH K. MADDRY JOSHUA J. OBHOLZ ELLEN M. DONOHUE MICHAEL H. MADSEN AUSTIN O. OETKEN SAMUEL N. DURHAM SEAN N. MARTIN JACQUELINE M. OKANE ADAM J. EICHLER JASON C. MCCARTHY ALEX C. OVERMILLER CALEB J. FRICK CATHERINE H. MCHUGH ALEXANDER T. PARAS TYLER B. GARRETT JASON D. MERRELL CRAIG S. PEDERSEN DWAYNE R. GENTRY DANIEL S. MICSUNESCU REBECCA L. PEEBLES JOHN D. GERHAUSER BRENT R. MITTELSTAEDT SHANNEL A. PEGRAM BRENNA M. GOODWIN STEPHANIE A. MORRISON ANDREW J. PELLEGRIN MICHAEL GU DAVID M. NAVEL PHILIPPINE D. PERALTA RYAN R. GUSTAFSON ANJELI K. NAYAR ROSS F. PINSON PEHRSON A. HAWKLEY TARA I. NEELEY WHITNEY L. POLLARD CAROLYN R. HETRICK LISA M. NICHOLSON

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:44 Jan 20, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 9801 E:\CR\FM\A19JA6.013 S19JAPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE January 19, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S357 UZOAMAKA O. NWOYE To be major DOUGLAS A. REISINGER THAD F. OCAMPO SCOTT C. REITOR CRYSTAL M. PALMATIER ANDREW A. ARNDT ALEC P. RICE MICHAEL F. PARSONS JOHN C. BARNES TRAVIS P. ROBERTS CHELSEA B. PAYNE DANIEL R. BEAUDRY MARK T. ROBINSON GABRIEL C. PEPPER CHAD K. BRINTON WILLIAM M. ROTHSTEIN MATTHEW A. PIEPER ANDREW J. BROWELL ERIC A. RUDIE ELIZABETH S. PIETRALCZYK MATTHEW T. BRYAN ANNE W. SAVIN ERIC R. PITTMAN THOMAS P. BURNHAM VINCENT S. SCALFANI SHEA M. PRIBYL JOHN T. CASTLEN ERIK B. SMITH FLORENCE V. QUINATA CHRISTOPHER M. CHATELAIN JORDAN C. STAPLEY MATTHEW H. RAMAGE YAN CLERMONT AMY R. STONE KYLE A. RICKARD CHASE C. CLEVELAND JAVIER TALAVERA JACOB F. RIIS KEVIN S. COBLE DAVID A. THOMPSON RAMON A. RIOJAS JASON C. COFFEY JOSHUA J. TOOMAN SIMON A. RITCHIE JACK B. COHEN DEVEREAUX X. TOWNER ANDREW Y. ROBINSON CHRISTINA K. COLCLOUGH JUSTIN W. ULRICH MELISSA M. RUNGE DANA E. COOK ANNEMARIE P. E. VAZQUEZ TRAVIS C. RUSSELL DEREK M. COYNE THOMAS G. WARSCHEFSKY VALERIE G. SAMS MICHAEL T. DAVIS TODD A. WAYNE JEREL D. SCARBERRY PHILLIP J. DICKERSON JONATHAN J. WELLEMEYER ELIZABETH R. SCHNAUBELT JOSHUA G. DIMKOFF BRANDON O. WEST JONATHON W. SCHWAKE CHARLES B. DIXON JEFFREY H. WHYTE WILLIAM H. SCOTT, JR. CHRISTOPHER D. ELDER WILLIAM T. WICKS WILLIAM A. SCROGGS III AUSTIN L. FENWICK REGINA R. WIND LAUREEN H. SHEYPUK JENNA C. FERRELL ADAM S. WOLRICH MONICA M. SICKLER TIMOTHY J. L. FITZGIBBON D013347 CHRISTY R. SINE EDWARD J. GLADDING THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ARIC D. STEINMANN MICHAEL A. GOLD TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY BENJAMIN M. STERMOLE BRENT R. HABLEY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: MICHELLE M. STODDARD DANIEL W. HANCOCK RORY P. STUART MAURA C. H. HOFFMAN To be lieutenant colonel MARION M. SWALL RONSON P. HONEYCHURCH TEDMOND C. W. SZETO COLBY P. HOROWITZ TYLER M. ABERCROMBIE STEVEN W. THORPE CASEY G. JONES THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT RUSSELL C. TONTZ III KEVIN M. JUNIUS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY JOHN W. TUEPKER BARBARA K. KERRANE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JOSHUA A. TYLER JAMES S. KIM ERIC C. UMBREIT NICOLE M. KIM To be lieutenant colonel ERIC R. VAILLANT SUSAN KIM RANDOLPH S. CARPENTER DAVID E. VIZURRAGA ALAN S. KIRK KRISTIN L. N. VOGT NATHAN S. LEW THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT JASON A. WAUGH JOYCE C. LIU TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY ROBERT S. WEATHERWAX NICHOLAS A. LUCCHETTI MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SEC- MATTHEW D. WEIRATH ROBERT D. LUYTIES TIONS 624 AND 3064: JESSE M. WICKHAM SEAN P. MAHARD WINNIFRED M. WONG JONATHAN S. MARSHALL To be major THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT AARON K. MCCARTNEY ANGEL SOTO TIMOTHY M. MCCULLOUGH TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JASON M. MCKENNA ROBERT H. MEEK TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY To be colonel ALEXANDER MORNINGSTAR UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C. SECTION 624: DUSTIN B. MYRIE To be lieutenant colonel ANN E. ALEXANDER SARAH E. NEALEN CLIFTON W. BAILEY JENNIFER D. NORVELL MATTHEW C. DAWSON CLAYTON G. HICKS TIMOTHY R. OLLIGES LEE C. NOVY JOANNA S. MCPHERSON JARED V. OLSON MASOUD MILANI DAVID J. PARDO IN THE NAVY PATRICK B. PARSONS ELLIOT J. PERNULA THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT SHAWN J. PETERSON IN THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY AMANDA G. PRESSON UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT HANNAH E. PURKEY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY JASON A. QUINN To be captain JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL’S CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, STEVEN R. QUINZEL U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND 3064: ROBERT J. RAUCKHORST, JR. ERIC C. CORRELL

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