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Vol. 167 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021 No. 16 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Thursday, January 28, 2021, at 9 a.m. Senate WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021

The Senate met at 10:30 a.m. and was The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Security under Presidents of both par- called to order by the President pro objection, it is so ordered. ties wrote recently: After the attacks tempore (Mr. LEAHY). f on the Capitol on January 6, it is more f urgent than ever to have in place an RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY experienced, capable, and Senate-con- PRAYER LEADER firmed leader. That person is The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Mayorkas. fered the following prayer: LUJA´ N). The majority leader is recog- That was four previous Homeland Let us pray. nized. Secretaries from both parties. O God, our Father, thank You for the Unfortunately, because of the objec- gift of this day. Lord, we are grateful f tions of one Member, the Senate has for the blessing of Your unfailing love, NOMINATION OF ALEJANDRO not been allowed to vote on this nomi- for Your mercies endure forever. NICHOLAS MAYORKAS nation yet. It is the Senate’s responsi- Keep our lawmakers on the proper bility to make sure national security path. Lead them to strive for right- Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, it has officials are on the job and keeping our eousness and humility. As You show been 3 weeks since a mob of domestic country safe. them the path to choose, give them the terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol in My friends on the other side don’t wisdom to live for Your honor. Remind an effort to thwart our democratic sys- have to agree with Mr. Mayorkas on them that You are a friend to those tem of government. In the weeks since, the finer points of every policy, but who possess referential awe. Rescue the underlying threat of violence to surely we can all agree that he knows them from the traps of their enemies. our government remains of great con- the Department, he understands the Lord, You are our hope for the years cern. threats to our Nation’s security, and he to come. One of the most important respon- has what it takes to lead DHS. The We pray in Your Holy Name. Amen. sibilities of the new administration—of Senate must confirm his nomination in f any administration—is to protect our very short order, and we will make PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE country and its citizens. The Senate sure that happens. must continue the process of con- We must continue on to the rest of The President pro tempore led the firming President Biden’s Cabinet by Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: the President’s Cabinet as well. The installing Alejandro Mayorkas to serve President’s nominee for Secretary of I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the as Secretary of Homeland Security. In United States of America, and to the Repub- Transportation was voted out of com- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, truth, we should have been able to con- mittee this morning on an overwhelm- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. firm Mr. Mayorkas days ago. He is su- ingly bipartisan vote, 21 to 3. With co- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The premely well qualified for the job. He is operation, the Senate can and should Senator from New Mexico. the son of immigrants whose family es- confirm Mr. Buttigieg soon, as well. Mr. LUJA´ N. Mr. President, I suggest caped from the Holocaust, a pros- f the absence of a quorum. ecutor, a veteran of 7 years who led the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Agency’s response on Ebola, cyber se- CLIMATE clerk will call the roll. curity, border security, counterterror- Mr. SCHUMER. On climate, today The senior assistant legislative clerk ism, and domestic terrorism. President Biden is set to announce a proceeded to call the roll. Just 4 years ago, President Trump slew of Executive actions on climate, Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask had his Secretary of Homeland Secu- including critical measures to increase unanimous consent that the order for rity installed on Inauguration Day. As the conservation of Federal lands, re- the quorum call be rescinded. four previous Secretaries of Homeland duce oil and gas development, and

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:45 Jan 27, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A27JA6.000 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE S158 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 27, 2021 place environmental justice, green bold and robust course of action to de- Mr. LEAHY. I thank the distin- jobs, and, yes, science at the heart of feat the disease and get our country guished leader. our Nation’s climate policy. back to normal. We must not—we must Mr. SCHUMER. I yield the floor. I think Americans are saying: Wel- not—repeat the mistakes of 2008 and f come back, science. We are glad you 2009, when Congress was too timid and RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY are playing a role in the decisions we constrained in its response to the glob- LEADER make and not being ignored and tram- al financial crisis. pled on like the previous administra- The Congressional Budget Office has The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Re- tion did. Understanding that the told us last fall that COVID–19, the publican leader is recognized. United States cannot defeat a global pandemic, has taken more than $17 f threat on its own, the Biden adminis- trillion out of our economy—$17 tril- NOMINATIONS tration has already wisely joined the lion out of the economy. The danger of Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, yes- Paris accords and will also propose undershooting our response to COVID– terday, we confirmed Antony Blinken, convening an international climate 19 is far greater than overshooting it. our new Secretary of State. Like the summit this year, on Earth Day. So Congress must pursue a bold re- Director of National Intelligence, the These Executive actions are a very sponse to the prevailing crisis of our Secretary of Defense, and the Sec- strong opening push by the Biden ad- time. retary of the Treasury, it was another ministration to refocus our Nation’s Here in the Senate, we want that work to be bipartisan. Let me say that big, bipartisan vote here in the Senate. energy toward the threat of climate Four years ago, Senate Democrats change. President Biden’s commitment again. We want the next legislative re- sponse to COVID–19 to be bipartisan. subjected mainstream nominees to lead to deal with climate change is unques- State and Treasury to a full gauntlet tioned. He is off to a fast start, and it We want to work with our Republican colleagues, if we can, to include their of partisan delay tactics. They forced couldn’t come soon enough. cloture votes. Those were nearly party- The Federal Government has a great ideas and input if they will offer them. line. So were the final votes. Neither deal of power to set the direction for That is our preference. But if our Re- got on the job until February. But this our Nation’s energy and environmental publican colleagues decide to oppose President’s mainstream nominees to policy, but climate change represents the necessary, robust COVID relief that key posts are receiving fair consider- an existential threat to our country is needed, we will have to move forward without them. It is not our preference, ation and a timely process. and our planet. Every tool in the tool- Republicans have no shortage of sub- box should be brought to bear. In my but dealing with this crisis in a bold and sufficient way is a necessity. The stantive policy differences with the view, President Biden should consider new administration. We will be dis- the declaration of a national emer- Senate is going to respond to the coun- try’s needs and deliver help to the cussing them with Secretaries Austin, gency on climate change. Yellen, and Blinken in the course of Former President Trump, of course, American people fast. f normal committee oversight. issued an emergency declaration to di- But unlike what took place 4 years vert funds toward an expensive and in- IMPEACHMENT ago, Republicans are not gratuitously effective border wall when there was no Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, now delaying people who are mainstream emergency at all. Declaring one for cli- on impeachment, finally, I want to ad- and qualified whom the new President mate change—an actual emergency— dress the vote the Senate took yester- has asked to serve in key posts. If we would be a giant step in the right di- day on the point of order raised by the find somebody unfit, unqualified, or rection, and it would allow President junior Senator from Kentucky. I regret outside the mainstream, you bet we Biden to tap additional resources and to say, for 45 Republican Senators to will oppose them. pursue additional policies in the fight vote for a spurious constitutional ob- But I have just spent 4 years arguing against climate change, even if Repub- jection to the coming impeachment that Presidents deserve some latitude licans in Congress remain intransigent trial was deeply, deeply irresponsible. to assemble their team. I meant it, and and unable to recognize the severity of The trial is still 2 weeks away. The I mean it now. this crisis. constitutional objection has been com- With my vote to confirm Mr. Japan, the United Kingdom, New pletely debunked by more than 150 con- Blinken, I wanted to reinforce the need Zealand, and scores of regional and stitutional scholars representing the for a true bipartisan consensus on the local governments have declared states entire breadth of the political spec- core objectives of our foreign policy. of emergency on climate change. The trum, including very prominent con- Yesterday, while discussing the legis- United States would send a powerful servatives. But only five Republican lative filibuster, I talked about the signal to the world about our commit- Senators were willing to take a prin- chaos that would ensue if every domes- ment to defeating climate change if we cipled stand against this reckless and tic policy swung wildly back and forth did so as well. ill-advised effort by Members of this with every election. The same goes for f body who are eager to excuse President our foreign affairs. American states- CORONAVIRUS Trump’s campaign to overturn the men should make commitments and election and, apparently, to excuse his issue threats that can endure beyond Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, now incitement of the mob that every one their terms in office. on COVID, as I mentioned yesterday, of us experienced in this Capitol. To be clear, Presidents bear the pri- the Senate will soon begin the process I would simply say to all of my col- mary responsibility for foreign policy, of considering legislation to help the leagues: Make no mistake. There will and I am not suggesting different lead- country defeat COVID–19 and provide be a trial, and the evidence against the ers should not have different ideas. But relief to those Americans who are still former President will be presented in they will be more successful and their suffering great economic hardship. living color for the Nation and every legacies more enduring if they make There has been a lot of action in one of us to see once again. No one will the effort to build bipartisan support Washington recently. We inaugurated a be able to avert their gaze from what among Congress and the American peo- new President, a new administration is Mr. Trump said and did and the con- ple. getting off the ground, and an impeach- sequences of his actions. We will all Neither America nor our allies will ment trial of the former President will watch what happened. We will listen to like the world that results if the commence in a few weeks. But COVID– what happened, and then we will vote. world’s leading Nation starts over like 19 hasn’t gone anywhere, unfortu- We will pass judgment, as our solemn an Etch A Sketch every 4 years. nately. Americans are still losing their duty under the Constitution demands, For starters, in several important jobs. American businesses are still and, in turn, we will all be judged on areas, the new administration should closing. Americans are still getting how we respond. build on bipartisan consensus that ac- sick. Americans are still dying. I am glad to see my colleague from tually already exists. The needs in our country are still Vermont here, as well as my colleague Let’s start with China. The Trump great, and the Congress must pursue a from Illinois. administration helped build a long

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:45 Jan 27, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.001 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE January 27, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S159 overdue awakening to the reality that partners abroad. Those things need to evision it is time for America to get we are in strategic competition with exist before making major changes or over it—get over it. She is not the only the PRC, that Beijing will not magi- racing to rejoin a deal. one who has expressed that point of cally conform itself to the so-called And our new President must be ready view. international community, and that to respond to violence with force, as I was in the airport in Chicago last these challenges demand fast and seri- the Trump administration did when week in a waiting area to get on a ous action from the United States and they removed Soleimani from the bat- plane when someone seated nearby from our friends. President Biden and tlefield. said: Hey, Senator, get over it. Let this his new Cabinet must keep working Speaking of the Middle East, I have President ride off into the sunset. with Congress to continue building a consistently and vocally stood up dur- Those were his words: Get over it. whole-of-government, whole-of-econ- ing administrations of both parties It is hard to get over it if you lived omy approach to checking China. against withdrawing our limited forces it, and many of us in this Chamber did. We need Secretary Austin to keep in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria too rap- Last night, there was a vote as to focus on modernizing our forces, deter- idly or without a smart plan. A super- whether we should go forward with the ring Chinese threats from the Indo-Pa- majority of the Senate joined me last impeachment. All of the Democrats, 50, cific to space and cyber space, sus- Congress in warning against abruptly voted in favor of having the trial, since taining robust defense spending, and abandoning battlefields recklessly on we received that Article from the investing in defense partnerships bad terms. House. Five—five—Republicans joined across the world. Finally, all of this important work us. Forty-five Republicans voted to end We need Secretary Yellen to keep fo- will require that we keep our friends the impeachment proceeding, voting in cused on the coercive manipulation the close. The United States needs to be a favor of the point of order that was PRC uses to ensnare the developing partner that neither strains alliances raised by the junior Senator from Ken- world in its orbit. unnecessarily nor hands out free tucky. We need Secretary Blinken to keep passes. President Biden should con- I don’t know what was going through clarifying the China threat to our al- tinue prodding our partners to honor their minds when they joined that lies and European partners, to focus on their promises, pay their share, and point of order from the Senator from contesting their growing influence in put real capabilities on the table—and Kentucky. I don’t know if it truly was Africa and the Middle East, and to hold reemphasize that we have their backs. a constitutional issue they were think- Beijing accountable for its unaccept- One early test for the new adminis- ing about, whether it was loyalty to able repression in places like Tibet and tration and congressional Democrats Donald Trump, or whether it was fear Hong Kong and its hostility toward will be the defense budget. If President of Trump’s followers in their home Taiwan. Biden and his team are serious about States that led them to vote to end the Now, we know China is not the only contesting China, Russia, and these impeachment inquiry. great power with whom we need to other threats, they will need to show But we should move forward. We hang tough. In concrete policy terms, it. Without continued, robust invest- should go forward, as Lincoln reminded the United States just spent 4 years de- ment in a modern global force pres- us, because we cannot escape history, veloping a more clear-eyed approach to ence, American leadership would be lit- and we certainly shouldn’t be party to Russia. Rather than chasing naive tle more than hollow rhetoric. rewriting history. ‘‘resets’’ with the Kremlin or worship- I voted to get President Biden’s top When almost 50 percent of Trump ping arms control like a religion, we foreign policy advisers on the job swift- loyalists refuse to believe that the leaned into military assistance to ly. I hope and expect that our shared events 3 weeks ago in this Capitol oc- Ukraine, serious sanctions, cyber coun- work will lead to frequent, close, and curred or, if they occurred, that they termeasures against meddling, and bipartisan work with the Senate. had anything to do with President other strong steps. Trump, we need to make a record, a The Biden administration will find f record of fact, not just for our current willing partners on Capitol Hill if it RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME deliberations but for history. How can anyone who was in this builds on this process, keeps imposing The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Chamber on January 6 really argue real costs on Moscow, pushes back on the previous order, the leadership time that nothing critical and important expansionism in the eastern Mediterra- is reserved. nean, and, importantly, encourages our and horrific occurred? allies to join in this effort. f Do you remember at 2:15, when the Great power competition is key, but, MORNING BUSINESS Secret Service went up and grabbed the of course, it does not exhaust the Vice President by his arms and pulled threats that we face. In the Middle The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under him down, out that door, so they could East, I know President Biden will face the previous order, the Senate will be take him to a secure place? We were political pressure from the left to re- in a period of morning business, with stunned by that. I was. join Obama’s Iran deal, just as Presi- Senators permitted to speak therein They told us to sit here. And do you dent Trump faced pressure from the for up to 10 minutes each. know what I saw next? Two men, plain- right to abandon it. The majority whip. clothes security people—I don’t know Had President Obama not tried to f what Agency they were working for— circumvent Congress and pursue a par- came right down here, right down in tisan policy, this critical national se- IMPEACHMENT the middle of this well. Why do I re- curity challenge might not have be- Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today, member that they were there? Because come so polarizing, but that is where January 27, marks an anniversary, in a one of them had an automatic weapon we are. way, of an event that occurred in this around his neck, in the Senate Cham- There is no question that Iran is the Chamber 3 weeks ago, an event on Jan- ber. biggest threat the United States and uary 6, which some of us will never for- Then we were told by a Capitol po- our partners face in the region. It poses get. liceman who stood in front of us: Sit threats beyond just its pursuit of nu- We are in the midst of preparing for down. Stay in your seats. We are bring- clear weapons: sponsoring terrorism, an impeachment trial of President ing in your staff and locking the doors. its sectarian agenda, its work to under- Donald Trump for any responsibility This will be a secure room. Then they mine its neighbors’ sovereignty, its de- that he bears for that day’s events. closed the doors off to the public, and velopment of ballistic missiles and le- Some have said we shouldn’t do that, we sat here for a few minutes. thal drones, and its appalling—appall- that we shouldn’t have an impeach- And then the same policeman said: ing—record on human rights. ment trial. Leave. Evacuate quickly, out the Confronting this multifaceted chal- The former U.N. Ambassador and doors. The crowd, the mob, was advanc- lenge will take bipartisanship at home Governor of South Carolina, Nikki ing and getting closer to the Senate and solidarity with Israel and our Arab Haley, said in an interview on FOX tel- Chamber.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:45 Jan 27, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.003 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE S160 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 27, 2021 We went out the back corridor and I am sorry to say that the 45 Senators ROE V. WADE down the steps. As you go down the who said stop the investigation, stop Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, last Fri- steps, there is a window that looks out the impeachment, may not have as day, we observed the 48th anniversary on the sidewalk near the Capitol Build- clear a memory as I do. of Roe v. Wade—the Supreme Court de- ing, and I saw this mob coming at us Each year, we have a commemora- cision that legalized abortion through with Trump flags and American flags tion of George Washington’s Farewell all 9 months of pregnancy. It is a som- and signs—coming right at us. We hur- Address, and a different Member of the ber day every year, as we contemplate ried down those steps and through the Senate is asked to read it on the floor the millions of lives lost to abortion long tunnel to, we hoped, a safe loca- of the Senate. I have to tell you that, since the Roe v. Wade decision. tion in one of the office buildings near- honestly, I don’t come to the floor and Gallup has been polling on abortion by. listen carefully. It doesn’t have the im- for decades, and if you look at the poll- I will never forget it. Do the 45 Sen- pact it once had. It is a commemora- ing on the issue, one thing becomes ators who voted against the impeach- tion which is honorific but doesn’t clear: The majority of Americans do ment trial last night still remember it? have the real power to create a mem- not believe in unrestricted abortion. I certainly hope they do, and I cer- ory. Some believe that abortion should be tainly hope they can recall it as they Doug Jones is a former Senator from completely illegal. Some believe abor- watch the videotapes, the mountain of Alabama, and he said on Martin Luther tion should be legal under certain cir- videotapes of what happened that day. King’s birthday, or nearby, we should cumstances. But the majority of Amer- And, of course, I hope we all remem- all come to the floor and hear a reading icans do not believe in unrestricted ber what the Capitol Police went of King’s letter from the Birmingham abortion. through. For those who say they love jail, and I think that is appropriate and Why is that? Why, despite the best law and order, take a look at what it is good. efforts of the far left, do the majority they went through when this mob came How will we remember and com- of Americans think there should be at after them. They were beaten. One memorate January 6? Maybe it is too least some restrictions on abortion? I gave his life. And we can never forget. soon to think about that, but how can suspect the answer is that every person So how did this come about? Was this we forget what happened that day? knows on some level that when we are just a spontaneous gathering of people How can we possibly get over it? talking about abortion, we are talking who decided to come to Capitol Hill? I don’t want to get over it. I want to about a baby, a human being. It is not Far from it. The President of the face it squarely and honestly with the rocket science; it is biology 101. Human United States, Donald Trump, re- facts. History demands it of us. Those moms and dads have human babies. quested his followers to come to Wash- of us who are honored to serve in this Take one look at an ultrasound, at a ington on January 6. Why did he pick Chamber bear a responsibility to keep baby girl sucking her thumb or a baby January 6? Because the Constitution the facts alive, not let those who wish boy kicking his feet, and it is pretty says that is the day when Congress will to ignore them or rewrite history have hard to argue that is just a clump of count the electoral votes and deter- the last word. cells. mine who will be the next President. We now have a responsibility to go I believe that is why, despite years of And because President Trump refused forward with this impeachment trial, fierce abortion advocacy from the far to accept the reality of his loss on No- to make a record and decide as a U.S. left, the majority of Americans do not vember 3 and continued in every imag- Senate. We owe it to the people we rep- believe in unrestricted abortion, be- inable way to try to change the num- resent. That is for sure. But, more im- cause they know—they know—the un- bers coming out of States like Georgia, portantly, we owe it to future genera- born child is a human being, and they he called his followers to Washington tions to show them just how fragile a know a human being deserves to be on that day and held a rally on the El- democracy can be when a mob turns on protected even when they are small lipse. the U.S. Capitol and tries to stop the and weak and vulnerable—especially We have a tape of that rally, and it business of this government. when they are small and weak and vul- should be part of the record as to what The good news is this. If there is any nerable. this President said to his followers who source of elation, it is this: We re- The truth is, advocates of abortion had gathered on that day, how his rhet- turned to the Capitol that same day, are fighting an uphill battle. It doesn’t oric inflamed them. We can see it. It is January 6, and finished our business of always feel like that. After all, they a matter of record. counting the electoral vote. In the have a lot of support from the enter- Then he pointed to the Capitol Build- early hours of the morning of January tainment industry and magazines and ing, this building, and told them to 7, Joseph Biden was announced the media outlets and Democratic politi- come up here. Why? Because we were in winner of the Presidency, and just 2 cians. The pro-abortion left has a lot of the process of counting the electoral weeks later—2 weeks later to the day— money. They have won too many vic- votes, which would finally and con- he was sworn in as President of the tories, and too many babies have been stitutionally announce that he had lost United States. killed. But despite their money and the election. It was his last desperate Our democracy survived this mob platform and advantage, in 48 years, gasp to keep the White House, even at that came forward in insurrection advocates for abortion have not won the expense of the Constitution and re- against our government, and we are their fight. They have not managed to ality. now in the beginning of the second convince anywhere close to a majority Then the crowd turned and advanced week of the Biden Presidency. He has of Americans that abortion is an un- on the Capitol. We have seen those vid- spoken to the American people and qualified good and should be available eotapes as well, as they overran the told them we are going to come to- unrestricted and on demand, and that flimsy barricades that were set up in gether; we are going to unify. Bless is because, for all their advantages, the hopes that they would discourage him for doing that. they are fighting an unwinnable battle and stop them. And they broke through We owe him this opportunity. We owe because they are fighting against re- windows and doors, came into this it to our country. ality, they are fighting against truth, building, invading it for the first time I yield the floor. they are fighting against science, and since 1814. I suggest the absence of a quorum. they are fighting against the knowl- It was 1814 when the British forces The PRESIDING OFFICER. The edge that is written on every human came into this building, burned it, as clerk will call the roll. heart, a truth that gets obscured but is an invasion. Well, this was a new inva- The legislative clerk proceeded to hard to completely erase, and that is, sion, an invasion by those who were ei- call the roll. every human being has value and de- ther inspired by this President or, for Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask serves to be protected. whatever political reasons, decided to unanimous consent that the order for Last week, I came down to the floor try to stop this government. the quorum call be rescinded. to praise President Biden’s call for It is the first time that has ever hap- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without unity, and I suggested that one way he pened since 1814. I will never forget it. objection, it is so ordered. could show that commitment was by

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:45 Jan 27, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.004 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE January 27, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S161 nominating individuals for key posts abortions abroad. This is only a pri- millions of other Americans who now who represent a majority of Americans ority for the pro-abortion lobby. have cause to wonder if their own gov- instead of the far-left wing of his party. As I said, I am disappointed in the ernment will bother making their secu- I think several of the President’s nomi- President’s actions, and going forward, rity a priority. What about their com- nations have demonstrated his com- I hope he will not let his Presidency be munities? What about their neighbor- mitment to unity. While perhaps not hijacked by abortion extremists. But hoods? What about the universities the people I would have chosen, I be- whatever policies this administration where their children go to school? lieve that a number of his nominees pursues, I and many of my colleagues What is going to be done about riots? will serve Americans well, and I have will continue to work to promote a cul- What about the virtual space? As they voted accordingly, casting votes in ture of life in this country. The arc— have seen their children move to online favor of President Biden’s choice for the arc—of the moral universe is long, school, more of their daily functional Director of National Intelligence and but I believe it does bend towards jus- life and their transactional life has Secretary of Defense, among others. tice. I look forward to the day that we moved online. How do they keep their But unfortunately President Biden will secure justice for unborn human families safe? How do they protect has also nominated some individuals beings by ensuring that they are pro- their rights to privacy? who represent the extreme left of the tected. In the physical space, yesterday we Democratic Party rather than main- I yield the floor. got the good news that a Federal judge stream Americans, and nowhere is that I suggest the absence of a quorum. has granted a temporary restraining more true than with his radically pro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The order barring the Department of Home- abortion nominee for Secretary of clerk will call the roll. land Security from implementing a na- Health and Human Services. The legislative clerk proceeded to tionwide pause on most deportations. As a Member of the House of Rep- call the roll. That pause was mandated by a DHS resentatives, Javier Becerra accumu- Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. President, I memo signed by the Acting Secretary lated an overwhelmingly pro-abortion ask unanimous consent that the order on day one of the Biden administra- voting record, even opposing a ban on for the quorum call be rescinded. tion—not such a great start for the ad- partial-birth abortion—a procedure so The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ministration’s immigration policy heinous and repulsive, it is difficult objection, it is so ordered. team, but the American people will even to describe. As attorney general f benefit from having the time that has of California, he used his position to IMMIGRATION come to them to ask questions about advance the pro-abortion cause. proposed shifts in existing policy. Peo- On top of that, he has shown a dis- Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. President, as ple want to be safe. turbing tendency to use his position to we move through what is appearing to I would like to just stipulate for the attack freedom of religion and freedom be a choppy start to the 117th Congress, record that immigration law is very of conscience. As California attorney I think it is worth reminding ourselves complex. While most Americans aren’t general, he sued an order of nuns who of the standards that guide our work experts in the finer points of immigra- care for the elderly poor to try to force here. The mandate that we have does tion law, they do have and most of us them to offer health insurance benefits not come from the 24-hour news cycle have a very common touchstone that that violate their faith. That is right— or from lobbyists or advocacy groups, we relate to; that is, having a secure he thought it a good use of his time as but it comes, very simply, from the border. attorney general to sue an order of Constitution. It is the foundation of This should be a basic concept—let’s nuns who care for the elderly poor. He the rule of law, our Nation’s Constitu- secure the border; let’s secure our also enthusiastically sought to enforce tion, and it really serves as a pretty country—but somehow we have man- a California law that forced crisis preg- good policymaking guideline. aged to politicize that point that advo- nancy centers to advertise abortion The American people are looking at cates at the highest levels of the Fed- services. The case went all the way to what is going on here, and they see the eral Government—for what? A weak- the Supreme Court, which overturned cracks that Washington has made in ened border. Just imagine that. You the California law because it violated the foundation of this Constitution. have individuals at the highest level of the free speech protection of the First These realizations have eroded their the Federal Government who are say- Amendment. confidence in our ability as a body to ing: Let’s weaken our border. That is It is bad to support evils like abor- perform the basic functions of govern- stunning, absolutely stunning to Ten- tion. It is worse to not only support an ment without devolving into partisan nesseans. evil but to attempt to force others to chaos when faced with disagreements. Why would you not protect your bor- participate in it in violation of their Many times I will hear Tennesseans der? Why would you not want to know consciences. say: What happened to robust political who is coming into your country? Why I know the President is a man of debate? What happened to being able to should I be forced to accept a lax bor- faith, which makes it particularly per- agreeably disagree and have a discus- der? Why should I be accepting of al- plexing why he would choose to nomi- sion? Are those days totally lost, or lowing drug cartels to run those drugs nate an individual who has used his po- can we return to them? They are ask- into the country? Why should I be told sition to attack freedom of religion and ing themselves how many shortcuts— I should accept human trafficking; I freedom of conscience. As head of the like Executive orders—Washington is should accept gangs; I should accept Department of Health and Human going to take before the shortcut be- sex traffickers coming in across the Services, Mr. Becerra would have the comes the rule or the norm and how border? ability to not only push an extremist many times can Washington chip away When we have a weak border, this is abortion agenda but to roll back im- at the standards that govern our coun- what you get. Every town—every portant progress made to protect indi- try before those standards start to town—becomes a border town. Every viduals’ conscience rights. I am dis- crumble or are not relevant. State becomes a border State because appointed by the President’s choice. Restoring the trust of the American of the impacts—the negative impacts— Javier Becerra’s pro-abortion views do people will not be easy because this of drug trafficking, sex trafficking, not represent the views of the majority fundamental lack of faith in our insti- human trafficking, and the toll that of Americans. tutions has caused Americans to ques- that takes on our communities. I am also very disappointed by the tion their very safety and security in Last week, I introduced two key announcement that President Biden the physical space and also in the vir- pieces of legislation that attack spe- will overturn the Mexico City policy, tual world that they have been forced cific vulnerabilities in our body of im- which protects taxpayer dollars from into by the COVID–19 pandemic. migration law that thousands of bad being used to finance abortion in other I like to say we have a lot of security actors use to game the system every countries. This is not a unifying ac- moms who are out there—moms and year. tion. Americans were not clamoring to grandmoms like me—and, quite frank- The first is the Stop Greenlighting have their tax dollars start supporting ly, they are out in full force, alongside Driver Licenses for Illegal Immigrants

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:45 Jan 27, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.006 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE S162 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 27, 2021 Act. It does exactly what it sounds portant because it defines who we are The legislative clerk proceeded to like. It blocks certain Federal funds to the people who we do not see in per- call the roll. from reaching the coffers of sanctuary son. And as I mentioned earlier, more Mr. SULLIVAN. Madam President, I States. This includes States that defy of our functional and transactional life ask unanimous consent that the order Federal immigration law or that allow is now online. So tomorrow, to mark for the quorum call be rescinded. individuals to obtain a driver license National Data Privacy Day, I will once The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. without providing proof that they are again reintroduce the BROWSER Act. BALDWIN). Without objection, it is so here legally or without providing proof Mr. President, as you and I served in ordered. that they are who they claim to be. the House together, I know you re- f member how I would introduce this This is no small penalty, and here is ADVICE AND CONSENT why. bill, the BROWSER Act, to secure on- In 2020, our Nation had 15 States plus line privacy for millions of Americans. Mr. SULLIVAN. Madam President, the District of Columbia that have de- Now, at its heart, this is an effort to the Senate is focused on one of its con- cided to give illegal immigrants a valid inject awareness, transparency, and ac- stitutional roles right now, which is State-issued ID, a driver license. These countability into the relationship be- meeting with and discussing with the 15 States and DC got $53 million in JAG tween technology platforms and their new Biden administration’s Cabinet— grants from the Department of Justice. users. our advice and consent role. The con- These are funds—these are Justice As- This legislation sets up a very basic sent role, obviously, is confirmation sistance Grants that are given to local Federal compliance framework that votes here on the floor of the U.S. Sen- law enforcement and criminal justice tech companies can use as a guide to ate, which we are doing a number of projects to do what? Enforce the law. update their privacy policies online, these on the floor and in committee. So if you are not going to enforce the make it something that is going to But there is also the advice role, given law, why should you get the money? give you the ability to say: This is in- to us by the Founding Fathers. On the Those funds should go to entities that formation that I want to share. advice, we are providing whether we have said: We will abide by the rule of It would require companies to secure vote for some of these nominees or not law. That is where those funds should an opt-in from consumers before col- to the Cabinet. It is a big part of the lecting their sensitive data. And for go. Senate’s role. So I am going to take a Now, the second bill is the Ban Birth less sensitive information, you, the minute to provide a little bit of advice Tourism Act. This would amend the consumer, would have the ability to to some of the new, incoming Biden Immigration and Nationality Act to opt out and not share that browsing team. prohibit pregnant foreigners from ob- history with that company. Now, look, we are seeing it particu- Companies would not be able to deny taining a temporary visitor visa they larly in the foreign policy realm. A lot you service if you want to practice could use to enter the United States of the Biden team has actually come your right to privacy. That makes specifically for the purpose of giving from the Obama-Biden team—maybe common sense. It happens in the phys- birth here. Yes, you heard me right. too many. You worry about stale ical space every single day, and it There is a loophole in the law, in the thinking, because when they were in should also be a right reserved to the Immigration and Nationality Act. Be- power 4 years ago, or a little bit over 4 individual in the virtual space. years ago, there are a lot of things that cause of this, we have some pregnant This also would put the Federal have changed in the world—particu- foreigners, primarily from Russia and Trade Commission, our online privacy larly on foreign policy, a lot that has China, who circumvent the law, and regulator, in charge of watching what happened in the world. So you need they get a temporary visitor visa, and is happening in the virtual space, ap- they come here working with some of fresh views, but we are where we are. plying these rules equally across the But an example of this kind of stale this multimillion-dollar-a-year birth entire internet ecosystem. A right to tourism industry. They get coached. thinking that I was shocked to see re- privacy, being secure in our commu- cently at the White House is the use of They come here. They go to a facility. nities and our homes, is something They give birth. The child becomes a the term ‘‘strategic patience’’ as a for- that not only Tennesseans but millions eign policy concept. Now, this was the citizen, and then they return. As I said, of Americans are wanting to see. primarily these are wealthy Russians phrase the Obama administration used and wealthy Chinese. f to describe its policy toward North Our citizenship is not for sale. No, in- TRIBUTE TO HEATH HUCKABAY Korea, and I think most people would deed. It is hard-fought. It is hard-won. Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. President, recognize—Democrats and Repub- It is hard-kept. The American people this week Team Blackburn is saying licans—that that was not a very suc- are right to expect better than this. goodbye to Heath Huckabay, who came cessful policy, a pretty failed policy. Tennesseans want to see something to us last January as part of a fellow- Now, granted, North Korea is dif- done about this. That is why I, once ship program between my office and ficult. There is no doubt. But the pol- again, have filed this legislation. the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, icy that was known as strategic pa- The American people are not unrea- which is located in Oak Ridge, just out- tience was the policy that enabled the sonable. They do not lack compassion. side of Knoxville, TN. North Korea rogue regime to massively They just don’t understand why offi- It has been an interesting year to say build up a nuclear arsenal. So kind of cials who are charged with upholding the least, but Heath has risen to the like leading from behind, the Obama the law would act in their official ca- occasion and impressed each and every administration’s term ‘‘strategic pa- pacity to undermine something as one of us with his breadth of knowledge tience’’ became synonymous with a basic as border security, as basic as na- and his ability to adapt to the hectic passive and even weak foreign policy tional security. pace of life in the Senate. We did our approach as it related to North Korea, We have a lot of security moms out best to persuade him to stay with us a certainly. there who understand that it is no little longer, but I am confident that So I was very surprised yesterday to small task keeping things secure at his colleagues at Oak Ridge will be hear the White House Press Secretary home. All of these security moms out happy to see him return, as well as his trot out this term again, ‘‘strategic pa- there know that there are plenty of wife Emily and little Elliot. They are tience,’’ but this time when talking threats online—threats that they can- looking forward to having him home. about the Biden administration’s pol- not see, but they know that there are a It was an honor working with him icy with regard to China. lot of these threats that come into this past year. We will miss him, and Now, this is almost certainly music their homes and onto their computer we wish him all the best as he heads to China’s ears—the leadership of screens and onto the devices of their back to Tennessee. China—because it is kind of a subtle children because of a lack of privacy I yield the floor. green light to Xi Jinping and the other online. I suggest the absence of a quorum. authoritarians in China of its failure to How we curate and protect our vir- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The uphold promise after promise to the tual use, as I call it, is critically im- clerk will call the roll. United States—something I refer to as

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It is only remaining bilateral strategic theft, or all the challenges that we really, really important. arms agreement between the United have with China. The idea that we are f States and Russia, which are the going to have strategic patience, I world’s most powerful nuclear states, NOMINATION OF ANTONY JOHN think, sends a signal to the Chinese and it is set to expire in a matter of BLINKEN that we don’t take these issues ur- days. gently, and that is the wrong message. Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, yes- Last fall, the Trump administration These are urgent issues. terday afternoon we confirmed another advocated for a 1-year extension of New In my discussions during the con- one of President Biden’s Cabinet nomi- START, with the condition that both firmation process and in hearings with nees. Antony Blinken has led an im- countries would cap nuclear weapons— now-Secretary of Defense Austin and pressive career in the public sector and nuclear warheads during that period. Secretary of State Blinken, I sensed is well versed in both the vast respon- Unsurprisingly, Russia preferred a they had a sense of urgency. As a mat- sibilities of the State Department, as clean, 5-year extension with no war- ter of fact, they both acknowledged well as the diplomatic challenges we head limitations. President Putin de- that the previous administration—the will face in the months and years layed the final stages of talks in the Trump administration’s national secu- ahead, the most important of which is hopes that the potential Biden admin- rity strategy, national defense strategy China, but it is not China alone. istration would strike a deal more fa- that says we need to turn to great While Mr. Blinken and I have policy vorable to Russia. And it appears now, power competition, with China as the differences—some of them very seri- at least as things stand today, that pacing threat for the United States, ous—I have confidence in his ability to President Putin has hedged his bets they agreed with. represent our Nation on the global correctly. Even in General Austin’s—now-Sec- stage. It is important for a new Presi- Following a call yesterday between retary Austin’s—confirmation hearing, dent, whether they be a Republican or President Biden and President Putin, one of my colleagues, Senator BLACK- a Democrat, to have qualified, Senate- the White House announced that the BURN, actually said this term, ‘‘stra- confirmed officials in their Cabinet United States and Russia are set to ex- tegic patience,’’ doesn’t seem to be the without delay. tend New START for 5 years, with no right term and pressed him on it. Over the past week, we have worked conditions attached. This was Presi- So here is some continued advice. In to confirm nominees for some of the dent Biden’s first major foreign policy the Senate’s role, in terms of our con- most critical Federal Departments and test, and, unfortunately, he played stitutional role of advice and consent, Agencies. The Secretaries of State, De- right into Russia’s hand. words matter, especially from the fense, Treasury, as well as the Director For starters, it is no secret that New White House podium. We need a strong, of National Intelligence, have each START was deeply flawed from the be- bipartisan, and lasting China policy been confirmed by the Senate with ginning. And it is no secret that Russia from the United States of America. broad bipartisan support. And we will cheats, which is why verification is so This is the biggest geostrategic issue continue to process more of the Presi- essential. we will be facing as a country for the dent’s nominees in the days ahead. The counting mechanisms in New next 50 to 100 years, but it is also a Four years ago, our Democratic col- START don’t effectively keep our challenge that is here and now, a chal- leagues approached President Trump’s countries on a level playing field, lenge that needs immediate action. So nominees with a grab bag of antics, in- which is the primary goal of any arms here is my advice: Ditch the ‘‘strategic cluding everything from intentional treaty because it promotes mutual de- patience’’ phrase. delays to brazen theatrics. In most terrents. The treaty limits the number The vast majority of the Senators in cases, this behavior wasn’t a reflection of bombers each nation could possess this body, Democrats and Republicans, on the nominee or their qualifications, but places no limit on the number of want to know the Biden administration but of our colleagues’ antipathy toward warheads each bomber can support. is focused on this challenge now. It is a President Trump. Making matters worse, the limits only serious challenge that China poses to Clearly we are adopting a different apply to strategic, not tactical, nuclear the United States now, and ‘‘strategic approach, and I hope it is one that will weapons. Russia has taken advantage patience’’ sends the wrong message to deescalate these battles and one that of this loophole in New START, amass- the Senate, to the American people, will serve the national interest rather ing some 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons and to China’s leadership. So they need than harm it. compared to only 500 for the United to do better. Throughout my time in the Senate, I States. I yield the floor. have tried to evaluate nominees based Russia’s nuclear doctrine signals its The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- on their qualifications, their integrity, increasing willingness to use those tac- ator from Texas. and their ability to carry out the re- tical nuclear weapons in a conflict, Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, let sponsibilities for the job they have particularly in Europe, as it warily me express my gratitude to the Sen- been nominated for, and I will continue eyes NATO. Another 5 years under New ator from Alaska for his words. I could to either support or oppose nominees START will allow Russia to continue not have said it better than he did, and based on those merits and those cri- growing its arsenal of tactical weapons I am grateful to him for coming and ar- teria, not based on the party of the and cement its advantage over the ticulating that important message so President. United States, perhaps permanently. clearly and emphatically. f Once that happens, the likelihood of Chris Wray, the FBI Director, is a Russia deploying and ultimately using pretty laid-back guy. As a matter of NEW START these weapons goes higher. These trea- fact, I frequently tell people he re- Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, we ties ought to make the world safer, not minds me of the typical G-man—you know it has been the tradition of the a more dangerous place due to imbal- know, not a lot of emotion, not a lot of Senate to prioritize nominees for na- ances, the potential for mistakes, or animation. But the FBI Director, who I tional security positions, and there has miscalculation. think is doing an outstanding job and never been a more critical time to en- Beyond sheer numbers, there is also has been doing an outstanding job, gets sure that President Biden is sur- the question of trust or, I should say, positively animated when it comes to rounded by an experienced and capable of verification, because it is hardly China and the threats presented there. team. From the threats posed by an in- controversial to say Russia isn’t the Of course, the FBI is principally in creasingly hostile Iran to those by an most trustworthy partner. Last fall,

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And last year, it at- Party has made it nearly impossible to f tempted to steal coronavirus vaccine verify information about the breadth 48TH ANNUAL MARCH FOR LIFE data from the United States and some and the depth of China’s nuclear capa- of our closest allies. bilities. What we do know is that China Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, this week In short, Russia does not play by the continues to pursue a nuclear triad, is the 48th annual March for Life. It is rules, and New START does little to and experts estimate China to have an event when thousands of Americans prevent further cheating. By granting about 300 nuclear weapons. come together to advocate for the Putin’s request for a clean 5-year ex- Assuming that figure is correct, it value and protection of unborn human tension of New START, the Biden ad- puts China slightly ahead of France life. ministration will not only be reward- and the United Kingdom in terms of They will be coming together this ing Russia for its hostile actions raw numbers. That would make China year differently than they have for al- against the United States and our al- the third most powerful nuclear state most 50 years, but for almost 50 years, lies but also enabling Russia and other in the world, and we have every reason millions of people have marched to nuclear states to continue growing to believe that the size of its arsenal Capitol Hill to try to build a culture their stockpiles while the United will continue to grow. wherein every human life is valued and States plays by outdated rules: no cap In May of 2019, then-Director for the every human life is protected. That in- on nuclear warheads, no enhanced veri- Defense Intelligence Agency, GEN Rob- cludes tireless women and men and fication measures—in short, no need ert Ashley, said China is likely to at children from my home State of Mis- for assurances for Russia to follow the least double the size of its nuclear souri who come to Washington, both rules laid out in New START. stockpile over the next decade. He re- individually and along with the Mis- The expected treaty extension by the ferred to this effort as ‘‘the most rapid souri Life Caravan, every year. It will Biden administration wouldn’t address expansion and diversification of its nu- be the first year in a long time I any of those blinking red lights. The clear arsenal in China’s history.’’ haven’t spoken to that group in person, Despite this already large and con- biggest failure of a clean, 5-year exten- but as they meet virtually, their cause stantly growing nuclear threat, there sion, though, is relinquishing the lever- is still as resonant as it is in person. are virtually no measures in place to age we currently have to take a more I know that Missourians will con- hold China accountable or to bring comprehensive approach to nuclear dis- tinue to advocate for life. They will them to the table. A simple extension armament. continue to remember the unborn and of the New START leaves in place a As I said, the United States and Rus- those whom we have lost from abor- framework in which the Russians sia are the most powerful nuclear tion. This year’s theme of the march is cheat, the Chinese are not at the table, states in the world, but together we ac- ‘‘Together Strong: Life Unites!’’ It is a and the United States is playing by the count for only two of the five nuclear pretty hard theme to argue with no rules of a bygone era. matter how you feel about this par- armed states recognized by the non- This must change. It must change. If ticular topic. ‘‘Unity’’ doesn’t mean be- proliferation treaty. Two of the other you think about the fact that since lieving the same thing about every- countries, the United Kingdom and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weap- thing, but it does mean agreeing about France—both of whom provide regular ons have not been used on this planet, one very important thing in terms of information about the size and makeup it is a result of tough negotiations and this event, and that important thing, of their nuclear arsenal—are not a a system of mutual deterrence because of course, is the value and protection of problem. we know, were nuclear weapons to be life. The fifth and final power is China, used, that it could result in the exter- This belief in life cuts across reli- one of the world’s biggest secret keep- mination of the planet. ers. It is a police state and opaque, as So that is why deterrence is so im- gion. It cuts across party lines. It cuts we learned once again when it came to portant. That is why reciprocity and across geographic boundaries. People the virus from Wuhan Province. transparency are so important. The and organizations from all religious As if we needed a reminder of the Cold War-era approach to nuclear dis- backgrounds—and even those who have critical information China withheld armament does not make sense in the no religious affiliations—are part of from the rest of the world, all we need modern world. Rather than enter a 5- the pro-life movement, and they oppose to do is look at the COVID–19 pan- year extension of New START, the ad- abortion in almost all cases. Polling demic. The first cases of COVID–19 ap- ministration should use its leverage to shows that more than a third of Demo- peared in China as early as November convene multilateral talks. America crats in America support protections of 2019, and the Communist Party of should invite the other nuclear non- for life, and there are groups dedicated China willfully withheld the informa- proliferation treaty states—Russia, to showing that pro-life is not a par- tion from the rest of the world, and it China, France, and the UK—to the ne- tisan issue. Frankly, that is a move in sought to downplay the potential im- gotiating table and encourage multi- the right direction to where you don’t pact of the virus. China repeatedly si- lateral talks aimed at limiting the feel like you are included in one party lenced the brave men and women of its growth of nuclear arsenals globally. or excluded from one party because of own country who tried to sound the There is far too much at stake to your view on this issue. alarm, and, as a result, countries merely cave in to the demands of Presi- Last year’s Geneva Consensus Dec- around the world were ill-prepared for dent Putin in Moscow and cave in as laration brought together more than 30 these critical early stages of the fight well to the recalcitrance of Beijing to countries to promote women’s health against COVID–19. Now, more than 2.1 come to the table. The administration and strengthen the family, including million people have died from this must pursue a multilateral, com- the preservation of human life. We virus, including more than 420,000 prehensive approach. It is the only need to do everything we can to save Americans. practical and workable solution to the the lives of babies and of mothers. Ma- It is impossible to gauge how many vast nuclear threats posed by both ternity mortality is a big problem in of those lives could have been saved by China and Russia. our country and around the world. It earlier intervention, but this should I yield the floor. has become a focus of the Congress in serve as a cautionary tale when it I suggest the absence of a quorum. recent years and needs to continue to comes to managing threats from China. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The be. Even though the issue of life so We cannot allow China to continue sit- clerk will call the roll. often is polarized in the U.S. Congress, ting on the sidelines while the four The senior assistant legislative clerk I am still encouraged that we see a other nuclear states play by the rules proceeded to call the roll. powerful commitment, over and over,

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One of the most important things to sweatshirt while storming the Cap- In the next few years, we can expect understand about the Holocaust is that itol—are a dark stain on this country’s to see efforts to try to move things in while a limited group of particularly record. By allowing such vicious hatred another direction, to weaken or remove evil monsters orchestrated it, they to take root and to grow, we fail our- life protections in, for instance, the could not have succeeded without the selves, and we fail the rest of the title X family planning program or in active or tacit support of millions of world. our foreign aid programs. There is a average people. Men and women agreed Now we have the opportunity to re- well-funded effort to abandon even the to turn over their neighbors, patrol the deem ourselves—to become leaders longstanding Hyde amendment, which ghettos, drive the cattle cars, guard once more in the fight to eliminate prevents taxpayer funding of abortion the death camps, and line people up to anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred or abortion coverage in Federal shoot them down. Men and women de- around the globe. It will not be easy, healthcare programs. cided to avert their gaze and do noth- but it is something we have to do, and As the chairman of the Labor, Health ing to stop the atrocities. it starts with education. I don’t believe that all those people and Human Services Appropriations In the ADL’s 2014 global survey, 35 were born villains. I think they were Committee, I oversaw the yearly re- percent of the respondents had never taught by their communities to adopt newal of the Hyde amendment, which heard of the Holocaust, and 28 percent a level of anti-Semitism and prejudice has been included in that bill for the of those who did know of it believed that likely would have been recogniz- past 40 years. Now I won’t be the chair- that the number of Jews who died in able to many of us today and that the man of that committee in this Con- the Holocaust had been greatly exag- Nazi propaganda masters exploited gress, but I will still be fighting to see gerated. Meanwhile, the AJC’s 2020 those feelings. That terrifies me be- Survey of the General Public found that we maintain this area where there cause it means that the Holocaust was that nearly one-quarter of Americans has been great consensus that went be- not an anomaly. It means that under know nothing or not much about the yond political parties. the right conditions, a similar atrocity Holocaust, and nearly one-half are not I will continue to support and advo- could happen again. cate for the Hyde amendment and for The hatred that gave rise to the Hol- even sure what the term ‘‘anti-Semi- permanent Federal protections for the ocaust is still very much alive. The tism’’ means. How can we hope to learn as a soci- unborn through legislation like the Anti-Defamation League’s 2014 Global ety from the horrors of the Holocaust Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Index of Anti-Semitism found that if so many people do not know or do Act and the No Taxpayer Funding for more than 1 billion people—nearly one not believe that it happened? How can Abortion Act, among other things. in eight—around the world harbor anti- Although the pro-life movement can Semitic attitudes. Over 30 percent of we root out anti-Semitism if almost expect challenges in this Congress, those surveyed said that it was ‘‘prob- half of us don’t understand what it is? We must educate the next generation there are still many signs that one day ably true’’ that Jews had too much on the horrors of the Holocaust and the we will succeed in creating a culture control over financial markets, that dangers of intolerance. I am proud to where every human life is valued and Jews think they are better than other have led efforts to provide the full protected. For now, however, I want to people, that Jews are disloyal to their funding of a bill, which our Presiding thank the men, women, and children country, and that people hate Jews be- Officer was very much involved with, who dedicate their time and talents to cause of the way that Jews behave. making this happen, who today are Such sentiments often translate into the Never Again Education Act, and I marching virtually as they join to- violence, leading 40 percent of Euro- thank our Presiding Officer for her gether to talk about this important pean Jews to report in 2018 that they leadership on this issue. That bill ex- cause and remember the theme of this lived in daily fear of being physically panded the reach of the U.S. Holocaust year, which is ‘‘Together Strong: Life attacked. Memorial Museum’s world-renowned Unites!’’ Sadly, these trends bear out closer to education program. This will allow I yield the floor. home too. Jews make up fewer than 3 educators across the country from K–12 I suggest the absence of a quorum. percent of the American population, through college to access age-appro- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. but the majority of reported religion- priate curriculum on the Holocaust. It ROSEN). The clerk will call the roll. based hate crimes targeted Jewish peo- will also bolster the Holocaust Memo- The bill clerk proceeded to call the ple or institutions. In 2019, the ADL re- rial Museum’s continued collection and roll. ported that anti-Semitism in America use of survivor testimony so that to- Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, I ask had hit a four-decade high. According morrow’s leaders will see and hear for unanimous consent that the order for to the 2020 survey by the American themselves why we must never again the quorum call be rescinded. Jewish Committee, more than one- allow hatred to thrive. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without third of American Jews say they have At the same time, we must fight objection, it is so ordered. been verbally or physically assaulted against Holocaust denial in any form f during the past 5 years simply because in any part of the world. As the Organi- they are Jewish. zation for Security and Co-operation in INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST I believe that the world looks to the Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly’s REMEMBRANCE DAY United States for moral leadership. Special Representative on Anti-Semi- Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, When we allow anti-Semitism or rac- tism, Racism and Intolerance, I am today the world comes together to re- ism or other kinds of intolerance to committed to countering attempts to member the horrors of the Holocaust. flourish here, other countries take that erase or revise the events of the Holo- We honor the 6 million Jews and 5 mil- as a license to do the same. Moreover, caust, such as Poland’s efforts to pun- lion others—Roma, Afro-Germans, gay we need to recognize the nexus between ish those who speak the truth about men and women, people with disabil- and networking among those who traf- the 3 million Jews killed there. I am ities and more—whom the Nazis bru- fic in hate and conspiracies in the deeply disturbed, for instance, by the tally murdered. And we stand in awe United States and other like-minded news of a slander lawsuit against two and celebration of those brave souls individuals and groups around the Polish scholars for their writings on who managed to survive. globe. Combating the most dangerous Jews forced into hiding during the Nazi It is difficult to comprehend the ter- forms of this bigotry will require un- occupation. I am also appalled that ror that took place in Europe between derstanding the ways in which such Hungary’s Viktor Orban has erected a 1939 and 1945, but we carry on an obli- groups are reinforcing and learning monument that tries to whitewash gation to those who perished and those from each other. Hungary’s wartime role in the murder

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:47 Jan 28, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.013 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE S166 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 27, 2021 of more than a half-million Hungarian of revenue for, as I said, our schools, in the decision by President Biden to Jews. On a day we remember the lib- our roads, our bridges, and essential cancel the pipeline. President Biden’s eration of Auschwitz, I remember, too, services for all of our citizens. very first phone call with a foreign that one out of every three Jews who Wyoming is very proud of our energy leader since becoming President was died there were Hungarian. workers. Remarkable men and women with Prime Minister Trudeau. The The Holocaust happened, and it can every day get up and go to work to put Prime Minister raised the issue on the happen again. It can. We made a prom- food on the table, put clothing on their call. President Biden shut down the ise to our grandparents and to our kids’ backs, and the whole country pipeline anyway. grandchildren that it would never hap- benefits from the energy that comes It has also been reported that TC En- pen again. I believe that we are all from Wyoming. ergy warned the President’s adminis- each responsible for keeping that Thanks to America’s energy workers, tration that the Keystone Pipeline promise. So let us heed the lessons of in 2019, America became energy inde- means thousands of construction jobs, the past in order to build a more peace- pendent. It was the first time we had many of those union jobs. They are ful, just, and compassionate future for become independent in over 60 years. gone. They are gone. President Biden all. That makes it easier for families to shut it down anyway. I suggest the absence of a quorum. make ends meet. It makes us stronger President Biden has also begun the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The on the world stage. It decreases our re- process of putting us back into the clerk will call the roll. liance on energy from other sources, Paris climate accord. Now, under that The senior assistant legislative clerk like foreign powers who want to do us agreement, the Biden administration is proceeded to call the roll. harm. going to set unworkable targets for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Thanks to our American energy American businesses. ator from Wyoming. workers, America is an energy super- So what does it mean? Well, it hurts Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, I power, and I believe we should be act- America, but it means China and Rus- ask unanimous consent that the order ing like one. That is why it is remark- sia can continue with business as for the quorum call be rescinded. able when I see President Biden paint- usual. It is a bad deal for our country. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ing a target on the back of American It makes us less competitive. It sac- objection, it is so ordered. energy. That is what he has been doing rifices energy jobs to try to stop cli- f with his Executive orders, including mate change, which it will not do. today. The Paris climate agreement is based BIDEN ADMINISTRATION Despite all of the talk about unity, on the fantasy that climate change is Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, I one of the first things that President America’s fault—blame America first. come to the floor today to discuss some Biden has done in office is to directly In reality, the United States is the of the first actions that have been attack—attack—energy-producing leading driver of innovative climate so- taken by the new administration. States like Wyoming. It has actually lutions. President Biden’s actions At his inauguration, President Biden turned out to be his No. 1 priority. aren’t just targeting American energy, spoke about the importance of uniting The White House is calling today they are also going after American the country, bringing us together, the ‘‘climate day.’’ This morning, Presi- small businesses. importance of unity. Well, I agree. We dent Biden stopped all new oil, gas, and President Biden is calling on this have been much too divided as a na- coal leases on Federal lands—today. body to vote to double the Federal tion. We need to bring America to- Well, half of the State of Wyoming is minimum wage to $15 an hour. Now, gether. federally owned. Even a greater per- maybe the President’s idea of national In just a few hours after his inau- centage of that, Madam President, in unity is national uniformity, but that gural address, President Biden issued your State is federally owned. doesn’t work in Wyoming or for the one Executive order after another that Experts tell us that the long-term people of Wyoming. Maybe he thinks I believe is only going to drive America ban could cost us 33,000 jobs in Wyo- that imposing top-down regulations on further apart. He hasn’t really reached ming. We are a State of only a half- every American would bring us all to- out and hasn’t really tried to work million people. gether. It is not the kind of unity that with us. Earlier today, at a hearing of the En- the American people are looking for. At a time when millions of people ergy and Natural Resources Com- We want to stand shoulder to shoulder across the country are struggling with mittee, where I am the ranking mem- but not in the unemployment line. unemployment and the effects of a ber, the senior Republican, I asked the In 2019, well before the pandemic hit, global pandemic, President Biden has President’s nominee for Secretary of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget taken actions that will actually raise Energy about how the President’s ban Office estimated that mandating a $15 the cost of living for people all across would affect jobs, and she admitted minimum wage nationwide would lead the country. In particular, President that in terms of jobs—she said some to 1.3 million fewer Americans work- Biden has taken aim at American en- ‘‘jobs . . . might be sacrificed.’’ ing—1.3 million Americans. At a time ergy. Saying no to American energy pro- when 10 million Americans are unem- Now, in Wyoming, energy production duction means less energy, less eco- ployed due to our pandemic, 1.3 million does a lot more than just keep the nomic activity, and less money in the Americans more can’t afford to lose lights on. It puts food on the table. It pockets of American workers. It is not their jobs. does it for thousands of families. It going to do a thing to lower emissions. The CBO also says it will lead to pays for our schools, education, and It won’t bring down global tempera- higher prices for consumers—paying our roads. tures, but it will bring down workers’ more wages, passing on prices to con- In Wyoming we produce coal, oil, wages. It won’t cool down planet Earth, sumers. Now this could hurt America’s natural gas, and uranium for nuclear but it will cool down our Nation’s econ- small businesses all across the country. power. We also have incredible renew- omy. Energy producers will simply go I talked to a small business owner from able resources. Wyoming, in many elsewhere while families in our country Lovell, WY, Jimmy Minchow, who has ways, has world class wind. We are ex- will suffer. a Sinclair station there. He called me periencing that today in Casper, WY. President Biden has also put a stop on Sunday. He said $15 an hour—there Wyoming has some of the largest re- to the Keystone Pipeline. It has been in is a station and a food court next to it serves of energy in terms of resources the headlines. The pipeline creates in Lovell. He said we would have to anywhere in the country. In Wyoming jobs. It reduces energy prices, and it shut down the food court. We can’t af- we produce 15 times more energy than strengthens our bonds with our neigh- ford $15 an hour for the young people we use in our State. It actually makes bor to the north, with Canada. who are working there. Putting money us the country’s largest net energy The Prime Minister of Canada, Jus- in their pockets and providing food supplier to the rest of the country. En- tin Trudeau, is no conservative. He is services to the people of the commu- ergy production is the economic life- known to be extremely progressive. nity, $15 an hour will shut it down. So blood of Wyoming. It is a major source Even he has said he was disappointed the jobs ticker is now on President

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Everyone no matter how small or large, to agree Officer voted for it to help our small believes that every child is precious. gold is valuable, but we can’t seem to businesses. I remember, when I saw the story on agree that all children are valuable. Doubling the minimum wage is going the news last summer, turning to my Literally, gold is more precious to to hurt small businesses and going to wife and saying: I can’t figure out our some people in this room than children force them to lay off employees like culture sometimes because that same are. will likely happened in Lovell, WY, and mom and that same baby could have Children aren’t valuable only some- all across the Cowboy State. It is going gone into an abortion clinic just a few times or only certain children. Chil- to hurt the very people these loans are months before and that child’s life dren are valuable. It can’t be just that supposed to be helping. could have been ended, and it wouldn’t if a mom or dad wants a child, they are A bill to provide $900 billion of relief have made the news. In fact, no one valuable and, if they don’t want a was signed just in late December. would have flinched. child, they are not valuable; they are President Biden now wants to double In fact, the very same people who disposable. The mom or dad gets to that amount of funding. Now, Demo- were furious at that mom for leaving choose who are precious and who is crats may try to ram the bill through her child in the hot car to die would medical waste. the Senate using a process called budg- have argued for her right to destroy Is that a child? That is really the et reconciliation. Now, of course, this that exact same child—in fact, would only question that has to be answered, entire cost will be added to our na- have called it her reproductive right or because everything else flows from tional debt, and if it occurs, it will even the new euphemism out there, that. likely be done without a single Repub- ‘‘reproductive care.’’ Same child, same There are political conversations in lican vote. mom—nothing was different but a few this room about the value of children, This isn’t unity. It is not bipartisan- months in time. and every time it comes up, it gets ship. It is not healing our divisions. ‘‘Reproductive care’’ seems like such noisy. People will say: Well, you don’t This is a time for President Biden to a nice little euphemism, but what it fund enough money for education or heed the words of his own inaugural ad- really means is paying someone in a childcare or healthcare in commu- dress. We need to work together to clinic to reach into the womb with a nities. So you don’t love children. lower the cost of living, to produce surgical instrument, to pull the arms I would say I have voted for the exact more energy, to create more jobs, and and legs off of a child in the womb so same bill you did last year, for billions to create more opportunities for every that they will bleed to death in the of dollars for assistance in childcare, American. That is how we bring our womb and then suction out the little billions of dollars for early childhood Nation together. That is what we ought boy or girl’s body parts one at a time. education, elementary and secondary to do now. That is what ‘‘reproductive care’’ education, higher education. We did ad- I yield the floor. means, and I don’t understand why ditional assistance for SNAP benefits I suggest the absence of a quorum. that is normal but leaving a child in last year and assistance of benefits for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the backseat of a hot car is a tragedy. moms in need, increased healthcare for clerk will call the roll. Maybe it is because, as a nation, all communities, for federally qualified The senior assistant legislative clerk some people are afraid to answer the health centers to make sure we get proceeded to call the roll. most obvious question: Is that a baby? healthcare to every single community. Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I ask That is the most obvious question. I voted on those exact same things unanimous consent that the order for That face, that nose, those two eyes, multiple other people did in this room. the quorum call be rescinded. that mouth, that chin, those fingers—is I care about children outside the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. that a baby? That is really the only womb. HEINRICH). Without objection, it is so question: Is that a child? But those questions really aren’t the ordered. Maybe there is a second question question. They are distractions to the f that needs to be answered: Are all chil- question. And I get it, because if I ask, dren valuable, or are only some chil- ‘‘Is that a child?’’ people will respond: ABORTION dren valuable? Well, do you spend enough for childcare Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, if We seem to have a great deal of de- or healthcare? And I still say: Wait. you buy a new GM car, a Nissan, bate today in our society—and we Stop and answer my first question. Is Honda, Kia or Toyota, even a Hyundai, should—about facts. People say we that a child? you will notice they have started in- can’t seem to agree on the same set of Maybe I should ask a more basic stalling a new feature in their cars. It facts and truth. You can’t have your question: Does everyone in this room is a reminder, when you turn off the facts and my facts; we just only have believe in the principle that we should engine, to check your backseat. facts. The media, Big Tech, activists do unto others as we would want done Quite frankly, I rented a car not long have all decried our loss of ability as a unto us? What would you have wanted ago, and it started dinging, and I kept nation to just accept clear facts in done to you when you were in the trying to figure out what I had done front of our face—the obvious truth. womb? and kept looking around until I saw So let me ask the question again: Is I don’t address this issue lightly. the little monitor on the dashboard. It that a baby? Yes or no? Because if we This is a difficult issue for some peo- just said, ‘‘Check the backseat,’’ which are all supposed to say, ‘‘Let’s at least ple. I don’t think an abortion is a flip- I thought was great because the mak- agree to the most basic of facts,’’ how pant thing, that anyone walks into an ers of those cars all believe every child about that one? Is that a human child abortion—I don’t mean anyone who is precious and they shouldn’t be with a future and a purpose and a had an abortion is somehow gleeful harmed. name? Are all children valuable or are about it. Quite frankly, I can’t imagine We have all heard stories like this, only some? that anyone who had an abortion would but I distinctly remember last summer Gold is valuable. It doesn’t matter its ever forget the sights and sounds and seeing in the news a story about an in- size. I have gold in my wedding ring. the smells of an abortion, knowing fant who died because they were left in Many people have gold in their wedding that a helpless child is dying at that a hot car. That is why these carmakers rings. If we found a small piece of gold moment. are making this feature now. on the floor, it would be valuable. It I grieve for the moms and dads who I remember, as I saw the story on the wouldn’t matter its shape. It wouldn’t will never ever forget that they went news, just the reports and how angry matter its size, small or large. We into a clinic and paid someone to get

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Mr. who were trafficking the body parts of Supreme Court made a decision that Becerra, when he was the attorney gen- children and it was caught on video, in- has now resulted in the deaths of 62 eral for California, actually went to stead of confronting the folks who were million children in America—62 mil- Mississippi to be able to lead a suit trafficking the child body parts, he lion. That is hard to fathom. Unlike so against Mississippi—another State, ob- went after the folks who took the many other Supreme Court decisions, viously—because that State was talk- video, the whistleblowers, and exposed America has not forgotten about this ing about limiting abortion to only the them. one. Our culture has not just moved on earliest days. Their belief was, after a This is not an attack on Mr. Becerra. and accepted it. child feels pain, we should at least not It is just a shock to me that all of Every year since 1974—the first year tear a child limb from limb in the those things seem normal. I don’t un- after the Roe V. Wade decision—indi- womb when their nervous system is de- derstand that culturally. I don’t under- viduals from across the country have veloped. Mr. Becerra led a coalition of stand how the person who is being ap- gathered in Washington, DC, in defense State attorneys general to fight Mis- pointed to lead Health and Human of the unborn. Friends, families, sissippi and say: You can’t protect chil- Services can say that children are sub- church leaders, community folks—they dren that way. human: I don’t have to recognize that have all marched in the rain, in the He actually argued before the U.S. as human, although I am leading sleet, the snow. It is cold every year Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Health and Human Services. That is this week in January, but they come. against the Little Sisters of the Poor, apparently optional tissue, not a This year will be different. Due to trying to require that group of nuns to human child. COVID–19 and the ongoing security provide birth-control services—lit- I believe that children are human and concerns in Washington, DC, marchers erally attacking the Little Sisters of that we should honor every child’s life. are staying home, and they are engag- the Poor to kind of push this whole It should be baseline for us to be able ing virtually. Maybe this is one more agenda. to say that if a child is actually deliv- moment where even more people can When he was a Representative in the ered in a botched abortion and has been get involved online, because I expect House of Representatives, he voted fully delivered outside the womb, we the rally this year will draw an even against the Born-Alive Abortion Sur- should help that child get medical larger number of people—students, vivors Protection Act. So if a child, in care. I don’t understand why that is so families, people, quite frankly, from all a botched abortion, is actually deliv- hard. over the world—to ask a simple ques- ered instead of destroyed, he wanted to I don’t understand why it is so hard tion: Will we recognize the most obvi- say, no, even after they are fully deliv- to say that some people are actually ous thing in front of our face—that is a ered, that child can still be destroyed, appalled by the taking of a child’s life. baby. even though they are fully delivered, Don’t force them, with their tax dol- President Biden this week celebrated which would make sense because he lars, to pay for it. I don’t understand the passage of Roe v. Wade by declar- also, as a Representative, fought why that is controversial. ing that he wants to pass a Federal law against the partial-birth abortion ban. I don’t understand why it is con- requiring abortion to be provided in It was a rare procedure, but it was a troversial that when a child can feel every single State in America. It is not procedure where they would deliver the pain in the womb, we shouldn’t dis- just trust a Court decision from 1973; child—all but the head—and then pene- member a child in the womb. I don’t trate the head with scissors and kill he wants us to proactively require in understand why that is controversial. statute that every State demand abor- the child. He fought against that. I don’t understand why it is con- He fought against the Unborn Vic- tion in their State and that Federal troversial to some that if a healthcare tims of Violence Act, which really is taxpayers, with hard-earned tax dol- provider who has sworn to protect odd to me. All it did was criminalize— lars, should actually be required to pay life—that that person shouldn’t be if someone attacked a pregnant woman for those abortions all over America. compelled to take life in an abortion and killed her child, they could also be It wasn’t long ago that Senator Biden liable for that death as well. He also procedure by their employer. I don’t was saying things like, taxpayers didn’t want to recognize the child as a understand why that is controversial, shouldn’t be required to pay for abor- child even if the mother saw the child but for some reason, it is. tion; they shouldn’t be required to pay Among our most basic rights in as a child. for something that they find so mor- He also fought against crossing State America are life, liberty, and the pur- ally objectionable. It wasn’t that long lines for minors, saying they shouldn’t suit of happiness. One of the most basic ago that Senator Biden was talking have to get their parents’ permission if things that come out of our founding about abortion being safe, legal, and they crossed State lines to go get an documents says these things are re- rare. But now, as President, within the abortion somewhere else. ferred to as ‘‘self-evident.’’ first week, he is moving as fast as he As the attorney general in California, Facts are facts, especially when can to promote abortion and demand he fought to require churches to pay those facts have a face. How can you taxpayers pay for it. for abortion care in their healthcare look at that picture and say that is not In fact, painfully so, President plans when it directly violated their re- a human child? How can we not ac- Biden’s nomination for the Secretary ligious belief. knowledge the simple facts? of Health and Human Services has ac- Unbelievably so, he also fought to be I do understand for some people this tually no healthcare experience at all. able to require pro-life medical claims, is very difficult because they fought for It was a little surprising to a lot of us where you could go and say: I don’t years for abortion, and they don’t want when we saw it because we are used to want an abortion, but I do want a that to change because if it changed, seeing the leader of Health and Human sonogram. I want to be able to get they would have to admit there have Services be a physician or scientist, some more information about this been the deaths of millions of children which would make sense in the time of child. on their watch. That is not a simple an enormous global pandemic to have a If you went into one of those pro-life thing to admit. But please do not tell physician leading Health and Human centers and got a sonogram, he fought me you are following the science, be- Services. But he actually nominated to require there to be a poster on the cause that child has 10 fingers and 10 someone whose biggest qualification is wall that would say: If you would rath- toes and a beating heart and a func- that he is one of the most radical advo- er have an abortion, here is the place tioning nervous system. That child has cates for abortion in the country. He that you would go. DNA that is different from the mom’s did it as a House Member. He did it as This is beyond just protecting abor- or the dad’s. That is not random tissue; an attorney general in California. And tion; that has moved to promoting that is a separate person, and science

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Passing this This all gets resolved when we an- pendents of the right and center and legislation to make the Hyde Amend- swer one simple question: Is that a left to agree to that—where 81 percent ment permanent would keep taxpayers child or not—because everything else of Americans said we should make from having to worry each year if their goes from that. abortion illegal in the third trimester. money is going to be used for an abor- For those of you joining the March Sixty-five percent say it should be ille- tion in this country. for Life online this week, good for you. gal in the second trimester. I stand this Friday with millions and Keep going. Don’t give up. Defend the In addition, a Marist poll last year millions of Americans who will join in facts that are self-evident. Speak out found that 60 percent of Americans are supporting life, and I urge my col- for those who can’t speak for them- against using taxpayer dollars to fund leagues to send an important signal to selves because millions of future Amer- abortion. Even if some of them believe all of the American people that Con- icans are counting on it, and they are abortion should be legal, 60 percent of gress is serious about seeking unity watching for someone to admit the Americans—a supermajority—are and healing. facts—the facts that have a face. against using tax dollars to fund abor- I hope my colleagues will join me in I yield the floor. tion. That is up from 54 percent just 1 supporting this legislation as we work The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- year before. to build bipartisan consensus for life in ator from Mississippi. Because the science is moving in our the days ahead. f favor, the evidence is moving in our I yield the floor. ABORTION favor, public opinion is moving in our The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Mr. WICKER. Mr. President, I could favor. That same poll found 35 percent ator from Oregon. never match the eloquence of the Sen- of Democrats oppose using taxpayer ator from Oklahoma, who just spoke funds for abortion. Many of these f about the same topic about which I rise Americans might check the box saying at this moment. they are pro-choice, but they are will- TRIBUTE TO SCOTT MAGUIRE ing to draw an important distinction I remember when Democrats running Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, when for office would tell the American peo- between abortion being legal in some we have a new administration, lots of ple that they were pro-choice, but they circumstances and taking taxpayer changes take place—changes in offices, felt that abortion should be safe, it dollars from pro-life Americans to ac- changes in committee assignments— should be legal, but it should be rare— tually fund abortion. but for all of us here in the Senate, per- safe, legal, and rare. I remember when In essence, these people are saying: haps the most challenging change is Bill Clinton said that to the American We can disagree about abortion being when members of our team decide to people. And I think about how far the illegal, but let’s not force pro-life open new chapters in their lives. We left has gone from that to the attitude Americans to pay for a practice they celebrate those new chapters and wish that my friend from Oklahoma has de- find abhorrent and morally reprehen- them well, but we will also miss them scribed. sible. I first encountered the March for Life That is a view that I do not agree greatly. when I was a staff member up here in with because I am solidly pro-life, but I come to the floor to talk about Washington, DC, working for then-Con- it is an eminently reasonable view. three of my team members who are gressman Trent Lott, 1981. It was won- Why can’t we enact that into a per- headed to a new chapter in each of derful to see those people, and it will manent statute in the United States? their lives. be wonderful to join them online in a It is a position that Congress has Scott Maguire has been a central virtual march this Friday. adopted every year when we pass the part of our team since day one. He is I can tell you also that those people Hyde amendment to keep Federal dol- my good friend, a valued team member who say ‘‘We follow the science’’ are lars from going toward abortion. who is preparing a new chapter in his those of us now who are pro-life be- I regret that our present President life in the form of a well-deserved re- cause, as the Senator from Oklahoma does not seem to share this view, al- tirement. pointed out, as more and more infor- though he once held this view. Days As of yesterday, January 26, he com- mation comes out about DNA, about ago, in one of his first acts in office, pleted 12 years on our U.S. Senate the pictures—about the pictures that our new President reversed the Mexico team as our State operations director. my wife and I have had on our refrig- City policy, allowing American tax dol- The Boy Scouts of America that have a erator of our unborn grandchildren— lars to begin funding abortions in for- motto: ‘‘Be prepared.’’ They also have more and more Americans, more and eign countries once again. This deci- a slogan: ‘‘Do a good turn daily.’’ These more people around the world under- sion showed disregard, to me, for the are attributes that I always have held stand that the science is on the side of consciences of millions of American dear, and they are qualities I looked those of us who are pro-life; that the taxpayers who are pro-life. I was ap- for when setting out to build a team to beating hearts, the faces that we see in palled by this decision. I know many of serve the people of Oregon when I was these young unborn children are, in- my constituents were. I think Congress elected to the Senate in 2008. deed, humans made in God’s image and should pass legislation enshrining the Scott was at the top of my list be- that they are entitled to the protec- Mexico City policy in statute. cause I knew that these were qualities tions that our Founders outlined, pro- But at this moment, I rise proposing that define who he is. I knew this be- tecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of a more familiar and direct and, I think, cause I have known Scott for a very happiness. politically popular step and that would long time. We met through Boy Scout Twenty-five years ago, 56 percent of be to put no taxpayer funding of abor- Troop 634 back when we were 11 or 12 Americans considered themselves pro- tion legislation into the permanent years old. We recognized and respected choice. Only 33 percent said they were statute rather than passing it each each other’s leadership skills, and I ad- pro-life. I was glad to be part of that 33 year as the Hyde amendment. Of all mired Scott’s growth in character and percent, but I am certainly glad to see the abortion-related bills that reach capabilities as he advanced to the rank our numbers have risen. Today’s pro- the Senate floor, this one should be the of Eagle Scout. life movement has closed that gap least controversial. The Hyde amend- When we were 15, Scott and I were completely. The country is now evenly ment is standard policy. It has passed dissatisfied with how the district coun- split. annually for more than 40 consecutive cil was running their annual First Aid But I will say this for some of my fel- years, during terms of Republican Meets, so we proposed to the council low Americans who call themselves Presidents, terms of Democratic Presi- executive that we take over and run pro-choice: There are differences with- dents, during Democratic majorities in the weekend event. To our surprise, the in that group. the House and the Senate and when it staff of the council agreed.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:47 Jan 28, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.020 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE S170 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 27, 2021 I think the resulting weekend event, Last year, before the pandemic shut Nations, and she said: We have nothing which included dozens of troops, hun- down so much of our lives and our of- to hide. Come and see for yourselves. dreds of Scouts, was a tremendous suc- fices went remote, we saw massive So Laura went to work in organizing cess. It was the type of mutual project shortages on essentials like hand sani- the congressional response, the con- that has bonded us over our lifetimes. tizer, disinfecting wipes, and tissues. gressional trip. We really thought we Scott did many things in his career But Scott, seeing the crisis developing, were going to see exactly what had before joining my team. He served as raced around the metro area to gather gone on in those villages, and she operations director of the Northwest supplies to keep the members of our worked incredibly hard to arrange ev- Christian Evangelistic Association; as team healthy and safe. That is who erything from boats to helicopters to executive director of the Oregon Lions Scott Maguire is: the kind of person get us to the right places. Then, the Sight & Hearing Foundation; as a re- who goes above and beyond for every- day before we left, Burma denied us the porter and editor of the Gresham Out- one in every situation; the kind of per- ability to see those villages. look. son who is prepared and always goes We had backup plan after backup He got involved in many volunteer out of his way to do a good turn daily plan to explore what had happened roles, including with the Gresham for others; the kind of person who, re- both in Burma and the conditions at Breakfast Lions Club, the Gresham gardless of who you are, treats you like the refugee camps in Bangladesh. She Early Risers Kiwanis Club, and he has a VIP. reworked everything in a short period volunteered millions of hours just so I speak for all members of Team of time to direct attention by our con- much to serve the Civil Air Patrol and Merkley, for all the interns who have gressional delegation and through our is now a lieutenant colonel in the Civil come through our office, for all the delegation to the world to the trauma- Air Patrol. folks Scott has worked with over the tized, difficult circumstances of a com- Looking back to 2009, I can’t imagine years, when I say that he will be deeply munity that was the subject of geno- how we would have gotten our Oregon missed, and it will not be the same cide by Burma. Again, the whole goal team off the ground or built the oper- without him. was to figure out how the United ation we have today without Scott We wish our dear friend Scott States could do more to help. Laura Maguire. Maguire and his wonderful wife Beth really understood and cared about and Over the years, he has kept the com- all the best as they begin a new chap- helped with the plight of people in puters computing and the supplies sup- ter of their lives together. some of the most difficult cir- plied, but he has done so much more. I picture Scott, who has had a busi- cumstances around the world. He pioneered and built our Oregon in- ness, Shorty’s BBQ, catering barbecue, The same passion and dedication and ternship program, which has been a Texas style, during his years in Or- strategic thinking that Laura dedi- pipeline for hundreds of Oregonians egon—you will probably see him firing cated as a policy staffer are also what who have been going on to do great that grill up a lot more often in the have made her an outstanding legisla- things serving in State and national years ahead. It will be a chapter un- tive director for the past 2 years. She government, in community organiza- doubtedly filled with loving friends, has not only continued to lead our ef- tions, and in business to make that in- family, great traveling adventures, forts on critical issues from rules re- tern program the best possible. and, of course, as much barbecue as form to social justice but has been a Scott cultivated strong relationships they can possibly handle. daily example of the power of team- with Oregon’s colleges, and he could We will miss you, Scott Maguire. work and mentorship to other staffers. work with them. He was always on the f Her departure is a big loss for Team search to give young Oregonians with a Merkley but a really big win for the TRIBUTE TO LAURA UPDEGROVE passion for public service the oppor- Biden administration, particularly the tunity for public service. He cared Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I have State Department, where she will be deeply about their experience and suc- two other team members who are leav- able to utilize her enormous talents on cess throughout their time in our office ing. behalf of our country and on behalf of but in the time beyond as well. Laura Updegrove is leaving us to our country’s building a better world. Scott stepped in to serve as my field work with the Biden administration. Laura, we wish you all the best. representative for a number of Oregon She came to us after serving in various f counties, organizing the townhalls foreign policy roles at the State De- they hold in those counties every year partment, the Department of Defense, TRIBUTE TO BEN WARD to hear from our constituents. He has and the White House. She joined our Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, our not only helped to plan in organizing team 4 years ago to bring her extensive third team member who is leaving is these events but saved them from expertise to bear on our foreign policy Ben Ward. going off the rails as unexpected chal- portfolio, and I am sure glad she did. I think of Ben as our appropriations lenges arose. During her tenure in my office, I wizard. He knows that system inside Back in 2017, when we were debating have been astonished, time and again, out, and he is the master of Tribal the future of the Affordable Care Act, by the depth and breadth of her knowl- issues and natural resources issues and we knew that citizens were passionate edge, her work ethic, her strong orga- so much more. He is heading off to and angry, so we anticipated a large nizational and management skills, and serve as the Office of Management and turnout, planning for 1,000 attendees— the way she approaches each and every Budget’s Deputy Director of Legisla- twice what was ever seen before. And task with a very positive attitude. tive Affairs. I think the whole world imagine our shock when 4,000 Orego- Those traits make her not only a top- noticed his extraordinary talents, and nians showed up. Constituents were notch legislative staffer but a terrific we are looking forward to continuing packed in like sardines. Hundreds partner as we work to address a variety to work with him as we strive to make crowded into a courtyard outside of issues. the appropriations efforts as effective watching through the windows, but On two occasions, we had the chance as possible. there was Scott swooping in to save to travel on international issues—one I think that virtually no one in Or- the day. trip to many different countries in Af- egon has gone untouched by the work He reworked the sound system. He rica to better understand the root that Ben has done over the past 5 opened the windows. He figured out causes and impacts of the four famines years. He has worked to get piping how to put speakers outside the win- on that continent and to understand money to Central Oregon to assist the dows so everyone could hear and par- how American policy could be changed farmers. The farmers not only get more ticipate. Crisis averted. That was just to assist in these desperately difficult water, but more water gets left in the another day for Scott, working behind situations. Deschutes River. the scenes and taking care of things Then, some years ago, we had the He has worked very hard to advance that most people don’t even know were genocide carried out against the the improvement of Native fishing going wrong to ensure things were run- Rohingya people in Burma. Aung San sites, treaty fishing sites, on the Co- ning smoothly. Suu Kyi came and spoke to the United lumbia River and the preparations to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:47 Jan 28, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.022 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE January 27, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S171 rebuild communities that were wiped District of Columbia, to be Secretary was not going to take on any fights it out by the building of dams some 70 of Homeland Security. wasn’t sure it could win. years ago that have never been prop- CLOTURE MOTION Think about that. Think of history’s erly addressed. He has proceeded to Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I send great battles and contests, legislative help the Klamath Tribes secure the a cloture motion to the desk. or otherwise, and consider in how funds to improve the habitats for their The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- many of those battles either side was sacred c’waam and koptu fish and to ture motion having been presented sure it would win. If you limit yourself improve the whole, entire water eco- under rule XXII, the Chair directs the to battles you are sure you can win, system in the Klamath Basin for all of clerk to read the motion. you are pretty much sure to miss the the stakeholders. The bill clerk read as follows: most important battles, and we lost When we had a big problem with sea CLOTURE MOTION this one for that most lamentable of lions that were blocking the fish lad- We, the undersigned Senators, in ac- reasons—the failure to try. The fossil ders and blocking the mouths of cordance with the provisions of rule fuel industry, sure enough, knew it won streams and tributaries, he concocted XXII of the Standing Rules of the Sen- this one once it saw the Obama admin- probably more than a dozen plans to ate, do hereby move to bring to a close istration walk off the field, abandoning try to find one that could move debate on the nomination of Alejandro Speaker PELOSI’s hard-fought victory. through this legislative process and ad- Nicholas Mayorkas, of the District of Then years went by in which you dress the challenge, and he succeeded. Columbia, to be Secretary of Homeland could scarcely get a Democratic ad- He helped get funding so that we Security. ministration to put the words ‘‘cli- could have more people fighting fires Charles E. Schumer, Gary C. Peters, mate’’ and ‘‘change’’ into the same on the frontlines, and he helped to get Brian Schatz, Robert Menendez, Thom- paragraph in which we fussed, idioti- funding so we could thin the forests as R. Carper, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ben- cally, about whether to call it ‘‘climate and treat the forests so that they jamin L. Cardin, Tina Smith, Sherrod change’’ or ‘‘global warming’’; in which would be less likely to burn in the first Brown, Patrick J. Leahy, Cory A. the bully pulpit—the great Presidential place. Booker, Catherine Cortez Masto, Rich- megaphone in the hands of one of our He helped us get money for the coast- ard J. Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Dianne most articulate Presidents—stood Feinstein, Jack Reed, Christopher Mur- mute. We quavered about polling show- al ports so they could be drudged and phy, Martin Heinrich. so they would continue to operate ap- ing climate as issue 8 or issue 10, ignor- Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous con- propriately and safely for the economy ing that we had a say in that outcome. sent that the mandatory quorum call of the coastal ports. When we wouldn’t even use the phrase, for the cloture vote be waived. He helped us make sure we got help let alone make the case, no wonder the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without for the diverse agricultural research public didn’t see climate change as a objection, it is so ordered. stations in Oregon and for the mass priority. Mr. MERKLEY. I suggest the absence timber project that is developing whole Those were, for me, dark, desolate of a quorum. new categories of engineered wood days, so I made a commitment to speak The PRESIDING OFFICER. The products that can build buildings that about climate change every single clerk will call the roll. are 14 stories high out of wood rather week we were in session—no matter The bill clerk proceeded to call the than concrete and steel, utilizing our what. The kitchen was dark; the oven roll. incredible supply of amazing wood in was cold, but maybe, somehow, one lit- Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I tle pilot light’s clicking on every week the Pacific Northwest. He also assisted ask unanimous consent that the order our universities in getting funding for would help. for the quorum call be rescinded. Six years after the Waxman-Markey all kinds of programs. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The list is almost inexhaustible, but climate bill passed the House, the objection, it is so ordered. Obama EPA finalized its marquee cli- I think we all understand the point. He The Senator from Rhode Island. is incredibly talented at seeing oppor- mate regulation, which was quickly tunities and is incredibly persistent in CLIMATE CHANGE killed dead in the starting block by the seizing those opportunities. That is Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I five Republicans on the Supreme Ben’s way of getting things done. That am particularly glad to see the senior Court. is why he has been so valued, and that Senator from New Mexico presiding on The Clean Power Plan never even is why we will greatly miss him. what, for me, is a sentimental moment, went into effect. It had no regulatory Ben, we wish you all the best as you because he has been such a terrific core or backstop that was indisputably work on behalf of the Biden adminis- friend and colleague and advocate in within EPA’s authority. So when the tration and the larger OMB process in the battle of climate change. Clean Power Plan’s novelties got coordination with the U.S. Senate. I am here today because, at last, it is smacked down, nothing was left. To each of these team members, I say time to say farewell to my battered John Kerry, bless him, led us into the that, once you are a member of Team ‘‘Time to Wake Up’’ image board here Paris Agreement, but it wasn’t signed Merkley, you are never not a member. and to a run of more than 275 weekly until the last year of 8 years of that ad- You will always be part of our family. climate speeches. It has been one of the ministration. It being so late, the fossil We so much appreciate what you have Senate’s longer runs, I believe, but I fuel interests behind Trump hauled us contributed to the team and what you think it is time to say farewell. right back out of it. have contributed to building a better This long run began in the dark days So there we were, after 8 years in world. of 2012, after Speaker PELOSI had which Democrats sometimes controlled passed a serious climate bill and the both Houses of Congress as well as the f Senate had refused to take up any- White House, and we had, at the end of EXECUTIVE SESSION thing, not even a blank bill to go to the day, no law, no regulations, no conference with and see what could be treaty. done in conference. As some of us re- I am hanging up the ‘‘Time to Wake EXECUTIVE CALENDAR member all too well, when Speaker Up’’ poster after more than 275 of these Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I PELOSI passed that bill in 2009 over on speeches because I am going to trust move to proceed to executive session to the House side, we had here in the Sen- that we bring more spirit and deter- consider Calendar No. 4. ate a filibuster-proof Democratic ma- mination to the climate crisis this The PRESIDING OFFICER. The jority. This was climate change, and time, as President Biden has promised question is on agreeing to the motion. we just walked away. I was told then that we will. The motion was agreed to. that it was because the Obama White His opening Executive orders are a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The House told Leader Reid to pull the fine start. I appreciate particularly the clerk will report the nomination. plug, that after the ObamaCare wars, restoration of the social cost of carbon, The bill clerk read the nomination of the White House was tired of conflict but perhaps the most important signal Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, of the and didn’t want another big battle. It is not any specific policy but the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:47 Jan 28, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.023 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE S172 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 27, 2021 breadth of the scope of the emphasis on So I began looking at the fossil fuel most successful corporations of Amer- climate across the new Biden adminis- industry and studying the dark money ica, hundreds of American corpora- tration. apparatus that it uses to spread cli- tions, almost all of which pride them- Then we had to deal with the Trump mate denial and to obstruct climate selves on their greenness. They lobby years, when sins of omission became progress. us through a group called TechNet. sins of commission, and questions of I recalled our bipartisanship here in Here is their pitch sheet—13 pages of commitment became questions of cor- the Senate before Citizens United, and bulleted priorities they wanted Con- ruption. I saw the death of bipartisanship after, gress to achieve, and not one men- I am personally confident that evi- when the fossil fuel industry upgraded tion—not one mention—of climate dence will reveal that the Trump ad- its weaponry from political muskets to change. Not one, not even a mention of ministration was, in fact, corrupt on tactical nukes and set about sub- renewables from a trade association climate issues—and not just corrupt in jugating the Republican Party. that has renewables companies in its the meaning of the Founding Fathers I came to like and admire Bob Inglis, membership—until now. Until now. I but corrupt in the meaning of the U.S. a conservative the fossil fuel industry was just notified that TechNet has no- Criminal Code, and I will do my level could not subjugate. So, instead, they ticed this omission in its document and best to make sure we find out. Thank made an example of him for his climate that it intends to rectify the error. goodness, we can put that disgraceful heresy and crushed him politically. Good. period of our history behind us. I came with groups of Senators to the Change has even come to the biggest What did I learn along the way? I floor to identify and call out this cor- and most obstructive lobby group of traveled to many of my Republican col- rupt and corrupting fossil fuel web of them all—the U.S. Chamber of Com- leagues’ home States on climate trips denial. I came to know and admire the merce. I spent a lot of time chasing to help me understand the climate tough band of investigators, writers, them with hashtag change problem there. There is no and academic researchers who examine ‘‘chamberofcarbon.’’ I stood out in State whose big State universities and document this corrupt apparatus. front of their headquarters and put up deny climate change. Most all of them I saw how this apparatus insinuated a sign that said ‘‘Carbon’’ blocking teach it. So I knew it wasn’t lack of itself into the U.S. Chamber of Com- where it said ‘‘Commerce,’’ so their knowledge that was blocking progress. merce and the National Association of own building said ‘‘U.S. Chamber of I learned that oceans are at the heart Manufacturers and turned those two Carbon.’’ They were my nemesis—hos- of the climate threat. First, they bear business groups into America’s two tile to climate action in the legislative incontrovertible testimony to the dan- worst climate obstructors. branch, hostile to climate action in the gers. Try arguing with thermometers Thank you, InfluenceMap, for that executive branch and regulatory agen- that measure ocean warming. Try ar- research. cies, hostile to climate action in the guing with tide gauges that measure I learned the ways the industry hid judiciary in cases that were being sea level rise. Try arguing with pH the money trail leading to its front brought about climate. They were the tests that school children can do that groups through shell corporations, beast. measure the acidification of our through Donors Trust, through Well, last week, the chamber an- oceans. 501(c)(4)s. And I finally came to the re- nounced a dramatic reversal—that it I learned that the oceans are suf- alization that this industry was run- will now support a serious, market- fering extraordinary injury from warm- ning a massive, covert operation—prob- based climate solution. That—that—is ing at the rate of multiple nuclear ex- ably the biggest covert disinformation a big shift. And if they fight for cli- plosions per second and acidification at mate action anywhere near as force- and political intimidation op in his- rates unprecedented in human exist- fully as they fought against it, it could tory, and it was running this covert op ence, and from the fossil fuel industry’s make a big difference. So TBD as to plastics contaminating our oceans. in and against our own country. Another thing I learned was how lit- how this turns out over at the cham- In every State I went to, there were ber, but a tentative big thumbs up. tle political effort America’s corpora- businesses alarmed by climate change, So as I close my run of Time to Wake tions put into doing anything about whether it was wildfire or flooding or Ups, where are we? Well, we again con- the loss of iconic views and species, up- climate change here in Congress. A lot trol the House, and the Senate, and the heaval of fisheries and growing condi- of them put happy green talk on their White House, and this time I hope we tions of crops or business risk and websites. They had their consumer re- will be serious. recreation imperiled. lations and public relations and inves- Senator MARKEY has joined me, and I I heard from western fishermen about tor relations people spread the happy mentioned earlier in the speech NANCY warming trout streams and a Glacier green talk around. Many of them actu- PELOSI championing an actual serious National Park with no glacier, and saw ally hired sustainability officers and, climate bill through the House and la- ancient western forests dying by the where it made them money, began mented the Senate’s failure to do one square mile to the bark beetle. changing their internal behavior to ac- damn thing once we had the House bill I heard from coastal States about tually be more sustainable. over here to act on. new pests and poisonous algae and Sometimes more attention was paid That bill was called Waxman-Mar- flooding risks and fisheries in up- to heralding those sustainability pro- key. It was the work of Congressman heaval. And the Great Lakes, I heard, grams than there actually was to sus- Waxman and Congressman, now-Sen- face similar threats as the ocean taining anything, but sometimes it was ator, MARKEY. With Senator MARKEY coasts. sincere. Bravo to those companies that over here, maybe this time we will be I heard in the Presiding Officer’s have really changed the way they oper- serious in the Senate with all of these State of Nordic ski trails made mud be- ate within their corporate bounds. And departments of government control. cause you can’t do artificial snow like a few took climate change seriously The latent bipartisanship here in the on ski slopes, and moose tours—moose enough to start pushing sustainability Senate that the fossil fuel industry tours—that visitors promised never to out their supply chains. suppressed is still there. It has been do again because once you made it But none—none—took climate there all along. Talking to some of my down the mud trail, the moose were change seriously in Congress. This was colleagues about climate change has crawling with thousands of ticks, eat- a battlefield they avoided. Their trade been a little bit like talking to pris- ing them alive. Things that winter associations were a nightmare. Every oners about escape, but the latent bi- used to clean up but did no longer. one of them—beverages, insurance, partisanship did not go away. With One day I wept in National Airport, banking, chemical, agricultural—you these other changes—with corporate sitting at one of those little round lino- name it, every one of them was silent America beginning to show up, with leum-topped food tables, reading Pope or worse. Now at last—at last—that the big trade associations becoming Francis’s new encyclical, ‘‘Laudato Si: seems to be changing. less horrible, I am hopeful for a serious On Care For Our Common Home.’’ Cli- Here is the 2020 lobbying pitch for bipartisan bill. And if we can’t get mate effects were everywhere. That Silicon Valley tech giants—the biggest good-faith bipartisanship, well, we wasn’t the problem. corporations in America, many of the have got reconciliation.

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That goes with you, man of our committee; and when Re- fossil fuel’s subjugation of the Repub- I say to the Senator from Massachu- publicans were in the majority, I would lican Party. A good, hard look at the setts, because we cover a lot of issues be the chairman and then she would be fossil fuel climate denial machinery in that committee. the ranking member. But I have to say can put that corrupt machine back on I think it was—we have a new major- this, in that committee, we got things its heels. In my view, it would be dere- ity now. We will see some things that done. liction and malpractice to ignore that you will seize upon as opportunities You overlooked the infrastructure apparatus and its treacherous role. that may make some changes. And I thing and how important that was. And In trade associations, revolts are al- will be there to try to keep that from I have a confession that is good for the ready taking place, within the chamber happening, but, nonetheless, we will soul. I have to admit, every time we and NAM, by members horrified to be enjoy it. There are so many issues had a new infrastructure bill, I started outed as supporting America’s worst right now in the committee, I say this off on the Democratic side because climate obstructors. Want faster to my friend from Massachusetts, that they seemed to be more interested in change there? Disclose the fossil fuel we are involved in. You know, one of some of the things that I was inter- money that bought the climate ob- them is an issue we discussed in some ested in. Anyway, that is the way it struction. That will speed things along. detail about the Western Sahara and works around here, and we all love The finance and agriculture sectors some things that have gone on there. each other. All right? and our coastal economies all are look- We find so many things that we can Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Thank you, Sen- ing down the barrel of multiple and se- agree on. And I look forward to being ator INHOFE, for your courtesy for com- rious economic crash warnings. Banks, in the new position of being in the mi- ing to say those words. I truly appre- insurance companies, Freddie Mac, nority and combating from a different ciate it. sovereign banks, wherever you look in perspective. Mr. MARKEY. Madam President, will the world of finance, there are dra- So congratulations on the commit- the gentleman yield? matic, dire warnings from sober, seri- ment that you have made to your Mr. INHOFE. I will yield, yes. ous bean-counter people who are not cause and the time and the effort and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- there to be green. They are there to the eloquence that you have used over ator from Massachusetts. make green. So corporate climate con- the years. Mr. MARKEY. Thank you for rising Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Thank you, Sen- cerns have moved from the commu- because I do believe what you are say- ator INHOFE. I am grateful to the senior nications shop to business operations ing about Senator WHITEHOUSE is accu- Senator from Oklahoma. rate. In my opinion, like Lou Gehrig, and the C-suites. We are, indeed, fairly fierce adver- The famous author Mary Renault, like Cal Ripken, he will go down in his- saries on the issue of climate, but it is tory in this longevity streak in high- who wrote wonderful historical novels, a fervent prayer of mine that that said: ‘‘There is only one kind of shock lighting, spotlighting like a true North might change because I have had the Star the need for us to take action on worse than the totally unexpected: the experience of working with Senator expected for which one has refused to these issues, and he is, without ques- INHOFE on issues on which we are not tion, a climate change hall of famer. prepare.’’ There has never been a crisis adversaries, and let me tell you, the or a catastrophe more warned about by And I agree with you, there is a new man is a senatorial Caterpillar tractor dawn which has now arrived, with our more and more credible sources than at getting things done when our inter- the looming climate crisis, and it is fingers crossed. And I share your hope, ests align. Whether it is cleaning up the Senator from Rhode Island, that we going to clobber these businesses. Now kleptocracy or fixing the enforcement they just need to align their political might be able to find a way to persuade of pirate fishing overseas or our ocean the gentleman from Oklahoma that it effort with their own stated policies. plastics work, Senator INHOFE has been is sunny most of the time in Oklahoma How hard is that? enormously valuable in those things. and it is windy most of the time in All of this can break the right way. And I will confess, because we have had Oklahoma and there are tens of thou- The dark castle of denial can fall, and these wars with one another on climate sands of jobs yet to be created. And we Congress can rise in bipartisan force to change, that when Senator INHOFE can work in partnership in order to ac- stop the harm and cure the damage. came to Senator SULLIVAN’s and my complish that goal. But that is not foreordained. We can hearing on ocean plastics, my heart But for today, I just wanted to come still screw this up. No doubt about it. sank. I thought, oh—I won’t say the over and honor the great SHELDON So let’s not. Let’s do our duty. The word. This was such a good hearing. It WHITEHOUSE for his incredible leader- conditions are at last—at last—in place was going so well. Why did he have to ship during this time we have been for a real solution. A new dawn is show up? Because I thought he was going through with the climate ‘‘denier breaking, and when it is dawn, there is going to ruin everything—not a bit. He in chief’’ now gone, and there is hope no need for my little candle against the listened. And when it came time to ask alive. Your leadership is absolutely darkness. My little ‘‘Time to Wake Up’’ questions, he asked terrific questions. pilot light can now go out. He described an experience in his hall of fame and historic. Congratula- So instead of urging that it is time to childhood along the Texas gulf coast tions, Senator WHITEHOUSE. wake up, I close this long run by say- and the little sea turtles trying to Mr. WHITEHOUSE. You are the Hank ing now, it is time to get to work. work their way to the ocean from their Aaron. You are the Roger Maris. So I Whitehouse ‘‘Time to Wake Up’’ run, eggs, and he asked how he could help. appreciate it and thank you. farewell. He was an original cosponsor of our Mr. INHOFE. Don’t forget Cal Whitehouse at least on time to wake bill. He was a strong supporter of the Ripken, the Cal Ripken of climate. up—out. bigger, better 2.0 bill. That is pretty good. I yield the floor. So I will close with reiterating my Well, Madam President, that is not The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- prayer that perhaps in the most mar- what I came to talk about. I came to ator from Oklahoma. velous of all worlds, the good Lord can listen. Mr. INHOFE. Before my friend find a way to bring us to work together MARCH FOR LIFE leaves, I just want him to know that I to solve this climate problem. If so, we Mr. INHOFE. Madam President, one relished the opportunity to be here for may very well have a miracle in this of the best presentations I have heard his, what, 400th or however long it has Chamber. in a long time was just a couple of been—but his final speech. And I am I yield the floor. hours ago by JAMES LANKFORD. What excited about the final speech because The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- he was talking about, I have never I have got it pretty well memorized ator from Oklahoma. heard a presentation more heartfelt

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:47 Jan 28, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.030 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE S174 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 27, 2021 and compassionate than he did on the I want to share with you a story that my chance to live as an individual created unborn, and I couldn’t touch that. But colleague, Chris Smith told some time ago in the image of God. there are a couple of things I wanted to on this very floor. Ana Rosa Rodriguez is an There is still much more we need to add that perhaps were not on his—he abortion survivor. At birth she was a healthy do to end the abortion-on-demand cul- 3 pound baby girl except for her injury—she didn’t have time to get around to. was missing an arm. ture. Under the last administration, we It is really important that we recog- Ana survived a botched abortion. Her protected the Hyde amendment, rein- nize celebrating this March for Life mother attempted to get an abortion in her stated and expanded the Mexico City that is taking place. It is something 32nd week of pregnancy when she was per- policy, and stripped abortion providers that has happened each year for a long fectly healthy—8 weeks past what New York like Planned Parenthood from using time now. I have always enjoyed being State law legally allows. In the unsuccessful title X funding for abortions. Unfortu- a part of it. We have large groups of abortion attempt the baby’s right arm was nately, President Biden is trying to people coming up from Oklahoma. ripped off [from her body], however they undo all those accomplishments that failed to kill Ana Rosa. She lived. However, it is virtual this year as ev- we made in the last administration. erything else is. It is more important And I got to know her after that. The need to stand up for our babies is than ever under this new administra- Pro-life supporters agreed that nightmare as important today as it has ever tion and its radical abortion practices situations like the Rodriguez case are prob- been—certainly in 1992 and 1997 when I and the personnel that have been sug- ably not [all that] common, but abortion re- quoted from talks I made back at that lated deaths and serious injuries occur more gested to be part of the administration. time. We will overcome evil with good So it is going to be maybe a greater [often] than most people are aware. It is amazing that we can pay so much at- by upholding and affirming the dignity fight than it has been in the past. tention to issues such as human rights and inherent worth of every human In light of that, I am introducing a abroad and can allow the violent destruction being. We will just keep fighting, and bill I have introduced before, but we of over 26 million children here at home. We we are going to win this one. have never been able to get it passed. It are fortunate that Ana was not one of those I yield the floor. is called Protecting Individuals with children—she survived. I suggest the absence of a quorum. Down Syndrome Act, which will pro- That was in 1992. I was in the House The PRESIDING OFFICER. The hibit abortions being sought because at that time. But today we still don’t clerk will call the roll. the unborn baby has Down syndrome. have explicit Federal protections for The senior assistant legislative clerk All abortion is tragic, but this popu- babies who survive the brutal abortion proceeded to call the roll. lation has been specifically targeted. process. Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask In the United States—it just turned Now, as I said, this issue is not about unanimous consent that the order for out this way, and there is no law that abortion but about caring for a baby the quorum call be rescinded. influences it—in the United States, ap- outside the womb. These kids are— The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without proximately 67 percent of the unborn they failed an abortion, so they are objection, it is so ordered. babies diagnosed with Down syndrome alive. In most cases, they are in a hos- DOMESTIC TERRORISM PREVENTION ACT are aborted. All lives have inherent pital setting—in many cases, anyway— Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, 76 worth regardless of their chromosome and yet they don’t get the same care. years ago today, scouts from the So- count. I think we all understand that. They don’t look at them as someone viet Red Army pushed their way But my fight does not stop there. I you can save. You don’t want to use through Poland. They stumbled on a am also joining my colleagues in intro- lifesaving talents on these babies. place that haunts the world to this ducing several pro-life bills as we pre- The need for these protections be- day—a place of incomprehensible suf- pare for March for Life, including Sen- come even clearer as we see States like fering, cruelty, and depravity—Ausch- ator SASSE’s. He has a bill that is the New York and Illinois that allow abor- witz-Birkenau. Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protec- tion for virtually any reason up to the Auschwitz was the largest of Nazi tion Act. His bill ensures that a baby point of birth and support infanticide Germany’s death camps—40 sprawling who survives an abortion will receive by removing protectants for infants acres of hell on Earth. the same treatment as any child natu- born alive after a failed abortion. Between 1940 and 1945, 1.1 million rally born at the same age. Just a few years after that speech I men, women, and children were trans- People don’t realize this, but babies gave in 1997, I was on the floor with my ported to Auschwitz from Nazi-occu- who have been in an attempted abor- good friend former Senator Rick pied lands; 1.1 million were murdered tion and they survive the abortion, Santorum to try to pass a partial-birth there. More than 950,000 of those were they don’t get the medical treatment abortion ban and end the horrific prac- Jewish. that they normally would get, which tice of late-term abortions. Fortu- At the height of the Nazi concentra- this bill directly addresses. This has nately, we won the battle against par- tion and extermination camp’s oper- been going on for a long time. I have a tial-birth abortions and finally ended ations, an average—average—of 6,000 feeling that we have an opportunity. that practice in 2003. That ban was Jews were poisoned and cremated every The numbers are changing in our direc- upheld by the Supreme Court in 2007. day in the gas chambers and tion in terms of the unborn and have But we have yet to pass legislation crematoria of Auschwitz. It was mass been for some time. banning late-term abortions. Only murder on an industrial scale. Now, my wife Kay and I have been seven countries allow abortion after 20 The first Soviet soldiers who entered married 60 years. We have 20 kids and weeks, including the United States and Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, were grandkids, so I know something about North Korea. Now, that is horrific. The met with an eerie stillness. Most of the babies. I know something about babies United States is supposed to be an ex- camp’s prisoners—nearly 60,000 of who are born. And I looked up and I ample in regards to global human them—had been evacuated days earlier saw—because of the great presentation rights. Yet we are on par with North by Nazis and dispersed to other con- that Senator LANKFORD gave, I was Korea when it comes to protecting the centration camps, where they contin- looking for some material I had used in unborn. ued to be exploited as slave labor. Only the past. Senator GRAHAM’s Pain-Capable Un- about 9,000 prisoners remained. They It was 28 years ago that I came down born Child Protection Act would help were the ones who were too sick to en- here to tell the story about Ana Rosa roll back this horrific practice by pro- dure the evacuation, simply left there Rodriguez. This is what I said. I was in hibiting abortions after 20 weeks post- to die—no food, no water, no heat, no the House at that time. This was in the fertilization. That is when we know medical care. House RECORD, and this is what I said that babies can feel. It is not even de- In a frantic effort to conceal their at that time. I said: batable; they can feel pain at that monstrous crimes, the SS had tried to Mr. Chairman, there is a big misconception time. dismantle that killing machine before regarding abortion and the issue of women and their right to protect their bodies. It is It is another commonsense bill that they abandoned it. They forced pris- not that right that I object to, but the right should not divide us along party lines. oners to dismantle the barracks and that is given them to kill an unborn fetus— A baby is a baby whether in or outside demolish the gas chambers and ovens, an unborn [baby]. of the womb, and each baby deserves a but the fires still burned in Auschwitz.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:47 Jan 28, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JA6.031 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE January 27, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S175 Three weeks ago today, on January 6, to Mauthausen, a notoriously brutal security. Unfortunately, instead of ad- 2021, an angry mob attacked this Cap- camp in Upper Austria. A few days dressing this threat, the Trump admin- itol Building and this Congress as we later, he was sent to Ebensee, a sat- istration spent 4 years downplaying it, gathered to fulfill our constitutional ellite camp. and the former President made appall- obligation to certify the results of the The official policy of both camps was ing, incendiary, and embarrassing 2020 Presidential election. That siege ‘‘extermination through labor.’’ It was statements that only served to further on the Capitol was an attack on Amer- a cruel mockery of the sign that greet- incite these violent extremists. We ican democracy itself. Sadly, it was in- ed the prisoners as they entered Ausch- can’t waste another moment. Congress cited by then-President Donald Trump. witz: ‘‘Work makes you free.’’ has to act against this hateful extre- So many scenes from that day still At Ebensee, George was put to work mism. haunt us: police officers trying to digging tunnels in which the Nazis As the incoming chair of the Senate maintain order, battered with Amer- could hide their war armaments from Judiciary Committee, I am going to ican flags, threatened to be murdered Allied bombing. hold hearings on this matter. with their own service weapons; a scaf- On May 6, 1945—111⁄2 months after I brought it up to the head of the FBI fold erected on the Capitol grounds; George was ripped from his home and before. He acknowledged the problem, calls to hang the Vice President of the family, Ebensee was finally liberated but little or nothing was done during United States; a Confederate battle by George Patton’s 80th Infantry Divi- the Trump years. I trust that President flag paraded through the halls of the sion—the last of the Nazi camps to be Biden will take a different approach. Senate—a desecration that never hap- liberated. George was then 16 years of This is a serious threat to security in pened during our Civil War. But for age. He weighed less than 70 pounds. America. I feel badly for George Brent, a man many, the most painful image of that After the war, George stayed briefly who miraculously survived Auschwitz, day was of a middle-aged White man with two of his aunts in Budapest. To- the concentration camps, and every- proudly wearing the sweatshirt that gether, they discovered their father thing the Nazis threw at him. He came read: ‘‘Camp Auschwitz,’’ and then the was still alive but desperately ill in a to the United States because he dearly words: ‘‘Work makes you free’’—a tuberculosis sanatorium in Munich. translation of the cruel slogan atop the loved this country and the freedoms Several months later, George was able that are part of it. He made a great life black iron gates leading into the to visit him. He settled into a displaced Auschwitz concentration camp. and a great contribution. He still does camp for Jewish children near Munich. with his work at the Holocaust mu- For one retired dentist and grand- In October 1949, he moved to America father in the Chicago area, that des- seum. Can you imagine what went to live with his great-uncle, who owned through his mind when he saw that picable neo-Nazi hate symbol, shown a small grocery store on the South during the Capitol insurrection, and photograph of the demonstrator in the Side of Chicago. George slept on a re- Capitol—the United States Capitol— the chants of ‘‘Jews will not replace cliner chair in the storeroom. He was us’’ 3 years earlier in Charlottesville with a sweatshirt mocking his life ex- even happy to be there. He had reached perience, a sweatshirt which bore the were shocking reminders. George Brent the age of 20. is 91 years old now, but he was 15 years words ‘‘Camp Auschwitz’’? In May of 1950—7 months after arriv- It was a sad day for America when old and living in Hungary when his par- ing in the United States—he enlisted in that group, that mob, overran this Cap- ents and his little brother saw a Nazi the U.S. Air Force Reserve and served itol. I am sorry for the pain that it invasion on March 19, 1944. 2 years during the Korean war. In 1951, Two months after that invasion, on brought to so many people. George’s father moved to Chicago, and But let me add quickly: We cannot May 19, 1944, Hungarian townspeople they were reunited for nearly 20 years ignore it. It is not a question of getting sympathetic to the Nazis woke George before his father passed away. over it. It is not a question of letting and his family in the early morning After the war, George married and President Trump ride off into the sun- hours and told them they had 2 hours raised a family. He graduated from the set. We have got to come to grips with to get out of their home. The family University of Illinois College of Den- the reality of what occurred 3 weeks was taken to the Jewish ghetto. The tistry in Chicago. He later taught den- ago today—3 weeks ago today—when following morning, they and the rest of tistry at the college for 29 years and we ran out of this Chamber, and we the town’s Jews were loaded onto open practiced dentistry for 50 years. were told to move as quickly as pos- cattle cars. After 6 days traveling on After he retired in 2010, he became a sible with the fear that this mob was the railroad, the doors of the cattle volunteer lecturer at the Illinois Holo- going to overtake us and harm us. cars were opened to reveal dogs and caust Museum, where he tells his story After we left the building, they whips and SS officers barking com- mostly to kids. overran this Chamber. They went mands. George Brent is a proud American. through the desks. They posed in the George and his father were ordered to chairs where the Presiding Officer is walk in one direction. Out of the cor- He is not really political. But when he saw the clothing and the symbols at sitting, took videos and photos of ner of his eye, he saw his mom and his themselves and were just dumb enough little brother Peter being herded in the the Capitol siege glorifying the mur- derous Nazi regime, he was outraged. to put them on Facebook. So we have opposite direction. He never saw them them, and many of these people are again. They almost certainly died that How could this happen in America, he asked? going to pay the price for this criminal day in Auschwitz. invasion of the Capitol that they were George and his father were spared One effort that I believe is needed—in fact, it is long overdue—is for Congress part of. immediate death because they hap- Again, to George Brent’s family: I am pened to be strong enough to work. to pass legislation aimed at addressing the significant threat of domestic ter- sorry for what you had to go through. George’s father was sent to clean up We are better than that. America is destruction and carnage in the Warsaw rorism—domestic, homegrown Amer- ican terrorism. That is why I have in- better than that. We are glad that you Ghetto. George was given different jobs are a part of this great country. troduced the Domestic Terrorism Pre- at Auschwitz. He remembers the smoke I will work to pass this bill and to vention Act in each Congress since that billowed from the crematoria. get President Biden to sign it into law. In mid-January 1945, as the Allies 2017. I will be reintroducing it soon in And as I do, I will remember George pushed into Poland, George and 56,000 this Congress. Brent. other prisoners were evacuated from For far too long, we have failed to I yield the floor. Auschwitz. The emaciated men and adequately monitor the dangerous I suggest the absence of a quorum. boys were forced to walk hours in the groups that threaten us, the violent The PRESIDING OFFICER. The freezing cold and snow, clad only in White supremacists and other extrem- clerk will call the roll. rags and wooden clogs. They called it ist groups. While we looked the other The senior assistant legislative clerk ‘‘The March of Death.’’ A fourth of the way, the threat grew. proceeded to call the roll. prisoners died along the way. Intelligence experts have now warned Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask The survivors were loaded into box us that such groups constitute a seri- unanimous consent that the order for cars and shipped west. George was sent ous and growing threat to America’s the quorum call be rescinded.

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By Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. row, Thursday, January 28, the Senate By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mrs. MERKLEY, Mr. RISCH, Mr. VAN HOL- vote on cloture on Executive Calendar CAPITO, Mr. CASEY, Ms. ERNST, Ms. LEN, Mr. COTTON, Ms. WARREN, Mr. No. 4, Alejandro Mayorkas; that if clo- ROSEN, Ms. SMITH, Ms. STABENOW, CORNYN, Ms. HASSAN, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. REED, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, and Ms. Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. ROMNEY, Mrs. ture is invoked, the vote on confirma- CORTEZ MASTO): FEINSTEIN, Mr. DAINES, Mr. tion be at 5 p.m., Monday, February 1. S. 57. A bill to increase the ability of nurs- BLUMENTHAL, Mr. MORAN, Mr. WAR- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ing facilities to access to telehealth services NER, Mr. LANKFORD, Ms. SMITH, Mrs. objection, it is so ordered. and obtain technologies to allow virtual vis- BLACKBURN, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. SCOTT f its during the public health emergency relat- of Florida, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. THUNE, ing to an outbreak of coronavirus disease Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. SASSE, LEGISLATIVE SESSION 2019 (COVID–19), and for other purposes; to Mr. YOUNG, Mr. COONS, Mr. CARDIN, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Mr. CRUZ): and Pensions. S. 65. A bill to ensure that goods made with MORNING BUSINESS By Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono- mous Region of the People’s Republic of Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask PADILLA, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. MERKLEY, Mrs. MURRAY, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. China do not enter the United States mar- unanimous consent that the Senate MENENDEZ, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. MARKEY, ket, and for other purposes; to the Com- proceed to legislative session and be in and Mr. SANDERS): mittee on Foreign Relations. a period of morning business, with Sen- S. 58. A bill to amend the Outer Conti- By Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. ators permitted to speak therein for up nental Shelf Lands Act to permanently pro- SCOTT of Florida): to 10 minutes each. hibit the conduct of offshore drilling on the S. 66. A bill to require the Inter-Agency The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Cali- Task Force on Harmful Algal Blooms and objection, it is so ordered. fornia, Oregon, and Washington; to the Com- Hypoxia to develop a plan for reducing, miti- mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. gating, and controlling harmful algal blooms f By Mr. TILLIS (for himself, Mr. GRASS- and hypoxia in South Florida, and for other NATIONAL DEFENSE LEY, Ms. ERNST, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, AUTHORIZATION INHOFE, Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Mr. Science, and Transportation. ROUNDS, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. By Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. SAND- Mr. CRUZ. Madam President, the LEE, Mr. DAINES, Mr. HAWLEY, and ERS, Mr. REED, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Mr. BRAUN): MERKLEY, and Mr. LEAHY): Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal S. 59. A bill to provide a civil remedy for S. 67. A bill to support efforts by inter- Year 2021 became public law on Janu- individuals harmed by sanctuary jurisdiction national financial institutions to provide a policies, and for other purposes; to the Com- robust global response to the COVID–19 pan- ary 1, 2021, and included reforms to the mittee on the Judiciary. demic; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- U.S. Agency for Global Media outlined By Mr. TILLIS (for himself, Mr. GRASS- tions. in section 1299Q. The FY21 consolidated LEY, Ms. ERNST, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. By Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. GRASS- appropriations act became public law ROUNDS, Mr. MORAN, Mr. HAWLEY, LEY, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. SCOTT of Flor- on December 27, 2020, and included lan- and Mr. DAINES): ida, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. guage that would have delayed those S. 60. A bill to provide for the effective use YOUNG, Mr. MORAN, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. reforms had they already been in law, of immigration detainers to enhance public CRAMER, Mr. BLUNT, Ms. ERNST, Mr. safety; to the Committee on the Judiciary. but they were not. Reserving any con- SULLIVAN, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. By Mr. GRAHAM (for himself, Mr. BAR- TOOMEY, Mr. SASSE, Mr. LEE, Mr. cerns about the lawfulness of insu- RASSO, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BLUNT, CASSIDY, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. BRAUN, lating Senate-confirmed officers from Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. COR- Mr. CRUZ, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. CRAPO, removal, I believe it is Congress’s in- NYN, Mr. COTTON, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, and Mr. RISCH): tent that these two provisions should CRAPO, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. DAINES, Ms. S. 68. A bill to amend chapter 8 of title 5, not be understood concurrently and ERNST, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. GRASSLEY, United States Code, to provide that major that the reforms outlined in section Mr. HAGERTY, Mr. HAWLEY, Mr. rules of the executive branch shall have no 1299Q shall take effect on the date of HOEVEN, Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Mr. force or effect unless a joint resolution of ap- INHOFE, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. KENNEDY, proval is enacted into law; to the Committee enactment of the fiscal year 2021 Mr. LANKFORD, Ms. LUMMIS, Mr. MAR- on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- NDAA. SHALL, Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. MORAN, fairs. f Mr. PAUL, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. RISCH, By Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mrs. Mr. ROMNEY, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. RUBIO, HYDE-SMITH, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. CRUZ, EXECUTIVE REPORT OF Mr. SASSE, Mr. SCOTT of Florida, Mr. Mr. DAINES, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. WICKER, COMMITTEE SCOTT of South Carolina, Mr. SHELBY, and Ms. LUMMIS): The following executive report of a Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. THUNE, Mr. TILLIS, S. 69. A bill to amend the Outer Conti- nomination was submitted: Mr. TOOMEY, Mr. TUBERVILLE, Mr. nental Shelf Lands Act to require annual WICKER, Mr. YOUNG, and Mr. LEE): lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico region of By Mr. WICKER for the Committee on S. 61. A bill to amend title 18, United the outer Continental Shelf, and for other Commerce, Science, and Transportation. States Code, to protect pain-capable unborn purposes; to the Committee on Energy and *Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, of In- children, and for other purposes; to the Com- Natural Resources. diana, to be Secretary of Transportation. mittee on the Judiciary. By Ms. HASSAN (for herself and Mr. * Nomination was reported with rec- By Mr. HAWLEY (for himself and Mr. CORNYN): ommendation that it be confirmed sub- BLUNT): S. 70. A bill to amend title 32, United ject to the nominee’s commitment to S. 62. A bill to implement recommenda- States Code, to authorize cybersecurity oper- respond to requests to appear and tes- tions related to the safety of amphibious ations and missions to protect critical infra- passenger vessels, and for other purposes; to structure by members of the National Guard tify before any duly constituted com- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and in connection with training or other duty; to mittee of the Senate. Transportation. the Committee on Armed Services. f By Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Ms. By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Ms. DUCKWORTH, and Ms. HIRONO): ERNST, Mr. INHOFE, Mrs. BLACKBURN, INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND S. 63. A bill to establish an Office of Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. COTTON, Mr. LEE, JOINT RESOLUTIONS Emerging Markets within the Small Busi- Mr. BOOZMAN, Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Mr. The following bills and joint resolu- ness Administration that will strengthen the THUNE, and Mr. WICKER): tions were introduced, read the first development of small business concerns in S. 71. A bill to expand the use of E-Verify emerging markets, including those owned by to hold employers accountable, and for other and second times by unanimous con- women, minorities, veterans, and those lo- purposes; to the Committee on the Judici- sent, and referred as indicated: cated in rural areas, and for other purposes; ary. By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and to the Committee on Small Business and En- By Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mr. Ms. COLLINS): trepreneurship. MERKLEY, Mr. REED, Mr. MARKEY,

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A 2018 poll found A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary f that nearly 70% of Californians oppose Education Act of 1965 and the Individuals new drilling off our coast. The evidence STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED with Disabilities Education Act; to the Com- is quite clear: Californians do not want BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and any more drilling. Pensions. By Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, The California coast is an economic By Mr. SCOTT of Florida (for himself, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. engine of growth for the state and the Mr. RUBIO, Mr. COTTON, Mrs. BLACK- MERKLEY, Mrs. MURRAY, Ms. BURN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. MURPHY, nation. A 2015 report produced by the and Mr. HAWLEY): CANTWELL, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- S. 73. A bill to ban the Federal procure- BOOKER, Mr. MARKEY, and Mr. ministration found that California’s 19 ment of certain drones and other unmanned SANDERS): coastal counties created $662 billion in aircraft systems, and for other purposes; to S. 58. A bill to amend the Outer Con- wages and $1.7 trillion in GDP in 2012. the Committee on Homeland Security and tinental Shelf Lands Act to perma- Overall, California’s ocean economy Governmental Affairs. nently prohibit the conduct of offshore supports over 1 million jobs and gen- f drilling on the outer Continental Shelf erates significant growth for the U.S. off the coast of California, Oregon, and Because of the unique nature of the SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND Washington; to the Committee on En- SENATE RESOLUTIONS West Coast ocean shelf, potential drill- ergy and Natural Resources. ing would occur near the coastline and The following concurrent resolutions Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I directly threaten the environment and and Senate resolutions were read, and rise today to reintroduce the ‘‘West robust economy. referred (or acted upon), as indicated: Coast Ocean Protection Act.’’ It is long past time to respect the By Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mrs. CAP- This important legislation would pro- view of California and our fellow West ITO, Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. DAINES, Mr. hibit oil or gas drilling in federal Coast states by passing the ‘‘West BARRASSO, Mr. RISCH, Mr. MORAN, waters off the coast of California, Or- Coast Ocean Protection Act’’ to perma- Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. egon, and Washington. nently ban offshore drilling and protect ROUNDS, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. CRAPO, After four years of an Administration the Pacific coast for generations to Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. WICKER, Mr. intent on allowing drilling off the West BLUNT, Mr. HAWLEY, Mr. PAUL, Mr. come. Coast and in waters across the United I yield the floor. TILLIS, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. JOHNSON, States, I am hopeful we will finally Ms. LUMMIS, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. SASSE, pass this bill to ensure no drilling ever Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. COTTON, and Mrs. By Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. FISCHER): occurs in Pacific waters. GRASSLEY, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. S. Res. 17. A resolution expressing the I’m pleased to be joined today by SCOTT of Florida, Mr. RUBIO, sense of the Senate that clean water is a na- Senators PADILLA, WYDEN, MERKLEY, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. YOUNG, Mr. tional priority and that the April 21, 2020, MURRAY, CANTWELL, MENENDEZ, BOOK- MORAN, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. Navigable Waters Protection Rule should not ER, MARKEY, and SANDERS in intro- CRAMER, Mr. BLUNT, Ms. ERNST, be withdrawn or vacated; to the Committee ducing this bill, which has been intro- Mr. SULLIVAN, Mrs. BLACKBURN, on Environment and Public Works. duced in every Congress since the By Mr. HAWLEY (for himself, Mr. Mr. TOOMEY, Mr. SASSE, Mr. Deepwater Horizon disaster in April LEE, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. MAR- TILLIS, and Mr. CRAMER): 2010. S. Res. 18. A resolution in support of an SHALL, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. CRUZ, 11 people were killed and 17 others in- international investigation into the handling Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. CRAPO, Mrs. jured when the Deepwater Horizon well by the Government of the People’s Republic HYDE-SMITH, and Mr. RISCH): of China of COVID–19 and the impact thereof blew out. Oil and gas spewed into the S. 68. A bill to amend chapter 8 of on the people of the United States and other Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. title 5, United States Code, to provide nations; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- Oil slicks covered the Gulf. Tar balls that major rules of the executive tions. and toxic sludge covered beaches and branch shall have no force or effect un- f wetlands. More than one-third of fed- less a joint resolution of approval is en- eral waters in the Gulf were closed to ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS acted into law; to the Committee on fishing. Homeland Security and Governmental While the Deepwater Horizon disaster S. 42 Affairs. reminded the world of the dangers of At the request of Mr. TOOMEY, the Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask offshore drilling, Californians never names of the Senator from North Da- unanimous consent that the text of the had to be convinced; before Deepwater kota (Mr. HOEVEN) and the Senator bill be printed in the RECORD. from Mississippi (Mr. WICKER) were Horizon and Exxon Valdez, there was There being no objection, the text of added as cosponsors of S. 42, a bill to the tragic 1969 oil spill in Santa Bar- the bill was ordered to be printed in bara. ensure that State and local law en- the RECORD, as follows: A well blowout on an offshore rig forcement may cooperate with Federal S. 67 officials to protect our communities spilled more than 3 million gallons of crude oil according to some esti- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- from violent criminals and suspected resentatives of the United States of America in terrorists who are illegally present in mates—the worst spill in U.S. history Congress assembled, at the time. the United States. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. The spill closed local beaches—which S. 50 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Support for were covered by a thick layer of oil— Global Financial Institution Pandemic Re- At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the and thousands of marine mammals and name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. sponse Act of 2021’’. birds were killed. SEC. 2. SUPPORT FOR A ROBUST GLOBAL RE- RUBIO) was added as a cosponsor of S. Tourists were turned away and com- SPONSE TO THE COVID–19 PAN- 50, a bill to temporarily designate Ven- mercial fishing operations were halted, DEMIC. ezuela under section 244(b) of the Immi- hurting the local economy. (a) UNITED STATES POLICIES AT THE INTER- gration and Nationality Act to permit After the Santa Barbara spill, Cali- NATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.— eligible nationals of Venezuela to be fornia had enough. The State blocked (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the granted temporary protected status. Treasury shall instruct the United States all new offshore drilling in state Executive Director of each international fi- S.J. RES. 4 waters—which extend three miles from nancial institution (as defined in section At the request of Mr. RUBIO, the the shore—and in 1994 enacted a perma- 1701(c)(2) of the International Financial In- name of the Senator from North Da- nent offshore drilling ban. stitutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r(c)(2)) to use the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:47 Jan 28, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A27JA6.004 S27JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with SENATE S178 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 27, 2021 voice and vote of the United States at that RASSO, Mr. RISCH, Mr. MORAN, Mrs. the spread of COVID–19, at the same time as institution— HYDE-SMITH, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. the disease had already begun to proliferate (A) to seek to ensure adequate fiscal space ROUNDS, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. CRAPO, throughout the world; for world economies in response to the global Whereas, on March 11, 2020, the World Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. WICKER, Mr. BLUNT, coronavirus disease 2019 (commonly referred Health Organization declared COVID–19 a to as ‘‘COVID–19’’) pandemic through— Mr. HAWLEY, Mr. PAUL, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. global pandemic, with at least 118,000 persons (i) the suspension of all debt service pay- CRAMER, Mr. JOHNSON, Ms. LUMMIS, Mr. infected and at least 4,291 dead in 114 dif- ments to the institution; and BRAUN, Mr. SASSE, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. ferent countries at the time of the announce- (ii) the relaxation of fiscal targets for any COTTON, and Mrs. FISCHER) submitted ment; government operating a program supported the following resolution; which was re- Whereas, by January 21, 2021, one year by the institution, or seeking financing from ferred to the Committee on Environ- after the first COVID–19 case was confirmed the institution, in response to the pandemic; ment and Public Works: in the United States, COVID–19 had infected (B) to oppose any loan, grant, document, or at least 97,061,592 persons and killed at least S. RES. 17 strategy that would lead to a decrease in 2,080,009 in 191 different countries; health care spending or in any other spend- Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate Whereas the Government of the People’s ing that would impede the ability of any that— Republic of China argues that COVID–19 did country to prevent or contain the spread of, (1) clean water is a national priority; and not originate in the People’s Republic of or treat persons who are or may be infected (2) the final rule of the Corps of Engineers China; with, the SARS–CoV–2 virus; and and the Environmental Protection Agency Whereas the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of (C) to require approval of all Special Draw- entitled ‘‘The Navigable Waters Protection the People’s Republic of China has alleged ing Rights allocation transfers from wealthi- Rule: Definition of ‘Waters of the United that the United States Army may have de- er member countries to countries that are States’ ’’ (85 Fed. Reg. 22250 (April 21, 2020)) livered COVID–19 to the city of Wuhan and emerging markets or developing countries, should not be withdrawn or vacated. based on confirmation of implementable that COVID–19 may have originated in Italy f transparency mechanisms or protocols to en- or ‘‘separate outbreaks in multiple places in sure the allocations are used for the public SENATE RESOLUTION 18—IN SUP- the world’’; Whereas the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of good and in response the global pandemic. PORT OF AN INTERNATIONAL IN- (2) REPORT REQUIRED.—The Chairman of the People’s Republic of China has said, VESTIGATION INTO THE HAN- ‘‘China’s endeavor to combating [sic] the epi- the National Advisory Council on Inter- DLING BY THE GOVERNMENT OF national Monetary and Financial Policies demic has bought time for [international] shall include in the annual report required THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF preparedness.’’; by section 1701 of the International Finan- CHINA OF COVID–19 AND THE IM- Whereas a University of Southampton cial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r) a de- PACT THEREOF ON THE PEOPLE study found that earlier intervention by the scription of progress made toward advancing OF THE UNITED STATES AND Government of the People’s Republic of the policies described in paragraph (1). OTHER NATIONS China could have ‘‘significantly’’ limited the (b) IMF ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL DRAWING geographic spread of COVID–19; RIGHTS.— Mr. HAWLEY (for himself, Mr. Whereas more than 120 nations have called (1) UNITED STATES SUPPORT FOR ISSUANCE.— TILLIS, and Mr. CRAMER) submitted the for an investigation of the origins of COVID– The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct following resolution; which was re- 19; and the United States Executive Director of the ferred to the Committee on Foreign Whereas the Government of the People’s International Monetary Fund to use the Relations: Republic of China continues to prevent a voice and vote of the United States to sup- credible international investigation of the S. RES. 18 port the issuance of a special allocation of origins of COVID–19, including by restricting not less than 2,000,000,000,000 Special Drawing Whereas the novel coronavirus, hereafter access by investigators to certain locations Rights so that governments are able to ac- referred to as COVID–19, emerged in the Peo- and information in the People’s Republic of cess additional resources to finance their re- ple’s Republic of China and began to spread China: Now, therefore, be it sponses to the global COVID–19 pandemic. as early as November 2019; (2) AUTHORIZATION TO VOTE FOR ALLOCA- Whereas, by late December, dozens of citi- Resolved, That the Senate— TION.—Notwithstanding section 6(a) of the zens of the People’s Republic of China had (1) condemns the decision by the Govern- Special Drawing Rights Act (22 U.S.C. fallen victim to COVID–19; ment of the People’s Republic of China to 286q(a)), the United States Governor of the Whereas, on December 30, 2019, Wuhan hide the emergence and spread of COVID–19 International Monetary Fund may vote to health authorities identified, interrogated, within its borders during the initial weeks of allocate up to 2,000,000,000,000 Special Draw- and reprimanded multiple doctors in re- the pandemic; ing Rights under article XVIII of the Arti- sponse to their decisions to warn other Chi- (2) assesses that the decision by the Gov- cles of Agreement of the International Mone- nese citizens of the danger posed by this new ernment of the People’s Republic of China to tary Fund. disease; hide the emergence and spread of COVID–19 (c) TERMINATION.—Subsections (a) and (b) Whereas, on January 1, 2020, the Wuhan during that period almost certainly contrib- shall have no force or effect after the earlier Public Security Bureau questioned eight uted to the rapid spread of that disease of— Chinese doctors who had posted information throughout the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the (1) the date that is one year after the date on COVID–19 on WeChat; rest of the world; of the enactment of this Act; or Whereas, on January 1, 2020, the Hubei Pro- (3) finds that the Government of the Peo- (2) the date that is 30 days after the date vincial Health Commission ordered labora- ple’s Republic of China should be held ac- on which the Secretary of the Treasury, in tories to stop testing for COVID–19 and de- countable for the impact of its decision to consultation with the Secretary of Health stroy samples of the same; hide the emergence and spread of COVID–19 and Human Services and the heads of other Whereas, on January 2, 2020, the Wuhan In- on the lives and livelihoods of the people of relevant Federal agencies, submits to the stitute of Virology mapped the genome of the United States and other nations; Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen- COVID–19 in order to inform development of (4) calls for an international investigation ate and the Committee on Financial Services public health interventions and medical led by public health officials from the United of the House of Representatives a report treatments for COVID–19, but the Govern- States and other affected nations and free stating that the SARS–CoV–2 virus is no ment of the People’s Republic of China with- from any restrictions by the Government of longer a serious threat to public health in held genetic information on COVID–19 until the People’s Republic of China to determine any part of the world. January 9; how the handling by the Government of the f Whereas, on January 11, 2020, the Wuhan People’s Republic of China of the COVID–19 Health Commission insisted that there were outbreak prior to March 11, 2020, contributed SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS no new cases of infection by COVID–19; to the emergence of the COVID–19 global Whereas, on January 13, 2020, the first pandemic; and identified COVID–19 case outside of the Peo- (5) calls on the international community— SENATE RESOLUTION 17—EX- ple’s Republic of China was announced in (A) to quantify the harm caused by the PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE Thailand; handling of the Government of the People’s SENATE THAT CLEAN WATER IS Whereas, on January 14, 2020, the World Republic of China to the health and eco- A NATIONAL PRIORITY AND Health Organization announced that the nomic well-being of the people of the United THAT THE APRIL 21, 2020, NAVI- Government of the People’s Republic of States and other nations; and GABLE WATERS PROTECTION China had seen ‘‘no clear evidence of human- (B) to design a mechanism for delivering RULE SHOULD NOT BE WITH- to-human transmission of the novel compensation from the Government of the DRAWN OR VACATED coronavirus’’; People’s Republic of China to all affected na- Whereas, on January 23, 2020, the Govern- tions for the harm caused by its decision to Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mrs. CAPITO, ment of the People’s Republic of China began hide the emergence and spread of COVID–19 Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. DAINES, Mr. BAR- to implement quarantine measures to stem during the initial weeks of the pandemic.

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SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS MEETINGS SCHEDULED committee during the 117th Congress, FEBRUARY 2 and the nomination of Gina Marie Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Raimondo, of Rhode Island, to be Sec- Time to be announced retary of Commerce. agreed to by the Senate of February 4, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs SR–325 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- Organizational business meeting to con- Committee on Energy and Natural Re- sider committee rules, an original reso- tem for a computerized schedule of all sources lution authorizing expenditures by the meetings and hearings of Senate com- To hold hearings to examine data and committee during the 117th Congress, mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- and the nomination of Denis Richard analysis by the United States’ and tees, and committees of conference. McDonough, of Maryland, to be Sec- world’s leading authorities on global This title requires all such committees retary of Veterans Affairs. climate trends from energy related sec- tors, focusing on where and how to notify the Office of the Senate Daily TBA 9:30 a.m. progress has been made in addressing Digest—designated by the Rules Com- Committee on Armed Services climate change. mittee—of the time, place and purpose To hold hearings to examine the nomina- SD–G50 of the meetings, when scheduled and tion of Kathleen Holland Hicks, of Vir- Committee on Foreign Relations any cancellations or changes in the ginia, to be Deputy Secretary of De- Business meeting to consider pending fense. calendar business. meetings as they occur. SD–G50 SD–106 As an additional procedure along 10:30 a.m. 2 p.m. with the computerization of this infor- Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Committee on Environment and Public Forestry Works mation, the Office of the Senate Daily To hold hearings to examine the nomina- To hold hearings to examine the nomina- Digest will prepare this information for tion of Thomas J. Vilsack, of Iowa, to tion of Michael Stanley Regan, of printing in the Extensions of Remarks be Secretary of Agriculture. North Carolina, to be Administrator of section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SR–301 the Environmental Protection Agency. on Monday and Wednesday of each FEBRUARY 3 SD–106 week. 10 a.m. FEBRUARY 4 Committee on Commerce, Science, and 10 a.m. Meetings scheduled for Thursday, Transportation Committee on Foreign Relations January 28, 2021 may be found in the Organizational business meeting to con- Business meeting to consider pending Daily Digest of today’s RECORD. sider committee rules, an original reso- calendar business. lution authorizing expenditures by the SR–325

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Thursday, January 28 9 a.m., Thursday, January 28

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Thursday: Senate will be in a period of Program for Thursday: House will meet in Pro Forma morning business. session at 9 a.m. At 1:45 p.m., Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.

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