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E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 116 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 166 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 No. 165 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was According to the Pension Benefit dares to play by the rules and behave called to order by the President pro Guaranty Corporation’s annual projec- like a majority, it would mean ‘‘the tempore (Mr. GRASSLEY). tions—and those reports were released end of this supposedly great delibera- f last week—there is a very big need for tive body’’—‘‘the end of this supposedly reform. That is as important as ever great deliberative body.’’ PRAYER and getting more important every day. Yesterday, we learned what he The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- The report estimates that the Multi- meant. We saw important Senate busi- fered the following prayer: employer Insurance Program will be- ness hurt by what amounted to a tem- Let us pray. come insolvent in 2026. That is a year per tantrum. For some reason, the Gracious God, empower our law- later than predicted last year, so peo- Democratic leader decided to vent his makers to grow in grace. Make them ple might feel a little more comfort, frustration by blocking the Intel- gentle yet brave, confident yet humble, but that is only because we gave relief ligence Committee—listen to this— wise yet dependent on Your guidance. last year to the mineworkers’ plan. from holding a bipartisan counterintel- Lord, give them the wisdom to cul- What is worse is that insolvency will ligence hearing—by blocking the Intel- tivate a faith that perseveres, keeping come at the same time that the Cen- ligence Committee from holding a bi- them from growing weary in doing tral States Pension Fund will become partisan counterintelligence hearing. what is right. Strengthen their ability insolvent, then creating an even bigger The committee was set to hear from to see among their colleagues Your di- strain on the PBGC’s insurance fund. Bill Evanina, the Director of the Na- vine image. May our Senators increase Reaching a bipartisan reform agree- tional Counterintelligence and Secu- in favor with You and humanity. Fill ment continues to be critically impor- rity Center. This is the Nation’s top them with a passion to live for Your tant. I am very encouraged by recent counterintelligence official. Among glory. indications from my Democratic col- other things, he works directly on pro- We praise You for being our helper, leagues that they are interested in tecting our elections and our politics and we desire to magnify Your Holy working with us to find a solution—a from foreign interference. That is his Name. Amen. solution that will strengthen this im- job. They were going to hear from him. f portant part of our retirement system This is the same Democratic leader PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE while ensuring that taxpayers aren’t who declared a few weeks ago that if The President pro tempore led the left holding the bag again in the fu- the Intelligence Committee did not Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: ture. stay close to Congress on election secu- rity, it would be ‘‘an abdication of I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the I yield the floor. United States of America, and to the Repub- I suggest the absence of a quorum. [their] duty . to protect our democ- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The racy.’’ Just last week, he wrote me a indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. clerk will call the roll. letter saying election security had to The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. The senior assistant legislative clerk be ‘‘above partisan politics.’’ But now LOEFFLER). The Senator from Iowa. proceeded to call the roll. the Democratic leader’s temper is more Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, I Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, important. He denied Chairman RUBIO ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 I ask unanimous consent that the order routine permission for the bipartisan minute in morning business. for the quorum call be rescinded. committee to meet. He said: ‘‘[W]e The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without won’t have business as usual here in objection, it is so ordered. objection, it is so ordered. the Senate.’’ f f Today, both the Intelligence Com- mittee and the Armed Services Com- MULTIEMPLOYER PENSION RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY mittee are scheduled to meet. They are SYSTEM LEADER set to speak with top intelligence and Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- military officials about election secu- quite often in our newspapers, you can jority leader is recognized. rity. I guess we will find out whether read about a lot of city and State pen- f the Democratic leader’s embarrassing sion funds that are in trouble. There is theatrics were just a 1-day matinee or one at the national level we have to JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS whether he means to make this a se- deal with, so today I speak about the Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, ries. multiemployer pension system prob- 2 days ago, the Democratic leader Our bipartisan committees have a lems and the need for reform. threatened that if the Senate majority great deal of work to do to safeguard ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S5795 . VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Sep 24, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A23SE6.000 S23SEPT1 ctelli on DSK30NT082PROD with SENATE S5796 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE September 23, 2020 our Nation and, in particular, to pro- personal brand out of filibustering judi- Americans took care to ensure Sen- tect our elections, so I hope our col- cial nominees. Talented, hard-working ate Democrats could not stand in the league from New York gets out of the people’s careers were destroyed, like way of a fair process. So that is exactly way. the brilliant lawyer Miguel Estrada, a what the Senate will provide. But the Democratic leader didn’t close friend of now-Justice Elena f stop there. A few minutes later, he de- Kagan, who says he is ‘‘extraordinary’’ GOVERNMENT FUNDING cided to cheapen a solemn and unifying and ‘‘thoughtful’’ and would have made moment and turned a draft unanimous ‘‘an excellent addition to any Federal Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, resolution honoring Justice Ginsburg court.’’ People like that, literally, were now on another matter, yesterday the into one more depressing stunt for the destroyed by Democratic tactics. House passed a government funding TV cameras. This version of the now-Democratic resolution on a bipartisan basis. It will Over the weekend, I wrote a resolu- leader said filibustering judges was an now make its way through the Senate. A few days ago, when House Demo- tion honoring the late Justice’s amaz- essential part—an essential part—of crats released their first draft, Repub- ing life. Normally, such measures are the Senate. He said that if Republicans licans immediately spoke out about a adopted with unanimous, bipartisan ever used the nuclear option to huge omission. It intentionally ne- support. That is exactly what we did ‘‘change the rules in midstream’’ be- cause ‘‘they can’t get their way on glected the needs of farm country and after Justice Scalia passed. Every Sen- rural America. They tried to use our ator recognized that our collective eu- every judge . it’ll be a doomsday for democracy.’’ Nation’s farmers and ranchers as a bar- logy was no place to debate political gaining chip. questions—oh, but not this time. This But of course, in the very next Presi- dential administration, the Democratic Fortunately, thanks to the leader- time, the Democratic leader copy- ship of our colleague Senator ERNST, pasted the tribute I had written, put leader leapt at the chance to press that doomsday button himself. Democrats along with Senators HOEVEN, BOOZMAN, his name on top, and added two divi- and many other Republican colleagues, sive references to our debate over what could not abide by President Obama’s being constrained by the same rules we made it clear right away that we to do next. He didn’t devote any time would not let Democrats leave farmers or attention to the language praising they had imposed on President Bush. They had no patience to taste their behind. Justice Ginsburg’s life and career. He The Commodity Credit Corporation own medicine. So the Democratic lead- did not suggest a single change to any is an essential source of funding for our er suddenly decided that ‘‘the old rules of that. His sole focus was on turning a farmers. For years it has been rou- need to be modified.’’ He voted to use solemn routine and unanimous mo- tinely refilled with bipartisan support, the nuclear option to lower the bar. but this year Speaker PELOSI tried to ment for Justice Ginsburg into a plat- So there actually has been one con- take Middle America hostage for unre- form for himself. sistent principle all this time. For the lated political brinksmanship. Justice Ginsburg could not be more Democratic leader, two things qualify I am grateful to Senator ERNST and deserving of the honor of a formal Sen- as a crisis when it comes to the courts. ate tribute. I hope our colleague from everyone who fought hard to fix the The sky is falling when a Democratic Democrats’ bill. Republicans kept the New York will let us pass one some- President does not get to confirm every time soon.
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