S6696 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 5, 2016 along two tracks; one track for author- and the legislation provides that the dent presiding. We welcome him here izing programs and one deciding how money cannot be diverted for any other today. We look forward to welcoming much to spend on those programs. purpose than what we vote for today him back later in the week. I know During the last 2 years, while we and tomorrow. Members will have plenty to say about have been working on our authorizing In addition, this year’s portion of his life and his legacy later in the legislation, our appropriations com- Cures funding—including one-half bil- week, but today the Senate would like mittees have recommended major in- lion for opioid grants—is included in to specifically acknowledge his efforts creases in support for biomedical re- the continuing resolution that we will to help Americans struggling with can- search, and it is important that every vote on later this week. cer. Senator know this. In the current year, This is the kind of lasting legacy the He has known the cruel toll this dis- at the urging of Senators BLUNT and President of the United States and our ease can take, but he hasn’t let it de- Senator MURRAY, Congress added $2 Congress can be proud of. The next ad- feat him. He has chosen to fight back. billion a year to the $32 billion budget ministration or the next Congress will He has taken a leading role, and the of the National Institutes of Health, not be repealing this law because we Senate will soon pass the 21st Century which could total $20 billion over 10 have taken the time to work out our Cures Act as a testament to his tre- years. Then, the Senate Appropriations differences and create a consensus of mendous effort. Committee recommended another $2 support. We did this at this time last I think it is fitting to dedicate this billion increase for the next fiscal year, year with an equally complicated bill bill’s critical cancer initiatives in 2017, which could total another $20 bil- to fix No Child Left Behind, which, de- honor of someone who would be proud lion over 10 years. This 21st Century spite its complexities, received 85 votes of the Presiding Officer today, and that Cures legislation adds $4.8 billion in a in this body. When he signed it, the is his son Beau. In just a moment, that surge of one-time spending for the Na- President called it a ‘‘Christmas mir- is exactly what the Senate will do—re- tional Institutes of Health on top of acle.’’ naming the NIH’s cancer initiatives in the regular appropriated money toward The 21st Century Cures bill will this bill after Beau Biden. key objectives: $1.8 billion for the Can- present President Obama with another Mr. REID. Will the Senator yield for cer Moonshot, $1.4 billion for precision Christmas miracle, one that will help a brief statement? medicine, $1.6 for the BRAIN Initiative, virtually every family. When we pass Mr. MCCONNELL. If I could say to and it adds $1 billion for State grants this legislation, the real winners will my friend the Democratic leader, I to help States fight the opioid abuse be the American families whose lives have one more thing here. epidemic. I believe that for every State will be improved by this bipartisan leg- Therefore, Mr. President, I ask unan- represented by a Senator here tonight, islation. imous consent that the Senate proceed the opioid epidemic is on the front Mr. President, I yield the floor. to the consideration of H. Con. Res. 174, pages of the newspapers. It adds $500 I suggest the absence of a quorum. which is at the desk. million for the Food and Drug Admin- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk istration, and 21st Century Cures also clerk will call the roll. will report the concurrent resolution gives the National Institutes of Health The senior assistant legislative clerk by title. $30 million for clinical trials to support proceeded to call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk regenerative medicine, which the Mayo Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I read as follows: Clinic has described as a ‘‘game-chang- ask unanimous consent that the order A concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 174) ing area of medicine with the potential for the quorum call be rescinded. directing the Clerk of the House of Rep- resentatives to make a correction in the en- to fully heal damaged tissues and or- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without rollment of H.R. 34. gans, offering solutions and hope for objection, it is so ordered. There being no objection, the Senate people who have conditions that are be- Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, proceeded to consider the concurrent yond repair.’’ It gives the FDA author- with the permission of my distin- resolution. ity to allow regenerative therapeutic guished chairman, who has worked AMENDMENT NO. 5137 products to be eligible for FDA’s exist- very hard on this bill and whose efforts ing accelerated drug approval pathway. I appreciate very much, I wanted to (Purpose: To make additional corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 34) I wish to acknowledge the work of add, very briefly, that I hope very Speaker RYAN and Leader MCCONNELL much and look forward to working Mr. MCCONNELL. I call up an in designing a way to secure funding with my colleagues to assure that the amendment, which would rename a that both Democrats and Republicans second tranche of the opioid funding is title of the bill. can accept. That is not always easy. aligned with the CARA bill, or the I would say to the clerk that I would For those concerned about additional Comprehensive Addiction and Recov- like for her to read it in its entirety. spending—often on our side of the ery Act, which we just passed in such The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk aisle—Speaker RYAN and House Budget bipartisan fashion a few months ago. will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk Chairman TOM PRICE made sure the We have not achieved that alignment funding is one time, not mandatory, yet, and I hope that we do very soon. I read as follows: paid for, and approved each year by Ap- appreciate the terrific efforts of my The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. propriations Committees. It doesn’t MCCONNELL] proposes an amendment num- chairman. bered 5137. add one penny to the overall budget be- With that, I yield. Beginning on page 1, line 7, strike ‘‘fol- cause for every increase in the discre- I suggest the absence of a quorum. lowing correction:’’ and all that follows and tionary budget, we reduce the same The PRESIDING OFFICER. The insert the following: amount in the mandatory ledger. clerk will call the roll. ‘‘following corrections: For those who worry that Congress The senior assistant legislative clerk ‘‘(1) Amend the long title so as to read: ‘An might not approve the $6.3 billion in proceeded to call the roll. Act to accelerate the discovery, develop- ment, and delivery of 21st century cures, and additional spending in later years—I Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I for other purposes.’. have heard a little of that from the ask unanimous consent that the order ‘‘(2) Amend the section heading for section other side of the aisle—my answer is for the quorum call be rescinded. 1001 so as to read: ‘BEAU BIDEN CANCER MOON- that the best way to ensure the money The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob- SHOT AND NIH INNOVATION PROJECTS’. is spent in the following years is a big jection, it is so ordered. ‘‘(3) Amend the table of contents in section vote today and tomorrow when we fi- f 1 so that the item relating to section 1001 nally pass the bill, just as the House reads as follows: did last week. DIRECTING THE CLERK OF THE ‘‘ ‘1001. Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot and NIH In conclusion, it will be hard to ex- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES innovation projects.’.’’. plain why you voted to spend $6.3 bil- TO MAKE A CORRECTION IN THE Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I lion for cancer, the Precision Medicine ENROLLMENT OF H.R. 34 ask unanimous consent that the Initiative, and opioids this year but Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, it is amendment be agreed to, the concur- then voted not to spend it next year, a rare day when we see the Vice Presi- rent resolution, as amended, be agreed

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She had grown up in Chicago ed, was agreed to. siring to vote? with a family of modest means. (Applause.) The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 85, During the course of her childhood, The VICE PRESIDENT. Thank you. nays 13, as follows: she signed up for what is known as the The Democratic leader. [Rollcall Vote No. 156 Leg.] Merit music program in Chicago. They Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say to all YEAS—85 offered free instruments and free musi- my colleagues, the Presiding Officer cal instruction to kids from low-in- served in the Senate for 36 years. Dur- Alexander Feinstein Murphy Ayotte Fischer Nelson come families. It is a great program. ing that time he was here, he was Baldwin Flake Paul Tereza Lee signed up, and it turned out about as much a man of the Senate as Barrasso Franken Perdue she had an extraordinary talent at anyone could be. He was a Democrat, Bennet Gardner Peters piano. When she came to contact my Blumenthal Graham Reed but he was also available to anybody Blunt Grassley office, it was as she was leaving high anytime, and I so admire him. I know Reid Booker Hatch Risch school and applying to be accepted at Boozman Heinrich that he has worked very closely with Roberts the best music schools in the Amer- Burr Heitkamp the Republican leader on some very Rounds Cantwell Heller ica—Juilliard in New York and the important issues the last 8 years. Cardin Hirono Rubio Conservatory of Music in Manhattan. I want the record to be spread with Carper Hoeven Sasse She went to fill out the application, the fact that the Presiding Officer is as Casey Inhofe Schatz Scott and when it came to a question of her proud of his family as anyone could be, Cassidy Isakson Coats Johnson Sessions citizenship and nationality, she wasn’t and doing this for Beau only furthers Cochran Kaine Shaheen certain what to put. Her mother sug- the effect that this man, the Presiding Collins King Shelby gested that she call our office, and she Officer, has had on this country. I am Coons Kirk Stabenow Corker Klobuchar Sullivan did. We told her that under the law she grateful to the Republican leader for Cornyn Lankford Tester was undocumented, brought here at the allowing me to cosponsor this impor- Cotton Leahy Thune age of 2 on a visitor visa. Her mother tant amendment, changing the name of Crapo Markey Tillis had never filed any papers for her. She this bill to the Beau Biden Memorial Cruz McCain Toomey Daines McCaskill had grown up in America thinking she Moonshot. Vitter Donnelly McConnell Warner was an American citizen like her Durbin I am grateful to you, the Republican Menendez Whitehouse brother and sister who were born here, Enzi Mikulski leader. All of the Senators understand Wicker Ernst Moran and she came to realize at the age of 17 that the man presiding is really a man or 18 that in the eyes of the law she had of the Senate and always will be. NAYS—13 no legal standing in America. (Applause.) Boxer Manchin Schumer The law is pretty harsh for people f Brown Merkley Udall Capito Murkowski Warren like Tereza. The law says she needs to TSUNAMI WARNING, EDUCATION, Gillibrand Portman leave the United States for 10 years AND RESEARCH ACT OF 2015— Lee Sanders and apply to return to the United Continued NOT VOTING—2 States. Murray Wyden Where would she go—to Korea? She CLOTURE MOTION had never been there. She grew up in The VICE PRESIDENT. Pursuant to The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, Brazil for a short period of time. She rule XXII, the Chair lays before the the yeas are 85, the nays are 13. didn’t speak the language. She doesn’t Senate the pending cloture motion, Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- speak Portuguese. which the clerk will state. sen and sworn having voted in the af- She was caught in the middle. That The senior assistant legislative clerk firmative, the motion is agreed to. is why I introduced the DREAM Act. It read as follows: Cloture having been invoked, the mo- said that young people brought to the CLOTURE MOTION tion to refer and the amendments United States by their parents before We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- thereto fall. the age of 16, if they finish school and ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Mr. THUNE. I suggest the absence of have no serious criminal issues, should Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby a quorum. move to bring to a close debate on the mo- be given a chance to go to school fur- The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk ther and have a legal status in America tion to concur in the House amendment to will call the roll. the Senate amendment to H.R. 34, an act to and, ultimately, to earn their way to authorize and strengthen the tsunami detec- The bill clerk proceeded to call the citizenship—going to the back of the tion, forecast, warning, research, and mitiga- roll. line and waiting their turn but at least tion program of the National Oceanic and Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask setting that as their goal. I introduced Atmospheric Administration, and for other unanimous consent that the order for that bill 15 years ago. It has never be- purposes. the quorum call be rescinded. come law, but there are 2.5 million peo- Mitch McConnell, Johnny Isakson, Bob The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Corker, Richard Burr, Pat Roberts, ple in that circumstance in America. LANKFORD). Without objection, it is so Six years ago, the President of the Roy Blunt, Thom Tillis, Lindsey Gra- ordered. ham, Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, United States created something called Chuck Grassley, Michael B. Enzi, John DACA DACA, the Deferred Action for Child- Barrasso, Shelley Moore Capito, John Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, last Fri- hood Arrivals program, by an Execu- McCain, Bill Cassidy. day I had a meeting in Chicago with tive action. As a result of that action, The VICE PRESIDENT. By unani- about 50 in attendance. It was Friday President Obama allowed these eligible mous consent, the mandatory quorum morning, and we gathered groups of DREAMers—as they have come to be call has been waived. people from across the city of Chicago known—to receive DACA status. The question is, Is it the sense of the and the State of Illinois who were fo- In order to do it, they have to apply, Senate that debate on the motion to cusing on one make-or-break issue for come out of the shadows, declare them- concur in the House amendment to the many of us. It was an emotional issue, selves, file a fee of about $500 with the Senate amendment to H.R. 34 shall be one that caused many to break down in government, go through a criminal brought to a close? tears as they told me their stories. It is background check, and then be given The yeas and nays are mandatory the reason I have come back to the temporary—only temporary—legal sta- under the rule. floor of the Senate today and every day tus so they can’t be deported and can

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