S3170 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 24, 2020 issue you have. They did not stick NAYS—48 Portman Sasse Tillis Risch Scott (FL) Toomey around for that meeting. Baldwin Harris Reed Roberts Scott (SC) Wicker Bennet Hassan Rosen My concern is that 80 percent just Romney Shelby Blumenthal Heinrich Sanders Young Rounds Sullivan won’t do. My concern is that our Booker Hirono Schatz Rubio Thune friends on the other side will not take Brown Jones Schumer advantage of this opportunity to say to Cantwell Kaine Shaheen NAYS—45 Cardin King Sinema Baldwin Harris Rosen the communities that are suffering: We Carper Klobuchar Smith Bennet Hassan Sanders see you. We hear you. We are willing to Casey Leahy Stabenow Blumenthal Heinrich Schatz Collins Manchin Tester respond as one body. Booker Hirono Schumer Coons Markey Udall Brown Kaine Shaheen I implore all of us to vote for the mo- Cortez Masto Menendez Van Hollen Cantwell Klobuchar Sinema tion to proceed so that if there are rec- Duckworth Merkley Warner Cardin Leahy Smith Durbin Murphy Warren ommendations that come in the form Carper Markey Stabenow Feinstein Murray Whitehouse of amendments, we have a vote up or Casey McConnell Tester Gillibrand Peters Wyden down on those amendments. I have of- Coons Menendez Udall fered as many amendments as nec- The nomination was confirmed. Cortez Masto Merkley Van Hollen The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Duckworth Murphy Warner essary for this bill to be seen by the Durbin Murray Warren public, and, in consultation with the HYDE-SMITH). Under the previous order, Feinstein Peters Whitehouse other side, let it be their bill—not TIM the motion to reconsider is considered Gillibrand Reed Wyden SCOTT’s bill, not the Republican bill, made and laid upon the table, and the The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this not the Democrat bill, but a bill that President will be immediately notified vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 45. starts to address the issues that have of the Senate’s action. Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- plagued this Nation for decades. sen and sworn not having voted in the f This is not my first start at this leg- affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. islation. I started on this bill 5 years CLOTURE MOTION ago, but I could not find voices that MOTION TO RECONSIDER The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant would push forward reforms brought to Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the our attention by the Walter Scott enter a motion to reconsider the vote. Senate the pending cloture motion, shooting in 2013. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- which the clerk will state. I will close with this: I respect people tion is entered. The senior assistant legislative clerk The majority leader. with whom I disagree. They have the read as follows: right to disagree. My pastor tells me I Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I CLOTURE MOTION have the right to be wrong, which want to explain the reason I changed to means I am not right all the time. But We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- no. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the I am in strong support of the bill on this bill, if you don’t think we are Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby that has been crafted by the Senator right, make it better. Don’t walk away. move to bring to a close debate on the mo- from South Carolina. In order to have Vote for the motion to proceed so that tion to proceed to Calendar No. 480, S. 3985, an opportunity to reconsider the vote we have an opportunity to deal with a bill to improve and reform policing prac- without waiting for 2 days, I changed this very real threat to the America tices, accountability, and transparency. my vote and moved to reconsider, that is civil, that is balanced. This is Mitch McConnell, Cory Gardner, Ben which means that it could come back an opportunity to say yes—to say yes Sasse, Steve Daines, Rob Portman, at any time should progress be made. not to us but to those folks who are John Cornyn, David Perdue, Joni Ernst, James Lankford, Roger F. f waiting for our leadership to stand and Wicker, Mike Crapo, Thom Tillis, Todd be counted. Young, Michael B. Enzi, John Hoeven, LEGISLATIVE SESSION VOTE ON WILSON NOMINATION Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- MORNING BUSINESS the previous order, all postcloture time imous consent, the mandatory quorum Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I has expired. call has been waived. The question is, Is it the sense of the ask unanimous consent that the Sen- The question is, Will the Senate ad- ate proceed to legislative session for a vise and consent to the Wilson nomina- Senate that debate on the motion to proceed to S. 3985, a bill to improve and period of morning business, with Sen- tion? ators permitted to speak therein for up Mr. LEE. I call for the yeas and nays. reform policing practices, account- ability and transparency, shall be to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without sufficient second? brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory objection, it is so ordered. There appears to be a sufficient sec- under the rule. f ond. The clerk will call the roll. NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZA- The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk TION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR The legislative clerk called the roll. called the roll. 2021—Motion to Proceed The result was announced—yeas 52, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I nays 48, as follows: LANKFORD). Are there any other Sen- move to proceed to Calendar No. 483, S. [Rollcall Vote No. 125 Ex.] ators in the Chamber desiring to vote 4049. YEAS—52 or change their vote? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 55, Alexander Gardner Portman clerk will report the motion. Barrasso Graham Risch nays 45, as follows: The senior assistant legislative clerk Blackburn Grassley Roberts [Rollcall Vote No. 126 Ex.] read as follows: Blunt Hawley Romney YEAS—55 Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 483, S. Boozman Hoeven Rounds Braun Hyde-Smith Rubio Alexander Crapo Johnson 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal Burr Inhofe Sasse Barrasso Cruz Jones year 2021 for military activities of the De- Capito Johnson Scott (FL) Blackburn Daines Kennedy partment of Defense, for military construc- Cassidy Kennedy Blunt Enzi King Scott (SC) tion, and for defense activities of the Depart- Cornyn Lankford Boozman Ernst Lankford Shelby ment of Energy, to prescribe military per- Cotton Lee Braun Fischer Lee Sullivan Cramer Loeffler Burr Gardner Loeffler sonnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for Crapo McConnell Thune Capito Graham Manchin other purposes. Cruz McSally Tillis Cassidy Grassley McSally CLOTURE MOTION Toomey Daines Moran Collins Hawley Moran Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Enzi Murkowski Wicker Cornyn Hoeven Murkowski Ernst Paul Young Cotton Hyde-Smith Paul send a cloture motion to the desk for Fischer Perdue Cramer Inhofe Perdue the motion to proceed. VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:41 Jun 25, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G24JN6.012 S24JNPT1 SSpencer on DSK126QN23PROD with SENATE June 24, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3171 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- and universities—are stronger today hope in this country for a little Black ture motion having been presented because of President Trump than they boy like me—14 years old. I failed under rule XXII, the Chair directs the ever have been. Spanish, English, world geography, and clerk to read the motion. The time to act is now and to stop civics. The senior assistant legislative clerk playing politics and pandering to the Civics, as we all know, is as close as read as follows: Democratic base, and let’s get some- it gets to failing politics. I will say CLOTURE MOTION thing done. This bill was never in- that, today, this body, as a whole, is We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- tended to be an end all. It was intended failing civics, or is failing in politics. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the to be a platform for constructive de- As the Lord would have it, I had an Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby bate, and here we are with only two amazing mother who believed that it move to bring to a close debate on the mo- Democratic Senators voting to even was her responsibility to pray me out tion to proceed to Calendar No. 483, S. 4049, start the debate. of the hard situations I found myself a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal I yield to Senator TIM SCOTT. in, and I had the good fortune of meet- year 2021 for military activities of the De- Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. I ing a mentor after I got through sum- partment of Defense, for military construc- thank the Senator from Georgia. mer school, who redirected me. I pulled tion, and for defense activities of the Depart- Mr. President, there is scripture in myself together with the help of a pow- ment of Energy, to prescribe military per- erful family, a praying grandmother, sonnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for the Bible in the Book of Ezekiel, chap- other purposes. ter 33, somewhere around verse 6. This and a whole lot of faith. I caught up Mitch McConnell, Marsha Blackburn, scripture talks about a watchman on a with my class, and I graduated on Joni Ernst, John Boozman, Steve wall, and his job is to simply say there time.