[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 10, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4867-S4869]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE SESSION

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   NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume legislative session.


                        Vote on Compound Motion

  The question occurs on agreeing to the pending motion with respect to 
the House message to accompany H.R. 5515.
  Mr. INHOFE. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 8, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Leg.]

                                YEAS--91

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--8

     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Markey
     Merkley
     Paul
     Sanders
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     McCain
       
  The motion was agreed to.

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                           Motion to Instruct

  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I have at the desk a motion to instruct 
conferees, which I ask for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Texas [Mr. Cornyn] moves that the managers 
     on the part of the Senate at the conference on the 
     disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Senate amendment 
     to the bill H.R. 5515 be instructed to insist that the final 
     conference report include language to maintain the position 
     of the Senate regarding modernization of the Committee on 
     Foreign Investment in the United States, as reflected in 
     title XVII of the Senate amendment.

  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, this motion to instruct conferees for the 
Defense authorization bill is related to our reforms of the operation 
of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
  It is no secret that China is weaponizing its investments in the 
United States to exploit national security vulnerabilities, including 
backdoor transfers of dual-use U.S. technology and related know-how.
  I am delighted to be working with Mrs. Feinstein, the Senator from 
California, on this issue. I thank our friend Senator Inhofe, who has 
taken a leadership role on the Armed Services Committee, and Senator 
Crapo for the unanimous vote on the Banking Committee.
  I yield to Senator Inhofe.
  Mr. INHOFE. Just for one comment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I commend the Senator from Texas, Mr. 
Cornyn, for the effort he has put forth on a very difficult issue. I 
wholeheartedly agree with him.
  I must say that this morning I received a phone call from Secretary 
Mattis, who strongly supports this and says we really need to have 
this.
  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the remaining 
votes in the series be 10 minutes in length, and I yield back the 
remaining time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from Rhode Island.
  Mr. REED. Mr. President, I commend Senator Cornyn and Senator 
Feinstein for their extraordinary work on this vital legislation and 
urge complete support.
  I yield the floor, and I yield back all time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
instruct.
  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 2, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 148 Leg.]

                                YEAS--97

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--2

     Lee
     Paul
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     McCain
       
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.


                           Motion to Instruct

  Mr. REED. Mr. President, I have a motion at the desk, and I ask that 
it be read.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Reed] moves that the 
     managers on the part of the Senate at the conference on the 
     disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Senate amendment 
     to the bill H.R. 5515 be instructed to--
       (1) reaffirm the commitment of the United States to the 
     North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance as a 
     community of freedom, peace, security, and shared values, 
     including liberty, human rights, democracy, and the rule of 
     law;
       (2) reaffirm the ironclad commitment of the United States 
     to its obligations under Article 5 of the North Atlantic 
     Treaty to the collective self-defense of the North Atlantic 
     Treaty Organization alliance;
       (3) establish as the policy of the United States pursuit of 
     an integrated approach to strengthening the defense of allies 
     and partners in Europe as part of a broader, long-term 
     strategy using all elements of United States national power 
     to deter and, if necessary, defeat Russian aggression;
       (4) call on the Administration to urgently prioritize the 
     completion of a comprehensive, whole-of-government strategy 
     to counter malign activities of Russia that seek to undermine 
     faith in democratic institutions in the United States and 
     around the world, and to submit that strategy to Congress 
     without delay; and
       (5) reflect the support of the United States for the rules-
     based international order that has ensured, and will continue 
     to promote, an international system that benefits all 
     nations, and for deepening and expanding alliances and 
     partnerships to jointly work with one another on shared 
     challenges in Europe and the Indo-Pacific Region and 
     throughout the world.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.
  Mr. REED. Mr. President, this would instruct the conferees of the 
National Defense Authorization Act conference to support our 
traditional relationship with NATO, reaffirm our commitment to work 
with them, recognize their work with us as they deploy personnel in 
Afghanistan, as they deploy personnel to training missions in Iraq, 
and, as members of NATO armed forces, have given their lives to help us 
in Afghanistan. It recognizes our traditional, long-term support for 
NATO, and it looks forward to continued support.
  I urge adoption.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I agree with the Senator from Rhode 
Island.
  I would like to say that there are 29 members of NATO. Of the 29 
countries, if you take all of their defense budgets and add them 
together, the United States' defense dollars equal about 67 percent of 
that.
  I believe this is sending the right message to let them know that we 
appreciate them--that is, our partners in NATO--but also that our 
President has made a very strong pitch that each one of them come up 
with 2 percent for their commitment, and they have not done it. I think 
the President needs to have our support. I think this does add 
legitimacy to that request.
  I believe that burden-sharing has always been a problem. We have 
never been able to do it under Republican or Democrat Presidents, and 
this, maybe, is the time that we can get it done.
  I support this motion.
  Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to the motion to instruct.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 2, as follows:

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                      [Rollcall Vote No. 149 Leg.]

                                YEAS--97

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--2

     Lee
     Paul
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     McCain
       
  The motion was agreed to.
  The Presiding Officer appointed Mr. McCain, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Wicker, 
Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Rounds, Mrs. Ernst, Mr. Tillis, Mr. 
Sullivan, Mr. Perdue, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Graham, Mr. Sasse, Mr. Scott, Mr. 
Crapo, Mr. Reed, Mr. Nelson, Mrs. McCaskill, Mrs. Shaheen, Mrs. 
Gillibrand, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Donnelly, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kaine, Mr. 
King, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. Warren, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Brown conferees on 
the part of the Senate.

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