[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 122 (Thursday, July 19, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5098-S5099]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE SESSION

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  EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE AGAINST THE MAKING AVAILABLE OF 
   CURRENT AND FORMER DIPLOMATS, OFFICIALS, AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
   FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR QUESTIONING BY THE GOVERNMENT OF 
                             VLADIMIR PUTIN

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume legislative session to consider the following resolution, which 
the clerk will report.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 584) expressing the sense of the 
     Senate against the making available of current and former 
     diplomats, officials, and members of the Armed Forces of the 
     United States for questioning by the government of Vladimir 
     Putin.

  Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I am hopeful that we will come together 
on this resolution, which I introduced with the Senator from New Jersey 
and the Senator from Hawaii, that it is neither the policy nor the 
practice of the United States to submit our citizens, let alone our 
Ambassadors, to the interrogation of a foreign adversary.
  Let this resolution be a warning to the administration that Congress 
will not allow this to happen. I call on President Trump to say once 
and for

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all--not through his spokespeople--that the lopsided, disgraceful trade 
he called an incredible offer is now off the table. There should be no 
equivocation on the matter.
  One more point. I am so disappointed in the failure of the 
resolutions earlier today. We had a real chance for bipartisanship. The 
resolutions were modest and mild, and they were just resolutions, but 
we couldn't even come to agreement on those. Our Republican colleagues, 
given the crisis we have in foreign policy, have to step up to the 
plate and join us not just in resolutions but in bipartisan action that 
is so important.
  I was told that one of the reasons the resolution was objected to was 
because we couldn't--they didn't even want us to get the notes, let 
alone hear from the translator of this 2-hour, mysterious meeting where 
nobody seems to know what happened. The American people should know 
what happened. The Senate should know what happened. Our leaders in the 
State Department and Defense Department should know what happened. Our 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to be too afraid to let 
us bring that up. That is so wrong for the security of America.
  I am hopeful--there are bipartisan efforts going on today--that we 
cannot do what we did earlier and block the resolution by the Senator 
from Vermont and the bipartisan resolution from the Senators from 
Arizona and Delaware but move together in real action to undo the 
damage--try to undo the damage that the President has done to this 
country this week.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution.
  Mr. SCHUMER. 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Shelby).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 162 Leg.]

                                YEAS--98

     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
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--2

     McCain
     Shelby
       
  The resolution (S. Res. 584) was agreed to.
  (The resolution is printed in today's Record under ``Submitted 
Resolutions.'')

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