[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S1096]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SENATE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, now on another matter, this week the 
Senate will continue to fulfill both of our constitutional charges: We 
will vote on important legislation, and we will provide advice and 
consent on a number of Presidential nominations. We will begin with two 
nominations to the Federal bench in U.S. territories.
  Judge Robert Molloy, who currently sits on the U.S. Virgin Islands 
Superior Court, is nominated to serve on the U.S. District Court for 
the Virgin Islands for a term of 10 years. Judge Silvia Carreno-Coll 
currently serves as a U.S. magistrate judge for the District of Puerto 
Rico and has been nominated to be a U.S. district judge. Both 
nominations were reported out of committee on a voice vote.
  This week we will also consider Katharine MacGregor, the President's 
nominee to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior, and Travis Greaves, a 
nominee to serve as judge on the U.S. Tax Court for a term of 15 years.
  But first, following the first two nominations, the Senate will turn 
to important legislation put forward by Senators Graham and Sasse to 
expand protections for innocent lives. Senator Graham's Pain-Capable 
Unborn Child Protection Act would finally remove the United States from 
a list of only seven nations, including China and North Korea, that 
permit elective abortion after 20 weeks. It would bring our Nation's 
regard for the unborn off this sad and radical fringe and bring us more 
in line with the global mainstream.
  I do not believe this legislation should be controversial, but even 
less controversial should be Senator Sasse's Born-Alive Abortion 
Survivors Protection Act. It would simply ensure that infants who 
survive abortion attempts receive the same level of professional care 
as any other children.
  My colleagues and I will have more to say on this subject in the days 
ahead, but I will urge all Senators to join me in supporting these 
nominees and these pieces of legislation when we vote on them this 
week.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Ernst). The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CASEY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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