[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 23, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1699]
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                   Unanimous Consent Request--S. 930

  Mr. President, so let's see if we could agree in a different area--
rapists, those who committed sexual assault.
  Again, these are public records and the Department of Justice and 
every State criminal justice authority have a list of all the rapists. 
How about let's not send $1,400 checks to rapists? Take the money and 
give it to the Crime Victims Fund so it can go to victims of rape.
  Here is a choice for Democrats: Do you want to send money to the 
rapists or the victims of sexual assault? This ought to be a hundred-
or-nothing choice.
  Mr. President, as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent 
that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. 930, 
introduced earlier today. I further ask that the bill be considered 
read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  Mr. WYDEN. Reserving the right to object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.
  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I want to read, specifically, what the IRS 
has told us, because I gather my colleague would like to just continue 
this for some time. But here is what the IRS says:

       In the information the IRS receives from the Bureau of 
     Prisons and State prison systems, we do not get the crime for 
     which the person is incarcerated.

  So we can have a host more of these amendments, if my colleague wants 
to do it. But I get why he is so anxious to have his amendment passed--
because he was always for keeping people from getting checks, and his 
amendment, if passed, would put those checks on hold. So that is why I 
have objected, and we will put this into the record as well.
  I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). Objection is heard.
  Mr. CRUZ. Mr. President, once again, the Senator from Oregon has said 
something that is demonstrably false and that he knows is false, which 
is that he has suggested that I opposed sending stimulus checks to the 
American citizens, to law-abiding citizens. I not only didn't oppose 
it, I voted for it. Republicans supported it. He knows that. That is a 
red herring.

  He just read a statement from the IRS Agency saying they get a list 
of prisoners from the Bureau of Prisons, and he said: But we don't know 
the crime.
  The first unanimous consent request I put before this body is, 
everyone on that list in the Bureau of Prisons, don't send them a 
check. That doesn't delay your check. If you are not looking at bars, 
if you are not in a jail cell that is 5 feet by 10 feet, this doesn't 
affect you. This only affects criminals currently in prison.