[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 171 (Thursday, September 30, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6832]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR AMERICANS ACT--MOTION TO PROCEED

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, it is my understanding the Senate has 
received a message from the House of Representatives to accompany S. 
1301.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.
  Mr. SCHUMER. I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate the message 
to accompany S. 1301, and 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), 
the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 402 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--43

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Blackburn
     Cornyn
     Inhofe
     Moran
     Paul
     Rubio
     Tuberville
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.


                               Iron Dome

  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, it was my intention to come to the floor 
to ask unanimous consent for a $1 billion replenishment for Iron Dome. 
We Democrats believe that this is incredibly important for the safety 
and security of the State of Israel, our ally.
  Unfortunately, Senator Paul, who has an amendment to my unanimous 
consent request, could not be here tonight, and, as a courtesy to him, 
we are postponing until Monday, but on Monday I intend to come to the 
floor and ask for that unanimous consent.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.


                               Debt Limit

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I thank my colleague.
  Mr. President, so a few moments ago, the Senate voted to proceed to 
go into the House message on the debt ceiling suspension until December 
of 2022. For the information of all, this vote will only require a 
majority threshold and is a necessary procedural step before cloture 
can be filed on the House-passed legislation.
  Now, despite Republicans' twisted logic for wanting the debt limit to 
be addressed while actively blocking that from happening, the basic 
facts have not changed. The debt must be addressed; it will be 
addressed; and America cannot default.
  We Democrats are not asking Republicans to vote with us. If they want 
to vote to stop checks from going to veterans and payments to Social 
Security recipients, they can do so. But what we are saying is simply 
the Republicans ought to get out of the way so Democrats can suspend 
the debt limit.
  That is what Republicans have asked for. Leader McConnell talked 
about that idea repeatedly on the floor over the last several weeks, 
and it is the best way to avoid financial catastrophe without 
endangering the American people.

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