[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 133 (Saturday, August 6, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4195-S4204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule IV, paragraph 2, the hour of 
12 noon having joyously arrived and the Senate having been in 
continuous session since yesterday, the Senate will suspend for a 
prayer from the Senate Chaplain.

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  The Senate Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following 
prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O Lord our God, who rules the raging of the sea, our weekend work 
gently reminds us that freedom's price must be paid. As our Senators 
provide the currency of perseverance to protect and defend this land we 
love, strengthen them for the challenges and empower them for the 
vicissitudes. Remind them, as they strive to pay liberty's recurring 
bill, that You will never leave or forsake them.
  Rouse Yourself, O Lord, and help them.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee.


                            Motion to Commit

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. President, I have a motion at the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Tennessee [Mrs. Blackburn] moves to commit 
     the bill to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
     Forestry with instructions to report.

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. President, I ask that we waive the reading.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The motion is as follows:

       Mrs. Blackburn moves to commit the bill H.R. 5376 to the 
     Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate with instructions to report the same back to the 
     Senate in 3 days, not counting any day in which the Senate is 
     not in session, with changes that--
       (1) are within the jurisdiction of such committee; and
       (2) would ensure that no funding made available by the bill 
     for the environmental quality incentives program, the 
     conservation stewardship program, the agricultural 
     conservation easement program, or the regional conservation 
     partnership program may be provided to--
       (A) an agricultural producer located in the United States 
     who is a nonresident alien, foreign business, agent, trustee, 
     or fiduciary associated with the Government of the People's 
     Republic of China; or
       (B) an entity partially or wholly owned hy such an 
     agricultural producer.

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. President, right now, Chinese owners control more 
than 194,000 acres of farm and forestry land valued at $1.9 billion, as 
of the last accounting, right here in the United States. Now, much of 
this farmland is located in close proximity to our military 
institutions, and a lot of this farmland is being used so that Chinese-
owned farm operations can compete with U.S. farmers.
  My amendment would stop funds from this bill from ending up in the 
hands of agents of the Chinese Government and their businesses. This is 
a commonsense motion to commit.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.
  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, this motion to commit is a red herring 
and a complete distraction.
  The Department of Agriculture already has strict rules that all 
producers must meet before they can participate in USDA conservation 
programs.
  These dollars go to farmers who are American citizens or legal 
permanent residents for conservation practices that help protect and 
improve American soil and water. Farmers are only reimbursed after the 
practices are in place.
  This would add burdensome paperwork, unnecessary bureaucracy that 
would really bog our farmers down. This is different than circumstances 
that were just talked about with state-owned Chinese companies. This is 
not the same thing. This amendment goes right at our farmers and the 
conservation practices they are asking us to support for them.
  Again, the only reason for this amendment is to stop us from passing 
this bill, which, among other things, will cut prescription drug costs, 
create jobs, and tackle the climate crisis.
  I urge a ``no'' vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.


                             Vote on Motion

  The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  I urge a ``yes'' vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 318 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--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
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown). The Senator from Florida.


                            Motion to Commit

  Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, I have a motion at the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Florida [Mr. Rubio] has a motion to commit 
     to bill H.R. 5376 to the Committee on Health, Education, 
     Labor, and Pensions of the Senate with instructions to report 
     the same back to the Senate in 3 days, not counting any day 
     in which the Senate is not in session, with changes that--
     (1), are within the jurisdiction of such committee; and, (2) 
     would contain a definition for the term ``pregnancy'' that 
     limits maternal and infant-related program resources to 
     biological females.

  The motion is as follows:

       Mr. Rubio moves to commit the bill H.R. 5376 to the 
     Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the 
     Senate with instructions to report the same back to the 
     Senate in 3 days, not counting any day in which the Senate is 
     not in session, with changes that--
       (1) are within the jurisdiction of such committee; and
       (2) would contain a definition for the term ``pregnancy'' 
     that limits maternal and infant-related program resources to 
     biological females.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida.
  Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, the only people who are capable of being 
pregnant are biological females; and, therefore, I think Federal 
pregnancy programs should be limited to biological females and that is 
what this would do.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, let's be clear about what is going on 
here. This is a procedural attempt by Republicans to derail our ability 
to get this bill across the finish line and deliver for families in our 
country.
  It is actually outrageous that Republicans are trying to talk about 
pregnancy when in this country, right now, they are forcing women to 
stay pregnant no matter their circumstances, pushing cruel and extreme 
abortion bans.
  Republicans are now resorting to tactics like this to distract from 
the fact that they don't have any serious reasons for working so hard 
to oppose this bill that lowers costs, lowers emissions, and lowers the 
deficit.
  I urge my colleagues to vote no.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida has 40 seconds.
  Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, a few minutes ago, I looked back across 
5,500 years of human history. So far, every single pregnancy has been a 
biological female. Therefore, the only thing I am trying to do is make 
sure that the Federal law is clear that since every pregnancy that has 
ever existed has been in a biological female, that our Federal laws 
reflect that and pregnancy programs are available to the only people 
who are capable of getting pregnant--biological females. Very simple.
  I would accept a unanimous consent if they want to offer it, and we 
can move on and not waste any time.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Senator Murray has 10 seconds left.
  Mrs. MURRAY. When we are facing the challenges in this country and 
helping our constituents to lower costs, it is outrageous that 
Republicans are trying to define pregnancy, of all things, on this 
floor on this day after hours of voting on amendments.
  I urge a ``no'' vote.


                             Vote on Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is agreeing to the motion.
  Mr. RUBIO. 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.
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 319 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--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
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.


                        Points of Order En Bloc

  Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask consent to make the following four 
points of order en bloc.
  The first point of order concerns page 43, lines 3 through 8. This 
language violates section 313(b)(1)(A).
  The second point concerns page 1, lines 3 through 5. This language 
violates 313(b)(1)(A).
  The third point concerns page 547, line 18, through page 548, line 
25. This language violates section 313(b)(1)(A).
  And the fourth point of order concerns page 689, lines 8 through 16. 
This language violates section 313(b)(1)(D).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The points of order are sustained; the 
provisions are stricken under 313(b), 313(e).
  The Senator from Alaska.


                           Amendment No. 5435

  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I call up my amendment No. 5435, and I 
ask that it be reported by number.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant executive clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Sullivan] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 5435 to amendment No. 5194.

  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask that the reading be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

(Purpose: To replace the funding for the Office of the Chief Readiness 
Support Officer with a $500,000,000 appropriation for the construction 
  or improvement of primary pedestrian fencing and barriers along the 
                           southwest border)

       In title VII, strike section 70001 and insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 70001. FUNDING FOR U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION.

       In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is 
     appropriated to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for fiscal 
     year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
     appropriated, $500,000,000, which shall remain available 
     until September 30, 2027, for necessary expenses relating to 
     the construction or improvement of primary pedestrian fencing 
     and barriers along the southwest border.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, we have a true crisis--a humanitarian 
crisis, a national security crisis--right now on our southern border.
  It is a huge tragedy that my Democratic colleagues want to ignore, 
and that tragedy has spread across our Nation--crime; victims of human 
trafficking, many of them children; a fentanyl epidemic killing our 
young people; chaos--all fueled by a lawless border.
  Secure borders work. Walls work. Just ask the Biden administration, 
as they are quietly building sections of the wall in Arizona right now.
  The Democrats' partisan reconciliation bill does nothing--nothing--to 
address this crisis.
  Instead, it gives DHS $500 million for sustainability and 
environmental programs when our kids are dying from drugs streaming in 
from the border, when our communities are under siege. This should not 
be the priority for DHS.
  My amendment would take this half a billion dollars and recommit it--
this DHS money--to building the wall and securing our border, which is 
DHS's primary mission, not environmental programs.
  I ask that all my colleagues vote yes on this commonsense amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.
  Mr. PETERS. Mr. President, communities all across the country are 
suffering from exposure to PFAS--commonly used chemicals that do not 
break down and have been linked to serious health problems.
  This amendment would strike a provision in the bill that would help 
DHS repair and upgrade its facilities to protect surrounding 
communities and frontline DHS personnel from these harmful chemicals.
  This amendment, instead, seeks to continue the past administration's 
efforts to fund and construct an ill-conceived border wall on the 
southern border.
  I agree that we need secure borders, but we need smart and cost-
effective security measures, including technology and adequate 
personnel levels to meet our border security needs.
  We should be working together in a bipartisan manner to develop smart 
investments in border security.
  Let's secure our southern and northern borders instead of throwing 
taxpayer dollars to build a costly and ineffective wall.
  I urge my colleagues to vote no.
  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, how much time do I have left?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Time is expired on both sides.


                       Vote on Amendment No. 5435

  The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  Mr. SULLIVAN. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 320 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--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
  The amendment (No. 5435) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cardin). The Senator from Montana.

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                           Amendment No. 5487

  Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the following 
amendments be considered as one amendment, No. 5487: No. 5425, Mr. 
Daines; No. 5361, Ms. Ernst; No. 5360, Mrs. Fischer; No. 5224, Mr. 
Portman; No. 5411, Mr. Barrasso; and No. 5454, Ms. Murkowski. I further 
ask that there be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, on each 
division prior to the vote.


 =========================== NOTE =========================== 

  
  On page S4198, August 6, 2022, first column, the following 
appears: Mrs. Fischer; No. 5224, Mr. Portman; No. 5411, Mr. 
Lankford; and No. 5454,
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read: Mrs. Fischer; No. 
5224, Mr. Portman; No. 5411, Mr. Barrasso; and No. 5454,


 ========================= END NOTE ========================= 


  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Montana [Mr. Daines], for Mr. Graham and 
     others, proposes an amendment numbered 5487.



 =========================== NOTE =========================== 

  
  On page S4198, August 6, 2022, first column, the following 
appears: The Senator from Montana [Mr. Daines], for Mr. Graham, 
for himself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 5487.
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read: The Senator from 
Montana [Mr. Daines], for Mr. Graham and others, proposes an 
amendment numbered 5487


 ========================= END NOTE ========================= 


  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana.
  Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, my amendment would strike the anti-energy 
provisions that snuck into this bill behind closed doors.
  This partisan bill before us has a slew of provisions that raises 
royalty rates, fees, rents, and taxes that hurt our small oil and gas 
producers in America the most. By the way, it is those small oil and 
gas producers that produce over 80 percent of our supply. I guarantee 
you, if there is a rebuttal, they will talk about Big Oil, but this is 
not Big Oil; 80 percent is from the small guys. These producers don't 
have the ability to absorb the large increases from the government, so 
if you raise prices for energy producers, you raise energy prices for 
Americans.
  It is not that complicated. If you want lower gas prices, vote yes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.
  Ms. ERNST. Mr. President, this one should be simple.
  My amendment eliminates subsidies for slave and child labor. The 
price of buying a car has reached a record high, and what is the 
Democrats' answer? A tax break for wealthy coastal elites to buy 
electric vehicles produced with slave and child labor.
  Currently, this bill already prevents vehicles containing any part 
sourced or assembled in foreign entities of concern, like China or 
Russia, from being eligible for the tax credit. My amendment doesn't 
change that. My amendment simply ensures that our tax dollars don't 
subsidize EVs from any countries using child or slave labor.
  We all know the critical minerals that comprise EV batteries are 
largely mined in sub-Saharan Africa by companies abusing children, 
which are then assembled in Chinese-owned factories, many of which use 
slave labor. Subsidizing, to the tune of $7,500 per person, the 
purchase of a luxury vehicle for wealthy coastal elites that utilizes 
slave or child labor is a direct contradiction of our American values.
  We shouldn't be sacrificing a clean conscience in exchange for a so-
called cleaner car.
  I urge the adoption of the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nebraska.
  Mrs. FISCHER. Mr. President, my Democratic colleagues say wealthy 
Americans should pay their fair share. Yet they want to expand the 
electric vehicle tax credit for the rich once again.
  In this bill, there are two separate EV tax credits: one for people 
who want to buy new $80,000 vehicles and one for those who want to buy 
used EVs.
  Why two separate credits? The tax credit for new EVs is available to 
the wealthy, while the credit for the new EVs is limited to the folks 
with lower incomes. Why do my colleagues from the other side keep 
giving bigger tax breaks to their rich donors?
  My change would at least prevent taxpayer dollars from subsidizing 
the wealthy.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.
  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, this is a really easy one. Let's trade 
bureaucracy and more funding in this bill for bureaucracy at the 
Department of Homeland Security for desperately needed technology along 
the southern border to stop deadly fentanyl from coming into our 
communities.
  Tragically, over 100,000 Americans were killed last year, which is a 
record, from drug overdoses. Two-thirds of those overdoses were from 
these synthetic opioids, like fentanyl.
  We know that the vast majority of that fentanyl originates with drug 
cartels in Mexico now, and there is a surge of these deadly drugs 
coming across our southern border.
  This amendment increases funding for Customs and Border Protection by 
$500 million for badly needed technology to detect fentanyl and other 
drugs. If you can believe it, right now, only 2 percent of cars--2 
percent--and 14, 15, 16 percent, maybe, of commercial vehicles are 
being screened. Both GAO and the Department of Homeland Security IG 
have done reports saying we badly need this technology, and it is 
available. We need the funding.
  The funding is more than offset by reducing huge funding increases in 
this bill for this Office of Chief Readiness at the Department of 
Homeland Security. So this money stays at DHS.
  Let's make it a higher priority to stop and detect these deadly 
poisons coming into our communities.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, this is an amendment from Senator 
Barrasso and me. It is very straightforward.
  If you are a restaurant, you can deduct your business expenses. That 
is normal tax code. If you are a hardware store, you can deduct your 
business expenses. That is normal operation.
  Since 1913, intangible drilling costs have been the tax deductions 
for oil and gas. IDCs, or intangible drilling costs, since 1913, have 
been set aside for preparing the space, doing all the labor costs, the 
services, the normal business operations, for 100 years, until now.
  Slipped into this bill yesterday, into the base tax, strips away the 
tax deductions for oil and gas companies, what has been in place for 
over 100 years. If you are a wind farm, you can use renewable energy 
credits to take your tax rate down to zero because you can deduct your 
normal business expenses as well. If you are a coal company, you can 
use 45Q, but if you are oil and gas, your prices are going up.
  Americans should remember this bill when they fill up in the days 
ahead and when the people in their communities are trying to get a job 
with oil and gas.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
  Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, the United States' mineral security has 
really become our Achilles' heel. It is a significant threat to our 
economy, to our competitiveness, to our security, and to our 
geopolitical leverage, all at the same time.
  We know that mineral demand is skyrocketing, and yet it is harder 
than ever to produce minerals here in this country. So what we have 
done is that we have turned to imports to fill the gaps in our supply.
  We are seeking, through this amendment, to put some limited 
assistance on the table to make sure that projects for the most 
critical minerals can move forward in a timely manner. That is what my 
amendment does for cobalt and for nickel.
  Right now, we import 76 percent of our cobalt, 48 percent of our 
nickel, but demand is growing so dramatically for both as a result of 
EVs, of energy storage systems, and other clean technologies. So what 
we are seeking to do with this is repurpose $400 million for States to 
implement energy efficiency codes to instead ensure that domestic 
nickel and cobalt projects can advance.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time in opposition?
  The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. HEINRICH. Mr. President, these are all problematic amendments 
that would jeopardize the underlying legislation and the progress on 
climate, on prescription drugs, and on a whole host of other things. So 
we should all vote no. We should pass this important bill, and we 
should be done with this.


                       Vote on Amendment No. 5487

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  Mr. WICKER. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

[[Page S4199]]

  


                      [Rollcall Vote No. 321 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--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
  The amendment (No. 5487) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee.


                            Motion to Commit

  Mr. HAGERTY. Mr. President, I have a motion at the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Hagerty] moves to commit 
     the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary with instructions 
     to report.

  Mr. HAGERTY. Mr. President, I ask to dispense with the reading.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The motion is as follows:

       Mr. Hagerty moves to commit the bill H.R. 5376 to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate with instructions to 
     report the same back to the Senate in 3 days, not counting 
     any day in which the Senate is not in session, with changes 
     that--
       (1) are within the jurisdiction of such committee; and
       (2) would ensure that U.S. Immigration and Customs 
     Enforcement has sufficient resources to detain and deport a 
     higher number of illegal aliens who have been convicted of a 
     criminal offense in the United States.

  Mr. HAGERTY. Mr. President, in fiscal year 2021, Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement arrested more than 12,000 illegal aliens with 
aggravated felony convictions. An alltime record number of illegal 
border crossers entered our country last year. This is an unprecedented 
national security crisis.
  Before we spend billions of dollars on Green New Deal programs, the 
Department should first do its core job of securing the homeland.
  This same policy was adopted 53 to 46 during the budget resolution 
process last August, with four of my Democratic colleagues joining me. 
Now, 1 year later, we have a worse crisis and an opportunity to provide 
real funding to protect our citizens from individuals who endanger our 
communities.
  I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will maintain 
their previous support for this commonsense approach to fund law 
enforcement and put public safety and national security over partisan 
politics. We have a chance to address this in a real manner right now. 
Solving a major crisis like this is worth taking a little more time.
  I urge my colleagues to support this motion.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, Members, the Senator from Tennessee just 
provided us with this copy of his new amendment, and I hope you will 
take a look at it because it is recommitting this motion for 3 days. 
End of conversation, end of debate, end of any possibility of passing 
what we consider to be a major piece of legislation, from prescription 
drugs, dealing with environmental issues, and the list goes on. We have 
faced this so many times already in the last 12 or 14 hours.
  But the second thing I would like to note is, we understand the 
seriousness of this challenge, so much so that we have already decided 
it is a crime, and it is a crime that can be prosecuted. And it is a 
crime that is investigated and enforced by an Agency of the Federal 
Government which we funded just 4 months ago. Four months ago, we gave 
$8 billion to ICE for this purpose. Thirty-one Republicans voted 
against funding this purpose. One of them was the Senator from 
Tennessee.
  So now we are told we need the money, but 4 months ago he wouldn't 
vote for it. I think we know what we have here. We have a challenge 
that really is important to this motion that both parties share, but we 
have a political challenge with an effort to derail this measure today. 
Stick together and vote against this amendment.
  Mr. HAGERTY. Mr. President, do I have more time left?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.


                        Vote on Motion to Commit

  The question occurs on agreeing to the Hagerty motion to commit.
  Mr. HAGERTY. 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 executive clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 322 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--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
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). The Senator from South Dakota.


                           Amendment No. 5472

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I call up my amendment No. 5472 and ask 
that it be reported by number.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A Senator from South Dakota [Mr. Thune] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 5472 to amendment No. 5194.

  The amendment is as follows:

    (Purpose: To remove harmful small business taxes, and for other 
                               purposes)

        At the end of part 9 of subtitle D of title I, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 13904. REMOVAL OF HARMFUL SMALL BUSINESS TAXES; 
                   EXTENSION OF LIMITATION ON DEDUCTION FOR STATE 
                   AND LOCAL, ETC., TAXES.

       (a) Removal of Harmful Small Business Taxes.--Subparagraph 
     (D) of section 59(k)(1), as added by section 10101, is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(D) Special rules for determining applicable corporation 
     status.--Solely for purposes of determining whether a 
     corporation is an applicable corporation under this 
     paragraph, all adjusted financial statement income of persons 
     treated as a single employer with such corporation under 
     subsection (a) or (b) of section 52 shall be treated as 
     adjusted financial statement income of such corporation, and 
     adjusted financial statement income of such corporation shall 
     be determined without regard to paragraphs (2)(D)(i) and (11) 
     of section 56A(c).''.
       (b) Extension of Limitation on Deduction for State and 
     Local, etc., Taxes.--
       (1) In general.--Section 164(b)(6) is amended--
       (A) in the heading, by striking ``2025'' and inserting 
     ``2026'', and
       (B) by striking ``2026'' and inserting ``2027''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
     2022.

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, Democrats say that the book minimum tax 
will apply only to very large corporations with a 3-year average 
financial statement income in excess of $1 billion, but as their bill 
is currently proposed--and this change occurred basically in the last 
24 hours--the bill

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would now require unrelated companies of any size held by funds or 
partnerships to combine their otherwise unrelated income to determine 
if they meet an aggregate $1 billion income threshold, subjecting each 
respective company to the book minimum tax even if its own income is 
far too low. This significant expansion of the tax has the potential to 
subject thousands of American businesses to the book minimum tax's 
administrative and financial burdens.
  The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation said this change would 
raise $35 billion in taxes on potentially thousands of small- and 
medium-size businesses, not merely a hundred or so large companies as 
our Democratic friends would have you believe.
  My amendment is fully offset by extending for 1 year the cap on the 
State and local tax deduction enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
  I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment and help ensure 
our Nation's small- and medium-size businesses aren't hit with a 
misguided and entirely inappropriate $35 billion tax hike.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.
  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, there are no tax increases on small 
businesses in our bill. The only companies that are paying under our 
bill are corporations with at least $1 billion in profit per year.
  Republicans are calling private equity giants and foreign 
corporations with at least $1 billion in profits small businesses 
because they want private equity and foreign corporations to get more 
favorable treatment. Rather than close loopholes for billion-dollar 
private equity firms, Republicans would raise taxes on those making 
less than $400,000 per year.
  I urge a ``no'' vote.


                       Vote on Amendment No. 5472

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  Mr. WICKER. 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 323 Leg.]

                                YEAS--57

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Warnock
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--43

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
  The amendment (No. 5472) was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Virginia.


                           Amendment No. 5488

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I call up my amendment, No. 5488, and ask 
that it be reported by number.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Virginia [Mr. Warner] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 5488.

  Mr. WARNER. I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment 
be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

(Purpose: To strike the extension of the limitation on State and local 
     taxes and extend the limitation on excess business losses of 
            noncorporate taxpayers, and for other purposes)

       On page 545, strike line 1 and all that follows through 
     page 547, line 17, and insert the following:
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall apply to sales in calendar quarters beginning after the 
     date which is 1 day after the date of enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 13902. INCREASE IN RESEARCH CREDIT AGAINST PAYROLL TAX 
                   FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.

       (a) In General.--Clause (i) of section 41(h)(4)(B) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``Amount.--The amount'' and inserting 
     ``Amount.--

       ``(I) In general.--The amount'', and

       (2) by adding at the end the following new subclause:

       ``(II) Increase.--In the case of taxable years beginning 
     after December 31, 2022, the amount in subclause (I) shall be 
     increased by $250,000.''.

       (b) Allowance of Credit.--
       (1) In general.--Paragraph (1) of section 3111(f) is 
     amended--
       (A) by striking ``for a taxable year, there shall be 
     allowed'' and inserting ``for a taxable year--
       ``(A) there shall be allowed'',
       (B) by striking ``equal to the'' and inserting ``equal to 
     so much of the'',
       (C) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``as 
     does not exceed the limitation of subclause (I) of section 
     41(h)(4)(B)(i) (applied without regard to subclause (II) 
     thereof), and'', and
       (D) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax 
     imposed by subsection (b) for the first calendar quarter 
     which begins after the date on which the taxpayer files the 
     return specified in section 41(h)(4)(A)(ii) an amount equal 
     to so much of the payroll tax credit portion determined under 
     section 41(h)(2) as is not allowed as a credit under 
     subparagraph (A).''.
       (2) Limitation.--Paragraph (2) of section 3111(f) is 
     amended--
       (A) by striking ``paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``paragraph 
     (1)(A)'', and
       (B) by inserting ``, and the credit allowed by paragraph 
     (1)(B) shall not exceed the tax imposed by subsection (b) for 
     any calendar quarter,'' after ``calendar quarter''.
       (3) Carryover.--Paragraph (3) of section 3111(f) is amended 
     by striking ``the credit'' and inserting ``any credit''.
       (4) Deduction allowed.--Paragraph (4) of section 3111(f) is 
     amended--
       (A) by striking ``credit'' and inserting ``credits'', and
       (B) by striking ``subsection (a)'' and inserting 
     ``subsection (a) or (b)''.
       (c) Aggregation Rules.--Clause (ii) of section 41(h)(5)(B) 
     is amended by striking ``the $250,000 amount'' and inserting 
     ``each of the $250,000 amounts''.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
     2022.

     SEC. 13903. REINSTATEMENT OF LIMITATION RULES FOR DEDUCTION 
                   FOR STATE AND LOCAL, ETC., TAXES; EXTENSION OF 
                   LIMITATION ON EXCESS BUSINESS LOSSES OF 
                   NONCORPORATE TAXPAYERS.

       (a) Reinstatement of Limitation Rules for Deduction for 
     State and Local, etc., Taxes.--
       (1) In general.--Section 164(b)(6), as amended by section 
     13904, is further amended--
       (A) in the heading, by striking ``2026'' and inserting 
     ``2025'', and
       (B) by striking ``2027'' and inserting ``2026''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
     2022.
       (b) Extension of Limitation on Excess Business Losses of 
     Noncorporate Taxpayers.--
       (1) In general.--Section 461(l)(1) is amended by striking 
     ``January 1, 2027'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``January 1, 2029''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
     2026.

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, the end is near--I hope. For those of us 
on this side of the aisle who have worked long and hard, this is the 
last substantive action we have to take before final passage of a 
historic piece of legislation.
  Recognizing--and I want to thank the Senators on both sides of the 
aisle for the productive discussions in the last vote on a difficult 
issue that my amendment would address.
  My amendment would simply strike the offset in the previous amendment 
known as the State and local tax deduction and replace it with a 2-year 
extension of a so-called loss limitation policy that has bipartisan 
support over many years.
  This was first employed under President Trump, then employed by the 
Democrats. Everyone on this side of the aisle has voted for this pay-
for, $52 billion, which more than offsets the $35 billion that were 
taken from the previous amendment.
  This amendment will allow us to move forward on this historic 
legislation, on drug prices, climate change,

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reform the tax code, and bring down inflation and make sure we have got 
a true comprehensive energy policy.
  I urge all my colleagues to support the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Dakota.
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I would urge my colleagues to oppose this 
amendment. The amendment we just voted on and passed has an offset in 
there, and it is a provision that works very, very well and covers 
getting rid of this tax on private equity on small businesses and 
larger businesses in this country.
  And what the Senator from Virginia is proposing is an offset loss 
limitation. And he is right, we have voted for it. We voted for it 
because we put it in the tax bill in 2017 as an offset, and what it 
offset and paid for was the 199A deduction that benefits all our 
passthrough businesses, small businesses, across this country, which 
expires in 2026.
  That very offset is how we are going to pay for extending the 199A 
deduction for passthrough businesses in this country. So if you want to 
rob it and use it here, it is not going to be available when it comes 
time to help out those small businesses, all of whom you represent, 
passthrough businesses across this country. The offset, the pay-for in 
my amendment is the right way to do this.
  I urge you to oppose the amendment.
  Mr. WARNER. Do I have any time remaining?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.


                       Vote on Amendment No. 5488

  The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  Mr. SCHATZ. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 324 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--50

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young
  The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50.
  The Senate being equally divided, the Vice President votes in the 
affirmative, and the amendment is agreed to.
  The amendment (No. 5488) was agreed to.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I know of no further amendments to the 
substitute.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. If there are no further amendments, the question 
is on agreeing to the substitute, as amended.
  The amendment (No. 5194), as amended, was agreed to.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will read the title of the bill for the 
third time.
  The amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill was read the third time.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, it has been a long, tough, and winding 
road, but at last--at last--we have arrived.
  I know it has been a long day and a long night, but we have gotten it 
done. Today, after more than a year of hard work, the Senate is making 
history.
  I am confident the Inflation Reduction Act will endure as one of the 
defining legislative feats of the 21st century.
  Our bill reduces inflation, lowers costs, creates millions of good-
paying jobs, and is the boldest climate package in U.S. history.
  This bill will kick start the era of affordable clean energy in 
America. It is a game changer. It is a turning point, and it has been a 
long time in coming.
  To Americans who have lost faith that Congress can do big things, 
this bill is for you. To seniors who face the indignity of rationing 
medications or skipping them altogether, this bill is for you. And to 
the tens of millions of young Americans who have spent years marching, 
rallying, demanding that Congress act on climate change, this bill is 
for you.
  The time has come to pass this historic bill.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall the bill, as amended, pass?
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 325 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--50

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young
  The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. 
The Senate being equally divided, the Vice President votes in the 
affirmative, and the bill, as amended, is passed.
  The bill (H.R. 5376), as amended, was passed.
  (Cheers and applause.)
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I have got to compose myself a little 
here. Every Senator knows an undeniable truth: We can never do what we 
do without our amazing, incredible staff. They work behind the scenes; 
they never fall under the spotlight. But they do incredible work, 
nonetheless.
  Now that we finished passing the Inflation Reduction Act, I want to 
applaud all of the staffers--we already applauded them, but that is 
good--who made this possible. The hundreds of staffers who served in 
Senate offices across the various committees. I want to thank every 
single one of them for their remarkable work in passing the Inflation 
Reduction Act.
  I will submit their names into the Record to honor their achievements 
and preserve forever the role they played in bringing this bill to 
life. And I ask unanimous consent to have the names of all of the 
committee staff who contributed printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

Senate Committee Staff Who Contributed to the Passage of the Inflation 
                Reduction Act of 2022--August 7th, 2022


                          Committee on Finance

       Bobby Andres, Chris Arneson, Shawn Bishop, Adam Carasso, 
     Ryan Carey, Ursula

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     Clausing, Drew Crouch, Michael de la Guardia, Liz Dervan, 
     Jack Dolgin, Eva DuGoff, Mary Ellis, Grace Enda, Mike Evans, 
     Peter Fise, Jon Goldman, Taylor Harvey, Josh Heath, Melanie 
     Jonas, Anna Kaltenboeck.
       Rachael Kauss, Sally Laing, Nadia Laniyan, Kimberly 
     Lattimore, Michael Osbourn-Grosso, Virginia Lenahan, Eric 
     LoPresti, Kristen Lunde, Sarah Schaefer, Ashley Schapitl, 
     Josh Sheinkman, Arthur Shemitz, Sarguni Singh, Tiffany Smith, 
     Ryder Tobin.


            Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

       Ron Storhaug, Justin Pelletier, Sean Moore.


           Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

       Joe Shultz, Jacqlyn Schneider, Chu- Yuan Hwang, Lucy Hynes, 
     Susan Keith, Mikayla Bodey, Callie Eideberg, Kirin Kennedy, 
     Lauren Wustenberg, Mary Beth Schultz, Sean Babington, Adam 
     Tarr, Katie Naessens, Khadija Jahfiya, Alex Noffsinger, 
     Claire Borzner, Kyle Varner, Patrick Delaney, Lillie Zeng, 
     Elizabeth Rivera.


                       Committee on the Judiciary

       Joe Zogby, Dan Swanson, Phil Brest, Sara Zdeb, Sarah Bauer, 
     Stephanie Trifone, Sonia Gill, Chastidy Burns, Doug Miller, 
     Alexandra Gelber, Ami Shah, Manpreet Teji, Matt Joseph, 
     Wilson Osorio, Joe Charlet, Vaishalee Yeldandi, Mady Reno, 
     Rachel Martinez, Katya Kazmin, Yashi Gunawardena, David 
     McCallumo.


                      Committee on Indian Affairs

       Jennifer Romero, Breann Nuuhiwa, Kim Moxley, Lenna Aoki, 
     Connie Tsosie de Haro, Manu Tupper, Denae Benson, Darren 
     Modzelewski.


            Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

       Beth Cooper, John Richards, Phil Rudd, Megan Cheney, Homer 
     Carlisle, Emily Blaydes, Jeremy Hekhuis, Elisha Tuku, Laura 
     Swanson.


           Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

       Nicole Teutschel, Jennifer Quan, Grace Bloom, Ronce Almond, 
     Alex Simpson, Gigi Slais, Tricia Enright, Melissa Porter, 
     Lila Helms, Christianna Barnhart, Mary Huang, Richard-Duane 
     Chambers, Jonny Pellish, Emma Stohlman, Rosemary Baize, 
     Hunter Hudspeth-Blackburn, Michael Davisson, Shannon Smith.


               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

       Renae Black, Sam Fowler, Adam Berry, Luke Bassett, Brie Van 
     Cleve, Rory Stanley, Zahava Urecki, CJ Osman, Jack McGee, 
     David Rosner, David Brooks, Bryan Petit, Peter Stahley, 
     Melanie Thornton, Charlotte Bellotte, Jeannie Whitler, Jeremy 
     Ortiz, Sarah Kessel, Lance West, Wes Kungel, Sam Runyon.


               Committee on Environment and Public Works

       Jake Abbott, Janine Barr, Jordan Baugh, Mayely Boyce, Annie 
     D'Amato, Greg Dotson, Brian Eiler, Maureen French, Laura 
     Haynes Gillam, Beth Hammon, Rebecca Higgins, Dylan Hoff, 
     Tyler Hofmann-Reardon, Caroline Jones, John Kane, Susan 
     Kimball, Trevor Lalonde, Rachel Levitan, Elizabeth Mabry, 
     Carolyn Mack, Kenneth Martin, Matthew Marzano, Yasmeen Moten, 
     Mary Frances Repko, Alex Smith, Hanna Sweet, Christophe 
     Tulou.


           Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

       Evan Schatz, John Righter.


               Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

       Michelle Benecke, Lena Chang, Chris Mulkins, Annika 
     Christensen, Matthew Cornelius, Ben Schubert, Emily Manna, 
     Allison Green, Naveed Jazayeri, Chelsea Davis, David 
     Weinberg.

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, to the floor staff, particularly the 
Parliamentarian, who worked so hard under not easy conditions. And 
especially because we had to do so much in such a short period of time, 
we thank you so.
  The clerks, the doorkeepers, the reporters--thank you.
  Thank you to the pages who worked over time to help us in this 
historic endeavor. You will tell your grandchildren you were here. You 
were here.
  Thank you to the cafeteria workers, custodial staff, and Capitol 
Police. The Senate can't function without all of you. And I thank the 
Office of Legislative Counsel, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the 
Congressional Budget Office. And, of course, I cannot forget my own 
staff--the best staff ever on Capitol Hill--and my Members know it. The 
Members know how good my staff is. I am so dedicated to them, the best 
in the business. Of course, every Senator thinks their staff is the 
best on Capitol Hill; but in my case, it happens to be true.
  To Mike Lynch, who has been with me all these years and is so strong 
and steadfast and steady; to his deputy chief and my deputy chief Erin 
Sager Vaughn, another person who has been here a very long time and is 
just amazing. We praise her for her EQ, among other talents. She told 
me that.
  To Martin Brennan, another like Mike Lynch--Mike Lynch and Martin 
Brennan have been with me just about since I started to be a Senator, 
and they are just such rocks in our office--incredible. Probably the 
team of husband and wife who have done more to save the Earth this year 
than just about anybody else is Gerry Petrella and Meghan Taira. They 
met and got married on my staff. They have a beautiful little boy, 
George. And when you have two people so important as policy director 
and legislative director and a little child at home, it is tough. But 
they managed to be great parents at the same time as being great and 
amazing staffers. And they are brilliant. They are just brilliant.
  My executive team is world class: Emily Sweda, Kellie Karney, Abby 
Kaluza, and Raisa Shah--who just left a few weeks ago; an amazing press 
team, Justin Goodman, Alex Nguyen--nicknamed ``Win,'' of course--Monica 
Lee, Alice Nam, Ken Meyer, Cyre Velez, Jasmine Harris, Jonathan 
Uriarte, Natalia Cardenas, and everyone on the digital team, the Senate 
Media Center who worked day and night, to record, edit, finalize 
photos, graphics and videos of every sort. They are a blessing.
  And I want to recognize my press staff up in New York. They are just 
incredible. Amazing. I am just so blessed: Angelo Roefaro, Ally 
Biasotti, Paige Tepke; my speechwriter, Tony Rivera; my rapid response 
director, Dan Yoken; the amazing team of researchers: Hanna Talley, 
Thaha Sherwani, Mikael Tessema. And to our talented press assistants, 
thank you so much: Gabriel Avalos, Gracie Kanigher, Riya Vashi, and 
Sidney Johnson.
  Two people who do an amazing job reaching out to the community: 
Cietta Kiandoli and Julietta Lopez--incredible. They talk to all the 
groups and make them feel part of what we are doing and they know what 
we are doing. It is so wonderful, the job they do. And a brilliant 
legislative team--brilliant. ``Brilliant'' is an overused word, but it 
is not overused in the case of my staff. The ideas they come up with, 
the way they manage to get everything done. It is amazing.
  So there is Adrian Deveny and Tim Ryder, Matt Fuentes, Dili--it is a 
hard, long last name. I always call him Dili. I'm glad it is just Dili. 
It is Sundaramoorthy. How did I--Where is he? Oh, he is not here to 
correct me. Good.
  Anna Taylor. Anna Taylor is so damn dedicated. She had a baby 2 days 
ago, and she is still on the phone talking. And I said: Anna, stop.
  No, no, no. She was so dedicated and put so much time into this that 
she kept working. And her little beautiful child, Posey. We heard her 
crying happily in the background as we were moving through all of this. 
Jon Cardinal--an amazing guy who worked so hard on this and on CHIP 
fab--Reggie Babin on counsel, Rob Hickman, Annie Daly, Ramon Carranza, 
Catalina Tam, Sam Rodarte, Jillian McGrath, Justine Revelle, Ryan 
Eagan, Didier Barjon, Grace Magaletta, Bre Sonnier-Thompson, Vandan 
Patel, Leela Najafi, Leeann Sinpatanaskul, Jeff Dickson, Mike Kuiken, 
Lane Bodian, Reza Zomorrodian, Yazeed Abdelhaq, Beth Vrabel, Kai Vogel, 
Josh Gutmaker, and Gunnar Haberl.
  And the floor staff--you know, there are certain people you say: We 
couldn't have done it without you, and a bunch of the names I have 
mentioned fall in the ``couldn't have done it without you'' category. 
But we all know that just the wisdom and the knowledge and the history 
that is in his bones and brain just make him indispensable, and that is 
Gary Myrick.
  Is he here? He is very modest. So I am going to make him mad. We 
should all applaud him. He hates it.
  (Cheers and applause.)
  And, of course, Tricia Engle, his great deputy, and the wonderful 
team on the floor and in the cloakroom: Stephanie Paone, Rachel 
Jackson, Nate Oursler, Daniel Tinsley, Brad Watt, Jacky Usyk, Maalik 
Simmons, and Miriam Wheatley.
  And, of course, my tech and IT team, what a great bunch. And for 
someone who is not very tech-oriented, his team is indispensable, too: 
Scott Rodman, Hemen Mehta, Jon Housley, and Amy Mannering.

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  And more staffers who work here every day in Washington--and we 
didn't name a lot of my staff in New York. I will just throw in the 
name of Steve Mann, who has been our deputy director since I started in 
the Senate and does a wonderful job. They all do, but I just wanted to 
mention him. And we commiserate with Mike Lynch over the Yankees, who 
are losing a lot of games these days.
  Today, as I conclude, I ask unanimous consent to have the names of my 
entire staff printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                Leader Schumer Senate Staff, August 2022

       Abdelhaq, Yazeed, Legislative Correspondent; Ahiable, 
     Immanuel, Graphic Designer; Aguilar, Joseph, Digital 
     Communications Assistant; Allbrooks, Joshua, Community 
     Outreach Assistant; Armwood, Garrett, Deputy State Director; 
     Ashraf, Azmain, Digital Organizing Assistant; Avalos, 
     Gabriel, Press Assistant; Babin, Reggie, Chief Counsel; 
     Banez, Robert, Photographer; Barjon, Didier, Legislative 
     Assistant; Barton, Steve, Director of Intergovernmental 
     Relations; Battle, Sharon, Mailroom Assistant; Benavides, 
     Jackie, Deputy Immigration Director/Community; Outreach; 
     Biasotti, Allison, Senior Press Secretary; Bodian, Lane, 
     Legislative Assistant; Bowman, Quinn, Director of the SDMC; 
     Brennan, Martin, State Director; Brutus, Gerdine, Staff 
     Assistant; Cardinal, Jon, Director of Economic Development; 
     Cardenas, Natalia, Deputy Director of Hispanic Media.
       Carranza, Ramon, Legislative Assistant; Chang Prepis, 
     Joyce, Director of Constituent Services; Clark, Bella, Staff 
     Assistant; Cole, Emily, Staff Assistant; Cook, Andrew, Staff 
     Assistant; Cooke, Dave, Videographer; Corbett, Hiram, Deputy 
     Rapid Response Video Editor; Coutavas, Sophie, Deputy NY 
     Scheduler; Daly, Annie, Legislative Aide; Dayal, Tushar, 
     Engineer; Deveny, Adrian, Director of Energy and 
     Environmental; Policy; Dickson, Jeff, LC Supervisor/Grants 
     Coordinator; Dixon, Kara, Deputy Director of Video 
     Production; Dirienzo, Lindsay, Art Director; Donovan, 
     Patrick, Community Outreach Coordinator; Doumit, Yara, Staff 
     Assistant/Flag Coordinator; Eagan, Ryan, Legislative Aide; 
     Eikner, Brooks, Video Producer; Emanuel, Marissa, Director of 
     Youth Programs; Engle, Tricia, Assistant Democratic 
     Secretary.
       Flood, Sam, Research Aide; Fuentes, Matt, Legislative 
     Assistant; Geertsma, Joel, Platform Director; Glander, Megan, 
     Hudson Valley Regional Director; Goodman, Justin, 
     Communications Director; Gutmaker, Joshua, Policy Aide; 
     Haberl, Gunnar, Policy Aide; Harris, Jasmine, Director of 
     African American Media; Hickman, Rob, Transportation Counsel; 
     Housley, Jon, Systems Administrator; Hsi, Alex, Capitol Staff 
     Assistant; Huus, Amber, Administrative Assistant; Iannelli, 
     Mike, Long Island Regional Director; Jackson, Rachel, 
     Cloakroom Assistant; Jamaica, Jessica, Digital Organizing 
     Assistant; Jean, Mike, Special Assistant; Johnson, Sidney, 
     Press Assistant; Kaluza, Abby, Executive Assistant; Kanigher, 
     Gracie, Press Assistant; Karney, Kellie, Deputy Director of 
     Scheduling.
       Kiandoli, Cietta, Director of Engagement; Kuiken, Mike, 
     National Security Advisor; Lee, Monica, Director of Strategic 
     Communications; Lopez, Julietta, Dir. of Community and 
     External Affairs; Lynch, Mike, Chief of Staff; Magaletta, 
     Grace, Legislative Correspondent; Mann, Steve, Deputy State 
     Director; Mannering, Amy, Director of Operations; Marcojohn, 
     Anneliese, Staff Assistant; Martin, Ryan, Upstate Press 
     Assistant; Maslin, Evan, Staff Assistant; McGrath, Jillian, 
     Legislative Aide; Mehta, Hemen, IT Principal Architect; 
     Meyer, Ken, Director of Digital Media; Moore, Catey, Mailroom 
     Coordinator; Morgan, Rachel, Mailroom Assistant; Murphy 
     Vlasto, Megan, NY Scheduling Director; Myrick Gary, 
     Democratic Secretary; Najafi, Leela, Nominations Aide.
       Nam, Alice, Deputy National Press Secretary; Nehme, Joe, 
     Regional Director; Nguyen, Alex, National Press Secretary; 
     Nicholson, Jordan, Regional Director; Oursler, Nate, 
     Cloakroom Assistant; Paone, Stephanie, Senior Cloakroom 
     Assistant; Patel, Vandan, Legislative Correspondent; 
     Petrella, Gerry, Policy Director; Reese, William, Dep Dir of 
     the Senate Diversity Initiative; Revelle, Justine, Associate 
     Counsel; Rivera, Tony, Director of Speechwriting; Rodarte, 
     Sam, Legislative Assistant; Rodman, Scott, Director of 
     Information Technology; Rodriguez, Crisitian, Capitol Staff 
     Assistant; Roefaro, Angelo, New York Press Secretary; Ryder, 
     Tim, Legislative Assistant for Disaster Policy; Seijas, 
     Nelson, Mailroom Assistant; Sharbaugh, Tyson, Rapid Response 
     Video Editor; Shaw, Savannah, Staff Assistant; Sherwani, 
     Thaha, Research Assistant.
       Sinpatanasakul, Leeann, Legislative Aide; Smith, Hannah, 
     Staff Assistant; Sonnier-Thompson, Bre, Legislative 
     Correspondent; Spellicy, Amanda, Regional Director; 
     Sundaramoorthy, Dili, Legislative Aide; Sweda, Emily, 
     Director of Scheduling; Talley, Hanna, Deputy Research 
     Director; Taira, Meghan, Legislative Director; Tam, Catalina, 
     Legislative Aide; Taylor, Anna, Director of Economic Policy; 
     Taylor, Terri, Executive Assistant; Tepke, Paige, New York 
     Press Assistant; Tessema, Mikael, Research/Rapid Response 
     Assistant; Timothy, Kimarah, Constituent Liaison; Tinsley, 
     Dan, Senior Floor Staff; Uriarte, Jonathan, Director of 
     Hispanic Media; Vashi, Riya, Press Assistant; Vaughn, Erin 
     Sager, Deputy Chief of Staff; Velez, Cyre, Deputy Director of 
     Digital Media; Virgona, Nicole, Staff Assistant; Vogel, Kai, 
     Legislative Correspondent; Vorperian-Grillo, Karine, Dir of 
     Foreign Affairs and Immigration; Vrabel, Beth, Budget 
     Counsel; Watt, Brad, Floor Staff; Yoken, Dan, Director of 
     Rapid Response; Younkin, Nora, Video Production Director; 
     Zeltmann, Chris, Regional Director; Zomorrodian, Reza, 
     Legislative Aide.

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I want them to know how much I 
appreciate their work, how great a difference they have made. This bill 
is going to change America for decades, and you did it. Wherever you 
go, whatever you do, you should never forget how much you have helped 
make the world and the globe a better place--never forget it.
  So, to every single staffer on my team, to staffers in other offices, 
committees here on the floor: Thank you, thank you, thank you, very, 
very much.
  I yield the floor because Mr. Padilla has some important words about 
a New Yorker.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The junior Senator from California.


                   Tribute to Vincent ``Vin'' Scully

  Mr. PADILLA. Madam President, as Mr. Schumer said, I rise today to 
honor the life and mourn the passing of Vincent ``Vin'' Scully, who 
will be remembered as the greatest broadcaster in sports history, and a 
true ambassador for Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the game of baseball.
  Born in 1927 in the Bronx, he grew up near the Polo Grounds and 
actually became a big fan of the New York Giants baseball team as a 
child--and I never held that against him.
  He served our Nation as a member of the U.S. Navy for 2 years before 
attending Fordham University. And at Fordham--listen to this--at 
Fordham, he managed to play on the baseball team, work on the school 
paper, and broadcast many of the university's football, baseball, and 
basketball teams.
  His career as a broadcaster took off soon after he graduated from 
college. By 1950, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcast team. And in 
1954, he became the team's principal announcer--a position he would 
hold until his retirement in 2016. He was the longest tenured announcer 
for any team in any professional sport.
  In 1953, at only age 25, Vin became the youngest person to ever 
broadcast a World Series--a record that remains to this day.
  When the Dodgers moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1958, Vin 
moved with the team, and he quickly became the voice of baseball in 
Southern California.
  Vin was the voice of the Dodgers for 67 years, but his unparalleled 
storytelling and love of sports allowed him to transcend baseball. Many 
fans will recall Vin's unique calls on some of the most memorable 
football games and golf tournaments of the 20th century.
  He was also a presence in pop culture, appearing in dozens of movies, 
TV shows, and documentaries. Vin lent his talents to everything ranging 
from the sketch comedy series ``Laugh-In'' to the iconic science 
fiction show ``The X-Files,'' to the classic baseball movie--and one of 
my favorites--``For the Love of the Game''; and he relished serving as 
grand marshal of the 125th Rose Parade ahead of the 2014 Rose Bowl.
  In 2016, President Obama awarded Vin Scully the Presidential Medal of 
Freedom, recognizing Vin as one of the signature sounds of America's 
pastime. Ever humble, when Vin was informed that he would be receiving 
the honor, he asked: ``Are you sure?''
  From Opening Day to the World Series, and every inning in between, 
Vin made every game memorable with his love of baseball, and for 
generations of fans--generations--hearing Vin Scully's soothing voice 
meant it was time for Dodgers baseball.
  Now, I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. As a child, growing up in 
the 1980s, I spent many evenings dreaming of growing up to play 
professional baseball while listening to Vin's voice narrate the 
action.
  While he became a legend for his talents behind the microphone, he 
will actually be remembered best for his decency beyond the broadcast 
booth. I remember a few years ago, when I was

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serving as California's secretary of state, I had an opportunity to 
introduce Angela and two of our sons to Vin at a voter registration 
event before the game at Dodgers Stadium. He was just so incredibly 
gracious with my family; it is a memory that we will cherish.
  But I also know that we weren't unique in that interaction with Vin. 
He always made time for fans--regardless of age, regardless of 
occupation--wherever and whenever he met them. You see, he wasn't just 
a sports broadcaster; he was a figure larger than life, and he made all 
of us feel like family.
  Angela and I certainly join the Los Angeles community, the Dodgers 
organization, and baseball fans around the world in mourning the 
passing of Vin Scully. Our hearts go out to the entire Scully family.
  I yield the floor.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.

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