Congressional Record, Volume 168 Issue 133 (Saturday, August 6, 2022)

[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

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

NAYS--50

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

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:

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[Rollcall Vote No. 321 Leg.]

YEAS--50

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

NAYS--50

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

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

NAYS--50

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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