[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 200 (Thursday, December 22, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S10065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 MAKING EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR DISASTER RELIEF FOR 
               THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to the consideration of S. 5355, which the clerk will report.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 5355) making emergency supplemental 
     appropriations for disaster relief for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2023, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate, equally 
divided.
  The Senator from Florida.
  Mr. SCOTT of Florida. Mr. President, immediately after Hurricane Ian 
passed, I made clear that I would fight for and support a standalone 
disaster aid package to get Floridians the assistance they need to 
recover.
  On September 30, just 2 days after Ian made its catastrophic landfall 
near Fort Myers, FL, I wrote to my colleagues urging them to work with 
me on getting much needed aid to Florida families as quickly as 
possible.
  Immediately after, the aid Floridians desperately needed was delayed 
so that it could be stuffed into this massive and reckless $1.7 
trillion omnibus bill. While that is disappointing enough, I have now 
heard from Floridians, especially our growers in agriculture, that 
without changes, this disaster aid will not be delivered in the most 
efficient and effective way possible to ensure their recovery.
  We should take this opportunity to act on their concerns today and 
make needed changes that ensure this Federal disaster aid does as much 
good as possible. There is no reason to delay this further. I urge my 
colleagues to stand with those recovering from these terrible storms 
and the folks who put the food on our tables. Please support this bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I spoke on this matter earlier this week, 
and I still agree with the Senator from Florida that we have a 
responsibility to help Americans in the wake of disasters. It does not 
matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat, or if you are from a blue 
State or a red State. As Americans, we have to stand together to help 
our communities recover and rebuild.
  I have done that on this floor for 48 years--voting for disaster 
bills for all States. But I believe in reality, not rhetoric. We don't 
have time to play politics or for sound bites. We have to enact the 
omnibus bill now, and that will get the aid to people in Florida and 
other communities that need it most.
  So I would urge all Senators to vote for the omnibus, and let us get 
these things done. It is time to go forward. We don't have time for 
further delay.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. ROSEN). Under the previous order, the bill 
is considered read a third time.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read 
the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall the bill pass?
  Mr. SCOTT of Florida. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), and the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).
  The result was announced--yeas 22, nays 73, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 407 Leg.]

                                YEAS--22

     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lummis
     Risch
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--73

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Barrasso
     Burr
     Cramer
     Kaine
     Sasse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 22, the nays are 
73.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the bill is not passed.
  The bill (S. 5355) was rejected.

  

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