[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 172 (Thursday, October 19, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           STANDING WITH ISRAEL AGAINST TERRORISM--Continued

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I have a brief statement on this very 
important resolution we are about to vote on.
  Mr. President, October 7, 2023, will go down as a day of infamy. As 
Israel faces the darkest hour of its 75-year history, the bipartisan 
resolution we are about to vote on proclaims that so long as there is a 
United States of America, the people of Israel will never stand alone. 
So long as there is a United States Senate, the people of Israel will 
never stand alone.
  Today's bipartisan resolution shows exactly where the United States 
Senate stands. We stand firmly with Israel and her right to defend 
herself. Today's bipartisan resolution shows exactly where the United 
States Senate stands. We condemn the heinous, vicious attacks by the 
terrorist group Hamas. It is rare that all 100 Senators agree on 
anything, but every one of the 100 of us is here today, united, saying 
that we are behind Israel. Today's bipartisan resolution shows where we 
stand.
  We demand Hamas stop their attacks and release all hostages, 
including American hostages. We urge the world to unite against Hamas 
and against nations like Iran that support global terrorism.
  This resolution is not the end; it is the beginning. The Senate will 
back up this resolution with real, swift, decisive action and 
resources.
  Let the entire world see that today Democrats and Republicans alike 
stand in total unity. We support Israel's absolute right to defend 
itself.
  To the Israeli people, we say: We stand with you, we feel your pain, 
we ache with you, and we will act.
  To any actor that seeks to take advantage of Israel, the United 
States Senate says with one unified voice: Don't.
  The resolution also does what everyone in this country in elected 
office and the press should do: condemn Hamas as a heinous terrorist 
organization.
  This resolution is momentous. The entire Senate today is unified in 
our support of the Israeli people and against Hamas. And again, to 
repeat, this resolution is just the start. We will follow it up with 
swift action and get Israel the help and resources she needs.
  In conclusion, I want to thank Leader McConnell for joining me in 
this statement and championing the measure. I want to thank Chairman 
Cardin of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as Ranking 
Member Risch, for helping draft this resolution. I thank every Senator, 
all 99 of my colleagues, for supporting this. We needed to stand 
united, and today, we are. In the Senate, we will not waiver in our 
friendship with the Israeli people.
  I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.


                          Vote on S. Res. 417

  Under the previous order, the question is on adoption of S. Res. 417.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Butler) 
and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 261 Leg.]

                                YEAS--97

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schmitt
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen
     Vance
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Butler
     Durbin
     Scott of (SC)
  The resolution (S. Res. 417) was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). Under the previous order, the 
preamble is agreed to, and motions to reconsider are considered made 
and laid upon the table.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in today's Record 
under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')
  Mr. SCHATZ. The President pro tempore.

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