[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 113 (Tuesday, July 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4252]
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                       Fire Grants and Safety Act

  Mr. President, finally, on one other point, the Fire Grants and 
Safety Act, which we passed here in the Senate, helping our 
firefighters to get the equipment they need, adding to certain fire 
departments the more firefighters that they need, making us all safer, 
making our firefighters safer, and, finally, renewing the old Fire 
Grants and SAFER Act that Senator Dodd and I passed back in 2002, is a 
great thing.
  Today, the President will sign it. I salute President Biden for 
supporting this legislation and helping us get it through the Congress.
  I salute our firefighters, both paid and volunteer, who rush to 
danger to protect us when there is danger afloat. God bless them. I am 
glad that the Fire Grants and Safety Act that backs them up will be 
signed into law in a few hours.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.