Senate votes to confirm new U.S. District judge for the Western District of Texas

[0:00] the senate under the provisions of rule one paragraph three of the standing rules of the [0:04] senate i hereby appoint the honorable ted budd a senator from the state of north carolina [0:09] to perform the duties of the chair signed chuck grassley president pro tempore under the previous [0:15] order the leadership time is reserved under the previous order the senate will be in a period of [0:19] morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each [0:23] mr president majority leader mr president tax day was last week and i'd like to read a brief excerpt [12:57] from the washington from a washington post article i should say the title of this article tax refunds [13:05] shoot up as americans take advantage of new deductions and here's the excerpt and i'll quote [13:13] karen richardson 68 sat a predictable tax return since she retired from her job administering [13:19] government benefits four years ago she lives on a fixed income and usually owes some money at tax [13:24] time so she was surprised to get a one thousand dollar refund this year due to the senior deduction [13:31] the big beautiful bill worked for me she said i didn't think it applied to more than the richer [13:38] people i really didn't think it applied to me end quote well mr president as ms richardson and many [13:46] other hard-working americans have discovered the big beautiful bill the working families tax cuts [13:52] does indeed apply to them it worked for them this tax season and it will work for them in future tax [13:59] seasons this president 2017 republicans overhauled our outdated tax code so that it would work better [14:06] for our economy and for american families alike we cut tax rates across the board double the child tax [14:14] credit and nearly double the standard deduction and all of this made a significant difference to working [14:20] families tax bills but this relief was scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 which meant that [14:27] starting this january americans would have seen a lot more of their paychecks going to the federal [14:33] government republicans were determined not to let that happen and so last summer we passed the working [14:40] families tax cuts to prevent a massive 2.6 trillion dollar tax hike on americans making less than four [14:48] hundred thousand dollars but we didn't just prevent a tax hike in addition to ensuring that americans [14:55] could keep enjoying lower tax rates americans passed a number of additional tax relief measures [15:01] we boosted the standard deduction again we increased the child tax credit and linked it to inflation [15:08] so that its value will never go down we instituted no tax on tips we instituted no tax on overtime [15:17] and more and hard-working americans are reaping the benefits this tax season more than 30 million [15:25] seniors claimed the new bonus deduction for older americans more than a million taxpayers bought [15:32] a new american-made car and were able to deduct an average eighteen hundred dollars in auto loan [15:38] interest on that new vehicle more than 25 million american workers were able to deduct overtime pay [15:45] from their taxes resulting in substantial tax savings and more than six million workers were able to [15:53] deduct their tips from their taxes and that doesn't even count the parents who were able to take advantage [15:59] of the enhanced child tax credit or the new tax advantaged accounts for their child or all of the americans [16:08] all of the americans who benefited benefited from our further increase in the standard deduction as [16:15] president the working families tax cuts is working for working families the new york times recently [16:22] interviewed a number of taxpayers the times reported and i quote many of the taxpayers said they had [16:28] received their largest refund in years money that is going toward paying down credit card debt catching up [16:35] on bills padding saving accounts or covering the cost of a vacation end quote money that is going toward [16:45] paying down credit card debt catching up on bills padding savings accounts or covering the cost of a [16:52] vacation this present that was our goal with this bill to take some of the pressure off to free up money [17:02] that families could use to do things like pay down debt or put away for a rainy day or take a much needed [17:09] vacation thanks to the working families tax cuts americans now have a little more breathing room in [17:16] their budgets and whether we're passing tax relief new measures to make prescription drugs more affordable [17:24] at the pharmacy counter or legislation to address the cost of housing republicans will continue to [17:31] work to make life more affordable for hard-working americans mr president i yield the floor and i suggest [17:38] the absence of quorum we'll call the roll miss also brooks president democratic leader mr president [24:46] before i begin we are in a quorum call i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed without objection [24:54] mr president before i begin i want to express my deepest and dearest sympathies for our friend mark [25:01] warner his wife lisa and the rest of their family as they mourn the terrible loss of their daughter madison [25:10] i know how close the family was to madison and the depth of that loss is unfathomable the warner [25:19] family should know that we are keeping them in our prayers we are wishing them strength may madison's [25:26] memory be a blessing on cash patel the american people expect competence from the president's cabinet [25:42] not the unmitigated and continue continuing chaos we see every day over the weekend more damning reports [25:51] about fbi director cash patel's disorderly drunken and deranged behavior came to light the atlantic's [26:00] reporting only confirmed what senate democrats have said from the start cash patel is not simply [26:07] unqualified he's a grave risk to the rule of law and to american national security i have called on [26:16] acting attorney general blanche to preserve all records all communications and other evidence [26:22] regarding cash patel's dangerous behavior before the trump administration tries to brush it under [26:29] the rug again we're asking we're calling on acting attorney general blanche to preserve all records [26:38] communications and other evidence regarding cash patel's dangerous behavior before the trump [26:45] administration tries to brush it under the rug the atlantic interviewed dozens of people who have [26:51] observed patel's erratic behavior his excessive drinking apparently patel frequently misses key [26:58] briefings and meetings because he's too hung over to attend patel patel's security detail often struggles [27:05] to wake him up after his nights of partying partying and once even had to ask for breaching equipment [27:14] because patel was unresponsive behind a locked door all of this is made even worse by the reports of cash [27:22] patel's constant jet setting on the taxpayers dime his illegal crusade against trump's political enemies [27:30] and his purge of countless counterintelligence officers who focused on iran just days before trump [27:39] launched this reckless war americans deserve steady sober leadership from their fbi director and they're not [27:50] getting it seems in any way cash patel's job is to protect the american people and our constitution not [28:00] to party on the job patel must resign immediately every day he remains in office subjects america to [28:09] serious and unnecessary risks on iran donald trump continues to demonstrate that he has no plan to [28:19] end his disastrous war of choice with iran and no idea just how badly the american people are hurting because [28:26] of it companies and airlines are charging americans in iran war surcharge mortgage rates are climbing gas [28:33] is still over four dollars a gallon over the weekend trump's energy secretary said that gas prices won't [28:40] be normal until 2027. if you don't believe chris wright believe donald trump trump said gas prices will [28:49] quote be around the same or maybe even a little higher his quote you know by november his words not mine [28:57] just the other day trump said that four dollars for a gallon of gas is not very high that's what [29:04] he said and that everything's doing really well really mr president spoken like a man who doesn't [29:12] have to fill up his own tank try telling the american people who will spend an average of 740 more [29:21] this year on gas because of this war that quote everything's doing really well and unfortunately and [29:30] sadly there's no end in sight the strait of hormuz remains closed iran fired on commercial ships over [29:37] the weekend the u.s seized an iranian vessel according to trump jd vance will be on his way to pakistan soon [29:46] but it's unclear whether the iranians will even agree to meet with him let alone agree to open up the [29:52] strait 51 days into this war and donald trump still does not have an objective a strategy an exit plan the [30:04] american people have questions congress must demand answers last week senate republicans had their [30:12] fourth opportunity to support our war powers resolution and for the fourth time senate republicans [30:18] acquiesced to donald trump and gave this historic blunder their stamp of approval tomorrow senate republicans [30:26] will force force a fifth vote on our war powers resolution we will continue to force votes on our [30:33] resolution every single week that trump's war continues the most important vote a senator can [30:40] take is whether to go to war senate republicans cannot sit on the sidelines while our service members [30:47] are risking their lives on the front lines i don't know how trump's war will end but i do know that [30:53] trump's war cannot end soon enough on reconciliation what does this majority choose to spend our time on [31:02] instead any hour now republicans are expected to release a budget resolution that adds tens of [31:10] billions of dollars to the national debt pumps colossal sums into ice and border patrol without [31:19] any reforms at all while doing absolutely nothing to lower costs for hard-working americans we need to [31:27] pause and examine how we got to this moment because of a because in a well-functioning congress the majority [31:34] focuses on solving people's problems not constantly cleaning up their own messes and shoveling tens of [31:40] billions more into unaccountable rogue agencies remember last year in donald trump's big ugly betrayal [31:48] republicans rammed through 75 billion for ice and tens billions more for border patrol with virtually no [31:55] guard rails minimal training standards and no real idea of what they were unleashing well that led to [32:02] disaster as could have been predicted in january federal immigration officers in minneapolis murdered [32:09] two american citizens in broad daylight triggering a reckoning across the country after the murders of [32:16] alex preddy and renee good the american people want to change democrats told our republican colleagues we [32:23] needed to work together to rain in ice and border patrol and prevent this kind of violence from happening [32:28] again we put forward common sense reforms modeled on guard rails law enforcement already [32:34] follows in the states no masked agents in unmarked vehicles no bursting into people's homes without [32:41] warrants and body cameras for agents all agents but after weeks of back and forth it became painfully [32:47] obvious that republicans were not serious about reform instead of listening to the repub to the people [32:56] senate republicans listened to donald trump and stephen miller even when democrats offered to narrow the [33:04] reforms to a small targeted set of proposals in exchange for funding republicans afraid of trump [33:11] afraid of miller said no leader thun eventually brought a bill to the floor that would fund the rest of [33:19] department of homeland security while leaving ice and border patrol aside as negotiations on reforms [33:25] continued democrats unanimously supported this bill it was something we had been pushing for weeks [33:32] because we believe fema the coast guard cisa cisa tsa and the other core agencies of dhs must be able to [33:40] serve the american people but that agreement is now collecting dust in the house speaker johnson and house [33:50] republicans refused to move it and that brings us to where we are today it is republicans who have chosen to [33:57] keep fema the coast guard cisa tsa and all other dh dhs agencies shut down it is republicans own divisions [34:08] their own inability to govern that has led the long led to the longest shutdown of an agency in american [34:14] history even now instead of working with democrats republicans want to waste even more time by going [34:20] through it alone going at it alone through reconciliation any moment now they're expected to release a budget [34:28] resolution that would tee up more than 75 billion dollars over three years for ice and border patrol [34:36] through reconciliation while doing nothing absolutely nothing to lower costs for hard-working americans [34:44] let's be clear what the republicans are doing is not how a well-functioning congress should be spending [34:51] its time we should be debating legislation to help people pay for groceries afford the rent [34:57] bring down electric bills we should be focused on on outrageous gas prices and on retiring donald trump's [35:07] costly military endeavors instead republicans are preparing to print spend precious time [35:14] bogging the senate down in bipartisan bickering and at a moment when president trump claims we cannot [35:20] afford medicare or daycare republicans somehow think that we can give ice and border patrol a blank check [35:26] isn't that amazing people are suffering because they can't pay for their health care needs and [35:34] instead the republicans want to send more money to ice and border patrol one thing is clear one thing is [35:41] very clear mr president americans cannot afford the cost of republicans continued chaos finally on haiti [35:51] after spreading hateful bigoted lies on the campaign trail trump continues to target the haitian community as [35:58] president despite ongoing violence gang violence civil instability terrible medical infrastructure and [36:06] poor food access in haiti trump directed christie known to strip haitian immigrants of their tps their [36:13] temporary protected status disregarding the process congress set into law last week a bipartisan majority in [36:22] the house bipartisan passed legislation on a discharge petition to extend temporary protected [36:30] status for haitian immigrants in new york home of the largest haitian american community in the nation [36:36] we cherish our haitian neighbors and value the many contributions they have made to america [36:41] i will do everything i can to protect the haitian community there are many haitians in new york [36:47] and beyond who anxiously await word on whether they will be forced to return to the dangerous [36:53] circumstances they've fled in haiti that is why i will rule 14 this bill so that the senate can give this [37:03] this issue the consideration that it deserves without delay i urge leader thune to put this [37:09] legislation on the floor so mr president i understand that there's a bill at the desk and i ask for its [37:18] first reading clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time h.r 1689 an act to require the [37:32] secretary of homeland security to designate haiti for temporary protected status i now ask for a second [37:42] reading and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule 14 i object [37:47] to my own request objection is heard bill be read for the second time on the next legislative day [37:56] i note the absence of the form we'll call the roll miss also brooks mr president are we in a [43:47] quorum call i just consent the quorum call be suspended thank you mr president mr president when kash [43:55] patel was confirmed as head of the fbi i said that he had neither the experience the judgment nor the [44:05] temperament for the job 14 months later director patel has confirmed my worst fears about his integrity [44:13] and competency director patel has spent his tenure at the fbi weaponizing the world's preeminent [44:21] investigative agency to serve the political interests of one person donald trump patel has fired dozens of [44:31] career law enforcement agents simply because they were assigned to work on investigations related to [44:37] president trump and his allies misconduct these firings have deprived the fbi of decades of experience [44:47] at a time when our nation is facing growing threats not only at home but overseas and director patel [44:55] has timed these politicized purges to shield himself from allegations of misconduct after his [45:03] embarrassing actions at the olympics and whistleblower disclosures to my office describing how his [45:10] misuse of fbi aircraft has negatively impacted high-profile criminal investigations director patel [45:18] tried to save face by firing even more people at the fbi who worked on president trump's mishandling [45:25] of classified documents several of the fired agents at the fbi were part of a global counterintelligence [45:32] squad whose responsibilities included investigating espionage and cyber threats from iran just days [45:40] before the war began director patel deliberately undermined the fbi's ability to counter iranian [45:47] threats all to distract from his own failings as and management as director an article recently [45:56] published in the atlantic revealed that director patel's behavior has been even more erratic and [46:03] irresponsible than previously reported current and former fbi officials are worried that director [46:10] patel has become a national security risk due to his chronic absenteeism and personal lifestyle those [46:19] at fbi headquarters and field offices often find the director absent at critical moments delaying time [46:25] sensitive decisions and important investigations that require his approval these accusations would be [46:32] concerning for any government official but for one of the people principally responsible for [46:37] keeping america safe they are downright disqualifying director patel should be replaced immediately [46:45] our country's safety is too important to be left in the hands of an unqualified and undependable [46:50] individual who is loyal only to the president and not to the people of this nation mr [46:58] president i ask consent that the next statement i made be placed in a separate part directly objection [47:05] mr president section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act is known as fisa is a valuable [47:13] important national security tool for collecting foreign intelligence the problem is that the government [47:20] is also using section 702 as a backdoor for warrantless spying on americans here at home fisa section [47:30] 702 allows the intelligence community to collect the communications of foreigners overseas without [47:37] a warrant the justification for bypassing the constitution's warrant requirement is that foreigners [47:44] overseas are not protected by the fourth amendment american citizens certainly are but the government [47:50] isn't just collecting the communications of foreigners they are also collecting millions if not billions of [47:57] communications of innocent americans in touch with those foreigners as well our government then searches [48:04] those private emails phone calls and text messages of americans without a warrant congress has repeatedly [48:13] failed to fix this end run around the constitution's protection unsurprisingly without court approval for [48:20] such searches the independent privacy and the civil liberties oversight board and the fisa court have [48:26] documented shocking abuses of such section 702 by our government the intelligence community has used this [48:34] authority to spy on american businesses american religious leaders political parties campaign donors [48:44] journalists and protesters across the political spectrum and this is all before we had an administration [48:51] which is expressly intent on targeting its political enemies in april 2024 congress [48:58] enacted the reforming intelligence and securing america act which reauthorized section 702 for two years [49:05] with reforms that were meant to reign in past abuses however these reforms failed to prohibit [49:13] warrantless searches of america's community americans communications collected under section 702 in fact [49:21] warrantless searches of americans increased in 2025 with the fbi alone collecting more than [49:28] 7 000 7 000 warrantless searches on americans last year just as troubling is the increase in so-called [49:37] sensitive queries by the fbi under kash patel's leadership these are warrantless searches of section 702 data [49:46] that target religious leaders or organizations politicians or political organizations or journalists in 2025 the [49:55] the fbi conducted over three times as many sensitive queries as in 2024 these statistics are troubling [50:02] enough but with the trump administration closing oversight offices firing compliance staff dismantling [50:09] dismantling the privacy and civil liberties oversee oversight board and failing to testify the full scope of [50:16] their abuses remains unknown the administration is also keeping the latest fisa court ruling on section 702 [50:25] secret from the american people the administration acknowledges that the court found quote deficiencies [50:32] with how the government's conducting section 702 searches yet it hasn't released the court's [50:38] opinion or the details of these deficiencies to the american people meanwhile political reports [50:44] that stephen miller the architect of president trump's immigration crackdown in minneapolis and chicago and [50:51] beyond is the white house chief advocate for extending section 702 miller reportedly views section 702 as [51:00] quote critical to a variety of homeland security missions end of quote why does stephen miller view section 702 [51:08] a statute designed to collect foreign surveillance and intelligence as critical to homeland security [51:14] inside the united states well in 2024 congressman congress quietly expanded section 702 [51:23] to allow it to be used for immigration vetting how is the president exploiting the section 702 [51:30] to carry out the mass deportation campaign we don't know because the administration refuses to testify [51:36] about the use of this authority congress should not give donald trump stephen miller and cash patel [51:42] unchecked power to spy on americans last week the house rightly rejected on a bipartisan basis attempts [51:49] to renew section 702 without safeguards congress instead enacted a 10-day extension so it could reach [51:57] agreement on reform needed to protect our constitutional rights as in the past some may argue that that's not [52:03] enough time to enact reform before section 702 expires but section 702 surveillance operates under year-long [52:11] certifications approved by the fisa court even if 702 were to expire today the law makes it clear that [52:18] surveillance may continue under the current certification until march of 2027 there is no [52:25] emergency excusing congress from getting this right congress should reform section 702 to protect [52:31] america's constitutional rights and prevent further abuses senator mike lee of utah conservative republican and i [52:39] have proposed the bipartisan safe act to do just that our bill includes a warrant requirement for [52:45] conducting searches of u.s person personal communications collected under section 702 the safe [52:52] this safeguard ensures that a judge not the executive branch of government approves the search there are [52:58] exceptions for emergencies and other legitimate security needs ensuring that we can protect security and [53:04] liberty at the same time if the government has a legitimate basis for the search they can make that case to [53:10] the judge if they do not then they should not be rifling through the private communications of [53:16] americans for too long congress has renewed section 702 without this basic protection from arbitrary [53:23] government searches enough is enough congress should reauthorize 702 with sensible reforms to protect [53:30] americans from threats to their security and to their basic constitutional rights i yield the floor madam president the senator from [1:59:03] kansas thank you madam president i have one request for a committee to meet during today's session of the senate [1:59:09] it has the approval of the majority and minority leaders duly noted madam president the residents of hill [1:59:16] city kansas a county seat town in northwest kansas will experience something new next winter a new boys [1:59:24] basketball coach will be on the sidelines for the hill city ringnecks after 58 seasons as the head coach of hill [1:59:32] city high school keith riley has officially retired today i pay tribute to his career not just as a [1:59:40] coach on the basketball court and the track field but also as a teacher in the classroom his success was [1:59:46] a result of his genuine interest in the well-being of the students who walked the halls of hill city high [1:59:52] school whether kids played for him or simply took his industrial arts classes coach riley sought to help [1:59:58] them achieve their full potential like so many educators he cared about his students and they knew he cared [2:00:05] he freely gave his time to kids who asked to spend an extra hour in the evening shooting hoops or a sunday [2:00:11] afternoon in the spring learning to pole vault when class projects were due at the end of the school year [2:00:18] he stayed in the woodworking shop late into the evening so his students could apply that last coat of [2:00:24] varnish under his leadership coach riley's team won more than 800 games and three state titles plus another six [2:00:32] track and field championships and his students won class projects they won competitions there in those [2:00:40] seasons where there was less success his expectations for his players remained unchanged talent wasn't [2:00:47] required to play hard and do the fundamentals well teaching basketball over decades required him to be a [2:00:54] student of the game himself he would watch ku practice under ted owens larry brown bill self and take [2:01:01] those ideas home to hill city from lawrence he learned from other peers at coaching clinics and befriended [2:01:07] many of them his own work ethic and that of his players would result in him being inducted into the [2:01:13] national high school athletic coaches association hall of fame in 2018 but for coach riley personal [2:01:21] accolades were far less important than the sec success of his kids in high school and beyond many of his [2:01:27] players went on to become teachers and coaches too no doubt running the same plays they learned from him [2:01:32] his assistant coaches became head coaches and won state titles on their own those who pursued other [2:01:38] professional paths also credit coach riley's impact on their lives for coach and his wife mariel his [2:01:46] players were like their boys in addition to their sons of brian and jeff both who played for him [2:01:52] players from his first year as coach still call him to check in or if they're in town they drop by his [2:02:00] house he's always credited any success to those who played for him i lived briefly in hill city [2:02:07] shortly after coach riley won his second state basketball championship the mid-continent league [2:02:12] was known for its football towns like smith center and plainville and norton but under coach riley hill [2:02:17] city was definitely a basketball town you knew where most of the community would be on tuesday and [2:02:23] friday nights during the winter while coach's voice will no longer ring out from the sidelines [2:02:30] the gym in which he spent countless hours teaching kids the game he loves appropriately bears his name [2:02:37] keith riley fieldhouse boasts many state titles title banners won over nearly six decades but his [2:02:45] true legacy can be seen in the lives he changed along the way coach riley congratulations on a legendary [2:02:52] career and i wish you and merrill all the very best in your retirement madam president i yield the floor [2:02:59] madam president the senator from louisiana are we in a quorum call we are not madam president all of us have [2:16:48] experienced someone in our life who has died but the murder of a child defies comprehension can't be [2:16:59] measured understood or compared to anything else it is in a word awful but today the shreveport [2:17:17] community in louisiana reads the loss of eight children a man shot seven of his own and a cousin [2:17:32] between the ages of three and eleven he shot the mothers i'm told they're hospitalized in serious [2:17:39] condition but expected to survive a 13 year old was injured jumping off a roof to escape now i ask my [2:17:51] people in my office why do we grieve so much people die all the time and i think what we agreed upon [2:18:03] is that they look to their parents for protection and not to be killed and it is if you will a sacrifice [2:18:10] of a sacred bond between a parent and a child and of course when that comes to mind what is sacred [2:18:19] and then also when we read of these dying we think of our own children and we feel protective of them [2:18:28] and we know no matter how much emotion we feel they died now we thank the officers who acted quickly and [2:18:43] bravely to pursue the shooter and stop him from doing it again we pray for the families for the [2:18:52] communities that they can recover as much as a family and communities can recover something so horrific [2:19:02] madam president i request a moment of silence for these eight young souls for shreveport for soul [2:19:15] i yield the floor madam president the senator from texas madam president today the senate will vote to [2:19:55] confirm andrew davis of texas to be a united states district judge for the western district of texas [2:20:02] andrew davis was born and raised in texas and after graduating from lubbock high school andrew attended [2:20:09] rice university and later columbia law school where he was a james kent scholar he then went on to clerk [2:20:17] for two federal judges judge sydney fitzwater former chief judge of the northern district of texas and [2:20:24] judge rena raghi of the second circuit as an assistant solicitor general in texas andrew represented the [2:20:32] state of texas before the texas supreme court the fifth circuit and the united states supreme court [2:20:39] handling some of the most consequential legal questions facing the state after his work as an [2:20:45] assistant solicitor general andrew came to washington to serve on the senate judiciary as my chief counsel [2:20:54] i worked for years with andrew he's a man of integrity discipline and commitment to the rule of law [2:21:02] he has deep respect for the constitution and the bill of rights and he handled sensitive matters [2:21:08] with precision and humility his preparation was meticulous and his counsel was highly trusted [2:21:18] president trump nominated andrew davis because he embodies what we should demand of every federal judge [2:21:24] independence seriousness and an unwavering commitment to the rule of law a federal judgeship is a calling of [2:21:33] public service one that requires patience restraint and an enduring commitment to the constitution [2:21:42] andrew has answered that call time and time again choosing public service over easier paths in private [2:21:50] life andrew davis will serve the western district of texas will with honor he will be faithful to the [2:21:59] constitution and bill of rights and i strongly support his nomination thank you now to yield the floor [2:22:05] so order the senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the following nomination [2:29:11] which the clerk will report nomination the judiciary andrew b davis of texas to be united states district [2:29:20] judge for the western district of texas the question occurs on the nomination is there a sufficient [2:29:30] second there appears to be the clerk will call the roll miss also brooks mr armstrong miss baldwin mr [2:29:43] banks mr barrasso mr bennett this is blackburn mr blumenthal miss blunt rochester mr booker mr bozeman [2:30:33] mrs brit mr budd miss can't well miss can't well this is capitol mr cassidy miss collins mr coons mr [2:31:30] cornyn miss cortez mastow mr cotton mr kramer mr crapo mr cruz mr curtis mr danes miss duckworth mr durbin [2:32:04] miss ernest mr ernst mr fatterman mrs fisher mr gallego mrs gillibrand mr graham mr graham mr grassley mr [2:32:31] hagerty miss hassen mr holly mr heimrich mr hickenlooper mr rono mr hoven mr housted mrs hyde smith mr johnson mr [2:33:41] justice mr kane mr kelly mr kennedy mr kim mr king mr klobuchar mr lankford mr lankford [2:33:59] mr lee mr lujan mr lee mr lujan miss lummis mr markey mr marshall mr mcconnell mr mccormick mr [2:34:23] murkley mrs moody mr moran mr moreno mr murkowski mr murphy mrs murray mr ossoff mr padilla mr paul mr [2:34:54] peters mr peters mr peter mr reed mr ricketts mr ricketts mr rish mr rish mr rosen mr rounds mr sanders [2:36:07] mr shotts mr schatz mr schiff mr schmidt mr schumer mr scott of florida mr scott of south carolina [2:36:19] mr shaheen mr shaheen mr shaheen mr shihie miss slocken miss smith mr sullivan mr thune mr tillis [2:36:34] mr tuberville mr van holland mr warner mr warnock miss warren mr welch mr whitehouse mr wicker mr wyden mr [2:36:56] young senators voting in the affirmative banks brasso brit crapo mccormick moran [2:37:19] rounds senators voting in the negative blount rochester duckworth kelly murphy murray rosen [2:37:29] and slocken mr markey mr markey mr markey no mr paul mr paul i mr ossoff mr ossoff no mr lujan mr lujan [2:41:04] no mr sanders mr sanders mr sanders mr cotton mr cotton i miss ernst mr padilla mr padilla mr padilla [2:41:40] mrs capitol mrs capito mr blackburn mrs blackburn i mr whiten mr widen mr wide no mr cornyn mr cornyn [2:42:14] no mrs capitol mrs capitol i mrs blackburn mrs blackburn i mr wyden mr wyden no mr cornyn mr [2:42:43] cornyn i mr reed mr reed no mr marshall mr marshall i mr scott mr scott of south carolina [2:43:10] aye mr merkley mr merkley no mr lankford mr lankford aye mrs fisher mrs fisher aye mr kane mr [2:44:48] kane no mr graham mr graham aye mr gallego mr gallego no miss also brooks miss also brooks [2:45:12] no mr whitehouse mr whitehouse no mr scott mr scott of florida aye miss cantwell [2:45:56] miss cantwell no mr housted mr housted aye mr bozeman mr bozeman aye miss hassan miss hassan no mr peters [2:47:26] mr peters no miss collins miss collins no mr cruz mr cruz aye mr cassidy mr cassidy aye mr armstrong mr [2:48:23] armstrong aye mr johnson mr johnson aye mr curtis mr curtis aye miss baldwin miss baldwin no mr schatz [2:50:04] mr schatz no mr booker mr booker no mr mcconnell mr mcconnell aye mr durbin mr durbin no miss warren [2:50:49] mr warren yes no mr lee mr lee mr lee lee aye miss cortez mastow miss cortez mastow no mr wicker mr wicker [2:51:24] mr wicker aye mr kennedy mr kennedy mr kennedy aye mr coons mr coons no mr thune mr thune aye mr smith mr smith [2:52:47] mr smith mr smith statue aye mr budd aye mr budd mr budd aye mr welch mr welch mr welch no miss smith [2:53:22] miss smith no mr heimrich mr heinrich mr heimrich no mr ricketts mr ricketts aye mr kramer mr kramer [2:54:42] I. Mr. Kim, Mr. Kim, no. Mr. Moreno, Mr. Moreno, I. Mrs. Gillibrand, Mrs. Gillibrand, no. Mrs. Shaheen, [2:56:51] Mrs. Shaheen, no. Mr. Tillis, Mr. Tillis, I. Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Blumenthal, no. Mr. Hawley, [2:58:03] Mr. Hawley, I. Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, I. Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Hagerty, I. Mr. Hoven, [2:59:06] Mr. Hoven, I. Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Klobuchar, no. Mr. Schumer, Mr. Schumer, no. Mr. Schiff, [2:59:51] Mr. Schiff, no. Ms. Hirono, Ms. Hirono, no. Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Van Hollen, no. Mr. King, [3:03:29] Mr. King, no. Mr. Warnock, Mr. Warnock, no. Mr. Taberville, Mr. Taberville, [3:04:23] I. Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Sullivan, I. Mr. Young, Mr. Young, I. Ms. Lummis, Ms. Lummis, [3:06:04] I. Mr. Bennett, Mr. Bennett, no. Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Hickenlooper, no. Mrs. Moody, [3:13:34] Mrs. Moody, I. Mr. Justice, Mr. Justice, I. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 46, [3:28:43] and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made [3:28:48] and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions. [3:29:11] Majority Leader. Thank you, Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate resume [3:29:14] legislative session and be in a period of morning business. The Senate is permitted to speak there [3:29:18] in for up to 10 minutes each. Without objection. Mr. President, I understand there's a bill at the [3:29:23] desk. It's due for a second reading. The Leader is correct. The Clerk will read the title of the [3:29:29] bill for the second time. S-4344, a bill to extend Section 702 of the Federal Intelligence [3:29:36] Surveillance Act of 1978 for three years. Mr. President, in order to place the bill on the [3:29:42] calendar under the provisions of Rule 14, I would object to further proceeding. Objection having [3:29:49] be heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate [3:29:53] proceed to the consideration of SRS 681, which was submitted earlier today. Clerk will report. [3:29:58] SRS 681, relating to the life and death of Chuck Norris. Is there an objection to proceeding to [3:30:06] the measure? No objection. The Senate will proceed to the measure. President, I know of no further [3:30:12] debate. Is there further debate? If not, all in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. The [3:30:22] ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The resolution is agreed to. Mr. President, I ask [3:30:28] unanimous consent that the preamble be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made [3:30:32] and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. Without objection. Mr. President, [3:30:37] I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned [3:30:40] until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April the 21st, following the prayer and pledge. The general proceedings [3:30:45] be approved to date. The morning hour be deemed expired. The time for the two leaders be reserved [3:30:49] for their use later in the day and the Senate be in a period of morning business with Senators [3:30:52] permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. Further, that the Senate recess from 12.30 [3:30:57] p.m. to 2.15 p.m. to allow for the weekly conference meetings. Without objection, so ordered. [3:31:04] Mr. President, if there's no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the [3:31:08] previous order. The Senate stands adjourned until 10 a.m. tomorrow.