Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the ayes are 90, the nays are 1, and the motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary, Stephanie Dawkins davis, of michigan, to be United States district judge for the Eastern District of michigan. Mr. Cassidy mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from louisiana. Mr. Cassidy mr. President , i rise to discuss the spending bill which were about to vote on which will increase our deficit by almost a fourth of a trillion dollars over ten years and of which i think im the first speaker. We got it on monday and were going to vote on it tomorrow. I smile, mr. President , because this is supposed to be the worlds greatest deliberative body and weve not deliberated one bit on farranging policies. The mess is bipartisan. We could spread the blame around, but let me bring up the heart of it. When obamacare passed, president obama famously said it would would not increase the deficit by one dime. Thats gone. I think that replaces you can keep your doctor if you want to as the greatest lie because what we did today was repeal about 400 billion in payments to pay for all the health care thats going out. Its kind of a joke on republicans. Were getting obamacare but were not paying for it. But, on the other hand, as ill explain in a second, it may ultimately be a joke on democrats. Now, this concerns me, mr. President , because we didnt have a Committee Hearing on it, we didnt have a floor debate, but we just committed almost 400 billion that have been used to Fund Medicaid expansion, people getting subsidies for their Health Insurance, and many other things, we just went poof, and its gone. Some of it, like the Health Insurance tax, was a tax that the Insurance Industry agreed to so that the Obama Administration would force obamacare upon the rest of us. But now that its been agreed to, and obamacare is stuck, they dont want to pay the tax. They would rather that go poof. Now, you could do people say, wait a second, if we get rid of that tax, insurance premiums go down. One, they dont guarantee it. But what we could have done is taken that money, created reinsurance pools across the nation and that, mr. President , is estimated to lower premiums by 10 to 20 . In that case not only would the Insurance Industry be fulfilling their bargain, you stick the nation for obamacare, but help pay for it, you could use the money to help pay premiums. That would have been something, one, they would have kept their word and, two, it would have been good for the american patient, if you will. Mr. President , the other tax that has been gone, just poof, 300 billion, just gone without debate, without deliberation, without a Committee Hearing, is still there on friday, today we walk in on monday, its poof and we vote on it tomorrow and im the first to speak on it is the socalled cadillac tax. That is a provision under obamacare, the highcost policies, if they go too high, you get taxed on. The whole idea is to encourage wiser purchasing of Health Insurance. Frankly, i didnt care for the cadillac tax. I get the reason it was there. But 100 different economists have said that it serves a purpose across the political spectrum. My preference is that if we had replaced the cadillac tax, we would have have paid for it, we shouldnt be getting obamacare without paying for it and we would have gotten some reforms. If were not going to use the cadillac tax to hold down the costs of premiums, it would have been another mechanism by which we could hold down the premiums. Why is this important, mr. President . Because not only did we just go poof to almost 400 billion because Health Care Expenditures are driving our debt and deficit. Its not just that we lost this 400 billion, we lost any restraint on policies going higher and higher. Now, its bad for the american patient, its bad for the American Household because our country will continue its indebtedness. Im a doctor, mr. President. I know if you put more money into the furnace, it will burn that much higher, and now theres just no excuse to try to rein in those expensive policies. But, mr. President , its not just that. One thing that my republicans apparently have agreed with democrats is to stop the Trump Administration from taking on something called silver loading. A little technical here, mr. President , but just hang with me. Because the middleclass family in your state who buys their insurance on the exchange and does not get a subsidy, pop, there goes their premium. How does this happen, mr. President . When the Trump Administration ended the payments from the federal government to Insurance Companies, Insurance Companies figured out a way around it. They are smart, they know how to get out of taxes. So they did what they call silver loading. They increased the cost of socalled silver policies on the obamacare exchange. If youre not getting a subsidy, youre paying a lot more. But if youre not getting a subsidy and paying a lot more, that increased the amount of subsidies for the people who were. So if youre getting a subsidy, youre probably pleased with it. If youre the middleclass person making 400 of federal Poverty Level and youre paying your taxes and trying to do it right, you just got stuck with a higher premium. The administration was trying to take it out. This deal, which we have not discussed, which was not heard in committee and was not deliberated on at all says to the administration, you can take that on. You cant take it can on. Stand down administration, were going to stick it to that family. As well as saying poof to 400 million. There are some other issues important to me in my state, the National Flood insurance program, important program. We advanced some reforms that would make it more affordable for the homeowner, more sustainable for society, more accountable to the taxpayer. we havent had anything in there. Weve refeud in renewed it. Im pleased that we renewed it. We are renewed it without reforms. Mr. President , youve had flooding your state, ive youve had yours in yours, ive had it in mine, we need that program to be sustainable, accountable and affordable. Weve lost the opportunity. I forget how many shortterm extensions weve had without reform. I think its 10, 12, 14, 16, you lose count after a while, we missed that opportunity. We started on friday, everybody goes home except for a few people. They work on it over the weekend, they come in hon monday, we get a 2,000page bill on monday and well vote on it tomorrow and im the first person to speak on it. I understand that impeachment has taken a lot of energy and oxygen out of the chambers, i understand there is a lot of attention addressed elsewhere. But all i can say is that when you have just imperiled your countrys Fiscal Health one more thing, mr. President , before i wrapup. Theres a little bit of an irony, republicans are getting obamacare but its unpaid for. Theres another irony here as well, mr. President. The courts today rule that the individual mandate in obamacare is unconstitutional. Now, im not an attorney, but i gather they did not rule that this was socalled separatable. If this is not constitutional then the rest can stand because we sever it off. Imagine this, mr. President. Imagine this. Imagine that the courts decide that portion of obamacare, which is related to Medicaid Expansion and is related to the exchanges in which people get subsidies to buy these policies is unconstitutional. But would have allowed the mechanism by which to pay for it to stand because thats another part of the law. Weve just repealed that. Why is that important . Because if this falls, we have to have the money to pay for a replacement. So democrats who have so long screamed that we need to have universal access, by the way, im a doc, i would like everybody to have thsh, i fought insurance, i fought for it, i worked for it. But the other party has just eliminated the funding that could be used for replacement in texas v. Azar, the Court Decision that may strike down that portion of obamacare. So republicans, weve got obamacare thats not paid for, democrats, they may end up with no obamacare at all, patients, whether they are on medicaid, getting a subsidy or not getting a subsidy, will lose. Mr. President , i hope that we can return to being the worlds greatest deliberative body, but but as regards to that, this has to be considered a low point. Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. Mr. Lankford mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Lankford its a historic day and a busy week here in the senate. The historic day is happening just south of us right now. There is debate in the house of representatives over impeaching the president of the United States. Only the third time that that has ever occurred in our nations multicentury history. Current impeachment conversation is an interpretation of a phone call that President Trump had with president zelensky that if you twist that phone call just the right way, it sounds like hes trying to influence the president of ukraine. Except the president of ukraine never said he felt influenced by that, they never took any action that President Trump is being accused of. Five different meetings happened in the days after that phone call, and none of those meetings ever included any conversation about Rudy Giuliani or hunter biden or joe biden. The money did go to ukraine in time. It was september 11, and the deadline was september 30 for it to arrive. The whole time the ukrainians, who apparently were threatened by President Trump, according to the articles of impeachment, the whole time the ukrainians said they never knew they were threatened. I have a feeling that if President Trump wanted to threaten somebody, they would know it. But apparently in this situation, the house is currently impeaching the president because they perceived the president meant to do something that he didnt actually do when the whole time the president said, no, that was never his intent, and the only one fact witness that the house called through the entire process, the one fact witness that they called said they actually talked to the president and the president said no, there is not any quid pro quo, of course i dont want to do that. But theyre going through impeachment anyway. That will then come to the senate in january, and all of january will be consumed with walking through the two articles of impeachment that the house is choosing to send over. It is really ironic to me today that earlier today in the senate, michael horowitz, who is the Inspector General for the department of justice, was in a hearing here in the senate today talking about the process on the russia investigation. I happened to be on that committee as we went through the process, and it was very ironic to me in the line of questions and the issues and the things that were coming up in the horowitz report, one of the things that probably the media will never report on, but michael horowitz, the Inspector General, pulled out through this process was in october of 2016, Christopher Steele, famous for the dossier that was an Opposition Research project from the Democrat National committee on President Trump leading up to the election that was supposedly all his dirty information about russia, Christopher Steele was contacted by someone in the state department, the obamaled state department in. In october of 2016, Christopher Steele was invited to the state department where at that Time State Department officials gave Christopher Steele information that they said was from a turkish businessman who had been visiting with a russian member of the f. S. B. That was derogatory to President Trump, and they were encouraging steele to take that back and then use it before the election. The irony of the day today for me is while the house is impeaching the president , at the same time thats being debated, michael horowitz, the Inspector General, is giving testimony about individuals in the obamaera state Department Getting information from foreign individuals, slipping it to individuals working on the clinton campaign, and literally using foreign sources to fight against canada trump from Hillary Clintons staff candidate trump from Hillary Clintons staff at the state department. Sometimes the world feels more upside down than others. This is one of those weeks. I think about a year ago today, a year ago today the senate was working in a bipartisan fashion to be able to pass the criminal Justice Reform bill called the first step act. It was a landmark piece of legislation dealing with helping us in federal prisons deal with recidivism. That was a good day for us here in congress. We started getting more job training to people that are in prison, more opportunities for faithbased programs to be able to be in our federal penitentiaries, and just like they are in our state penitentiaries, more opportunities for prisoners to be able to connect with their families, because the vast majority of prisoners in our federal prisons will be released one day, and it will be helpful if they have job training, they had faithbased background if they choose to, they had connection with their families. It would help us bring down the crime rates in the days ahead. That was a year ago today in the senate. Instead of fighting through impeachment processes thats happening now. There are a lot of people that said to me recently nothings getting done. Well, that was true actually for the past couple of months while we have been waiting on the house to be able to move on a lot of other issues, but this week has been a pretty busy week moving through pieces of legislation. Jim inhofe, who is the chairman of the Armed Services committee here, has led this senate and has led, quite frankly, all of congress through a process on whats called the ndaa, the National Defense authorization act. That got passed this week. Thats an incredibly important bill, not just to us in oklahoma, but to us across the nation and for our national security. It included things like a pay raise for all of our Service Members. It included additional benefits and things going to our family members as they move from place to place living with their Service Member and helping them in their transition. It addressed the issue of housing, which is so important to oklahoma because we have had problems with private contractors at some of our bases in oklahoma not living up to the standards of their contract. Jim inhofe has been the one actually fighting to be able to get that fixed. He has been the one thats taken the lead on that. This is incredibly important to us in oklahoma for our five bases and posts, as well as our National Guard and our reservists. Just in oklahoma, 2. 2 billion for the k. C. 46a refueling tankers, that they will be trained actually in altace and repaired and serviced at Tinker Air Force base. The improvements to military Family Housing i have already talked about. I included something in the bill that was an amendment that was included dealing with reservists and whats called the d. D. 214. If you are not in the military you have no idea what that is. If you are in the military, you know exactly what that is. There was a problem that guard and reservists didnt have the same kind of records in the d. D. 214 that active duty do. Were fixing that now so when guard and reservists get close to retirement, their records are all in place. We have a continuation of the pallatin integrated Management System at fort sill. We have authorization of the fort sill barracks that its so incredibly important to have Better Living facilities there. The fuel storage outfit that is so important to the fighter wing of the air National Guard. Language for our direct hiring authority. We expand that to make sure civilians that are being hired in places like mcaliceter and tinker continue to be able to serve there. And those civilian Service Folks are so incredibly important to our national security. That was just in the ndaa that passed this week. There are 12 proposals bills that we have been working on for months. Im glad the house has finally come to a decision to be able to work through this impeachment process, we can actually get on to the 12 appropriation bills because they affect a lot of things for oklahoma. Appropriation bills that are moving through tomorrow will have things like 50 million for medical student education that is really important to us for the university of oklahoma and Oklahoma State university in the awards that they have received from medical education. We have been through our share of disasters this year and flooding in oklahoma. The funding to be able to continue those grants and that process is in this set of bills. We have 710 million for safer grants. That deals with Fire Departments throughout the states. Incredibly important because they are the First Responders to acts of terrorism. The ag bill itself is moving through right now and deals with a lot of the disaster supplementals that are incredibly important to those of us. In fact, many of us in western oklahoma. This bill, set of bills not only does 3. 1 increase for our military Service Members, but it also does an increase of 3. 1 for our civil servants, many of them that work in oklahoma, and they do a remarkable job of being able to serve our neighbors. Theres a lot of different areas that deal with things like military Construction Projects that are all over our state that affect not only the military but civilians and those who have retired as well. Theres a lot of changes here including dramatic funding increases for the department of Veterans Affairs to be able to fulfill whats called the mission act that allows more veterans to be able to get care closer to home where theyre not having to drive 100 miles to go get radiology work. They can do that at a rural hospital close by. They can connect with their Family Doctor just like their spouse does. This gives them greater opportunity to be able to do this. This set of bills also deals with the electronic logging delays that are so incredibly important to those that are hauling ag and livestock. This deals with the fish and Wildlife Service. For those of us that are in southeast oklahoma, we know how incredibly important it is to resolve the american burrowing beetle that no one else will Pay Attention to but it is incredibly important to us that the fish and Wildlife Service finally get this downlisted. This gives them instructions to be able to do this. There are oversight dollars for the usda to oversee the snap program so that which is often called food stamps, which is actually snap, that gets greater yost to be able to deal with fraud so people that need the help get the help and the people that are abusing it are confronted. This set of bills also deals with whats called the rural act. Really important to our coops all across the state that they deal with the cost of doing business, which continues to provide Inexpensive Energy all across our state. The border wall funding remains. Its the exact same dollar amount as it was last year. That was quite a fight in a conversation to be able to go through the house and the senate. There are some that believe we should have no fences and no barriers and open borders, but im amazed how many people do not know that the last four president s, now five in a row, including President Trump, have all built border fencing. For the previous four president s, they didnt face the same fight that President Trump does in building border fencing. In the previous four president s, it was all about national security, and its important that we have fencing in certain areas to be able to keep that area secure, but for President Trump, it is suddenly a divisive issue. But we maintain that funding for the border fence to be able to make sure that continues through these bills that are moving through. Theres a repeal of whats called the nonprofit parking tax. Now, a lot of folks arent following this, but if you work for a nonprofit, you certainly are. Something that was in the tax bill that should not have been there, and it caused great confusion for all of our nonprofits and all of our churches all over the country and certainly all over my great state. This section is something that i and chris coons from delaware, that we have worked on for months and months and months to finally get fixed for all these nonprofits. For those of us that know and love the work that nonprofits do all over the country, this is one of their prime issues that they want to finally get results so they can get back to focusing on taking care of people that are homeless and hungry and needy rather than having to count Parking Spaces and turn in literally a 30page form to the i. R. S. Finally, dealing with the medical device tax which has lingered for years. Its an important issue for us to be able to resolve because its raising the cost of people getting medical devices. We did a boost in funding for n. I. H. , National Institutes of health. That deals with an increase in funding of things like alzheimers that we should continue to invest in. That also deals with things in oklahoma on some of the Oklahoma Medical Research foundation, stevensons Cancer Center at o. U. , and also some of the Rural Health Care programs, especially dealing with telemedicine, because if youre in a rural area in oklahoma, its a long way to go to be able to get health care. This bill also deals with something called the secure act. The secure act deals with seniors retirement. Right now, you cant continue contributing to your i. R. A. Past 70 and a half. Youre forced to take it. Lots of folks are now choosing to work later and later. Some retire earlier. Thats fine. Thats their choice. But for folks that choose to retire a little bit later, they dont want to be forced to take i. R. A. They want to be able to still contribute. This allows them to do this. This also allows parttime workers to participate in fowk plans. Its incredibly important for a lot of people saving for their own retirement. People should not count on just Social Security. People should also set aside their own Retirement Funds as well, in addition to Social Security. This allows more folks to do that and to continue doing that. There are several things on Foreign Policy maybe some oklahomans arent paying attention to but are important to us. Things like the f35 program to turkey, one of the areas that i led in this bill saying turkey should not continue to be allowed to have the f35. They purchased Russian Air Defense systems. Theyre turning towards russia. Why would we sell to turkey our most precious highly technical, highly secure Technology Like the new f35 when turkey is unknown on the direction that theyre headed in the days ahead . So this bill stops the delivery of the f35 to turkey. This bill also finally gives victims of terrorism their day in court. Decades ago victims of terrorism asked to be able to hold to account organizations like the Palestinian Authority and the p. L. O. In the areas where they carried out acts of terrorism that killed or injured americans. We decided as a congress decades ago to allow that, but the courts stepped in and stopped it with this little loophole, and we as congress have never fixed it. I worked with chairman grassley and with multiple others to be able to p get to a point that we could resolve it. This bill includes the fix so that victims of terrorism can finally get their day in court. U. N. Peacekeeping contributions. Have hit a very high number in the years past, way beyond what was set as the cap. This bill keeps us down to the current cap, so were not overgiving into the peacekeeping operations because we expect other nations to also contribute to the peacekeeping operations, not just the United States. Id love to say everything in these bills are good, but they are not. People talk about making the sausage here. Quite frankly, i go back and think about the very first time i ever had a bite of supreme pizza. I dont know what everybodys family was like but growing up for us when we got a hamburger pizza, the cheapest one or cheese pizza thats pretty good pizza. But i remember the first time i went somewhere and had supreme pizza and was loaded with everything on it and thought thats going to be great until i bit into it and i found out it had some things i like but things i really, really didnt like in that bite. Many times things i really, really didnt like overpowered the things that i did. There are some things in this bill coming up this week i cannot support. While i talked to a lot of things moving and there are a lot of things moving this week, theres also some areas like the overseas Contingency Fund often called o. C. O. Its a separate fund outside the budget thats supposed to be just for taking care of our military in the night in afghanistan and iraq. Weve been dialing down the fight in afghanistan and iraq and doing less and less and less of that and the president has announced that hes going to be able to withdraw troops in a wise way from those areas. But yet this agreement thats come down the pike this week also includes not less overseas funding, 10 billion more of the overseas Contingency Fund. 10 billion more. The wind production tax credit suddenly reappears. Its the zombie tax credit that we thought was already gone that now just bounced back. Five years ago congress agreed that wind power was prolific around the country, and they no longer need a federal tax benefit to be able to sustain their business. So there was an agreement five years ago to little by little by little wean wind off and 2020 would be the first year that it goes to zero, except in this bill magically the wind production tax credit reappears. In the year that it was supposed to be zero, it actually pops up higher than it even was last year to an even higher amount. Theres multiple different what are called tax extenders in this package. Weve got additional tax dollars that are going to things like race tracks for horse racing. Weve got tax dollars that are going to motor sports racetracks. Weve got tax dollars going to craft beer breweries because i assume craft beer breweries cant make it without getting tax dollars from their next door neighbor. Almost 1 billion worth. Almost a billion federal dollars going to be able to help folks that do craft brewing. Im sure the folks that do craft brewing would love to have the tax benefit, but i think the nation has not run out of beer and were not in a position that we need to make sure that we subsidize that to make sure that we sustain that for our national benefit. The tax side alone of one of the bills thats coming, just one of the bills thats coming is almost 500 billion in new debt. One of the bills. Half a trillion dollars in new debt. And for a nation that has 23 billion, many of us were shocked late on monday night when the bill was dropped with an additional 500 billion in new debt. Theres some important things going on this week, and there are also some things moving through this congress that need more attention than impeachment, and its not happening. I hope in the days ahead as we debate these issues and vote on these issues we can deal with the things that are good that we all look at and say we should do that. But that we would be able to pause long enough to say should we do those things and make wise decisions. We are at the same spot were always at. Everything gets crammed to the end of the year and it becomes a if you dont vote for everything, the governments going to shut down. Thats why Maggie Hassan and i, the democratic senator from new hampshire, she and i worked so hard this year to form a bill, what we call the Government Shutdown prevention bill. We want to end the possibility we have Government Shutdowns so that theres not a time that we get to the end of the year and everyone says got to vote for all that stuff or the government will shut down and people will be on furlough. Id like to have a moment where we say we dont ever have shutdowns again, and we debate the issues that need to be debated in the time they need to be debated so that we dont dump 500 billion in debt on our kids and go home for christmas. Lets get some things resolved. Lets solve the issues. And then lets spend some time with our families. I think the entire country needs a deep breath from the anger and bitterness and divisiveness. It needs to get a little peace on earth and some goodwill towards men. With that, mr. President , i yield the floor. Mr. Lankford mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 551 and all nominations on the secretarys desk in the air force an army, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate and no further motions be in order, that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record and the president be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration calendar number 314, s. 153. The presiding officer the clerk will report. Calendar number 314, s. 153, a bill for better involvement in Stem Education and for other purposes. The presiding officer without objection, the senate will proceed po the measure. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the committeereported amendment be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the Commerce Committee be discharged from further consideration of h. R. 3196 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk h. R. 3196, an act to telescoap as the rubin the presiding officer the senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Lankford i ask that the bill be read three times an passed and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 3105, introduced earlier today. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk a bill to designate the facility of the United StatesPostal Service located at 456 north meridian street in indianapolis, indiana, as the richard g. Lugar post office. The presiding officer without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. Con. Res. 31, introduced earlier today. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Concurrent Resolution 31, recognizing the importance and significance of the 2020 census and encouraging families and households across the United States to participate in the 2020 census to ensure a complete and accurate count. The presiding officer without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration of s. Res. 450, and the senate proceed 0 to its immediate consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 450, recognizing the 71st anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights and the celebration of human rights day. The presiding officer without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Lankford i further ask that the rechtion be agreed to resolution be agreed to, programming program, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no viengt action or with no viengt action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent that the house messages to accompany h. R. 1865 and h. R. 1158 be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford he understand there are three bills at the desk and ask for their First Reading en bloc. The presiding officer the clerk will read the titles of the bill for the first time en bloc. The clerk h. R. 397, an act to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986. H. R. 1759, an act to amend title 3 of the Social Security act and so forth and for other purposes. H. R. 4018, an act to provide the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement is determined by the amount of good credits by the prisoner and for other purposes. Mr. Lankford i now ask for the second reading and object to my own request all en bloc. The presiding officer objection having been heard, the bills will be read for the second time on the next legislative day. Mr. Lankford mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9 30 a. M. , thursday, december 19, further, following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, morning business be closed, and following leader remarks, the senate resume consideration of the house message to accompany h. R. 1865 with the time until 11 00 a. M. Equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. Finally, notwithstanding the provisions of rule 22, the cloture motions filed during tuesdays session of the senate ripen at 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lankford if theres no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. The presiding officer the senate s