Beyond dangerous and those who support it should be ashamed of themselves. They should be publicly condemned by every senator, every representative, every governor across this great country. In fact, just this year, 37 officers have been killed. By the way, thats more than a 20 increase over the same time last year. Because being a Police Officer in this country is more dinin dangerous than ever before. Im having the private conversations with members of Law Enforcement, our peace officers, men and women who will quietly tell you that it is difficult to continue to serve in this environment where theyre not getting the support of their elected officials. Ill tell you theyre getting the support of their communities in many cases, though, but where is the outrage being expressed by those who are elected to serve. And how are these heroes repaid . Cities and towns across our country, including montanas very own city of ma sue la masoula are talking about reducing their budget, proposing abolishment in some areas, abolishment of police departments. That talk is crazy. We had some of this crazy talk in montana. Some of our communities were looking to take School Resource officers out of our schools. They were looking to slash budgets. And thankfully, thankfully the Community Rose up. And they pushed back. And in most cases have stopped it. But thats happening right in montana in some communities. And the senators standing before you today will not accept it. We should not be defunding the police. We should be defending them. And my democratic colleagues who support defunding these american heroes, these montana heroes, you should be ashamed. Because i will always back the blue. I yield back to my colleague, senator scott. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from florida. Mr. Scott i want to thank my colleague for his unwaiving support. Its hard to believe a state like montana that is so supportive Law Enforcement, there would be any city that would be thinking about reducing the police department. It shouldnt be happening around the country. Im honored to stand here today to support our brave Law Enforcement and say enough is enough. Were not going to tolerate violence, attacks, and vilification of our Law Enforcement. Im proud to introduce the back to blue resolution today. Im asking all of my colleagues to join me in support. As in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of Senate Resolution 697 submitted earlier today. Further, i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer is there objection . A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from new mexico. A senator mr. President , thank you very much for the recognition and reserving the right to object. Mr. Udall as a former new Mexico Attorney general and an assistant u. S. Attorney, ive worked closely with Law Enforcement for many years. Ive worked hard to prosecute Violent Crimes in my career, including crimes where Law Enforcement officers were the victims. Ive been privileged to work with Law Enforcement in new mexico and we are all thankful for the tremendous work of the Capitol Police here in our nations capital. The senate is united in our respect for Law Enforcement. Just five months ago in may, the Senate Passed a number of bills in a bipartisan resolution during National Police week in support of those who serve our communities in the face of risk. We all agree that deadly violence targeting Law Enforcement is appalling. And we all have expressed gratitude for the brave men and women who serve in Law Enforcement. The recent shooting of two law sheriffs deputies in california was heinous. Our prayers go out to the officers and their families and the perpetrator must be brought to justice. Like many of us here on both sides of the aisle, im also dedicated to embracing a moment before our nation where we confront the very real issues of systemic racial injustice. We have policy disagreements on how to do that, but i hope that we can all agree the senate should be a place for coming together and making progress to respond to this moment in our country, not fanning the flames of division and anger. The initial draft of this resolution has some vague but divisive language that i do not think belongs in a Senate Resolution. And a number of other members agree. Our side is asking for some reasonable changes in good faith to reflect the Public Safety and trust between Law Enforcement and communities as fundamental to the security and prosperity of our nation. I hope that the senator from florida and his colleagues are willing to accept those changes which i will offer in response to his request. Then the senate can speak with a united voice and set a good example for our nation at a time like this. As if in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of my resolution at the desk. Further, that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the the preamble be agreed to and that the motion to reconsider be made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer is there objection . Mr. Scott mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from florida. Mr. Scott mr. President , reserving the right to object. I appreciate my colleagues interest in expressing support for the brave men and women of Law Enforcement. That is exactly what my resolution does. Why then would my colleague object to my resolution and propose his own to accomplish the same thing . At first his resolution appears to resemble my own. I note, however, that my resolution condemns not only the cowardly attacks on the Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies of this past weekend but also condemns the rhetoric and policies that have incited this recent spike in targeted violence against Law Enforcement. My colleagues resolution makes no such condemnation. My resolution calls out the radical politicians, reckless media and who incite and encourage or celebrate widespread criminal activity and violence against Law Enforcement officers. My colleagues resolution is silent about this. My resolution calls out the radical politicians who are pursuing a Dangerous Campaign to defund the police. Starving Law Enforcement agencies of much needed resources to combat the crime wave sweeping through our communities. My colleagues resolution makes no such condemnation. We have to be honest about what is happening here and across our great country. We have rioters chanting let them die. Outside of a hospital caring for two Police Officers that were violently attacked. Let them die. Americans have the right to peacefully protest and i support that right. But thats not what were talking about here. Were talking about acts of violence against Law Enforcement. Families and businesses, and my colleagues proposal takes out all the reference to this bad behavior. Expressing support for Law Enforcement without condemning the people and groups who are perpetrating, instigating and sell grating the violent acts committed against Law Enforcement officers, its not enough. We cant be afraid to condemn violence against Law Enforcement. And the Defund Police movement. I have no such fear. Those radical politicians, reckless media figures, and organized protest movements deserve to be condemned for inciting, committing, and celebrating acts of violence against Law Enforcement. I stand firmly behind my resolution and behind our nations Law Enforcement. If my colleague would be willing to work with me, we may be able to find Common Ground to ensure any resolution includes language that firmly denounces the violence and the causes of that violence in our communities. But my colleagues resolution does not go far enough. So, mr. President , i therefore respectfully object. The presiding officer the objection is heard. Is there objection to the original request . Mr. Udall yes, there is. I object. The presiding officer the objection is heard, senator. Mr. Udall i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call mr. Braun can we lift the quorum call . The presiding officer without objection. The senator from indiana. Mr. Braun i rise this evening to recognize the 50year anniversary of Vincennes University jasper campus. Vincennes university was founded in 1801 and is part of the Northwest Territory back then. It would later become the state of indiana. For over 200 years, Vincennes University has been a premier institution of Higher Learning for those seeking knowledge in the manufacturing, logistics, aviation, and other important fields of study. In 1970 when i was a mere junior in high school in open enrollment and concentrating on jobs, with he would faos of where there were employee shortages, Vincennes University jasper campus is providing opportunities for all hoosiers to add new skills to their resume that will ultimately lead to goodpaying jobs, mostly right there in indiana. Notably with their partnership with purdue university, this campus provides lowincome students or those in need of remedial coursework with a steppingstone to one of the nations top engineering schools. I have to admit, v. U. Jasper campus holds a special place my heart. The company that i founded in the early 1980s, we use this as an excellent source of recruiting people in our home company, who generally come there fully skilled, ready to go, and generally end up sticking with the job, which is great. As jasper native, i have seen firsthand what an asset this campus has been to our community in and the economic benefit its added to dubois and surrounding counties. We are lucky to have v. U. In jasper, and i am happy to be here on the floor of the u. S. Senate to celebrate with them on their golden anniversary. I yield the floor. Mr. Barrasso mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Barrasso thank you, mr. President. Is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are not. Mr. Barrasso thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , i come to the floor today to discuss this unprecedented obstruction that American Families are facing from the democrats. In a time when Congress Really should be working towards Bipartisan Solutions on coronavirus, democrats keep obstructing. Over and over and over again. It does seem to be their singular focus. It seems to me that theyre going to continue to obstruct all the way until november 3, election day, putting politics first and American Families last. Mr. President , the obstruction has reached levels that has even made members of their own caucus, and i will quote, uncomfortable, alarmed, and frustrated. Those are not my words. They are the words of democrats sitting in congress in the United States, in this very building. Democrats are telling their leaders that the leaders are failing them by failing to compromise and to Work Together towards solutions that would benefit the American People. So the bad news for American Families is that last week democrats in this body in the United States senate blocked, obstructed a targeted coronavirus aid package with policies, amazingly, mr. President , that had democrats had at one time supported. But they came here to the floor of the senate and voted in lock step again and again, voted no. No to children, no to jobs, no to paychecks, no to fighting the disease. They actually blocked relief that would, one, have gotten kids back to school, so kids wouldnt fall further behind in the school theyve already missed. And it would have let parents get back to work. They voted no. They blocked people getting back to work safely. They blocked paycheck protection money so paychecks could continue to go and Small Businesses could remain open. They blocked money for vaccines and treatment, for testing so we could put the disease in the Rearview Mirror. The good news is that the majority of the senate did support the legislation to help children and their parents and the workers and the Small Businesses and the medical personnel fighting against the disease, but all those votes came from the republican side of the aisle. Republicans are united. The republican bill received 52 yes votes. All 52 were republican. Not one single democrat voted yes, even though the majority of that body had backed the relief efforts. When you talk to them they say theyre for this and this and this, but they voted on the United States senate floor to block it. Its interesting, mr. President , they even blocked allowing the senate to discuss these issues. All we did was come to the floor and said we have some proposals, lets discuss them. If you dont like them, offer amendments. We can discuss those, debate those. They even blocked a motion to move to get that bill to the floor of the senate, step one of legislating. They said no. So they may say they want to help the American People, but thats not what happened on the floor of the United States senate. The New York Times had a headline. They said hopes dim for more stimulus as democrats block the narrow g. O. P. Plan. Well, theyre right, it is a narrow plan because its targeted. Its targeted to kids in schools, to workers, jobs, and the disease. It doesnt include all of the extraneous things that nancy pelosi and the house put in money for environmental justice, money for the national endowment, the this, that, money for, you name it, direct paychecks to illegal immigrants. And thats just the tip of the iceberg when you take a look at their entire list. To me, it was nancy pelosi living on fantasy island. Politico said Senate Democrats block republican covid relief proposal. Senate democrats block. Once again blocking the things that the American Families all across this country are asking when they look to congress for help and relief. Usa today had the headline, Senate Democrats block 300 billion coronavirus stimulus package, leaving little hope for relief before november. Mr. President , 300 billion, thats a huge amount of money that could do so much to help our schools, to help our students, to help Small Businesses, to help our workers, and to help fight the disease. But unfortunately this has been the record that weve seen coming from the democrats ever since the pandemic began. While the virus was raging in march, democrats delayed help for americans by blocking the cares act. The New York Times headline that time on march 22 said, quote, emergency economic rescue plan in limbo as democrats block action. So they were blocking it back in march, and they were blocking it last thursday. In april, Small Businesses were forcibly shut down by the government. They were fighting to one day reopen their doors. Its all they wanted to do, get back to business. They wanted to keep employees on the payroll. Democrats once again blocked funding for the paycheck protection program. Mr. President , this is a wonderful program. 13,000 of these loans were taken in the state of wyoming, businesses. Im sure in your home state of north dakota, similar Small Businesses took advantage of this opportunity. Our average loan is about 78,000. These are Small Businesses that just needed help making the patrol, keeping people working, making the payroll. The npr, National Public radio point on this on april 9, it was this Senate Democrats block efforts to boost business aid, Senate Democrats blocking aid for businesses across the country. In august as Unemployment Insurance was set to expire, republicans asked for consent on the floor to extend the program. Democrats came to this very floor and once again objected. So today we have an opportunity to finish the fight against coronavirus. The democrats have a full roadblock in place against any further relief. The cold, hard truth that we face, mr. President , is that they have delayed and they have p divided this country all year long. I would go so far as to say this has hurt the country, it has hurt families, it has our students, it has hurt our schools, it has hurt our health care providers, and it certainly hurt people trying to recover from the disease. Remember, mr. President , that the year started with the democrats completely partisan impeachment farce, and we sat here day after dailiesening as the day listening as the democrats brought charge after charge against the president. Thats how we started the year. And now were ending with their blocking of coronavirus relief. But let me assure the country, mr. President , republicans wont let you down. Republicans will continue working to put the virus in the Rearview Mirror and deliver what we are seeing right now, and its the Great American comeback. As people getting back to work, over ten million americans back to work over the last four months. An Unemployment Rate down below 9 . It was over 9 for four months. Businesses reopening, kids going back to school, a vaccine on the way, great optimistic ideas and thoughts regarding to the vaccine. I met with the secretary of health and Human Services earlier today. Im very encouraged and optimistic of a vaccine available to many at the end of the year. So theres a lot to be optimistic about as the country comes back from the coronavirus, because this is the Great American comeback. Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Portman im here on the floor this evening to talk about what Congress Needs to do right now to help the American People with regard to this coronavirus pandemic. Were not out of the woods yet. People are still struggling with the economy being weak, and we still have a Real Health Care crisis to deal with. Since this crisis began, congress has come together as republicans and democrats both here in the senate and over in the house, working with the white house, to pass five coronavirus bills, five. Legislation addressed both the Health Care Crisis and the economic freefall that was caused by the virus and also by the governmentimposed shutdowns. The biggest of these bills was the one you hear most about. Thats the roughly 2 trillion in the cares act that was passed by a vote in this chamber of 960. Totally bipartisan. Unfortunately, since may, when the last of these bipartisan bills was enacted, partisanship has prevailed over policy. Washington has been paralyzed, unable to repeat the coming together for the public good. Democrats in this chamber have consistently insisted that the only way forward is a bill called the heroes act. This is a 3. 5 trillion piece of legislation that passed the house of representatives four months ago along partisan lines. By the way, 3. 5 trillion, it would be the most expensive legislation ever to be enacted. When this bill passed the house four months ago, politico and others in the media accurately called it a messaging bill that had no chance of becoming law. Its disappointing the democrats have continued to push this my way or the highway approach because this bill is a nonstarter for a lot of reasons, including the price tag and the fact that it includes noncovidrelated provisions. Just to name one example, it repeals the state and local Tax Deduction cap. Thats a 135 billion tax code change where most of the benefit is going to go to the top 1 of wage earners. What does it have to do with covid19 . Now is not the time to give tax breaks to the wealthy to make changes to our immigration policy or impose unprecedented mandates on state election procedures that are normally in the province of the states, not us, all of which are part of the heroes act. Instead, this should be a time where we focus on what the American People need right now and help them to handle this health care and economic challenge theyre facing, but that hasnt happened. Last week, i spoke on this floor about all the things in the targeted bill that was voted on last thursday in this chamber where there is bipartisanship, where democrats and republicans actually agree. I talked about the need to extend the p. P. P. Program, paycheck protection program, which is helping Small Businesses keep their doors open, but it expired on august 8. A lot of Small Businesses are saying to me back home in ohio, im barely holding on. When is this coming . I need an extension of this program. And yet, we cant seem to get our act together here, even though its totally nonpartisan, as far as i can tell. The bill we voted on last thursday also has more funding for something desperately needed in my state of ohio and other states around the country, which is more money for testing. It also has more money, by the way, for developing a vaccine more quickly and effectively for getting these antiviral therapies up and going. I mean, all this is stuff we should be able to agree on, right . No. We havent been able to. Another thing that was in that bill last thursday was providing funding for the schools so they can reopen. K12 but also for our colleges and universities. These schools are starting to reopen, and they need the help badly. Actually, it had enough funding in there that it was slightly more than the funding that was in the heroes act, the democrat proposal, for the same purpose. 105 billion. So why couldnt we get together . What else did it have . Well, it had something very important for a lot of people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. It had an extension of the current federal supplement for Unemployment Insurance in the states. It had a 300 per week, 300 per week federal taxpayerpaid additional supplement on top of the roughly 350 that states already provide on average for unemployment. And yet, that was all rejected. We couldnt even have a good vote to proceed on the bill to have a debate on the bill so we could have an honest debate and say oh, gee, 300 is too much or not enough, or maybe the p. P. P. Program should be slightly changed this way or that way. There is less money for schools needed or more money for schools. We couldnt even get on the bill because you need 60 votes to do that, and we only had 52. Which is a majority of this chamber. But its not the 60vote supermajority. 52 republicans supported it. Unfortunately no democrats were able to support it. I dont get that because all we were saying was lets get on this bill and have a debate, and if later on in the process you dont like where weve ended up, there is another 60vote margin. You can filibuster it again. But we couldnt even get on the bill to have a debate. To me, that is really sad, because the American People werent given the opportunity to get some help, but also they werent given the opportunity to see what the differences are and have this out in the open. That legislation is one that, again, 52 republicans supported, were ready to go. Lets have the discussion. Lets have the debate. The federal funds to help the unemployed get by was a particular concern of mine, and i want to focus on that tonight. That unemployment benefit is a classic example of where Senate Democrats have blocked what i think is a reasonable compromise, and ill explain why i think that, and instead have decided to provide nothing. Nothing. What we should do instead is we should embrace a compromise together for these families that continue to struggle to make ends meet because some people cant go back to work still because their movie theater, their Bowling Alley or their Motor Coach Company cant hire them. Either they are shut down or they simply cant hire them back, so there are people who are unemployed who still need our help. Early on in this pandemic, both republicans and democrats recognized this. We recognized the need to bolster the staterun Unemployment Insurance programs to help offset the massive job loss we saw in march and april. Thats why the cares act we talked about earlier, this bipartisan bill, contained an unprecedented 600 per week additional federal supplement on top of the state supplement for four months. By the way, the state benefit in ohio on average is 360. So the 600 was on top of the 360, coming up to 960 per week. We did that for a period of four months. That provided an important income source for a lot of people, made a huge difference in the lives of a lot of people who, again, early on couldnt work because the government was actually closing down businesses, saying you cant open. Some say that was too much, and well talk about why they say that, but it was a big help, and it was appropriate in a sense for the time to do something that big because the government itself was saying youre going to lose your job through no fault of your own. We the government is saying you have to shut down, so were going to provide you an unemployment benefit. It was also used for other things. To pay rent, to pay that car payment. You know, just to get by. As the year has gone on, we have made progress now on slowing the spread of the coronavirus, adding testing, adding more personal protective gear, and so on, and many parts of our economy have been able to reopen in a safe and sustainable manner, and thats good. Without that help that we provided again in the legislation, the five bills we passed, we wouldnt be so far along. They helped. They helped keep the doors open in a lot of Small Businesses. They helped provide the money for our health care system, for testing. With that reopening around the country, hiring picked back up, and now we have far fewer people on unemployment than we did at the beginning of this pandemic, so less people who need Unemployment Insurance. Unemployment is about 8. 4 . Thats what it was last month. Thats down from over 15 in the spring. Now, 8. 4 is still too high, convictly compared to the record lows we saw just before this pandemic. Its more than twice what it was then, but its undoubtedly a step in the right direction. Unemployment claims are either Holding Steady or dropping now in most states, so thats good. With this positive progress we are seeing, i think it was fair for congress to want to take another look at the original Unemployment Insurance compliment which expired at the end of july and see whether there was a new supplement that we could continue to help those in need while better reflecting this improved economy and the need for workers rather than a situation where, again, the government was actually imposing shutdowns of much of our economy. But thats where things broke down. So at the end of july, the 600 supplement ended. Everybody knew it was going to end then. But republicans and democrats couldnt agree on how to best structure an additional u. I. Supplement. By the way, having differences isnt unusual around here. We have debates all the time. That debate was a big part of the negotiations in july and august. What was disappointing to me, to many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and to so many people we represent is that instead of taking us up on our offer that we offered to extend the 600 for a week to be able to negotiate something or two weeks, which would have put a lot of pressure on the negotiation, think about it, democrats said no. I dont know why they said no, but democrats would not even allow us to extend the 600 to put pressure on negotiations deliberately, they allowed these benefits to exexpire. So it went from a 600 benefit on top of the state benefit to zero federal benefit. Let me repeat that. Rather than work to agree on a weeklong extension of a lifeline for so many people to buy time to work something out, democrats instead chose to let these benefits expire and allow millions of americans to go without benefits. When we hit this impasse on the u. I. Issue that Congress Just couldnt break, the Trump Administration stepped in. President trump quickly signed an executive order on august 8, so a week after the benefit expired, which authorized fema, federal Emergency Management agency, to begin distributing an emergency lost wage assistance unemployment check. So the government stepped in at the executive branch side and said okay, you guys in congress cant figure this out. The 600 has gone to zero, so you just have the state benefit now and you have a lot of people still unemployed through no fault of their own, tough to get by on 360 a week. So President Trump and his administration stepped in and said well provide it temporarily, temporarily, because thats all the money they had through whats called this wage assistance program. Under this program, 44 billion from the Disaster Relief fund was made available to states to use as a supplement to their Unemployment Insurance programs. Still leaving 25 billion, by the way, in that fund for natural disasters. I spoke to labor secretary gene scalia on friday, and i asked him is there any money left in that fund . This was done on august 8. They had a limited amount of money. He said no, rob, it was a temporary program, meant to be a bridge so congress could get its act together between august 8 and now, so basically a month and a week. Surely congress would do something here, but we havent, so now that money has run out. So now people who were getting the 600 benefit down to zero, then back up to 300, which most were getting in a lump sum because it takes a while to process this money, that 300 is now ending. No more 300 perweek federal supplement. By the way, almost every state and territory except for two has applied for and received some of this funding from the feds. Ohio was able to receive enough funding to cover six weeks of lost benefits, so basically again from august 1 until now. Ohio got 1. 4 billion from the fund, and its sending out its Unemployment Insurance benefits this week. Next week, it ends because they have run out of money. They have used the federal money. So the 300 supplement has now ended. Its surely time for us to act. And it would be timely this week and next week to now do something to provide for a supplement for people, again, who have lost their job through no fault of their own. We could have solved this last thursday with the targeted relief bill that came to the floor for a vote that i talked about. The timing was perfect. We could have done that because part of the negotiation that we had between ourselves as republicans over this and with some democrats, i suppose, was, you know, whats the right level, and what we came up with was 300. That was part of the bill that was again, got 52 votes last thursday but needed the 60 votes and democrats blocked it. So even though it got the majority of the senate, it didnt get the supermajority of 60 that you needed. And again, we couldnt even get on the legislation to talk about it. But that 600 supplement in this bill was changed to 300, which was consistent with where the administration has been over the last five or six weeks. And that helps the vast majority of unemployed individuals make ends meet without driving our deficit even higher. The 600 perweek supplement was not sustainable over time because in part most people were actually making more money on Unemployment Insurance than they were with their jobs. So you were being paid more not to work than to work at 600, on top of the state benefit. In fact, under that supplement of 600, the median wage earner in america received 134 of his or her previous wages, more than they were making. While making it harder therefore to jump back into the workplace and get our economy moving again. By the way, i have heard this all over ohio, and i know every single one of my colleagues has. They have heard it from businesses, particularly Small Businesses, but also larger Small Businesses. Say the Ford Motor Company that has a they told me they had a 25 absenteeism rate when i visited them over the august break. Why . Because people werent coming back to work because of the benefit that they were that they had been getting of 600. So its Small Businesses, yes, but its also ms. Sized and larger businesses. Its also a lot of nonprofits. I have heard this from hospitals. I have heard it from people that provide addiction services, recovery services, treatment programs. Nonprofits are having a hard time getting people to come back because again the 600 on top of the state benefit, average lets say 350, 950 a week was more than they were able to pay them. So people were making more on Unemployment Insurance than they were at work. This was as the economy was starting to pick up, we needed jobs. So how about 300. Why didnt we pick 300 . Well, again, 600 is so generous that its paying people more. By the way, the congressional budget office, a Nonpartisan Group here in the congress analyzes these things. They analyzed it. They said if you continued the 600 until next year, which is what the democrat proposal is, thats their legislation called the heroes act, 600 until next year, that would result in eight out of ten people on Unemployment Insurance getting paid more on Unemployment Insurance than they would at work. 80 for. Thats from the c. B. O. So what is the right number . Instead of having 80 pay more by not working . Well, about 300 i think is is about the right number. Some could say thats too high, too. But the 300 on top of the state benefit was what was rejected last thursday by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. By the way, when 80 of people are making more money by not working, it hurts everybody. It hurts the businesses, Small Businesses, the nonprofits, not being able to get people to come to work. Look at the signs you may have in your own community. It also hurts the economy when you dont have this workforce and dont have these jobs coming back. It also hurts the workers. And i think all of us should want to reconnect people to work. Right . Thats where people get their health care. If they have it, theyre likely to get it at work. Thats where about 80 of us do get it. Its where people get their retirement, if they have it. And we want more people who have that. But a new 40 is k is is going te but a 401 k is going to be through work. Its where people get selfrespect and selfesteem by working. So we should be encouraging work. I think there is a number there somewhere where youre helping people who need the funds to be able to get by because they are unemployed through no fault of their own. Yet youre not offering such a high benefit that its advantageous not to work. The 300perweek amount offered last thursday is generous compared to other Unemployment Insurance. In ohio you go from 360 to 660 per week. So thats a big change, makes a big difference in peoples lives. It would cover 90 of the lost wages for the median worker nationwide. So 300 per week covers he 90 of the lost wages. Helping particularly low and medianincome wage earners. Even if 300 wasnt the perfect solution, it was certainly a starting point. It was a policy point that could have been debated and amended on the floor, had we gone to the legislation. But again it was blocked to even go to the bill to talk about it. Democrats blocked us from debating it and so people got nothing. Not the 300 which for, again, 90 of lost wages for the medianwage worker would have been replaced by that. But zero. So all people are left with is the state benefit now. Again, unfortunately in this place, politics was put ahead of the interests of struggling families that need extra help. Its stunning to me that this is the point weve reached in Congress Work to address this coronavirus pandemic. Early on, there were so many bipartisan victories we achieved because republicans and democrats alike said this is a crisis. Weve got to address this not as our party might want to us but as americans, recognizing the severity of the challenge we were facing. It was encouraging to see us come together to craft the cares act, which passed 960, and made a big difference. I had hoped we would be able to recognize from that victory the importance of hashing out our disagreements and finding Common Ground to be able to help those who we represent. Unfortunately, the opposite has happened. Politics seem to have taken over. Look, you know, on the other side of the aisle and the speaker of the house and others may think this is good politics for them not to move forward with something. Maybe theyre right. Maybe it is good politics somehow. But its not whats best for the American People. By opposing a reasonable compromise on Unemployment Insurance, as an example, what this congress is doing is leaving the American People high and dry. At the exact time that funding for these benefits has run out. So again the shortterm bridge that the administration provided 3 per week is running 300 per week is running out. That doesnt have to happen. Lets come to the negotiating table this week and next week were going to be next week. Were going to be voting on the funding program. So well be here. We know what the differences are. What the similarities are. We know how to put together a package. We know roughly what if has to be, what the compromise is. The republicans and democrats alike, its now on us to come up with that bipartisan solution on Unemployment Insurance and on the other expressing issues that we face. Pressing issues that we face for the American People. Thank you, mr. President. I yield back my time. The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Portman notwithstanding the provision franchise rule 22, at 11 30 tomorrow irk the senate vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the valderrama nomination. If it is invoked, the senate vote on confirmation of the nomination. Following the disposition of the valderrama nomination, the senate resume consideration of the johnston nomination. Finally, i ask that the postcloture time on the johnston nomination expire at 1 30 p. M. If any of the nominations are confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Portman mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business. With as far as red to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Portman i have seven requests for senators to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Portman i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 378 l, s. 3051. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 378, s. 3051, a bill to improve protections for wildlife and foreother purposes. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding . Without objection, the senate will proceed. Mr. Portman i ask unanimous consent that the committeereported substitute amendment be withdrawn and the barrasso substitute amendment at the desk be agreed to and that the bill be amended and considered read a third time. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Portman i know of no further debate on the bill, as amended. The presiding officer is there further debate . Hearing none, the question is on passage of the bill, as amended. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The bill, as amended, is passed. Mr. Portman i ask unanimous consent that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Portman mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate now proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following Senate Resolutions which were submitted earlier today s. Res. 698, s. Res. 699, s. Res. 900. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding the measure en bloc . Without objection, the senate will proceed to the resolutions en bloc. Mr. Portman i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Portman mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its bliss today, it adjourn until 9 45 a. M. Thursday, september 17. Further, following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. Finally, following leader remarks, the senate proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the valderrama nomination, under the previous order. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Portman if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of our democratic colleagues. The presiding officer without objection. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from nevada. Ms. Rosen thank you. Mr. President , the west is on fire. At this very moment historic wildfires are raging across our western states. Communities have been devastated, homes have been destroyed, and businesses have been turned to rubble. In the wake of these disasters, many families have been left with absolutely nothing. Nevadans are no stranger to seeing wildfires wreak havoc in our state, and just this year nevada has seen over 650 fires. But whats happening now is something different. These are some of the largest fires the west has ever seen. Already in 2020, over 4. 7 million acres of land have been burned across our nation, and weve already seen billions of dollars in economic losses and damage. Mr. President , despite what you might hear from our president , these disasters are not blue state issues. That kind of partisan sentiment is just unconscionable. We must take a nonpartisan approach to saving lives and protecting property from fires that know no partisan affiliation. It doesnt matter that these fires are in a state of california or the state of oregon, the state of washington or the state of idaho. These disasters are happening in our United States. These fires are impacting our communities. And in this time of crisis, we have a responsibility to really to help one another help our communities, help our friends and our neighbors. People have died in these disasters. Some people, theyre still missing, and over 30,000 courageous men and women are risking their lives to fight these fires and to save those families and save that property. And im really proud to say that nevadas firefighters, they have been deployed to assist in combatting many of these disasters, and im so proud of them. But as a result of these fires, the air quality in some of our communities, its so poor, its so unhealthy, its exceeding 20year records. This toxic haze has impacted air quality in my own state of nevada. And its not just western states. This harmful smoke, its spreading. Its being measured as far away as the east coast in places like new york and right here in washington, d. C. These fires, they put our collective health, all of us in jeopardy, especially now during the pandemic. And as ive said before, these fires, they impact every single one of us. You know why . Because this is an environmental issue. This is an economic issue. This is a Public Health issue. And its absolutely a climate issue. Mr. President , the science speaks for itself. Climate change, increased temperature direct ly correlate to the growing intensity of these wildfires, and the longer that we fail to address Climate Change, the more costly and deadly the impact is going to be for our friends, our neighbors, our states, our communities. September is wildfire preparedness month, and make no mistake, we need to get a handle on these disasters. We immediate to provide resources to our local communities, our firefighters, our Land Management agencies immediately. This is why i cosponsored with my colleague, senator harris Wildfire Defense act, legislation that would provide fema resources so that our local communities can develop Wildfire Defense plans and allow all of us to respond more effectively. But we also need to address Climate Change, and we need to be proactive, and we need to be practical, which is why earlier this year i cosponsored senator carpers Climate Change resolution. This resolution recognizes that Climate Change is real, that human activity is the primary cause, and that Congress Must take immediate action to address one of the most pressing issues of our time. And we need to act. Lives are on the line, and we need to act now. Nevada, the west, and americans across the country, theyre counting on all of us, so we need to get to work. Thank you. I yield back my time. A senator mr. President. Mr. Merkley apocalypse. Fire fueled by wind coming over the Cascade Mountains turning on a blow torch that races down the mountains, incinerating the towns in its path, thats whats happening in my home state of oregon. Imagine suddenly waking up at 4 30 in the morning to a house filled with smoke. You realize youve got to clear the area before the situation gets a lot worse. You and your partner race to pack up some essentials, load them and your pets into the car in your garage, and then you cant get the garage open, cant get the door open because theres no power. The power lines have been taken down by the winds and by the power poles being burned and falling over. So you open the garage door by hand, and just as youre about to lift it, you look out a little window, and you see an inferno engulfing your neighbors home. So you make a desperate dash out the back door in the other direction. The fire at your heels. You race towards the river at the bottom of the hill, hoping, praying there will be some kind of safety. Its a terrifying scenario, but its not out of some movie. For larry tripoly and fran howe of gates, oregon, it was the reality a few nights ago when the beachy creek fire roared through a canyon, incinerating homes, businesses, entire neighborhoods. They got to the river and they waded kneedeep in the water as the trees burned around them on both banks, and fran recalls, i thought we were going to die. Fortunately help arrived late that night just before midnight. The firefighters, emergency workers risked their lives and safety to come and rescue those who were fleeing the fire. Many folks worked to help their neighbors gets notice even as the fire was descending on the town. At this moment all across oregon, people are facing similarly terrifying experiences as historic wildfires have burned more than a million acres , more than twice those burned in a normal year, and they burned it in a small period of time, most of it over this past week. Ten citizens have lost their lives. Dozens are missing. And were afraid there will be more bad news to come. Its hard to imagine. I mean, i have seen the results of a fire that came down a valley and there were widely spaced homes in a forest on both sides of the river and seeing those homes that were burned, but ive never seen anything like this. Neighborhood after neighborhood, the commercial district, apartment complexes, the mobile home, housing parks completely scorched, every building you can see. When i toured this last friday, i just the only thing i could compare it to were pictures i had seen of hiroshima after the bomb and cities in europe that had been firebombed like dresden. Massive devastation, incinerating everything. This is whats just happened in my home state. In one town of phoenix, oregon, oregon, and this is a picture from phoenix the mayor estimated that perhaps a thousand residences had been burned between the mobile homes, the manufactured homes, the apartment complexes, and the standalone houses. Several thousand people have nothing to return to. I met with folks last friday and saturday. Senator wyden and i started in the north part of the state and went all the wail down to the south. I traveled 600 miles by car. I was driving. I never got out of the smoke. I remember fires. We had passed 20 miles through the smoke, 30 miles through the smoke. I drove over 600 miles. I was never out of that smoke. Parts of the state glow like the aftereffects of a bomb. That is our State Capitol with that orange fireinfused sky behind it in salem, oregon. The result of the fire coming down toward the city of salem. And that smoke, it doesnt just whoever and stay in one place as the wind starts to blow out. It spreads across the country. So here we are, this is the september 15 fire chart. These purple areas, over 500, an index of over 500 parts per million. Incredibly unhealthy to breathe. You can see the state of oregon covered on through idaho and montana right on across the country, california. Everyone dealing with the smoke. I just got off a zoom room call a few moments ago. The first three people who smoke talked about how uncomfortable they were because of their asthma or breathing conditions affected by the smoke. The air quality in portland is ranking as the worst among the worlds major cities for the last five days in a row. And in smaller towns across the state, its been far worse. People saw all kinds of dramatic, powerful scenes of the approaching fires, the approaching bank of clouds. It was a week ago monday that i decided to drive up the columbia gorge, and i didnt get 20 miles from my house, and i just saw this wall of smoke. So i got off the freeway and took the old scenic highway up to crown point that looks the Lookout Point high on the cliffs. You can see way to the east and way to the west, just to see that, what is going on with this massive cloud. You can see how dramatic the approaching smoke cloud was from these fires. As we think about these devastating fires, we have to think about it in terms of the individuals who have been so dramatically affected. Some have been injured by the fires, some have been killed by the fires. So as senator wyden and i proceeded from the northern border to the southern border to visit fire refugees and Different Centers that have been set up and to visit some coordinated care briefings and then to visit two towns, phoenix and talent, that have been incinerated, the most powerful moment was sitting down at a table with individuals along the way. I took away this collective impression. Individuals who had escaped and were just thinking my goodness, how fortunate i am i got out with my life. Individuals who had escaped but they didnt know the fate of their family members who may not have escaped. One father lost the grandmother in the family and his son who died in a car with the family dog and the dog in the sons lap. As he was going to search for his wife. He met a woman on the road and said im searching for my wife. She responded im your wife because she was so affected by the smoke and burned by the fire, he didnt recognize her. I met folks who realized that they had escaped but also recognized that every single thing, a lifetime of records, photos, film, financial records, family heirlooms, all of it, everything gone. So the issue has become even more complicated. Think about the children who were just starting school when these labor day fires descended. They lost their laptop, they lost their tablet that had been coached on how to visit attend school electronically. Their family lost perhaps the funds, and now they are driving 40, 60 miles to a family or a friends house. How do they sign up for school . How do they deal with the stress thats on them from what has happened and the remaining stress of the impact on the family and those that they are still searching for, and food. Road closures stopping the movement of food from getting to them, getting to stores and restaurants and communities that food the Food Shortages because they cant be resupplied. Briden bush hot springs, one of our states most beloved resorts, losing half of its buildings. Simple machine winery in talent burning to the ground. This is an adjacent city, phoenix and talent. One woman told me, she said i have not only lost everything, i lost my job because the business that i work at has burned to the ground as well. This is on top of the pandemic, and this is on top of the economic implosion. Many of the residences that burned were those that served lower income citizens, the mobile home parks, the manufactured housing parks where the houses are closer together and the fireproofing on the walls is less than required in a stickbuilt house. Apartment complexes. I saw this whole field where you could see steel girders going up two stories, crossbeams at the top of steel, and then steel stairs and nothing else. They were like just kind of almost like a sculpture standing in the middle of a field. There was one after another after another at the heart of these apartment complexes, and the apartments were completely gone. I also heard on this trip such appreciation for our local leaders and our first responders. The frierdz, the e. M. T. s, the the firefighters, the e. M. T. s, the National Guard unit do an incredible job of helping rescue them, incredible job helping doing point defense or a lot more residences would have burned. They were risking their lives trying to get people out before that blow torch of a fire descended on a town. They were building fire lines and building dead brush and trees from around houses, dropping water. I saw orange splotches as i toured these two towns from when the retardant had been dropped. But then as the smoke compiled, then the planes couldnt fly, not to drop water, not to drop fire retardant. These families, theyre going to need everything we could possibly do to help them out. Theyre devastated. Rebuilding their lives, getting their feet on the ground, its going to be hard. Friends will help, family will help, the federal government will help. We, too, at the federal level need to be there and help. Make sure these fema programs are expeditiously conducted to assist the individuals with the individual assistance and then to assist the communities with the rebuilding, rebuilding of these towns. Local revenues, they are gone. Property taxes, those are gone. Revenues from the local businesses, fees they pay, those are gone. Were going to have to provide a lot of support. I applaud the white house for quickly approving governor browns request for an Emergency Declaration. Our whole legislative delegation was calling and requesting and saying Pay Attention to this, we need it quickly, and we got it. We got it quickly. That Emergency Declaration is really about food and shelter assistance. And then we said we really need the major disaster declaration, and we got that within about a day of it being submitted. Again, prompt action by the white house. And then we applied for a health Emergency Declaration, and we got that this morning, again expeditiously. Those are doors where you have to unlock the door to the resources, and those declarations are the key that opens that lock, that opens that door. But now we need the supplies to come through that door to really start this long process of support for the individuals and for our communities. One of the things that we encountered was the valuable help of our oregon state National Guard. Three years ago, i worked to start funding a Training Program for the National Guard so they could help fight these fires. Our oregon portion of this was the training of 375 National Guard members split into three 125member teams, and that was great that they were trained and ready to go. But we ran into a problem, and that problem was we didnt have enough crew chiefs. The crew chiefs come from outside to conduct the teams work, and you need five or six crew chiefs for every team, for every group of 125. The crew chiefs are all tied up all around the country. And then the governor said we need not only those 375, we need two more teams, another 250, and initial response was no, the funds arent available, but i checked, found out there were funds left, and they were approved quite quickly. And again, a thank you to the executive branch for approving them at that point. We still needed crew chiefs, and i just got word a short period ago that there are crew chiefs now en route to oregon. We have found some from around the country to go and enable those National Guard members, oregon National Guard members to be able to be deployed. So thats another step forward. We cant stop there. We have to look beyond the immediate crisis. We have to help the families rebuild the homes. We have to help the local businesses recover and rebuild. And we have to think about not just the fire damage but the smoke damage. Now, i have introduced a smokeready communities act that would enable communities to prepare safe zones where you have filtered air in key buildings so those who have lung conditions and are affected by the smoke have somewhere safe to get to to be able to breathe. I think this is pretty a pretty logical thing for us to do, a fairly small dollar investment in partnership with the communities to create some highly filtered space air for people with lung challenges. An and ive written the welfare declaration act because in the past we thought only of the direct fire impact. But now we see the smoke is having such a n impact. We saw the Shakespeare Festival close down. We had a massive impact on our Wine Industry with smoketainted grapes. And, by the way, even though the buyers of those grapes turned them down, it turned out they were pretty good grapes and the Community Came together and created an oregon wine, a unity wine, and it was a great wine and people loved it, and so those grapes found a home and found a product. They came together to solve a problem. We had trouble with our hazelnuts with the smoke. So a declaration act and a smokeready communities act. But also action to help field workers. Think about the field workers, the Agricultural Workers working right now harvesting, and theyre in that smoke, 500 parts per million, small particles damaging their lungs. We need to be set up to help with the agricultural community. Theyre truly frontline workers whose health shouldnt be compromised in that manner. And we need to make our forests more resistant to fires. Now, i know President Trump has said thats the whole key and why cant oregon and california get their act together . Well, let me point out that the majority of the forests were talking about, those are federal forests. Its federal forests. Its federal management thats so missing. And what ive proposed in the wildfire resistant communities act is we spend 1 billion. There should be 1 billion a year thinning these overgrown secondgrowth forests. What do you get out of that . You get jobs. You get equipment for our mills. And you get a forest thats much more resistant to fire. And it isnt just the thinning. Then its what they call the mowing to reduce the shrubs that have built up. Then it is the prescribed burn that goes back two or three years later. This is more the pattern of fire in the past was to burn the shrubbery off the floor which grows back quickly and prevents that overdense forest. So we should do that. We should pass the wildfire resistant communities act, put the funding in, and create permanent authorization for collaboives. Whats a collaborative . To those outside the forest world, that probably isnt a familiar term. Its where you bring the Environmental Community and the Timber Community together and they develop what they call a prescription for thinning the forest and mowing it and doing a prescribed burn. And by working together and having a plan, they stay out of the courts, because court paralysis has been a major obstacle. So lets take that collaborative model, lets build on the success. Collaboives and the stewardship the collabo ratives and the stewardships. But it takes resources and here has been the challenge. Every time we seek the resources to do more on the front end to make the forests more fire resilient, its blocked by individuals who say, hey, lets go back to the 1950s clear cuts. My friends, that doesnt work. When you clear cut and replant, you now create a new forest where the trees are too close together and theyre all the same height and theyre absolutely primed once again for fire. The thinning, the prescribed burns, the mowing, this has a big impact. I went to a forest outside of sisters where these measures had been used and there was a fire that had been bearing down on sisters, oregon, and when it met the section of the forest that had been they understand, it stopped because the that had been thinned, it stopped because the fuel wasnt there. And because of the thinning, the fire crews could get through the forest to the front line of the fire, so it worked very effectively that way. Now, there are situations of high wind. When the forest fire becomes a blowtorch, nothing is going to stop it. But often fires move at a modest pace, and thats where the thinning and mowing and prescribed burns can make a real difference. So im hoping we can have partnership in that approach. And some have said, well, isnt it the environmental laws that prevent us from undertaking this effort . And the answer is, no. We have 2. 3 million acres in oregon that have gone through the environmental process. We could do the thinning, mowing, prescribed burns tomorrow if we had the funds to do it. So jobs, fire resilience, better timber stand, a better ecosystem, saw logs for the mill. That is all the win, win, win, win, win products of this aprofess. So, colleagues, i know many of you have come to me and said, what can we do . Well, really two things help us do Forest Management in the collaborative style, in the stewardship style, in the thinning, prescribed burn, mowing style, help us do that. And also, lets recognize that this situation in oregon and california and many, many other states, it isnt simply a freak occurrence of the winds. This is it is a situation where the it is a situation where the forest is drier than its ever been before, drier than a kilndried 2x4. They have baked, have less moisture. They are ready to burn at a seconds notice. So this is the result of the changing dynamic of climate. The forest season has gotten much longer. It is no longer a june through august affair. It is a march through october affair. And in california, its a yearround calendar affair now. As you track this decade over decade, each one worse. Longer fire season, more intensive fires, more acres burned. So thats a more difficult project. Our earth is wrapped by the commons of our air and that air holds now a lot more Carbon Dioxide and a lot more methane. It traps a lot more heat and it is affecting everything. In oregon, it isnt just the fires. It is also our snowpack. Decade after decade after decade, the snowpack is smaller and smaller and smaller. Why . Because it is warmer appeared warmer and warmer. And how does that affect things . Well, do you like to fish . If you like to fish, you know that a warmer, smaller stream is bad for the salmon returning. Its bad for the trout. And if youre a farmer, you know that that smaller snowpack means less Irrigation Water and less water to recharge the groundwater that you use when you dont have enough Irrigation Water, when you have to pump it out of the ground. So a big impact, not just on our Timber Community with the forests burning be, but also on our ag community and our fishing community. The three pillars of our Rural Economy are all being substantially affected. And offshore its a warmer pacific ocean, and its more acidic, the pacific ocean, 30 more acidic than before we started burning the fossil fuels. And people say, whats the connection . Well, those waves, they take the Carbon Dioxide in the air and convert it to carbonic acid. So a 30 increase in acidity thats affecting our shellfish, our shellfish reproduction. Worry about that. If shellfish are having a hard time reproducing. So this isnt an urban issue versus a rural issue. This is not a red issue versus a blue issue. This is the economy, the pillars of america in farming and fishing and forests being profoundly affected. So lets Work Together to take this on. Yes, improve our Forest Management. Weve all heard the forests dramatically with our replantings that grow up all at the same height and too close together. But we can make those same secondgrowths forests far more resilient and jobs and sell logs at the same time. Lets Work Together to improve the health of the forests, especially around our urban urban areas, our small towns. To my colleagues i say, this is the moment when we are seeing not just the fires. Were seeing other impacts around the nation. Were seeing the intense storms in the midwest, and we are seeing the strop cal storms and tropical storms and hurricanes. Were all in this together. Lets Work Together to assist the families so powerfully affected. Lets Work Together torebuild the communities. Lets Work Together to fund Forest Management in the way it has to be funded, as a counterpart to the strategy of forests replanting that weve undertake. Lets Work Together to take on the warming planet, because it affects everything and not just in oregon, and not just in the u. S. But across our planet. Its our responsibility. Late get it done. Thank you, mr. President. The presiding officer under the previous order, the Senate Stands adjourned until 9 45 a. M. Tomorrow. Federal spending for the next budget year which begins october 1, with live coverage here on cspan2. Stay back at the white house earlier today, chief of staff mark meadows spent a few minutes speaking to reporters. One question he was asked, had to do with the potential timeline for rolling out a new health care that President Trump spoke about last night at an abc news town hall. The president set on a healthcare plan, he said it is already. It is already we will be rolling it out. I can tell you. Healthcare, it is before the election sure. I can say that he is right. That it is ready. We have been making a number of, not only tweaks but modifications to that. [inaudible] i think of a look at legislation we are nothing ever gets on in congress. We cannot even agree to a coronavirus issue. So while part of the delay is that we have had to look at what were the legislative parts of that proposal and say lets look at the legislative side, put it over in this box. What can we do administratively . Weve had to get very, very creative with executive powers to try to figure out what we can do substantially affect the healthcare costs and bring it down there executive action. So was more of an executive action with the legislative component that is more visionar visionary. But indeed, i am not as optimistic we get congress to come together in a bipartisan way. Part of that is we still have a group that campaign forgetting the Affordable Care act, that Still Believes the Affordable Care act is affordable. On subjecting them to change their mind becomes very difficult for you covered it a lot you get that. Reporter lesson we said three weeks away. Couple months i said two weeks away. Spin it we could have put something few weeks ago. I think its a very boats of those statements were accurate. I can tell you. Reporter how are they accurate . But we were due we were two weeks and putting something out. We wanted to know what were putting out did not rely on congress. So the delay it was what we could do permit administrative point. Reporter [inaudible] [inaudible] you are watching cspan2, your unfiltered view of government. 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