Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 93, the nays are 2. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the bill. The clerk calendar 552, h. R. 8337, making continuing openings pros for fiscal year 2021 and for other purposes. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i call up amendment 2663. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from kentucky, mr. Mcconnell, proposes an amendment numbered 2663. At the end, added following this act shall take effect one day after the date of enactment. Mr. Mcconnell i ask that the reading be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask for the yeas and nays on my amendment. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. There appears to be. The yeas and nays are ordered. Mr. Mcconnell i have a seconddegree amendment at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the amendment. The clerk the senator from kentucky, mr. Mcconnell, proposes an amendment numbered 2664, to amendment number 2663. Mr. Mcconnell i ask the reading be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk for the bill. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on calendar number 552, h. R. 8337, an act making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2021 and foreother purposes, signed by 17 senators as follows mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the reading of the names be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent the mandatory quorum call be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Enzi mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi mr. President , i come to the floor today to introduce a bill to honor the late robert l. Brown of thermopolis, wyoming. He was a lifelong resident and exemplified wyomings values and a commitment to public service. After graduating from thermopolis, he served in both the europe and pacific theaters. Later in 1950 when he was part of the National Guard, bob deployed to korea where he was a member of the 300th armored Field Artillery battalion. He served in world war ii in both theaters and then korea. The United States was poorly prepared for korea, downsizing the military after the second world war. The National Guard responded with little or no training or equipment. Bob brown went to another war. He earned a unit citation, received the combat infantry badge, and the purple heart. Upon returning to thermopolis, he began a career with the United StatesPostal Service. That career spanned 44 years, including many years as postmaster. I hope john will tell more of the postal love affair and how bobby brown met how bob brown met and courted the person who picked up the mail. That lady later became my first sunday schoolteacher. Bob passed away earlier this month at 96 years of age. Did he have some health issues. But he had a devoted daughter. Bobby brown barrasso, wife of senator barrasso, who had been senator thomas state director, she was her dads caregiver. She drove him back and forth wherever he wanted or needed to go, which meant especially back and forth to needed clinics with doctors in thermopolis and in casper. When covid happened, she stayed with him and protected him. Bob brown will be sorely missed in his community and i can think of no better way to honor someone with such a long and storied career with the United StatesPostal Service as well as with the people of thermopolis than to introduce this bill to name the Thermopolis Post Office after him. That building carries the memories of a veteran who came home to work and spent his entire career in that build being winding up as post mast area. The lead democratic cosponsor of this bipartisan bill is senator tom carper, who is the strongest advocate i know of for the United StatesPostal Service. Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. Mr. Carper i want to thank our colleague, senator enzi. For allowing me to be his wingman in this particular postalnaming bill. I never met robert brown, but i certainly know his daughter bobby, and i certainly know his soninlaw, john barrasso, our colleague. Just reason listening to just listening to what senator enzi has said, service in world war ii, service in the korean war, service in the u. S. Postal service. That is a lifetime of service. That is a lifetime of service. My own family, weve been my dad, my uncles all served in world war ii, a number in korea as well. A cousin, the u. S. Postal service for many years. And i like to say i dont know this is original for me, but service is service to others is the rent we pay for the space we take up on this earth. If youre listening, robert l. Brown, i think you are, for your extraordinary service. And thank you for bobbie and we want to thank bobbie, your daughter, mr. Brown, for sharing her husband with us. He is a good man. Were grateful for that. None of us can live forever. Senator barrasso was telling me, gosh, not even a month ago about driving his fatherinlaw he was, like, 400 miles or something from wyoming up to montana for medical attention, medical care. I thought it was an extraordinary act of love and kindness. But it was really, you know, i dont think his death was imminent at the time, but it was a way to bond one more time. It is sad to say goodbye. None of us can live forever, though. For those who live lives of service like bobbies dad, we just say especially in navy talk, i am a retired navy captain, vietnam vent. We like to say to folks in the army, different uniform, same team, when folks do extraordinary things for our country, whether it is in the uniform of the army, navy, or Postal Service, we stay bravo. Thank you so much. Mr. Barrasso mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from for wyoming. Mr. Barrasso i would like to express my deep appreciation and admiration to senator enzi and senator carper, for introducing this legislation to honor bob brown. There he is. This is actually a picture of im next to him. You look at that smile and thats a smile its as beautiful as a sunrise, as welcoming as a rainbow. What a wonderful man. He was known by many in thermopolis as bob brown, the nicest guy in town. And it was his town. This greatest generation both mike and tom, as veterans, having worn the uniform, born the battle, know that were losing the greatest generation so rapidly. What a generation. World war ii, the european theater, the pacific theater, returning home, working the post office. As senator enzi said, he was a postal clerk and there was a young lady, jerry l yes. Jerry lyn, worked at the local bank and would come and pick up the mail. She cut his eye, he caught her eye. They were married. Two wonderful children, mike brown, my wife bobbie and a granddaughter who really was the apple of their eye, hadley. But this Group World War ii and then korea, the korean war, bob was part of the 300th, the cowboy cannoneers, unit bravery citation. He was awarded the purple heart. Never talked about it. Returned to thermopolis. Took care of people in the community. Serving as a postmaster for many of his years with the post office. I know mike had a chance to talk to the postmaster in thermopolis yesterday. She knew bob as anyone in town had. Last year bob and jerry celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary and we lost jerry this spring, and now on 9 11 we lost bob. He peaced away at the age of 94 he passed away at the age of 94. He was surrounding by his loving family and his daughter bobbie is the caregiver as i say, she is a saint. People who know her, know that to be true. As we talk about this greatest generation of which bob was a very significant part, you know, we can think back to the history of this country and, mr. President , in the chair, you are a marine and you know this. It reminds me of the onto etch that Abraham Lincoln gave when he was first year as president at the white house. On the 4th of july there was a flagraising ceremony. He gave a very short speech. The speech that lincoln gave that day was, it is my job to raise the flag. And then to everyone else there he said, and it is your job to keep it up. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you you, senator enziy. Bob enzi. Bob brown was one to keep it up. Since we have bipartisan cosponsors of this legislation, let me talk about john kennedy who at his inaugural talking about this nation being willing to support any friend and oppose any foe. Thats bob brown, all american. Ronald reagan talked about the fact that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Not something that we inherit in the bloodstream, something that has to be fought for and protected and handed down to the next generation to do the same. And thats bob brown. And this year is wyomings 130th birthday, turned 130 this summer. So 30 years ago we celebrated the 100th anniversary of wyoming and George Herbert walker bush, then president of the United States, came to wyoming to talk about wyoming and its history. He said wyoming is a very special and sacred place. He said the values and visions of wyoming continue to inspire america. Well, bob browns values and his visions continue to inspire everyone who was ever privileged to know him. May he rest in peace. Thank you, mr. President. And i yield the floor. Mr. Carper mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for delaware. Mr. Carper i just want to add one final thought. I was about to jump in my minivan and head to delaware. Your fatherinlaw served all those years in uniform in the army and then many more years in uniform with the for the Postal Service. I want to say to the men and women who serve in the Postal Service around the country and men and women who serve in the military uniform, i just want to say to the Postal Service, thank you for enabling our men and women in service to actually vote this year. When i was when i was a naval fighter flight officer in southeast asia, my first and third tour and we were in the South China Sea and off the coast of vietnam and i was asked by my Commanding Officer to be the voting officer. Not once but in 1970 and 1972, we had 92 men, and it was to get these men signed up and registered to vote in their states and they are from all over the country. And did it again in 1972. It was a great source of joy to me to exercise our right to vote on the other side of the world made possible by the Postal Service. That thought occurred to me because your dad was on the sending and Receiving Side as a member of the army and Postal Service. May he rest in peace. Thank you for the extra minute. The presiding officer the senator for west virginia. Mr. Manchin i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Senate Resolution 1718. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 718, restoring the peaceful return to power called for in the United States and for other purposes. The presiding officer without objection. The presiding officer without objection, the senator will the senate will proceed. Mr. Manchin i ask unanimous consent that the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. Manchin mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for west virginia. Mr. Manchin mr. President , i would like to speak to the resolution. Mr. President , you know its a shame that we have to come and reaffirm our commitment to our country, to our constitution, and who we are as a people and how we became a great country, the greatest country on earth, the freedoms we all take for granted many, many times, and sometimes we hear things that challenge that, and we heard that yesterday, and we were very concerned about that. As of today, my friend and colleague from indiana, senator braun, basically wanted to reaffirm our commitment to the pledge of allegiance. Which is something that we should do every day. Our pledge of allegiance to our flag of our great country. What we are doing with this resolution is saying that basically the bedrock of democracy is the orderly and peaceful transfer of power when the president transitions out. It should not be a question. There should not ever be one iota of interruption whatsoever as that peaceful demonstration. I remember 1960, the race between at that time senator john kennedy and Vice President richard nixon. Very, very close. Everybody was on pins and needles. But there was an orderly transfer. Richard nixon conceded, and rather than take this out further, he did a peaceful, orderly transfer, and away we went. And then you had al gore and senator al gore at that time, Vice President al gore, former Vice President , and george w. Bush in 2000. We know how that turned out, with the chads and all the hanging chads and all the consternation, not knowing for so long. And then basically for the sake of our country, did the right thing. And again, we expect that to be done. Were in the most difficult times right now, and for the president to even to even address, to address the subject of maybe not knowing if he would accept or not is beyond all of our checks that that would ever happen in america. That it could ever happen there would be discourse. The will of the voters, the verification of the votes. And being able to protect the ballot box. We have come through a lot in our country, and we continue to be challenged, but i believe to have the leader of the free world talk as if we are an autocracy, authoritarian versus a democracy, is something that alarmed me and alarmed a lot of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, even those quiet as some may be, i know theyre alarmed. And with that, what we did is reaffirm who we are in the senate and what we believe in, and the resolution is very clear. All it says is we reaffirm as the senate our commitment to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power called for in the constitution of the United States and intends that there shall be no disruptions by the president or any person in power to overturn the will of the people of the United States. Its really who we are. Its what you defended. Its what you fought for when you entered the service. I am so proud of all the people who have served. Thank you for your service, mr. President. Thank you to all the people in west virginia, the most patriotic people in the world. I have said this so many times, i am so proud of my state. We have more veterans per capita than most any state. Shed more blood, lost more lives for the cause of freedom than most any state. Never failed to answer the call. We have even done the heavy lifting. Our people have worked hard, including my grandfather and all my relatives. We mined the coal that made the still that built the guns and ships and factories and defended our country and built our great nation. We are very proud of all that. This is not who we are. This is not who we are, and we must speak loudly. This is not politics. This is not republican or democrat. Make no mistake. This is basically if you believe , forsake of the good lord and all we believe in and our country, this is about maintaining this democracy. Thats all its about. Maintaining. And we will defend that, and we have today just reaffirmed our commitment to the orderly transition of power by the president of the United States, whoever that should be, whenever that might happen, that they must have an orderly transfer that we all will defend and uphold. So thats what we reaffirm today. And i thank you, mr. President , for giving me the opportunity, and i thank all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for basically standing true to who we are and what we believe in and what we have committed ourselves to. And with that, i yield the floor and see the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call the presiding officer the senator for virginia. Mr. Kaine are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Kaine could i ask that it be suspended . The presiding officer yes. Without objection. Mr. Kaine i want to rise just briefly to pay tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I saw a statement about her in the aftermath of her passing that said she will probably go down in history as one of the as the greatest woman lawyer in the history of the United States, and i dont think that does her justice. I want to take the floor to say that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in my view, will probably go down as in the top three judges and lawyers ever in the history of the United States, male or female, and i want to describe why. Before i do, mr. President , i just want to notice the outpouring of support for her. In the four days after she passed from friday night until tuesday night, my office received 37,000 pieces of correspondence about Justice Ginsburg. Praising her, lifting her up as a role model, expressing concern about what the court would be without her. In my eight years in the senate, i have never seen an outpouring of support for an individual like that. And thats just an example of how highly we hold her in regard. Justice ginsburg, the justice, is well known. And particularly well known in virginia. One of the opinions she authored that is one of her real pivotal