Is you talk about how we can learn from our global war and bring to back to the United States. H5n1 here in the United States obviously is a serious issue right now. Theres a lot of lessons thatso were ignored through we are going to leave this here and take you back now live to the u. S. Senate. Here onof cspan2. Vote the clerk ms. Baldwin. Mr. Barrasso. Mr. Bennet. Mrs. Blackburn. Mr. Blumenthal. Mr. Booker. Mr. Boozman. Mr. Braun. Mrs. Britt. Mr. Brown. Mr. Budd. Ms. Butler. Ms. Cantwell. Mrs. Capito. Mr. Cardin. Mr. Carper. Mr. Casey. Mr. Cassidy. Ms. Collins. Mr. Coons. Mr. Cornyn. Ms. Cortez masto. Mr. Cotton. Mr. Cramer. Mr. Crapo. Mr. Cruz. Mr. Daines. Ms. Duckworth. Mr. Durbin. Ms. Ernst. Mr. Fetterman. Mrs. Fischer. Mrs. Gillibrand. Mr. Graham. Mr. Grassley. Mr. Hagerty. Ms. Hassan. Mr. Hawley. Mr. Heinrich. Mr. Hickenlooper. Ms. Hirono. Mr. Hoeven. Mrs. Hydesmith. Mr. Johnson. Mr. Kaine. Mr. Kelly. Mr. Kennedy. Mr. King. Ms. Klobuchar. Mr. Lankford. Mr. Lee. Mr. Lujan. Ms. Lummis. Mr. Manchin. Mr. Markey. Mr. Marshall. Mr. Mcconnell. Mr. Menendez. Mr. Merkley. Mr. Moran. Mr. Mullin. Ms. Murkowski. Mr. Murphy. Mrs. Murray. Mr. Ossoff. Mr. Padilla. Mr. Paul. Mr. Peters. Mr. Reed. Mr. Ricketts. Mr. Risch. Mr. Romney. Ms. Rosen. Mr. Rounds. Mr. Rubio. Mr. Sanders. Mr. Schatz. Mr. Schmitt. Mr. Schumer. Mr. Scott of florida. Mr. Scott of south carolina. Mrs. Shaheen. Ms. Sinema. Ms. Smith. Ms. Stabenow. Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Tester. Mr. Thune. Mr. Tillis. Mr. Tuberville. Mr. Van hollen. Mr. Vance. Mr. Warner. Mr. Warnock. Ms. Warren. Mr. Welch. Mr. Whitehouse. Mr. Wicker. Mr. Wyden. Mr. Young. Senators voting in the affirmative baldwin, bennet, blumenthal, butler, cantwell, cardin, carper, collins, cortez masto, duckworth, gillibrand, hassan, heinrich, kelly, lujan, merkley, ossoff, padilla, reed, shaheen, smith, tester, van hollen, warner, warren, welch, whitehouse, and wyden. Mr. Schatz, aye. Senators voting in the negative brit britt, ernst, grassley, johnson, lummis, marshall, moran, paul, rounds, schmitt, sullivan, tuberville, and wicker. Mr. Warnock, aye. Mr. Peters, aye. Mr. Scott of florida, no. Mr. Hagerty, no. Mr. Rubio, no. Mr. Fetterman, aye. Mr. Romney, no. The clerk ms. Rosen, aye. Mr. Cruz, no. Mr. Cassidy, no. The clerk mr. Durbin, aye. The clerk mr. Lee, no. Mr. Cornyn, no. The clerk ms. Sinema, aye. Mr. Barrasso, no. The clerk mr. Kaine, aye. Mr. Casey, aye. Vote the clerk mr. Booker, aye. The clerk mr. King, aye. Mr. Scott of south carolina, no. The clerk mr. Cotton, no. The clerk mr. Mullin, no. The clerk mr. Hickenlooper, aye. The clerk mr. Schumer, aye. Mr. Murphy, aye. The clerk mr. Boozman, no. Mr. Graham, aye. Ms. Stabenow, aye. Vote the clerk mr. Lankford, no. The clerk mr. Braun, no. Mr. Hoeven, no. Mr. Coons, aye. The clerk mr. Cramer, no. The clerk mr. Risch, no. The clerk mr. Tillis, no. The clerk mrs. Murray, aye. Mr. Budd no. The clerk ms. Klobuchar, aye. The clerk mr. Young, no. The clerk mrs. Blackburn, no. The clerk ms. Murkowski, aye. Mrs. Fischer, no. The clerk mrs. Hydesmith, no. The clerk mr. Thune, no. The clerk ms. Hirono, aye. The clerk mr. Markey, aye. Tes the clerk mr. Hawley, no. The clerk mr. Brown, aye. The clerk mr. Mcconnell, no. The clerk mr. Daines, no. The presiding officer have all senators voted . Does any senator wish to change his or her vote . If not, the yeas are 51, the nays are 42, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is made and laid upon the table and the president will be notified of the senates actions. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to the consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. The clerk the judiciary, eric c. Shulte, of south dakota, to be United States district judge for the district of south dakota. The presiding officer theres now two minutes of debate equally divided. The republican th mr. Thune eric shulte has been nominated to fill a vacancy for the u. S. District court for the district of south dakota. He is a lifetime resident of south dakota who received his jd from the south Dakota School of law in 1991. From 1999 to 2000, hes been a partner at the davenport, evans and horowitz law firm. He was a member of the south Dakota State Bar Association from 2015 to 20 16, he is a 2016, he is a member of the south Dakota State Society poetry magazine. Mr. Shulte has the experience j knowledge to be a district judge, and i believe he has the character and impartiality for a lifetime appointment on the federal bench. I strongly support his nomination and i encourage my colleaguesor confirm him 0s colleagues to confirm him as a u. S. District judge for the state of south dakota. Madam president , i yield the floor and i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote the clerk ms. Baldwin. The clerk mr. Barrasso. Mr. Bennet. Mrs. Blackburn. Mr. Blumenthal. Mr. Booker. Mr. Boozman. Mr. Braun. Mrs. Britt. Mr. Brown. Mr. Budd. Ms. Butler. Ms. Cantwell. Mrs. Capito. Mr. Cardin. Vote mr. Carper. Mr. Casey. Mr. Cassidy. Ms. Collins. Mr. Coons. Mr. Cornyn. Ms. Cortez masto. Mr. Cotton. Mr. Cramer. Mr. Crapo. Mr. Cruz. Mr. Daines. Ms. Duckworth. Mr. Durbin. Ms. Ernst. Mr. Fetterman. Mrs. Fischer. Mrs. Gillibrand. Mr. Graham. Mr. Grassley. Mr. Hagerty. Ms. Hassan. Mr. Hawley. Mr. Heinrich. Mr. Hickenlooper. Ms. Hirono. Mr. Hoeven. Mrs. Hydesmith. Mr. Johnson. Mr. Kaine. Mr. Kelly. Mr. Kennedy. Mr. King. Ms. Klobuchar. Mr. Lankford. Mr. Lee. Mr. Lujan. Ms. Lummis. Mr. Manchin. Mr. Markey. Mr. Marshall. Mr. Mcconnell. Mr. Menendez. Mr. Merkley. Mr. Moran. Mr. Mullin. Ms. Murkowski. Mr. Murphy. Mrs. Murray. Mr. Ossoff. Mr. Padilla. Mr. Paul. Mr. Peters. Mr. Reed. Mr. Ricketts. Mr. Risch. Mr. Romney. Ms. Rosen. Mr. Rounds. Mr. Rubio. Mr. Sanders. Mr. Schatz. Mr. Schmitt. Mr. Schumer. Mr. Scott of florida. Mr. Scott of south carolina. Mrs. Shaheen. Ms. Sinema. Ms. Smith. Ms. Stabenow. Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Tester. Mr. Thune. Mr. Tillis. Mr. Tuberville. Mr. Van hollen. Mr. Vance. Mr. Warner. Mr. Warnock. Ms. Warren. Mr. Welch. Mr. Whitehouse. Mr. Wicker. Mr. Wyden. Mr. Young. The presiding officer senators voting in the affirmative baldwin, brown, cardin, collins, cortezmasto, duckworth, graham, hirono, mcconnell, murray, rosen, rounds, schumer, sinema, smith, stabenow, thune, and tillis. Senators voting in the negative budd, cassidy, cotton, grassley, hagerty, hawley, paul, ricketts, and scott of south carolina. The clerk mr. Tester, aye. Mr. Hickenlooper, aye. The clerk mr. Kennedy, no. The clerk ms. Cantwell, aye. The clerk mr. Reed, aye. Mr. Blumenthal, aye. Mr. Welch, aye. Mr. Schatz, aye. Mr. Braun, no. Vote vote vote the clerk mr. Moran, aye. The clerk mr. Fetterman, aye. Mr. Lankford, no. Mr. Marshall, no. Mr. Carper, aye. Ms. Lummis, no. The clerk mr. Ossoff, aye. The clerk mr. Van hollen, aye. Mr. Warnock, aye. Mr. Mullin, no. Mr. Wyden, aye. The clerk mr. Young, aye. Mr. Lujan, aye. The clerk mrs. Shaheen, aye. Mr. Boozman, no. Mr. Coons, aye. Mr. Wicker, aye. Ms. Murkowski, aye. The clerk mr. Kelly, aye. The clerk mr. Cramer, aye. The clerk mr. Heinrich, aye. Mr. Casey, aye. Mr. Sullivan, no. The clerk mrs. Hydesmith, no. Vote the clerk mrs. Britt, no. Mr. Tuberville, no. Mr. Rubio, no. Mrs. Gillibrand, aye. The clerk mr. Scott of florida, no. The clerk mr. Schmitt, no. Mr. Barrasso, no. Mr. King, aye. The clerk mr. Peters, aye. The clerk ms. Hassan, aye. Mr. Romney, aye. The clerk mr. Risch, no. The clerk mr. Lee, no. The clerk mr. Daines, no. The clerk ms. Klobuchar, aye. The clerk mr. Johnson, no. The clerk ms. Warren, aye. Mrs. Blackburn, no. The clerk mr. Durbin, aye. The clerk mr. Markey, aye. The clerk ms. Ernst, no. Vote the clerk mr. Kaine, aye. The clerk mr. Bennet, aye. The clerk ms. Butler, aye. The clerk mr. Merkley, aye. The clerk mr. Booker, aye. The clerk mr. Cruz, no. Mr. Padilla, aye. The clerk mr. Murphy, aye. The clerk mrs. Fischer, no. The clerk mr. Cornyn, no. Mr. Hoeven, vote the clerk mr. Hoeven, aye. The clerk mr. Whitehouse, aye. Mr. Warner, aye. The presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 61. The nays are 33. And the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Under the previous order, the senate will resume legislative session and proceed to the consideration of s. J. Res. 57 which the clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 387, s. J. Res. 57 providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States code, of the rules submitted by the department of the treasury relating to coronavirus, state and fiscal recovery funds. A senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy thank you, madam president. Madam president , i come to the floor this afternoon to talk about a great friend of mine, margaret miner. My friend margaret miner died last week. Im really sad about it. Her family, her friends are really sad about it. Because she was a great friend. She was warm and she was generous because she was funny, she was kind, because she made a lot of other peoples lives better. But im also sad because margaret was one of a kind. She was a true renaissance woman. She was a polly math. She was voracious about taking in the world and giving back. I never met anybody like her. Ill never meet anybody like her again. Ill never see a Partnership Like the one she had with her late husband hugh. Her legacy lives on but theres no doubt that the mold was broken in two when they made margaret minor. She was born in new york city in 1938. Her parents, tony and frances, were in show business which kind of makes sense if you know her but kind of doesnt. In 1984 she moved from brooklyn to roxbury, connecticut. Roxbury is a small town, quintessential new England Village in northwest connecticut. There she make a fixture in the community. She began her lifes work of fighting to protect the Natural Beauty of this state she called home for the next 40 years. I first met marching gret as soon as i finished college. I wept to work for a congressional candidate who happened to be personal friends are margaret and hugh, and margaret and hugh also at the time pretty adept local political activists, there were no two people who worked harder for that long shot candidate, their friend, than margaret and hugh. They did whatever their friend needed, whatever their friends 22yearold Campaign Manager needed. She and hugh were selfless. I saw that up close. I what you a good i saw what a good friend margaret could be. Then a few years later when i was elected to the state legislate torics i got to know margaret as an advocate. She was, in those legislative halls in hartford, connecticut, nearly every single day fighting for her cause, the cause of clean water and a healthy environment. She singlehandedly made her organization, Rivers Alliance, which she led for 18 years, a force to be reckoned with in hartford. Under her leadership, Rivers Alliance became a force in connecticut politics. Her team fought for and successfully helped to pass state laws to create a statewide water plan to protect stream flow in water courses, to ban the contaminant mtbe, to restore and protect state funding for the u. S. Geologic survey. Thats just the tip of the iceberg in terms of of what margaret did, in terms of what margaret and the people that she mentored produced in hartford. But her work was always about something bigger than herself or even her organization, Rivers Alliance. She was really dedicated to building a movement around water quality, around water health, around the environment. She helped teach people all across the state how to advocate for themselves, how to advocate for the causeses that they mutually cared about. She was an organizer of people at heart, a encouraging countless individuals all around the state and all around the country to join the causes that she d. A. R. E. Ed cared about. She was just that she cared about. And she was just good about it. Margaret wasnt a big, boisterous personality. She was genuine and she never, ever gave up. Her persistence was her calling card. Her unrelenting advocacy did not go unnoticed. She received countless ar wards during her lifetime. She received the first champion of water award from the Connecticut Water policy council. She received the collide fischer award from the connecticut bar association. She was the first recipient of the mark taylor Environmental Stewardship award, the tom udall distinguished service award. I nominated her for the epas press cy steel just merit award. People knew what she had done in connecticut. And so good for connecticut that we didnt haves to wait for margarets passing before singling her out for their achievements in the area of environmental protection. But what made margaret so compelling, what made margaret so amazing is that in addition to being a great friend, in addition to leading one of the states preeminent environmental organizations, she was incredibly accomplisheded in so many other fields. The rest of her life, when you say it out loud, in addition to all of that achievement, it kind of almost sounds implausible. For instance, in her free time, march fret was a nationally known and celebrated author. Not about the environment but about the history of quotable people. She was the coauthor of five dictionaries of quotations including the oxford dictionary of american quotations with her husband hugh. In her spare time she wrote five anthologies of quotations, five books. She helped found an Organization Called our towns for sorry paul, an effort for the notforprofit save the children in afghanistan. She was an international anthropivot and an environmental advocate. She wrote a Consumer Reports book on allergies. I didnt even know that until i read the story of margarets life. She was an active member of the roxbury democratic town committee. And just before she passed at 86 years old, she was still sesqui on the local zoning board of appeals. She was learning spanish in her 80s. Attending two classes weekly. As often as she could, she was playing poker, fleecing her friends of their money whenever possible. Margaret miner was an original. As her friend will remember her, i wouldnt be here if not for margaret and for margaret and hugh. When i decided to run for congress ten years after first meeting margaret, she was, not surprisingly, one of my first calls. I planned the early stages of my First Campaign at margaret and hughs Kitchen Table in their cute house in roxbury, connecticut. That is how important she was to me, and im one of hundreds in connecticut who can say margaret miner was one of the most important people in my life. I yield the floor. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Welch madam president , i have good news. Senator stabenow, leader, chair of the Senate Agriculture committee, has present add bill that will allow us to consider an ag bill. And weve got work to do. But as we know, for more than 90 years, the u. S. Congress has weve always Work Together on this to advance a farm bill, and thats critical to Rural America. Its critical to all of america. Its about our agricultural and food policy and our environment. It reaches far beyond farms and fields and into the lives of every american throughout our country. The farm bill, as you know, shapes the future of ag policy for every five years. Its always tough to get from here to there, so we have much more work to do. But it has been something that is essential to give our farmers the support they need. And its also the most important legislation that we take up to support Rural America. The small towns across our entire country that sustain our agricultural sector, do so much for our economy, and so much for sustaining important personal and patriotic values. Vermont is a very proud rural state, and agriculture is the keystone of our culture as well as economy. Vermonts farmers, our dairies, our sugar makers have shaped our small towns for generationsment we want to keep that going. Weve worked to keep that culture of the small, familysized farms in our state, independent farmers with most of our farms below a couple of Hundred Acres and town populations less than 2,500. Madam president , vermont is by far not unique in this regard. America will not thrive if our Rural Communities arent thriving. Thats a commitment all of us have to make, and its why, as the chair of the agriculture committees subcommittee on Rural Development and energy, im urging my colleagues to support and work with us to improve the rural prosperity and Food Security act. It helps our farmers keep farming. It keeps our families fed. Thats something very foreign our farmers. And it keeps Rural Communities strong. The Senate Agriculture committee, under chair stabenows outstanding leadership, recently unveiled the farm bill. Our bill has over 100 bipartisan provisions and a host of policies that many of my colleagues across the caucus and across the aisle support. It will strengthen Rural America in many ways. And, by the way, chair stabenow included 100 bipartisan provisions, but she is totally open to more bipartisan provisions, anything we can do to improve this with suggestions from both sides of the aisle. She and we want to do. The farm bill, as i mentioned, supports farms, families, and rural farming. Its going to improve the quality of life for families in vermont and america. With baseline funding, thats important as we know for the First Time Ever to make improvements in rural health care, our rural hospitals are hanging on by their if i weringnails, whether it is by their fingernails, whether it is kansas or ohio. It is going to improve child care ability, which is so essential to all families across america, but especi