Congressional Record, June 10, 2020 — Senate
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Page S2853 of the Senate section of the Congressional Record for June 10, 2020. Mr. McConnell offers second-degree amendments numbered 1629, 1631 and 1632, asks for the yeas and nays, and sends a cloture motion to the desk for the underlying bill. The page prints a cloture motion on a nomination to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and a heading for the Justice in Policing Act. Later remarks mention Confucius Institutes, vaccine trials, and the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act.
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June 10, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2853
The yeas and nays were ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The to be United States Circuit Judge for the
AMENDMENT NO. 1629 TO AMENDMENT NO. 1628 clerk will report. District of Columbia Circuit.
The senior assistant legislative clerk Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, John
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Boozman, Joni Ernst, Todd Young,
have a second-degree amendment at read as follows:
Steve Daines, Cory Gardner, Jerry
the desk. The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- Moran, James E. Risch, Shelley Moore
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 1631 Capito, David Perdue, Ben Sasse, Kevin
clerk will report. to the instructions of the motion to commit. Cramer, Tim Scott, Lamar Alexander,
The senior assistant legislative clerk Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous Mike Rounds, Pat Roberts.
read as follows: consent that the reading be waived. Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous
The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without consent that the mandatory quorum
NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 1629 objection, it is so ordered. call be waived.
to amendment No. 1628. The amendment is as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask that the Strike ‘‘5 days’’ and insert ‘‘6 days’’ objection, it is so ordered.
reading be dispensed with. Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask for the yeas f
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and nays on my amendment.
objection, it is so ordered. LEGISLATIVE SESSION
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a
The amendment is as follows: Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
sufficient second?
Strike ‘‘3 days’’ and insert ‘‘4 days’’ ask unanimous consent to move to leg-
There appears to be a sufficient sec-
CLOTURE MOTION islative session.
ond.
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
The yeas and nays were ordered.
send a cloture motion to the desk for question is on agreeing to the motion.
AMENDMENT NO. 1632 TO AMENDMENT NO. 1631
the underlying bill. The motion was agreed to.
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The Senator from Maryland.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- have a second-degree amendment at JUSTICE IN POLICING ACT
ture motion having been presented the desk.
under rule XXII, the Chair directs the Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I rise
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The today in strong support of the Justice
clerk to read the motion. clerk will report.
The senior assistant legislative clerk in Policing Act, introduced yesterday
The senior assistant legislative clerk by my colleagues Senator HARRIS from
read as follows: read as follows:
CLOTURE MOTION California and Senator BOOKER from
The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- New Jersey.
We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 1632
ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the I am proud to be an original cospon-
to amendment No. 1631. sor of this legislation. This legislation
Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby
move to bring to a close debate on Calendar Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous is urgently needed after the death of
No. 75, H.R. 1957, a bill to amend the Internal consent that the reading of the names George Floyd in police custody in Min-
Revenue Code of 1986 to modernize and im- be waived. nesota, which has sent shock waves
prove the Internal Revenue Service, and for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without through the Nation and the world. I am
other purposes. objection, it is so ordered. pleased that the protests have been
Mitch McConnell, John Hoeven, John The amendment is as follows: largely peaceful, and that where the
Thune, Cory Gardner, Pat Roberts,
Lindsey Graham, Susan M. Collins,
Strike ‘‘6 days’’ and insert ‘‘7 days’’ Senate sits in Washington, our local
John Boozman, Kevin Cramer, Thom Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I leaders have moved to deescalate ten-
Tillis, Rob Portman, Roy Blunt, Lamar ask unanimous consent that the man- sions.
Alexander, Todd Young, Steve Daines, datory quorum calls for the cloture I was pleased on Monday to hold a
Shelley Moore Capito, David Perdue. motions be waived. Facebook Live session with Hillary
MOTION TO COMMIT WITH AMENDMENT NO. 1630 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Shelton, the director of the NAACP’s
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I objection, it is so ordered. Washington bureau and senior vice
move to commit the bill to the Energy f president for advocacy and policy, as
and Natural Resources Committee with well as Marc Morial, the president and
instructions to report back forthwith EXECUTIVE SESSION chief executive officer of the National
with amendment No. 1630. Urban League and the former mayor of
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The New Orleans. We talked about this leg-
EXECUTIVE CALENDAR
clerk will report. islation in some detail.
The senior assistant legislative clerk Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I I received feedback from several of
read as follows: move to proceed to executive session to my constituents at my Facebook Live
The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- consider Calendar No. 710. event on how to improve relations be-
NELL] moves to commit H.R. 1957 to the Com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tween police and the communities they
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources question is on agreeing to the motion. serve and how to rebuild trust between
with instructions to report back forthwith The motion was agreed to. them.
with Amendment No. 1630. The clerk will report the nomination. Before they first put on a badge, a
Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask that the The senior assistant legislative clerk police officer takes an oath to uphold
reading be dispensed with. read the nomination of Justin Reed the law. Most do so with the best in-
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Walker, of Kentucky, to be United tentions and carry out their duties
objection, it is so ordered. States Circuit Judge for the District of with a willingness to help commu-
The amendment is as follows: Columbia. nities. But in far too many commu-
At the end add the following. CLOTURE MOTION nities around the country, the system
‘‘This Act shall take effect 5 days after the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I in which they work has been failing.
date of enactment.’’ People are dying at the hands of police,
send a cloture motion to the desk.
Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask for the yeas The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- predominantly people of color. Ac-
and nays on the motion to commit ture motion having been presented countability has been tied to public
with instructions. under rule XXII, the Chair directs the videos rather than doing the right
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a clerk to read the motion. thing. Incremental reform is no longer
sufficient second? The senior assistant legislative clerk an option when it comes to police re-
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There appears to be a sufficient sec- read as follows: form. We have been patient, but we
ond. must do better to protect the civil
CLOTURE MOTION
The yeas and nays were ordered. rights, human rights, and lives of men,
We, the undersigned Senators, in accord-
AMENDMENT NO. 1631 TO AMENDMENT NO. 1630 women, and children of this country.
ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby Congress must finally pass a com-
have an amendment to the instruc- move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- prehensive plan to improve training
tions. nation of Justin Reed Walker, of Kentucky, and community relations, hold police
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accountable, and rebuild trust between The bill bans choke holds at the Fed- curred, and listened to their accounts
law enforcement and the communities eral level and conditions law enforce- of how they grew up with the fear of
they serve. To that end, I have been ment funding on State and local gov- police and the stories of how they were
proud to work with my colleagues Sen- ernments banning choke holds. It bans singled out or discriminated against by
ator BOOKER and Senator HARRIS in no-knock warrants in drug cases at the traffic stops and by other harassment
creating a package of reforms and ac- Federal level and conditions law en- just because of the color of their skin.
countability measures that shows forcement funding on State and local So let me share with you two stories
where we need to be as a nation with a governments banning no-knock war- that were reported recently in the
fair and just system of laws. rants. It requires that deadly force be paper. One is the story of Michael Tur-
The package focuses on three major used only as a last resort and requires ner, his encounter years ago with the
pillars: accountability, data collection, officers to employ deescalation tech- Montgomery County police. Turner
and training policies. I was proud that niques first. It requires better data col- was only 18 years of age when this en-
two major pieces included in the Jus- lection on how and under what cir- counter occurred.
tice in Policing Act are from bills that cumstances police officers use force. Officers had come to break up a party in
I have introduced for many Congresses: We need these standards. We have seen the suburban county and quickly focused on
the End Racial and Religious Profiling too many tragedies on the misuse of Turner and his fellow African American
Act and the Law Enforcement Trust power and force by law enforcement. friends. They checked IDs. No one was
and Integrity Act. The bill takes important steps to de- drunk. The cops asked them to move along.
The End Racial and Religious ‘‘One officer looks at us,’’ Turner recounted,
militarize our police forces—we are a ‘‘and says, ‘Now go back to your projects.’ ’’
Profiling Act is designed to enforce the civilian society; we are not run as a The broader context of the email, written
constitutional right to equal protec- military state—and encourage more eight days ago, was Turner’s effort to ex-
tion under the law by eliminating professionalism, consistent with chang- plain why he wanted a protest in downtown
racial- and religious-based discrimina- ing our police officers’ mentality from Silver Spring. ‘‘We come in peace, com-
tory profiling at all levels of law en- a warrior mindset to a guardian mander,’’ wrote Turner, 36. ‘‘March with us.
forcement by changing the policies and mindset. It’s time for a change. I’m ready to help, are
procedures. It allows police to focus you?’’
The legislation limits the transfer of The email set off six days of written and
their work more accurately rather military-grade equipment to State and
than wasting resources on blanket phone dialogue between Turner and Captain
local law enforcement. It requires Fed- Darren Francke, who commands the Silver
stereotypes. It requires enhanced data eral uniformed police officers to wear Spring police district for the Montgomery
collection for DOJ to track and mon- body cameras and requires State and County department. It culminated Sunday
itor discriminatory profiling. It holds local law enforcement to use existing afternoon when Turner, Francke and three
State and local enforcement agencies Federal funds to ensure the use of po- other Montgomery County police officers
accountable by conditioning Federal lice body cameras. took a knee in front of more than 200 pro-
funds on their adoption of policies and This comprehensive legislation takes testers facing them and stretching half a
best practices to combat profiling by block down Georgia Avenue.
several important steps to hold police Everyone sat still for 2 minutes 53 seconds,
officers. accountable in courts. It makes it con-
The Law Enforcement Trust and In- the estimated time George Floyd lay uncon-
sistent with standard practice to pros- scious with his neck pinned below the knee
tegrity Act takes a comprehensive ap- ecute offending officers and enables in- of a Minneapolis police officer.
proach on how local police organiza- . . . . Turner’s protest in the sprawling
dividuals to recover damages in civil
tions can adopt performance-based suburb just miles north of the District had a
courts when law enforcement officers
standards to ensure that instances of different twist: It was a demonstration put
violate their constitutional rights by
misconduct will be minimized through together with the active help of the police.
changing qualified immunity for law To Captain Francke, it all made sense. He
training and oversight. The bill pro-
enforcement. had served in the Pennsylvania Army Na-
vides that, if such instances do occur,
Finally, the legislation gives better tional Guard and joined the Montgomery po-
they be properly investigated. It re-
tools to the Department of Justice and lice in 1996. A father of three, including a
quires the creation of law enforcement
State attorneys general to investigate daughter who also came to the protest, he
accreditation standards and rec- previously commanded the department’s
and prosecute police misconduct. It re-
ommendations based on President major crimes division—supervising murder
invests in our communities by sup-
Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century investigations throughout the county.
porting critical community-based pro-
Policing. ‘‘Thank you for sharing your story,’’
This bill also enhances funding for grams to change the culture of law en- Francke wrote. ‘‘I don’t blame you for hav-
so-called pattern and practice discrimi- forcement and empower our commu- ing a chip on your shoulder. I am not proud
nation cases. In Baltimore City, for ex- nities to reimagine public safety in an of some things that a few officers did before
ample, the police department volun- equitable and just way. and now. . . . I am saddened and angered by
tarily entered into a consent decree in As I mentioned earlier, in Baltimore, what happened to George Floyd, and a num-
after the Freddie Gray tragedy, we rec- ber of other events over many years that
2017 with the U.S. Department of Jus- were clearly violations of the values that the
tice to overhaul the police department ognized that we needed to do a better
job in working with communities and vast majority of officers have. My officers
after the tragic death of Freddie Gray and I will march with you. With your assist-
in police custody in 2015, which led to police, and we reached out. Part of our ance, we will also help to keep the event safe
civil unrest in Baltimore. consent decree is to improve that rela- from those that would want to turn your
I might add, I am very pleased that tionship, that direct relationship be- message into something else. We want your
we have seen progress in Baltimore, as tween police and community. message to be heard.’’
evidenced by the types of protests after The legislation that I have men- By 1 p.m. Sunday, more than 200 people
tioned on the floor here establishes had gathered at Veterans Plaza in downtown
the Floyd tragedy. They have been al- Silver Spring. They marched 3 blocks to the
most all peaceful. public safety innovation grants for
community-based organizations to cre- corner of Colesville Road and Georgia Ave-
In Baltimore, the Department of Jus- nue, halted, and waited for Turner to lead
tice report had found a widespread pat- ate local commissions and task forces everyone to one knee. He swayed back and
tern and practice of illegal and uncon- to help communities to reimagine and forth, his head buried in a towel weeping as
stitutional conduct by the Baltimore develop concrete, just, and equitable he thought of Floyd’s family. Francke stood
Police Department through targeting public safety approaches. next to him, clapping. Next a quick prayer.
African-American residents for dis- Let me share with you two stories. I Then the kneel. The crowd erupted with ap-
proportionate and disparate treatment. do this because there are so many peo- plause at the 2 minute 53 seconds mark as
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The U.S. District Court for the District ple who have come forward and shared the group marched back to Veterans Plaza.
their experiences growing up and living A series of speakers addressed the crowd.
of Maryland is now overseeing a com- . . . About 3:30 p.m., Turner handed the
plete overhaul of the Baltimore Police in a society of discrimination. microphone back to Francke. The com-
Department. I remember very vividly, after the mander told the crowd about Turner’s en-
We have made progress. Freddie Gray episode in Baltimore, I counter with the police 18 years earlier. And
Other important provisions of the met with a group of community leaders then the captain turned toward him. ‘‘I’m
Justice in Policing Act will save lives. in Sandtown, where the tragedy oc- sorry,’’ he said.
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That sorry, I think, underscores the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without that would be self-evident. If you have
importance that what happened in objection, it is so ordered. a leak in your roof that suddenly
Minneapolis affects everybody in our CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM causes your ceiling in your kitchen to
country, not just the African-American Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, crash down, the solution isn’t to elimi-
community. since the death of George Floyd, the nate your roof. Sure, it would guar-
Let me close with one additional American people have once again been antee you are never going to have a
story that was also reported and brings engaged in a passionate discussion leak again, but it is going to open you
out a very familiar challenge for Afri- about racial injustice, which has sadly up to a whole new host of problems
can-American families. existed throughout our Nation’s his- that would do far more damage. Our
As the day drew to a close, DeShawn tory. job here is to fix the leak and figure
Rasberry, age 6, and his younger broth- In many ways, the killing of George out how to move forward. The process
er, Davian, age 4, were already tired. Floyd was the match in the powder in this case isn’t going to be quite so
They had been at Pennsylvania Avenue barrel. It ignited long-overdue con- straightforward.
and 13th Street since noon with their versations about prejudice and dis- Nationwide, we have some 18,000 Fed-
mother, Janessa Smith, age 28, handing crimination that still exists in homes, eral, State, county, and local law en-
out water, Gatorade, and granola bars workplaces, and in particular, institu- forcement agencies. Some have 1 offi-
as people were passing. The brothers cer, while some have more than 30,000,
tions charged with keeping us safe.
had never seen so many people before, There is no question that what hap- so they are not all the same. The poli-
and neither had Ms. Smith. It was the pened to George Floyd was a failure of cies and procedures governing how the
family’s first protest. the Minneapolis Police Department. He
‘‘Do you know why all these people officers in each of these agencies inter-
was killed by police officers as one ap- act with their community vary widely
are here?’’ the mother asked her
plied pressure to his neck and three from one department to the next. By
younger son. He stared at the crowd,
munching on his granola bar that had others stood by and did nothing. We and large, that makes sense.
crumbled to pieces in his hands. The are going to leave that to the criminal If you are in Mayberry with Andy
mother said, ‘‘They’re out here for justice system to make sure that the Taylor, it may be a two-police-officer
you.’’ appropriate people are held account- town. Obviously, you can handle things
Davian was dressed in a Superman able, but we are not off the hook. We a little differently than you can in a
cap and a matching T-shirt and smiled have a responsibility, and we have ex- major metropolitan city like New
and nodded. Ms. Smith had explained perienced enough of these tragedies to York, Dallas, or Houston. That is why
to her sons that they were here to know that it is not an isolated event. I believe that a one-size-fits-all ap-
‘‘protest,’’ which means standing up for Black men and women and other mi- proach does not make sense. We simply
something, she said, and to help others. norities across the country have died don’t have the expertise, nor do we
She hadn’t told them that the protest in custody for doing things that do not have the skill to try to write legisla-
was against police brutality, spurred warrant the use of deadly force. In the tion that will treat 330 million people
by the killing of a man with their same case of Breonna Taylor, who was killed the same way.
skin color in police custody. in March, she was asleep in her home Yet there are policies and practices
‘‘They’re so young now, still so when plainclothes officers with a no- that we can promote as best practices,
young,’’ Ms. Smith said. ‘‘And right knock warrant used a battering ram to and that is actually where I think the
now they’re in love with law enforce- enter her apartment shortly after mid- Federal Government’s role is irreplace-
ment. . . . I don’t want to spoil that. night. She was asleep in her apart- able. It is very important. We can do
Not yet.’’ ment, and shortly after midnight—no that and provide good guidance to the
She pointed out that neither of her knock—just a battering ram, and her States and local authorities.
children were afraid of police. Ms. door is knocked open. Thinking some- One example is the chokehold.
Smith looked at her sons, both just body had broken into her home, which Chokeholds are already banned from a
barely coming up to her waist, gripping was a reasonable reaction, Breonna’s number of law enforcement agencies
cold water bottles. One day she will boyfriend, a licensed gun owner, fired across the country but not all. In the
have to give them ‘‘the talk’’ about po- at them. He thought they were under past few weeks, State legislatures and
lice officers, she thought to herself, but assault. The officers returned at least city councils have taken action to ban
not today. 20 shots, killing the 26-year-old emer- this dangerous and controversial prac-
Let’s rise to the occasion so that gency room technician. tice. I have no doubt more will follow
Janessa Smith never has to give that Unfortunately, as in too many of suit. This is a great example of the
heartbreaking talk to her boys in these cases, the officers who were re- type of action we can and should take
Prince George’s County, MD. I urge my sponsible were never held responsible, in Washington to ensure America’s law
colleagues on both sides of the aisle to and that needs to change. enforcement officers are helping, not
focus on our common humanity and re- We are engaged in a discussion about hurting, the very people they are sworn
spect for the rule of law. how we can root out the injustices that to protect.
There are examples of best practices exist in our criminal justice system. In the Republican caucus, Senator
in community policing that should be a One terrible idea that has been floated TIM SCOTT is leading the charge to de-
guide nationwide. Let us work together is to defund or even disband the police. velop a package of bills that will make
to guarantee equal justice under the I can’t even believe we have to talk much needed and long-overdue reforms
law and fulfill the promise of our Con- about it, but we do because it has been to our criminal justice system. We
stitution in order to form a more per- proposed by a majority of the Min- have done this before. We did it with
fect union, establish justice, and en- neapolis City Council members. Over the FIRST STEP Act, bringing State-
sure domestic tranquility. proven remedies to prison reform and
the weekend, nine of them said they
Let this Nation finally guarantee
will begin the process of ending the rehabilitation and safe reentry into so-
‘‘Equal Justice Under Law,’’ which is
Minneapolis Police Department. Well, I ciety to the national scale. So we have
carved in the marble of the entrance to
the Supreme Court, which is just am amazed that we have to say it, but done this before.
apparently we must. This is an extraor- I have been in close discussions with
across the street from our Senate
dinarily reckless and dangerous path to Senator SCOTT and Leader MCCONNELL
Chamber.
I yield the floor. go down. I was glad to see a number of and a handful of other Senators who
I suggest the absence of a quorum. our Democratic colleagues here in the are interested in trying to come up
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The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Senate and over in the House reject with the most effective ways to create
LOEFFLER). The clerk will call the roll. such a crazy idea. I don’t know how tangible change. This is not going to be
The legislative clerk proceeded to you can call it anything else. a matter of political grandstanding;
call the roll. While it is clear that bold action is this is about practical problem-solving.
Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, I required, disbanding institutions It is certainly not going to be an effort
ask unanimous consent that the order charged with keeping us safe would do just to serve as a political marker. I
for the quorum call be rescinded. more harm than good. You would think think there is actually enough common
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ground where we can do something something good will come out of this. I Interestingly, what we have done
constructive on a bipartisan, bicameral think that is true. here with two things that we have been
basis and get a Presidential signature This repair process isn’t going to be trying to do for a long time—to have
on it. quick or easy. It is not something we full access to the reason the Land and
One provision in the list of provisions can turn to next week and take off our Water Conservation Act was created
that Senator SCOTT is putting together plate and forget about it. This has been and to do a better job maintaining our
involves legislation that has already a long march since America was found- parks—that has all been combined into
received broad bipartisan support. This ed when we committed the original sin the Great American Outdoors Act.
provision, which I recommended, in- of treating part of our population—our The first thing this act does is,
cluded a bill that Senator GARY African-American population—as frankly, make a significant investment
PETERS, a Democrat from Michigan, something less than fully human. We for the deferred maintenance we have
and Senator GRAHAM of South Caro- fought a civil war over slavery, and in on all kinds of Federal land. It is one of
lina, chairman of the Judiciary Com- the 1960s, we had pretty controversial our challenges as a government gen-
mittee, and I introduced and passed and chaotic times, which led to legisla- erally. It has been specifically one of
last year to create a National Criminal tive work that protected the vote of our challenges as it relates to the Na-
Justice Commission. minorities and protected civil rights tional Park System, to the Forest
I know sometimes people will say writ large. Service, to the Fish and Wildlife Serv-
‘‘Well, creating another committee or This is going to require a long-term, ice, to the Bureau of Land Manage-
another commission doesn’t solve the bipartisan commitment, not just from ment—every one of those has deferred
problem,’’ but this is not mutually ex- us in Washington but folks in the State maintenance issues that have been
clusive. I think this is to supplement capitals, city halls, and police depart- there for a long time. In fact, some of
the other things we do here in the near ments across the country. them have been there for decades.
term to come up with a comprehensive Because ultimately it is the local of- I mentioned earlier that the Park
view of what we need to do in our ficials who have the responsibility to System as we now know it is a little
criminal justice system to make it hire and fire the police chief, to make more than 100 years old. Some of these
more fair and to make sure our law en- sure that bad police officers are re- maintenance issues are decades old,
forcement officers receive the best moved from the force, and that is maybe 50 years old. Maybe half of the
training and understand the best prac- where the near-term responsibility life of the entire Park Service we have
tices when it comes to community po- needs to lie because we don’t have that had these issues on a list of something
licing. capability here. that needs to be done.
This is based largely on the same But we do believe—I do believe there In Yellowstone, the high bridge that
model as the 9/11 Commission. You re- are concrete steps we can take right thousands of cars go over every sum-
call that after the 9/11 Commission— now to address the racial injustices mer—that bridge needs to be repaired.
there were roughly 14 people appointed that were exposed once again with the The water maintenance systems in our
by the White House in both political death of Mr. Floyd. I appreciate Sen- parks where particularly they have
parties here. They studied the vulnera- ator SCOTT and Leader MCCONNELL for overnight accommodations and other
bilities we had that led to the 9/11 ter- responding to this crisis with the ur- things—many of those systems are al-
rorist attacks and made concrete rec- gency that it deserves, and I am proud most as old as the parks themselves.
ommendations to Congress that we to be part of this effort in the Senate. There are buildings we have in all
took up and passed. I think that is a I yield the floor. those locations where the access is no
sensible way for us to approach the I suggest the absence of a quorum. longer appropriate and hasn’t been for
problems with our criminal justice sys- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. a long time. Sometimes that meant
tem writ large. It could include things PERDUE). The clerk will call the roll. you just closed the visitor center. You
like policing reform. That is an obvious The bill clerk proceeded to call the closed that part of the park that people
one given the concerns of the day, but roll. previously had a way to get into and
it doesn’t have to be limited to just Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I ask see a display, look at an exhibit, but
that. unanimous consent that the order for because of disability issues that should
We haven’t done this sort of top-to- the quorum call be rescinded. have been fixed long ago, they haven’t
bottom review of our criminal justice The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without been able to.
system in America since 1965. This is objection, it is so ordered. We have been saying—I have been
the legislative version of finding the H.R. 1957 saying certainly for several years now
leak in your roof. This is the critical Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, this week that the second century of the Park
first step to figuring out the full range we are considering the bipartisan Great System needs to be different from the
of problems that exist so we can begin American Outdoors Act. I think it is first century of the Park System.
the repair process. fair to say that this is one of the most We need more private-public rela-
A similar version of this bill passed important packages of conservation tionships. We saw a great example of
the Senate unanimously late in 2018. I legislation that we have seen in a long that at the renewal of the arch and the
hope it can be a part of the conversa- time. It might be fair to say that it is museum and the area in St. Louis that
tion we have in the coming days and the most important piece of legislation just had a significant effort made, al-
weeks about how to respond. since President Theodore Roosevelt most all by either local or private
I know minorities across America are dramatically made additions to the Na- funds—very few Federal dollars there.
hurting right now, and there is a def- tional Park System just a little more But if you are going to have a private-
icit of trust between many of their than 100 years ago. public partnership, the public needs to
communities and the police depart- The bill essentially combines two im- do its part, and we are talking today
ments. That is because too many fami- portant provisions—the Restore Our about how the public would do its part
lies had to bury their sons or daughters Parks Act and the Land and Water in maintaining the parks, expanding
who were killed without justification. Conservation full funding act. I am a the parks, building a new facility, re-
While we can’t turn time back, we can cosponsor of both of those. We have pairing a facility, changing access to a
take action to prevent history from re- been trying to do the things that those facility.
peating itself. two bills both do for a long time, and But a lot of this deferred mainte-
A couple of days ago, I had the honor here we are. nance will not be all that obvious. It is
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of talking to George Floyd’s family as During World War II—we are just just something that has to be done.
they were preparing for his funeral yes- within a few days of D-day—President And because it is not all that obvious—
terday in Houston. I told them that at Eisenhower—at that time General Ei- the bridge hasn’t collapsed yet, and the
times like these, I know how inad- senhower—had a view that sometimes water system still appears to be pro-
equate words can be, but if there was if a problem is too big to solve or seems ducing water that people can use, so
some comfort that I could offer, it is to be too hard to solve, you solve it by let’s worry about that at some future
that his death is not in vain, that making it bigger. time. Well, the future time is here.
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This act will work to help improve cant. The Outdoor Recreation Industry this economic meltdown, the American
the visitor experience at the park—cer- Association says that we generate people are demanding to know what
tainty at the units in my State and, about $14 billion—almost $15 billion—in their government is doing in response
Mr. President, your State. I have been our State in consumer spending, and to these crises. We were elected as Sen-
to a number of the facilities in Georgia about 133,000 jobs are created in Mis- ators and Members of the House to re-
that will be impacted by this. souri because of outdoor recreation. spond to the needs of the American
In Missouri, there is the westward ex- About 5 million American jobs are cre- people. All over this country the Amer-
pansion that is celebrated at the arch, ated and around $800 billion of eco- ican people are looking around them.
and we just made a significant invest- nomic activity are created because of They see the struggle for racial justice.
ment in that facility. The Truman the ability to use these and other out- They see a pandemic. They see an eco-
home in Independence will be a Na- door resources. nomic meltdown. And many of them
tional Park Service facility. The first This is obviously not a normal year. are asking what the Republican leader-
park in America dedicated to an Afri- So anything we can do to encourage ship here in the Senate is doing. There
can American, a national park, the people to use these facilities in a better is crisis after crisis after crisis, and
George Washington Carver park at Dia- way is important, as is anything we what is the leadership here in the Sen-
mond, would be a place that would po- can do, as we look to the future, to ate doing? Tragically, the answer is
tentially benefit from this. The new maintain them and hand them over. nothing—nothing.
park that we have established in Ste. And we have a chance here on all of Historians have suggested that in the
Genevieve, MO, that has more of the these areas, whether it is the bureau of year 64 AD, while Rome was burning,
original French architecture left— public lands or the national forests or the Emperor Nero played his fiddle. At
vertical log architecture and big porch- the national parks, we have a chance least he did something. He provided en-
es that would have looked like a farm- to hand them to the next generation in tertainment to his court. But here, in
house in Normandy with a Caribbean better shape than we got them. We the U.S. Senate, Republican Leader
porch put on it—numbers of those are have a chance to look at projects that MCCONNELL and his leadership team
going to create one of the best walking have been on the ‘‘we need to do this’’ are doing nothing. Sadly, tragically,
historic parks in America. That park list for 40 and 50 years and do what is this is the worst do-nothing Senate in
would benefit. needed to be done for 40 or 50 years. modern American history, and every
So the Federal Park System benefits, I am proud to be an original cospon- Member of this body should be deeply
but this legislation also includes per- sor of this bill. I am proud of the lead- ashamed at the degree to which we are
manent annual funding for the Land ership, particularly of Senator GARD- failing our constituents.
and Water Conservation Fund. NER and Senator DAINES, on our side on Enough is enough. The U.S. Senate
When you think of the title of the this effort, and the best bipartisan sup- must respond to the pain and the suf-
fund, why would you have to do perma- port that this bill will have. I look for- fering of the American people. Let us
nent funding to be sure that the Land ward to voting for it. I urge my col- quickly wrap up debate over the Land
and Water Conservation Fund got leagues to vote for it, and, even more and Water Conservation Fund act,
spent on land and water? It doesn’t importantly, I look forward to seeing which is on the floor right now. Let us
seem to be a genius move to do what this bill have the impact that it abso- wrap up debate, and let us vote on this
we are doing here. What we are doing lutely will have and has to have on the bill. It is a good bill. Let’s pass it.
here with this fund is taking about $900 important resources that we need to Then, let us begin to work on the un-
million a year that has been going in make the right kind of investment in. precedented crises that are facing our
many cases for other purposes and say- I yield the floor. country.
ing: No. We collect the fund for this The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-
ator from Vermont. If there is anything that the torture
purpose. Let’s use it for this purpose. It
and murder of George Floyd by Min-
is not like we ran out of things to do ISSUES FACING AMERICA
neapolis police has taught us is that we
with the money, and so we decided to Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, as ev-
have to rethink the nature of policing
put it somewhere else. But this does erybody knows, our country today
in America and reform our broken and
what the fund is supposed to do with faces an extraordinary set of crises—
racist criminal justice system.
the fund. unprecedented, in fact—in the modern
In our State, again, in Missouri, over history of this country. Over the last Let us be clear. The murder of
the past 50 years we spent about $150 several weeks, hundreds of thousands George Floyd is not just an isolated in-
million out of that fund. The fund is of Americans from one end of this cident. It is the latest in an endless se-
being used to protect historically sig- country to the other, from big cities ries of police killings of African Ameri-
nificant sites like the Mark Twain Na- and small towns, have rightly taken to cans—including Eric Garner, Sandra
tional Forest, the Ozark National Sce- the streets to demand an end to police Bland, Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice,
nic River, and the Big Muddy National murder and brutality and, in fact, to Alton Sterling, Breonna Taylor,
Fish and Wildlife Refuge. They have all rethink the nature of policing in Amer- Freddie Gray, Rekia Boyd, Walter
been beneficiaries of that fund to some ica. Scott, and many, many, many others.
extent. The Wilson’s Creek National In the midst of that—that rising up If anyone thinks that these police mur-
Battlefield has been a beneficiary of for police department rethinking and ders have just begun to take place in
that fund. The fund was created for the police department murder and bru- recent years when people had cell
purpose that this legislation will en- tality—our country continues to suffer phone cameras, you would obviously
sure it largely serves. from the COVID–19 pandemic, which, in have been mistaken. This has gone on
We know that we have to build im- a number of locations in this country, forever.
portant relationships between local is actually getting worse and which The American people are rightly de-
communities, between the Park Serv- has, up to this point, killed over 110,000 manding justice and an end to police
ice, and between the American public people and infected over 2 million brutality and murder. The U.S. Senate
to ensure that these sites are managed Americans. has got to act now. We have to hear the
in the right way, that they are pre- Then, on top of all of that—the strug- cries for justice that are coming from
served for the future, and that they are gle for racial justice and dealing with a the streets of this country, that are
safe to use for the millions of Ameri- pandemic in the midst of all of that— coming from the African-American
cans who are going to use them this we have the worse economic downturn community, from the White commu-
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summer and next summer and the sum- since the Great Depression of the 1930s. nity, from the Latino community, and
mer after that, and this winter and In the last number of months, as you from all of our people. We must act and
next winter and the winter after that. know, over 32 million Americans have we must act now.
In addition to the preservation and lost their jobs. Let me just suggest some of the
conservation efforts, the bill will help, In the midst of the struggle for racial items that must be in the legislation
frankly, bolster Missouri’s outdoor justice, in the midst of this horrific that we pass. This is a limited number.
recreation industry, and it is signifi- healthcare crisis, and in the midst of We can do more.
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In my view, every police officer in- saved lives, and in our country, incom- dollar corporations like Amazon,
volved in a killing must be held ac- petent leadership cost us lives. Walmart, and Tyson Foods to treat es-
countable, and those found guilty must Well, we cannot bring back those who sential workers like expendable work-
be punished with the full force of law. unnecessarily died or who have become ers—like sacrificial workers. We can no
That includes officers who stand by ill, but what we can do is take action longer allow multi-billion dollar cor-
while these brutal acts take place. now to do everything possible to mini- porations to run advertising calling
Every single killing of a person by po- mize unnecessary deaths and illness in their workers ‘‘heroes’’ while paying
lice or while in police custody must be the future. First and foremost, we need them starvation wages and treating
investigated by the Department of Jus- a national protocol based on science to them disrespectfully.
tice. We must create a process by address this pandemic and not have 50 It is not just the racial justice crisis
which police departments look like the States and hundreds of communities we face, not just the pandemic we face,
communities that they serve and not going forward in different directions. but we are in the midst of an unprece-
look like invading armies. There is a way to effectively deal with dented economic crisis, and we must
We need to abolish qualified immu- this crisis, and that leadership should act boldly and aggressively to protect
nity so police officers are held civilly be coming from the Federal Govern- the American people in the midst of
liable for abuses. We need to prohibit ment. What we are talking about is the this crisis. As we speak, tens of mil-
the transfer of offensive military need, among other things, for increased lions of people have lost their jobs.
equipment to police departments. We testing and how to best utilize that They are worried about being evicted
need to strip Federal funds from de- testing as we talk about opening busi- from their apartments. They are wor-
partments that violate civil rights. We nesses and schools. We need, through ried about losing their homes. They are
need to provide funding to States and the Defense Production Act and any worried about putting food on the
municipalities to create a civilian other approach, to make certain that table. In Vermont—and, I suspect, in
corps of unarmed first responders to all medical personnel have the nec- every State in this country—there are
supplement law enforcement. essary personal protective equipment people lining up at emergency food
For too long we have asked police de- that they need. banks to get the food they need to feed
partments to do things which they are Even today, months after the pan- their kids. Anyone who thinks that
not trained or prepared to do and have demic erupted, doctors and nurses still this is not a moment of urgency does
criminalized societal problems like ad- lack the equipment they need to pro- not understand what the word urgency
diction, homelessness, and mental ill- tect themselves. I was on the phone means. When people in America go
ness. These are not problems solved by just a couple of weeks ago with people hungry, we have to act. When people
incarceration. in Vermont who work in clinics. They are being evicted from their apart-
We need to make records of police still do not have the protective equip- ments or losing their homes, we have
misconduct publicly available so that ment they need. to act, and we have to act now, not a
an officer with a record of misconduct We need to produce hundreds of mil- month from now, not 2 months from
cannot simply move two towns over lions of the most effective masks that now.
and start again. we can so as to protect all Americans, No, President Trump, this is not a
We need to require all jurisdictions above and beyond medical personnel. time to take a victory lap. The real un-
that receive grant funding to establish Masks are an important part of fight- employment rate remains over 20 per-
independent police conduct review ing this pandemic, and every American cent, the highest it has been since the
boards that are broadly representative should be able to have the best quality Great Depression. Unless we get our
of the community and that have the masks possible. act together boldly, over half of small
authority to refer deaths that occur at Working with the international com- business owners in America will be
the hands of police or in police custody munity, we need to make certain that forced to close their doors for good
to Federal authorities for investiga- a safe vaccine is produced as quickly as within the next 6 months. We need to
tion. possible and that it is distributed to respond vigorously to the economic cri-
We need to ban the use of rubber bul- every American for free. I have asked sis that we face and the pain and suf-
lets, tear gas, and pepper spray on pro- the Trump administration on several fering of the American people.
testers. We need to make certain that occasions. God willing, that vaccine Now, what does that mean? Again,
when people go to the street to protest, will be produced soon—as soon as pos- these are just a few of the provisions
they are not treated like criminals and sible. We all want that. that have to be passed. We need to pass
their basic constitutional rights are As you know, the Federal Govern- a paycheck security act which does
not denied. The struggle for racial jus- ment is spending billions of dollars to what many European countries do, and
tice is just one of the crises that we help develop that vaccine, giving that is to provide workers with 100 per-
have to address. money to the drug companies. That is cent of the paychecks and benefits they
Today, we are looking at a pandemic fine, but after that vaccine is devel- previously received. According to a re-
unprecedented in the last 100 years, oped, it must be distributed to every cent study from the University of Cali-
and I would tell you that New Zealand, man, woman, and child in this country fornia Berkeley, if we had adopted a
a very small country of about 5 million at no cost. I don’t want to see people paycheck guarantee program similar
people, did something rather inter- dying because they can’t afford to pay to the one in Germany, 24 million
esting—not surprising but interesting. for a vaccine. I don’t want to see the Americans would have a job today. In-
They listened to their scientists. They drug companies profiteering from this stead, we are seeing President Trump
acted boldly at the start of the pan- Federal investment. and Senator MCCONNELL taking a vic-
demic, and they had political leader- When we are talking about respond- tory lap because we created some 2 mil-
ship trusted by their citizens. The re- ing to the pandemic, we are talking lion jobs last month. That is good, but
sult is that just the other day, New about workers who are on the when we have 32 million people who
Zealand was able to announce that the frontlines, whether they are medical have lost their jobs in recent months,
COVID–19 virus was virtually elimi- professionals, workers in transpor- we have to act, and we have to act
nated in their country and they could tation, grocery stores, drug stores, boldly.
reopen their economy safely—safely. meatpacking plants, or whatever. They In my view, during this crisis, we
On the other hand, in the United must receive hazard pay for the dan- must make sure that every American
States, under President Trump, we gerous work that they do. I get a little gets the healthcare they need by ex-
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have a President who downplayed the bit tired of seeing these TV ads from panding Medicare to cover the under-
crisis from the very beginning, who ig- big corporations thanking the heroes insured, the uninsured, and the needs
nored or attacked scientists, and who who are out on the frontlines. Well, of people who have private insurance
most people recognize is a pathological that is great. Thank them, but pay but inadequate private insurance. In
liar, not to be trusted. them. Pay them hazardous pay for the my view, in the midst of this crisis
In New Zealand and in many other dangerous work that they are doing. with so much economic suffering, we
countries, bold and intelligent action We can no longer allow multi-billion need to provide every working-class
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person in this country with a $2,000 tection Program, with flexibility, so it AstraZeneca just announced a new
emergency payment each and every would be easier for our small busi- partnership with the Biomedical Re-
month until the crisis is over, so that nesses to use the relief funds. And 1,000 search Authority and the Defense Ad-
they can pay the rent, feed their fami- businesses in Wyoming took over $1 vanced Research Projects Agency. So
lies, and deal with their basic needs. billion in loans, and it is keeping our our military is joining in this public/
Furthermore, as a top priority, we economy alive, breathing life into the private partnership. This project may
have to make sure that nobody in economy, and allowing paychecks to deliver emergency vaccines as early as
America goes hungry, and that means continue to be paid as our businesses October, which would certainly be
substantially expanding the Meals on reopen. record-breaking. The pharmaceutical
Wheels program, the school meals pro- All across the country, this jobs-sav- company Merck will conduct trials in
grams, and SNAP benefits. ing effort is working, because last July. Johnson & Johnson plans phase 1
Here we are. All over this country month the U.S. economy added 2.5 mil- and phase 2 trials for July as well.
people are demanding an end to police lion jobs. It smashed all expectations. Pfizer hopes to have a vaccine ready by
killings and brutality and demanding It was the largest single month of job October. The goal is to make a safe, ef-
racial justice in this country. All over growth in this Nation in the history of fective vaccine and make it available
this country, people are being infected our great country. Americans literally to all Americans by January of 2021.
with a virus and continue to die, and ran out the front door and back to Operation Warp Speed partners want
all over this country, people are won- work. Unemployment was down in to beat this, and they want to make
dering how they are going to pay their May. It defied all of the forecasts and that their most ambitious goal—beat-
bills because they have lost their jobs defied what we just heard the Senator ing timelines that have never been
and have, in some cases, no food in the from Vermont talking about and what beaten before, breaking the records. At
cupboard. If there was ever a time in his expectations have been. the same time a number of other com-
the modern history of this country We are headed for a faster economic
panies are pursuing a vaccine independ-
that the Senate and the House are rebound than anyone has imagined.
ently. America’s researchers, sci-
called upon to stand up for families, for Across the country, the State
entists, and doctors have dropped ev-
the working families of this country, lockdowns have been ended. States
erything and are working in overdrive.
who are struggling, who are living in have started to safely reopen. Small
They have gone all in.
emotional anxiety, who are scared to businesses are reopening. People are
One major drug company CEO said
death about what is going to happen in going back to work. I thought I heard
yesterday that there will be no big
the future, and if we are to reaffirm the Senator from Vermont say that he
price for the coronavirus vaccine.
faith in government in this country to was thinking that half of all the small
Every company should make that same
know that we are seeing and hearing businesses in America wouldn’t be able
to reopen again ever. pledge. Every company should make
that pain, now is the time. So today, I that same pledge. This is a tremendous
Young people are going back to
just call upon my colleagues. I know opportunity for companies to do the
school. K–12 schools and colleges are
we have disagreements, but let us un- right thing, to make the vaccine as ac-
planning to reopen this fall. Of course,
derstand the urgency of the moment. cessible as any vaccine in the history
I don’t think any of us were surprised
Let’s deal with the pandemic. Let’s of our Nation.
to see the University of California sys-
save lives. Let’s deal with the eco- As we begin to recover from this cri-
tem say that they are going to stay
nomic crisis. Let’s put people back to closed until 2021—until next year, all 10 sis, the goal is clear, and it has been
work. Let’s deal with the issue of ra- campuses—because in California, one clear: We want to keep Americans safe
cial justice. Let’s fight to end racism size fits all. But for the rest of our Na- and get them back to work. Together,
in this country. There is an enormous tion, the schools and the colleges are that is what we must all endeavor to
amount of work to be done. Let’s do it. reopening and students will be heading do.
Thank you. back to campus. Thank you.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- There is a return-to-normal routine I yield the floor.
ator from Wyoming. that is going to boost our commu- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr.
CORONAVIRUS
nities. As the American recovery be- BOOZMAN). The Senator from Lou-
Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I gins, we are going all in to keep people isiana.
come to the floor today having just safe. That is a big part of it. That f
heard the Senator from Vermont talk- means more virus testing, more treat-
ing about the Nation in its effort to re- CONCERNS OVER NATIONS FUND-
ment, and better treatment and vac- ING UNIVERSITY CAMPUS INSTI-
cover from the coronavirus crisis and cines.
the economic crisis as a result, and TUTES IN THE UNITED STATES
Innovations are rapidly expanding ACT
other important issues affecting our testing. The country has now per-
country. I heard him say that we have formed more than 22 million Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, let me
not done enough and need to do more, coronavirus tests. Nearly a half million apologize in advance. My accent has
specifically with an economic recovery, tests are done every day, including not changed, but my speech has. I had
with a coronavirus recovery, and it today. Our researchers, our scientists, a little oral surgery, so I am going to
sounded like almost a liberal wish list and our doctors are making record try to be as clear as I can be.
of government providing for food, progress on a vaccine. We are calling I want to talk for a few minutes
clothing, shelter, and income for every this effort Operation Warp Speed. It is today about the Communist Party of
American. a public-private partnership with com- China and Confucius Institutes.
I come to the floor today to tell you panies producing a vaccine for the As you know, Confucius Institutes
what we have done, in a historic way, American people that will then be used are the Communist Party of China’s so-
because we passed the largest economic around the world. The private sector fi- called learning centers that are located
rescue package in the history of this nalists will soon be announced. The on 72 university campuses across the
country—trillions and trillions of dol- government will support their vaccine continental United States and, of
lars. This Senate, the House, and the work, will assist with clinical trials, course, Alaska and Hawaii. Each one of
White House went all-in to respond to and will prioritize review of the most these symbols is one of these Confucius
and help us as a nation to recover from promising vaccines. Institutes located at one of our univer-
the coronavirus crisis. One of the companies, called sities.
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Last week, the Senate passed and the Moderna, is in phase 2 trials and plans Here is how a Confucius Institute
President signed another bipartisan to start phase 3 in July. The Food and works. The Communist Party of China
bill to help small businesses across our Drug Administration approval is then gives our universities—these 72 univer-
country. It is the Paycheck Protection the final step. Another company, sities—the money to open these Confu-
Program Flexibility Act. That is what AstraZeneca, plans to end phase 2 and cius Institutes, and supposedly the pur-
the people of Wyoming were asking phase 3 trials over the next few pose of these Confucius Institutes is to,
for—this very successful Paycheck Pro- months. A, teach the Chinese language, and B,
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