Congressional Record — Senate, October 20, 2020, Page S6318

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Page S6318 of the Senate section of the Congressional Record for October 20, 2020, in interleaved columns. A speaker urges reclaiming a vision of government of, by and for the people, and another urges colleagues to support renewing the Paycheck Protection Program to save small businesses and jobs, which are their views. The page records Rollcall Vote No. 203 with 40 yeas and 57 nays, after which Mr. McConnell moves to proceed to legislative session. Mr. Whitehouse asks about the procedural steps, and a Maine Senator cites support from hospitality and food industry groups and says up to 20 Republican Senators do not want to vote for any relief.

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S6318 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE October 20, 2020
must reclaim—for the future of every I urge my colleagues to join us in [Rollcall Vote No. 203 Leg.]
child in America, certainly for the fu- supporting this important step to YEAS—40
ture of our environment here in the renew and strengthen the PPP program Baldwin Gillibrand Rosen
United States, certainly for the health to save our small businesses and their Bennet Heinrich Sanders
of the planet, we must reclaim that vi- employees’ jobs. Blumenthal Hirono Schatz
Booker Kaine Schumer
sion of government of, by, and for the Thank you. Brown King Smith
people. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- Cantwell Klobuchar Stabenow
Thank you. jority leader. Cardin Leahy Tester
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Carper Manchin Udall
Casey Markey
ator from Maine. f Van Hollen
Coons Menendez
Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Go ahead, Sen- Warren
Cortez Masto Merkley
LEGISLATIVE SESSION Duckworth Whitehouse
ator. I just wanted to see if we are Murphy
Durbin Murray Wyden
going into the vote now, and, if so, Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Feinstein Reed
whatever procedural steps you needed I move to proceed to legislative ses-
to take us into the vote, but I yield to NAYS—57
sion.
the Senator from Maine. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Alexander Gardner Peters
Barrasso Graham Portman
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- question is on agreeing to the motion. Blackburn Grassley Risch
ator from Maine. The motion was agreed to. Blunt Hassan Roberts
PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM Boozman Hawley Romney
Ms. COLLINS. Madam President, f Braun Hoeven Rounds
Burr Hyde-Smith Rubio
shortly, we will be voting on whether Capito Inhofe Sasse
or not to extend the Paycheck Protec- PROTECT ACT—Motion to Proceed Cassidy Johnson Scott (FL)
tion Program, which has been hugely The Senate proceeded to consider the Collins Jones Scott (SC)
Cornyn Kennedy Shaheen
successful in helping our small busi- motion to proceed to Calendar No. 554, Cotton Lankford Shelby
nesses keep their employees. S. 4675, a bill to amend the Health In- Cramer Lee Sullivan
In Maine, three out of four small surance Portability and Accountability Crapo Loeffler Thune
businesses have received $2.3 billion in Cruz McConnell Tillis
Act. Daines McSally Toomey
forgivable loans. Most important, these Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Enzi Moran Warner
loans have helped to sustain 250,000 I withdraw the motion to proceed to Ernst Murkowski Wicker
jobs in the State of Maine and 50 mil- Calendar No. 554, S. 4675. Fischer Perdue Young
lion jobs nationwide. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- NOT VOTING—3
A bipartisan group of us—Senator ator has that right. Harris Paul Sinema
RUBIO, Senator CARDIN, Senator SHA- The motion is withdrawn.
HEEN, and I—put this bipartisan pro- The motion was rejected.
gram together in March. We added f The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma-
funding in April, and we extended it in jority leader.
June until August 8. UIGHUR INTERVENTION AND f
The pandemic, unfortunately, is still GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN UNI-
PROTECT ACT—Motion to Proceed
forcing shutdowns and mitigation FIED RESPONSE ACT OF 2019
measures months later. Many of the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
The Senate proceeded to consider the
small businesses that were sustained move to proceed to Calendar No. 554, S.
House message to accompany S. 178, a
by their PPP loans are still unable to 4675.
bill to condemn gross human rights
return to normal operations. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in
Without more assistance, without clerk will report the bill by title.
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to ar-
being eligible for a second PPP loan, The senior assistant legislative clerk
bitrary detention, torture, and harass-
many of the hardest hit small busi- read as follows:
ment of these communities inside and
nesses, including our restaurants, our outside China. Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 554, S.
gift shops, our hotels, and our B&Bs, 4675, a bill to amend the Health Insurance
Pending:
will be forced to close their doors, and, Portability and Accountability Act.
McConnell motion to concur in the amend-
worse yet, lay off their workers. That ment of the House of Representatives to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
is why it is so important that we reach bill, with McConnell Amendment No. 2652, in Democratic leader.
bipartisan agreement quickly to pro- the nature of a substitute. Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I want
vide further assistance to small busi- McConnell Amendment No. 2680 (to to take a moment to explain to the
nesses and nonprofits that have been Amendment No. 2652), to improve the small American people what is happening
kept alive by their first PPP loan, that business programs. here on the floor of the Senate. After
have been able to retain and pay their MOTION TO TABLE putting the Senate on pause for over 5
employees but now are still struggling Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, long months, while businesses closed,
to survive due to this persistent pan- I move to table amendment No. 2680 millions lost their jobs, and hundreds
demic. and ask for the yeas and nays. of thousands of Americans died, Leader
The amendment that we are about to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a MCCONNELL is now using this week to
vote on would provide approximately sufficient second? hold show votes on coronavirus relief.
$258 billion in funding to allow eligi- There appears to be a sufficient sec- The vote we just had was not even a
bility for a second PPP loan for the ond. real vote. Leader MCCONNELL moved to
hardest hit small businesses and non- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The table the bill, then voted against ta-
profits, while also expanding and im- clerk will call the roll. bling it. It was a stunt, plain and sim-
proving the program in some common- The bill clerk called the roll. ple. It goes to show how unserious the
sense ways. Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is Republican process is here on the floor
This is all about keeping Americans necessarily absent: the Senator from of the Senate. Democrats, by their
employed. This amendment is endorsed Kentucky (Mr. PAUL). vote, called it for what it is.
by the NFIB, the National Restaurant Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the The truth is Leader MCCONNELL is
Association, the American Hotel and Senator from California (Ms. HARRIS) doing these stunts on the floor because
Lodging Association, the International and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. there is a hard-right faction in the Re-

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Franchise Association, SINEMA) are necessarily absent. publican caucus that doesn’t want to
HospitalityMaine, the United Fresh The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CAS- pass any bill—any other round of relief.
Produce Association, the National SIDY). Are there any other Senators in The Republican leader admitted that
Fisheries Institute, and the Inter- the Chamber desiring to vote? as many as 20 Republican Senators
national Foodservice Distributors As- The result was announced—yeas 40, don’t want to vote for anything. One
sociation. nays 57, as follows: Republican Senator voted not to vote

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