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American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Cong. Rec., March 4, 2021, S1049)

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This Congressional Record, Senate, March 4, 2021 section opens with the end of a list of organization names and then, under the heading American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Mr. Graham says the Senate has worked together on COVID relief before. Mr. Graham recites votes of 96 to 1, 90 to 8 and 96 to 0 on earlier bills, says 10 Republicans went to the White House to offer around $700 billion, and says the Democrats have control of the Senate, the House and the White House. The clerk then reports H.R. 1319, a bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 5, followed by a table of contents that includes Sec. 1102 on SNAP online purchasing and Sec. 1108 on the Pandemic EBT program.

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                                               March 4, 2021                                     CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE                                                                S1049
                                               Health Network; National Women’s Law                    land; Women’s Institute for Secure Retire-             stroyed. We had 10 Republicans, I
                                               Center; Native Women Lead; NC-NELA                      ment; Women’s Law Project; WOMEN’S                     think, go to the White House to offer
                                               (North Carolina National Employment Law                 WAY; Worker Justice Center of New York;                around $700 billion that would extend
                                               Project); Network for Victim Recovery DC;               Workers Defense Action Fund; Working
                                               NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Jus-                  Families Party; Working Washington; Work-
                                                                                                                                                              checks, that would do vaccines, would
                                               tice; New Earth; New Georgia Project.                   place Fairness; Workplace Justice Project at           do a lot of things that we think we
                                                 New Hampshire Youth Movement; New                     Loyola Law Clinic; Worksafe; Young                     need to still do, but that went nowhere.
                                               Haven Legal Assistance Association; New                 lnvincibles; YWCA USA; ZERO TO THREE.                    Another point for the American peo-
                                               Mexico Center on Law and Policy; New Orle-                The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-                      ple: We are going to a partisan ap-
                                               ans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice;                 ator from South Carolina is recognized.                proach to COVID for the first time. I
                                               North Carolina Justice Center; Northwest                                                                       went over the amount of money we
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                                               Harvest;    Northwest     Workers’    Justice
                                                                                                                                                              have appropriated to the COVID prob-
                                               Project; Oasis Legal Services; Ohio Orga-                AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF
                                               nizing Collaborative; Oklahoma Policy Insti-                                                                   lems the country has experienced, and
                                                                                                                           2021
                                               tute; One Fair Wage; One Fair Wage Action;                                                                     here is what I want you to understand.
                                               One Pennsylvania; Operation Food Search;                  Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I will                    We are going to spend $1.9 trillion in a
                                               Our Revolution; Oxfam America; Parent                   try to be relatively brief here. I under-              partisan fashion. I think a lot of it is
                                               Voices CA; Partnership for America’s Chil-              stand the bill is being printed now, and               very much unrelated to COVID simply
                                               dren; Pathways for Prosperity Coalition,                we will have a vote here fairly shortly.               because they have the power to do it.
                                               Fayetteville, NC; Patriotic Millionaires.                 I just want to set the stage for my                    They now have the power of the Fed-
                                                 Pennsylvania AFL-CIO; People For the                  view—my point of view. I think I speak                 eral Government, complete power—
                                               American Way; People’s Action; People’s                 for most people in our conference on
                                               Parity Project; Philadelphia Drivers’ Union;                                                                   control of the Senate, control of the
                                                                                                       what we are trying to do here.                         House, control of the White House.
                                               Physicians for Reproductive Health; Policy                Up until now, we have been able, as a
                                               Matters Ohio; Poligon Education Fund;                                                                          They have abandoned bipartisanship.
                                               Power Coalition for Equity and Justice;
                                                                                                       body, to work together on COVID re-                    We had the Presidency and the Senate;
                                               Preble Street Maine Hunger Initiative; Pro-             lief. And the question is, Why can’t we
                                                                                                                                                              they had the House. We were able to
                                               gressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada;                 do it again? I think I know the answer,
                                                                                                                                                              work together. Now they have it all.
                                               Prosperity Now; Public Citizen; Public Jus-             but I want to remind people what we
                                                                                                                                                              They are running us over, literally,
                                               tice Center; RAISE High Road Restaurants;               have done in a bipartisan fashion.
                                                                                                         On March 5, 2020, when we had Presi-                 legislatively here.
                                               Raise the Wage PA; Reframe Health and Jus-
                                               tice; Restaurant Opportunities Center of DC;
                                                                                                                                                                I think we have made reasonable of-
                                                                                                       dent Trump, a Republican Senate, and
                                               Restaurant Opportunities Centers United;                                                                       fers. Nobody is willing to compromise.
                                                                                                       a Democratic House, we approved $8
                                               RESULTS DC/MD.                                                                                                 They see this as a moment to do a lot
                                                                                                       billion, 96 to 1, and we were just begin-
                                                 Results for America; Reviving the Islamic
                                                                                                       ning to understand the virus; March 18,                of things they have been wanting to do
                                               Sisterhood for Empowerment (RISE); Rights                                                                      for years that have nothing to do with
                                               & Democracy NH; Rights & Democracy VT;                  a few weeks later, $355 billion, 90 to 8;
                                                                                                       March 25, $1.9 trillion, 96 to 0.                      COVID.
                                               River VAlley Organizing; ROC-Chicago; ROC-                                                                       Another problem they have, in my
                                               Minnesota; ROC-New York; ROC-Pennsyl-                     So from March 5 to March 25, we
                                                                                                       passed three bills, well over $2 trillion,             view, is you are appropriating $1.9 tril-
                                               vania; San Francisco-Marin Food Bank;
                                               Saverlife; Sciencecorps; SEIU Wisconsin                 96 to 1, 90 to 8, and 96 to 0. So I would              lion, most of it not related to COVID,
                                               State Council; Service Employees Inter-                 argue to the American people that it is                and we haven’t spent the money we
                                               national Union; Shriver Center on Poverty               not like the Republican Party and the                  have allocated in the past. So adminis-
                                               Law; Sierra Club; Social Justice Associates             Democratic Party can’t work together                   trative actions—there is still $200 bil-
                                               of South Church, Portsmouth NH; Southwest                                                                      lion that we haven’t spent. Legislative
                                                                                                       when it comes to COVID relief.
                                               Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center;                                                                          actions, $3.1 trillion we have spent. We
                                                                                                         But now that the Democrats have the
                                               Southwest Women’s Law Center; Step Up                                                                          have appropriated $4.1 trillion. There is
                                               Louisiana.                                              House, the Senate, and the White
                                                 TakeAction Minnesota; Tax March; Temp                 House, there seems to be no desire to                  still $1 trillion that hasn’t been spent
                                               Worker Justice; Terence Crutcher Founda-                go down that road, and I will talk                     yet.
                                               tion; The 99% Pennsylvania campaign; The                about that in a minute.                                  The Federal Reserve actions allowed
                                               AIDS Institute; The Commonwealth Insti-                   April 21, 2020, we did $355 billion                  $5.9 trillion to be allocated to help
                                               tute for Fiscal Analysis; The Employee                  more. That was by voice vote. Spend-                   businesses that were failing. They
                                               Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy              ing $355 by voice vote is pretty aston-                spent $2.8 trillion.
                                               (The Institute); The International Union,               ishing; $1.9 trillion, 96 to 0 is pretty as-             The vaccine is getting out by the
                                               United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricul-                                                                      day. We are hopeful that we can change
                                               tural Implement Workers of America (UAW);
                                                                                                       tonishing. September 30, 2020, 84 to 10.
                                                 The Legal Aid Society; The National Do-               December 21, just a few months ago, we                 the course of the virus, get people back
                                               mestic Violence Hotline; The New York                   spent another trillion, 92 to 6.                       to work.
                                               Womens Foundation; The Partnership for                    Why do I bring this up? I bring it up                  In this bill, they do a lot of things
                                               Working Families; The Rebuild, Overcome,                to show there is plenty of bipartisan-                 unrelated to COVID because they can.
                                               and Rise (ROAR) Center of UMB; The West                 ship around COVID relief, and that bi-                 Why are we opposed to this? Because it
                                               Side Commons; The Women and Girls Foun-                 partisanship has stopped. President                    is a lot of money that is being spent on
                                               dation of Southwest Pennsylvania; The                   Biden made a big deal about wanting to                 things unrelated to COVID. We haven’t
                                               Women’s Building; TIME’S UP Now; Ujima                                                                         spent the money we appropriated in
                                                                                                       bring the country together and find
                                               Inc.: The National Center on Violence
                                                                                                       common ground. In the one area that                    past efforts yet, but we are going to
                                               Against Women in the Black Community;
                                               UnidosUS.                                               we actually had common ground, we                      spend $1.9 trillion more. I think it is
                                                 Unitarian Universalist Action New Hamp-               have abandoned common ground to                        very unfortunate, and I hope the Amer-
                                               shire; Unitarian Universalist Justice PA;               deal with a $1.9 trillion package just                 ican people understand that this is
                                               United Food and Commercial Workers Inter-               months after we authorized $1.04 tril-                 spending money for the sake of spend-
                                               national Union; United State of Women;                  lion.                                                  ing money, not to combat COVID.
                                               United Steelworkers; United Valley Inter-                 Here is the problem I think Repub-                     Let me give you some examples of
                                               faith (UVIP); United Vision for Idaho; Unity                                                                   what is in this bill. The minimum wage
                                                                                                       licans have. Of the $1.9 trillion being
                                               Fellowship of Christ Church NYC; URGE:
                                               Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity;                 proposed now, about 90 percent of it                   dropped out. Now is the worst possible
                                               Virginia Poverty Law Center; Voices for                 has very little to do with COVID. It is                time, I think, to go to $15-an-hour min-
                                               Progress; Washington Lawyers Committee                  a liberal wish list. The reason I know it              imum wage. Just think about your own
                                               for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs; Wash-               is a liberal wish list is that Senator                 communities. How many restaurants
                                               ington Wage Claim Project; Washtenaw                                                                           and hotels have had to reduce or close




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                                                                                                       SCHUMER said 15 times yesterday—
                                               Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights;              about 15 times—that it wasn’t a liberal                down because of COVID restrictions?
                                               West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy;              wish list. If Senator SCHUMER is saying                We are finally beginning to come out of
                                               Western Center on Law and Poverty; West-                                                                       it a bit. To add a $15-an-hour mandate,
                                                                                                       it is not a liberal wish list, it is a lib-
                                               ern Pennsylvania Employment Lawyers As-
                                               sociation.                                              eral wish list. I will be able to prove                doubling the minimum wage, would be
                                                 Wildfire: Igniting Community Action to                that in more detail.                                   increasing the cost of doing business
                                               End Poverty in Arizona; Women Employed;                   That is the history of bipartisanship.               after the government at the State and
                                               Womenpreneurs; Women’s Fund of Rhode Is-                That bipartisanship has been de-                       local levels shut the businesses down.



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                                               So the business has been reduced in                     ment for Humanities, that is still a lot               that has nothing to do with COVID be-
                                               terms of revenue because of COVID re-                   of money where I come from.                            cause they can.
                                               strictions, and now the Federal Gov-                      There is $200 million for the Institute                The only thing I can tell you about
                                               ernment is going to mandate a dou-                      of Museum and Library Sciences. I am                   spending money—count me in for help-
                                               bling of the minimum wage that the                      sure there are needs out there for mu-                 ing people get back on their feet. I
                                               business has to absorb and pass on to                   seums and library sciences, but it                     have always been for a direct payment.
                                               consumers. That is out. We can raise                    should go through the appropriations                   Count me out for a $1.9 trillion
                                               the minimum wage in a responsible                       process where we will have a chance to                 spendfest unrelated to COVID in a par-
                                               fashion once we get COVID under con-                    make a case for it or against it rather                tisan fashion.
                                               trol.                                                   than it being crammed into a bill that                   This is everything President Biden
                                                 There was $100 million for a Silicon                  is being printed while I speak.                        said he wouldn’t do. The inaugural
                                               Valley underground rail project that                      We are talking about a $1.9 trillion                 speech rings hollow when it comes to
                                               didn’t pass the smell test. The only                    COVID package with 90 percent unre-                    this provision, the $1.9 trillion COVID
                                               reason that is out is we made a big deal                lated to COVID being printed while I                   package. Everything President Biden
                                               about it. But they saw the COVID                        speak. Now, if that is good govern-                    said he wanted to do for the country,
                                               package as a chance to put $100 million                 ment, count me out.                                    he abandoned. It is not like there are
                                               into a Silicon Valley underground rail                    Funding for Planned Parenthood.                      plenty of Republicans that would sit
                                               project, which shows you their mindset                  What has that got to do with COVID?                    down and work with our Democratic
                                               toward this bill.                                         PPP loans for labor unions.                          friends to do another round of COVID
                                                 This bill is not about fighting                         Paid leave for Federal employees.                    relief, but it has to be related to
                                               COVID. It is about a chance, in a par-                    An $86 billion bailout for union pen-                COVID, and we want to spend the
                                               tisan fashion, to do things they                        sions. Maybe that is something we                      money we have appropriated in the
                                               couldn’t do otherwise. There was $1.5                   want to look at, but in a COVID bill?                  past first. Maybe that is an odd con-
                                               million from the Harbor Maintenance                       This is why people are so turned off                 cept in Washington, but I will make a
                                               Trust Fund regarding the Seaway                         to Washington because we take a cri-                   bet that most Americans find it odd
                                               International Bridge in New York. The                   sis, a problem facing your family and                  that we would appropriate money for a
                                               Silicon Valley underground rail project                 your community, and they turn it into                  problem when we haven’t spent the
                                               may make sense. Senator SCHUMER’s                       a spendfest, a liberal wish list, indeed,              money we had already appropriated in
                                               bridge project may make sense. We are                   come true.                                             the past. We can get that out the door
                                               going to do an infrastructure bill. It                    A new taxpayer-funded executive                      to see what needs to be done in the fu-
                                               seems to me that we would take these                    branch employee emergency leave pro-                   ture.
                                               infrastructure projects and put them in                 gram.                                                    I think most Americans believe now
                                               an infrastructure bill and try to have a                  Money for schools. We haven’t spent                  is not the time to load a bill up with a
                                               COVID bill related to fighting COVID.                   the money we have allocated for                        bunch of stuff unrelated to COVID be-
                                                 But, clearly, they are taking an op-                  schools yet. We are trying to open                     cause we need every dollar to hit the
                                               portunity, my friends on the other                      schools. The money that has been allo-                 mark. But we will have a chance to
                                               side, of loading this bill up with a lib-               cated for schools is still—most of it—a                talk about that in the coming months,
                                               eral wish list—parochial interests—be-                  lot of it has been unspent. In this bill,              and there will be another election com-
                                               cause they can.                                         we have $68 billion for K–12. The money                ing before you know it.
                                                 I hope the American people will un-                   should be given to people opening                        The only thing I can leave with the
                                               derstand what is going on and bring                     schools, and only $5 billion of that will              American people here is that they have
                                               back a balance of power in Washington                   be spent this year. Most of the money                  it all in terms of power. This is what
                                               in 2022 because if you let them have it                 for K–12 assistance is in 2022 and the                 they have chosen to do. They have cho-
                                               all, this is a sign of things to come. But              years that follow. That is not an emer-                sen a partisan path, rejecting the bi-
                                               we will talk about that later.                          gency COVID package. That is just                      partisan path. They have chosen to put
                                                 There is $20 million in the bill for the              putting money into the education sys-                  most of the money in the bill for things
                                               preservation and maintenance of Na-                     tem in a fashion they like and we don’t                unrelated to COVID simply because
                                               tive American languages. That might                     have any input over. It really has noth-               they can.
                                               be something that makes sense, but we                   ing to do with fighting the COVID cri-                   The last election was about what
                                               are dealing with a COVID package.                       sis and getting our schools reopened. Of               would happen to our country if Demo-
                                               There is $20 million for the preserva-                  the $129 billion for K–12 in this pack-                crats got in charge of everything.
                                               tion of maintenance of Native Amer-                     age, $6.4 billion is to be distributed this            Many of us on our side said it would be
                                               ican languages and $135 million for the                 year. The $68 billion was in the last                  one of the most liberal agendas in the
                                               National Endowment for the Arts.                        round and only $5 billion this year, so                history of American politics and would
                                                 I am an appropriator. This isn’t an                   most of the money for schools is spent                 come forth pretty quickly. I had no
                                               appropriations bill. It is not a COVID                  in the out years. Again, that is just an               idea it would come forth this quickly.
                                               bill. In the committees I am on, we ac-                 opportunity to be taken by them.                       I had no idea they would abandon a bi-
                                               tually vet this stuff to see if it makes                  Of the $129 billion, $122 billion for K–             partisan approach to COVID because it
                                               sense to put it in the normal appropria-                12 schools will not be spent until years               seems to be the one area that we have
                                               tions cycle. They take a COVID prob-                    2022 through 2028. God, I hope we don’t                had success regarding working to-
                                               lem—and it is a real problem still to                   have to deal with COVID in 2028.                       gether.
                                               this day—and they load it up with                         We have approved six COVID bills.                      During the campaign, I said that
                                               things unrelated to COVID because                       We have spent over $4 trillion—appro-                  there would be two areas I thought we
                                               they can.                                               priated over $4 trillion. A trillion is yet            could do bipartisan legislation: One
                                                 We can’t stop them now. Maybe one                     unspent, and we are doing $1.9 trillion                was COVID; the other was infrastruc-
                                               day we can stop them and go back to                     where 90 percent of it has nothing to do               ture.
                                               the old way of doing business where we                  with COVID. Why are we doing this?                       Boy, was I wrong about COVID. I am
                                               sit down and work together as Demo-                     Because they can.                                      hoping that the American people pay
                                               crats and Republicans to spend over $4                    They have abandoned the bipartisan                   some attention to this debate. We are
                                               trillion to combat COVID. My hope is                    model that worked. They have chosen a                  going to have some really good amend-
                                               that we will have some balance in the                   partisan model. No matter what they                    ments on our side that talk about how




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                                               future that we don’t have today.                        tell you, my friends on the other side,                we would spend the money differently
                                                 So $135 million for the National En-                  this is a liberal wish list. This is very              and why we would choose not to spend
                                               dowment for the Humanities—what has                     much seizing the moment, taking a cri-                 some money on this bill because it sim-
                                               that got to do with COVID? There are                    sis, a problem in America, and using it                ply has nothing to do with COVID.
                                               people really suffering out there. And                  to advance causes completely unre-                       The American people have suffered
                                               $135 million for the Endowment for the                  lated to COVID, spending money that                    during the COVID pandemic, but there
                                               Arts and $135 million for the Endow-                    hasn’t been vetted, spending money                     are better days ahead. I want us to do



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                                                         March 4, 2021                                     CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE                                            CORRECTION              S1051
                                                         as much as we can for vaccinations and                  largest single anti-poverty bills in re-                            AMENDMENT NO. 891
                                                         helping people get back into school. I                  cent history. It is time to lift this                          (Purpose: To improve the bill)
                                                         am willing to help people who are                       country out of crisis and set it on a                   Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I
                                                         struggling out there, but you shouldn’t                 path to a strong and swift recovery. It               have an amendment at the desk, and I
                                                         be giving a $1,400 check to people who                  is time to tell the American people                   ask for its immediate consideration.
                                                         make $200,000 as a couple. They                         that help is on the way.                                The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk
                                                         changed that. They have taken the Sil-                                   MOTION TO PROCEED                    will report the amendment.
                                                         icon Valley railway out. They have                        Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I                         The legislative clerk read as follows:
                                                         also taken the bridge out because they                  move to proceed to Calendar No. 10,                    The Senator from New York [Mr. SCHU-
                                                         had to, not because they wanted to.                     H.R. 1319.                                            MER],for himself and others, proposes an
                                                           We are going to have a lot of amend-                    The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The                      amendment numbered 891.
                                                         ments to show what we would do with                     clerk will report the motion.                           Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I
                                                         your money versus what they would do                      The senior assistant legislative clerk              ask unanimous consent to dispense
                                                         with your money. We are going to have                                                                         with the reading.
                                                                                                                 read as follows:
                                                         a lot of amendments that would show                                                                             The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there an
                                                                                                                   Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 10, H.R.
                                                         what we would do with COVID and how                                                                           objection?
                                                                                                                 1319, to provide for reconciliation pursuant
                                                         to fight COVID versus what they would                   to title II of S. Con. Res. 5.                          Mr. JOHNSON. Madam President.
                                                         do with COVID. That is what democ-                                                                              The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator
                                                         racy is all about—working together                        Mr. SCHUMER. I ask for the yeas
                                                                                                                 and nays.                                             from Wisconsin.
                                                         when you can and showing differences                                                                            Mr. JOHNSON. Reserving the right
                                                         when you must.                                            The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is
                                                                                                                 there a sufficient second?                            to object. One thing that——
                                                           There are going to be a lot of dif-
                                                                                                                   There appears to be a sufficient sec-                 Mr.    SCHUMER.      Regular    order,
                                                         ferences in this debate, and I think this
                                                                                                                 ond.                                                  Madam President.
                                                         will not be the last time you hear
                                                                                                                   The clerk will call the roll.                         The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there an
                                                         about this bill. I think this bill is going
                                                                                                                   The senior assistant legislative clerk              objection?
                                                         to resonate for months and years to
                                                                                                                 called the roll.                                        Mr. JOHNSON. I object.
                                                         come in all of the wrong ways.
                                                           I yield the floor.                                      The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 50,                   The VICE PRESIDENT. The objec-
                                                           I suggest the absence of a quorum.                    nays 50, as follows:                                  tion is heard.
                                                           The PRESIDING OFFICER. The                                        [Rollcall Vote No. 73 Leg.]                 The clerk will continue the reading.
                                                         clerk will call the roll.                                                                                       (Ms. CORTEZ MASTO assumed the
                                                                                                                                     YEAS—50
                                                           The senior assistant legislative clerk                                                                      Chair.)
                                                                                                                 Baldwin            Hickenlooper         Reed
                                                         proceeded to call the roll.                             Bennet             Hirono
                                                                                                                                                                         The legislative clerk read as follows:
                                                                                                                                                         Rosen
                                                           Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask                     Blumenthal         Kaine                Sanders         Strike all after the first word and insert
                                                         unanimous consent that the order for                    Booker             Kelly                Schatz        the following:
                                                                                                                 Brown              King                 Schumer
                                                         the quorum call be rescinded.                           Cantwell           Klobuchar
                                                                                                                                                                       TITLE.
                                                           The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With-                                                              Shaheen        This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American
                                                                                                                 Cardin             Leahy                Sinema
                                                         out objection, it is so ordered.                        Carper             Luján                             Rescue Plan Act of 2021’’
                                                                                                                                                         Smith
                                                                                                                 Casey              Manchin                             .
                                                                          f                                                                              Stabenow
                                                                                                                 Coons              Markey                             SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
                                                                                                                                                         Tester
                                                          AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF                            Cortez Masto       Menendez
                                                                                                                                                         Van Hollen      The table of contents for this Act is as fol-
                                                                                                                 Duckworth          Merkley
                                                               2021—MOTION TO PROCEED                            Durbin             Murphy               Warner        lows:
                                                           Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, in a                      Feinstein          Murray               Warnock       Sec. 1. Short title.
                                                                                                                 Gillibrand         Ossoff               Warren        Sec. 2. Table of contents.
                                                         moment, I will move to proceed to the                                                           Whitehouse
                                                                                                                 Hassan             Padilla
                                                         Senate’s substitute amendment to the                    Heinrich           Peters               Wyden          TITLE I—COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE,
                                                         American Rescue Plan. This legislation                                                                                NUTRITION, AND FORESTRY
                                                         will keep America’s families, busi-                                          NAYS—50                                     Subtitle A—Agriculture
                                                         nesses, and workers afloat and hasten                   Barrasso           Graham               Portman       Sec. 1001. Food supply chain and agriculture
                                                                                                                 Blackburn          Grassley             Risch
                                                         the day when our country can return to                  Blunt              Hagerty              Romney
                                                                                                                                                                                    pandemic response.
                                                         normal and our economy can come                         Boozman            Hawley               Rounds
                                                                                                                                                                       Sec. 1002. Emergency     rural   development
                                                         roaring back.                                           Braun              Hoeven               Rubio                      grants for rural health care.
                                                           The United States is facing a once-in-                Burr               Hyde-Smith           Sasse         Sec. 1003. Pandemic program administration
                                                                                                                 Capito             Inhofe               Scott (FL)                 funds.
                                                         a-century crisis that has sapped mil-                   Cassidy            Johnson              Scott (SC)    Sec. 1004. Funding for the USDA Office of In-
                                                         lions of jobs from our economy, left                    Collins            Kennedy
                                                                                                                                                         Shelby                     spector General for oversight of
                                                         millions of Americans struggling to                     Cornyn             Lankford
                                                                                                                 Cotton             Lee
                                                                                                                                                         Sullivan                   COVID–19-related programs.
                                                         make ends meet, and stolen more than                    Cramer             Lummis
                                                                                                                                                         Thune         Sec. 1005. Farm loan assistance for socially
                                                         half a million American lives. The time                 Crapo              Marshall             Tillis                     disadvantaged     farmers     and
                                                         is now to move forward with big, bold,                  Cruz               McConnell            Toomey                     ranchers.
                                                                                                                 Daines             Moran                Tuberville    Sec. 1006. USDA assistance and support for
                                                         strong relief for the American people;                                                          Wicker
                                                                                                                 Ernst              Murkowski                                       socially disadvantaged farmers,
                                                         to send checks as promised to Amer-                     Fischer            Paul                 Young
                                                                                                                                                                                    ranchers, forest land owners
                                                         ican workers and families; to help re-
                                                                                                                   The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote                                 and operators, and groups.
                                                         open schools as quickly and safely as                                                                         Sec. 1007. Use of the Commodity Credit Cor-
                                                         possible; to help the hardest hit small                 the yeas are 50, the nays are 50.
                                                                                                                   The Senate being equally divided, the                            poration for commodities and
                                                         businesses hang on; to help families                                                                                       associated expenses.
                                                         stay in their homes, care for their chil-               Vice President votes in the affirma-
                                                                                                                 tive, and the motion to proceed is                                Subtitle B—Nutrition
                                                         dren, and put food on the table; to keep                                                                      Sec. 1101. Supplemental nutrition assistance
                                                         firefighters, teachers, and busdrivers                  agreed to.
                                                                                                                   The motion was agreed to.                                        program.
                                                         on the job; and to crush the virus with                                                                       Sec. 1102. Additional assistance for SNAP
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                                                         testing and vaccines once and for all.                                                                                     online purchasing and tech-
                                                           We are not going to repeat the mis-                    AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF                                       nology improvements.
                                                         takes of the past. We are not going to                                                                        Sec. 1103. Additional funding for nutrition
                                                                                                                                    2021
                                                         be timid in the face of a great chal-                                                                                      assistance programs.
                                                         lenge. We are not going to delay when                     The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk                       Sec. 1104. Commodity supplemental food
                                                                                                                 will report the bill by title.                                     program.
                                                         urgent action is called for. We are not
                                                                                                                   The legislative clerk read as follows:              Sec. 1105. Improvements to WIC benefits.
                                                         going to quit before the race is won. We                                                                      Sec. 1106. WIC program modernization.
                                                         are going to sprint through the finish                    A bill (H.R. 1319) to provide for reconcili-
                                                                                                                                                                       Sec. 1107. Meals and supplements reimburse-
                                                         line.                                                   ation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 5.
                                                                                                                                                                                    ments for individuals who have
                                                           It is time to move forward with this                    The VICE PRESIDENT. The majority                                 not attained the age of 25.
                                                         legislation, which will be one of the                   leader.                                               Sec. 1108. Pandemic EBT program.




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