Congressional Record, May 9, 2022, No. 77
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The opening of the Congressional Record, Vol. 168, No. 77, for Monday, May 9, 2022. The House was not in session, and its next meeting is stated as Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at 2 p.m. The Senate met at 3 p.m. under the President pro tempore, Mr. Leahy, and the Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered a prayer that includes Ukraine. Under the heading The Economy, Mr. Durbin says employers added another 428,000 new jobs in April, the unemployment rate is down to 3.6 percent, and April marked the 15th consecutive month of job growth. He then describes a meeting of the First Lady with Olena Zelenska in Ukraine, and the Senate resumes consideration of the nomination of Ann Claire Phillips, of Virginia.
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117 th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
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of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE
Vol. 168 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 9, 2022 No. 77
House of Representatives
The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at 2 p.m.
Senate
MONDAY, MAY 9, 2022
The Senate met at 3 p.m. and was RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME ployers added another 428,000 new jobs
called to order by the President pro The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under in the month of April. The unemploy-
tempore (Mr. LEAHY). the previous order, the leadership time ment rate is down to 3.6 percent, which
is reserved. is just about what it was before the
f pandemic struck. April marked the
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15th consecutive month of job growth
PRAYER CONCLUSION OF MORNING under President Biden, and the United
BUSINESS States has now recovered more than 90
The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- percent of the jobs that were lost dur-
fered the following prayer: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Morn-
ing business is closed. ing the coronavirus pandemic. To put
Let us pray. it into context, when President Biden
Our God, Creator of life, we come in f
took office, 20 million Americans relied
thankfulness because You have loved EXECUTIVE SESSION on unemployment benefits just to get
us through all the days of our lives. We by. Now that number is down to slight-
find peace in the knowledge that You ly more than 1 million—from 20 million
know and accept us as we are. Thank EXECUTIVE CALENDAR to 1 million.
You for enabling us to run and not be The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under This historic progress shows the re-
weary, to walk and not faint. Keep us the previous order, the Senate will pro- silience of American workers and small
always in Your care. ceed to executive session to resume businesses that battled through more
Lord, bless our Senators. Forgive consideration of the following nomina- than 2 years of this unprecedented
them when they make mistakes, and tion, which the clerk will report. health crisis. This is truly an American
give them hope when they feel discour- The bill clerk read the nomination of success story. It is also the result of
aged. Provide them with wisdom and Ann Claire Phillips, of Virginia, to be bold and decisive economic actions
courage to live each day as Your chil- Administrator of the Maritime Admin- taken by the Democrats in Congress
dren. istration. and President Biden.
God bless our Nation. Drive back the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The The American Rescue Plan you will
forces of evil that seek to engulf it. Re- Senator from Hawaii. remember well. It passed without a sin-
lease the powers of goodness through- Ms. HIRONO. Mr. President, I suggest gle Republican voting in favor of it last
out our world. the absence of a quorum. year. That plan helped us get shots in
And, Lord, we pray for Ukraine. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The the arms, and it provided economic re-
We pray in Your mighty Name. clerk will call the roll. lief to small businesses and unem-
Amen. The bill clerk proceeded to call the ployed Americans when they needed it
roll. the most.
f Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask The bipartisan Infrastructure Invest-
unanimous consent that the order for ment and JOBS Act represented a his-
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE the quorum call be rescinded. toric investment in America, in our
The President pro tempore led the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Nation’s infrastructure—everything
Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: HIRONO). Without objection, it is so or- from roads and bridges to expanding
dered. broadband and access in underserved
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the
United States of America, and to the Repub- THE ECONOMY communities. This legislation is cre-
lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, this ating jobs. We see it in the report. It is
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indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. last Friday, we learned that U.S. em- helping America stay connected at
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S2370 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 9, 2022
home, at school, and with their doc- First Lady, Olena Zelenska, in A Washington Post editorial on Fri-
tors, and it is allowing us to meet 21st Ukraine, in a moving display of soli- day hauntingly noted the historic par-
century demands like climate change darity with the Ukrainian people. allel when they said:
and cyber attacks. This is an amazing photograph. It is Of the mass deportations carried out by
Even with last Friday’s good news, a moment in history I am not sure any the Soviet regime during the early 1930s as
we still have more work to do to make of us thought we would ever see. Here part of the campaign by Joseph Stalin to
sure we have an economy that really is our First Lady, who manages to fi- subdue Ukraine through political repression
nally meet with the First Lady of the . . . they used famine.
works for everyone. Too many Amer-
ican families are still struggling to pay President in Ukraine. There was some Today, it is Vladimir Putin who is
the bills and afford the basics amid risk associated with it, but thank using terror, murder, and starvation
global inflation caused by President goodness, everything went well, and at against millions of innocent Ukrain-
Putin’s unprovoked war in Ukraine and the end of the day, the message was ians.
rising COVID cases in China that are clear: America is standing by Ukraine. This war is monstrous. It is a threat
disrupting our supply chains. It is standing by the First Family of not only to Ukraine but to the peace
Last week, the Federal Reserve Ukraine with their amazing show of and stability of the entire world. If we
raised interest rates by half a percent- courage. are going to pay homage to the men
age point. That is the biggest rate hike The two First Ladies met at a school and women who fought and to some
in 22 years. They are trying to tamp that was converted to help displaced who died—to the many who died—in
down this inflationary pressure. We Ukrainians because of the Russian on- World War II, we should remember that
know, for many American families, a slaught. During her visit there and at they did it to stop Hitler and to stop
break in rising prices can’t come soon stops just before in Romania and Slo- the Japanese in their efforts to conquer
enough, but we also know that the root vakia, Dr. Jill Biden met with Ukrain- parts of the world.
causes of this challenge are com- ian refugees, including many exhausted We thought in the 20th century, at
plicated and that it will take a global kids and parents who were on the verge the end of World War II, we had finally
effort and some good fortune for us to of tears from the horrors that they had turned the page on that sort of con-
address it successfully. lived through. duct. Vladimir Putin is a reminder
Democrats are committed to taking She poignantly remarked of her vis- that those forces of evil are still in the
action to lower household costs and its in the three nations and said: world.
combat rising prices, get kids back to I thought it was important to show the Putin, reportedly, even wanted the
school, and workers back to work. We Ukrainian people that this war has to stop, Russian military to hold a victory pa-
and this war has been brutal. rade in the devastated Ukrainian port
need to give families a helping hand
when it comes to the basics: medica- Now contrast that humane display, city of Mariupol, but the parade plans
tion, housing, gas for your car or that display of human compassion and had to be canceled because Ukrainian
grace by the First Lady of the United soldiers continue to fight against the
truck. We need to think ahead and
States, with the actions of Russian war Russian invaders. Ukrainians just
begin preparing and investing now for
criminal Vladimir Putin yesterday and won’t give up. And the city itself has
future COVID surges so we can save
today. been virtually bombed to dust—hardly
lives and minimize the potential dis- Over the weekend, Putin’s forces con-
ruption to our supply chains and the the backdrop Putin wanted for his evil
tinued brutal assaults on civilian tar- pretense of a celebration.
economy. gets in Ukraine, including shelling a
It is incredible to me, after what this Well, I have a message for Vladimir
school used as a bomb shelter, which Putin on this Victory Day: You have
Nation and world have gone through
left 60 or more buried and presumed disgraced yourself by selfishly exploit-
and continue to go through with over a
dead. Putin disgraced himself and the ing the memory of those Russians who
million Americans having died from
millions of Russians who suffered hor- protected your nation in World War II,
COVID, that we still are in a fierce de- ribly during World War II by crudely
bate over whether we ought to prepare and you do it to defend your own war
comparing their struggle to his crimes today. You will not erase
for the possibility that it could come unprovoked, unconscionable assault on
back. We know it will. Sadly, it will. I Ukraine. You have only strengthened
Ukraine. In cynically using Russia’s Ukrainian people and the collective
hope it is in a manner that we can con- World War II Victory Day, Putin de-
trol. We believe, on the Democratic will of the global community to defend
scribed his war in Ukraine as ‘‘sacred’’ them against Russian tyranny.
side, that we should ‘‘be prepared.’’ We and necessary for the ‘‘security of our There will be a Victory Day parade
weren’t prepared when it hit initially. homeland.’’ This is delusional. It is one day in Ukraine, and it will be to
With the statements by the former Putin who is now acting in the same honor the valiant Ukrainians who sac-
President that this was some sort of a way as those who brutally attacked the rificed on the frontlines to defend free-
hoax and that it would all disappear Soviet Union during World War II. dom and democracy in Ukraine and
someday, we just lulled ourselves into In one of my first visits to the Soviet worldwide.
thinking it wasn’t serious. Well, a mil- Union as a person, as just a civilian on I am proud that the United States,
lion American lives have been lost to the street who went on a tour and then through President Biden and a bipar-
prove just how serious it has been. We again as a Congressman, I was struck tisan Congress, are standing behind the
need to support workers and families— by how meaningful World War II was to Ukrainian people at this moment when
healthcare workers, too—and small the people of Russia. It was not uncom- they are being tested. We are going
businesses, like restaurants, that are mon for brides and grooms to go to the into the third and fourth week of this
the lifeblood of our economy. monument of those who fought and Russian onslaught, and they still show
I urge my Republican colleagues to died in World War II in the cities of remarkable achievement and resist-
sit down and get real. We ought to face Russia on the days of their weddings ance.
this public health issue for the reality and have photographs taken in mem- We are going to stand by them. We
that it is. We ought to face this econ- ory of the people who were lost in their are going to defend them. We are going
omy with the challenges we face. We families decades before. to let the world know the brutality
need to boost American manufacturing But Putin has now turned the tables, that Vladimir Putin has visited on
and jobs. We need to lower costs for sadly, on this event with the just in- these brave people.
families, and we need to insulate our credible, delusional comments that he I yield the floor.
economy against future COVID.
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makes. Here is Putin, reducing Ukrain- I suggest the absence of a quorum.
UKRAINE ian towns to rubble if they refuse to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Madam President, the last few days surrender, forcibly deporting as many clerk will call the roll.
have revealed a jarring contrast in as 300,000 Ukrainians to Russia, trying The bill clerk proceeded to call the
human decency regarding the war in to erase the Ukrainian identity from roll.
Ukraine. seized areas, and praising Russian mili- Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President,
Yesterday, on Mother’s Day, First tary units that are accused of blatant I ask unanimous consent that the order
Lady Jill Biden visited the Ukrainian war crimes. for the quorum call be rescinded.
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