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Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 51, the nays are 41. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president be immediately notified of the senates actions. A. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to legislative session. Special the presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 487. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, robert the judiciary, robert j. Luck of florida to be United States circuit judge for the 11th circuit. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of robert j. Luck of florida to be United States circuit judge for the 11th l circuit, signed by 17 senators as follows mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be waived. Officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 488. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary. Barbara lagoa of florida to be United States circuit judge for the 11th circuit. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Barbara Lagoa of florida to be United States circuit judge for the 11th circuit, signed by 17 senators as follows the presiding officer i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell i move to consider calendar number 454. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. Thethe clerk nomination, robert j. Zuckerberg to be ambassador. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of adrian disukerberg of new jersey to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of america to romania, signed by 17 senatorsals follows mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the the clerk will reading of the names be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell ask unanimous consent that mandatory quorum calls be waived. Officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i have six request for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Mcconnell i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call quorum call mrs. Blackburn mr. President. Are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mrs. Blackburn i ask that the quorum call be suspended. Mrs. Blackburn thank you, mr. President. This past weekend i was the first senator in a really long time to fly into somalias Dangerous Capital city. It looks like things in that things have gotten back to normal. After you fly in and get on the ground, you see that it is really quite a different story. There is a reason why our recollection of somalia history focuses on black hawk down issue and president bill clintons decision to remove troops from the horn of africa. Somalias legacy is rooted in years of violence that overwhelmed elite forces, president to that economy and left the people very much alone at least until 9 11 when western powers were forced to focus on multiple fronts on the war on terror. I was fortunate enough last weekend to visit our djiboutibased troops. They have expanded to support africas mission there in the horn of africa. I will tell you, their leadership is committed to not repeating the mistakes of the past. Theyve developed the best unmanned Airline System unmanned aerial system force in the world. It is amazing what they are doing with these u. A. B. s. Between that program and our impressive surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, the military has stepped up their ability to keep our troops safer in the worlds most volatile theater. And i will tell you i was pleased to know that the 101st airborne out of fort campbell, which is located in montgomery county, tennessee, and also there on the kentucky border, that they are supporting the vital post benghazi east africa post Response Force and the 108th air wing unit of the Tennessee Air National Guard plays a vital role in Regional Security operations. I will tell you, mr. President. It brought home to me the point of why we have to get the ndaa finished, why we have to get these resources to our men and women in uniform who are fighting every day and need 21st century warfare in order to keep us safe. And the work that they are doing there and, of course, i cant say exactly what it is that they are doing but it should make us all really humbled and grateful for those that choose to serve. Our mission in africa is changing. Things are shifting a little bit, and as we urge our local partners there in africa to take ownership over their own security, the chattering class is at it again and what we will hear from people is, well, i think weve done enough for africa. Dont you think weve given enough . And my response this week to those who have made that statement has been, no, we have not done enough. Weve invested more than a decades worth of time, money, and manpower, weve lost men, lost ground, regained that ground, expanded our abilities and really have achieved moderate regional stability. But most importantly, we have confirmed that the horn of africa is still a geopolitical powder keg, the same forces that swept the horn into anarchy in the 1990s and allowed terrorism to metastasize are now triggering instability across the couldnt nefnlt for a long time somalia managed to limp along as a failed state because a traditional government has never acted as their main arbiter. Powerful plans decided for themselves who would control territories and resources and the clans are still very evident in that country. The victims in turn weaponized access to clean water, food, health care in order to keep citizens in line. Violent extremist organizations like isis and factions of al qaeda have been watching and now they are employing the same tactics to destabilize existing governments in and beyond the horn in northeast nigeria and in sahal and the lake chad region, those areas of west africa. We may have eradicated the physical caliphate but mom and pop terror shops are thriving, whats more, the digital caliphate is alive and well and it will take more than Ground Forces to wipe it out. Many of my colleagues may think that this has lowered africas stock in the eyes of global power, but we shouldnt be fooled about that in this error of era of Great Power Competition. Its going to sound mighty familiar to all of us, but china, and to is a and to a lesser extent russia, are doing all they can to actually buy their way into strategic dominance. For example, this is some of what we heard and what we learned this week. China has made end roads by agreeing to hold 80 of the government of djiboutis debt. Think about that. China has gone to this country and they have said, look, we will hold this debt for you 80 of it. In turn, djibouti has accomodated chinas First Overseas Military outpost and granted them access to crucial shipping lanes. They also bought into chinas smart cities programs, those all seeing cameras that i encountered in every intersection in djibouti city. In other words, the chinese must feel like they have struck gold. They have a huge part going in. They are helping turn this into a an inner motal Transit System with a port, with a railway, and, by the way, we will put these cameras up to help keep your community safe. What is china doing . They are collecting all of that data. They are screening all of these faces, they are watching everything that is coming into all of these ports, and are monitoring everything that goes on the rails. China is doing this not only with djibouti, but with other countries in africa. They are trying to secure this coastline in africa for themselves to expand their reach. For 12 years, the u. S. And our partners have worked together to bring stability to the horn of africa. The state department and usaid have laid the groundwork for education, for health development, institution building, and permanent democratic transition, and yet, the region remains vulnerable. Our role is going to change because, yes, we look at it, Great Power Competition through the military. We also look at the way that china and russia are pushing into their economic sectors. Great power competition is not just playing out in the indopacific or in eastern europe. It is playing out right now on the african continent, and instead of playing defense as we do in other theaters, we have the opportunity to be on offense when it comes to africa. If we decide that now weve had enough, these threats, both from the military, that sector, and from the economic sector, they will degrade american influence and will threaten the homeland and will imperil the delicate and completely reversible balance that we have fought so hard to gain. Our nations security cannot afford to give ground to, to cede ground on the continent of africa. I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper id ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , i rise today to talk about something thats really important, not i think to our nation and our planet but to me personally. And to my family. Cochair and cofounder along with senator john boozman of arkansas of the Senate Recycling Caucus, im proud to stand side by side and with all the members of our caucus on the matter of recycling and its importance. Today senator boozman and i have introduced a resolution to commemorate tomorrow, november 15, as america recycles day. Id like to say that every day should be america recycles day. For a lot of families, thats what it is. I dont have any idea how many millions or tens of millions of families recycle every day but its a lot of people. We need even more. For more than two decades, communities across our country have come together on november 15 and they do so to observe america recycles day and to celebrate their commitment to recycling. First i want to thank all those who worked hard to make america recycles day a success for all these years. Ive been a huge advocate of recycling for the past 50 years. First recycled i think when he was a lieutenant j. G. In the navy, stationed in california, moffitt field in california, close to palo alto and took the recyclables to a warehouse in palo alto and never stopped. I dont go to the one in palo alto anymore but we recycle all over delaware and when i go around the country. Somewhere around baltimore coming down from wilmington this morning. I really welcome the opportunity to collaborate i want to say about a decade, more than a decade ago with the senator Olympia Snowe of maine. Together we helped create the Senate Recycling Caucus in 2006. And since retirement of senator snowe six years ago ive been fortunate to have as my running mate, cochair senator boozman of arkansas. And this year alone, our caucus has held four briefings to learn more about the current state of recycling in this country and to discuss ways in which the federal government might play an even more Important Role in encouraging additional recycling in the years to come. The state and local governments are heavily involved in recycling. Theres a huge i say this as former governor, huge and Important Role for state and local governments to be involved in this. But theres also opportunities for the federal government to play a constructive role. Were doing that and hopefully well be able to do that even better in the days to come. My sister and i were born in a coal mining town in west virginia. We grew up later on in virginia where i was a boy scout in the Civil Air Patrol cadet. In scouting we were taught to leave no trace. My dad used to say, a big hunterman, fisherman, he would say when hunting and fishing basically leave no trace behind so no one would actually know that we were there. And i think that admonition is one that stuck with me throughout my life. I believe we have a moral obligation to be devoted stewards of our environment and our planet and to leave our planet in even better shape than we found it. Lately ive been thinking about another quote. This one i really like from Martin Luther king that a lot of people have heard. It goes Something Like this. Anyone, everyone can be great because anyone can serve. And this call to service reminds me of recycling because almost anyone can help protect our environment by reducing the waste that we produce and we can do that in part by recycling. Ive got a chart here that caipts just some of the things indicates just some of the things i recycled of late. Its not a green ford explorer. We used my wife she bought it years and years ago, probably 15 years ago. We call it the ford exploder. It never exploded. It was a great car. She used it for a year or so, passed it down. Our son christopher used it for a couple of years and passed it down to ben who used it for three years and finally gave up the ghost. And i took it one day to a place where they recycle cars and drove in, put it on this huge machine that actually weighs it. I think you get on a scale to weigh ourselves. This is like scales for vehicles, including our ford explorer. And they wrote out a check literally before i left to actually pay i think 900 for recycling the explorer. And people do that every day in delaware and other places as well. We had we have delaware has the Waste Authority in our state. One of the things they oversee is recycling. They hold about every month from spring to the fall recycling events. A lot of times were in schools, parking lots, maybe High School Parking lots and they do them on saturdays. And this on saturday id call ahead and say, do you recycle cal recycle dehumidifiers that had been in our basement forever. Yeah, we do that which is great. We checked on paint thinners, oil base paints. They said were doing hazardous material, recycling. So i took several cans of paint thinner. We had all these outdoor lights from our house over the years that kind of died out on us. I didnt know what to do with them. Sure enough, they took these household lites as well. They took all kinds of cords and everything. And paints and stuff. And then we had every monday in my neighborhood we have a big we have big canisters outside and can recycle all kinds of things. Have Water Bottles in there and other kinds of cans and so forth, newspapers, you name it. We actually compost too. If you actually add up when we put in our big recycling bin every monday for pickup and you look at what we put in our compost in our backyard and then you compare that to the actual amount of trash that is picked up at our house on thursdays, many times more recyclables and compostables than is actually trashed. And we like to do that where i live and hopefully well learn from other communities and states and hopefully theyll learn from us. One of the reasons i love recycling so much, my belief that all of us can do our part to preserve limited resources and reduce landfill while at the same time helping our environment and creating jobs. Mine is a little state. I tell people even today were the 49th largest state which means only rhode island is smaller than us. But were about a hundred miles long, 50 miles wide and recycling is particularly important. We just dont have a lot of space for landfills. We have about a Million People and its just a matter of having enough space. But thats that space limitation is actually what prompted delaware to pass the universal recycling law in 2010. It requires that all waste haulers who provide Residential Trash collection also have to provide for the collection of recyclables. Think about that. And that was a law we passed about nine years ago i think under the leadership of either governor markel or we started a little bit of recycling, got serious about it when i was governor and ramped it up in the last decade which is wonderful. Since the law was passed, the first state, thats delaware if you didnt know, has continued to repsychal somewhere around recycle somewhere around 40 of our waste. And i have a friend, you ask him how hes doing. He sometimes replies compared to what . Compared to more than a decade ago. In 2006, the first state diverted about half as much, 23 of our waste from landfills. So we pretty much doubled this over the last ten years and hopefully well come close to doubling it again in the years to come. But today, mr. President , recycling industry faces unprecedented challenges, especially with respect to plastics. The United States used to ship a lot of our recyclables as you know to china but the beginning of 2017, china decided to ban 24 types of what they call scrap imports and deployed strict contamination requirements for the scraps that they will accept. They didnt want to have glass mixed up with, you know, metals messed up with plastic and paper. So theyre looking to reduce contamination like that. And they made their rules a whole lot stricter in that regard. Now because of the policies that china implemented in march of this year, local governments and municipalities are facing an uphill challenge to keep the recycling programs alive. According to the e. P. A. , the United States recycles less than 2 22 of our discarded materials which makes me feel better about delaware because were twice the National Afternoon now. According to a study published in 2017, more than 90 of plastic has never been recycled. Let me say it again, according to a peer review study in 2017, two years ago, more than 90 of plastic has never been recycled. That means we only rekite recycle about 9 around the world. Of the metric tons of plastic produced, 6. 3 billion tons, thats about threefourths of all thats produced becomes waste. And the rest gets recycled, the lion share of it does not. Most of it ends up in landfills and too much of it unfortunately ends up in our oceans and environment. Weve got a couple of our colleagues on the environment and public works committee, mr. President. Youre one of them. We have senator boozman and three of us all members of the committee, and senator sullivan from alaska, and senator whitehouse, a republican and democrat along with tom udall on the Commerce Committee from new mexico and try to address some of these plastic contaminations. But if we continue down this path, the World Economic forum predicts that were on track to have plastic pollution in our oceans outweigh the fish in our worlds ocean by 2050. Let that sink in for just a minute. By 2050 if we continue on the track were on, were going to end up having more plastic pollution by weight than fish in our worlds oceans. Not a good thing. Last time i checked delaware is blessed with more fivestar beaches than any other state in america. If we dont begin to change our recycling habits, our pristine beaches will be better known for washing up Plastic Waste than the big waves to ride. Somebody called delawares annual Coastal Cleanup along with thousands of people. We started at the most southern part of delaware, a great beach town and north of ocean city, the maryland line, and we clean up our beaches from all the way our water fronts from the delawaremaryland line almost up to pennsylvania and the north. While were still waiting for numbers this year, last year in 2018 my fellow volunteers, thousands of us, and i collected together 2. 7 tons of waste, including plastic Water Bottles, straws, takeout containers, you name it tires, you name it. This was from just one weekend of work along 70 miles of coastline. Sadly, those 2. 7 tons of trash collected last year in delaware pale in comparison to what were seeing around the world. Our 2. 7 tons is like a tip of the iceberg compared to all the rest thats washing up in places around the world. I think we might have one more here we go. Some of you also heard of the Great Pacific garbage patch, which now covers a surface area on the earth of 250 times larger than my little state of delaware and contains a whopping 80,000 tons of trash. And here it is. Can you imagine . Look at all that trash. And its out in the pacific ocean. Id like to say its getting smaller. I dont think it is. We need to be a part of making that progress. I want to join senator boozman and our constituents in looking for new ways to dramatically increase recycling in our country and around the world. We need solutions that are winwin for our economy on the one hand and for our environment on the other hand. And i believe recycling is one of those winwin solutions. By the way, you may be surprised to learn that recycling and Manufacturing Industries are beneficial for our economy. Accounting for more than 750,000 jobs and approximately 6. 7 6. 7 billion in tax revenues. That reminds me of within of my favorite sayings. Its possible to do good and create jobs as well. It is not a one or the other. We can do both. I believe that if we work hard and Work Together and work to leverage points of consensus rather than points of disagreement, we will continue to make progress. And recycling is something that i think every american can do to make a difference. I once read what we can do for just just for i read somewhere how many aluminum cans we use, consume it could be tea, soda, milk, water, but if people would just, like, recycle their aluminum cans, it has a terrific effect on, believe it or not, Carbon Dioxide thats put up into the air. Thats good for Climate Change as well. A lot of good effects. But recycling is something that every american can do to make a difference. Lets get started today. If youve already gotten started, lets learn how to do it better. Our children and our grandchildren will be glad that we did in the years to come. So again, mr. President , im grateful to be here today with my our dedicated cochair, my compadre, senator boozman. I thank him for his leadership and for providing with the staff great ideas to make this particular america recycles day even bigger, better thing than before. I thank you. Mr. Boozman mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Boozman i want to thank senator carper and his staff, my staff for the tremendous job that theyve done in recent years in really trying to educate through the caucus the rest of the staff and members as to the importance of of recycling. And as a result of their efforts, it really is making a big difference. We hear a lot about republicans and democrats not getting along and this and that, not getting anything done, and i think this is a great example of something thats very, very important its not glamorous, but its things like this that really can make a huge difference, as senator carper alluded to. So we appreciate him and appreciate his friendship. Well, tomorrow, november 15, is american recycles day. And so we are asking americans to join us as we come together and reaffirm the importance and benefits of recycling on this occasion. We all know that recycling it is a commonsense way for us to be responsible stewards of our environment. But recycling also strengthens our economy and creates hundreds of thousands of wellpaying jobs. Throughout our country. This is something that i believe everyone can agree truly is a winwin situation. Most americans are familiar with traditional recycling efforts at their city and county levels that encourages citizens to recycle Household Goods or business goods such as paper, soda cans, bottles. However, recycling is much broader than these common practices. Recycling is a 200 billion industry in our country, and it entails much, much more than just traditional municipal recycling programs. In my state state of arkansas, it is home to many examples of companies that are contributing to a robust and growing commerce recycling industry. Ill give you an example. Newcorps, a leading steel producer in arkansas has the capacity to recycle 6 million tons of steel per year. 6 million tons. And over 27 million tons nationwide making it north americas largest recycler. Newcorps also also taken its efforts a step further by teaming with local recycling facilities to help tackle some of the Biggest Challenges associated with the practice in rural communities. Newcorps donated a recycled card board bailer for abilities unlimited, a local nonprofit that runs nearby recycling facilities. This has proven mutually beneficiary to newcorps and the city. This provides an outlet for the industry and Community Members to recycle in a much more costeffective manner. Newcorps plants in arkansas have the capability to recycle about 60 tons of cardboard annually thanks to this bailer. More than 145 tons of cardboard, 21 tons of paper and mixed plastics have been recycled through this partnership. Another Industry Leader leading the way is warm mat. As the Worlds Largest retailer, walmart has put recycling front and center by raising its packaging standards to include more Recycled Content and to eliminate specific nonrecyclable packaging materials by 2020. Earlier in year, walmart announced its intention to achieve 100 recyclable or reusable, compostable package by 2025. If its leadership in this arena will help create more demand for recycle the content and open the door for other companies to follow suit. Lastly, i want to highlight the recycling accomplishments of bryce corporation, a trailblazer in flexible packaging. This is the packaging commonly used for chips, juice pouches, pet food, lawn and garden materials, cleaning supplies, and many other products. Bryce employs about 750 people at the serce facility and has achieved an environmental footprint that the Central Arkansas community can be very proud of. At this location alone, bryce has maintained a 98 landfillfree status and has supported the circular economy by recycling over 15 Million Pounds of plastic each year. The material recycled from this facility is repurposed into other products, ranging from plastic pallets to automotive parts. Bryce corporations innovative efforts are a sterling example of recycling done right, and im grateful for the example it has set for the rest of the country. Our country has certainly faced its fair share of recycling woes and setbacks. But ive always maintained that in adversity lies opportunity. I believe there is much to be learned from the meaningful work that these companies are doing in arkansas and to commend them on leading on the issue. The United States has the ability now to improve its Waste Management and recycling infrastructure and better leverage the economic and environmental benefits of recycling. I look forward to continue my work with my cochair of the recycling caucus, senator carper, and again thank you very much to you and your staff. My staff also thats doing such a tremendous job, and the other members of the caucus, to develop meaningful, longterm solutions that address the challenges facing the industry. I encourage all americans to use america recycles day as an opportunity to reflect on the critical importance of recycling and to consider what we can do to support our environment through our own individual efforts. Mr. Carper would the senator yield for a moment . Mr. Boozman yes. Mr. Carper thank you for sharing with us the terrific ideas of what businesses around arkansas and the country are doing. They do it for a variety of reasons. It is the right thing to do and a lot of them are committed to being Good Environmental stewards. It can also be to their economic advantage. And instead of having to pay for have stuff carted away to a landfill, the ability to recycle materials is, i think, desirable. We used to have a big chrysler plant in delaware in newark, close to the university of delaware, close to the university line. The plant was about 60 years old. In the middle of the great recession, chrysler went into a bankruptcy and we lost that plant it closed, about 3,000 jobs gone. We had a g. M. Plant as well, about 15 miles from there, outside of wilmington, same thing, about 3,000 jobs gone, which was just really, really tough. Having said that, to your words, in adversity lies opportunity. The folks at the university of delaware called me after chrysler had gone into bankruptcy and they announced they were selling the plant and they were looking to sell it. And the president of the university pat harper called me and said, do you think the chrysler people might be interested in selling that plant to the university . It was just south, maybe a half mile south of the university of delaware. So i called the people at chrysler and said, you may have an interested buyer here. They came up coming to an agreement in terms of the purchase. That old chrysler plant has been recycled. The plant was largely taken down and the money that the university of delaware earned and generated from the sale of the recyclables, construction of the stuff that the plant was made out of, more than paid for taking down and leveling the plant. And now the university has a site with several Hundred Acres and has a manufacturing technology. The other thing i would say, we got spreading machines. I had a picture up here an old spreading shall in. We bought a new one not long ago. We ended up with all this shredded paper. The weekly collections, theyre happy to take paper. They dont want to take shredded paper. And what they said we ought to do is put it in our compost. My wife came up with this idea of composting ten years ago. Somebody was nice enough to build a 4x6, about three feet high. Ben lined it with materials and we put grass in it and recyclables and leaves and we ended up with this great mulch. So weve, i think, taken what a lot of people would have seen sasse a waste product and turned it would have seen as a waste product and turned it into something that would make our trees and shrubs even healthier. So its all good. And im just thrilled to be on the floor with my friend, to be able to thank those that are recycling and remind others, if youre not, youre missing out on the fun, and come and join us. All he be glad you did. Mr. Boozman i think you make a great point in the sense of we do things for the right reasons. Thats so important. But also it is important, too, that not only can we do it for the right reasons and benefit our environment, but it also can be costeffective to our businesses and a good example of that, walmart several years ago wanted to reduce their fuel costs and then also reduce the harm in the sense of the landfills and things like that. So they looked and saw that on their trucks the limiting factor was not weight, it was bulk. And you know how you go to the store and you buy something and its got this its this huge box or whatever and its got the little by thety product. And they said bitty product. And they say, we dont need to be doing that. So they told their vendors they would like to go in that direction. The vendors cooperated. So as a result they were able to put more products on the truck thus reducing fuel costs, again benefiting the economy. And then having less bulk for consumers to deal with eventually that was putting less pressure, you know, because some people dont do a good job of recycling. So these things can be so good again doing the right thing but also improving the bottom line and making it such that we really are making it such that were putting less pressure on environmental problems which, you know, we all agree on. And we appreciate your leadership. Youve been doing this for a long time. As governor and now senator helping to put these things together. And so, like i say, we very much appreciate it. Mr. Carper if the gentleman would yield for a moment. I said earlier in my remarks, to paraphrase, its possible to do good and do well at the same time. It really is. Im just happy that more and more people are doing that. While were having this conversation, i just want to mention when i when we showed up at the recycling event at glassco high school last saturday afternoon and took a bunch of our stuff to recycle, papers, bottles, can, paint thinners cans, paint thinners, a dehumidifier, all kinds of stuff. One they they wouldnt take was our styrofoam. We have one place in delaware were not a big state, 50 miles long and hundred miles wide. Theres one place you can take styrofoam in delaware. What id like to do maybe in the months to come in the new year on our recycling caucus, to sort of focus on that. Because its not a problem thats unique to delaware. Theres a lot of places where its hard to recycle styrofoam and maybe figure out maybe somebody around the world or other states have figured this out and are doing it. But we need to be able to learn from them, find out what works and do more of that. In my state we still have hard time dealing with it. Mr. Boozman we look forward to having a robust bunch of programs. The other thing thats so important is really educating people what is recyclable. And thats you know, thats not everyone knows. In fact, you have to in different areas, Different Things are recyclable versus in another area. So theres a lot of education in that. That makes things so much more efficient when people are putting the correct things in. So weve got some obstacles to overcome, but the good thing is through people working together, we really are moving in the right direction. Mr. Carper mr. President , i think we yield back our time. Thanks so much. Mr. Boozman thank you. With that, i note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from north dakota. Mr. Cramer mr. President , i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cramer mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cramer mr. President , sullys hill is a National Game preserve thats located within entirely within the spirit lake nation in north dakota. I have a bill, senate bill 2099 that i want to ask to vote on shortly and if enacted, my bill would change the game preserves name from sullys hill to the english translation of its traditional today coat take deferred action for childhood arrivals name to dakota hill. All the leadership, government, state, local and the National Leadership in north dakota including the north dakota delegation, my colleague senator hoeven, chairman of the Indian Affairs committee and Kelly Armstrong who has a similar bill identical bill introduced in the house. In 1904, the game preserve was named after general alfred sul sully. Unfortunately, general sully gained his notoriety for committing several massacres of native americans. Most notably on september 3 of 1863 in the today coat take territory as reprisal of the conflict of 1862, his troops destroyed a village of over 500 tepees that lodged killing hundreds of native americans. Many of the descendants of his victims live on the very tribal lands that surround this hill. With the issues that our federal government is dealing with today, changing the name of a game preserve in north dakota may seem like a small matter but let me assure you, mr. President and colleague, this is no small matter to the people of the spirit lake nation. Im sorry that its taken us so long to correct this wrong. Its taken us over 100 years to correct this mistake and, mr. President , i want to proceed with passing the bill. So, mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 223, s. 2099. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 223, s. 2099, a bill to redesignate the Sullys Hill National Game preserve in the state of north dakota as the white horse Hill National game preserve. The presiding officer without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. A senator mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the billable considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cramer thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , id note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President , i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the committee on the judiciary be discharged from further consideration of 3839 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk h. R. 3839, an act to amend the office of National Drug control policy reauthorization act of 1998 to make technical corrections. The presiding officer without objection, the committee is discharged. The senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the Homeland Security and government Affairs Committee be discharged from further consideration of s. Res. 415 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 415, expressing the sense of the senate that the United States Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage stamp series honoring Women Veterans and so forth. The presiding officer without objection, the committee is discharged. The senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Mcconnell i further ask the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without ct