Vote vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 96, the nays are one. The 60vote threshold having been achieved, the bill is passed. Senate will be in order. Please remove your conversations from the floor. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i withdraw amendment number 1419. The presiding officer the senator has that right. The amendment is withdrawn. The senator for alaska. Ms. Murkowski i modify the amendment amendment number 1407 with the chaplains at the desk. This modification includes, among other things, acceptance of amendment number 1419 offered by the senator from kentucky, mr. Mcconnell, for the senator from iowa, ms. Ernst. The presiding officer the senator has that right. The amendment is so modified. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the deck for the substitute amendment number 1407, as modified. 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 amendment number 1407 as modified. To calendar number 357, s. 2657, a bill to support innovation in advanced Geothermal Research. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the reading of the names be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk for the underlying bill, s. 2657. 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 calendar number 357, s. 2657, a bill supporting innovation in advanced Geothermal Research signed by 17 senators as follows mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. The senator from ohio e. Mr. Portman mr. President , i call up amendment 1514 and ask that it be reported by number. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk senator from ohio, mr. Port man, appropriate an amendment number 1514. Mr. Portman mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Portman senator shaheen and i are here today to put forward this amendment. This is language that is being reinsserted back into the energy bill. It was taken out. I will say that it is clarifying language. We made some slight changes to show there are no mandates in this legislation. It has to do to show that we have incouragement of efficiency. I appreciate the fact that senator shaheen sheer on the floor. Mrs. Shaheen mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for new hampshire. Mrs. Shaheen senator portman and i have been working on this legislation for about ten years u. N. Its gone through committee, multiple times. Its gone through the floor of the senate multiple times. And were we hope that we have it in a position now where we can actually get this done as part of the Overall Energy package, which is significant and a tribute to the work of senators murkowski and manchin and so many other people in this chamber. As senator portman said, energy use in i would abouting is about 40 of our energy use. It is the single biggest sector in our economy. What an and Energy Efficiency is the cheapest, fastest way to deal with our energy needs. What these provisions would do they are voluntary but what they would do is provide significant savings to consumers. They would be the equivalent of taking every car and light truck off the road for a year, so significant emissions savings and Significant Energy savings. So this is a winwin. I hope that the amendment can be called up and passed. Mr. Portman i thank my colleague. I yield back. Mr. Sullivan mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that kyl wood, an intern in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the month. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , i also request unanimous consent that i be permitted to change my vote on the roll call vote earlier today, the vote was 65. I voted no. It was my intention to vote aye. It will not affect the outcome. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , i ask that my following remarks be submitted in a separate area in the congressional record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , its thursday afternoon, and it is a time i love to come down on the floor, one of my favorite times of the week, because i get to talk about an alaskan who has done something really, really important for their community or their state or their country, and i know the pages like the speech because i talk about stories in alaska. The great state of alaska, whats happening in the state right now. Sometimes i call this person the alaskan of the week. Usually its one person. Sometimes we fudge a little and recognize more than one person. So today were going to recognize our alaskans of the week. In any case, these are people who help their communities, help their country, oftentimes do something thats unheralded, nobody knows about, very few know about. So i like to come down and tell the country about what theyre doing. And, as you know, mr. President , we have a alaska is a big state, holds a lot of imagination for our nation, the last frontier with good reason, because were filled with resilient people, some who have lived in alaska for thousands and thousands of years. I would abouting communities in some of the most extreme weather, environments on the planet. And they are tough. My constituents. But theyre also kind and they make it through our tough winter. Its below zero in many, many parts of the state. Well below zero. We make it through these winters through toughness, ingenuity, and importantly looking out for one another. Last week i highlighted a coast guard rescue,evan grills, in a real epic story for those who listened to this, what this young rescue swimmer did in his first mission. Ever in the coast guard, something that people should remember for a long, long time. And this week im going to talk about another rescue mission, an only in alaska mission. And im going to recognize four extraordinary Young Alaskans who stuck together, toughed it out, looked out for one another and were rescued in another perilous situation. This is christopher johnson, age 14. Frank johnson, age 8. Ethan camille, age 7. And trey camille, 2 years old. All of them are alive and recovering because of their own ingenuity, determination, and toughness, and looking out for one another. These four boys are from a upik village, over 400 miles northwest of anchorage, on the south fork of the yukon river. A 2005 Mission Statement written by the Community Leaders and elders describes the village like this a small, quiet, community of family, relatives, friends working together to pursue our yupik way of lifestyle with respect to our surrounding land and waters for subsistence. Like many places in alaska, temperatures there can be extreme, as they would be on february 2, when these four boys were inside the house, rambunctious playing in the house. Irene, the grandmother of the three and mother to one was watching them that day and it was her birthday. As boys do, they were getting restless. They wanted to go outside and irene, wanting to get them to have some exercise and play, rightly encouraged them to get outside in the great outdoors. But the weather was turning a little bit ugly. Storms were in the forecast. But irene said later they have to know how to be outside. Theyre tough alaskan kids. Theres always going to be a storm coming. Besides, the elders and their grandfather taught them to be prepared for the weather. This is teaching from their grandparents, their mothers and fathers. So the four boys christopher, frank, ethan and trey trudged outside to partake in one of the most popular winter hobbies we have in yak, snow machining. Snow machining is often referred to as snowmobiling by many americans. Due to the lack of road systems in our state it happens to be the primary mode of transportation during the winner ter months across dozens and dozens of villages throughout alaska. After they went riding around the small village, the boys were going to call it a day when they spotted a fox. They spotted a fox. And like curious young boys do, the irresistible urge to chase this fox began, and they chased it out on to the tundra. And before they knew it, they lost the fox, the snow machine was now stuck in the snow, and they were lost in a white blizzard. They were lost. Chris, the 14yearold, the oldest of the group, the leader, was determined to lift the snow machine free of the snow. He lifted so hard that later it was discovered that he suffered a hernia. This is one tough kid. Eventually the machine unfortunately ran out of gas, and the two, and the young boys were miles and miles away from their village, and lost. They began tracking through the deep snow in whiteout conditions in a direction that they thought was the way back home. At one point one of the boys briefly took off his glove, which the wind promptly took away in the storm. Yet, they continued walking and walking into winds as high as 60 miles an hour and wind chills way, way below zero. After fighting the deep snow and whiteout conditions for four miles, chris decided it was time to try to build a snow cave for shelter. Smart young man, knowing how to survive. They did it. They built a shelter out of snow, a hole for them to crawl into and he escape some of these most brutal wind gusts. A snow cave, mr. President , is only used as a last resort, but this was the last resort and these young boys knew it. So they crawled in and they huddled and they waited for a rescue. Back in the village, as you can imagine, the boys family was getting frantic. They called out to the community to help search for them, and thats what people did. All throughout the community, they couldnt be found. And then, that does happen in our state often, the coast guard, National Guard, local search and rescue group from neighboring villages were all activated. Alaskans throughout the state going to look for these four boys. It was all hands on deck. Irene and the mother of three of them and one of the mothers of three of them, karen, were heartsick. Hours and hours went by. The whole state was holding its breath. It had been over 24 hours. A cold night fell. Around 2 00 a. M. The search and rescue was called off. In the snow cave, however, these young, tough alaskan boys continued to protect each other other, almost 20 miles away from home. They huddled. They try to keep each other warm to keep each other alive. Ethan didnt have a glove. Christopher was only wearing sweat pants. And they were particularly concerned for the twoyearold, trey. The first one of them crawled on top of trey, but they were afraid that might be too much for him, so they created a kind of cross, crisscross barrier to keep this young twoyearold alive and warm as best they could. The eightyearold, frank, refused to close his eyes throughout the night for fear of falling asleep and really never waking up. So he continuously stayed awake and poked the other boys throughout the night to keep them awake, which was successful. The next morning the storm had cleared, the sun started to come up, and the search throughout the state, with all these other alaskans looking for these four boys, continued. For hours and hours the search teams kept their ice peeled for anything unusual on the tundra, and about one hour before the sun was going to to go down again the next day, the search party from scaman bay, about 50 miles south, saw something. They knew how to read the tundra. They knew what a snowdrift would look like, and this one looked different. Then they saw movement. The search party investigated and came upon the four missing boys huddled and bundled together. Because it looked like just one big mass, at first they didnt think any of the boys were alive. And then they realized what was going on. They were protecting the baby. One of the rescuers, herschel sundown told the reporter they were protecting trey. The rescuers got to work warming the boys up and within 15 minutes, a coast guard helicopter, our brave men and women on the coast guard always on the scene quickly transported these boys after picking them up to a local boy. Ethan, the sevenyearold, is now recovering from severe frostbite on his hands, but all the kids are back at school and doing well. The rescuer, herschel sundown said honestly, i dont know how they survived. The will to survive in these young boys was amazing. I have never seen anything like it. Irene, the grandmother of the three and mother of one, is so very proud of them. If i were to get lost in alaska in the wilderness, id want to be with these four boys. Thats what she said. Mr. President , so would i. She also asked for the prayers of the country and for ethan and for his hand to heal, and thats starting to happen. These are the kind of young men and boys in alaska that make us so unique, tough, resourceful, and they uplift us and they make us proud. They are the protectors of their lands, their homes, and importantly, each other. So to the rescue crews, thank you again. Hard work, perseverance, risking your own lives for these young boys, christopher, frank, ethan, and little twoyearold trey, thank you for your inspiration, your ingenuity, your toughness, for being able to survive in the elements and looking out for each other. And thank you for staying alive and staying safe. And congratulations on being our alaskans of the week. I yield the floor. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from florida. Mr. Scott first i want to thank the senator from alaska for his alaskans of the week each week. I have had the opportunity to preside a few times when he recognizes the alaskan of the week, and the stories are unbelievable. The story last week with the young man from the great state of florida, what he did up in alaska was just remarkable. So thank you for what you do. I speak today in honor of the three victims of the tragic terrorist attack that took place at Naval Air Station pensacola on december 6, 2019. Airmen muhammad hadam known to friends and family as mo, 19yearold from st. Petersburg, florida, was a great athlete. Ensign, 25 from alabama, a natural born leader and selfless volunteer who lifted others up. Many joshua died a hearing after giving First Responders information on the shooters location while he was mortally wounded. Scott walters of richmond hill, georgia, 21 years old, with a contagious smile whose dream was to serve his country. Our sailors and Law Enforcement officials showed heroism and bravery in the face of evil as they ran towards the shooter that day, saving lives. And our First Responders came to the swift aid of those in need. Following this attack, i promised to do Everything Possible to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again. I called for a hard reset of the entire foreign Nationals Training Program and for all saudi nationals who train in the u. S. To be sent home until the u. S. Department of defense completed a thorough review. We now know that 21 of the Foreign Military students were withdrawn from the program and returned to saudi arabia after an investigation found that they were engaged in dangerous activities, including accessing antiamerican jihadist websites and child pornography. Withdrawing these students was a positive step, but theres still more than 850 military students from saudi arabia that remain in the u. S. At 38 military locations or installations in 17 states. And there are thousands of additional foreign nationals from countries around the world training at u. S. Military bases across our great nation. I am not calling for an end to these programs. Our alliances around the world, including our longstanding relationship with saudi arabia, are invaluable in defending American National securities and our interests abroad. These programs play an Important Role and we cannot put the lives of our military men and women at risk. We need to make sure that our men and women in uniform are safe at all times, especially when theyre training right here in the United States. Today im proud to join with my colleagues, senator joni ernst, to introduce the secure u. S. Bases act to make sure these programs are operated with american interests first, that our men and women in uniform are protected. The secure u. S. Bases act does three things. First, it creates a new visa category for Foreign Military students training on u. S. Bases bases, with restrictions on their travel and actions while theyre in our country. Individuals who receive the new visa will be prohibited from possessing, acquiring or using firearms, except for uses specifically required by their training program. And they will be under the continual oversight of their commander. Second, the bill changes the application process and venue requirements for Foreign Military students. The application to train on u. S. Bases will now require an official endorsement letter from the chief of intelligence of their home country. Additional personal increasing and ininterview and background check that will include a review of social media activity. The u. S. Director of National Intelligence will also be responsible for the final decision on whether to admit an applicant into this program. Finally, the secretary of defense must develop a method for classifying risk by country and consider the overall risk profile of each country when making determinations of an applicants eligibility. If a program could be implemented in another country instead of the United States, the department should consider that when appropriate. This terrorist should never have been allowed into our country, let alone on any American Military base with easy access to American Military men and women. The secure u. S. Bases act makes sure that Foreign Military students trained at bases are thoroughly vetted and monitored and our troops are vetted. I had the opportunity to serve in the u. S. Navy a