Side. But, us know, history is not the long suit. Of these woke children. They didnt take history classes apparent lit in high school and college. They were too busy taking social justice seminars. You can see tt too in philadelphia. The statue of matias baldwin. He was a committed and devoted abolitionist who funded education for freed African Americans, who gave them jobs, and they defaced his statue. Even more amazing, in boston the shaw memorial was defaced. The shaw memorial honors the 54th massachusetts regiment, the first African American regiment formed after the emancipation proclamation. Whose braver and battle on behalf of the union cause was memorialized in the movie glory. Yet it was defaced by these mobs. Not just our history. Its pop culture and entertainment too. You may have seen the news that live p. D. And cops Television Shows canceled. Paw patrol was on the cutting board too. You may know that chase is the police cop. Theres call to euthanize the police dog on social media. I wish i could say im joking but im not. Lego announced they are not going to advertise police legos for the next year. Theyre not going to recall them from stores, no, no. Woke capitalism only go so far. Theyre still capitalists. Theyre not going to advertise police sets anymore. Hbo announced theyre not going to run gone with the wind anymore. Gone with the wind for which African American actress Hattie Mcdaniel won the First Academy award, first oscar ever given to an African American woman. Hbo says no, were going to cancel it. If you think its just limited to statues or tv shows, to toys, youd be wrong. This woke mob could very soon be coming for any one of you. At ucla a College Professor has been suspend and hes under Police Investigation because he declined to postpone final exams so students could apparently go and participate in protests. Another professor is being investigated for reading aloud from Martin Luther kings letter from a birmingham jail because it uses offensive language. Martin luther king jr. s letter from a birmingham jail. A professional Soccer Player alexander was fined for his wifes tweet, not his own, his wifes tweet, multiple different Business Executives and editors at newspapers and magazines have been fired. If you think this is only for people who are not powerful and not rich, youd be wrong. Ivanka trump was scheduled to give a commencement speech last weekend at a wichita school. The speech was canceled because she was deemed too controversial. A speech about workforce training and womens opportunities in our economy, ivanka trump canceled. So where does this cancel culture take us . What is the logical conclusion . What is the end of the cancel culture . I will tell you what it is. It is right here in this city, washington, the district of columbia. Thats where it will end if we dont put an end to the madness now. Just up the wall is the Washington Monument. Are we going to tear the Washington Monument now and rename it the obelisk of wokeness. Up the hill is the National Cathedral where so many times we have gathered over the years to mourn our great leaders to pray for gods protection in moments of national strife and struggle. Are we going to rename the washington National Cathedral the temple of reason as was done during the french revolution . What are we going to call this city . Cant call it washington, cant call it columbia. Got to come up with new names all around. Because i will say this, the cancel culture, whether in its mowess or other forms ultimately is motivated by a single idea, that america at its core is fundamentally irredeemable and wicked. I reject that claim fully, wholeheartedly. America is a great and noble nation, the noblest nation in the history of mankind, that has struggled throughout our history, imperfectly but ceaselessly to live up to our founding creed that all men are created equal. The single greatest defense against tyranny, against racism, against oppression. That is the stakes of this debate. Mr. President , i yield the floor. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for florida. Mr. Scott floridians will never forget june 12. Four years ago our state, nation, the city of orlando and hispanic and gay communities were attacked and 49 innocent and beautiful lives were lost. It was an evil act, an act of terrorism designed to divide us as a nation and strike fear in our hearts and minds. But we didnt let it because floridians are resilient. We came together and we support each other. The weeks following the attack, days spent with families at funerals and wakes with loved ones and countless events throughout the community. As a father and grandfather it was one of the hardest things ive had to do. It was heartbreaking. But in this horribly dark time the selfless courage of so many from Community Members to Law Enforcement, to Health Care Workers provides a sense of hope. This incredible strength, love, and bravery uplifted the community and helped us repair and rebuild. And on the fourth anniversary of this unthinkable tragedy, the state of florida comes together to honor the lives lost too soon. And we vow to always stand up and fight against evil and hatred in this world. I ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of Senate Resolution 614 submitted earlier today. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 614 honoring the memory of the victims of the heinous attack at the pulse nightclub on june 12, 2016. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection. The senate will proceed. Mr. Scott i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The presiding officer the senator for colorado. Mr. Gardner thank you, mr. President. As we continue our debate today on the Great American outdoors act, i thought i would come to the floor one more time to talk about the benefits of this historic conservation package and what it means for the great state and the people of colorado. Several years back this Congress Worked in a bipartisan fashion to pass legislation by senator shaheen and i that required the Commerce Department for the first time in our countrys history to break out the Outdoor Economy as a part of our economic numbers to determine how many jobs this country had in the Outdoor Industry, in recreation, to determine the overall revenues generated by the recreation economy. And what we discovered was, what we knew intuitively, that the recreation economy is a huge part of jobs in this country. Over five million jobs, and in colorado youre looking at about a 28 billion part of our economy. And so if i could just talk a little bit more about what that means for colorado and what this bill means as applied to our state, our environmental, the benefits environmentally of this legislation and the Economic Impact it will have. I talked on the floor about the Great Sand Dunes National park. This is legislation that around the year 2000 turned this National Monument into a National Park. Whats neat about this of course is its not just a National Park, the Great Sand Dunes National park but an example of how the land and Water Conservation fund Work Together. To make sure the Water Resources is protected, so instrumental in keeping sand dunes in place, we used the sand and Water Conservation fund to purchase land around it like the baca ranch and some other areas to make sure we had this great resource maintained for future generations to come. If you go to Rocky MountainNational Park, of course Rocky MountainNational Park is the third most heavily visited park in the nation. Almost five million visitors come to Rocky MountainNational Park every year. Just a few years back that was only about 2. 8, 3 million people. Weve almost doubled visitors in recent times and thats caused a lot of challenges for Rocky MountainNational Park. This has benefited as well from the land and Water Conservation fund because some of the last remaining inholdings within the Rocky MountainNational Park have been purchased using the land and Water Conservation fund. If you look at the restore our parks act, the money in the Great American outdoors act that will go toward catching up with the maintenance backlog, this park has about 85 million worth of needs in terms of that backlog. 85 million worth of projects from Visitors Centers and roads and trails. Let me just show one of those trails right here. Here is a trail at Rocky MountainNational Park. You can see this is what it looks like. The erosion, the washouts, what happens over time. Heavy use and weather. You can see the work that we have been able to do to maintain and to catch up with the needs in Rocky MountainNational Park. We can do this across across our park system, thanks to the restore our parks act. We will put 1. 9 billion a year paid for by oil and gas revenues into our National Parks to catch up with the maintenance and backlog needs at places like Rocky MountainNational Park. Its 85 million in Rocky MountainNational Park. Its 7 million to 8 million in the Great Sand Dunes National park and in mesa verde National Park, about 75 million. If you go to the black canyon of the gunnison, i will show you that right now, that is nearly 8 million for the backlog needs. This is a picture i took on my iphone. This is a picture i took attending a press conference to celebrate a land and Water Conservation fund purchase. You can see the park superintendent, superintendent noble, he is pointing across the canyon to the land that was purchased using the land and Water Conservation fund. Now, the canyons right here. Its not over the horizon. Its right here. This land was on the rim of the canyon. It was it was not a part of the park. Now, you can imagine if somebody had decided why dont we build something there, why dont we develop that, why dont we do Something Else. What that would have meant to the National Park and the enjoyment of that park. So using this, they were able to get the entire rim of the canyon for the National Park system. Thats where that is. If you go to the next picture. Its not just about National Parks, the Great American outdoors act. Its not just about land and Water Conservation fund. Its about our our forests. Its about our national forests. Its about our bureau of Land Management. Its about fish and wildlife. Its about the bureau of indian education. This is actually a a National Monument. This is dinosaur National Monument. If you go to northwestern colorado, dinosaur National Monument straddles both the states of colorado and the states of utah. Some of the best Whitewater Rafting in the country goes through dinosaur National Monument. This is amazing. This is absolutely cool. You can see these archaeologists that are actually they are hanging onto a wall as they do their work. This is known as the fossil wall. Hundreds of millions of years worth of fossils are in this long wall at dinosaur National Monument. You can see the fossils, the bones in this picture and the layer after layer after layer. It is a remarkable resource in one of the most truly unique areas of colorado. And the needs here are tremendous, too, as they face erosion, as they face challenges from visitors and access needs to some of these resources. If you go to mesa verde National Park, this is truly spectacular. If you look at mesa verde, for those of you who have never had a chance to go there, i hope you would visit. This park was established in 1906. Look at this beautiful ridge, look at the plateau, look at the cliff dwellings. It is remarkable. Established in 1906 to preserve and interpret the archaeological heritage of the ancestral pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years. The park protects nearly 5,000 known archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. Some of the best and most notable preserved such dwellings in the United States. In 2019, they had about 556,000 visitors. And this is in the four corners area of the state, surrounded by towns like cortez, colorado, mancas, colorado, durango, colorado, areas that rely on tourism and recreation, farming and ranching for their jobs. In 2018, visitors spent about 58 million in these local gateway regions, supported nearly a thousand jobs, 22 million in labor income, 40 million in value added and the local gateway economy surrounding amaze verde National Park. They operate about 700 million worth of facilities. They have about 10 of that in need of deferred maintenance. 76 million is their total deferred maintenance needs. They need to rehabilitate the chapin mesas civilian conservation corps. They need to replace the mesa water and electric sewer systems. They need to replace a campground road system. They need to improve the historic operations buildings. Thats just some of the needs at mesa verde National Park. When we talk about the Great American outdoors act, we talk about parks, national forests, b. L. M. Land, we talk about monuments, but we should also talk about recreation. Because so many times this gets lost in our conversation on the floor because its not just recreation in terms of National Parks and Forest Service. Its sports complex, soccer fields, baseball fields, tennis courts. The ability for a state to determine how to use these dollars. Because its not just the federal government that is taking all of this money. 40 goes to the states. Some of that money can be used for things this is in pueblo. This is runyon park in pueblo, colorado, another southern colorado city. This is important work we can do with the money in the land and Water Conservation fund. If you look at the total Economic Impact, i think its important that we recognize before coronavirus, we were working on the Great American outdoors act as this package that presented two Great American values, the crown jewel of our Conservation Program, the land and Water Conservation fund, with the restore our parks act to catch up with our maintenance backlog, both of which are paid for by the oil and gas revenues. We talked about them, and we talked about how good it would be for our environment and conservation and preservation for future generations. But we also acknowledged then that there was a great economic benefit. We talked about the numbers. We talked about the recreation economy. But now that economic benefit becomes even more important because the First Industries that were hit by the shelterinplace orders and the economic shutdowns were travel industries, hotels,