Grow it is delayed further . Given what you laid out giving the United States has responsibility to get brother into the stockpile . For general brown the white house said United States and israel based on the request discussing alternatives to a ground operation what alternative options exist for Israel Security goals including destroyingnning aid delivery and endangering civilians sheltering credit achieve those goals . Great to see you as well. Ing potential russian breaker, what we is a series of governmental gains by russians. What the chairman said a couple minutes ago it comes at a significant cost in terms of personnel and equipment. Nonetheless governmental gains. As i engage in my counterparts defense ukraine what they feel confident in their ability to continue to defend their sovereign territory. Of course theyd and support to continue to do that and thats where supplemental comes in and we would hope we would see the supplemental get past soon. Enclosed with congress and International Partners to ensure ukraine receives the support it needs. Something i like to highlight is United States is not doing this he witnessed today gathering 20 in time to address Security Assistance for ukraine and in that meeting i continue to hear unity and resolve and an effort to find a way to proceed support the week see allies and about and it is very important. Stion. Having not seen the plans it is hard to lay out the alternatives alternatives. One of the things we engaged with we have had experienced east and Lessons Learned on w talk about how we protect civilians and personal the isis effort focus on protecting civilians and minimizing conversation in the aspect of the conversation likely need to have on the future operations. Will make it easier or more public it . Good to see you. A very effective form 20th meeting and each and support and focus on the current right more of a focus on building capability for ukraine and the capability coalitions. We have countries that volunteered focused onll need to defend president. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Schumer id like to begin today by addressing the reprehensible and dangerous comments made yesterday by former president trump. The former president s comments were you the ere utterly dis disgusting and a textbook example of the kinds of antisemitism facing antisemitism trope of dual loyalty. To say you hate israel or your religion because you have one political view over the other is sick its hateful. It is antisemitism. It serves to use israel as a political wedge, further damaging the bonds between u. S. And israel. We have always tried, ive always tried through the years, to keep everything we do on israel bipartisan and to use it for partisan purposes hurts israel hurts america, and displays how low donald trump would go. And nobody who breaks bread with antisemites like nick fuentes and called White Supremacists in charlottesville very good people or who as was reported said disgustingly that hitler did some good things, has any right to lecture Jewish Americans about their personal political beliefs. I condemn the former president s irresponsible comments and urge others from both sides, both sides, to do the same. Now on aprops congress has less than a week to finish the job of fully funding the remainder of the fiscal year. We all know its been a difficult, drawnout appropriations process for everyone in congress. Appropriators in both chambers their staffs my staff and i have kept at this for months. But today, we have good news earlier this morning, i announced that negotiators from both parties reached an agreement last night on the final six appropriations bills. We bipartisan agreement for defense, financial service, Homeland Security labor, hhs education, the ledge branch and state and foreign ops. Appropriators are working swiftly to turn this agreement into legislative text as soon ale. So members can review finalize and ultimately take a vote in the coming days. Once the house sends us a funding package, i will put it Senate Without delay. Is now, its a very good sign that we examine the week by announcing this agreement, but i want to be clear, theres a lot of work to do in the coming days. If both parties proceed in the same manner we did two weeks ago, quickly, congressely and without unnecessary partisan dithering, im hopeful we can finish the appropriations process without causing a laps in government serv a lapsee in government services. We havent had a Government Shutdown since 2019. Theres no good reason to that were very close to finishing the job. On ukraine, mr. President San Francisco its not an president , its not an exaggeration to say right now the survival of the ukrainian people the fate of American Leadership in the world and odds of victory for depend a lot on what Speaker Mike Johnson does in the near future. Any moment he wants, speaker johnson has the power of the house a Bipartisan National Security package that passed the senate over a month ago with 70 votes. This supplemental package will provide ukraine precisely with what theyre sorely lacking,tary equipment, ammunitions, intelligence support, advanced weaponry and more. Every day that the supplemental sits idly in the house ukrainian troops are killed on the battlefield because they lack the basic tools to defend their country. Sadly, because the house has not acted, the situation is now very dire in ukraine. Speaking in germany earlier today,ecretary of defense lloyd austin warned ukraines survival is now in grave danger. Russia is now making three times as much artillery and munitions as the u. S. And europe. Ukraine is also beginning to run out of soldiers. Without more u. S. Support, one european official predicted last week this is not a question of years, its a question of weeks and months. Leader mcconnell and i broad bipartisan support got the supplemental passed here. Large should leader johnson should do the same. The clock is ticking for congress to kitty a. The eyes of the congress to act. The eyes of the world are on the house. Our adversaries are weighing to see what speaker johnson does about the supplemental. The answer is very simple speaker johnson, put the supplemental on the floor of the house for a vote. I guarantee if members have a chance to vote on this bill will pass with the same kind of bipartisan support we snate. I have urged the speaker repeatedly that he must stand up to putin. This is a legacydefining choice for the speaker and potentially a history altering decision. The speaker can either stand up to defend democracy or he can cast his lot with donald trump and maga extremism who are practically rooting for putin to win. Forum shopping mr. President , last year i came to the floor a number of times to speak about a grave problem in our federal judiciary known as judge shopping where hardright litigants bring cases before sympathetic judges in order to push their radical agenda. I wrote to the judicial conference asking they recommend policy ensure impartial ate and basic fairness. Im pleased that the judicial conference responded to our a new policy to assign cases that have state statewide instead of going to a predictable judge in a single division. These reforms would absurd situations like we saw in the Northern District of texas where one extremist judge was picked revoke meth pris tony nationwide. Rahs last weeks announcement was good news and probably came across as common sense, it was striking and troubling to see the republica to the floor and ex correlate the republican leader accused the conference of bait of republican democrats democrats. Republican leader wants to see judges hand picked when we know their views already to make decisions, that flies in the face of justice. He claimed that itsplace of senators to weigh in on how the courts administer themselves well congress created they to recommend policy updates like this. We know what the deal is here. The republican leader is fuming because these recommendations would make it harder for hardright partisans to hijack our courts for their purposes. Leader mcconne is not even pretending to hide his partisan motion vaccinations in this case note vaccinations in would encourage the republican to find ways to restore trust in the judiciary than defending an obviously abusive practice that most americans would oppose. And i believe that congress has a duty to conduct oversight of the federaljudiciary, well keep investigating abuses we will keep investigating abuse within our forward. On nominations finally, the senate will confirm another exceptional to the federal bench, Nicole Berner to serve as a circuit judge for the Fourth Circuit, she has over 17 years of experience fighting for working peoples as general counsel for the seiu she will make historys first openly lgbtq to serve on the Fourth Circuit. She will bring personal diversity to ensure that every american has representation in our judiciary. The Senate Democrat majority will have confirmed over 180 qualified diverse judges to the federal bench. These are judges outside the status quo, people of color, women, judges with diverseds who are making the courts they reflect better served. The 100th black woman has nomina judge. We will bring more balance to the courts in the months ahead. I yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call the clerk ms. D and the country and there were 5600 gang related incidents tell us more about the gangs who makes them up . They originally were affected in haiti. This was any opposition with tests or members of Civil Society and came in hoping a set of doing that, they went out. You know 80 in United States and they are coming to haiti states and on the contrasting and eventually by the politicians they had money nction kidnapping and extortion so no one has also anymore. The judicial system is verycorrupt. When it comes to the discussion aboutgs theres a man at the center and he goes by the nickname barbecue, who is he . It was closely allied and was an extension by the government and was made by the government and a large part of us and many of the members and the guns and the officer and therefore its not just one wrong there and opposition and eventually they empower. Will continue with our guest whats going on in haiti and United States. At 202 7488003. The secretary of state antonyinken spoke with reporters about the situation going on in haiti and efforts i want to play what he had to say and talk about what you think it means for the u. S. Going forward. On haiti this has been a long unfolding story. The suffering and want to see it that brought to an end. It requires a few things, more stable political system so the country can function democratically and we need to see a transition to elections and clear return. We need an assistance on the economy and get built up and we need to see security because its hard to do and an environment like this. Security is being driven largely by those w control the capital city and etc. We been working on all of these and the United Nations endorsed it months ago. MultiNational Security support mission to help regai security. Can you set up with lead and other countries mission and we ourselves are computing to it. In parallel with been try caribbean countries and others job haitians get back on a better political path. Thats the desire of the United States plus reality brady. One and the department and they are part of it. And it is unfortunate no matter what haiti and allow them in. Iding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell this week the senate faces one more test to complete its[nnual appropriations process. And the stakes really couldnt be higher for American Security at home and abroad. We have outstanding amounts to nearly 70 of the discretionary budget. Once again, im grateful to our colleagues on the Appropriations Committee for to regular order. Im especially grateful to senator collins for fighting to advance republican priorities throughout theprocess, particularly in the defense appropriations bill. Predictable annual allocations areen to Meeting National defense responsibilities. They allow for Effective Investments inng our forces developing new cuttingedge capabilities and expanding the industrial capacity that will drive longterm strategic competition. Needless to say, investments like these especially critical right now as the between the threats the Biden Administrations willingness to address them seems to be growing wider. President biden has just turned in his fourth str would cut defense funding after inflation. So the work before us is g necessary, and im encouraged that we are beginning this week with an agreement to in hand to actually complete the process. Congress has secured a path forward to fund the department of Homeland Security which will allow us t fiscal year 2024 appropriations process in the coming days. As always making headway depends on serious cooperation. And im grateful to our appropriators and negotiators their commitment to working in good faith. Providing for the common defense is among our most basic responsibilities. Ant with ourselves. Growing threats and increasing military requirements make fulfilling this responsibility even more critical. The legislation in front of us will notcongress last word but it represents an important downpayment and i look forward to working with my colleagues to complete the annual appropriations process very very soon. Now, on another matter weekend, putin claimed electoral victory in a display of his regimes disdain for the russian people. With a fresh secure term in office hes on track Joseph Stalin as the longest rules despot in modern russia history. For the past two sacrificed tens of thousands of his countrymen on the altar of an obscene neo soviet fantasy of stalinist empire building. The human cost of russias war of to russians and ukrainians alike is truly tragic. But this weekends sham election came at a particularly critical moment in this conflict and the kremlin is showing its cards. Former russian president laid out exactly how putin intends for his lawless con heres what he said. The entire territory of ukraine is the territory of the russian federation. As he sees it ukraines complete and Unconditional Surrender surrender, full demilitarization and reparations to russia will help forge a benevolent consensus of peace. This is from a close ally of d negotiating with ukraine just because its running out of ammunition was ridiculous showing us its intentions for over two years now. But for anyone who still struggles to see whats going on here the words of russias leaders leave no room for doubt. As ive said before putin and his allies are emboldened precisely because the west is hesitating because america is hesitating. Theyre spelling out their true intentions because they essential that we might not have the resolve to actually resist them. Heres the truth. Russia is playing for keeps. Its set on gaiting its sovereign democracy whole hog. Theres every reason to believe the war ends with a negoost wars do but its absurd and selfdefeating to insist on negotiations without preparing ukraine to operate a position of strength. Whether or when putin ever decides to turn from his bid f conquest to the negotiating table it will be lethal western assistance to determines what comes next. That is why congress does need to influence the conventionual eventual outcome of the conflict. What we do will determine whether an administration that wants to facilitate negotiations ha the leverage to produce terms favorable to america and our allies. Our next move will either reaffirm americas global influence or kneecap, kneecap both washington and kyiv. Anyone who thinks starving partners of support is good diplomacy or politics needs only lo administrations with draul from after withdrawal from afghanistan. If congress does its job, it will be american weapons in ukrainian hands. And stronger forces and Defense Industrial capacity here at home that determine what conclusions the world draws from the first major land war in europe since whether or not authoritarians conclude they can continue to redraw map ss, whether americas top strategic competitor concludes were not prepared to defend our interest or equip our friends to defend ourselves, and whether or not the commander in chief inherits an unfixable quagmire. Every day that the National Security supplemental spends as a senatepassed bill and not a law is a day thatamericas adversaries smile. The decision before congress both in annual appropriations as well as the supplemental are about more than ukraine or israel. Theyre about whether america the will to defend our interests and uphold our influence. Mr. Durbin mr. President. The presiding officer the democratic whip. Mr. Durbin mr. President , i rise again today to discuss an issue that i have been working on for more than 20 years. E ongoing uncertainty and plight facing americas dreamers. It was a little over 20 years ago when my office in chicago got a telephone call. There was a girl graduating from high school in chicago, and she had a problem. The a musical prodigy. She played the piano and she was extraordinary. The bad news was she was undocumented. She was brought to the United States at the age of 2. Her parents had brought her originally from korea through bra sdal and chicago. Her fathers goal was to become a minister in churc she used to travel with him to these churches and pound away at the piano while he was practicing his sermons. Over the years she enlisted in a program ca