Vote vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays 32. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, and the president be immediately notified of the senates actions, and the senate will resume legislative session. Mr. Schumer mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader is recognized. Mr. Schumer it is my understand respecting the senate has received a message from the house of representatives to accompany s. 3373. The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Schumer i ask the chair to lay before the senate the message accompanying s. 3373. The clerk veal that the bill from the senate, s. 3373, an act to improve the iraq and Afghanistan Service grant and the children of Fallen Heroes grant, do pass with an amendment. Mr. Schumer i move to concur in the house amendment to s. 3373. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion. The clerk the senator from new york, mr. Schumer, moves to concur in the house amendment to s. 3373. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer i move to done cur in the house amendment to s. 3373 with an amendment. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion with an amendment. The clerk mr. Schumer moves to concur in the house amendment to s. 3373 with an amendment numbered 5148. Mr. Schumer i ask consent further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The yeas and nays are ordered. Mr. Schumer i have an amendment at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from new york, mr. Schumer, proposes an amendment numbered 5149 to amendment numbered 5148. Mr. Schumer i ask consent further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer i move to refer s. 3373 to the committee on Veterans Affairs with instructions to report back forthwith with an amendment. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from new york mr. Schumer moves to refer the bill to the committee on Veterans Affairs with instructions to report back forthwith an amendment numbered 5150. Mr. Schumer i ask consent that the further reading of the motion be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The yeas and nays are ordered. Mr. Schumer i have an amendment to the instructions at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from new york, mr. Schumer, proposes an amendment numbered 5151 to the instructions of the motion to refer. Mr. Schumer i ask consent that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The yeas and nays are ordered. Mr. Schumer i have a Second Degree amendment terrific. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk mr. Schumer proposes an amendment numbered 5152 to amendment numbered 5151h. Mr. Schumer i ask consent further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer i note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call in addition to the usual suspects at the sprays political candidates, there were a lot of groups just there in pure celebration, high school bands, veterans, all sorts of groups in a wonderful, wonderful suburban town in the chicagoland area of Highland Park. Yesterday we held a hearing in the Senate Judiciary committee about the day of the july 4 parade in Highland Park. I i wish we didnt have to hold that hearing. I would rather it wouldve been some other subject, some other place. But it was the tenth hearing during this congress, the tenth time that we held a hearing in the Judiciary Committee on gun violence, gun violence. The number one cause of death among children in america. Let me repeat that. Gun violence, the number one cause of death among children in america. Yesterday we focus on Highland Park and the fourth of july parade, and with focus on the obvious mass shooting incident that took place, and with focs on military style assault weapons. The fourth of july shooting in Highland Park illinois was the 309th mass shooting in america this year. What is a mass shooting . When four people are either injured or killed. 309 times that it happened before july 4. By the time of yesterday seating, 16 days after the fourth of july, that number of 309 had grown by 47 mass shooting since the fourth of july in america. 16 days, 47 more Mass Shootings. Where else is this taking place . Nowhere. Right here in the United States of america is the only place on earth where Mass Shootings are happening on such a frequent basis. In many of the deadliest shootings, the attacker used an assault weapon, a combat weapon, a gun specifically designed to kill the maximum number of people in just a few seconds. The same weapon we saw in uvalde, texas, where the kids in their classrooms were killed. The same weapon was sought in the supermarket in buffalo, new york, when earlymorning shoppers on a saturday morning were killed. Sadly, the same weapon that was used in Highland Park. During the fourth of july parade in Highland Park a deranged gunman perched himself on a rooftop using a smith wesson Assault Rifle, killing seven people and wounding dozens more. He shot 83 rounds in less than a minute. Let me say that again. 83 rounds in less than a minute. This is a mr. Mccarthy. Aidan is two years old. His mom and dad, took into the fourth of july parade in Highland Park. I first heard about him just an hour or two after this terrible incident. I called my friend, nancy, who was the mayor mayor of hik and asked her, tell me what can i do. She said i dont know. Things are happening so fast. We actually found a twoyearold toddler who was wandering on the street by himself. We dont know who he belongs to. His picture was being circulated in the community. The conclusion was fairly obvious. Whoever brought him to that parade was not able to look for him and care for him. Industry eventually unfolded. Kevin and Irena Mccarthy brought aidan to the parade, his first parade. And then when the shooting started, they shielded him with their bodies. In a matter of minutes, aidan lost both of his parents. Largely, a grandparent was located and aiden isnt safe hands today. Because of this assault weapon, being fired on the crowd, he lost his mom and dad. Thats the reality, when a parent has to shield a child like this from a mass shooting. The rotary testified yesterday about the parade. She told us when shooting started she thought the sound of bullets was actually a drum cadence from the local marching band. Thats how fast the bullets were being fired. When she realized it was an active shooter she began evacuating the crowd. She said the adults she confided stared back at her. They didnt understand what she was saying. But the children, the teenagers, they understood. This was a shooter. This wasnt a drill. Mr. President , did you hear that . The children and the teens at the Highland Park parade instinctively knew what was happening, because they had been trained in their schools to deal with mass shooting. Thats how, this Mass Shootings have become. And so many otheramerican communities it is the new normal. Mister president , it cant be said enough Mass Shootings with assaultweapons are a unique americanphenomenon. They are devastating. So devastating. I want to show you another picture. Hayden mccarthy. This isCooper Roberts. Eight years old. Cooper and his twin brother luke went to the parade with their mom and dad. And in the course of the shooting, he was shot, taken to the hospital immediately. Hes gone through at least seven or eight surgeries now. Touch and go for many days as to whether you would live. And sadly, in addition to the damage done to his body, his spinal cord was severed by this same bullet. You see, when you fire an assault weapon at the human body, is that body at three times the ordinary velocity of a regular firearm. It is so powerful it was originally designed by the United States army to achieve a single goal described to us in that committee yesterday. That goal was to be able to shoot one of these ar15s and heres a metal helmet worn by a soldier 500 yards away. Five football fields, the ar15. Its not another firearm. Its a coming weapon. And unfortunately Cooper Roberts was in the line of fire. We pray that he recovers his mom and dad have kept all of us posted as to his progress. But if you think about the devastation that a ar15 combat weapon so i can do to the human body, imagine what it did to this poor little boys body. Thats the reality of the issue we are discussing. Many gun manufacturers like smith and wesson , bushmaster and daniel the fence have lost at campaigns marketing their assault weapons like they are fashion accessories. Let me show you a few of their advertisements. This is from most. Engineer to the specs of freedom and independence. Stand and salute the tactical rifle. We are at americas oldest family owned firearms manufacturers building dependable hardworking rifles and shotguns since 1990. American belt, american strong. Arm yourself with a mossberg. S is the type of weapon that shot Cooper Roberts. It filled the parents of aiden mccarthy. How is being marketed . A symbol of independence and freedom. Some of these other, one approve of your manhood . Consider your man card reissued says bushmaster. There are 15. Want to make sure as i said in the hearing yesterday that these weapons are properly characterized . Ill tell you how i characterized. Manufacturers of these weapons to the issues whats happening across the to suggest this is why the values of this country is just plain wrong. Is it. Its time for us to name and shame these companies, a will for the devastation in a possible. How many ar 15 . We dont really know best estimate, 20 million. 20 million. I wanted to dispel, the point we hear they claim our communities dont need no gun safety laws. All they are good guys with guns. I wish it were that simple. Is not the one survey 433 sugar attacks how many were stopped by the guy with the gun . 22. 33, about five percent and half of those 22 security guards trained Law Enforcement who were their presence offduty. The sad reality is when the police come on the scene somebody a gun they dont know perpetrator works only on their side in many instances they should the wrong person, a splitsecond decision seeing a Person Holding a gun so this notion are going to come to the rescue of one another to stop Mass Shootings is another reality. Five percent of active shooter attacks stopped by a guy with a gun. Five percent. Imagine buying a car be being told theres a five percent chance that there would go off if you were in a crash. You wouldnt take the car out of the dealership for good reason. Your testimony fromrand corporation firearms , doctor kyle and hunter told us assault weapons make Mass Shootings significantly more legal. The evidence is clear. Its time for us to have a National Conversation about mass shooting. Let me say that manufacturers shouldnt get all the are just selling a product. Let me show you one thing is that is particularly outrageous. Sadly this is my own state of the jr team. Its designed to look like the ar 15, the combat assault. Its lighter so it can be carried in. Here are the symbols incidentally of this gone jr 15. Their skulls. Their souls of children. Each one of them as a pacifier and is not. It is just on this poster and on this. Its emblazoned on and on itself. This is the kids us all. Think about that for a second in that weve reached a point where that is even thought of and led to the killing next in place. Hearing yesterday showed outpouring of people from Highland Park in numbers i never expected. I believe there were 100 people there who on their own dime came up to washington to make sure all of us in congress new what happened in highlandpark. Which their lives were changed on 4 july. What are we going to do about this . Shrug our shoulders and wait for the next mass shooting and sadly we can expect one to come . I listened to the defenses and frankly i cant understand peopletrying to defend the right to own an Assault Rifle in america. One senator argued is just an inanimate object dont blame the object or the results. I wonder if he feels the same way about grenade launcher. Should people have theright to own grenade launchers . I hope we all agree is an incredible lot. And why does this weapon into a similar category . Combat army assault thats being used by individuals to kill so manyinnocent people in this country. Its coming in concert in las vegas. Schools in texas. Fourth of july parade in my home state. Last month we could come together and i want to salute senator murphy on the floor to pass a bill that was the most important gun safety law that we consider three decades. I voted for it. It didnt address this issue all except in background checks of those under 21 and im glad it did but it didnt address the issue of whether the signs should even be in america at thispoint , legal and is a critical threshold issue incidentally is sugar seems to have a pretty elevated life from the start managed to buy i see magazines so that he could clip in quickly 30 rounds here, 30 rounds there and fire off the three times what role does anyone need high capacity magazine . I dont understand. It doesnt have any practical value for sports. We need to address the widespread serious problem of civilian access to military assault weapons, even for shooters as youngas 18. I thank the people from Highland Park for coming yesterday all over a Law EnforcementFirst Responders who i saw gathered that evening when i arrived at Highland Park. We owed them a lot for doing an amazing job and we should pay tribute to them and what they did but even they, being present arent cannot stop this from happening. They were up against mighty weapon, when we trust for the military, that we trust for the police. A weapon which has no place in the hands of peoplethey should or as part of the fourth of july. Are we going to continue this intrusion Mass Shootings . Sadly we will bless this design is for the fight. Worth of political debate and after Highland Park. I want to be on the record saying its time to present and these assault holes, these weapons of war which has sadly so many innocent lives like were aiding these parents and five others who died in Highland Park. I hope for our children see we dont run away from this problem. People in Highland Park to run away from the july parade now us to send a species where. Mister president , ideals or. Quorum call quorum call thank you mister president. Im honored to appear with a group of my colleagues on behalf of the expanding access to familyplanning act. Were here to talk about this essential measure in the post row world. Thats a phrase i never thought i would ever utter anywhere, not to mention on the floor of the United States senate but we are living in the post roe world where reproductive rights are under assault as never before. And critical Reproductive HealthCare Services are more necessary and also are more risk than ever before. That is why a consistent, strong source of funding for title x Family Planning programs are absolutely critical and urgent. Thats the purpose of the expanding access to Family Planning act. What it means for the state of connecticut is in the past , 2. 5 million in title x funding allowing patients, mostly women, 45,000 of them critical access to comprehensive Family Planning and preventative healthCare Services. What were talking about here is not only familyplanning but also testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, lifesaving cancer screenings , other essential Health Services and they are all now at risk. What they need is the strong and consistent source of funding this measure would buy. Doubling, almost doubling the number of dollars but also guaranteeing over a 10 year period that clinics will receive this funding. In connecticut most of this funding has gone to planned parenthood ofsouthern new england. The Cornell ScottHill Health Center has received some. They have done absolutely extraordinary work. In delivering Health Services particularly to women who are uninsured, women who are of lower income and women who are younger. Under 30. And that is the primary patient pool that needs these services. Let me be very blunt. If my republican colleagues. Magnificent grandeur of alaska. So again, if youre watching on tv, you want to come up, have th