Amendment number 4979 offered by the senator from kentucky, mr. Mcconnell to s. 2848 shall be brought to a close. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presidin the presiding officer the senator from wisconsin. A senator i ask unanimous consent that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators per miforted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from wisconsin. A senator i could to the floor today to pay tribute to an american soldier who has given his last full measure of devotion to this nation and the noble pursuits of liberty and peace. 28yearold Staff Sergeant matthew veil thompson grew up in wisconsin ans was a proud member of the army special forces. Tragically, on august 23, 2016, he became the second american this year to lose his life while on combat duty in afghanistan. Staff Sergeant Thompson was truly one of the finest among us. I had the honor of attending a Memorial Service for matthew at his familys church in brookfield where hundreds of his friends and family members paid their final respects. They loved him, of course, but they also admired him. They told stories of a generous young man, adventurous and always ready to make friends. His father spoke about and his pastor read us something matthew wrote ten years ago a list of quote all the Little Things that make life sweeter. In fact, ten rules to live by. It shows straiking maturity, especially for a young man still in his teens when he and his best friend wrote the rules. Now, the rules are actually quite deep and theres an awful lot written. But i just want to read the ten rules the bullet points. And just refer torve my web site where the full rules are contained. Rule number one, never grow up. Number two, learn. Number three, never have any greets. Number four, live for the moment. Number five, do what you love. Six, pursue with a passion. Seven, never settle. Eight, always take time to listen and to talk. Number nine, keep 00 positive altitude. And ten, need goondz live for thim. His father gave an administere administered eulogy of his sonde and of his son and asked the congress degree gairks he hoped they would learn from what he had written. In paying tribute to matthew, one of his fellow resident assistants said he is one of the best human beings i ever knew. He transferred to Concordia University in california where he earned a degree in the theological studies and met his wife rachel. Rachel Thompson Says matthew was reluctant to date at first. Because of his plans to serve in the military. She said quote he knew he wanted kneeing a really specialized extremely dangerous job. Unquote. His first thought was to spare her the pos humus pain. That danger was real. Staff Sergeant Thompson served as a medic with americas elite forces in hazardous places. He was first deployed to iraq and then to afghanistan. The mission he and his unit were on was considered to be quote noncombat, advising afghan force on to free their country from attacks by the taliban, islamic terrorists who speak to oppose their oppressive rule. Staff Sergeant Thompson and his unit were pall trolling outside the wire. They were exeskimosed to every danger. They were patrolling on foot, looking for improvised explosive devices left by an enemy that seeks to kill indiscriminately. One of those bombs went off. Killing six afghan soldiers, wounding another american soldier and taking the lightest of matthew. A courageous young man defending the liberties often which this nation was founded. The liberties that our founders said are the birthright of everyone on earth. For 240 years our servicemen and women have defended those liberties and paid a very high price. Since the revolutionary war, more than 42 million men and women have served in our military and more than 1 million of these heroes have died in that service. Staff Sergeant Matthews home state has done its port. Since statehood, more than 27,000 wisconsinites, wisconsins sons and daughters, have died in military service. Every one of us wishes they could have lived in peace. To fulfill their hopes and dreams, to enrich this country in ways that well never know. Every one you have us is grateful that when greem demanded such sack fishings they stood on green card for america. They stood on guard for america. His wife rachel, his parents, mark and linda, and his sisters karen and robin, but also his extended family, his friends, and his band of brothers and sissers in the army. Our hearts go out to them and i pray that they will find consolation and peace in fond memories in spite of their loss. But a nations gratitude inadequate as it may be is what Staff Sergeant thompson is fully due. Rachel thompson recounted her last conversation with her husband. Because he knew he was doing dangerous work, i was crying. I was afraid. And he would just listen and tell me he loved them and that it was going to be okay. Mr. President , for america it will be okay. As long as men and women with the caliber and spirit of Staff Sergeant thompson continue to stand on our behalf in dwefns our freedom. May god bless and comfort Staff Sergeant thompsons loved ones, may he watch over all those who answer our nations call. And may god bless america. I yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the junior senator from North Carolina and the senior senator from texas be granted signing authority for monday, september 12, 2016. Promise without objection. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes Business Today it adjourn until 10 00 a. M. , tuesday, september 13. Following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. Further that following leader remarks the senate resume consideration of s. 2848, further that the Senate Recess from 12 30 until 2 15 to allow for conference meetings. Finally all time during recess or adjournment of the senate count postcloture on amendment number 4979. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell if there is no further business to come before the senate i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. The presiding officer the the presiding officer the but armstrong wasnt capable of treating that as a business negotiation. He made it personal. Cspans wad journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Tuesday morning, Pennsylvania Republican congressman will join us to discuss his legislate tv priorities, and the role of his home state as a key battleground state in 2016. Also from pennsylvania, brendan boyle, who will discuss his member as a member of the Oversight Committee and scheduled hearing looking at Hillary Clintons use of a profit email serve ever during her time as secretary of state. And with us, James Pindell who will review the join the discussion. For campaign 2016, cspan coins on the road to the white house. Were going to get things done, big things. Thats who we are as americans. We will have one Great American future. Our potential is unlimited. Ahead, live coverage of the president ial and Vice President ial debates on cspan. The cspan radio app, and cspan. Org. Monday, september 26th is the first president ial debate, live from Hofstra University in new york. Then on tuesday, october 4th, Vice President ial candidates debate at Longwood University in farmville, virginia. And on sunday, october 9th. Washington university in st. Louis hosts the second debate, leading up to the final debate at the university of nevada las vegas, on october 19th. Listen live on the free cspan raid wrote app. Or onehalf live or anytime on demand at cspan. Org. Joining us from new jersey is amy parens, white house and political report are for for the hill newspaper and co author of hlc, state secrets secrets and h of Hillary Clinton. Want to begin where your story begins today, knopp issue, her health, has become something that is hugely problemat flick for the Clinton Campaign. How disthis evolve from friday into today . Guest its very interesting. She was diagnosedden on friday with a bout of pneumonia, a lot of people on the campaign didnt know this, even a couple of top advisers. Fast forward to sunday. She wobbled and nearly falls and is overheated, taken to a van immediately cools off but only hours later do we find out that she is dealing with this illness and that is what the cause of some consternation among some very close clinton allies and confidents who actually think this is part of the problem. Why not just come out and admit she was she had fallen ill on friday anded inned a couple of days to relax. They think this sort of adds to the constant drum beat of trust issues. Host the apology sort of from Jennifer Palmeri saying, quote, we have done better yesterday. Is this part of a large issue inside Hillary Clintons inner circle, her campaign and potentially a Clinton White house . Guest you know, i think its a part of obviously there was some disconnect between aides and clinton on this. There was a bigger issue, perhaps, on the continuing trust issue and how to deal with that. But i think that what happened was some people obviously werent aware of it. But that in and of itself is a problem. So i think they need to continue to explain why thats happened. Her medical reports need be released. Allies are calling for that. If theres no smoke there, let get those out and clear the air on this. I think theyre dying to hear certain issues come to light and they think that shell fair better once the public sees the full picture. Host has Hillary Clinton certainly had a very busy prim mary season. The convention this summer in philadelphia but a relatively quiet august. She unveiled her campaign over lamb youre day weekend but her schedule has not been as friend yet nick frenetic as others in the past. Guest a lot of people urged her to take a break for a couple of days, and but she wasnt actually holed up somewhere and sipping pina coladas. She was fundraising fundraisingr her coffer for the fall craziness and all the media buying. Think she was rusting, specially for someone like Hillary Clinton, someone who traveled 112 countries while secretary of state. But she wasnt i think she only did a cowl of events publicly, and so i think a lot of people sort of raised eye brows over this particularly republicans and said, why isnt she out there . The story line start humming a couple of weeks ago with her last week she had a coughing spell, so it has energized a lot of people on this, and has given them some ammunition when it could have been put to bed a lot sooner. Host certainly ammunition from David Axelrod who was president obamas senior advicer in his campaign and early in his president simple. Was this tweet, coat, aberdeens can take care of the nye moanarch whet the cure for unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems . Guest its a definite problem for here. I think because she is so reserved. Its one of these Big Questions im constantly asked, why isnt she able to show people more of herself, why isnt she able to be more likeable. She has almost this protective wall of glass around here. She wants to maintain this level of privacy, and she shell do that on basically everything. So i think she this is one of those examples where i think theyre going to need to learn from this and try not to protect her as much and try to be a little more transparent. So the public doesnt think theyre hiding bigger things. Host how damaging is this to her, to her allies and her campaign and where does this put the clintontrump race should i think its a definite stumble for them, particularly she made this comment on friday night where she said that half of trumps supporters are in this basket of deplorables. And the campaign was still trying to come out of that over the weekend. She walked it back a little bit and said she regretted using the word half. So theyve had a bit of turmoil lately. I think this trips them up in the short term but they still feel good about their longterm progress and how they fare in swing states in particular. So i dont know. It remains to be seen how much this will follow her. Think it follows her into novemberful gives republican more of a storyline, more ammunition about her Health Concerns, about whether she has enough stamina as donald trump says. So i think this is definitely one that hang around. I just dont know how much it hurts her long term. Host based on your reporting, the criticism from inside the Clinton Campaign and alloys. So far donald trump has been relatively quiet on the health issue. Guest surprisingly so. He was one of the ones in weeks leading up to this that kept questioning her physical and mental stamina, and when questioned he wont clarify what he meant but it was always lingering, always sort of out there, that this i implied this is what he meant. So i think its definitely a departure for him on the way he saw this. Its obviously a very smart move by them to let this play out, to offer a kind and gentle thought to Hillary Clinton and hope that she fares well over this. And so today theyre focused on the deplorables comment and hope to make more out of that, and i think thats another Something Else that youll see play out in the coming days. Host at the hill. Com this headline Hillary Clinton allies criticizing the campaign over the health secrecy. Aimie parnes. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you. This afternoon, republican president ial candidate donald trump held a Campaign Rally in asheville, North Carolina. He spoke with volters and supporters who are for about 44 minutes. [cheering] [cheering] thank you, everybody. Thank you. A lot of people. [cheering] wow. Thank you very much, everybody. I love North Carolina. Well have a big victory in North Carolina. In 56 days, we are going to win this state and we are going to win back the white house. Believe me. And by the way we have thousands of people outside trying to get in. Would anybody like to give up their place . Anybody. No. No. Thank you all very much. Its a great honor. To win become the white house, however, you must get out and vote. And remember that this means early voting, which begins on october 20th. So you have to go out, vote, on the 8th. Or early vote starting from october 20th. This is our chance in my opinion, its our last chance. I really believe that. Our last chance to take it back, to fix our rigged system, and to create prosperity for each and every american. All of these before implants are available on our web site and they are extensive we have no choice. We have no choice. While my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable. [booing] , i call you hardworking american patrons who love your country and want a Better Future for your people checkup cheer clapping. Your mothers and fathers carpenters and welders, you are lawyers and very rich people in some places. You are at the top of your class the top of your university berger you are everybody. The democrats and independents and above all else you are americans and you are entitled to clap and you are entitled to the leadership that honor and cherish it is cherishes zero if the vote for donald trump. Office every american is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. Whether you vote for me or somebody else i will be your champion and top white house. Hillary clinton only represents the donors of the special interest she talks change but she has not given an 35 years. Why hasnt she didnt change she never will in a million years. She will not do that. [booing] i will speak more about Hillary Clinton remarks n a minute that first let me invite on to the stage some of our wonderful supporters who can tell you themselves what they think of their very horrible statements that they made three days ago. , on up. [applause] these are not deplorable people. [applause] we are honored, my wife and i, represent non deplorable people. [applause] and my right . We have spent 85 years in Public Education combined principles and also as Guidance Counselors we are not racist at all we dont even fit on the list that she put out. [applause] as a black female american tran7 i support donald trump and. [applause] good beginning i am all lots of things but deplorable is not one of the embargo i assure you. We will make America Great again and hillary needs to take a nap. [applause] are we deplorable . Whether i work fulltime i would rather vote for donald trump they and mrs. Clinton. [applause] [ch