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SenateFloor Session

November 9, 2025

Speeches 11Members 8

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Bills Debated

01Veterans' Compensation Cost-Of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025
S. 2392 →1 member spoke
02Lactation Spaces for Veteran Moms Act
S. 778 →1 member spoke
03Recognizing the 250th Anniversary of the United States Marine Corps
S.Res. 124 →2 members spoke

Speeches and Other Business

01Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026: Motion to Proceed: Continued
1 member spoke
02Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026: Motion to Proceed: Continued
5 members spoke

Routine Business (11)

01House of Representatives
02Legislative Session
3 members spoke
03Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026: Motion to Proceed
04Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026: Motion to Proceed
05Recess
1 member spoke
06Recess
1 member spoke
07Measure Read the First Time: S. 3168
S. 3168 →1 member spoke
08Morning Business
1 member spoke
09Text of Senate Amendment 3936
10Orders for Monday, November 10, 2025
H.R. 5371 →1 member spoke
11Adjournment Until Monday, November 10, 2025, at 11 A.M.
1 member spoke

Daily Digest

Routine Proceedings, pages S8033-S8112 Measures Introduced
One bill was introduced, as follows: S. 3168.
Page S8111
Measures Passed
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act: Senate passed S. 2392, to increase, effective as of December 1, 2025, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans.
Pages S8035-36
Lactation Spaces for Veteran Moms Act
Senate passed S. 778, to amend title 38, United States Code, to require a lactation space in each medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Page S8036
250th Anniversary of the United States Marine Corps
Committee on Armed Services was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 124, recognizing the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps, and the resolution was then agreed to, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:
Pages S8036-38
Blumenthal Amendment No. 3936, to include the liberation of Helmand Province in the list of historic battles where United States Marines served.
Page S8038
Measures Considered
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act--Agreement: Senate continued consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 5371, making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026.
Pages S8033-35, S8036, S8038-43
During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the following action
Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to the motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on October 16, 2025.
Pages S8042-43
Senate agreed to the motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on October 16, 2025.
Page S8043
By 60 yeas to 40 nays (Vote No. 610), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate upon reconsideration agreed to the motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill.
Page S8043
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill, post-cloture, at approximately 11 a.m., on Monday, November 10, 2025; and that all time during recess, adjournment, morning business and Leader remarks, count post-cloture on the motion to proceed.
Page S8112
Record Votes
One record vote was taken today. (Total--610)
Page S8043
Adjournment
Senate convened at 1:30 p.m. and adjourned at 11:15 p.m., until 11 a.m. on Monday, November 10, 2025. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S8112.)

Legislative Session

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 168, H.R. 5371.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.

The legislative clerk read as follows:

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

I suggest the absence of a quorum.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.

The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Maria CantwellDemocrat, Washington

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Maria CantwellDemocrat, Washington

Mr. President, I come to the floor today because we are now in the middle of November, and we know that we have open enrollment in our healthcare plans, and we have consumers trying to make choices. We need to give them clarity that we can help drive down the costs.

As somebody who worked very hard on the Affordable Care Act--on one provision that was different than the exchanges, the basic health plan--I can tell you that this plan has been successful at making a market for consumers at the low end of the market, above the Medicaid rate but up to 200 percent of the Medicaid rate, and providing them with affordable insurance through something called the basic health plan. It is in four States and soon to be in the District of Columbia.

If you think about it, an individual buying on the exchange would probably have to spend about $9,500 to get an equitable silver plan, but these individual States purchasing on behalf of bundles of their constituents are only paying $6,000 for that same plan on an annual basis.

So what are we doing? We are basically making a market. I say it is like going to Costco. If you buy in bulk, you get a discount. If you allow these States to buy on behalf of a large pool of their constituents who can't make a market on their own, you obviously can get a discount.

I am very interested in our continuing and saving Federal dollars and delivering good healthcare on something called the basic health plan. So I was not surprised that yesterday or in the last few days, the world--in DC, anyway, and around the country--has erupted into this debate about how do

Now, all of a sudden, both sides of the aisle are talking about insurance companies making the money and how we drive down the costs. I appreciate that, and I welcome the chance to talk to any of my colleagues.

In fact, I saw that the Wall Street Journal had a column today basically saying:

I was glad to see that. I thought that was a great alternative. I don't know how much of it was just discussed at your lunch or how many of these ideas of making healthcare more affordable were discussed, but I definitely think this particular idea by my colleague Senator Cassidy has merit, only because I think the Senator on the Finance Committee, along with myself and the chairman of the HELP Committee, has tried to look at ways to make healthcare more affordable, and it deserves some fair consideration.

This idea is really something called a health reimbursement account. Since 2008, health reimbursement accounts have been a critical component of one State's Medicaid Program, the Healthy Indiana Plan in the State of Indiana. Today, over 800,000 Indiana Medicaid enrollees automatically have access to these accounts and are using them to lower their medical expenses. The State of Indiana pays for the first $2,500 in healthcare costs, which covers a large portion of their insurance plan's out-of-pocket expenses, but the enrollees make monthly contributions, depending on their costs, to upgrade their healthcare coverage to more generously include things like vision and dental benefits.

One of the biggest benefits of the Indiana health reimbursement account is that the program encourages good financial management and the use of preventive care, like annual checkups.

Currently, if an enrollee spends less than the $2,500 in medical costs and in using preventive care, they can roll over their remaining account to the next year to lower their monthly medical expenses. This has been a proven path to promoting responsible and measured healthcare spending. It also encourages, as I mentioned, the use of preventive care.

We all know we need to drive down costs in the long run.

What happens when we don't have good health insurance and as we see November and December coming without a real plan for millions of Americans to buy affordable insurance, we are just going to drive up the costs of uncompensated care. The Affordable Care Act has lowered the amount of uncompensated care and helped us lower the cost of insurance overall, but we need to keep going, and we need to do more.

So I think that these health reimbursement accounts proposed by my colleague Senator Cassidy--I hope this article in the Wall Street Journal is serious, that Republicans are interested in floating this idea--and the Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage have a variety of ways in which we all can take part in a conversation to drive down the costs of care.

The health reimbursement accounts are already in place in Indiana, here in our Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and also in the DC Health exchange. So it is not as if there is only one place that is doing this. In those instances, it is a voluntary program. People can voluntarily comply, voluntarily decide to take the program up and participate in it and, as I said, get involved in better healthcare decisions and better timeliness of these decisions.

I have no idea what is going to happen here today, but I know this: There is enough time to talk about good ways to lower the costs of healthcare, particularly for this population that has to make benefit decisions right now. Lower these costs, implement this, and get our government back open.

I hope that people will give serious consideration to what my colleague Senator Cassidy and others have talked about in this very important area of driving down the costs of care.

I yield the floor.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

Chuck GrassleyRepublican, Iowa

Mr. President, today is the 40th day of the government shutdown. It has been so long that a recap is in order.

As I have said before, Iowans don't plan their lives around what we do here in Congress, but the Democrats' failure to support a clean, bipartisan funding bill has caused pain, suffering, and uncertainty for the American people.

Let's remember: It is the Democrats who caused the shutdown and got us into this mess. All but three Democrats have repeatedly voted against a clean continuing resolution to fund government Agencies and programs even at Biden-era levels. They won't even support funding that Democrats had voted for and supported for the last 4 years prior to Trump's reelection.

All we need are five more Democrats.

There are not any partisan policy priorities from either side. That is why we call it a clean government funding resolution. Republicans, by supporting this continuing resolution, have sought to put partisan politics aside to keep the government open for the American people while the Appropriations Committee members hash out full-year appropriations bills under what we call regular order.

Obviously, for the last 40 days, the taxpayers of this country and every citizen have seen demonstrated daily that Democrats have had plans other than just a clean funding resolution. They have not put their policy priorities to the side. They have taken the American people hostage by refusing to vote for government funding unless it has included their partisan priorities.

At the top of their list is an extension of the Biden-era COVID subsidies for ObamaCare. Understand that what we are talking about was instituted because we had a COVID shutdown of government, and people were hurt because the government decided in early 2020, at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, that 22 million people should be put on the unemployment rolls. That is what happens when the government shuts down the economy.

So this is a subsidy that Democrats decided to sunset at the end of this year. Now the Democrats have shut down the government to continue what was meant to be a temporary program. Something we have learned from the word ``temporary'' program or ``temporary'' taxes is that everybody soon decides temporary becomes permanent.

These expanded subsidies that go back to the beginning of the COVID era go to big insurance companies for Americans over 400 percent of the Federal poverty level. Can you believe it? What I mean when I say ``over 400 percent of the poverty level'' is that it could include people making over $600,000 a year.

I want to make clear, this expiration is only about the expanded, temporary COVID subsidies. So to everybody else who depends on the subsidy for ObamaCare, I want to make it very clear to them that the premium subsidies for individuals and families under 400 percent of the Federal poverty level that existed prior to COVID are permanent law. Those people will not be affected because that permanent law is not being changed by anything we are debating here today--permanent law; no change for those under 400 percent of poverty.

Writing healthcare policy is our job--meaning the Senators' job and the House of Representatives' job. However, every one of us in this body knew that this deadline that we are talking about was approaching, and we had already made plans to address the policy issues later in the year. Yet, as we have found out now for the last 40 days, that timeline was not satisfactory to the Democrats.

I have been in elected office a long time. Taking the government hostage and shutting it down is always a losing proposition. It costs money to shut the government down, and it costs money to open the government up, and we find out little is accomplished. In the process, the government is supposed to be in service to the American people. When there are 700,000 Federal employees sitting at home who are probably going to be paid because they always have been paid, they can't serve the American people, and the government is not doing its job.

In my view, this shutdown was doomed from the start, but Democrats marched forward anyway, following their leaders into the mess that we now have had for the last 40 days.

On day 38--2 days ago, so 38 days after the government shut down-- Leader Schumer came to the Senate floor

Why would he wait 38 days? Why would he wait?

If you were serious about a bipartisan solution to lower the cost of healthcare for the American people, I don't believe you would sit idle for 38 days before making an offer.

I have shared the pain the shutdown has inflicted upon Iowans, but it bears repeating. I have families calling my office asking where they can get food. Our food banks are overrun as Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away.

I want to give you an example that was reported by the person behind this constituent in the checkout line. One of my constituents, while grocery shopping in Walmart in Marion, IA, was left with no groceries for her family when she found out at the cash register that her food stamps were not on her debit card. That kind of uncertainty has real- world impacts.

The realization brought this constituent to tears, it was reported to me. And why wouldn't you go into tears?

Let's just take a moment to think about how you would feel coming home emptyhanded from the grocery store and the stress it inflicts on families. Perhaps your kids are crying because they are hungry.

Young farmers can't get their loan money from the Department of Agriculture during this government shutdown. These young farmers are already in an ag economy that is underwater. How are they going to keep their business going?

Then, I don't know what percentage of the American public flies every day, but it is significant that flights are being canceled left and right because air traffic controllers aren't being paid. That means people who are trying to get to a sick family member or attend a sister's wedding may not make it on time.

Law enforcement, including our own Capitol Police whom we rub shoulders with every day here, are working overtime and not being paid.

The entire Federal workforce is not being paid--3 million people who have families and bills to pay.

Those are just four or five examples. Unfortunately, the list could go on.

I often say Washington, DC, right where we are standing now--this town and the people who are in it--live and work in an island surrounded by reality.

I have been begging Leader Schumer to give just five Democrats the go-ahead to join us in a commonsense clean funding bill.

Let me remind you that Democrats voted for this same structure of a clean funding resolution at least 13 times during the 4 years of President Biden. So I would ask them: What is wrong with voting for a clean funding resolution during this year and during this shutdown or to prevent this shutdown?

The answer is, The American people elected a new President, and that President is not a Democrat. Well, elections have consequences. In a democratic republic, the will of the people is exercised by voters, and congressional leaders must respect that and live with the consequences.

It is past time the Democrat leaders cut loose their Members who want to work in a bipartisan way.

Iowans at my town meetings want more bipartisanship out of Washington. They are cynical that all we do is fight and nothing ever gets done. I tried to educate them on how it is not as bad as what they see on TV, and Senators really do want to legislate and serve the American people.

So let's roll up our sleeves and get the job done. The American people deserve better.

I yield the floor.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas.

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Veterans' Compensation Cost-Of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025

Jerry MoranRepublican, Kansas

Mr. President, I have introduced legislation, as is introduced on an annual basis. We have done so again this year to make certain that the rate of disability compensation and other financial benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs for veterans and military survivors keeps pace with the rate of inflation.

The annual Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025 will increase certain VA benefits by 2.8 percent, including disability compensation, clothing allowances, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. That is to better reflect the changes in the everyday cost of living and align with the annual benefit increase by the Social Security Administration.

This adjustment allows veterans and their families to have the peace of mind of knowing that their VA benefits will keep up with our Nation's economy and that the VA can continue delivering support for those who have served while alleviating the stress of financial uncertainty due to circumstances that are out of their control.

In addition to the Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act, the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs has also reported out Senator Rosen's-- the Senator from Nevada--Lactation Spaces for Veteran Moms Act, which would make certain that each VA medical center has an appropriate space for veteran moms to pump or to breastfeed.

Women veterans are the fastest growing patient demographic, and we must make certain that VA facilities can meet their needs.

Mr. President, I, therefore, ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 202, S. 2392.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.

The bill clerk read as follows:

There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported from the Committee on Veterans Affairs.

Jerry MoranRepublican, Kansas

I ask unanimous consent, then, that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The bill (S. 2392) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed as follows:

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Lactation Spaces for Veteran Moms Act

Jerry MoranRepublican, Kansas

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 200, S. 778.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.

The bill clerk read as follows:

There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs with an amendment to strike all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic, as follows:

Jerry MoranRepublican, Kansas

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee- reported substitute amendment be agreed to; that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The committee-reported amendment in the nature of a substitute was agreed to.

The bill (S. 778), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed.

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Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026: Motion to Proceed

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Marine Corps Senator from Connecticut, welcome.

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Recognizing the 250th Anniversary of the United States Marine Corps

Richard BlumenthalDemocrat, Connecticut

Mr. President, I am honored and proud to be here today with the Presiding Officer in the Chair, a veteran--albeit of the Navy, not the Marine Corps--and to be accompanied by a fellow marine, Senator Sullivan, to whom I will yield shortly.

I am especially honored to pay tribute to one of the Nation's most storied and steadfast institutions in the history--the entire history-- of our Nation, the U.S. Marine Corps, which marks its 250th anniversary on Monday.

As legend and history have it, 250 years ago, in the back room of Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, a new fighting force was born, a force of grit, determination, and unshakable loyalty. Since that day in 1775, marines have answered every call, without any exception, with courage and conviction, not because it was easy but because it was right.

The motto of the Marine Corps, ``Semper Fidelis''--``Always Faithful''--is more than just a phrase; it is a lifelong commitment. As we know, there are no former marines, and there are no ex-marines. It is a lifelong commitment and identity. ``Semper Fidelis'' speaks to the bond between marines, to the cause they serve, and to the Nation that they protect. That bond by no means ends with Active Duty. It continues in communities across America where marines continue to serve, living out the values of America as teachers, first responders, public servants, and leaders.

The Marine Corps has fought in every American conflict from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. On the beaches of Iwo Jima, in the frozen mountains of Korea, in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the sands of Fallujah, marines have stood their ground. They have led from the front, often at great personal cost, with no expectation of glory.

Telling the story of America is impossible without telling the story of the U.S. Marine Corps. Their sacrifices have safeguarded our freedom. Their discipline has inspired generations. Their traditions of toughness, honor, and duty have stood the test of time. Historic battles exemplify the Marine Corps' unyielding commitment to courage, sacrifice, and duty, and they define the very character of our military: Derna, Chapultepec, First Bull Run, Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the Chosin Reservoir, Khe Sanh, Hue, the liberation of Kuwait, Fallujah, and Helmand Province.

Marines have not only fought our wars, they have also responded to humanitarian crises, assisted in natural disasters, and stood sentry in times of peace. They are not just warfighters; they are ambassadors of American resolve and resilience. This milestone of 250 years is an opportunity to reflect, to honor, and to recommit.

We honor the thousands of marines who never made it home, who gave their last full measure of devotion, as the saying goes. We honor the Gold Star families who carry their memory every single day. We honor the wounded in body and some in spirit whose lives are forever shaped by their service. We honor every marine, past and present, who has earned the title with sweat, sacrifice, and a fierce sense of purpose.

Let me acknowledge, as well, the families who stand behind every marine: spouses, children, parents. They serve quietly, often without any recognition, but always with deep devotion. Their strength sustains the Corps, those families, those friends, those loved ones. Their sacrifices, too, must be honored.

The 250th anniversary is not only a celebration; it is a solemn reminder we make to all who wear the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor that we will never forget their service and that we will always fight to give them the support, care, and respect they have earned.

This milestone is a chance to educate future generations about what it means to serve and why the Marine Corps' legacy matters not just in history books but in the daily defense of

As we look to the next 250 years of the greatest Nation in the history of the world, let's ensure that our policies, our resources, and our commitments match the trust we place in all of our military, including our U.S. Marines. We need to provide our marines and our military men and women with the tools and the resources they need to fight and win and the care they deserve when they return home.

It is not about the rhetoric or just the celebration of birthdays. What really matters is what we do between the birthdays to keep faith with our men and women in uniform and afterward when they return to our great Nation. We can leave no veteran behind in healthcare as well as in education and training and in everything they need to be successful when they come back. Let us rededicate ourselves to the ideals they uphold: freedom, justice, service above self.

To every marine, from the youngest recruit on Parris Island or in San Diego to the oldest veteran in our communities, we say thank you. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your sacrifice. Thank you for never wavering as a marine.

Happy birthday, U.S. Marine Corps.

Semper Fidelis.

I am happy now to yield to my colleague and friend from Alaska and fellow marine, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. To the colonel of the Marines and the Senator from Alaska, Semper Fi.

Dan SullivanRepublican, Alaska

Mr. President, I want to thank my colleague Senator Blumenthal and the Presiding Officer for his great service. We do know the Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy, so we are all related here. I won't say what I used to say to my father, who was a Navy officer, in response to that, but it is an honor to be on the Senate floor here with Senator Blumenthal, my colleague and fellow marine.

You know, there is a lot of frustration going on here in the Senate. We are trying to get this government reopened and pay our workers and people are suffering, but I do think it is also important to switch gears and come down here, in a bipartisan fashion, to agree to S. Res. 124, by Senator Blumenthal and me, on commemorating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps, a truly remarkable milestone by one of America's most remarkable institutions. That happens tomorrow, on November 10--our birthday, the Marine Corps' birthday.

Now, we marines--Mr. President, you know this--take our November 10 birthday very seriously. No matter where marines are anywhere in the world, deployed, they always take time to celebrate the birthday of our beloved Corps on November 10. Everybody in the Marine Corps wishes each other happy birthday.

We also are kind of proud of the fact that we are the only military service that was founded in a bar. Yes, that is true. Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, PA, is where the Marine Corps was founded.

At our celebrations, we do a lot. They are great celebrations. If you haven't been to one, anyone watching, I encourage you to go to a Marine Corps birthday ball. You will have the time of your life. You will come away filled with a sense of patriotism and pride whether you served in the military in the Marine Corps or not. You will love it.

At these birthday celebrations, we, of course, as Senator Blumenthal mentioned, remember our fallen. We recommit ourselves to keeping the marines the world's finest fighting force, which it is and has been for decades. We take time to recognize not just the marines present but, in particular, the oldest and youngest marines present.

We have a very solemn cake-cutting ceremony. In fact, after the birthday cake is cut with a Mameluke sword, the guest of honor presents the first piece of cake to the oldest marine present, and then he hands that piece of cake off, after he takes a bite, to the youngest marine present, signifying the passing of heritage and culture and tradition from one generation to the other.

Last night, there were two special Marine Corps balls that I cared a lot about. One--the one I really care about--was in Anchorage, AK, hosted by Delta Company, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion. I was very honored and set to be there as a guest of honor last night. This is the Alaska Marine Corps ball. We have such a great time. I have been going to that ball for years with my wife, my daughters, friends, fellow marines. Alas, given the work we are doing here in the Senate to reopen the government, I was not able to attend--a huge disappointment for me. I really, really wanted to be in Alaska with my fellow marines and my family.

There was also another Marine Corps ball last night. It was actually in DC here, the Commandant's ball. At the last minute, I thought, hey, if I can't be in Anchorage, I am going to at least celebrate the 250th with the Commandant, some top generals, top enlisted marines, a couple of my Senate colleagues--Senator Ernst and Senator Daines. Vice President JD Vance was a guest of honor. By the way, he is the first marine Vice President ever, so he got a lot of shouts and recognition last night.

But the marine who stole the show last night was the oldest marine, Cpl Nils Mockler--99 years old; born in 1926; Iwo Jima combat marine, D1; looking as strong as he did when he was an 18-year-old corporal storming the beaches of Iwo Jima. Last night, he was there. The place went nuts when he was recognized--a 5-minute standing ovation for this great American hero. What a moment.

Finally, at every Marine Corps birthday ball throughout the world for the last hundred years, this message that I am going to read right now is read. It is the message delivered to the marines on the birthday of the Marine Corps by the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

The 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. John Lejeune, in 1921 issued this message, and ever since then, since 1921, every single Marine Corps birthday celebration for over a hundred years has had this proclamation read. It was read last night in Anchorage; it was read last night in DC; and for the Marine Corps balls today and tomorrow on November 10, it will be read there. Here is what it says--remember, this is from 1921, but it kind of gives you a sense of how we feel about our illustrious Corps. It is a message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, republished in the U.S. Marine Corps Manual, edition 1921:

Mr. President, you have heard that before. That is the message of the Marine Corps birthday from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, John Lejeune, issued in 1921. Every marine hears this every year, and it is still incredibly relevant.

I want to thank Senator Blumenthal again for leading this effort on the 250th birthday resolution that we are going to pass here in the Senate in commemoration of the Marine Corps' founding.

We have a long tradition of being the service that is most ready when our Nation is least ready.

Again, to all the marines out there, ``Semper Fi,'' happy birthday, and here is to 250 more years for our Corps.

I yield the floor.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut.

Richard BlumenthalDemocrat, Connecticut

Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Alaska for those very powerful words from himself and the Commandant.

As he has remarked, this Marine Corps birthday always has enormous personal meaning for all of us who have served in the U.S. Marine Corps, including for my son Matthew, who was in Helmand Province. I am hopeful that he will invite his younger brother to one of the Marine Corps balls. Michael served as a Navy SEAL.

This occasion is joined by our colleagues Senators Gallego and Young, also marines, and I am sure is supported by others in this body and in the House of Representatives who have served.

So on this great occasion, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 124 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.

The bill clerk read as follows:

There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution.

Richard BlumenthalDemocrat, Connecticut

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to; the Blumenthal amendment to the preamble, which is at the desk, be considered and agreed to; the preamble, as amended, 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, it is so ordered.

The resolution (S. Res. 124) was agreed to.

The amendment (No. 3936) to the preamble was agreed to as follows:

The preamble, as amended, was agreed to.

The resolution with its preamble, as amended, reads as follows:

Richard BlumenthalDemocrat, Connecticut

I yield the floor.

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Recess

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.

John BarrassoRepublican, Wyoming

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess until 6 p.m.

There being no objection, the Senate, at 4:27 p.m., recessed until 6 p.m. and reassembled when called to order by the Presiding Officer (Mr. Cramer).

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Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026: Motion to Proceed: Continued

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.

Bill CassidyRepublican, Louisiana

Mr. President, there are reports that the government will be reopened tonight or tomorrow morning, and all I can say is, it is about time. It has been 40 days too long.

But we also know there is going to be some vote in the not-so-distant future on what do we do about high health insurance costs and, hopefully, another vote as to what can we do about the high healthcare costs that are driving the high health insurance costs.

And we need to talk now. We can't just like come up on the vote and suddenly have a solution. Rather, people need to be thinking about it between now and then, about the solutions that benefit the American people.

Clearly, we have a problem with the affordability of healthcare and of health insurance, and, of course, that is related. And this is something that, in my professional life as a physician, I addressed over 20-some years, before entering political life.

I practiced in a public hospital for the uninsured for over two decades, seeing middle-income and lower income Americans--fellow Americans--who, for whatever reason, couldn't afford their insurance or couldn't afford their healthcare, and they came to the hospital for the uninsured.

So health insurance, healthcare costs--very complicated--and we have got to be a little more creative than just the Federal Government throwing money at them. ObamaCare tried to do that, and it has not worked.

The enhanced premium tax credit, or the EPTC, is the latest example. It was a COVID program unrelated to the original ObamaCare program, and the enhanced premium tax credits sent billions of tax dollars straight to the insurers, hoping that families would see smaller bills.

But you know, it might paper money over the high health insurance costs, but it did nothing for healthcare costs, and, by the way, it also made health insurance more expensive for many. So I think we can do better than just hiding the costs of high healthcare and high health insurance costs by the Federal Government spending billions more.

So an idea that I am asking my colleagues and the American people to consider is a prefunded Federal flexible spending account.

Now, let me make a couple of things clear. First, I am not speaking for John Thune, the majority leader. I am not speaking for Donald Trump.

In fact, although I was the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, I am more speaking as Bill Cassidy, a doctor that worked with the uninsured for 20 years and is now representing the great State

No, to actually come together in good faith to try and find a solution--so let me first describe what I am speaking of. First, there are two types of tax credits on the Affordable Care Act exchange--the ObamaCare exchanges. And I am going into this for a reason. One is the baseline tax credit that was enacted into law in 2010 that lowers premium costs for those less than 400 percent of Federal poverty.

So the first one started, in 2010, under ObamaCare, the original legislation. It goes to people making less than 400 percent of Federal poverty. During COVID, there was another sum added called the enhanced premium tax credit, and that gives some extra benefits to those less than 400 percent of Federal poverty level but began to cover people over 400 percent of Federal poverty level--so two pots of money. One pot dates from 2010, part of the original Affordable Care Act law, and the other passed by the Biden administration during the COVID pandemic, benefitting those above 400 percent of Federal poverty.

What I am proposing does not touch that baseline. What I am about to propose does not touch the moneys that were set aside in 2010 under the Affordable Care Act. Why do I say that?

President Trump endorsed the concept I will be speaking of, and one of my Democratic colleagues said: Wait. Are you going to give all the insurance money for these accounts?

No. Time out. Absolutely not. We are going to leave that portion which was part of the baseline alone, not touching it at all, but trying to do something with the enhanced premium tax credits, which only began most recently by President Biden under the COVID pandemic.

That begs the question: Why were enhanced premium tax credits necessary?

Premiums had gone up so much. The Affordable Care Act was supposed to lower the cost of healthcare. The cost of healthcare has exploded. The cost of health insurance has exploded. And, unfortunately, under the enhanced premium tax credit, it doesn't matter what the premium is; the Federal taxpayer throws billions more at it. And the insurance companies lost the incentive to negotiate down prices because, whatever the price was, the taxpayer would help pay for it. And we misaligned the incentives to where the insurance companies actually do better if healthcare costs are high.

Now, by the way, I am not here to bash insurance companies. We need them. They are essential. But everybody is going to respond to incentives, and the incentive here is not the right incentive.

So how can we do something different?

Well, I would like to empower the patient instead of sending billions to the insurance company. And if we can put in programs that lower healthcare costs, we may still have premiums that are too high this year, because, by gosh, we only have 2 months until the next plan year starts; but we are going to be able to substitute out these enhanced premiums with something that doesn't go to the insurance company but goes to you the patient. And we are going to begin the process of aligning incentives for giving the patient the incentive to find the better deal, and that begins to lower costs. By the way, that means that we have to think differently.

Now, let's try a new approach, as opposed to just sending paper money to paper over the high healthcare costs and the resultant high premiums.

This is kind of my idea. Right now, we have the enhanced premium tax credit, which I have been speaking of. It goes to the insurance company.

That should say 20 right there. It says 80. I am just going to mark that out right now. Right now--give me just a second. I am going to take this down. I am going to go just like this, and I am going to go 20.

And I don't know if you can see this, but that 20 is the administrative cost and the profit that the insurance companies take out of every dollar you take them.

My assistant is getting me a marker.

I had a misprint last night, and I don't want to be misprinted right now. This should be 20. Of that $26 billion, we are going to send them next year, 20 percent of the $26 billion goes to profit, and it goes to administrative costs.

Can we do it better? By golly, we can.

Here we go. I am going to get this out of here. I am just bugged the heck out of this. This should say 20. Twenty percent of the $26 billion that we send them next year would go to profit and administrative overhead.

What if we give the patient the power? What if we say it goes to an account that she controls, that she can spend on her physician, her dental care, her prescriptions, on her eyeglasses? She can spend it on orthodontia. She can spend it on more things than this, and, by the way, 100 percent of the $26 billion would go to the real care that that woman and her family needs.

So we need to empower her, not give 20 percent of $26 billion to insurance companies. Nothing against insurance companies. God bless them. We need them. But if I have a choice of empowering you or empowering them--100 percent to you or 20 percent to them--my vote is with you. And I think we as a Congress, no matter what your political party, should all vote the same way.

I want to emphasize something here, by the way: This is prefunded.

People think about flexible spending accounts, and they think: Well, my gosh, this poor person--120 percent of Federal poverty, 150 percent of Federal poverty--has to put their own money into this.

No. We take the dollars that are in the enhanced premium tax credit, and we put them there instead, and it is prefunded. So it is a little different than we normally think of flexible spending accounts, but, it still works.

Now, on a couple of things I have heard from my Democratic colleagues, by the way, my Democratic colleagues are concerned that whatever we pass over here will not get a vote in the House of Representatives. I am pleased to say that, yesterday, President Trump tweeted in favor of this proposal. I am sure he would ask Mike Johnson to take it up. If Democrats want to vote on something that benefits the American people--and, by the way, here is the tweet. You can't read this. It is classic President Trump. He is talking about money-sucking insurance companies. And then in all caps he goes:

That is the President's way of emphasizing: Let's give power to the people, not send 20 percent of the money to the insurance companies.

And, as I said, with this tweet, the President is indicating his support. I think we rely upon him to ask Speaker Johnson to bring it up in the House of Representatives. So if the Democrats want to vote on something that will have a vote in the House, they have got it right there--the President's endorsement. I think this works all the way around.

And let me say once more, after the President tweeted--I am going to repeat, but it is important to repeat because this is a point of misunderstanding. After the President tweeted this, one of my Democratic colleagues said: Wait. Are you going to give all the money to this account for these people?

And the answer is no. The baseline continues to go to buy the health insurance policy, but that enhanced premium tax credit is the sum that goes there. And I am just going to say this once more: It is the enhanced premium tax credit that goes there.

Now, the other thing I hear is: This is way too complicated. No way, can't do it. Uh-uh, can't do it.

It turns out that I have a flexible spending account. Over 70 percent of government employees in the United States of America have a flexible spending account as one of their offerings. Over 40 percent of those in the commercially insured market have a flexible spending account as one of their offerings. The State of Indiana has used something similar to this for their Medicaid population, and it has worked extremely well. This is not so complicated. Federal employees, Medicaid recipients--you name it--70 percent of our fellow Americans have the option of choosing this if they work for

And then I am told: Well, the Federal Government has to set it up.

You know, I will point out that I am on an ObamaCare policy through the small business exchange. My FSA is already administered by the Federal Government through the small business ObamaCare exchange. All we are asking to do is to open that window a little bit more and to take in the individual market ObamaCare exchange. We already have the existing mechanism to do this within the Federal Government. This can be done. We should not consider it so complicated to accomplish.

Now, inevitably, there is going to be some bureaucrat that says they need 6 months to open a window, and that is why I am glad President Donald Trump is the President when this is coming up, because if there is one guy that can cut through the bureaucratic--I am a gastroenterologist, and certain terms came to mind. The Presiding Officer is from a farm State, and maybe they do to you. But the one guy that can cut through the stuff that seems an obstacle to others is President Donald Trump.

I always smile. On Operation Warp Speed, they said it might take 18 months, maybe 10 years, to get a vaccine to market, and President Trump's leadership led it to be in people's arms from before we started within 11 months. This man can make it happen.

So I don't consider it too complicated for the patient to understand, and I don't consider it too complicated for the Federal Government to adapt to, which means we can even do it in 2026.

Now, the next thing I hear: Is it going to cost money?

It is going to cost money. And, again, my Democratic colleagues should like this because the first year, it will cost about the same as the enhanced premium tax credits, because, right now, we are 2 months from the beginning of the year, and there is not a whole lot of time for reforms to be put in place to lower the cost of healthcare.

So for our fellow Americans who are depending upon this, we can fix it for them.

But now we also have the opportunity to pass other reforms that truly will lower the cost of healthcare. So come 2027, those reforms begin to work down the cost of healthcare, and we as Americans will benefit--not just in the ObamaCare exchanges, but in the commercial market, in the Medicare space, and in other spaces as well. We begin to lower healthcare costs for all. That is more value for the individual, more value for the employer, and more value for the taxpayer.

So the choice is before us. We can continue to try to paper over the cost of health insurance by throwing billions more at it--under the enhanced premium tax credit, the money goes to insurance companies, and 20 percent gets hung up in administrative costs and profit--or we can spend 100 percent of it in prefunded, flexible spending accounts benefiting patients and their families.

What can it be used for? Under the enhanced premium tax credit, you are choosing to use it for insurance premiums and whatever the insurance company thinks you should get. Under the prefunded, flexible spending account, you decide or--since I am looking at Senator Cramer-- Senator Cramer's wife decides because wives--women--make most of these decisions. She will decide to pay for dental, physician, glasses, prescriptions, or orthodontia. You name it--she gets to pick.

Who makes the decision under the enhanced premium tax credit? Insurance companies. Under prefunded, flexible spending accounts, the patient does, the mother does, the wife does. These are the people that will then make the decisions.

Does it lower costs? No. Under the enhanced premium tax credit, it drives premiums up.

Under the prefunded, flexible spending account, we empower patients to shop to find the best deal for their dollar. That drives competition, and that lowers costs.

I cannot imagine why anybody would choose the status quo of enhanced premium tax credits versus giving the patient the power. We should give the patient the power.

I say this--and I want to be very clear. I am not being partisan. I am in good faith trying to say that everyone should put their party behind them, put their partisan politics behind them, and be focused only on how do we lower healthcare costs for the average American--no, for all Americans. How do we lower healthcare costs? That should be our focus.

My staff asked me if I am wearing a purple tie because I am bipartisan. I said: No. I am wearing a purple tie because LSU lost badly last night, and I thought we should encourage them. So this is my LSU Tigers tie.

That said, just so it works out, I am really emphasizing that this is something we can work on together. President Trump is for it, and I would like my Democratic colleagues to consider it--not just reject it because a Republican proposes it but to actually realize it is in good faith, trying to find a solution for the high healthcare costs that are hurting American families.

Let's take a risk. Let's take a risk. Let's be bold. Let's do something different than we have done before--no, the same thing we have done before, but we have done it in a different space. We have done it on the small business ObamaCare exchange, we have done it through our employer, and we have done it through the Indiana Medicaid Program. Let's try the individual exchange. Let's just trust those patients to make wise decisions for themselves as opposed to treating them like something--the Federal Government has to tell them what to do.

I return where I started. As a doctor, I took care of the uninsured for 20 years. I always found that my patients, even if they weren't really educated--but you explain the options to them, they make wise decisions. They made sophisticated decisions when you gave them control of their healthcare and you allowed them to make that wise decision.

Let's trust the American people, Mr. President. Let's give power to the patients, not billions to the insurance companies.

I yield the floor.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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Recess

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess until 8 p.m.

There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:37 p.m., recessed until 8 p.m. and reassembled when called to order by the Presiding Officer (Mr. Cramer).

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Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026: Motion to Proceed: Continued

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas.

Jerry MoranRepublican, Kansas

Mr. President, exactly 1 month ago today, I stood on the Senate floor and spoke about the impact that the government shutdown was having on an already troubled aviation system and that the traveling public was facing tremendous challenges with that shutdown, and I cautioned against prolonging it. Now, 30 days later, we are still here.

I was concerned that if the government shutdown continued, it could force the closure of parts of the airspace and lead to further reductions in the air traffic controller workforce. Unfortunately, both these concerns have materialized in what has become the longest government shutdown in our Nation's history. With 2,300 cancellations, and counting today--Sunday--it will go down as one of the worst days in air travel.

I have never seen anything good come from a government shutdown. Lapses in Federal funding have made it harder for families to access SNAP benefits, Head Start Programs have been put on pause, and thousands of Federal employees are unable to receive a paycheck.

This dysfunction is damaging enough to our constituents and economy here at home, but it also sends a dangerous--a dangerous--message to the watching world. It demonstrates to our allies that we are an unreliable partner, and it signals to our adversaries that we can't work together to meet even the most fundamental responsibilities of Congress.

As this shutdown continues, I want to particularly focus on the impact

TSA agents and air traffic controllers have had to continue working while missing two paychecks. It is a stressful job and one that has grown increasingly more difficult throughout the year. Combine that with the uncertainty of how to pay rent, put food on the table, and gas in your car, it is no surprise--no surprise--that we are seeing more and more controllers not showing up to work. We were already facing a shortage of controllers, and now we are seeing more having to pick up second jobs to pay the bills or seeing some quit entirely.

Our inaction and our inability to gain consensus are deterring young people interested in futures such as air traffic controllers or other aviation professionals from pursuing those careers.

The vulnerabilities in our aviation system have led Secretary Sean Duffy to begin reducing flights by 10 percent at 40 major airports. Airlines, businesses, and general aviation alike are cutting into their operations to make certain that airspace is as safe as possible. It is critical to know that these impacts are not lopsided on those high- traffic areas. Small- and medium-hub airports, such as we have in Kansas that connect to those 40, are experiencing this pain just as much.

While this is a painful step, it is necessary for the safety of the traveling public, and I support Secretary Duffy's decision.

American Airlines indicated to me they canceled more than 240 flights yesterday and delayed more than 1,000 flights, impacting more than 150,000 passengers.

Airlines for America said that staffing shortages disrupted the flights of more than 4 million passengers from October 1 to November 7 on their partner airlines, and that was before the mandatory reductions were put in place by the Department of Transportation.

We can expect more cuts if we do not reopen the government.

We saw how fragile our air system is, and it is the reason I highlight aviation and the consequences of the shutdown tonight. We saw how fragile our air system is earlier this year when a series of failures led to a midair collision on January 29, which claimed the lives of 67, including those of Kansans. That accident forced Congress and our Nation to reckon with an issue that has plagued us for decades: Why have we not effectively modernized our airspace system?

Since that crash, steps have been taken to train more controllers and improve the aviation system, including a $12.5 billion investment in modernizing our airspace. But those efforts are becoming much more difficult to accomplish during a shutdown.

Unfortunately, the position the aviation industry finds itself in today cannot be easily solved, but we cannot even begin to solve it unless we reopen the government. Every day we remain shut down, the fragility of the system intensifies.

Thanksgiving is only 18 days away. Americans are purchasing, would have purchased, or already purchased tickets to be with their families. If we remain in a shutdown much longer, it will become increasingly difficult for airlines to deliver on their promises to their customers.

The circumstances we are in cannot continue. We must reopen the government. I urge my colleagues to pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government.

I am committed to working with my colleagues--my colleagues--to address the concerns they have and any issues brought forth by the shutdown.

We must return to regular order, advance a clean CR and these three appropriations bills, and then consider further appropriations and these issues that so many of us care so deeply about. Our constituents and our Nation depend upon us to do so.

I suggest the absence of a quorum.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.

The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the following Senators be allowed to speak for up to 5 minutes each: Senator Collins, Senator Schumer, Senator Sanders, and I.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The Senator from Maine.

Susan M. CollinsRepublican, Maine

Mr. President, today, the Senate Appropriations Committee advanced legislation to reopen government immediately, funding vital programs and resuming pay for Federal workers who, for the last 40 days, have had to live with the stress of missed paychecks and not knowing when they would be paid.

Under our legislation, all Federal employees, including members of our military and Coast Guard, the Capitol Police officers, Border Patrol agents, TSA screeners, air traffic controllers--all will receive their back wages.

It is significant that this measure also includes three full-year fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills, including the annual Agriculture-FDA bill, the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs legislation--very timely, given that Veterans Day will soon be upon us--and the Legislative Branch funding.

This three-bill package, which originally passed the Senate on August 1 with overwhelming bipartisan support--87 votes in 2 cases, 81 in another--will support our veterans, our troops, our farmers, and rural communities.

Of note, this package will provide full-year funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known as WIC.

One of the most unfortunate and shameful consequences of the shutdown has been that these vital nutrition programs were in jeopardy for our most vulnerable families, including 170,000 Mainers who rely on the SNAP program. Other programs will be funded through January 30 while the Senate and House continue our work on the remainder of the yearlong appropriations bills. For example, funding for important programs like Head Start and such as the Low-Income Heating Assistance Program will now be restored.

I look forward to voting for this legislation and ending the unnecessary harm to the security of our families and our Nation. We must begin to act tonight. We must not delay any longer.

Finally, I want to thank the many members on both sides of the aisle of the Appropriations Committee and the Senate leadership who have worked especially hard to bring this package together.

I would be remiss if I did not also thank our staff. My staff missed an entire night's sleep to get this package together and get the job done.

Again, I want to particularly thank the members of the Appropriations Committee, including the three who served as the subcommittee chairs: Senator Boozman, Senator Hoeven, and Senator Mullin. I want to thank Katie Britt--Senator Britt--who did an extraordinary amount of work, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Rounds, Jerry Moran, Shelley Moore Capito, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Deb Fischer. There are so many who worked so hard on this package. I want to thank each and every one of them.

Let's get the job done, and let's do it fast.

Did I miss Senator Hoeven in my list? Senator Hoeven was a rock star.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.

Bernard SandersIndependent, Vermont

Mr. President, I understand that, the way the process has been developed, it is impossible to delay the votes that are going to take place. If that were not the case, that is certainly what I would do because I think it is important that the American people fully understand what is being voted on today.

Everybody in America knows that our current healthcare system is broken. It is dysfunctional. It is cruel. It is by far the most expensive healthcare system in the world and the only healthcare system of any major country that does not guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right, covering every man, woman, and child. We are unique in that respect. Yet, tonight, what this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse.

So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at

If this resolution is passed tonight, we are on a pathway to throw 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act--15 million.

Our job is to create universal healthcare, guarantee healthcare to every man, woman, and child, not throw 15 million people off the healthcare they have--low-income and working-class people.

And, my friends, know what you are voting on. Studies are out there that when you throw 15 million people off of healthcare, some 50,000 of our fellow Americans will die unnecessarily every single year. Does anyone think that is funny, something to laugh at, something that you just go past? I don't. Fifty thousand Americans die unnecessarily.

Now, I know, as part of this resolution, that the majority leader is going to say: Well, Democrats can create--put together--their own bill, and it will come to the floor here in the Senate for a vote.

As everybody here knows, that is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here in the Senate. It won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up, and the President of the United States certainly will not sign it.

So I hope that anybody here who is thinking of voting for this reconsiders, goes back home and talks to their constituents and asks them what it will mean if their healthcare premiums are doubled or tripled.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader is recognized.

Charles E. SchumerDemocrat, New York

Mr. President, America is in the midst of a Republican- made healthcare crisis--worse than anything the American people have seen in decades. Republicans have spent the past 10 months dismantling the healthcare system, skyrocketing costs, and making every day harder for American families. Because of Republicans, Americans are going to suffer immensely as this healthcare crisis gets worse.

Democrats have been fighting to end this crisis over and over again. Democrats have wanted to lower costs, but Republicans fought us every step of the way. We gave Republicans not one, not two, but three chances this year to extend the ACA premium tax credits. Republicans said no every time. On Friday, we offered Republicans a compromise, a proposal that would extend the ACA tax credits for a year and open up the government at the same time. They once again said no. And when they said no on our compromise, they showed that they are against any healthcare reform.

Instead, they passed the biggest healthcare cuts in our Nation's history just to give tax breaks to billionaires. And even then, they weren't satisfied with merely closing hospitals and community health clinics; they callously did nothing to deal with the looming crisis of ACA credits.

Premiums will spike by thousands of dollars a month. Millions will lose insurance. Democrats have sounded the alarm. We have demanded for months to meet with the Republican leadership, but Republican leaders refused to even discuss the issue, let alone negotiate it. We have asked them to meet in the summer and throughout the shutdown. To this day, Republicans still say no.

We asked President Trump to step in and meet with us to deliver lower healthcare for Americans, and instead, Donald Trump has taken the American people hostage--from cutting off food aid to hungry families and vets and seniors and kids, to manufacturing flight cancellations, to cutting off home heating aid--while he builds a billion-dollar ballroom with gold-plated toilets.

Therefore--therefore--I must vote no. This healthcare crisis is so severe, so urgent, so devastating for families back home that I cannot in good faith support this CR that fails to address the healthcare crisis.

But let me be clear. However this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight because millions of families will lose healthcare coverage. We must fight because children who are dying of cancer will not get healthcare coverage. We must fight because a senior citizen cannot afford to pay $25,000 a year just for health insurance. We must fight to keep millions from financial ruin.

And make no mistake about it, the American people know who is inflicting this healthcare trauma on them: Donald Trump and the Republicans. Americans will remember Republican intransigence every time they make a sky-high payment on health insurance.

So we are going to fight legislatively, fight back home, fight in the courts, and bring this fight in the elections. Healthcare costs made a major impact on the 2025 election, and they will certainly have an even greater impact on the 2026 election.

So in conclusion, the contrast between the two parties is crystal clear: Republicans are the party hell-bent on taking people's healthcare away--all to bow to the billionaire elite and special interests. Democrats are united as the party of lower healthcare costs and improving our healthcare system.

We will not give up this fight. We will deliver for the American people.

I yield the floor.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, after 40 long days, I am hopeful we can finally bring this shutdown to an end. I don't need to go over all the reasons why it is imperative to get the government open as soon as possible. From the truly precarious situation we are in with regard to air travel, the fact that our staffs have been working without pay for a full 40 days now, all of us, Republicans and Democrats, who support this bill know that the time to act is now.

So in just a few minutes, I will call up the vehicle for a clean continuing resolution, packaged with three bipartisan, yearlong appropriations bills: Agriculture appropriations, Military Construction, VA appropriations, and Legislative Branch appropriations. These bills will fund SNAP for the entire fiscal year, they will fund WIC for the entire fiscal year, and they will fund our veterans for the entire fiscal year.

After 40 days of uncertainty, I am profoundly glad to be able to announce nutrition programs, our veterans, and other critical priorities will have their full-year funding, and my goal is to quickly move to other full-year appropriations bills.

As I have said many times, I firmly believe that the way to fund the government is by passing appropriations bills through regular order--a process that gives Senators from both parties the fullest chance to make their voices heard.

Mr. President, I also want to mention healthcare. There has been a lot of talk over the last several weeks on both sides of the aisle about the healthcare crisis in this country, and I am thankful to be able to say that we have Senators, both Democrat and Republican, who are eager to get to work to address that crisis in a bipartisan way. These Senators are not interested in political games; they are interested in finding real ways to address healthcare costs for American families. We also have a President who is willing to sit down and get to work on this issue. So I am looking forward to seeing what solutions might be brought forward.

Regardless, as I have said for weeks to my Democrat friends, I will schedule a vote on their proposal, and I have committed to having that vote no later than the second week in December.

Again, I am optimistic that after almost 6 weeks of this shutdown, we will finally be able to end it.

I will call up that bill in a matter of minutes, and I look forward to passing the clean continuing resolution and appropriations bill package in the very near future.

Now, Mr. President, I move to proceed to the motion to reconsider the cloture vote on October 16 on the motion to proceed to H.R. 5371.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.

The motion was agreed to.

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, I move to reconsider the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to H.R. 5371.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.

The motion was agreed to.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.

The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived.

The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the motion to proceed to H.R. 5371, a bill making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close, upon reconsideration?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 40, as follows:

The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 40.

Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion, upon reconsideration, is agreed to.

The motion was agreed to.

(Applause.)

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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Measure Read the First Time: S. 3168

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, I understand there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time.

The legislative clerk read as follows:

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, I now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The objection is heard.

The bill will be read for the second time on the next legislative day.

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Morning Business

Susan M. CollinsRepublican, Maine

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Congressional Record, at the appropriate place, the explanatory statement to accompany the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026.

There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY MS. COLLINS, CHAIR OF THE SENATE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, REGARDING H.R. 5371, THE CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, AGRICULTURE, LEGISLATIVE BRANCH, MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics

Global Change/UV Monitoring.... ..................................... 1,000 12-1500/26

Potato Research................ ..................................... 4,000 12-1500/26

Aquaculture Research........... ..................................... 2,000 12-1500/26

Grants Management System....... ..................................... 7,000 12-1500/X

Federal Administration--Other ..................................... 10,500 12-1500/26

Food and Nutrition Education... ..................................... 70,000 12-0502/26

Farm Safety and Youth Farm ..................................... 5,000 12-0502/26

New Technologies for ..................................... 1,600 12-0502/26

Children, Youth, and Families ..................................... 8,000 12-0502/26

Federally Recognized Tribes ..................................... 4,000 12-0502/26

Agriculture in the K-12 7 U.S.C. 3152(j)..................... 500 12-0502/26

Federal Administration--Other ..................................... 6,500 12-0502/26

Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

Animal Health Technical $42,500 12-1600/X

Aquatic Animal Health........ 4,500 12-1600/26

Avian Health................. 65,000 12-1600/X

Cattle Health................ 106,010 12-1600/26

Cattle Health: Screwworm 4,990 12-1600/X

Cervid Health................ 32,800 12-1600/26

Equine Health................ 2,450 12-1600/26

National Veterinary Stockpile 6,250 12-1600/X

Swine Health................. 27,000 12-1600/26

Veterinary Biologics......... 21,000 12-1600/26

Veterinary Diagnostics....... 38,473 12-1600/26

National Bio- and Agro- 24,527 12-1600/X

Zoonotic Disease Management.. 21,000 12-1600/X

Agricultural Quarantine 35,500 12-1600/X

Cotton Pests................. 15,500 12-1600/X

Field Crop & Rangeland 11,000 12-1600/X

Pest Detection............... 29,000 12-1600/26

Plant Protection Methods 21,500 12-1600/26

Specialty Crop Pests......... 205,500 12-1600/X

Multiple-Agency Response to 8,500 12-1600/26/27

Tree & Wood Pests............ 58,650 12-1600/X

Wildlife Damage Management... 120,250 12-1600/26

Wildlife Damage Management: 2,500 12-1600/X

Wildlife Services Methods 24,500 12-1600/26

Wildlife Services Methods 1,000 12-1600/X

Animal & Plant Health 18,500 12-1600/26

Biotechnology Regulatory 19,500 12-1600/26

Contingency Fund............. 250 12-1600/X

Emergency Preparedness & 44,250 12-1600/X

Agriculture Import/Export.... 18,500 12-1600/26

Overseas Technical & Trade 25,500 12-1600/26

Animal Welfare............... 37,250 12-1600/X

Horse Protection............. 3,500 12-1600/X

APHIS Information Technology 4,000 12-1600/X

Physical/Operational Security 5,000 12-1600/26

Rent and DHS security 40,000 12-1600/26

FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS, INCOME, AND SUPPLY (SECTION 32)

Food and Nutrition Service.......................... -23,040,457

Commerce Department................................. -413,534

Appropriations Temporarily Reduced --............... -87,951

Appropriation (Previously Unavailable in FY25)...... 49,244

Child Nutrition Programs (Entitlement Commodities).. 485,000

State Option Contract............................... 5,000

Removal of Defective Commodities.................... 2,500

Disaster Relief..................................... 5,000

Additional Fruits, Vegetables, and Nuts Purchases... 206,000

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program................... 212,000

Estimated Future Needs.............................. 735,942

Commodity Purchase Support.......................... 40,971

Marketing Agreements and Orders..................... 23,880

Office of the Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation

Farm Ownership Loans:

Farm Operating Loans:

Emergency Loans..................................... 14,388

Indian Tribe Land Acquisition Loans................. 20,000

Conservation Loans-Guaranteed....................... 150,000

Boll Weevil Eradication............................. 60,000

Farm Ownership-Direct............................... 32,766

Emergency Loans..................................... 1,000

Boll Weevil Eradication Loans....................... 84

Salaries and Expenses............................... 305,803

Administrative Expenses............................. 20,250

RURAL DEVELOPMENT--RURAL HOUSING SERVICE RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND

Single family housing (sec. 502):

RURAL DEVELOPMENT--RURAL HOUSING SERVICEPRURAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES

CF direct loans..................................... $1,250,000

CF guaranteed loans................................. 650,000 Loan subsidies and grants:

CF grants........................................... 5,000

Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 659,161

Rural Community Development Initiative.............. 5,000

Tribal college grants............................... 8,000

RURAL DEVELOPMENT--RURAL BUSINESS COOPERATIVE SERVICE RURAL BUSINESS

Business and industry guaranteed loans.............. $1,750,000 Loan subsidy and grants:

Business and industry guaranteed loans.............. 15,575

Rural business development grants................... 25,000

Delta Regional Authority/ARC/NBRC/SWBRC............. 10,000

RURAL DEVELOPMENT--RURAL BUSINESS COOPERATIVE SERVICE INTERMEDIARY

Estimated loan level................................ $9,000 Subsidies and administrative expenses:

Direct loan subsidy level........................... 2,495

Administrative Expenses............................. 4,468

Estimated loan level................................ $17,000 Subsidies and administrative expenses:

Direct loan subsidy level........................... 2,735

Grants.............................................. 1,265

RURAL DEVELOPMENT--RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE RURAL WATER AND WASTE

Water and waste direct loans........................ $1,000,000

Water and waste disposal direct loans............... 15,000

Water and waste guaranteed loans.................... 50,000

Direct Subsidy (including distressed communities)... 47,600

Water and waste disposal direct one percent loans... 3,876

Water and waste revolving fund...................... 1,000

Water well system grants............................ 5,000

Grants for Colonias, Native Americans, and Alaska 60,000

Water and waste technical assistance grants......... 35,000

Circuit Rider program............................... 23,900

Solid waste management grants....................... 4,000

High energy cost grants............................. 8,000

Water and waste disposal grants..................... 140,000

Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 110,489

306A(i)(2) grants................................... 7,000

RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

RURAL DEVELOPMENT--RURAL UTILITIES SERVICEPRURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND

Electric:

Telecommunications:

Direct, treasury rate............................... 3,570

Rural Energy Savings Program........................ 4,200

Administrative expenses............................. 33,270

Distance learning and telemedicine grants........... $30,000

DLT Community Project Funding/Congressionally 10,767

Broadband ReConnect Loans and Grants................ 50,000

ReConnect Community Project Funding/Congressionally 750

Community Connect Grants............................ 17,000

Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer

FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE--SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

State administrative costs.......................... 6,252,522

Employment and Training............................. 699,600

Mandatory other program costs....................... 418,743

Discretionary other program costs:

Office of the Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural

McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition

Foods............................................... $1,171,319

Human Foods Program................................. 576,058

Human Drugs......................................... 684,841

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research............. 492,917

Biologics........................................... 259,295

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research........ 216,323

Animal Drugs and Feeds.............................. 218,399

Center for Veterinary Medicine...................... 162,543

Devices and Radiological Products................... 454,874

Center for Devices and Radiological Health.......... 366,365

Prescription Drug User Fee Act...................... 1,556,039

Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act....... 478,166

Human Generic Drug User Fee Act..................... 670,900

Biosimilar User Fee Act............................. 55,841

Animal Drug User Fee Act............................ 36,152

Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act.................... 26,724

Tobacco Product User Fees........................... 712,000

DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

Subtotal.................................................. 25,206 18,300 18,721 -6,485 +421

Total, Office of the Secretary............................ 58,292 42,696 46,361 -11,931 +3,665

Total, Executive Operations............................... 421,504 383,462 389,956 -31,548 +6,494

Office of the Chief Scientist............................. 500 ................ 500 ................ +500

Census of Agriculture..................................... (46,850) (46,000) (46,000) (-850) ................

Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed ................ ................ 57,650 +57,650 +57,650

Total, Agricultural Research Service...................... 1,788,063 1,700,000 1,853,713 +65,650 +153,713

Total, National Institute of Food and Agriculture......... 1,678,750 1,036,956 1,677,010 -1,740 +640,054

Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed ................ ................ 11,384 +11,384 +11,384

Total, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service......... 1,148,750 1,148,750 1,158,034 +9,284 +9,284

Permanent, (Section 32)................................... 1,574,028 1,667,049 1,716,293 +142,265 +49,244

Payments to States and Possessions........................ 1,000 ................ 500 -500 +500

Limitation on inspection and weighing services expenses... (55,000) (55,000) (55,000) ................ ................

Lab accreditation fees.................................... (1,000) (1,000) (1,000) ................ ................

(by transfer from CCC).................................... (60,228) (70,740) (70,740) (+10,512) ................

(by transfer from ACIF)................................... (305,803) (236,474) (305,803) ................ (+69,329)

Loan authorizations:

Loan subsidies:

ACIF administrative expenses:

Total, Farm Production Programs........................... 1,917,998 1,509,027 1,732,063 -185,935 +223,036

Conservation Operations................................... 895,754 112,259 815,375 -80,379 +703,116

Farm Security and Rural Investment Program:

Watershed flood and prevention operations................. 14,650 ................ 17,640 +2,990 +17,640

Watershed rehabilitation program.......................... 1,000 ................ 3,000 +2,000 +3,000

Federal crop insurance corporation fund................... 14,581,000 14,264,000 15,346,000 +765,000 +1,082,000

Reimbursement for net realized losses..................... 13,863,000 13,491,380 13,953,731 +90,731 +462,351

Hazardous waste management (limitation on expenses)....... (15,000) (15,000) (15,000) ................ ................

Total, title II, Farm Production and Conservation Programs 31,273,402 29,376,666 31,934,794 +661,392 +2,558,128

(By transfer)............................................. (366,031) (307,214) (376,543) (+10,512) (+69,329)

(Transfer out)............................................ (-366,031) (-307,214) (-376,543) (-10,512) (-69,329)

Salaries and expenses..................................... 351,087 265,008 312,000 -39,087 +46,992

(by transfer from RHIF)................................... (412,254) (412,254) (412,254) ................ ................

(by transfer from RDLFP).................................. (4,468) ................ (4,468) ................ (+4,468)

(by transfer from RETLP).................................. (33,270) (33,270) (33,270) ................ ................

Total, Rural development expenses (including transfers)... 801,079 710,532 761,992 -39,087 +51,460

Loan authorizations:

Loan subsidies:

Farm labor housing grants................................. 5,500 6,220 6,000 +500 -220

RHIF administrative expenses.............................. 412,254 412,254 412,254 ................ ................

(transfer out to Rural Development)....................... (-412,254) (-412,254) (-412,254) ................ ................

Rural Business Program Account:

Intermediary Relending Program Fund Account:

Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account:

Rural Cooperative Development Grants:

Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program:

Rural Energy for America Program:

Healthy Food Financing Initiative......................... 500 ................ 50 -450 +50

Rural water and waste disposal program account:

Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Program

Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program:

Child nutrition programs.................................. 33,250,226 36,500,652 37,825,674 +4,575,448 +1,325,022

Special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, 7,597,000 7,697,000 8,200,000 +603,000 +503,000

Supplemental nutrition assistance program:

Commodity assistance program:

Nutrition programs administration......................... 177,348 164,684 160,000 -17,348 -4,684

(By transfer from export loans)........................... (6,063) (6,063) (6,063) ................ ................

Expenses.................................................. 1,619,107 ................ 1,200,000 -419,107 +1,200,000 McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child 240,000 ................ 240,000 ................ +240,000 Nutrition program grants.....................................

Credit Guarantee Program Account.......................... 6,063 6,063 6,063 ................ ................

Total, title V, Foreign Assistance and Related Programs... 2,098,354 231,977 1,673,917 -424,437 +1,441,940

(By transfer)............................................. (6,063) (6,063) (6,063) ................ ................

(Transfer out)............................................ (-6,063) (-6,063) (-6,063) ................ ................

TITLE VI--RELATED AGENCY AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

Transfer to OIG (transfer out)............................ (-1,500) ................ (-1,500) ................ (-1,500)

Prescription drug user fees............................... 1,422,104 1,543,266 1,556,039 +133,935 +12,773

Medical device user fees.................................. 362,381 445,808 478,166 +115,785 +32,358

Human generic drug user fees.............................. 613,538 665,438 670,900 +57,362 +5,462

Biosimilar biological products user fees.................. 31,109 55,731 55,841 +24,732 +110

Animal drug user fees..................................... 33,500 34,142 36,152 +2,652 +2,010

Animal generic drug user fees............................. 25,000 26,503 26,724 +1,724 +221

Tobacco product user fees................................. 712,000 712,000 712,000 ................ ................

Mammography user fees..................................... 19,758 19,758 19,758 ................ ................

Export user fees.......................................... 5,185 5,185 5,185 ................ ................

Color certification user fees............................. 11,109 11,109 11,109 ................ ................

Food and Feed Recall user fees............................ 1,584 1,769 1,769 +185 ................

Food Reinspection fees.................................... 7,079 7,907 7,907 +828 ................

Voluntary qualified importer program fees................. 5,852 6,536 6,536 +684 ................

Pharmacy compounding fees................................. 1,679 1,874 1,874 +195 ................

Priority review vouchers (PRV) pediatric disease.......... 8,486 9,479 9,479 +993 ................

Priority review vouchers (PRV) tropical disease........... 2,713 3,030 3,030 +317 ................

Priority review vouchers (PRV) medical countermeasures.... 2,713 ................ ................ -2,713 ................

Third party auditor....................................... 787 878 878 +91 ................

Over-the-Counter Monograph fees........................... 31,800 37,981 37,981 +6,181 ................

Increased export certification fees (leg proposal)........ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................

Expand tobacco products fees (leg proposal)............... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................

Total, FDA (w/user fees, including proposals)............. 6,825,527 6,755,260 7,068,478 +242,951 +313,218

Total, FDA (w/enacted user fees only)..................... 6,825,527 6,755,260 7,068,478 +242,951 +313,218

Total, Food and Drug Administration (excluding user fees). 3,527,150 3,166,866 3,427,150 -100,000 +260,284

Total, title VI, Related Agency and Food and Drug 3,892,150 3,576,866 3,427,150 -465,000 -149,716

RCFP (emergency).......................................... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................

Food for Peace (emergency)................................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ Community Connect (recission)................................. -30,000 ................ ................ +30,000 ................ Working Capital Fund (rescission)............................. -78,000 -78,000 -78,000 ................ ................ RD DLT (recission)............................................ -18,891 ................ ................ +18,891 ................ APHIS NBAF (recission)........................................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ FDA ARP (recission)........................................... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ AFIDA......................................................... 2,000 ................ ................ -2,000 ................ Sec 745 (recission)........................................... ................ -75,000 ................ ................ +75,000 AMS Marketing Services (rescission)........................... ................ -1,000 ................ ................ +1,000 ReConnect (rescission)........................................ ................ -40,000 -20,000 -20,000 +20,000 Energy Circuit Rider Pilot.................................... ................ ................ 3,000 +3,000 +3,000 Cotton Classing Office Upgrades............................... ................ ................ 4,000 +4,000 +4,000 WIC (recission)............................................... ................ -391,000 ................ ................ +391,000 Agricultural Marketing Services (rescission).................. ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ Section 32.................................................... -49,000 ................ ................ +49,000 ................ Food For Peace Title II Grants (rescission)................... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ Buy American Study............................................ ................ ................ 1,000 +1,000 +1,000 IRS Rescission................................................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ Treasury Forfeiture Fund (rescission)......................... ................ ................ -350,000 -350,000 -350,000

Total, title VII, General Provisions...................... -224,775 -585,000 -472,550 -247,775 +112,450

Total, Other Appropriations............................... 33,656,035 ................ ................ -33,656,035 ................

Appropriations............................................ (216,302,965) (209,709,694) (207,577,545) (-8,725,420) (-2,132,149)

Emergency appropriations.................................. (33,656,035) ................ ................ (-33,656,035) ................

Emergency advance appropriations.......................... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................

Offsetting collections.................................... (-3,298,377) (-3,588,394) (-3,641,328) (-342,951) (-52,934)

Rescissions............................................... (-200,975) (-585,000) (-500,000) (-299,025) (+85,000) (By transfer)................................................. (1,645,672) (1,517,602) (1,666,696) (+21,024) (+149,094) (By transfer) (emergency)..................................... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ (Transfer out)................................................ (-1,645,672) (-1,517,602) (-1,666,696) (-21,024) (-149,094) (Loan authorization).......................................... (48,158,599) (45,477,845) (49,848,388) (+1,689,789) (+4,370,543) (Limitation on administrative expenses)....................... (226,896) (239,096) (239,096) (+12,200) ................

Minor Construction.................. 6,000,000

Conservation of Fine and 599,000

Electrical Power Distribution System 26,200,000

Air Handling Units and Fans 7,300,000

Minor Construction.................. 3,000,000

Minor Construction.................. 8,400,000

Facfade Restoration, Hart........... 20,000,000

Electrical Vault Repair and 8,500,000

Minor Construction.................. 9,500,000-

CAO Project Support................. 10,890,000

House Historic Building 10,000,000

Elevator and Escalator Repair 4,000,000

Minor Construction.................. 7,000,000

Concrete Repairs, B & R Tunnels, CPP 10,000,000

General Area Fire Alarm Upgrades, 3,200,000

Electric Feeder and Communication 2,400,000

Minor Construction.................. 6,000,000

Fire Sprinkler System Replacement, 12,000,000

Minor Construction.................. 12,000,000

Minor Construction.................. 5,000,000

JOHN C. STENNIS CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

Subtotal, Expense Allowances.............................. 195 195 195 ................ ................

Total, Expense Allowances................................. 225 225 225 ................ ................

Total, Salaries, Officers and Employees................... 277,838 324,061 311,543 +33,705 -12,518

Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, and Secretaries for the

Total, Contingent Expenses of the Senate.................. 1,036,435 1,135,591 1,144,509 +108,074 +8,918

Total, Senate............................................. 1,324,543 1,470,739 1,467,139 +142,596 -3,600

Total, House Leadership Offices........................... 36,560 36,560 36,560 ................ ................

Total, Allowance for Compensation of Interns.............. 24,288 24,288 24,288 ................ ................

Total, Committee Employees................................ 211,881 236,837 216,081 +4,200 -20,756

Total, Salaries, Officers and Employees................... 320,227 370,199 460,603 +140,376 +90,404

Total, Allowances and Expenses............................ 433,390 497,855 491,523 +58,133 -6,332

Total, House of Representatives........................... 1,878,346 2,086,160 2,083,055 +204,709 -3,105

Total, Joint Items........................................ 23,895 25,940 24,958 +1,063 -982

Total, Capitol Police..................................... 806,473 967,759 852,350 +45,877 -115,409

House Historic Buildings Revitalization Fund.............. ................ 10,500 10,000 +10,000 -500

Spending from offsetting collections...................... -10,000 -10,000 -10,000 ................ ................

Total, Architect of the Capitol........................... 830,261 1,346,514 811,916 -18,345 -534,598

Authority to spend receipts............................... -44,591 -44,849 -44,849 -258 ................

Prior year unobligated balances........................... -1,000 ................ ................ +1,000 ................

Salaries and expenses..................................... 136,080 144,568 136,080 ................ -8,488

National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled

Salaries and expenses..................................... 66,130 68,001 66,130 ................ -1,871

Total, Government Publishing Office....................... 131,999 135,377 132,000 +1 -3,377

Offsetting collections.................................... -73,976 -72,189 -35,424 +38,552 +36,765

CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND

Total, Title I, Legislative Branch........................ 6,744,149 7,959,772 7,125,000 +380,851 -834,772

Total, Title II, General Provisions....................... -4,000 ................ 102,500 +106,500 +102,500

FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024 (PL 118-22)

Total, Other Appropriations............................... 522 ................ 30,522 +30,000 +30,522

Appropriations............................................ (6,824,647) (8,041,961) (7,303,446) (+478,799) (-738,515)

Offsetting collections.................................... (-83,976) (-82,189) (-45,424) (+38,552) (+36,765)

(Discretionary)........................................... (6,740,149) (7,959,772) (7,257,500) (+517,351) (-702,272)

(Mandatory)............................................... (522) ................ (522) ................ (+522) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

DIVISION D--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED

Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps

Experience Office are funded solely with reimbursable authority.

St. Louis, MO...................... Replace Bed Tower, 727,328 900,000 1,627,328

West Los Angeles, CA............... Build New Critical Care 53,000 ................ 53,000

Advanced Planning and Design-- Various Stations......... 75,339 ................ 75,339

Asbestos........................... Various Stations......... 1,000 ................ 1,000

Claim Analysis..................... Various Stations......... 1,000 ................ 1,000

Construction & Facilities Various Stations......... 150,000 ................ 150,000

Hazardous Waste.................... Various Stations......... 1,000 ................ 1,000

Non-Departmental Federal Entity Various Stations......... 162,733 ................ 162,733

Riverside, CA...................... Riverside National 185,100 ................ 185,100

Various Stations................... Advanced Planning and 20,000 ................ 20,000

Various Stations................... NCA Land Acquisition Fund 7,500 ................ 7,500

DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT

FORT RUCKER

REDSTONE ARSENAL

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE

DEF RETUIL AND DEPOT MKTG OFC

FORT WAINWRIGHT

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE

CAMP PENDLETON

CHINA LAKE

CORONADO

LEMOORE

MONTEREY

POINT MUGU

SAN DIEGO

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE

FORT CARSON

NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE NEW LONDON

GROTON

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE

DAGSBORO

WILMINGTON

NEW CASTLE COUNTY AIRPORT

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE

MARINE BARRACKS 8TH AND I

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE

KEY WEST

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION

NAVAL AIR STATION JACKSONVILLE

USMC SUPPORT FACILITY BLOUNT ISLAND

WHITING FIELD

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE

FORT GILLEM

FORT STEWART

KINGS BAY

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE

FORT BENNING

SAVANNAH/HILTON HEAD INTERNATIONAL

DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS

WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM

KANEOHE BAY

KAUAI

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL

MARSEILLES TRAINING CENTER

PEORIA

CRANE ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT

WATERLOO

FORT LEAVENWORTH

FORT RILEY

BLUE GRASS ARMY DEPOT

FORT CAMPBELL

FORT KNOX

SOMERSET

FORT KNOX

FORT POLK

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE

PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD

BANGOR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER INDIAN

SUITLAND

BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL

FORT MEADE

EDGEWOOD

HAGERSTOWN

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE

OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE

WESTOVER AIR RESERVE BASE

SELFRIDGE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE

MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL INTERNATIONAL

ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND

STENNIS SPACE CENTER

COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE

HATTIESBURG

KEY FIELD

WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE

MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE

HELENA

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE

FALLON

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE

RENO-TAHOE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

CONCORD

HOOKSETT

PEMBROKE

PLYMOUTH

PEASE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE

NAVAL WEAPONS STATION EARLE

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE DIX LAKEHURST

ATLANTIC CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

CANNON AIR FORCE BASE

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE

FORT DRUM

FORT HAMILTON

WATERVLIET ARSENAL

NIAGARA FALLS AIR RESERVE STATION

FORT BRAGG

CHERRY POINT MARINE CORPS AIR

SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE

CAMP LEJEUNE

FORT BRAGG

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE

FORT SILL

MCALESTER ARMY AMMUNTION PLANT

ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE

NAVAL WEAPONS SYSTEMS TRAINING

PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT

MECHANICSBURG

DEF DISTRIBUTION DEPOT NEW

HARRISBURG

NEW CASTLE

NEWPORT

FORT JACKSON

CHARLESTON

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT PARRIS

JOINT BASE CHARLESTON

ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE

WATERTOWN

JOE FOSS FIELD

CORPUS CHRISTI ARMY DEPOT

RED RIVER ARMY DEPOT

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE

GOODFELLOW AIR FORCE BASE

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO

NAVAL AIR STATION FORT WORTH

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO

HILL AIR FORCE BASE

SALT LAKE CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

CAMP ETHAN ALLEN TRAINING SITE

LYNDON

JOINT EXPEDITIONARY BASE LITTLE

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK

NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY HAMPTON ROADS

NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD

PORTSMOUTH

YORKTOWN

PENTAGON

SANDSTON

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD

BANGOR

PUGET SOUND

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD

MANCHESTER

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE

CAMP DAWSON

CAMP DAWSON--KINGWOOD

MCLAUGHLIN AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE

BLACK RIVER FALLS

WAUSAU

WISCONSIN RAPIDS

FE WARREN AIR FORCE BASE

DARWIN

SW ASIA

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION

DIEGO GARCIA

CAMP LEMONIER

ANSBACH

SMITH BARRACKS

RAMSTEIN

BAUMHOLDER

RHINE ORDNANCE BARRACKS

PITUFFIK SPACE BASE

JOINT REGION MARIANAS

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE

APRA HEIGHTS

FINEGAYAN

JOINT REGION MARIANAS

BARRIGADA

CAMP BUTLER

KADENA AIR BASE

RYGGE

PUNTA BORINQUEN

ROYAL AIR FORCE FELTWELL

ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH

ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL

VARIOUS

DESIGN.............................. 287,557 252,557

HOST NATION SUPPORT................. 46,031 46,031

MINOR CONSTRUCTION.................. 79,218 79,218

PDI: INDOPACOM MINOR CONSTRUCTION 68,453 68,453

DESIGN.............................. 562,423 527,423

MINOR CONSTRUCTION.................. 119,331 123,331

INDOPACOM MILCON PILOT PROGRAM...... 162,855 162,855

DESIGN.............................. 573,223 508,223

MINOR CONSTRUCTION.................. 72,900 72,900

INDOPACOM MILCON PILOT PROGRAM...... 123,800 123,800

DESIGN

MINOR CONSTRUCTION

DESIGN.............................. 13,580 22,580

DESIGN.............................. 24,146 32,146

MINOR CONSTRUCTION.................. 25,000 25,000

DESIGN.............................. 6,013 6,013

MINOR CONSTRUCTION.................. 6,226 6,226

DESIGN.............................. 2,255 2,255

DESIGN.............................. 270 270

MINOR CONSTRUCTION.................. 188 188

NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE

ARMY................................ 171,870 186,870

NAVY................................ 112,791 132,791

AIR FORCE........................... 124,196 144,196

DEFENSE-WIDE........................ 1,304 1,304

CHIEVRES AIR BASE

HOHENFELS

FURNISHINGS......................... 16,254 16,254

LEASED HOUSING...................... 116,275 116,275

MAINTENANCE OF REAL PROPERTY 110,941 110,941

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT.................. 41,450 46,450

MILITARY HOUSING PRIVATIZATION 41,089 46,089

MISCELLANEOUS....................... 319 319

SERVICES............................ 8,096 8,096

UTILITIES........................... 43,994 43,994

FAMILY HOUSING, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS

JOINT REGION MARIANAS

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI

VARIOUS

FURNISHINGS......................... 16,820 16,820

HOUSING PRIVATIZATION SUPPORT....... 57,061 62,061

LEASING............................. 68,426 68,426

MAINTENANCE......................... 112,019 112,019

MANAGEMENT.......................... 56,956 61,956

MISCELLANEOUS....................... 435 435

SERVICES............................ 17,424 17,424

UTILITIES........................... 44,967 44,967

BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM

KADENA AIR BASE

YOKOTA AIR BASE

FURNISHINGS......................... 31,275 31,275

HOUSING PRIVATIZATION............... 38,987 43,987

LEASING............................. 5,436 5,436

MAINTENANCE......................... 142,572 142,572

MANAGEMENT.......................... 54,581 59,581

MISCELLANEOUS....................... 1,475 1,475

SERVICES............................ 12,701 12,701

UTILITIES........................... 72,738 72,738

DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY......... .............. 144,000

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY NATIONAL .............. 15,500

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR NATIONAL .............. 11,000

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY RESERVE. .............. 15,000 CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS--DESIGN (SEC 128)

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY......... .............. 5,000

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY AND .............. 5,000

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE.... .............. 5,000 BARRACKS--DESIGN (SEC 129)

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY......... .............. 5,000

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY AND .............. 5,000

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE.... .............. 5,000 DEMOLITION--UNSPECIFIED MINOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION (SEC 130)

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY......... .............. 10,000

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY AND .............. 25,000

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE.... .............. 10,000

CONSTRUCTION........................ (228,558) (228,558)

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE........... (378,418) (388,418) FAMILY HOUSING, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS... 551,705 561,705

CONSTRUCTION........................ (177,597) (177,597)

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE........... (374,108) (384,108) FAMILY HOUSING, AIR FORCE............... 633,995 643,995

CONSTRUCTION........................ (274,230) (274,230)

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE........... (359,765) (369,765) FAMILY HOUSING, DEFENSE-WIDE............ 53,374 53,374

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE........... (53,374) (53,374) DOD FAMILY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT FUND..... 8,315 8,315 DOD UNACCOMPANIED HOUSING IMPROVEMENT 497 497 FUND................................... ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS............... .............. 260,500

GRAND TOTAL......................... 18,892,743 19,737,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Military Construction, Army............................... 2,236,357 2,173,959 2,381,909 +145,552 +207,950

Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps.............. 4,159,399 6,012,677 5,725,724 +1,566,325 -286,953

Military Construction, Air Force.......................... 3,347,126 3,721,473 3,926,273 +579,147 +204,800

Military Construction, Defense-Wide....................... 3,881,383 3,792,301 3,784,301 -97,082 -8,000

Military Construction, Army National Guard................ 398,489 151,880 272,930 -125,559 +121,050

Military Construction, Air National Guard................. 290,492 188,646 292,546 +2,054 +103,900

Military Construction, Army Reserve....................... 295,032 42,239 92,239 -202,793 +50,000

Military Construction, Navy Reserve....................... 29,829 2,255 52,255 +22,426 +50,000

Military Construction, Air Force Reserve.................. 74,663 60,458 116,468 +41,805 +56,010

Military Construction, Army............................... ................ ................ 144,000 +144,000 +144,000

Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps.............. ................ ................ ................ ................ ................

Military Construction, Air Force.......................... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................

Military Construction, Army National Guard................ ................ ................ 15,500 +15,500 +15,500

Military Construction, Air National Guard................. ................ ................ 11,000 +11,000 +11,000

Military Construction, Army Reserve....................... ................ ................ 15,000 +15,000 +15,000

Military Construction, Air Force Reserve.................. ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ Lab Infrastructure (Sec 128):

Lab Infrastructure, Army.................................. ................ ................ ................ ................ ................

Lab Infrastructure, Navy & Marine Corps................... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................

Lab Infrastructure, Air Force............................. ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ Authorized Projects (Sec 128)

Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps.............. ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ Child Development Centers (Sec 128):

Military Construction, Army............................... ................ ................ 5,000 +5,000 +5,000

Military Construction, Navy & Marine Corps................ ................ ................ 5,000 +5,000 +5,000

Military Construction, Air Force.......................... ................ ................ 5,000 +5,000 +5,000 Barracks Replacement (Sec 129):

Military Construction, Army............................... ................ ................ 5,000 +5,000 +5,000

Military Construction, Navy & Marine Corps................ ................ ................ 5,000 +5,000 +5,000

Military Construction, Air Force.......................... ................ ................ 5,000 +5,000 +5,000 Demolition (Sec 130):

Military Construction, Army............................... ................ ................ 10,000 +10,000 +10,000

Military Construction, Navy & Marine Corps................ ................ ................ 25,000 +25,000 +25,000

Military Construction, Air Force.......................... ................ ................ 10,000 +10,000 +10,000

Budget year appropriations................................ 30,242,064 ................ 5,850,000 -24,392,064 +5,850,000

Advance from prior year appropriations.................... 182,310,515 227,240,071 227,240,071 +44,929,556 ................

Advance appropriations, FY 2027........................... 227,240,071 241,947,603 246,630,525 +19,390,454 +4,682,922

Less appropriations from prior year advances.............. -182,310,515 -227,240,071 -227,240,071 -44,929,556 ................

Budget year appropriations................................ 4,864,566 ................ 4,877,886 +13,320 +4,877,886

Advance from prior year appropriations.................... 13,399,805 20,372,030 20,372,030 +6,972,225 ................

Advance appropriations, FY 2027........................... 20,372,030 20,057,841 24,703,528 +4,331,498 +4,645,687

Less appropriations from prior year advances.............. -13,399,805 -20,372,030 -20,372,030 -6,972,225 ................

Budget year appropriations................................ 12,701 ................ ................ -12,701 ................

Advance from prior year appropriations.................... 135,119 131,518 131,518 -3,601 ................

Advance appropriations, FY 2027........................... 131,518 97,893 97,893 -33,625 ................

Less appropriations from prior year advances.............. -135,119 -131,518 -131,518 +3,601 ................

Credit subsidy:

Subtotal (Credit subsidy)................................. 1,720,000 ................ 1,155,000 -565,000 +1,155,000

(Limitation on direct loans).............................. (500) (500) (500) ................ ................

Administrative expenses................................... 316,742 266,737 266,737 -50,005 ................

(Limitation on direct loans).............................. (2,026) (1,394) (1,394) (-632) ................

Administrative expenses................................... 461 507 507 +46 ................ Native American veteran housing loan program account.......... 2,719 ................ ................ -2,719 ................

Administrative expenses................................... ................ 5,845 5,845 +5,845 ................

Cost of Direct Loan....................................... ................ 6,865 6,865 +6,865 ................ General operating expenses, VBA............................... 3,899,000 3,879,000 3,881,000 -18,000 +2,000

Advances from prior year appropriations................... (195,845,439) (247,743,619) (247,743,619) (+51,898,180) ................

Budget year appropriations................................ ................ -15,889,000 -15,889,000 -15,889,000 ................

Advance from prior year appropriations.................... 71,000,000 75,039,000 75,039,000 -11,850,000 ................

Budget year appropriations................................ ................ 3,000,000 ................ ................ -3,000,000

Advance from prior year appropriations.................... 20,382,000 31,000,000 34,000,000 +13,618,000 +3,000,000

Advance appropriations, FY 2027........................... 34,000,000 38,700,000 38,700,000 +4,700,000 ................

Budget year appropriations................................ ................ -610,000 -610,000 -610,000 ................

Advance from prior year appropriations.................... 11,800,000 12,700,000 12,700,000 +290,000 ................

Advance appropriations, FY 2027........................... 12,700,000 12,000,000 12,000,000 -700,000 ................

Budget year appropriations................................ 149,485 ................ 145,917 -3,568 +145,917

Advance from prior year appropriations.................... 9,400,000 9,700,000 9,700,000 +300,000 ................

Advance appropriations, FY 2027........................... 9,700,000 11,700,000 11,700,000 +2,000,000 ................

Medical and prosthetic research........................... 943,000 943,000 945,000 +2,000 +2,000 Medical care cost recovery collections:

Offsetting collections.................................... -4,632,000 ................ -4,279,000 +353,000 -4,279,000

Appropriations (indefinite)............................... 4,632,000 ................ 4,279,000 -353,000 +4,279,000

Budget year appropriations................................ (1,092,485) (5,043,000) (1,090,917) (-1,568) (-3,952,083)

Advance appropriations (FY 2027).......................... (131,439,000) (122,258,000) (122,258,000) (-9,181,000) ................

Advances from prior year appropriations................... (112,582,000) (111,940,000) (114,940,000) (+2,358,000) (+3,000,000)

VA Medical Care........................................... 112,731,485 114,940,000 115,085,917 +2,354,432 +145,917

(Medical Services)........................................ 71,000,000 59,150,000 59,150,000 -11,850,000 ................

(Medical Community Care).................................. 20,382,000 34,000,000 34,000,000 +13,618,000 ................

(Medical Support and Compliance).......................... 11,800,000 12,090,000 12,090,000 +290,000 ................

(Medical Facilities)...................................... 9,549,485 9,700,000 9,845,917 +296,432 +145,917

(By transfer)............................................. (1,127,828) (1,409,872) (2,075,872) (+948,044) (+666,000)

(Transfer out)............................................ (-1,127,828) (-1,409,872) (-2,075,872) (-948,044) (-666,000)

Total, available this fiscal year......................... 367,711,116 434,808,618 445,485,921 +77,774,805 +10,677,303

Total, VA Medical Care available this fiscal year......... 60,833,305 100,580,282 91,397,590 +30,564,285 -9,182,692

(Discretionary)........................................... 112,731,485 114,940,000 115,085,917 +2,354,432 +145,917

Total, American Battle Monuments Commission............... 158,630 106,281 110,000 -48,630 +3,719

INDO-PACIFIC SECURITY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024

DIVISION A--FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025

Rescissions............................................... (-12,000) ................ ................ (+12,000) ................

Advance appropriations, FY26.............................. (379,182,619) (384,361,337) (393,689,946) (+14,507,327) (+9,328,609) Advances from prior year appropriations....................... (308,427,439) (359,683,619) (362,683,619) (+54,256,180) (+3,000,000) (By transfer)................................................. (1,127,828) (1,409,872) (2,075,872) (+948,044) (+666,000) (Transfer out)................................................ (-1,127,828) (-1,409,872) (-2,075,872) (-948,044) (-666,000) (Limitation on direct loans).................................. (2,526) (1,894) (1,894) (-632) ................ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Orders for Monday, November 10, 2025

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 11 a.m. on Monday, November 10; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and the Senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 168, H.R. 5371, postcloture; finally, that all time during recess, adjournment, morning business, and leader remarks count postcloture on the motion to proceed.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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Adjournment Until Monday, November 10, 2025, at 11 A.M.

John ThuneRepublican, South Dakota

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order.

There being no objection, the Senate, at 11:15 p.m., adjourned until Monday, November 10, 2025, at 11 a.m.

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