I call up substitute amendment No. 3695. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Alabama [Mr. Shelby] proposes an amendment numbered 3695.

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of Amendments.'') The PRESIDING OFFICER. The…

I will be brief. I appreciate the Senator's amendment. On policy grounds, I would agree with Senator Cruz 100 percent. My position on this, though, is clear, and I have consistently voted to repeal ObamaCare and the individual mandate. So…

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I rise this afternoon to urge my colleagues to invoke cloture on the substitute amendment before us. In debating this measure over the past week, we voted on several amendments. We hope to include dozens more in a managers' package that we…

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this week the Senate takes another step toward regular order in the appropriations process in the Senate. The package before the Senate today contains the fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills for the Subcommittees on Interior; Financial…

I ask unanimous consent that for the purpose of rule XVI in relation to the substitute amendment No. 3399, division A of H.R. 6147 serve as the basis for defense of germaneness for division A of the amendment; that division B of H.R. 6147…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of Amendments.'') The PRESIDING OFFICER. The…

I now call up the substitute amendment No. 3399. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Alabama [Mr. Shelby] proposes an amendment numbered 3399.

I move that the Senate insist on its amendment, agree to the request of the House for a conference, and the Chair be authorized to appoint conferees on the part of the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the…