Jon Tester: “OK. Very good. Can I ask what the DOD is doing to help you?”

Was totally figuratively speaking.

These are important bills that need to get advanced, and today is the start of that.

I think we need to take these things seriously. I think the president and I think, more importantly, the military are taking it very, very seriously.

I know of no further debate on the bill, as amended. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time and there being no further debate, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (S. 1987), as amended, was passed.