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Official title: Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Session)
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMs. ROSEN. Mr. President, as we enter spring and schools across the Nation approach their spring breaks, millions of families will soon be traveling. They will be relying on our airports to travel to visit family, to go on vacation, but unfortunately, they will be met with longer lines because Washington Republicans refuse to pay our TSA agents.
without funding because Washington Republicans would rather see it shut down than pass commonsense—just commonsense—guardrails on ICE. In fact, every Senate Republican present voted just this past weekend against paying our TSA agents.
As a result, the American people are paying the price. When TSA staffing levels drop because officers aren't getting paid, wait times at airport security checkpoints—well, they stretch longer and longer. This doesn't just inconvenience travelers; it undermines security and directly threatens jobs and businesses and livelihoods.
administration is going to send untrained ICE agents to our airports— untrained ICE agents—to try to do the job of our highly trained TSA agents.
hard-working TSA agents, pay them right now. They deserve it. If we cannot move forward with funding for the entire Department of Homeland Security, we should at least be able to come together on this. The Trump administration and Senate leadership are having ongoing negotiations on the guardrails on ICE, and TSA officers should not be caught in the middle of that fight.
So today, I am asking my colleagues to take just a simple step: Pass my legislation right now to pay TSA workers so that commercial air travel remains safe and functional.
Let me say this: Claiming that you will not agree to pay TSA agents because this bill doesn't fund the entire
Republicans truly believe that, then why did they agree to literally fund everything else in our government except for DHS?
agree to fund parts of our government where we have an agreement and leave DHS unfunded?
I can tell you why. It is that they know it is the right thing to do. They know that other government employees should not be penalized for the President's mass deportation agenda.
That is exactly why we are asking for this today. Don't penalize TSA and the traveling public for the fact that you refuse to rein in ICE. Have them be held accountable. Have them be trained, transparent, and accountable like every other law enforcement agency in this country.
unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 362, S. 4127; 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. Is there objection?
The Senator from Kansas.
Mr. MARSHALL. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, my colleague from Nevada asks this floor to fund the TSA. She and her colleagues have voted against TSA funding at least five—if not six— times over the past several weeks. Republicans have voted to fund the TSA and to fund all of DHS. So this just seems a bit hypocritical, I guess.
As I think about the situation here, I would ask my colleague: Why did it take Democrats 30 days to come to the table and discuss this issue with Republicans—30 days?
Then we started negotiations. There were some talks on Thursday and Friday between the leaders of both parties. Then, over the weekend, Democrats refused to continue those discussions. Why? Was it because they wanted to go home?
Well, look, we all wanted to go home. TSA officers would like to have a paycheck as well. So it is not lost on me.
This is now the 37th day of the shutdown.
we took 22 Agencies and brought them together—maybe there was some information missed that wasn't shared on September 11—so that maybe that day never happens again. So why would we start breaking up these Agencies now and break up their funding, since we are a stronger, more secure country when we fund all of DHS, not just a part of it?
past 2 weeks, and Democrats have voted at least 6 times not to fund the TSA.
Senate may proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 156, H.R. 4553. I further ask that the substitute amendment at the desk be considered and 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. Does the Senator so modify the request?
The Senator from Nevada.
Ms. ROSEN. Mr. President, I reserve the right to object.
a whole rather than piecemeal, but you won't agree to commonsense reforms. In fact, the President himself said, this weekend, that he will not agree to any reform or funding of the DHS, and he is holding other bills hostage. So it is on the President's desk. The President has clearly interjected himself in this by putting ICE in our airports when we can fund the entire Department of Homeland Security and continue the discussions on ICE, which are going back and forth with the President and his team and leadership, and be done with it.
pass the TSA, but the President has interjected himself again. He doesn't want guardrails. So I want to just, at least, prevent those TSA agents from missing another paycheck.
In the meantime, get ICE out of our airports.
Therefore, I object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
Is there an objection to the original request?
Mr. MARSHALL. I object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
The Senator from Nevada.
Ms. ROSEN. Mr. President, you know, I find this really disappointing. Paying our hard-working TSA officers shouldn't be controversial. It is not partisan. The funding isn't controversial. People in my State and in every State are waiting 3 hours, maybe more than that. They are missing their flights.
Everyone here has the power to do something about it. My Republican colleagues have the power to do something about it. They don't have to wait for the President. So, if Washington Republicans—my Senate colleagues—really wanted to do what was right by their constituents regarding the TSA workers, you would have passed my bill to pay the TSA officers, instead of punishing them and the American people because of your inaction.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.