Ensuring That Goods Made with Forced Labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China Do Not Enter the United States Market
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Mr. MURPHY. We are going to be able in a few moments to speak together, Republicans and Democrats, on our commitment to ending genocide in China.
I want to thank the Senator for working with me to make sure that, as part of his unanimous consent request, we are going to be able to make sure we have personnel in place to properly implement this policy. We have dozens of State Department and Department of Defense nominees pending on this floor--more so than we have ever had at the end of a first-term, first-year Presidency--and we will, hopefully before we leave--we have to, before we leave, make substantial progress on this list in order to adequately protect our country.
At the very least, as we put forward this important new policy, it does make sense to accompany it and its passage with three key personnel who will be in charge of implementing it.
I believe we are going to be able to modify this request in the following manner. I would formally ask Senator Rubio to modify this request that he has made to include the following request. Unanimous Consent Agreement
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Mr. MURPHY. today, the Senate proceed to the following nominations: Executive Calendar No. 525, R. Nicholas Burns, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the People's Republic of China; Calendar No. 626, Ramin Toloui, of Iowa, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Economic and Business Affairs); and Calendar No. 619, Rashad Hussain, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom; that there be 10 minutes for debate equally divided in the usual form on the nominations en bloc; that upon the use or yielding back of that time, the Senate vote without intervening action or debate on the nominations in the order listed; that if the nominations are confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate; and that the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
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