EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will
proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following
nomination, which the clerk will report.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of John
George Edward Marck, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for
the Southern District of Texas.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

                                  E15

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I am here once again like I have done at
least once a week every week since the House passed year-round E15. I
do it to communicate the importance of the Senate passing year-round
E15.
  I have talked about the importance of year-round E15 to agriculture
in my previous speeches. I have also spoke about how E15 will lower gas
prices in previous remarks.
  I will repeat again--and I have made it clear--that E15 is not a
mandate as opponents charge because E15 gives consumers a choice at the
gasoline pump. And I have shown how E15 supports America's rural
economy.
  I would like to highlight today another reason why we need to pass
year-round E15, and it is because of our national security. This was
recently a point of discussion when Agriculture Secretary Rollins was
before the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee and she said
this at a hearing in response to my question about year-round E15.
  She said:

       There is no national security without farm security.

  I agree with the Secretary.
  E15 protects national security by supporting American farmers and
expanding homegrown fuels. When the Congress established the Renewable
Fuel Standard, it was intended in part to diversify our Nation's
renewable fuels to ensure that we didn't rely on imported oil.
  Expanding access to clean, American-grown fuel reduces our reliance
on international sources of energy. Passing E15 is common sense for our
pocketbooks, for our environment, and for our national security. I will
continue to communicate with my colleagues about why E15 is good, good,
good.
  I yield the floor.
  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.
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

              Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, today, we mark 4 years since the Supreme
Court's Dobbs decision, the landmark Supreme Court decision overturning
Roe v. Wade and returning the question of abortion to the people and
their elected representatives.
  Roe was, quite simply, terrible constitutional law--a fact that has
been acknowledged by legal scholars across the political spectrum--and
the Dobbs decision reversed this decades-old error and made it clear
that Roe's supposed constitutional right to an abortion simply didn't
exist.
  I am proud to have fought, along with my Republican colleagues, to
put

Justices on the Supreme Court who focus on interpreting the law and the
Constitution, instead of creating new constitutional law out of thin
air, as the Justices did in Roe.
  It is fitting that the Dobbs decision occurs close to our Nation's
birthday, July 4, the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of
Independence. As we prepare to celebrate the 250th birthday of the
declaration--the 250th birthday of our country--the proximity of these
two anniversaries has been on my mind.
  The declaration lays out the fundamental principles underlying our
system of government, and no lines are more important than these:

       We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are
     created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
     certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
     Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.