>> senator mesnard. >> mr. . president, i rise to explain my vote. >> proceed. >> mr. president, some of you have watched me down here as i have had the exciting experience the get married to the love of my life and to begin planning a family together. some of you may remember that my first born was born on signee die. how many of you can say that? i wanted to share some of that experience with you all. my wife and i decided we wanted to expand from two to three. we were excited obviously that we got the news that we were pregnant. excited still to then go and see. and technology is an amazing thing. be able to see our first born on a sonogram via ultrasound. and then to hear her heart beating. that was quite an experience. i can want -- i don't know that i can quite -- some of you may have experienced this so you may know. i can't quite put it into words. i don't know if you could all hear that. but that's the beating heart of my first born daughter when she was around the end of the first trimester. in that whole experience, i learned a few things. first, as joyous a