June 17, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4503 human equivalent of sunshine around with Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask ard. We fell five votes short of defeat- them. It’s the guy or girl who always seems unanimous consent that the quorum ing the filibuster. to be smiling—if not outright, then just be- call be rescinded. I watched those students file out of neath the surface. And not in a goofy way, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without those doors, and then I left the floor of but rather as if they love life and what they’re doing and have decided not to let the objection, it is so ordered. the Chamber. I walked downstairs to gremlins throw them off course. My friend f meet with them. There was not a dry eye in the room. They had just watched Doug Bailey, who died this week at the age THE DREAM ACT of 79, was like that. I never had a conversa- their dreams disappear right here on tion with him, over the course of more than Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, last Sat- the floor of the Senate—five votes thirty years, when he didn’t have a piece of urday was the first anniversary of a short. good news to share. He was one of the most very historic day. On June 15, 2012, The House, in which the Presiding upbeat people I’ve ever known. President Barack Obama announced he What may surprise you is that he spent his Officer was serving, had already passed life in politics. Given the partisanship and would grant temporary legal status to the DREAM Act under the leadership negativity that define today’s political immigrant students who arrived in the of Speaker NANCY PELOSI, Howard Ber- arena, it’s hard to imagine. But Doug got his United States as children. This status, man, ZOE LOFGREN, and especially my start when things were different, when can- known as deferred action for children colleague from Illinois, LUIS GUTIER- didates could be moderate Republicans (as arrivals, or DACA, allows these young REZ. The House had risen to that chal- most of those he supported were), or conserv- people to live and work legally in lenge. We had our chance and fell short ative Democrats, and still get elected to of- America on a temporary basis without fice. This was back in the 1960s and ’70s when by five votes. Republicans such as New York Gov. Nelson fear of deportation. After that Republican filibuster of Rockefeller, and Sens. Charles Percy of Illi- June 15, 2012, is a day I will never for- the DREAM Act, President Obama de- nois, Howard Baker of Tennessee and Rich- get. It was personal. It was 12 years ago cided he needed to take charge. He es- ard Lugar of Indiana were running for elec- that I introduced legislation known as tablished the deferred action for child- tion and re-election. Doug Bailey worked for the DREAM Act. This bill gives immi- hood arrivals to give those DREAMers all of them, and for President Gerald Ford in grant students who grew up in this and the thousands like them across the his re-election campaign of 1976. country a chance to earn their citizen- Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alex- country a chance to come out of the ander, whose gubernatorial campaign Bailey ship. I have worked hard to pass this shadows and be part of America. worked on in that era, told the National bill for 12 years. During that time it What has happened since then? In the Journal in an interview this week, ‘‘He cared has been my honor to meet hundreds of last year more than 539,000 have ap- about every person he met and every issue he the young people who would be eligible plied for DACA. So far about 365,000 ap- tackled.’’ for the DREAM Act. plications have been granted; 140,000 President Ford’s close loss to challenger I don’t know when it started, but we applications are still being considered. Jimmy Carter was hard on Doug, but what started calling them, and they called caused him to leave campaign work alto- I am proud to say my home State of Il- gether, he later told friends, was the nega- themselves, the DREAMers. They were linois has the third most DACA appli- tive tone politics started to take on in the brought to the United States as chil- cants, more than 28,000, and the third 1980s. He went on to create the Hotline, a dren. They grew up in this country, and most DACA recipients, approximately pioneering daily newsletter on campaigns they have overcome some amazing ob- 23,000 young people. It wasn’t too sur- and candidates, and later to launch a succes- stacles. They are tomorrow’s doctors, prising because shortly after the Presi- sion of projects aimed at bringing the two engineers, teachers, and soldiers. They dent announced his program, Congress- parties together, searching for the increas- are young people who will make Amer- ingly elusive common ground between the man LUIS GUTIERREZ and I held a gath- far left and the far right. ica a better country. But for most of ering at the Navy Pier, which is kind of But what I remember best about Doug Bai- their young lives they have been a seminal site in downtown Chicago. ley was his passion for getting young people trapped in a legal limbo, fearing that We invited those who wanted to turned on to politics. He refused to accept they could be deported away from their apply for this deferred action. We the idea that entire generations of Ameri- families, away from their homes, away thought: What are we going to do if 400 cans would grow up and be repelled by the from the only country they have ever or 500 people show up? Then we were thought of a life in public service. When I called home with just a knock on the first talked to him in 2005 about a rough plan worried no one would show up. We for a documentary project, traveling around door. Yet they have developed amazing didn’t know what to expect. Well, we the United States and profiling the group lives with great potential. knew the night before what was com- that has come to be known as ‘‘millennials,’’ Incidentally, we have already in- ing. The line started forming at mid- no one was more enthusiastic than Doug. vested in them. They were educated in night. At midnight these families stood He put me in touch with the surprisingly America. They have a great potential there—mom, dad, and their son or large national network of young people he to make this country even better for daughter—waiting for a chance for that knew—all leaders, many then still in college; at the same time, he urged me not to forget the future generations. It just doesn’t son or daughter to apply for this deci- to talk to young people who were not in make any sense to walk away from the sion by President Obama of deferred school. In 2007, when the project was over, talents they can bring to us. action. after two documentaries and other reports In 2010, Senator Richard Lugar of In- Many times the parents were undocu- had been aired or published, he urged me to diana and I joined together across the mented themselves and even risked de- do a sequel. Since then, and as recently as aisle to ask the Obama administration portation by showing up. But the this spring, he’s had one idea after another to grant deferred action to DREAMers. thought of saving a child in their fam- about how to engage young people in public President Obama wanted to give Con- life. In the hundreds of tweets that popped ily and giving that child a chance was up after word spread of his death, there were gress a chance to act before using his enough for them to take the risk. scores from young folks he mentored. Executive power, and he said: I know I Well, it turned out over 12,000 people Doug was not only really smart; he was have the authority, but let’s see if you showed up. We were overwhelmed. We wise. He believed politics was meant to help can pass the DREAM Act. couldn’t even come close to processing people and to make this a better country, We brought it to the floor of the Sen- the applications that were involved. We and he thought political people should work ate. I remember that day. If I am not knew then this was an idea whose time together to make that happen. He never gave mistaken, it was a Saturday, and that up on the idea. We honor his legacy by not had come. giving up either. Doug Bailey is survived by gallery was filled. It was filled with It is especially important to note the his wife Pat, their children Ed and Kate, and young people in caps and gowns who 1-year anniversary of President a grandchild. were watching the debate on the floor Obama’s announcement as we consider Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I of the Senate on the DREAM Act. We what is going on on the floor of the yield the floor and I suggest the ab- needed 60 votes because we faced a Re- Senate this week. We are debating sence of a quorum. publican filibuster. We have always comprehensive immigration reform. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The faced a Republican filibuster. The reality is that DACA is over- clerk will call the roll. Fifty-five Senators voted for it, whelmingly popular with the American The legislative clerk proceeded to which by most standards is a sufficient people. The American people—I have call the roll. majority, but not by the Senate stand- always trusted—have in their heart of

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Since he received DACA, thing wrong, violated any law, over- facing a language they couldn’t speak, Pierre was awarded one of only 10 Har- stayed a visa, whatever the cir- they would very quietly wait until my vard Presidential Public Service Fel- cumstances, it wasn’t the child, it was meeting was over and come out of the lowships so he can expand this organi- the parent. They understand the basic darkness by my car as I was leaving zation. element of justice not just in America and say, Senator, I am one of those This is Carlos Martinez. Carlos and but in life, and it is this: You don’t kids who would be helped by the his brother were brought to the United hold a child responsible for the wrong- DREAM Act. They didn’t want anyone States when he was only 9 years old. He doing of a parent. Most Americans un- to see them for fear of being deported. graduated with honors with a bachelor derstood that and want to give these But over time they came to realize of science degree in computer engineer- young people a chance. that standing up, with the courage to ing from the University of Arizona. On election day last year, Hispanic tell their stories, they risked deporta- Carlos received job offers from Intel, Americans voted overwhelmingly in tion but they put a face on this issue. IBM, and many high-tech companies, favor of President Barack Obama. It wasn’t some politician giving a but he couldn’t work because he was There were many Republican Members speech, it was a real life, and that is undocumented. So he went on to get a of Congress, including my good friend what they did. As they came forward to master’s degree in software systems Senator JOHN MCCAIN of Arizona, who tell their stories with their courage, I engineering at the University of Ari- heard that message loudly and clearly, came to the floor of the Senate. zona. After receiving DACA, Carlos is and that—in no small part—is why we I wish to take a moment now to finally able to work in America as an are considering comprehensive immi- thank a man who is sitting to my engineer. This Wednesday he will start gration reform today. Within this bill right, Joe Zogby. Joe has been a staffer a new job with IBM, a company that is the DREAM Act, and not just the on this issue from the beginning, and first tried to hire him 6 years ago when DREAM Act, but the strongest version when it passes I know he will celebrate he was undocumented. Out of more of the DREAM Act that has ever been just as I do, understanding, as I do, the than 10,000 applicants who applied to written. lives that will be impacted by this de- IBM, Carlos Martinez was 1 of only 75 It is also important to note what cision if the DREAM Act becomes the people they hired. happened to the DREAMers in the last law of the land. This is Nelson and Jhon Magdaleno. year. These young Americans were fi- These DREAMers are an amazing They came to the State of Georgia nally able to work legally in America group. The stories I told on the floor from Venezuela when Nelson was 11 and have already stepped forward to included DREAMers who grew up in 17 and Jhon was 9. Nelson and Jhon went contribute their talents. The Center for different States, from Arizona and to Georgia Tech University, one of the American Progress and the bipartisan Texas in the Southwest, Missouri and most selective engineering schools in Partnership for a New American Econ- Ohio in the Midwest, and North Caro- America. Nelson graduated with an omy has concluded that giving legal lina and Georgia in the Southeast. honors degree in computer engineering status to DREAMers will add $329 bil- These talented young people came to and Jhon is currently an honor student lion to America’s economy and create America from all over the world—19 majoring in chemical and biomolecular 1.4 million new jobs by 2030. The eco- different countries represented—and engineering. After receiving deferred nomic benefit of legalizing 11 million from every continent except Antarc- action, Jhon is working at a bio- undocumented could be even greater. tica. Yet all of them share something medical engineering lab at Georgia According to the study by the Center in common: America is their home. Tech researching glaucoma. He re- for American Progress, if comprehen- They are only asking for a chance to cently secured an internship with East- sive immigration reform becomes law, give back to their home. man Chemical Company. Nelson is now undocumented immigrants will in- Today I wish to spend a minute or working at Texas Instruments, one of crease their earnings by 15 percent over two to update the Senate on what has America’s top high-tech companies. 5 years, leading to $832 billion in eco- happened to some of these DREAMers Ola Kaso was brought to the United nomic growth and $109 billion in in- since they received DACA—this de- States from Albania at the age of 5. creased tax revenues—money that will ferred status—last year. What a superstar. Valedictorian of her be paid by the currently undocumented Angelica Hernandez was brought to high school class, she is now a pre-med immigrants who will become legally America when she was 9 years old. Two student in the honors program at the part of America in the next 10 years. It years ago, Angelica graduated from Ar- University of Michigan. Her dream is will also create an estimated 120,000 izona State University as the out- to become a surgical oncologist. Can jobs every single year—a growth en- standing senior in the mechanical engi- we use more of those? You bet. In 2011, gine. It always has been a growth en- neering department with a 4.1 GPA. I invited Ola to testify at a hearing on gine in America. This Nation of immi- Angelica just finished her first year of the DREAM Act. She was the first un- grants, when it builds on the strength graduate school at Stanford University documented immigrant to openly tes- and commitment of newcomers, is a where she is working on a master’s de- tify before the Senate. It took amazing stronger and better Nation and con- gree in civil and environmental engi- courage for this young woman. After tinues to lead the world. How could we neering with a focus on energy. Her receiving deferred action this spring, have forgotten that lesson of history? dream is to dedicate her career to de- Ola interned in the office of my col- Conservative economist Douglas veloping renewable energy. After re- league and friend Senator CARL LEVIN. Holtz-Eakin recently concluded immi- ceiving DACA, because of the Presi- This is someone those following the gration reform would actually reduce dent’s Executive order, this summer debate may recognize: Tolu Olubumni Federal deficits by $2.7 trillion, add a Angelica will work at Enphase Energy, was brought to the United States from full percentage point to our economic a solar energy startup company. Nigeria when she was a child. In 2002, growth, and raise GDP per capita by This is Pierre Berastain. Pierre and Tolu graduated with a degree in chem- approximately $1,700. his sister were brought to the United ical engineering from Washington and I started several years ago coming to States from Peru in 1998 when they Lee University in Virginia. For 10 the floor of the Senate to not just were children. Pierre didn’t speak a years—10 years after graduating from speak about the DREAM Act but to word of English when he arrived in college—Tolu couldn’t work as an engi- tell the stories of DREAMers. It was Texas, but he went on to receive a neer. She spent her time working to something I came to do because I fi- bachelor’s degree with honors from pass the DREAM Act. Since receiving nally witnessed their courage and real- Harvard University. He is currently the deferred action, Tolu is working as

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I make America stronger. But if they pass that background asked him about those DREAMers. He It was so disappointing last week check, they have to pay a substantial said they came into the Oval Office and when the Republicans in the House of fine, pay their taxes, and then learn met with him, and he said there were Representatives passed an amendment English and be monitored during the tears in everyone’s eyes as they real- to cut off funding for this program. course of 10 years—10 years—in proba- ized the opportunity these young peo- That is right. All of these young people tionary status. During that period, ple might finally get if we pass com- who have received a chance—the first they can work legally in America— prehensive immigration reform. chance ever to be part of America’s fu- they won’t be deported—and they can This is Erika Andiola. Erika was ture—would have the program shut travel without fear of being stopped at brought to our country from Mexico down by a vote last week in the House the border. Then, at the end of 10 years, when she was 11 years old. She grad- of Representatives. Supporters of this if they have met all of the standards, uated with honors from Arizona State amendment want to deport these all of the scrutiny, if they have paid with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. young people. They make no bones the fines and paid their taxes, they will Erika was the founder and president of about it. They believe they should have a chance for a 3- to 5-year path to the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition, an leave. Their belief is that if these citizenship. It is a long process. For immigration group advocating for the DREAMers are forced out of the coun- many of them, it will be a great sac- passage of the bill. She received DACA try and deported to some other coun- rifice, but they have offered great sac- and has since been working in Con- try, we will be a stronger Nation be- rifices with their lives already. gress. She is the district outreach di- cause of that. What are they thinking, On the other side, we have agreed rector for one of the Arizona delega- to lose people such as Carlos Martinez with our Republican colleagues to do tion’s newest members, Representative and Tolu Olubumni? These young peo- even more in our power to make sure KRYSTEN SINEMA. ple can make a positive difference for our border with Mexico is as strong as Now I want my colleagues to meet America. It is shameless, absolutely humanly possible and to make certain Carlos and Rafael Robles. Carlos and shameless, to play with the lives of our immigration system is changed so Rafael were brought to the United these young people. These are people we don’t face this debate every 5, 10, or States as children. They grew up in who need a chance. They don’t need to 25 years. suburban Chicago in my home State of be the victims of some political gam- I think it is a good bill. There are Illinois. They were both honor students bit. It would be bad for America’s fu- parts of it I am very proud of, some at Palatine High School and Harper ture if they leave. We couldn’t possibly parts of it I do not like at all, but that Community College. Carlos is now at- be stronger if Angelica Hernandez is the nature of a compromise, that is tending the University of Chicago ma- could not continue to work on future how you get something done. joring in education. With DACA, Carlos renewable sources of energy and Ola I look around this institution, and I can pursue his dream to become a Kaso could no longer be the researcher realize how important this issue is, but teacher and he will have the oppor- in cancer she wants to be. I also realize how important this issue tunity to student-teach in a suburban The answer is clear: We need to pass is to the Senate. If I asked the people high school in the Chicagoland area. comprehensive immigration reform on of America, what do you think about Rafael is at the University of Illinois in a bipartisan basis right here in the Congress these days, I think I would Chicago where he is majoring in archi- Senate. We have waited way too long. know the answer. Somebody said our tecture. After receiving DACA, he is For over 25 years this broken immigra- approval rating just broke double dig- working at Studio Gang Architects, an tion system has not done these people its again. We are up to 10 percent of the award-winning architectural firm in justice nor has it done America justice. American people who think we might the great city of Chicago. During the next 2 weeks the Senate be worth having. That must include a This is Jose Magana. Jose was will conclude one of its most historic lot of our relatives and close friends brought to the United States from debates on comprehensive immigration that we made it up to 10 percent. Mexico at the age of 2. He graduated reform. It has been over 4 months that We better prove something on the valedictorian of his high school. He is I have been actively involved in this floor of the Senate over the next 2 the first member of his family to at- Gang of 8—four Democrats and four Re- weeks. We better prove that we can tend college. In 2008, he graduated publican Senators. We have had over 30 work together, Democrats and Repub- summa cum laude from Arizona State sitdown meetings, face to face. Many of licans; that we will not break down and University with a major in business them went smoothly, as did the discus- fall apart over one issue or the other; management. He went on to graduate sion of the DREAM Act; some of them that we will keep our focus on getting from Baylor University Law School. not so smoothly. We disagreed, and this job done. After receiving DACA, Jose began some of the disagreements were pretty Then we need to turn to our col- working with the Mexican American vocal. At the end of the day, though, leagues and friends in the U.S. House of Legal Defense Fund, a leading civil we realized we had a larger responsi- Representatives and tell them they rights organization. This week, Jose bility that went beyond any single dif- face the same historic responsibility will be sworn in as a member of the bar ference of opinion we might have. We we faced. I have heard a lot of specula- which he was unable to do before Presi- reached a bipartisan agreement. Now tion about what might happen in the dent Obama’s Executive order 1 year the question is, can the Senate hold House. Let’s just focus on the Senate ago. that agreement together, on the floor for the next 2 weeks. Let’s do our part To hear the stories of these amazing of the Senate, when the amendment and do our job and let the American young people is to realize the benefits process begins, and next week when we people witness this process as it should immigration has always meant for face a vote. be. If we are successful at the end of America. Imagine what will happen The values and principles that under- next week and pass this legislation, when 11 million undocumented immi- lie this agreement are fundamental and then let the American people speak up grants have the opportunity to come critical. They include a path to citizen- to the Members of the House of Rep- out of the shadows and be part of ship not only for these young people resentatives. Let them hear from their America. Like these DREAMers, they but for many of their parents. They districts and the people they represent will be able to contribute even more to have to come out of the shadows, up to what they feel about the importance of this country they worked so hard to 11 million of them, and identify them- this issue when it comes to immigra- come to and worked so hard to stay in selves to a government they have tion reform. I am confident, as I said

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Her mom otherwise with in-depth economic re- created a front group that is on the ad- brought her to the Port of Baltimore, search. vertisement—they are called Ameri- put her on a train, and they linked up There is a long list of other promises. cans for a Conservative Direction, that with my grandfather in East Saint The reason I raise this is because these purports to be reflective of conserv- Louis, IL. Upstairs in my office is my were promises that we are going to im- ative thinking in America. mother’s naturalization certificate. It prove the working conditions of Ameri- I think that is a bit odd. It is odd is proudly displayed because I want cans, we are going to shift to a merit- right now that Senator RUBIO, who is people to know who I am and where I based system. That is not correct. still talking to the American people on came from. It is my story, it is my There are other promises. I made a those ads and to my constituents in family’s story, but it is America’s speech and so have others that have Alabama, is saying all of this on the ad story that the son of an immigrant can clearly demonstrated that the triggers when he has already said the bill is be standing on the floor of the Senate in the bill do not work. The triggers flawed and he cannot vote for it in its representing the great State of Illinois are supposed to say: You do not get current circumstance. I think that ad- legal status or you do not get green and speaking to the next generation of vertisement ought to be pulled. card status until these law enforce- immigrants to America and the dif- Worse, virtually everything in the ment issues are fixed, until the ille- ference they can make. ad, especially in the voiceover—not gality is fixed. The triggers are ineffec- This is our opportunity. We know Senator RUBIO—but the voiceover is tive. That has been documented. It America will be a stronger and better false. It is not an accurate description really is not disputable, in my opinion. nation when we do it. of the legislation, what it does, how it All the Secretary of Homeland Secu- Thank you, Mr. President. will work. It is just not. If it was, I rity has to do is to submit a plan that I yield the floor and suggest the ab- would be intrigued by this legislation she says will work. It does not require sence of a quorum. and would be interested in thinking it any fencing or any other actions spe- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The should set sort forth a framework that cifically. And she gets to determine clerk will call the roll. most Americans agree would be a basis whether it is working. If it does not The assistant legislative clerk pro- for immigration reform. meet the standards according to the ceeded to call the roll. So conservatives should be careful, Secretary, then a border commission is Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask no matter how sincere, in being part of established, but the border commission unanimous consent that the order for promoting legislation that we do not has no power. It can only issue a re- the quorum call be rescinded. fully understand or will not do what it port, and it dissolves in 30 days. So The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. claims it will do. A commitment to KING). Without objection, it is so or- these promises that we have a very tough plan that is guaranteed through truth is a conservative value. I like all dered. of the Gang of 8 members personally. I Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, last a series of triggers are not so. Today I will talk about the DACA have worked with them for a number of week I gave remarks on the floor that program and how that has undermined years. I truly admire Senator RUBIO. pointed out that promises made that law enforcement. Surely we can agree He is a fantastic new Member of the the immigration bill before us was a that congressional legislation is more body. I understand the goals they ar- significant move toward merit-based than salesmanship, it is more than ticulate and would support most of immigration and away from chain im- puffing, it is more than promises. Sure- those goals. So it is no pleasure for me migration—I dealt with that subject. I ly it represents a bill and a bill that to raise these uncomfortable points. am not aware that any of my com- must be read. But at this very minute, Mark ments have fundamentally been dis- The words of legislation are not a Zuckerberg and his supporters are run- puted. mere vision designed to touch our ning these ads promoting legislation as The fact is that 30 million people will hearts. It is not something that the doing something I do not believe it be given legal status as an immigrant sponsors can come in and say: We be- does. I think we should be working on on a pathway to citizenship over the lieve the American people are correct. that. I know we have had a number of next 10 years—that 30 million is three They want A, B, C, and D. We have a our colleagues, another one of my good times the current legal flow of 1 mil- bill that does it. And then nobody friends this weekend pronounced a po- lion a year, which would be 10 million reads the bill to determine whether it litical doctrine of the death spiral of a year. It would triple the number of does it. So that is what I have been try- the Republican Party. I have to tell people put on a path to permanent ing to do. you, we have a lot of people who make legal residence and citizenship. Only 2.5 Congress and the good American peo- political prognostications. But the million of those would be admitted ple do want to solve our immigration truth is who knows what political under this new, small, actually weak, problems—problems that our politi- issues will dominate in 2016 or 2020 or merit-based section of the bill. This is cians and government leaders have 2030. nowhere close to the truly effective messed up for 30 years. The American Mr. President, is there a time agree- and popular merit-based immigration people have pleaded with Congress to ment? system which Canada adopted a dec- fix this system for 30 years. Congress The PRESIDING OFFICER. Each ade—maybe more—ago and which is has failed to do so. They continue to Senator has 10 minutes to speak. being followed and adopted in other de- promise to do so but do not. Now, that Mr. SESSIONS. Thank you. I did not veloped countries around the world. is a fact. realize that. How much time is remain- Evidence has also been introduced But legislative language is the real ing? that nonimmigrant guest workers— thing. Legislation is not a vision. Leg- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- that is, those who come not for immi- islation has power—power to fix our ator has 1 minute. gration, to be a citizen and be perma- broken system or power to allow the Mr. SESSIONS. I thank the Chair. nent, but come to work for a period of lawlessness to continue. Thus, it is leg- The best politics, in my view, is to do time and return home—that group of islation, not spin, that we will be vot- the right thing for the right reason and workers will double under the legisla- ing on. A promise made by a gang is of to be able to explain what one is doing tion that is before us over current law. no value if the bill language does not cogently and honestly to the American All of this is at a time of persistently produce the results they promise. So people, and then the people will decide. high unemployment and when virtually that is the rub. That is the problem we If they do not like your decisions over all serious academics, economic ex- face. a period of time you are out. So be it.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:05 Jun 18, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17JN6.018 S17JNPT1 pwalker on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with SENATE June 17, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4507 Is that not the way the system is sup- to pass the DREAM Act, we got 54 first real hot summer weekend because posed to work? votes on the floor of the Senate. Under the summers tend to come with a lot of It is not wrong to give respect to the our Draconian and backward rules, guns and a lot of gun violence and a lot opinions of the American people, to ask that was not enough to get the bill of shootings in places that maybe not a what they think about issues and how done. But the House has not even lot of Americans are used to, living in they react to issues. There is nothing scheduled a debate on gun violence leg- the safety and security of their neigh- wrong with that. Actually, we should islation. Families in Newtown, CT, borhoods. do that. But it is not right to poll a cannot understand that. They cannot Let me tell you what happened on large and complex issue to find out understand how Senators and House that one weekend in one city, New what people want and then propose leg- Members can look them in the eye, can York, NY. That weekend 25 people were islation that you say fulfills their de- hear the story of their grief and do shot over the course of 48 hours. Six sires, when the legislation does not ful- nothing. people were killed over one single fill those desires. They certainly cannot understand it weekend in New York City. It started That is not the right thing to do, to after, almost to the day of the 6-month with Ivan Martinez, 21 years old, who promote good policy in America. As a anniversary, another mass shooting oc- was approached at about 3:25 a.m. on matter of fact, polls show the Amer- curred, this time on the other side of Friday night by a 20-year-old gunman ican people want enforcement before the country. We almost know the story and a woman in the Bronx. The gun- amnesty by a 4-to-1 margin. Polls also before we hear it: Mass shooting; four man shot Martinez once in the head. show a clear majority actually favor a dead; others wounded. In Newtown, we Then he ran off with the woman. lower legal flow or the same amount of did not even have to pick up the paper Over the course of the weekend, 12 legal flow into our country from immi- to know it was going to be an assault people were shot in Brooklyn, 8 people gration. weapon; it was going to be high-capac- were shot in the Bronx, 4 in Queens. It The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ity magazines, once again. went like this on Sunday night: At ator’s time has expired. Every story is a little bit different. 12:10 a.m., a 21-year-old man was shot Mr. SESSIONS. They do not favor So this one was an assault weapon that in the leg; at 2:36 a.m., a 22-year-old the huge increase of legal flow that is was partially handmade. This time man was shot three times on East New called for in this bill. Maybe later I there was a lot of ammunition that York Avenue in Brooklyn; about an will be able to talk about some of the may not have been used. But it is a hour later at 3:30, a 20-year-old man difficulties of enforcement under cur- story that gets repeated over and over: was shot in the leg at Bedford Park in rent law. Lots of people dead, assault weapon the Bronx; at 4:12 a.m. that morning, a I yield the floor. used, high-capacity magazines. 35-year-old man brought himself to Ja- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- So for those people who say we can- maica Hospital with a gunshot wound; ator from Connecticut. not do anything about it, we can. We at 11:40 a.m., a 15-year-old was shot in f can. Because we can keep these dan- the leg and the back—at 11:40 a.m., gerous, military-style weapons in the middle of the day on Sunday, a 15-year- GUN VIOLENCE hands of law enforcement and people old shot in the leg and the back. At Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I appre- who are hired and trained to shoot about 3:25, a gunman opened fire at the ciate the great work my colleagues, these weapons for a living. We can say corner of Bedford and Lenox at Pros- Senator DURBIN, Senator SCHUMER, that 8, 10, 15 rounds is enough, that you pect-Lefferts Gardens. Senator RUBIO, and others, have done do not need 30 rounds in a magazine, The carnage in one weekend barely on the immigration bill. I am going to you do not need 100 rounds. made news across this country. Most be pleased this week to support their We can do something about our men- people would not know it if I did not work. But I came to the floor, as I have tal health system, try to reach out and come down to the Senate floor and tell most weeks since being sworn in, to give some help to people who are strug- this story. That is what we have come talk about the issue that has domi- gling, but we do not. That is what is so to accept in this country. This rep- nated discussions in my State over the hard for the families of Newtown to un- resents a dramatic drop in gun violence past 6 months; that is, the issue of gun derstand. What is additionally hard for in New York City. So far we have had violence. them to understand is this number. 440 shootings in New York City. That is Last week we commemorated the 6- Since those 28 people were killed in a 23-percent reduction from last year. month anniversary of the deadly shoot- Newtown on December 14, 5,033 people This has been a good year in New York ing in Sandy Hook, CT, in which 20 6- have died at the hands of gun violence City, and 440 people have been shot. and 7-year-olds, first graders, were across this country. This chart is a We do nothing about it. We cannot gunned down, and 6 of their teachers, couple of days old, so we can take down even bring ourselves to say criminals including as well the gunman and his the 33 and add a handful more. should not have guns, that gun traf- mother. A lot of families came down I hope people here have gotten to un- ficking, done out of the back of vans on here last week to continue to lobby derstand the stories of people such as the side streets of the Bronx and both the House and the Senate. Jack Pinto and Dylan Hockley, Grace Brooklyn and Queens should be a The look on their face is a com- McDonnell. I hope people here have crime. We cannot even do that on the plicated look. It is clearly first and come to know the stories of the 20 lit- floor of the Senate. foremost the look of incalculable grief tle boys and girls whom we will never That weekend, maybe the most trag- as these families still try to figure out know their greatness because they ic shooting was one that didn’t end up how to live the first summer of their were cut down in their youth. in a death, and that was the shooting life without their loved one, whether it But I wish to tell some other stories, of a little girl named Tayloni Mazyck. be a first grader who would have been about the common, everyday, almost Three men opened fire in a wild epi- heading into second grade or a mother routine gun violence that for some rea- sode that weekend in Brooklyn. People or a teacher or a brother or sister. son we have decided to live with in this said it sounded as though it was the 4th But there is also, in combination country. So I am coming down here of July, so many gunshots were going with this grief, this look of shock, this every week to tell another handful of off in this neighborhood. It was likely look of shock that frankly gets worse stories about victims. Today, instead gang activity, but the consequence of every time they come down here as of telling detailed stories about spe- the shooting wasn’t a gang member, it they try to understand how this place cific victims, I wish to talk about one was a little 11-year-old girl who was could stand by and do nothing, abso- weekend in New York City. struck through her neck. The bullet lutely nothing, in the wake of the hor- About 2 weeks ago, the weekend of lodged in her spine. Although Tayloni ror that Newtown, CT, has seen. May 31 to June 2 was kind of the first lived, she will never walk again. At least we have taken a vote on the truly warm outdoor weekend we had in Listen, I grieve every single morning Senate floor. Very much like the de- the Northeast. The police, in places and every single night for the 20 little scription that Senator DURBIN gave such as New York City and Bridgeport girls and boys who died in Newtown, earlier of his attempt several years ago and Hartford, have come to dread that CT. If that is what has prompted us to

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