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Congressional Record—Senate S4503 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 to be smiling—if not outright, then just be- call be rescinded.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.
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