July 14, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1763 funding will allow the Ozark Heritage Region of Directors of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Today, I ask that my colleagues join me in to expand their entrepreneurship education Society, Philadelphia Green and the Philadel- commemorating the dedication of Mrs. Cecilia and business counseling. phia Urban Affairs Coalition. And, along her Bridget Elizondo Herrera, who has served this Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON journey she planted flowers in what was to be nation with dignity, honor, respect and admira- Bill Number: H.R. 3170 the greening of Point Breeze. tion. Account: SBA—Salaries and Expenses Mamie Nichols is remembered with deep f Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Down- love and respect by what Dr. Martin Luther town West Plains, Inc., West Plains, MO King, Jr. referred to as the beloved commu- HONORING THE LIFE AND WORK Address of Requesting Entity: 401 Jefferson nity. OF LEONARD E. BRISCOE, SR. Ave., West Plains, MO 65775 f Description of Request: $500,000 is pro- HONORING CONSUL GENERAL AT HON. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON vided for Downtown West Plains, Inc., a THE UNITED STATES CON- OF TEXAS 501(c)(3) corporation, to complete the exterior SULATE GENERAL IN MATA- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and interior renovation of a 100 year old build- MOROS, MEXICO, MRS. CECILIA Tuesday, July 14, 2009 ing which will house a Small Business Incu- BRIDGET ELIZONDO HERRERA bator. These funds will be matched with Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. $1,144,000 in local, state, and other federal Madam Speaker, I rise today in remembrance funds. The Ozarks Small Business Incubator, HON. SOLOMON P. ORTIZ of Leonard Briscoe who passed away on when completed, will provide personalized as- OF TEXAS Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at the age of 69. sistance to small business entrepreneurs by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Briscoe was a trailblazer in the African supporting their efforts with business related Tuesday, July 14, 2009 American community in North Texas. In 1971, education, financial guidance, business plan Mr. ORTIZ. Madam Speaker, I rise today to he was elected to the Fort Worth City Council, development, mentoring, and access to tan- recognize the dedication of Consul General at making him the second African American to gible resources such as building space, ship- the United States Consulate General in Mata- serve in this position. A few short years later, ping dock, and shared office equipment. moros, Mexico, Mrs. Cecilia Bridget Elizondo in 1976, he was elected to the Texas State Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON Herrera, who leaves her post on the U.S-Mex- House of Representatives where he served Bill Number: H.R. 3170 ico border for a new task in Caracas, Ven- during the 65th Legislature and chaired the Account: SBA—Salaries and Expenses ezuela. Select Committee on Minority Business Enter- Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Girl Mrs. Elizondo Herrera is a native of San An- prise. Scouts of the USA, New York, NY tonio, Texas, and graduated from Incarnate As a businessman, advocate, and engaged Address of Requesting Entity: 420 Fifth Ave- Word High School in 1973. She went on to citizen, Mr. Briscoe was acutely aware of the nue, New York, NY 10018 graduate from Our Lady of the Lake University needs of the minority communities in North Description of Request: $101,000 is pro- where she received her bachelor of arts de- Texas. In a period of political turmoil, he en- vided to the Girl Scouts of the USA for a na- gree in English and political science in 1977. couraged other African Americans to become tional program to improve financial literacy. Mrs. Elizondo Herrera went on to complete involved in the political process and was a These funds will allow for the research and post-graduate work at St. Mary’s University in leading advocate for affirmative action. He un- development necessary to prepare the founda- 1978 and in 2006 earned a master of science derstood the dire consequences of inadequate tion for a financial educational program di- degree in national security strategy from the housing for low-income families, and served rected towards girls. National War College at Ft. McNair in Wash- as Chairman of the Fort Worth Community f ington, D.C. Development Council. Through this chairman- At a young age, Mrs. Elizondo Herrera ship, he helped to develop the city’s first hous- A TRIBUTE TO MAMIE NICHOLS began her public service to this country when ing program funded by the Housing of Urban she worked for the Alamo Area Council of Development Department under the Commu- HON. ROBERT A. BRADY Governments, a regional planning agency in nity Development Act of 1974. OF PENNSYLVANIA San Antonio, and in 1987 joined the Foreign After leaving the Texas State House of Rep- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Service as a junior officer in the Administrative resentatives, Mr. Briscoe continued his work to ensure that low-income people and minorities Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Zone. She has served as a Vice Consul in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Administrative Offi- had access to respectable and affordable Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Madam cer and Post Security Officer in Melbourne, housing. His business built over twenty hous- Speaker, I rise to honor Mrs. Mamie Nichols, Australia. She was then stationed in Wash- ing developments in the Southern part of the a pioneering activist and community organizer ington, D.C., where she served as an Area country with the help of over $13 million from for more than 60 years, who died July 1 at the Manager for the Office of Foreign Buildings the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban age of 91. Born Mamie Melton in Norfolk, Vir- with oversight for near East Asia; as a Special Development. Because of this, the Department ginia her family moved to Philadelphia and Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Admin- named him ‘‘Entrepreneur of the Year’’ in settled in the Point Breeze section of South istration, with a portfolio of Overseas Buildings 1984. Philadelphia when she was a young child. Operations and as a Post Management Officer I ask my fellow colleagues to join me today She grew up in Point Breeze and married for the European Bureau with responsibility for in remembering the life and work of Leonard and raised her six children in Point Breeze. the Russian Federation and Finland. Briscoe, a community organizer, activist, and But her 88-block neighborhood had been Mrs. Elizondo Herrera has traveled through- entrepreneur, who helped so many people given a death sentence by officials in the out Russia, North Africa and the Arabian Gulf across North Texas and the country. Philadelphia Office of Housing and Community while stationed in Washington. She has f Development. Mamie Nichols said she was served as the Deputy Supervisory GSO at the told by city officials that Point Breeze could U.S. Embassy in Rome and Administrative Of- ORLANDO TEA PARTY not be saved from urban decay and the city ficer at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. was letting it die a natural death. She is a four time recipient of the Depart- HON. JOHN L. MICA But Mamie Nichols fought back. Fueled with ment of State Superior Honor Award, and is OF FLORIDA anger, pride, determination and charm, Mrs. the recipient of a Meritorious Honor Award in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nichols is credited with saving her neglected recognition of Non-Immigrant Visa work in Tuesday, July 14, 2009 community. She founded the Point Breeze Guadalajara. Federation and she was a prime mover in the Mrs. Elizondo Herrera is a member of Exec- Mr. MICA. Madam Speaker, on March 21, founding of the Childs Elementary School utive Women in Government, the National As- 2009, hundreds of Central Floridians gathered Home and School Association. Her organiza- sociation of Female Executives and an hon- in Orlando to express their grievances regard- tion established the Point Breeze Performing orary member of the American Association for ing the recent actions of their federal officials Arts Center and transformed the long shut- Justice Women’s Auxiliary. She is the daugh- in dramatically expanding our federal spend- tered Landreth School into senior citizens ter of John P. and Beatrice B. Elizondo of San ing, federal deficit, and federal programs. As a apartments and a community center. She was Antonio, Texas, and is married to San Antonio Representative for Florida’s 7th Congressional also named to the Philadelphia Planning Com- attorney, Frank Herrera, Jr. They have two District it is my honor to present their griev- mission and served as a member of the board sons, Jorge and Javier. ances and declaration.

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ISSA– ions of our fellow citizens requires that we shore of Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida, on this OF CALIFORNIA– should clearly state the grievances that impel 2lst day of March, in the year 2009, do, in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES us to gather at this great Orlando Tea Party to name, and by the authority of the good people Friday, July 10, 2009 protest peacefully, but passionately in the tra- of this city and this Nation, solemnly publish dition of our forefathers whose Boston Tea and declare that we are a free people, in this Mr. ISSA. Madam Speaker, I rise in support Party resonated around the world. free and independent state, and we have the of H.R. 3082, the ‘‘Military Construction and The history of the present government of power and the right to demand that our gov- Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2010.’’ these United States is a history of repeated in- ernment cease serving its own interest, and This bill will fund our nation’s military construc- juries and usurpations, all having the effect of whatever destructive political and ideological tion projects and veterans’ benefits for Fiscal establishing an unacceptable tyranny over the agendas it is pursuing, and become the gov- Year 2010. citizens of these states. Let the facts be ernment of the people, by the people, and for While I supported this bill, and what it pro- selfevident and speak for themselves, and let the people, to which we are entitled as Ameri- vides for our military and veterans, it is unfor- these grievances be heard in the halls of cans. And this for the support of this declara- tunate the Democratic leadership in Congress power in 2009, just as they were heard in the tion, what a firm reliance on divine providence, refused to allow debate on many amendments palace of King George III when they thun- we mutually pledge to each other our lives, including an amendment proposed by Rep. dered forth from the text of the Declaration of our fortunes, and our sacred honor.’’ CONNIE MACK that would have reduced the labor costs of each construction project funded Independence on July 4, 1776. Madam Speaker: Today, July 14th, I pre- BE it resolved on this 21st Day of March in by this legislation. sented this declaration on the steps of the Currently, federal construction projects the year 2009 at the great Orlando Tea Party U.S. House and unfurled a scroll containing on the shore of Lake Eola in Orlando, FL, that which cost more than $2,000 must follow thousands of citizens’ signatures in support of Davis-Bacon wage requirements. The Davis- just as our forefathers at the Boston Tea Party this declaration. protested tyranny at the hands of the British Bacon Act requires employers to pay workers Crown, and taxation without representation, at least the ‘‘locally prevailing wage,’’ as deter- f we hereby raise our voices against the arro- mined by the Department of Labor. Of the re- gance and the ruinous policies of our own INTRODUCING THE COMPLETE AND ports investigated by the Office of Inspector government . . . a government that ignores PERMANENT PROPERTY TAX DE- General, 100% of the wage surveys, used to the will of ‘‘We the People’’ . . . a government DUCTION ACT OF 2009 set the ‘‘prevailing wage,’’ contained one or that drowns us in debt . . . a government that more errors. forsakes the free enterprise system that had According to the Beacon Hill Institute at Suf- driven the engine of the greatest economy on HON. RON PAUL folk University, Davis-Bacon wage require- ments over-estimate wages, inflating construc- earth, in favor of a relentless march toward OF TEXAS socialism designed to subvert the work of the tion costs by almost 10%. This amounts to individual and encourage intrusion of govern- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $8.6 billion taxpayer waste per year. For our military and veterans, this is billions that could ment into all aspects of our lives. Tuesday, July 14, 2009 And so, let the word go forth from this time have been used to update the Vietnam-era and place that we are proud, freedom loving Mr. PAUL. Madam Speaker, I rise to intro- quanzi-huts still in use at Camp Pendleton Americans who cherish individual liberty, our duce the Complete and Permanent Property Marine Corps Base or to fix the Post 9/11 GI Constitution, and all this Nation has stood for Tax Deduction Act of 2009. This bill makes bill error that will unfairly reduce California vet- over 233 years. We love our country and we the property tax deduction, which is scheduled erans’ education benefits. are here to take it back! to expire this year, permanent and removes all In this time of fiscal uncertainty, Congress Let us hereby resolve that we have had limitations on the deduction. must set priorities and spend wisely. Shutting enough of massive government driven bailouts The Complete and Permanent Property Tax out debate on an archaic measure that unnec- using our money! To our elected leaders we Deduction Act will help millions of Americans essarily increases cost moves our nation in say, stop spending money we do not have! who struggle with high property taxes. Making the wrong direction. This is not your money! This is our money, the property tax deduction permanent will es- f and we demand you stop this madness! We pecially benefit senior citizens, whose homes EARMARK DECLARATION have had enough of so-called economic stim- often are the major part of their wealth, and ulus plans that falsely promise we can spend young families struggling to cope with the HON. CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS ourselves back to prosperity. costs of owning new homes. I respectfully OF WASHINGTON We have had enough of trillion dollar spend- urge my colleagues to help ensure all home- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing schemes being passed without congress owners can continue to take advantage of the or ‘‘WE The People’’ Knowing what’s in them. property tax deduction by cosponsoring this Tuesday, July 14, 2009 This is taxation without deliberation and we legislation. Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS. Madam will not tolerate it! We have bad enough of the Speaker, pursuant to the House Republican out of control government spending that is f standards on earmarks, I am submitting the mortgaging our future and threatening our very following information regarding earmarks I re- way of life! PERSONAL EXPLANATION ceived as part of H.R. 3183, FY2010 Energy We have had enough of both major parties and Water Development and Related Agen- being arrogant and unresponsive to the people cies Appropriations Act they were elected to serve. We have had HON. KAY GRANGER Requesting Member: Congresswoman enough of seeing money taken unfairly from OF TEXAS MCMORRIS RODGERS honest, hardworking Americans through ex- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Bill Number: H.R. 3183 cessive taxation and redistributed to people Account: Water and Related Resources who have not earned the money. We have Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Columbia had enough of capitalism being targeted as Basin Development League the problem instead of the solution. Ms. GRANGER. Madam Speaker, on rollcall Address of Requesting Entity: 8582 Road K, And, we have had enough of government Nos. 492, 494, 495, 499, 500, 501, 502, 508, SW; Royal City, WA 99357 being called the solution, when government is 514, 515, 517, 518, 520, 521, 524, 525, & Description of Request: Provide an addition the problem! In every stage of these oppres- 529, I was absent from the House due to ill- of $3,000,000 for expansion of Project infra- sions, we have petitioned for redress in the ness. structure to allow delivery of Project water to most humble terms. Our repeated petitions to Had I been present, I would have voted eligible lands. The Project aims to avoid eco- our elected officials have been answered only ‘‘yes.’’ logical disaster by preserving the remaining

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