15170 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 155, Pt. 11 June 15, 2009 moved to Chicago to work for a commercial ards on earmarks, I am submitting the fol- and its operations is essential in Anchorage’s law firm and later as counsel for the U.S. En- lowing information regarding earmarks I re- effort to reduce and eliminate sexual assault. vironmental Protection Agency. ceive as part of H.R. 2487—the Commerce, The SART lso responds to cases from other After a racist comment by a Cook County Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Ap- Alaskan jurisdictions that do not have SART Circuit Court Judge, Otaka, as co-chair of the propriations Act, 2010. programs, covering a large area, as the near- judiciary committee of the Asian American Bar Project Name: Steller Sea Lion Comanage- est SART Center is 200 miles away. Association, led the effort to have him re- ment, Biosampling and Outreach/Education Appropriated Amount: $400,000 moved. She succeeded, with the judge failing Bill Number: H.R. 2487 Detailed Finance Plan: to win the sixty percent of the vote required for Department of Commerce, NOAA–ORF Program Administration, Victim Advocacy, retention. Legal name and address of entity receiving Forensic Investigation: $340,000 In 2000, Sandra Otaka was appointed to the earmark: Indirect/Communications: $60,000 Cook County Circuit Court, and in 2002, she Alaska Sea Otter and Steller Sea Lion Com- Project Name: The Yukon River Drainage was reelected—the first Asian American judge mission Fisheries Association Bill Number: H.R. 2487 in Cook County to do so. 6239 B Street, Suite 204 Department of Commerce, NOAA–ORF Judge Otaka is remembered for her con- Anchorage, AK 99518 Legal name and address of entity receiving tinual fight for the Asian American community Description of how the money will be spent earmark: and as an advocate for diversity on the bench. and why the use of federal taxpayer funding is The Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Asso- She is survived by her sister, Susan Smith, justified: TASSC will take a two pronged ap- ciation and her nephew, Jeffery, who she raised as proach to sea lion biosampling. First, TASSC 725 Christensen Drive, Suite 3–B her own after her brother’s death. will work with two high harvest communities to Anchorage, AK 99508 In closing, Madam Speaker, I ask my col- fund local monitors-local residents that will Description of how the money will be spent leagues to join me in mourning the passing of work with the hunters and facilitate sea lion and why the use of federal taxpayer funding is Sandra Otaka. She is truly deserving of our biosampling and help to monitor and docu- justified: The Yukon River Drainage Fisheries respect and admiration. ment the local environment. Secondly, TASSC Association (YRDFA) promotes healthy wild f will train approximately 25 coastal Alaska resi- salmon fisheries along the Yukon River in dents on proper sample collection techniques Alaska. It manages programs to aid in the EARMARK DECLARATION and protocols from those sea lions harvested management through the gathering of data for subsistence. from subsistence harvests, Native Elders’ HON. CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS Subsistence hunted Steller sea lion biosam- knowledge and tracking fisheries issues im- OF NEW YORK ples are very valuable to the research commu- pacting Yukon River salmon. The Yukon River IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nity. Collection and analysis of these samples Drainage Fisheries Association also educates Monday, June 15, 2009 can provide critical information that no other fishers and managers in responsible usage Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS. Madam source can provide. It is recognized as a top and ensures both are able to work to steward Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leader- priority activity in the 1992 and soon to be fi- the salmon fisheries. ship Standards on earmarks, I am submitting nalized Steller Sea Lion Recovery Plan. The The federal government is obligated to the following information regarding earmarks I importance of collecting samples from animals maintain sustainable salmon runs on the received as part of H.R. 2487, the Commerce, taken for subsistence is widely recognized by Yukon River through the Yukon River Salmon Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appro- such groups as the National Marine Mammal Agreement and to provide subsistence priority priations Act of 2010. Lab, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, under the Alaska Native Interest Claims Act. I, Congresswoman MCMORRIS RODGERS, re- Alaska Sea Life Center and the University of YRDFA plays a key role in involving the users quested $500,000 on behalf of Washington Alaska. of the resources in maintaining the salmon State University, located at 1036 Wilson Road; Appropriated Amount: $500,000 runs for which the federal government is re- Pullman, Washington 99164. The application Detailed Finance Plan: sponsible for managing. Appropriated Amount: $100,000 submitted on Washington State University’s Personnel & Fringe Costs: $312,300 Detailed Finance Plan: behalf requested funding from the Department Travel: $89,000 Supplies: $13,700 Policy Monitoring; Board of Fisheries, Fed- of Justice’s Office of Justice Program’s Ed- eral Subsistence Board: $40,000 ward Bryne Discretionary Grant Account. This Contractual: $50,000 Biosamplers: $10,000 Yukon River subsistence and commercial funding will be applied to the Washington fisheries revitalization: $15,000 State University Research Center for the Printing: $21,000 Sample Shipping: $4,000 Salmon By-catch monitoring and reduction: Study of Addiction: Methamphetamine, Pre- $10,000 scription, and Other Drugs of Abuse. Project Name: Sexual Assault Response Team Center Fisheries education and outreach: $10,000 The Washington State University Program Habitat monitoring; climate change impacts: Bill Number: H.R. 2487 of Excellence is known for its cutting-edge, $15,000 Department of Justice, OJP-Byrne world-class research into the treatment and Project Name i-Safe e-Safety Education and Legal name and address of entity receiving prevention of methamphetamine abuse. This Outreach Initiative request will utilize existing infrastructure, which earmark: Bill Number: H.R. 2487 currently focuses on methamphetamine abuse, The Sexual Assault Response Team Department of Justice, OJP-Juvenile Justice to focus on prescription drug abuse. Funds will (SART) Center Legal name and address of entity receiving be used to provide for one research fellow, in- Municipality of Anchorage earmark: P.O. Box 196650 cluding necessary equipment and materials, to i-SAFE, Inc. Anchorage, AK 99519 be a faculty member in the Center of Excel- 5900 Pasteur Court, Suite 100 Description of how the money will be spent lence. The individual will be responsible for fo- Carlsbad, CA 92008 and why the use of federal taxpayer funding is Description of how the money will be spent cusing on the effective treatment and preven- justified: Funding will be used for the contin- and why the use of federal taxpayer funding is tion of prescription drug abuse. ued development and operations of the Mu- justified: This funding will allow i-SAFE to ex- f nicipality of Anchorage Sexual Assault Re- pand services to a projected 6.2 million stu- EARMARK DECLARATION sponse Team (SART) Center. This project will dents nationally by the end of the 2009 school support victims through care while partici- year. It will also help to fund the i-SAFE initia- HON. DON YOUNG pating in investigation and prosecution and tives that provide data to FBI, local law en- OF ALASKA help in prosecution of sexual assault cases forcement, schools and industry leaders such IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES through professional evidence collection, doc- as USPTO, RIAA and ASCAP. This data is umentation, preservation and processing. provided through the i-SAFE National Assess- Monday, June 15, 2009 The SART Center is essential in the collec- ment Center—a compilation of student sur- Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Madam Speaker, tion of evidence through the forensic medical veys that serve as the world’s largest data pursuant to the Republican Leadership stand- exam by the sexual assault nurse examiner base of student online behavior and attitudes.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 13:34 Oct 13, 2011 Jkt 069102 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 9920 E:\BR09\E15JN9.000 E15JN9 erowe on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD June 15, 2009 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 155, Pt. 11 15171 Appropriated Amount: $630,000 or socio-economic, to deploy such global edu- drug cartels, as well as those involved with Detailed Finance Plan: cation, is that of the classroom. To date, over weapon and human trafficking. The 52nd Dis- i-SAFE Inc. is the leading provider of e- 8.5 million students nationwide have acquired trict comprises between 5 to 9 percent of all Safety education and training in schools na- the critical thinking and decision-making skills gang crime activity countywide. These num- tionwide. i-SAFE also provides schools/dis- to ensure safe online behavior. The efficacy of bers, however, do not actually reflect gang tricts behavioral statistical data regarding Inter- the i-SAFE program has proven invaluable to crimes because much of this activity goes un- net behavior and usage by their students. i- the tax payers nationwide. reported. Additionally, San Diego is the largest SAFE programmatic assets address a broad f port of entry from Mexico, where cross border range of e-Safety issues through a uniquely operation among gangs is routine and from comprehensive and holistic framework that in- EARMARK DECLARATION San Diego, contraband is distributed nation- cludes training of educators (i.e., Professional ally. Development Program—i-SAFE has trained HON. DUNCAN HUNTER I met with the San Diego County Sheriff’s over 85,000 educators nationwide) both online OF CALIFORNIA office to discuss the types of other organized and in-person, extensive community outreach IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES groups involved in criminal activity, e.g., out- programs towards parents, seniors, legal/law- Monday, June 15, 2009 law motorcycle gangs, white supremacists, enforcement officers and, most importantly, a and skinheads in San Diego’s East County. world-class age-appropriate curriculum which Mr. HUNTER. Madam Speaker, pursuant to East County will serve as a test site to see if features integrated teaching and learning ac- the Republican Leadership standards on ear- this type of program will reduce these types of tivities for students in all grades from primary marks, I am submitting the following informa- gangs. From 2007 and 2008, there were 76 to secondary schools. i-SAFE has educated tion regarding earmarks I received as part of gang related prosecutions from the 52nd Dis- over 8.5 million students nationwide and has H.R. 2847, the Commerce-Justice-Science Ap- trict. If successful, the program will be ex- cooperative agreement with many of the State propriations for FY 2010: panded nationally. Dept. of Education(s) and Districts in all 50 I requested $250,000 for the California De- f states including schools in Washington DC to partment of Justice (CA DOJ) through the De- name a few: Sidwell Friends School; St. Pat- partment of Justice, Community Oriented Po- ON INTRODUCING A RESOLUTION ricks Episcopal Day School; Woodridge Ele- lice Services Meth Account. Representatives REGARDING BLACK-JEWISH RE- mentary; Woodridge High School & St. Peters BOB FILNER (CA–51) and SUSAN DAVIS (CA– LATIONS AND THE SHOOTING AT Interparish School. 53) also requested additional funding for this THE UNITED STATES HOLO- i-SAFE fulfills a vital role in the digital age program and the total amount received is CAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM and global information society, throughout the $350,000. The entity to receive funding for this United States by empowering Internet users project is the California Department of Justice HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS with the knowledge and awareness needed to at 13001 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. OF FLORIDA garner the most benefit from Information and CA DOJ has made me aware that while IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the California is the nation’s leader in meth pro- Monday, June 15, 2009 Internet via safe, responsible, ethical and legal duction, meth continues to be imported from use. Mexico across the San Diego border. Addition- Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Madam Speaker, Beginning in 2009 Congress mandated that ally, violent Mexican nationals are now setting I rise to introduce a resolution expressing the elementary and secondary schools receiving up operations in California, including East sense of Congress regarding Black-Jewish re- E-Rate discounts must submit a certification to County, due to the recent crackdown in Mex- lations and the June 10, 2009 shooting at the the Federal Communications Commission that ico. As a result of a lack of resources, law en- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in as part of their Internet safety policy they are forcement is not discovering meth labs until Washington, D.C. Special Police Officer Ste- ‘‘educating minors about appropriate online they have already been deserted, leaving the phen Tyrone Johns, an African American, was behavior, including interacting with other indi- County to clean up. These funds will be used shot dead by a white supremacist while de- viduals on social networking websites and in to purchase equipment used for investigation fending an institution devoted to Jewish history chat rooms and cyber bullying awareness and and seizure of meth labs, drug (all types) and to the eradication of all forms of hatred response. i-SAFE can provide to every school, interdiction efforts, pay overtime to San Diego and violence. throughout the United States the ‘‘E-Rate Cer- California Methamphetamine Strategy Madam Speaker, last week’s tragic act of vi- tification Compliance Package’’. This package (CALMS) officers and train local law enforce- olence reminds us yet again that black Ameri- includes all classroom curriculum that is man- ment. Local law enforcement and first re- cans and Jewish Americans share a great dated to be taught through the Legislation sponders will be trained to deal with meth pro- deal in common. Our two communities have a mandate of the Broadband Act. duction, clean up and sales. San Diego Coun- long history of fighting injustice and hate, Funding will be used to expand the i-SAFE ty will benefit by also having additional CA whether in the form of racism, anti-Semitism, curriculum to more students and classrooms DOJ enforcement teams in the County to com- xenophobia, or any other form of senseless throughout the nation as well as implement bat drug sales and interdiction efforts. hatred. We have so often stood together, the ‘‘E-Rate Compliance Package’’ into I also requested $250,000 for the County of united in our desire to create a world free from schools throughout the nation. San Diego, CA, through the Department of the kind of violence that plagued this nation This request will also allow i-SAFE to pro- Justice, Office of Justice Programs—Byrne last week. When Jewish Americans helped vide, on a quarterly basis, student assessment Discretionary Grants Account. The entity to re- found the National Association for the Ad- data (i.e., metrics) to the district/schools upon ceive funding for this project is the San Diego vancement of Colored People in 1909 and the request allowing them to have metrics on stu- County Sheriff’s Department at 9621 Urban League in 1910, they did so out of a dents behavioral attitudes towards online safe- Ridgehaven Court, San Diego, CA 92123. conviction that by mitigating the evils of racial ty. Funding for this program will be used to im- intolerance all people would benefit from an This Administration is focused on providing plement and replicate the North County Gang America free of discrimination and committed every student and school(s) the ability to com- Enforcement Collaborative (NCGEC), which to equal justice and equal opportunity for all. municate and learn through today’s 21st cen- focuses on cooperation and communication Indeed, W.E.B. Dubois told the Jewish Daily tury communication. Safety is a key compo- among street level officers from numerous dif- Forward in 1928 that ‘‘the Negro race looks to nent for schools that provide students with the ferent law enforcement jurisdictions. NCGEC Jews for sympathy and understanding,’’ ref- means to access online information and serv- has successfully reduced violent crime, gangs erencing the sense amongst both communities ices within their learning environment in the and other activity and enterprises that result in that in their respective histories they had en- classroom. Education is the diadem to the violent crime and gang violence in the tar- dured similar challenges. success of students being empowered with geted region. Countywide, however, incidence A few decades later African Americans the knowledge of learning safe and respon- and severity of gang and drug crime is on the would denounce the Nazis’ racial policies and sible tactics as a citizen in today’s global rise (502 cases in 2007 to 616 cases in 2008), fight against Hitler, while those of African de- economy. The only environment that is condu- especially with gangs that serve as the dis- scent were marginalized in Germany and, in a cive for every student, regardless of age, race tribution and enforcement arms of international little-known twist of history, many African

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