April 22, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 161, Pt. 4 5419 So going down the article, it said: nian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Prime Minister Netanyahu was right, ‘‘This is a dramatic change in the ad- demand that all economic sanctions and knowing President Obama to be ministration’s position and a foolish against Iran be lifted upon concluding the big, courteous, and wonderful man one. We know, as former Secretaries of a final nuclear agreement,’ Senator he is, I am sure he will be sending an State Henry Kissinger and George P. MARK KIRK told Right Turn. ‘The apology to Prime Minister Netanyahu Schultz have warned, snap-back sanc- President is clearly leaving open the very soon since he does owe him one. tions are cumbersome and hugely inef- door for significant sanctions relief to On March 2 he tells Reuters that fective. Sanctions once lifted are enor- Iran up front to secure a controversial Netanyahu was wrong on everything, mously difficult to reinstate after deal that will neither significantly nor and now just over a month later we Western powers have commenced doing permanently dismantle Iran’s vast ca- find out he was right about everything. business. Inspections (not even of the pabilities to make nuclear weapons.’ So I think that will be good news when go everywhere/anytime variety) are ‘‘The President who once declared the President admits to Israel they never foolproof and the parties con- the framework a ‘historic’ deal has were right, I was wrong. template a system designed for endless been forced to concede there is no deal. By the way, what could we do with wrangling about whether violations Now he is signaling the final deal will that $50 billion that they may let Iran have occurred. be much worse than he or his defenders have access to after all the damage, all ‘‘But wait. It gets worse. The Wall ever suggested was possible. He prom- the Americans Iran has funded killing Street Journal reports: ‘The Obama ad- ised to dismantle Iran’s nuclear weap- and maiming. We could use some of ministration estimates Iran has be- ons program; now he is locking it in. that money. Wow, $50 billion. tween $100 billion and $140 billion of its He once insisted on robust inspections But one final article dated today oil revenue frozen in offshore accounts and gradual lifting of sanctions. Those from John Sexton, ‘‘Iran Says It Will as a result of sanctions’ ’’. . . ‘‘The will go by the wayside too. Ultimately, Refuse Access to IAEA Inspectors monies of course will be instantly Congress, the 2016 Presidential can- ‘Anywhere’ Nationwide.’’ available to fund terrorist activities.’’ didates, our allies and the American ‘‘A spokesman for Iran’s nuclear Well, Mr. Speaker, I guess that people will need to explain that total agency has once again rejected calls to wouldn’t be President Obama saying appeasement—which is where this is grant IAEA access to military sites, that because apparently he hadn’t rec- leading—will not be acceptable. They continuing a war of words on the issue ognized that, but, okay. will then have to devise the means for that began Sunday.’’ The article says: stopping Obama or immediately revers- The bottom line, Mr. Speaker, this ‘‘That would be a huge boost to Iran’s ing his ‘diplomacy,’ which is more like President is putting the world in jeop- economy, given up front and with no promising to make a ransom payment. ardy. He is putting Israel in jeopardy. evidence of compliance. The monies of Unfortunately for the Saudis, that He is putting us in jeopardy. He is put- course will be instantly available to likely means beginning an arms race as ting all of Israel’s neighbors in jeop- fund terrorist activities and Iranian they seek a bomb of their own. It will ardy. It is time he woke up and smelled surrogates in Yemen, Syria, and else- be quite a legacy if Obama gets his the baklava. where. way.’’ Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance ‘‘ ‘Obama is willing to grant Iran ac- Mr. Speaker, this President’s foreign of my time. cess to funds that equate to about 10 policy in the Middle East and North Af- f percent of its GDP’ ’’—Iran’s GDP— rica has created chaos. ‘‘ ‘just for signing a deal. That percent- Then April 20, there is this article b 1830 age boost is equivalent to a $1.7 trillion from the Washington Free Beacon: FUTURE FORUM injection into the U.S. economy today ‘‘The State Department on Monday (which is twice the dollar amount of would not rule out giving Iran up to $50 The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. JEN- the 2009 stimulus package).’ ’’ billion as a so-called ‘signing bonus.’ ’’ KINS of West Virginia). Under the That was explained by JINSA CEO . . . ‘‘Experts have said this multi- Speaker’s announced policy of January Michael Makovsky. million dollar ‘signing bonus’ option, 6, 2015, the Chair recognizes the gen- ‘‘ ‘This was a terrific present to Iran which was first reported by The Wall tleman from California (Mr. for its Army Day celebration on Satur- Street Journal, could be the largest SWALWELL) for 30 minutes. day, when the regime showed off some cash infusion to a terror-backing re- Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. of its weapons to slogans of ‘‘Death to gime in recent memory.’’ Speaker, I rise this evening to report America,’’ and ‘‘Death to Israel.’’ ’ He So they are getting access to money, back to the Congress on the progress of adds, ‘Equally dismaying was Obama’s the article points out. the House Democratic Caucus’ newest minimization in the same press con- So then, Mr. Speaker, I want to take group, Future Forum. ference of Russia’s announcement to us back to March 2 from The Blaze, Future Forum is made up of 14 Mem- sell S–300 surface-to-air missile bat- where they report on President Obama bers of Congress who are going across teries to Iran, which will make a mili- saying Netanyahu has been wrong on the country to talk about issues facing tary strike against Iran’s nuclear fa- Iran. And they have this quote in the young Americans. We launched just cilities much harder. Perhaps Obama article, and it quotes from Reuters, last Thursday. We have gone to New was trying to save face by this Russian this is a quote from Obama, reported York, Boston, and San Francisco, and move, and/or perhaps he no longer op- by Reuters: we are just warming up. poses the Russian sale because it will ‘‘ ‘Netanyahu made all sorts of Our goal is to listen to—not talk to— make it harder for Israel to spoil the claims. This was going to be a terrible young Americans about issues ranging nuclear deal through military action.’ deal. This was going to result in Iran from student loan debt, climate ‘‘If Israelis are expressing ‘shock and getting $50 billion worth of relief,’ change, access to entrepreneurship, amazement Friday night at U.S. Presi- Obama told Reuters in an interview and anything that is on their mind or dent Barack Obama’s stated openness Monday. ‘Iran would not abide by the standing in their way of achieving to Iran’s demand for the immediate agreement. None of that has come their dreams, hopes, and aspirations. lifting of all economic sanctions, and true.’ ’’ I encourage anyone watching tonight his defense of Russia’s agreement to That was March 2. Now here we are across America to tweet at me and to supply a sophisticated air defense sys- on April 22, and it turns out everything tweet at Future Forum under tem to Iran,’ they should not be. The Prime Minister Netanyahu said has #futureforum, so that we can address President will give the Iranians any- been true. So far, Mr. Speaker, every- your concerns right here on the House thing and everything to get his deal. thing that he has said that we have floor and across the country. ‘It’s deeply troubling that President been able to get evidence on has been We started Thursday evening in New Obama declined to publicly reject Ira- true. President Obama was wrong, York City. I was joined by Democratic

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Policy and Communications chair man RUBEN GALLEGO of the Phoenix Things are different now. Tuition STEVE ISRAEL; Congresswoman GRACE area and Congressman PETE AGUILAR of continues to go up. These students told MENG, who represents the Queens area; the San Bernardino area in California us, during our Future Forum visit, that and Congressman SETH MOULTON, who and Congressman DEREK KILMER of the they are taking a number of odd jobs represents the greater Boston area. Tacoma, Washington, area—we asked just to pay for the rising cost of com- Our first stop was at the District the room, about 100 people: How many munity college. Cowork space in Manhattan in the of you own a home? Crickets, dead si- We talked about the President’s plan Flatiron District. You see here in this lent. during the State of the Union in this photo, this was not just any rigid, How many of you have parents who very Chamber to offer free community stuffy townhall. We invited young en- own a home? Most of their hands went college to anyone who was qualified trepreneurs across Manhattan and up. and able and willing. The students were asked them at District Cowork: What How many of you are renters now? hopeful but not too optimistic. They stands in your way from achieving Most of their hands stayed up. see too many barriers and walls here in your startup success? How many of you fear that you will Washington to get anything done that You have in this room these young, not be able to ever own a home in your could help them. energetic entrepreneurs. They are life? Again, these young people, full of We also asked the students to par- ready to risk it all for their big idea. energy, great ideas, great educations, ticipate in a word cloud. A word cloud They are all millennials, aged any- their hands stayed up. is you text in an answer, and, on the We asked: What is standing in the where from 18 to 35; and it was a very screen behind us, it put different words way? The hundreds of dollars a month informal, fluid session. in response to different answers. We What we heard was not surprising, they are paying in student loan debt. asked the students: What would you do Homeownership, one of the bedrocks but it was very striking. For too many if you didn’t have student debt every of the American Dream, to have some- of them, when we asked, How many of month? What would your payment thing to call your own, something that you have student loan debt, their money go to? we fought during our independence as a Again, no one said they were going to hands went up. For too many of them, country, that right for property, to when we asked, How much is your stu- buy a bunch of toys or go on a bunch of chart your own course, have your own fancy vacations. They said that they dent loan debt, their hands stayed up piece of land, now, an entire generation when I said, Is it above $25,000 or $50,000 would probably buy a car so they didn’t of millennial Americans, 80 million of have to take the bus or take the BART or $100,000? them, have mounting student loan debt to class; they would hope to buy their Then I asked and my colleagues that is going to delay their ability to asked: What would you do with that first home; they would invest—which buy a home, that is going to delay would help the economy. money? What would you spend it on if their ability to start and have a fam- Future Forum was also at San Fran- you weren’t spending it every month ily, that is going to delay their oppor- cisco State University, and a young on your student loan debt? tunity to chase their dreams. girl at San Francisco State University, These young, business-minded people, While we were in California, we also as we talked about solutions we could they didn’t say: I would go on a vaca- visited Chabot College in Hayward, offer to address rising tuition rates for tion, or I would buy a new toy or a boat California, in the 15th Congressional current students and the debt burden or have fun for myself. District, which I am proud to rep- that 41 million Americans carry, one They said: I would invest it in my resent. At Chabot College, we assem- San Francisco State student told us company. I would invest it in my com- bled over 100 community college stu- that she had a dual challenge in her pany. dents, and we asked them: How much house. What do we know happens when en- student debt do you think you will She was trying to pay for her own trepreneurs invest money in their com- have by the time you take your first education, make it by not qualifying panies? They create jobs. They create postcollege job? for many student loans, while her growth around their industries that What we learned there, again, was mother also had $200,000 of her own stu- put more and more Americans to work. very, very bewildering. Most antici- dent debt. This is a family matter— Future Forum members learned a lot pated that they would have $25,000 to this is a family matter—not just for at this visit, and what we learned was $50,000 in student loan debt. that young San Francisco State stu- that student loan debt is a barrier—not We did it in a very interactive way. dent, but for millions of young people just a barrier, it is a tall brick wall We used text polling, so we asked the across the country. This debt is begin- that is standing in the way of an entire students to text in their answers. We ning to pile up and affect multiple gen- generation realizing their entrepre- polled the group and said: Are you able erations. neurial dreams. to take a full load of courses so that We had the honor of going to Boston, What we heard at District Cowork in you can get out of community college where we were hosted by Congressmen New York was not unique. In San Fran- as fast as possible and move on to a 4- JOE KENNEDY and SETH MOULTON. We cisco, we went to Hive, and we visited year university and move on into your visited Thermo Fisher Scientific, and their Impact Hub. Hive looked just like career field? we met with young scientists, people District Cowork. You have tall ceil- Most of them said that they couldn’t. who invested in their own future by ings, nothing on the walls—they are One student told us he worked three taking student loans and going to col- barely painted—no carpet on the floor, jobs. The jobs, they were all mostly the lege and getting, in many cases, grad- just a building filled with a lot of en- same. They weren’t jobs that were uate degrees to work in the field of ergy, a lot of good ideas, but a lot of going to put them into the area of in- science, to work in the field of thera- challenges standing in their way. dustry they would hope and aspire to pies and devices, hoping that they At Hive, these young entrepreneurs, be in. They were retail and restaurant could play a critical role in helping just like other entrepreneurs across jobs. people, making the world a better the country, they told us student loan The members of Future Forum could place. debt is standing in their way. Forty- identify with this. Congressman KIL- At Thermo Fisher, these young sci- one million young Americans have a MER talked about washing dishes in entists told us exactly what we heard collective amount of $1.3 trillion in college, and Congressman GALLEGO in San Francisco and in New York student loan debt. talked about working as a restaurant City. Their student loan debt weighs on We heard from people at Hive that server, and I harkened back to my days them. It holds them down like an an- their debt was not just standing in the in this town in Washington, D.C., as an chor. way of them starting their own busi- unpaid intern and working at Tortilla Something happened at the Thermo ness, but we asked the room—and at Coast at the end of the day to make it Fisher visit that we didn’t expect—be- this event, I was joined by Congress- work. cause you have a room full of young

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Her daughter had gone to had visited on the tour, and we had Keep interest rates as low as possible. college, just as we had, as a society, met with a number of young scientists The consensus among people who met told young people you have to do. Her who were working in the clean tech with us—these current students and en- daughter took out a number of student and clean energy areas. They asked us trepreneurs—was that the government loans, and her daughter lives at home about climate change and what we should make no money on interest and can’t find a job. were doing in Congress to address it. I rates on loans that it gives to students. What about the 41 million young b 1845 want to just go to some of the people who have tweeted in to us about Fu- Americans who have the $1.3 trillion in What we are seeing for our millennial ture Forum this evening and what debt? There was a general consensus generation and what was expressed by their thoughts are. that those debtholders should be able this mother is that we are at risk of be- I will first mention Hive, who has to refinance their student loans. You coming a permanent boomerang gen- tweeted at us in San Francisco that can refinance an auto loan. You can re- eration. We go out, and we study, and they are excited about the ideas pre- finance your home loan, but for the 86 we attain a degree or training or tech- sented and the issues raised and ‘‘let’s percent of loans that are the Federal nical skills; but because of the rising get to work.’’ loans of those 41 million Americans, costs of tuition and the debt that our I want to tell you how we are getting you can’t refinance them. generation is saddled with, we boo- to work. This was not just a one-way Congressman JOE COURTNEY, a col- merang back home. This mother told talking-to with millennials. Through league of mine from Connecticut, has a us it doesn’t just weigh on her daugh- #futureforum, through medium.com, bill that would allow just that. Our Fu- ter, who has a college degree and is through the article we wrote and post- ture Forum members are on that bill, trying to find a job, but that it weighs ed there, and through the information and we are hoping that it gets a vote in on the entire household. we have collected across the country, this Congress because this should be a With 41 million young people across we are actually putting the ball in the bipartisan issue. Those 41 million Americans are not our country with $1.3 trillion in stu- court of the young entrepreneurs and Democrats—they are not all Demo- dent loan debt, imagine how many fam- students who are charting this new crats, and they are not all Republicans. ilies are affected by this. These are economy. We told them to help us They are hopeful, aspirational young typically your parents who are just crowdsource ideas that can move people who should benefit from the starting to realize their golden years. America forward, and they gave us They worked so hard; paid into So- same refinancing laws that you can use some at these visits. with your home mortgage or with your cial Security; hopefully had a pension; With student loan debt being, prob- and they want to retire, maybe travel, auto loan. ably, the biggest, most pressing issue, There were other big ideas, and no maybe take up a hobby, maybe join a there was a general consensus that idea was too big or small for this local club; but their hopes and there are two groups affected by this. crowd. There was the proposal to have dreams—their golden retirements—are The first group is of the students who a jubilee for all of the federally funded being affected by children who are re- are enrolled right now and paying tui- student loans—to take every borrower, turning to the home and need their tion and accruing debt. The second return that money to those borrowers, support. We heard this all across Amer- group is of the 41 million young Ameri- to put them at zero, and watch where ica on this tour. This is a family mat- cans who already have student loan the money would go. ter, the student loan debt crisis in our debt. The hypothesis was, if these students country. The solutions that were thrown at us did not have to pay anywhere from $100 Finally, in the Boston area, we also for the students who are in school now to $1,000 every month, they are not went to Greentown Labs, a clean tech or who will be in school was, one, treat going to pocket the money; they are incubator I visited with Congressmen public education as a public good. Find going to put the money back in the MOULTON and KENNEDY in Somerville, a way to make sure that any qualified, economy, and it would essentially be a Massachusetts. capable person who wants to go to col- stimulus. Here, we heard, again, about student lege can do so, and keep the costs as I encourage everyone across the loan debt, but we also were asked by a low or as next to zero as you can. country—every young person, every number of people at this event: What is We had people who were so excited parent of a young person, every grand- standing in the way of fixing this prob- about the Future Forum who had grad- parent of a young person—to give us lem? uated college 30, 40 years ago who came your ideas. Future Forum is just get- We actually asked the audience: out and talked to us, and they ting started. We already are working What do you think? From your per- harkened back to a time in California with our colleague Congresswoman spective, what do you think is standing when, in the UC and Cal State systems, DEBBIE DINGELL, who is excited and in the way? tuition was essentially free—they even eager to host us in Michigan, and with So many of them told us campaign fi- threw in the yearbook—yet the return other colleagues who want to bring us nance laws—a smart, young crowd in on investment was a whole generation to their States to talk to young people. Somerville at Greentown Labs—cam- of educated individuals who would con- Give us your ideas. You can tweet paign finance laws, people in the audi- tribute to the greatest economy in the them at #futureforum. Put it on ence told us—young entrepreneurs— United States: California. Instagram. You can find us on and I thought they were just focused Their eyes popped out when they saw Facebook. Tweet. Facebook. like a laser on their ideas and on rais- how much it costs today to go to UC Instagram. Use social media, ing money for their first and second Berkeley: $33,000 today is what it costs #futureforum. Give us your ideas be- rounds of funding and on trying to a year for a student to go to UC Berke- cause the goal is for us to listen to you scale up and getting their ideas off the ley. People who had attended 20, 30 and then to work here in a bipartisan ground. No. These young people, they years ago talked about when it was al- way to act on your behalf. get it. most next to nothing. It is $33,000 a This conversation will continue. Our They told us exactly what the prob- year. work will go on until we have lifted the lem was. Because of unlimited amounts Congressman GALLEGO looked at that burden that stands in the way of of money that can be spent in elections number—and he went to Harvard. Har- young, aspirational entrepreneurs.

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Under the wealth that was necessary for business because they would come up the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- standards of living. It comes back to and charge people for patents that the uary 6, 2015, the Chair recognizes the the fact that we have recognized, as a business didn’t even know existed. gentleman from California (Mr. ROHR- right of ownership, the creativity ge- Well, submarine patents, that went ABACHER) for 30 minutes. nius of our own people. away. They no longer talk about sub- Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I Over the last two decades, most peo- marine patents. Now the boogeyman rise today to draw the attention of the ple have not understood that there has that is helping them create a straw American people and my colleagues to been a concealed effort to destroy the man argument that will result in the an issue that is rapidly coming to the patent rights of the American people. massive theft of intellectual property floor of the House, and it is an issue Let me repeat that. For the last two rights from America’s most creative that is coming so rapidly that some decades, we have been fighting quiet- people, the boogeyman now is called people might not notice the over- ly—people haven’t even noticed it— the patent troll. That is it: the patent whelming magnitude of this issue. against large international corpora- troll. These huge corporations have In fact, it is an issue that most peo- tions, multinationals, who would de- spent millions—tens of millions, if not ple are bored with. They don’t like to stroy the patent rights of the Amer- hundreds of millions—of dollars over discuss it. They think it is so com- ican people. these last few years trying to promote plicated that they don’t pay any atten- b 1900 this image that there is a patent troll tion. Unfortunately, the fact that little Why did they want to do that? Be- out there—that sounds sinister, doesn’t attention is being paid to this issue cause they want to steal the creation it?—that has to be defeated. They have may result in there being major dam- of our own inventors without having to proposed legislation in the name of de- age to the well-being of the American pay for that right. This is the ultimate feating a patent troll, because that people. little guy versus big guy, David and sounds very sinister, rather than legis- What I am trying to say is there is Goliath fight that I have ever seen in lation that permits large corporations legislation that will cause great harm Washington, D.C., but it is also one of to get away with stealing the patent to the American people, to our secu- the quietest and one that people have rights from small inventors in the rity, and to our prosperity. It is some- tried their best to keep out of the pub- United States. thing that is coming to a vote, and we lic eye. Well, how did this ‘‘troll’’ word come could well lose unless the American So how is it that Congress could even about? It is a relatively new word. As I people mobilize and the people in this conceive of this, where you have big say, when I first got here, they were Hall pay attention to the interests of corporations coming to say let’s neuter calling them ‘‘submarine patents,’’ the American people as a whole and the rights of the little guy or of little that is the evil force. Well, ‘‘troll’’ not to major international corpora- Americans? How would this happen? came about—I had a businessman who tions that have been manipulating this How could anyone imagine that a rep- was an executive of a major company issue. resentative body like the House of Rep- who has actually now changed sides, What am I talking about? I am talk- resentatives would do anything like and he has decided, my gosh, no, he ing about an issue that has over the that? can’t go along with this destruction of years been taken for granted, that Well, of course, they are not coming Americans’ rights to own what they America would be the preeminent tech- to this body—and they are not going to have created. He told me about how it nology power in the world. In fact, it the committee of jurisdiction, which is was decided. has been our technology superiority the Committee on the Judiciary— He was in a room with senior execu- that has led to the prosperity of aver- claiming that they want to steal from tives, mainly from the electronics in- age Americans, to the standard of liv- little guys and that they want to take dustry. They went around the room ing that we have, and also to our safety people’s ideas and use them without saying, now, what is the most sinister- and security as a nation. paying compensation for them. No, sounding word that we can come up It isn’t that Americans have worked they don’t say that. with in order to divert the attention of so hard—and we have worked hard—but They have had to create what I call the people away from the fact that our we have coupled work with technology. the straw man argument. Now, that is real target is these small inventors, be- In fact, people work hard all over the a traditional way of debate. It is in the cause everybody has a soft spot in their world, but they have not had the pat- debate books. If you can’t beat your heart for small inventors, so they are ent protection, the protection for the opponent in a debate, create a straw going to create a false image some intellectual rights of ownership in the man, create an image that you are ac- way. What can we do? What word can development of new technology. The tually attacking this guy, the straw we use to fool the American people into people around the world haven’t had man, when in reality you are attacking thinking that this is an evil force that this; thus, they have had standards of somebody else. Somebody else is going we are trying to stop when, in reality, living very low for ordinary people and to suffer the pain. they are trying to beat down small in- then, of course, the rich at the top. So this man’s arguments, the straw ventors? What we have had in our country is a man arguments, you can handle them. Well, they went around the room, the protection of intellectual property You can say how horrible that straw guy was telling me, and he said: I actu- rights by inventors. It is actually writ- man is and his arguments mean noth- ally suggested that they use the word ten into our Constitution. In fact, the ing, well, because that is not really the ‘‘patent pirate,’’ the ‘‘patent pirate.’’ word ‘‘right’’ is only used once in the guy who is being attacked. It is the That is how horrible it is. But, no, by body of the Constitution. There are the other man and woman down there, the the time they got around to the end of Bill of Rights in the latter part, but small inventors. They are the ones who the group, to the last part of the group, the word ‘‘right’’ is only related to the are going to feel it. But yet you don’t they had all heard ‘‘patent troll,’’ right that the Constitution declares for hear that from those proponents of the which is even worse than ‘‘patent pi- those who are writers and inventors legislation that, as I am warning peo- rate.’’ So they all agreed that this who have created something, and they ple, is on the way to the House floor. would be the word that we will use to

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