E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 116 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

Vol. 166 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2020 No. 114 House of Representatives The House met at 11 a.m. and was THE JOURNAL Larsen, Member of Congress; Joe Courtney, Member of Congress; Jackie Speier, Member called to order by the Speaker pro tem- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- pore (Mr. SARBANES). of Congress; Donald Norcross, Member of ant to section 4(a) of House Resolution Congress. f 967, the Journal of the last day’s pro- Ruben Gallego, Member of Congress; Salud ceedings is approved. Carbajal, Member of Congress; Ro Khanna, DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER f Member of Congress; Filemon Vela, Member PRO TEMPORE of Congress; Kendra Horn, Member of Con- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE gress; Seth Moulton, Member of Congress; The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Anthony G. Brown, Member of Congress; Wil- fore the House the following commu- liam Keating, Member of Congress; Andy Chair will lead the House in the Pledge nication from the Speaker: Kim, Member of Congress; Gil Cisneros, of Allegiance. WASHINGTON, DC, Member of Congress. June 22, 2020. The SPEAKER pro tempore led the Chrissy Houlahan, Member of Congress; I hereby appoint the Honorable JOHN P. Pledge of Allegiance as follows: Xochitl Torres Small, Member of Congress; SARBANES to act as Speaker pro tempore on I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Mikie Sherrill, Member of Congress; Deb this day. United States of America, and to the Repub- Haaland, Member of Congress; Lori Trahan, NANCY PELOSI, lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Member of Congress; Anthony Brindisi, Speaker of the House of Representatives. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Member of Congress; Jason Crow, Member of Congress; Elissa Slotkin, Member of Con- f f gress; Veronica Escobar, Member of Con- LETTER SUBMITTED PURSUANT gress; Jared Golden, Member of Congress; PRAYER TO SECTION 4(b) OF HOUSE RES- Elaine Luria, Member of Congress. The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick OLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS f J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES SENATE ENROLLED BILL SIGNED Loving God, thank You for giving us COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, The Speaker announced her signa- another day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ture to an enrolled bill of the Senate of We beseech You to consider the con- Washington, DC, June 22, 2020. the following title: cerns and prayers of Your people as the Hon. NANCY PELOSI, coronavirus continues to spread in so Speaker of the House, House of Representatives, S. 3084—An act to amend title 38, United many States in our Union. Bless those Washington, DC. States Code, to modify the limitation on pay DEAR SPEAKER PELOSI: Pursuant to section for certain high-level employees and officers who are ill with recovery, and those of the Department of Veterans Affairs. who labor to find a medical solution to 4(b) of House Resolution 965, we are writing to inform you that the Committee on Armed f the pandemic. Services has met the requirements for con- Bless us with Your love, for more ducting a business meeting outlined in regu- ADJOURNMENT love is needed now. Angry and volatile lation E.l of the remote committee pro- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- gatherings have given way to inten- ceedings regulations, inserted into the Con- ant to section 4(b) of House Resolution tional public expression for a change in gressional Record on May 15, 2020, and that 967, the House stands adjourned until 2 police practice and culture. May re- the committee is prepared to conduct a re- p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. mote meeting and permit remote participa- forms that come from the principles in Thereupon (at 11 o’clock and 2 min- conversation with one another benefit tion. In meeting these requirements, the com- utes a.m.), under its previous order, the both police organizations and police- mittee held a non-public business meeting House adjourned until Wednesday, men, and the communities which they rehearsal on June 16, 2020; a public full com- June 24, 2020, at 2 p.m. serve. mittee hearing with remote participation on f Bless our Congress with wisdom and June 10, 2020; and a public subcommittee good will, that far-reaching solutions hearing with remote participation on June 4, EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, might be found to engage the national 2020. ETC. government wherever that might be Thank you, Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive appropriate and necessary. Adam Smith, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee; James R. Langevin, communications were taken from the Bless us all this day, and every day, Member of Congress; Jim Cooper, Member of Speaker’s table and referred as follows: and may all that we do be for Your Congress; John Garamendi, Member of Con- 4533. A letter from the Program Analyst, greater honor and glory. gress; Tulsi Gabbard, Member of Congress; U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agri- Amen. Susan A. Davis, Member of Congress; Rick culture, transmitting the Department’s final

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:07 Jun 23, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A22JN7.000 H22JNPT1 ctelli on DSK30NT082PROD with HOUSE H2412 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 22, 2020 rule — Land Uses; Special Uses; Stream- cy’s final rule — Air Plan Approval; Min- gency with respect to the situation in or in lining Processing of Communications Use nesota; Revision to the Minnesota State Im- relation to the Democratic Republic of the Applications (RIN: 0596-AD38) received June plementation Plan [EPA-R05-OAR-2018-0839; Congo that was declared in Executive Order 1, 2020, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Pub- FRL-10007-92-Region 5] received May 22, 2020, 13413 of October 27, 2006, pursuant to 50 lic Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); Committee on Agriculture. 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Com- (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public 4534. A letter from the Acting Associate mittee on Energy and Commerce. Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the General Counsel for Legislation and Regula- 4543. A letter from the Director, Regu- Committee on Foreign Affairs. tions, Office of the Deputy Secretary, De- latory Management Division, Environmental 4551. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- partment of Housing and Urban Develop- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six- ment, transmitting the Department’s final cy’s final authorization — Florida: Final Au- month periodic report on the national emer- rule — Streamlining Administrative Regula- thorization of State Hazardous Waste Man- gency with respect to significant narcotics tions for Multifamily Housing Programs and agement Program Revisions [EPA-R04- traffickers centered in Colombia declared in Implementing Family Income Reviews Under RCRA-2019-0673; FRL-10008-85-Region 4] re- Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, pur- the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation ceived May 22, 2020, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. suant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, (FAST) Act [Docket No.: FR 5743-F-05] (RIN: 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 2502-AJ36) received June 1, 2020, pursuant to Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. Commerce. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Fi- 4544. A letter from the Director, Regu- 4552. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- nancial Services. latory Management Division, Environmental ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six- 4535. A letter from the Program Specialist, Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- month periodic report on the national emer- Chief Counsel’s Office, Office of the Comp- cy’s final rule — Flonicamid; Pesticide Tol- gency with respect to the Central African troller of the Currency, Department of the erances [EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0250; FRL-10009- Republic that was declared in Executive Treasury, transmitting the Department’s in- 26] received May 22, 2020, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Order 13667 of May 12, 2014, pursuant to 50 terim final rule — Director, Shareholder, and 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); Member Meetings [Docket No.: OCC-2020- Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public 0020] (RIN: 1557-AE94) received June 1, 2020, Commerce. Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 4545. A letter from the Director, Regu- Committee on Foreign Affairs. 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Com- latory Management Division, Environmental 4553. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- mittee on Financial Services. Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six- 4536. A letter from the Program Specialist, cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation month periodic report on the national emer- Chief Counsel’s Office, Office of the Comp- of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Penn- gency with respect to Yemen that was de- troller of the Currency, Department of the sylvania; Regulatory Updates to Allegheny clared in Executive Order 13611 of May 16, Treasury, transmitting the Department’s County Nonattainment New Source Review 2012, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public correcting amendment — Regulatory Capital (NNSR) Permitting Requirements for 2012 Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 Rule: Revised Transition of the Current Ex- Annual Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Na- U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); pected Credit Losses Methodology for Allow- tional Ambient Air Quality Standard (91 Stat. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign ances [Docket ID: OCC-2020-0015] (RIN: 1557- (NAAQS) [EPA-R03-OAR-2019-0469; FRL- Affairs. AE87) received June 1, 2020, pursuant to 5 10009-51-Region 3] received May 22, 2020, pur- 4554. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. suant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six- 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Fi- 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee month periodic report on the national emer- nancial Services. on Energy and Commerce. gency with respect to persons who commit, 4537. A letter from the Secretary, Division 4546. A letter from the Director, Regu- threaten to commit, or support terrorism of Trading and Markets, Securities and Ex- latory Management Division, Environmental that was declared in Executive Order 13224 of change Commission, transmitting the Com- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- September 23, 2001, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. mission’s final rule — Amendments to the cy’s final rule — Air Plan Approval; Wis- 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 National Market System Plan Governing the consin; Redesignation of the Newport State Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law Consolidated Audit Trail [Release No.: 34- Park Area in Door County to Attainment of 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the Com- 88890; File No.: S7-13-19] (RIN: 3235-AM60) re- the 2015 Ozone NAAQS [EPA-R05-OAR-2020- mittee on Foreign Affairs. ceived June 1, 2020, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 0042; FRL-10009-61-Region 5] received May 22, 4555. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 2020, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public ment of the Treasury, transmitting a semi- Stat. 868); to the Committee on Financial Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the annual report detailing telecommunications- Services. Committee on Energy and Commerce. 4538. A letter from the Chairman, Federal 4547. A letter from the Director, Regu- related payments made to Cuba pursuant to Financial Institutions Examination Council, latory Management Division, Environmental Treasury Department licenses during the pe- transmitting the Council’s 2019 Annual Re- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- riod from July 1 through December 31, 2019, port to Congress, pursuant to Sec. 1006(f) of cy’s final rule — Air Plan Approval; GA; 2010 pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 6004(e)(6); Public Law U.S.C. 3305, the Financial Regulatory and In- 1-Hour SO2 NAAQS Transport Infrastructure 102-484, Sec. 1705(e)(6) (as amended by Public terest Rate Control Act of 1978; to the Com- [EPA-R04-OAR-2019-0329; FRL-10009-69-Re- Law 104-114, Sec. 102(g)); (110 Stat. 794); to mittee on Financial Services. gion 4] received May 22, 2020, pursuant to 5 the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 4539. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 4556. A letter from the Director, Court ment of Health and Human Services, trans- 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on En- Services and Offender Supervision Agency mitting a renewed determination that a pub- ergy and Commerce. for the District of Columbia, transmitting lic health emergency exists nationwide as a 4548. A letter from the Director, Regu- the Agency’s FY 2019 No FEAR Act report, result of the consequences of the opioid cri- latory Management Division, Environmental pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 2301 note; Public Law sis effective April 13, 2020, pursuant to 42 Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- 107-174, 203(a) (as amended by Public Law 109- U.S.C. 247d(a); July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, cy’s withdrawal of direct final rule — Air 435, Sec. 604(f)); (120 Stat. 3242); to the Com- Sec. 319(a) (as amended by Public Law 107- Plan Approval; New Hampshire; Negative mittee on Oversight and Reform. 188, Sec. 144(a)); (116 Stat. 630); to the Com- Declaration for the Oil and Gas Industry 4557. A letter from the Deputy Secretary, mittee on Energy and Commerce. [EPA-R01-OAR-2020-0029; FRL-10010-00-Re- Department of Defense, transmitting the De- 4540. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- gion 1] received May 22, 2020, pursuant to 5 partment’s Inspector General Semiannual ment of Energy, transmitting proposed legis- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. Report to Congress for the period October 1, lation to amend Sec. 621(d) of the Depart- 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on En- 2019 through March 31, 2020, pursuant to the ment of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. ergy and Commerce. Inspector General Act of 1978; to the Com- 7231(d)); to the Committee on Energy and 4549. A letter from the Director, Regu- mittee on Oversight and Reform. Commerce. latory Management Division, Environmental 4558. A letter from the Chairman, Federal 4541. A letter from the Director, Regu- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Maritime Commission, transmitting the latory Management Division, Environmental cy’s final rule — Air Plan Approval; Texas; Commission’s FY 2019 No FEAR Act report, Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Approval of Substitution for Dallas-Fort pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 2301 note; Public Law cy’s final rule — Indoxacarb; Pesticide Toler- Worth Area Transportation Control Meas- 107-174, 203(a) (as amended by Public Law 109- ances [EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0384; FRL-9995-89] ures [EPA-R06-OAR-2020-0229; FRL 10009-40- 435, Sec. 604(f)); (120 Stat. 3242); to the Com- received May 22, 2020, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Region 6] received May 22, 2020, pursuant to mittee on Oversight and Reform. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 4559. A letter from the Interim Federal Co- Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on En- Chair, Denali Commission, transmitting the Commerce. ergy and Commerce. Commission’s 2020 Semi-Annual Inspector 4542. A letter from the Director, Regu- 4550. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- General report, pursuant to Sec. 5(b) of the latory Management Division, Environmental ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six- Inspector General Act of 1978; to the Com- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- month periodic report on the national emer- mittee on Natural Resources.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jun 23, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\L22JN7.000 H22JNPT1 ctelli on DSK30NT082PROD with HOUSE June 22, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2413 4560. A letter from the Assistant Secretary nations for the Department of Veterans Af- quently determined by the Speaker, in each of State, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, De- fairs; to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. case for consideration of such provisions as partment of State, transmitting a com- By Mr. DOGGETT (for himself, Mr. fall within the jurisdiction of the committee prehensive report of actions taken from 2012- ROONEY of Florida, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, concerned. 2018 to conclude new cultural property agree- Ms. DELAURO, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. By Mr. PETERS (for himself, Mr. BILI- ments with Belize, Bulgaria, Egypt, and POCAN, and Ms. JAYAPAL): RAKIS, Mr. DEUTCH, and Mr. Libya, and to extend agreements with Bo- H.R. 7288. A bill to direct the Secretary of FITZPATRICK): livia, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Cyprus, El Health and Human Services and other Fed- H.R. 7293. A bill to amend the Public Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, eral officials to compile into a searchable Health Service Act to provide best practices Italy, Mali, Nicaragua, and Peru, pursuant database information relating to Federal on student suicide awareness and prevention to 19 U.S.C. 2602(g)(1); Public Law 97-446, Sec. support for biomedical research and develop- training and condition State educational 303(g)(1); (96 Stat. 2354); to the Committee on ment related to COVID-19, and for other pur- agencies, local educational agencies, and Ways and Means. poses; to the Committee on Energy and Com- tribal educational agencies receiving funds 4561. A letter from the Director, Regula- merce, and in addition to the Committees on under section 520A of such Act to establish tions and Disclosure Law Division, U.S. Cus- Armed Services, Veterans’ Affairs, Science, and implement a school-based student sui- toms and Border Protection, Department of Space, and Technology, the Judiciary, and cide awareness and prevention training pol- Homeland Security, transmitting the De- Ways and Means, for a period to be subse- icy; to the Committee on Energy and Com- partment’s temporary final rule — Tem- quently determined by the Speaker, in each merce. porary Postponement of the Time To Deposit case for consideration of such provisions as By Ms. PORTER (for herself, Ms. Certain Estimated Duties, Taxes, and Fees fall within the jurisdiction of the committee STEFANIK, Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. ADAMS, During the National Emergency Concerning concerned. and Mrs. LEE of Nevada): the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) By Ms. HAALAND (for herself, Mr. H.R. 7294. A bill to suspend Federal Perkins Outbreak [USCBP-2020-0017; CBP Dec.: 20-05] WALTZ, and Ms. HOULAHAN): Loans repayments during the COVID-19 pan- (RIN: 1515-AE54) received June 1, 2020, pursu- H.R. 7289. A bill to direct the Director of demic, and for other purposes; to the Com- ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- the Defense Logistics Agency to carry out a mittee on Education and Labor, and in addi- 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee pilot program for temporary issuance of ma- tion to the Committees on the Judiciary, on Ways and Means. ternity-related uniform items to pregnant and Ways and Means, for a period to be sub- members of the Armed Forces, and for other 4562. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- sequently determined by the Speaker, in purposes; to the Committee on Armed Serv- ment of Energy, transmitting proposed legis- each case for consideration of such provi- ices. lation to amend Sec. 4601(c) of the Atomic sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the By Mr. HECK (for himself, Mr. CROW, Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2701); jointly committee concerned. Mr. KIM, and Mr. KILMER): to the Committees on Energy and Commerce By Mr. RUSH (for himself, Mr. COHEN, H.R. 7290. A bill to modify the cost-sharing and Armed Services. Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. PANETTA, Ms. requirement of the Defense Community In- NORTON, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. f frastructure Program and to temporarily ex- VELA´ ZQUEZ, and Mr. VELA): REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON pand eligibility for Department of Defense H.R. 7295. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- impact aid and authorize additional amounts PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS enue Code of 1986 to provide an increase in to provide such aid, and for other purposes; the amount of the recovery rebates with re- Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of to the Committee on Armed Services, and in spect to certain dependents, including stu- committees were delivered to the Clerk addition to the Committees on Financial dents demonstrating significant financial for printing and reference to the proper Services, and Education and Labor, for a pe- need, and for other purposes; to the Com- calendar, as follows: riod to be subsequently determined by the mittee on Ways and Means. Speaker, in each case for consideration of By Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Mr. Mr. NADLER: Committee on the Judici- such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- ROONEY of Florida, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. ary. H.R. 7120. A bill to hold law enforcement tion of the committee concerned. DELAURO, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. POCAN, accountable for misconduct in court, im- By Mr. HORSFORD (for himself, Mr. and Ms. JAYAPAL): prove transparency through data collection, CA´ RDENAS, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Ms. H.R. 7296. A bill to require any COVID-19 and reform police training and policies; with JUDY CHU of California, Ms. CLARKE drug developed in whole or in part with Fed- an amendment (Rept. 116–434, Pt. 1). Referred of New York, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. eral support to be affordable and accessible to the Committee on the Whole House on the GALLEGO, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. by prohibiting monopolies and price gouging, state of the Union. GARCIA of Texas, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. GRI- and for other purposes; to the Committee on DISCHARGE OF COMMITTEE JALVA, Mrs. HAYES, Ms. LEE of Cali- Energy and Commerce, and in addition to Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XIII, the fornia, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. NAPOLI- the Committees on the Judiciary, Science, Committees on Armed Services and En- TANO, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. NORTON, Ms. Space, and Technology, and Armed Services, ergy and Commerce discharged from OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, for a period to be subsequently determined Ms. SA´ NCHEZ, Mr. SOTO, Mr. THOMP- further consideration. H.R. 7120 re- by the Speaker, in each case for consider- SON of Mississippi, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- ferred to the Committee of the Whole VELA, Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ, and Mrs. WAT- risdiction of the committee concerned. House on the state of the Union. SON COLEMAN): By Mr. SCHIFF: f H.R. 7291. A bill to nullify the effect of the H.R. 7297. A bill to amend title 18, United recent executive order that requires Federal States Code, to prohibit the use of an Armed PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS agencies to share citizenship data; to the Force under the jurisdiction of the Secretary Under clause 2 of rule XII, public Committee on Oversight and Reform. of a military department as a posse com- bills and resolutions of the following By Ms. KAPTUR (for herself, Mr. itatus or otherwise to execute the laws, and titles were introduced and severally re- GIBBS, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. GON- for other purposes; to the Committee on the ZALEZ of Ohio, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Judiciary. ferred, as follows: Mr. RYAN, Mr. RUSH, Mr. LAMALFA, By Mr. SCOTT of Virginia (for himself, By Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina (for Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. KEATING, Mr. Mrs. LURIA, Mr. ARMSTRONG, Mr. himself, Mr. GAETZ, Mr. BIGGS, and STIVERS, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. NOR- PASCRELL, Mr. SIRES, Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. BUDD): CROSS, Mr. LYNCH, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. Ms. WEXTON, and Mr. GOTTHEIMER): H.R. 7285. A bill to prohibit certain Federal BALDERSON, Mr. COHEN, Ms. STEVENS, H.R. 7298. A bill to extend the period for funding to governmental entities that per- Mr. MITCHELL, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. obligations or expenditures for amounts obli- mit autonomous zones within their borders, O’HALLERAN, Mr. TONKO, Ms. WILD, gated for the National Disaster Resilience and for other purposes; to the Committee on Mr. VEASEY, Mr. YOUNG, Mr. SIRES, competition; to the Committee on Financial Oversight and Reform. Mr. TURNER, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. Services, and in addition to the Committee By Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER (for her- DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. on the Budget, for a period to be subse- self, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. SOTO, Mr. SHERRILL, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. COX of quently determined by the Speaker, in each ENGEL, and Ms. BARRAGA´ N): California, Mr. EVANS, Mr. MOULTON, case for consideration of such provisions as H.R. 7286. A bill to amend title XIX and Mr. KATKO, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. JOYCE of fall within the jurisdiction of the committee XXI of the Social Security Act to provide Ohio, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. concerned. coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation ROSE of New York, and Mrs. TRAHAN): By Ms. SHERRILL (for herself, Mr. services under such titles, and for other pur- H.R. 7292. A bill to amend title XVIII of the KING of New York, Mr. FITZPATRICK, poses; to the Committee on Energy and Com- Social Security Act to provide for forgive- Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Ms. merce. ness of certain accelerated and advance pay- BLUNT ROCHESTER, and Mr. SEAN By Mr. BOST: ments under parts A and B of the Medicare PATRICK MALONEY of New York): H.R. 7287. A bill to clarify the licensure re- program; to the Committee on Energy and H.R. 7299. A bill to prohibit the use of tele- quirements for contractor medical profes- Commerce, and in addition to the Committee phone calls or text messages for unfair or de- sionals to perform medical disability exami- on Ways and Means, for a period to be subse- ceptive acts or practices relating to COVID-

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jun 23, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\L22JN7.000 H22JNPT1 ctelli on DSK30NT082PROD with HOUSE H2414 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 22, 2020 19, and for other purposes; to the Committee CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY Congress has the power to enact this legis- on Energy and Commerce. STATEMENT lation pursuant to the following: By Mrs. TORRES of California: the Strengthening the Posse Comitatus Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of Act is constitutionally authorized under Ar- H.R. 7300. A bill to prevent Federal funds the Rules of the House of Representa- ticle I, Section 8, Clause 18, which gives Con- from being used to carry out Executive Order tives, the following statements are sub- gress the power to enact laws pursuant to 13925, and for other purposes; to the Com- mitted regarding the specific powers the Necessary and Proper Clause, as well as mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in ad- granted to Congress in the Constitu- Article I, Section 8, which gives Congress the dition to the Committee on Oversight and power to ‘‘provide for the common Defence’’, Reform, for a period to be subsequently de- tion to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution. ‘‘to raise and support Armies’’, and ‘‘to make termined by the Speaker, in each case for Rules for the Government and Regulation of consideration of such provisions as fall with- By Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina: the land and naval Forces.’’ in the jurisdiction of the committee con- H.R. 7285. By Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: cerned. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 7298. By Mr. BERA (for himself and Mr. lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- YOHO): Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the U.S. lation pursuant to the following: Constitution Article 1, Section 8 H. Res. 1012. A resolution recognizing the By Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER: 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Ko- By Ms. SHERRILL: H.R. 7286. H.R. 7299. rean war and the transformation of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- United States-Korea alliance into a mutu- lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: ally beneficial, global partnership; to the Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Clause 18 of Section 8 or Article I of the Constitution Committee on Foreign Affairs. Constitution of the United States of Amer- By Mr. BOST: By Mr. FULCHER (for himself and Mr. ica. RIGGLEMAN): H.R. 7287. Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mrs. TORRES of California: H. Res. 1013. A resolution resolving that ju- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 7300. risdictions seeking to dismantle or reduce Article I, Section 8. Congress has the power to enact this legis- funding for the jurisdiction’s police force By Mr. DOGGETT: lation pursuant to the following: should not unduly burden residents who seek H.R. 7288. According to Article 1: Section 8: Clause to defend themselves; to the Committee on Congress has the power to enact this legis- 18: of the United States Constitution, seen the Judiciary. lation pursuant to the following: below, this bill falls within the Constitu- By Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the tional Authority of the United States Con- Mr. RASKIN, Ms. BARRAGA´ N, Ms. United States Constitution. gress. ESHOO, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Ms. By Ms. HAALAND: Article 1: Section 8: Clause 18: To make all KUSTER of New Hampshire, Ms. CAS- H.R. 7289. Laws which shall be necessary and proper for TOR of Florida, Mr. WELCH, Ms. JACK- Congress has the power to enact this legis- carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow- SON LEE, Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: ers, and all other Powers vested by this Con- LOWENTHAL, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. Article I, Section 8 stitution in the Government of the United CARBAJAL, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, By Mr. HECK: States, or in any Department or Officer Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Ms. TITUS, H.R. 7290. thereof. Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. SHALALA, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- f lation pursuant to the following: KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. ADDITIONAL SPONSORS SCHIFF, Mr. POCAN, Mr. LEWIS, Mrs. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 and Clause 18 Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. MOORE, Mr. (relating to the power to make all laws nec- KHANNA, Mr. PANETTA, Mrs. CAROLYN essary and proper for carrying out the pow- were added to public bills and resolu- B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. BASS, ers vested in Congress), Amendment 10. tions, as follows: Ms. NORTON, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. KIL- By Mr. HORSFORD: H.R. 51: Mr. MORELLE. MER, Mr. HIMES, Mr. YARMUTH, Ms. H.R. 7291. H.R. 119: Ms. CRAIG, Mr. HECK, Ms. MENG, Mr. LUJA´ N, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- FINKENAUER, and Mr. LARSEN of Washington. GRIJALVA, Ms. WEXTON, Mr. PALLONE, lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 120: Mr. SWALWELL of California, Ms. Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Con- MENG, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. stitution of the United States. York, and Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. BROWNLEY of California, Ms. SCAN- By Ms. KAPTUR: H.R. 125: Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of H.R. 7292. LON, Mr. PETERS, Mr. MOULTON, Ms. New York, Mr. SWALWELL of California, and Congress has the power to enact this legis- HAALAND, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas. lation pursuant to the following: ESPAILLAT, Mr. SIRES, Ms. H.R. 372: Mr. KATKO, Mrs. BUSTOS, and Mr. Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall VELA´ ZQUEZ, Mr. COSTA, Mr. SHERMAN, KEATING. have the Power To lay and collect Taxes, Du- Mr. SOTO, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. CASE, Ms. H.R. 444: Mr. LYNCH. ties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts WILD, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. H.R. 445: Mr. LYNCH. and provide for the common Defence and HECK, and Mr. BERA): H.R. 592: Ms. SCANLON. general Welfare of the United States; H.R. 611: Mr. ABRAHAM. H. Res. 1014. A resolution encouraging the By Mr. PETERS: H.R. 658: Mr. KENNEDY. celebration of the month of June as LGBTQ H.R. 7293. H.R. 662: Mr. STEUBE. Pride Month; to the Committee on the Judi- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 763: Mr. CA´ RDENAS. ciary. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 872: Ms. SLOTKIN. By Mr. WALKER: Article I, Section 8 By Ms. PORTER: H.R. 906: Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. COLLINS of H. Res. 1015. A resolution resolution recog- H.R. 7294. Georgia, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. SOTO, nizing all speedways as essential businesses Congress has the power to enact this legis- Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. and calling on local authorities and gov- lation pursuant to the following: BRINDISI, Ms. CHENEY, Mr. TONKO, Mrs. ernors to work with racetrack owners and Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of BUSTOS, and Mrs. LESKO. stakeholders to commence outdoor races im- the United States H.R. 913: Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsyl- mediately; to the Committee on Energy and By Mr. RUSH: vania and Mr. COLE. Commerce. H.R. 7295. H.R. 1251: Mr. HARDER of California. By Mr. WENSTRUP (for himself and Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1507: Ms. SA´ NCHEZ. Mr. CHABOT): lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1574: Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. LEVIN of California, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, H. Res. 1016. A resolution recognizing the Article I Section 8 By Ms. SCHAKOWSKY: and Mr. BALDERSON. 3rd anniversary of the passing of Otto Fred- H.R. 7296. H.R. 2224: Mr. CARSON of Indiana. erick Warmbier and condemning the North Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2264: Mr. PANETTA. Korean regime for their continued human lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 2442: Mr. KHANNA. rights abuses; to the Committee on Foreign Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 H.R. 2639: Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on The Congress shall have Power . . . To reg- Mr. ENGEL, and Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Financial Services, for a period to be subse- ulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and H.R. 2653: Mr. NADLER and Mr. VELA. quently determined by the Speaker, in each among the several States, and with the In- H.R. 2802: Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Ms. ROY- case for consideration of such provisions as dian Tribes. BAL-ALLARD, and Mr. ROSE of New York. fall within the jurisdiction of the committee By Mr. SCHIFF: H.R. 2874: Ms. BARRAGA´ N. concerned. H.R. 7297. H.R. 2895: Mrs. BEATTY.

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H.R. 2901: Ms. JAYAPAL and Ms. BROWNLEY H.R. 6540: Mr. HAGEDORN, Mr. KEVIN HERN H.R. 7040: Mr. GAETZ, Mr. POSEY, and Mr. of California. of Oklahoma, Mr. COMER, and Mrs. BILIRAKIS. H.R. 3107: Mr. LAMB and Mr. LAMALFA. HARTZLER. H.R. 7052: Mr. AGUILAR. H.R. 3192: Mr. CONNOLLY. H.R. 6561: Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. H.R. 7066: Mr. CLOUD. H.R. 3267: Mr. STEUBE. H.R. 6597: Mr. WRIGHT. H.R. 7085: Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER. H.R. 3364: Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. H.R. 6624: Mrs. RADEWAGEN. H.R. 7092: Ms. SPANBERGER, Mr. KIM, Ms. H.R. 3689: Ms. HAALAND. H.R. 6639: Mr. TONKO. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. TAKANO, Mrs. LAW- H.R. 3711: Mr. VAN DREW. H.R. 6644: Mr. TONKO. RENCE, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. MCNER- H.R. 3742: Ms. PINGREE. H.R. 6646: Ms. ADAMS, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. WIL- NEY, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. SABLAN, Ms. H.R. 3929: Mr. LYNCH. SON of Florida, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. DEFAZIO, BARRAGA´ N, Ms. ADAMS, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. H.R. 4104: Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee, Mr. Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, and CUELLAR, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mr. DAVID P. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. Mr. TRONE. DESAULNIER, Mr. PETERS, Mr. SMITH of KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. UPTON, and Ms. ESHOO. H.R. 6674: Mr. RUSH. H.R. 4179: Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. JEFFRIES, Ms. H.R. 6697: Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. Washington, Mr. NADLER, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. H.R. 6703: Mr. BLUMENAUER. PANETTA, Mr. STANTON, Mr. CRIST, Ms. H.R. 6722: Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. MALINOWSKI, Mr. HECK, Mr. THOMPSON of BROWNLEY of California, Mrs. LEE of Nevada, H.R. 6729: Miss RICE of New York and Mr. Mississippi, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. MICHAEL F. Ms. TITUS, Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia, Ms. SAN NICOLAS. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. MENG, Ms. GAR- BONAMICI, Mr. COSTA, Mrs. WALORSKI, and H.R. 6742: Mr. BOST and Mr. STEWART. CIA of Texas, Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Mr. THOMPSON of Mr. ROUDA. H.R. 6745: Ms. TLAIB, Mr. DESAULNIER, Ms. California, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. VELA, H.R. 7096: Mr. BRINDISI. CLARKE of New York, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Ms. H.R. 7112: Ms. HOULAHAN. SUOZZI, Mr. MORELLE, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, JAYAPAL, Ms. HAALAND, Ms. BASS, Mrs. H.R. 7133: Ms. PINGREE. Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. FOSTER, and Mrs. CARO- CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. JUDY H.R. 7136: Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. LYN B. MALONEY of New York. CHU of California, and Mr. CASTRO of Texas. H.R. 6788: Ms. BROWNLEY of California. H.R. 7161: Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of H.R. 4193: Mr. ROSE of New York. H.R. 6801: Ms. JACKSON LEE and Mr. FOS- New York. H.R. 4228: Mr. LYNCH. TER. H.R. 7181: Mr. PALAZZO. H.R. 4679: Mr. FITZPATRICK. H.R. 6802: Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina. H.R. 7184: Mr. POSEY. H.R. 4681: Mr. POSEY and Mr. BANKS. H.R. 6813: Mr. MULLIN, Ms. BLUNT ROCH- H.R. 7187: Mr. COHEN and Mr. HARDER of H.R. 4701: Mr. CONNOLLY. ESTER, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. PHIL- California. H.R. 4708: Mr. PETERS. LIPS, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. H.R. 4709: Mr. PETERS. H.R. 7206: Ms. NORTON. GARAMENDI, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. SOTO, Mrs. H.R. 4906: Mrs. HAYES, Ms. JACKSON LEE, H.R. 7211: Mr. BABIN and Mr. WRIGHT. MCBATH, Mr. CUELLAR, Ms. WATERS, and Ms. Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mr. KELLY of Pennsyl- H.R. 7227: Mr. PHILLIPS. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. vania, Mr. SAN NICOLAS, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. H.R. 7267: Mr. NADLER and Ms. TLAIB. H.R. 6829: Mr. BANKS, Mr. LONG, Ms. PAYNE, and Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. SA´ NCHEZ, Mr. KEVIN HERN of Oklahoma, Mr. H.R. 7277: Ms. SCANLON. H.R. 5229: Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. HARDER of California, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. H.R. 7278: Mr. TIPTON, Mr. KUSTOFF of Ten- H.R. 5297: Mrs. LESKO. SCHRIER, Mr. KEATING, and Mr. SIRES. nessee, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. ABRA- H.R. 5469: Ms. DEAN and Ms. SCANLON. H.R. 6841: Ms. ADAMS and Mr. JOYCE of HAM, Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto Rico, H.R. 5504: Mr. PAPPAS. Pennsylvania. Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. GRAVES of Lou- H.R. 5552: Mr. SOTO, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. H.R. 6902: Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. isiana, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mrs. RADEWAGEN, Mrs. CICILLINE, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. SUOZZI, TONKO, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. LUJA´ N, Mr. BISHOP BROOKS of Indiana, Mr. BOST, Mr. GRAVES of Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, of Georgia, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. PAS- Georgia, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. AMODEI, Mr. Mr. KILDEE, Ms. PORTER, Mrs. CAROLYN B. CRELL, Miss RICE of New York, Mr. PANETTA, MCCAUL, Mr. KINZINGER, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. MALONEY of New York, and Mr. POSEY. Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, KELLY of Mississippi, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. H.R. 5602: Mrs. TORRES of California and Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, and Mr. DAVID P. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. MEUSER, Mr. Mr. SCHIFF. AGUILAR. GUEST, Mr. BACON, and Mr. REED. H.R. 5689: Ms. NORTON. H.R. 6908: Ms. PORTER and Mr. MCGOVERN. H.J. Res. 24: Mr. SABLAN. H.R. 5737: Ms. LOFGREN. H.R. 6953: Mr. KILMER. H. Con. Res. 20: Mr. MCADAMS. H.R. 5845: Ms. JACKSON LEE. H.R. 6965: Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Ms. H. Con. Res. 100: Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. H.R. 5873: Mr. SIRES, Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ, Mr. FRANKEL, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. MICHAEL F. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. DEFAZIO, and SABLAN, Mr. HARDER of California, Mr. PA- DOYLE of Pennsylvania, and Mr. COOPER. Mr. VEASEY. NETTA, and Mr. STEUBE. H.R. 6984: Mr. WELCH, Ms. JACKSON LEE, H. Res. 152: Ms. PRESSLEY and Mr. TONKO. H.R. 6126: Mr. MASSIE. Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. SWALWELL of California, H. Res. 902: Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana, Mr. H.R. 6142: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. COHEN, TRONE, Ms. SA´ NCHEZ, Mr. SMITH of Wash- H.R. 6210: Mr. COHEN, Mr. SOTO, Ms. POR- and Mr. KIND. ington, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, and Mr. TER, Mrs. DINGELL, and Ms. JAYAPAL. H.R. 6990: Mr. PHILLIPS. POCAN. H.R. 6275: Mr. AGUILAR. H.R. 7002: Mr. SMITH of Missouri. H.R. 6308: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. H.R. 7019: Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, H. Res. 992: Ms. JUDY CHU of California. H.R. 6365: Mr. LAWSON of Florida and Mrs. and Mr. KELLER. H. Res. 1010: Mr. FOSTER, Ms. CASTOR of LURIA. H.R. 7024: Mr. GRIJALVA and Mr. LEVIN of Florida, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. MICHAEL H.R. 6487: Ms. JUDY CHU of California. California. F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. DANNY K. H.R. 6495: Ms. MOORE, Mr. BISHOP of Geor- H.R. 7029: Ms. SPANBERGER and Mrs. HAYES. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. PETERS, gia, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Ms. NORTON, H.R. 7033: Mr. PERRY and Mr. ABRAHAM. Mr. ALLRED, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. CLARKE of New Ms. BARRAGA´ N, and Mrs. DAVIS of California. H.R. 7039: Mr. GAETZ, Mr. POSEY, and Mr. York, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. SMITH of H.R. 6532: Ms. FRANKEL. BILIRAKIS. Washington, and Mr. PAYNE.

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Vol. 166 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2020 No. 114 Senate The Senate met at 3 p.m. and was Executive order requiring common- Floyd, have rightly accelerated the na- called to order by the President pro sense administrative steps to promote tional conversation on policing and ra- tempore (Mr. GRASSLEY). police accountability. Democrats im- cial justice. Large majorities of Ameri- f mediately criticized it as weak and in- cans support new steps that would help sufficient to combat racial injustice, the vast majority of good, decent, and PRAYER citing the need for changing laws. Of brave law enforcement officers re-earn The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- course, this is an Executive order. In the trust of Black Americans for their fered the following prayer: itself, it does not and cannot solve the vital institutions. Let us pray. whole problem. We need to be a country where com- Eternal Spirit, the source of our joy, This reminds me of when the Presi- munities of color feel confident that we are grateful that You still speak to dent was criticized for not ordering a the police are there to safeguard their us. Continue to communicate with our nationwide lockdown, despite having rights to equal justice and equal pro- lawmakers through the voice of con- no such power, and then was accused of tection under law and not to infringe science. Enable them to maintain a being a dictator for suggesting that he on those rights. clear conscience before You and hu- had a role in reopening the economy. To that end, while the Constitution manity. The President deserves credit for means many of the specifics of police Continue to speak to our Senators taking steps within his authority to reform are primarily State and local through the precepts in Your sacred improve police accountability, but he issues, there is an enormous appetite in Word, providing them with a lamp for cannot change the law. the Senate to incentivize change and their feet and a light for their path as Congress must now work and do it in move toward greater progress using they navigate through this challenging a bipartisan way to do what we can Federal policy. season. Lord, continue to speak to within the scope of our constitutional The junior Senator from South Caro- them through the unfolding of Your authority to make things better. lina has led the development of a powerful providence, opening doors You cannot legislate away racial in- strong new proposal. The JUSTICE Act You desire them to walk through and justice overnight, but Federal, State, is informed by data, by the facts, by closing doors that lead them away and local laws must reflect our na- stories from across America, and, from glorifying You. And, Lord, when tional creed that all people are created sadly, by his own lived experience. It You speak to our lawmakers, give equal. enjoys the support of 46 cosponsors al- them the wisdom to listen and obey. I yield the floor. ready. We pray in Your gracious Name. f The legislation Senator SCOTT has Amen. put forward identifies productive ways RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY f that Congress can encourage and LEADER incentivize smart police reform efforts PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- in communities all across our country. The President pro tempore led the jority leader is recognized. Recognizing the urgent need for Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: f greater accountability, it supports ex- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the panded use of body cameras and ex- United States of America, and to the Repub- THE JUSTICE ACT panded review and disciplinary meas- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, ures to back them up. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. while the House continues to be absent, Recognizing the need for more trans- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. the Senate continues to be open for parency, it steps up efforts to establish HAWLEY). The Senator from Iowa. business. While taking smart pre- the records of police activities and re- Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask cautions, Senators have stood with all quires full Federal reporting of all inci- unanimous consent to speak for 1 the other essential workers who are dents involving the discharge of a serv- minute in morning business. continuing to man essential posts. So ice weapon. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without as our Nation continues to work The bill takes immediate action to objection, it is so ordered. through medical, economic, and social help end departments’ reliance on f challenges of historic proportions, the choke holds and to facilitate enhanced Senate has been able to lead on serious training for deescalation. It includes PRESIDENT’S EXECUTIVE ORDER action to help our Nation heal. further steps to protect the physical Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, The killings of Black Americans, safety of people in custody and to fi- President Trump recently signed an such as Breonna Taylor and George nally—finally make lynching a Federal

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Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, the leader and many of our colleagues on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The American people are crying out for the other side of the aisle have in- clerk will report the motion. major, significant changes in policing sisted—insisted—over and over and The legislative clerk read as follows: in this country. Being killed by the po- lice is now the sixth leading cause of over again that they wanted to con- Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 480, S. death for young men in America. sider legislation on this subject prior 3985, to improve and reform policing prac- tices, accountability and transparency. Young Black men are 2.5 times more to the Fourth of July. My friend the likely than White men to be killed by CLOTURE MOTION Democratic leader repeatedly ex- police, while Black women are 1.4 pressed how eager—eager he was to Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I times more likely than White women send a cloture motion to the desk for consider these issues here on the Sen- to be killed by police. the motion to proceed. ate floor, but now we read this: ‘‘Sen- As hundreds of thousands of Ameri- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- cans of all ages and colors take to the ate Democrats are agonizing over what ture motion having been presented to do about Senate Republicans’ police streets to demand change, we need leg- under rule XXII, the Chair directs the islation that rises to the moment. So reform proposal.’’ What is there to ago- clerk to read the motion. Democrats introduced a bill 3 weeks nize over? The legislative clerk read as follows: ago that would bring strong, com- And we read this: ‘‘[The] Senate CLOTURE MOTION prehensive, and lasting change to po- Democratic leader . . . faces a tough We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- lice departments across America: the call on whether to let a Republican- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Justice in Policing Act. Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby backed police reform bill advance on Our colleagues in the House are ex- move to bring to a close debate on the mo- pected to pass that bill this week. How- the Senate floor.’’ tion to proceed to Calendar No. 480, S. 3985, ever, here in the Senate, our Repub- ‘‘Agonizing’’? ‘‘Tough call’’? It seems a bill to improve and reform policing prac- lican colleagues have responded to our tices, accountability, and transparency. to me that proceeding to consider Sen- Mitch McConnell, Cory Gardner, Ben comprehensive proposal with an ap- ator SCOTT’s legislation, proceeding to Sasse, Steve Daines, Rob Portman, proach that is piecemeal and half- take up the subject on the Senate John Cornyn, David Perdue, Joni hearted. The longer you look at the Re- floor, would only be an agonizing pros- Ernst, James Lankford, Roger F. publican policing reform effort, the pect if Members were more interested Wicker, Mike Crapo, Thom Tillis, Todd more obvious are the shortcomings and Young, Michael B. Enzi, John Hoeven, in making a point than in actually deficiencies. Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham. The Republican bill does nothing— making a law. Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous nothing to reform the legal standards For anyone who actually wants to consent that the mandatory quorum that shield police from accountability legislate, it shouldn’t be a difficult call call be waived. for violating Americans’ constitutional to vote to begin considering Senator The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without rights. The Republican bill does noth- SCOTT’s legislation. It will be exactly objection, it is so ordered. ing—nothing to encourage independent the vote which this moment demands. f investigations of police departments with patterns and practices that vio- Last week, I understand the Speaker RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME late the Constitution. The Republican of the House herself said: ‘‘We’d like to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under bill does nothing—nothing to reform end up in conference’’ on police reform the previous order, the leadership time the use of force standard, nothing— legislation. The only way to do that is reserved. nothing on qualified immunity, noth- ing on racial profiling, and nothing on would be if the Senate passed a bill. f Even the Speaker does not seem to un- limiting the transfer of military equip- derstand why Senate Democrats would CONCLUSION OF MORNING ment to police departments. The Republican bill doesn’t even block this Chamber from even consid- BUSINESS truly ban choke holds or no-knock war- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning ering the JUSTICE Act. rants. It leaves major loopholes when business is closed. Senator SCOTT and Senate Repub- it comes to choke holds and only re- licans are interested in making a law. f quires more data on no-knock war- The President and the administration EXECUTIVE SESSION rants. More data would not have saved want to make a law, and even the Breonna Taylor’s life. Allowing police Democratic House leadership appar- to use choke holds whenever they say that deadly force is necessary is not ently would be happy to see a con- EXECUTIVE CALENDAR going to save lives. ference committee. So maybe the only The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under We need a bill that achieves genuine group left in Washington who are re- the previous order, the Senate will pro- police reform. The Republican proposal portedly agonizing over whether to ceed to executive session to consider comes across like a list of suggestions. block discussion of police reform or to the following nomination, which the I would repeat this important warn- let it proceed seem to be our Senate clerk will report. ing: If we pass a bill that is ineffective The legislative clerk read the nomi- Democratic colleagues. and the killings continue and police de- nation of Cory T. Wilson, of Mis- partments resist change and there is no I hope that whatever strange polit- sissippi, to be United States Circuit accountability, the wound in our soci- ical calculations are making this dif- Judge for the Fifth Circuit. ety will not close; it will fester. This is ficult for our friends across the aisle Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I not about making an effort or dipping will yield to common sense and to the suggest the absence of a quorum. our toes in the water. It must be about American people’s hunger for progress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The solving a problem that is taking the We are going to find out when we vote clerk will call the roll. lives of too many Black Americans. later this week. The legislative clerk proceeded to This is not a time for studies or com- call the roll. missions or tinkering around the edges.

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It ing him why the administration hasn’t watchdogs who are investigating his would not have prevented the death of disbursed the $14 billion we gave it to misconduct or that of his associates. George Floyd or Breonna Taylor or ramp up testing and the tracing capa- We need an immediate, top-to-bot- Ahmaud Arbery or Michael Brown or bility. This $14 billion is just sitting tom investigation into what transpired Eric Garner, and if it will not stop fu- there, waiting for the Trump adminis- with the plot to dismiss Mr. Berman. ture deaths of Black Americans in po- tration to use it to help our country. So I have demanded that the Office of lice custody, then it does not represent Senator MURRAY and I are looking for Professional Responsibility at the De- the change that is demanded right now. answers. Why isn’t the money being partment of Justice work with the Jus- CORONAVIRUS distributed when it is desperately need- tice Department’s inspector general to Mr. President, on COVID, over the ed? What the heck is going on? determine whether there were corrupt past several weeks, there has been an It is hard to imagine a more hap- motives for Mr. Berman’s dismissal alarming increase in the number of hazard, less-focused, and less-con- and, if so, discipline the officials in- COVID–19 cases in a number of Amer- sistent response from an administra- volved no matter who they are or how ican States. Florida, Texas, Arizona, tion during a national crisis. Whether high up they go. These two offices and North Carolina continue to report it is calling COVID a hoax or pre- jointly investigated the firing of U.S. thousands of new cases each day. State scribing bleach or having his ego-driv- attorneys in 2006 during the Bush ad- officials in Texas and Arizona are en rally over the weekend, the Presi- ministration and should do so again. warning about the dire number of hos- dent keeps reminding us that he The Committee on the Judiciary here pitalizations. Anyone looking at the doesn’t take the COVID pandemic seri- in the Senate, led by Chairman GRA- facts would conclude that we need to ously enough. Ironically, the best thing HAM, must also investigate what hap- figure out what is causing these in- about the President’s rally was that so pened here, using its subpoena power, if creases and put measures in place to few people attended. Otherwise, the necessary. Senator GRAHAM seems to limit this new spread of the disease. risk of spreading COVID would have be investigating President Obama and But President Trump does not look been significantly higher. Vice President Biden with 53 sub- at the facts or try to understand them. U.S. ATTORNEY GEOFFREY BERMAN poenas. He certainly must have time to Instead, the President is so consumed Mr. President, on another matter— investigate a serious problem that has with his own ego, his own political in- there are so many matters and so much come before us right now. After all, the terests and perception of how he has trouble this administration is in that abject refusal of Senate Republicans to handled this crisis, that he is actually it is hard to count, and you would prob- hold President Trump accountable for downplaying the numbers and invent- ably need several hours to document his assault on the rule of law in the ing ridiculous excuses for why COVID– and talk about them all—last Friday country is what has gotten us here in 19 cases continue to increase. night, Attorney General Barr claimed the first place. At his inadvisable and very poorly that Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attor- The Senate Republicans refused to attended rally in Tulsa on Saturday, ney for the Southern District of New stand up to the President when he fired President Trump said that he told his York, was ‘‘stepping down.’’ A short the FBI Director for investigating his administration to ‘‘slow the testing time later, Mr. Berman revealed that campaign. They refused to stand up to down, please,’’ so the number of COVID the Attorney General was lying and the President when he made a national cases will not look so bad for him. It is that he was not, in fact, stepping down. emergency in order to steal funds for amazing he said that. Don’t learn the Over the past 2 days, this sordid, ham- the border wall. They refused to stand truth about a serious and deadly dis- handed plot by President Trump and up to the President when he dismissed ease so he might look better? Attorney General Barr to oust a well- not one or two or three but four inspec- He went on to say that testing was respected U.S. attorney played out in tors general. They also refused to stand ‘‘a double-edged sword.’’ Let me break public view. up to the President when he tried to the President’s statement down for a But for Mr. Berman’s principled bully a foreign power into helping him moment. By calling testing ‘‘a double- stand, the White House and the DOJ in his reelection. edged sword,’’ the President means would have subverted the chain of suc- Every time the President breaks a that, on one hand, testing could be cession in the Southern District of New window, the Senate Republican major- good because it, you know, tells us who York to install a pliant U.S. attorney ity dutifully sweeps up the glass. Every has COVID–19, but, on the other hand, from New Jersey in Mr. Berman’s blue moon or so, a Republican Senator testing might not be so good because place. Thankfully, due to Mr. Berman’s will issue a mild rebuke of the Presi- the more cases make the President courage, that plan was thwarted, and dent’s behavior or will pen a strongly look bad. Who thinks like that in a Mr. Berman’s deputy will take over the worded letter, but the response is never time of a raging pandemic? leadership of the Southern District and commensurate with the offense. As a White House officials tried to claim continue its important work. She has a result, President Trump knows there is the President was joking, but, today, fine reputation as a prosecutor and no line he can’t cross. He and his At- the Vice President denied that they someone of integrity. People of integ- torney General can fire a sitting U.S. were just in jest, calling them ‘‘a pass- rity don’t seem to be welcome in this attorney without cause, perhaps for in- ing observation,’’ whatever that administration. vestigating criminal wrongdoing by the means. Then the DOJ announced that the President or his associates, and the Regardless of whether he was serious President intended to nominate the sit- Senate Republicans would hardly bat or not, the President’s comments are ting SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, to re- an eye. Will Senate Republican Sen- factually inaccurate. The increase in place Mr. Berman. As the Senator from ators ever say, ‘‘Enough’’? testing is not responsible for the in- New York, I will not return a blue slip NOMINATION OF CORY T. WILSON crease in the number of cases. In fact, on Mr. Clayton’s nomination. Regard- Mr. President, finally, today, Leader the rate of positive cases is going up in less, Jay Clayton should withdraw his MCCONNELL will move forward with the many States, which means community name from consideration and refuse to nomination of Mr. Cory Wilson to serve spread. be an accomplice to this scheme. as a lifetime appointment on the Fifth There is a lie sitting at the heart of There appears to be no legitimate Circuit Court of Appeals. all of this. President Trump wants motive to fire Mr. Berman, which Mr. Wilson is an avowed opponent of Americans to believe that the number leaves the obvious question: Were the Nation’s healthcare law, calling it of cases is going up because his admin- President Trump and the Attorney illegitimate and perverse. Even worse, istration has done such a great job on General trying to remove him for a Wilson has a lengthy record of support

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NAACP’s concerns about voter suppres- to intervene by Washington’s leftwing While local authorities would usually sion in Mississippi were ‘‘poppycock.’’ mayor. take the lead in prosecuting these We are in the middle of a national Here is the thing: Steps were already criminals, unfortunately, many of conversation about police reform and underway to move that statue law- them seem unwilling to stand up to the systematic racial justice. Leader fully. Washington’s delegates in Con- mob and uphold the rule of law. There- MCCONNELL talks about it on the floor, gress had legislation to that effect. But fore, I call upon the Department of and at the same time, he has the te- mobs don’t care to negotiate—only to Justice to bring charges against these merity to push a judge with dem- destroy. mob vigilantes, prosecuting them to onstrated hostility to voting rights, a The delegate said: I have no doubt I the fullest extent of the law. The Anti- man who criticized the greatest ad- could have gotten that bill through, Riot Act and the Veterans’ Memorial vance in civil rights legislation in the but the people got here before due proc- Preservation and Recognition Act can past century, for a seat on the circuit ess. provide legal grounds in some cases; It is hard to imagine a more chilling court, in which people of color make up still other Federal statutes may govern summation of mob rule. As Lincoln 55 percent of the population. in other cases; but there must be con- knew, the mob threatens not just old The nomination is so appalling in sequences for mob violence because if statues but the lives and livelihoods of general that, at this particular mo- you give the mob an inch, it will take us all. Indeed, the mob threatens civili- ment, several Democrats, myself in- a mile. zation itself in many ways. Witness the events of just this past cluded, have taken the unusual step of Most simply, Lincoln knew that C ONNELL weekend, where mobs tore down stat- writing Leader M C today to re- mobs inevitably make mistakes and quest that he withdraw Mr. Wilson’s commit injustices. Some may celebrate ues of George Washington and Ulysses nomination. I believe, if there is sin- the destruction of disfavored statues S. Grant. When you tear down statues cerity in the remarks here about heal- and monuments, but what of the van- of Washington and Grant, it is not ing racial wounds, then the withdrawal dals in Boston who defaced a monu- about the Civil War; it is because you of Mr. Wilson will occur, plain and sim- ment to the 54th Massachusetts Infan- hate America. Indeed, these rioters ple. It would be disgraceful for the Sen- try Regiment, the first African-Amer- hate America. ate to approve a nominee who has long ican regiment to fight for the Union, In Portland, where they tore down trivialized voter disenfranchisement whose bravery and skill was immor- the statue of Washington, they also and racial discrimination at the ballot talized in the movie ‘‘Glory’’? spray-painted on him the date ‘‘1619,’’ a box. Leader MCCONNELL should halt What of the outlaws of Philadelphia, reference to the New York Times’s re- any further work on Mr. Wilson and, who defaced a statue of Matthias Bald- visionist, anti-American history instead, work with the administration win, a devout, passionate abolitionist? project. Perhaps we should call them and civil rights groups to find a nomi- Mobs don’t discriminate between le- the ‘‘1619 riots.’’ After all, the archi- nee who will actually protect voting gitimate and illegitimate targets of tect of that execrable project said: ‘‘It rights on the Fifth Circuit. their destruction. That is because they would be an honor.’’ I yield the floor. are mobs. This hatred for America was nowhere I suggest the absence of a quorum. Lincoln also warned that the ‘‘law- on greater display than in San Fran- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The less in spirit’’ will become ‘‘lawless in cisco, where the mob tore down the clerk will call the roll. practice’’ because of mob violence see- statue of Grant. That would be U.S. The legislative clerk proceeded to ing no consequences for crimes. Grant, commander of the Union Army, call the roll. A mob doesn’t stop at statues. Riot- whose very initials embody his tena- Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, I ask ers have already torched police pre- cious, unrelenting approach to war: un- unanimous consent that the order for cincts and low-income housing in Min- conditional surrender. the quorum call be rescinded. neapolis. Churches and synagogues That would also be President Grant, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without have been vandalized. Next, perhaps the political heir of Abraham Lincoln, objection, it is so ordered. the mob will target the homes of police a statesman who smashed the first Ku PROTESTS officers, and soon enough the mob may Klux Klan, signed the first major civil Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, ‘‘I hope come for you and your home and your rights legislation, and presided over I am over wary, but if I am not, there family. passage of the 15th Amendment. is, even now, something of ill omen As the mob expands its power, Lin- In one famous instance, President amongst us. I mean the increasing dis- coln cautioned that good citizens, ‘‘see- Grant sent in the troops to disperse a regard for law which pervades the ing their property destroyed; their White mob in New Orleans that was country, the growing disposition to families insulted, and their lives en- terrorizing the city’s Black and Repub- substitute the wild and furious pas- dangered; their persons injured; and lican residents and had to depose the sions in lieu of the sober judgment of seeing nothing in prospect that fore- State’s lawful Governor. courts, and the worse than savage bodes a change for the better; become Grant had zero tolerance for mob mobs for the executive ministers of tired of, and disgusted with, a Govern- rule. He said: ‘‘[N]either Ku Klux justice. This disposition is awfully ment that offers them no protection.’’ Klans, White Leagues, nor any other fearful in any community; and that it Mob rule can only serve to demor- association using arms and violence to exists now in ours, though grating to alize our people and shake their faith execute their unlawful purposes can be our feelings to admit, it would be a vio- in our government and our way of life. permitted in that way to govern any lation of truth and an insult to our in- As the mob rises, civilization recedes. part of this country.’’ telligence to deny. Accounts of out- Finally, Lincoln observed that ‘‘by This was a man whom the great rages committed by mobs form the ev- the operation of this mobocractic spir- Frederick Douglass eulogized as ‘‘too eryday news of the times.’’ it, which all must admit, is now abroad broad for prejudice, too humane to de- Now, those are not my words. Those in the land, the strongest bulwark of spise the humblest, too great to be are the words of a young Abraham Lin- any Government, and particularly of small at any point.’’ Yet the mobs still coln. Sadly, they ring with truth those constituted like ours, may effec- came for Grant. today. tually be broken down and destroyed— Some people have been asking: Where In recent weeks, violent mobs have I mean the attachment of the People.’’ is the line? I say: This is the line—the roamed our streets, defacing and tear- The final victim of mob rule is the line between mob rule and the rule of ing down statues and monuments—in very spirit of civic-minded patriotism law.

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House fellow for the Department of De- son—(1) Respect, (2) Character and (3) Legal I yield the floor. fense, and then he came back to Mis- Intelligence. To keep this letter to a respect- I suggest the absence of a quorum. sissippi. ful length, I will not repeat everything I said The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Before becoming a judge, Cory Wil- but the essence is, Cory respects everyone he clerk will call the roll. son was an accomplished lawyer in his comes into contact with, he does not change The bill clerk proceeded to call the own right in private practice and who he is because of race or political affili- roll. ations and his ability allow him to break served in senior roles in State govern- through legal jargon and get to the point. Mr. WICKER. Madam President, I ment in the Mississippi Secretary of ask unanimous consent that the order State’s office and the office of the Judge Gibbs goes on to say this: for the quorum call be rescinded. State Treasury. For 3 years, he also Judge Wilson and I are quite different—I The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. represented Mississippi’s 73rd district am Black and he is White. I am older and he is younger. I am a Democrat and he was a ERNST). Without objection, it is so or- in the State House of Representatives, Republican (before he became a judge). I live dered. where he was vice chairman of the Ju- in the majority African American City of NOMINATION OF CORY T. WILSON diciary Committee. Jackson, Mississippi and he lives in a suburb Mr. WICKER. Madam President, later Judge Wilson is active in civic affairs of Jackson. Yet these differences have be- on this afternoon, the Senate will vote and his church, Highlands Presbyterian come our strengths. We often have lunch and on cloture on the nomination of Judge Church. He and his wife Stephanie have discuss the pressing issues of the day as Cory Wilson to fill a vacancy on the one son. friends. He has sought my advice, based on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir- He has garnered respect and admira- my judicial experience, on how to be a better judge. And while we may disagree on some cuit. tion and endorsements from many of my constituents during the years of matters, in the end we realize that we are I rise at this point in strong, enthusi- just two lawyers who want our communities astic support of confirmation for my service, and in the last few weeks and to be better and we know that having a fair friend, Judge Cory Wilson. This will be days, I have been presented with let- judiciary is one of the ways to make that a historic moment for this body and for ters of endorsement from people who happen. the administration. A vote to confirm know him—lawyers he practiced with These are the words of an older, re- Judge Wilson would make him the and people he has been associated with. tired circuit judge who happens to be 200th judge to be confirmed under In particular, I want to draw the atten- an African-American Democrat in en- President Trump. This is the highest tion of Members of the Senate to a let- dorsement of a younger White Repub- number of judges confirmed at this ter from retired Judge Robert L. Gibbs lican nominee whom we will have a point in a Presidency since the Presi- of Jackson, MS. chance to vote on in a few moments. Who is Judge Gibbs to write a letter dency of Jimmy Carter. Judge Wilson We need more members of the younger on behalf of Cory Wilson? For one is an outstanding nominee to have this generation of whatever race who are thing, we should know that Judge distinction. best friends with an older generation of Gibbs is a Democrat, and he practiced The seat we are voting to fill is actu- professionals of another race. We need law in Mississippi for a time for Mis- ally the last remaining circuit court more people like Judge Robert Gibbs sissippi legal services. He spent 10 vacancy at this time, reflecting the re- and Judge Cory Wilson who are friends, years in the office of the Mississippi at- markable progress we have made in re- who sit down, who have lunch together torney general, a statewide elected building the Federal judiciary. Judge and discuss the law and the ways we Democratic official, and then Robert Wilson is an outstanding nominee to can make this country better. Gibbs served as a circuit judge, an mark this milestone. His credentials, I think this is a profound endorse- elected position in a Mississippi court intellect, and respect for the rule of ment by someone of a different race, of of general jurisdiction. He served for law are well established. a different political party, and of a dif- some 7 years there as a circuit judge in The American Bar Association is ferent political philosophy, saying that Mississippi. That is who Judge Robert considered by many to be the ‘‘gold Judge Cory Wilson is someone we will standard’’ for assessing judicial nomi- Gibbs is. Here is what Judge Gibbs says about be proud to vote for. nees, and the American Bar Associa- Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- our nominee, the very Cory Wilson tion has awarded Judge Wilson its sent that this letter be printed in the whom we will be voting cloture on highest rating of ‘‘well qualified’’ to RECORD at this point. serve on the Fifth Circuit. I certainly around 5:30 this afternoon. This is a letter dated June 10. It is to There being no objection, the mate- agree with this assessment by the ABA. the chair and ranking member of the rial was ordered to be printed in the In recent weeks, Senators on both Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator RECORD, as follows: sides of the aisle have been able to GRAHAM and Senator FEINSTEIN. GIBBS TRAVIS PLLC, question Judge Wilson about his judi- June 10, 2020. Dear Chairman Graham and Ranking Mem- cial philosophy, and I believe he has Re Nomination of Cory T. Wilson as Judge of ber Feinstein: shown a steadfast commitment to hon- I submit this letter in support of the nomi- the United States Court of Appeals for oring the Constitution and enforcing nation of Judge Cory T. Wilson for a seat on the Fifth Circuit. the laws passed by the Congress as we the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Hon. LINDSEY GRAHAM, have written them. I am former Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, Judge Wilson is a native of South Circuit Court District in Mississippi and U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Mississippi and currently serves on the have known Cory as an attorney, who prac- Hon. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, Ranking Member, Committee on the Judici- Mississippi Court of Appeals, where he ticed before me and as a colleague as we worked on cases together. From these expe- ary, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. decides appellate matters, including riences, I can attest that no one works hard- DEAR CHAIRMAN GRAHAM AND RANKING civil, commercial, domestic, and crimi- er in this profession than Judge Wilson. MEMBER FEINSTEIN: I submit this letter in nal appeals. He graduated from my When we were representing clients, Cory support of the nomination of Judge Cory T. alma mater, the University of Mis- would normally prepare the first draft of Wilson for a seat on the Fifth Circuit Court sissippi, with highest honors, and then pleadings and send it to me to review. Sel- of Appeals. he went on to Yale Law School, where dom were there any reasons to make changes I am former Circuit Judge for the Eleventh he distinguished himself in many re- because he utilized his legal abilities to navi- Circuit Court District in Mississippi and have known Cory as an attorney, who prac- spects. He served on the Yale Law gate through the complexities of the legal issues which resulted in a well thought out, ticed before me and as a colleague as we Journal, was a member of the Yale plausible argument. worked on cases together. From these expe- chapter of the Federalist Society, and During Judge Wilson’s investiture as a riences, I can attest that no one works hard- was on the Barrister’s Union, which is Judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals, I er in this profession than Judge Wilson.

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As we prepare to debate this legis- the legal issues which resulted in a well what is working, what isn’t, and what lation this week, that conversation thought out, plausible argument. we need to do more of. could not have been more timely. During Judge Wilson’s investiture as a A few weeks ago, I called two of my Another common theme—and I have Judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals, I friends, who happen to be the mayor of heard this before—is the growing strain had the pleasure of being one the speakers. I Dallas and the mayor of Houston, Eric on our law enforcement officers. I re- spoke about three traits of Judge Wilson—(1) Johnson in Dallas and Sylvester Tur- member several years ago Chief David Respect, (2) Character and (3) Legal Intel- ner in Houston, and asked them to help Brown saying: We ask our police to do ligence. To keep this letter to a respectful length, I will not repeat everything I said me pull together a group of people in too much. Basically, they are the ones but the essence is, Cory respects everyone he both of those major American cities for who we know will go quickly to a crisis comes into contact with, he does not change an open conversation about these and intervene, no matter what it is, who he is because of race or political affili- issues. Less than a week later, I was in whether it is a domestic crisis, a men- ations and his ability allow him to break Dallas for an open and honest con- tal health crisis, or somebody breaking though legal jargon and get to the point. versation with a group of law enforce- the law. Mayor Turner, in particular, Judge Wilson and I are quite different—I ment, faith, and community leaders. talked about how the list of respon- am Black and he is White. I am older and he They provided very useful feedback and sibilities we are giving our law enforce- is younger. I am a Democrat and was a Re- publican (before he became a judge). I live in ideas that I brought back with me ment officers keeps growing longer and the majority African American City of Jack- while the JUSTICE Act was in draft longer and longer. They are not just son, Mississippi and he lives in a suburb of form. After the bill was introduced last fighting crime; they are responding to Jackson. Yet these differences have become week, I was eager to hear from more calls about drug abuse, mental health, our strengths. We often have lunch and dis- folks in Texas. domestic violence, homelessness, and a cuss the pressing issues of the day as friends. Last Friday, I traveled to Houston range of other crises. Between COVID– He has sought my advice, based on my judi- for another similar type of discussion 19 and the ongoing protests, their jobs cial experience, on how to be a better judge. at city hall. Like in Dallas, we were are not getting any easier. And while we may disagree on some matters, able to hear from a variety of points of As Police Chief Art Acevedo pointed in the end we realize that we are just two lawyers who want our communities to be view familiar with these challenges. I out, police are performing these jobs better and we know that having a fair judici- was glad to also be joined by Senator not by design but because there is basi- ary is one of the ways to make that happen. CRUZ and Congresswoman SHEILA JACK- cally nobody else to do them—by de- If you need any additional information or SON LEE. In a way, I thought it was a fault. There is no question we need have any question, please do not hesitate to coincidence, but maybe not, that this more support services that can help al- let me know. conversation happened on leviate some of this strain on our law Sincerely, Juneteenth—a day that allows us to re- enforcement officers. Over the years, ROBERT L. GIBBS. flect on the progress we have made in we have tried to bolster services avail- Mr. WICKER. Again, let me just the fight for equality. This year—I able for things like the First Step Act, stress to my colleagues that Cory Wil- would say more than normal—it was a which took prison reform from the son has gained a reputation as a fair reminder of how far we have to go. State level to the national level. We and impartial judge and a good and de- At this point, I would like to say the put money into Project Safe Neighbor- cent man, and I am confident that this good news is there is a lot of common hoods grants and Mental Health and reputation will follow him as he serves ground and good will, and I think we Safe Communities Act grants. In par- on the Fifth Circuit. He will serve the have a unique opportunity to do what I ticular, I remember when we debated circuit and our Nation well as a U.S. told the Floyd family I would do when the Mental Health and Safe Commu- circuit judge. they told me they wanted Texas-size nities Act grants to help train law en- I yield the floor. justice. I think some good can actually forcement to deescalate conflicts be- I suggest the absence of a quorum. come out of this tragedy, their loss of tween people undergoing a mental The PRESIDING OFFICER. The their loved one. health crisis, during which an esca- clerk will call the roll. I heard an inspiring message from lating level of crisis would be a threat The bill clerk proceeded to call the Bishop James Dixon, who is the pastor not only to the individual who is un- roll. at Community of Faith Church and dergoing that crisis but to the officer, Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, I first vice president of the Houston him or herself. We actually found it to ask unanimous consent that the order NAACP. He talked about the need for be very effective, this training. for the quorum call be rescinded. unity and action in response to the As this list of responsibilities we are The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without widespread protests we are seeing and giving our law enforcement officers has objection, it is so ordered. encouraged everyone, as he put it, to grown, so has the need for additional THE JUSTICE ACT ‘‘dignify the outcry.’’ training and additional funding for Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, as We need to affirm that, yes, there is support services—ancillary services we have been working over these last a problem; yes, it has gone unaddressed that can work in conjunction with our several weeks to develop police reform for too long; and yes, we are going to law enforcement officials so we can get legislation, I figured the best use of my do our best to do something about it. the most efficient, most effective re- time would be to spend that time lis- While there may be differences of opin- sponse to the person who needs it. tening, as much as anything else—lis- ion on the best route to take, the good That is precisely why defunding the tening, for example, to Black Ameri- news is we are all pulling in the same police is not the answer to the chal- cans about their experiences with law direction. lenges we are facing. It is really an in- enforcement and the changes they During our conversation, I was able sult, if you think about it, and it is liv- would like to see in our country; lis- to talk briefly about the JUSTICE Act, ing in a fantasyland. tening to my colleagues in the Senate which was introduced, as I said, last Chief Acevedo shared an analogy a about the most effective ways to make week. Among other things, they fellow police chief and friend of his these changes, especially under the seemed to be pleased the bill would made about the effort to shift responsi- leadership of Senator TIM SCOTT, who strengthen deescalation training, as bility from police to other providers. has personally experienced the injus- well as training on the duty to inter- He said: If you are building a new sta- tices we are trying to address, and, par- vene in case there is something inap- dium, you wouldn’t tear down or stop ticularly, this deficit of trust between propriate occurring, the use of body using the old one until the new one was law enforcement and the communities cameras, incentivizing the States to re- complete. they serve; and listening to leaders in strict the use of choke holds, and make If cities strip funding from their po- Texas who are working hard—in the lynching a Federal crime. lice departments without having other

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Once we start it, they will be that robust debate, that they were not those services are being established given every opportunity to offer having those arguments that were real- and strengthened in cities across the amendments to help improve the bill. ly constructive conversations that country, let’s talk about the reforms But shutting it down just out of a fit of would say: We are here; how do we go that make sense. pique or overt politicalization does not here? The most impactful reforms are do a service to the people we are trying That is how you solve problems. In- going to be made at the State and local to help here: to help our law enforce- deed, that is what Tennesseans are tell- levels. We can’t be a city council for ment officials and to help the general ing me every day that they want us to 330 million people. Those responsibil- public and people who sense a gap of do: Solve these problems. Let’s get our- ities, ultimately, are born at the local trust between those officers and the selves on the right track. and State level. They are the ones ac- law enforcement community they When you look at it and go back and countable to the voters for the actions serve. look at the Founders, you see that the they take or don’t take at the local Our Democratic colleagues are debates they had were not superficial. level, but we know there is a role for us weighing whether to block us from They were not necessarily the bright, to play. Much of it has to do with iden- even considering this bill, one that will shiny object story of the day. They tifying things like best practices, as be put on the floor, debated and voted were deep, philosophical debates on well as providing money for training on, just as Senator SCHUMER, the issues that were about the future of the and resources. The hiring is done at the Democratic leader, requested. Unfortu- Nation they were trying to build. Ev- local level, officer training is con- nately, our friends across the aisle erything was on the line, and no one ducted there, and decisions about day- seem focused more on the few dif- kept quiet. They felt as if their opin- to-day police activities are made there. ferences between Senator SCOTT’s bill ions were important, and indeed, During our discussion, Mayor Turner and the House bill rather than the sim- today, there is a lot on the line when expressed the need for folks in Con- ilarities. This is where I think the 80– we talk about civility and when we gress to listen to mayors, and I am all 20 rule ought to apply. If we can agree talk about the strength, the core, and for that. For any law we pass or re- to 80 percent or 70 percent or 60 per- the preservation of our rights and our forms we make, they will be the ones cent, why don’t we do that? Why don’t freedoms. Nobody spared anyone’s feel- responsible for implementing the we put that in the bank and work on ings at that point because the stakes changes we make. the rest? were too high and they were focused on I have been in close contact with my The truth is, there are many places freedom. mayors and other officials across the where these bills overlap, and there is How did they create a free nation? State, and I don’t intend for that to a lot of room for us to find common How did they create it so that it would pass to their children and their grand- stop once we, Lord willing, pass a po- ground. In order to do that, our col- children? Indeed, you can go forward in lice reform bill. leagues across the aisle need to do This has to be an ongoing conversa- what maybe is not their first instinct history and look at the words of Ron- tion between local officials, State offi- and that is to cooperate—that is the ald Reagan reminding us that freedom cials, and those of us who happen to only way we get things done here—and is not something that is permanent. Every single generation—every single work here in Washington in the Con- prove to the American people that they generation—has to fight for it. gress. This conversation is not going to are sincere in their desire to see us de- Madam President, of course, we say bate and pass effective reforms. There be a brief one. It is not going to be a an extra thank-you to you and others is a difference between doing that and one-time conversation. This is going to in this Chamber who have worn the just grandstanding and posturing, but stretch on for weeks and months. Real- uniform and have served, and we are this is not a time to grandstand. This ly, what we are talking about is a cul- grateful for that service. tural change as much as anything else. is not a time to posture. This is a time I would state that, in spite of all the I want to, once again, thank the men to roll up our sleeves and work to- strife that our Founders went through, and women in Texas who wear the uni- gether to get things done. We need re- they never wavered from their commit- form of our police departments and alistic, resolute, and immediate action ment to building a society that was, in those who shared with me their ideas in order to repair that broken relation- their hearts and minds, a society of the and feedback over the last few weeks. ship between law enforcement and people, for the people, by the people— It has been incredibly valuable and will some of the community they serve. So of the people. It was freer and more become even more helpful as we begin I hope our Democratic colleagues will Democratic than the land they had left debating the JUSTICE Act this week. join us in that effort this week. in order to get here. Senator SCOTT, who is leading us on I appreciate, for one, the hard work The First Amendment to our Con- this legislative effort, has done a great and leadership of Senator SCOTT in stitution is more than just a prohibi- job of compiling a broad set of reforms drafting this legislation, and I appre- tion against government repression. It that will improve transparency and ac- ciate the majority leader, Senator is a warning against the private at- countability. Many of these provisions, MCCONNELL, for prioritizing its consid- tacks on free speech. The success of on- as I said a few minutes ago, already eration on the floor. I am a proud co- line discussion platforms is a testa- enjoy broad bipartisan support. sponsor of the JUSTICE Act, and I look ment to how much the American peo- This legislation, I believe, will go a forward to voting for this bill when the ple still value the free exchange of long way to improve accountability opportunity comes. ideas. and transparency and deliver real I yield the floor. Don’t you love it? In a good con- change to communities across the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- versation with good friends, somebody country. I am glad that at Senator ator from Tennessee. makes their point, and you make a SCHUMER’s request, Senator MCCON- THE FIRST AMENDMENT counterpoint. Then you discuss it, and NELL put a bill on the floor before the Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Presi- you have a respectful conversation. Fourth of July. That is specifically dent, I so enjoyed listening to the com- Everyone from political candidates what Senator SCHUMER called for and ments of my colleague from Texas, and to corporations to the free press has exactly what Senator MCCONNELL said it causes me to think that, yes, we are taken advantage of the opportunity to he intends to do. moving forward with another week, reach those millions of eyeballs that Now that we have the opportunity to and what we have to realize is that, in- are scrolling through social media turn talk into action, it does sound deed, our Nation was built on free timelines and news aggregation serv- like our friends across the aisle are speech and the premise to have dissent ices. For a while, it looked as if the getting cold feet. I have been inter- or robust, respectful political debate. system would revolutionize the way we ested to read in the press where some That is something that keeps our Na- read and the way that we share infor- of them said they haven’t really made tion strong. mation, the way we have that debate,

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But, oh no, Google or good old days of social media. they decided that the American people Facebook—I have to say, I remember Over the past few weeks, we have didn’t need to see what writers had the comment from Mark Zuckerberg seen these platforms devolve into a written because they, the employees’ that Facebook was more like a govern- state of all-out war that makes our superiors, decided you didn’t need to ment than a business. previous concerns about censorship and know that. They determined that the We have the Communications De- speech policing look petty. Liberal ac- speech was dangerous, harmful, and il- cency Act, and there is a section in it tivists have deployed against anyone legitimate. So what did they do? They called section 230, and that is the sec- and anything that strays from their shut it down before you could browse tion that Big Tech goes and cowers be- preferred narrative. It is the cancel it. hind when they want to shut you up. culture in full force. Even more con- Just imagine—just imagine—if the Section 230 needs to be reformed. DOJ cerning than digital mob rule is the be- Founders had been so brazen in their has said that this is something that is havior of corporations and platforms actions: Let’s not have a discussion on ready for reform. We need to protect caving to these intimidation tactics that point. Let’s just throw it to the free speech. We need to make certain and selectively policing dissent. side. Let’s not hear somebody out. that illicit content is moved off. We Just imagine what would have hap- Let’s just push them aside. No, they need to look at competition. We need pened all those years ago in our found- didn’t form a clique who said: We are to look at the threshold for users— ing if one group decided they were better than you. We are smarter than maybe not revenue—but look at a going to shut up and quiet another you. What did those Founders do? They threshold for users and put some guide- group. What if they had decided that looked at one another and said: We are lines in place. We are dealing with an respect doesn’t matter? What if they all in this together. We are here be- industry that has moved on to using had decided that debate doesn’t mat- cause freedom is paramount in estab- social pressure to provide cover as they ter? It is our way or the highway. What lishing a nation that is a nation of, by, act as judge, jury, and executioner over do you think would have happened, and and for the people—all of us. That is what Americans should be allowed to where would we be today? the goal. know. Google and its parent company, Al- You know, I think what Google has If you are researching something on- phabet, have distinguished themselves done is a bold move coming from the line, what do you do? You Google it. as the worst offenders. Google is under same parent company that has allowed You get in that search engine; you go investigation for potential antitrust YouTube’s reprehensible comment sec- looking for it; and then you look at the violations, but that hasn’t stopped tion to spiral into notoriety. But if you things as they come up. Maybe what them from surrendering to this latest comment on the Federalist, beware. you are looking for doesn’t show up on political moment. Last week, Google You see, it is not about protecting cus- the first page even though it is some- threatened to kick two conservative- tomers. All they are doing is defending thing that has been in the news. Why leaning media outlets off of the Google a dangerous and un-democratic double would that be? Oh, prioritization—be- ads platform after determining content standard. cause Google prioritizes how this infor- found in the respective sites’ comment These incidents are not isolated, and mation gets delivered to you: if they sections violated platform policies. A there is no meaningful choice pub- like it, top of the list; if they don’t, representative from Google com- lishers can make to take their business bottom envelope. Today, I sent a letter to the Attorney plicated matters by running to the elsewhere because Google effectively General, outlining the threat this poses media and insisting that the ban was controls online advertising. Last year, to a free and fair press and calling for imposed because the Federalist and they brought in $100 billion in ad rev- a full investigation that examines the ZeroHedge had both published deroga- enue. You know, even in this town, $100 company’s control over the internet tory comments promoting racial vio- billion is not chump change. That is a economy. I also encouraged AG Barr to lence. NBC and other news organiza- lot of money. meet with the news publishers who tions ran with that false narrative, and This year they are flexing their mus- have been harmed by this anti-com- before you knew it, thousands of voices cles against competitive conservative petitive behavior and learn firsthand condemned in unison the speech and outlets just as more mainstream out- about the fear and intimidation tactics opinions of dozens of writers who had lets are facing cutbacks and layoffs. I activists have weaponized against le- done nothing wrong. know this body is well aware that Big gitimate journalism. They were, as the left likes to say, Tech needs some guide rails to control This can no longer be chalked up ‘‘deplatformed,’’ which, of course, was their approach to consumer privacy, simply to bias. The people making the goal. The ease with which Google data security, and these increasingly these decisions are the most powerful fell in step with this coordinated cam- oppressive content moderation poli- voices in the world, and they have de- paign to chill speech becomes all the cies. cided that they don’t want you to more concerning when one considers Google is the main player. The ma- think. They don’t want you to chal- that they didn’t just threaten the live- jority of searches are done through lenge the narrative, and they sure lihoods of the writers, editors, and Google. Is it a monopoly? Pretty close don’t want you to rock the boat and graphic designers employed by those to it. Should it be viewed under anti- draw the ire of activists who still don’t outlets. Google employees let their trust? Worthy of discussion. Right now believe these efforts at censorship have bias—hear that?—Google employees let we are working out the proper strategy gone far enough to silence conservative their bias, not the facts—not the facts, to reform the section 230 protections. voices. the bias—their bias, the bias that they This is written into the Communica- I yield the floor. bring to work with them, the bias of tions Decency Act that the Googles of I suggest the absence of a quorum. their worldview, which they think is the world hide behind when they want The PRESIDING OFFICER. The right—they let their bias and their to silence you, when they want to shut clerk will call the roll. prejudice lead the way and decided that you down because they do not agree The senior assistant legislative clerk the American people didn’t need to see with you. Their bias is against you. proceeded to call the roll. what those writers had to say. Their prejudice is against you. They Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, I Who told them that they are the don’t like what you have to say. ask unanimous consent that the order speech police? Who told them: Google, In this body we may not agree, but for the quorum call be rescinded. you are in charge. You decide what is we will fight to defend the right of in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without going to be prioritized on your plat- dividuals to stand up and have their objection, it is so ordered.

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Allowing a fact witness to an investiga- There being no objection, the mate- did Department leadership become aware tion to shape the terms of the investiga- rial was ordered to be printed in the that Mr. Linick had hand-selected his own tion—let alone lead the investigation—seems RECORD, as follows: investigator for the matter, outside of the inappropriate. At a minimum, the choice of CIGIE process. Mr. Linick then refused mul- investigator in this case raises material con- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, tiple requests by Department leadership for Washington, DC, June 12, 2020. cerns about whether the report itself rep- a copy of the resulting report. Notwith- resents a complete and adequate investiga- Hon. CHUCK GRASSLEY, standing these repeated requests to Mr. Chairman, Committee on Finance, tion of potential misconduct within the Linick, who reports by law to the Secretary State Department Office of Inspector Gen- U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. of State, the Department was, for the first DEAR CHAIRMAN GRASSLEY: Your May 18 eral. time, provided a copy of the March 17, 2020 letter to the President concerning his re- DOD OIG report on June 2, 2020 (Tab 2) as a Limited Investigation. As noted above, the moval of the Inspector General of the De- result of a request by Congress, nearly two Department finally received a copy of the partment of State has been referred to the weeks after the President removed Mr. DOD Acting Inspector General’s report on Department. Linick from his position. June 2, 2020, and following the Department’s In order to address your concerns as they Beyond the concerning process that led to review, the Department has identified a relate to the Department, the Department is the DOD IG reviewing this matter, the DOD number of concerns as to its scope. For ex- prepared to provide you a briefing with a IG report itself raises a number of new ques- ample, the report notes that Mr. Linick him- senior official at your earliest convenience. tions that, together with the Department’s self ‘‘asked the DoD OIG to conduct a limited Additionally, the Department is enclosing original concerns, further substantiate the inquiry into whether any DOS OIG employee its recent letter, on which you were copied, Department’s misgivings with Mr. Linick’s was the source of the unauthorized disclo- which addresses the reasons for Secretary performance as Inspector General and merit sure.’’ (emphasis added). The DOD OIG con- Pompeo’s recommendation to remove the a review by an independent investigatory ducted personal interviews, in which all State Department Inspector General. body. As we did originally with Mr. Linick, interviewed staffers ‘‘said they did not re- Sincerely, the Department renews its request that lease any information in the report to the MARY ELIZABETH TAYLOR, CIGIE review these questions. media.’’ The DOD OIG also reviewed official Assistant Secretary of State, Breach of Agreed Steps for Investigating a email accounts and found that no employee Bureau of Legislative Affairs. Potential Leak from OIG. Last fall, State directly sent an email from their State De- Enclosure: As stated. Department leadership asked Mr. Linick to partment email address to the news media, refer for review by CIGIE the unauthorized other than the communications director. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, disclosure of a draft inspector general report, However, the scope of this review appears Washington, DC, June 8, 2020. which the media attributed to ‘‘two govern- to have been exceedingly cursory, and the re- Hon. MICHAEL E. HOROWITZ, ment sources involved in carrying out the in- port itself indicates that the scope of the in- Chair, Council of the Inspectors General on In- vestigation’’. State IG Set to Recommend vestigation was by design ‘‘limited.’’ It is tegrity and Efficiency, Washington, DC. Discipline for Trump’s Top Iran Hand, The also unclear whether it was appropriate for DEAR CHAIR HOROWITZ: In light of new in- Daily Beast, Sept. 13, 2019. It was natural to Mr. Linick, as a fact witness to the inves- formation disclosed to the State Department assume that sources involved in ‘‘carrying tigation, to dictate the ‘‘limited’’ scope for the first time on June 2, 2020, the Depart- out the investigation’’ may refer to sources (rather than a ‘‘full’’ scope) given the signifi- ment is writing to formally request that the within the State OIG, which—if true—would cance of the leak. It is hard to imagine that Council of the Inspectors General on Integ- undermine confidence in the professionalism an OIG or CIGIE would, in the course of its rity and Efficiency (CIGIE) examine a series and integrity of the OIG. Mr. Linick agreed normal investigations, allow possible fact of questions related to the conduct of former to the request, but the Department learned witnesses or interviewees to influence the State Department Inspector General Steve months later that, instead of formally refer- scope of the investigation. Moreover, merely Linick. Specifically, the Department has be- ring the matter to CIGIE, Mr. Linick asked asking an interviewee if he/she directly come aware that Mr. Linick may have hand- the DOD Acting Inspector General to review transmitted the leaked documents and ask- selected a potentially-conflicted investigator the issue. In other words, Mr. Linick failed ing only about emails from official accounts to look into possible misconduct by his own to inform Department leadership that he had would catch only the most blatant mis- office and then withheld the resulting report, hand-picked another IG to investigate poten- handling of information and would fail to un- which noted his own apparent non-compli- tial misconduct by his office and that he had cover any person who disclosed the draft ance with State Department Office of Inspec- deviated from the clear course agreed upon through an intermediary or sent the report tor General (OIG) email policies, from State with leadership. from a personal email address. Further, the Department leadership, despite repeated re- Following the completion of a draft report DOD IG does not appear to have questioned quests for a copy of the report. by the DOD Acting Inspector General in late whether any interviewee had knowledge of In short, the events described below sug- 2019 or early 2020, Mr. Linick briefed Depart- who may have improperly disclosed the re- gest that there may have been a significant ment leadership on certain findings but re- port or engaged in other questioning aimed breakdown in the typically-rigorous stand- fused to provide the written report, or even at discovering the true source of the leak. ards of an IG investigation, warranting a written summary, to Department leader- CIGIE review. ship for review, raising further concerns Use and Concealment of Improper Email Mr. Linick had served as Inspector General about the fairness of the process followed. As Practice. The DOD OIG report identifies a of the State Department since September of the time of Mr. Linick’s removal, the De- concerning email practice used by Mr. 2013. On May 15, 2020, President Trump de- partment had still not received any docu- Linick. The DOD OIG found: ‘‘IG Linick sent cided to remove Mr. Linick from that posi- mented findings on the matter. By contrast, a password-protected, draft version of the tion and placed him on 30 days of adminis- an appropriate referral to CIGIE would have evaluation report in question to his Gmail trative leave. As described in the attached produced a final report that Department account eight times over six days in August letter to the House Foreign Affairs Com- leadership could review and assess whether 2019. On one occasion, he emailed a password- mittee dated June 1 (Tab 1), the President’s there may have been inappropriate conduct protected draft of the evaluation report from decision to remove Mr. Linick from this po- in Mr. Linick’s office. his Gmail email account to his government sition was made upon the Secretary of Potential Conflict of Interest in Choice of email account.’’ As the DOD OIG report State’s recommendation. This recommenda- Investigator. The person whom Mr. Linick notes, this usage appeared to contravene the tion was based, in part, on concerns related asked to review the matter, outside of the State Department OIG’s own policy: ‘‘Use to Mr. Linick’s failure to formally refer to CIGIE process, was then-DOD Principal Dep- OIG provided equipment and systems/appli- CIGIE—as agreed with senior Department uty Inspector General Glenn Fine, who at cations at all times, including OIG email, to leadership in the fall of 2019—the investiga- the time was the DOD’s Acting Inspector conduct official OIG business. The use of cor- tion of a leak of a highly-sensitive draft re- General. This was an unusual choice because porate or personal equipment, systems/appli- port to the media on September 13, 2019, Mr. Fine appears to have been a fact witness, cations, to include to email, or other file which was attributed to ‘‘two government potentially one with knowledge of informa- storage sites to store, process, or transmit sources involved in carrying out the inves- tion relevant to the subject of the investiga- OIG or Department data is prohibited.’’ tigation.’’ State IG Set to Recommend Dis- tion described in the report. Specifically, the State OIG Information Systems Rules of Be- cipline for Trump’s Top Iran Hand, The DOD OIG report notes that Mr. Linick said havior. Mr. Linick clearly should have fol- Daily Beast, Sept. 13, 2019. that he ‘‘spoke about the evaluation report’’ lowed his own organization’s specific infor- As described in the Department’s attached with Mr. Fine before the media leak oc- mation security policies—particularly in- letter, and contrary to that fall 2019 agree- curred. If Mr. Fine himself had confidential volving a draft report on a highly-sensitive ment, Mr. Linick instead referred the matter information about the draft report before it personnel issue.

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Mr. Linick should follow the Americans of African descent who vol- the written report with any person at the same rules that apply to other government unteered to serve as soldiers and sail- State Department (including in his own of- officials who are placed on administrative ors during the American Revolution. fice), despite repeated requests by Depart- leave in such circumstances; he is not enti- Their patriotic sacrifices at the very ment leadership for a copy of the report. tled to a different set of rules. beginning of our Nation contributed Likewise, he never informed State Depart- A Pattern of Leaks Continues. Even immeasurably toward laying the foun- ment leadership that the report found that though no one at the State Department dation of the freedoms we enjoy today. he did not comply with OIG email practices. other than Mr. Linick appears to have had a The civil rights movement was later Allowing the head of an investigated office copy of the DOD Inspector General’s report to determine the manner and scope of the re- (not even his Deputy) before June 2, 2020, able to build on that solid foundation lease of a report that addresses his own con- CNN ran a story on May 28, 2020 that the by calling on America to, as Dr. King duct is inappropriate, which is presumably DOD OIG report had exonerated Mr. Linick said, ‘‘live out the true meaning of its why CIGIE’s own guidelines would have re- of leaking. Kylie Atwood, Fired State De- creed.’’ Dr. King was absolutely right quired the results of a CIGIE review to be partment inspector general was cleared in in pointing out that Black Americans shared with appropriate officials in his su- leak inquiry prior to his removal, sources have every right to fully claim our pervisory chain. say, CNN, May 28, 2020. These reports raise shared heritage as Americans, having OIG Launches Questionable Parallel Inves- additional concerns as to this disturbing pat- tigation Under a Possible Conflict of Inter- tern of leaks, further warranting CIGIE re- helped build and shape American insti- est. At the same time that the DOD IG was view. tutions and society from the beginning, conducting its review, Mr. Linick reportedly Last fall, the Department had serious con- as shown by the very sacrifice they opened a parallel investigation of other cerns with the leak of a draft State Depart- made in the Revolutionary War. This State Department employees for the same ment OIG report and recommended that re- proud history is part of who we are as potential misconduct for which his own of- view by CIGIE was the appropriate step for Americans, but it is too little under- fice was being investigated. See Kylie At- an independent review. Unfortunately, Mr. stood and, hence, fully not appreciated. wood, Fired State Department inspector gen- Linick’s failure to follow through on that eral was cleared in leak inquiry prior to his course—or to seek agreement from his re- That is why I was proud to colead removal, sources say, CNN, May 28, 2020. This porting chain on any change in course—has legislation that authorized the estab- decision, if accurately reported, seems un- only confirmed the Department’s rec- lishment of a National Liberty Memo- usual because the September 2019 media leak ommendation and has raised even further rial on the National Mall to honor the was specifically attributed to ‘‘two govern- concerns about Mr. Linick’s judgment and underappreciated contributions of ment sources involved in carrying out the in- conduct. Black Revolutionary War veterans and vestigation’’ (emphasis added), not to Depart- Therefore, we ask CIGIE to investigate not patriots, as they are. ment employees who may have been fact wit- only the original unauthorized disclosure, but the conduct described in this letter. I am proud to say that Iowa can nesses (and were clearly not responsible for claim at least one of those patriots, ‘‘carrying out’’ any investigation). Sincerely, Mr. Linick’s decision also raises the ques- BRIAN BULATAO, Cato Mead, who was born in Con- tion of whether this parallel investigation Under Secretary for Management, necticut and is listed in Revolutionary was intended to divert attention from the U.S. Department of State. War pension court records as a ‘‘free DOD IG’s own investigation into the State BLACK REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOTS person of color’’ who lived out his twi- OIG. Indeed, public reporting suggests that Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, light years in Southeastern Iowa. He is State OIG was continuing its own investiga- as Americans, our understanding of buried in the Montrose Cemetery in tions of other Department employees before history has a tremendous impact on Montrose, IA. the DOD OIG report was even finalized. See id. It should have been obvious to Mr. Linick our sense of who we are and where we The National Mall Liberty Fund is that launching a parallel investigation into are headed. That is why it is so impor- now in the process of raising money for the same misconduct for which he and his tant for Americans to have a good un- an environmental assessment to com- own office were being investigated created derstanding of our history—all of our plete final site selection for this very both a real and apparent conflict of interest history. important memorial. and risked interfering with the DOD OIG in- Slavery is a great stain on our coun- Now, more than ever, Americans vestigation into his own office. An investi- try’s history, and its legacy impacts us need this monument as a tangible re- gator who is still working to clear his or her yet today. We must not flinch from minder that despite the lingering leg- own name has a motive to shift the blame to recognizing the suffering inflicted on acy of slavery, the promise of liberty another person. Inappropriate Contacts with OIG Staff in so many Americans, contrary to our and equality is a shared heritage of all an Apparent Attempt to Obtain Department highest ideals as a nation. Americans from the founding genera- Records, Contrary to Instruction. When Mr. Still, our Nation is unique in human tion to this very day. Linick was removed from his position on history in that it was founded not on I yield the floor. May 15 and placed on administrative leave, the basis of some sort of common eth- I suggest the absence of a quorum. his physical access was terminated, and he nic identity but on certain enduring The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. was clearly instructed by Department offi- principles that are the equal heritage BOOZMAN). The clerk will call the roll. cials not to contact OIG staff members about of all Americans. Those principles are The senior assistant legislative clerk official matters or return to his former of- proceeded to call the roll. fice, without authorization by Department best articulated in the simple but elo- officials, who would facilitate any such con- quent words of the Declaration of Inde- Mrs. SHAHEEN. Mr. President, I ask tacts. pendence. I don’t have to put quotes unanimous consent that the order for However, it has come to the Department’s around these because everybody knows the quorum call be rescinded. attention that he has violated these instruc- these words: ‘‘We hold these truths to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tions on multiple occasions while he was on be self-evident, that all people are cre- objection, it is so ordered. administrative leave. For example, we un- ated equal, that they are endowed by CORONAVIRUS derstand that, in the days before his Con- gressional testimony, he sent a text message their Creator with certain unalienable Mrs. SHAHEEN. Mr. President, to the Deputy Inspector General, Diana Rights, that among these are Life, Lib- States across this country, including Shaw, requesting a copy of the DOD IG re- erty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’’ New Hampshire, are beginning to re- port. Without informing her own chain of Our patriot forefathers concluded open after this pandemic, although, the command, we understand that Ms. Shaw that these principles were worth fight- pandemic isn’t really over. The ongo- then contacted the DOD Office of Inspector ing for, and, indeed, they took up arms. ing economic and public health fallout General to request a copy of the report on The odds were stacked against them, from COVID–19 continues to affect fam- Mr. Linick’s behalf. It is not clear what Mr. and they happened to know that, but ilies and businesses in my State of New Linick’s motivation was, but it was not his they, nonetheless, risked everything decision (nor his former Deputy’s) to make Hampshire and across this country. this request for release given that he was, at because they believed so deeply in Every day, community leaders, pub- the time, on administrative leave pursuant those fundamental truths that were lic health professionals, and frontline to the President’s decision with a new Act- stated in the Declaration of Independ- workers tell me about what they are ing Inspector General in place. We under- ence. facing. They have raised concerns

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If we lenges they have encountered trying to ers who are sacrificing so much for our don’t provide it, they are going to lay educate their students during the pan- health and safety. off all those workers again. For many demic and the difficulties they are an- We should provide investments in our small businesses, they are going to be ticipating as they begin to plan for the Nation’s infrastructure, like forced to close their doors. school year coming in September. broadband, to make sure we have bet- Last week, I was pleased to work The shift to remote learning has ex- ter access to telehealth and education with Senators CARDIN and COONS to in- posed the disparities in broadband ac- opportunities. troduce the Prioritized Paycheck Pro- cess across New Hampshire and across We should provide support for sectors tection Program, the P4 Act. That is this country that leaves behind many of our economy that have taken major legislation that would provide a second students and makes it extremely dif- losses, like the clean energy sector, round of PPP funding for smaller busi- ficult for teachers to deliver a quality which has lost more than 600,000 jobs nesses and particularly for those in the education, especially for students with over the past few months. restaurant and hospitality industries disabilities. We should provide help for food and which have been hit especially hard in So many small businesses, while they rental assistance for those who have recent months. They were the first to are very grateful for the Paycheck Pro- lost income and are struggling to make be closed down by government order, tection Program and the loans and ends meet. and they are the last to be able to open grants that have been made available We should support the Postal Service back up. through the Economic Injury Disaster so it can continue to serve our commu- I am hopeful that, once again, we can Loan Program, are telling me it is not nities and small businesses. In New work in a bipartisan way to make a enough; that revenues for many of Hampshire, we have so many small proposal that will have support on both these small businesses are still at towns that depend on the Postal Serv- sides of the aisle and that will ensure unsustainable lows, particularly for ice for prescription drugs. Families in that more businesses can stay afloat as those in tourism, entertainment, and those towns depend on the Postal Serv- we reopen our economy. hospitality—in New Hampshire, tour- ice for prescription drugs and to com- Our country is still hurting, and the ism is our second largest industry—and municate with the outside world. Espe- coronavirus isn’t going to go away that they need help if they are going to cially now, when so many people are without a vaccine. It is going to take a weather this storm. still feeling so isolated, they need to while for us to get back on our feet as So I can’t understand why this body know they can count on the Postal a nation. and why Majority Leader MCCONNELL Service and that it is not going to get The devastating health and economic doesn’t feel a sense of urgency to pass into a financial crisis this summer. effects from COVID–19 will not be alle- legislation that will continue to help Finally, we need to support our viated just because we pretend the Americans during this time of crisis. States and our local communities. coronavirus is going away. It will not It has been more than 1 month since They have been on the frontlines fight- be alleviated unless Congress acts. It the House of Representatives sent to us ing this pandemic. As the cost of was the decisive action that we took the Heroes Act to continue to provide COVID–19 response efforts continue to back at the end of February and March assistance to Americans who are in rise, mayors, town administrators, and that has allowed so many businesses to need. In the time since, we have not county officials are all grappling with stay afloat, so many families to con- taken up any proposal that would pro- whether they are going to have to lay tinue to feed their kids and to pay vide comprehensive relief for the sec- off first responders, firefighters, police, their rent. It is going to be critical for tors of our economy that are still hurt- teachers, and municipal workers—all of us to continue to take action to pro- ing. those people who continue to provide vide that assistance. We just can’t wait until the end of services in our communities and with- We can’t wait. We can’t take a wait- July, when we know that there will be out whom people are going to face even and-see approach. We know that people so many families, workers, and busi- more dire consequences. States and are hurting right now. So I urge the nesses across the country who will be communities need help now. They Senate to take up and pass legislation. in an even more dire position than they should not have to cut essential serv- Let’s negotiate what we don’t like are now. ices and frontline workers. about the Heroes Act. Let’s make Americans are urging Congress to In Congress, we must also provide ad- changes, but let’s take up that relief act, and we should work together in a ditional support to small businesses. bill and continue to provide the help bipartisan way, just as we did with the PPP, the Paycheck Protection Pro- Americans are calling for. We have no first three—really, four, if you count gram, by any measure, despite some of more time to waste. the second count of the small business the challenges, has been the most sig- Thank you. assistance. Those four bills all passed nificant small business assistance pro- I yield the floor. with strong bipartisan votes. Now it is gram in our Nation’s history. It has de- I suggest the absence of a quorum. time for us to do that again, to provide livered over $500 billion in aid in a very The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Americans with the relief they so des- short time. clerk will call the roll. perately need. I am proud to have worked with a bi- The legislative clerk proceeded to Congress has taken some very impor- partisan group of colleagues to offer call the roll. tant bipartisan steps to provide assist- that provision, but when we first sat Mr. GARDNER. Mr. President, I ask ance to the Nation, but the conversa- down to design it just over 3 months unanimous consent that the order for tions I have had with Granite Staters ago, none of us had any concept of the the quorum call be rescinded. on the frontlines are a very powerful magnitude of this crisis or what would The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without reminder of how much work still lies be its duration. Since then, we have objection, it is so ordered. ahead. learned just how devastating this dis- CLOTURE MOTION We should provide assistance for our ease is and how terribly difficult it is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant hospitals and healthcare providers, es- to defeat. to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the pecially for nursing homes and long- I have heard from so many Senate the pending cloture motion, term care facilities because, in New businesspeople in New Hampshire who which the clerk will state. Hampshire, they have accounted for took a PPP loan. They used the pro- The legislative clerk read as follows: more than 70 percent of COVID–19 ceeds just as we had intended: They CLOTURE MOTION deaths, and across the country, for a kept their employees on the payroll or We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- very high percentage. they hired them back if they had al- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the

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Mr. President, I ask tle to no options for sick leave, re- Pat Roberts, Lindsey Graham, Tim unanimous consent that the Senate stricted access to public health serv- Scott, Richard Burr, Mike Crapo, Shel- proceed to legislative session for a pe- ices, and have few, if any, resources to ley Moore Capito, John Barrasso, riod of morning business, with Sen- weather the financial burden of quar- Roger F. Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith, ators permitted to speak therein for up antine measures. Many are forced to John Thune. to 10 minutes each. defy stay-at-home orders to find ways The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without to support their families, risking their imous consent, the mandatory quorum objection, it is so ordered. health and that of their loved ones to call has been waived. f provide basic shelter and food. The question is, Is it the sense of the Take, for example, the story of Or- WORLD REFUGEE DAY Senate that debate on the nomination lando, a member of an indigenous com- of Cory T. Wilson, of Mississippi, to be Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, this past munity in Venezuela who is among the United States Circuit Judge for the Saturday, June 20, we marked the 20th 4.5 million Venezuelan migrants and Fifth Circuit, shall be brought to a commemoration of World Refugee Day. refugees who have fled the country’s close? Since 2000, World Refugee Day annu- hunger, violence, and insecurity since The yeas and nays are mandatory ally shines a light on the struggles of 2014. He now lives in Brazil with 18 under the rule. displaced people all over the globe and other families from his indigenous The clerk will call the roll. encourages us all to redouble our ef- group. He and his family make their forts to help them. The legislative clerk called the roll. living as artisans, but when lockdown We are currently experiencing the orders prevented them from selling Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is most severe refugee crisis in recorded necessarily absent: the Senator from their crafts, they could no longer af- history. There are almost 80 million ford rent. All 120 of the individuals liv- Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI). forcibly displaced people worldwide, of ing in his house were expelled, sent to Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the which more than 30 million are refu- the street in the middle of a pandemic. Senator from New Mexico (Mr. HEIN- gees and asylum-seekers. Every 2 sec- Meanwhile, many of Orlando’s family RICH), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. onds, someone is forced to leave his or members became sick with the virus, MERKLEY), the Senator from Wash- her home because of conflict or perse- and one sadly passed away, devastating ington (Mrs. MURRAY), the Senator cution. That means that, since I began the community. Unfortunately, stories from Vermont (Mr. SANDERS), and the speaking, roughly 20 individuals have like this one are common among refu- Senator from Arizona (Ms. SINEMA) are become newly displaced. gees. necessarily absent. These numbers are staggering and The good news is that there are a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there difficult to comprehend, but try to number of incredible multilateral and any other Senators in the Chamber de- imagine for a moment what it means nongovernmental organizations work- siring to vote? to be a refugee: to watch your home ing tirelessly to ensure that displaced The result was announced—yeas 51, torn apart by conflict; to become the people are safe, healthy, supported, and nays 43, as follows: target of violence and oppression; to treated with the dignity they deserve. [Rollcall Vote No. 124 Ex.] fear so greatly for your life and the These organizations deserve our grati- YEAS—51 lives of your loved ones that you tude and, more importantly, our assist- Alexander Fischer Perdue choose to leave everything you know ance. In my home State of Maryland, Barrasso Gardner Portman behind and take a dangerous journey to organizations such as the IRC, Lu- Blackburn Graham Risch a place where the language and the cul- theran Immigration and Refugee Serv- Blunt Grassley Roberts ture are unfamiliar, where you have no Boozman Hawley Romney ice, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Soci- Braun Hoeven Rounds support system, where you may strug- ety—now HIAS—and World Relief are Burr Hyde-Smith Rubio gle every day to make ends meet. there to help refugees start a new life Capito Inhofe Sasse This nightmare is the reality for al- in the United States. Especially now, Cassidy Johnson Scott (FL) most 80 million human beings around Cornyn Kennedy Scott (SC) as the COVID–19 pandemic stretches re- Cotton Lankford Shelby the world. The situation has only wors- sources and capacity of service pro- Cramer Lee Sullivan ened since the outbreak of the global viders around the world, it is critical Crapo Loeffler Thune COVID–19 pandemic. The majority of Cruz McConnell Tillis that the United States do its part to Daines McSally Toomey refugees are in low and middle-income help address the refugee crisis. Enzi Moran Wicker countries, where weak health systems That is why I joined all the other Ernst Paul Young are already struggling to provide the democratic members of the Senate NAYS—43 basics of care. According to the Inter- Foreign Relations Committee in intro- Baldwin Gillibrand Rosen national Rescue Committee, just 34 ducing legislation to provide an addi- Bennet Harris Schatz conflict-affected and fragile countries tional $9 billion in funding for inter- Blumenthal Hassan Schumer could see between 500 million and 1 bil- national efforts to fight the COVID–19 Booker Hirono Shaheen lion COVID–19 infections, leading to be- pandemic and strengthen our refugee Brown Jones Smith tween 1.7 million and 3.2 million deaths resettlement process to accommodate Cantwell Kaine Stabenow Cardin King Tester over the course of the pandemic. Fur- those affected by the global health cri- Carper Klobuchar Udall thermore, refugees and displaced per- sis. I also urged Secretary of State Casey Leahy Van Hollen Collins Manchin sons tend to live in precarious condi- Pompeo to contribute at least $500 mil- Warner Coons Markey tions that make them even more vul- lion to the U.N. campaign to protect Warren Cortez Masto Menendez nerable to the coronavirus. They often Whitehouse displaced and disadvantaged persons Duckworth Murphy live in crowded housing situations with around the world from the coronavirus. Durbin Peters Wyden Feinstein Reed little access to basic hygiene services, Historically, the United States has the perfect breeding ground for infec- prided itself on offering safe harbor to NOT VOTING—6 tious diseases to spread. For instance, the world’s refugees. This country, Heinrich Murkowski Sanders there are about 850,000 Rohingya refu- after all, was founded by a group of Merkley Murray Sinema gees living in congested camps in Cox’s people fleeing religious persecution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this Bazar in Bangladesh. As the The plaque on the Statute of Liberty, vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 43. coronavirus began to take hold there in perhaps the most famous symbol of The motion is agreed to. March, experts warned that the lack of American freedom and democracy,

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I always like to say that our State of South Dakota. sands were turned away and sent back values are our strength, so let us live Josh is a native of Sioux Falls, SD. to their deaths in their home coun- by our values and help build a brighter He is a graduate of Bishop O’Gorman tries. The most infamous incident was future for all the world’s peoples. High School in Sioux Falls, SD, and a ship called the St. Louis that carried the University of South Dakota in almost 1,000 Jewish refugees to a port f Vermillion, SD. During his under- in Miami. After being denied entry and graduate career, Josh majored in jour- forced to return to Europe, more than TRIBUTE TO REAR ADMIRAL nalism and political science and served a quarter of those passengers perished PATRICK ‘‘PAT’’ A. PIERCEY as president of the College Repub- in the Holocaust. licans. It is important to acknowledge and Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, today I wish to pay tribute to a great leader Josh first joined my office as an in- learn from dark chapters in our history tern in the spring of 2016. During this like this one, so that we can do a bet- and an exceptional officer, Rear Admi- ral Patrick ‘‘Pat’’ A. Piercey who will time, he proved himself to be a diligent ter job of respecting and protecting and dedicated worker and became a human life moving forwards. This is soon retire from the U.S. Navy after over 35 years of dedicated service to true asset to my office. why I have been so troubled by Presi- He later returned as a senior legisla- dent Trump’s anti-refugee policies. the Nation. Rear Admiral Piercey is a native of Clinton, OK, and graduated tive correspondent, and through hard Whether by making the lowest Presi- work and dedication, he worked his dential determination on refugee ad- with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1985. He is a true profes- way up to legislative aide, handling missions in the program’s history or by Tribal relations, healthcare, and edu- locking up asylum-seekers at our sional and a dedicated leader. Through- out his career, he commanded our cation issues for my office. Josh has southern border, the Trump adminis- played an instrumental role in my of- tration has turned our Nation’s back great sailors at many levels, deployed numerous times in defense of the Na- fice by providing insight and guidance on those fleeing violence and oppres- into these issues. sion and stained the U.S. reputation as tion and served in some of the most critical positions in our Navy. Rear Ad- Josh has been a dedicated and faith- a champion of human rights. ful public servant during his time We cannot allow these policies to miral Piercey has provided outstanding leadership, advice, and sound profes- working in the Senate. I extend my continue. First and foremost, they are sincere thanks and appreciation to him wrong. This sort of behavior violates sional judgment on numerous critical issues of enduring importance to the for his fine work. As he continues on the most basic tenets of our democ- with his career, he bears the esteem of racy: equality, freedom, and justice. Navy, Congress, and the Nation. Rear Admiral Piercey commanded a grateful State and my utmost grati- But beyond that, it actively hurts our tude for a job well done. country to ignore the plight of refu- USS Howard—DDG 83—USS Bunker gees. When we shirk our responsibility Hill—CG 52—Carrier Strike Group 9, f as a global leader in humanitarian as- and Naval Surface Forces Atlantic. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS sistance, we exacerbate worldwide in- Due to his sound judgment and intel- stability that will affect us, too. More- lect, Rear Admiral Piercey served in over, by closing our doors to refugees, many critical assignments, including TRIBUTE TO CAROLYN ASHCRAFT we miss out on the valuable contribu- special assistant to the Deputy Direc- ∑ Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I rise tions that they make to our society. tor of the White House Office of Man- today to recognize Carolyn Ashcraft on Think of the contributions to science, agement and Budget, executive assist- her retirement as State librarian and art, and politics that refugees like Al- ant to the Assistant to the Chairman of director of the Arkansas State Library bert Einstein, Gloria Estefan, and Mad- the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Director after 15 years of transformative leader- eline Albright have made to the United for Operations—J3—U.S. Inda-Pacific ship. States and to humanity. As I speak, Command. Carolyn has a dedication to the State think of all the displaced people For the past 2 years, Rear Admiral of Arkansas and a passion for books, around the world who are working on Piercey has served as the Chief of Staff and her departure from a career that the frontlines of the COVID–19 pan- of U.S. European Command in Stutt- blended the two will leave a significant demic to help keep their adopted com- gart, Germany. During this period of void in Arkansas’ library community. munities, including ours, safe. extraordinary change and challenge in Her enthusiasm for libraries has been To improve our country’s treatment Europe’s security environment, Rear evident since childhood, leading to an of refugees, I worked with Senators Admiral Piercey has improved rela- invitation to serve as a student library LEAHY, BOOKER, and HARRIS and Rep- tionships with NATO allies and Euro- aide in sixth grade. She went on to resentative ZOE LOFGREN to introduce pean partners. Through his strategic serve in a similar position at the uni- the Refugee Protection Act of 2019. vision, he has successfully positioned versity level while earning her degree This bill is a comprehensive blueprint U.S. European Command to meet every in English at the University of Arkan- for reinvigorating U.S. refugee and asy- mission requirement in Europe. sas at Monticello. She continued her lum systems. It bolsters the U.S. Ref- On behalf of my colleagues and the education at the University of Ala- ugee Admission Program and expands entire U.S. Congress, I want to thank bama, where she earned a master’s de- protections for refugees, and restores Rear Admiral Piercey for his decades gree in library science. In 1981, Carolyn due process and dignity for asylum of dedicated service to the Navy and launched her professional career at the seekers. Broadly, it seeks to repair the our Nation. I am sure that many offi- Grant County Library and next served U.S. role as a refuge for the persecuted. cers and sailors will continue to emu- as director at the Saline County Li- I urge all of my colleagues to support late him as a role model for service, brary. She held this position until she this crucial, lifesaving measure. sacrifice and leadership. I also want to started with the Arkansas State Li- The most important thing to remem- thank his wife, Katherine, and their brary in 1993, where she served in var- ber is that refugees are our fellow children, Rebecca and Andrew, for ious positions, including deputy direc- human beings who have found them- their sacrifices and tremendous sup- tor in the library development unit be- selves in the most difficult of cir- port. I join my colleagues in wishing fore being selected as State librarian in cumstances. They are brothers, daugh- him and his family fair winds and fol- 2005. ters, fathers, grandmothers, and lowing seas and future success in re- Carolyn’s career and the accomplish- friends. They have ideas, hopes, and as- tirement. ments of the Arkansas library system

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:28 Jun 23, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G22JN6.012 S22JNPT1 rfrederick on DSKBCBPHB2PROD with SENATE S3126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 22, 2020 during her tenure as State librarian for certain high-level employees and officers check protection program to submit a finan- testify to her dedication and influen- of the Department of Veterans Affairs. cial disclosure form; to the Committee on tial direction. Under her guidance, our f Homeland Security and Governmental Af- libraries adapted emerging tech- fairs. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND By Mr. DAINES: nologies. She helped facilitate the JOINT RESOLUTIONS S. 4028. A bill to amend the Act of June 4, transition to digitization, expanding 1897, to increase a penalty for the unauthor- digital programs such as the Traveler The following bills and joint resolu- ized landing of certain aircraft on wilderness Statewide Digital Resource Program tions were introduced, read the first areas of the National Forest System; to the and establishing the Arkansas Digital and second times by unanimous con- Committee on Energy and Natural Re- Library Consortium in 2018. She also sent, and referred as indicated: sources. oversaw the relocation of the agency By Mr. MARKEY: By Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. and its collection of books, State and S. 4018. A bill to strengthen the Mutual De- WARREN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. HAR- fense Treaty between the United States and RIS, Mr. WYDEN, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. Federal documents, Library for the MERKLEY, and Mr. VAN HOLLEN): Blind materials, and other documents. the Republic of Korea, and for other pur- poses; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- S. 4029. A bill to express the sense of Con- Carolyn is known for having an tions. gress regarding the need for a nationwide unrivaled and encompassing knowledge By Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. moratorium on electric and natural gas util- of libraries, as evidenced by her in- SMITH, Mr. BOOKER, Ms. HARRIS, Mr. ity disconnections during the nationwide volvement in both State and national CORNYN, Mr. CASEY, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. emergency relating to the spread of the professional library associations. The HAWLEY, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. GARD- novel coronavirus; to the Committee on En- list of such organizations is lengthy NER, Mr. SANDERS, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. ergy and Natural Resources. KING, Mr. YOUNG, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. By Mr. MARKEY: and includes the Arkansas Library As- S. 4030. A bill to establish an intercity pas- sociation, American Library Associa- BURR, Mr. KAINE, Ms. COLLINS, Ms. WARREN, Ms. ERNST, Mrs. SHAHEEN, senger rail service investment grant pro- tion, the Association for Rural and Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. BROWN, Mr. VAN gram; to the Committee on Commerce, Small Libraries, and Chief Officers of HOLLEN, Ms. BALDWIN, Ms. ROSEN, Science, and Transportation. State Library Agencies. Mr. COONS, Mr. WYDEN, Ms. KLO- By Ms. MCSALLY: I thank Carolyn for her contributions BUCHAR, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mrs. S. 4031. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- to Arkansas during her career of dedi- FEINSTEIN, Mr. DURBIN, Ms. CANT- enue Code of 1986 to establish a temporary cated service, guidance, and support of WELL, Mr. BENNET, Mr. MENENDEZ, nonrefundable personal tax credit for travel, Mrs. MURRAY, Ms. HASSAN, Mrs. hospitality, and entertainment expenses, and our public libraries and library serv- for other purposes; to the Committee on Fi- ices. She will be missed, but I am con- GILLIBRAND, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. RISCH, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. nance. fident she will enjoy her time in retire- CRAMER, Mr. UDALL, Mr. SCOTT of By Mr. LANKFORD (for himself, Mr. ∑ ment. South Carolina, Mr. HEINRICH, and COONS, Mr. LEE, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina, and Ms. f Mr. PETERS): S. 4019. A bill to amend title 5, United KLOBUCHAR): MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT States Code, to designate Juneteenth Na- S. 4032. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- tional Independence Day as a legal public enue Code of 1986 to allow above-the-line de- Messages from the President of the ductions for charitable contributions for in- United States were communicated to holiday; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. dividuals not itemizing deductions; to the the Senate by Ms. Ridgway, one of his WARREN, Mr. MERKLEY, and Mr. Committee on Finance. secretaries. SANDERS): By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. WYDEN, Ms. HIRONO, Ms. BALDWIN, f S. 4020. A bill to prevent an unconstitu- tional war with North Korea; to the Com- Mr. COONS, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. MAR- EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED mittee on Foreign Relations. KEY, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. BOOKER, By Mr. WICKER (for himself, Mrs. CAP- Ms. SMITH, Mr. JONES, Mrs. FEIN- In executive session the presiding of- STEIN, Mr. PETERS, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ficer laid before the Senate messages ITO, and Mrs. BLACKBURN): S. 4021. A bill to accelerate rural MURPHY, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. from the President of the United broadband deployment; to the Committee on BLUMENTHAL, Mr. WARNER, Mrs. MUR- States submitting sundry nominations Commerce, Science, and Transportation. RAY, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. UDALL, Ms. which were referred to the appropriate By Mr. MARKEY: WARREN, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Ms. CANT- committees. S. 4022. A bill to require the Federal Com- WELL, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. BROWN, Mr. (The messages received today are munications Commission to update the na- SCHATZ, Mr. CARPER, Mr. CASEY, Mrs. printed at the end of the Senate pro- tional broadband plan, and for other pur- GILLIBRAND, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mr. KAINE, and Ms. ROSEN): ceedings.) poses; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. S. 4033. A bill to require States to establish f By Mr. MARKEY: contingency plans for the conduct of elec- tions for Federal office in response to na- MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE S. 4023. A bill to enhance maritime cyber- security; to the Committee on Commerce, tional disasters and emergencies, and for ENROLLED BILL SIGNED Science, and Transportation. other purposes; to the Committee on Rules At 3:02 p.m., a message from the By Mr. PERDUE (for himself and Ms. and Administration. SINEMA): By Mr. DURBIN: House of Representatives, delivered by S. 4034. A bill to expand eligibility for and Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, S. 4024. A bill to establish in the Cyberse- curity and Infrastructure Security Agency of provide judicial review for the Elderly Home announced that the Speaker has signed the Department of Homeland Security a Cy- Detention Pilot Program, provide for com- the following enrolled bill: bersecurity Advisory Committee; to the passionate release based on COVID–19 vul- S. 3084. An act to amend title 38, United Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- nerability, shorten the waiting period for ju- States Code, to modify the limitation on pay ernmental Affairs. dicial review during the COVID–19 pandemic, for certain high-level employees and officers By Mr. MARKEY: and make other technical corrections; to the of the Department of Veterans Affairs. S. 4025. A bill to authorize appropriations Committee on the Judiciary. The enrolled bill was subsequently for the maritime environmental and tech- f signed by the President pro tempore nical assistance program; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND (Mr. GRASSLEY). By Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Mr. SENATE RESOLUTIONS f BLUMENTHAL, and Mr. CASEY): The following concurrent resolutions S. 4026. A bill to expedite and expand provi- ENROLLED BILL PRESENTED sion of American Citizen Services worldwide and Senate resolutions were read, and referred (or acted upon), as indicated: The Secretary of the Senate reported during the COVID–19 pandemic, and for other that on today, June 22, 2020, she had purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- By Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. COL- presented to the President of the tions. LINS, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. STABE- By Ms. ERNST: NOW, Mr. BOOKER, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, United States the following enrolled S. 4027. A bill to amend the Small Business Ms. HARRIS, Ms. WARREN, Ms. bill: Act to require Members of Congress, spouses SINEMA, and Mr. CRAMER): S. 3084. An act to amend title 38, United of Members of Congress, and employees of S. Res. 633. A resolution supporting the States Code, to modify the limitation on pay Congress who receive a loan under the pay- goals of International Myalgic

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:28 Jun 23, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G22JN6.013 S22JNPT1 rfrederick on DSKBCBPHB2PROD with SENATE June 22, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3127 Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syn- (Mr. BENNET), the Senator from Cali- MORAN) was added as a cosponsor of S. drome Awareness Day; to the Committee on fornia (Mrs. FEINSTEIN), the Senator 4015, a bill to provide funds to assess Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. from Michigan (Ms. STABENOW), the the availability, accelerate the deploy- By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. Senator from North Carolina (Mr. ment, and improve the sustainability WYDEN, Mr. TILLIS, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. ILLIS of advanced communications services BOOZMAN, Mr. PETERS, Mr. ENZI, Mr. T ) and the Senator from Cali- CARPER, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. MARKEY, fornia (Ms. HARRIS) were added as co- and communications infrastructure in Ms. ERNST, Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. FISCH- sponsors of S. 2815, a bill to require the rural America, and for other purposes. ER, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. MORAN, Ms. Secretary of the Treasury to mint S. RES. 615 DUCKWORTH, Mr. JOHNSON, Ms. coins in commemoration of the Na- At the request of Mr. GARDNER, the SINEMA, and Mrs. BLACKBURN): tional Purple Heart Honor Mission. names of the Senator from Florida (Mr. S. Res. 634. A resolution designating July S. 3624 RUBIO), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 30, 2020, as ‘‘National Whistleblower Appre- SULLIVAN), and the Senator from Mary- ciation Day’’; to the Committee on the Judi- At the request of Mr. COONS, the ciary. name of the Senator from New Hamp- land (Mr. VAN HOLLEN) were added as By Mr. ROUNDS: shire (Ms. HASSAN) was added as a co- cosponsors of S. Res. 615, a resolution S. Res. 635. A resolution expressing support sponsor of S. 3624, a bill to amend the recognizing the 70th anniversary of the for the Fourth of July, America’s birthday, national service laws to prioritize na- outbreak of the Korean War and the and the hundreds of businesses and workers tional service programs and projects transformation of the United States- that make up the fireworks industry; to the that are directly related to the re- South Korea alliance into a mutually Committee on the Judiciary. sponse to and recovery from the beneficial, global partnership. f COVID–19 public health emergency, S. RES. 618 ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS and for other purposes. At the request of Mr. SULLIVAN, the S. 3851 name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. S. 170 At the request of Ms. WARREN, the MERKLEY) was added as a cosponsor of At the request of Mr. DAINES, the S. Res. 618, a resolution designating name of the Senator from Alabama names of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. BLUMENTHAL), the Senator from June 2020 as ‘‘National Post-Traumatic (Mr. JONES) was added as a cosponsor Stress Awareness Month’’ and June 27, of S. 170, a bill to amend the Internal Washington (Mrs. MURRAY), the Sen- 2020, as ‘‘National Post-Traumatic Revenue Code of 1986 to limit the ator from Oregon (Mr. MERKLEY), the Stress Awareness Day’’. amount of certain qualified conserva- Senator from Maryland (Mr. VAN HOL- S. RES. 626 tion contributions. LEN), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. WYDEN) and the Senator from Vermont At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, S. 1703 (Mr. SANDERS) were withdrawn as co- the name of the Senator from Mary- At the request of Ms. CANTWELL, the sponsors of S. 3851, a bill to prohibit land (Mr. VAN HOLLEN) was added as a name of the Senator from California high-level appointees in the Depart- cosponsor of S. Res. 626, a resolution (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- ment of Justice from participating in upholding the civil liberties and civil sponsor of S. 1703, a bill to amend the particular matters in which the Presi- rights of Iranian Americans and con- Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to re- dent, a relative of the President, or an demning bigotry, violence, and dis- form the low-income housing credit, individual associated with the cam- crimination. and for other purposes. paign of the President is a party. S. RES. 629 S. 2054 S. 3968 At the request of Mr. DAINES, the At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the At the request of Mr. COTTON, the names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. name of the Senator from New Hamp- name of the Senator from Georgia RISCH) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. shire (Ms. HASSAN) was added as a co- (Mrs. LOEFFLER) was added as a cospon- CRAPO) were added as cosponsors of S. sponsor of S. 2054, a bill to post- sor of S. 3968, a bill to create an award Res. 629, a resolution designating June humously award the Congressional for law enforcement officers who exem- 2020 as ‘‘Great Outdoors Month’’. Gold Medal, collectively, to Glen plify best practices to reduce the exces- S. RES. 630 Doherty, Tyrone Woods, J. Christopher sive use of force or improve community At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the Stevens, and Sean Smith, in recogni- policing, and for other purposes. name of the Senator from California tion of their contributions to the Na- S. 3985 (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- tion. At the request of Mr. SCOTT of South sponsor of S. Res. 630, a resolution des- S. 2458 Carolina, the name of the Senator from ignating June 20, 2020, as ‘‘American At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI) was added as Eagle Day’’ and celebrating the recov- name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. a cosponsor of S. 3985, a bill to improve ery and restoration of the bald eagle, ROBERTS) was added as a cosponsor of and reform policing practices, account- the national symbol of the United S. 2458, a bill to prioritize funding for ability, and transparency. States. an expanded and sustained national in- S. 3992 f vestment in agriculture research. At the request of Mr. CRUZ, the name STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED S. 2461 of the Senator from Maine (Mr. KING) BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the was added as a cosponsor of S. 3992, a name of the Senator from New York bill to amend the Small Business Act By Mr. DURBIN: S. 4034. A bill to expand eligibility for (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- to provide that certain chambers of and provide judicial review for the El- sponsor of S. 2461, a bill to designate a commerce and destination marketing derly Home Detention Pilot Program, portion of the Arctic National Wildlife organizations are eligible for loans provide for compassionate release Refuge as wilderness. under the paycheck protection pro- based on COVID–19 vulnerability, S. 2715 gram, and for other purposes. shorten the waiting period for judicial At the request of Mr. BLUNT, the S. 4012 review during the COVID–19 pandemic, names of the Senator from Mississippi At the request of Mr. WICKER, the and make other technical corrections; (Mr. WICKER) and the Senator from name of the Senator from Alabama to the Committee on the Judiciary. New Hampshire (Ms. HASSAN) were (Mr. JONES) was added as a cosponsor Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask added as cosponsors of S. 2715, a bill to of S. 4012, a bill to establish a unanimous consent that the text of the develop and implement policies to ad- $120,000,000,000 Restaurant Revitaliza- bill be printed in the RECORD. vance early childhood development, to tion Fund to provide structured relief There being no objection, the text of provide assistance for orphans and to food service or drinking establish- the bill was ordered to be printed in other vulnerable children in developing ments through December 31, 2020, and the RECORD, as follows: countries, and for other purposes. for other purposes. S. 4034 S. 2815 S. 4015 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the At the request of Mr. THUNE, the resentatives of the United States of America in names of the Senator from Colorado name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Congress assembled,

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DEFINITION OF COVERED EMERGENCY lowing: ME/CFS are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed; PERIOD. ‘‘(d) DATE DESCRIBED.—For purposes of Whereas ME/CFS is approximately 4 times Section 12003(a)(2) of the CARES Act (Pub- subsection (c)(1)(A), the date described in more prevalent in women than in men; lic Law 116–136) is amended— this subsection is the earlier of— Whereas ME/CFS is a chronic disease with (1) by striking ‘‘ending on the date’’ and ‘‘(1) the date on which the defendant fully no known cure and leaves 1⁄4 of individuals inserting the following: ‘‘ending on the later exhausts all administrative rights to appeal with ME/CFS housebound or bedbound for of— a failure of the Bureau of Prisons to bring a extended periods of time; ‘‘(A) the date’’; motion on the defendant’s behalf; or Whereas between 50 and 75 percent of indi- (2) in subparagraph (A), as so designated, ‘‘(2) the expiration of the 30-day period be- viduals with ME/CFS cannot work or attend by striking the ‘‘and’’ at the end and insert- ginning on the date on which the defendant school; ing ‘‘or’’; and submits a request for a reduction in sentence Whereas, in the United States, the eco- (3) by adding at the end the following: to the warden of the facility in which the de- nomic toll of ME/CFS is $51,000,000,000 per ‘‘(B) the date that is 30 days after the date fendant is imprisoned, regardless of the sta- year, including as much as $14,000,000,000 in on which the Bureau of Prisons ceases modi- tus of the request.’’. medical costs and $37,000,000,000 in lost pro- fied operations in response to COVID–19; ductivity; SEC. 5. TEMPORARY SHORTENING OF ADMINIS- and’’. TRATIVE EXHAUSTION. Whereas the cause of ME/CFS is unknown, SEC. 3. HOME DETENTION FOR CERTAIN ELDER- Section 12003 of the CARES Act (Public there is no diagnostic test for ME/CFS, and LY NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS. Law 116–136) is amended by adding at the end there is no treatment for ME/CFS approved Section 231(g) of the Second Chance Act of the following: by the Food and Drug Administration; 2007 (34 U.S.C. 60541(g)) is amended— ‘‘(e) COMPASSIONATE RELEASE.—For pur- Whereas NAM has noted a ‘‘paucity of re- (1) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end poses of a motion filed under section search’’ on ME/CFS and that ‘‘more research the following: 3582(c)(1) of title 18, United States Code, dur- is essential’’; ‘‘(D) JUDICIAL REVIEW.— ing the covered emergency period— Whereas individuals with ME/CFS struggle ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Upon motion of a defend- ‘‘(1) the 30-day waiting period requirement to find doctors to care for them, and ME/CFS ant, on or after the date described in clause 1 in section 3582(d)(2) shall be reduced to not is included in less than ⁄3 of medical school (ii), a court may reduce an imposed term of curricula; more than 10 days; and imprisonment of the defendant and sub- Whereas, in recognition of the dearth of re- ‘‘(2) in the case of a defendant who is, ac- stitute a term of supervised release with the search on ME/CFS and the profound impact cording to guidance from the Centers for Dis- condition of home detention for the unserved that the disease has on individuals with ME/ ease Control and Prevention, considered to portion of the original term of imprison- CFS and their loved ones and caretakers, the be at a higher risk for severe illness from ment, after considering the factors set forth National Institutes of Health is ‘‘committed COVID–19, including because the defendant is in section 3553(a) of title 18, United States to unraveling the underlying biologic 60 years of age or older or has an underlying Code, if the court finds the defendant is an cause(s) of ME/CFS as swiftly as possible, medical condition, such risk shall be consid- eligible elderly offender or eligible termi- and promoting research that will inform the ered to be an extraordinary and compelling nally ill offender. development of effective strategies for treat- reason under subparagraph (A)(i) of such sec- ‘‘(ii) DATE DESCRIBED.—The date described ment and prevention of this devastating con- tion 3582(c)(1). in this clause is the earlier of— dition’’; and ‘‘(f) NONVIOLENT ELDERLY OFFENDERS.—For ‘‘(I) the date on which the defendant fully Whereas, in 2020, May 12 is recognized as the purpose of a motion filed under subpara- exhausts all administrative rights to appeal International ME/CFS Awareness Day: Now, graph (D) of section 231(g)(1) of the Second a failure of the Bureau of Prisons to place therefore, be it the defendant on home detention; or Chance Act of 2007 (34 U.S.C. 60541(g)(1)), dur- Resolved, That the Senate— ‘‘(II) the expiration of the 30-day period be- ing the covered emergency period, the 30-day (1) supports the goals of International ginning on the date on which the defendant waiting period requirement clause (ii)(II) of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue submits to the warden of the facility in such subparagraph (D) shall be reduced to 10 Syndrome Awareness Day; which the defendant is imprisoned a request days.’’. (2) recognizes and affirms the commitment for placement of the defendant on home de- f of the United States to— tention, regardless of the status of the re- SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS (A) supporting research and medical edu- quest.’’; and cation for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chron- (2) in paragraph (5)— ic Fatigue Syndrome; and (A) in subparagraph (A)(ii)— SENATE RESOLUTION 633—SUP- (B) promoting awareness among health (i) by inserting ‘‘including offenses under professionals and the public about Myalgic the laws of the District of Columbia,’’ after PORTING THE GOALS OF INTER- Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syn- ‘‘offense or offenses,’’; and NATIONAL MYALGIC drome; and (ii) by striking ‘‘2/3 of the term of impris- ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC (3) recognizes the continued importance onment to which the offender was sen- FATIGUE SYNDROME AWARE- of— tenced’’ and inserting ‘‘1/2 of the term of im- NESS DAY (A) health care professionals and medical prisonment reduced by any credit toward the researchers who care for individuals with service of the offender’s sentence awarded Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. COL- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue under section 3624(b) of title 18, United LINS, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. STABENOW, Syndrome; and States Code’’; and Mr. BOOKER, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Ms. HAR- (B) individuals who work to discover the (B) in subparagraph (D)(i), by inserting ‘‘, RIS, Ms. WARREN, Ms. SINEMA, and Mr. cause of, and develop and improve the diag- including offenses under the laws of the Dis- CRAMER) submitted the following reso- nosis of, treatments for, and a cure for, trict of Columbia,’’ after ‘‘offense or of- lution; which was referred to the Com- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue fenses,’’. mittee on Health, Education, Labor, Syndrome. SEC. 4. COMPASSIONATE RELEASE TECHNICAL and Pensions: f CORRECTION. Section 3582 of title 18, United States Code, S. RES. 633 SENATE RESOLUTION 634—DESIG- is amended— Whereas the National Academy of Medi- NATING JULY 30, 2020, AS ‘‘NA- (1) in subsection (c)(1)— cine (referred to in this preamble as TIONAL WHISTLEBLOWER AP- (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph ‘‘NAM’’), formerly known as the Institute of PRECIATION DAY’’ (A), by inserting after ‘‘case’’ the following: Medicine, has found that Myalgic ‘‘, including, notwithstanding any other pro- Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syn- Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. vision of law, any case involving an offense drome (referred to in this preamble as ‘‘ME/ WYDEN, Mr. TILLIS, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. committed before November 1, 1987’’; and CFS’’) is ‘‘a serious, chronic, complex, and BOOZMAN, Mr. PETERS, Mr. ENZI, Mr. (B) in subparagraph (A)— systemic disease that frequently and dra- CARPER, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. (i) by inserting ‘‘, on or after the date de- matically limits the activities of affected pa- ERNST, Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. FISCHER, Ms. scribed in subsection (d)’’ after ‘‘upon mo- tients’’; BALDWIN, Mr. MORAN, Ms. DUCKWORTH, tion of a defendant’’; and Whereas, in the past, outbreaks of viruses, Mr. JOHNSON, Ms. SINEMA, and Mrs. (ii) by striking ‘‘after the defendant has including outbreaks of coronaviruses, have BLACKBURN) submitted the following fully exhausted all administrative rights to triggered an increase in ME/CFS-like symp- resolution; which was referred to the appeal a failure of the Bureau of Prisons to toms in individuals infected by those viruses; bring a motion on the defendant’s behalf or Whereas— Committee on the Judiciary: the lapse of 30 days from the receipt of such (1) between 836,000 and 2,500,000 individuals S. RES. 634 a request by the warden of the defendant’s of all ages, races, and sexes in the United Whereas, in 1777, before the passage of the facility, whichever is earlier,’’; States are believed to be afflicted with ME/ Bill of Rights, 10 sailors and Marines blew

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SHORT TITLE. ernment records and providing monetary as- Whereas, on July 4, 1777, reflecting the vi- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wounded Vet- sistance for the reasonable legal expenses sion of John Adams, fireworks were set off in erans Recreation Act’’. necessary to prevent retaliation against the Philadelphia as part of a celebration to com- SEC. 2. NATIONAL RECREATIONAL PASSES FOR whistleblowers; memorate Independence Day; DISABLED VETERANS. Whereas, on July 30, 1778, in demonstration Whereas throughout our history, Ameri- Section 805(b) of the Federal Lands Recre- cans in cities and towns large and small have of their full support for whistleblowers, the ation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6804(b)) is celebrated the birth of our great Nation, members of the Continental Congress unani- amended by striking paragraph (2) and insert- with 16,000 fireworks displays on Independ- mously passed the first whistleblower legis- ing the following: ence Day in 2019 alone; lation in the United States that read: ‘‘Re- ‘‘(2) DISABILITY DISCOUNT.—The Secretary solved, That it is the duty of all persons in Whereas an estimated 49 million Ameri- shall make the National Parks and Federal Rec- cans traveled on vacation to these cities and the service of the United States, as well as reational Lands Pass available, without charge towns during the Fourth of July holiday in all other the inhabitants thereof, to give the and for the lifetime of the passholder, to the fol- 2019; earliest information to Congress or other lowing: proper authority of any misconduct, frauds Whereas 49 States plus the District of Co- ‘‘(A) Any United States citizen or person dom- lumbia allow some or all types of consumer or misdemeanors committed by any officers iciled in the United States who has been medi- fireworks; or persons in the service of these states, cally determined to be permanently disabled, Whereas retail sales of fireworks have sky- which may come to their knowledge’’ (legis- within the meaning of the term ‘disability’ rocketed in recent years; lation of July 30, 1778, reprinted in Journals under section 3 of the Americans with Disabil- Whereas Americans spend more than $1 bil- of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. ities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12102), if the citizen lion on fireworks annually, and close to $900 Worthington C. Ford et al. (Washington, DC, or person provides adequate proof of the dis- million is spent on consumer fireworks 1904–37), 11:732); ability and such citizenship or residency. alone; Whereas whistleblowers risk their careers, ‘‘(B) Any veteran who has been found to have Whereas the United States fireworks in- jobs, and reputations by reporting waste, a service-connected disability under title 38, dustry is committed to promoting the legal fraud, and abuse to the proper authorities; United States Code.’’. and safe handling and use of all fireworks; Whereas, in providing the proper authori- Mr. SASSE. I further ask that the ties with lawful disclosures, whistleblowers Whereas for the first time in over 10 years, save the taxpayers of the United States bil- Mount Rushmore, our Nation’s ‘‘Shrine of committee-reported substitute be lions of dollars each year and serve the pub- Democracy’’, will resume using fireworks in agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read lic interest by ensuring that the United 2020; a third time and passed, and the mo- States remains an ethical and safe place; and Whereas the fireworks industry serves as a tion to reconsider be considered made Whereas it is the public policy of the livelihood for many small business owners and laid upon the table with no inter- United States to encourage, in accordance and operators across the country; Whereas fireworks celebrations are impor- vening action or debate. with Federal law (including the Constitution The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without of the United States, rules, and regulations) tant economic drivers for cities and towns across the country; and objection, it is so ordered. and consistent with the protection of classi- The committee-reported amendment, fied information (including sources and Whereas many cities and towns across the methods of detection of classified informa- country are canceling or are considering can- in the nature of a substitute, was tion), honest and good faith reporting of mis- celing their annual Fourth of July celebra- agreed to. conduct, fraud, misdemeanors, and other tions: Now, therefore, be it The bill (S. 327), as amended, was or- Resolved, That the Senate— crimes to the appropriate authority at the dered to be engrossed for a third read- (1) recognizes the historic importance of earliest time possible: Now, therefore, be it fireworks displays in the United States, par- ing, was read the third time, and Resolved, That the Senate— ticularly in annual Independence Day cele- passed. (1) designates July 30, 2020, as ‘‘National brations; f Whistleblower Appreciation Day’’; and (2) recognizes that the fireworks industry (2) ensures that the Federal Government brings joy to communities and neighbor- ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 23, implements the intent of the Founding Fa- hoods across the country and is good for our 2020 thers, as reflected in the legislation passed national psyche; on July 30, 1778 (relating to whistleblowers), Mr. SASSE. Mr. President, I ask (3) supports the commitment to bring fire- by encouraging each executive agency to unanimous consent that when the Sen- works back to our Nation’s ‘‘Shrine of De- recognize National Whistleblower Apprecia- ate completes its business today it ad- mocracy’’ at Mount Rushmore; and tion Day by— journ until 10 a.m., Tuesday, June 23; (4) urges cities, towns, counties, and other (A) informing employees, contractors municipalities to save the Fourth of July by further, that following the prayer and working on behalf of the taxpayers of the reconsidering postponing or canceling their pledge, the morning hour be deemed United States, and members of the public Fourth of July celebrations, so that Ameri- expired, the Journal of proceedings be about the legal right of a United States cit- cans can enjoy our Nation’s birthday while approved to date, the time for the two izen to ‘‘blow the whistle’’ to the appropriate adhering to appropriate social distancing authority by honest and good faith reporting leaders be reserved for their use later guidelines. of misconduct, fraud, misdemeanors, or in the day, and morning business be other crimes; and f closed; further, that following leader (B) acknowledging the contributions of WOUNDED VETERANS RECREATION remarks, the Senate proceed to execu- whistleblowers to combating waste, fraud, ACT tive session to resume consideration of abuse, and violations of laws and regulations the Wilson nomination; further, I ask Mr. SASSE. Mr. President, I ask of the United States. unanimous consent that the Senate re- unanimous consent that the Senate f cess from 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., for the proceed to the immediate consider- weekly conference meetings; finally, SENATE RESOLUTION 635—EX- ation of Calendar No. 342, S. 327. that all time during adjournment, re- PRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cess, morning business, and leader re- FOURTH OF JULY, AMERICA’S clerk will report the bill by title. marks count postcloture on the Wilson BIRTHDAY, AND THE HUNDREDS The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 327) to amend the Federal Lands nomination. OF BUSINESSES AND WORKERS PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ob- THAT MAKE UP THE FIREWORKS Recreation Enhancement Act to provide for a lifetime National Recreational Pass for jection, it is so ordered. INDUSTRY any veteran with a service-connected dis- f Mr. ROUNDS submitted the fol- ability. lowing resolution; which was referred There being no objection, the Senate ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. to the Committee on the Judiciary: proceeded to consider the bill which TOMORROW S. RES. 635 had been reported from the Committee Mr. SASSE. Mr. President, if there is Whereas, on July 3, 1776, Founding Father on Energy and Natural Resources with no further business to come before the John Adams wrote to Abigail Adams express- an amendment to strike all after the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that ing his belief that the signing of the Declara- enacting clause and insert in lieu it stand adjourned under the previous tion of Independence should be commemo- thereof the following: order.

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CELEBRATING LGBTQ+ PRIDE murdered. They were the 13th and 14th trans nually, with nearly 200,000 students each year MONTH women in the U.S. to be killed this year alone. gaining exposure to more than 1,700 colleges, And the violence extends to the transgender universities, and other postsecondary pro- HON. JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY community overall, including right here in Chi- grams. OF ILLINOIS cago. Last month, Selena Reyes-Hernandez Madam Speaker, Ms. Smith has worked IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was killed by an 18-year old man who shot tirelessly on behalf of students around the her in her home on the south side of Chicago. country and world, helping to ensure they Monday, June 22, 2020 We will not forget them, and we will continue reach their academic dreams and fulfil their Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Madam Speaker, I rise to seek justice, equality, and liberty on their potential. The profession and the college ap- today to join my LGBTQ+ family, friends, col- behalf. plication process are constantly changing but leagues, and constituents in celebrating the This Pride Month we must also remember Ms. Smith has led the association with distinc- many hard-earned gains that have been made and celebrate Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda tion. for equality in our nation and around the who passed away before seeing the outcome Our students and our colleges are better be- globe. We have come a long way in the last of their nearly decade long case that made it cause of Ms. Smith’s leadership. several years: from the passage of the Equal- all the way to Supreme Court. Aimee, who Please join me in wishing Ms. Smith the ity Act in the House last year, to same-sex was fired for being transgender, and Don, who best in her retirement. marriage being legalized in twenty-nine coun- was fired for being gay, fought relentlessly to f tries, and now the Supreme Court holding that ensure that LGBTQ+ people can go to work the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sex dis- as themselves without fear of retaliation. This CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND crimination, applies to discrimination based on week, in perhaps the biggest LGBTQ+ case in MEMORY OF MR. ANDREW JAMES sexual orientation and gender identity. U.S. history, the Supreme Court sided with This Pride Month, as our nation reckons Aimee and Don and held that the Civil Rights HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS with its long history of racism and police vio- Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ+ workers from OF FLORIDA lence, we must remember that the fight for discrimination. Let this victory renew our hope IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LGBTQ+ rights goes hand-in-hand with the and our drive to continue fighting for a world fight for racial equality. On June 28, 1969 at where everyone can live freely and authen- Monday, June 22, 2020 the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the police tically. Mr. HASTINGS. Madam Speaker, I rise rounded up and arrested LGBTQ patrons and My hope for our country this Pride Month is today to celebrate the life and express sad- forced them into police cars. Fed up with po- that we can reflect on the decades’ long fight ness over the passing of Mr. Andrew James. lice harassing and brutalizing the gay commu- for LGBTQ+ equality, learn from our mistakes, Mr. James was a chronically homeless man nity, other Stonewall Inn patrons started an and look forward to righting the wrongs of our who spent nearly 20 years suffering on the uprising outside the bar. Among them were past. As a proud grandmother of a young streets, vulnerable and struggling with mental Marsha P. Johnson, a black drag queen and trans man, and as a Representative in the illness. He was able to find hope, treatment, Sylvia Rivera, a Latinx drag queen, both pio- U.S. House, I will continue fighting to ensure and housing security through the help of The neering activists who were key figures in re- my grandson and all LGBTQ+ people inherit a Lord’s Place. The staff that worked with him at sisting police violence that night, alongside world that embraces everyone regardless of The Lord’s Place described him as a ‘‘gentle other transgender and queer activists. The sexuality, gender identity, race, or class. Love soul, showing nothing but kindness to all he LGBTQ+ rights movement as we know it is love. met, despite being treated unjustly while on today was born out of these brave people re- f the streets.’’ sisting police mistreatment. After receiving assistance through The This year would have marked the 50th anni- HONORING JOYCE SMITH Lord’s Place, Mr. James flourished. He was versary of the Chicago Pride parade, and 51 placed in a supportive housing program and years since the Stonewall riots. While we can- HON. DONALD S. BEYER, JR. was connected to mental health care, but it not march and gather this year because of the OF VIRGINIA was the connection to others that made all the COVID–19 pandemic, we can continue to cel- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES difference in his life. He loved others and they ebrate our progress and our shared history in certainly loved him too. the LGBTQ+ community. I’m particularly proud Monday, June 22, 2020 Mr. James passed away with dignity, in his of the role my district has in the LGBTQ+ Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to own home on May 15, 2020. I extend my community, with the Pride Parade stepping off honor Joyce Smith, who is retiring as Chief heartfelt condolences to all who were lucky just blocks from my Chicago District office, to Executive Officer of the National Association enough to know Mr. Andrew James. He will be the historic Andersonville neighborhood, and for College Admission Counseling. dearly missed. to being the home of so many historical insti- NACAC, founded in 1937, is an organization f tutions like the Gerber/Hart Library and Ar- of more than 14,000 professionals from chives, the Baton Show Lounge, the Test around the world dedicated to serving stu- RECOGNIZING CHIEF PATROL Positive Aware Network, and the Leather Ar- dents as they make choices about pursuing AGENT FELIX CHAVEZ chives and Museum. postsecondary education. Despite our many advances, LGBTQ+ peo- Ms. Smith has served NACAC for 33 years, HON. HENRY CUELLAR ple, and disproportionately Black trans women, including 22 years as CEO. She has been in OF TEXAS still face hatred, discrimination, violence, and the college admissions profession for more IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES police harassment and brutality around the than 40 years. country and globe. Over one-third of Black Under her leadership, membership has in- Monday, June 22, 2020 trans women who interact with law enforce- creased from approximately 6,000 members in Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Speaker, I rise today ment in the U.S. are assumed by police to be the mid-1990s to more than 14,000 college to honor the career and service of Chief Patrol sex workers, leading to harassment, abuse, counseling and admission professionals today; Agent, Felix Chavez. Chief Chavez has retired and mistreatment. Since 2013, about 111 out attendance at NACAC’s signature event, the after several decades of service as a member of at least 157 transgender and gender non- annual national conference, has more than of the U.S. Border Patrol. conforming victims of hate killings have been doubled in 20 years from 3,518 attendees in Chief Chavez began his service with the Black trans women. And just last week, we San Francisco in 1997 to 7,934 attendees in U.S. Border Patrol in 1985 at the Sierra Blan- lost two Black trans women, Riah Milton and Boston in 2017; and the National College Fair ca Border Patrol Station in what is now Big Dominique ‘‘Rem’Mie’’ Fells, who were brutally program hosts 95 fairs throughout the U.S. an- Bend Sector. Over time, Chief Chavez would

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Gwen’s reputation for honesty, kindness, Chief Chavez showed strong direction and profit events, organized yearly toy drives, and and generosity made her the loving mother, experience as Chief Patrol Agent of the La- continued to mentor and inspire high school great friend, and respected public official that redo Sector. In addition, he also ensured that students. During the ongoing COVID–19 pan- she was. She was an excellent role model, not the Laredo Sector was led with honor and in- demic, Grisel worked with local organizations just for people wanting to follow in her foot- tegrity. He developed these leadership quali- to help inform the Latino community about steps, but for everyone in our community. ties and skills over the course of his career how to stay safe. Gwen compiled an exemplary record as a after serving in a variety of positions including: Grisel is survived by her parents, Genoveva Miami-Dade County Commissioner, including Border Patrol Agent, Senior Patrol Agent, Su- and Salvador Barajas, and her sisters. time as that body’s first female chair. She also pervisory Border Patrol Agent, Field Oper- Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in served multiple terms in the Florida legislature. ations Supervisor, Patrol Agent in Charge, As- honoring Grisel Barajas, a dedicated and be- Gwen was beloved throughout South Florida sistant Chief Patrol Agent, Deputy Chief of loved community advocate who will be dearly and will always be remembered for her self- Southwest Border Operations, Deputy Chief missed by her family, friends and community. less dedication to public service. Madam Speaker, I extend my heartfelt con- Patrol Agent for the Tucson Sector, and Chief f Patrol Agent of Del Rio Sector. dolences to Gwen’s family and friends. As we In addition, Chief Chavez is a graduate of RECOGNIZING THE 75TH ANNIVER- honor the life and legacy of Senator Gwen Ashford University with a Bachelor of Arts in SARY OF THE HISTORIC VIR- Margolis, we will always be grateful for the Organizational Management. In addition, he GINIA KEY BEACH PARK glass ceilings she shattered and her indelible completed the Executive Institute at the Uni- mark in history. I pray that her family finds versity of Chicago’s Graduate School of Busi- HON. DONNA E. SHALALA comfort during this extremely difficult time. ness and the Customs and Border Protection OF FLORIDA She will be dearly missed. Command Leadership Academy. He is also a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f graduate of the National Defense University Monday, June 22, 2020 CONGRATULATING THE THREE Capstone Program. GRADUATES FROM THE KEETON Ms. SHALALA. Madam Speaker, the His- As we move forward, let us take the time to FAMILY appreciate the service of individuals like Chief toric Virginia Key Beach Park was established Chavez and all the men and women who risk on August 1, 1945 as the ‘‘Colored only their lives each day to protect our commu- Beach’’ in Miami, Florida. Today, the civic, so- HON. PETE OLSON OF TEXAS nities. However, in the words of President cial, and environmental characteristics of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES John F. Kennedy, ‘‘As we express our grati- park hold national, state, regional, and local tude, we must never forget that the highest significance in the history of civil rights, high- Monday, June 22, 2020 appreciation is not to utter words, but to live lighting the achievements of local African Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today by them.’’ American communities and providing an op- to congratulate three phenomenal women in f portunity for the public to explore various envi- the Keeton family who graduated from school ronmental phenomena unique to the park. this year. RECOGNIZING BELOVED RADIO The Historic Virginia Key Beach Park was After a successful 20-year career at the HOST, GRISEL BARAJAS added to the national register of historic Johnson Space Center and raising an incred- places in 2002, added to the State of Florida ible family of four children, Jasmine Keeton HON. ANDRE´ CARSON Heritage Trail in 2006, included as a major graduated with her master’s degree in engi- OF INDIANA stakeholder to the Virginia Key master plan in neering management. Coincidentally, two of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2010, and added to the City of Miami’s His- her daughters also graduated from college as toric and Environmental Preservation List in Monday, June 22, 2020 well. Unfortunately, like many people, their 2013. In 2006, the Miami City Commission ap- graduation celebrations were impacted by the Mr. CARSON of Indiana. Madam Speaker, proved the Virginia Key Beach Park master COVID–19 pandemic. Looking to find a way to today I rise to honor and recognize Grisel plan, which included the restoration of the honor her daughters’ hard work, Jasmine Barajas, a leader in the Hoosier Latino com- park and the creation of a museum. The mu- reached out to the ‘‘Today’’ show to be in- munity who tragically passed away on Sun- seum will showcase the history and contribu- cluded in a virtual party for 2020 graduates. day, June 14, 2020. tions of the communities the park has served, Jasmine was even more surprised when they Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Grisel moved the natural environment of the park, and the were asked to speak on-air. to the United States at the age of 10, first to creation of a Center for Conflict Resolution Jasmine’s younger daughter, JoyLynn, grad- Chicago and then to Indianapolis where she and Reconciliation. uated from Robert Turner College and Career graduated from North Central High School. The history of the Historic Virginia Key High School and Alvin Community College She faced many difficulties as an immigrant Beach Park highlights the contributions of civil with her associate degree. Her oldest daugh- and was inspired to practice social work to rights leaders from our communities. Today, ter, Jadean, graduated from Prairie View A&M help other families navigate the same hard- the park is a model of social engagement op- University with a bachelor’s degree in social ships and language barriers. After obtaining a portunities through the incorporation of the work. This fall, Jadean will begin pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Social Work and Span- public shoreline, green space, and the various master’s degree in social work at the Univer- ish, she decided to change career paths, earn- amenities on Virginia Key. sity of Houston and JoyLynn will be continuing ing a master’s degree in Mass Communica- f her education Howard University to pursue a tions and Media Studies from University of career in journalism. Their mom, Jasmine, Southern Indiana. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEG- may pursue a doctoral degree in engineering. Grisel began her radio career in 2013 when ACY OF FLORIDA’S FIRST Education lifts people up and helps them she co-hosted ‘‘Soul & Salsa’’ on Magic 98.5 WOMAN SENATE PRESIDENT achieve their God-given potential. American before returning to Indianapolis in 2015 to be- GWEN MARGOLIS education has extended a ladder of oppor- come a host for the Continental Broadcast tunity to help people across the nation and Group’s Radio Latina. Grisel also worked as HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS from every generation improve their quality of an education and communications director for OF FLORIDA life. The Keeton family grabbed hold of that the Indiana Latino Institute, mentoring Latino IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ladder, and they’re not done climbing yet. high school and college students. In 2018, On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- Grisel helped to establish Radio One’s La Monday, June 22, 2020 sional District of Texas, congratulations to the Grande 105.1 radio station, becoming its first Mr. HASTINGS. Madam Speaker, I rise Keeton women for your scholastic achieve- Program Director and serving as the afternoon today to celebrate the life and legacy of my ments. Their drive in their educational pursuits host for ‘‘El Relajo de La Tarde’’ show. Grisel dear friend, Florida’s first woman Senate sets an example for others to follow.

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OF TEXAS Club, Grange, PTA, local school board, Cattle- Upon graduating from Detroit’s Mumford IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES men’s Association, and Washington Farm For- High School, Warnet moved to Miami, Florida to live with her late father, Hubert Lockett, and Monday, June 22, 2020 estry Association. He also served as the man- ager of the Ferry County Fair, the President of his wife, Dale Lockett, to attend Miami Dade Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Speaker, I rise today the Republic Chamber of Commerce, and a Community College. In 1969, she married the to honor the career and service of Fire Chief district court judge for 14 years. love of her life, Michael Davis, Sr., who pre- and Emergency Management Coordinator, A captivating storyteller, Steve often had lis- ceded her in death. They returned to Detroit to Steve Landin. Chief Landin has retired after teners laughing and crying. In 1994, at age focus on raising a family. Warnet and her hus- 30 years of service as a member of the City 75, Steve drew up plans to convert his ranch band were blessed with five beautiful children: of Laredo’s Fire Department. into a guest lodge. The foundation was com- Desmond Michelle, Michael, Dulcy Marquita, Chief Landin is an individual who showed pleted in 2000, and for the next 17 years Leigh Christine, and Robert Trevor-Blair Davis. true leadership and poise under great pres- Steve could be seen with a smile on his face, Determined and strong-willed, Warnet did sure. Since first becoming emergency man- working every day from dawn to dusk to com- not let the challenge of raising a large family agement coordinator in 2005 and eventually plete his dream lodge. deter her from accomplishing her life’s goal of Fire Chief, he helped lead the City of Laredo Steve Konz passed away at age 90 in the becoming a nurse. After the passing of her through three federally declared disasters as lodge he built, on the ranch he loved, with husband Michael, Warnet reenrolled in col- well as the ongoing pandemic. In addition, de- family at his side. lege. Focused and driven, Warnet juggled spite these difficult circumstances, he also Madam Speaker, on behalf of a grateful na- raising her children with long hours of study managed to be a devoted family man and ex- tion and Washington’s Fifth Congressional and hard work to realize her dream. In 1986, ample for his community. District may we rise to remember Steve and Warnet graduated with two degrees and with I have personally worked with Chief Landin his legacy. His service and passion will inspire Honors from the distinguished Nursing Pro- over the years and witnessed first-hand the generations to come. gram at Highland Park Community College. important work he has done for our area. Warnet’s passion for the healing arts drove f Through his efforts, he helped ensure that her to focus on passing her state licensing Laredo’s Fire Department was amongst the RECOGNIZING THE LIFE OF JOE exams to obtain her professional licensing to best in the country. In addition, he has set the ‘‘CAPTAIN’’ HYDE become a License Practical Nurse (LPN) and standard for future fire department leaders. Registered Nurse (RN). Succeeding in her Chief Landin’s service to the City of Laredo HON. TRENT KELLY goal, Warnet enjoyed a long career in nursing, will never be forgotten. He cared deeply about specializing as a psychiatric care nurse at- OF MISSISSIPPI the people he was serving and consistently tending to those with mental illness. Her love IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES showed what it meant to always put the safety for her career was evident to all who knew and well-being of others first. The dedication Monday, June 22, 2020 her. that he showed to us all should be a constant Mr. KELLY of Mississippi. Madam Speaker, Even while managing a busy career, Warnet reminder of how we should be in our daily I rise today to celebrate the life of Retired made the most of her time spent with family. lives. Captain Joe Hyde, who passed away in his She was known as the life of the party and However, Chief Landin’s service to others is home on June 10 surrounded by family. took joy in organizing large family gatherings not over. He will now be working for Webb Captain Hyde, a 1965 graduate of Inde- at her home. She held a keen appreciation for County as its new Emergency Management pendence High School, served with the the preciousness of life and always went out Coordinator. Once again showing his commit- Southaven Police Department for 31 years. He of her way to bring family together. This sensi- ment to others and devotion to our community. was one of the fast investigators and first bility extended into Warnet’s strong spiritual As we move forward, let us take the time to SWAT team members to serve the Depart- life. She served as a deaconess at Park appreciate the service of heroes like Chief ment and continued to serve the Senatobia United Presbyterian Church in Highland Park, Landin and all the individuals who risk their Police Department for another 10 years. Cap- Michigan for many years, where she orga- lives each day to keep us safe. However, in tain Hyde, also a part of the Mississippi Na- nized numerous community events. the words of President John F. Kennedy, ‘‘As tional Guard, was one of only two officers to Please join me in tribute to Earnestine we express our gratitude, we must never for- receive the Department’s Medal of Honor, its Warnet Davis, a generous soul who will be get that the highest appreciation is not to utter highest commendation, for valor, combat, and missed by her family and community. words, but to live by them.’’ life saving skills. f f Left to cherish his memory is his wife, Bar- INTRODUCTION OF THE COVID–19 HONORING STEPHEN KONZ bara; his stepchildren: Kim Mitchell (Ricky), HOSPITAL LOAN FORGIVENESS John Parker (Christy), and Christy McGregor ACT HON. CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS (Kevin); as well as many friends and extended family members. OF WASHINGTON HON. MARCY KAPTUR I am thankful for Joe ‘‘Captain’’ Hyde’s serv- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF OHIO ice to Mississippi. He will be greatly missed by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, June 22, 2020 his family, community, and all whom he en- Mrs. RODGERS of Washington. Madam countered. Monday, June 22, 2020 Speaker, I rise today to honor Stephen Stan- f Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise to in- ley Konz for a life of service to his country, his troduce the COVID–19 Hospital Loan Forgive- family, and his community. IN MEMORY OF EARNESTINE ness Act to provide immediate, vitally needed Steve was born in Poland on September ‘‘WARNET’’ DAVIS relief to hospitals and health care providers 6th, 1926 to Lillian Kwiatkowski and Michael who are under water as a result of the Rosinski. As a three-month-old baby he came HON. RASHIDA TLAIB COVID–19 pandemic. to America through Ellis Island in the arms of OF MICHIGAN Our nation’s hospitals have invested heavily a teenage mother. He joined the Navy at age IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to prepare for the coronavirus pandemic. They 17 where he served until the war ended in Au- canceled tens-of-thousands of elective sur- Monday, June 22, 2020 gust 1945. geries and non-emergent patient tests at the After the war, Steve moved to Republic, Ms. TLAIB. Madam Speaker, I rise today in government’s request to help ensure adequate Washington to teach fifth grade. During this honor of Earnestine Davis, a beloved resident hospital capacity, preserve gear and equip- time, he raised five children, built a log home, of the city of Detroit. ment, and reduce the risk of unnecessary pa- and grew a cattle herd. While the log home Earnestine Warnet Davis was born on Janu- tient spread. This major shift has put some of burned in 1978, it was rebuilt with the help of ary 18, 1951 to the late Dulcy B. Smith and America’s hospitals on the brink of financial friends and neighbors. Hubert Lee Lockett in Detroit, Michigan. disaster.

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Moreover, school segrega- care payments for services provided after the f tion made it such that African-American stu- pandemic fades and until the loans are repaid. dents were not sufficiently supported in terms While the $175 billion provider grant program, CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND of decent provisions in technology, infrastruc- designed to provide support to all providers, is SERVICE OF GEORGE WASH- ture, and even quality of education. helpful, much more support is needed, INGTON BIGGS Finally, on July 29, 1948, Civil Action 631 This legislation will provide Medicare Accel- set the stage for the construction of Ralph erated and Advance Payments loan forgive- HON. RUBEN GALLEGO Bunche High School and provided much-need- ness to ensure the additional financial support OF ARIZONA ed relief for the students that attended the hospitals and other providers direly need. For- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES school. Just like other prominent civil rights giveness would be for health care related ex- leaders, the plaintiffs for this case faced the Monday, June 22, 2020 penses or lost revenues that are directly attrib- same dangers from radical segregationists. utable to coronavirus. And, just like the re- Mr. GALLEGO. Madam Speaker, I rise Nevertheless, the brave plaintiffs, composed quirement in the provider grant program, pro- today to celebrate the 95th birthday of George of pupils and concerned parents, persevered viders electing to have their advance payment Washington Biggs, and recognize his service and provided a great service to their commu- loans forgiven would be obligated to abstain as a veteran of Army Air Corps and Air Force. nity by advocating for equal financial distribu- from balance or surprise billing any patient for As a Tuskegee Airman and recipient of the tion for African-American students. COVID-related treatment. Congressional Gold Medal, he is an exem- The construction of Ralph Bunche High The bill outlines: forgiveness would be for plary American and Arizonan to whom we all School was a landmark event for King George health care related expenses or lost revenues owe a debt of gratitude. County. The school’s namesake has a note- that are directly attributable to COVID–19, pro- A native of Nogales, Arizona, Mr. Biggs worthy history in serving both his community viders electing to have their advance payment joined the Army Air Corps in 1944 and trained and country. For instance, his steadfast efforts loans forgiven would be obligated to abstain at the Tuskegee Institute, the all-black flight in achieving the 1949 Armistice Agreements from balance billing any patient for COVID-re- training school in Alabama. He was one of two between the Arab states and Israel culminated lated treatment, and criteria for transparency Arizonans to graduate from the program. After in his award for the Nobel Peace Prize in and accountability of the loan forgiveness, in- training during World War II, Mr. Biggs re-en- 1950. In addition, during the Civil Rights cluding no executive compensation. listed in the Army Air Corps as a non-commis- Movement, Dr. Bunche played a significant Hospitals across my district have shared sioned officer and subsequently received di- role by participating in iconic events, like the that in the absence of more financial support, rect commission as an officer in the newly 1963 March on Washington. including this forgiveness, it is possible some formed United States Air Force. He went on to To sum up, the legacy of Ralph Bunche hospitals will be forced to close or significantly achieve the rank of major and flew B–47 and High School lives as strong today as it did in scale back operations. This would be a tragic B–52 bombers in the Korean and Vietnam 1949. Among the first cases to be brought for- consequence, especially if the country is hit wars. ward, Civil Action 631 begun a series of cases with another round of the viral epidemic in the Since retiring from the military, Mr. Biggs that ultimately led to the integration of African- near future. I thank my colleague and fellow has lived and worked in Nogales for the U.S. American students nationwide and mandated Ohioan Representative BOB GIBBS for his bi- Customs Service. He has raised a family and that the latter receive equitable educational partisan work on this, and our growing list of since retired. In 2007, Mr. Biggs and other support. Having the school named after Dr. bipartisan cosponsors—we look forward to Tuskegee Airmen received the Congressional Bunche proved highly commendable and the working with the Senate to further action on Gold Medal, the highest civilian recognition school’s designation as a State and National hospital loan forgiveness. awarded by Congress, for the group’s ‘‘unique Historic Landmark was well-deserved. f military record that inspired revolutionary re- Therefore, Madam Speaker, I ask that you form in the Armed Forces.’’ rise with me in remembering the history of MAREK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I believe that Mr. Biggs’ character and ac- Ralph Bunche High School, the heroes that CELEBRATES THEIR 2020 KINDER- tions truly embody what it means to serve participated in its birth and those who continue GARTEN CLASS one’s country. Not only did he fly in multiple the legacy to preserve educational equality. wars, he rose above expectation and obliga- f HON. PETE OLSON tion as a pilot and an officer. In addition to his OF TEXAS time in the Army Air Corps and Air Force, his RECOGNIZING THE LIFE OF JASON TERRELL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES integrity, modesty, and principled character are values that we can all learn from and Monday, June 22, 2020 should strive to emulate. HON. TRENT KELLY Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today I would like to express my personal appre- OF MISSISSIPPI to recognize Marek Elementary School in ciation for the service of George Washington IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Alvin, Texas for their work making their kinder- Biggs, and my hopes that he has a happy Monday, June 22, 2020 garten class’ graduation special amid the 95th birthday. COVID–19 pandemic. f Mr. KELLY of Mississippi. Madam Speaker, Students and parents were caught off-guard I rise today to celebrate the life of Jason by schools closing their doors for the rest of IN RECOGNITION OF RALPH Terrell, who passed away on Tuesday, June the school year in March due to the BUNCHE HIGH SCHOOL 9, after a long battle with cancer. coronavirus. Many worried that their students Jason was born on July 10, 1974, in would not experience their last days of kinder- HON. ROBERT J. WITTMAN Indianola, Mississippi. Shortly after graduating garten. However, the staff at Marek Elemen- OF VIRGINIA high school, Jason joined the United States tary came up with a creative way to stay safe IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Marine Corps and fought our nations enemies while celebrating its younger learners: a drive- during Operation Restore Hope Somalia. He by parade. Monday, June 22, 2020 went on to obtain the rank of Corporal, and The Marek Elementary staff held the parade Mr. WITTMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise later joined the Mississippi Highway Patrol. so that the students had a fun way to say today in recognition of the great history of Jason not only patrolled Mississippi highways, goodbye to their kindergarten year without Ralph Bunche High School in King George but also served as an expert marksman for going inside the building. Music, decorated County, Virginia. As one of the first African- the Mississippi Highway Patrol SWAT team. cars and costumes filed in outside of the American schools to receive equitable con- When Sargent First Class Terrell was not pa- school to let students know the pandemic tributions in its funding, Ralph Bunche High trolling Mississippi highways, he was hunting, would not stop their graduation. set the standard for our nation in addressing fishing, or worshipping at First Baptist Church On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- racial inequality. of Vardaman. sional District of Texas, I thank the staff of At the time of Ralph Bunche High School’s Left to cherish his memory is his wife, Tara Marek Elementary for making sure these stu- inception, America was still under the wing of Winter Terrell; daughter, Maddie Terrell; moth- dents were able to celebrate moving onto first the discriminatory Jim Crow laws. It was a er, Beverly Charlotte Mitchell; step-father,

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Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, SD–562 f June 23, 2020 may be found in the Daily Digest of today’s RECORD. JUNE 25 CONGRATULATING THE SEVEN 9:30 a.m. LAKES HIGH SCHOOL PRESS MEETINGS SCHEDULED Committee on Homeland Security and STAFF FOR FINISHING STRONG JUNE 24 Governmental Affairs IN THE FACE OF A GLOBAL PAN- 9:30 a.m. To hold an oversight hearing to examine DEMIC Committee on Energy and Natural Re- Customs and Border Protection, focus- sources ing on evolving challenges facing the HON. PETE OLSON To hold hearings to examine the impact agency. of COVID–19 on mineral supply chains, SD–562/VTC OF TEXAS focusing on the role of those supply 10 a.m. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chains in economic and national secu- Committee on the Judiciary Monday, June 22, 2020 rity, and challenges and opportunities Business meeting to consider S. 685, to to rebuild America’s supply chains. amend the Inspector General Act of Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today SD–366 1978 relative to the powers of the De- to congratulate the Seven Lakes High School 10 a.m. partment of Justice Inspector General, press staff on their hard work and dedication Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and S. 3398, to establish a National Com- in completing their school yearbook amid the Forestry mission on Online Child Sexual Exploi- COVID–19 pandemic. Business meeting to consider original tation Prevention, and the nomina- With schools being closed due to the legislation entitled, ‘‘United States tions of Owen McCurdy Cypher, to be coronavirus pandemic, it would have been Grain Standards Reauthorization Act United States Marshal for the Eastern of 2020’’; to be immediately followed by District of Michigan, Thomas L. Fos- easy for the Seven Lakes High School press a hearing to examine S. 3894, to author- ter, to be United States Marshal for staff to stop working on their yearbook and ize the Secretary of Agriculture to de- the Western District of Virginia, and final newspaper edition until they were certain velop a program to reduce barriers to Tyreece L. Miller, to be United States what would happen with the rest of their entry for farmers, ranchers, and pri- Marshal for the Western District of school year. Yet these incredible students re- vate forest landowners in certain pri- Tennessee, all of the Department of fused to let COVID–19 stop them. When they vate markets. Justice. realized that the coronavirus would bring their SDG–50 SR–325 Committee on Commerce, Science, and school year to an early end, these students Transportation JUNE 30 turned lemons into lemonade. To hold an oversight hearing to examine Using video conferencing software to host the Federal Communications Commis- 10 a.m. meetings, the Seven Lakes High School press sion. Committee on Banking, Housing, and staff would regularly pitch stories and develop SR–253 Urban Affairs To hold hearings to examine the plans to complete their yearbook and final Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs digitization of money and payments. newspaper. Often, these students would con- WEBEX tinue working on it after the school day had To hold hearings to examine the role of the strategic national stockpile in pan- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, ended. Thanks to their hard work and perse- demic response. and Pensions verance, the students of Seven Lakes High VTC To hold hearings to examine COVID–19, School will have a record of the memories Committee on the Judiciary focusing on an update on progress to- they made during the school year with their To hold hearings to examine pending ward safely getting back to work and yearbook and final newspaper edition. nominations. back to school. On behalf of the 22nd Congressional District SD–226 SD–G50 Select Committee on Intelligence 2:30 p.m. of Texas, I would like to congratulate the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- press staff of Seven Lakes High School for To hold hearings to examine the nomina- tion of Peter Michael Thomson, of Lou- sources completing their work in the face of incredible isiana, to be Inspector General, Central To hold hearings to examine the impacts odds. The Katy community is very proud of Intelligence Agency. of the COVID–19 pandemic in the terri- them. SR–325 tories. f 2:30 p.m. SD–366 Committee on the Budget Committee on Homeland Security and SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS To hold hearings to examine the nomina- Governmental Affairs Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, tion of Derek Kan, of California, to be To hold hearings to examine the nomina- agreed to by the Senate of February 4, Deputy Director of the Office of Man- tion of Derek Kan, of California, to be agement and Budget. Deputy Director of the Office of Man- 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- agement and Budget. tem for a computerized schedule of all SR–301 Committee on Indian Affairs VTC meetings and hearings of Senate com- To hold hearings to examine S. 2165, to mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- enhance protections of Native Amer- JULY 1 tees, and committees of conference. ican tangible cultural heritage, S. 2716, 2:30 p.m. This title requires all such committees to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Committee on Indian Affairs to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Act, S. 2912, to direct the Secretary of To hold an oversight hearing to examine Digest—designated by the Rules Com- the Interior to take certain land lo- the response and mitigation to the mittee—of the time, place and purpose cated in Pinal County, Arizona, into COVID–19 pandemic in Native commu- of the meetings, when scheduled and trust for the benefit of the Gila River nities, including S. 3650, to amend the Indian Community, S. 3019, to protect Indian Health Care Improvement Act any cancellations or changes in the access to water for all Montanans, S. to deem employees of urban Indian or- meetings as they occur. 3044, to amend the American’s Water ganizations as part of the Public As an additional procedure along Infrastructure Act of 2018 to expand the Health Service for certain purposes. with the computerization of this infor- Indian reservation drinking water pro- SD–562

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HIGHLIGHTS See Re´sume´ of Congressional Activity for March 2020. Senate A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- Chamber Action viding for further consideration of the nomination, Routine Proceedings, pages S3113–S3130 post-cloture, at approximately 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Measures Introduced: Seventeen bills and three res- June 23, 2020; and that all time during adjourn- olutions were introduced, as follows: S. 4018–4034, ment, recess, morning business, and Leader remarks and S. Res. 633–635. Pages S3126–27 count post-cloture on the nomination. Page S3129 Measures Passed: Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- lowing nominations: Wounded Veterans Recreation Act: Senate passed Eric J. Soskin, of Virginia, to be Inspector Gen- S. 327, to amend the Federal Lands Recreation En- eral, Department of Transportation. hancement Act to provide for a lifetime National David Reimer, of Ohio, a Career Member of the Recreational Pass for any veteran with a service-con- Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be nected disability, after agreeing to the committee Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone. amendment in the nature of a substitute. Page S3129 Page S3130 Measures Considered: Messages from the House: Page S3126 Justice Act—Cloture: Senate began consideration of Enrolled Bills Presented: Page S3126 the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 3985, Additional Cosponsors: Page S3127 to improve and reform policing practices, account- ability, and transparency. Page S3114 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: A motion was entered to close further debate on Pages S3127–28 the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill, Additional Statements: Pages S3125–26 and, in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on clo- (Total—124) Page S3124 ture will occur on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Page S3114 Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and ad- journed at 6:31 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Wilson Nomination—Agreement: Senate resumed June 23, 2020. (For Senate’s program, see the re- consideration of the nomination of Cory T. Wilson, marks of the Acting Majority Leader in today’s of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for Record on pages S3129–S3130). the Fifth Circuit. Pages S3114–24 During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action: Committee Meetings By 51 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. EX. 124), Senate (Committees not listed did not meet) agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination. Page S3124 No committee meetings were held.

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Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, ply chains in economic and national security, and chal- markup on H.R. 6395, the ‘‘National Defense Authoriza- lenges and opportunities to rebuild America’s supply tion Act for Fiscal Year 2021’’, 4:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn chains, 9:30 a.m., SD–366. and Webex. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June Committee on the Budget, Full Committee, hearing enti- 23, to hold hearings to examine COVID–19, focusing on tled ‘‘Health and Wealth Inequality in America: How lessons learned to prepare for the next pandemic, 10 a.m., COVID–19 Makes Clear the Need for Change’’, 2:30 SD–430. p.m., Webex. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, June 23, Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal hearing entitled ‘‘Oversight of the Trump Administra- Management, to hold hearings to examine improving tion’s Response to the COVID–19 Pandemic’’, 11 a.m., public service, focusing on a review of recommendations 2123 Rayburn and Webex. made by the National Commission on Military, National, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee and Public Service, 2:30 p.m., VTC. on Space and Aeronautics, hearing entitled ‘‘R&D to Sup- June 24, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine port Healthy Air Travel in the COVID–19 Era and Be- the role of the strategic national stockpile in pandemic yond’’, 11:30 a.m., Webex. response, 10 a.m., VTC. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Subcommittee on Tech- June 25, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing nology Modernization; and Subcommittee on Health, to examine Customs and Border Protection, focusing on joint hearing entitled ‘‘VA Telehealth During the COVID–19 Pandemic: Expansion and Impact’’, 1 p.m., evolving challenges facing the agency, 9:30 a.m., HVC–210 and Webex. SD–562/VTC. Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Work- Committee on Indian Affairs: June 24, to hold hearings er and Family Support, hearing entitled ‘‘The Child Care to examine S. 2165, to enhance protections of Native Crisis and the Coronavirus Pandemic’’, 2 p.m., Webex. American tangible cultural heritage, S. 2716, to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act, S. 2912, to direct the f Secretary of the Interior to take certain land located in CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD Pinal County, Arizona, into trust for the benefit of the Gila River Indian Community, S. 3019, to protect access Week of June 23 through June 26, 2020 to water for all Montanans, S. 3044, to amend the Amer- ican’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 to expand the In- Senate Chamber dian reservation drinking water program, S. 3099, to pro- On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of vide for the conveyance of certain property to the South- the nomination of Cory T. Wilson, of Mississippi, to east Alaska Regional Health Consortium located in Sitka, be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Alaska, and S. 3100, to convey land in Anchorage, Alas- post-cloture. ka, to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, 2:30 During the balance of the week, Senate may con- p.m., SD–562. sider any cleared legislative and executive business. Committee on the Judiciary: June 23, to hold hearings to examine the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, focusing Senate Committees on coronavirus and addressing China’s culpability, 2:30 (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) p.m., SD–106. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: June 24, June 24, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine business meeting to consider original legislation entitled, pending nominations, 10 a.m., SD–226. ‘‘United States Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of June 25, Full Committee, business meeting to consider 2020’’; to be immediately followed by a hearing to exam- S. 685, to amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 rel- ine S. 3894, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to ative to the powers of the Department of Justice Inspec- develop a program to reduce barriers to entry for farmers, tor General, S. 3398, to establish a National Commission ranchers, and private forest landowners in certain private on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention, and the markets, 10 a.m., SDG–50. nominations of Owen McCurdy Cypher, to be United Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June States Marshal for the Eastern District of Michigan, 23, to hold an oversight hearing to examine the Export- Thomas L. Foster, to be United States Marshal for the Import Bank of the United States, 2:30 p.m., SD–562. Western District of Virginia, and Tyreece L. Miller, to Committee on the Budget: June 24, to hold hearings to be United States Marshal for the Western District of examine the nomination of Derek Kan, of California, to Tennessee, all of the Department of Justice, 10 a.m., be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and SR–325. Budget, 2:30 p.m., SR–301. Select Committee on Intelligence: June 23, to receive a Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June closed briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., 24, to hold an oversight hearing to examine the Federal SVC–217. Communications Commission, 10 a.m., SR–253. June 24, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 24, to the nomination of Peter Michael Thomson, of Louisiana, hold hearings to examine the impact of COVID–19 on to be Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency, 10 mineral supply chains, focusing on the role of those sup- a.m., SR–325.

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Re´sume´ of Congressional Activity

SECOND SESSION OF THE ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH CONGRESS The first table gives a comprehensive re´sume´ of all legislative business transacted by the Senate and House. The second table accounts for all nominations submitted to the Senate by the President for Senate confirmation.

DATA ON LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY DISPOSITION OF EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS January 3 through March 31, 2020 January 3 through March 31, 2020

Senate House Total Civilian nominees, totaling 221 (including 87 nominees carried over Days in session ...... 53 49 . . from the First Session), disposed of as follows: ′ ′ Time in session ...... 314 hrs., 34 158 hrs., 55 .. Confirmed ...... 32 Congressional Record: Unconfirmed ...... 184 Pages of proceedings ...... 2,161 1,872 . . Withdrawn ...... 5 Extensions of Remarks ...... 347 . . Public bills enacted into law ...... 13 18 31 Other Civilian nominees, totaling 744 (including 1 nominees carried Private bills enacted into law ...... over from the First Session), disposed of as follows: Bills in conference ...... Confirmed ...... 4 Measures passed, total ...... 98 132 230 Unconfirmed ...... 740 Senate bills ...... 22 11 . . House bills ...... 20 80 . . Senate joint resolutions ...... 4 4 . . Air Force nominees, totaling 1,477, disposed of as follows: House joint resolutions ...... 2 3 . . Confirmed ...... 1,458 Senate concurrent resolutions ...... Unconfirmed ...... 19 House concurrent resolutions ...... 3 4 . . Simple resolutions ...... 47 30 . . Army nominees, totaling 2,619 (including 3 nominees carried over Measures reported, total ...... * 43 51 94 from the First Session), disposed of as follows: Senate bills ...... 32 . . . . Confirmed ...... 254 House bills ...... 11 40 . . Unconfirmed ...... 2,365 Senate joint resolutions ...... House joint resolutions ...... 1 . . Navy nominees, totaling 228 (including 2 nominees carried over Senate concurrent resolutions ...... from the First Session), disposed of as follows: House concurrent resolutions ...... Simple resolutions ...... 10 . . Confirmed ...... 194 Unconfirmed ...... 34 Special reports ...... 2 3 . . Conference reports ...... Measures pending on calendar ...... 304 29 . . Marine Corps nominees, totaling 1,422, disposed of as follows: Measures introduced, total ...... 545 1,047 1,592 Confirmed ...... 910 Bills ...... 439 889 .. Unconfirmed ...... 512 Joint resolutions ...... 8 5 . . Concurrent resolutions ...... 6 14 . . Summary Simple resolutions ...... 92 139 . . Quorum calls ...... 1 1 . . Total nominees carried over from the First Session ...... 93 Yea-and-nay votes ...... 80 67 . . Total nominees received this Session ...... 6,618 Recorded votes ...... 34 . . Total confirmed ...... 2,852 Bills vetoed ...... Total unconfirmed ...... 3,854 Vetoes overridden ...... Total withdrawn ...... 5 Total returned to the White House ...... 0

* These figures include all measures reported, even if there was no accom- panying report. A total of 34 written reports have been filed in the Senate, 54 reports have been filed in the House.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Tuesday, June 23 2 p.m., Wednesday, June 24

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Tuesday: Senate will continue consider- Program for Wednesday: House will meet in Pro ation of the nomination of Cory T. Wilson, of Mis- Forma session at 2 p.m. sissippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, post-cloture. (Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for their respective party conferences.)

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Gallego, Ruben, Ariz., E558 Olson, Pete, Tex., E556, E558, E559 Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E555, E556 Schakowsky, Janice D., Ill., E555 Beyer, Donald S., Jr., Va., E555 Kaptur, Marcy, Ohio, E557 Shalala, Donna E., Fla., E556 Carson, Andre´, Ind., E556 Kelly, Trent, Miss., E557, E558 Tlaib, Rashida, Mich., E557 Cuellar, Henry, Tex., E555, E557 McMorris Rodgers, Cathy, Wash., E557 Wittman, Robert J., Va., E558

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