E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 113 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

Vol. 160 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014 No. 8 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was prohibited substance, like heroin, more Federal prohibition, but it should stop called to order by the Speaker pro tem- dangerous, according to the law, than making things worse. For instance, it pore (Mr. STEWART). cocaine or meth. It declared in statute, is insane to force hundreds of legal f contrary to proven research, that mari- marijuana businesses to be all cash. We juana has no therapeutic value. should end the grotesque punitive fed- DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO Every day a million authorized users eral taxation for these legal small busi- TEMPORE of medical marijuana reject that no- nesses. The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- tion by using it by doctor’s prescrip- It should explicitly allow State-ap- fore the House the following commu- tion to relieve symptoms like intense proved medical marijuana. While we nication from the Speaker: nausea due to chemotherapy, relief for are at it, we should allow the cultiva- WASHINGTON, DC, veterans with PTSD, from chronic tion of industrial hemp, which a dozen January 14, 2014. back pain, and neurological disorders States have already approved. Hemp I hereby appoint the Honorable CHRIS like multiple sclerosis. products are perfectly legal in the STEWART to act as Speaker pro tempore on New York has now joined 21 other United States. Why shouldn’t our farm- this day. States and the District of Columbia au- ers be able to grow the raw material JOHN A. BOEHNER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. thorizing medical marijuana. Colorado like they used to? is now allowing adult use; and Wash- Several dozen Members have cospon- f ington State is soon to follow, after sored bipartisan legislation to help MORNING-HOUR DEBATE strong approval by both States’ voters. bring us out of these dark ages. These The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- The revolution in medical marijuana should be approved without delay. ant to the order of the House of Janu- policy has been led at the State level, Sometime in this decade we will tax ary 7, 2014, the Chair will now recog- usually as a result of popular vote. The and regulate marijuana. Until we end nize Members from lists submitted by facts are that marijuana does have the unfair discriminatory and costly the majority and minority leaders for therapeutic use. Federal prohibition, we should at least morning-hour debate. It is also less destructive to human end the most foolish and counter- The Chair will alternate recognition health than alcohol or tobacco. Not productive policies. between the parties, with each party one death has ever been proven from a f limited to 1 hour and each Member marijuana overdose; yet we continue to HONORING THE LIFE OF FRANCES other than the majority and minority disrupt the lives of more than two- SARGENT leaders and the minority whip limited thirds of a million people arrested for to 5 minutes, but in no event shall de- possession each year. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. We send billions of dollars to the Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from f hands of underworld and drug cartels. Florida (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN) for 5 min- Many people know that it is easier for utes. LEGALIZING MARIJUANA a 13-year-old girl to buy a joint than a Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I The SPEAKER pro tempore. The six pack of beer. rise today to honor the memory of Chair recognizes the gentleman from No marijuana seller, except in Colo- Frances Rohrer Sargent, a courageous Oregon (Mr. BLUMENAUER) for 5 min- rado, checks ID or has a license to lose. woman who selflessly helped defend our utes. Even though White kids use marijuana country during World War II. Being a Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, no more than teenagers of color, African member of the renowned Women sooner had the United States recog- Americans are almost four times more Airforce Service Pilots or WASP, nized the failure of alcohol prohibition likely to be arrested and jailed. Frances pushed beyond the boundaries by repealing the 18th Amendment than Our Federal laws are frozen in time, that limited opportunities at that time the United States embarked upon an- but the American public has moved on. for women of her generation. other failed experiment in prohibition: Majorities now say it should be legal, The Women Airforce Service Pilots marijuana. For three-quarters of a cen- and even more say the Federal Govern- were the first women to fly military tury, the United States has waged a fu- ment should not interfere with what- aircraft, flying noncombat operations tile attempt to prohibit marijuana ever State laws are in place. between the years 1942 and 1944. based upon emotion and flawed science. It will be a while before Congress These pioneers paved the way for Since 1971, the Federal Government summons the courage to end the hy- women pilots to fly nearly every type has classified marijuana as a schedule 1 pocrisy and irrationality of the futile of military aircraft from F/A–18 to the

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She harm our environment; finding the thing done, what we cannot accept— began flying at the age of 22 in Atlanta time to twice pass bills that weaken what we will not accept—is an ap- and would come to be one of only 1,704 our education system; finding the time proach that leaves a pathway to citi- women who were accepted to the pres- to rename 40 post offices. But we zenship on the sidelines, because the tigious Women Airforce Service Pilots, haven’t taken one vote, not a single pathway to citizenship remains the WASP, out of more than 25,000 women vote, to advance immigration reform. cornerstone of any serious immigration who had applied for the program. We simply haven’t found the time. reform plan. The rest of the immigra- Frances and other female pilots from This despite the support of an over- tion reform structure is built around our south Florida community, includ- whelming majority of Americans. This that piece. Without it, immigration re- ing Helen Wyatt Snapp, Ruth Schafer despite the support of interests as var- form will not stand. Without it, our Fleisher, Shirley Kruse, and Bee ied as labor unions and the Chamber of system will remain broken. Haydu, flew more than 60 million miles Commerce, high-tech companies, and The American people have called on between ’42 and ’44. faith leaders. This despite the CBO re- us to fix our broken immigration sys- As the author of the legislation porting that immigration reform will tem. At the very least, we owe it to awarding WASP the Congressional provide a much-needed jolt to the them to give it a try. The window is Gold Medal in the year 2009, I had the American economy. still open; the opportunity is still privilege to present the award to With over half of the 113th Congress there. We simply need to find the cour- Frances Sargent for her patriotic serv- behind us, we have ignored one of the age to complete the task. ice. The Congressional Gold Medal, as signature issues that the American f we know, is the highest civilian award people sent us here to solve. Sure, we in the United States; and it was pre- have talked about immigration reform. REGULATIONS ON COAL-FIRED sented to these women who were the We have even had our Gang of Eight on POWER PLANTS first females to ever fly military air- this side of the Capitol; but the old The SPEAKER pro tempore. The craft. Their missions were mainly com- saying goes: talk is cheap. Chair recognizes the gentleman from posed of safeguarding the U.S. coastal Months of discussions by this Con- Pennsylvania (Mr. THOMPSON) for 5 line so that male pilots could take on gress on one of the most important and minutes. combat roles abroad. complex issues in a generation have Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Quite often Frances’ life and that of yielded only one point and one point Mr. Speaker, the Obama administra- her colleagues were on the line with only. tion has repeatedly asserted their regu- constant attacks from enemy forces. The only thing we have decided so far lations on coal-fired power plants will The service of the WASPs to the U.S. is that if we take on this issue, if we not be a death blow to the industry. military greatly contributed to the tri- pass immigration reform, we will do it Unfortunately, the Environmental Pro- umph and success of the U.S. and our piece by piece. That is it. That is the tection Agency’s most recently pub- allies in the defeat of the Axis powers only progress this body has made on lished rule for new coal-fired power during World War II. this critical issue. We have made no plants tells us this claim could not be Frances’ deep passion for flying is substantive decisions about the fate of further from the truth. what led her to pursue flight and be- over 11 million people currently living The administration asserts this regu- come part of the prestigious WASPs. their lives in legal limbo in this coun- lation on new coal-fired plants will She never sought to break the barriers try—no substantive decision about make use of ‘‘adequately dem- for women, but through her service she whether their children, many of whom onstrated’’ technologies. Well, accord- demonstrated her excellent skills that know no other country than this, will ing to the Washington Examiner’s edi- made her as well qualified a pilot as be sent thousands of miles away to live torial board: any of the male pilots in the military. in a foreign country, separated from Federal law has long barred the EPA from With her success, and that of her their families, denied the American mandating industry use of technology that many other female pilots, more oppor- Dream they fought so hard for, or even has not been ‘‘adequately demonstrated’’ as tunities then became available for whether LGBT families will be torn ready for commercial use. It is simply ludi- women in all fields. apart. crous for the EPA to claim in its proposed The only progress we can point to at new rule that CCS technology has reached After her retirement from WASP, such a point. Frances continued her love of flying by this time is instead of one large bill, we passing on her skills that she had have decided on several small bills. If Mr. Speaker, this administration is gained. She became a professor at my that is not definitive of a do-nothing dead-set on eliminating coal from our alma mater, Miami-Dade College, Congress, I don’t know what is. fuel mix without a plan to make up for where she took charge of developing But, okay, Mr. Speaker, you have the energy that it provides or the jobs the aviation program. convinced the President. If piecemeal that it supports. It is an anti-energy South Florida has been blessed to is the only way we are going to pass agenda that is costing jobs, harming have had true heroines like Frances immigration reform, then piecemeal it economic growth, and placing a greater Rohrer Sargent, and we honor the serv- is. Here is the most important point. burden on family budgets. The Amer- ice of her and her fellow south Florida Where are the pieces? See, here is the ican people deserve better. WASP patriots: Helen Wyatt Snapp, thing: even if you are going to do some- f Ruth Schafer Fleisher, Shirley Kruse, thing on a piecemeal basis, you still b 1015 and Bee Haydu. have got to do the first piece. THE LIFE OF EDDIE A. BOGGS Aim high. Fly, fight, and win. The second problem with a piecemeal f approach is that you run the risk of The SPEAKER pro tempore. The cherry-picking, pushing through issues Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from IMMIGRATION REFORM like increased border security, high- Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR) for 5 minutes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The tech visas, while ignoring the harder Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I am Chair recognizes the gentleman from decisions like providing a path to citi- privileged to rise to honor a man who Illinois (Mr. QUIGLEY) for 5 minutes. zenship for the millions living in the made a difference. I wish to pay tribute Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, 7 shadows. to the extraordinarily generous life of months ago, the Senate passed a bipar- My friends on the other side of the American patriot Eddie Boggs, an ex- tisan, comprehensive immigration re- aisle have introduced several immigra- ceptional educator and music man

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:50 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.003 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H187 from Sylvania, Ohio, and Toledo. Eddie May God give his family comfort, and mother, Pearl Boggs; sister, Ernestine was a man held in particular affection may Eddie’s life inspire others to emu- Obney; brothers, Carl, Verlin, and Glenn by the thousands of people whose lives late his goodness. Boggs, and five grandchildren. Visitation will be from 2–8 p.m. Sunday in he touched so positively. Some said his [From Toledo Blade, Jan. 11, 2014] the Walker Funeral Home, Sylvania Town- being embodied the Midwestern caring EDDIE A. BOGGS, 1945–2014, MUSICIAN HAD ship. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at spirit we each wish that we could ema- POSITIVE VIEW ON LIFE Flanders Road Church of Christ, where he nate to those whose paths we cross. (By Mark Zaborney) was a member. Eddie was actually born in Soldier, Eddie A. Boggs, 68, a longtime Sylvania ed- The family suggests tributes to the Leu- Kentucky, and came north to attend ucator and a musician who became one of kemia & Lymphoma Society. the University of Toledo, where he re- the best known entertainers in northwest ceived his master’s degree and devoted Ohio and southeast Michigan, died Thursday f his life to teaching and to his family. in Ebeid Hospice Residence, Sylvania. Mr. Boggs learned in May, 2013, that he had He was a musician and a composer, a RECOGNIZING SERGEANT great humanitarian, and an indefati- non-Hodgkins’ lymphoma, his wife, Chris, said. Through treatment and hospital stays, INVESTIGATOR ADAM SOWDERS gable social studies teacher who was he performed when he could, most recently recognized as Educator of the Year in The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Dec. 7 in Fayette, Ohio. Since retiring in 2007 Chair recognizes the gentleman from 2005. from education, he toured regularly as a The Toledo Blade says of his life: member of the New Christy Minstrels, the Texas (Mr. FLORES) for 5 minutes. His smile, his sparkling blue eyes, his folk-style group formed in the early 1960s. At Mr. FLORES. Mr. Speaker, I rise servant’s heart and infectious love of the hospital for a biopsy and spinal tap, he today to recognize Adam Sowders, ser- life is the Eddie that we remember. asked whether he’d be able to make a Dec. 31 geant investigator with the Burleson flight. County Sheriff’s Department. He was an educator on so many levels ‘‘That was his way of coping,’’ his wife for nearly four decades, inspiring and On December 19, 2013, Sergeant said. ‘‘Eddie got 26 hours out of a 24-hour Sowders was killed in the line of duty. caring about thousands and thousands day. That’s the way Eddie was, a positive of his students and fellow citizens. man.’’ Sergeant Investigator Sowders passed away due to wounds he received while Even after retiring from teaching, he Also in retirement, Mr. Boggs was a li- serving a search warrant with a team did not really stop working. Eddie be- censed guide, leading tours to Washington— often by school groups—and other destina- of deputies in Burleson County, Texas. came a licensed tour guide. An engaged tions. Adam graduated from Somerville citizen, he made the extra effort year Most nights, weekends, and summers High School in 2001, and like his father after year when he was a teacher and throughout the last 40 years, Mr. Boggs per- and his brothers, he became a volun- afterwards to bring hundreds and hun- formed in public, singing the songs he wrote teer firefighter at the Somerville Fire dreds of students from Timberstone or the 1,000 he memorized, playing guitar or Department. Junior High, for example, to visit the banjo or mandolin, and connecting with au- Capitol. It was always a grand and un- diences. He began his career with the forgettable occasion. Eddie would ‘‘I always know there’s somebody out there Burleson County Sheriff’s Department who can play greater or sing it better than as a patrol deputy in 2006 after serving stand outside the east front here with me, but nobody who loves it more than me,’’ his guitar, winding his way among hun- as an officer with the Somerville Po- he told The Blade in 2008. ‘‘I guess the music lice Department. dreds and hundreds of students and is the vehicle, the means to an end to reach begin singing, and his resonant and out to people.’’ Sergeant Investigator Sowders was clear voice would filter across the Cap- Mr. Boggs organized an annual Christmas loved and respected by his community, itol lawn. It always seemed the sun was season variety show, which raised more than by his friends, and by his family. Our shining as the students gathered under $250,000 for area charities, and a family- thoughts and prayers are with his fam- the oak trees and the linden trees. friendly New Year’s event in Sylvania for ily and his friends. several years. He also established the Lake These were unforgettable moments. Today, we honor and remember Erie West Hall of Fame for the performing Adam for putting himself in harm’s In Eddie’s so-called retirement, he arts. also furthered his love of music by per- He was master of ceremonies for Sylvania’s way for the good of his neighbors, his forming nationally with the New annual fall festival. family, his friends, and his community. Christy Minstrels. He composed songs ‘‘Everywhere he went, somebody knew We thank him for his service and his of his own. He played over a thousand him,’’ his wife said. sacrifice for public safety. He devoted songs. His music never stopped. He was In 2007, he was among local finalists in the his life to public safety and to being a Jefferson Awards for Public Service. first responder, and he will be forever one of the best known entertainers in ‘‘He was a positive, outgoing individual,’’ northeast Ohio and southeast Michi- remembered as an outstanding indi- Sylvania Mayor Craig Stough said. ‘‘He was vidual who lived to selflessly serve his gan. Eddie’s wife, Chris, stated: positive in his outlook to everybody.’’ Eddie got 26 hours out of a 24-hour Mr. Boggs became a social studies teacher community. day. That is how Eddie was, a positive at McCord Junior High School in 1973 and, Adam was a model public servant, man. later, a guidance counselor at Timberstone however; and, more importantly, he In addition to teaching and per- Junior High School. He was recognized as an was a servant leader who modeled the ‘‘educator of the year’’ in 2005. forming, Eddie contributed mightily to words of Jesus in John 15:13, which ‘‘He went that extra mile to make sure states: the community through fundraising, that new kid or teacher felt welcomed,’’ his Greater love hath no man than this, that and through the Christmas season he wife said. he lay down his life for his friends. would organize a Christmas variety He was born Aug. 10, 1945, in Soldier, Ky., show that would raise more than to Elmer and Pearl Boggs. The family moved His death marks the 17th first re- $250,000 for area charities. This man north, and he was a graduate of Mansfield sponder lost in the line of duty in the was a real citizen. High School. A counselor told him he wasn’t 17th Congressional District of Texas Mr. Speaker, Eddie is a gift that smart enough for college. He went to work in since the time I was sworn in in Janu- the steel mill—but he took the night shift ary 2011. keeps on giving for us who had the joy while attending the Mansfield branch of Ohio of knowing him and sharing in his life. State University. Mr. Speaker, I would like to close by Our thoughts and prayers are with his ‘‘That’s why he went into education—he reminding all Americans to continue family: his wife, Chris; his daughters, said he didn’t want anybody to ever hear praying for our country and for our Allison, Sara, and Grace; his grand- they weren’t good enough to do something,’’ American men and women who serve in children, Landon, Jackson, Kate, his wife said. our military and for our first respond- Grant, and Nola; his mother, Pearl; and After two years, he transferred to the main ers. Their selfless service protects our mother-in-law, Pat; his brothers and campus in Columbus and received a bach- lives, our freedoms, and our liberties elor’s degree. He also had two master’s de- sisters and extended family. Eddie’s grees from the University of Toledo. from both internal and external dan- music will always play in our hearts. Surviving are his wife, Chris Boggs, whom gers. He lifted us to be a better and more he married Sept. 20, 1991; daughters, Allison God bless our first responders and our caring people. Boggs, Sara Roemer, and Grace Barton; troops, and God bless America.

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Mr. Speaker, I rise Bless us this day and every day, and holding a hearing to ensure Social Se- today to show my support for the rein- may all that is done within the peo- curity makes fighting fraud and pro- statement of emergency unemploy- ple’s House this day be for Your great- tecting hardworking taxpayer dollars ment insurance for thousands of resi- er honor and glory. its number one priority. The time for dents in the Inland Empire and mil- Amen. excuses is over. lions of other Americans across the Na- f f tion. These Americans rely on these THE JOURNAL EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT benefits so they can put food on their COMPENSATION EXTENSION ACT table, so they can pay for heat, and so The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam- (Ms. KELLY of Illinois asked and was they can continue their search for ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- given permission to address the House work. ceedings and announces to the House for 1 minute.) Now, my friends on the other side of his approval thereof. Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, the aisle will have you believe that Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- as we begin today’s activities, 1.3 mil- these millions of Americans are just nal stands approved. lion individuals face a harsher reality too lazy to find work and that they are Mr. HOLDING. Mr. Speaker, pursu- because Congress failed to extend un- only interested in handouts. My Repub- ant to clause 1, rule I, I demand a vote employment insurance benefits. That lican colleagues believe in making the on agreeing to the Speaker’s approval includes 2 million children and 20,000 long-term unemployed more desperate of the Journal. veterans who face a more uncertain fu- and that this desperation will be the The SPEAKER. The question is on ture because Congress failed to do the necessary motivation for them to find the Speaker’s approval of the Journal. right thing. work. Well, when has an unpaid gas bill The question was taken; and the The moms who attended my ever created a job? When has forcing Speaker announced that the ayes ap- Chicagoland job fair don’t want an un- someone to go to sleep hungry ever cre- peared to have it. employment check more than a job. ated a job? Mr. HOLDING. Mr. Speaker, on that They do want a Congress that recog- Let me remind my colleagues that I demand the yeas and nays. nizes that any one of us could use a lit- the Great Recession was the worst eco- The yeas and nays were ordered. tle help when an economic crisis hits nomic downturn since the Great De- The SPEAKER. Pursuant to clause 8, rule XX, further proceedings on this and leaves us vulnerable. pression and that there are still three The families I represent aren’t look- people competing for every job open- question will be postponed. f ing for handouts. They are my friends ing. While our recovery is gaining mo- and neighbors and paid into the unem- mentum, it has been the wealthiest PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ployment insurance system with the that have benefited the most, leaving The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman promise that, if times got tough, they far too many Americans behind. from Massachusetts (Mr. KENNEDY) would still be able to provide for their Let’s extend these emergency bene- come forward and lead the House in the families using the benefits they paid fits for the long-term unemployed. Pledge of Allegiance. for as a bridge over troubled waters. Let’s create jobs, not desperation. Mr. KENNEDY led the Pledge of Alle- I am a cosponsor of H.R. 3824, the f giance as follows: Emergency Unemployment Compensa- tion Extension Act, because I stand by RECESS I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Repub- my friends in tough times. I urge my The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, colleagues in the House and Senate to ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. do the same by passing a bipartisan un- declares the House in recess until noon f employment insurance extension now. today. f Accordingly (at 10 o’clock and 22 ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER minutes a.m.), the House stood in re- The SPEAKER. The Chair will enter- MODERNIZING BANK TRANSFERS cess. tain up to 15 requests for 1-minute (Mr. PITTENGER asked and was f speeches on each side of the aisle. given permission to address the House f for 1 minute and to revise and extend b 1200 his remarks.) NEW YORK SSDI FRAUD AFTER RECESS Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked today to question why banks and their The recess having expired, the House and was given permission to address customers are still burdened by rules was called to order by the Speaker at the House for 1 minute and to revise designed in an era that, when most noon. and extend his remarks.) bank transactions ended, a free lollipop f Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. was given to the customer. Speaker, this past summer, we learned Regulation D, which was imple- PRAYER of the largest disability fraud in the mented in the 1980s, restricts cus- The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick history of Social Security taking place tomers to just six transfers between J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: in Puerto Rico. their accounts for 1 month. These rules Eternal God, we give You thanks for Now, less than 6 months later, we made a lot of sense in an era when giving us another day. hear of an even more shocking scandal most bank transactions were done On this day we ask Your blessing on in New York, where 106 people have manually; but today, through modern the men and women, citizens all, whose been arrested, including former police- technology, this is truly obsolete. votes have populated this people’s men, FBI employees, and firemen. Mr. Speaker, I therefore ask support House. Each Member of this House has Worse, about half of the defendants for H.R. 3240, the Regulation D Study been given the sacred duty of rep- falsely claimed that their ‘‘disability’’ Act. This bill will direct the GAO, the resenting them. was caused as a result of the 9/11 ter- Government Accountability Office, to We ask Your blessing as well on the rorist attacks, even though many had study Regulation D and recommend ap- Members of this House, whose responsi- never even worked at Ground Zero. propriate changes to modernize the bility lies also beyond the local inter- These individuals are stealing from a regulation. H.R. 3240 has strong bipar- ests of constituents while honoring program that serves those who can no tisan support. I am grateful for Con- them. Give each Member the wisdom to longer work due to a disability. This is gresswoman MALONEY’s being the lead represent both local and national inter- unacceptable. Democrat sponsor for the bill.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:03 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.005 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H189 Credit unions tell us that modern program since the beginning of Octo- To my colleagues on the other side: I customers today hit the six-transfer ber. Unfortunately, due to the faulty respect you and stand ready to work limit just in a matter of moments as government-run Web site and the com- with you to replace this law with solu- they work online. We need to change plicated nature of the law, he tried for tions that will actually lower costs and this, Mr. Speaker, so that individuals 2 months to successfully enroll his 17- provide quality care for all of the peo- can manage their money on a daily year-old daughter in a government ple in America. basis. Updating this regulation is im- health plan. f portant to benefit consumers and bank The government’s role is to protect THE VETERANS’ RECORDS institutions. our fellow citizens, not make tasks RECONSTRUCTION ACT f such as enrolling in health care more expensive or difficult. ObamaCare must (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given MORTGAGE FORGIVENESS TAX be repealed and replaced to create jobs permission to address the House for 1 EXCLUSION and put health care decisions back in minute.) (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was the hands of the American people. Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise given permission to address the House In conclusion, God bless our troops, today in support of H.R. 3397, the Vet- for 1 minute and to revise and extend and we will never forget September the erans’ Records Reconstruction Act. his remarks.) 11th in the global war on terrorism. In 1973, a fire at the National Per- Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, on De- f sonnel Records Center in Overland, cember 31, the tax exclusion for mort- Missouri, destroyed as many as 18,000 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE military records. While efforts were gage forgiveness expired. What does EXTENSION that mean? It means if someone sells made to reconstruct these records, (Mr. VARGAS asked and was given many records were left incomplete, their house for less than they owe, they permission to address the House for 1 which makes it difficult to determine have to pay tax on the difference. minute and to revise and extend his re- veterans’ eligibility for service rec- The failure of the House Republican marks.) ognition. leadership to extend this forgiveness Mr. VARGAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask This legislation would create guide- provision, which has been on the books that today we extend the crucial and lines and allow alternative methods of since 2009, means that underwater critical unemployment insurance life- authenticity verifying veterans’ properties all across the country—6 line to the 1.3 million jobless Ameri- records using unofficial sources, thus million of them—now basically face cans who have already lost coverage. In creating a pathway toward getting due paying taxes in terms of trying to do California alone, 214,000 people have al- benefits and recognitions for veterans the right thing and get these properties ready lost their unemployment cov- whose files were destroyed. to move. erage, including almost 19,000 people in Mr. Speaker, while this legislation In Connecticut today, there are 772 San Diego County and 3,500 people in does not completely solve the problem pending short sale closings that, again, Imperial County. of missing records, it is a way for our the owners are going to be taxed be- With unemployment unacceptably Nation to thank veterans for their cause of the failure of the Republican high, now is not the time to take service by helping them to best have a leadership to move. money out of the pockets of those who chance to receive the recognition that Mr. CAMP said the other day that are struggling to find work. Unem- they are due. there is nothing to worry about; we ployed Americans are actively looking I want to thank my colleague, Con- have all year to deal with this. Well, for work but, unfortunately, are unable gresswoman LOIS CAPPS, for her leader- the housing market can’t wait. We to find jobs in our economy. ship in introducing the legislation. I need to move. H.R. 2994 will extend We must continue to provide unem- urge its swift passage. that mortgage forgiveness tax relief. It ployment benefits to jobless Americans f is time for this Chamber to take this so they can purchase crucial life needs SECOND WAVE OF OBAMACARE measure up and vote on it. like food and shelter. So let us heed the CANCELATIONS’ EFFECT ON Ask a realtor; ask a home builder; better angels of our nature and imme- SMALL BUSINESS ask a mortgage broker. They all know. diately restore unemployment benefits This market needs to get the overhang to out-of-work Americans. (Mr. HOLDING asked and was given of distressed properties cleared out if f permission to address the House for 1 we are going to have a healthy housing minute and to revise and extend his re- market and a strong recovery. FIRST LEGISLATIVE ACT: marks.) This Chamber needs to act. The Re- REPEALING OBAMACARE Mr. HOLDING. Mr. Speaker, due to publican leadership needs to listen to (Mr. BYRNE asked and was given ObamaCare, potentially millions of people who are in the front trenches of permission to address the House for 1 small business employees will be af- the economy. minute and to revise and extend his re- fected by a surge of health care plan f marks.) cancelations. The hundreds of thou- Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, last week I sands of individual cancelation notices OBAMACARE IS HURTING SOUTH was sworn in as the newest Member of we saw last year were just the begin- CAROLINIANS this body. As my very first legislative ning, and there will be more before the (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina act, I have announced my cosponsor- next open enrollment period. asked and was given permission to ad- ship of the American Health Care Re- Mr. Speaker, small business owners dress the House for 1 minute and to re- form Act, a bill that will repeal the de- are forced to buy more expensive com- vise and extend his remarks.) structive ObamaCare law and replace it prehensive coverage, so they must find Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. with conservative, market-based solu- ways to offset the costs. They will have Speaker, besides sticker shock, Amer- tions. to cut employees’ and workers’ hours. ican families are beginning to realize ObamaCare is hurting families across And employees they can afford to keep that they were misled and that south Alabama, causing dropped cov- will have restricted choices when se- ObamaCare is not as great as adver- erage, skyrocketing premiums, and lecting doctors and filling prescrip- tised. Sheryl from Columbia says: adding to the debt when we just can’t tions; so they might not be able to I realize the ACA is controversial, but it afford it. It is becoming painfully obvi- keep the doctor they like, and if they was billed as something better than what the ous for families and small businesses in can, it likely will be more expensive. insurance companies were offering to private this country that this law is not work- Mr. Speaker, small businesses create parties. What we actually purchased is very ing, and that it simply cannot be fixed. jobs and grow our economy. Around 40 inferior to the high deductible policy I cur- We have a responsibility in this body million people have health insurance rently have when out of network. to do what is right for the American through their small business employer, Edward from Chapin has made sev- people, and it is urgent and obvious we and for them, the next wave of eral attempts to enroll his family in must act now to end this unworkable ObamaCare cancelations could be cata- the government health care insurance law. strophic.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:03 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.009 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H190 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 14, 2014 b 1215 Americans will stand on the National can testify on her commitment to pub- CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE Mall for the March for Life January 22. lic service, to our community, and to We are Americans. We believe in the her many capacities as a member of (Mrs. CAPPS asked and was given inherent right to life, liberty, and pur- the Miami-Dade County Commission, permission to address the House for 1 suit of happiness. That right extends to the Florida House of Representatives, minute and to revise and extend her re- all people, regardless of their size. and the Florida Senate. marks.) f I thank Florida Senator Gwen Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, it is no se- Margolis and Dress for Success Miami cret that power generation produces EXTEND EMERGENCY for what they do on behalf of low-in- the vast majority of carbon pollution UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS come women of south Florida. that is causing climate change. In (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given f order to mitigate the impacts of cli- permission to address the House for 1 mate change, we have no choice but to minute.) ECONOMY PRIORITY NUMBER ONE find cleaner, more sustainable energy Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, here we (Mr. KENNEDY asked and was given sources. The good news is we have been go again, another week, another bill, permission to address the House for 1 making progress. For example, thanks another missed opportunity to extend minute and to revise and extend his re- to both Federal and private invest- emergency unemployment benefits for marks.) ments, my district on California’s cen- 1.4 million Americans. Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, I rise tral coast is now home to two of the Today, the House will be voting on today to advocate for the 1.3 million largest operating solar farms in the the 2014 omnibus spending bill, but one Americans and their families who have world, and more are on the way. key part is missing: an extension of been hit hardest by this recession. Af- I had the pleasure of visiting these emergency unemployment benefits. To fording the most basic necessities— facilities last week, and they are truly add insult to injury, on Friday, this food, transportation, rent, and health a sight to behold. Together, the Cali- body will adjourn for another week of care—just got even harder. Their needs fornia Valley Solar Ranch and the recess without addressing this issue, are not extravagant. The benefits of Topaz Solar Farms are already gener- leaving 1.4 million Americans without unemployment insurance are not a ating 550 megawatts of electricity and this critical lifeline, a number that blank check. They are a modest lifeline powering hundreds of thousands of grows every day. It is terrible for these for families who are in need of des- California homes. The clean energy families and for our economy. perate help over the holidays and in a generated from these two projects Just yesterday, I spoke with a con- cold winter. alone is equivalent to removing 135,000 stituent, Margaret, a mother of four Since Congress has failed to act, over cars from our roads. Not to mention who is suffering with Parkinson’s dis- 60,000 residents of Massachusetts have that these projects have also created ease whose benefits were cut. She has lost access to these benefits. If we fail hundreds of local construction jobs. worked her whole life. This is the first to do so, 140,000 more residents of our There is no silver bullet to stopping time she has ever had to ask for help. State are in jeopardy. At a time when climate change, but renewable energy She is among more than 4,900 Rhode Is- the State’s overall jobless rate is is certainly a big step in the right di- land families and 1.4 million Americans around 7 percent, and rises to 12 or 13 rection. I urge my colleagues to join in who are struggling to find work and percent in some of our most challenged in helping to stop climate change. need this insurance to help them sur- communities, to not extend these bene- Let’s invest in a clean energy future. vive. fits today is wrong. f We should not adjourn before resolv- My colleagues that are blocking this ing this issue, and I urge my colleagues bill will tell you they are concerned RIGHT TO LIFE to press the Speaker to bring a bill to with the number of people accessing (Mr. LANKFORD asked and was the floor to extend emergency unem- these benefits. Well, you know what? given permission to address the House ployment insurance today. So am I, and cutting those benefits off for 1 minute and to revise and extend f today is wrong. his remarks.) The funding that we seek today is an CONGRATULATING DRESS FOR Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. Speaker, this essential lifeline for these individuals SUCCESS MIAMI week the congressional conversation is at a time when we need to be expand- on spending, the national debt, and (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was ing workforce development programs, rightfully so. The budget work in the given permission to address the House workforce training programs, commu- past 3 years has only made a dent in for 1 minute and to revise and extend nity colleges, vocational schools, and the looming debt crisis in our future, her remarks.) STEM education. We have to support but America’s story is about more than Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, our small businesses, an economic en- budget and spending. America is about Dress for Success is celebrating 20 gine for so many American commu- its people, their opportunity and hope years of service to Miami-Dade County nities. I am in support of transpor- and dream for a better future for all of residents who have benefited through tation upgrades, investments in infra- our children. its training and clothing programs. structure, and affordable housing. A few months ago, the March of This noble organization promotes self- While there is a whole lot we should Dimes released its scorecard for pre- sufficiency to low-income women by be working on right now, getting our mature birth rates in Oklahoma. We providing professional attire, while economy going again and getting peo- lowered our preterm birth rate for the equipping them with the tools and re- ple back up should be priority number third year in a row in Oklahoma. That sources to help them thrive in work one. is good. Every child is a gift of God, and in life. f and they should have a chance to live Over 35,000 women in Miami have al- to his or her fullest potential. We all ready succeeded and transitioned from FLEXIBILITY TO PROMOTE know that a baby in the womb is not unemployment to economic independ- REEMPLOYMENT ACT tissue; that is a child. A child that ence. We have seen that when women (Mr. RENACCI asked and was given should have the same opportunity, the have the possibility to earn an income, permission to address the House for 1 same chance for hope, the same dreams find stability, and invest back into minute.) for a better future. That dream begins their communities, they successfully Mr. RENACCI. Mr. Speaker, I rise with the opportunity for life. break the dreadful cycle of poverty. today to urge support for the Flexi- How can we as a Nation work so hard The Dress for Success celebration bility to Promote Reemployment Act. to prevent premature births so each will also honor the first woman to Under the Middle Class Tax Relief and child can reach their full potential and serve as president of any State senate Job Creation Act of 2012, States were then be callous to the reality that in the United States, Florida Senator granted unprecedented flexibility in some children will never have the Gwen Margolis. I have had the pleasure the use of unemployment insurance chance to even be born? That is why of knowing Gwen for over 30 years and funds to help unemployed individuals

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:03 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.011 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H191 collect paychecks instead of benefit bigger government programs. Let’s This inaction not only harms dis- checks. grow the economy, not the Federal located workers who stop receiving a Unfortunately for States, the DOL Government. Mr. Speaker, we live in check in the mail, but it also slows issued restrictive, burdensome, and the land of opportunity, the greatest economic growth. When families have costly application requirements. To Nation on Earth, a place for everyone. to further cut spending, there is a rip- date, one State has completed the ap- No matter what their economic or ra- ple effect. As families spend less on ne- plication process, only to have the ap- cial or socioeconomic background, ev- cessities like food and clothing, local plication swiftly denied. The Flexi- eryone has a chance to live the Amer- businesses take a hit. Indeed, it has bility to Promote Reemployment Act ican Dream. been estimated that failing to pass an increases flexibility in the use of State The policies of bailouts, borrowing, unemployment insurance extension UI funds by enabling the DOL to revisit and Big Government only serve to will cost our economy 310,000 new jobs. current application guidance and allow threaten those opportunities. Rather Mr. Speaker, this could end today. States to operate demonstration than focus on expanding government Let’s do what is right for working fam- projects that test alternative means of programs, let’s expand opportunity. ilies and for the American economy. helping the unemployed return to Let’s empower the American people to Let’s reinstate unemployment insur- work. grow and build and create. Let’s focus ance, and let’s do so now. At a time when our unemployment on bills that create more opportunities f rate remains unacceptably high, we for employment, and let’s come to- need to be doing everything we can to gether to help honest, hardworking WAR ON POVERTY advance solutions that will promote Americans realize the great American (Mr. BUTTERFIELD asked and was job creation. I urge my colleagues on Dream. given permission to address the House both sides of the aisle to support this f for 1 minute.) commonsense legislation. Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I RAISE MINIMUM WAGE f rise to remind my colleagues that the (Ms. HAHN asked and was given per- war on poverty, begun 50 years ago by EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT mission to address the House for 1 BENEFITS President Johnson, is still relevant minute.) today. As we debate the great issues, (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, the Federal we must not forget that nearly 50 mil- given permission to address the House minimum wage has remained the same lion Americans in 2012 were below the for 1 minute.) for 4 years and has failed to keep up poverty level, and that includes 13 mil- Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, on with the cost of living. According to lion children. Most startling, Mr. December 28, 3 days after Christmas, the recently released Shriver Report, Speaker, 16 million of those live below this Federal Government allowed 1.3 nearly two-thirds of minimum wage half of the poverty line. Were it not for million American families to be cut off workers are women, and 42 million the safety net that some want to dis- of long-term unemployment insurance. American women either live in poverty mantle, 41 million more would live in It comes at a time when we are in the or are right on the brink of it. This is poverty. dead of winter, at a time when con- wrong. No one who works hard at a It is undeniable that the poverty rate struction employment is dormant, full-time job to provide for their chil- has decreased, but the fact remains when agriculture is not hiring. It dren and family should be living in that the face of poverty continues to be comes at a time when the national un- poverty. low-income Whites and racial minori- employment rate is close on 7 percent, Today, with one in five children in ties and females and children. The om- when the national long-term unem- America still living in poverty, we nibus bill will continue to dismantle ployment rate is 2.6 percent, which is must act and pass the Fair Minimum nondefense discretionary spending to a twice what it ever was when we ever Wage Act, which would increase the level that will reverse the gains made cut off long-term unemployment be- Federal minimum wage to $10.10 an over the past 50 years. fore, going back to 1959. It comes at a hour for American workers over the I plead with my colleagues to be vigi- time when jobs growth is its weakest next 3 years. This modest increase lant in our fight to end poverty in in 3 years, and it comes at a time when would raise the wages of approximately America. Our oath requires us to pro- we know it is going to cost 240,000 jobs 30 million Americans and bring over 4.5 vide for the common defense, but it for our economy. This is money, Mr. million people above the poverty line. also requires that we provide for the Speaker, that goes right back into the Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 common good and enable every Amer- economy because people are living an hour will not only put more money ican to achieve the American Dream. hand to mouth on these checks and into the pockets of those in need, but it they need to spend it right away. will infuse an additional $51 billion f At this point, Mr. Speaker, I urge into our economy. b 1230 you to bring up the modest 90-day ex- Mr. Speaker, this will not be a job WAR ON POVERTY tension for unemployment insurance killer; it actually will help to create before we break for recess. 140,000 new jobs. Our success as a Na- (Ms. TITUS asked and was given per- f tion hinges on the success of women. mission to address the House for 1 When women succeed, America suc- minute and to revise and extend her re- GROW ECONOMY, NOT FEDERAL ceeds. marks.) GOVERNMENT f Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, 50 years (Mr. YODER asked and was given ago, President Johnson declared an un- permission to address the House for 1 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE conditional war on poverty in America minute.) EXTENSION and established landmark programs— Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, the new (Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ asked and was such as Head Start, Medicare, and Job year is an opportunity for Congress to given permission to address the House Corps—that were designed to give all get back to work for the American peo- for 1 minute.) Americans the opportunity to succeed. ple, and that means supporting good- Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, be- These programs have had a substan- paying jobs and a growing economy. cause of the House Republican leader- tial impact, cutting poverty by one- Over the coming weeks, we are going ship’s inaction, 3 days after Christmas, third since 1967. Despite the progress, to hear debating of proposals that 127,000 New Yorkers were cut off from however, we still have a lot to do. would put more people on unemploy- their jobless benefits. Every week in Today, 100 million Americans live in ment support for longer periods of 2014, another 5,100 working families in or near the brink of poverty, including time. Frankly, Mr. Speaker, that is the New York lose unemployment com- 42 million women and 28 million chil- wrong direction for our country. pensation. These families are strug- dren. In Nevada, nearly 18 percent of What the American people want and gling to make ends meet and put food women and 24 percent of children live need are greater job opportunities, not on the table. in poverty, a situation made even

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Denying I ask that the Speaker work with the H.R. 2274 this vital lifeline is morally indefen- Senate and take up this extension. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of sible and economically shortsighted. Representatives of the United States of America To win the war on poverty, we must f in Congress assembled, strengthen, not gut, the programs that UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. protect and empower millions of people This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Busi- (Mr. HORSFORD asked and was ness Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Bro- every day, giving everyone in this given permission to address the House kerage Simplification Act of 2013’’. great country an opportunity to suc- for 1 minute.) SEC. 2. REGISTRATION EXEMPTION FOR MERGER ceed. Mr. HORSFORD. Mr. Speaker, it is AND ACQUISITION BROKERS. f Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange completely insensitive, unjust, and flat Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78o(b)) is amended by DANIEL K. INOUYE ARROW ANTI- out wrong that Congress would deny adding at the end the following: MISSILE DEFENSE FACILITY the now more than 1.4 million Ameri- ‘‘(13) REGISTRATION EXEMPTION FOR MERGER (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was cans unemployment insurance, includ- AND ACQUISITION BROKERS.— given permission to address the House ing over 18,000 Nevadans. ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subparagraph (B), an M&A broker shall be for 1 minute.) Mr. Speaker, this is the week that checks stop coming in the mail. For exempt from registration under this section. Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, just ‘‘(B) EXCLUDED ACTIVITIES.—An M&A today, for the first time, Israel named those who maybe never have been un- broker is not exempt from registration under a military facility after a non-Israeli. employed or don’t know what it is like this paragraph if such broker does any of the Named after Daniel K. Inouye is an to struggle, for many Americans this is following: Arrow anti-missile defense facility. the week that the pain takes hold. ‘‘(i) Directly or indirectly, in connection As we know, the U.S. and Israel have The hypocrisy from across the aisle with the transfer of ownership of an eligible successfully developed the Arrow anti- is staggering. I don’t quote the former privately held company, receives, holds, President often, but on December 14, transmits, or has custody of the funds or se- missile system through joint coopera- curities to be exchanged by the parties to tion. A steadfast symbol of cooperation 2002, in his weekly radio address, then- the transaction. is perhaps the most appropriate way to President George W. Bush scolded Con- ‘‘(ii) Engages on behalf of an issuer in a remember him, as our Senator played gress because ‘‘no final bill was sent to public offering of any class of securities that an integral role in transforming the re- me extending unemployment benefits is registered, or is required to be registered, lationship between our two countries, for about 750,000 Americans whose ben- with the Commission under section 12 or and I am pleased that our allies around efits will expire on December 28.’’ with respect to which the issuer files, or is He went on to say: required to file, periodic information, docu- the world continue to honor him and ments, and reports under subsection (d). carry on his legacy. These Americans rely on their unemploy- ‘‘(C) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in When former colleagues recall Sen- ment benefits to pay for their mortgage or this paragraph shall be construed to limit ator Inouye, they insist that, without rent, food, and other critical bills. They need any other authority of the Commission to him, there would be no U.S. aid to our assistance in these difficult times, and exempt any person, or any class of persons, Israel as we know it today. The Sen- we cannot let them down. from any provision of this title, or from any ator’s interest in Israel stemmed from The unemployment rate in December provision of any rule or regulation there- learning of the fate of the Jews in Eu- 2002, it was just 6 percent. Congress under. ‘‘(D) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: rope after his own military experience then extended those unemployment ‘‘(i) CONTROL.—The term ‘control’ means in Italy in the 442nd, a legendary unit benefits, Mr. Speaker, by a vote of 416– the power, directly or indirectly, to direct of Japanese Americans, which earned 4. If it was an emergency then, it is an the management or policies of a company, him the highest military honor, the emergency now. whether through ownership of securities, by Congressional Medal of Honor. It is time to do the right thing and contract, or otherwise. There is a presump- This honor is another example of how extend unemployment insurance for tion of control for any person who— Senator Inouye’s influence and hard the 1.4 million Americans. ‘‘(I) is a director, general partner, member or manager of a limited liability company, work have deeply impacted not only f Hawaii, but also our Nation and the or officer exercising executive responsibility ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER (or has similar status or functions); world. This time, he was recognized ‘‘(II) has the right to vote 20 percent or some 8,664-plus-or-minus miles from PRO TEMPORE more of a class of voting securities or the his beloved Hawaii. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. power to sell or direct the sale of 20 percent f WOMACK). Pursuant to clause 8 of rule or more of a class of voting securities; or ‘‘(III) in the case of a partnership or lim- UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION XX, the Chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to sus- ited liability company, has the right to re- (Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD asked and ceive upon dissolution, or has contributed, 20 pend the rules on which a recorded vote percent or more of the capital. was given permission to address the or the yeas and nays are ordered, or on House for 1 minute.) ‘‘(ii) ELIGIBLE PRIVATELY HELD COMPANY.— which the vote incurs objection under The term ‘eligible privately held company’ Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD. Mr. Speak- clause 6 of rule XX. means a company that meets both of the fol- er, I rise today to urge my colleagues Record votes on postponed questions lowing conditions: to reinstate a critical lifeline for the will be taken later. ‘‘(I) The company does not have any class unemployed. of securities registered, or required to be reg- Since the expiration of the unem- f istered, with the Commission under section ployment insurance benefits in Decem- SMALL BUSINESS MERGERS, AC- 12 or with respect to which the company ber, 1.3 million people nationwide have files, or is required to file, periodic informa- QUISITIONS, SALES, AND BRO- been affected, one in six of whom live tion, documents, and reports under sub- KERAGE SIMPLIFICATION ACT in California. section (d). This extension of unemployment ben- OF 2013 ‘‘(II) In the fiscal year ending immediately efits is especially needed for the resi- Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, I move before the fiscal year in which the services of to suspend the rules and pass the bill the M&A broker are initially engaged with dents of San Bernardino County, where respect to the securities transaction, the the unemployment rate is 9.1—well (H.R. 2274) to amend the Securities Ex- company meets either or both of the fol- above the national average. change Act of 1934 to provide for a no- lowing conditions (determined in accordance Unemployment benefits keep individ- tice-filing registration procedure for with the historical financial accounting uals actively looking for work, they brokers performing services in connec- records of the company):

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This type of bipartisan pro-small of effecting securities transactions solely in point, I yield myself such time as I business, pro-jobs legislation is exactly connection with the transfer of ownership of may consume. the type of thing we need. an eligible privately held company, regard- I rise in support of this good piece of I urge my colleagues on both sides to less of whether the broker acts on behalf of legislation, H.R. 2274. It is the Small pass it, as we did in the committee, in a seller or buyer, through the purchase, sale, Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, a bipartisan manner. exchange, issuance, repurchase, or redemp- and Brokerage Simplification Act. It is Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of tion of, or a business combination involving, my time. securities or assets of the eligible privately introduced by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. HUIZENGA), who will be Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Speak- held company, if the broker reasonably be- er, I yield myself such time as I may lieves that— speaking momentarily. Mr. Speaker, during the period of consume. ‘‘(I) upon consummation of the trans- Today, I rise in support of H.R. 2274, action, any person acquiring securities or as- overly burdensome Big Government—of the Small Business Mergers, Acquisi- sets of the eligible privately held company, ObamaCare and of Dodd-Frank and tions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplifica- acting alone or in concert, will control and, thousands and thousands more regula- directly or indirectly, will be active in the tion Act of 2013. tions costing Americans literally tril- H.R. 2274 provides a much-needed ex- management of the eligible privately held lions of dollars—it is really no surprise company or the business conducted with the emption and clarification for current assets of the eligible privately held com- that the economic growth and job cre- M&A brokers who perform services in pany; and ation in this country remain sluggish. connection with the transfer and own- ‘‘(II) if any person is offered securities in America’s small businesses are the ership of small- and medium-sized busi- exchange for securities or assets of the eligi- primary engine of job creation, for nesses in privately negotiated trans- ble privately held company, such person will, they are the ones who are dispropor- actions. prior to becoming legally bound to consum- tionately affected by simply a deluge Small- and medium-sized businesses mate the transaction, receive or have rea- of new rules and regulations coming play a critical role in our economy. sonable access to the most recent year-end out of Washington daily. In fact, ac- balance sheet, income statement, statement They provide jobs, they spur innova- of changes in financial position, and state- cording to a recent survey, small busi- tion, and they strengthen our overall ment of owner’s equity of the issuer of the nesses continue to identify government economy. In fact, over the past decade securities offered in exchange, and, if the fi- regulation and red tape as the single and a half, America’s small businesses nancial statements of the issuer are audited, most important problem facing them. and entrepreneurs have created 65 per- the related report of the independent audi- While our colleagues in the Senate cent of all new jobs in this country. tor, a balance sheet dated not more than 120 appear unwilling these days to pass As businesses grow, many small- and days before the date of the offer, and infor- any legislation to help create jobs, medium-sized businesses reach a point mation pertaining to the management, busi- well, we have H.R. 2274 in the House where they want to and need to expand ness, results of operations for the period cov- their businesses. They turn to mergers ered by the foregoing financial statements, that we take up, and it is done in a bi- and material loss contingencies of the issuer. partisan manner. It is a commonsense and acquisition professionals to facili- ‘‘(E) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.— piece of legislation that will remove tate such sales. ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—On the date that is 5 some of these unnecessary regulations Currently, M&A brokers who facili- years after the date of the enactment of the and obstacles to small business devel- tate the private sale of small- and me- Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, opment, growth, and job creation. dium-sized privately owned companies and Brokerage Simplification Act of 2013, What it would do is exempt brokers must register with the SEC. SEC reg- and every 5 years thereafter, each dollar who perform services in connection istration as a broker also requires amount in subparagraph (D)(ii)(II) shall be with the transfer of ownership of small, membership in FINRA—the Financial adjusted by— Industry Regulatory Authority. ‘‘(I) dividing the annual value of the Em- privately held companies—that are also known as M&A brokers—from the The burdens and costs of initial ployment Cost Index For Wages and Salaries, broker-dealer registration and ongoing Private Industry Workers (or any successor SEC’s costly one-size-fits-all registra- compliance with both SEC and FINRA index), as published by the Bureau of Labor tion requirements that we have right Statistics, for the calendar year preceding now. requirements are substantial. These the calendar year in which the adjustment is While terms that we sometimes hear costs adversely impact and unneces- sarily increase the costs that business being made by the annual value of such in the press and elsewhere—mergers, owners incur to sell, buy, or grow their index (or successor) for the calendar year acquisitions, brokers—may give you ending December 31, 2012; and small- and medium-sized businesses. ‘‘(II) multiplying such dollar amount by the image of big Wall Streets and what H.R. 2274 is a legislative acknowl- the quotient obtained under subclause (I). have you, make no mistake about it, edgement that one size does not, in- ‘‘(ii) ROUNDING.—Each dollar amount de- this bill is about helping Main Street. deed, fit all when it comes to trans- termined under clause (i) shall be rounded to M&A brokers play a very, very im- actions. Prior to my election, I was a the nearest multiple of $100,000.’’. portant role helping small businesses securities lawyer with over a decade of SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. and small business owners successfully experience working in capital markets This Act and any amendment made by this navigate their way through and trans- for a Wall Street law firm. I had the Act shall take effect on the date that is 90 fer their company, or sell their com- opportunity to work on a variety of days after the date of the enactment of this pany, to new owners, new enterprises, Act. transactions. instead of simply closing up their shop Not all mergers and acquisitions are The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- and going out of business. alike, and so not all require the same ant to the rule, the gentleman from Yet under the current SEC one-size- type of registration and requirements. New Jersey (Mr. GARRETT) and the gen- fits-all registration regime, M&A bro- Some transactions are privately nego- tlewoman from Alabama (Ms. SEWELL) kers face a myriad of costly regula- tiated transmissions of relatively each will control 20 minutes. tions. Unfortunately, M&A brokers small dollar amounts with sophisti- The Chair recognizes the gentleman have to pass these costs on to, well, cated investors, not for public sale. By from New Jersey. other small businesses and, of course, streamlining and simplifying the regu- GENERAL LEAVE eventually the public. latory structures of these small- and Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, I ask It is no wonder this legislation has medium-sized businesses, we allow unanimous consent that all Members now received widespread and bipartisan them to safely, efficiently, and effec- have 5 legislative days within which to support. In fact, this bill was unani- tively sell their companies while pre- revise and extend their remarks and to mously approved by the committee 57– serving growth and protecting jobs in submit extraneous materials for the 0. Let me get that straight: 57–0. these companies.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:20 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A14JA7.003 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H194 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 14, 2014 This bill, H.R. 2274, allows smaller is a very complex set of laws and rules and job creation to take place at these privately held companies to save time that have been put in place. companies. and money on the services rendered I do want to say thank you to my There is no risk to the public; there during the transfer of ownership allow- subcommittee chairman, Mr. GARRETT, is no threat to the safety and sound- ing for smooth sale and transfer. To and Ranking Member Sewell for their ness of our economic system; but it is qualify for the exemption, the trans- work on this, as well as Chairman HEN- very, very important to those commu- action would have to involve a business SARLING and Ranking Member WATERS, nities that have those kinds of busi- with less than $250 million in gross rev- as we have explored this and dove head- nesses in them and where they are lo- enues and/or pre-tax earnings of less first, really, into this issue. cated. than $25 million with no securities, and It has been estimated, Mr. Speaker, In October 2013, a piece in The Hill the buyer of the business is someone that there are approximately 10 tril- newspaper, Michael Nall, president of who will actively manage and control lion—that’s ‘‘trillion’’ with a ‘‘t’’—pri- the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition the business, either directly or indi- vately-owned, small family-owned type Advisors, a leading international orga- rectly. of businesses that will be sold or poten- nization serving the middle-market I fully support this bipartisan legisla- tially closed in the coming years as M&A industry, stated: tion and its efforts to simplify the reg- baby boomers retire. H.R. 2274, the Small Business Mergers, Ac- ulatory structure in the sale and trans- Now, we want to see one of those quisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplifica- fer of ownership of small- and medium- things happen. We want people to see tion Act of 2013 is an excellent bipartisan sized businesses in privately negotiated the fruits of their hard work over the bill, one whose time has come. Congress transactions. years, and we want to see them be able should get it done before the end of the year. This reform was welcomed by regu- to sell those companies. We don’t want Sorry, Mr. Nall. We are a little be- lators and passed, as the chairman of to see them close them unnecessarily, hind schedule, but we are getting the subcommittee so accurately noted, because we know the impact that hap- there. by a vote of 57–0, unanimously, with pens to small communities, much like He goes on: full bipartisan support. The ABA Pri- has happened in some of my hometown It’s not a sexy bill, not one that prime vate Placement Broker-Dealer Task communities, when we have seen that time TV will be talking about, and not one Force recommended this change in its happen. that will evoke a question in the next Presi- 2005 report, which is available on the Mergers and acquisitions are also dential debates; but it is a bill that does SEC Web site. Similar recommenda- known as M&A. Brokers play a critical have teeth, and it is a serious and sub- stantive piece of small business legislation. tions to simplify broker-dealer reg- role in facilitating the transfer of own- istration for M&A brokers were made ership of these smaller privately held Well, maybe we can inject this into in the final report by the advisory com- companies. Currently, all M&A brokers the next Presidential election because mittee to the SEC on small business are subject to costly, burdensome re- this ultimately is about the foundation companies in 2006. quirements which adversely impact of our country. It is about that ability I think appropriately scaling Federal and unnecessarily increase the cost for entrepreneurs to go out, strike out registration of M&A brokers is a good that business owners incur when they on their own, go become successful and thing. It is something that I would not buy or sell their businesses. Often we then reap the rewards of that and, all only support, but encourage my col- have heard anecdotally and statis- the while, provide jobs to communities leagues to support as well. tically that they have to make a deci- like we all represent. H.R. 2274 would amend the Exchange sion sometimes. They can’t move Well, in today’s highly charged polit- Act by adding a new subsection, sec- ahead and can’t really afford to sell ical environment, it is nice to show the tion 15, which would govern broker- that small—literally, sometimes—cor- American people that a positive, effec- dealer registration. The amendment ner store, mom-and-pop-type oper- tive initiative can be considered and would cut regulatory costs incurred by ation, and so they end of closing it be- passed with strong bipartisan support. sellers and buyers of small-and mid- cause they can’t afford to go through In fact, this important legislation, as sized privately held companies in pri- the sale. has been mentioned, overwhelmingly vately negotiated transactions. In fact, the issue has been high- passed the Financial Services Com- Federal law would continue to pro- lighted by the SEC’s Forum on Small mittee by a bipartisan vote of 57–0. It is vide important investor protections Business Capital Formation, which, for legislation like H.R. 2274 that dem- through the SEC registration and SEC the last 7 years—that is over the last onstrates Congress can act in a bipar- regulation of the capital, custody, mar- two administrations, this current ad- tisan manner to positively impact the gin, recordkeeping, bonding, and oper- ministration and the last administra- lives of Americans. ational reporting requirements appli- tion—has repeatedly recommended Mr. Speaker, with that I urge a ‘‘yes’’ cable to M&A brokers, and existing that the SEC modernize and streamline vote on this legislation, and I look for- State security laws will continue to the regulation of M&A brokers. But, ward to working with my Senate col- apply. unfortunately, the SEC has never acted league to see H.R. 2274 make it to on these recommendations. President Obama’s desk. b 1245 Well, we think the time is up. We be- I want to thank Chairman GARRETT I think that this is sensible legisla- lieve that 7 years is long enough. It is for his leadership on this issue. tion that should be supported by both time that this body and hopefully our Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Speak- sides of the aisle. I am indeed honored colleagues in the Senate, as well, will er, I yield such time as he may con- to stand with my colleagues in support take this bill and finally put some clo- sume to the gentleman from Con- of H.R. 2274. sure to this issue. That is why I, along necticut (Mr. HIMES). Mr. GARRETT. I thank the gentle- with Representatives BRIAN HIGGINS Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I thank my lady for working with us on this, as she and BILL POSEY, introduced H.R. 2274. good friend from Alabama for yielding says, sensible piece of legislation. This bipartisan bill would create a sim- me time, and my friend from New Jer- And with that, I yield such time as plified system for brokers performing sey and Mr. HUIZENGA for the sponsor- the gentleman may consume to the services in connection with the trans- ship and leadership on this bill. gentleman from Michigan (Mr. fer of ownership of smaller privately I rise in strong support of H.R. 2274. HUIZENGA), the sponsor of the legisla- held companies. We spend a lot of time in this Cham- tion before the House at this time. By simplifying the regulation and re- ber talking about the American Dream, Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. ducing the cost of these business bro- and of course in many cases the apex of Speaker, I rise today to encourage pas- kerage services, these smaller pri- the American Dream is when that en- sage of H.R. 2274, the Small Business vately owned companies would be able trepreneur who started a bunch of res- Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Bro- to safely, efficiently, and effectively taurants or car washes or a local re- kerage Simplification Act. Maybe we transfer their company, preserving jobs tailer or a local service organization, need to work on the titles getting a lit- currently in existence, while also al- after working hard over a period of a tle simpler, too. It is very complex. It lowing for continued economic growth lifetime, has the opportunity to reap

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Mr. Speak- probably know very little about the both said this—of smart regulation. er, I yield myself such time as I may very complicated task of selling a That is what this bill before us is about consume. small business. There is no reason in trying to achieve. Right-sizing Federal regulation on the world why that transaction, which If he wants to take a look at bad reg- M&A brokers in these small business again is at the very apex of the Amer- ulation, all we need to do is look at the transactions I believe makes good ican Dream, should be overburdened by excessive and the inappropriate regula- sense. All of us have small- and me- regulatory costs that don’t make tion that we had prior to the ’08 crisis, dium-size business owners in our dis- sense. the fact that we had examiners and tricts who sooner or later will want to At the end of the day, the M&A bro- regulators in each and every one of the sell or grow their businesses through kers that we are talking about here are major failed institutions that led up to acquisition or transfer of ownership. not selling stocks to retail investors. this crisis, and those individuals failed They will seek advice and hire highly They are not marketing mortgages. to do their jobs. Those individuals trained professionals to help them find They are doing a very technical trans- failed to find the problems before they and screen potential targets. These action that, again, is so important to came to a head. Those individuals buyers and sellers are represented by wealth creation in this country. failed to find situations even when lawyers and accountants who will con- So I thank my colleagues on the they were told about them in such duct the due diligence. They will rely other side. cases as Stanford or Madoff or a list of on written representations and warran- I don’t want to let the moment go by other ones I could go down here as ties in these negotiated transactions without reminding my good friend well. for their protections. from New Jersey that, as he blanket We had regulators who did not per- We should reduce the barriers to cap- condemns regulation today on the form their job. Even though they had ital formation, and this bill is an im- floor, there are 300,000 people without the authority, the ability, the financ- portant step towards that. This bill, by drinking water in West Virginia today, ing, the money and everything else streamlining small private trans- in the greatest country on Earth, not necessary to do it, they turned a blind actions, will free up SEC resources to because there is too much regulation, eye to it and failed to do so. This is not protect the public against public mar- but because the regulations weren’t a time for a partisanship. This a time kets and passive investors. good enough. to commend both the sponsor of the As baby boomers age, there is a tre- Years ago in west Texas, a fertilizer legislation and the gentlelady who mendous transfer of wealth and train blew up, killing 15 people and in- joins with me on this to say that we streamlining that will occur over the juring 160 people, not because there can get together; we can find com- next generation. As my colleagues so was too much regulation, but because monality when we want to have smart aptly said, it is estimated that over $10 there was poor regulation. legislation and smart regulation. And I trillion of privately owned businesses In the area of our expertise, financial think that is what we should be com- will be sold or closed as baby boomers services, this economy was also dev- mending and moving forward on this retire. astated, not because there was too legislation today. Jobs are preserved and created when much regulation, but because there With that, I don’t believe we have existing businesses are acquired by en- was effectively no regulation under de- any other speakers; but I reserve the trepreneurs or other companies. In rivatives—complicated, large instru- balance of my time to close, unless the Main Street, typically business brokers ments that brought down institutions minority have other speakers. play a vital role in facilitating these like AIG and others because, before Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Speak- private business mergers and acquisi- Dodd-Frank, you could go into a neigh- er, I yield such time as he may con- tions. This bill will encourage such borhood and sell somebody a mortgage sume to the gentleman from Illinois business growth. without asking for their income. (Mr. SCHNEIDER). Helping our small businesses is not a We succeed and the economy suc- Mr. SCHNEIDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise partisan issue. We all benefit when ceeds because we do exactly this, be- in strong support of the Small Business small businesses grow and flourish. I cause we find the right balance. We ac- Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Bro- look forward to continuing to work knowledge that good regulation can kerage Simplification Act of 2013, H.R. with my colleagues on both sides of the save lives in Texas, drinking water in 2274. aisle to make strategic and economi- West Virginia, and prevent the destruc- I want to thank Congresswoman SE- cally beneficial policy decisions that tion of $17 trillion of American’s WELL and Congressman HUIZENGA for will be smart regulations, that will wealth as occurred 5 years ago. bringing this bipartisan bill to the strengthen our economy and create Again, I celebrate and thank my good floor. jobs. friend from New Jersey and promise to Small businesses are the fabric of our I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘yes’’ continue this dialogue on how we don’t economy and oftentimes the fabric of on H.R. 2274, and I yield back the bal- condemn all regulation, but seek a bal- the communities in which we live. ance of my time. ance that allows our economy to thrive Many of these businesses are family- as it always has. owned businesses. They provide the b 1300 Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, the gen- wherewithal, the stability, and the fu- Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, I begin tleman from Connecticut has the ture aspirations for many families. by thanking the gentlelady for her unique ability, in order to come to the These businesses frequently are passed leadership on this legislation, adopting floor and work in a manner where both from generation to generation, but the word I just used, which is smart sides said we had a bipartisan joint sometimes the next generation does regulation is smart legislation, but piece of legislation, a jobs-creating leg- not or is not able to take over the next also the words you used as well as far islation, to turn this moment into a business. as reducing barriers and streamlining, partisan attack. It is critical for our communities and which is really what the gentleman No, I never once said I am against a critical for our economies that these from Michigan has accomplished in blanket condemnation of all regula- businesses are able to pass to a new this legislation that is before us. tions. In fact, if the gentleman from owner to continue to employ people, to The other takeaway I am going to Connecticut had listened closely, he continue to drive our economy, and take from the gentlewoman’s comment would have heard that we are, I think, that is exactly what this bill does. It as well is twofold: A, this is being done in a bipartisan manner, opposed to allows those businesses to bring in the in a bipartisan manner; but B, we need overly excessive regulation, regulation expertise, to bring in the knowledge, to to move this thing forward. By that, I

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Mr. Speaker, I ask put a tremendous burden on banks that also moves there as well. Hopefully, we unanimous consent that all Members perhaps were not ready to go public can link arms and join in getting them may have 5 legislative days within with more than 500 shareholders at the to move this legislation there as well. which to revise and extend their re- time. With that, I thank the gentlelady. I marks and submit extraneous mate- The legislation did not directly speci- thank the gentleman from Michigan rials for the RECORD on H.R. 801, cur- fy that savings and loans would also re- (Mr. HUIZENGA) for all of his leadership rently under consideration. ceive the same treatment. It was, I be- in the committee and his work on this Mr. GARRETT. Madam Speaker, I lieve, the intent of Congress that that legislation and the other legislation he yield myself such time as I may con- be the case. So H.R. 801 goes back to is leading on as well. sume. seek to remedy this issue. With that, I encourage the passage of I rise today, as I did a moment ago as The Holding Company Registration H.R. 2274, and I yield back the balance well, in support of this good, common- Threshold Equalization Act, a rather of my time. sense legislation, which is H.R. 801, the awkward name for H.R. 801, extends the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Holding Company Registration Thresh- shareholder registration thresholds to question is on the motion offered by old Equalization Act. I also, just like savings and loan holding companies. the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. with the prior legislation, would like This bill will ensure that savings and GARRETT) that the House suspend the to commend the bipartisan nature of loan institutions operate under the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 2274, as the legislation before us and the bipar- same rules as banks, trying to create a amended. tisan nature of the sponsors of this leg- more uniform and simple regulatory The question was taken. islation, Representatives WOMACK, apparatus. The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the HIMES, DELANEY, and Mrs. WAGNER, as This will help these institutions raise opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being well, for their outstanding work on capital so that they have the resources in the affirmative, the ayes have it. getting this important measure to the to make the loans which drive the eco- Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, on that floor today. nomic growth—the businesses, the col- I demand the yeas and nays. What does it do? leges, the mortgages, the purchases The yeas and nays were ordered. H.R. 801 basically corrects a tech- that drive the economic growth of this The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- nical oversight from last Congress’ country. ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- JOBS Act, which was the Jumpstart Madam Speaker, again, I thank Mr. ceedings on this motion will be post- Our Business Startups Act, and it does GARRETT for his support. As we seek poned. so by ensuring that savings and loans creative solutions to the Nation’s job f holding companies, or SLHCs, are able crisis, we should do everything we can HOLDING COMPANY REGISTRA- to take advantage of the law’s provi- to stimulate the consumer demand TION THRESHOLD EQUALIZATION sions that modify the thresholds by that we know drives so much of this ACT OF 2013 which bank holding companies are economy. This bill is one small, com- Mr. GARRETT. Madam Speaker, I forced to register or allowed to monsense step we can take in that di- move to suspend the rules and pass the deregister with the SEC. rection. bill (H.R. 801) to amend the Securities Most savings and loan holding com- Again, I thank Mr. WOMACK, Mrs. Exchange Act of 1934 to make the panies are organized very similarly to WAGNER, and Mr. DELANEY for their shareholder threshold for registration bank holding companies and are sub- leadership. With that, I reserve the balance of of savings and loan holding companies ject to similar regulatory oversight. my time. the same as for bank holding compa- Because this is the case, it is appro- Mr. GARRETT. I, too, thank the gen- nies. priate now for us to correct this tech- tleman from Connecticut. The Clerk read the title of the bill. nical oversight in the law and stream- The text of the bill is as follows: line the registration and deregistration Madam Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman H.R. 801 thresholds of savings and loan and bank holding companies. from Arkansas (Mr. WOMACK), the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of prime sponsor of the bill. Representatives of the United States of America I will end now where I began, and in Congress assembled, that is to thank the leadership for Mr. WOMACK. Madam Speaker, my SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. bringing up this very important legis- thanks to the subcommittee chairman This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Holding lation, and the sponsors as well for and to Chairman HENSARLING for shep- Company Registration Threshold Equali- working in a bipartisan manner. I ask herding this bill through committee zation Act of 2013’’. that all Members support this com- and bringing it to the House floor. I, SEC. 2. REGISTRATION THRESHOLD FOR SAV- monsense legislation and the Senate too, would like to express my gratitude INGS AND LOAN HOLDING COMPA- consider it without any delay. to my colleagues on both sides of the NIES. aisle, particularly Representative The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 With that, I reserve the balance of U.S.C. 78a et seq.) is amended— my time. HIMES, with whom I worked in the pre- (1) in section 12(g)— Mr. HIMES. Madam Speaker, I yield vious Congress on similar legislation (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting after myself such time as I may consume. that has already been articulated, and ‘‘is a bank’’ the following: ‘‘, a savings and I, once again, thank Chairman GAR- Representative DELANEY and Mrs. WAG- loan holding company (as defined in section RETT, chairman of the Subcommittee NER for working with me on this bipar- 10 of the Home Owners’ Loan Act),’’; and on Capital Markets, for his support and tisan measure. (B) in paragraph (4), by inserting after leadership on this bill. I particularly As you know, Madam Speaker, we ‘‘case of a bank’’ the following: ‘‘, a savings thank my cosponsors on this bill: Mr. have been talking about jobs. The and loan holding company (as defined in sec- tion 10 of the Home Owners’ Loan Act),’’; and WOMACK, with whom I have worked be- House has passed bill after bill to cre- (2) in section 15(d), by striking ‘‘case of fore; Mrs. WAGNER; and Mr. DELANEY. ate a better environment for private bank’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘case of a Additional cosponsors of the bill are sector growth and job creation. These bank, a savings and loan holding company Mr. POLIS, Mr. QUIGLEY, and Mr. conservative solutions would help cre- (as defined in section 10 of the Home Owners’ RENACCI. I thank them for their hard ate new jobs today, would make life for Loan Act),’’. work. families better across the country, and The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. This is a rare example of a wise bi- would expand opportunity for everyone WAGNER). Pursuant to the rule, the partisan bill that will achieve some- without expanding government. That is

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They sponsor Little League businesses—the drivers of our econ- This is exactly what the JOBS Act teams and softball leagues and support omy—have access to the capital they was intended to do: allow entre- the United Way. On Friday nights, you need. preneurs and small businesses to focus see their logos on the scoreboards at The JOBS Act gave small community on innovating and creating jobs, not high school football games. banks flexibility to raise capital with- only complying with outdated govern- These institutions have a deep and out being required to comply with reg- ment regulations. abiding love for the towns that they ulations specifically intended for the Unfortunately, as we all know, Wash- serve, and our constituents—small larger financial institutions that were ington tends to move a little slower business owners, farmers, and hard- responsible for the 2008 financial crisis. than the private sector, which is why working Americans—rely on them to This was a positive change that in- this legislation is necessary. Title VI of meet payroll, to purchase equipment, jected much-needed capital into our the JOBS Act updates outdated SEC or to buy a car or a home. local economies. However, the legisla- registration thresholds for community Unfortunately, these institutions are tion did not specifically extend it to banks, and it will allow banks to focus coming under increased pressure from small savings and loans holding compa- more time on serving their customers Washington, forcing them to spend nies. than on complying with unnecessary more and more of their resources not It is important that we now put the red tape. And while Congress intended to put capital into the community but savings and loans on par with our to include savings and loans as a part to comply with onerous new regula- banks, retaining the equity and diver- of these new registration thresholds, tions and requirements—requirements sity conducive to the health of our the SEC, to date, has not interpreted intended for larger banks—instead of banking system. By putting additional the law in this way. serving the needs of their communities. capital in the hands of our local sav- Savings and loans perform essen- Our small community banks and sav- ings and loans, we are helping con- tially the same function as banks. ings and loan holding companies were sumers who are looking for home They are overseen by the same regu- not the cause of the financial crisis, loans, our neighbors who are starting lators and are a pillar of many small and they should not be treated as small businesses, and small businesses towns and communities across this though they were. that are continuing to invest in their country. That is why in the last Congress the future. Missouri is home to about 20 savings House and Senate acted to eliminate This may be a technical correction, and loans that could one day benefit some of these unnecessary burdens by but it remains a correction that has from the provisions in title VI. Many of passing the JOBS Act. Among other significant beneficial implications for them have under $200 million in assets things, the bill raised the registration our communities and for our continued and are located in rural areas that rely threshold for bank holdings companies economic recovery. on their savings and loans for credit. from 500 to 2,000 shareholders and in- I ask my colleagues to join me in Increasing the ability of these institu- creased the deregistration threshold support of this measure. tions to lend will help increase eco- from 300 to 1,200 shareholders, better Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, at this nomic activity in Missouri and all positioning banks to increase their time I yield such time as she may con- around our great country. business lending and, in turn, promote sume to the gentlewoman from Mis- In order to put savings and loans on economic growth in our communities. souri (Mrs. WAGNER), also a prime equal footing with community banks Due to an oversight, the JOBS Act sponsor of the legislation before us and and to codify congressional intent, did not explicitly extend these new a leading and active member on the today we are considering H.R. 801, thresholds to savings and loan holding committee. which will extend the updated thresh- companies. As a sponsor of the original Mrs. WAGNER. Mr. Speaker, I want old in the JOBS Act to savings and legislation, this wasn’t our intent, and to thank the sponsor of this legisla- loans. I am pleased to be a cosponsor of I supported report language in the tion, Mr. WOMACK of Arkansas, as well this legislation, because Congress must House FY 2013 Financial Services and as my Democrat colleagues, Mr. HIMES continue to take steps, no matter how General Government appropriations of Connecticut and Mr. DELANEY of incremental, to increase lending and bill clarifying that savings and loan Maryland, for their work on this im- investment in our economy. holding companies should be treated in portant issue. I also want to thank the As an added bonus, this legislation the same manner as bank and bank chairman of the subcommittee for his comes to the floor today with strong holding companies. Additionally, Rep- very hard work in getting this bill to bipartisan support, and I want to again resentative HIMES and I wrote to SEC the floor today. thank my colleagues on both sides of Chairman Schapiro to ask that the Mr. Speaker, the JOBS Act was a big the aisle for their work and their sup- SEC use its authority to carry out our win for the American economy. Since port on this issue, Mr. Speaker. original intent. the law was passed a year and a half I urge passage of the bill. Unfortunately, Madam Speaker, we ago, a number of American businesses, Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I would are still without a successful resolu- including more than 40 biotechnology like to just close by thanking you for tion to the problem. At a time when companies, as well as companies such our partnership and our work on this our economy is struggling, Congress as Kayak and Twitter, have gone pub- bill. I hope we can do more of the same. must address the issue and ease the lic using provisions of the JOBS Act. I thank Mrs. WAGNER and Mr. burdens on these institutions to allow Additionally, dozens of community DELANEY, cosponsors of this bill, and them to deploy more of their capital banks across the country have already Chairman GARRETT for pushing this throughout the communities they taken advantage of the updated SEC through. serve. H.R. 801 does this by correcting registration thresholds which made up As we have said, H.R. 801 is a good this oversight and ensuring that sav- title VI of the JOBS Act. idea, a bipartisan idea, and something ings and loan holding companies are Perhaps most encouraging is the that I hope we can see the Senate take treated in the same manner as bank frenzy of activity we have been seeing up. and bank holding companies. from entrepreneurs around the coun- Mr. Speaker, I urge support of H.R. I urge my colleagues to support this try, whether it is small technology 801 and yield back the balance of my job-creating legislation. startups lining up at the gate to begin time. Mr. HIMES. Madam Speaker, it is my crowdfunding or small businesses being Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, I was pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gen- able to share their story with more in- just thinking as I was sitting here.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:20 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.021 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H198 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 14, 2014 Speaker BOEHNER raised the question The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- and Chairwoman MIKULSKI released the at the beginning of this administra- ant to the rule, the gentleman from text of the omnibus bill, and Members tion, where are the jobs? And it is a Kentucky (Mr. ROGERS) and the gentle- will now have 2 days to review the de- question that I continue to get when I woman from New York (Mrs. LOWEY) tails before the House votes. go home to my district, where are the each will control 20 minutes. Unfortunately, the current con- jobs after all the years of this adminis- The Chair recognizes the gentleman tinuing resolution expires at midnight tration? And it is a question that I from Kentucky. on Wednesday. To allow time for Sen- hear on the floor once in a while from GENERAL LEAVE ate consideration, we must now con- Members who don’t really follow the Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. sider this short-term, interim CR ex- activity on the floor closely, where are Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that tension. This clean 3-day CR will guar- the bills to help create jobs, as if we all Members may have 5 legislative antee no lapse in funding while the leg- are not moving them. days in which to revise and extend islative gears turn. It contains no pol- Well, today, Mr. Speaker, we have their remarks and include extraneous icy provisions or other extraneous ma- moved two more to the laundry list of material on H.J. Res. 106. terial. I support its quick passage. other legislation out of this House to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance answer the question, how can we help objection to the request of the gen- of my time. facilitate and create more jobs for the tleman from Kentucky? Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. American public? That is why I am so There was no objection. Speaker, I yield back the balance of pleased to be here with the sponsors of Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. my time. this legislation in a bipartisan manner, Speaker, I yield myself such time as I The SPEAKER pro tempore. The H.R. 801, and to be able to get this may consume. question is on the motion offered by through the House to answer the ques- This is a very, very short-term con- the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. tion, where are the jobs? tinuing resolution to keep the govern- ROGERS) that the House suspend the Well, the House of Representatives ment open and operating until January rules and pass the joint resolution, H.J. continues in its tradition of passing 18. The continuing resolution that Res. 106. legislation to answer that question, to ended the government shutdown in Oc- The question was taken; and (two- make more jobs for the American pub- tober provided funding only until Janu- thirds being in the affirmative) the lic, to streamline the regulatory proc- ary 15, which is, of course, tomorrow. rules were suspended and the joint res- ess, and to reduce the number of Amer- As you know, yesterday I posted the olution was passed. icans who are no longer in the work- full fiscal year 2014 omnibus to fund A motion to reconsider was laid on force whatsoever. the government for the rest of the the table. So I encourage my colleagues on both year. We hope to pass this comprehen- sides of the aisle to not only pass the sive legislation tomorrow and send it f legislation today, but also to encour- to the Senate in short order. However, age the U.S. Senate, where some often in order to allow for the Senate and ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER say all good bills go to die, to pick up White House to process, pass, and then PRO TEMPORE this legislation and pass it in a forth- sign the omnibus, we simply needed a The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- right manner. little extra time for the Senate to take ant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance up the matter and work it through will resume on questions previously of my time. their process. This legislation extends postponed. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. the deadline by 3 days and prevents a Votes will be taken in the following WOMACK). The question is on the mo- potential lapse in appropriations that order: tion offered by the gentleman from would cause unnecessary problems for Motions to suspend the rules and New Jersey (Mr. GARRETT) that the government operations. pass H.R. 2274 and H.R. 801, and ap- House suspend the rules and pass the I ask that my colleagues vote ‘‘yes’’ proval of the Journal. bill, H.R. 801. on this necessary bill. The first electronic vote will be con- The question was taken. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of ducted as a 15-minute vote. Remaining The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the my time. electronic votes will be conducted as 5- opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield minute votes. in the affirmative, the ayes have it. myself such time as I may consume. Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, on that I rise in support of this clean, short- f I demand the yeas and nays. term continuing resolution to ensure SMALL BUSINESS MERGERS, AC- The yeas and nays were ordered. uninterrupted government services QUISITIONS, SALES, AND BRO- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- while we finish the omnibus bill. ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- Mr. Speaker, our work could not KERAGE SIMPLIFICATION ACT ceedings on this motion will be post- begin until passage of the Murray- OF 2013 poned. Ryan budget agreement in December. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- f The House and Senate budget resolu- finished business is the vote on the mo- FURTHER CONTINUING APPRO- tions were nearly $92 billion apart. We tion to suspend the rules and pass the PRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2014 had already suffered an unnecessary bill (H.R. 2274) to amend the Securities government shutdown. Exchange Act of 1934 to provide for a Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. The December budget agreement notice-filing registration procedure for Speaker, I move to suspend the rules passed with bipartisan support, gave brokers performing services in connec- and pass the joint resolution (H.J. Res. the Appropriations Committee a work- tion with the transfer of ownership of 106) making further continuing appro- able number, and allowed bipartisan, smaller privately held companies and priations for fiscal year 2014, and for bicameral negotiations to occur, and to provide for regulation appropriate to other purposes. we haven’t wasted a moment. Our com- the limited scope of the activities of The Clerk read the title of the joint mittee worked through the holidays to such brokers, as amended, on which the resolution. produce the fiscal year 2014 omnibus yeas and nays were ordered. The text of the joint resolution is as package. I am delighted to report that The Clerk read the title of the bill. follows: it contains all 12 spending bills and de- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The H.J. RES. 106 tailed direction in all areas of discre- question is on the motion offered by Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep- tionary spending. the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. resentatives of the United States of America in Reaching agreement on all 12 bills GARRETT) that the House suspend the Congress assembled, That the Continuing Ap- propriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113–46) is was not easy and required a tremen- rules and pass the bill, as amended. amended by striking the date specified in dous level of cooperation and com- The vote was taken by electronic de- section 106(3) and inserting ‘‘January 18, promise. Nobody got everything they vice, and there were—yeas 422, nays 0, 2014’’. wanted. Last night, Chairman ROGERS not voting 10, as follows:

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:50 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.023 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H199 [Roll No. 14] Palazzo Roybal-Allard Thompson (CA) GARRETT) that the House suspend the Pallone Royce Thompson (MS) rules and pass the bill. YEAS—422 Pascrell Ruiz Thompson (PA) Pastor (AZ) Runyan This will be a 5-minute vote. Aderholt Deutch Kaptur Thornberry Paulsen Ryan (OH) Amash Diaz-Balart Keating Tiberi The vote was taken by electronic de- Payne Ryan (WI) Amodei Dingell Kelly (IL) Tierney Pearce Salmon vice, and there were—yeas 417, nays 4, Andrews Doggett Kelly (PA) Tipton Pelosi Sa´ nchez, Linda not voting 11, as follows: Bachmann Doyle Kennedy Titus Perlmutter T. Tonko Bachus Duckworth Kildee Perry Sanchez, Loretta [Roll No. 15] Barber Duffy Kilmer Tsongas Peters (CA) Sanford Turner YEAS—417 Barletta Duncan (SC) Kind Peters (MI) Sarbanes Barr Duncan (TN) King (IA) Upton Aderholt Delaney Hurt Peterson Scalise Valadao Barrow (GA) Edwards King (NY) Petri Schakowsky Amash DeLauro Israel Barton Ellison Kingston Van Hollen Amodei DelBene Issa Pingree (ME) Schiff Vargas Bass Ellmers Kinzinger (IL) Pittenger Schneider Andrews Denham Jackson Lee Veasey Beatty Engel Kirkpatrick Pitts Schock Bachmann Dent Jeffries Vela Becerra Enyart Kline Pocan Schrader Bachus DeSantis Jenkins Vela´ zquez Benishek Eshoo Kuster Poe (TX) Schwartz Barber DesJarlais Johnson (GA) Visclosky Bentivolio Esty Labrador Polis Schweikert Barletta Diaz-Balart Johnson (OH) Wagner Bera (CA) Farenthold LaMalfa Pompeo Scott (VA) Barr Doggett Johnson, E. B. Bilirakis Farr Lamborn Posey Scott, Austin Walberg Barrow (GA) Doyle Johnson, Sam Bishop (GA) Fattah Lance Price (GA) Scott, David Walden Barton Duckworth Jordan Bishop (NY) Fincher Langevin Price (NC) Sensenbrenner Walorski Bass Duffy Joyce Bishop (UT) Fitzpatrick Lankford Quigley Serrano Walz Beatty Duncan (SC) Kaptur Black Fleischmann Larsen (WA) Radel Sessions Wasserman Becerra Duncan (TN) Keating Blackburn Fleming Larson (CT) Rahall Sewell (AL) Schultz Benishek Edwards Kelly (IL) Blumenauer Flores Latham Rangel Shea-Porter Waters Bentivolio Ellison Kelly (PA) Bonamici Forbes Latta Reed Sherman Waxman Bera (CA) Ellmers Kennedy Boustany Fortenberry Lee (CA) Reichert Shimkus Weber (TX) Bilirakis Engel Kildee Brady (PA) Foster Levin Renacci Shuster Webster (FL) Bishop (GA) Enyart Kilmer Brady (TX) Foxx Lewis Ribble Simpson Welch Bishop (NY) Eshoo Kind Braley (IA) Frankel (FL) Lipinski Rice (SC) Sinema Wenstrup Bishop (UT) Esty King (IA) Bridenstine Franks (AZ) LoBiondo Richmond Slaughter Westmoreland Black Farenthold King (NY) Brooks (AL) Frelinghuysen Loebsack Rigell Smith (MO) Whitfield Blackburn Farr Kingston Brooks (IN) Fudge Lofgren Roby Smith (NE) Williams Blumenauer Fattah Kinzinger (IL) Broun (GA) Gallego Long Roe (TN) Smith (NJ) Wilson (FL) Bonamici Fincher Kirkpatrick Brown (FL) Garamendi Lowenthal Rogers (AL) Smith (TX) Wilson (SC) Boustany Fitzpatrick Kline Brownley (CA) Garcia Lowey Rogers (KY) Smith (WA) Wittman Brady (PA) Fleischmann Kuster Bucshon Gardner Lucas Rogers (MI) Southerland Wolf Brady (TX) Fleming Labrador Burgess Garrett Luetkemeyer Rohrabacher Speier Womack Braley (IA) Flores LaMalfa Bustos Gerlach Lujan Grisham Rokita Stewart Woodall Bridenstine Forbes Lamborn Butterfield Gibbs (NM) Rooney Stivers Yarmuth Brooks (AL) Fortenberry Lance Byrne Gibson Luja´ n, Ben Ray Ros-Lehtinen Stutzman Yoder Brooks (IN) Foster Langevin Calvert Gingrey (GA) (NM) Roskam Swalwell (CA) Yoho Broun (GA) Foxx Lankford Camp Gohmert Lummis Ross Takano Young (AK) Brown (FL) Frankel (FL) Larsen (WA) Campbell Goodlatte Lynch Rothfus Terry Young (IN) Brownley (CA) Franks (AZ) Larson (CT) Cantor Gosar Maffei Bucshon Frelinghuysen Latham Capito Gowdy Maloney, NOT VOTING—10 Burgess Fudge Latta Capps Granger Carolyn Buchanan Jones Sires Bustos Gallego Lee (CA) Capuano Graves (GA) Maloney, Sean Cleaver McCarthy (NY) Stockman Butterfield Garamendi Levin ´ Cardenas Graves (MO) Marchant Culberson Ruppersberger Byrne Garcia Lewis Carney Grayson Marino Gabbard Rush Calvert Gardner Lipinski Carson (IN) Green, Al Massie Camp Garrett LoBiondo Carter Green, Gene Matheson b 1358 Campbell Gerlach Loebsack Cartwright Griffin (AR) Matsui Cantor Gibbs Lofgren Cassidy Griffith (VA) McAllister Mr. BISHOP of Georgia changed his Capito Gibson Long Castor (FL) Grijalva McCarthy (CA) vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ Capps Gingrey (GA) Lowenthal Castro (TX) Grimm McCaul So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Capuano Gohmert Lowey Chabot Guthrie McClintock Ca´ rdenas Goodlatte Lucas Chaffetz Gutie´rrez McCollum tive) the rules were suspended and the Carney Gosar Luetkemeyer Chu Hahn McDermott bill, as amended, was passed. Carson (IN) Gowdy Lujan Grisham Cicilline Hall McGovern The result of the vote was announced Carter Granger (NM) Clark (MA) Hanabusa McHenry as above recorded. Cartwright Graves (GA) Luja´ n, Ben Ray Clarke (NY) Hanna McIntyre Cassidy Graves (MO) (NM) Clay Harper McKeon The title of the bill was amended so Castor (FL) Grayson Lummis Clyburn Harris McKinley as to read: ‘‘A bill to amend the Securi- Castro (TX) Green, Al Lynch Coble Hartzler McMorris ties Exchange Act of 1934 to exempt Chabot Griffin (AR) Maffei Coffman Hastings (FL) Rodgers from registration brokers performing Chaffetz Griffith (VA) Maloney, Cohen Hastings (WA) McNerney Chu Grijalva Carolyn Cole Heck (NV) Meadows services in connection with the trans- Cicilline Grimm Maloney, Sean Collins (GA) Heck (WA) Meehan fer of ownership of smaller privately Clark (MA) Guthrie Marchant Collins (NY) Hensarling Meeks held companies.’’. Clarke (NY) Gutie´rrez Marino Conaway Herrera Beutler Meng Clay Hahn Massie Connolly Higgins Messer A motion to reconsider was laid on Clyburn Hall Matheson Conyers Himes Mica the table. Coble Hanabusa Matsui Cook Hinojosa Michaud f Coffman Hanna McAllister Cooper Holding Miller (FL) Cohen Harper McCarthy (CA) Costa Holt Miller (MI) HOLDING COMPANY REGISTRA- Cole Harris McCaul Cotton Honda Miller, Gary TION THRESHOLD EQUALIZATION Collins (GA) Hartzler McClintock Courtney Horsford Miller, George Collins (NY) Hastings (FL) McCollum Cramer Hoyer Moore ACT OF 2013 Conaway Hastings (WA) McDermott Crawford Hudson Moran The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Connolly Heck (NV) McGovern Crenshaw Huelskamp Mullin Conyers Heck (WA) McHenry Crowley Huffman Mulvaney MARCHANT). The unfinished business is Cook Hensarling McIntyre Cuellar Huizenga (MI) Murphy (FL) the vote on the motion to suspend the Cooper Herrera Beutler McKeon Cummings Hultgren Murphy (PA) rules and pass the bill (H.R. 801) to Costa Higgins McKinley Daines Hunter Nadler amend the Securities Exchange Act of Cotton Himes McMorris Davis (CA) Hurt Napolitano Courtney Hinojosa Rodgers Davis, Danny Israel Neal 1934 to make the shareholder threshold Cramer Holding McNerney Davis, Rodney Issa Negrete McLeod for registration of savings and loan Crawford Holt Meadows DeFazio Jackson Lee Neugebauer holding companies the same as for Crenshaw Honda Meehan DeGette Jeffries Noem Crowley Horsford Meeks Delaney Jenkins Nolan bank holding companies, on which the Cuellar Hoyer Meng DeLauro Johnson (GA) Nugent yeas and nays were ordered. Cummings Hudson Messer DelBene Johnson (OH) Nunes The Clerk read the title of the bill. Daines Huelskamp Mica Denham Johnson, E. B. Nunnelee The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Davis (CA) Huffman Michaud Dent Johnson, Sam O’Rourke Davis, Danny Huizenga (MI) Miller (FL) DeSantis Jordan Olson question is on the motion offered by Davis, Rodney Hultgren Miller (MI) DesJarlais Joyce Owens the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. DeGette Hunter Miller, Gary

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Vargas Bonamici Horsford Richmond Cotton Kind Schakowsky Pastor (AZ) Sanchez, Loretta Veasey Boustany Huelskamp Courtney Kinzinger (IL) Paulsen Sanford Vela Roby Sewell (AL) Brady (TX) Huffman Crowley Lance Payne Sarbanes Vela´ zquez Roe (TN) Slaughter Bridenstine Hultgren Davis, Rodney Langevin Pearce Scalise Wagner Rogers (KY) Smith (MO) Brooks (AL) Hurt DeFazio Lee (CA) Pelosi Schakowsky Walberg Rogers (MI) Southerland Brown (FL) Issa Denham LoBiondo Perlmutter Schiff Walden Rohrabacher Stivers Brownley (CA) Jackson Lee DeSantis Lynch Perry Schneider Walorski Rokita Terry Duckworth Maffei Peters (CA) Schock Walz Bustos Jeffries Roskam Thompson (CA) Duffy Maloney, Peters (MI) Schrader Wasserman Butterfield Johnson (GA) Ross Thompson (MS) Ellison Carolyn Peterson Schwartz Schultz Byrne Johnson, E. B. Rothfus Thompson (PA) Ellmers Maloney, Sean Petri Schweikert Waters Calvert Johnson, Sam Roybal-Allard Tiberi Farenthold Marchant Pingree (ME) Scott (VA) Waxman Camp Kaptur Royce Tipton Fitzpatrick Matheson Pittenger Scott, Austin Weber (TX) Campbell Kelly (IL) Turner Ruiz Fleming McDermott Pitts Scott, David Webster (FL) Cantor Kelly (PA) Upton Runyan Flores McGovern Pocan Sensenbrenner Welch Capito Kennedy Ryan (WI) Forbes McKinley Valadao Poe (TX) Serrano Wenstrup Capps Kildee Salmon Foxx Miller (FL) Veasey Polis Sessions Westmoreland Ca´ rdenas King (IA) ´ Sa´ nchez, Linda Garcia Miller, George Velazquez Pompeo Sewell (AL) Whitfield Carney King (NY) T. Gardner Moore Visclosky Posey Shea-Porter Williams Carson (IN) Kingston Sanchez, Loretta Gerlach Negrete McLeod Walberg Price (GA) Sherman Wilson (FL) Carter Kirkpatrick Scalise Gibson Nolan Walden Price (NC) Shimkus Wilson (SC) Cartwright Kline Schiff Gingrey (GA) Nugent Walorski Quigley Shuster Wittman Cassidy Kuster Schneider Graves (GA) Palazzo Wittman Radel Simpson Wolf Castro (TX) Labrador Schock Graves (MO) Pallone Woodall Rahall Sinema Womack Chabot LaMalfa Green, Al Pastor (AZ) Yoder Rangel Slaughter Woodall Schrader Chu Lamborn Green, Gene Paulsen Young (AK) Reed Smith (MO) Yarmuth Schwartz Cicilline Lankford Schweikert Reichert Smith (NE) Yoder Clark (MA) Larsen (WA) ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—3 Renacci Smith (NJ) Yoho Scott (VA) Clay Larson (CT) Scott, Austin Gohmert Owens Weber (TX) Ribble Smith (TX) Young (AK) Clyburn Latham Scott, David Rice (SC) Smith (WA) Young (IN) Coble Latta Sensenbrenner NOT VOTING—17 Cohen NAYS—4 Levin Serrano Buchanan Garamendi Murphy (FL) Cole Lewis Sessions Cleaver Jones Price (NC) DeFazio Green, Gene Collins (NY) Lipinski Dingell Visclosky Shea-Porter Culberson Lujan Grisham Ruppersberger Conyers Loebsack Sherman Deutch (NM) Rush Cook Lofgren NOT VOTING—11 Shimkus Frankel (FL) McCarthy (NY) Sires Cooper Long Shuster Gabbard McKeon Stockman Buchanan Gabbard Rush Cramer Lowenthal Simpson Cleaver Jones Sires Crawford Lowey b 1414 Culberson McCarthy (NY) Sinema Stockman Crenshaw Lucas Deutch Ruppersberger Smith (NE) Cuellar Luetkemeyer So the Journal was approved. Smith (NJ) Cummings Luja´ n, Ben Ray The result of the vote was announced Smith (TX) Daines (NM) b 1408 Smith (WA) as above recorded. Davis (CA) Lummis Speier Mr. DEFAZIO changed his vote from Davis, Danny Marino f Stewart ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ DeGette Massie Delaney Matsui Stutzman OPM IG ACT So (two-thirds being in the affirma- DeLauro McAllister Swalwell (CA) tive) the rules were suspended and the Takano Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I DelBene McCarthy (CA) move to suspend the rules and pass the bill was passed. Dent McCaul Thornberry DesJarlais McClintock Tierney bill (H.R. 2860) to amend title 5, United The result of the vote was announced Titus as above recorded. Diaz-Balart McCollum States Code, to provide that the In- Dingell McHenry Tonko spector General of the Office of Per- A motion to reconsider was laid on Tsongas Doggett McIntyre sonnel Management may use amounts the table. Doyle McMorris Van Hollen Duncan (SC) Rodgers Vargas in the revolving fund of the Office to Duncan (TN) McNerney Vela fund audits, investigations, and over- f Edwards Meadows Wagner sight activities, and for other purposes. Engel Meehan Walz Enyart Meeks Wasserman The Clerk read the title of the bill. THE JOURNAL Eshoo Meng Schultz The text of the bill is as follows: The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Esty Messer Waters H.R. 2860 Waxman finished business is the question on Farr Mica Fattah Michaud Webster (FL) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of Fincher Miller (MI) Welch resentatives of the United States of America in the Journal, on which the yeas and Fleischmann Miller, Gary Wenstrup Congress assembled, nays were ordered. Fortenberry Moran Westmoreland SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Foster Mullin Whitfield This Act may be cited as the ‘‘OPM IG The question is on the Speaker’s ap- Williams Franks (AZ) Mulvaney Act’’. proval of the Journal. Frelinghuysen Murphy (PA) Wilson (FL) This will be a 5-minute vote. Fudge Nadler Wilson (SC) SEC. 2. USE OF OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGE- The vote was taken by electronic de- Gallego Napolitano Wolf MENT REVOLVING FUND FOR AU- DITS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND OVER- vice, and there were—yeas 274, nays Garrett Neal Womack Gibbs Neugebauer Yarmuth SIGHT ACTIVITIES. 138, answered ‘‘present’’ 3, not voting Goodlatte Noem Yoho Subsection (e) of section 1304 of title 5, 17, as follows: Gosar Nunes Young (IN) United States Code, is amended—

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McFarland stated his office was at This legislation would allow the OPM (B) by adding at the end the following: a point where it could not meet its Inspector General to use a very small ‘‘(B) Such budget shall include an estimate statutory obligation to effectively portion of the revolving fund budget, from the Inspector General of the Office of oversee revolving fund activities. He up to a maximum of one-third of 1 per- the amount required to pay the expenses to audit, investigate, and provide other over- noted that his office had been ‘‘inun- cent of the fund, to pay for audit, in- sight activities with respect to the fund and dated with requests from OPM to audit vestigative, and oversight work. the activities financed by the fund. and/or investigate different parts of re- The recent Navy Yard shooting and ‘‘(C) The amount requested by the Inspec- volving fund programs,’’ from technical the Edward Snowden leaks of classified tor General under subparagraph (B) shall not audit work to the continuing flow of information have highlighted the im- exceed .33 percent of the total budgetary au- allegations involving falsifications of portance of comprehensive oversight of thority requested by the Office under sub- background investigations and abuse of the Federal Government’s background paragraph (A).’’. authority. investigation and security clearance The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- The OPM Inspector General has in- process. ant to the rule, the gentleman from vestigated a number of cases involving During last June’s Federal Workforce Texas (Mr. FARENTHOLD) and the gen- the falsification of background inves- Subcommittee hearing on OPM’s re- tleman from Maryland (Mr. CUMMINGS) tigations, including reporting of inves- volving fund, the OPM Inspector Gen- each will control 20 minutes. tigations that never occurred, record- eral expressed substantial concerns The Chair recognizes the gentleman ing answers to questions that were about the falsification of background from Texas. never asked, and documents record investigations. GENERAL LEAVE checks that were never conducted. The OPM Inspector General plays a Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I Within the military departments at 81 crucial part in ensuring that the back- ask unanimous consent that all Mem- percent of OPM’s customer base, these ground investigation process used by bers may have 5 legislative days within cases have serious national security the government to determine whether which to revise and extend their re- implications. individuals should be trusted with our marks and include extraneous mate- Inspector General McFarland testi- Nation’s classified and sensitive infor- rials on the bill under consideration. fied before the Federal Workforce Sub- mation is properly conducted. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there committee in June, and he said the This legislation would give the OPM objection to the request of the gen- OPM’s revolving fund programs ‘‘have Inspector General the funds and re- tleman from Texas? been operating in the shadows for too sources needed to conduct the nec- There was no objection. long,’’ adding the often-cited phrase essary oversight activities to help safe- Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I ‘‘sunshine is the best disinfectant.’’ guard our government against national yield myself such time as I may con- H.R. 2860 would allow the OPM IG to security risks. sume. use a portion of the revolving fund The Senate has already passed a sub- H.R. 2860 responds to the Office of moneys to pay for related audit and in- stantially similar bill, and I ask all of Personnel Management Inspector Gen- vestigation work. The OPM IG’s re- my colleagues on both sides of the aisle eral’s call for increased oversight of sources would be limited to one-third to join me in supporting H.R. 2860. the OPM’s revolving fund by providing of 1 percent of the revolving fund budg- With that, I reserve the balance of the IG access to a portion of that re- et, and the IG would be required to sub- my time. volving fund moneys for oversight. mit an annual budget request and re- Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I H.R. 2860 recognizes oversight as a le- port detailing its revolving fund over- yield myself such time as I may con- gitimate business cost by using exist- sight work. sume. ing funds to help the IG respond to the H.R. 2860 provides resources for crit- I would like to thank Mr. CUMMINGS increased referrals of alleged fraud ical oversight that can be accom- and Mr. LYNCH for working together in within the OPM’s revolving fund oper- plished at relatively low cost, using ex- such a bipartisan manner on this very ations, including especially in the isting funds. important national security bill. background investigation used to de- I urge the adoption of this bipartisan It is a commonsense, good govern- termine an individual’s eligibility for a bill, and I reserve the balance of my ment bill that is designed to use exist- security clearance. time. ing funds that are brought into the The Office of Personnel Management Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield OPM to oversee the OPM. They have serves as the regulator for these rules myself such time as I may consume. got a huge chunk of money here that is affecting the management of Federal I rise in strong support of H.R. 2860, coming from the background checks, workers, but has also evolved into a the OPM IG Act, which is a successful and they don’t have the resources nec- fee-based service provider that provides product of the bipartisan efforts of essary to adequately make sure these billions of dollars in services each year Federal Workforce Subcommittee background checks are going to be to the very agencies governed by Chairman Farenthold and Ranking done. OPM’s rules. Member LYNCH, and I applaud them for Mr. CUMMINGS cited numerous exam- The revolving fund budget has grown their efforts. ples of how the failures in the system significantly over the past 15 years, I thank my distinguished colleagues have resulted in tragedies and have re- from $191 million to more than $2 bil- for their work and commitment in sulted in information getting out. We lion today. OPM’s revolving fund budg- sponsoring legislation to provide the need to make sure these background et is almost 91 percent of OPM’s budg- Inspector General of the Office of Per- checks are being done properly, we et; yet the resources available for the sonnel Management with critically need to make sure this money is being IG to audit these funds have not kept needed funding to perform audits, in- administered properly, and this bipar- pace with the growing amounts. vestigations, and oversight of OPM’s tisan bill does that. For over 30 years, both the General revolving fund activities. I too urge my colleagues to pass the Accountability Office and OPM Inspec- Through the revolving fund, OPM bill, and I reserve the balance of my tors General have been concerned provides approximately $2 billion in time. about the management of resources in services to agencies on a fee-for-service Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield the revolving fund. Each has issued a basis. These services include back- 5 minutes to the gentleman from Mas- number of reports and audits exam- ground investigations, leadership sachusetts (Mr. LYNCH), the cosponsor

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Mr. Speaker, I in strong support of Mr. FARENTHOLD’s fund budget. Assuming a revolving yield back the balance of my time. measure here, H.R. 2860, the OPM In- budget of $2 billion, the Inspector Gen- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The spector General Act, legislation that eral may be authorized to receive up to question is on the motion offered by will enhance oversight of the back- a maximum of $6.6 million to fund the gentleman from Texas (Mr. ground check process for the issuance oversight costs. FARENTHOLD) that the House suspend of government security clearances. b 1430 the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 2860. At the outset as well, I would like to The question was taken. thank the subcommittee chairman, Mr. Common sense indicates that giving The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the the OPM Inspector General authority FARENTHOLD, for working in a bipar- opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being tisan manner to sponsor H.R. 2860. I for this funding is a sensible and pru- in the affirmative, the ayes have it. would also like to thank our full com- dent investment. Moreover, if national Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, on security is implicated, the importance mittee chairman, Mr. ISSA, and rank- that I demand the yeas and nays. of preventing or mitigating national The yeas and nays were ordered. ing member, Mr. CUMMINGS, the gen- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- tleman from Maryland, for their hard security threats is, of course, immeas- ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- work and their leadership on this legis- urable. Let me also add that this proposal ceedings on this motion will be post- lation as well. was included in the President’s fiscal Recent events involving Edward poned. year 2014 budget request, and the Sen- Snowden and his leaking of classified f ate passed, by unanimous consent, sub- information and as well Aaron Alexis stantially similar legislation last Octo- PRESIDENTIAL AND FEDERAL and the tragic shooting at the Wash- ber. In addition, a provision granting RECORDS ACT AMENDMENTS OF ington Navy Yard have called atten- the OPM Inspector General access to 2014 tion to the need to reexamine and im- the revolving fund was included in the Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I prove the Federal Government’s back- omnibus appropriation bill released move to suspend the rules and pass the ground investigation and security just last night. I would note, however, bill (H.R. 1233) to amend chapter 22 of clearance process. title 44, United States Code, popularly H.R. 2860 is a key component of our that that provision expires after 1 year. So Mr. FARENTHOLD’s legislation, known as the Presidential Records Act, examinations. This legislation provides which I have cosponsored, is incredibly to establish procedures for the consid- the Inspector General of the Office of important and should be adopted. I eration of claims of constitutionally Personnel Management with the re- urge my colleagues on both sides of the based privilege against disclosure of sources that he needs to assist Con- aisle to join with myself and Mr. CUM- Presidential records, and for other pur- gress in our review and oversight of a MINGS and Mr. FARENTHOLD. poses, as amended. process that is critical within our na- Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, if I The Clerk read the title of the bill. tional security framework. could inquire of the gentleman from The text of the bill is as follows: We rely heavily on our Inspectors Maryland if he has any additional H.R. 1233 General. They are at the front lines of speakers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of investigating fraud, waste, and abuse Mr. CUMMINGS. We have no addi- Representatives of the United States of America in government programs. We as Mem- tional speakers, Mr. Speaker. in Congress assembled, bers of the legislature rely heavily on Mr. FARENTHOLD. At this point, I SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. them in getting accurate information. would like to wrap it up and close. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as In particular, H.R. 2860 would give Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from the ‘‘Presidential and Federal Records Act the Office of Personnel Management Amendments of 2014’’. Virginia and the gentleman from Mary- (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con- the authority to access a portion of land pointed out, this is a common- tents for this Act is as follows: OPM’s revolving fund to pay for audits, sense, good government bill that has Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. investigations, and oversight of the strong national security implications Sec. 2. Presidential records. agency’s revolving fund program, and I am going to urge all my col- Sec. 3. National Archives and Records Ad- ministration. which includes the Federal Govern- leagues to support it. ment’s background investigations proc- Sec. 4. Records management by Federal Again, even though it was included in agencies. ess, their leadership training, and per- the omnibus that is coming through Sec. 5. Disposal of records. sonnel management solutions. that is 1 year, this creates permanent Sec. 6. Procedures to prevent unauthorized I think OPM Inspector General Pat- law where we continue to do this nec- removal of classified records rick McFarland did a great job on this essary and appropriate oversight at a from National Archives. Sec. 7. Repeal of provisions related to the in making us aware of the necessity for fraction of the percent of the cost of this legislation. During a June 2013 National Study Commission on the budget, absolutely a phenomenal Records and Documents of Fed- Federal Workforce Subcommittee hear- bill that we all need to get behind and eral Officials. ing, as has been noted, Mr. McFarland support. Sec. 8. Pronoun amendments. stated that his office was handicapped I reserve the balance of my time. Sec. 9. Records management by the Archi- in its ability to conduct proper over- Mr. CUMMINGS. I yield myself such vist. sight of the OPM’s revolving fund ac- time as I may consume as I close. Sec. 10. Disclosure requirement for official tivities. Mr. Speaker, I take this moment to business conducted using non- official electronic messaging thank Mr. FARENTHOLD, to thank Mr. Under existing law, the Inspector account. LYNCH and certainly our chairman, General’s oversight costs cannot be SEC. 2. PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS. charged to the revolving fund. As a re- Chairman ISSA, for this bipartisan ef- (a) PROCEDURES FOR CONSIDERATION OF sult, for fiscal year 2013, the Inspector fort. It just makes sense. There are cer- CLAIMS OF CONSTITUTIONALLY BASED PRIVI- General had only available $3 million tain things that happen that we see in LEGE AGAINST DISCLOSURE.— to conduct oversight of OPM’s program government that need correcting, and (1) AMENDMENT.—Chapter 22 of title 44, involving $2 billion. this is one of those things. The fact United States Code, is amended by adding at Because of these limited resources, that we have now put a spotlight on it the end the following: the OPM Inspector General was not and, through a bipartisan effort, have ‘‘§ 2208. Claims of constitutionally based able to thoroughly investigate issues put together legislation that should privilege against disclosure regarding falsification of background pass this House unanimously, it just ‘‘(a)(1) When the Archivist determines investigations, conduct audits of the shows what can be done. under this chapter to make available to the

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The Archivist mination to— before the end of the period specified in sub- may not disclose any such records, except ‘‘(i) the former President during whose paragraph (A), the Archivist shall release the under direction of the President, until the term of office the record was created; and Presidential record subject to the claim at conclusion of a President’s term of office, if ‘‘(ii) the incumbent President; and the end of the 90-day period beginning on the a President serves consecutive terms upon ‘‘(B) make the notice available to the pub- date on which the Archivist received notifi- the conclusion of the last term, or such lic. cation of the claim, unless otherwise di- other period provided for under section 2204 ‘‘(2) The notice under paragraph (1)— rected by a court order in an action initiated of this title.’’; and ‘‘(A) shall be in writing; and by the former President under section 2204(e) (5) in subsection (g)(1), as so redesignated, ‘‘(B) shall include such information as may of this title or by a court order in another by striking ‘‘Act’’ and inserting ‘‘chapter’’. be prescribed in regulations issued by the Ar- action in any Federal court. chivist. ‘‘(d) The Archivist shall not make publicly (d) RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS TO PRESI- ‘‘(3)(A) Upon the expiration of the 60-day available a Presidential record (or reason- DENTIAL RECORDS.—Section 2204 of title 44, period (excepting Saturdays, Sundays, and ably segregable part of a record) that is sub- United States Code, is amended by adding at legal public holidays) beginning on the date ject to a privilege claim asserted by the in- the end the following new subsection: the Archivist provides notice under para- cumbent President unless— ‘‘(f) The Archivist shall not make available graph (1)(A), the Archivist shall make avail- ‘‘(1) the incumbent President withdraws any original Presidential records to any indi- able to the public the Presidential record the privilege claim; or vidual claiming access to any Presidential covered by the notice, except any record (or ‘‘(2) the Archivist is otherwise directed by record as a designated representative under reasonably segregable part of a record) with a final court order that is not subject to ap- respect to which the Archivist receives from section 2205(3) of this title if that individual peal. has been convicted of a crime relating to the a former President or the incumbent Presi- ‘‘(e) The Archivist shall adjust any other- dent notification of a claim of constitu- review, retention, removal, or destruction of wise applicable time period under this sec- records of the Archives.’’. tionally based privilege against disclosure tion as necessary to comply with the return under subsection (b). (e) DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT FOR OFFICIAL ‘‘(B) A former President or the incumbent date of any congressional subpoena, judicial subpoena, or judicial process.’’. BUSINESS CONDUCTED USING NON-OFFICIAL President may extend the period under sub- ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ACCOUNT.— paragraph (A) once for not more than 30 ad- (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(A) Section 2204(d) of title 44, United States Code, is (1) AMENDMENT.—Chapter 22 of title 44, ditional days (excepting Saturdays, Sundays, United States Code, as amended by sub- and legal public holidays) by filing with the amended by inserting ‘‘, except section 2208,’’ section (a)(1), is further amended by adding Archivist a statement that such an exten- after ‘‘chapter’’. at the end the following new section: sion is necessary to allow an adequate review (B) Section 2205 of title 44, United States of the record. Code, is amended— ‘‘§ 2209. Disclosure requirement for official ‘‘(C) Notwithstanding subparagraphs (A) (i) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), business conducted using non-official elec- and (B), if the 60-day period under subpara- by striking ‘‘section 2204’’ and inserting tronic messaging accounts graph (A), or any extension of that period ‘‘sections 2204 and 2208 of this title’’; and under subparagraph (B), would otherwise ex- (ii) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘sub- ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—An officer or employee pire during the 6-month period after the in- pena’’ and inserting ‘‘subpoena’’. of an executive agency may not create or cumbent President first takes office, then (C) Section 2207 of title 44, United States send a Presidential record using a non-offi- that 60-day period or extension, respectively, Code, is amended in the second sentence by cial electronic messaging account unless shall expire at the end of that 6-month pe- inserting ‘‘, except section 2208,’’ after such officer or employee— riod. ‘‘chapter’’. ‘‘(1) copies an official electronic messaging ‘‘(b)(1) For purposes of this section, the de- (3) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of account of the officer or employee in the cision to assert any claim of constitutionally sections at the beginning of chapter 22 of original creation or transmission of the based privilege against disclosure of a Presi- title 44, United States Code, is amended by Presidential record; or dential record (or reasonably segregable part adding at the end the following: ‘‘(2) forwards a complete copy of the Presi- of a record) must be made personally by a dential record to an official electronic mes- former President or the incumbent Presi- ‘‘2208. Claims of constitutionally based privi- saging account of the officer or employee dent, as applicable. lege against disclosure.’’. within five days after the original creation ‘‘(2) A former President or the incumbent (4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in the or transmission of the Presidential record. President shall notify the Archivist, the amendment made by paragraph (2)(C) shall Committee on Oversight and Government be construed to— ‘‘(b) ADVERSE ACTIONS.—The intentional Reform of the House of Representatives, and (A) affect the requirement of section 2207 violation of subsection (a) (including any the Committee on Homeland Security and of title 44, United States Code, that Vice rules, regulations, or other implementing Governmental Affairs of the Senate of a Presidential records shall be subject to chap- guidelines), as determined by the appro- privilege claim under paragraph (1) on the ter 22 of that title in the same manner as priate supervisor, shall be a basis for dis- same day that the claim is asserted under Presidential records; or ciplinary action in accordance with sub- such paragraph. (B) affect any claim of constitutionally chapter I, II, or V of chapter 75 of title 5, as ‘‘(c)(1) If a claim of constitutionally based the case may be. privilege against disclosure of a Presidential based privilege by a President or former record (or reasonably segregable part of a President with respect to a Vice Presidential ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: record) is asserted under subsection (b) by a record. ‘‘(1) ELECTRONIC MESSAGES.—The term (b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 2201 of title 44, former President, the Archivist shall consult ‘electronic messages’ means electronic mail United States Code, is amended— with the incumbent President, as soon as and other electronic messaging systems that (1) in paragraph (1)— practicable during the period specified in are used for purposes of communicating be- paragraph (2)(A), to determine whether the (A) by striking ‘‘memorandums’’ and in- tween individuals. incumbent President will uphold the claim serting ‘‘memoranda’’; ‘‘(2) ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ACCOUNT.—The asserted by the former President. (B) by striking ‘‘audio, audiovisual’’ and term ‘electronic messaging account’ means ‘‘(2)(A) Not later than the end of the 30-day inserting ‘‘audio and visual records’’; and any account that sends electronic messages. period beginning on the date of which the (C) by inserting ‘‘, whether in analog, dig- ‘‘(3) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘execu- Archivist receives notification from a former ital, or any other form’’ after ‘‘mechanical tive agency’ has the meaning given that President of the assertion of a claim of con- recordations’’; and term in section 105 of title 5.’’. stitutionally based privilege against disclo- (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘advise (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sure, the Archivist shall provide notice to and assist’’ and inserting ‘‘advise or assist’’. sections at the beginning of chapter 22 of ANAGEMENT AND CUSTODY OF PRESI- the former President and the public of the (c) M title 44, United States Code, as amended by DENTIAL RECORDS.—Section 2203 of title 44, decision of the incumbent President under subsection (a)(3), is further amended by add- United States Code, is amended— paragraph (1) regarding the claim. ing at the end the following new item: ‘‘(B) If the incumbent President upholds (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘main- the claim of privilege asserted by the former tained’’ and inserting ‘‘preserved and main- ‘‘2209. Disclosure requirement for official President, the Archivist shall not make the tained’’; business conducted using non- Presidential record (or reasonably segregable (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘advise official electronic messaging part of a record) subject to the claim pub- and assist’’ and inserting ‘‘advise or assist’’; accounts.’’ licly available unless— (3) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub- ‘‘(i) the incumbent President withdraws section (g); SEC. 3. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS AD- MINISTRATION. the decision upholding the claim of privilege (4) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol- asserted by the former President; or lowing new subsection: (a) ACCEPTANCE OF RECORDS FOR HISTOR- ‘‘(ii) the Archivist is otherwise directed by ‘‘(f) During a President’s term of office, the ICAL PRESERVATION.—Section 2107 of title 44, a final court order that is not subject to ap- Archivist may maintain and preserve Presi- United States Code, is amended to read as peal. dential records on behalf of the President, follows:

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‘‘§ 2107. Acceptance of records for historical ‘‘§ 2114. Preservation of audio and visual ‘‘(2) RECORDED INFORMATION DEFINED.—For preservation records purposes of paragraph (1), the term ‘recorded ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—When it appears to the ‘‘The Archivist may make and preserve information’ includes all traditional forms of Archivist to be in the public interest, the Ar- audio and visual records, including motion- records, regardless of physical form or char- chivist may— picture films, still photographs, and sound acteristics, including information created, ‘‘(1) accept for deposit with the National recordings, in analog, digital, or any other manipulated, communicated, or stored in Archives of the United States the records of form, pertaining to and illustrative of the digital or electronic form. a Federal agency, the Congress, the Archi- historical development of the United States ‘‘(b) DETERMINATION OF DEFINITION.—The tect of the Capitol, or the Supreme Court de- Government and its activities, and provide Archivist’s determination whether recorded termined by the Archivist to have sufficient for preparing, editing, titling, scoring, proc- information, regardless of whether it exists historical or other value to warrant their essing, duplicating, reproducing, exhibiting, in physical, digital, or electronic form, is a continued preservation by the United States and releasing for non-profit educational pur- record as defined in subsection (a) shall be Government; poses, motion-picture films, still photo- binding on all Federal agencies.’’. ‘‘(2) direct and effect the transfer of graphs, and sound recordings in the Archi- (b) REGULATIONS COVERING LISTS OF records of a Federal agency determined by vist’s custody.’’. RECORDS FOR DISPOSAL, PROCEDURE FOR DIS- the Archivist to have sufficient historical or (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of POSAL, AND STANDARDS FOR REPRODUCTION.— other value to warrant their continued pres- sections at the beginning of chapter 21 of Section 3302(3) of title 44, United States ervation by the United States Government title 44, United States Code, is amended by Code, is amended by striking ‘‘photographic to the National Archives of the United striking the item for section 2114 and insert- or microphotographic processes’’ and insert- States, as soon as practicable, and at a time ing the following: ing ‘‘photographic, microphotographic, or mutually agreed upon by the Archivist and ‘‘2114. Preservation of audio and visual digital processes’’. the head of that Federal agency not later records.’’. (c) LISTS AND SCHEDULES OF RECORDS TO BE than thirty years after such records were (d) LEGAL STATUS OF REPRODUCTIONS; OFFI- SUBMITTED TO THE ARCHIVIST BY HEAD OF created or received by that agency, unless EACH GOVERNMENT AGENCY.—Section 3303(1) the head of such agency has certified in writ- CIAL SEAL; FEES FOR COPIES AND REPRODUC- TIONS.—Section 2116(a) of title 44, United of title 44, United States Code, is amended by ing to the Archivist that such records must striking ‘‘photographed or microphoto- be retained in the custody of such agency for States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘dig- ital,’’ after ‘‘microphotographic,’’, each graphed’’ and inserting ‘‘photographed, use in the conduct of the regular business of microphotographed, or digitized’’. the agency; place it appears. (d) EXAMINATION BY ARCHIVIST OF LISTS ‘‘(3) direct and effect, with the approval of SEC. 4. RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY FEDERAL AND SCHEDULES OF RECORDS LACKING PRESER- the head of the originating Federal agency, AGENCIES. VATION VALUE; DISPOSAL OF RECORDS.—Sec- or if the existence of the agency has been Section 3106 of title 44, United States Code, tion 3303a(c) of title 44, United States Code, terminated, with the approval of the head of is amended to read as follows: is amended by striking ‘‘the Committee on that agency’s successor in function, if any, ‘‘§ 3106. Unlawful removal, destruction of Rules and Administration of the Senate and the transfer of records, deposited or approved records the Committee on House Oversight of the for deposit with the National Archives of the ‘‘(a) FEDERAL AGENCY NOTIFICATION.—The House of Representatives’’ and inserting United States to public or educational insti- head of each Federal agency shall notify the ‘‘the Committee on Oversight and Govern- tutions or associations; title to the records Archivist of any actual, impending, or ment Reform of the House of Representa- to remain vested in the United States unless threatened unlawful removal, defacing, al- tives and the Committee on Homeland Secu- otherwise authorized by Congress; and teration, corruption, deletion, erasure, or ‘‘(4) transfer materials from private rity and Governmental Affairs of the Sen- other destruction of records in the custody ate’’. sources authorized to be received by the Ar- of the agency, and with the assistance of the (e) PHOTOGRAPHS OR MICROPHOTOGRAPHS OF chivist by section 2111 of this title. Archivist shall initiate action through the RECORDS CONSIDERED AS ORIGINALS; CER- ‘‘(b) EARLY TRANSFER OF RECORDS.—The Attorney General for the recovery of records TIFIED REPRODUCTIONS ADMISSIBLE IN EVI- Archivist— the head of the Federal agency knows or has ‘‘(1) in consultation with the head of the DENCE.—Section 3312 of title 44, United reason to believe have been unlawfully re- States Code, is amended— originating Federal agency, is authorized to moved from that agency, or from another accept a copy of the records described in sub- (1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘Pho- Federal agency whose records have been tographs or microphotographs of records’’ section (a)(2) that have been in existence for transferred to the legal custody of that Fed- less than thirty years; and and inserting ‘‘Photographs, microphoto- eral agency. graphs of records, or digitized records’’; and ‘‘(2) may not disclose any such records ‘‘(b) ARCHIVIST NOTIFICATION.—In any case (2) in the second sentence, by striking until the expiration of— in which the head of a Federal agency does ‘‘photographs or microphotographs’’ and in- ‘‘(A) the thirty-year period described in not initiate an action for such recovery or serting ‘‘photographs, microphotographs, or paragraph (1); other redress within a reasonable period of digitized records’’, each place it appears. ‘‘(B) any longer period established by the time after being notified of any such unlaw- Archivist by order; or ful action described in subsection (a), or is SEC. 6. PROCEDURES TO PREVENT UNAUTHOR- ‘‘(C) any shorter period agreed to by the participating in, or believed to be partici- IZED REMOVAL OF CLASSIFIED originating Federal agency.’’. RECORDS FROM NATIONAL AR- pating in any such unlawful action, the Ar- CHIVES. (b) MATERIAL ACCEPTED FOR DEPOSIT.—Sec- chivist shall request the Attorney General to tion 2111 of title 44, United States Code, is (a) CLASSIFIED RECORDS.—Not later than 90 initiate such an action, and shall notify the amended to read as follows: days after the date of the enactment of this Congress when such a request has been Act, the Archivist shall prescribe internal ‘‘§ 2111. Material accepted for deposit made.’’. ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—When the Archivist con- procedures to prevent the unauthorized re- SEC. 5. DISPOSAL OF RECORDS. moval of classified records from the National siders it to be in the public interest the Ar- (a) DEFINITION OF RECORDS.—Section 3301 of chivist may accept for deposit— Archives and Records Administration or the title 44, United States Code, is amended to destruction or damage of such records, in- ‘‘(1) the papers and other historical mate- read as follows: rials of a President or former President of cluding when such records are accessed or ‘‘§ 3301. Definition of records the United States, or other official or former searched electronically. Such procedures official of the Government, and other papers ‘‘(a) RECORDS DEFINED.— shall include, at a minimum, the following relating to and contemporary with a Presi- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—As used in this chapter, prohibitions: dent or former President of the United the term ‘records’— (1) An individual, other than covered per- States, subject to restrictions agreeable to ‘‘(A) includes all recorded information, re- sonnel, may not view classified records in the Archivist as to their use; and gardless of form or characteristics, made or any room that is not secure, except in the ‘‘(2) recorded information (as such term is received by a Federal agency under Federal presence of National Archives and Records defined in section 3301(a)(2) of this title) law or in connection with the transaction of Administration personnel or under video sur- from private sources that are appropriate for public business and preserved or appropriate veillance. preservation by the Government as evidence for preservation by that agency or its legiti- (2) An individual, other than covered per- of its organization, functions, policies, deci- mate successor as evidence of the organiza- sonnel, may not be left alone with classified sions, procedures, and transactions. tion, functions, policies, decisions, proce- records, unless that individual is under video ‘‘(b) EXCEPTION.—This section shall not dures, operations, or other activities of the surveillance. apply in the case of any Presidential records United States Government or because of the (3) An individual, other than covered per- which are subject to the provisions of chap- informational value of data in them; and sonnel, may not review classified records ter 22 of this title.’’. ‘‘(B) does not include— while possessing any cellular phone, elec- (c) PRESERVATION OF AUDIO AND VISUAL ‘‘(i) library and museum material made or tronic personal communication device, or RECORDS.— acquired and preserved solely for reference any other devices capable of photographing, (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 2114 of title 44, or exhibition purposes; or recording, or transferring images or content. United States Code, is amended to read as ‘‘(ii) duplicate copies of records preserved (4) An individual seeking access to review follows: only for convenience. classified records, as a precondition to such

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access, must consent to a search of their be- (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘his’’ and (d) INSPECTION OF AGENCY RECORDS.—Sec- longings upon conclusion of their records re- inserting ‘‘the former President’s’’; tion 2906 of title 44, United States Code, is view. (6) in section 2901(11), by striking ‘‘his’’ and amended— (5) All notes and other writings prepared inserting ‘‘the Archivist’s’’; (1) in subsection (a)— by an individual, other than covered per- (7) in section 2904(c)(6), by striking ‘‘his’’ (A) in paragraph (1)— sonnel, during the course of a review of clas- and inserting ‘‘the Archivist’s’’; (i) by striking ‘‘their respective’’ and in- sified records shall be retained by the Na- (8) in section 2905(a)— serting ‘‘the’’; tional Archives and Records Administration (A) by striking ‘‘He’’ and inserting ‘‘The (ii) by striking ‘‘the Administrator of Gen- in a secure facility until such notes and Archivist’’; and eral Services and’’; other writings are determined to be unclassi- (B) by striking ‘‘his’’ and inserting ‘‘the (iii) by striking ‘‘designee of either’’ and fied, are declassified, or are securely trans- Archivist’s’’; inserting ‘‘the Archivist’s designee’’; ferred to another secure facility. (9) in section 3103, by striking ‘‘he’’ and in- (iv) by striking ‘‘solely’’; and (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: serting ‘‘the head of such agency’’; (v) by inserting after ‘‘for the improvement (1) COVERED PERSONNEL.—The term ‘‘cov- (10) in section 3104— of records management practices and pro- ered personnel’’ means any individual— (A) by striking ‘‘his’’the first place it ap- grams’’ the following: ‘‘and for determining (A) who has an appropriate and necessary pears and inserting ‘‘such official’s’’; and whether the records of Federal agencies have reason for accessing classified records, as de- (B) by striking ‘‘him or his’’ and inserting sufficient value to warrant continued preser- termined by the Archivist; and ‘‘such official or such official’s’’; vation or lack sufficient value to justify con- (B) who is either— (11) in section 3105, by striking ‘‘he’’ and tinued preservation’’; (i) an officer or employee of the United inserting ‘‘the head of such agency’’; (B) in paragraph (2)— States Government with appropriate secu- (12) in section 3302(1), by striking ‘‘him’’ (i) by striking ‘‘the Administrator and’’; rity clearances; or and inserting ‘‘the Archivist’’; and and (ii) any personnel with appropriate secu- (13) in section 3303a— (ii) by striking the second sentence; and rity clearances of a Federal contractor au- (A) in subsection (a)— (C) in paragraph (3)— thorized in writing to act for purposes of this (i) by striking ‘‘him’’ and inserting ‘‘the (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph section by an officer or employee of the Archivist’’, each place it appears; and (A)— United States Government. (ii) by striking ‘‘he’’ and inserting ‘‘the Ar- (I) by striking ‘‘the Administrator or’’; and (2) RECORDS.—The term ‘‘records’’ has the chivist’’; (II) by striking ‘‘designee of either’’ and in- meaning given that term under section 3301 (B) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘he’’ and serting ‘‘Archivist’s designee’’; and of title 44, United States Code. inserting ‘‘the Archivist’’; (ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘the SEC. 7. REPEAL OF PROVISIONS RELATED TO (C) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘his’’ and Administrator, the Archivist,’’ and inserting THE NATIONAL STUDY COMMISSION inserting ‘‘the Archivist’s’’; and ‘‘the Archivist’’; and ON RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS OF (D) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘he’’ and (2) in subsection (b)— FEDERAL OFFICIALS. inserting ‘‘the Archivist’’. (A) by striking ‘‘the Administrator and’’; (a) IN GENERAL.—Sections 3315 through 3324 SEC. 9. RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY THE ARCHI- and of title 44, United States Code, are repealed. VIST. (B) by striking ‘‘designee of either’’ and in- (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of (a) OBJECTIVES OF RECORDS MANAGEMENT.— serting ‘‘Archivist’s designee’’. sections at the beginning of chapter 33 of Section 2902 of title 44, United States Code, (e) REPORTS; CORRECTION OF VIOLATIONS.— title 44, United States Code, is amended by is amended— Section 2115 of title 44, United States Code, striking the items relating to sections 3315 (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘creation is amended— through 3324. and of records maintenance and use’’ and in- (1) in subsection (a)— serting ‘‘creation, maintenance, transfer, (A) by striking ‘‘their respective’’ and in- SEC. 8. PRONOUN AMENDMENTS. and use’’; serting ‘‘the’’; Title 44, United States Code, is amended— (2) in paragraph (6), by inserting after (B) by striking ‘‘and the Administrator’’; (1) in section 2116(c), by striking ‘‘his’’ and ‘‘Federal paperwork’’ the following: ‘‘and the and inserting ‘‘the Archivist’s’’; transfer of records from Federal agencies to (C) by striking ‘‘each’’; and (2) in section 2201(2), by striking ‘‘his’’ and the National Archives of the United States (2) in subsection (b)— inserting ‘‘the President’s’’, each place it ap- in digital or electronic form to the greatest (A) by striking ‘‘either’’; pears; extent possible’’; and (B) by striking ‘‘or the Administrator’’, (3) in section 2203— (3) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘the Ad- each place it appears; and (A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘his’’ and ministrator or’’. (C) by striking ‘‘inaugurated’’ and insert- inserting ‘‘the President’s’’; (b) RECORDS CENTERS AND CENTRALIZED ing ‘‘demonstrably commenced’’. (B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘his’’ and MICROFILMING SERVICES.— (f) RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY THE ARCHI- inserting ‘‘the President’s’’; (1) AMENDMENT.—Section 2907 of title 44, VIST.—. (C) in subsection (c)— United States Code, is amended— (1) AMENDMENT.—The heading for chapter (i) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)— (A) in the section heading by inserting ‘‘or 29 of title 44, United States Code, is amended (I) by striking ‘‘his’’ and inserting ‘‘the digitization’’ after ‘‘microfilming’’; and by striking ‘‘AND BY THE ADMINISTRATOR President’s’’; and (B) by inserting ‘‘or digitization’’ after OF GENERAL SERVICES’’. (II) by striking ‘‘those of his Presidential ‘‘microfilming’’. (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of records’’ and inserting ‘‘those Presidential (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of chapters at the beginning of title 44, United records of such President’’; and sections at the beginning of chapter 29 of States Code, is amended in the item related (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘he’’ and title 44, United States Code, is amended in to chapter 29 by striking ‘‘and by the Admin- inserting ‘‘the Archivist’’; the item relating to section 2907 by inserting istrator of General Services’’. (D) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘he’’ and ‘‘or digitization’’ after ‘‘microfilming’’. (g) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM OF MAN- inserting ‘‘the Archivist’’; (c) GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR RECORDS AGEMENT.—Section 3102(2) of title 44, United (E) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘he’’ and MANAGEMENT.—Section 2904 of title 44, States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the Ad- inserting ‘‘the Archivist’’; and United States Code, is amended— ministrator of General Services and’’. (F) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by (1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘The Ad- SEC. 10. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT FOR OFFI- striking ‘‘he’’ and inserting ‘‘the Archivist’’; ministrator’’ and inserting ‘‘The Archivist’’; CIAL BUSINESS CONDUCTED USING (4) in section 2204— (2) in subsection (c)— NON-OFFICIAL ELECTRONIC MES- (A) in subsection (a)— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)— SAGING ACCOUNT. (i) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), (i) by striking ‘‘their’’ and inserting ‘‘the’’; (a) AMENDMENT.—Chapter 29 of title 44, by striking ‘‘his’’ and inserting ‘‘a Presi- (ii) by striking ‘‘subsection (a) or (b), re- United States Code is amended by adding at dent’s’’; and spectively’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (a) the end the following new section: (ii) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘his’’ and and (b)’’; ‘‘§ 2911. Disclosure requirement for official inserting ‘‘the President’s’’; and (iii) by striking ‘‘and the Administrator’’; business conducted using non-official elec- (B) in subsection (b)— and tronic messaging accounts (i) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘his’’ (iv) by striking ‘‘each’’; and ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—An officer or employee and inserting ‘‘the President’s’’; and (B) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘or the of an executive agency may not create or (ii) in paragraph (3)— Administrator (as the case may be)’’; and send a record using a non-official electronic (I) by striking ‘‘his’’the first place it ap- (3) subsection (d) is amended to read as fol- messaging account unless such officer or em- pears and inserting ‘‘the Archivist’s’’; and lows: ployee— (II) by striking ‘‘his designee’’ and insert- ‘‘(d) The Archivist shall promulgate regu- ‘‘(1) copies an official electronic messaging ing ‘‘the Archivist’s designee’’; lations requiring all Federal agencies to account of the officer or employee in the (5) in section 2205— transfer all digital or electronic records to original creation or transmission of the (A) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘his’’ the National Archives of the United States record; or and inserting ‘‘the incumbent President’s’’; in digital or electronic form to the greatest ‘‘(2) forwards a complete copy of the record and extent possible.’’. to an official electronic messaging account

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The Presi- violation of subsection (a) (including any In a world where technological ad- rules, regulations, or other implementing vances rapidly and equipment and soft- dential and Federal Records Act also guidelines), as determined by the appro- ware become obsolete in months in- would require that any assertion of priate supervisor, shall be a basis for dis- stead of years, making agencies focus privilege by a former President be af- ciplinary action in accordance with sub- their efforts on preserving all informa- firmed by the incumbent President or chapter I, II, or V of chapter 75 of title 5, as tion rather than the information in through a court order. the case may be. certain forms ensures a more robust The bill we are considering today ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: historical record, and does so without also makes clear that the right to as- ‘‘(1) ELECTRONIC MESSAGES.—The term constant legislative updating. sert the privilege is personal to current ‘electronic messages’ means electronic mail and former Presidents, and that they and other electronic messaging systems that H.R. 1233 would also create a frame- are used for purposes of communicating be- work to end the all-too-common prac- not be bequeathed to assistants, rel- tween individuals. tice of executive branch employees atives, or decedents. Putting this lan- ‘‘(2) ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ACCOUNT.—The using personal email, IM, instant mes- guage into statute will ensure that fu- term ‘electronic messaging account’ means sages, and similar technologies to en- ture Presidents are held to the stand- any account that sends electronic messages. gage in official Federal business. Spe- ard first set by President Reagan. ‘‘(3) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘execu- cifically, the bill requires official busi- The chairman of the Oversight Com- tive agency’ has the meaning given that ness done on personal accounts be for- mittee, Representative DARRELL ISSA, term in section 105 of title 5.’’. warded to an official account within 5 added an amendment during the com- (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of mittee markup of the bill to address sections at the beginning of chapter 29 of days and authorizes negative personnel title 44, United States Code, is amended by actions against individuals who inten- the use of personal email by Federal adding at the end the following new item: tionally violate this disclosure require- employees. There is nothing currently ‘‘2911. Disclosure requirement for official ment. in the Presidential Records Act or the business conducted using non- The bill also phases out paper-fo- Federal Records Act that prohibits em- official electronic messaging cused relics of the current Federal rec- ployees from using personal email ac- accounts’’. ordkeeping law. The bill would change counts to conduct official business. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- the so-called 30-year presumption, These acts simply require preservation ant to the rule, the gentleman from which lets Federal agencies hold on to of these records. This bill will continue Texas (Mr. FARENTHOLD) and the gen- their records for a 30-year period before to allow employees to use their per- tleman from Maryland (Mr. CUMMINGS) turning them over to the National Ar- sonal email account when necessary, each will control 20 minutes. chives, a rule which, in the current en- but it would require employees to copy The Chair recognizes the gentleman vironment, all but guarantees the in- their official email account or forward from Texas. formation will disappear as the tech- their email to their official account. This is a good government bill. Simi- GENERAL LEAVE nology used to store that information lar versions of this bill overwhelmingly Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I changes. Imagine delivering punch passed the House in two previous Con- ask unanimous consent that all Mem- cards today to the National Archives. gresses. I urge my colleagues to sup- bers have 5 legislative days within It would be a massive challenge to try port H.R. 1233 so the Senate can take it which to revise and extend their re- to make that in a readable form today. up quickly and so that it might be sent marks and include extraneous material Betamax tapes, we see technology on to the President for his signature. on the bill under consideration. change and the need for this to be up- With that, I reserve the balance of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there dated. It would also make it much easi- my time. objection to the request of the gen- er for agencies to turn over their Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I tleman from Texas? records to the National Archives soon- stand with Mr. CUMMINGS in supporting There was no objection. er. this good government bill that con- Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I This bill would also eliminate the so- tinues to preserve information from yield myself as much time as I may called print-to-file rule, which actually the Federal Government for historians consume. encourages agencies to print out their and future generations, adapts to mod- Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1233 would codify electronic files and send the paper to ern technology and closes the loophole the existing executive order that re- the National Archives. Archaic rules with respect to private email accounts. quires former Presidents to appeal to like these actually stand in the way of I am a huge supporter, happy we are incumbent Presidents to keep certain effective recordkeeping. working together in a bipartisan man- Presidential documents privileged I reserve the balance of my time. ner on these and other good govern- under the Presidential Records Act. Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield ment bills. This bill would lock into statute a myself such time as I may consume. I continue to reserve the balance of process established by President Ron- First of all, I want to begin by thank- my time. ald Reagan in 1989, restored by Presi- ing Chairman ISSA for supporting this Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield dent Obama in 2009, and used without legislation and for making this a bipar- myself such time as I may consume as controversy by four of the last five tisan effort. The Presidential and Fed- I close. Presidents. eral Records Act Amendments is aimed Again, I want to thank the gen- The bill would ensure greater trans- at giving the American people access tleman for yielding. I want to thank parency for the privilege extension re- to the records Presidents create while our chairman and the members of our quests by former Presidents and help they are in office. committee for making this happen. prevent abuses of the system. Under the Presidential Records Act, Again, there are situations where we The bill does not expand the limits of a President has discretion to restrict find the law needs clarification. This is executive privilege, nor would it give access to his records for up to 12 years one of those clarifying opportunities, former Presidents custodial rights over after he leaves office. After that time, and we have taken advantage of it in a their administration’s Presidential a President can continue to restrict ac- bipartisan way. Again, I would urge all records. Let me say that again to make cess to his records by arguing that the of our Members to vote in favor of this perfectly clear, Mr. Speaker. The bill records are protected by executive legislation. does not expand the limits of the exec- privilege. With that, I yield back the balance of utive privilege, nor does it give former The Presidential Records Act does my time. Presidents custodial rights over their not currently include guidelines for the Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I administrations’ Presidential records. consideration of Presidential privilege join the gentleman from Maryland in What the bill does is shift the focus claims. This bill would amend the law urging my colleagues to support H.R. from the technology used to capture by adding procedures to ensure the 1233, and I yield back the remainder of and store information to the informa- timely release of Presidential records. my time.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:20 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A14JA7.009 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H207 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The [Roll No. 17] Pastor (AZ) Runyan Thompson (PA) question is on the motion offered by Paulsen Ryan (OH) Thornberry YEAS—418 Pearce Ryan (WI) Tiberi the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Pelosi Salmon Aderholt Diaz-Balart Keating Tierney Perlmutter Sa´ nchez, Linda FARENTHOLD) that the House suspend Amash Dingell Kelly (IL) Tipton Perry T. the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 1233, as Amodei Doggett Kelly (PA) Titus Peters (CA) Sanchez, Loretta Andrews Doyle Kennedy Tonko amended. Peters (MI) Sanford Bachmann Duckworth Kildee Tsongas Peterson Sarbanes The question was taken. Turner Bachus Duffy Kilmer Petri Scalise The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the Upton Barber Duncan (SC) Kind Pingree (ME) Schakowsky opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being Barletta Duncan (TN) King (IA) Pittenger Schiff Valadao in the affirmative, the ayes have it. Barr Edwards King (NY) Pitts Schneider Van Hollen Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, on Barrow (GA) Ellison Kinzinger (IL) Pocan Schock Vargas Barton Ellmers Kirkpatrick Veasey that I demand the yeas and nays. Poe (TX) Schrader Bass Engel Kline Polis Schwartz Vela The yeas and nays were ordered. Beatty Enyart Kuster Pompeo Schweikert Vela´ zquez The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Becerra Eshoo Labrador Posey Scott (VA) Visclosky ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- Benishek Esty LaMalfa Price (GA) Scott, Austin Wagner Bentivolio Farenthold Lamborn Price (NC) Scott, David Walberg ceedings on this motion will be post- Bera (CA) Farr Lance Quigley Sensenbrenner Walden poned. Bilirakis Fattah Langevin Radel Serrano Walorski Bishop (GA) Fincher Lankford Rahall Sessions Walz Bishop (NY) Fitzpatrick Larsen (WA) f Rangel Sewell (AL) Wasserman Bishop (UT) Fleischmann Larson (CT) Reed Shea-Porter Schultz Black Fleming Latham Reichert Sherman Waters RECESS Blackburn Flores Latta Renacci Shimkus Waxman Blumenauer Forbes Lee (CA) The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Ribble Shuster Weber (TX) Bonamici Fortenberry Levin ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair Rice (SC) Simpson Webster (FL) Boustany Foster Lewis Richmond Sinema declares the House in recess subject to Brady (PA) Foxx Lipinski Welch Rigell Slaughter Wenstrup Brady (TX) Frankel (FL) LoBiondo Roby Smith (MO) the call of the Chair. Westmoreland Braley (IA) Franks (AZ) Loebsack Roe (TN) Smith (NE) Accordingly (at 2 o’clock and 43 min- Whitfield Bridenstine Frelinghuysen Lofgren Rogers (AL) Smith (NJ) Williams utes p.m.), the House stood in recess. Brooks (AL) Fudge Long Rogers (KY) Smith (TX) Brooks (IN) Gallego Lowenthal Rogers (MI) Smith (WA) Wilson (FL) f Broun (GA) Garamendi Lowey Rohrabacher Southerland Wilson (SC) Brown (FL) Garcia Lucas Rokita Speier Wittman b 1700 Brownley (CA) Gardner Luetkemeyer Rooney Stewart Wolf Bucshon Garrett Lujan Grisham Ros-Lehtinen Stivers Womack Burgess Gerlach (NM) Roskam Stutzman Woodall AFTER RECESS Bustos Gibbs Luja´ n, Ben Ray Ross Swalwell (CA) Yarmuth The recess having expired, the House Butterfield Gibson (NM) Rothfus Takano Yoder Byrne Gingrey (GA) Lummis Roybal-Allard Terry Yoho was called to order by the Speaker pro Calvert Gohmert Lynch Royce Thompson (CA) Young (AK) tempore (Mr. HOLDING) at 5 p.m. Camp Goodlatte Maffei Ruiz Thompson (MS) Young (IN) Campbell Gosar Maloney, f Cantor Gowdy Carolyn NOT VOTING—14 Capito Granger Maloney, Sean Buchanan Jones Ruppersberger Capps Graves (GA) Marchant Cleaver Kingston Rush ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Capuano Graves (MO) Marino Conyers McCarthy (NY) Sires PRO TEMPORE Ca´ rdenas Grayson Massie Culberson Pallone Stockman Carney Green, Al Matheson Gabbard Payne The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Carson (IN) Green, Gene Matsui ant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings Carter Griffin (AR) McAllister b 1727 will resume on motions to suspend the Cartwright Griffith (VA) McCarthy (CA) Cassidy Grijalva McCaul rules previously postponed. Ms. DUCKWORTH and Mr. GRI- Castor (FL) Grimm McClintock JALVA changed their vote from ‘‘nay’’ Votes will be taken in the following Castro (TX) Guthrie McCollum order: Chabot Gutie´rrez McDermott to ‘‘yea.’’ H.R. 2860, by the yeas and nays; Chaffetz Hahn McGovern So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Chu Hall McHenry tive) the rules were suspended and the H.R. 1233, by the yeas and nays. Cicilline Hanabusa McIntyre The first electronic vote will be con- Clark (MA) Hanna McKeon bill was passed. ducted as a 15-minute vote. The second Clarke (NY) Harper McKinley The result of the vote was announced Clay Harris McMorris electronic vote will be conducted as a as above recorded. Clyburn Hartzler Rodgers A motion to reconsider was laid on 5-minute vote. Coble Hastings (FL) McNerney Coffman Hastings (WA) Meadows the table. f Cohen Heck (NV) Meehan Cole Heck (WA) Meeks f Collins (GA) Hensarling Meng OPM IG ACT Collins (NY) Herrera Beutler Messer PRESIDENTIAL AND FEDERAL The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Conaway Higgins Mica RECORDS ACT AMENDMENTS OF Connolly Himes Michaud 2014 finished business is the vote on the mo- Cook Hinojosa Miller (FL) tion to suspend the rules and pass the Cooper Holding Miller (MI) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- bill (H.R. 2860) to amend title 5, United Costa Holt Miller, Gary finished business is the vote on the mo- States Code, to provide that the In- Cotton Honda Miller, George tion to suspend the rules and pass the Courtney Horsford Moore spector General of the Office of Per- Cramer Hoyer Moran bill (H.R. 1233) to amend chapter 22 of sonnel Management may use amounts Crawford Hudson Mullin title 44, United States Code, popularly in the revolving fund of the Office to Crenshaw Huelskamp Mulvaney known as the Presidential Records Act, Crowley Huffman Murphy (FL) fund audits, investigations, and over- Cuellar Huizenga (MI) Murphy (PA) to establish procedures for the consid- sight activities, and for other purposes, Cummings Hultgren Nadler eration of claims of constitutionally on which the yeas and nays were or- Daines Hunter Napolitano based privilege against disclosure of dered. Davis (CA) Hurt Neal Presidential records, and for other pur- Davis, Danny Israel Negrete McLeod The Clerk read the title of the bill. Davis, Rodney Issa Neugebauer poses, as amended, on which the yeas The SPEAKER pro tempore. The DeFazio Jackson Lee Noem and nays were ordered. question is on the motion offered by DeGette Jeffries Nolan The Clerk read the title of the bill. Delaney Jenkins Nugent the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLauro Johnson (GA) Nunes The SPEAKER pro tempore. The FARENTHOLD) that the House suspend DelBene Johnson (OH) Nunnelee question is on the motion offered by the rules and pass the bill. Denham Johnson, E. B. O’Rourke the gentleman from Texas (Mr. The vote was taken by electronic de- Dent Johnson, Sam Olson FARENTHOLD) that the House suspend DeSantis Jordan Owens vice, and there were—yeas 418, nays 0, DesJarlais Joyce Palazzo the rules and pass the bill, as amended. not voting 14, as follows: Deutch Kaptur Pascrell This will be a 5-minute vote.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:50 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.038 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H208 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 14, 2014 The vote was taken by electronic de- Neal Rohrabacher Stutzman ferred to the House Calendar and or- Negrete McLeod Rokita Swalwell (CA) vice, and there were—yeas 420, nays 0, Neugebauer Rooney Takano dered to be printed. not voting 12, as follows: Noem Ros-Lehtinen Terry f Nolan Roskam Thompson (CA) [Roll No. 18] Nugent Ross Thompson (MS) SERVING THOSE WHO SERVED IN YEAS—420 Nunes Rothfus Thompson (PA) UNIFORM Nunnelee Roybal-Allard Thornberry Aderholt Denham Jeffries O’Rourke Royce Tiberi (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania Amash Dent Jenkins Olson Ruiz Tierney asked and was given permission to ad- Amodei DeSantis Johnson (GA) Owens Runyan Tipton dress the House for 1 minute and to re- Andrews DesJarlais Johnson (OH) Palazzo Ryan (OH) Titus Bachmann Deutch Johnson, E. B. Pallone Ryan (WI) Tonko vise and extend his remarks.) Bachus Diaz-Balart Johnson, Sam Pascrell Salmon Tsongas Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Barber Dingell Jordan Pastor (AZ) Sa´ nchez, Linda Turner Mr. Speaker, as a father of a Purple Barletta Doggett Joyce Paulsen T. Upton Heart wounded warrior and father-in- Barr Doyle Kaptur Pearce Sanchez, Loretta Valadao Barrow (GA) Duckworth Keating Pelosi Sanford Van Hollen law of a recently discharged soldier, Barton Duffy Kelly (IL) Perlmutter Sarbanes Vargas my promise is to serve and advocate Bass Duncan (SC) Kelly (PA) Perry Scalise Veasey for those who serve this country. Our Beatty Duncan (TN) Kennedy Peters (CA) Schakowsky Vela Becerra Edwards Kildee Peters (MI) Schiff Vela´ zquez troops have earned our support not just Benishek Ellison Kilmer Peterson Schneider Visclosky during their service, but after they re- Bentivolio Ellmers Kind Petri Schock Wagner turn to civilian life. Bera (CA) Engel King (IA) Pingree (ME) Schrader Walberg I am proud to support the COLAs for Bilirakis Enyart King (NY) Pittenger Schwartz Walden Bishop (GA) Eshoo Kinzinger (IL) Pitts Schweikert Walorski medically retired Armed Forces per- Bishop (NY) Esty Kirkpatrick Pocan Scott (VA) Walz sonnel and survivors, particularly Bishop (UT) Farenthold Kline Poe (TX) Scott, Austin Wasserman doing away with the 1 percent reduc- Black Farr Kuster Polis Scott, David Schultz Blackburn Fattah Labrador Pompeo Sensenbrenner Waters tion that has been put in place. This Blumenauer Fincher LaMalfa Posey Serrano Waxman will be considered in the House later Bonamici Fitzpatrick Lamborn Price (GA) Sessions Weber (TX) this week under the Consolidated Ap- Boustany Fleischmann Lance Price (NC) Sewell (AL) Webster (FL) propriations Act for fiscal year 2014. Brady (PA) Fleming Langevin Quigley Shea-Porter Welch Brady (TX) Flores Lankford Radel Sherman Wenstrup Also included in this legislation is a Braley (IA) Forbes Larsen (WA) Rahall Shimkus Westmoreland 1 percent pay raise for our troops, as Bridenstine Fortenberry Larson (CT) Rangel Shuster Whitfield well as funding and guidance for the Brooks (AL) Foster Latham Reed Simpson Williams Brooks (IN) Foxx Latta Reichert Sinema Wilson (FL) Department of Defense to support our Broun (GA) Frankel (FL) Lee (CA) Renacci Slaughter Wilson (SC) warfighters overseas and our military Brown (FL) Franks (AZ) Levin Ribble Smith (MO) Wittman and humanitarian missions around the Brownley (CA) Frelinghuysen Lewis Rice (SC) Smith (NE) Wolf globe. Bucshon Fudge Lipinski Richmond Smith (NJ) Womack Burgess Gallego LoBiondo Rigell Smith (TX) Woodall Our military must remain strong to Bustos Garamendi Loebsack Roby Smith (WA) Yarmuth enforce the peace, and the soldiers, air- Butterfield Garcia Lofgren Roe (TN) Southerland Yoder men, sailors, and marines that make Byrne Gardner Long Rogers (AL) Speier Yoho Calvert Garrett Lowenthal Rogers (KY) Stewart Young (AK) this happen must always be the best Camp Gerlach Lowey Rogers (MI) Stivers Young (IN) trained and equipped force in the Campbell Gibbs Lucas world. Cantor Gibson Luetkemeyer NOT VOTING—12 Capito Gingrey (GA) Lujan Grisham Mr. Speaker, let’s continue to serve Buchanan Jones Ruppersberger those who serve in uniform. Our Amer- Capps Gohmert (NM) Cleaver Kingston Rush ´ Capuano Goodlatte Lujan, Ben Ray Culberson McCarthy (NY) Sires ican heroes deserve as much. ´ Cardenas Gosar (NM) Gabbard Payne Stockman Carney Gowdy Lummis f Carson (IN) Granger Lynch b 1735 COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION Carter Graves (GA) Maffei Cartwright Graves (MO) Maloney, Mr. SANFORD changed his vote from REFORM Cassidy Grayson Carolyn ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was Castor (FL) Green, Al Maloney, Sean Castro (TX) Green, Gene Marchant So (two-thirds being in the affirma- given permission to address the House Chabot Griffin (AR) Marino tive) the rules were suspended and the for 1 minute and to revise and extend Chaffetz Griffith (VA) Massie bill, as amended, was passed. her remarks.) Chu Grijalva Matheson The result of the vote was announced Cicilline Grimm Matsui Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, Clark (MA) Guthrie McAllister as above recorded. somewhere in America a young child Clarke (NY) Gutie´rrez McCarthy (CA) A motion to reconsider was laid on will not be able to see their immigrant Clay Hahn McCaul the table. parents come home this evening. In Clyburn Hall McClintock Coble Hanabusa McCollum f every State in the Union, there are in- Coffman Hanna McDermott dividuals that are undocumented that Cohen Harper McGovern REPORT ON RESOLUTION PRO- simply want an opportunity to work Cole Harris McHenry VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF and dream here in America. Collins (GA) Hartzler McIntyre SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.R. Collins (NY) Hastings (FL) McKeon I am in the midst of a 1-day fast to Conaway Hastings (WA) McKinley 3547, SPACE LAUNCH LIABILITY encourage the passage of reasonable, Connolly Heck (NV) McMorris INDEMNIFICATION EXTENSION sensible, comprehensive immigration Conyers Heck (WA) Rodgers ACT; PROVIDING FOR PRO- Cook Hensarling McNerney reform. Yesterday, 119 Houstonians Cooper Herrera Beutler Meadows CEEDINGS DURING THE PERIOD stood with me to commit to fasting Costa Higgins Meehan FROM JANUARY 17, 2014, until this bill of comprehensive immi- Cotton Himes Meeks THROUGH JANUARY 24, 2014; AND gration reform is passed: border secu- Courtney Hinojosa Meng FOR OTHER PURPOSES Cramer Holding Messer rity; earned access to citizenship; ele- Crawford Holt Mica Mr. COLE, from the Committee on ments of paying fines; elements of Crenshaw Honda Michaud Rules, submitted a privileged report doing charitable work; ensuring that Crowley Horsford Miller (FL) Cuellar Hoyer Miller (MI) (Rept. No. 113–327) on the resolution (H. the arts and businesses come together Cummings Hudson Miller, Gary Res. 458) providing for consideration of and have the resources and talent that Daines Huelskamp Miller, George the Senate amendments to the bill they need; and creating jobs. Davis (CA) Huffman Moore Davis, Danny Huizenga (MI) Moran (H.R. 3547) to extend the application of In Texas, there are 400,000 immi- Davis, Rodney Hultgren Mullin certain space launch liability provi- grants with some billion-plus dollars. DeFazio Hunter Mulvaney sions through 2014; providing for pro- Removing that would have a terrible DeGette Hurt Murphy (FL) ceedings during the period from Janu- impact on the economy. Passing com- Delaney Israel Murphy (PA) DeLauro Issa Nadler ary 17, 2014, through January 24, 2014; prehensive immigration reform is not DelBene Jackson Lee Napolitano and for other purposes, which was re- only economically sound, but it is the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:20 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.041 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H209 humane, dignified thing to do. This HONORING THE CAREER OF jobs fair—there were about 50 employ- Congress must come together, Repub- DANIEL LEHMAN ers—and maybe 50–70 people actually licans and Democrats, and give dignity (Mr. FOSTER asked and was given got jobs. to those soldiers and others who simply permission to address the House for 1 This is a picture of the men and want an opportunity to serve and be minute and to revise and extend his re- women that were lined up waiting to part of the American Dream. marks.) get in to have a very quick interview f Mr. FOSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise with one or more of those 50 potential employers. b 1745 today to honor the career of Mr. Daniel Lehman and his outstanding contribu- I have used this photo before here on CUIDADODESALUD.GOV OR tions to our Nation’s scientific commu- the floor to point out the need for a CAUTIONOFHEALTH.GOV nity. jobs program here in America. The By developing and implementing President 2 years ago in his State of (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was the Union put forth a proposal. It had given permission to address the House project peer review and evaluation processes for the Department of Ener- several elements—and we will probably for 1 minute and to revise and extend cover some of those today—but it has his remarks.) gy’s Office of Science, he has had a pro- found impact on many large-scale sci- not been enacted. The Republican lead- Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, a ership in this House has refused to pass large number of Spanish-speaking entific construction projects, helping to complete them on time and on budg- even one of those jobs programs. There Americans live in my congressional was infrastructure, education, reeduca- district. They recently brought to my et. Known as ‘‘Lehman Reviews,’’ his tion; there were programs to provide attention the new 2-month-late Obama for the opportunity for men and women enrollment Web site: processes have been recognized and copied worldwide as a best practice for to get jobs here in the United States. cuidadodesalud.gov. Here it is right But I was looking at this photo just managing large and complex scientific here on the Web site. But in English today and I said, I am going to use this construction projects. that translates to: again, because in this photo approxi- During over 30 years of Federal serv- ‘‘cautionofhealth.gov.’’ Sounds like a mately half of the people lined up, ice, until his retirement on January 3, warning to me. 1,000, just under 1,000 were women. It 2014, his dedication to excellence and Only the government could be so in- caused me to think about another pro- proactive approach shepherded many competent to get the title of the Web gram that the Democratic minority scientific facilities to successful con- site wrong. This site is riddled with here in the House has been working on struction and operation. embarrassing computerized English-to- for some time, that is, the issue of His passion, devotion, and commit- Spanish translations. Some things are women in the American economy. ment to improving the management in Spanish, some things are in English, I know that in my own district there culture of highly complex projects has and some things are in Spanglish. This is this issue of equal pay for equal made a tremendous impact on the vi- incompetence is insulting and con- work. A woman doing stenography tality, perception, and future of the Of- fusing to Americans who speak only work next to a man doing stenography fice of Science programs. Spanish. work would be paid 85 cents while the Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to Ironically, the Web site does tell the man is paid $1. So it is 85 cents when a join me in honoring Mr. Daniel Leh- truth: people should be cautious about man would have the same job, same man for his inspiring leadership and government health care. The name of skill set, same tenure, would get $1. outstanding contributions to our Na- the Web site should be officially That is wrong. It is one of the issues we tion’s scientific programs. changed to ‘‘Caution:ObamaCare.’’ want to address. It is hard enough to sign up for f Also we know that many of the ObamaCare. If the government decides women that are searching for work EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA to have a Spanish ObamaCare Web site, here are going to be finding minimum- you would think the government and The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. wage jobs. Now, California is different. its vast resources could at least have a COOK). Under the Speaker’s announced We have already passed a minimum- Spanish Web site in accurate Spanish. policy of January 3, 2013, the gen- wage law in California that in another And that’s just the way it is. tleman from California (Mr. year and a half will be $10 plus a little. f GARAMENDI) is recognized for 60 min- But the national is still at $7-plus; utes as the designee of the minority way, way under what anybody working IDENTITY THEFT PREVENTION leader. 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year could (Mr. GARCIA asked and was given Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, it is possibly support a family on. So the permission to address the House for 1 good to be back on the floor once again minimum wage is another issue for minute and to revise and extend his re- as we have for most every week to talk women, as it is for men; but I dare say marks.) about jobs in America, to talk about more so for women than for men. Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, I rise the unemployed, to talk about those There is a multitude of issues that today to recognize Tax Identity Theft who are less fortunate and those who we need to consider as we talk about Awareness Week, and I urge my col- need a strong Federal program to cre- jobs, employment, increasing the em- leagues to join me in working to reduce ate jobs. ployment opportunities in the United this invasive crime. I often start with this because it is States for these people; men and Floridians suffer from some of the kind of the compass, the touchstone of women, and particularly women, that highest rates of identity theft in the what, at least, I would like to think we are lined up wanting to get a job. country, with over 70,000 people filing ought to be doing. Joining me tonight is an extraor- complaints of identity theft last year. This is from Franklin Delano Roo- dinary group of people who have been Whether they shop at neighborhood sevelt. This is actually on one of the working on this issue of women and mom-and-pop stores or large retailers, marble slabs at his memorial here in jobs, employment, equal employment Americans deserve to buy what they Washington, D.C. It reads this way: opportunities, daycare, family care need without living in fear of having The test of our progress is not whether we programs. given away private information or add more to the abundance of those who I would like to start with JAN SCHA- being compromised. have much. It is whether we provide enough KOWSKY of Illinois, who has been one of That is why I introduced the Safe ID for those who have too little. the leaders throughout this entire Na- Act, in order to address the growing All across America today there are tion, often seen on television speaking problem of identity theft and tax fraud. far too many that have too little. A to this issue and the issue of oppor- I urge my colleagues to join me in couple of weeks ago, I did a jobs fair in tunity in America. supporting this bill and other common- Fairfield, California. It was about 38 JAN, would you care to start us off on sense efforts to stop this heinous degrees outside that day, and we had this 1-hour and talking about women crime. just under 1,000 people come to that and jobs.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:20 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.043 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H210 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 14, 2014 Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Thank you, Rep- women said: sick days for themselves Ms. HAHN. Good for them. resentative GARAMENDI, for coming to and to go home and take care of their I think, as JAN SCHAKOWSKY talked the floor and talking about the com- children. about, NANCY PELOSI and ROSA munity. And it really is ‘‘the economy Six: DELAURO, we have had this incredible stupid’’ for most Americans who feel a More than half of the babies born to campaign called When Women Succeed, sense of growing insecurity. Wages women under the age of 30 are born to un- America Succeeds. The point is it is haven’t gone up for decades. married mothers, most of them White. good to help women in this country be- But the leader, our leader, NANCY Seven: cause this will really help America to PELOSI of our leadership, has launched Nearly two-thirds of Americans and 85 per- succeed. And we no longer have the a campaign on behalf of women in cent of millennials believe that government kind of families that many of us America saying, when women win, should adapt to the reality of single-parent watched on television in the fifties. In America wins, and highlighting the families and use its resources to help chil- fact, the American family has perma- issues that really affect women day to dren and mothers succeed, regardless of fam- nently changed, and women head up day, calling for things like affordable ily status. more families on their own. More than child care, an increase in the minimum So the American people, two-thirds half of the babies born to women ages wage, paid leave, which it turns out is say government does, in fact, have a 30 and younger are born to unmarried a major priority of women. role. women—by the way, most of them I see you have got a sign there. Eight: White. Mr. GARAMENDI. Would you like to An overwhelming 96 percent of single We have got women who are heading have it? mothers say paid leave is a workplace policy their families. We have got women who Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. No. Why don’t that would help them most, and nearly 80 are trying to take care of their fami- we just turn our attention to that sign. percent of all Americans say the government lies. They are now the sole bread- Ending the gender pay gap, which ac- should expand access to high-quality, afford- winners in their family. They are not able child care. tually is 77 cents to the dollar that necessarily the second income or the men earn; paid sick leave; permanent That is a worry that so many moth- income that helps out with the man child tax credit; improve diagnosis and ers have every single day. having the major income. The statistic, I think, out of the care for Alzheimer’s patients; and on b 1800 and on. Shriver Report that was really eye- But we have been bolstered by an in- Nine, women living on the brink opening for me, when we talk about the credible new effort that has turned into overwhelmingly regret not making minimum wage, is that two-thirds of a remarkable book called: ‘‘The Shriv- education a bigger priority. the workers who earned a minimum er Report.’’ It is a co-effort, and it is a Ten, the trauma and chronic stress of wage in this country are women. And if study by Maria Shriver and the Center poverty are toxic to children, making we could raise this minimum wage to for American Progress called: ‘‘A Wom- them two-and-a-half times more likely $10.10 an hour, how many more women an’s Nation Pushes Back from the to suffer as adults from COPD, hepa- that would lift out of poverty. And not Brink.’’ titis, and depression. just the women, their families. We The idea here is to give a voice to So actually, poverty is dangerous to have too many families, children, who women. It has got all the facts and fig- the health of children as they grow are living on the brink, and this is so ures one would want; but it also has into adulthood in very dramatic and important. the stories, the actual voice of women particular ways. To talk about women wanting sick who feel so pressured by this economy, And so when we think about poverty days, it is unbelievable to me how but also feel that their voices aren’t in America, when we think about ex- many women who work in these min- being heard. tending unemployment benefits, when imum wage jobs don’t get sick days. Do It is a really important book. I want- we talk about the SNAP program, and you know how many women have the ed to read on the back there are kind of when we push to raise the minimum painful choice of either putting their some of these ‘‘wow’’ facts that are wage, one of the important lenses to sick child on the bus to go to school or there that everyone should keep in look through is how is it affecting the staying home and losing a day’s wages mind about the status of women in our women, one-third of whom are on the to take care of their sick child because economy: brink or actually living in poverty. we don’t have the kind of child care in Mr. GARAMENDI. Those statistics One in three women in America is living in this country that can accommodate poverty or teetering on its brink. That’s 42 are a wake-up call for America. More children who are not well enough to go million women plus the 28 million children than half the population are female, to school? We have women choosing be- who depend on them. and yet our policies are not women- tween missing a day’s work—possibly if The second bullet: friendly policies. Our laws are not they have too many of those, they are women-friendly laws, and we need to The American family has changed. Today, going to lose their job—or putting a only one in five families has a homemaker change that. sick child on the bus to go to school. mom and working dad. Two out of three fam- I would like now to yield to my col- We need to raise the minimum wage. ilies depend on the wages of working moms league from California, JANICE HAHN, a We need to have affordable child care. who are struggling to balance caregiving and longtime city councilwoman in the We need to make sure that women have breadwinning. City of Los Angeles, a woman who sick days that they can use either for Three: knows these issues from her experience themselves—mostly it is never for The average woman continues to be paid 77 representing the communities in that yourself when you are a mother. You cents for every dollar the average man earns. area and now an outstanding Member forgo being sick as a mother and you The average African American woman earns of the Congress. spend those days for your children. only 64 cents and the average Latina only 55 Ms. HAHN. Thank you. I appreciate How many women are taking care of compared to White men. you taking this first hour tonight to their parents? Even though many The fourth bullet: focus on women and jobs. It is cer- women have brothers in the family, it Closing the wage gap between men and tainly an issue that we women are very usually falls to the woman to take care women would cut the poverty rate in half for aware of and have worked on a lot in of her parents when they become ill or working women and their families and would our jobs, in our districts, in our homes, need help being taken care of. We have add nearly half a trillion dollars to the na- but it is nice when our men are en- got to really focus on women making tional economy. lightened. sure they have good jobs. Five: Mr. GARAMENDI. If I might inter- By the way, our women veterans— Women are nearly two-thirds of minimum rupt for a moment. our women veterans in this country— wage workers, and a vast majority of these I am highly motivated. My wife of al- have the highest unemployment rate. workers receive no paid sick days. Not one. most 48 years now and my five daugh- That is terrible to think that our When they did a survey of what is the ters keep my constantly abreast of this women who have put their lives on the number one thing that you want, issue. line for this country come home and

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And when you have trade deficits women have dealt with for generations. released really sheds light on how for 30 years in our country, and we And so I have to say, I am so proud I many women in this country are near have an average of 15 factories closing am standing on the shoulders of fami- or on the brink of living in poverty. every day, jobs vaporize. It doesn’t lies like my own to be a voice for these Thank you for doing this tonight. matter where you live—whether it is women and these families whose eco- Mr. GARAMENDI. Representative Ohio, California, Florida, New York— nomic struggle is excruciating. It is ex- HAHN, thank you so very, very much. American people have felt directly the cruciating. Many of them don’t have This chart here, When Women Suc- impact of this global economy, and cars. ceed, America Succeeds, picks up a many times they can’t hold the social Our own mother, she was brilliant. handful of the bills that have been in- unit of the family together. She should be here, not me. She never troduced by the Democratic Caucus, Many, many of the women who are got her high school equivalency until many of these bills by women, a few supporting their children now have after she went on Social Security. And men along the way. These are the done so because of fallout in the econ- there were two things she had in her kinds of things that we really ought to omy. What you say about the gender billfold when she died. One was her li- be dealing with here as we move—or, pay gap is absolutely there. brary card because she was brilliant, unfortunately, fail to move—legisla- I was very surprised to learn in Ohio, but the other one was her Social Secu- tion. as a result of a study done by Progress rity and Medicare card—because of Paycheck fairness, this is the issue of Ohio, that, in fact, one of the major Democrats. Because of Democrats, she that 77 percent in California, my dis- companies, I think the largest com- could die with dignity. trict being about 85 percent. pany in our country, Walmart, employs I think about the families across this The minimum wage, which we talked about 4,500 people in Ohio. And of their country, and I am so proud to be a about here. The issue you raised Rep- employees, those employees that work voice for them here. I want to thank resentative HAHN about paid sick leave for minimum wage, or probably less if you very much for standing up for a and the problems that occur. Make per- they are part-time, they apply for food raise in the minimum wage so that manent the child tax credit, which is stamps, for SNAP assistance. So they people who are struggling out there exceedingly important in providing are trying to support their families. don’t have to be on food stamps and that income necessary to support the Just those in Ohio are using $23 million EBT coupons because they are trying kid. The education issues, and I notice in Federal food support because they to earn their way forward. They should one of my colleagues, MIKE HONDA, will can’t earn enough to feed their fami- earn a decent wage, that working fam- talk about that in a few moments. lies. And this type of corporate behav- ily life, paid sick leave. I would like now—and we will pick up ior is repeated over and over and over I took care of our mother when she the rest. This one down here is one again, so essentially what is happening was ill. I know how hard it was to try really at the bottom, Alzheimer’s, and is the Federal Government ends up sub- to work and to care for someone who you mentioned this. The children are sidizing low wages because the workers was so ill. now taking care of their parents. Of can’t earn enough to support their fam- I just left a funeral home over the course, the children are now in their ilies. weekend in Ohio where a former coun- fifties, sixties, and the parents are in I am fortunate enough to come from ty engineer, George Wilson, lost his their seventies and eighties and be- a working class family. Our mother beautiful wife, Pat, to Alzheimer’s. yond. And this issue of Alzheimer’s, an worked; our grandmother worked. And what were you saying, Congress- overwhelming tidal wave is coming on Thank God for Franklin Roosevelt, be- man GARAMENDI, what this took for us. cause I think what our family has lived that family and that working daughter I know in our own home, the last 2 represents the story of a vast numbers to try to hold everything together. It is years of my wife’s mother’s life was of Americans. such a cruel illness. So any help for spent in our home. She and I, my wife Our grandmother could hardly speak caregivers across this country, for had night care taking care of her. For- English. She worked in hotels, in making caregiving a profession where tunately, we were able to have day care kitchens, peeling carrots and potatoes you earn a decent wage, however we come in. This is a huge, growing issue, and so forth, washing dishes, paid the figure out how to do that, we are going one in which we need to find ways to immigrant workers the very least. And to need it in the coming years. support the children taking care of then her husband always out of work, their parents in their homes. taking in tenants in their home. And b 1815 I would like now to turn to another they lived in 13 different places because So I support my colleagues in their colleague from Ohio, one who has often they could never manage to own any- efforts to raise the minimum wage, to joined me here on the floor. And thank thing, trying to just hold it together close the gender pay gap, to make sure you so very, very much, MARCY, for with a sick daughter and a husband that there is paid leave, to make sure joining us, MARCY KAPTUR, who has a who often lost his job. So that was that we work as a society to find ways great deal to do with the appropria- Grandma on one side of the family. to care for those who are ill. I know tions process. Congratulations on the Then our mother, who became the that with men such as yourself and omnibus bill just coming up. sole support of her parents—and five those who are on the floor this evening, Ms. KAPTUR. Thank you, Congress- children in that family—working at and with women who have now been man GARAMENDI. Thank you for bring- age 13, going across town to clean educated and able to fully participate ing us together as you so often do. We homes and so forth, it wasn’t until the in this society and to express the needs are so fortunate that you are here and Democrats under Roosevelt passed the from coast-to-coast, we will change bringing us together as voices from the minimum wage that she began earning this country for the better. heart of America here in our Nation’s something more than she earned be- Thank you so very much for coming Capital to talk about what is on the fore. down here this evening. I agree with minds of the vast majority of the Do you know what happened in the you that when women succeed, Amer- American people, and that relates to first place she worked, which was a lit- ica succeeds, but we can’t do it without their family life, how they are going to tle luncheonette on Broadway in To- our men. survive in this economy. ledo, Ohio? When the minimum wage Mr. GARAMENDI. Thank you so very In listening to the statistics that was passed initially, her boss, who much for your work on the appropria- Congresswomen SCHAKOWSKY and HAHN wasn’t such a nice guy, would cash her tions and pushing these issues along. were relating, what has happened to check and then pocket the difference Representative MIKE HONDA from family life in this country, because between what she used to earn and California has been working on the many times if you read articles, you what she then earned in the workplace. issues of education for many, many

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In the fifties, we real- and some custom, that make it very evening discussions on the board here. ized that that was not supportable, not difficult for women to have an equal I want to also rise to join you and constitutional, and this became an chance in our economy. other colleagues of mine in commemo- issue in our current time when we were So we are going to address those. We rating the 50th anniversary of Presi- able to bring this issue to the living would like to have the Republican side dent Lyndon Johnson’s declaration of rooms of our country through tech- of the House work with us on those the war on poverty, and, as you had nology—television. Upon this country issues. We know that one of the major mentioned, President Franklin Roo- and the States becoming more aware of parts of that is the minimum wage sevelt’s effort to close the income gap. what was going on, on a Federal level issue. That is front and center. The inequities that we have faced and we moved the communities to correct I would like now to turn to my col- we are still facing are growing even this inequity, the unconstitutionality league from New York, who has joined larger today because of the gender pay of separate but equal in our education me all so often, but never quite gap, because of the unpaid portions systems and other policies in our dif- enough, on the floor. where people have to leave their work ferent communities and different Representative TONKO, you have been in order to take care of their children States. on this issue of economic development or their families. Also, to be able to ad- Today, we have come to a point for so long. I think it is almost 4 years dress the child care issues that became where we understand that equal oppor- now we have been dealing with this, very prominent in the seventies, when tunity for all children is a necessary not every week, but often talking both parents started to work and won- principle, but I think, having studied about jobs in America, economic dered how they were going to be ad- education a little bit more, we should growth, and what we can do. dressing child care. refine that principle into another prin- Why don’t you pick it up and carry Also, we have the caregiver support, ciple, to wit: each and every child the ball for a while, and then we will where adult children are taking care of should receive support according to see where we are. their parents. We are seeing that this their needs, not according to the ZIP Mr. TONKO. Thank you to the gen- is a necessity that has crept up on our Codes or the median income of their tleman from California for yielding. society and our community, almost parents. I want to thank you, Representative very quietly, and become an issue be- One of the more important steps to GARAMENDI, for leading us in an hour of cause of different kinds of situations accomplish this and achieve equity in very important discussion which high- our parents are facing, not only be- funding for our youngsters in the pre- lights the efforts of the Democratic cause of the physical illness but be- school and early childhood education Caucus within the House of Represent- cause of the mental health illness that arena is to fully fund Head Start for atives. I, for one, am very proud to they have faced. each and every child. So we must en- serve with a group of leaders, women So all these things play a part in courage States to adopt a more equi- and men, within that Democratic Cau- drawing down the resources of middle- table funding formula to ensure that cus who have a vision of where they income families trying to take care of each and every child receives the nec- want to take this Nation, how we can their own responsibilities, raising their essary financial and human resources address the inequality, how we can em- own family, and also the responsibility required. power our economy by reaching to in- President Obama declared that he of their parents who are aging. dividuals and families across this Na- has an initiative that addresses uni- In the area of universal pre-K edu- tion with an order of economic justice. versal preschool education. The Gov- cation and early childhood education, That, I think, is the moral compass ernor of California, Jerry Brown, both President Roosevelt and Johnson that guides us in that Caucus. I believe passed a bond that said that we want knew that education is an important that many of these ills within our more equitable funding for children in tool in this war on poverty and closing economy can be resolved. the State of California. We passed a I, with great interest, listened to the the income inequity gap. bond that increased the funding for Last week, I read an article in the opening of this hour of Special Order, education to achieve more equitable Lexington-Herald Leader about two where discussion on the economy began funding for each and every child. It is schools in east Kentucky, just hours with your quoting President Franklin the first step. It is the right direction, Delano Roosevelt. As you cited within apart from each other—Anchorage and but we have miles and miles to go. Barbourville, two communities of This journey for equitable funding that quote the contrast between those about 3,000 in population. for each and every child is a journey who have an abundance and those who The median household income in An- that we must continue and start now, have little, we know that in that his- chorage is more than 3.5 times larger in order to achieve the civil rights of toric time President Roosevelt guided than the median income of that of each and every child in this country. this Nation with a program, and we had Barbourville. Yet Barbourville spends Mr. GARAMENDI. Representative reference to his administration being only $8,000 per student, while Anchor- HONDA, thank you so very much. that of a New Deal. age spends approximately $20,000 per Among the many pieces of legislation Today, many of the workers, many student. Equal size population, only a that the Democratic Caucus has put working families, women, those who couple hours apart. forward on this issue of when women struggle in our economy, are given a The question comes up: Why is it succeed, America succeeds is the issue bad deal. The bad deal is intolerable. that this country, our communities, of universal pre-K. Head Start is one The bad deal needs to be discontinued. continue to refuse to recognize the in- part of that. There are many other So we work, in very progressive for- equities in funding in our public kinds of programs, but it is absolutely mat, here on the House floor offering a schools? Why is that? clear that if we have universal edu- Democratic agenda, making certain The quality of education that our cational opportunities before kinder- that all people are embraced, are children receive should not be depend- garten and beyond that the chance of a brought into an inclusive sort of poli- ent on or determined by the ZIP Code kid making it in this economy is going tics where we engage in the ills of the in which they live or in which they to be substantially greater. past and correcting those ills of the were born. Each and every child should This is just part of the agenda over past, studying them, understanding receive support according to their the next several months. We will be where the empowerment is required. needs, not according to the ZIP Code in talking about the remaining portions Certainly, when you look at some of which they reside—each and every of the agenda that we are putting the issues today, there is this greater child. forth. impact on women in many measurable

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They understand that if you work many that are calling my office, leading us in this discussion here this hard and are trying to raise a family, women and men, who may have been evening on the House floor so that we you need to do it with great remunera- 45, 50, 55 years of age, if not 60-some. can express the contrast, the dif- tion, with social and economic justice, They are feeling age discrimination as ference. again, and the appropriateness of ena- they go to these interviews. They are It is not everyone just holding back bling people to have just pay for the being bypassed, they believe, because on progress. There are those who have work that is done. of their age. an agenda that speaks to the common We can address that with a minimum So the work out there that they re- folk, the workers out there, the indi- wage agenda here in the House. I be- quire, where three people are chasing viduals, the families, the children that lieve that those dollars are recir- every available job, we need in this are empowered by quality daycare, culated into the economy. People earn- post-recession to continue to be there child care services, that are empowered ing a minimum wage are going to on their behalf. We have never not cho- by a minimum wage increase, empow- spend on the basic essentials of life for sen to reauthorize and provide for the ered by the extension of emergency un- themselves and for their family mem- unemployment insurance opportuni- employment insurance, by skills devel- bers. So it, I believe, is a way to ties. opment programs. strengthen regional economies, State There is a package out there, Making b 1830 economies, and this national economy, It In America, that has been addressed by being fair to workers and working In the seven recessions that have fol- by this Caucus, by the Democratic Cau- families. lowed since 1958, we have always ex- cus in the House, that will grow the There was also talk about the efforts tended that unemployment insurance. economy and strengthen the future and to provide for family leave time, for Why now? Why now do we say no? provide a sense of hope. sick leave, and the worthiness of pro- We need to be sensitive. We need to It has been done. We need to rep- viding for that and removing of the understand that many people, a great licate history. We saw what happened stress factor within families. It is crit- number of women, require this reau- when we engaged in issues like Social ical. It is important to quality of life, thorization. A number of people are Security, Medicare, workers’ rights, and it is the right thing, the fair thing feeling age-discriminated against, and standing up for the individuals out to do. so the right thing to do is to empower there in order to provide for the remu- Also, I find very incredibly important these families. neration that they require and deserve. the discussion routinely on this House The dollars come right back into the That is respect, and that is providing floor about the extension of emergency economy. In fact, it has been stated hope for America’s working families. unemployment insurance. Well, that is that for every dollar of unemployment So let’s hope we can move forward something that has received a lot of at- insurance that is paid to individuals with a progressive agenda for this Na- tention of late, but the leadership of out there, $1.52 is realized in the local tion’s working families. the House is rigid in not addressing the economy, and so it more than pays for Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. TONKO, I knew extension of emergency unemployment itself. that I would enjoy listening to you. insurance. And when the theories out there, The passion, the knowledge, the inten- Well, let me tell you that that denial when the many institutes, the eco- sity that you bring to this issue is of unemployment insurance has im- nomic policy institutes, measure the critically important. You have worked pacted women particularly hard, but impact of not doing this, we under- at these issues for a long time, and I both women and men, and families in stand full well that it sets back the want to talk, just wrap up the unem- general. economy. Some 400,000 jobs are lost. ployment insurance issue with going Let me tell you about two discus- $400 million was lost in the early stages back to where I started here some time sions I had this weekend. I gathered of not doing the unemployment insur- ago. with some folks from my district who ance reauthorization. Again, in early December, a jobs fair are communicating with us about the So there are many ills that come in Fairfield, California, nearly 1,000 need to have this done. Two individ- with a lack of action here. There are people came to it, 50 employers. More uals—they happen to be women—Lau- many ills that need to be undone that than half of the people in this line are rie, Lisa, and I, and others, had met, have been decades long, generations women. I could probably go down along with a local assembly member, long in their impact on women, making through this line. I remember a con- Pat Fahey, from the Albany region of certain that, as we empower women, as versation with a couple of the women New York. We heard their stories. we empower them, we empower fami- here, and they were on unemployment They have been without work for lies, we empower this Nation. insurance. nearly a year. They have been actively There are many things that need to Now, unemployment insurance actu- pursuing work, sending out resumes, be done, and I, again, am so proud to ally started with the New Deal. It was indicating wherever a job is possible work with the Caucus that understands part of the effort to deal with poverty that may fit their skill set, and they it, that gets it, that is trying to be out in America, and it was an insurance are not getting the response they re- there speaking the progressive voice of program, a program into which the em- quire. policy reform that will strengthen this ployer and the employee pay for insur- So they have talked about it. We economy, grow the economy. ance for the employee should there be wanted to get a personal saga here, a There is no more important issue a layoff, should they be unemployed, story. We wanted to relate really well today than growing our economy, and should that individual be unemployed. so we could be a stronger voice here on we do it by a sense of inclusion. With It is an insurance program. It is not a the House floor. those inclusive politics, women and welfare program. It is an insurance Both Laurie and Lisa brought to my men, younger workers just entering program. attention the fact that their children the workforce, senior workforce mem- But if I were to go back down this are watching this. They are watching bers, everyone is empowered when we line and talk to each one of these indi- this whole episode, and they can’t un- do the progressive order of reform that viduals, probably, maybe, 15 percent of derstand the insensitivity, the callous- enables us to grow this economy. them have lost their unemployment in- ness, the cold-heartedness. They So Representative GARAMENDI, I am surance because the House of Rep- thought that government would be certainly pleased that you are leading resentatives has refused to extend the there at a time when their parents us in this discussion on growing the long-term unemployment insurance. were struggling for work. They want to economy, on doing an order of fairness, So where are they today?

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We need to In my district, or just on the edge of strong, how competitive will we be as develop a jobs program, and we need to my district, in Sacramento, Siemens, we enter that race. extend that unemployment because that huge German manufacturing com- That requires education, higher edu- these women are mothers of children pany, opened a manufacturing plant to cation, skills development, energy that now have a family with no in- build 100 percent American-made loco- costs, innovation of all sorts. That come, no unemployment insurance. motives for the first time in genera- comes with the passion of reform. So The food stamps, the proposal on this tions because, in the stimulus bill, a we need an agenda like that presented floor by our colleagues was to cut the sentence was added to the support for with Make It In America that address- food stamp program by $40 billion. So Amtrak, and that sentence said these es the needs of the workers, that where will the food come from? Not locomotives will be 100 percent Amer- speaks to the empowerment that comes from SNAP, which is the new name for ican-made. with research which equals jobs. For us the food stamp program, Supplemental A German company said, oh, $600, to have that pioneer spirit, which I be- Nutrition Assistance Program. That is $700 million contract, we will make lieve is in the DNA of America and her going to be cut. them in America. And so all across this workers, we need to embrace that pio- Hunger in America among children— Nation, manufacturing companies are neer spirit and move forward. one in four children go hungry, and we now participating in the construction Now, Representative GARAMENDI is are adding to it. We are adding to that of 100 percent American-made loco- going to joke that I always talk about number today by the refusal to extend motives using American taxpayer the donor area that the 20th Congres- the unemployment insurance. money. sional District of New York is and was Some 72,000 people will lose their That is the key here. Mr. TONKO, I to the development of the Industrial long-term unemployment insurance know you get really excited about this Revolution in this Nation. But the Erie each month as this rolls along—each issue, as you were about poverty and Canal made a port out of a little town week. equality in America just a moment called New York, and then developed Thank you, Mr. TONKO. You are wel- ago. Why don’t you pick this up and into the birthing of a necklace of com- come to interrupt me whenever, and we carry it for a while? munities called mill towns that be- can have a dialogue here. So thanks for Mr. TONKO. Sure. And I thank, came the epicenters of invention and the lipreading. again, the gentleman from California Each week 72,000 people. At the end innovation. for yielding. We need that same spirit to be em- of the year, another 31⁄2 million will The Make It In America program, the braced today with this out-of-the-box have lost their unemployment insur- concept of that, is a very strong domes- thinking, where we can bring about the ance. Will they have a job? They could tic agenda. In and of itself, it has great best of America and provide hope for have a better opportunity for a job if merit. But let’s put that into the con- workers, for families across this Na- we carried out the President’s jobs pro- text of the bigger picture, and that is tion, and do it in a way that allows us gram. the international sweepstakes for the I think we have got about 10 minutes economy, for landing jobs. to win this given race, this global race or so. Let’s spend some time on that. Many of us can recall the global race on innovation. I am going to put up one of my favor- on space in the sixties, and it was crit- Whoever wins this race, as the Presi- ite and often-used charts here. Mr. ical to win that race. We had come off dent, President Obama, has been quoted oftentimes, will be the kingpin TONKO, you will recognize this. a failing moment with Sputnik, dusted Mr. TONKO. Absolutely. off our backside and said never again. of the international economy. That is Mr. GARAMENDI. It is the Make It So this Nation committed, with pas- an important assignment to this in America chart. It is the revitaliza- sionate resolve, that we would win that House, the House of Representatives. It tion of manufacturing in the United global race on space. That was just two is an important assignment to Con- States. And I could probably give your nations, U.S. vs. USSR. Who would gress. It is an important challenge to speech on the industrialization of the land on that Moon, stake their flag all of us, as Americans, to commit to State of New York. I will let you do it, first? We were determined it was going that agenda of investing, investing in however. to be the United States. And a rather America so that our best days lie But these are the issues that we youthful President led the Nation, ahead. I am convinced that with this think are critical. We have spent most again, with passionate resolve, so that sort of progressive thinking, our best of this night talking about this one— we had dollars for training, for re- days lie ahead, and that we deliver labor. Last week I said we would pick search, for education, for equipment, hope to the doorsteps of individuals this up, and we are, and particularly and we were going to win that race, and families across this Nation with a focused on women in the labor force. and we did. vision of how we can win this next But here it is, trade policies, inter- In my first year in Congress, in 2009, quarter of global competition. national trade. we celebrated the 40th anniversary. Mr. GARAMENDI. Representative I gave a speech this morning on the Neil Armstrong was here to shake the TONKO, once again, you have laid it out maritime industry, the decline of the hands of many Members of Congress, very, very clearly, the challenge that maritime industry, the necessity of thanking him for the poetry of the mo- we have. There are 435 of us here in the maintaining it. We are a maritime Na- ment in that July of 1969. It was more House of Representatives. I think we tion. We have oceans surrounding us, than the one small step for man, one are a little lower than that because of whether it is the Arctic Ocean, the Pa- giant step for mankind, the poetry of some retirements, but let’s just say cific Ocean, the Caribbean, or the At- the moment. It was the unleashing of 435, and 100 Members of Congress. To- lantic Ocean. untold amounts of technology that im- gether with the President, we set the So it is trade issues. pacted communications, energy gen- national policy. We set the national Tax policies, why do we continue to eration, health care. Across the gamut agenda. And frankly, at the moment, subsidize the wealthiest industries in of job creation, technology entered in. the agenda is one that has stalled out. this world? The oil industry, why do we Fast-forward to today. A rather Really, we have been prevented from continue to subsidize the oil industry? youthful President is asking again that pushing forward an aggressive agenda Energy policy. Fortunately, we are we embrace, with passion, our entry such as you have described. Those ele- having a good run on the energy issues, into a global race, this time on innova- ments, research, education, manufac- and we will come back and talk about tion and clean energy and high tech. turing, infrastructure, the role of that. But this time, dozens of competitors. labor, particularly the role of women

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I would remember that when women succeed, I, as many other Californians at one challenge that philosophy. I would America will succeed. time, supported the California high- challenge that philosophy with the And with that, I thank my colleagues speed rail project. It was initially sup- Founding Fathers. Mr. TONKO, Mr. HONDA, the three posed to be a $33 billion project with Our colleagues on the right often women that joined us earlier, Ms. KAP- equal amounts coming not only from talk about we ought to do what the TUR, Ms. HAHN, and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, the California taxpayers, in the form of Founding Fathers did. Well, one of the for bringing this message to the Amer- a bond, but also private investors and things that George Washington, one of ican people and to our colleagues here the Federal Government. the Founding Fathers, did was to turn on the floor. Yet this $33 billion project has to Alexander Hamilton and say, De- And I yield to the gentleman from ballooned up to $100 billion. So what do velop a strategy for American manu- New York (Mr. TONKO) to wrap up. they do for cost controls? They cut off facturing, for building the American Mr. TONKO. I will just indicate that the very legs that Mr. LAMALFA talked economy. So Hamilton went off, prob- not far from the 20th Congressional about, the section going to Sac- ably talked to a few people, and came District in upstate New York is the ramento, the section going to San back with a lengthy report, which you Women’s Hall of Fame. And just re- Diego; but, still, it is a $68 billion would never see nowadays, which was cently, our leader, Minority Leader project with a more than $26 billion like 30 pages. And in that document, he NANCY PELOSI, was inducted into that hole just in the first initial operating laid out a strategy for building the hall of fame. We think of the stories of segment alone. American economy. women in the chronicles of American Tomorrow, as chair of the Sub- Interestingly, guess what he talked history, the women who embraced sac- committee on Railroads, we will be dis- about. He talked about trade. He rifice and struggled to make a dif- cussing a review of the challenges fac- talked about infrastructure. Among ference. Think of what happens when ing California’s high-speed rail. the infrastructure that was specifically we empower the inexorable outcomes I want to reiterate I believe that in the plan that Hamilton presented to that they have journeyed through over high-speed rail is our future. I believe George Washington, who then pre- the course of our history. Think of the that as a growing economy, with more sented it to the Congress, was canals. empowerment that comes. So with the trucks and goods movement on the And shortly thereafter, about 30 years vision of progressive orders of reform, road, with more goods movement on later, the Erie Canal. our best days lie ahead; and we can de- rail that we have to look at alternative Here in Washington, the Chesapeake liver that hope that we are challenged opportunities to move people. High- and Ohio Canal, the canal on the Poto- to deliver. speed rail is one of those opportunities. mac River. It also talked about roads. So it has been tremendous speaking But in Florida, a project that is being It talked about ports. Those were the with you and our colleagues on the done by private investors will have no infrastructure projects of the day. The floor here this evening. Let’s move for- ongoing subsidy. They need no Federal Constitution, by the way, says that the ward and provide that hope to Amer- dollars. Texas will have its own high- Federal Government must maintain ica’s working families. speed rail system, again, with private and build postal roads. Infrastructure, Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, I dollars, no ongoing subsidy. Yet here in we talk about that nearly all the time thank you for the hour, and I yield California, you have a $68 billion we are here. back the balance of my time. project with no private investor, with Research. At that period of time, f huge subsidies and overruns, and a Thomas Jefferson—not exactly in project that cannot even get out of the league with the representatives from CALIFORNIA’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL initial gate. New England, but nonetheless—was The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under So where we are today: California has pushing forward the research agenda the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- no money to meet its Federal obliga- and the education agenda. Go back to uary 3, 2013, the gentleman from Cali- tion. On November 14, we had a court the Founding Fathers, pick up those fornia (Mr. LAMALFA) is recognized for decision that came back and said that elements of economic growth that they 60 minutes as the designee of the ma- they cannot spend the $9.95 billion that put on the American agenda in the jority leader. was approved by voters because they very earliest days of this Nation, and Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, our sub- had failed to complete a full business carry those forward. ject here tonight is about California’s plan. So with no dollars available, the We are not a shy country; but if one high-speed rail project, a project that Governor came out this week and said would look at the policies emanating was voted in in 2008 by the voters of that we are going to use $250 million of from the Congress today, you would California with approximately $9 bil- the cap-and-trade dollars, cap-and- think that we are a country that does lion worth of bonds to help fund what trade dollars that were supposed to be not envision the necessity of grabbing would be a project that would seek out- used for environmentally friendly the strength of the past and using side private investment as well, a projects. Yet this project is going to be those elements that have created the project that would link San Francisco a net polluter, a net polluter for at economic growth and pushing them to Los Angeles with possible additional least the next 30 years. So how he forward. spurs to Sacramento and San Diego. It could come up with a legality of using We can, and we must, do this. And as has run into large funding problems these cap-and-trade dollars I think is we do it, I want to go back to where we and such. So the subject of our time to- in question. started today’s discussion, and that is, night is that we see that there are huge But I think a bigger issue is a timing we started this discussion with the role problems with the funding and where issue: $180 million is due April 1. The of women in our economy. 77 cents. will the funding come from. Antideficiency Act says that the State Equal pay? No, no. A man will earn $1; I have my colleagues here from Cali- has to have its first set of matches, and and a woman at the same job, same fornia, as well, who would like to speak that 50/50 match is due April 1. Yet the skill sets, same tenure on the job will on this subject. First of all, I would legislature is not even going to vote on earn 77 cents across this Nation. In my like to yield to my good friend and col- this new budget and this theoretical own district, it is 85 cents. league from the north San Joaquin $250 million in funds until, at the ear- A woman working full time at min- Valley, Congressman JEFF DENHAM, liest, late June. California budgets usu- imum wage cannot earn enough money who has been a leader on this issue ally come in in August, and I think it

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This is a are not fulfilling the Prop 1A guar- ment, itself, the judge has said not measure that passed in 2008, was put in antee that they voted on. only that they need to come up with front of the voters, known as ‘‘Prop So, at a certain point, I believe that the money on this initial construction 1(a)’’ at the time that passed by a 52–48 we have to force the California High- segment, which stops in Bakersfield— margin. I think the voters were sold Speed Rail Authority to go back to the so now we are going to have two sets of something completely different than voters and seek approval. Change your rail that stop in Bakersfield, and then what we are actually seeing as Califor- plans. Go back to the voters and let the you have to get on a bus to get across nians in the project. voters decide. the Tehachapis. But they don’t even Congressman DENHAM mentioned Mr. LAMALFA. Indeed, I attempted have the funding for the initial oper- that the price has ballooned from ap- that in 2012 with legislation at the ating section, which goes all the way proximately what people saw on the time called SB 95 in California to place to Palmdale. You won’t be able to get ballot, $33 billion for that initial San that back in front of the voters, give the speed that they need going around, Francisco to L.A. segment; and just 1 people the option, now that they have instead of through, the Tehachapis; year later, it was revised up after the more information, to say do they real- and they have a $20 billion funding gap voters had voted on it to $42 billion. ly want to go through with this with in that first segment. And then we saw that the Sacramento California’s other issues. You men- So some real questions: Are they segments, the San Diego segments tioned, Mr. DENHAM, the challenges we going to meet the timeline of April 1? were dropped off as even options. have had with water supply. Even our Is using the cap-and-trade dollars actu- Interestingly, we have all been in the Governor is saying that this is a huge ally legal? And, third, this huge fund- State legislature—Congressman priority and a huge problem for Cali- ing gap, where does that money come DENHAM and myself and another gen- fornia to face in 2014, and yet we have from? I think the Federal taxpayers tleman who will be speaking here in a a very difficult time allocating a few across the Nation need to be asking the moment—and we saw these numbers go billion dollars to enhance our water question, If you are going to subsidize past us at a time. And at a hearing storage in California and instead are all of California’s high-speed rail that was held in the California State faced with this. projects, where do the matching dollars Senate in November of 2011, it was fi- What would that mean for jobs in the come from? If they could use the $9.95 nally exposed that their numbers were valley if we are able to turn the water, billion, it is still not enough money. So way off, and they admitted that the turn the tap back on to agriculture at if California can’t come up with the project that voters expected would be a fraction of the price of high-speed Federal match, what are the teeth that right near $100 billion to do the San rail? the Federal Government has to be able I yield to my friend. to hold California up to that Federal Francisco to Los Angeles segment if it was going to be truly a high-speed rail Mr. DENHAM. It would be a fraction obligation? of the price, tens of thousands of jobs We have some real questions that are from port to port. And also during that that would be lost of seeing farmland going to be coming out tomorrow. The time, in order to build up and say what that goes by without being planted this FRA has altered its approach. Once an economic boom it would be, they year. they realized that they couldn’t do a were advertising that 1 million jobs We have a huge drought. There are 50/50 match, they went to a tapered would be created by this. huge issues. And what everybody is match. That means that the Federal b 1900 trying to say is a high-speed rail—keep Government is going to come in with We pinned them down in that Senate in mind, this initial segment, this ini- their money first, and then, hopefully, hearing that it wasn’t really 1 million tial operating segment which has a $20 someday the State will come up with jobs. It was a term called 1 million job billion funding gap, is not going to be its matching dollars in a tapered man- years, which really translates out to electrified. It will not be high-speed. ner. That tapered manner is coming perhaps 20,000 jobs of building the en- By their numbers, by their plan, this is through April 1. That is when that first tire system. So we have seen a lot of $180 million is obligated. another set of track that will not be But I think the real question is, Who very creative—I would say phony— electrified, that will run as it is being is making these decisions? Did this go numbers on costs, on benefits, and even run today, with a $20 billion gap. So all the way up to the President? Was some of the very highly optimistic rid- even if you came up with the entire $32 the past Department of Transportation ership numbers as well. billion of this initial segment, we are Secretary or the new Department of So, Congressman DENHAM, what does still stuck in the same situation that Transportation Secretary involved in that mean in your district here as far we are. We are just that much further this decision? And if California can’t as what you really think the jobs in the hole. come up with this tapered match, will would translate out to? And then what Now, I know some of my colleagues they, once again, adjust this outside of are some of the impacts on the prop- would say, well, just spend the money Congress a second time? erty involved, as well? as quickly as you can. Let’s just spend So we have some real questions on Mr. DENHAM. Well, certainly, one of some of it, and like other projects, what those legalities are. The next the big concerns right now is where are once you have started it, some day the question would be the contingencies. these jobs? These were stimulus dollars money will come. I don’t think we can What are the contingencies for the that were supposed to be ready for deal with that type of pie-in-the-sky Federal Government to recoup its tax- shovel-ready projects 5 years ago—5 rhetoric. I believe we have got to have payer dollars if California defaults on years ago—and still not one shovel is a full funding plan that makes sense, its obligations? in the ground. Not one job is created. one that has a private investor that We have some real priorities in Cali- Now, unlike Texas and Florida that are was promised to us. fornia. And as the Central Valley con- creating jobs, that are putting the in- We have heard several times that, if tinues to suffer with a drought, as our frastructure in, certainly in California you just write the legislation, we will schools continue to lag behind, as our they could come up with a better plan. have a private investor; if you just put public safety dollars continue to get They could go along the I–5 corridor. it on the ballot and approve it by the robbed, is this the best use of our They could use the existing rail cor- legislature before it actually goes to money? And should we be investing in ridor that has been abandoned. There the voters, we will have private inves- something that, unlike Texas and Flor- are other opportunities if they truly tors that will sign on to this. Then it ida, has no private investors, has no want to cut costs. But if they don’t was right after the ballot passed, we State match, has a lot of funding ques- want to change, they don’t want to re- have nearly $10 billion committed to by tions that need to be answered before vise their budget and they have no pri- the taxpayers, for sure we are going to we move forward? vate investor, the question still re- have a private investor now.

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This is a project with a Antideficiency Act, the reason that is too many stops. Whether you talk to huge funding gap that still is not going put into law. the Rail Authority or whether you talk to be electrified—by their plan. Mr. LAMALFA. California just passed to investors around the world, with Mr. LAMALFA. Indeed, when we look a recent tax known as Prop 30 last that many stops in those locations, at the project in totality here, what year, 2012, that was going to pay for a you will never get to the 220-miles-per- ended up being $100 billion to be legal whole lot of things, go for a lot of dif- hour speed, and you will never get to 2 under Proposition 1A, to have a true ferent measures with perhaps schools hours and 40 minutes. high-speed rail—which is required—to and other infrastructure. We had This thing is full of holes. It makes go from San Francisco to L.A. at a talked about cap-and-trade. You can no sense for voters, and voters should high speed, 2 hours and 40 minutes, a even point to truck fees, that they are have a say-so on whether or not they $100 billion project was revised now all now trying to be shifted towards are going to commit any initial money down to a $68 billion project, which high-speed rail instead of other prior- or any further money as we move for- does not include high-speed all the way ities. I wonder if that is what the vot- ward. This is about our future, not to San Francisco in the north. It would ers’ intentions were on Prop 30 or on yours and mine, but our kids, our stop at the San Jose area, and then you their truck fees or weight fees, et grandkids, and the type of debt that we are required to use local transpor- cetera. saddle them with. At a certain point, I tation, local light rail, what have you, So I think there has been a lot of de- think that not only Californians, but to get all the way up to San Francisco. ception around this, again, on cost and Americans, need to wake up and say And at the southern end, you have, in on ridership. As I mentioned a minute whether or not this is a project that L.A. County, it doesn’t go to downtown ago, if it has been revised down to a $68 deserves an investment. Los Angeles under the new plan. It billion plan, we can only point to, for Can we do things smarter? Can we do would stop somewhere in the north, re- sure, approximately $13 billion from things like Florida and Texas? I don’t mote north L.A. County portion. So it Fed stimulus and the State bond. think Florida and Texas are going to isn’t truly high-speed rail anymore. Where does the other $55 billion go to be alone. I think there will be other As you mentioned, too, Mr. DENHAM, build what is really an illegal plan? States that step up and find ways to do on that, if they take the Palmdale Where is it going to come from? high-speed rail and find ways to make route, they probably can’t even sustain Mr. DENHAM, you mentioned we a commonsense solution in their those speeds. So it is illegal on that haven’t seen the private-sector money States. count that it probably can’t make a 2- from anywhere, yet you can point to, But in this State, this project is hour-and-40-minute ride. And with recently, a proposal came out for an flawed. It is initially flawed by $20 bil- that, you have three different seg- east coast plan to build a maglev, mag- lion, but certainly by more than $55 ments. So if you have to buy three dif- netic levitation train, that would link billion if we decide to move forward. At ferent tickets, I don’t know how the east coast urban centers, and there are a certain point, you have to ask, how customers are being suited by three already interested investors from much is enough? I would say that now different stops like that, as well. Japan on that with much more modern is enough. We were told back in the day that technology. You can say that rail isn’t Mr. LAMALFA. Indeed, when the the price of a ticket would somehow be new technology because it is wheels stimulus money first started coming tied to 85 percent of what an airline still running on a steel rail. And in available, there were other States that ticket was to go from north to south or California, which is supposed to lead applied for high-speed rail money, such south to north; and a real estimate, if the way in technology and innovation, as Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin. I be- this were self-sustaining, it would be we are really not leading on this at all. lieve that after they looked at their somewhere maybe triple of that. So what do you see as far as the prob- numbers, ran the figures on projects So the impacts of that, again, Cali- lems with that bigger funding gap? And that were eligible for that stimulus fornia agriculturally with water supply then, bringing that back, what is that money, they turned that money back is struggling this year. So for a frac- going to do for our economy? and went back into this pool. Of tion of the amount of money it would Mr. DENHAM. Well, certainly, we are course, California said it wants it; but take to bolster California’s storage, we falling way behind the rest of the interestingly, it would have been a are going to spend perhaps what would world. Other technologies are starting much smaller portion had California have been $100 billion—in the revised to flourish in other parts of the world, been sharing with those other States number, $68 billion—to do an illegal yet here this project will take at least what Federal money would have come Prop 1A version from south San Jose to 30 years but, more likely, 50 to 60 based to the State. So the other ones said, north Los Angeles. That is a $55 billion on where they are currently standing We have looked at the numbers, and we gap on the entire project right there. on the project. So this is something are turning that money back in. We can only point to $13 billion that will be far outdated technology if I think we ought to apply some of the worth of funding, the 9.9 from the bond. it ever gets completed. same logic as the other States looked Bonds have consequences. They have to But the real question is on the fund- at when they had Federal money avail- be paid back by an already financially ing. Where is the commitment? This able, eligible funds, that they indeed strapped State. As well, the 3.5 billion President certainly could look for or turned back. or so that is promised from the Federal come up with other money. He could So I really appreciate your leadership Government under the 2009 stimulus propose other money to fulfill this on this, Congressman DENHAM, and we has strings, too. It has an expiration project. Not even Democrats will sup- will be doing a lot more to make sure period. port that. That is not a Republican this is held accountable to the public Please embellish on that a little bit, issue. This is an issue across the Na- here. I look forward to your hearing to- Mr. DENHAM, because we know there tion saying, why would we come up morrow on this matter. are some very important deadlines with money, when we are starved Mr. DENHAM. I thank the gentleman coming on that as well, if we can. across the Nation, to throw at a project for yielding. Mr. DENHAM. There are important in California that is being mis- Mr. LAMALFA. We are also joined by deadlines. Again, this is part of the managed? a colleague from the lower San Joaquin Antideficiency Act that says the 50/50 I think that there are real questions Valley area of the State for whom this match now is coming due for the State. there not only for the administration issue is very important, very key to his So April 1, $180 million is due. The but private investors that are not will- district as well, on the impact of the

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Right now in Cali- is our Federal money going into some- nities are able to get to the doctor in fornia, we have been letting prisoners thing that can’t possibly work out? Fresno or get to the doctor in Bakers- out of prisons because we don’t have And so I know we are all willing to field or get to work, but a small, com- enough money to build facilities for help people in other States with sen- muter train that gets them where they them and to keep some of the commu- sible infrastructure projects. That is need to be for relatively low cost. nity correctional facilities open. There the way it works in this country with You look at high-speed rail, and as is a lot going on, and we have to be our interstate system that President the map that was up on the screen ear- spending money on a project like this Eisenhower had the vision for back in lier showed, what we have there is a when we should be focusing on some- the day. And yes, there might have track that will basically pass from thing that helps keep our communities been naysayers there, but you could ac- Hanford, if Hanford ever gets built, but safe. tually point to positive results in for sure Fresno to Bakersfield, and it Those are all things that we should something that works long term and leaves all of the people in California 21 be paying attention to that we are not other infrastructure projects that were basically out to dry. That is sad. I because of this project. They are in a invested in, but this one here, the num- mean, when you see a project that was hurry to build this project right now bers just don’t run. supposed to help those less fortunate, because they say it creates jobs, but, So my colleague, DAVID VALADAO or those people who need it the most, like was pointed out earlier, those from the valley, has got very great you have a project now that is actually numbers are all bogus. They were concerns and has been very strong in going to hurt them and put potentially pushed up. They were not honest num- leading in his area too, as well, on at risk what they have today, Amtrak, bers. We are starting to see this project what are the impacts going to be, what their mode of transportation. that will put our children and grand- are the costs. Because this project lacks so much children into debt for a long time for a I would like to yield to Congressman money, that is why it puts us in that small amount of jobs that we really DAVID VALADAO. position. We have a system in place can’t account for and we can’t ensure Mr. VALADAO. I thank the gen- that is built on someone else’s train will be our own community jobs. tleman rice farmer from northern Cali- tracks. It is on Burlington Northern’s So this is something that has had me fornia for the opportunity to speak train tracks in my area, and I am sure concerned my whole time in the legis- here today. it is on other tracks in other parts of lature, and I have talked about it for a Where do you start with something the State, but if the project that they long time. It is something that I am like this? I grew up a dairy farmer in have today starts to move forward and going to continue to fight. It needs to Kings County and continue to be a they run out of money like we expect be talked about and pushed out there. dairy farmer in Kings County to this them to do, part of the plan is to move The more people who get involved— day. I spent my first 2 years in elected Amtrak over there. So what happens to you take groups like my Kings County office in the California State Legisla- those stations in my district? That is group of residents who have sued the ture on a budget subcommittee and just one of the issues I see. State and sued the Federal Govern- watched as this project moved along; In California 21, like I mentioned ear- ment over this project. When they first and right before election when this was lier, and a good portion of the valley, got involved, they looked at this passed back in ’08 and up until my elec- we face a water shortage, a drought. project and said this is going to affect tion in 2010, the project didn’t seem Some of that is natural, but a lot of our families and homes, let’s fight it. that bad. It seemed like something that is regulatory. We have also got a Once they started getting into the de- that was just voted on and put on the severe lack of infrastructure to deliver tails and saw where the funding was shelf and they would continue to build water. We have Tempered Flats and we coming from, or the lack of funding, on it. Then, at the last minute, some have Pikes Reservoir, we have a lot of the amount of deceit that goes into money showed up and it basically put infrastructure that needs to be built, this project just to get it rammed down this project in high gear, and the and that is infrastructure that would our throats, they decided to keep fight- project wasn’t ready for it. benefit not just California but the ing no matter what, even though the As the Congressman from the north- whole State in general. alignment was moved off their prop- ern part of the valley mentioned ear- When you look at a project like high- erty across town to another part of lier, there is no real plan. When you speed rail, if that project was to go for- town. The high-speed rail people show up at the last minute and say, ward and be built, you would have a thought all of these people will back ‘‘Here. Here is some money. Start high-speed rail that most people off now because it doesn’t affect them building right away,’’ as if it is shovel couldn’t afford to ride. personally, but once they knew what ready, it set this project up for a real- If you build water infrastructure, you was really in this project, they thought ly, really tough time. now have water to grow products, there is no way we can let this fight go. water to feed families, water for our So the group actually grew. b 1915 communities, and once you have that, Now that the new constituents were What we are facing now today, we see you start to grow crops and produce affected by the new alignment, the new a train system being built, a high-speed product. You start to improve an econ- guys joined with the old guys and the rail, and like was mentioned earlier, omy and produce a product that you group grew. Now they have moved the older technology. Forty years ago, rail actually can sell and bring dollars back alignment back. The first group is con- with wheels was the technology. Now into your community. That, in my tinuing to fight, and the second group maglev is the new technology. So to opinion, makes a lot more sense. is in it as well. It is just amazing how see a project that is starting today Education. California has struggled the more you get to know about this with technology that is already 40 with funding for education for years. project and how it is being pushed and years old that probably won’t be run- We have seen plenty of programs that how it is being run, the more you want ning for another 30 years, I think we were cut out or cut back or just flat to fight it, and the more you want to are setting ourselves up for failure. out gotten rid of. If you have a project shut this thing down. When you look at what else has been like high-speed rail spending money Just to close, California high-speed going on with this project, as far as when they are not prepared for it, when rail comes at a tremendous cost to tax- what the opportunities are, when you we should be investing in our future, payers while delivering no benefit to look at my district specifically, Cali- education, making sure our kids have my constituents. This project will de- fornia District 21, you have got com- the best opportunities, the best founda- stroy homes and businesses throughout

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Permitting for a new fa- family and the generations behind you. have in my power to stop this project cility was nearly impossible, and we How do you quantify that? as fast as possible. were never able to upgrade or expand Mr. VALADAO. Well, you can’t. Mr. LAMALFA. One question: a com- the facilities. So to actually build a When it is a project necessary for the mission, a board in California, recently new one today I would say is nearly benefit of the country, benefit of the moved to the three-person board to au- impossible. State, one that actually makes sense thorize the rail authority to start con- Mr. LAMALFA. Is the high-speed rail with a good plan behind it, it is a little demning property under eminent do- authority guaranteeing to help or see easier to swallow, but when you see main. Of course, there is going to be a through as part of the environmental this project in general and how big of a lot of resistance. Kings County is a hot documents to help make sure this is re- disaster it has been and how little in- bed of resistance to this project. The placed or other infrastructure is re- formation has been out to the public, eminent domain procedures are not placed? There are dairies in line. how they plan on funding it, how they easy or cheap to get through a court Again, in California, securing a permit plan on moving forward, if people are process. They are already moved to for a new dairy has become nearly an going to be able to actually afford to condemn two pieces of property, I be- impossibility, as my colleague in the ride this thing, it makes it that much lieve, in Fresno County, and I believe dairy industry would probably report. worse. This is important. I mean, when there are at least 380 that may have to So there are a lot of people weighing in you look at how hard some people have go through this process. How do your on that. Relocating the dairy, these are worked to build their homes and build constituents feel about the forced tak- facilities and lands that have been for their farms and companies, we have ing of land and an alignment that generations of families that have been restaurants and we have a little bit of doesn’t make a lot of sense and some of there. Is anything being taken into ac- everything that is being affected by the infrastructure that might be lost in count on the authority helping with this. When you see their blood, sweat these communities? these processes as part of the impact and tears, you can’t put a price on Mr. VALADAO. Over the years, there they are having? that. have been a lot of things built in the Mr. VALADAO. We have no guaran- Mr. LAMALFA. Certainly. Eminent valley—freeways, just different things tees on any of that. Some of the things domain is something that governments that obviously needed to be built for that affect some of our constituents, should use very reluctantly, very rare- the good of the State. Farmers, and somebody that has a restaurant and ly, and only when there is no other op- constituents in general, if they under- the high-speed rail goes through their tion available. My farm has been af- stand why it is being taken and it property, they go in and give them fected by that as well with the large makes sense for the State, usually it is what they assume is the value of that, towers, the power lines that move basi- an easy deal. but no one takes into account replace- cally from hydroelectric projects in the But once they get involved in the de- ment value. Or they bought their first northeast part of the State down to the tails of this project and start to see home when prices were high, and now San Francisco Bay area. It is some- how they are being treated themselves prices have come down, and now it is thing that affects our fields, but it is and how the project is going to end up an opportunity for high-speed rail to part of the greater good. Our tractors looking, because it is pretty apparent come in and offer them market price, have to drive around those now and fig- with the lack of funding and with the which basically leaves that person ure out how to still keep straight lines rest of the Federal Government look- homeless and in debt. So there are a lot going through towers running at an ing at this project and understanding of situations. angle, and you have ag aircraft that that it is pretty much ruined now be- We have farmers with long-term have to tangle with avoiding wires and cause of the management, they are not leases on property who do not own the flying over the towers at 200 feet and happy. They are fighting this thing property, but own the permanent crop trying to drop seed or fertilizer, things tooth and nail. on top of that. High-speed rail hasn’t like that. So we get some pretty When it comes down to their own taken into account the value of that strange streaks in our fields because of personal property, obviously they are crop on top. People will invest $10,000 that infrastructure, but it is impor- offended with some of the prices and to $15,000 an acre to get trees planted, tant. We want the folks in the Bay area some of the numbers they are seeing. If and if they are only buying the land for to have that. they owned the property or if their the value of the land but not what is on Eminent domain isn’t always very family owned it, if it is a generational top of that land, that obviously will fair. What I am seeing here is the thing, or just in general an eyesore put a lot of people upside down in a promises, if there are any promises running alongside their home, affecting really bad position and affect a lot of made by the high-speed rail authority, how they drive to work or how they jobs. to truly keep people whole on this and move around the district in general, it One of the biggest economic drivers give them options, and as you men- is just offensive to many of them, de- in the valley, and in California, we ex- tioned, the alignment changes fre- pending on the different route or how port a lot of agricultural products. quently. We are not even sure if they you want to approach it. That brings a lot of dollars in. That have a full 520-mile alignment decided Mr. LAMALFA. Indeed. Let me ask will have an impact on our economy as yet. They could have gone for a more you, too: How easy is to relocate a ren- well. low-impact route, perhaps putting it dering plant? A rendering plant, that is Mr. LAMALFA. Indeed. We are both down the middle of Interstate 5 or adja- a facility that processes dead agricul- from long time farming families. I cent to it, using parts of 99, perhaps. tural animals, which happens, and so think when you are a farmer, or any Mr. VALADAO. Or maybe fill in gaps they need to be taken to be processed, business that is multi-generational, where Amtrak doesn’t serve today. and one of those is right in your dis- but especially on the land, you develop Currently, if you want to go from Ba- trict, I understand. a bond. You develop a love of the land kersfield to L.A., you get on a bus. Mr. VALADAO. We have a rendering that you don’t really put a price on. I There is no connection there. That plant that is right in the middle of the think most farmers will farm until would have been a great place to start alignment as the alignment is today. they can’t farm any more, either due this project. Obviously, the alignment moves on a to age or regulations taking it away weekly basis, but the rendering plant from them, or whatever. So how do you b 1930 has been in the alignment twice now. put a price on my family, raising the That is one of the arguments we The first time, and we are back in fifth generation, and you and your have. When you have got a project of there again. neighbors, you have multi-generations this size and such a percentage of the

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Are you going to some metal on top to hopefully throw ever resources are spent are spent in a move your family into an area where some older-style Amtrak trains on top, way that benefits the overall majority the water isn’t safe to drink, which is doesn’t make a lot of sense, especially of the people. commonplace in some of those commu- when you are going to cut off commu- Right now, if you are riding Amtrak nities that we have been fighting for nities that need it today, need what we from Fresno to L.A. and you get off at funding for some of the water treat- have got in place today and not put Bakersfield and you get on that Grey- ment facilities that are so necessary. that in jeopardy. hound bus and ride over the hill, I am Then when you get into the infra- Mr. LAMALFA. What doesn’t get sure Greyhound does a great job, but structure itself, if you are going to talked about much are different im- that would be a great place to fill in build a plant or anything or a proc- pacts like the high-speed rail. In order the hole and build a rail, and build it essing facility for the type of commod- to sustain a high-speed, you have got up to today’s standards and put some- ities we grow, water is a necessity. It to build a very long elliptical form in thing in place that we can build on in starts from growing the crop, to clean- order to make turns with a train going the future that makes sense. ing the crop, to making sure that the 220 miles per hour. It is kind of like the Mr. LAMALFA. Certainly you can facilities are up to code and that we’ve angled towers running at angled lines make an argument that the first places got some treatment in place and that on my property that we farm. It you should look are the urban areas we have a product that we can sell and doesn’t fit in real well with a grid that where you can have the potential rider- bring dollars to those communities. is set up on straight lines and squares ship. Here on the east coast, you have That is how you create jobs, that is like that. a lot of ridership between Washington, the right way to do it, and that is So when an elliptical-shaped rail D.C., on up all the way to Boston. I something that we should be focusing comes through your community don’t know about the financial viabil- on and investing our limited resources through agricultural zones, as well as ity of that, but at least you can make on today. Obviously, we have been high-speed rail having to cut off all the a case there. Here, as was reported just making some really tough decisions in crossings, can you build enough over- a couple of years ago, they wanted to the last few months over spending and passes to not stop the flow of traffic, start in the Valley because, as was budgets and everything else that we whether that is cars or trucks or even quoted, they had the least amount of have got going on. Not just on the na- a farmer on a tractor who now may resistance to building the rail starting tional level, but at the State level have to drive his tractor instead of just in the rural Valley as opposed to what there are going to be some tough deci- across 6 miles down the road and back it was going to take to run through the sions as well. up to get around. I mean, there are a South Bay area, places like Palo Alto Those decisions should be based on lot of impacts that are really not meet- and others, that some people are fever- priorities, and those priorities should ing the eye here when you line them ishly opposed to what that would do be making sure we have the resources, out. and what that infrastructure tends to and resources today means water. Mr. VALADAO. Like I mentioned bring to high-value communities like Water is the number one priority, and earlier, when this project was started, that as well. But, again, the promise lies in the that is where it should be focused at. it was started as a long-term project; Mr. LAMALFA. I think everybody in Central Valley for us in what we do but then $3 billion showed up from the California in the midst of this drought well already. My portion in northern Federal Government and the project probably find agreement with that. Our Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Val- managers basically said put this thing own Governor was underlying that in a ley, these are strong agricultural in high gear, start breaking ground. areas. speech the other day, and yet still so You have got a project of this type I am wondering—and maybe you can wedded to this high-speed rail project, that affects so many people in so many touch on this as well—we have had dif- which the funding for is highly ques- different communities—how they trav- ferent ideas for water projects that for tionable. Indeed, a judge handed down el around their homes to work, around a fraction of the money we are talking a decision the other day ordering Cali- their farms, around their businesses, about with the high-speed rail system, fornia not to spend any of the State transporting products between ware- how far could we go to do one or two bond money because it wouldn’t be houses and processing facilities. You water storage projects and what would legal to do so under the lack of a plan have so much going on, and you have that mean for especially communities they have. got this project now that is going to like you have down there that have We both served in the State legisla- disrupt all of that just because they seen a huge economic impact with the ture. And is California’s financial situ- have got a timeline that they have got cutoff of water due to the delta smelt ation such that it can get out there on to spend. and those other problems? What would its own somehow with new funding? If The timeline is really on a small por- that mean in real jobs for the people the Federal money falls short or no pri- tion of it. We are talking a couple per- that have the skills and education level vate investment comes out, where will centages of the total cost of the that likely aren’t going to be working it come from? project. It is not worth risking a on a high-speed rail project, but have a Mr. VALADAO. Well, we have got a project of this size over such a small strong background in agriculture? lot of priorities here in Washington, amount of money. What do you see that doing to help D.C. The different Members from dif- That is probably one of the worst your area? ferent parts of the State are not look- things that has happened to this Mr. VALADAO. Well, when we look ing at California’s high-speed rail project since its inception. It could at a company that wants to invest in project the way it is being rolled out have been something great. It could the Valley, if they are in agriculture, today and thinking that is a good place have been a project that could have obviously they are attracted to the to invest the resources that the tax- made a big difference if it was given area for those reasons. But if they are payers in their district want to see the time to be designed and planned in looking for an affordable place that them spend the money on. a way that benefited the State, didn’t makes sense between L.A. and San It is not going to be an easy lift. As burden the State with debt forever, and Francisco because of access to larger this project seems to move forward and actually helped the constituents of populations, they look at the Central the press gets worse and worse, and that State. Valley, but they also want to make when you’ve got judges involved saying It is too bad this project has gone sure that there is security there. If you that they are not following the letter down the path it has; but, again, we are are going to build a company, you are of the law, what was asked of the vot- going to try to stop this thing so that going to make sure it is in a great ers when they voted for it, it just this doesn’t happen and doesn’t affect place for your employees. makes it that much harder to come up our communities. I think the focus should be right now with the rest of the money they are Mr. LAMALFA. Well, indeed, it does making sure that people have afford- going to need to finish this project. appear that they are hell-bent on

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Why should State govern- now, even though the judge ruled it is other vague number. ment be doing things that are illegal? illegal to spend the State dollars be- So there is not a lot of trust in any- Because they are right now in such a cause it is not fulfilling the plan. So, thing being put forward by the Cali- hurry to get the money spent, the Fed- indeed, big impact on the Valley and fornia High-Speed Rail Authority on eral money. If the Federal money was on taxpayers. costs, on ridership, on impact, prom- to stop, the State money also has to. Mr. VALADAO, I really appreciate ises made or not made to those that They both have to have a match with your time and your leadership on this are impacted in the line of many dif- each other; but if there is not the here tonight. Let’s keep putting the ferent proposals of where the route is. match happening, then there are giant message out that there are better Yet they are still trying to move for- legal problems. ward and start condemning people’s ways. Most anything might be better b 1945 than investing in this at this point. So property, at who-knows-what price of Congressman DENHAM mentioned a I thank you for your help here tonight. reimbursement, in order to spend as Mr. VALADAO. Thank you. quickly as they can this $3 billion-plus while ago: What is the payback proce- dure if Federal money is misspent, im- Mr. LAMALFA. So, indeed, the inves- of Federal stimulus money put in place tors that were supposed to come in, almost 5 years ago. properly spent? Because California had private investment for what had been It is really looking more like a fraud- the capacity to do that if it doesn’t billed to voters as a $33 billion project, ulent enterprise from what the voters meet its timelines, it doesn’t meet the up to $45 billion if you built the San saw in 2008 to now. Indeed, polling out goals, it doesn’t meet the tenets laid Diego and Sacramento link, they have there shows that now that people have out in proposition 1(a). It would be in a true high-speed rail system all the way not materialized. When you see that heard about this the last couple of from San Francisco to Los Angeles, the price for a time went up to $98.5 years and what it really means and the which so far that plan is not. You have billion—hence California’s Senate bill other choices they have to make on to ride three different train types to 985—it scared everybody away from schools, on water, on their actual high- accomplish that under this current this. ways, that they have a whole lot of dif- plan. You see, in a Baltimore to Wash- ferent opinion on it. A lot of editorial Now we know the folks in the Bay ington proposal to do a maglev project pages around the State are saying at Area and parts of Los Angeles are in- here locally that has outside investors the very least if you are not going to stop it, you should put it back on the terested in seeing some of their tracks that want to come in on that, nobody electrified as beneficiaries of some of is touching California’s high-speed rail. ballot. I attempted that in 2012. The mood the money that will be coming from So in the absence of this outside in- wasn’t there in the State legislature to this. I get that, I understand that. That vestment, California has moved in do that. My former colleague there probably would be a benefit for them, many different ways to try and find that I served with, Assemblyman Jeff some upgrades in their local infrastruc- other pots of money. The Governor Gorell from the Santa Barbara area, he ture. I don’t know why you could not plans on diverting truck weight fees is putting forward legislation to put it support that separately from this. If it that are collected from commercial back on the ballot and re-vote the rail. helps to get Caltrain in the Bay Area truckers away from repairing Califor- So I hope that catches fire and that the electrified, then that should be a sepa- nia’s aging roads. legislature will look at this project and rate question, a separate set of fund- Just try and drive in the right-hand decide maybe that would be worth a ing, because right now this is illegal. lane of any freeway—I get to enjoy vote of the people of California to de- The people in the Bay Area do not Interstate 5 a lot—and see what the cide if this is still a priority at these want to be part of an illegal project, condition of that road is. Some areas prices. likely, and maybe perhaps lose that have been repaired. Caltrans had a So Assemblyman Gorell has got a funding they are depending on to elec- pretty good year last year. Other areas pretty big task to put that in front of trify and upgrade their system. I don’t it is still pretty rough. Interstate 80, the legislature and achieve the votes. think so. That is a lot of money when near Sacramento, they are doing re- But interestingly—still talking State it gets around to doing that above what pairs now; but the potholes on that politics here—but in the State Senate, is going on in the valley, with the con- were pretty bad. to put forward the first segment of demnation of the land, and building in Yet we are seeing the effort by the funding in late 2012, it received the an area where they said would have the State to shift funding away from re- bare majority of votes to fund that. In least amount of resistance for the pairing roads that everybody uses our California State Senate, there are project, let alone the Bay Area and per- versus a project that maybe few can af- 40 Members. They have got a vote of haps parts of north L.A. County. ford to actually use. My colleagues 21–19. All the Republicans voted ‘‘no’’ So it is very problematic. It is really from the Valley here would probably and four of the Democrats, who up to time, as I proposed back in my senate tell you that there is not going to be a that point had been pretty favorable on days, to slow down the project and whole lot of people that jump on high- high-speed rail. It barely got out of the really get some real numbers. That was speed rail to ride from Bakersfield to State Senate floor. my first bill in the State Senate, SB 22. Fresno because it doesn’t make any I think that is saying a lot, that the It was a no spending, no doing any- sense for them. opinions have changed, certainly thing, until we have fully vetted and The promise of a low-cost ticket amongst the voters. Now we just have thought out a plan. being 85 percent initially of an airline to put the State legislature in a figu- Honestly, this reminds me of ticket from L.A. to San Francisco or rative headlock and get them to think ObamaCare. I have been calling this vice versa, how can that be met with- about it and do that. around my neighbors ObamaCare, Jr., out having the tickets subsidized at So I hope Assemblyman Gorell is suc- because it is so poorly thought out; and these costs? $85 we were told, $90. It cessful in this measure because it the plan for funding it looks largely was revised later maybe $120 when we would be proper to put this back in the same, pie in the sky. Investors had a hearing about it. Try $300 if it is front of the voters and ask them again: won’t touch it. Federal Government, not going to be underwritten by the would you rather have this or water are they going to come in and bridge taxpayers for ridership on this. projects, highway projects, school the gap of the other $55 billion that is How many people are going to spend projects, any number of things that missing, if we believe a $68 billion plan, $300 on that trip? Other than those that could be done to help move California or on up to the approximately 100, let might do it for the novelty of the train forward instead of this boondoggle that alone the inflation things that might ride from north to south or south to has no way of paying for itself or sus- drive a real project all the way to $150 north. We saw pie-in-the-sky numbers taining itself? billion? All for what?

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:02 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14JA7.059 H14JAPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H222 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 14, 2014 What could really be seen as an out- House subsequent to this filing, as applica- rule — Importation of Avocados From Conti- dated technology and something that a ble. nental Spain [Docket No.: APHIS-2012-0002] lot of people can’t afford to assess, nor The chair of the Committee on the Budget (RIN: 0579-AD63) received January 7, 2014, even make sense for them to use in is also permitted to adjust the allocations, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary mittee on Agriculture. short segments within the valley. Yes, levels to reflect changes resulting from tech- 4471. A letter from the Chairman and Chief it may make sense possibly if you had nical assumptions in the most recent base- Executive Officer, Farm Credit Administra- a fast train that could go all the way line published by the Congressional Budget tion, transmitting the Department’s final from San Francisco to L.A. and com- Office. rule — Releasing Information; General Pro- plete that. An associated table is attached. These ag- visions; Accounting and Reporting Require- One of the things brought up is that gregates, allocations, and other budgetary ments; Reports of Accounts and Exposures in order for the project to be tech- levels are made for the purposes of enforcing (RIN: 3052-AC76) January 7, 2014, pursuant to nically legal, they would only have to titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Act of 1974, and other budgetary enforcement Agriculture. send one train per day in each direc- provisions. 4472. A letter from the Counsel, Legal Divi- tion at full, nonstop length. They If there are any questions on these aggre- sion, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protec- would have other trains perhaps that gates, allocations, and other budgetary lev- tion, transmitting the Bureau’s final rule — are making all these stops, stopping at els in the budget resolution for fiscal year Home Mortgage Disclosure (Regulation C): every little burg along the way. That is 2014, please contact Paul Restuccia, Chief Adjustment to Asset-Size Exemption Thresh- not high-speed rail. That is glorified Counsel of the Budget Committee. old received January 7, 2014, pursuant to 5 Amtrak, glorified local commuters. Sincerely, U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Fi- That is not the intent of voters or any- PAUL D. RYAN of Wisconsin, nancial Services. Chairman, House Budget Committee. body on this measure, or for that fund- 4473. A letter from the Counsel, Legal Divi- sion, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protec- ing which is scarce money these days ALLOCATION OF SPENDING AUTHORITY TO THE HOUSE tion, transmitting the Bureau’s final rule — in California. The huge problems we COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Truth in Lending (Regulation Z): Adjust- have in trying to get a budget done and [In millions of dollars] ment to Asset-Size Exemption Threshold re- move eventually towards the balance ceived January 7, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. in our Federal budget, it isn’t a pri- 02014 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial Services. ority that we should be doing. Base Discretionary Action: So, Mr. Speaker, I just want to note BA ...... 1,012,237 4474. A letter from the Regulatory Spe- OT ...... 1,154,816 cialist, LRA, Department of the Treasury, that again Congressman DENHAM will Global War on Terrorism: transmitting the Department’s final rule — be having a hearing tomorrow in his BA ...... 91,938 OT ...... 45,207 Community Reinvestment Act Regulations Transportation and Infrastructure sub- Disaster Designated Funds: [Docket ID: OCC-2013-0024] (RIN: 1557-AD77) committee on rail that will be at 10 BA ...... 5,626 December 31, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. OT ...... 281 a.m. in Washington time, developing Program Integrity: 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial more on this situation. So I would in- BA ...... 924 Services. OT ...... 832 4475. A letter from the President, vite you to participate, or watch that, Total Discretionary: and expose what really needs to happen BA ...... 1,110,725 ParlAmericas, transmitting a report of the with Federal funding as well as maybe OT ...... 1,201,136 10th Plenary Assembly of ParlAmericas held Current Law Mandatory: from the 21st to 24th of August 2013; to the perhaps the people in California have BA ...... 749,400 OT ...... 738,140 Committee on Foreign Affairs. an opportunity to weigh in on Assem- 4476. A letter from the Acting Deputy Di- blyman Gorell’s proposal to have this f rector, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, back on the ballot and maybe perhaps NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric SENATE ENROLLED BILL SIGNED shift our scarce funds to other things. Administration, transmitting the Adminis- With that, Mr. Speaker, I thank you The Speaker announced his signature tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclu- for the time here tonight, and I yield to an enrolled bill of the Senate of the sive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Greenland back the balance of my time. following title: Turbot in the Bering Sea Subarea of the Ber- ing Sea and Aleutian Islands Management f S. 230. An act to authorize the Peace Corps [Docket No.: 121018563-3148-02] (RIN: 0648- Commemorative Foundation to establish a LEAVE OF ABSENCE XD029) received January 7, 2014, pursuant to commemorative work in the District of Co- 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on By unanimous consent, leave of ab- lumbia and its environs, and for other pur- Natural Resources. poses. sence was granted to: 4477. A letter from the Director, Office of Mr. CULBERSON (at the request of Mr. f Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oce- CANTOR) for today on account of ill- ADJOURNMENT anic and Atmospheric Administration, trans- ness. mitting the Administration’s final rule — Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I move Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific f that the House do now adjourn. Coast Groundfish Fishery; Trawl Rational- PUBLICATION OF BUDGETARY The motion was agreed to; accord- ization Program; Coast Recovery [Docket MATERIAL ingly (at 7 o’clock and 50 minutes No.: 110708376-3995-02] (RIN: 0648-BB17) re- p.m.), under its previous order, the ceived December 30, 2013, pursuant to 5 AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND OTHER BUDG- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Nat- ETARY LEVELS OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2014 House adjourned until tomorrow, ural Resources. BUDGET RESOLUTION Wednesday, January 15, 2014, at 10 a.m. 4478. A letter from the Deputy Director, Of- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, for morning-hour debate. fice of Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, Na- COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET, f tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- Washington, DC, January 14, 2014. tion, transmitting the Administration’s final HON. JOHN A. BOEHNER, EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, rule — Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of Mex- Speaker, Office of the Speaker, House of Rep- ETC. ico; 2013 Accountability Measure and Closure resentatives, Washington, DC. Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive for Hogfish in the Gulf of Mexico [Docket MR. RYAN OF WISCONSIN. Mr. Speaker, pur- No.: 100217097-1757-02] (RIN: 0648-XC981) re- suant to division A of House Joint Resolu- communications were taken from the ceived January 7, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. tion 59 (113th Congress), the Bipartisan Speaker’s table and referred as follows: 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural Budget Act of 2013, I hereby submit for print- 4469. A letter from the Congressional Re- Resources. ing in the Congressional Record the aggre- view Coordinator, Department of Agri- 4479. A letter from the Acting Deputy Di- gates, allocations, and other budgetary lev- culture, transmitting the Department’s final rector, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, els for the Committee on Appropriations set rule — Importation of Fresh Apricots From NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric forth pursuant to the Bipartisan Budget Act Continental Spain [Docket No.: APHIS-2011- Administration, transmitting the Adminis- of 2013, which establishes a budget resolution 0132] (RIN: 0579-AD62) received January 7, tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclu- for fiscal year 2014. 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the sive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific These aggregates, allocations, and other Committee on Agriculture. Ocean Perch in the Bering Sea Subarea of budgetary levels are provided for bills, joint 4470. A letter from the Congressional Re- the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Manage- resolutions, and amendments thereto or con- view Coordinator, Department of Agri- ment Area [Docket No.: 121018563-3148-02] ference reports thereon, considered by the culture, transmitting the Department’s final (RIN: 0648-XD013) received January 7, 2014,

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A letter from the Deputy Director, Of- brokers performing services in connection geographic, scientific, and economic data fice of Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, Na- with the transfer of ownership of smaller pri- and for other purposes; to the Committee on tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- vately held companies and to provide for reg- Natural Resources. tion, transmitting the Administration’s final ulation appropriate to the limited scope of By Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself, rule — Fisheries of the Northeastern United the activities of such brokers; with amend- Mr. HOLT, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. NADLER, States; Summer Flounder Fishery; Commer- ments (Rept. 113–326). Referred to the Com- Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. cial Quota Harvested for the Commonwealth mittee of the Whole House on the state of SHEA-PORTER, Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. LEE of Virginia [Docket No.: 111220786-1781-01] the Union. of California, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. CON- (RIN: 0648-XD004) received January 7, 2014, Mr. COLE: Committee on Rules. House NOLLY, Mr. MORAN, Mr. GRIJALVA, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- Resolution 458. A resolution providing for Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, and mittee on Natural Resources. consideration of the Senate amendments to Mr. CARTWRIGHT): 4481. A letter from the Director, Office of the bill (H.R. 3547) to extend the application H.R. 3870. A bill to provide for the use of Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oce- of certain space launch liability provisions funds in the Hazardous Substance Superfund through 2014; providing for proceedings dur- anic and Atmospheric Administration, trans- for the purposes for which they were col- ing the period from January 17, 2014, through mitting the Administration’s final rule — lected, to ensure adequate resources for the January 24, 2014; and for other purposes Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Catch Sharing cleanup of hazardous substances under the (Rept. 113–327). Referred to the House Cal- Plan for Guided Sport and Commercial Fish- Comprehensive Environmental Response, endar. eries in Alaska [Docket No.: 101027534-3999-02] Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, and (RIN: 0648-BA37) received January 7, 2014, f for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Com- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS mittee on Natural Resources. mittees on Transportation and Infrastruc- 4482. A letter from the Assistant General Under clause 2 of rule XII, public ture, Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and En- bills and resolutions of the following for a period to be subsequently determined ergy Efficiency, Department of Energy, titles were introduced and severally re- by the Speaker, in each case for consider- transmitting the Department’s final rule — ferred, as follows: ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- Inflation Adjustment of Civil Monetary Pen- risdiction of the committee concerned. By Mr. LATTA (for himself and Mr. By Mr. BOUSTANY: alties (RIN: 1990-AA43) received January 13, WALZ): 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the H.R. 3871. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- H.R. 3862. A bill to amend the Federal enue Code of 1986 to allow increased con- Committee on the Judiciary. Water Pollution Control Act to assist mu- tributions to health savings accounts, to 4483. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, nicipalities and regional sewer authorities allow Medicare and VA healthcare partici- Department of Homeland Security, transmit- that would experience a significant hardship pants to contribute to health savings ac- ting the Department’s final rule — Safety raising the revenue necessary to finance counts, and for other purposes; to the Com- Zone; Motion Picture Stunt Work and Film- projects and activities for the construction mittee on Ways and Means. ing; Chicago, IL [Docket Number: USCG- of wastewater treatment works, and for By Mr. HANNA (for himself and Ms. 2013-0868] (RIN: 1625-AA00) received January other purposes; to the Committee on Trans- HAHN): 8, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to portation and Infrastructure. H.R. 3872. A bill to amend title 23, United the Committee on Transportation and Infra- By Mr. BRADY of Texas: States Code, to reauthorize the State infra- structure. H.R. 3863. A bill to amend title 5, United structure bank program; to the Committee 4484. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, States Code, to establish uniform require- on Transportation and Infrastructure. Department of Homeland Security, transmit- ments for thorough economic analysis of reg- By Mr. HONDA (for himself, Mr. GRI- ting the Department’s final rule — Regu- ulations by Federal agencies based on sound JALVA, and Mr. CARTWRIGHT): lated Navigation Area; Reporting Require- principles, and for other purposes; to the H.R. 3873. A bill to amend the Elementary ments for Barges Loaded With Certain Dan- Committee on the Judiciary. and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in order gerous Cargoes, Inland Rivers, Eighth Coast By Mr. RENACCI (for himself and Mr. to support the community schools model; to Guard District; Extension of Stay (Suspen- CARNEY): the Committee on Education and the Work- sion) [USCG-2013-0760] (RIN: 1625-AA11) re- H.R. 3864. A bill to amend certain provi- force. ceived January 8, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. sions of the Social Security Act relating to By Mr. HUDSON: 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- demonstration projects designed to promote H.R. 3874. A bill to provide for the periodic tation and Infrastructure. the reemployment of unemployed workers; review of the efficiency and public need for 4485. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, to the Committee on Ways and Means. Federal agencies, to establish a commission Department of Homeland Security, transmit- By Mr. CAMP: for the purpose of reviewing the efficiency H.R. 3865. A bill to prohibit the Internal ting the Department’s final rule — Safety and public need of such agencies, and to pro- Revenue Service from modifying the stand- Zone; Fireworks Display, Willamette River, vide for the abolishment of agencies for ard for determining whether an organization Oregon City, OR [Docket Number: USCG- which a public need does not exist; to the is operated exclusively for the promotion of 2013-0623] (RIN: 1625-AA00) received January Committee on Oversight and Government social welfare for purposes of section 501(c)(4) 8, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to Reform. of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; to the the Committee on Transportation and Infra- By Mr. SCHIFF: structure. Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 3875. A bill to amend the Foreign In- 4486. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, By Mr. GRAYSON: telligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to reform H.R. 3866. A bill to prohibit an increase in Department of Homeland Security, transmit- the telephone metadata program; to the the number of flag and general officers; to ting the Department’s final rule — Safety Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition the Committee on Armed Services. Zone; Old Mormon Slough, Stockton, CA to the Committee on Intelligence (Perma- By Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of [Docket No.: USCG-2013-0196] (RIN: 1625- nent Select), for a period to be subsequently New York (for himself, Mr. GIBSON, AA00) received January 8, 2014, pursuant to 5 determined by the Speaker, in each case for Mr. MAFFEI, Mr. COOPER, Mr. MCIN- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on consideration of such provisions as fall with- TYRE, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. MATHESON, Transportation and Infrastructure. in the jurisdiction of the committee con- Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. OWENS, Mr. LAR- cerned. f SEN of Washington, Mr. COLLINS of By Mr. AL GREEN of Texas (for him- New York, Mr. HANNA, Mr. KING of REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON self and Ms. BROWN of Florida): New York, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY H.R. 3876. A bill to amend title 38, United PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ENNEDY, Mr. of New York, Mr. K States Code, to direct the Secretary of Vet- DEUTCH, Mr. KILMER, and Mr. CROW- Under clause 2 of rule XII, reports of erans Affairs to carry out a grant program to LEY): provide burials for homeless veterans; to the committees were delivered to the Clerk H.R. 3867. A bill to require the Secretary of Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. for printing and reference to the proper the Treasury to mint coins in commemora- calendar, as follows: tion of the National Purple Heart Hall of By Mr. HONDA: H. Res. 459. A resolution providing for the Mr. HENSARLING: Committee on Finan- Honor; to the Committee on Financial Serv- consideration of the bill (H.R. 3372) to pro- cial Services. H.R. 801. A bill to amend the ices. vide a process for ensuring the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to make the By Mr. ROYCE: shareholder threshold for registration of sav- H.R. 3868. A bill to amend the Foreign As- does not default on its obligations; to the ings and loan holding companies the same as sistance Act of 1961 to limit assistance to the Committee on Rules. for bank holding companies (Rept. 113–325). Palestinian Authority, and for other pur- f Referred to the Committee of the Whole poses; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. MEMORIALS House on the state of the Union. By Mr. BISHOP of New York (for him- Mr. HENSARLING: Committee on Finan- self, Mr. GRIMM, and Mr. KING of New Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials cial Services. H.R. 2274. A bill to amend the York): were presented and referred as follows:

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169. The SPEAKER presented a memorial Article 1, Section 8 H.R. 855: Mr. FORTENBERRY. of the Senate of the State of Michigan, rel- By Mr. BLUMENAUER: H.R. 871: Mr. POCAN. ative to Senate Resolution No. 88 urging the H.R. 3870. H.R. 872: Ms. MCCOLLUM. Congress to adopt House Concurrent Resolu- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 904: Mr. POCAN. tion No. 50; to the Committee on Natural Re- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 920: Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois. sources. The Constitution of the United States pro- H.R. 997: Mr. FORTENBERRY. 170. Also, a memorial of the House of Rep- vides clear authority for Congress to pass H.R. 1010: Mr. MAFFEI and Ms. CLARK of resentatives of the State of Ohio, relative to tax legislation. Article I of the Constitution, Massachusetts. House Concurrent Resolution No. 19 urging in detailing Congressional authority, pro- H.R. 1091: Mr. MCALLISTER. the Congress to oppose any legislation con- vides that ‘‘Congress shall have Power to lay H.R. 1179: Ms. BROWNLEY of California. taining provisions that require Ohio’s public and collect Taxes . . .’’ (Section 8, Clause 1). H.R. 1354: Mr. LABRADOR, Ms. WASSERMAN employees who are members of a state re- This legislation is introduced pursuant to SCHULTZ, and Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. tirement system to participate in Social Se- that grant of authority. H.R. 1423: Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin and Mr. curity or any federal pension program; to the By Mr. BOUSTANY: DESANTIS. Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 3871. H.R. 1466: Mr. CROWLEY and Mr. ENGEL. H.R. 1507: Mr. VARGAS. Congress has the power to enact this legis- f H.R. 1563: Mr. NEUGEBAUER. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1629: Ms. CHU and Mr. HUFFMAN. CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 H.R. 1658: Mr. HANNA, Mr. KING of New STATEMENT By Mr. HANNA: York, Mr. NOLAN, Mr. AMODEI, and Mr. SHIM- H.R. 3872. Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of KUS. Congress has the power to enact this legis- the Rules of the House of Representa- H.R. 1661: Mr. HUFFMAN. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1692: Mr. CASSIDY. tives, the following statements are sub- The Constitutional authority on which mitted regarding the specific powers H.R. 1699: Mr. CARTWRIGHT. this bill rests is enumerated in Clause 3 of H.R. 1726: Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. granted to Congress in the Constitu- Section 8 of Article I of the United States AL GREEN of Texas, and Ms. SEWELL of Ala- tion to enact the accompanying bill or Constitution. bama. joint resolution. By Mr. HONDA: H.R. 1728: Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, H.R. 3873. By Mr. LATTA: and Mr. CONNOLLY. H.R. 3862. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1798: Mr. TIPTON. Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1861: Mr. SALMON. lation pursuant to the following: section 8 of article I of the Constitution. H.R. 1921: Mr. FARR. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 By Mr. HUDSON: H.R. 2001: Mr. GERLACH. The Congress shall have Power to regulate H.R. 3874. H.R. 2285: Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Commerce with foreign Nations, and among Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2288: Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. POLIS, and Mr. the several States, and with the Indian lation pursuant to the following: O’ROURKE. Tribes Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United H.R. 2309: Mr. DIAZ-BALART. By Mr. BRADY of Texas: States Constitution. H.R. 2364: Mr. POCAN. H.R. 3863. To make all Laws which shall be necessary H.R. 2424: Mr. KILDEE. Congress has the power to enact this legis- and proper for carrying into Execution the H.R. 2502: Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. POCAN, and lation pursuant to the following: foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vest- Mr. CAPUANO. Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitu- ed by this Constitution in the Government of H.R. 2536: Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. LARSEN tion which outlines Congress’ authority ‘‘to the United States, or in any Department or of Washington, and Mr. PETERS of California. H.R. 2753: Mr. RIBBLE. regulate commerce . . . among the several Officer thereof. H.R. 2807: Mr. JOYCE, Mr. THOMPSON of states.’’ This is where Congress derives its By Mr. SCHIFF: Pennsylvania, Mr. COTTON, Mr. CRAMER, and regulatory powers. H.R. 3875. Mr. PAULSEN. By Mr. RENACCI: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2835: Mr. HECK of Nevada. H.R. 3864. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 2893: Mr. MCGOVERN. Congress has the power to enact this legis- The Telephone Metadata Reform Act is H.R. 2901: Ms. LEE of California, Ms. lation pursuant to the following: constitutionally authorized under Article I, BORDALLO, and Mr. SIRES. Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the Section 8, Clause 3, the Commerce Clause H.R. 2998: Mr. CICILLINE. Constitution, whereby Congress shall have and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, the Nec- H.R. 3015: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY and Mr. CART- the power ‘‘[t]o provide for the common essary and Proper Clause. Additionally, the WRIGHT. Defence and general Welfare of the United Preamble to the Constitution provides sup- port of the authority to enact legislation to H.R. 3040: Mr. TONKO and Ms. CLARK of States.’’ Massachusetts. As affirmed by Justice Benjamin Cardozo promote the General Welfare. H.R. 3135: Mr. DELANEY. in Steward Machine Company v. Davis, 301 By Mr. AL GREEN of Texas: H.R. 3876. H.R. 3179: Mr. BYRNE. U.S. 548 (1937), upholding the constitu- H.R. 3279: Mr. YODER. tionality of unemployment benefits. Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 3303: Mr. KILMER. By Mr. CAMP: H.R. 3335: Mr. LONG, Mr. KINZINGER of Illi- H.R. 3865. Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1 sec. 8 cl. 18) nois, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, and Mr. POLIS. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 3344: Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. POCAN, lation pursuant to the following: f and Ms. FRANKEL of Florida. Article I, Section 8, clauses 1 and 18. H.R. 3370: Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mrs. KIRK- By Mr. GRAYSON: ADDITIONAL SPONSORS PATRICK, and Mr. CARTWRIGHT. H.R. 3866. Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 3377: Mr. ADERHOLT. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 3408: Mr. YODER and Mr. KINZINGER of lation pursuant to the following: were added to public bills and resolu- tions as follows: Illinois. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitu- H.R. 3429: Mr. JORDAN. tion. H.R. 7: Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. H.R. 3464: Mr. MICHAUD. By Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of MASSIE, and Mr. SMITH of Texas. H.R. 3488: Mr. BENTIVOLIO, Mr. HUFFMAN, New York: H.R. 15: Mrs. BUSTOS. Mrs. WAGNER, and Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. H.R. 3867. H.R. 26: Mr. CARTWRIGHT. H.R. 3529: Mr. SCHNEIDER. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 164: Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Ms. H.R. 3541: Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. YOHO, lation pursuant to the following: EDWARDS, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. Mrs. BLACK, and Mr. BENTIVOLIO. Article I, Section 8. ‘‘The Congress shall BROUN of Georgia, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Geor- H.R. 3543: Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD and Mr. have the Power . . . to coin Money, regulate gia, Mr. CARNEY, and Mrs. BLACKBURN. SARBANES. the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and H.R. 176: Mr. MCALLISTER. H.R. 3571: Mr. SCHOCK and Mr. DELANEY. fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;’’ H.R. 199: Mr. POCAN. H.R. 3573: Mr. MCGOVERN. By Mr. ROYCE: H.R. 223: Mr. KIND. H.R. 3594: Mr. KIND. H.R. 3868. H.R. 337: Mr. KIND. H.R. 3600: Mr. PETERS of California. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 494: Mr. WOMACK. H.R. 3635: Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. LANKFORD, lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 630: Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution H.R. 631: Mr. ENYART. Illinois, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. ROKITA, By Mr. BISHOP of New York: H.R. 645: Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. CARTER, Mr. H.R. 3869. H.R. 689: Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 715: Mr. TURNER and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. DESANTIS, Mr. GOWDY, Mr. AMASH, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 755: Mr. MEEHAN. GINGREY of Georgia, and Mr. AMODEI.

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H.R. 3643: Mr. HIMES. H.R. 3776: Mr. STUTZMAN and Mr. RIBBLE. YOHO, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. CAPU- H.R. 3663: Mr. NEUGEBAUER. H.R. 3787: Mr. WALBERG, Mr. LATTA, and ANO, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mr. CAR- H.R. 3665: Mr. LARSEN of Washington and Mr. OLSON. NEY, Mr. CLAY, and Mr. VAN HOLLEN. H.R. 3824: Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. LEWIS. H. Con. Res. 67: Mr. CICILLINE. H.R. 3683: Mr. DELANEY. Mr. SWALWELL of California, Mr. SIRES, H. Res. 36: Mr. MCALLISTER and Mr. GARY H.R. 3658: Mr. GARDNER. Sires, Mr. COHEN, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. CLARKE of G. MILLER of California. H.R. 3717: Mr. GERLACH. New York, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. AL H.R. 3722: Mr. ROTHFUS. GREEN of Texas, Mr. SMITH of Washington, H. Res. 72: Mr. NEUGEBAUER. H.R. 3724: Mr. ROSS Mr. FATTAH, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. H. Res. 109: Ms. DELAURO and Mr. CART- H.R. 3726: Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ of Cali- HECK of Washington, Mr. MAFFEI, Mr. WRIGHT. fornia, Mr. KEATING, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Ms. DEUTCH, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. COOPER, Mr. H. Res. 231: Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. MCCOLLUM, Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD, and Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, PEARCE, and Mr. LAMBORN. NYART E . Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. ISRAEL, and Mr. H. Res. 365: Mrs. BUSTOS. H.R. 3757: Mrs. DAVIS of California. BISHOP of Georgia. H. Res. 401: Mr. CARTWRIGHT. H.R. 3762: Mr. WALBERG and Mr. MICA. H.R. 3852: Mr. CONYERS. H.R. 3763: Mr. WALBERG and Mr. MICA. H.R. 3855: Mr. AMASH, Mr. MASSIE, Mr. H. Res. 418: Mr. CARTWRIGHT. H.R. 3764: Mr. WALBERG and Mr. MICA. MULVANEY, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. H. Res. 440: Ms. KELLY of Illinois.

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BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS October 2, 2013: Street in Sherman, Texas, as the ‘‘Paul APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT H.R. 527. An Act to amend the Helium Act Brown United States Courthouse’’. PRIOR TO SINE DIE ADJOURN- to complete the privatization of the Federal H.R. 1402. An Act to amend title 38, United helium reserve in a competitive market fash- MENT States Code, to extend certain expiring pro- ion that ensures stability in the helium mar- visions of law, and for other purposes. The President, prior to sine die ad- kets while protecting the interests of Amer- H.R. 2251. An Act to designate the United journment of the 1st Session, 113th ican taxpayers, and for other purposes. States courthouse and Federal building lo- Congress, notified the Clerk of the October 4, 2013: cated at 118 South Mill Street, in Fergus House that on the following dates, he H.R. 3233. An Act to extend the period dur- Falls, Minnesota, as the ‘‘Edward J. Devitt ing which Iraqis who were employed by the had approved and signed bills and joint United States Courthouse and Federal Build- United States Government in Iraq may be ing’’. resolutions of the following titles: granted special immigrant status and to H.R. 2871. An Act to amend title 28, United July 25, 2013: temporarily increase the fee or surcharge for States Code, to modify the composition of H.R. 2289. An Act to rename section 219(c) processing machine-readable nonimmigrant the southern judicial district of Mississippi of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as the visas. to improve judicial efficiency, and for other Kay Bailey Hutchison Spousal IRA. October 10, 2013: purposes. August 9, 2013: H.J. Res. 91. A joint resolution making H.R. 2922. An Act to extend the authority H.R. 267. An Act to improve hydropower, continuing appropriations for death gratu- of the Supreme Court Police to protect court and for other purposes. ities and related survivor benefits for sur- officials away from the Supreme Court H.R. 678. An Act to authorize all Bureau of vivors Of deceased military service members grounds. Reclamation conduit facilities for hydro- of the Department of Defense for fiscal year H.R. 3458. An Act to treat payments by power development under Federal Reclama- 2014, and for other purposes. charitable organizations with respect to cer- tion law, and for other purposes. October 15, 2013: tain firefighters as exempt payments. H.R. 1092. An Act to designate the air route H.R. 3095. An Act to ensure that any new or H.R. 3588. An Act to amend the Safe Drink- traffic control center located in Nashua, New revised requirement providing for the screen- ing Water Act to exempt fire hydrants from Hampshire, as the ‘‘Patricia Clark Boston ing, testing, or treatment of individuals op- the prohibition on the use of lead pipes, fit- Air Route Traffic Control Center’’. erating commercial motor vehicles for sleep tings, fixtures, solder, and flux. H.R. 1171. An Act to amend title 40, United disorders is adopted pursuant to a rule-mak- December 26, 2013: States Code, to improve veterans service or- ing proceeding, and for other purposes. H.J. Res. 59. A joint resolution making ganizations access to Federal surplus per- October 17, 2013: continuing appropriations for fiscal year sonal property. H.R. 2775. An Act making continuing ap- 2014, and for other purposes. H.R. 1344. An Act to amend title 49, United propriations for the fiscal year ending Sep- H.R. 623. An Act to provide for the convey- States Code, to direct the Assistant Sec- tember 30, 2014, and for other purposes. ance of certain property located in Anchor- retary of Homeland Security (Transpor- October 31, 2013: age, Alaska, from the United States to the tation Security Administration) to provide H.R. 3190. An Act to provide for the contin- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. expedited air passenger screening to severely ued performance of the functions of the H.R. 767. An Act to amend the Energy Pol- injured or disabled members of the Armed United States Parole Commission, and for icy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot Project Forces and severely injured or disabled vet- other purposes. offices of the Federal Permit Streamlining erans, and for other purposes. November 13, 2013: Pilot Project. H.R. 1911. An Act to amend the Higher H.R. 2094. An Act to amend the Public H.R. 2319. An Act to clarify certain provi- Education Act of 1965 to establish interest Health Service Act to increase the pref- sions of the Native American Veterans’ Me- rates for new loans made on or after July 1, erence given, in awarding certain asthma-re- morial Establishment Act of 1994. 2013, to direct the Secretary of Education to lated grants, to certain States (those allow- H.R. 3304. An Act to authorize appropria- convene the Advisory Committee on Improv- ing trained school personnel to administer tions for fiscal year 2014 for military activi- ing Postsecondary Education Data to con- epinephrine and meeting other related re- ties of the Department of Defense, for mili- duct a study on improvements to postsec- quirements). tary construction, and for defense activities ondary education transparency at the Fed- H.R. 3302. An Act to name the Department of the Department of Energy, to prescribe eral level, and for other purposes. of Veterans Affairs medical center in Bay military personnel strengths for such fiscal H.R. 2167. An Act to authorize the Sec- Pines, Florida, as the ‘‘C.W. Bill Young De- year, and for other purposes. retary of Housing and Urban Development to partment of Veterans Affairs Medical Cen- H.R. 3343. An Act to amend the District of establish additional requirements to improve ter’’. Columbia Home Rule Act to clarify the rules the fiscal safety and soundness of the home November 21, 2013: regarding the determination of the com- equity conversion mortgage insurance pro- H.R. 2747. An Act to amend title 40, United pensation of the Chief Financial Officer of gram. States Code, to transfer certain functions the District of Columbia. H.R. 2576. An Act to amend title 49, United from the Government Accountability Office H.R. 3487. An Act to amend the Federal States Code, to modify requirements relat- to the Department of Labor relating’ to the Election Campaign Act to extend through ing to the availability of pipeline safety reg- Processing of claims for the payment of 2018 the authority of the Federal Election ulatory documents, and for other purposes. workers who were not paid appropriate Commission to impose civil money penalties H.R. 2611. An Act to designate the head- wages under certain provisions of such title. on the basis of a schedule of penalties estab- quarters building of the Coast Guard on the November 27, 2013: lished and published by the Commission, to campus located at 2701 Martin Luther King, H.R. 1848. An Act to ensure that the Fed- expand such authority to certain other viola- Jr., Avenue Southeast in the District of Co- eral Aviation Administration advances the tions, and for other purposes. lumbia as the ‘‘Douglas A. Munro Coast safety of small airplanes, and the continued Guard Headquarters Building’’, and for other development of the general aviation indus- f purposes. try, and for other purposes. SENATE BILLS APPROVED BY THE September 30, 2013: H.R. 3204. An Act to amend the Federal PRESIDENT PRIOR TO SINE DIE H.R. 1412. An Act to amend title 38, United Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect ADJOURNMENT States Code, to extend certain expiring au- to human drug compounding and drug supply thorities affecting veterans and their fami- chain security, and for other purposes. The President, prior to sine die ad- lies, and for other purposes. December 9, 2013: journment of the 1st Session, 113th H.R. 3092. An Act to amend the Missing H.R. 3626. An Act to extend the Congress, notified the Clerk of the Children’s Assistance Act, and for other pur- Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 House that on the following dates, he poses. years. had approved and signed bills of the H.R. 3210. An Act making continuing ap- December 20, 2013: propriations for military pay in the event of H.R. 185. An Act to designate the United Senate of the following titles: a Government shutdown. States courthouse located at 101 East Pecan September 18, 2013:

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Vol. 160 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014 No. 8 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was Mr. REID. Mr. President, we will UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE called to order by the President pro have further discussion on this matter Mr. President, each day Bloomberg tempore (Mr. LEAHY). today; that is, the matter I moved to. releases a list of the 300 richest individ- On our side, we have cleared the bill. uals in the world—the Bloomberg Bil- PRAYER We could complete it quickly. We are lionaires index. The list includes 67 for- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- waiting to hear from the Republicans. tunate and really fabulously wealthy fered the following prayer: This is one of the bills where, if we Americans. More than any other coun- Let us pray. need to do some amendments on it, we try in the world, we have 67 of the 300. Eternal Spirit, today teach our law- can do some amendments on it. Last year, the members of the billion- makers to do things Your way, embrac- The point is, I think we should try to aire index added $524 billion in new ing Your precepts and walking in Your get this done. We have been waiting for wealth to their net worth. Listen to that, Mr. President: Last path. Remind them that the narrow a long time to get this done. This is year, the billionaire’s index—these 67 and difficult road less traveled leads to truly a bipartisan bill. As I explained people—added $524 billion of new life and few find it. As our Senators re- to the Republican leader yesterday, I wealth. Not million but billion—$2 bil- ceive guidance from You and follow have had a number of Republicans lion per person last year. Your leading, replace anxiety with come to me to see if there is a way this bill could be moved quickly. It has be- These are 300 fortunate individuals, calm, confusion with clarity, and de- flooded with their already flush coffers, spair with hope. May Your peace be- come a desperate situation, with so many problems. Construction has been, with another $2 billion each, while mil- come the hallmark of their labors as lions of American families struggle to You keep them focused on the prior- in some areas, brought to a halt. So hopefully we can work something out pay their rent. I don’t begrudge these ities that reflect Your kingdom. We people at their making a lot of money. on this in the immediate future. pray in Your great Name. Amen. Their good fortune is something that SCHEDULE f speaks well of our country. We are Mr. President, following my remarks truly a land of opportunity. But I do PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE and those of the Republican leader, the believe it is time for average Ameri- The President pro tempore led the Senate will resume consideration of cans to share in that prosperity, par- Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: the unemployment insurance exten- ticularly as the economy recovers. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the sion. The time until 12:30 will be equal- If this were just a quirk in the in- United States of America, and to the Repub- ly divided and controlled between the dexes of how rich people are, that lic for which it stands, one nation under God, two leaders or their designees, with the would be one thing, but in the last 30 indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. majority controlling the first 30 min- years this same top 1 percent have seen f utes and the Republicans the second 30 their wealth increase—their incomes minutes. The Senate will then recess triple—while the middle class has gone RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY from 12:30 until 2:15, as we do every down 10 percent in the same 30 years. It LEADER Tuesday, for our caucus meetings. At is time for average Americans—and I The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The 2:30, there will be up to two rollcall believe this so sincerely—to share in majority leader is recognized. votes; first, a cloture vote on the Reed that prosperity in some way, especially of Rhode Island substitute amendment. f as the economy is now recovering. If cloture is not invoked, there will be For most Americans, hard work isn’t HOMEOWNER FLOOD INSURANCE a second cloture vote on the underlying paying off the way it does for the top 1 AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2013— bill. percent. For many it has been impos- MOTION TO PROCEED We have had some good discussions, sible to even find steady full-time work Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to and I am going to—as I know the Re- since the recession began. That is why proceed to Calendar No. 266. publican leader will—discuss if there is we must not abandon the 1.4 million The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The a way to move forward on unemploy- Americans who are out there strug- clerk will report. ment insurance. I hope there is. At 2:30 gling—unemployed people who have The legislative clerk read as follows: today, after our caucuses, we will come been cut off from these crucial benefits out and see if there is a consent agree- Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 266, S. now for the last 2 weeks, and they are 1846, a bill to delay the implementation of ment we can present to the Senate to looking forward to maybe being cut off certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters move forward with the legislation. I forever. Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, and for hope that is possible, and we are cer- This small stipend—an average of other purposes. tainly trying. $300 per week—is helping them keep

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Reid amendment No. 2634 (to (the instruc- for work so very hard. As part of the RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER unemployment compensation, an indi- tions) amendment No. 2633), of a perfecting The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Re- nature. vidual has to have been fired or laid off publican leader is recognized. Reid amendment No. 2635 (to amendment through no fault of their own and then UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE No. 2634), of a perfecting nature. they have to look for work every week. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, on The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Americans do want to go back to the unemployment insurance bill, the previous order, the time until 12:30 work. They do not want to set a bad ex- there have been productive conversa- p.m. will be equally divided and con- ample for their kids. They do not want tions between the majority leader and trolled between the two leaders or to live off the system—whatever that several Members on this side. The Re- their designees, with the majority con- means. But there is still only one job publicans have offered numerous com- trolling the first 30 minutes and the for every three people searching all monsense proposals to get to a conclu- Republicans controlling the second 30 over America. Some places are worse sion. Ideally, we would have spent the minutes. off than others. In Nevada, a man past week voting on those proposals, so The Senator from Vermont. wrote to me—1 of almost 20,000 Nevad- there is really no good reason for us to CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT ans who lost unemployment benefits be in the position that we are in right Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I should last month—and he said he had applied now. first note I am pleased to see the Pre- for 700 jobs in the last 10 months—not Let me just underscore some of the siding Officer. It is a pleasure to share 70, not 7, but 700. He has been able to things on my side that we would like the podium with him today. get a dozen interviews but still can’t to see in the final product. First, the I ask unanimous consent that upon find work. Senate should actually be paying for the completion of my remarks, the But he hasn’t given up hope. He Chair recognize the senior Senator hasn’t given up the hope of finding a whatever it passes, and not with spend- ing cuts 11 years from now that we from Illinois, Mr. DURBIN. good-paying job, and he hasn’t given up The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without hope that Congress will restore emer- know aren’t going to happen. It is also reasonable to expect practical objection, it is so ordered. gency unemployment benefits until he Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, after progrowth job creation measures so we does find a job. Neither have the 200 many long days and nights of four- can actually get people back to work, Nevada veterans who attended a job party negotiations across a dozen sub- and for a solution to be reasonable it fair I put on last week. It was held at committees over the past month, on should also respect the right of our the University of Nevada over the Sunday night the Appropriations Com- constituents to be heard on this issue weekend. It is shameful that tens of mittee completed work on the fiscal through a more open amendment proc- thousands of veterans of this Nation’s year 2014 Consolidated Appropriations ess. armed forces lost their unemployment Act. We have to get away from an atti- benefits last year. I commend Chairwoman MIKULSKI, tude that essentially says the views of It is inspiring to hear the stories of without whom this would not have half the American people don’t matter hard-working Americans who simply been possible. It was, above all, her re- in the Senate. These days it has gotten won’t give up until they find a job. So lentless pursuit of this goal and her un- even worse than that; ideas on both I hope Senators will remember the per- matched ability to rally her sub- sides are often completely ignored. severance of these brave individuals as committee troops together to get us to That is just not how the Senate is sup- they continue to seek a compromise this point. here in this body that would restore posed to work. So we have an oppor- I would also note that she was helped emergency unemployment benefits to tunity to begin to start fixing the prob- by some of the most hard working 1.4 million Americans. lem on the bill that is before us. It is members of the Senate staff one can This says it all: 67 of the richest peo- the right thing to do. I am hopeful imagine. I want to especially commend ple in the world living in America got common sense will prevail. Tim Rieser of my staff, and Janet a $2 billion tip last year. For 1.4 mil- (The further remarks of Mr. MCCON- Stormes and Nikole Manatt who lion Americans, they lost $300 on aver- NELL pertaining to the introduction of worked with him. I could not keep age per week. That is not fair. This is S. 1916 are printed in today’s RECORD track of the number of times I received America, the land of opportunity. Peo- under ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills emails or calls at midnight or 1 a.m. ple who work hard are supposed to be and Joint Resolutions.’’) from Tim as we worked through all the rewarded—but not during the last 30 Mr. MCCONNELL. I yield the floor. difficult parts of this bill. years. f And it could not have been done The middle class has lost 10 percent RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME without the cooperation of my friend of their income, and that doesn’t take from Alabama Senator SHELBY, the into consideration the poor—the poor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. committee’s ranking member, who There are more poor than ever in BOOKER). Under the previous order, the knew how important it was to pass ap- America. The middle class, we know, is leadership time is reserved. propriations bills rather than put the being squeezed out of existence. It is f government on autopilot. time for us to take care of these people This means there will be no sequester EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT who are desperate for help. That is in fiscal year 2014, and there will not be COMPENSATION EXTENSION ACT what the government is all about. another disastrous government shut- Looking back at my home life, I feel The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under down that achieved nothing, disrupted government has been good for the peo- the previous order, the Senate will re- the lives of millions of American fami- ple who live in my little town of sume consideration of S. 1845, which lies, and cost the taxpayers some $24 Searchlight. It is a town mostly of old the clerk will report. billion and private industry tens of bil- people. Many of them are getting pen- The legislative clerk read as follows: lions of dollars more. sions from wherever they worked. They A bill (S. 1845) to provide for the extension As Chairman of the Department of get Social Security. But the govern- of certain unemployment benefits, and for State and Foreign Operations Sub- ment has done so many good things. other purposes. committee, I want to thank Senator Let us not denigrate government. This Pending: LINDSEY GRAHAM, who brings a level of is a time when people have no oppor- Reid (for Reed) amendment No. 2631, relat- energy and knowledge to our sub- tunity. They need government help. ing to extension and modification of emer- committee few can match. He and I

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And, we all owe a debt of Department of State and foreign oper- ing steps to govern democratically. gratitude to the printing and editorial ations, the bill provides $49 billion in These are the same commitments the staff of the Government Printing Office discretionary budget authority to pro- government of Egypt made to the who worked day and night, week after tect a wide array of U.S. security, hu- Egyptian people. Contrary to some in- week and on many weekends, to manitarian, and economic interests accurate press reports, there is no produce draft after draft of the docu- around the world. This total is $2.2 bil- waiver if the Egyptian Government re- ments. It was a collaborative effort lion below the fiscal year 2013 enacted neges on these commitments. These from beginning to end, and the out- post-sequester level. are the toughest conditions the Con- come is a balanced bill that deserves Of that amount, $6.5 billion is for gress has imposed on aid to the Egyp- bipartisan support. overseas contingency operations in Af- tian military. I yield the floor. ghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq and other We want to see the restoration of de- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- areas in political transition, including mocracy and respect for fundamental ator from Illinois. the Middle East and North Africa, and freedoms in Egypt, including the rights Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, how to respond to humanitarian emer- of women, civil society, and religious much time is remaining? gencies, particularly in Syria, the Mid- minorities. This is discussed in the ex- The PRESIDING OFFICER. About 20 dle East, and Central Africa. planatory statement accompanying the minutes. If anyone should question why these bill. If the military continues its re- Mr. DURBIN. I ask unanimous con- funds are important, look at what is pressive tactics, arresting democracy sent that I be given 10 minutes and happening in Syria, and Lebanon, Jor- activists, and does not hold free and that Senator SCHUMER be given the re- dan, and Turkey, where 2 million Syr- fair elections, the certifications will maining 10 minutes. ians have fled, and in South Sudan and not be possible and U.S. aid will be cut. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Central African Republic, where The bill cuts aid for Afghanistan by objection, it is so ordered. hundreds of thousands of people have 50 percent from the current level. It Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, pending been displaced because of an explosion has become abundantly clear that as before the Congress now is debate of ethnic and tribal violence. The bill U.S. troops withdraw, the security en- about unemployment benefits. provides significant increases in fund- vironment is worsening. This reality, On January 1 1.3 million Americans ing for refugees and other humani- coupled with the refusal of the Karzai got a notice that they were not going tarian programs. government to sign a bilateral security to receive any more unemployment The bill provides funding above the agreement, widespread corruption in benefit checks. These are people out of President’s request for security at U.S. that government, and the diminishing work through no fault of their own who embassies and other diplomatic facili- ability to monitor how U.S. funds are are required, under law, to be actively ties; it fully funds our commitment to spent, compel a more targeted, sustain- pursuing additional employment and key allies such as Israel and Jordan; it able approach. regularly reporting to the government. substantially funds our contributions I am pleased we were able to include For that, they receive average unem- to the United Nations and other inter- the amounts requested for the Clean ployment benefits of about $300 a week. national organizations and for U.N. Technology Fund and the Strategic Three hundred dollars a week is not a peacekeeping; and it fully funds the Climate Fund, and to protect tropical generous amount in this day and age. U.S. contributions to the Global AIDS forests which are being destroyed at an It is very difficult for any family to get Fund. alarming rate, and to combat poaching by. They are going to have to dip into Many Senators care about global and trafficking of wildlife. their savings to make rent payments, health, for good reason. HIV/AIDS and There are some things I wish were utility payments, put gas in the car to other infectious diseases threaten mil- not in here, particularly a House provi- look for a job, and pay for the cell tele- lions of Americans who travel, live, sion which would weaken limits on car- phone they need in order to go looking study, and serve in the Armed Forces bon emissions from projects financed for work. So we are now debating as to overseas as well as here at home. Many by the Export-Import Bank and the whether we should extend those unem- of the diseases we work to eradicate Overseas Private Investment Corpora- ployment benefits which were cut off are only an airplane trip away from tion. We should be using public funds on January 1. I think we should. His- our own shores. Billions of people in to support exports of clean, renewable torically we have. Even with lower un- the poorest countries, especially chil- technology, not to fund polluting employment rates in the past, we have dren, die or suffer from illnesses that projects that worsen global warming. extended unemployment benefits. can be easily prevented or treated. Our I am also very disappointed that a Think about this for a second. The children and grandchildren will be im- Senate provision to bring the United average person unemployed in America munized, but many children born in States into compliance with the Vi- takes 38 weeks to find a job. However, the poorest countries die before the age enna Convention on Consular Relations we are cutting off unemployment bene- of five because of these diseases. was rejected by the House of Rep- fits at 27 weeks in most places. That We provide a total of $6 billion—the resentatives. By not including this pro- means people will have 10 or 11 weeks highest amount in history—for pro- vision we jeopardize the essential on average without any support. grams to combat HIV/AIDS, including rights of consular assistance for Ameri- What happens to a family under $1.65 billion for the Global Fund. We cans arrested in foreign countries, and those circumstances? Awful things provide historic levels to combat polio, we also weaken our credibility as a na- happen. They cannot make their rent malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tion that respects the rule of law. payments or their mortgage payment tropical diseases, and $175 million for I would point out, the next time a or the utility payments or their health the GAVI Alliance which provides life- constituent of a House Member is ar- payments, and they find themselves saving children’s vaccines. rested overseas and denied access to literally facing bankruptcy. Losing a For Egypt, which many have been the U.S. embassy, they should ask why job is bad enough. Making it worse by asking about, the bill provides up to they refused to support bringing the cutting off unemployment checks is the amounts requested for fiscal year U.S. into compliance with the treaty unacceptable. So we are debating it. 2014—$250 million for economic aid and that requires that access. It is hard for Historically, we have extended these $1.3 billion for military aid. But the us to insist on consular assistance unemployment benefits on an emer- military aid is only available to pay when Americans are arrested abroad, gency basis, which means we do not current defense contracts, and the when we don’t provide the same right pay for them because we understand goods and services may not be deliv- to foreigners arrested here. this is an unusual time in our economy ered to Egypt unless the Secretary of I do appreciate, however, the way the when we need to give a helping hand. State certifies there is a national ref- House—particularly Chairwoman We also understand the money that we

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They told me the story about a per- I am afraid it does. It tells you from However, we have run into something son who was brought in there who had our point of view that helping folks new. The Republican side of the aisle suffered from serious mental illness his who need a helping hand in this coun- has now said if you want to give unem- entire life and was nonfunctional. He try is just part of who we are. There is ployment benefits to Americans, you just stood there. They brought him in a compassion gap here when you be- have to pay for them. In other words, and put him on the line with the li- lieve the only way you can help some is you have to cut spending in other areas cense plates and showed him a simple by hurting so many others who are to pay for them. task. He blossomed. His life opened. He struggling to get by in life, and that is Listen to what the Republicans have became a different person. He started all we heard from the other side of the suggested we should do in order to pro- accepting more and more responsibil- aisle. vide unemployment benefits for 1.3 ities. There came a point when there I commend those who want to work million people who were cut off on Jan- was a blizzard in Decatur, IL, and they on a bipartisan basis to solve this, but uary 1. MITCH MCCONNELL, the senior closed the sheltered workshop. He was let’s get it done. Let’s extend these un- Senator from Kentucky and Repub- not going to miss a day of work. He employment benefits. Do it as we did 5 lican leader, came to the floor and sug- walked in the snow and stood outside, different times, without paying for it, gested last week that the way to pay ready to go to work. under previous Republican Presidents. for the unemployment benefits was to The people working in that sheltered Let’s do it in a fashion that speaks well eliminate that section of the Afford- workshop are only paid a few dollars an of our country. Let’s give those folks able Care Act which creates a personal hour, but for him it is the most impor- who are searching for jobs a helping responsibility for people to buy their tant part of his life, and while he is hand so their families can stay to- own health insurance and a tax to be being paid, his unemployment benefits gether during these winter months, paid if they do not, about $95 a person are building up to protect him. The day these challenging months, so they can per year. He says eliminate that. may come when the sheltered work- get back to work and pay their taxes The problem with eliminating it is shop can’t find a job for him or closes and be right where they want to be, a you do raise some revenue, but on the down. He would then be eligible for un- part of the workforce of the future. other hand you cut off the pool of unin- employment benefits. Senator I yield the floor to Senator SCHUMER. sured people who are now buying insur- PORTMAN of Ohio says no, we should The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ance. By doing this, you eliminate the cut off his unemployment benefits to ator from New York. protection we built into the law for pay for the temporary unemployment Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, first, I every American family that has some- benefits of others. I invite Senator thank my colleague and friend and one in the household with a preexisting PORTMAN to go to a sheltered workshop roommate from Illinois—we are going condition. You cannot say to insurance in his State to meet these people, and to miss our landlord deeply—for his ar- companies and others cover everyone, I bet he changes his mind on that Re- ticulate enunciation of where we are even those with preexisting conditions, publican pay-for. here. We have always extended unem- unless you expand the pool of people Then comes Senator AYOTTE of New ployment benefits, and we have done it, insured. Senator MCCONNELL wants to Hampshire. She says we have a terrible in most instances, in a bipartisan way cut that off. Senator MCCONNELL’s pro- situation with the child tax credit. The and not paid for it. Under George Bush, posal would, in fact, eliminate this pro- child tax credit is available for wage 2007, unemployment was only 5.6 per- tection in our bill against discrimina- earners who can claim a credit on the cent. Now it hovers around 7 percent. tion because your child has asthma, tax they owe and a refundable credit as He moved it forward. It had bipartisan your child has diabetes, your wife is a well, in some circumstances, for their support. cancer survivor. children. In other words, if you are Things have evolved. I guess we do That was the reality of insurance be- low-income in America, we reduce your not have that bipartisan support. As fore this bill. The Republicans believe tax burden based on the number of Senator DURBIN outlined, a lot of the that eliminating that protection is the children you have. The obvious reason amendments to try to pay for this sort way to pay for unemployment benefits. is to give you $1,000 more a year for of rob Peter to pay Paul. I have heard They would penalize 300 million Ameri- your child, $20 a week for your child. a lot of my Republican colleagues say cans and their families in order to take That, to me, is not unreasonable. It al- let’s talk about how we deal with pov- care of 1.3 million unemployed on a leviates poverty for literally millions erty. These amendments that we have temporary basis. That is a terrible of Americans. Senator AYOTTE says for heard talked about are kind of punitive tradeoff. those who are filing a so-called I–10; and do not really deal with the issue. Then comes Senator PORTMAN from that is, those who do not have a Social I would like to address another issue, Ohio. He has a little different ap- Security number but work in America and that is how we come to an agree- proach. He suggests that if you are dis- and pay taxes as they are required to ment here and get this place working abled in America, adjudged disabled in do, she would cut them off so they again. On both sides of the aisle, there America, you should never draw unem- could not claim this child tax credit for is a great deal of consternation that we ployment benefits. ‘‘Double dipping’’ is their children even if their child is a are not legislating. We have had this what they call it. U.S. citizen, and that is the require- problem for a while. Thursday it came Wait a minute. You are getting a ment under the law. So she would cut to a head. There were some harsh government check that says you are off child benefits for citizen children to words that were issued by some. The disabled, and you are getting another pay for temporary unemployment ben- question is how do we get things work- government check that says you are efits. ing again. unemployed? What is wrong with this We can clean up the child tax credit First, I remind my colleagues there picture? situation, and I think there are ways to are instances when this place, the Sen- I invite him—and I am sure the Pre- do it in a reasonable fashion, but to cut ate in particular, is still working. We siding Officer has done this—to the off millions of children who are legally had a farm bill, an immigration bill, sheltered workshops of his State. If here in the United States, eligible for the WRDA bill. They all had one thing you have ever visited a sheltered work- this child tax credit—is that what we in common and that is the chairman shop, here is what you will find, and I have come to? Cut off a child tax cred- and ranking member agreed on a pro- found it in Decatur, IL: Profoundly re- it? Eliminate the help for those who posal. When the chairman and the tarded people and people with serious are working in sheltered workshops, ranking member agree on a proposal,

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I think most of my colleagues on the doctor they had and liked in spite mittee—came to an agreement with this side of the aisle are willing to ac- of the President’s promise that if you the help of Senators MENENDEZ, DUR- cept that. But at the same time, we do like your doctor, you can keep your BIN, BENNET, GRAHAM, FLAKE and not want to go through an amendatory doctor. There are concerns about high- RUBIO. But we can get something done, process and then, because we are 55, er copays and deductibles, and fraud and we can shepherd even the most not 60, never be able to get an up-or- and identity theft is also an issue that controversial and difficult legislation down vote on final passage of the legis- is plaguing all of America. I believe the through the floor. lation. health care Web site is a spot where we But there are many instances—these There are two sides to this story. are going to see more problems in that days more than ever because the par- There are two sides to an agreement to area. Americans know that fraud and ties are further apart than they used to get the floor of the Senate working identity theft are big concerns. It has be and there is less overlap—there are again—particularly when the majority been clear from the start that the instances where the chair and ranking and minority cannot agree on an over- health care exchange was vulnerable to member can’t or there does not seem to all bill. One side is an ability to offer con artists and hackers. Information be a bipartisan agreement. What do we amendments; the other side an ability from the government actually went out do in those instances? for an up-or-down vote once those telling people to be careful with their I have discussed this with many on amendments are disposed of. I don’t information because of the concerns the other side of the aisle. There is a think you can have one without the about con artists and hackers. So that tradition here. I am here sort of a mid- other. is a problem, and it is something Wash- dle level amount of time, about 14 Just as we could not ask our Repub- ington and this body need to take seri- years. The general theory has been lican colleagues for an up-or-down ously. whichever party is in the majority, vote, if they were not able to offer Whenever President Obama talks whichever is in the minority, that the amendments, I don’t think it is fair for about the health care law, he says that majority gets to set the agenda and the our Republican colleagues to ask us to if Republicans have good ideas, please minority gets to offer amendments. go through the amendatory process, bring them forward, share them, and he There is a lot of discussion as to why some of which will be difficult, and will support them. Republicans have that is not happening anymore, and then not get an up-or-down vote on offered a lot of ideas on how to give the there are different explanations on final passage. American people the health care re- each side of the aisle. There will be a That is the little piece I wanted to form they wanted all along. We passed discussion in our caucus, and I think in say here. I hope it will help bring us to- bills in the House of Representatives. the Republican caucus, at this lunch, gether because the greatest fun I have We tried to bring up bills here in the as to how to try to break that logjam. had in this place and the greatest effec- Senate. Democrats won’t even allow us That is a good thing. tiveness I have had in this place is to vote on those bills in the Senate. I will just make one point here that when I worked in a bipartisan way on As a doctor, I can tell you what peo- has been largely forgotten and that is bill after bill. It happens less fre- ple are looking for with health care re- this. There are two parts to this sort of quently now. Although, as I said, the form. They want access to quality, af- agreement, deal, arrangement. The immigration bill is an exception to fordable health care—care they need first part is the ability to offer amend- that, and other bills are an exception from a doctor they choose at lower ments. Should it be unlimited amend- to that. But maybe we can get back to costs. They didn’t get that with the ments? Should it be all nongermane working together if each side tries to health care law the President and the amendments? That has to be discussed understand the grievances and the gra- Democrats shoved down the throats of and worked out. But certainly the mi- vamen of the position of the other. the American people. Every time the nority should get to offer amendments. I hope we can do that on this bill and majority leader—at that desk—blocks There is a general theoretical agree- on many other bills in the future. reform, I believe he is making things ment among everybody about that. I yield the floor and suggest the ab- worse for millions of Americans. But the other side is that the major- sence of a quorum. We are trying again to take the ity should be able, once the amend- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The President at his word that he will sup- ments are disposed of, to get an up-or- clerk will call the roll. port good Republican ideas. Senator down vote on the final passage of the The legislative clerk proceeded to JOHANNS of Nebraska and I have intro- bill—that the bill not be filibustered— call the roll. duced a commonsense bill that will not just the motion to proceed, but Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask help protect Americans who use the once we go through the amendatory unanimous consent that the order for government insurance exchange. Our process, the bill itself. the quorum call be rescinded. bill, called the Health Exchange Secu- If friends on the other side of the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. rity and Transparency Act, requires aisle say I want to offer my amend- SCHATZ). Without objection, it is so or- the Secretary of Health and Human ment but unless it passes I am going to dered. Services to notify Americans within 2 vote to block the bill from coming up HEALTH CARE business days if their personal informa- for an up-or-down vote, that does not Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, it is tion has been stolen due to security seem right. My purpose for a brief few no secret that every Republican in this breaches on the exchanges. We are not moments, coming to the floor, is to re- Chamber, every Senator on this side of saying it is going to happen, but it sure mind both sides of the aisle, but par- the aisle voted against the President’s could happen, and if it does people need ticularly my Republican colleagues, health care law. We said it would do to be informed. that to get this place moving again re- great harm to the American people, The House passed a version of this quires two things. One, an ability to and we are finding out that is true. It bill last Friday, and it was clearly a bi- offer amendments. But second, an abil- is also no secret that every Democrat partisan bill. Sixty-seven Democrats ity to vote on final passage, have an in the Senate voted in favor of the joined Republicans to support this good up-or-down vote on final passage once health care law. It was partisan, it was idea. Now I believe it is our turn here those amendments are disposed of one a bad idea, and it has failed the coun- in the Senate. There shouldn’t be any- way or the other. try in many ways. thing controversial about this at all. We know that our colleagues will People know about the health care This should be the kind of bill we can offer tough amendments sometimes. Web site. The Web site was a spectac- pass by unanimous consent. That is the nature of things. Many ular public failure, and that was just After forcing so many Americans to times the amendments are just offered the tip of the iceberg. When we look buy insurance through this program, I

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If the government fails sider good bipartisan ideas that will on the recent introduction of legisla- to keep that information safe, they help the American people. Senator tion to promote trade promotion au- should have to admit it and tell people JOHANNS and I are going to continue to thority. what happened. push for a vote and to call on the Presi- Increasing free trade levels the play- This bill is a single page. Americans dent to support this bill. ing field for U.S. companies. We all are concerned about their safety on- The President needs to keep his know that. It increases competition. line, about having their identity sto- promise to support good Republican We know that too. It also increases ac- len, and this bill would give people at ideas and to protect the American peo- cess to foreign markets, with all the least the reassurance that they would ple from identity theft. As I said, this attendant benefits. U.S. businesses be informed, that if there is identity is just the tip of the iceberg with the stand the best chance to see gains in theft, they would know about it. Web site. All one has to do is go to this accessing foreign markets through bi- Look at what just happened to the morning’s newspapers. lateral and regional free-trade agree- Target stores. It now looks as if 70 mil- The Washington Post, above the fold, ments. Given the complexity of these lion people had their personal data front page: ‘‘Insurance sign-ups by agreements, the consultation process compromised. Target ran a full-page ad young adults lag. Key measure for and the expedited consideration pro- in the Washington Post talking about health-care law. Premiums could jump vided by TPA is really the only way to what happened with their 70 million if more don’t enroll.’’ Higher pre- go. customers. They apologized for it. The miums, that is what I am hearing from According to the Office of the U.S. same ad that ran here in the Wash- home in Wyoming. Trade Representative, the United ington Post also ran in the New York Today’s Wall Street Journal: ‘‘Health States is ‘‘the world’s largest economy Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Sign-ups Skew Older, Raising Fears of and the largest exporter and importer Higher Costs.’’ That is not what the of goods and services.’’ We exported other papers around the country. Tar- President promised. The President more than $2.2 trillion in goods and get has told people about the security came to the floor of the House of Rep- services last year. breach so they can take appropriate resentatives in a joint session of Con- For those of us who represent border steps and watch for signs of identity gress and said: If you like your cov- States, the issue hits very close to theft. Target also said they will do free erage, you can keep your coverage. If home. In recent years Mexico has be- credit checks for a year and addressed you like your doctor, you can keep our come America’s third largest trading the concerns many American people doctor. He said insurance premiums partner and our second largest export have and said: This is how we will take would drop for people. He made state- market. According to the Arizona-Mex- care of it. All the bill we are offering ments over the past years that under ico Commission, Arizona’s ports of today says is that if something hap- his plan insurance policies would drop entry serve as gateways for $26 billion pens—as happened with Target—on the $2,500 per family. Why is the New York in U.S.-Mexican trade annually. Ari- government’s health exchange Web Times saying premiums could jump? zona benefits from more than $13 bil- site, Washington should do the same. The President says one thing; the rest lion in bilateral trade with Mexico They should tell people that someone of the world sees another. every year. has had access to their personal infor- The New York Times today, again, Given the benefits of vibrant export mation so people can protect them- front page, above the fold: ‘‘Older Peo- markets and access to low-cost im- selves. ple Lead Sign-Ups For Insurance. Pat- ports, it is difficult to overstate the The health care law was completely tern Could Result in Higher Pre- importance of getting trade agree- inadequate in how it dealt with per- miums.’’ There are questions about the ments in place. A U.S. Chamber official sonal security issues. The Web site has law’s financial viability. recently noted in Roll Call that nearly been a debacle, and we know that. It is The President put together a pro- half of U.S. exports go to our free-trade a hacker’s dream. Even before the Web gram, and those of us who actually agreement partners and that these site was launched last March, it was a read the bill ahead of time had great countries make up just one-tenth of mess. concerns about its success, its viabil- the world economy. Let me repeat CBS News reported that deadlines for ity, its ability to deliver what it prom- that. Half of our exports go to those the site’s final security plans were de- ised. The President’s promises, one of countries with which we have free- layed three times over the summer. So which has now been called the lie of trade agreements. Yet those countries we saw that problem. Final end-to-end the year, continue. It has been called represent just one-tenth of the world’s security tests were never finished be- that by a group that looks at state- economy. That tells us the importance fore the Web site was launched. ments and is somewhat of a referee as of getting these free-trade agreements In November, after the Web site was political statements are made. To get in place. launched, four experts testified before that kind of an accomplishment for the In a recent opinion piece in the Wall the House about Web site problems. President just shows how misleading Street Journal, former U.S. Trade Rep- They were asked: Would any of you ad- the efforts have been on the American resentative Robert Zoellick noted that vise an American citizen to use this people. ‘‘on average, in the past five years of a Web site as the security system now The American people see what they new free-trade agreement, U.S. exports exists? Not one of the four experts said are getting in their mail—cancellation grew nearly three to four times as rap- they would—none. notices. They see what happens when idly as U.S. exports to others.’’ By December, one of those same in- they go to the Web site: higher pre- This is great news given that nego- dustry experts said that the situation miums, sticker shock, and now this tiations on the Trans-Pacific Partner- was even worse. The so-called fixes threat of ongoing security concerns, es- ship, or TPP, are ongoing. Its success- caused new security patterns and prob- pecially in light of what is occurring ful approval would yield the largest lems. Remember, that was after the throughout the rest of the country. free-trade agreement the United States White House was claiming it had fixed It is time for the President to keep has ever been a part of. Approval of the the Web site. What they had fixed was his word that he does want to work TPP agreement would provide in- just the tip of the iceberg, and these with Republicans for good ideas, and he creased access to critical Asia-Pacific problems under the tip continue today. could do so by adopting this measure markets for U.S. businesses at a crit- So the House passed a bill on Friday passed by the House on Friday that ical time. It is difficult to see how this by an overwhelming bipartisan major- Senator JOHANNS and I have presented agreement will be concluded without ity, and the President still says he op- to the Senate for approval today. TPA reauthorization.

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Our service men and women couldn’t be more timely. ous misinterpretation of the law. deserve much better than seeing their Again, I congratulate my colleagues I am pleased that the Omnibus appro- pensions arbitrarily cut by lawmakers for the introduction of this legislation. priations bill further reinforces our po- in Washington. What was particularly I look forward to its consideration. sition through report language specifi- disappointing was that this action sin- I yield the floor. cally addressing OSHA’s overreach gled out our military families and vet- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- while continuing the long-standing erans disproportionately. ator from Nebraska. small-farm exemption. The report lan- Yesterday evening, the appropria- OSHA POLICIES guage calls on OSHA to work with tions committees released their 2014 Mr. JOHANNS. Mr. President, I come USDA before moving forward with any budget. I was pleased their omnibus to the floor today to acknowledge my attempts to redefine and regulate post- budget proposal repeals the COLA cuts colleagues in the Senate for standing harvest activities such as storing for a portion of those military fami- up for family farms. I am also here to grain. It also makes it clear that the lies—for those disabled military retir- issue a very straightforward warning exemption applies to those activities ees who are medically retired and for to OSHA: The Senate makes crystal that occur on the farm. That includes survivors of military retirees who clear in the new appropriations bill the entire farming operation. elected to pay survivor benefit annu- that OSHA policies and inspectors bet- I thank my 42 colleagues who joined ities to take care of their families after ter get in line with the law. me in signing the letter, as well as my their deaths. This is progress. But I Since 1976 Congress has included spe- colleagues on the Appropriations Com- hope we can finish the job and pass an cific language in appropriations bills mittee for sending a clear message that amendment I have been working on very specifically prohibiting OSHA Federal agencies are not above the law. with Senators SHAHEEN and MCCAIN from enforcement action on farms with As I stated earlier, small family-owned and a series of other proposals to make 10 or fewer employees. However, this farms have been exempt from OSHA sure we fully roll back this unfair cut did not stop the agency from distorting regulations for the past 35 years. This to our military families and veterans. the definitions of farming practices in is not a new concept. Simply put, this We know over the last two decades sending inspectors to small family- language reaffirms the commonsense our military has fought two wars. owned farming operations anyway. ideas that Federal agencies cannot and Their families have made unprece- In my home State of Nebraska, should not bypass the law by redefining dented sacrifices. Unfortunately, this OSHA targeted a family farm that it to expand their jurisdiction. sacrifice was again brought home last grows corn and soybeans and has just Let me be clear that we all want week when a Navy MH–53E helicopter one nonfamily employee. It is clearly farms and ranches to be safe. In fact, a crashed off the coast of Virginia Beach. within the scope of the congressional safe working environment is especially Our thoughts and prayers are with the exemption. As do most American important for small farmers and ranch- families of the missing and fallen: LT farms, this farming operation includes ers whose families are oftentimes the Sean Christopher Snyder, LT Wesley grain bins for crop storage after har- only ones who work the farm or the Van Dorn, and Navy Aircrewman Brian vest. But according to OSHA’s absurd ranch. Small family farms and ranches Andrew Collins. logic, grain storage, they say, is not in my home State and across this coun- Virginia is home to one of the Na- part of farming operations, so it is not try should be able to continue their tion’s largest concentrations of Active- exempt from the regulations. I can’t work to feed and fuel the world with- Duty and retired military personnel. I make this stuff up. While OSHA made out fear of being targeted by this ad- consider it an honor and a privilege to no claim that anyone on the farm had ministration in direct violation of the represent them in Congress. So while been injured, the agency said the grain law. If the administration believes the we are shutting down government and bins failed to comply with OSHA regu- law should be changed, they should signing short-term CRs, the pensions of lations, and—get this—they slapped come to Congress and make their case. our service men and women are being the farm with fines totaling $132,000. They should not ignore the law as if it unfairly singled out. This isn’t right, This is not an issue that is confined does not exist. this isn’t fair, and my hope is that to one farm in Nebraska. A 2011 memo Again, I thank my colleagues for af- today and over the next few days we from OSHA’s enforcement chief to re- firming the law of the land and sup- will fully correct the mistake we made gional administrators acknowledged porting our Nation’s farmers and in the Budget Act last month. that the law prevents the agency from ranchers. In my time in the Senate, working regulating small farms. They got that Mr. President, I yield the floor and for our military families and veterans right. However, the memo proceeds to note the absence of a quorum. has been one of my top priorities. I am recategorize farming operations that The PRESIDING OFFICER. The proud I have relentlessly worked across happen after harvest, and OSHA said clerk will call the roll. the aisle on this issue. I would like to those are not exempt. Under this recat- The assistant legislative clerk pro- point out one particular action where egorization, OSHA claimed that its in- ceeded to call the roll. we have made dramatic progress. spectors had the authority to regulate Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask I have worked with the Puller Clinic small family-owned farms and their unanimous consent that the order for at William & Mary Law School in grain storage facilities. This is a bla- the quorum call be rescinded. Hampton Roads to develop a model for tant overreach and yet another exam- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without veterans legal clinics to help solve the ple of this administration’s backdoor objection, it is so ordered. Nation’s backlog of veterans’ benefits rulemaking. MILITARY COLAS claims. To my mind it is an embarrass- Whenever I meet with farmers and Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I rise ment that our veterans sometimes ranchers in Nebraska, they oftentimes to discuss my growing concern about have to wait for over 1 year to get their raise concerns about Federal regu- the effects of our actions—or in this claims processed to receive the benefits latory overreach. It is absolutely no case inaction—in Washington on our they have already earned. wonder farmers and ranchers feel as military families and veterans in Vir- Working with the William & Mary though they have a target on their ginia. As we all know, the Senate and Puller Law Clinic, we got the VA to ac- backs. OSHA’s twisting of the law House passed the Bipartisan Budget cept this model and to be certified by serves as evidence that farmers’ con- Act last month, which hopefully will be the VA to become the first law school cerns are legitimate. a first step toward getting us back on in the country to be able to complete In response to OSHA’s regulatory the right track toward a functioning fully developed claims. Now 19 univer- overreach, I wrote a letter to Secretary Congress. But I was disappointed—and sities in Virginia are committed to Perez, joined by a bipartisan group of I know many of my colleagues were serving veterans and more than 15 law

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It is a win for the taxpayers I hope my colleagues will join my were today what it was in 2009—in because there are no taxpayer funds in- friends, Senator KAINE and Senator other words, the number of Americans volved, it is a win for our veterans who SHAHEEN and others, to replace the actually in the labor force looking for are able to get their claims processed cuts to the military COLAs. The ap- jobs—the unemployment rate would be in a more rapid and expeditious man- proach we have taken would do this by almost 11 percent, a significantly high- ner, and it is a win for the law students closing a tax loophole that allows some er number than what we use as the offi- who gain valuable experience in both corporations to actually avoid paying cial unemployment rate today. Even dealing with a large Federal agency— their fair share of taxes. There may be without that, the Wall Street Journal the VA—but, more importantly, being other alternatives as well. I will look points out that ‘‘the unemployment able to help one-on-one veterans who at any that are fair and reasonable and rate remains near levels previously deserve to get their benefits. make sure our military families don’t seen only during recessions.’’ I have also worked with my friends get singled out. Let me repeat that: The Wall Street and former Virginia colleague Jim Virginians have served with honor in Journal states that ‘‘the unemploy- Webb to draft legislation for a com- our military for generations, and I ment rate remains near levels pre- plete comprehensive look at military want to assure our service men and viously seen only during recessions.’’ compensation and retirement. We have women there is ample time to undo That is a pretty damning statement. worked with Chairman LEVIN as well, these changes before they take effect. I The President and his advisers would and this Commission will be reporting would remind those who are listening like us to believe that President later this year. I look forward to the this decrease in the COLA doesn’t actu- Obama’s policies are growing our econ- results because we do have to recognize ally take place until next year, so we omy and putting Americans back to our overall compensation and benefits still have time to rectify this. work. But in the 5 years of his Presi- packages need an overall review. I be- I promise to continue using every dency, all Democrats have been able to lieve this Commission will make tool I can to fight these unfair pension accomplish is a recovery that looks a strong recommendations on how we cuts and to make sure the promises we lot like other Presidents’ recessions. can both modernize and achieve fiscal have made to our military families and In his weekly address on Saturday, stability for our military. these retirees gets honored. the President said he would do ‘‘every- With that, I yield the floor, and I I am proud of the work I have done thing I can to create new jobs and new on veterans’ issues in terms of the suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The opportunities for American families.’’ Puller Clinic, in terms of the overall How does he propose to do that? By clerk will call the roll. look at the military compensation The assistant legislative clerk pro- treating the symptoms, not the causes, package as part of an effort to make ceeded to call the roll. of economic stagnation. Economic sure we honor our commitment to our Mr. THUNE. Madam President, I ask bandaids like the President proposes military. But as we honor that com- unanimous consent that the order for may temporarily help a few Americans, mitment to our military, we have to the quorum call be rescinded. but they will do nothing to bring about recognize as well that threats to our The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. the real long-term job growth our Nation are not just those posed by out- HEITKAMP). Without objection, it is so country needs. Unfortunately, the side forces but also the continuing ordered. President’s policies are actually hurt- threat of our increasing debt and def- OBAMACARE ing already struggling middle-class icit. I often like to cite former Chair- Mr. THUNE. Madam President, I families and making it more difficult man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admi- come to the floor today to talk about for businesses to grow and create jobs. ral Mullen, who said the single largest the damage ObamaCare is doing to our Chief among the President’s failed threat to our Nation was not the threat struggling economy. policies is the massive boondoggle of terrorists but the threat of that $17 After months of unrelenting coverage known as the Affordable Care Act. If trillion debt and deficit, which goes up of ObamaCare’s many problems and there is one thing you don’t want in an by over $4 billion a night—a debt bur- after Friday’s release of December’s economy where businesses are already den that may weigh down our ability dismal job report, I am sure Democrats struggling, it is legislation that places to compete in the future. in the Senate would prefer we talk everything from new taxes to burden- I continue to come to the floor—not about almost anything else. After all, some new regulations on businesses, always successfully—to suggest to my when you have held most of the power and yet that is exactly what colleagues on both sides of the aisle here in Washington for the last 5 years, ObamaCare does. that we cannot continue to punt on you don’t want to mention the fact There is a tax on medical devices, this issue; that, ultimately, both polit- that your main legacy is a sluggish like pacemakers and prosthetics, which ical parties are going to have to give. economy and a disastrous train wreck is driving medical device jobs overseas We are going to have to find ways to of a health care program. and driving medical bills up for Amer- generate additional revenues through a This past Friday we found out De- ican patients. There is a pill tax, which comprehensive reform of our Tax Code. cember marked the weakest month of is a tax on prescription drugs. There is We are going to have to find a way to job growth since January 2011. The a tax on businesses that do not provide make sure that not only the promise of economy added just 74,000 jobs in De- a government-approved health care. military pensions and benefits but also cember—less than half of the monthly There are multiple taxes on health in- the promise of Social Security and job growth needed for a real recovery. surance companies, and more. Medicare will be here for future gen- Some are saying perhaps this is an Then there are the scores of new reg- erations. That means both political aberration, and perhaps it was for a 1- ulations which raise the cost of doing parties will have to be willing to give month period. But the one thing we business—regulations like the require- on their sacred cows. can’t get away from is that December’s ment that any business with 50 or more We have to make sure as well, if we drop in the unemployment rate—the workers provide ObamaCare-approved put together this comprehensive ap- slight drop that we saw as a percent- health insurance benefits to its full- proach on debt and deficit, that it will age—was driven by nearly 350,000 time employees, which the health care provide the kind of financial stability Americans dropping out of the work- law defines as 30 hours or more per to our military families, making sure force altogether, driving the labor par- week. That is all very well for some those pensions, benefits, and other ticipation rate to its lowest level in 36 employers, but for many employers in kinds of compensation packages will be years. We haven’t seen the labor par- industries with small profit margins, there for themselves and for future ticipation rate this low since the Car- providing Obama-approved health care people who serve. But that is for a fu- ter administration. to full-time workers is the difference

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Tens of millions of fami- community colleges and universities, cans looking for work and lower wages lies claim the child tax credit each restaurants, and other small businesses for families already struggling to get year—more than 35 million families in are being forced to cut workers’ hours by. 2009—both using Social Security num- to avoid the full burden of If Democrats were really serious bers and individual taxpayer identifica- ObamaCare’s mandate. It is no wonder about growing the economy and cre- tion numbers. According to the Con- the health care law is so unpopular ating jobs, they would stop focusing on gressional Research Service, the child with the owners of businesses, both economic bandaids and start a long, tax credit reduces child poverty by ap- large and small. hard look at the damage ObamaCare is proximately one-fifth. For such an im- CBS News reported in December: doing to our economy. portant and widely used program as Nearly half of U.S. companies said they are As Members of Congress, we need to this, we should be careful that any reluctant to hire full-time employees be- make it easier to create jobs, not hard- changes we make to the program do cause of the law. er. We should be repealing burdensome not harm low-income children and A survey from the National Associa- mandates, not creating them. We working families. Many of these low- tion of Manufacturers found that more should be reducing the tax burden, not income families are headed by women. than 75 percent of manufacturers cite increasing it, and we should be cre- Any large program is susceptible to soaring health care costs as the biggest ating incentives for businesses to ex- fraud and misuse. When fraud is al- issue facing their businesses. pand, not eliminating them. leged, the cases should be investigated The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Millions of Americans spend too and the people who commit fraud ator’s time has expired. much time wondering how they are should be punished. This means tar- Mr. THUNE. I ask unanimous con- going to afford their health care pre- geted, aggressive auditing and enforce- sent for an additional 5 minutes. miums or buy a house or send their ment, not wholesale changes to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without kids to college. We need to give them program that will deny help to kids objection, it is so ordered. the economic opportunities they need. who are legally receiving it today. Mr. THUNE. In addition to being bad Over the past few weeks Republicans The proponents of the amendment for business’s bottom line, ObamaCare in the House and in the Senate have in- tell us that individuals are fraudu- is placing a tremendous financial bur- troduced plan after plan to get our lently claiming the child tax credit for den on American families. economy moving again and help strug- kids who live in Mexico or for kids who The President claimed his health gling families find better jobs and in- do not exist. That is already a viola- care law would reduce the cost of creased wages. tion of the law. This is fraud. I agree health care, but the average family has I recently introduced a plan to ex- with the sponsor that we should take seen a $2,500 premium increase since empt long-term unemployed workers steps to prevent this fraud. the law’s passage—and now that the from the ObamaCare mandate, an oner- The IRS says this amendment would law is being fully implemented, that ous and unpopular provision which will not solve the fraud problem. In 2012, number is set to soar even higher. destroy jobs and reduce hours for hard- five Senators wrote to the IRS regard- One of my constituents, Carrie, working Americans. In fact, this man- ing this matter, and their letter asked: emailed me to tell me she may have to date is so unpopular and so unworkable Does the fact that the person filing the re- take a part-time job to afford the that the administration unilaterally turn has a Social Security number indicate health care premium she was quoted delayed it past the next election. whether the child claimed for the credit met for a family of 6. That is a part-time Since even the administration the residency requirements required under job on top of the two part-time jobs she doesn’t want to enforce it, I think we the law? already works and the full-time job her can all agree that exempting the long- The response from the IRS, in a let- husband works. term unemployed will help break the ter dated July 20, 2012, was: Another constituent, Matt from cycle of extended unemployment that The possession of a SSN [Social Security Rapid City, SD, emailed to tell me his plagues the Obama economy. number] by the filer is not relevant in deter- insurance has gone up 60 percent. We hope Democrats will abandon mining whether the child met the residency Meanwhile, his wife’s hours at work their short-term cosmetic fixes and requirements. have been reduced below the join us in talking about the kind of In other words, imposing a Social Se- ObamaCare full-time threshold of 30 long-term reform which will truly grow curity number requirement does not hours. ‘‘We have had to cut back on the economy and offer economic oppor- prevent the fraud that the sponsor basic needs,’’ he told me. tunity to every American. We have seeks to prevent. That makes intuitive Terry contacted me to tell me his in- lived in the Obama economy long sense. If a person is going to lie about surance policy was cancelled, and that enough. the existence of a kid, they will lie he was offered a replacement policy for I yield the floor. about the SSN too. This amendment twice the cost of his original policy. Ms. HIRONO. Madam President, I am does not solve the problem. ‘‘Now 1⁄4 of my salary will go to my in- here to speak in opposition to the off- If this amendment does not solve the surance.’’ That is a quarter of his sal- set in Ayotte amendment No. 2603. The problem, then what would be the real ary. bipartisan budget that passed in De- impact of this amendment? Here is Is this the affordable care Americans cember included a Republican provi- what the amendment would do. were promised? sion that changed the annual cost-of- First, it would deny help to roughly 4 Democrats claim they want to grow living adjustments, or COLAs, for mili- million U.S. citizen children from low- the economy, but what do they think tary retirees. I opposed that provision, income households by making their happens to the economy when busi- and I believe there is bipartisan sup- families ineligible for the child tax nesses aren’t growing and people aren’t port for repealing it. The main ques- credit. The average family claiming spending? When Americans have to de- tion that needs to be debated is how to the refundable child tax credit earns vote more of their income to paying pay for that repeal. Amendment No. only about $21,000 a year, and, as I their health care bills, they cut back 2603 would pay for fixing the military mentioned earlier, many of these fami- on other spending, they go out to fewer retirement COLA problem by denying lies are led by women. Every dollar restaurants, they keep their old car for the refundable child tax credit to mil- matters to these families. The child a few more years, and they put a buck- lions of eligible U.S. citizen children. tax credit lifts roughly 1.5 million chil- et under the leak instead of paying for That amendment asks, in effect, dren out of poverty each year. This a new roof. That is a lot of money not whether military retirees are more de- amendment would plunge many of going to local businesses. serving of help than U.S. citizen chil- these children back into poverty.

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Her amendment, offsetting the cost to fix that by fixing child tax credit if this amendment were No. 2618, of which I am a cosponsor, ‘‘an egregious problem in the Tax to become law. They are paying taxes will prevent more than 18,000 corpora- Code.’’ As someone who sits on the but would be denied help. That is not tions from pretending they are Senate Finance Committee, I can tell fair. headquartered in a single building in you that after years of being stymied Second, this amendment would the Cayman Islands. Like the amend- by Republican opposition to closing render these 4 million U.S. children ment of Senator AYOTTE, the Shaheen any tax loopholes, to shutting down second-class citizens because of who amendment will repeal the military re- any abusive tax practices, I would like their parents are. That is contrary to tiree COLA provision that was in the to have them join us in looking for sav- the principle of equality on which this budget deal. The difference is that the ings in the Tax Code to achieve a bipar- country was founded. All citizens amendment of Senator SHAHEEN will tisan goal. But, unfortunately, instead should be treated fairly and equally. pay for the repeal by holding corpora- of shutting down the abuses in the This amendment says some citizen tions accountable for the taxes they code, like the huge amounts of money children will receive help and others owe instead of denying help to U.S. cit- stripped out of the United States and will not, depending on who their par- izen children of working parents, many piling up in tax havens abroad, or in- ents are. That is simply not right. of whom are women, who are in pov- stead of ending the wasteful subsidies In closing, there is a better way to erty. for very profitable companies, such as pay for repealing the military COLA We all recognize that we have a re- the oil industry, or perhaps the myriad provision that was included in the sponsibility to our veterans, taxpayers, tax shelters used by millionaires to budget, and that is to close corporate and to future generations. The amend- avoid paying their fair share, my col- league decided instead to propose legis- tax loopholes. The proponents cite a ment of Senator SHAHEEN will allow us news report from Indiana in which an to meet all of these commitments at lation that would have a devastating impact on 4 million children who are undocumented worker admitted he had the same time. I urge my colleagues to U.S. citizens and who deserve every allowed four other undocumented join me in supporting this common- right and every protection as any other workers to use his address to file tax sense approach and vote in favor of the child under the Constitution, all of returns. The four workers did not live Shaheen amendment and not the whom are deserving of our support. there, but he allowed them to use his Ayotte amendment. Instead of working with Democrats, address anyway. I agree that this is I yield the floor. many of whom have spent a great deal The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- fraud and should be stopped. of time studying and pointing out This story reminds me of the story of ator from New Jersey. waste, fraud, and abuse in the Tax Code the Ugland House in the Cayman Is- Mr. MENENDEZ. Madam President, I to find a bipartisan solution, we are lands. The Ugland House is a 5-story join my colleague from Hawaii in her presented with a proposal that would building that has been identified as the remarks and her opposition to the go much further than she claims and official address for 18,857 companies, all Ayotte amendment. I wish to start off hammer over 2 million working and at the same time. Some of the inhab- by simply saying that when we are tax-paying families. itants of this address are some of the talking about extending unemploy- What does the child tax credit do, largest publicly traded companies in ment insurance benefits to Americans which is the subject of her amendment? the United States. As I understand it, who have played by the rules, done ev- The child tax credit is for people who this is not a violation of U.S. laws. erything right, and through no fault of have a qualifying child. That is the Tens of thousands of corporations can their own find themselves unemployed, fundamental essence of the child tax legally use the same building for their many long-term unemployed, and who credit. You are not eligible for it if you official address. It is not fraud but are trying to get a job but still, despite do not have a qualifying child. What is merely tax planning, I am told. an economy that is improving, have a qualifying child under the law? It Offshore mailing addresses and ac- not seen the job market increase sig- must be the son, daughter, stepchild, counting tricks are allowing corpora- nificantly so that they can attain that foster child, brother, sister, step- tions to shelter enormous profits from job—what they need at this time is not brother, stepsister, or a descendent of U.S. taxes. According to Bloomberg a kick in the pants, they need a help- the filer. They must live with the filer News, 83 of the largest companies in ing hand so that they can sustain their for more than half of the year. No. 3, the United States held $1.46 trillion in families during this period of time and the child must be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. profits offshore in 2012. Another report, continue to be in a position to do that national, or a U.S. resident alien. It is by JPMorgan Chase, estimates that the which the law requires of them: con- the child who is the determinative fac- amount of offshore profits is even high- tinue to look for a job and eventually tor. It is the child for which these re- er—nearly $1.7 trillion. How does this find that job. sources ultimately we have decided as work? They funnel their revenues The reality is that this is not an ide- a Congress and as a society to support. through shell companies to escape tax- ological battle, I hope, in a greater po- We talk about being family-friendly. ation. Countries such as Bermuda, Ire- litical war. It is about real people and We talk about the poverty situation in land, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the lives of real people. I don’t think this country. We talk about the con- and Switzerland—which combined ac- we can lose sight of that simple fact. sistently growing gap in terms of the count for less than one-half of 1 per- Political ideology doesn’t trump faith haves and the have-nots. This amend- cent of the world’s population—gen- and family values. It does not trump ment is only going to exacerbate that erated 43 percent of the profits re- reason or compassion or the acceptance problem for U.S. children. ported by American companies in 2008. that we are all in this together. To eliminate the ability of a tax- Clearly, there is a major tax problem Having said that, I am encouraged payer to use a taxpayer ID number in here. that there is bipartisan support for re- order to claim the refundable portion While our colleagues rail against five pealing the military pension cuts. I op- of the child tax credit ignores the fact workers using one address to file taxes, posed those. I am committed to ensur- that the vast majority of these chil- we hear nothing about more than 18,000 ing that our brave men and women and dren are U.S. citizens and the child tax companies that have used one address their families receive all the care and credit was enacted to help families fi- to file their taxes. Talk about egre- resources they deserve, both during nancially care for their children. The gious. These corporate tax loopholes their service and throughout their refundable portion was introduced be- resulting in the huge amount of taxes lives. They have fought for our freedom cause children in working families de- companies don’t pay are what this Con- and security in the most difficult situ- serve the same support provided by

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The adoption of Hampshire that the anecdotal stories if we cannot get the assistance during the Ayotte amendment would go en- she included in her remarks amount to this period of time? Do I have to decide tirely counter to that belief. fraud, and they should be stopped. between putting food on the table and With that, I yield the floor. Let’s be clear: The stories she told of keeping a place for my family? What if f claiming credits for children not in the I have a health emergency? These are RECESS United States or of 1,000 tax returns real-life conversations that are being linked to 8 addresses, those actions are had by Americans across this country. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under already illegal by whomever would How are we not putting aside ide- the previous order, the Senate stands make such a false filing and commit ology and looking into our conscience in recess until 2:15 p.m. those actions. for the obvious answer? This is a sim- Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:36 p.m., In fact, what the Senator does is cite ple extension of unemployment bene- recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassem- reports of IRS investigators who did fits for those who need our help. It is a bled when called to order by the Pre- their job shutting down illegal activ- no-brainer at a time when so many siding Officer (Ms. BALDWIN). ity. It seems to me the IRS doesn’t need help now and don’t care about pol- f need her amendment to go after this itics, don’t want or deserve to be pawns EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT fraud. They need the resources and the in a political battle over the role or COMPENSATION EXTENSION investigators to ultimately make sure size of government. They just want ACT—Continued all elements of the code that have help from the very people who rep- fraudulent activity being taken need to resent them. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under be dealt with. They need Republicans It isn’t a time for political games. It the previous order, the time until 2:30 to stop cutting their funds so they can is a time for action. We can always p.m. will be equally divided and con- do their job better. But to use these in- argue deficits. We can argue about debt trolled between the two leaders. stances of fraud that were successfully management, we can argue about poli- The Senator from Alabama. pursued to go after American children tics, but for now it is about the Amer- Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, I is not confronting fraud. It is ican people, their lives, their hopes, wish to share briefly a few thoughts disadvantaging children—4 million and their dreams for a better life for about where we are. We have before us children to be exact. themselves and their families. It is an unemployment bill and the pending If we had one computer science com- about the kind of Nation we are and business is the Reid amendment that pany prosecuted for tax evasion, we the values we hold dear. would extend unemployment benefits don’t bar all computer science compa- Extending unemployment benefits for a full year, and none of it is paid for nies from ever taking the research and isn’t just the right thing to do morally, effectively. All of it violates the Budg- development tax credit again. If we it also makes good economic sense. et Act. It is unthinkable that we would find one entity, one person or one in- Study after study has shown that un- pass another $17 billion that would add dustry committing fraud, we don’t employment benefits are one of the to the debt of the United States—every eliminate all of the benefits of the pro- most effective ways to help our econ- billion of it, every single dollar of it vision in the Tax Code for which they omy grow, so much so that every $1 borrowed, much of it from people committed fraud because we have de- spent produces a benefit of at least around the world who are not friendly cided that provision is of a societal $1.50 in gross domestic product. That is to us. So this is not a good way for us benefit. What we do is make sure we go because people receiving benefits spend to start. after the individuals who commit the the money and immediately stimulate It is subject to a budget point of fraud. It doesn’t make any sense, just the economy in the form of consumer order because it violates our spending like hammering 4 million U.S. children spending, which accounts for 70 percent limits and that has been confirmed. I because of fraud perpetrated by some of our GDP. Leaving 1.3 million Ameri- know the Presiding Officer is a member other unscrupulous actor doesn’t make cans in the cold without any assistance of the Budget Committee. It has been a whole lot of sense to me. would end up costing our economy confirmed by Senator MURRAY and her I believe this amendment creates a 240,000 jobs. staff, the Democratic leadership on the clear-cut case of priorities. Surely no- Some on the other side say helping Budget Committee, that it violates the body here would argue that outside of people who have been out of work is a budget. So that means if it is not this instance, there is no other part of crutch. I have to be honest with you. I fixed—and I understand there is some the Tax Code that allows waste, fraud have never met a person in my State attempt going on at this time to or abuse. We could sit down and find who said they wanted to be on unem- maybe rewrite it in a way that actu- dozens of wasteful loopholes, fraudu- ployment, who found dignity in being ally has a legitimate pay-for, to pro- lent tax practices, and abusive tax on unemployment or realized their vide assistance to those who are long- shelters that could be shut down in dreams by being on unemployment. term unemployed but paid for without order to pay for restoring the cuts to They found their dignity by achieving adding to the debt of the United military pensions. If my Republican a job that helped them realize their States. colleagues chose to support these ef- hopes and dreams and aspirations. I will remind my colleagues that in forts, I think this bill would sail The American worker is not lazy, and December we passed the Murray-Ryan through the Senate. they don’t want handouts. With the job legislation which set limits on spend- I say to my friends who are putting market still recovering, there simply ing, and the President signed it into up obstacles—because I believe a lot of are not enough jobs available for them. law just 2 weeks ago. As soon as we these false choices that are being put As we work to make sure there is an waltz into the U.S. Senate in January out there are not for the purposes of a economy that has enough jobs for of this year, we have a piece of legisla- legitimate policy goal but to under- Americans to be able to realize their tion that bursts the budget entirely. It mine the efforts of achieving the exten- hopes and dreams and aspirations, it is is an utter violation of the spending sion of unemployment insurance—I say incumbent on us to make sure we con- agreements we agreed to. So I hope our to them I think you need to stop and tinue to assist them so those stark colleagues can present something to us think. Think about the people who are choices around the kitchen table aren’t that would lay out an effective way to hurting. Think about their lives, their as horrible as they are today. handle those who are unemployed and hopes, and their struggles. Think about I hope my colleagues will oppose would also pay for the legislation. That what their conversations are around hurting 4 million American children, is what we have to do.

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Is there believe the House will pass legislation the Senate, which opposes unemploy- objection? that adds another $17 trillion to the ment insurance benefits, gets both an The minority leader. debt and not add—I just don’t think amendment process where they can Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, re- that is possible. offer these poison-pill amendments and serving the right to object, we have This is a process that is not healthy. then the minority of the Senate, again, now been on this bill a week—a week. I urge our colleagues to understand that opposes the bill, can still kill the No amendments have been allowed. It that if this legislation is not fixed—if bill. This doesn’t make a lot of sense. is pretty clear the majority leader is the Reid amendment is not fixed and I know everybody has worked hard to not interested in having an open paid for—I intend to move to object to try to work through this process—to amendment process. And, of course, the it, to raise a budget point of order. It kind of thread the needle. I told a num- consent request that has just been of- will take 60 votes to override the budg- ber of Republican Senators I met with fered requires that all of the Repub- et we just agreed to. I don’t believe 60 a little while ago, as my Democratic lican amendments be at a 60-vote Members of this Senate will so vote. Senators know, that we think there threshold and that final passage be at I thank the Chair and yield the floor. should be a new day in the Senate. We 51—in other words, guaranteed to fix The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- think we should start by whatever the result in such a way that doesn’t ator from Washington. comes up next—whether it is flood in- give the minority a fair chance. Mrs. MURRAY. I suggest the absence surance, unemployment compensation, I mean, who is to say, a number of of a quorum. whatever is next—by having a reason- our amendments might be appealing to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The able number of relevant amendments, Members on the Democratic side. That clerk will call the roll. and see if we, as Senators, can work is probably why the majority leader The legislative clerk proceeded to our way through a bill doing that. If we wants it to be at 60, because he is call the roll. can do that a few times, maybe we will afraid they may pass. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- get better and start having some non- So this has obviously been fixed to imous consent that the order for the relevant amendments, but at least let guarantee that you get no outcome. Of quorum call be rescinded. us start someplace so Senators here course, our Members who voted to get The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. can have the experience of offering on the bill, who are anxious to try to MANCHIN). Without objection, it is so amendments—both us and the Repub- improve the bill and find a way to get ordered. licans—and try to get some legislation us to final passage, have also found Mr. REID. Mr. President, what is the passed. this agreement to be unacceptable. So issue before the Senate? Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- I am not speaking just for myself but The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- sent that the cloture motions with re- for the Members on my side who have tion to commit is the pending question. spect to the Reed of Rhode Island spent a lot of time over the last week Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am going amendment No. 2631 and S. 1845 be viti- trying to figure a way to get this bill to offer a consent agreement based on ated; that the motion to commit and across the floor in a bipartisan fashion the conversations I have had with a amendment No. 2631 be withdrawn; which would actually achieve the re- number of Republicans, and a long con- that a substitute amendment, which is sult and try to get us to some reforms versation with my caucus just a few at the desk, be made pending; that as well. minutes ago. I am going to speak for a there be up to five amendments related So I ask unanimous consent that few minutes because I know everybody to the bill from each side in order to once the Senate resumes consideration has a lot to do, but we have all been the substitute amendment; further, of S. 1845, the unemployment extension working hard to find a way to extend that each of these amendments be sub- bill, the first amendment in order be a unemployment insurance benefits for ject to a side-by-side amendment if the Heller-Collins amendment related to 1.4 million Americans who are strug- opposing side chooses to offer one; the bill. I further ask unanimous con- gling to get by. amendments under this agreement sent that following the disposition of We have a filibuster before us again— must be offered no later than 4 p.m. that amendment, it be in order for the another one. First, Republicans com- Wednesday, January 15; that no other majority leader, or his designee, to plained they were filibustering these amendments or motions to commit be offer an amendment, and it be in order essential benefits because the exten- in order; that no points of order be in for the leaders or their designees to sion was not paid for. So Senator REED order to the substitute or the under- continue to offer amendments in an al- of Rhode Island came forward with a lying bill; that each amendment have ternating fashion. pay-for amendment. Then Republicans up to 1 hour of debate equally divided; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there complained, they were filibustering be- that upon the use or yielding back of objection? cause they had not been able to offer time on each of the amendments of- Mr. REID. Reserving the right to ob- amendments. So a proposal was made— fered, the Senate proceed to vote in re- ject. and I am going to do that in a short lation to the amendments to the sub- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- time with a unanimous consent re- stitute in the order offered with any jority leader. quest—that would give each side a rea- side-by-side amendment vote occurring Mr. REID. Mr. President, we have sonable number of amendments—five, prior to the amendment to which it seen in the last little bit a significant to be specific. Now Republicans say was offered; that all of the amend- number of statements on the floor and they want to have their amendments ments to the substitute be subject to a op-ed pieces written about process— and have a cloture vote to pass the bill 60-affirmative-vote threshold; that process. too. upon disposition of the amendments, On this side we have been talking Sounds as though Republicans want the bill be read a third time, as amend- about 1.4 million Americans needing to, for lack of a better way to describe ed, if amended, and the Senate proceed help getting past the real financial cri- this, have their cake and eat it too. to vote on passage of the bill; that if sis they find. The question is, are Republicans fili- the bill is passed, the Senate imme- It seems interesting to me the only bustering unemployment insurance diately proceed to the consideration of fix to get no outcome is the Republican benefits or are they not? Calendar No. 192, H.R. 2009; that all strategy to find something to object to If we have an amendment process, after the enacting clause be stricken no matter what Democrats try. Proc- then what we should get in exchange is and the text of S. 1845, as passed by the ess—compared to helping in a sub- an up-or-down vote on the bill, and Senate, be inserted in lieu thereof; that stantive way people who are in trouble,

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We have a aisle have stated that if their amend- table. new reality around here of 60 votes. ment doesn’t pass, they won’t allow us The yeas and nays are ordered. This isn’t anything I invented. In fact, to come to a vote. The clerk will call the roll. I wish we would get rid of it and go So I hope we could proceed along the The legislative clerk called the roll. back to the way we used to do it. way the majority leader suggests and The result was announced—yeas 45, So I repeat. I think this has been not to simply offer amendments—rel- nays 55, as follows: constructive. I especially appreciate evant, not relevant; germane, not ger- [Rollcall Vote No. 8 Leg.] the junior Senator from Nevada and mane—and then make it almost cer- YEAS—45 the senior Senator from Maine working tain the bill will be filibustered and Alexander Enzi McConnell to come up with something. I am dis- that we won’t be able to get an up-or- Ayotte Fischer Moran appointed we couldn’t work something down vote. All we are asking is an up- Barrasso Flake Murkowski Blunt Graham Paul out. It appears, and I have been told, or-down vote on employment insur- Boozman Grassley Portman they are going to object to this consent ance. Burr Hatch Risch agreement just as I object to modifying Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, regular Chambliss Heller Roberts order. Coats Hoeven Rubio my consent agreement. Coburn Inhofe Scott The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- Mr. SCHUMER. So I object. Cochran Isakson Sessions tion is heard. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Re- Collins Johanns Shelby Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I publican leader. Corker Johnson (WI) Thune Mr. MCCONNELL. I believe I objected Cornyn Kirk Toomey would like to ask the leader a question. Crapo Lee Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there to the majority leader’s request. Cruz McCain Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- objection? NAYS—55 Mr. SCHUMER. Objection. ator did so. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Baldwin Harkin Nelson ask unanimous consent to call up the Baucus Heinrich Pryor tion is heard to the Republican leader’s Begich Heitkamp Reed request. Heller amendment No. 2651. Bennet Hirono Reid Is there objection to the majority The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Blumenthal Johnson (SD) Rockefeller Booker Kaine leader’s request? objection? Sanders Mr. REID. I object. Boxer King Schatz C Mr. M CONNELL. I object. Brown Klobuchar Schumer The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- Cantwell Landrieu The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- Shaheen tion is heard. Cardin Leahy tion is heard. Stabenow Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous Carper Levin The majority leader. Tester consent to call up the Coburn amend- Casey Manchin Mr. REID. Mr. President, my friend Coons Markey Udall (CO) ment No. 2606. Udall (NM) from New York was standing to reserve Donnelly McCaskill The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Warner the right to object. Durbin Menendez objection? Feinstein Merkley Warren Mr. SCHUMER. Reserving the right Mr. REID. I object. Franken Mikulski Whitehouse to object. Gillibrand Murphy Wyden Mr. MCCONNELL. Parliamentary in- Hagan Murray The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- quiry: Is it correct that no Senator is ator from New York. permitted to offer an amendment to The motion was rejected. Mr. SCHUMER. Let me just say, I the unemployment insurance bill while Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- think on both sides of the aisle there is the majority leader’s motion to com- imous consent that the next two votes a real desire to try to work things out mit with instructions with further be 10 minutes in duration. so we can have more debate, more dis- amendments is pending? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without cussion. It seems to me, from the years The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- objection, it is so ordered. I have been here—not as long as either ator is correct. CLOTURE MOTION leader—there has always been sort of a Mr. MCCONNELL. Further par- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- way the place worked, particularly in liamentary inquiry: If a motion to ture motion having been presented the old days when it worked better: table the Reid motion to commit with under rule XXII, the Chair directs the The majority sets the agenda. That is a further amendment is successful, clerk to read the motion. their right as majority. The minority would there still be Reed amendments The legislative clerk read as follows: has the right to offer amendments— pending that would prevent anyone CLOTURE MOTION both—amendments that might change from offering an amendment? We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- that agenda and amendments that, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the frankly, might be tough to vote for so ator is correct. Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move the minority can capture the majority Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I to bring to a close debate on amendment No. again. That has been fair. have an important amendment that I 2631 to S. 1845, a bill to provide for the exten- But it seems to me that what my would like the Senate to debate and sion of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. friend the Republican leader is saying vote on. The Reid motion to commit is is: We want all the amendments we Harry Reid, Jack Reed, Martin Heinrich, currently blocking the consideration of Richard Blumenthal, Michael F. Ben- want, but we are still going to fili- those amendments. net, Richard J. Durbin, Patty Murray, buster any bill you bring up. Maybe a In order for the Senate to start con- Max Baucus, Debbie Stabenow, Bill few have said: If our amendments pass sidering amendments, including the Nelson, Amy Klobuchar, Thomas R. on the other side, maybe we won’t fili- Coburn amendment No. 2606, I move to Carper, Edward J. Markey, Benjamin buster. But that is not much of a fair table the pending Reid motion to com- L. Cardin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Charles deal. mit with instructions and I ask for the E. Schumer, Patrick J. Leahy. So I would suggest that what the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- Democratic leader has suggested is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a imous consent, the mandatory quorum eminently fair. It gives the minority— sufficient second? call has been waived. no matter who it is—their time-hon- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I do have a The question is, Is it the sense of the ored right to offer amendments, dif- right to object to this; do I not? Senate that debate on amendment No. ficult amendments. That is part of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- 2631 to S. 1845, a bill to provide for the deal. But it gives the majority the ator is correct, but the question is on extension of certain unemployment

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Are there Baucus Heinrich Nelson It is extremely urgent that we act any other Senators in the Chamber de- Begich Heitkamp Pryor Bennet and today we failed to act. We have to siring to vote? Heller Reed Blumenthal Hirono Rockefeller continue to move forward. The major- The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 52, Booker Johnson (SD) Sanders ity leader has procedurally put us in a nays 48, as follows: Boxer Kaine Schatz position so we can call up this measure Brown King Schumer [Rollcall Vote No. 9 Leg.] Cantwell Klobuchar again very quickly. We have to con- Shaheen YEAS—52 Cardin Landrieu tinue to work toward a solution. We Stabenow Carper Leahy Baldwin Harkin Nelson Tester have to keep the economy moving for- Baucus Heinrich Pryor Casey Levin Coons Manchin Udall (CO) ward and creating jobs. That was what Begich Heitkamp Reed Donnelly Markey Udall (NM) this was about, giving people some Blumenthal Hirono Reid Warner Booker Johnson (SD) Durbin McCaskill modest support each week. But also, as Rockefeller Warren Boxer Kaine Feinstein Menendez Sanders Whitehouse the CBO estimated, this measure, if ex- Brown King Franken Merkley Schatz Gillibrand Mikulski Wyden tended for the full year, would generate Cantwell Klobuchar Schumer Cardin Leahy Hagan Murphy 200,000 additional jobs. That is, on aver- Shaheen Carper Levin age, about what we have been creating Stabenow NAYS—45 Casey Manchin each month. In fact, I will remind my Tester Alexander Enzi Moran Coons Markey colleagues, last year’s unemployment Donnelly McCaskill Udall (NM) Ayotte Fischer Murkowski Durbin Menendez Warner Barrasso Flake Paul insurance benefits were unpaid for and Feinstein Merkley Warren Blunt Graham Portman they generated additional jobs, not Franken Mikulski Whitehouse Boozman Grassley Reid only providing benefits to people who Gillibrand Murphy Wyden Burr Hatch Risch Hagan Murray Chambliss Hoeven Roberts needed it and were searching for work Coats Inhofe Rubio but increased economic activity in the NAYS—48 Coburn Isakson Scott country, which put people to work. Cochran Johanns Sessions Alexander Enzi McConnell I hope my colleagues recognize this Ayotte Fischer Moran Collins Johnson (WI) Shelby Barrasso Flake Murkowski Corker Kirk Thune legislation they filibustered today was Bennet Graham Paul Cornyn Lee Toomey the result of significant concessions to Blunt Grassley Portman Crapo McCain Vitter Cruz McConnell Wicker many of my Republican colleagues. I Boozman Hatch Risch worked closely with my Republican Burr Heller Roberts The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this colleagues. We worked to find a way Chambliss Hoeven Rubio vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 45. Coats Inhofe Scott through this thicket so we could help Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- Coburn Isakson Sessions Americans who have earned this help. Cochran Johanns Shelby sen and sworn not having voted in the I think it is important to make clear Collins Johnson (WI) Thune affirmative, the motion is rejected. how much we moved to try to accom- Corker Kirk Toomey Mr. REID. Mr. President, I enter a Cornyn Landrieu Udall (CO) modate the major objections and con- motion to reconsider the vote by which Crapo Lee Vitter siderations of my colleagues on the Cruz McCain Wicker cloture was not invoked on S. 1845. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- other side. The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this We first proposed—and I proposed— vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 48. tion is entered. The majority leader. this as emergency spending, unpaid for. Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I appreciate We received from the other side: No, we sen and sworn not having voted in the very much my colleague, the junior can’t accept that. It has to be paid for. affirmative, the motion is rejected. Senator from Nevada, voting with us— We went ahead, and the in the first CLOTURE MOTION voting with himself. He is a cosponsor proposal we voted on today, we paid for Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays of this legislation. He and JACK REED it. We also responded to another sig- before the Senate the pending cloture have done admirably good work for the nificant concern that we not use tax motion, which the clerk will state. Senate and for the country. revenues to pay for it, so we avoided The assistant legislative clerk read Everyone should notice on the first tax revenue. as follows: matter we tried to invoke cloture on, I Next, we went ahead and we adopted CLOTURE MOTION did not enter a motion to reconsider. I a provision to pay for it, to provide for We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- did on this one. This is a 3-month un- many months, 111⁄2 months of benefits, ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the paid-for. I would hope we could get paid for without using revenues. Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move that passed sometime. If we cannot, Let me also note that this is the ex- to bring to a close debate on S. 1845, a bill to there is still an effort, I am sure, out ception to the rule. The White House, provide for the extension of certain unem- there someplace where we could find a in some of their materials, has noted ployment benefits, and for other purposes. way to work together to get these peo- that ‘‘fourteen of the last 17 times in 20 Harry Reid, Jack Reed, Amy Klobuchar, years that it’s been extended,’’ UI, Elizabeth Warren, Richard J. Durbin, ple the desperate help they need. So Sheldon Whitehouse, Edward J. Mar- that is why I did this, leaving the door ‘‘there’s been no strings attached,’’ no key, Tammy Baldwin, Patrick J. open for us to work together to try to pay-fors—emergency spending. But yet Leahy, Christopher A. Coons, Barbara come up with something. we listened to the thoughtful com- A. Mikulski, Patty Murray, Mark War- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ments of our colleagues, we worked to- ner, Mazie K. Hirono, Christopher Mur- ator from Rhode Island. gether closely with them, and we came phy, Tom Harkin, Sherrod Brown. Mr. REED. I rise to express my ex- up with a way to pay for this extension The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- treme disappointment that the Senate for 111⁄2 months and not to use tax reve- imous consent, the mandatory quorum has been blocked from moving forward nues, even though many on our side—in call has been waived. on this critical legislation. There are fact I would be among them—who The question is, Is it the sense of the about 1.5 million Americans who have would say there are egregious loop- Senate that debate on S. 1845, a bill to lost their unemployment insurance holes that should be closed regardless provide for the extension of certain un- since December 28. Every week 70,000 of what the revenue is used for but employment benefits, and for other more lose that protection, so my dis- could be used to fund these benefits. purposes, shall be brought to a close? appointment is severe. Then we have had this procedural The yeas and nays are mandatory But their situation is much more des- back-and-forth. But today Leader REID under the rule. perate. We had within our power today offered a series of amendments to the

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To get more ideas out of necessary to help these struggling work their way up, have a better life, a the laboratory and into the market, Americans. greater future, more success, and bet- this legislation improves the process We have incorporated, in fact, in our ter financial stability. for commercializing federally funded pay-for, one of the provisions Senator Unfortunately—again, at the mo- research so taxpayer-funded innova- PORTMAN suggested with respect to dis- ment, in my view—a lack of leadership tions can be turned into companies and ability payments—which was con- and partisan politics have prevented spur economic growth and job creation. troversial in some respects—but it was, action on measures that could provide Finally, Startup Act 3.0 provides new again, another attempt to try to look an immediate boost to the economy at opportunities for highly educated and at what my colleagues, on the Repub- little or no cost to the American tax- entrepreneurial immigrants to stay in lican side as well as the Democratic payer. the United States. They are here le- side, were talking about in terms of Data from the Kauffman Foundation gally now but are often told they need how we would responsibly pay for this in Kansas City makes clear that most to go home to pursue their careers, measure. new jobs come from the young compa- when we know their talent and their We have been debating this extension nies created by entrepreneurs. In fact, new ideas could fuel economic growth since December. It is time to act, and since 1980, nearly all of the net new and create American jobs. regrettably we did not act today. We jobs that have been created by compa- While there is meaningful disagree- have made concessions to try to move nies are less than 5 years old. These ment—we have plenty of disagreement forward. This was not a take-it-or- new businesses create an average of 3 about the immigration issue—there are leave-it. It has been unpaid for 14 times million jobs each year. aspects of immigration in which there before—and it would have been 15 times As of December, approximately 20.6 is broad agreement. One of the areas of now. We have to do this. And still we million Americans were unemployed, agreement is highly skilled immigra- are telling people who are in very ex- wanted to work but have stopped tion. Highly skilled immigrants not treme economic situations, who are de- searching for a job or are working part only provide the talent for growing pending on this modest $300 a week to time because they can’t find full-time companies needed to fuel further help them pay their rent, pay their unemployment. When we talk about growth and job creation, but those in- mortgage, put fuel in their car, have a the unemployment rate, it masks the dividuals tend to be very entrepre- cell phone so they can look for work, true story of people who have given up neurial. get to a job interview—telling them, looking for a job as well as those who Immigrants are now more than twice no, you are still out in the cold, lit- have a part-time job and need and de- as likely as native-born Americans to erally, and it is very cold in parts of sire a full-time job. start a business. In 2011 immigrants the country. The labor force participation rate has were responsible for more than one in We can’t give up. We are not going to reached its lowest level in 35 years. At every four U.S. business founded. give up. I am very encouraged. After a time when only 62 percent of work- In addition, immigrants are respon- talking to some of my colleagues on ing-age Americans are employed, it is sible for significant contributions to the Republican side, they still want to clear we need an economic boost pow- innovation. According to a recent work through this with us. We will ac- ered by entrepreneurship. To jump- study by the Partnership for a New cept that opportunity to work to- start the economy and create jobs for American Economy, 76 percent of pat- gether. Americans, we have put together and I ents at the top 10 patent-producing Let us remember though what is a authored bipartisan legislation called U.S. universities had at least one for- disappointing moment today for many Startup Act 3.0. eign-born inventor. of us is a dispiriting moment for mil- The Senate majority leader is often One of the best things we can do for lions of Americans who do not have the talking about the need for allowing the American economy is to welcome modest support unemployment insur- votes on legislation that has bipartisan highly skilled and entrepreneurial im- ance would provide. We have to work support, and this is a perfect example migrants. No matter what Congress for them, we have to work for our econ- of such a bill that ought to be consid- does, these individuals will continue to omy, and we can do both. In the weeks ered by the Senate. innovate and create jobs. The question ahead and the days ahead we will con- Working with Senator WARNER—my is where will they innovate and where tinue to do that. primary cosponsor of this bill—and will the jobs be created. If Congress I yield the floor. Senators COONS, KAINE, KLOBUCHAR, as makes the right choice, those jobs and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- well as Republican Senators BLUNT and that innovation will occur in the ator from Kansas. RUBIO, we introduced commonsense United States of America and build the Mr. MORAN. As we just heard, the legislation that addresses four key fac- U.S. economy and employ U.S. citizens. Senate continues to discuss and con- tors that influence an entrepreneur’s Unfortunately, there are too many sider an extension of unemployment chance for success: taxes, regulations, people in the Senate and in the Con- benefits. Many Americans certainly do innovation, and access to talent. gress in Washington, DC, who say we continue to struggle to find work in to- It has become all too common in the can’t do anything unless we do every- day’s economy. While assistance to Senate that we are denied the oppor- thing. That has prevented the passage those without work serves an impor- tunity to have a vote on things that of targeted immigration legislation tant purpose in helping Americans in many of us find common agreement on, that would boost the economic growth transition, I am fearful we are failing— and Startup Act 3.0 is one of those. In and create American jobs. That same in fact, I know we are failing—to ad- fact, I offered, along with Senator attitude prevents us from doing many dress the underlying and important WARNER, Startup Act 3.0 as an amend- things on the Senate floor, and it is root cause of that unemployment; that ment to the unemployment insurance well past time we found ways to do the is, how do we as Americans grow our extension bill. Startup Act 3.0 makes things we can agree upon and not wait economy and create jobs for the citi- commonsense changes to the Tax Code for the opportunity to do everything. zens of our country? to encourage investment in startups Let’s do the things we can while we A growing economy creates new op- and reward patient capital. To address wait and work on the chance to do big- portunities for Americans to find the burdensome government regula- ger and broader things. meaningful work. With meaningful tions, the legislation requires Federal The STEM visas we talk about seem work comes the opportunity for Ameri- agencies to determine whether the cost so important to our economy. Amer- cans to improve their economic secu- of new regulations outweigh the bene- ican businesses are projected to need

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We ab- Startup 3.0 creates an entrepreneur’s making sure they have a secure retire- solutely must do more to prepare visa for foreign-born entrepreneurs cur- ment in the future, and knowing every Americans for careers in STEM fields rently in the United States legally. day when they get up and go to work so that our country no longer has to Those individuals with a good idea, they are doing something good for rely upon talented foreign labor. But in with capital, and a willingness to hire themselves and for their families and the short term, as we work to equip American workers would be able to their country. Americans with skills for the 21st-cen- stay in the United States and grow Mr. President, we desperately need to tury economy, we need to create a their businesses here. Each immigrant work together to create an environ- pathway for highly educated foreign- entrepreneur would be required to cre- ment in which American jobs are cre- born students who are here in the ate jobs for Americans. If the business ated. No one I know really wants to be United States legally, going to school, is not successful and jobs are not cre- the recipient of an unemployment to stay in America where their ideas ated, the immigrant would have to go check. It may be necessary, but it is and talents can fuel great American back to his or her home country. not their goal. The goal is to find an economic growth. Using conservative estimates, the ennobling, meaningful job that sup- Startup 3.0 creates visas for foreign Kauffman Foundation predicts that the ports them and their family. students who graduate from an Amer- entrepreneur’s visa would generate I thank the Chair for his indulgence. ican university with a master’s or 500,000 to 1.6 million jobs over the next The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Ph.D. in science, technology, engineer- 10 years. These are real jobs with real ator from California. ing, or mathematics. These skilled economic impact that could boost Mrs. BOXER. I think it is wonderful workers would be granted conditional GDP, it is estimated, by more than 1.5 to hear the Republican Senator Mr. status contingent upon them filling a percent. These are jobs for Americans MORAN talk about job creation. It is needed gap in the U.S. workforce. desperately seeking to work here to really music to my ears, especially It may seem counterintuitive that by support their families and follow their when he talks about addressing the im- allowing highly skilled workers to dreams. portance of immigration, which clearly work in the United States, more Amer- As the Senate considers extending needs to be addressed and is clearly a icans will find work, but that is ex- unemployment insurance in the short job-creation issue. That is why I have actly what will happen. A study by the term, we must not lose sight of the been hoping Speaker BOEHNER would Partnership for a New American Econ- long-term goal—that ought to be the take up the Senate’s immigration bill, omy and the American Enterprise In- short-term, intermediate, and long- which is comprehensive; and, as Presi- stitute found that every immigrant term goal—of creating an environment dent Obama said, if you can’t do that, with a graduate degree in the United for jobs in America. There is no better bring up a series of bills and let’s get States from a U.S. university working way to create jobs than to support en- moving. in a STEM field creates 2.62 subsequent trepreneurs and to foster the develop- Believe me, I have seen every report American jobs. ment of new businesses, which are re- there is, and Senator MORAN is right— If American companies are unable to sponsible for all those net new jobs in immigration reform is necessary for us. find and hire the qualified, talented the economy. It is an economic issue. It would be an workers they need, those businesses Numerous studies demonstrate that a economic boon to our country in terms will open locations overseas. I have smarter more strategic immigration of jobs and GDP. seen examples of that too many times. policy that supports entrepreneurs and I also think it very important that When this happens, not only are those skilled immigrants can grow the econ- we not turn our backs on an American specific jobs gone—they are lost—but omy and help put Americans back to value we have had in this country since also the many supporting jobs and eco- work. Jobless Americans and U.S. busi- the 1950s in which Republicans and nomic activities associated with them nesses searching for the talent they Democrats in the Congress and Repub- are no longer here. need to expand and create jobs can no licans and Democrats in the White Even more frustrating to me is that longer afford to let the all-or-nothing House have agreed that when there is a when these highly skilled workers who approach to immigration legislation great recession and people are out of are now employed in some other coun- hold economic growth and opportunity work, they need to have unemployment try and who are entrepreneurs too have hostage. It has prevented progress on compensation, which is an insurance an idea and they found and start a important challenges facing our coun- program to keep them from falling business that may grow and create try for far too long. A far better ap- apart. This is an American value. more jobs because they couldn’t find proach would be to pass the things we We talk about bipartisanship, but employment here due to lacking the can agree upon now and keep working sometimes we just can’t seem to get necessary visa and have moved to an- to find agreement on the issues that di- there. I have looked back, and since other country, they use their entrepre- vide us. First on this list should be the the 1950s, two-thirds of the time we neurial skills and talent, and they cre- measures outlined in Startup Act 3.0. passed an extension of unemployment ate the jobs—the company—elsewhere. Other countries are realizing the compensation—many times to help So the jobs we need in this country are value of highly educated and entrepre- people the Chair has worked so hard to then outside the United States. neurial individuals in starting busi- represent, the mine workers and others This legislation also allows for an en- nesses, and they are changing their who were hit with hard times, we did so trepreneur’s visa. Immigrants to the laws to welcome then. The United in a bipartisan way—and two-thirds of United States have a long history of States cannot afford to turn a blind the time with no pay-for. Since 1958, creating businesses in America. Today, eye to global competition. If we fail to two-thirds of the time we extended it 1 in every 10 Americans employed at a act, we risk losing the next generation with no pay-for. privately owned U.S. company works of great entrepreneurs, and the jobs Under George W. Bush we extended at an immigrant-owned firm. Of the they will create will be in foreign coun- unemployment compensation—the ex- current Fortune 500 companies, more tries, not in the United States, and we tended unemployment compensation than 40 percent were founded by a first- risk continuing another month in paid for by the Federal Government— or second-generation American. which 20.6 million Americans remain three times with no pay-for because it So my question to my colleagues is, without meaningful work. was an emergency. And we did it even Why would we want to leave an immi- Work is an ennobling feature of life. though in those days deficits were rag- gration system in place that discour- Jobs matter, and this Congress and this ing. ages entrepreneurs from coming to our President have failed miserably, in my Here we have cut the deficit in half, country, investing their own money, view, to carry out one of our primary and we don’t like that. We want to cut and creating jobs here and strength- responsibilities—to create an environ- it more. I want to see it balanced. But

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Marine Corps veteran and the mother We have had this American value We are talking about 1.5 million Amer- of two, Smith says: Work is hard to since the 1950s. Yet, for the first time I icans—250,000 Californians. I am frank- come by. They can’t move because her can tell, we had one party—with the ly stunned. husband, a vet of the Afghanistan-Iraq exception of one person—vote lockstep I know Senator MIKULSKI is here, and wars, must remain near the combat against extending unemployment com- I so much want to hear from her, so I center until he is discharged in July. pensation to hard-working Americans will skip some of the other history Listen to this: who are looking for work every week, about how it has been over the years I have to keep the house at 55 degrees even 1 every day. And I have their stories, and how we have done this where we though I have two little girls, ages 2 ⁄2 and 11⁄2. which I am going to put in the RECORD. have come together, Republicans and They have turned their backs on 1.5 Democrats. We have extended unem- That is what she told the L.A. Times million Americans—in my State, ployment compensation benefits more in December. How do my Republican friends—ex- 250,000 people. times under Republican Presidents cept for the one who voted with us at Now, here is the thing—and I don’t than under Democratic Presidents, and like to come and make these speeches, the end of the day—look themselves in Democrats didn’t stand there and say: the mirror and think about this coura- but the facts speak for themselves. Gee, there is a Republican in the White Leader REID, the majority leader, just geous woman whose family put their House. Maybe this will help him look life on the line for the country and who offered a very important deal in broad good or maybe this will add two-tenths daylight to the Republicans. And I am is freezing in their home, because they of 1 percent to the GDP. Maybe we bet- are playing parliamentary games on going to make a parliamentary in- ter say no. quiry, if I might, Mr. President. process? No. We said yes because we are a Last, Cindy Snow of Beaumont: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without party that believes people need to keep objection, it is so ordered. Why are they using us as pawns? They’re hearth and home together. playing games with people’s lives. Mrs. BOXER. Here it is. Is it true The long-term unemployment rate is Referring to politicians in Wash- that Majority Leader REID offered the twice as high as it was at any other ington. That appeared in Bloomberg Republicans five related amendments time when these extended benefits were News. to the unemployment compensation allowed to expire. There are almost bill, those amendments to be of their Laura Walker, a 63-year-old paralegal, has three unemployed people for every job been looking for work since January, when own choosing? Is that correct? opening nationwide. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- she was laid off from a California law firm. I am going to close with a few little She counted on $450 a week in federal unem- ator is correct. stories from my constituents because Mrs. BOXER. Is it further true that ployment benefits for help that have now run one has to hear the voices of people. In out. he offered Democrats five related this Senate, we should be representing ‘‘Not all of us have savings and a lot of us amendments of their own choosing? have to take care of family because of what The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is the middle class and the working poor of this country. We should be fighting happened in the economy,’’ said Walker, of correct. Santa Clarita, who said she has applied for a Mrs. BOXER. Is it further correct for them because, guess what, everyone least three jobs a week and shares an apart- that he also said each side could offer else benefits. The billionaires and mil- ment with her unemployed son, his wife and an additional five amendments as side- lionaires are doing fine. They do better two children. ‘‘It’s going to put my family by-sides, if they wanted to, of their when we have a strong middle class. and me out on the streets.’’ own choosing? Is that correct? The Presiding Officer is a fighter for That is from the Bloomberg News of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- economic justice, and I know this sta- December 30, 2013 ator is correct. tistic is something the Senator has Cindy Snow, of Beaumont, CA, lost her job Mrs. BOXER. Is it also true that he probably used many times. But the fact as a social worker in April when the San offered time agreements of 1 hour per is that 450 families are worth more Bernardino school system terminated the amendment and then to be followed by than 150 million Americans. I can guar- child-care program where she worked. Her passage of the bill? antee you, those 450 families are just husband, employed in the construction in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- fine and their children and their grand- dustry, has been without a job since 2009. children and their children’s children’s They have been relying on assistance from ator is correct. the California Housing Finance Agency to Mrs. BOXER. OK. The reason I want- children. And good for them. Fine. But cover a $1,424-a-month payment on their ed to put this in the record in a simple what about the people who are now cut home. way is because sometimes when we off at the knees because they are not When she loses her unemployment bene- have the back-and-forth and the ‘‘I ob- getting $300 a week to live? Here is one fits, she said, the family will no longer qual- ject’’ and ‘‘reserving the right to ob- of them. One woman wrote to me: ify for the housing assistance. ‘‘Why are they ject,’’ people lose track of exactly what I am 58 years old and am receiving unem- using us as pawns? They’re playing games happened. ployment benefits for the first time in my with people’s lives,’’ Snow said, referring to politicians in Washington. We offered the Republicans every- life. I am currently receiving my first federal thing they said they wanted. They extension. This is also from Bloomberg News of wanted amendments. They were offered Which, by the way, she has now been December 30, 2013 amendments of their own choosing. Up cut off from. Ethelyn Holmes, a software engineer who lives in Mission Hills, is one of 18,720 San to 20 amendments could have been I was laid off because the non-profit I was Diego County residents about to lose the working for lost a major portion of its state voted on under the agreement. They weekly payments. Holmes said her $450 funding. said they wanted pay-fors. We gave weekly unemployment payment goes to food, them a pay-for that actually came out Getting unemployment benefits is not pre- venting me from looking for work. In fact, dental insurance and other living necessities. Holmes, in her 40s, said she’s tried zeal- of PAUL RYAN’s budget, a structural people getting extended unemployment bene- 1 ously to find work. She’s joined the Project change that would have paid for 10 ⁄2 fits are required to prove that they’re look- Management Institute of San Diego, volun- months of unemployment benefits. The ing for work. I spend hours every week fill- teered, attended meetings, cold called and Republicans just can’t say yes. They ing out applications and posting my resume written letters. Now, she said she’d like to without results. demanded amendments. We gave them find a retraining program to help her become amendments. They demanded pay-fors. And then she says to me: more marketable. ‘‘. . . I have not been sit- We gave them pay-fors. Tell me, how am I, and thousands like me ting here watching soap operas,’’ she said. ‘‘I I believe something else is going on, supposed to pay rent and eat? I agree that would go to work tomorrow, or today. I real- and I have to say what I think is going Washington should ‘‘focus on job creation’’ ly am tired of this.’’

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What a hard job she had to sit total spending for the Federal Govern- job applications—all to no avail. down and negotiate an appropriations ‘‘I want a job, I want to work,’’ said Swan- ment—mandatory spending and then son whose daughter and son-in-law live with bill, an omnibus bill which covers ev- discretionary spending. We who are ap- him and pay rent to help him keep up the erything we do. It was so hard. But she propriators handle all of the accounts mortgage on the house he owns. ‘‘As a tax- did it in the right spirit of bipartisan- for discretionary spending. Guess what. payer, I paid into the system for a lot of ship. So did her colleague, whom she The Budget Committee puts a cap on years. For them to just shut it off and say, dealt with and had to deal with, Con- us, and that is great. It is a way that ‘These people need to get weaned off and get gressman ROGERS. As a result, we are we actually have a cap on spending a job’—well, yeah, I need to get a job. But for going to do something good here and that everybody knows and everybody them to suggest that I just go get welfare or give stability to the American people. go get food stamps—that’s why I’m frus- voted for. trated with the Republican Party. They just Why can’t that same spirit of co- So we have a cap by law on discre- don’t get it.’’ operation take over when we have of- tionary spending of $1.012 trillion for fered the Republicans everything they That is from the Fresno Bee of Janu- fiscal year 2014. The work of our 12 wanted in order to get them to vote for ary 2, 2014. committees stayed within that cap, unemployment compensation? I am and yet we spent the money to meet In addition to helping people get by distressed about it, and we will keep certain areas. We met compelling while they look for jobs, extending un- fighting on this issue. needs. We certainly preserved national employment insurance will help the I yield the floor. security. We looked out for our human economy. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. WAR- capital, particularly our children in A new study by the Council of Eco- REN). The Senator from Maryland. terms of education, and also invested nomic Advisers and the U.S. Depart- CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT OF 2014 in physical capital—improving infra- ment of Labor estimates that extend- Ms. MIKULSKI. Madam President, I structure—and also the long-range ing unemployment insurance will pre- rise today to speak on the Consolidated needs of our country by putting public vent the loss of 240,000 jobs in 2014, in- Appropriations Act of 2014. But before I investments into important research cluding 46,441 in California. make those comments, I wish to asso- and development by $1 billion more in CBO has said that another year-long ciate myself with the remarks of the NIH. extension would add two-tenths of a Senator from California Mrs. BOXER We also met the mandate of the percent to our GDP. and also the Senator from Rhode Island American people who told us: Work to- CBO has found that when unemploy- Mr. JACK REED and also all of those gether. Be bipartisan. Work across the ment is high, extending unemployment who voted to move forward where we aisle and work across the dome. And insurance is one of the most cost-effec- continue to provide an economic safety we did it. They also said: When the bill tive ways to grow the economy and net for those people who have lost their comes up, don’t do it with brinkman- create jobs. job and are actively looking for work, ship and don’t do it with showmanship. This will help us reduce our deficit in and to continue this economic and so- Get the job done in a commonsense the long term. Already, our annual def- cial contract which has been part of way which promotes growth in our icit has been cut in half. For 2009, when the way Americans respond to help country but yet at the same time looks President Obama took office, it was other Americans at a time when they at reducing debt. $1.4 trillion. For 2013 it was $680 billion, are down but they shouldn’t feel as They said: Don’t do showdown poli- and for 2014 the forecast is only $560 though they are out. I hope we could tics. And we won’t. We will pass it be- billion. put party rancor aside and look at cause we have met our deadline. We are making progress, and extend- commonsense ways to move this bill They said: Don’t put government on ing unemployment benefits will help us forward. autopilot with something called those grow our GDP and reduce our deficit In terms of the so-called pay-fors, I continuing funding resolutions. We even more. have been here a long time. I have don’t do that either. Every one of our So I say to my colleagues, the answer never seen this pay-for before on unem- 12 subcommittees is in this comprehen- is obvious. Stop blocking this bill. It ployment compensation, particularly sive bill. will save jobs, grow the economy, and for a 90-day bill. We are talking about We dealt with difficult and divisive provide help to our families while they 90 days, and we are already in the mid- policy issues, but we did it with dili- get on their feet. dle of January. I hope the two leaders gence and determination. And, I must There are a lot of games played can come together and we can resolve add, we tried to promote an atmos- around here, and sometimes it is time this. phere of civility as we did it. It was to call the bluff of the people who are On another topic, I wish to report to tense and it was intense. But at the end playing cruel games. Leader REID the Senate some very good news. I rise of the day, we did work pinpointing called the bluff of my friends on the today as the chair of the Appropria- how to do the job rather than finger- other side. He said: You want amend- tions Committee, and I wish to an- pointing at each other. As I said, nego- ments? You got them. You want to pay nounce that the Consolidated Appro- tiations were conducted that way. for this extension? We have done it. priations Act of 2014 has completed all Our House Appropriations Committee What did they do? They walked away. its work in the committee process. We chairman—Mr. HAL ROGERS, the gen- And who is suffering? People like the have completed our conference and it tleman from Kentucky—and I forged people I just told you about, ordinary has been filed in the House and should this agreement, along with ranking folks who want nothing more than to be considered in the House and Senate members, my vice chairman Senator get a decent job, who are caught in a this week. What does that mean? SHELBY of Alabama and in the House situation where we are recovering from First of all, our Appropriations Com- Congresswoman LOWEY of New York. the worst recession since the Great De- mittee has met the test of the Con- We didn’t do it alone. There was bipar- pression. And this is what we give stitution. Article 1, section 9 of the tisan agreement of all the sub- them, a bunch of gobbledygook about: I Constitution directs that there be an committee chairs and over 50 Members wanted more of my amendments so I Appropriations Committee, although it of the House and the Senate. can be proud and offer amendments. is not referred to by name, and that We met a very stringent deadline. There is a time and a place for fili- every year we review the annual spend- When we left here on December 20, we busters, even though they do far too ing of the Federal Government and had to produce a bill by January 15. many. There is a time and a place to vote upon it. That is tomorrow. That is when the

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Chair of the Appropriations Com- were as thin as I am stretched, because Their COLAs were mistakenly reduced mittee, who not only understands the we really worked at it. Over the holi- by 1 percent in the recent budget issues in a major piece of legislation, days our staffs and our subcommittee agreement. This bill, the Consolidated from science to space to technology to chairmen worked. The only time they Appropriations Act of 2014, fixes that defense to homeland security to edu- took off was Christmas Eve and Christ- problem. cation, and really keeps so much of mas Day. So we thank each and every It is limited in scope. It is limited to that in her mind and her heart, but she one of them for their dedication. disabled military retirees and sur- also can explain this important bill to As I said, this bill required very dif- vivors of departed servicemembers— us in a way that everyone can under- ficult choices. It meant give and take. the neediest of the needy. We hope, as stand. It meant more giving on both sides, be- time moves on, there is a Presidential The Senator from Maryland is truly cause there were no big takes. and DOD commission on pension re- a champion and a treasure in the Sen- We worked under a very tight budget, form at DOD, and we will have a com- ate. Before she leaves the floor I want $1 trillion. It sounds like a lot of prehensive approach and do it. But I to acknowledge her extraordinary lead- money, and it is. But of the $1 trillion, want our colleagues to know we were ership. It is a very tough time to find $600 billion was in the Department of very mindful of these veterans. So we common ground, but she has found it Defense. The other $300 billion was in did this fix for military retirees of with her Republican colleagues. I hope discretionary spending for all of the do- working age who were disabled or sur- we can get this bill through the floor of mestic agencies. It comes out to like vivors of departed servicemembers, but the Senate in the next 2 or 3 days. Let me say for one moment how im- 620 and 380, but those are the rough we also did something else. portant it is to pass this extraordinary numbers. If you go to the Web site in the appropriations bill, which many of us So we did meet our national security House, which has the most detail be- have been working on for over a year, needs, but we also were very mindful. I cause it is pending there—it will come literally, in public hearings and meet- was particularly mindful of the social up in the Senate when it moves here ings, negotiating with our Republican contract with the American people. I tomorrow—we really put money into colleagues. Of course, in the last month wanted to have a bill to help create veterans health care. We put money these high-level negotiations have been jobs in this country, not make-work into fixing the veterans disability going on. We hope to be on that bill but real work, in rebuilding our phys- backlog. I know the Senator from Mas- sometime tomorrow. Leader REID has ical infrastructure on roads and bridges sachusetts believes that when you are and clean water. I also wanted to look expressed that we will not be leaving on the front lines you should not have for the break next week without get- ahead to the long-range needs of our to wait at the back of the line if you ting that work done. country, in research and discoveries, are a wounded warrior to get your dis- I am prepared—all of us are here—to and not only win the Nobel prizes but ability benefits determined. So we handle that business. But there is an- win the markets. We expanded our pushed for those reforms, and we put other piece of legislation of which, commercial service office to help us the taxpayers’ dollars behind them be- Madam President, you have been a co- promote exports overseas, accelerating cause we knew that is the way they sponsor, and Senator HOEVEN, who is manufacturing institutes where gov- would want us to spend their money. on the floor, has been an extraordinary ernment could work with this new We also maintained the veterans edu- leader on, and that is to fix our well-in- emerging dynamic, small-scale manu- cation budget because many of our tended but disastrous flood insurance facturing. I have lost over 12 percent of young men and women coming back program referred to as Biggert-Waters, manufacturing in my State, so manu- home who served so well over there which was passed a year ago with very facturing is important. need to brush up on education here to good intentions, but it has had disas- We wanted to make sure that fami- move them to jobs here. trous consequences in Massachusetts, lies felt they had a government that is I hope in voting for this bill people South Dakota, Louisiana, Texas, Mon- on their side—first of all, helping with realize it is a vote to support our most tana, and in Pennsylvania. school safety—and we have a bipar- vulnerable patriots, to make sure we This is not a coastal issue. This is an tisan program in here to promote keep our promises to our veterans, and issue that affects millions of Ameri- school safety—but at the same time to that we also look at the comprehensive cans owning their own homes, their promote quality childcare and early bill that we have moved ahead without primary homes, and business owners— childhood education. We then made rancor, without roar, and we stayed solidly middle-class people who do not those kinds of investments, all with an within the budget parameters given to live anywhere near a beach and people eye to getting value for taxpayers. us on a bipartisan agreement. whose homes have never flooded. Our colleagues were very clear, and The House will consider this agree- They found themselves, because of so were the American people: We have ment this week. They have sent us over the unintended consequences of this to have a more frugal eye. I instructed a 3-day extension so we could complete well-intentioned law, in a terrible cir- my colleagues on the Senate side: Let’s our work. I hope we pass it. I would cumstance in which they may actually look at those programs which are like it to pass tonight or certainly to- lose their home and lose their business. dated, duplicative, or dysfunctional. morrow. We will be on the floor for We can fix that. The great news is we They get a D: dated, duplicative, and ample debate on this bill, and I look have a bill that is being led by Senator dysfunctional. We were able to elimi- forward to answering some questions. MENENDEZ from New Jersey and Sen- nate many of them, and we will be But at the end of the day, when all is ator ISAKSON from Georgia. It is truly back at it next year doing a scrub. If said and done—in this institution often bipartisan. We have almost 30 cospon- you notice, there is no atmosphere of more is said rather than done—you will sors in the Senate. While it has been crisis. know we did get it done. I will have difficult to find common ground, we The other thing that I am proud of in more to say about it when the bill have worked very hard to find it. I am this bill is that we avoided contentious comes to the floor. here on the floor to say to our knowl- policy riders. I think we have been able I yield the floor. edge we have pretty much worked out to deal with those in a way where they The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- most of the objections on all sides. would not be a problem for the other ator from Louisiana. We think there might be amend- side of the aisle. Ms. LANDRIEU. Madam President, I ments that are wanted to be offered by However, there was one item wrong thank my colleagues from Minnesota Senator TOOMEY, Senator COBURN, Sen- or one technical mistake in the Budget and North Dakota who are on the floor. ator CRAPO, and on our side Senator

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:45 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G14JA6.039 S14JAPT1 tjames on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with SENATE S318 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 14, 2014 HAGAN and Senator MERKLEY. We are The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Here is a letter from a commissioner working through that now. ator from Utah. in Piute County, UT. This commis- The amendment of Senator BLUNT we Mr. LEE. Madam President, I ask sioner states: believe can be incorporated into the unanimous consent that the order for PILT not being funded in 2014 will have a bill. The amendment of Senator the quorum call be rescinded. devastating impact on all counties in the TESTER can be incorporated into the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without West, but it is particularly devastating to a base of the bill with no harm to the un- objection, it is so ordered. county the size of Piute. With 74 percent of OMNIBUS SPENDING PACKAGE Piute County under Federal control, $225,000 derlying balance of the bill. of our $1 million budget—almost one- I come to the floor to say to every- Mr. LEE. Madam President, I stand fourth—comes in the form of PILT payments one, we are really making progress. We before this body today to talk about from the Federal Government. Without this could work on these few amendments the omnibus spending package the Sen- funding, we will be in the midst of one of the in the next hour, and the leaders might ate will be considering over the next biggest disasters to hit Piute County in be able to ask unanimous consent for few days. I have some concerns related years. us to get on this bill in the morning to this omnibus spending package that We have been scraping and scraping to try relate to a program called PILT. It is to figure out how to fund a fourth deputy and actually finish it before we go on sheriff in our county and thought we had it appropriations. If everyone will cooper- an acronym with which most Ameri- figured out until this $225,000 evaporated ate just a little bit more on this, we cans and probably even most Members from our county’s revenue. could have several amendments and of Congress are not familiar. It stands At the present time it is virtually impos- limit the time to 30 minutes of debate for payment in lieu of taxes. sible to staff all of the police, search and res- The program was developed to help cue, and emergency services we need. With on each amendment. We would end up this cut, it will be impossible. with about 6 or so amendments, and we those States, including my home State The Piute County commissioner con- could fit this into tomorrow morning’s of Utah, in which the vast majority of tinues: work. the land is owned by the Federal Gov- That is my hope. If we do not, then ernment. Beside me is a map of the We will be forced to abandon services, in- United States. In red we can see all of cluding all services on public lands. It will be we are going to have to stay here, I sad to have our public lands left without po- think, even after the appropriations the land that is owned by the Federal Government. As we can see by looking lice, search and rescue, and emergency serv- bill to get this. I don’t know about you, ices. I think it is critical to understand that Madam Chair, but I just cannot go at the map, most of the land west of the loss of PILT funding cuts clear to the the Rocky Mountains—more than 50 home again without getting this fixed. bone and will be devastating to counties percent, in fact—is owned by the Fed- We have been working on this pa- such as Piute. eral Government. Very little of the tiently. We have had hearings. We have Now, some argue—some insist when land east of the Rocky Mountains is, had meetings. We have had press con- faced with arguments such as these— by contrast, owned by the Federal Gov- ferences. We have a coalition of over that this is all OK and we can just wait ernment. 200 organizations. to make PILT funding available, that Being from a public land State pre- we will make it available through an- We have worked with the House in sents some interesting, very signifi- strong partnership. They will be ready other legislative vehicle we will sup- cant, very substantial challenges. posedly pass later this year. In fact, to act when they get back on our bill. Among those challenges is the fact If we can get a strong vote of 70 Sen- some of these same people maintain that the Federal Government has that we will make it better, we will ators—which we are hoping for, maybe deemed this land, has legislated this more—that will send a very strong sig- make it automatic, we will make it land as being beyond the ability, be- mandatory spending when we actually nal to the House of Representatives. yond the authority of States and their This bill has no score—a zero cost to do this later this year. political subdivisions—including coun- It is true that between 2008 and 2013 this bill, zero. It doesn’t repeal ties and local taxing jurisdictions—be- PILT was funded through a mandatory Biggert-Waters, it postpones it until yond the ability of the States and their spending mechanism. That has now ex- we can fix it, and it gives us the impe- subdivisions to tax. So we can’t collect pired. But it is important to remember tus to fix it. property tax revenue from any of that that there is nothing mutually exclu- Let’s work hard in the next hour or land. As a result, a lot of our commu- sive about these ideas; no reason why so. I really thank Senator ISAKSON for nities in public land States are impov- we can’t go ahead and fund PILT now working so hard—the Senator from erished—at least impoverished relative with discretionary spending and then Georgia—for trying to clear the objec- to what they might otherwise face. adopt something later to restore the tions that are on his side, and Senator They are impoverished relative to what mandatory nature of funding for PILT. MENENDEZ and his staff for working on their ability would be to collect rev- We can fund PILT now in this bill, and our side. enue through property taxes in public then we can make it mandatory later. I yield the floor. land States. We can and we should. This would give The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- For that reason, this PILT Program States and counties the certainty they ator from North Dakota. was created to try to offset—at least to need, the certainty they have been Mr. HOEVEN. Madam President, I some degree—the heavy cost, the dis- waiting for, the certainty that will thank the Senator from Louisiana for proportionate burden that is placed on allow them, finally, to plan their budg- her work on the flood insurance bill. I the shoulders of public land States and ets. am pleased to join her in that effort. It communities. Remember, for many of these coun- is very important. I hope we do have an So each year Congress funds this pro- ties, such as Piute County, UT, PILT is opportunity to address that this week. gram, and that program then partially a substantial portion of their annual We will continue to do all we can to offsets the lack of property tax revenue revenue stream. It is about one-fourth help in that endeavor. Again, I thank flowing through these public land of the money that Piute County, UT, her for all her work on that very im- States and communities. has to spend every single year. portant legislation. Here is the problem I wish to focus Importantly, I offered an amendment (The remarks of Mr. HOEVEN and Ms. on today: The omnibus spending pack- to last year’s budget that would build a KLOBUCHAR pertaining to the introduc- age we are considering this week con- deficit-neutral reserve fund to make tion of S. 1925 are located in today’s tains no funding for PILT—no funding sure PILT continued to be fully funded. RECORD under ‘‘Statements on Intro- whatsoever. This is potentially dev- That amendment passed. Unfortu- duced Bills and Joint Resolutions.’’) astating to public land States, includ- nately, the fact that it passed has ap- Mr. HOEVEN. Madam President, I ing Utah, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, parently not been enough to make sure yield the floor, and I suggest the ab- and many other States, especially it continued to be funded. sence of a quorum. those throughout the West. The prob- Now we have a major funding bill be- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The lem is that America’s public land fore us. This spending bill occupies no clerk will call the roll. States and counties can’t wait any fewer than 1,582 pages. It spends in ex- The legislative clerk proceeded to longer. This program must be funded, cess of $1.1 trillion. Yet PILT still isn’t call the roll. and it must be funded in this bill. funded.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:45 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G14JA6.041 S14JAPT1 tjames on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with SENATE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S319 It is important to point out that even One of the delegates to the Federal land within a sovereign State’s terri- if we do the right thing and even if we Convention of 1787, Elbridge Gerry, the torial boundaries, that it owns that fully fund PILT in this program this delegate from Massachusetts, stood be- land just as any other proprietor would year, the PILT Program is itself still fore the Convention and made an as- own it; that is, subject to the authority not adequate. It is still in need of re- tute observation. Mr. Gerry said as fol- of the State and its political subdivi- form. PILT payments are quite insuffi- lows. He expressed concerns that ‘‘this sions to tax and regulate that land, un- cient. power’’—that is, the power of Congress less or until such time as the host PILT was intended to soften the eco- over Federal public lands—‘‘might be State’s legislative body parts with that nomic impact associated with the Fed- made use of to enslave any particular bundle of sovereign rights relative to eral Government owning so much of State by buying up its territory, and that land. In other words, the State re- the land in the United States. In the that the strongholds proposed would be tains its taxing power over that land case of Piute County, it is about three- a means of awing the State into an unless or until it voluntarily relin- fourths of the land. It is about two- undue obedience to the General Gov- quishes it, gives it up, hands it over to thirds of the land throughout the State ernment.’’ the Federal Government. Yet, in nearly of Utah. In some counties in Utah, it is Then, as now, wise observations often all instances where you see red on this well in excess of 90, sometimes 95 per- came from the State of Massachusetts. map, that has not occurred. cent of the land in a county. PILT was Then, as now, we have a grave risk as- Many of these States have been con- designed to soften that economic im- sociated with the fact that when the tent with the fact that they have been pact. But, regrettably, the Federal Federal Government owns this much receiving PILT funds, however inad- Government gives States, through the land, the Federal Government has this equate those PILT funds may be. But PILT Program, what amounts to in much power. It was on the minds of the now even those are going away. Even if many instances only pennies on the delegates to the Convention of 1787 there is a promise that they might be dollar of what the taxing jurisdictions that one of the things they needed to restored later—later this year—they would receive if they were to tax that protect against was the concentration are still inadequate, and we still do not land, if they were to collect taxes— of too much power in the hands of a have the promise that is going to occur even if they were to collect those taxes few, especially the concentration of too now. There is still a lot of uncertainty at the lowest property tax rate, let’s much power within the Federal Gov- in a lot of parts of the country—in say the Greenbelt rate in many coun- ernment. Each of them had a mission places such as Piute County, UT, and ties. We must correct that imbalance. to protect the sovereignty of their re- elsewhere within my State and else- In the coming days I plan to intro- spective States. And they understood where within the western United duce legislation to begin the process of that if Congress had too much power to States. doing precisely that. After all, it simply buy up too much land in any In order to protect against this kind makes no sense to have a program that one State—disproportionately in some of concern, the kind of concern that some would argue is deceptively enti- States—the Federal Government would the delegate from Massachusetts de- tled ‘‘Payment In Lieu of Taxes’’ if, in have too much influence within that scribed on September 5, 1787, Congress fact, the payment in lieu of taxes State. adopted a practice, when admitting doesn’t even closely approximate the I would ask you, when you look at new States into the Union, of incor- value that counties would receive if this map I have in the Chamber, does porating language into the enabling they were actually allowed to tax that that look equitable? Does that look act for each new State, describing what land and collect that revenue as taxes. like an equitable distribution of Fed- would happen to public land within the If an American citizen, a U.S. tax- eral land ownership? We have to keep new State’s boundaries after statehood. payer, for example, decided to adopt in mind that, just as there are benefits They adopted this practice and this his or her own PILT Program and on associated with some of our public language that would be used each time April 15 of each year just sent a check lands, there are also burdens attached a new State was admitted into the to the IRS saying: These are not my to those benefits. When you look at Union. taxes, but this is my payment in lieu of those burdens, it is difficult to say any- That language was included in Utah’s taxes; I am just paying what I feel like thing other than that they are dis- statehood enabling legislation—legisla- paying, that would cause problems. proportionately allocated into a cer- tion that was adopted about 18 months The taxpayer in question would prob- tain region of the United States. They before Utah finally came into the ably end up in prison. In any event, it are overwhelmingly located within the Union in January of 1896. wouldn’t end well for the taxpayer. Yet Rocky Mountains and areas west of the Section 9 of Utah’s enabling legisla- we have allowed the Federal Govern- Rocky Mountains. tion says that public land located with- ment to get away with this over and So to the extent these benefits ben- in the State, lying within the State of over, often to the detriment of vulner- efit everyone in the United States, Utah, ‘‘shall be sold by the United able communities, of poor commu- then the burdens ought to be shared by States subsequent to the admission of nities, of communities that rely on the everyone in the United States as well. said State into the Union. . . . ’’ Add- Federal Government’s unsteady stream Yet they are not. PILT, again, is woe- ing to that, section 9 of Utah’s ena- of revenue—a stream of revenue that, fully inadequate as it is. But now Con- bling legislation said that 5 percent of insufficient as it is already, is now gress is trying to withdraw funding for the proceeds from the sale of that land being threatened altogether. PILT. Even though some may say: would be given to the State and would In a sense the problem we face with Well, we will fund it later this year, we be held in a trust fund by that State the Federal Government owning all have no guarantee of that, and we for the benefit of the State’s public this land is not new. It is a problem should be funding it right now. education system. that has been around for a long time. As an interesting side note, in re- So, as I mentioned, Utah was not the In many respects it was a problem en- sponse to Elbridge Gerry’s concern on first State to have that kind of lan- visioned by some of the Founding Fa- September 5, 1787, the Founding Fa- guage in its enabling legislation. Many thers. In fact, we can go all the way thers put a qualifying clause into arti- of the States that were admitted into back to the Constitutional Convention cle I, section 8, clause 17. They said the Union much earlier than Utah had of 1787 and see that it was on the minds that Congress’s plenary legislative ju- similar language in their enabling acts. of some of the Founding Fathers. risdiction over Federal public land Missouri had such language. North Da- On September 5, 1787, at the Con- lying within a sovereign State’s bound- kota had such language. We could stitutional Convention they were dis- aries would exist and could be exer- name State after State after State that cussing the public land-related authori- cised only if that land—the land in had such language. ties in the Constitution, including the question—was acquired by the consent When you look at Missouri, when you authority that has now been included of the host State’s legislature. look at North Dakota, and when you in what is often referred to as the en- Some have suggested that this may look at most of the other States that clave clause—article I, section 8, clause well mean that when the Federal Gov- had language such as that in their ena- 17. ernment owns land, when it acquires bling acts, you see very little Federal

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Holding on perhaps has to stop. ernment owns much, most or in some to a few parcels here and there that it In the meantime, it is vitally impor- cases nearly all of the land and where deemed necessary for one reason or an- tant that we focus on the issues at needs are at their very greatest. other, it made good on that promise. hand, that we focus, at a bare min- The program is already broken. The Those States benefited. The Federal imum, on promises that the Federal program is already causing millions Treasury benefited. The American peo- Government has extended in lieu of the and millions of Americans to suffer. ple benefited. other promises. That is not to say we The program is already severely imped- It is important to remember that are going to forget about the promises ing economic opportunity for Ameri- what we are talking about here—when made in the statehood enabling acts. cans, deepening the existing crisis of you see all this red on the map, rep- We are not. But, for the moment, my opportunity that we have in this coun- resenting Federal land ownership—is attention remains focused on making try, which manifests itself on three dif- not about national parks. National sure we fund the PILT Program. It has ferent levels: immobility among the parks represent a very tiny percentage to be funded. In fact, it has to be fund- poor, insecurity among the middle of Federal land ownership. We are not ed even more than it has been in the class, and cronyist privilege at the top. talking about national monuments, past. It ought to reflect at least a If you live in one of these States, it which also represents a very tiny per- rough equivalent of the amount of might be great if you are one of those centage of Federal land ownership. money the taxing jurisdiction could people who owns one of the few parcels What we are talking about in the con- collect if it were taxing that land at its of land that is not owned by the Fed- text of the PILT program are lands lowest rate. And, at a bare minimum, eral Government. It is not so great if that are managed by the U.S. Bureau even below that, we have to make sure you live in one of the areas where the of Land Management, an agency that is the program continues to exist. We Federal Government owns basically ev- considered obscure, almost unheard of have to make sure the program is fund- erything, where you can do very little throughout most of the United States, ed at least at its current levels. This is anywhere around you without permis- but an agency that operates with a par- not asking much. But it is necessary sion from the Federal Government, ticularly dominant force in States such that we do this. where your local government is barely as mine, where you see a lot of red on The broken PILT Program is, one able to survive because it lacks a prop- the map. could argue, just another example of erty tax base, and the Federal Govern- I remember the first time I showed government applying significant and ment fails to adequately fund PILT and this map to my children, my daughter unnecessary weight to the shoulders of threatens—in this circumstance—to Eliza, who was about 8 years old at the hard-working Americans, many of withdraw funding from PILT alto- time, was just barely old enough to un- whom are struggling just to get by, gether. derstand what I was explaining to her. many of whom are barely able to keep I respectfully implore all of my col- I told her that the red indicated owner- food on the table for their families, leagues to consider the inequities in- ship of land by our national govern- others of whom are able to provide for herent in this map, the inequities in- ment. And 8-year-old Eliza looked at the day-to-day needs of their families herent in the PILT Program, and, for that portion of the map that rep- but they are worried about what hap- present purposes, to remember we need resented our State, and she said: Look, pens next. They find that whenever to fund PILT. dad, they own Utah. I said: You’re they find a little bit of additional in- It has to be reformed, absolutely, and right, Eliza, they own Utah. They cer- come, no sooner have they earned it we have to examine our Federal land tainly own the overwhelming majority than they find it has been swallowed ownership and management policies of it. up—swallowed up by increasing taxes, more broadly. Today we need to focus Some of us have not forgotten this swallowed up by higher prices for goods on making sure PILT is funded. promise made in the statehood ena- and for services, and they do not know I yield the floor and I suggest the ab- bling acts of most of the States admit- how to get out of this rut in which they sence of a quorum. ted into the Union, and yet Congress find themselves somewhat trapped. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The seems to be determined to overlook it. These are the kinds of people who suf- clerk will call the roll. I am determined not to let that hap- fer the most as a result of the Federal The legislative clerk proceeded to pen. Some of my friends back in Utah Government’s failed policies relative to call the roll. are likewise determined not to let that its Federal public land. Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Madam President, happen. We have to remember that lifting I ask unanimous consent that the order A good friend of mine, Representa- these weights is not only within the for the quorum call be rescinded. tive Ken Ivory, who serves in the Utah government’s power, it is the affirma- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without State legislature, has done an amazing tive obligation of government to lift objection, it is so ordered. job educating people throughout Utah those weights. In an 1861 address to IRAN and, in fact, across America on this Congress, President Abraham Lincoln Mrs. FEINSTEIN. I come to the floor very subject, on what happened with said the ‘‘leading object’’ of American this evening to discuss an issue of na- these statehood enabling acts, and why government was ‘‘to elevate the condi- tional security, and that is how to pre- it is that States in the western United tion of men—to lift artificial weights vent a nuclear armed Iran. States got left behind when it came to from all shoulders, to clear the paths of I was thinking about our troubled promises made long ago by the Federal laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an history with Iran and whether more Government. I commend Representa- unfettered start and a fair chance, in sanctions at this time makes sense for tive Ivory for his work on this issue the race of life.’’ our national security interests, and I and pledge to continue working with Current PILT policy imposes govern- asked myself these questions: him on this important project. ment waste that makes it more dif- Can, in fact, a country like Iran You see, this is about much more ficult for communities to provide im- change? than land. This is about the ability of portant services such as schools, po- Is it possible for an isolated regime local communities not only to thrive, lice, and fire departments. It hampers to rejoin the community of nations and but to survive. This is about commu- the ability of States to budget, plan, change its behavior after several dec- nities where it is very difficult for peo- and provide for infrastructure improve- ades? ple to get jobs. It is very difficult for ments, make needed reforms to their Must a country and its people be held people, in some instances, even to ac- tax systems, and attract new busi- captive because of the behavior of pre- cess their own property, even to access nesses and new jobs. vious leaders in earlier times?

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:45 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G14JA6.045 S14JAPT1 tjames on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with SENATE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S321 So I thought back in history. I was a Since his inauguration he has tried For perspective, the total estimated young girl during World War II. I re- to do exactly that. For the first time sanctions relief is valued at approxi- member when Imperial Japan killed since the Iranian revolution, the lead- mately only 1 percent of the Iranian millions in Southeast Asia, and par- ers of our countries have been in direct economy, hardly a significant amount. ticularly in China, during its brutal communication with each other. Where I wish to take a moment to detail wars of expansion. Today, Japan is a once direct contact even between sen- what is not in the interim agreement. peaceful democracy and one of this Na- ior officials was rare, now Secretary of First, it does not grant Iran a right tion’s strongest allies in Asia. State John Kerry and Under Secretary to enrich. The United States does not I remember when Hitler and the Ger- of State Wendy Sherman are in near recognize such a right for the five non- man Third Reich committed unspeak- constant contact with their Iranian nuclear weapons states that currently able atrocities across Europe, including counterparts. Those conversations pro- have enrichment programs, and we will the murder of 6 million Jewish citizens. duced the historic Geneva agreement make no exception for Iran. But Iran Germany is now a close ally, a leader which goes into effect in 6 days, on does have a right to peaceful nuclear in the European Union, an institution January 20. energy if it fully abides by the terms of created to ensure a war never again oc- Candidate Rouhani also promised to its safeguards agreement under the curs in Europe. increase nuclear transparency, and he NPT. I remember General Franco’s Spain, has delivered on that as well. Even be- Secondly, the agreement does not in which was so diplomatically and eco- fore the Geneva interim agreement was any way unravel our core oil and finan- nomically isolated that it was actually reached, Iran slowed uranium enrich- cial sanctions. Others have argued the barred from the United Nations until ment and construction for the Arak suspension of any sanctions against 1955. Spain is now a close partner of the heavy water reactor—maybe for tech- Iran will unravel the entire sanctions United States and a fully democratic nical reasons, maybe not, but it regime, and that is false. The Obama member of the European Union. slowed. Iran has also reengaged with administration has taken action to en- The former Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and the IAEA to resolve questions sur- sure that does not happen. South Africa have all experienced tre- rounding its nuclear activities. Two days after the interim agree- So what has been achieved in Gene- mendous change in recent decades. ment was reached, the United States va? The interim 6-month agreement Independent states have emerged from settled with a Swiss Oil Services Com- reached between the P5+1 countries, the painful dissolution of Yugoslavia. pany over sanctions violations. The the United States, China, Russia, the Vietnam has opened itself to the inter- settlement was more than $250 million. UK, France, Germany, freezes Iran’s national community but still has much It was the largest against a foreign nuclear program in place while a com- progress to make. South Africa has firm outside of the banking industry. prehensive agreement is negotiated in On December 12, the administration shed apartheid and has emerged as an the next 6 months. This agreement announced the expansion of Iranian en- increasingly stable nation on a much caps Iran’s stockpile of enriched ura- tities subject to sanctions. These enti- divided continent. nium at 5 percent. It stops the produc- ties either helped Tehran evade sanc- So I believe countries can change. tion of 20 percent enriched uranium. It tions or provided support to Iran’s nu- This capacity to change also applies to requires the neutralization of Iran’s clear program. the pursuit of nuclear weapons. At one stockpile of 20 percent uranium. It pre- On January 7 of this year, the admin- time, Sweden, South Korea, and Argen- vents Iran from installing additional istration halted the transfer of two tina each pursued nuclear weapons. centrifuges or operating its most ad- Boeing airplane engines from Turkey Following World War II, Sweden pur- vanced centrifuges. It prohibits it from to Iran. Through these actions, the sued nuclear weapons to deter foreign stockpiling excess centrifuges. It halts Obama administration has made it attack. It mastered nuclear technology all significant work at the Arak heavy and built and tested components for a water reactor and prevents Iran from abundantly clear that the United nuclear weapon. It may have even ob- constructing a plutonium reprocessing States will continue to enforce our ex- tained enough nuclear material to facility. isting sanctions against Iran. build a bomb. But in 1970, it signed the Most importantly, the interim agree- Third, the agreement does not codify Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and ment imposes the most intrusive inter- the violation of U.N. security resolu- it ended its nuclear weapon program. national inspection regime ever. Inter- tions. Critics have attacked the in- In the early 1970s, South Korea ac- national inspectors will independently terim agreement for its failure to com- tively sought a nuclear device. The verify whether Iran is complying with pletely halt all of Iran’s nuclear en- United States heavily pressured South the interim agreement. For the first richment by noting that six U.N. Secu- Korea not to go nuclear, and in April time, the International Atomic Energy rity Council Resolutions have called on 1975, South Korea signed the non- Agency inspectors will have uninter- Tehran to do so and it has not done so. proliferation treaty and halted its nu- rupted access to Iran’s enrichment fa- The purpose of the U.N. Resolutions clear weapons activity. cilities at Natanz and Fordow, cen- was not to suspend nuclear enrichment Throughout the 1980s, when it was trifuge production plants, centrifuge indefinitely. Instead, these resolutions ruled by a military junta with an egre- assembly facilities, and Iran’s uranium were designed to freeze Iran’s nuclear gious human rights record, Argentina mines and mills. Finally, Iran is re- activities until the IAEA could deter- had a covert nuclear weapons program. quired to declare all planned new nu- mine whether Iran’s activities were for It built uranium production, enrich- clear facilities. exclusively peaceful purposes. ment, and reprocessing facilities, and In exchange, the P5+1 negotiators of- This is an important point. The in- it attempted to develop nuclear-capa- fered sanctions relief limited to $7 bil- terim agreement achieves what the six ble ballistic missiles before abandoning lion, an aspect of the interim agree- U.N. Security Council Resolutions its nuclear weapons program and rati- ment that has been criticized and I could not. It freezes Iran’s nuclear fying the NPT in 1995. wish to talk about it for a moment. progress while a comprehensive, So the question comes, is Iran willing Here are the facts on that sanctions verifiable agreement is being nego- to change its past behavior and aban- relief which, in my view, does not ma- tiated over the next 6 months. don its pursuit of a nuclear weapon? It terially alter the biting sanctions The interim agreement was only pos- may well be, and it is the job of diplo- which have devastated Iran’s economy. sible because a strong international macy to push for that change. The vast majority of sanctions relief sanctions regime has worked to con- I believe there are positive signs that comes in the form of Iranian repatri- vince rank-and-file Iranians, candidly, Iran is interested in such a change, and ation of $4.2 billion of its own money. that enough is enough. I would like to explain my reasons. Iran will continue to lose $4 billion to According to the State Department, The election of Hassan Rouhani was $5 billion a month in lost oil revenue as a result of the sanctions, Iran’s a surprise to many long-time observers from existing sanctions. Iran will not crude oil exports have plummeted from of Iran because he campaigned in sup- have access to about $100 billion of its approximately 2.5 million barrels per port of repairing Iran’s relationship own reserves trapped by sanctions day in 2011 to around 1 million barrels with the West. abroad. per day in recent months. This decline

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:45 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G14JA6.048 S14JAPT1 tjames on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with SENATE S322 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 14, 2014 alone costs Iran $3 billion to $5 billion To date, the prospect of just consid- Further sanctions now would only hurt ne- per month in lost revenue. ering this bill has prompted Iranian gotiations and risk eroding international In total, 23 nations who import Ira- legislators to consider retaliation. support for the sanctions that have brought nian oil have eliminated or signifi- There is talk that the legislative us this far. The time for additional measures cantly reduced purchases from Iran. In will come if Iran reneges on the deal or nego- branch, called the Majles, may move to tiations fail. Now is not that time. fact, Iran currently has only six cus- increase nuclear enrichment far beyond tomers for its oil: China, India, Tur- the 5-percent limit in the interim I deeply believe that a vote for this key, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. agreement and much closer to, if not legislation will cause negotiations to In the last year, Iran’s gross domes- achieving, weapons-grade uranium. collapse. The United States, not Iran, tic product shrunk by 5.8 percent. Its So the authors of additional sanc- then becomes the party that risks frac- GDP shrunk in 1 year by 5.8 percent, tions in this body and Iranian turing the international coalition that while inflation is estimated to be 50 hardliners in the other body would ac- has enabled our sanctions to succeed in percent or more. tually combine to blow up the diplo- the first place. Prices for food and consumer goods matic effort of 6 major powers. It says to the UK, China, Russia, are doubling and tripling on an annual The bill’s sponsors have argued that France, and Germany that our country basis, and estimates put unemploy- sanctions would strengthen the United cannot be trusted to stand behind our ment as high as 35 percent while under- State’s hand in negotiations. They diplomatic commitments. That is a employment is pervasive. argue that sanctions brought Iran to very big statement. This is why Iran says enough is the negotiating table in the first place. Our allies will question whether their enough. The sanctions are biting and They contend that additional sanctions compliance with sanctions and the eco- they are biting deeply, and there is no would force Iran to abandon its nuclear nomic sacrifices they have made are need to put additional sanctions on the program. for naught. table at this time. I could not disagree more. Should these negotiations fall apart, This body may soon consider the Nu- the choices are few and the most likely clear Weapon Free Iran Act; that is, a Let me give the views of a few other people who are knowledgeable in the result, in my view, is the eventual and bill to do exactly the opposite, to im- inevitable use of military force. pose additional sanctions against Iran, arena: Dr. Paul Pillar, a former U.S. intelligence official and current pro- So I ask this body, Is that the choice do it now, and hold it in abeyance. we want to make? In 6 days the ten- Before casting a vote, Senators fessor at Georgetown University re- cently argued: tative agreement will go into place. We should ask themselves what would hap- want to pass this? We don’t even want pen if the bill passes and a promised It is the prospect of having U.S.-led sanc- to wait and see what happens? veto by the President is not sustained. tions removed that will convince Iran to ac- cept severe restrictions on its nuclear pro- We don’t even want to wait and see I would like to give my view. what the IAEA finds when they are in I sincerely believe the P5+1 negotia- gram. Threatening Iran with additional sanctions now—after it has agreed to the in- there 24–7, 365 days a year? tions with Iran would end and, with it, terim agreement and an interim agreement I think what we ought to do is con- the best opportunity in more than 30 is about to go into effect—will not convince centrate on Iranian compliance with years to make a major change in Ira- Tehran to complete a final agreement. the interim agreement. nian behavior—a change that could not I couldn’t agree more. On January 20, 2014, this agreement only open all kinds of economic oppor- If this bill would help our nego- comes into effect, 6 days from now, and tunities for the Iranian people, but tiators, as its authors contend, they over the next 6 months the inter- help change the course of a nation. Its would say so. national community will be able to destiny in fact could be changed. I believe this bill is an egregious im- verify whether or not Iran is keeping Passing additional sanctions now position on the Executive’s authority its commitments to freeze its nuclear would only play into the hands of those to conduct foreign affairs. In fact, our progress. in Iran who are most eager to see diplo- Secretary of State has formally asked If Iran fails to abide by the terms of macy fail. Iranian conservatives, this Congress to give our negotiators the interim agreement, or if a final hardliners, will attack President and our experts the time and space to agreement cannot be negotiated, Con- Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif for do their jobs, including no new sanc- gress can immediately consider addi- seeking a nuclear compromise. tions. They will argue that Iran exchanged tional sanctions. What does this body say, sitting a freeze of its nuclear program for ad- I deeply believe that additional sanc- here? We are not going to do that? This ditional and harsh punitive sanctions. tions should only be considered once is a Secretary of State who is of this Think about that. They will say that our diplomatic track has been given body, Chairman of the Foreign Rela- Iran did not achieve anything with this the opportunity to forge a final, com- tions Committee, who has been abso- agreement. All we got were more sanc- prehensive, and binding agreement. lutely prodigious in his efforts to get tions. This is what is most distressing. If Second, if the United States cannot this interim agreement, has gotten it, we had not reached an agreement, with honor an interim agreement negotiated and we are going to run the risk that it the cooperation and leadership of the in Geneva by Russia, China, France, is going to break apart during the next big powers of this world, that would be Germany, the UK and ourselves—we 6 months when a final agreement one thing. The fact is we have reached are not alone in this—it will never lift might well be negotiated? agreement and that action is just sanctions after a final agreement is If the Senate imposes its will, if we about to take place, and we are going reached. override the President’s veto, and it to jaundice it, we are going to hurt it, Above all, they will argue that the blows up this very fragile process, some and we are likely to collapse it by pass- United States is not interested in nu- would say: Too bad, what a tragedy. ing additional sanctions now which a clear diplomacy—we are interested in We know what the Iranian reaction President of the United States will regime change. will be. The Iranian Foreign Minister veto with the aim of overriding that The bottom line: If this body passes Zarif, who I happen to have known for veto. S. 1881, diplomatic negotiations will a substantial period of time, has clear- How does that make any kind of collapse, and there will be no final ly stated what the result will be in five common sense? It defies logic, it agreement. words, and it is this: ‘‘The entire deal threatens instant reverse, and it ends Some might want that result, but I is dead.’’ what has been unprecedented diplo- do not. That is his direct quote. Why macy. Do we want to take that on our Iran’s nuclear program would once wouldn’t we take him at his word? So shoulders? Candidly, in my view, it is a again be unrestrained, and the only re- far he has been good to his word. march toward war. maining option to prevent Iran from The ambassador of our staunchest As Chairman of the Senate Intel- obtaining a nuclear weapon would be ally, the UK, warned this body not to ligence Committee, I know the chal- military action. I do not want that un- pass more sanctions. Sir Peter lenges Iran poses to U.S. interests less it is absolutely necessary. Westmacott recently wrote: around the world.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:43 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G14JA6.049 S14JAPT1 tjames on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with SENATE January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S323 I see the majority leader is on the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tant contributions to our country and floor. objection, it is so ordered. beyond. Likewise, Georgetown alumni Would the majority leader like me to f have gone on to lead school systems, cease for a moment? universities, and businesses, as well as RECOGNIZING GEORGETOWN Mr. REID. Go ahead and finish. international and charitable organiza- UNIVERSITY Mrs. FEINSTEIN. As I said, as Chair- tions that strive to address challenges man of the Intelligence Committee, I Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I facing the United States and the world. know the challenges Iran poses to the rise today, as an alumna of Georgetown A school with an enrollment of 40 U.S. interests around the world. Its pa- University, to recognize the univer- students in its first year has now tronage of the terrorist group sity’s 225th anniversary. On January swelled to over 12,000 undergraduate Hezbollah, its support for Syria’s 23, 1789, the first deed was granted to and graduate students, more than 5,000 Bashar Assad through the Revolu- then Bishop John Carroll for land on faculty and staff, and countless alum- tionary Guard Corps are two of the which Georgetown was built. Those of ni. In addition to undergraduate de- most troubling. us whose lives have been shaped, at grees, Georgetown University now in- I would hope that as a followthrough least in part, by this great institution cludes the McDonough School of Busi- of diplomacy we might be able to quell are proud that it was founded in the ness, Walsh School of Foreign Service, some of these activities. same year that the United States was Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Let me acknowledge Israel’s real, formed. Indeed, the two events were Law Center, School of Medicine, well-founded concerns that a nuclear- intertwined, and Georgetown’s mission School of Continuing Studies, School armed Iran would threaten its very ex- statement today continues to reflect of Nursing and Health Studies, and istence. I don’t disagree with that. I that bond by emphasizing that the uni- McCourt School of Public Policy. agree with it, but they are not there versity ‘‘educates women and men to I was privileged to have the oppor- yet. be reflective lifelong learners, to be re- tunity to earn a Georgetown degree, While I recognize and share Israel’s sponsible and active participants in and my experience there has played a concern, we cannot let Israel determine civil life and to live generously in serv- significant role in the career of public when and where the United States goes ice to others.’’ service I have been blessed to live. It is to war. By stating that the United Over the course of more than two a place that gave me opportunities to States should provide military support centuries, Georgetown, its students, be exposed to public service here in the to Israel in a formal resolution should and alumni have contributed to our Nation’s Capital as a student and im- it attack Iran, I fear that is how this country’s rich history. The Astronom- pressed on me a set of values reflecting bill is going to be interpreted. ical Observatory on campus was used Let me conclude. The interim agree- Jesuit tradition that continue to shape to calculate the longitude and latitude ment with Iran is strong, it is tough, my life and work. of the District of Columbia in 1846. Georgetown’s history has in many and it is realistic. It represents the This building stands today and is now ways tracked the Nation’s history. It is first significant opportunity to change listed on the National Register of His- a pleasure to recognize the tremendous a three-decade course in Iran and an toric Places. Buildings on the George- impact it has had over the last 225 opening to improve one of our most town campus were used as hospitals for years and to look forward to future poisonous bilateral relationships. It wounded troops during the Civil War, centuries of contributions not only to could open the door to a new future which nearly closed the university be- this country but to the world. which not only considers Israel’s na- cause so many students left to fight, Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, tional security, but protects our own. for both the Union and Confederate today I wish to recognize the 225th an- To preserve diplomacy, I strongly op- States. All told, more than 1,000 niversary of the founding of George- pose the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Georgetown students and alumni town University. As a proud member of Act. I yield the floor. served. In 1876, the students selected the Georgetown community, it is an The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. DON- the colors blue—Union—and gray— honor to help commemorate the NELLY). The majority leader. Confederate—as the university’s offi- school’s 225 years of excellence. This Mr. REID. Mr. President, I express cial colors to celebrate the end of the milestone marks a time of celebration my appreciation to the courtesy of the war. These colors remain a source of for all of Georgetown’s students, fac- Senator from California. She is cour- school pride today. ulty, board of governors, and alumni. teous in everything she does in life. Father Patrick Healy, born a slave, As the oldest Catholic and Jesuit in- She is a pleasure to serve with. became the first African American to stitution of higher education in the UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT—H.J. RES. 106 head a major U.S. university, serving United States, Georgetown has a long Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- as Georgetown’s president from 1873 to and distinguished history. On January imous consent that at 12 noon on 1882. With the outbreak of World War I, 23, 1789, Bishop John Carroll, the first Wednesday, January 15, the Senate Georgetown formed a 500-member Catholic bishop in the United States, proceed to the consideration of H.J. Cadet Corps in the spring of 1917. In secured the deed to around 60 acres of Res. 106, which was received from the 1918, the U.S. War Department replaced land overlooking the Potomac River. House and is at the desk; that there be it with the Student Army Training This hilltop grew to become the cam- no amendments, motions, or points of Corps, which became the Reserve Offi- pus of Georgetown University. Three order in order to the joint resolution; cers Training Corps as we know it years later, in 1791, the first students that there be 15 minutes of debate today following the end of the war. arrived on campus. At the age of 13, equally divided on the joint resolution; More than 2,000 Georgetown men William Gaston was the first student finally, that upon the use or yielding served. During World War II, George- at the university. He went on to serve back of time, the joint resolution be town was selected by the War Depart- North Carolina as a Member of the U.S. read a third time and the Senate pro- ment to house the Army Specialized House of Representatives and authored ceed to vote on passage of the joint res- Training Program. Over 75-percent of a bill granting a Federal charter to olution. students enrolled during the 1943–1944 ‘‘the College of Georgetown in the Dis- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there academic year were military service- trict of Columbia’’ in 1815. President objection to the request? men. James Madison signed that legislation Without objection, it is so ordered. Since Georgetown awarded its first into law on March 1, 1815. f two bachelor’s degrees in 1817, the uni- While buildings on Georgetown’s versity has educated numerous leaders campus were temporarily used as a MORNING BUSINESS in business, government, and the non- hospital after the Second Battle of Bull Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- profit sector. A President, Cabinet Sec- Run, it wasn’t until 1851 that George- imous consent that the Senate proceed retaries, Ambassadors, Governors, and town University Medical School, which to a period of morning business with Members of the U.S. Senate and House I attended in the 1970s, was established. Senators allowed to speak therein up of Representatives have studied on It was the first Catholic medical school to 10 minutes each. ‘‘the Hilltop’’ and left to make impor- in our Nation. The medical school first

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:45 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G14JA6.051 S14JAPT1 tjames on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with SENATE S324 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 14, 2014 opened its doors in a vacant warehouse which it requests the concurrence of mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For- and an adjacent building at 12th and F the Senate: estry. Streets, NW, before later moving to the EC–4266. A communication from the Con- H.R. 841. An act to amend the Grand Ronde gressional Review Coordinator, Animal and university’s main campus in 1930. Reservation Act to make technical correc- Plant Health Inspection Service, Department I received both a bachelor of science tions, and for other purposes. of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to degree in biology and a doctor of medi- H.R. 1513. An act to revise the boundaries law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Importa- cine degree from this great university. of the Gettysburg National Military Park to tion of Fresh Apricots From Continental The quality education and valuable include the Gettysburg Train Station and Spain’’ ((RIN0579–AD62) (Docket No. APHIS– training I received there has had a last- certain land along Plum Run in Cumberland 2011–0132)) received in the Office of the Presi- Township, to limit the means by which prop- dent of the Senate on January 7, 2014; to the ing impact on my life and helped shape erty within such revised boundaries may be my career. I am grateful for my time Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and acquired, and for other purposes. Forestry. at this exceptional institution and the EC–4267. A communication from the Direc- incredible influence Georgetown has At 2:36 p.m., a message from the tor of the Regulatory Management Division, had on so many people across the House of Representatives, delivered by Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- United States and around the world. Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Over the years, there have been nu- announced that the House has passed titled ‘‘Dimethyl esters of glutaric acid (i.e., merous Members of Congress who were the following joint resolution, in which dimethyl glutarate), succinic acid (i.e., di- students at Georgetown University. methyl succinate), and adipic acid (i.e., di- it requests the concurrence of the Sen- methyl adipate); Exemption from the Re- Today, the U.S. Senate is fortunate to ate: have five other Members who hold de- quirement of a Tolerance’’ (FRL No. 9904–57) H.J. Res. 106. Joint resolution making fur- received in the Office of the President of the grees from Georgetown University. ther continuing appropriations for fiscal Senate on January 8, 2014; to the Committee Senator LISA MURKOWSKI of Alaska re- year 2014, and for other purposes. on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. EC–4268. A communication from the Sec- ceived her bachelor’s degree from ENROLLED BILL SIGNED Georgetown. Senator PATRICK LEAHY of retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- At 5:47 p.m., a message from the Vermont, Senator MARK KIRK of Illi- ant to law, a six-month periodic report on House, delivered by Mr. Novotny, one nois, and Senator MAZIE HIRONO of Ha- the continuation of the national emergency of its reading clerks, announced that waii all received their law degrees from that was declared in Executive Order 13396 the Speaker had signed the following on February 7, 2006, with respect to Cote Georgetown Law. The Senate majority enrolled bill: d’Ivoire; to the Committee on Banking, whip, Senator DICK DURBIN of Illinois, Housing, and Urban Affairs. S. 230. An act to authorize the Peace Corps holds both his undergraduate and law EC–4269. A communication from the Coun- degrees from Georgetown. Commemorative Foundation to establish a sel, Legal Division, Bureau of Consumer Fi- commemorative work in the District of Co- As shown by the geographic range of nancial Protection, transmitting, pursuant lumbia and its environs, and for other pur- to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Defin- States represented by these Senators, poses. students come from all over the Nation ing Larger Participants of the Student Loan to attend this wonderful institution of f Servicing Market’’ ((RIN3170–AA35) (Docket No. CFPB–2013–0005)) received in the Office of higher education. Georgetown’s stu- MEASURES REFERRED the President of the Senate on January 6, dent body today includes students from The following bill was read the first 2014; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, all 50 States as well as from 141 coun- and the second times by unanimous and Urban Affairs. tries around the globe. Georgetown is EC–4270. A communication from the Chief consent, and referred as indicated: indeed a national as well as a global Counsel, Federal Emergency Management university. H.R. 841. An act to amend the Grand Ronde Agency, Department of Homeland Security, The university’s mission statement Reservation Act to make technical correc- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of tions, and for other purposes; to the Com- a rule entitled ‘‘Suspension of Community makes the point that ‘‘the university mittee on Indian Affairs. Eligibility’’ ((44 CFR Part 64) (Docket No. was founded on the principle that seri- f FEMA–2013–0002)) received in the Office of ous and sustained discourse among peo- the President of the Senate on January 7, ple of different faiths, cultures, and be- MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME 2014; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, liefs promotes intellectual, ethical and and Urban Affairs. The following bills were read the first EC–4271. A communication from the Assist- spiritual understanding.’’ It is clear time: that this founding principle continues ant Secretary for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- to energize Georgetown University 225 S. 1917. A bill to provide for additional en- hancements of the sexual assault prevention ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant years later. and response activities of the Armed Forces. to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Re- I look forward to all of the great con- S. 1926. A bill to delay the implementation moval of Person from the Entity List Based tributions Georgetown will continue to of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters on a Removal Request’’ (RIN0694–AG03) re- provide in the years ahead through its Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and to ceived in the Office of the President of the many areas of academic and research reform the National Association of Reg- Senate on January 7, 2014; to the Committee excellence: medicine, law, inter- istered Agents and Brokers, and for other on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. purposes. EC–4272. A communication from the Sec- national affairs, business, public serv- retary of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to ice, and the diverse fields within the f law, a report relative to National Associa- arts and sciences. EXECUTIVE AND OTHER tion of Regulatory Utility Commissioners v. I ask my colleagues to join me in United States Department of Energy; to the celebrating this significant milestone COMMUNICATIONS Committee on Energy and Natural Re- and wishing Georgetown University The following communications were sources. continued success in achieving its mis- laid before the Senate, together with EC–4273. A communication from the Ad- sion and goals in the future. accompanying papers, reports, and doc- ministrator, U.S. Energy Information Ad- ministration, Department of Energy, trans- f uments, and were referred as indicated: mitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled EC–4264. A communication from the Asso- MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE ‘‘The Availability and Price of Petroleum ciate General Counsel, Department of Agri- and Petroleum Products Produced in Coun- At 12:27 p.m., a message from the culture, transmitting, pursuant to law, (3) tries Other Than Iran’’; to the Committee on House, delivered by Mrs. Cole, one of three reports relative to vacancies in the De- Energy and Natural Resources. its reading clerks, announced that the partment of Agriculture; to the Committee EC–4274. A communication from the Ad- House has passed the following bill, on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. ministrator, U.S. Energy Information Ad- without amendment: EC–4265. A communication from the Con- ministration, Department of Energy, trans- gressional Review Coordinator, Animal and mitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled S. 230. An act to authorize the Peace Corps Plant Health Inspection Service, Department ‘‘The Availability and Price of Petroleum Commemorative Foundation to establish a of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to and Petroleum Products Produced in Coun- commemorative work in the District of Co- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Importa- tries Other Than Iran’’; to the Committee on lumbia and its environs, and for other pur- tion of Avocados From Continental Spain’’ Energy and Natural Resources. poses. ((RIN0579–AD63) (Docket No. APHIS–2012– EC–4275. A communication from the Assist- The message also announced that the 0002)) received in the Office of the President ant General Counsel for Legislation, Regula- House has passed the following bills, in of the Senate on January 7, 2014; to the Com- tion and Energy Efficiency, Department of

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A communication from the Dep- such materials are produced and dissemi- in the Office of the President of the Senate uty Director of the Regulation Policy and nated at taxpayer expense; to the Committee on January 6, 2014; to the Committee on En- Management Office of the General Counsel, on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- ergy and Natural Resources. Veterans Health Administration, Depart- fairs. EC–4276. A communication from the Assist- ment of Veterans Affairs, transmitting, pur- By Mr. VITTER: ant General Counsel for Legislation, Regula- suant to law, the report of a rule entitled S. 1922. A bill to amend the Food and Nu- tion and Energy Efficiency, Department of ‘‘Copayments for Medications in 2014’’ trition Act of 2008 to prevent the illegal traf- Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the (RIN2900–AO91) received during adjournment ficking of supplemental nutrition assistance report of a rule entitled ‘‘Energy Conserva- of the Senate in the Office of the President program benefits by requiring all program tion Program: Alternative Efficiency Deter- of the Senate on December 27, 2013; to the beneficiaries to show valid photo identifica- mination Methods, Basic Model Definition, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. tion when purchasing items with program and Compliance for Commercial HVAC, Re- f benefits; to the Committee on Agriculture, frigeration, and WH Equipment’’ (RIN1904– Nutrition, and Forestry. AC46) received during adjournment of the EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF By Mr. MANCHIN (for himself and Mr. Senate in the Office of the President of the COMMITTEE VITTER): Senate on January 2, 2014; to the Committee S. 1923. A bill to amend the Securities Ex- on Energy and Natural Resources. The following executive reports of change Act of 1934 to exempt from registra- EC–4277. A communication from the Assist- nominations were submitted: tion brokers performing services in connec- ant General Counsel for Legislation, Regula- By Mr. CARPER for the Committee on tion with the transfer of ownership of small- tion and Energy Efficiency, Department of Homeland Security and Governmental Af- er privately held companies; to the Com- Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the fairs. mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Inflation Adjust- *William Ward Nooter, of the District of fairs. ment of Civil Monetary Penalties’’ (RIN1904– Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the By Mr. RISCH (for himself, Mr. RUBIO, AA43) received during adjournment of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Mr. INHOFE, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. COR- Senate in the Office of the President of the for the term of fifteen years. NYN, Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. JOHNSON of Senate on January 3, 2014; to the Committee *Suzanne Eleanor Spaulding, of Virginia, Wisconsin, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. WICKER, on Energy and Natural Resources. to be Under Secretary, Department of Home- Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. VITTER, Mr. EC–4278. A communication from the Gen- land Security. MORAN, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. eral Counsel, Peace Corps, transmitting, pur- *John Roth, of Michigan, to be Inspector ROBERTS, Ms. MURKOWSKI, and Mr. suant to law, a report relative to a vacancy General, Department of Homeland Security. JOHANNS): in the position of Director of the Peace S. 1924. A bill to require a report on INF Corps, received in the Office of the President *Nomination was reported with rec- ommendation that it be confirmed sub- Treaty compliance information sharing; to of the Senate on January 7, 2014; to the Com- the Committee on Foreign Relations. mittee on Foreign Relations. ject to the nominee’s commitment to By Mr. HOEVEN (for himself, Ms. KLO- EC–4279. A communication from the Prin- respond to requests to appear and tes- BUCHAR, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. MANCHIN, cipal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Of- tify before any duly constituted com- Mr. KIRK, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. JOHANNS, fice of Legislative Affairs, Department of mittee of the Senate. Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. HATCH, Mr. KING, Justice, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- f Mr. BENNET, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. BEGICH, port entitled ‘‘Report of the Attorney Gen- Mr. WYDEN, Mr. COONS, Mr. PORTMAN, eral to the Congress of the United States on INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND Mr. FRANKEN, and Mr. THUNE): the Administration of the Foreign Agents JOINT RESOLUTIONS S. 1925. A bill to limit the retrieval of data Registration Act of 1938, as amended, for the from vehicle event data recorders; to the six months ending December 31, 2012’’; to the The following bills and joint resolu- Committee on Commerce, Science, and Committee on the Judiciary. tions were introduced, read the first Transportation. EC–4280. A communication from the Prin- and second times by unanimous con- By Mr. MENENDEZ: cipal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Of- sent, and referred as indicated: S. 1926. A bill to delay the implementation fice of Legislative Affairs, Department of of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Justice, transmitting, pursuant to law, the By Mr. MCCONNELL (for himself and Mr. PAUL): Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and to annual report from the Attorney General to reform the National Association of Reg- Congress relative to the Uniformed and Over- S. 1916. A bill to amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protec- istered Agents and Brokers, and for other seas Citizens Absentee Voting Act; to the purposes; read the first time. Committee on Rules and Administration. tion Act to provide for an application proc- EC–4281. A communication from the Co- ess for interested parties to apply for a coun- f ty to be designated as a rural area, and for Chief Privacy Officers, Federal Election ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, other purposes; to the Committee on Bank- the Commission’s Privacy Report for fiscal ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. S. 204 By Mrs. MCCASKILL (for herself, Ms. year 2013; to the Committee on Rules and At the request of Mr. PAUL, the name AYOTTE, and Mrs. FISCHER): Administration. of the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. EC–4282. A communication from the Direc- S. 1917. A bill to provide for additional en- tor of the Regulation Policy and Manage- hancements of the sexual assault prevention FISCHER) was added as a cosponsor of S. ment Office of the General Counsel, Veterans and response activities of the Armed Forces; 204, a bill to preserve and protect the Health Administration, Department of Vet- read the first time. free choice of individual employees to erans Affairs, transmitting, pursuant to law, By Mrs. SHAHEEN: form, join, or assist labor organiza- the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Removal of S. 1918. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- tions, or to refrain from such activi- Penalty for Breaking Points’’ (RIN2900– enue Code of 1986 to provide a special change ties. AO51) received in the Office of the President in status rule for employees who become eli- S. 569 of the Senate on January 7, 2014; to the Com- gible for TRICARE; to the Committee on Fi- mittee on Veterans’ Affairs. nance. At the request of Mr. BROWN, the EC–4283. A communication from the Direc- By Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. WYDEN, name of the Senator from Minnesota tor of the Regulation Policy and Manage- Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. LEE, Mr. (Mr. FRANKEN) was added as a cospon- ment Office of the General Counsel, Veterans TESTER, Mr. MERKLEY, Ms. WARREN, sor of S. 569, a bill to amend title XVIII Health Administration, Department of Vet- and Mr. MURPHY): of the Social Security Act to count a erans Affairs, transmitting, pursuant to law, S. 1919. A bill to repeal the Authorization period of receipt of outpatient observa- the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Community for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Reso- Residential Care’’ (RIN2900–AO62) received in lution of 2002; to the Committee on Foreign tion services in a hospital toward satis- the Office of the President of the Senate on Relations. fying the 3-day inpatient hospital re- January 7, 2014; to the Committee on Vet- By Mr. ROBERTS (for himself and Mr. quirement for coverage of skilled nurs- erans’ Affairs. COONS): ing facility services under Medicare. EC–4284. A communication from the Direc- S. 1920. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- S. 1174 tor of the Regulation Policy and Manage- enue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, ment Office of the General Counsel, Veterans research and development credit to encour- Health Administration, Department of Vet- age innovation; to the Committee on Fi- the name of the Senator from Okla- erans Affairs, transmitting, pursuant to law, nance. homa (Mr. COBURN) was added as a co- the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Duty Periods By Mr. BLUNT (for himself, Mr. sponsor of S. 1174, a bill to award a for Establishing Eligibility for Health Care’’ COBURN, and Mr. RUBIO): Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th

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At the request of Mr. ROBERTS, the as cosponsors of amendment No. 2603 1406, a bill to amend the Horse Protec- name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. intended to be proposed to S. 1845, a tion Act to designate additional unlaw- CHAMBLISS) was added as a cosponsor of bill to provide for the extension of cer- ful acts under the Act, strengthen pen- S. 1848, a bill to amend section tain unemployment benefits, and for alties for violations of the Act, im- 1303(b)(3) of Public Law 111–148 con- other purposes. prove Department of Agriculture en- cerning the notice requirements re- f forcement of the Act, and for other garding the extent of health plan cov- STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED purposes. erage of abortion and abortion pre- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS S. 1476 mium surcharges. By Mr. MCCONNELL (for himself At the request of Mr. REED, the name S. 1853 and Mr. PAUL): of the Senator from Michigan (Mr. At the request of Mr. BOOZMAN, the S. 1916. A bill to amend the Dodd- LEVIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from Nebraska Frank Wall Street Reform and Con- 1476, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- (Mrs. FISCHER) was added as a cospon- sumer Protection Act to provide for an enue Code of 1986 to expand the denial sor of S. 1853, a bill to amend the Envi- application process for interested par- of deduction for certain excessive em- ronmental Research, Development, and ties to apply for a county to be des- ployee remuneration, and for other Demonstration Authorization Act of ignated as a rural area, and for other purposes. 1978 to provide for Scientific Advisory purposes; to the Committee on Bank- S. 1533 Board member qualifications, public participation, and for other purposes. ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. At the request of Mr. LEVIN, the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I S. 1875 name of the Senator from Massachu- have spoken often on the floor about At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the setts (Mr. MARKEY) was added as a co- the challenges and opportunities for name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. sponsor of S. 1533, a bill to end offshore the future that the people of eastern MERKLEY) was added as a cosponsor of tax abuses, to preserve our national de- Kentucky and rural parts of the Com- S. 1875, a bill to provide for wildfire fense and protect American families monwealth face. Many of these chal- suppression operations, and for other and businesses from devastating cuts, lenges stem from this administration’s purposes. and for other purposes. regulatory overreach, whether it is a S. 1902 S. 1590 war on coal, ObamaCare or Dodd- At the request of Mr. BARRASSO, the At the request of Mr. ALEXANDER, the Frank. Too many people are out of name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. names of the Senator from Georgia work, which has placed a drastic bur- (Mr. CHAMBLISS), the Senator from Mis- CORNYN) was added as a cosponsor of S. den on the coal mining industry, and 1590, a bill to amend the Patient Pro- souri (Mr. BLUNT), the Senator from harshly cut the number of jobs avail- tection and Affordable Care Act to re- Texas (Mr. CORNYN) and the Senator able in the coal mining industry and quire transparency in the operation of from Wyoming (Mr. ENZI) were added related industries. American Health Benefit Exchanges. as cosponsors of S. 1902, a bill to re- In spite of the challenges the people quire notification of individuals of S. 1697 of eastern Kentucky face, I have great breaches of personally identifiable in- At the request of Mr. HARKIN, the confidence we can overcome that and formation through Exchanges under name of the Senator from New York succeed. I was pleased to be able to as- the Patient Protection and Affordable (Mr. SCHUMER) was added as a cospon- sist the Kentucky Highlands Invest- Care Act. sor of S. 1697, a bill to support early ment Corporation in receiving a Prom- S. 1907 learning. ise Zone designation, which was award- At the request of Mr. KIRK, the name S. 1726 ed just last week. That is why I wrote of the Senator from Utah (Mr. HATCH) the administration in support of this At the request of Mr. RUBIO, the was added as a cosponsor of S. 1907, a name of the Senator from Mississippi designation last year. This economic bill to amend a provision of the Bank initiative is just one way to help jump- (Mr. COCHRAN) was added as a cospon- Holding Company Act of 1956 regarding sor of S. 1726, a bill to prevent a tax- start the region’s journey out of eco- prohibitions on investments in certain nomic distress. payer bailout of health insurance funds to clarify that such provision issuers. But we need more than that. My shall not be construed to require the friend and colleague in the other S. 1737 divestiture of certain collateralized Chamber, Representative HAL ROGERS, At the request of Mr. HARKIN, the debt obligations backed by trust-pre- is leading an effort to identify ways to name of the Senator from New Jersey ferred securities or debt securities of lift Appalachia out of the cycle of pov- (Mr. BOOKER) was added as a cosponsor collateralized loan obligations. erty and unemployment through the of S. 1737, a bill to provide for an in- S. 1915 SOAR Initiative, and I applaud his ef- crease in the Federal minimum wage At the request of Mr. FLAKE, the forts. and to amend the Internal Revenue name of the Senator from New Hamp- To offer yet another possibility for Code of 1986 to extend increased ex- shire (Ms. AYOTTE) was added as a co- eastern Kentucky, my friend and col- pensing limitations and the treatment sponsor of S. 1915, a bill to permit league Senator RAND PAUL and I intro- of certain real property as section 179 health insurance issuers to offer addi- duced the Economic Freedom Zones property. tional plan options to individuals. Act, to further enable eastern Ken- S. 1739 S. RES. 330 tucky to lift the burdens of some of the At the request of Mr. HOEVEN, the At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, poorest families in the country. Our names of the Senator from South Da- the name of the Senator from Alaska legislation would roll back government kota (Mr. THUNE) and the Senator from (Mr. BEGICH) was added as a cosponsor regulations and tax barriers to spur job South Dakota (Mr. JOHNSON) were of S. Res. 330, a resolution recognizing creation and reform failed educational added as cosponsors of S. 1739, a bill to the 50th anniversary of ‘‘Smoking and systems to aid disadvantaged children. modify the efficiency standards for Health: Report of the Advisory Com- So continuing my efforts to find grid-enabled water heaters. mittee to the Surgeon General of the ways to assist these rural counties and S. 1846 United States’’ and the significant give these communities a voice, I am At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the progress in reducing the public health pleased to introduce today, along with name of the Senator from Michigan burden of tobacco use, and supporting Senator PAUL, the Helping Expand (Ms. STABENOW) was added as a cospon- an end to tobacco-related death and Lending Practices in Rural Commu- sor of S. 1846, a bill to delay the imple- disease. nities Act or simply the HELP Rural

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Bureau of the Census for classifying geo- This is actually silver, but we call it a The HELP Rural Communities Act graphical areas as rural or urban. black box because it is an event data would give rural counties in Kentucky ‘‘(B) Criteria used by the Director of the recorder. It records information about a voice when the Consumer Financial Office of Management and Budget to des- your automobile. Ninety-six percent, I Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has incor- ignate counties as metropolitan or think, of automobiles made now have rectly labeled them as ‘‘nonrural’’— micropolitan or neither. them, but the U.S. Department Of just another example of this adminis- ‘‘(C) Criteria used by the Secretary of Agri- Transportation is requiring this year tration’s one-size-fits-all, we-know- culture to determine property eligibility for that every vehicle have an event data rural development programs. recorder in it. best approach to governing. Several ‘‘(D) The Department of Agriculture rural- counties in Kentucky, such as Bath urban commuting area codes. The Senator from Minnesota and I County, have been labeled as ‘‘(E) A written opinion provided by the believe that should be the owner’s in- ‘‘nonrural’’ and are therefore barred State’s banking regulator. formation and that information should from certain rural lending practices ‘‘(F) Population density. not be released without the owner’s helpful to farmers and small busi- ‘‘(3) PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.— consent. We already have a good group nesses. ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days who have joined us in the endeavor, in- If you have ever been to these coun- after receiving an application submitted cluding an equal number of Repub- under paragraph (1), the Bureau shall— licans and Democrats: Senator ties, as I have, you would most cer- ‘‘(i) publish such application in the Federal tainly disagree with the CFPB’s ruling. Register; and JOHANNS from Nebraska, Senator But current law provides literally no ‘‘(ii) make such application available for ANGUS KING from Maine, Senator KIRK opportunity to challenge the CFPB’s public comment for not fewer than 90 days. from Illinois, Senator JOE MANCHIN decision. My bill would allow counties ‘‘(B) LIMITATION ON ADDITIONAL APPLICA- from West Virginia, Senator SAXBY which have been improperly designated TIONS.—Nothing in this subsection shall be CHAMBLISS from Georgia, Senator MI- as ‘‘nonrural’’ to petition the CFPB construed to require the Bureau, during the CHAEL BENNET from Colorado, Senator with additional local information to public comment period with respect to an ap- ROY BLUNT from Missouri, Senator plication submitted under paragraph (1), to MAZIE HIRONO from Hawaii, Senator reconsider their status in order to en- accept an additional application with respect sure that rural communities, such as to the county that is the subject of the ini- JOHNNY ISAKSON from Georgia, Senator those in eastern Kentucky, have the tial application. MARK BEGICH from Alaska, Senator access to credit they need to grow their ‘‘(4) INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE PUB- ORRIN HATCH from Utah, and Senator economy. LISHED.—The Bureau shall enter each appli- RON WYDEN from Oregon. This is an important step in the ef- cation submitted under paragraph (1) in a It is absolutely an equal number of fort to renew hope for the future in sortable, downloadable database that is pub- Republicans and Democrats from rural Kentucky, especially eastern licly accessible through the Web site of the across the United States have joined Bureau. Kentucky. Given the bipartisan inter- together, recognizing people are con- ‘‘(5) DECISION ON DESIGNATION.—Not later cerned about their privacy and we need est shown in recent weeks to get gov- than 90 days after the end of the public com- ernment out of the way and let the ment period under paragraph (3)(A) for an to make sure their privacy is pro- people of the region work, Congress application, the Bureau shall— tected. and the President can come together to ‘‘(A) grant or deny such application; and I would like to make a few further in- pass this legislation on behalf of east- ‘‘(B) publish such grant or denial in the troductory comments with the help of ern Kentuckians and rural commu- Federal Register, along with an explanation these charts and then turn to my col- nities. I look forward to working with of what factors the Bureau relied on in mak- league from Minnesota for her com- ing such determination. my colleagues, Senator PAUL and Rep- ments as well. We have seen with the ‘‘(6) SUBSEQUENT APPLICATIONS.—A decision resentative BARR, to see that we get NSA, with the IRS, with the Affordable by the Bureau under paragraph (5) to deny an Care Act, and with a whole range of this passed. application for a county to be designated as Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- a rural area shall not preclude the Bureau issues that people believe what is going sent that the text of the bill be printed from accepting a subsequent application sub- on, not only in government but with in the RECORD. mitted under paragraph (1) for such county technology, is that their privacy is at There being no objection, the text of to be so designated, so long as such subse- risk these days and it is very much a the bill was ordered to be printed in quent application is made after the end of concern. Many people do not realize the 90-day period beginning on the date that the RECORD, as follows: that this event data recorder is in their the Bureau denies the application under S. 1916 car. It records all kinds of information, paragraph (5).’’. and in fact the Federal Government is Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives of the United States of America in By Mr. HOEVEN (for himself, Ms. requiring that this device be in their Congress assembled, KLOBUCHAR, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. car. Neither is there a limitation on SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. MANCHIN, Mr. KIRK, Mr. ISAK- the amount of data that the device can This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Helping Ex- SON, Mr. JOHANNS, Mr. CHAM- record nor is there a law that protects pand Lending Practices in Rural Commu- BLISS, Mr. HATCH, Mr. KING, Mr. individuals’ privacy to make sure the nities Act of 2014’’ or the ‘‘HELP Rural Com- BENNET, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. owner of the car decides who gets that munities Act of 2014’’. BEGICH, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. COONS, information, other than under very SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF COUNTY AS A RURAL Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. FRANKEN, specific circumstances which I will AREA. take a minute to go through. Section 1022 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Mr. THUNE): S. 1925. A bill to limit the retrieval of What kind of data gets recorded by Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 your event data recorder, this black U.S.C. 5512) is amended by adding at the end data from vehicle event data recorders; the following new subsection: to the Committee on Commerce, box that is included in your car? There ‘‘(e) DESIGNATION OF COUNTY AS A RURAL Science, and Transportation. are more than 45 different data points AREA.— Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, I thank that are in fact recorded right now. ‘‘(1) APPLICATION.—Not later than 90 days the Senator from Minnesota for joining Again, the manufacturer can change after the date of the enactment of this sub- me this afternoon. Today we are intro- this—add to it. There are no limita- section, the Bureau shall establish an appli- ducing the Driver Privacy Act. I am tions or restrictions or guidelines or cation process under which a person who very pleased to sponsor that legislation requirements on what manufacturers lives or does business in a State may, with can have the event data recorder do. respect to a county in such State that has with the good Senator from Minnesota. not been designated by the Bureau as a rural We have a great group that has joined Right now it records things like speed, area for purposes of a Federal consumer fi- us as we introduce this bill today. This braking, engine, seatbelt usage, driver nancial law, apply for such county to be so is all about protecting people’s privacy information, passenger information, designated. in regard to their automobile. steering, airbags, and crash details. As

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:45 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G14JA6.002 S14JAPT1 tjames on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with SENATE S328 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 14, 2014 I say, at this point the manufacturer with in putting together this informa- I have long supported improving safe- determines what goes into that black tion. ty on the roadways. Too many people box in terms of what its capabilities Fourteen States have their own laws die on our highways, and we need to do are. on this issue. I have highlighted the 14 something about it. In 2010, there were Just to give a sense, if you delve fur- different States that have passed laws more than 30,000 fatal crashes and more ther, for example, engine—just pick that, in fact, assure you that this infor- than 1.5 million crashes that resulted one here: ‘‘Number of times engine was mation is your information and cannot in injuries. This is unacceptable. Rural started since being manufactured prior be taken from you without your con- road safety is a critical issue for my to a crash.’’ Obviously the idea here sent other than through a court order State, as well as for Senator HOEVEN’s with the event data recorder is that it or in the case of a medical emergency. State. Only 23 percent of the country’s provides information just like an event But when you leave your State and you population lives in rural areas, and yet data recorder on an airplane. In the are driving in another State, you are 57 percent of all traffic fatalities occur event of a crash, it provides informa- no longer protected. So even though 14 in rural America. tion about the accident. It is recording States have stepped up and said: Yes, As a Member of the Senate Com- this information in a loop on a contin- this is something we need to do—in merce, Science, and Transportation uous basis, and it retains it for a short fact, it was something we did when I Committee, I have worked to advance period of time and constantly updates was Governor in my State. Not only efforts to improve safety for all driv- it. are the other States not protected, but ers, especially on rural roads, and we For example, for your engine, it can you are not protected either when you have made some progress. The trans- record the number of times the engine drive outside your State, which all of portation bill, MAP–21, ensured strong was started since being manufactured us do on many occasions. So that is funding for safety improvements at prior to a crash. It can record the num- why we need a Federal law. rail-highway grade crossings, and the The reality is this technology is ber of times the engine was started allocation of Federal funding was im- evolving and developing. This tech- since being manufactured prior to the proved to put resources into roadways nology is going to continue to develop EDR data download that is taken in that need attention the most. case the box is removed and the infor- with all kinds of other aspects—obvi- My amendment in MAP–21, with Sen- ously now we have GPS—and all the mation is taken and there isn’t a crash. ator SESSIONS, required the Federal It can record how fast the engine was different things that are being done Highway Administration to work with with automobiles. In many cases these running. That is just 1 of the 45 data State and local transportation officials are things people want, but they need points, but it shows the kind of infor- to collect the best practices from to know their privacy is protected, and mation that is recorded and can be ex- around the country that are also cost- that is what we are doing here. We are tracted from the black box. effective ways to increase safety on doing it in a way that we made sure we So what does our legislation do? It is high-risk rural roads. The report was continue to assure law enforcement, very simple and very straightforward. just released, and I am now looking for first responders, and manufacturers The Driver Privacy Act provides that opportunities for how we can best ad- that the safety issues are being dealt the data from your EDR in your car dress some of the challenges addressed with, and at the same time assure cannot be extracted or taken by an- in the study, but it is clear we have other party other than under very spe- American citizens and consumers that their privacy rights are being respected more work to do. cific circumstances, and that means it Vehicle technologies that assist driv- and protected as required under the cannot be done without your consent ers and prevent crashes have grown Fourth Amendment of our Constitu- unless it is authorized by a court of law tremendously in recent years. From tion. or the information is retrieved pursu- With that, I will turn to my esteemed new sensors that identify unsafe condi- ant to NHTSA, which is the National colleague from Minnesota and again tions, to driverless cars, these emerg- Highway Transportation Safety Ad- thank her and her staff for the work ing technologies could dramatically in- ministration, recall or the information they have done on this bill. With her crease safety for drivers and pas- is needed in the event of a medical background in law enforcement, she sengers. emergency, essentially unless there is truly understands the issues and has Event data recorders, which are the some kind of recall on the car—and been invaluable in putting this legisla- subject of our discussion today, hold then they can’t disclose any data about tion together. Again, I thank her and similar promise in improving safety on you as an individual. It is macrodata. ask her for her comments. our roadways. An EDR, as Senator But other than that, without your con- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- HOEVEN described, is a device that sent, that information can only be ator from Minnesota. records data on a loop it receives from taken from you by a court of law or in Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Madam President, vehicle sensors and safety systems. The the event of a medical emergency, and I am introducing this bill today with data is constantly being replaced and it that is done, obviously, for the very Senator HOEVEN, who has been a true only records 5 seconds of technical reason you have the black box in the leader on this issue. When he was Gov- safety information when a crash oc- car—safety, right? ernor, he worked to pass a similar law curs, although I am sure that could Law enforcement might be getting it in North Dakota. change when the technology changes. pursuant to a court order. They can’t As Senator HOEVEN just described, EDRs can be the only resource avail- just take it; they have to have a court the Driver Privacy Act will strengthen able to determine the cause of a crash order. If you are in a car accident and safety and protect consumer privacy. I by providing information about what a they need that information because of think the bipartisan support Senator driver was doing in the seconds leading a medical emergency, then there is a HOEVEN has gathered for this bill— up to a crash, such as how fast the ve- special condition to take it. seven Republicans, seven Democrats, hicle was going, whether the brake was In developing these, we were very and people all over the country from activated in the seconds before the careful to work both with the organiza- Hawaii to Georgia to Oregon to Alaska, crash, if airbags were deployed, and tions that advocate privacy as well as not to mention the two of us from the whether the driver and passengers were the automobile dealers, the insurance middle of the country—demonstrates wearing seatbelts. industry, and law enforcement. We con- the strong support and the concerns As a former prosecutor, I know how sulted with stakeholders, such as the people have about emerging tech- useful this data can be. It can be very Electronic Privacy Information Center, nology. We want this technology, but I useful for investigators to put the Heritage, AAA, the Auto Alliance, the figure our laws have to be as sophisti- pieces back together to more easily de- International Association of Chiefs of cated as the technology we have out termine the cause of a crash for safety Police. Again, we wanted to make sure there. Right now our laws are lagging reasons and also determine who caused the law enforcement issues were cov- and this information is not protected. the crash. ered as well as the ACLU. We have a There is no roadmap on how it should The proven benefits to driving safety broad and diverse group that has been be protected, and that is why we are in- that EDRs provide are not new. In the consulted and that we have worked troducing this bill. summer of 2012, the Senate included in

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So when the legitimate questions regarding what lection and privacy and civil liberties, Federal Government—the U.S. Depart- impact expanding EDRs to all pas- it was very timely that I came over ment of Transportation, NHTSA, the senger vehicles would have on con- here. While this may not quite have safety branch—steps up and says: OK, sumer privacy. Who owns the data? the huge ramifications of that hearing, we are going to require this device to Who can access the data? It became I do think to myself that maybe if peo- be in every single car, we need to make clear that an effective EDR provision ple thought ahead a little bit, we sure we are also providing the privacy would need to strengthen driver and wouldn’t have been sitting in that that goes with it that assures our citi- vehicle safety while protecting con- hearing. That is what we are trying to zens that their Fourth Amendment sumer privacy, and the EDR provision do with this bill. We are trying to rights will be protected. was removed from the final transpor- think ahead so we can keep up with the Again, I think the Senator from Min- tation bill. technology so it doesn’t beat us out nesota makes a really great point that Over the past 2 years, NHTSA has and it doesn’t beat our constitutional when we look at some of these areas in continued to work with law enforce- rights out. terms of whether it is NSA, IRS, or ment safety groups and the automobile I have seen firsthand the devastating other areas, people feel there wasn’t manufacturers to ensure the safety effects automobile crashes can have on enough work done on the front end to benefits of EDRs, which could reach families as they are forced to say good- protect their personal privacy, so we the most consumers. The auto manu- bye to a loved one much too early. Of- are in a catchup situation. Let’s not do facturers had already begun expanding tentimes families just want answers. that when every single citizen across the inclusion of EDR technology in They want to know what happened and this country owns or their family owns more new vehicles each year. EDRs be- why. EDRs can help provide those an- or has access to some type of auto- came so commonplace that 96 percent swers. Our bill accounts for those needs mobile. That is what we are trying to of 2013 cars and trucks had the EDR of law enforcement and these families. do. Again, as the technology develops we built in, and NHTSA and the industry You don’t have to take my word for it. need to understand what the ramifica- it regulates, the automakers, were able The International Association of Chiefs tions are and how to protect privacy. I to agree that all new cars and trucks of Police has concluded that the Data think, on behalf of both of us, we are should have an EDR in place in Sep- Privacy Act will not cause any addi- appreciative that we have 14 Senators tember 2014. I am not sure everyone tional burden to law enforcement agen- engaged already, and we look to add, who goes out and buys a car is aware of cies in accessing the data they need. and we are open to ideas on making this, but by 2014 every single car and Advancements in technology often- sure this is the right kind of legislation truck will have this capability. times force us to take a look at related that addresses safety but ultimately However, NHTSA does not have the laws to ensure they remain in sync. protects the privacy of our citizens. authority to address the consumer pri- Senator HOEVEN and I are introducing vacy concerns related to EDRs that the Driver Privacy Act to do just that. f have remained outstanding for 2 entire Our bill strikes that balance between AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND years. We have seen an enormous in- strengthening consumer privacy pro- PROPOSED crease in new cars and trucks con- tections while recognizing that EDR SA 2649. Mr. COBURN (for himself, Mr. taining the EDRs, and that is where data will be required to aid law en- TESTER, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. BEGICH, Senator HOEVEN comes in. forcement, advance vehicle safety ob- Mr. MCCAIN, Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. BURR, and Mr. Congress does have the authority to jectives, or to determine the need for TOOMEY) submitted an amendment intended clarify ownership of EDR data, and emergency medical response following to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1845, to that is why we are introducing the a crash. provide for the extension of certain unem- ployment benefits, and for other purposes; Driver Privacy Act, along with 12 other I thank Senator HOEVEN for his lead- which was ordered to lie on the table. Senators. Our bill makes crystal clear ership. He is a true bipartisan leader. SA 2650. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an that the owner of the vehicle is the We have worked together on many amendment intended to be proposed to rightful owner of the data collected by bills. When we work together, I always amendment SA 2631 proposed by Mr. REID that vehicle’s EDR, and it may not be say the Red River may technically di- (for Mr. REED) to the bill S. 1845, supra; retrieved unless a court authorizes re- vide our States, but it actually brings which was ordered to lie on the table. trieval of the data, the vehicle owner us together, whether it is about flood SA 2651. Mr. HELLER (for himself, Ms. or lessee consents to the data retrieval, COLLINS, Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. COATS, Ms. MUR- protection measures or important bills KOWSKI, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. ISAKSON, and Mr. the information is retrieved to deter- such as this. I appreciate the oppor- HOEVEN) submitted an amendment intended mine the need for emergency medical tunity to work with him on this bill. to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1845, response following a crash, or the in- I yield the floor. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. formation is retrieved for traffic safety The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- f research, in which case personally ator from North Dakota. identifiable information is not dis- Mr. HOEVEN. Madam President, I TEXT OF AMENDMENTS closed. So that is where you have it. thank Senator KLOBUCHAR for joining SA 2649. Mr. COBURN (for himself, We have worked hard with safety me on this legislation and working to Mr. TESTER, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, groups and law enforcement to make develop a great group of 14 original co- Mr. BEGICH, Mr. MCCAIN, Ms. AYOTTE, sure this would work for them. You sponsors. Mr. BURR, and Mr. TOOMEY) submitted would need a court authorization or Senator KLOBUCHAR brings such a an amendment intended to be proposed you would need a consent or you would great background as a prosecutor in by him to the bill S. 1845, to provide for need a determination that it is needed the law enforcement industry and truly the extension of certain unemployment to determine the cause of a crash or it understands law enforcement issues, benefits, and for other purposes; which is needed for research, and in that case, safety issues, and the informational was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- no identifiable data. benefits there are with not only event lows: This was really important for me, as data recorders, but also understands At the end of the matter proposed to be in- a former prosecutor, that we made this the need to protect individual privacy. serted, insert the following: work for law enforcement and our safe- As I think we both said very clearly SEC. 10. ENDING UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS TO JOBLESS MILLIONAIRES AND BIL- ty groups, but, most importantly, our here on the Senate floor, this is a tech- LIONAIRES. goal was to make it work for the indi- nology that is new and evolving. It is (a) PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any vidual consumers, the citizens of the not just that this is a new and evolving other provision of law, no Federal funds may

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be used to make payments of unemployment (2) inserting after clause (i) the following: ‘‘(1) DATA COLLECTION.—Each State shall compensation (including such compensation ‘‘(ii) training, with priority consideration submit to the Secretary data on programs under the Federal-State Extended Com- given, after consultation with the Governor determined, under section 129(c)(1)(C) or pensation Act of 1970 and the emergency un- and the head of the State workforce agency 134(d)(4)(F)(iv), to lead to industry-recog- employment compensation program under and beginning not later than 6 months after nized and regionally relevant credentials, title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations the date of enactment of the Careers through and on the need of that State for such cre- Act, 2008) to an individual whose adjusted Responsive, Efficient, and Effective Retrain- dentials. gross income in the preceding year was equal ing Act, to programs that lead to an indus- ‘‘(2) REPORT.—Based on data provided by to or greater than $1,000,000. try-recognized, nationally portable, and re- the States under paragraph (1), the Sec- (b) COMPLIANCE.—Unemployment Insurance gionally relevant credential, if the local retary shall annually compile the data and applications shall include a form or proce- board determines that such programs are prepare a report identifying industry-recog- dure for an individual applicant to certify available and appropriate;’’. nized credentials that are regionally rel- the individual’s adjusted gross income was (c) GENERAL EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING evant or nationally portable. The report not equal to or greater than $1,000,000 in the ACTIVITIES.—Section 134(d)(4)(F) of the shall include information on the needs of preceding year. Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. each State and of the Nation for such creden- (c) AUDITS.—The certifications required by tials. subsection (b) shall be auditable by the U.S. 2864(d)(4)(F)) is amended by adding at the end Department of Labor or the U.S. Govern- the following: ‘‘(3) AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary shall ment Accountability Office. ‘‘(iv) PRIORITY FOR PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE make the report available and easily search- (d) STATUS OF APPLICANTS.—It is the duty AN INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED, NATIONALLY PORT- able on a website. of the states to verify the residency, employ- ABLE, AND REGIONALLY RELEVANT CREDEN- ‘‘(4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in ment, legal, and income status of applicants TIAL.—In selecting and approving programs this subsection shall be construed as an offi- for Unemployment Insurance and no Federal of training services under this section, a one- cial endorsement of a credential by the De- funds may be expended for purposes of deter- stop operator and employees of a one-stop partment of Labor.’’. mining an individual’s eligibility under this center referred to in subsection (c) shall, SEC. 203. ESTABLISHING INCENTIVES FOR AC- Act. after consultation with the Governor and the COUNTABILITY. (e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The prohibition head of the State workforce agency and be- (a) PROGRAM.—Subtitle B of title I of the under subsection (a) shall apply to weeks of ginning not later than 6 months after the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 is amended unemployment beginning on or after the date of enactment of the Careers through Re- by inserting after section 112 (29 U.S.C. 2822) date of the enactment of this Act. sponsive, Efficient, and Effective Retraining the following: Act, give priority consideration to programs ‘‘SEC. 112A. PAY FOR PERFORMANCE PILOT PRO- SA 2650. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an (approved by the appropriate State agency GRAM. amendment intended to be proposed to and local board in conjunction with section ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— amendment SA 2631 proposed by Mr. 122) that lead to an industry-recognized, na- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year REID (for Mr. REED) to the bill S. 1845, tionally portable, and regionally relevant after the date of enactment of the Careers to provide for the extension of certain credential. through Responsive, Efficient, and Effective unemployment benefits, and for other ‘‘(v) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in Retraining Act, the Secretary of Labor shall purposes; which was ordered to lie on clause (iv) or section 129(c)(1)(C) shall be con- establish a Pay for Performance pilot pro- the table; as follows: strued to require an entity with responsi- gram. The Secretary shall select not fewer bility for selecting or approving a workforce Add at the end the following: than 5 States, including at least 1 rural investment activities program to select a State and at least 1 non-rural State, to par- TITLE II—WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT program that leads to a credential specified ticipate in the pilot program by carrying out SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE. in clause (iv).’’. a Pay for Performance State program. This title may be cited as the ‘‘Careers (d) STATE ADMINISTRATION.— ‘‘(2) VOLUNTARY NATURE OF PROGRAM.— through Responsive, Efficient, and Effective (1) GENERAL EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING AC- Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to Retraining Act.’’. TIVITIES.—Section 122(b)(2)(D) of the Work- require a State to participate in the pilot SEC. 202. STEERING FEDERAL TRAINING DOL- force Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. program without the State’s consent. LARS TOWARD SKILLS NEEDED BY 2842(b)(2)(D)) is amended— ‘‘(3) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the INDUSTRY. (A) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the term ‘rural State’ means a State that has a (a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 101 of the Work- end; population density of 52 or fewer persons per force Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2801) (B) in clause (iii), by striking the period is amended by adding at the end the fol- square mile, or a State in which the largest and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and lowing: county has fewer than 150,000 people, as de- (C) by adding at the end the following: termined on the basis of the most recent de- ‘‘(54) CREDENTIAL.— ‘‘(iv) in the case of a provider of a program cennial census of population conducted pur- ‘‘(A) INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED.—The term ‘in- of training services that leads to an indus- dustry-recognized’, used with respect to a suant to section 141 of title 13, United States try-recognized, nationally portable, and re- credential, means a credential that is sought Code. gionally relevant credential, that the pro- or accepted by employers within the indus- ‘‘(b) SUBMISSION OF PLANS.—To be eligible gram leading to the credential meets such try sector involved as recognized, preferred, to participate in the pilot program, a State or required for recruitment, screening, hir- quality criteria (which may be accreditation shall submit to the Secretary and obtain ap- ing, or advancement. If a credential is not by a State-recognized, third party accred- proval of a Pay for Performance plan de- yet available for a certain skill that is so iting agency) as the Governor (in consulta- scribed in section 112(e) as a supplement to sought or accepted, completion of an indus- tion with representatives of the relevant in- the State plan described in section 112. The try-recognized training program shall be dustry sectors and labor groups) shall estab- State shall submit the supplement in accord- considered to be an industry-recognized cre- lish not later than 6 months after the date of ance with such process as the Secretary may dential, for the purposes of this paragraph. enactment of the Careers through Respon- specify after consultation with States. ‘‘(B) NATIONALLY PORTABLE.—The term ‘na- sive, Efficient, and Effective Retraining ‘‘(c) IMPLEMENTATION.— tionally portable,’ used with respect to cre- Act.’’. ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In a State that carries dential, means a credential that is sought or (2) YOUTH ACTIVITIES.—Section 123 of the out a Pay for Performance State program, accepted as described in subparagraph (A) Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. the State shall reserve and the local areas across multiple States. 2843) is amended by inserting ‘‘(including shall use the amount described in paragraph ‘‘(C) REGIONALLY RELEVANT.—The term ‘re- such quality criteria (which may be accredi- (2) to provide a portion of the training serv- gionally relevant,’ used with respect to a tation by a State-recognized, third party ac- ices authorized under section 134(d)(4) (re- credential, means a credential that is deter- crediting agency) as the Governor (in con- ferred to in this section as ‘training serv- mined by the Governor and the head of the sultation with representatives of the rel- ices’) under the State’s Pay for Performance State workforce agency to be sought or ac- evant industry sectors and labor groups) plan, in addition to the other requirements cepted as described in subparagraph (A) in shall establish not later than 6 months after of this Act. that State and neighboring States. the date of enactment of the Careers through ‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—The amount reserved under ‘‘(55) STATE WORKFORCE AGENCY.—The term Responsive, Efficient, and Effective Retrain- paragraph (1) shall be— ‘State workforce agency’ means the lead ing Act for a training program that leads to ‘‘(A) a portion of not more than 25 percent, State agency with responsibility for work- an industry-recognized, nationally portable, as determined by the State, of the funds force investment activities carried out under and regionally relevant credential)’’ after available to be allocated under section 133(b) subtitle B.’’. ‘‘plan’’. within the State, and estimated by the State (b) YOUTH ACTIVITIES.—Section 129(c)(1)(C) (e) REPORT ON INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED CRE- to be available for training services, for the of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 DENTIALS.—Section 122 of the Workforce In- fiscal year involved; and U.S.C. 2854(c)(1)(C)) is amended— vestment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2842) is ‘‘(B) a portion of not more than 17.5 per- (1) by redesignating clauses (ii) through amended by adding at the end the following: cent, as determined by the State, of the (iv) as clauses (iii) through (v), respectively; ‘‘(j) REPORT ON INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED CRE- grant funds awarded under section 211(b) for and DENTIALS.— the State (which portion shall be taken from

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State program, with appropriate consider- graph (12), and moving that paragraph to the ‘‘(d) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSIST- ation of and participation targets for special end of that section 223(a); and ANCE.—The Secretary shall provide, by grant participant populations that face multiple (B) by inserting after paragraph (7) the fol- or contract, training and technical assist- barriers to employment, as defined in sec- lowing: ance to States, and local areas in States, tion 134(d)(4)(G)(iv); ‘‘(8) Providing training services in accord- carrying out a Pay for Performance State ‘‘(C) specify employment placement, em- ance with section 112A(c).’’. program. ployment retention, and earnings outcome SEC. 204. PROVIDING A JOB TRAINING REORGA- ‘‘(e) STATE REPORTS.—Each State carrying measures and timetables for each target pop- NIZATION PLAN FOR THE FEDERAL out a Pay for Performance State program ulation; WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEM. shall annually prepare and submit to the ‘‘(D) provide for curricula in terms of com- (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: Secretary a report regarding the perform- petencies required for education and career (1) FEDERAL JOB TRAINING PROGRAM.—The ance of the State on the outcome measures advancement that are, where feasible, tied to term ‘‘Federal job training program’’ means described in section 112(e)(2)(C). industry-recognized credentials and related any federally funded employment and train- ‘‘(f) EVALUATIONS.— standards (where the quality of the program ing program, including the programs identi- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year leading to the credential or standard is rec- fied in the Government Accountability Of- after the conclusion of the transition period ognized by the State or local area involved), fice report. described in section 112(e)(2)(H), the Sec- (2) GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE RE- retary shall enter into an arrangement for or State licensing requirements; ‘‘(E) describe how the State or local areas PORT.—The term ‘‘Government Account- an entity to carry out an independent eval- ability Office report’’ means the January will provide information to participants in uation of Pay for Performance State pro- 2011 report of the Government Account- the State program about appropriate support grams carried out under this subtitle. ability Office entitled ‘‘Multiple Employee services, where feasible, including career as- ‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—For each Pay for Perform- and Training Programs: Providing Informa- sessment and counseling, case management, ance State program, the entity shall evalu- tion on Colocating Services and Consoli- child care, transportation, financial aid, and ate the program design and performance on dating Administrative Structures Could Pro- job placement services; the outcome measures, evaluate (wherever mote Efficiencies’’ (GAO–11–92). ‘‘(F) specify a fixed amount that, except as possible) the level of satisfaction with the (3) INDIVIDUAL WITH A BARRIER TO EMPLOY- provided in subparagraph (H), local areas in program among employers and employees MENT.—The term ‘‘individual with a barrier the State will pay to providers of training benefiting from the program, and estimate to employment’’ means a job seeker who— services in the State program, for each eligi- public returns on investment, including such (A) is economically disadvantaged; returns as reduced dependence on public as- ble participant who achieves the applicable (B) has limited English proficiency; sistance, reduced unemployment, and in- outcome measures or is an excepted partici- (C) requires remedial education; creased tax revenue paid by participants pant described in subparagraph (G)(i), ac- (D) is an older worker; exiting the program for employment. cording to the timetables described in sub- (E) is an individual who has completed a ‘‘(3) REPORT.—The entity shall prepare a paragraph (C), which amount— sentence for a criminal offense; or report containing the results of the evalua- ‘‘(i) shall represent 115 percent of the his- (F) has another barrier to employment, as tion, and submit the report to the Secretary, torical cost of providing training services to defined by the Director of the Office of Man- not later than 18 months after the conclu- a participant under this subtitle, as estab- agement and Budget. sion of the transition period. lished by the State or local area involved; (b) REORGANIZATION PLAN.— ‘‘(g) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than and (1) PREPARATION.—The Director of the Of- 3 months after the submission of the report ‘‘(ii) may vary by target population; fice of Management and Budget (referred to described in subsection (f)(3), the Secretary ‘‘(G) provide assurances that— in this section as the ‘‘Director’’) shall pre- shall prepare and submit to Congress a re- ‘‘(i) no funds reserved for the State pro- pare a plan to reorganize Federal job train- port that contains the results of the evalua- gram will be paid to a provider for a partici- ing programs to increase their efficiency, in- tions described in subsection (f) and rec- pant who does not achieve the outcome tegration, and alignment. The plan shall in- ommendations. The recommendation shall measures according to the timetables, except clude a proposal to decrease the number of include the Secretary’s opinions concerning for a participant who does not achieve the Federal job training programs without de- whether the pilot program should be contin- outcome measures through no fault of the creasing services or accessibility to services ued and whether the pay for performance provider, as determined by the Governor in for eligible job training participants, includ- model should be expanded within this Act, consultation with the head of the State ing individuals with barriers to employment. and related considerations. board, relevant local boards, and at least 1 In preparing the plan, the Director shall ‘‘(h) PERFORMANCE.— representative of the State’s providers of demonstrate that the Director considered ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in training services; and the findings of the Government Account- paragraph (2), section 136 of this Act shall ‘‘(ii) each local area in the State will re- ability Office report, and input from the not apply to a State, or a local area in a allocate funds not paid to a provider, because States, heads of the affected Federal depart- State, with respect to activities carried out the achievement described in clause (i) did ments and agencies, local workforce invest- through a Pay for Performance State pro- not occur, for further activities under the ment boards, businesses, workforce advo- gram. State program in the local area; and cates and community organizations, labor ‘‘(2) FISCAL AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT- ‘‘(H) specify a transition period of not organizations, and relevant education-re- ABILITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS.—Section more than 1 year during which the reserved lated organizations. 136(f)(1) shall apply with respect to reporting funds may be paid to providers of training (2) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 12 months and monitoring of the use of funds under this services based on the previous year’s per- after the date of enactment of this Act, the section for activities described in paragraph formance on the core indicators of perform- Director shall submit the reorganization (1).’’. ance described in 136(b)(2)(A)(i), in order to plan to the appropriate committees of Con- (b) PAY FOR PERFORMANCE PLAN.—Section enable the providers to begin to provide serv- gress. 112 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 ices under the State program and adjust to a SEC. 205. USING THE NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF (29 U.S.C. 2822) is amended by adding at the pay for performance model, including adjust- NEW HIRES INFORMATION TO AS- end the following: ing by— SIST IN ADMINISTRATION OF WORK- ‘‘(e) PAY FOR PERFORMANCE PLANS.— ‘‘(i) developing partnerships with local em- FORCE INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For a State seeking to PROGRAMS. carry out a Pay for Performance State pro- ployers; and Section 453(j) of the Social Security Act (42 gram (referred to in this subsection as a ‘‘(ii) seeking financial support and volun- U.S.C. 653(j)) is amended by adding at the ‘State program’) under the pilot program de- teer services from private sector sources. end the following: ‘‘(3) APPROVAL.—In determining whether to scribed in section 112A, the State plan shall ‘‘(12) INFORMATION COMPARISONS AND DIS- approve the plan supplement, the Secretary include a plan supplement, consisting of a CLOSURE TO ASSIST IN ADMINISTRATION OF shall consider the quality of the data system Pay for Performance plan developed by the WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT PROGRAMS.— the State will use to track performance on State and local areas in the State. ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If, for purposes of ad- outcome measures in carrying out a Pay for ‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—The Pay for Performance ministering a program of workforce invest- plan shall, with respect to the State pro- Performance plan.’’. ment activities carried out under subtitle B gram— (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— of title I of the Workforce Investment Act of ‘‘(A) provide for technical support to local (1) USE OF FUNDS.—Section 211(b)(2) of the 1998, a State agency responsible for the ad- areas and providers in order to carry out a Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. ministration of such program transmits to pay for performance model, which shall at a 9211(b)(2)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or train- the Secretary the names and social security minimum provide assistance with data col- ing services in accordance with section account numbers of individuals, the Sec- lection and data entry requirements; 112A(c)’’ before the period at the end. retary shall disclose to such State agency in- ‘‘(B) specify target populations who are eli- (2) FUNDING.—Section 223(a) of the Work- formation on such individuals and their em- gible to receive training services authorized force Investment Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. ployers maintained in the National Direc- under section 134(d)(4) (referred to in this 9223(a)) is amended— tory of New Hires, subject to this paragraph.

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‘‘(B) CONDITION ON DISCLOSURE BY THE SEC- the case of any account established as of a ‘‘(b) If any unemployment compensation is RETARY.—The Secretary shall make a disclo- week ending after December 29, 2013— payable to an individual on other than a sure under subparagraph (A) only to the ex- ‘‘(A) paragraph (1)(A) shall be applied by monthly basis (including a benefit payable tent that the Secretary determines that the substituting ‘24 percent’ for ‘80 percent’; and as a lump sum to the extent that it is a com- disclosure would not interfere with the effec- ‘‘(B) paragraph (1)(B) shall be applied by mutation of, or a substitute for, such peri- tive operation of the program under this substituting ‘6 times’ for ‘20 times’.’’. odic compensation), the reduction under this part. (2) NUMBER OF WEEKS IN SECOND TIER BEGIN- section shall be made at such time or times ‘‘(C) USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION NING AFTER DECEMBER 28, 2013.—Section 4002(c) and in such amounts as the Commissioner of BY STATE AGENCIES.— of such Act is amended by adding at the end Social Security (referred to in this section as ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—A State agency may not the following: the ‘Commissioner’) determines will approxi- use or disclose information provided under ‘‘(5) SPECIAL RULE RELATING TO AMOUNTS mate as nearly as practicable the reduction this paragraph except for purposes of admin- ADDED TO AN ACCOUNT AS OF A WEEK ENDING prescribed by subsection (a). istering a program referred to in subpara- AFTER DECEMBER 29, 2013.—Notwithstanding ‘‘(c) Reduction of benefits under this sec- graph (A) (including measuring performance any provision of paragraph (1), if augmenta- tion shall be made after any applicable re- under section 136 of the Workforce Invest- tion under this subsection occurs as of a ductions under section 203(a) and section 224, ment Act of 1998 and preparing reports under week ending after December 29, 2013— but before any other applicable deductions subsection (d) of such section, subject to this ‘‘(A) paragraph (1)(A) shall be applied by under section 203. paragraph). substituting ‘24 percent’ for ‘54 percent’; and ‘‘(d)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if the ‘‘(ii) INFORMATION SECURITY.—The State ‘‘(B) paragraph (1)(B) shall be applied by Commissioner determines that an individual agency shall have in effect data security and substituting ‘6 times’ for ‘14 times’.’’. may be eligible for unemployment com- control policies that the Secretary finds ade- (c) FUNDING.—Section 4004(e)(1) of the Sup- pensation which would give rise to a reduc- quate to ensure the security of information plemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public tion of benefits under this section, the Com- obtained under this paragraph and to ensure Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended— missioner may require, as a condition of cer- that access to such information is restricted (1) in subparagraph (I), by striking ‘‘and’’ tification for payment of any benefits under to authorized persons for purposes of author- at the end; section 223 to any individual for any month ized uses and disclosures. (2) in subparagraph (J), by inserting ‘‘and’’ and of any benefits under section 202 for such at the end; and ‘‘(iii) PENALTY FOR MISUSE OF INFORMA- month based on such individual’s wages and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (J) the TION.—An officer or employee of the State self-employment income, that such indi- following: agency who fails to comply with this sub- vidual certify— ‘‘(K) the amendments made by subsections paragraph shall be subject to the sanctions ‘‘(A) whether the individual has filed or in- (a) and (b) of section 2 of the Emergency Un- under subsection (l)(2) to the same extent as tends to file any claim for unemployment employment Compensation Extension Act;’’. if such officer or employee was an officer or compensation, and (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments ‘‘(B) if the individual has filed a claim, employee of the United States. made by this section shall take effect as if whether there has been a decision on such ‘‘(D) PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS.—State included in the enactment of the American agencies requesting information under this claim. Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (Public Law 112– ‘‘(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the paragraph shall adhere to uniform proce- 240). dures established by the Secretary governing Commissioner may, in the absence of evi- SEC. 2A. REPEAL OF REDUCTIONS MADE BY BI- dence to the contrary, rely upon a certifi- information requests and data matching PARTISAN BUDGET ACT OF 2013. cation by the individual that the individual under this paragraph. Section 403 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of has not filed and does not intend to file such ‘‘(E) WAIVER OF REQUIREMENT TO REIMBURSE 2013 (Public Law 113–67) is repealed as of the COSTS.—Notwithstanding subsection (k)(3), a date of the enactment of such Act. a claim, or that the individual has so filed and no final decision thereon has been made, State agency shall not be required to reim- SEC. 2B. REDUCTION IN BENEFITS BASED ON RE- burse the Secretary for the costs incurred by CEIPT OF UNEMPLOYMENT COM- in certifying benefits for payment pursuant the Secretary in furnishing information re- PENSATION. to section 205(i). quested under this paragraph to the State (a) IN GENERAL.—Title II of the Social Se- ‘‘(e) Whenever a reduction in total benefits agency.’’. curity Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) is amended based on an individual’s wages and self-em- by inserting after section 224 the following ployment income is made under this section SA 2651. Mr. HELLER (for himself, new section: for any month, each benefit, except the dis- ability insurance benefit, shall first be pro- Ms. COLLINS, Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. COATS, ‘‘REDUCTION IN BENEFITS BASED ON RECEIPT OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION portionately decreased, and any excess of Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. such reduction over the sum of all such bene- ‘‘SEC. 224A (a)(1) If for any month prior to ISAKSON, and Mr. HOEVEN) submitted fits other than the disability insurance ben- the month in which an individual attains re- an amendment intended to be proposed efit shall then be applied to such disability by him to the bill S. 1845, to provide for tirement age (as defined in section 216(l)(1))— insurance benefit. ‘‘(f)(1) Notwithstanding any other provi- the extension of certain unemployment ‘‘(A) such individual is entitled to benefits sion of law, the head of any Federal agency benefits, and for other purposes; which under section 223, and shall provide such information within its was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- ‘‘(B) such individual is entitled for such possession as the Commissioner may require lows: month to unemployment compensation, for purposes of making a timely determina- Strike section 2 and insert the following: the total of the individual’s benefits under tion of the amount of the reduction, if any, SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF section 223 for such month and of any bene- required by this section in benefits payable EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COM- fits under section 202 for such month based under this title, or verifying other informa- PENSATION PROGRAM. on the individual’s wages and self-employ- tion necessary in carrying out the provisions (a) EXTENSION.—Section 4007(a)(2) of the ment income shall be reduced (but not below of this section. Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Pub- zero) by the total amount of unemployment ‘‘(2) The Commissioner is authorized to lic Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amend- compensation received by such individual for enter into agreements with States, political ed by striking ‘‘January 1, 2014’’ and insert- such month. subdivisions, and other organizations that ing ‘‘April 1, 2014’’. ‘‘(2) The reduction of benefits under para- administer unemployment compensation, in (b) MODIFICATIONS RELATING TO WEEKS OF graph (1) shall also apply to any past-due order to obtain such information as the Com- EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.— benefits under section 223 for any month in missioner may require to carry out the pro- (1) NUMBER OF WEEKS IN FIRST TIER BEGIN- which the individual was entitled to— visions of this section. NING AFTER DECEMBER 28, 2013.—Section 4002(b) ‘‘(A) benefits under such section, and ‘‘(g) For purposes of this section, the term of such Act is amended— ‘‘(B) unemployment compensation. ‘unemployment compensation’ has the mean- (A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para- ‘‘(3) The reduction of benefits under para- ing given that term in section 85(b) of the In- graph (4); graph (1) shall not apply to any benefits ternal Revenue Code of 1986, and the total (B) in paragraph (2)— under section 223 for any month, or any ben- amount of unemployment compensation to (i) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘, AND efits under section 202 for such month based which an individual is entitled shall be de- WEEKS ENDING BEFORE DECEMBER 30, 2013’’ after on the individual’s wages and self-employ- termined prior to any applicable reduction ‘‘2012’’; and ment income for such month, if the indi- under State law based on the receipt of bene- (ii) in the matter preceding subparagraph vidual is entitled for such month to unem- fits under section 202 or 223.’’. (A), by inserting ‘‘, and before December 30, ployment compensation following a period of (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 2013’’ after ‘‘2012’’; and trial work (as described in section 222(c)(1), 224(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. (C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol- participation in the Ticket to Work and Self- 424a(a)) is amended, in the matter preceding lowing: Sufficiency Program established under sec- paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘the age of 65’’ and ‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULE RELATING TO AMOUNTS tion 1148, or participation in any other pro- inserting ‘‘retirement age (as defined in sec- ESTABLISHED IN AN ACCOUNT AS OF A WEEK gram that is designed to encourage an indi- tion 216(l)(1))’’. ENDING AFTER DECEMBER 29, 2013.—Notwith- vidual entitled to benefits under section 223 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments standing any provision of paragraph (1), in or 202 to work. made by subsections (a) and (b) shall apply

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The U.S.C. 901a) is amended by adding at the end AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET clerk will report the bill by title. the following: The assistant legislative clerk read ‘‘(11) ADDITIONAL REDUCTION OF NONMEDI- COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND as follows: CARE, NONDEFENSE DIRECT SPENDING.— GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For each of fiscal years A bill (H.R. 3527) to amend the Public 2015 through 2023, in addition to the reduc- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask Health Service Act to reauthorize the poison tion in direct spending under paragraph (6), unanimous consent that the Com- center national toll-free number, national on the date specified in paragraph (2), OMB mittee on Homeland Security and Gov- media campaign, and grant program, and for shall prepare and the President shall order a ernmental Affairs be authorized to other purposes. sequestration, effective upon issuance, re- meet during the session of the Senate There being no objection, the Senate ducing the spending described in subpara- on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at 10:15 proceeded to consider the bill. graph (B) by the uniform percentage nec- a.m. for a business meeting to consider Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- essary to reduce such spending for the fiscal pending committee business. imous consent that the bill be read a year by $1,333,000,000. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without third time and passed and the motion ‘‘(B) SPENDING COVERED.—The spending de- scribed in this subparagraph is spending that objection, it is so ordered. to reconsider be considered made and is— COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND laid upon the table, with no inter- ‘‘(i) nonexempt direct spending; GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS vening action or debate. ‘‘(ii) not spending for the Medicare pro- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without grams specified in section 256(d); and unanimous consent that the Com- objection, it is so ordered. ‘‘(iii) within the revised nonsecurity cat- mittee on Homeland Security and Gov- The bill (H.R. 3527) was ordered to a egory.’’. ernmental Affairs be authorized to third reading, was read the third time, f meet during the session of the Senate and passed. NOTICE OF HEARING on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at 10:30 f COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL a.m. in order to conduct a hearing ti- DESIGNATING THE LIEUTENANT RESOURCES tled ‘‘Examinng Conference and Travel GENERAL RICHARD J. SEITZ Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I would Spending Across the Federal Govern- COMMUNITY-BASED OUTPATIENT like to announce for the information of ment.’’ CLINIC the Senate and the public that a busi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- ness meeting has been scheduled before objection, it is so ordered. imous consent that the Veterans’ Af- the Senate Committee on Energy and COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY fairs Committee be discharged from Natural Resources. The business meet- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask ing will be held on Thursday, January further consideration of S. 1434, and we unanimous consent that the Com- proceed to the matter. 16, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. in room 366 of the mittee on the Judiciary be authorized Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without to meet during the session of the Sen- objection, it is so ordered. The purpose of this business meeting ate on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at is to consider the following nomina- The clerk will report the bill by title. 2:30 p.m., in room SD–226 of the Dirk- The assistant legislative clerk read tions: Mr. Michael L. Connor, to be sen Senate Office Building, to conduct Deputy Secretary of the Interior; Dr. as follows: a hearing entitled ‘‘Hearing on the Re- A bill (S. 1434) to designate the Junction Elizabeth M. Robinson, to be the Under port of the President’s Review Group Secretary of Energy; Dr. Franklin M. City Community-Based Outpatient Clinic lo- on Intelligence and Communications cated at 715 Southwind Drive, Junction City, Orr, Jr., to be the Under Secretary for Technology.’’ Kansas, as the Lieutenant General Richard Science, Department of Energy; Dr. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without J. Seitz Community-Based Outpatient Clin- Steven P. Croley, to be General Coun- objection, it is so ordered. ic. sel of the Department of Energy; Ms. SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMERGING THREATS AND There being no objection, the Senate Esther P. Kia’aina, to be an Assistant CAPABILITIES proceeded to consider the bill. Secretary of the Interior, Insular Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent Areas; Mr. Tommy P. Beaudreau, to be unanimous consent that the Sub- that the bill be read a third time and an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, committee on Emerging Threats and passed and the motion to reconsider be Policy, Management, and Budget; Mr. Capabilities of the Committee on considered made and laid upon the Christopher A. Smith, to be an Assist- table, with no intervening action or de- ant Secretary of Energy, Fossil En- Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on bate. ergy; Mr. Jonathan Elkind, to be an The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Assistant Secretary of Energy, Inter- Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at 10:15 a.m., in closed session to receive a briefing objection, it is so ordered. national Affairs; Mr. Neil G. Kornze, to The bill (S. 1434) was ordered to be be Director of the Bureau of Land Man- on department of defense counterter- rorism operations. engrossed for a third reading, was read agement, Department of the Interior; the third time, and passed, as follows: Dr. Marc A. Kastner, to be Director of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Office of Science, Department of objection, it is so ordered. S. 1434 Energy; and Dr. Ellen D. Williams, to SUBCOMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL AND Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- CONTRACTING OVERSIGHT resentatives of the United States of America in be Director of the Advanced Research Congress assembled, Projects Agency—Energy, Department Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Sub- SECTION 1. LIEUTENANT GENERAL RICHARD J. of Energy. SEITZ COMMUNITY-BASED OUT- Because of the limited time available committee on Financial and Con- PATIENT CLINIC. for the business meeting, witnesses tracting Oversight of the Committee (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— may testify by invitation only. How- on Homeland Security and Govern- (1) Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz ever, those wishing to submit written mental Affairs be authorized to meet served as the cadet commander of a unit of testimony for the hearing record during the session of the Senate on the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Leav- should send it to the Committee on En- Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. enworth High School in Leavenworth, Kan- in order to conduct a hearing entitled sas, where he earned the American Legion ergy and Natural Resources, U.S. Sen- Cup as an outstanding cadet; ate, 304 Dirksen Senate Office Building, ‘‘Management of Air Traffic Controller (2) while attending Kansas State Univer- Washington, DC 20510–6150, or by email Training Contacts.’’ sity, Lieutenant General Seitz accepted a to [email protected] The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without commission as a second lieutenant in the .gov. objection, it is so ordered. Army and was called into active duty in 1940;

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Mr. President, I ask unan- major, was given command of the 2nd Bat- tleman, compassionate, respected, full of in- imous consent that when the Senate talion of the 517th Parachute Infantry Regi- tegrity, gracious, giving, and a remarkable completes its business today, it ad- mental Combat Team, becoming the young- individual; and journ until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan- est battalion commander in the Army; (15) Lieutenant General Seitz lived each uary 15, 2014; that following the prayer (5) along with the 7th Armored Division, day to its fullest and his commitment to his and pledge, the morning hour be the battalion commanded by Lieutenant fellow man serves as an inspiration to all the people of the United States. deemed expired, the Journal of pro- General Seitz formed what became known as ceedings be approved to date, and the Task Force Seitz at the Battle of the Bulge (b) DESIGNATION.—The Junction City Com- munity-Based Outpatient Clinic located at time for the two leaders be reserved for with the mission to plug the gaps on the 715 Southwind Drive, Junction City, Kansas, north slope of the Bulge when the Germans their use later in the day; and that fol- shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Lieu- attempted to break out; lowing any leader remarks, the time tenant General Richard J. Seitz Community- until 12 noon be equally divided and (6) the service of Lieutenant General Seitz Based Outpatient Clinic’’. earned him the Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, (c) REFERENCES.—Any reference in any controlled between the two leaders or the Purple Heart, and many other acknowl- law, map, regulation, document, paper, or their designees, with Senators per- edgments during his 37-year career in the other record of the United States to the mitted to speak therein for up to 10 Army; Junction City Community-Based Outpatient minutes each; and, finally, at 12 noon, (7) after victory in Europe, Lieutenant Clinic referred to in subsection (b) shall be the Senate proceed to the consider- General Seitz remained in the Army, com- deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Lieutenant ation of H.J. Res. 106, as provided under General Richard J. Seitz Community-Based manding the 2nd Airborne Battle Group, the previous order. 503rd Infantry Regiment, and the 82nd Air- Outpatient Clinic’’. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without borne Division; f (8) on retiring in 1978, Lieutenant General objection, it is so ordered. Seitz settled in Junction City, Kansas, near MEASURES READ THE FIRST Ft. Riley, where he would greet deploying TIME—S. 1917 AND S. 1926 f and returning units from Iraq and Afghani- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am told stan at all times of the day; there are two bills at the desk, and I PROGRAM (9) Lieutenant General Seitz remained ac- ask for their first reading en bloc. tive in the wider community, working with The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mr. REID. At approximately 12:15 the Coronado Area Council of the Boy Scouts clerk will read the bills by title for the p.m. tomorrow there will be a rollcall of America, the Fort Riley National Bank, first time. vote on passage of the short-term con- Rotary International, and the Association of The assistant legislative clerk read tinuing resolution. Tomorrow we will the United States Army and serving on the as follows: continue to work on an agreement to board of the Eisenhower Presidential Library consider the flood insurance bill and and Museum; A bill (S. 1917) to provide for additional en- (10) Lieutenant General Seitz had a passion hancements of the sexual assault prevention begin consideration of the Omnibus ap- and response activities of the Armed Forces; for mentoring young officers and non- propriations bill once it is received A bill (S. 1926) to delay the implementation from the House. commissioned officers at Fort Riley, never of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters ceasing to be a soldier, according to his son, Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and to Richard M. Seitz; reform the National Association of Reg- f (11) Lieutenant General Seitz was named istered Agents and Brokers, and for other an Outstanding Citizen of Kansas; purposes. ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. (12) in 2012 an elementary school at Fort Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask for a Riley was named in honor of Lieutenant TOMORROW second reading on both of these meas- General Seitz, which is meaningful because Mr. REID. Mr. President, if there is he believed the fate of the United States re- ures and, in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of no further business to come before the lied on young children and the teachers who Senate, I ask unanimous consent that inspire them; rule XIV, I object to my own request. (13) during visits to the elementary school, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- it adjourn under the previous order. Lieutenant General Seitz would talk with tion is heard. There being no objection, the Senate, the students about what it meant to be a The bills will be read for the second at 7:11 p.m., adjourned until Wednes- ‘‘proud and great American’’ and his message time on the next legislative day. day, January 15, 2014, at 10 a.m.

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HONORING REV. ARTHUR in Miami, FL. He began his career as a sales ment’s coordinated effort to expand the num- EVANS, SR. representative at a different car dealership, but ber of Americans learning foreign languages quickly moved up the ranks. Working through and to increase cultural competency. HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON sales, management, and finance, he eventu- Mr. Speaker, I consider it a great honor to represent future leaders from Iowa like Emily OF MISSISSIPPI ally became President and CEO of Braman Imports. Throughout his career Mr. Murgado Hein in the United States Congress. I invite IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has been credited with reviving numerous my colleagues in the House to join me in con- Tuesday, January 14, 2014 dealerships in and around Miami, and helped gratulating her on earning this special scholar- Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- transform them into top performers. Addition- ship. I wish Ms. Hein continued success in her er, I rise today to honor a hardworking and ally, he has served as Chairman of the Florida studies, her travel and all her future endeav- self motivated man, Rev. Arthur Evans, Sr. Automobile Dealers Association and the Amer- ors. Mr. Arthur Evans, Sr., a lifelong resident of ican Honda National Dealer Advisory Board, f and was a member of the General Motors ad- Crystal Springs, MS was born on December HONORING THE MEMORY AND visory boards for marketing and fixed-oper- 26, 1940. He is the son of the late Mr. ‘‘Jim’’ SERVICE OF CITY ADMINIS- ations dealers. Currently, he sits on the board Evans and the late Mrs. Mattie Pearl Evans. TRATOR JAMES G. SCHARRET TO of the South Florida Automobile Dealers Asso- Mr. Evans originally started in the pulpwood THE CITY OF SOUTHFIELD hauling business in 1955 trading in his per- ciation. sonal car for a pulpwood truck. By 1966, he Outside of his business, Mr. Murgado is an moved into the gravel business. The business active member of numerous civic and commu- HON. GARY C. PETERS was a huge success. However, being a suc- nity organizations. He served as finance chair OF MICHIGAN cessful black business owner in 1966 in Mis- for the commissioning of the USS Gridley, a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sissippi did not come without the horrible ra- guided-missile destroyer in the first naval ves- Tuesday, January 14, 2014 cial obstacles of that time. sel ever commissioned in Miami. He currently Mr. PETERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. Evans was faced with unjust stipulations serves as a member of the Board of Trustees rise today to honor the memory and service of in contracts that would have never been in- for St. Thomas University in Miami, dual role James G. Scharret, City Administrator for the cluded if he were white. His truck drivers were at Miami Children’s Hospital Board and Foun- City of Southfield, who passed away unex- constantly harassed and even told ‘‘they would dation and is Vice Chair, and he is also a pectedly on January 9, 2014. continue to be pulled over unless they quit member of the World President’s Organiza- Mr. Scharret, or Jim as he was known to driving for this black man’’. tion. friends and colleagues, joined the city nearly Despite the ridicule and malice aimed to- Throughout the years, Mr. Murgado has forty years ago on December 10, 1974, as a ward him and his business, Mr. Evans contin- been consistently recognized for his achieve- research analyst and steadily moved up in the ued to press on as he would not be bullied by ments. He received the TIME Dealer of the ranks. He became director of management bigotry and racial hatred. During the apex of Year award, awarded annually to only 60 deal- and budget in 1982, deputy city administrator/ his successful trucking business, Mr. Evans ers nationwide. He has also been awarded the fiscal services director in November 2004 and had a fleet of up twenty trucks hauling each American International Automobile Dealers Im- acting city administrator in November 2006. day. Now, 55 years later, since the purchase pact Award, and was an inductee into the He was officially appointed to the post of city of that pulpwood truck, Arthur Lee Evans Miami-Dade Hall of Fame. Over the years I administrator in January 2008. Trucking is still going strong. have also had the privilege of getting to know Jim held a Bachelor of Science Degree in The owner, as strong as ever, is now known Mario, and his wife Bibiana, on a personal Business Administration from Wayne State as Rev. Arthur Evans, Sr., since being called level and hold them in the highest regard. University and a Master’s Degree in Public into ministry in December, 2000. They are truly one of the most exceptional, Administration from Central Michigan Univer- Rev. Evans has been married to Mrs. loyal, trustworthy, and caring families I know, sity. He was well-known for his work ethic, Johnnie Mae Evans for 54 years and is the and I am lucky to call them my friends. I look which included being a constant presence in proud father of 5 children, 15 grandchildren, forward to many more years of friendship and city hall. and 4 great grandchildren. wish nothing but the best for Mario, Bibiana, As the city administrator, Jim approached ‘‘Do all the good you can, by all the means and the entire Murgado family. his responsibilities with both pride and profes- you can, in all the ways you can, in all the Mr. Speaker, I am honored to pay tribute to sionalism. He was particularly mindful of the places you can, at all the times you can, to all Mr. Mario Murgado for his continued service to need for sound fiscal stewardship and took the the people you can, as long as ever you can.’’ Southern Florida and I ask my colleagues to city’s fiscal responsibility very seriously. Under by John Wesley, is the sentiments of the heart join me in recognizing this remarkable indi- his leadership, Southfield was recognized on of Rev. Arthur Evans, Sr. vidual. many occasions for its sound financial outlook. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me f Of his many accomplishments, Jim was espe- in recognizing a dynamic and dedicated busi- cially proud of leading Southfield through a pe- nessman, Rev. Arthur Evans, Sr. TRIBUTE TO EMILY HEIN riod of economic difficulty; the city saw its tax f base decline by 40 percent but services were HON. TOM LATHAM maintained without any city employee being HONORING MR. MARIO MURGADO OF IOWA laid off. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In addition to running the day to day oper- ations of the city, Jim served on the boards of HON. MARIO DIAZ-BALART Tuesday, January 14, 2014 OF FLORIDA the Michigan Municipal Risk Management Au- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority recognize and congratulate Emily Hein of and Local Development Finance Authority. In Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Clive, Iowa for her commitment and enthu- each of these roles, he worked hard to further Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I rise today siasm as a foreign language student at the the city’s vision of a vibrant and prosperous to honor Mr. Mario Murgado, an outstanding University of Rochester. Southfield—approaching them with the same individual and someone who has become one Emily has been selected for a United States dedication that has endeared him to of the most highly regarded business leaders Department of State Critical Language Schol- Southfield’s residents, business leaders and in Southern Florida. arship to study Advanced Chinese in Qingdao, elected officials. Mr. Murgado currently serves as President China. This State Department program is an Mr. Speaker, as a former city councilman, I and Chief Executive Officer of Brickell Motors important component of the federal govern- know first-hand how communities benefit from

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VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:44 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A14JA8.001 E14JAPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E62 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 14, 2014 dedicated administrators. Jim’s decades of As members of Congress we need to con- HONORING COLONEL JOSEPH F. dedicated service to the residents of South- tinue to promote policies that provide for a LAMPERT ON THE OCCASION OF field is a testament to his character and I strong trade relationship with our partners in HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE know that his leadership will be missed by all Asia and in turn provide much-needed, good- UNITED STATES ARMY who are connected to the Southfield commu- paying jobs for the American people. nity. I offer my sincere condolences to his HON. SUSAN W. BROOKS wife, Carolyn and their family. They can be f OF INDIANA proud of the example Jim set for all those who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES choose to serve their community. TRIBUTE TO LINDA PEARSON Tuesday, January 14, 2014 f Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I HONORING 1LT(P) KINA TULANE HON. KEN CALVERT rise today to recognize a fellow Hoosier, Colo- LEWIS nel Joseph F. Lampert, on the occasion of his OF CALIFORNIA retirement from the United States Army after HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 36 years of faithful and dedicated service to OF MISSISSIPPI his country while also working tirelessly as an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, January 14, 2014 educator and leader in his community. Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Colonel Lampert, the grandson of hard Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to working immigrant grandparents, was born Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- honor and pay tribute to an individual whose and raised in Indianapolis and is a graduate of er, I rise today to honor 1LT(P) Kina Tulane dedication and contributions to the community Cardinal Ritter High School. Upon graduation, Lewis, who is a remarkable soldier and public are exceptional. Corona has been fortunate to Colonel Lampert continued his education at In- servant. have dynamic and dedicated community lead- diana University. 1LT(P) Kina Tulane Lewis is a life time resi- ers who willingly and unselfishly give their time Colonel Lampert put his education on hold dent of Georgetown, MS. She was born in and talent and make their communities a bet- to enter military service by enlisting in the Copiah County on January 6, 1988 to Joe ter place to live and work. Linda Pearson is United States Army and serving as a Pershing Donell and Carrie Ann Lewis. Ms. Lewis is the one of these individuals. On January 16, 2014, Missile Crewman in Germany. Upon comple- sister of three brothers: Ronald Cleve, Joey Linda will be honored as the 2013 ‘‘Citizen of tion of his initial enlistment, Colonel Lampert and Anthony Lewis. the Year’’ at the Corona Chamber of Com- returned to Indiana University and completed 1LT(P) Lewis attended Crystal Springs High merce Installation and Awards Gala at the a bachelor’s and master’s degree in education School where she graduated and continued Eagle Glen Golf Club. and began his education career as a teacher her education at Alcorn State University with a For over 34 years, Linda has tirelessly dedi- and later as an administrator with the Metro- major in Business Administration. politan School District of Pike Township, in In- cated herself to serving the Corona Regional 1LT(P) Kina Tulane Lewis joined the United dianapolis. Medical Center. She is currently the Director States Army in June 7, 2007 and was com- In 1984, Colonel Lampert again answered missioned as officer in May 21, 2010. of Marketing, Patient Relations, and Volun- the call of duty for military service by enlisting 1LT(P) Lewis is stationed at Fort Riley, KS teers and is known for her creative thinking in the United States Army Reserve. After serv- with 1–7 FA as the Battalion S6. Some of and quick problem solving. ing for a year, Colonel Lampert received a di- 1LT(P) Lewis’ duties are being in charge of In addition to working with the Corona Re- rect commission as a Second Lieutenant in communication systems, such as computers, gional Medical Center, Linda is a committed the Adjutant General Corps. radios, satellite systems and phones. member of many other local organizations and During his tenure with the United States 1LT(P) Lewis is still serving in the United serves on multiple boards whose programs Army Reserve, Colonel Lampert served in a States Army and the awards that she has re- help ensure the betterment of our community. number of command, administrative, and oper- ceived so far are: ARCOM and AAM. ational staff positions with the 123rd Army Re- Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me Over the years, she has held board member serve Command in Indianapolis; 70th Training in recognizing a dedicated solider, 1LT(P) positions with the Circle City Rotary, Corona Division in Muncie, Indiana; 21st Theater Sup- Kina Tulane Lewis, for her dedication to serv- Chamber of Commerce, Foundation for Com- port Command in Indianapolis and ing others and our country. munity and Family Health, and Crossroads Kaiserslautern, Germany; Eighth United States f Christian School. Linda Pearson truly is an ex- ample of an individual committed to decades Army, Indianapolis and Yongsan, South CONGRATULATING HONDA OF of service and outstanding representation with- Korea; 377th Theater Support Command, New GREENSBURG in Corona and Riverside County at large. Orleans; 100th Training Division, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Owensboro, Kentucky; and 78th HON. LUKE MESSER Linda is known as an effective leader with a Training Command, Fort Dix, New Jersey. natural ability to organize the efforts and good- Colonel Lampert is concluding his exemplarily OF INDIANA will of others. She is an enthusiastic team military career serving as the Deputy Chief of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES builder who enjoys the challenge of research- Staff–G1 with the Military Intelligence Readi- Tuesday, January 14, 2014 ing and analyzing to find viable solutions to ness Command at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Mr. MESSER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to improve the lives of all community members. While serving as an educational adminis- congratulate Honda of Greensburg on receiv- In light of this, Linda was awarded the Co- trator, Colonel Lampert was mobilized on ing the EPA’s Energy Star Certification for the rona-Norco YMCA Ira D. ‘‘Cal’’ Calvert Distin- three different occasions to Fort Benning in second year in a row. guished Service Award in May 2009, which support of Operation Desert Shield/Storm, to This plant, in my home district, has met honors exceptional community volunteers. She Germany and the Balkans in support of Oper- strict energy efficiency-performance levels set was also honored with the Distinguished Cit- ation Joint Endeavor/Forge, and to Germany by the EPA and performs in the top 25 per- izen Award by the Temescal District Boy and Turkey in support of the Global War on cent of similar facilities nationwide for energy Scouts of America. Terrorism. In each instance, Colonel Lampert efficiency. served with distinction. Considering all that Linda has done for Co- The plant provides 2,000 jobs for Hoosiers Colonel Lampert’s exemplary military serv- and has spent more than $16 billion with sup- rona, the Corona Chamber of Commerce ice earned him numerous awards and decora- pliers in North America since 2008. named Linda their 2013 Citizen of the Year. tions including the Legion of Merit, Meritorious This Japanese company thriving in Indiana Linda’s tireless passion for service has con- Service Medal with silver oak leaf cluster, is a shining example of what a strong trade re- tributed immensely to the betterment of our Army Commendation Medal with silver oak lationship with international partners can mean community. She has been the heart and soul leaf cluster, and the Army Achievement Medal for our local economy. of many organizations and events and I am with three oak leaf clusters. Throughout his il- The Asia-Pacific region is the fastest grow- proud to call her a fellow community member, lustrious career, Colonel Lampert has worked ing region of the world and a robust relation- American and friend. I know that many com- diligently to implement improved operational ship with this region promotes economic munity members are grateful for her service training processes and procedures to improve growth, creates jobs and bolsters the Amer- and salute her as she receives this prestigious unit readiness and enhance success on the ican middle class. award. battlefield.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:44 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A14JA8.002 E14JAPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E63 On behalf of the people of the great Hoosier IN REMEMBRANCE OF AMERICAN Stan Gustafson, following his resounding elec- State and a grateful nation, I commend Colo- JAZZ DRUMMER AND BAND- toral victory on January 7th. Representative nel Joseph F. Lampert for his many years of LEADER CHICO HAMILTON Gustafson will represent Iowa House District dedicated service to our country. He has dem- 25, which includes Madison and Warren onstrated exceptional meritorious service dur- HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL Counties, for the remainder of the 85th Gen- ing both his educational and United States OF NEW YORK eral Assembly. Army career. I wish the very best to Colonel IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Stan’s election to the Iowa House of Rep- Lampert, his wife, Jaye, and their two adult Tuesday, January 14, 2014 resentatives is a great benefit for our State children, Joseph E. and Jacqueline. and yet another example of his lifetime com- Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to f mitment to service. Originally from California, honor legendary American Jazz drummer and Mr. Gustafson attended the University of Cali- HONORING CORPORAL EUGENE composer Chico Hamilton who passed away fornia at Berkeley and obtained a bachelor’s ROBINSON on November 25, 2013 at the age of 92 in degree in finance while participating in the New York. Chico Hamilton was a dear friend Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. Upon HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON and an inspiration to countless of musicians graduation, Stan received his Commission as OF MISSISSIPPI and jazz enthusiasts worldwide. The Cali- a 2nd Lieutenant and began a 23-year military fornia-born musician was famous for his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES career. Stan’s patriotic service to our nation unique cool melodic sound that forever revolu- Tuesday, January 14, 2014 placed him in the thick of the Vietnam War tionized how jazz drums were played and in- where he served as a Forward Artillery Ob- Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- corporated into music. Although I speak with server. Once his overseas tour had concluded, er, I rise today to honor Corporal Eugene Rob- grief of such an overwhelming loss, I ascend Stan returned home to attend law school and inson, who is a remarkable Veteran, commu- to rejoice a life well lived and proudly remem- continue his contribution to our nation as a nity and public servant. ber the accomplishments of such a remark- military reservist for more than two decades. Corporal Eugene Robinson was born on able musician and artist. Stan would ultimately retire as a Lieutenant July 17, 1949 to L. J. and Lula Bell Robinson. Mr. Hamilton was born Foreststorn Hamilton Colonel and remains a staunch advocate for He is the oldest of 8 children. His siblings are: in Los Angeles on September 21, 1921. A our men and women in uniform. Today, Stan Lula Mae R. Ward, Evelyn R. Roberson, Caro- passionate drummer, he played in high school and his wife Betty, a Dallas County native, re- lyn R. McCadney, Edward Robinson, Law- jazz bands alongside, his good friend and fa- side in Cumming and stay busy as active rence J. Robinson, Charles Robinson and mous saxophonist Dexter Gordon. As a teen- community participants and loving grand- Patrina R. Dace. He attended Brushy Creek ager, Mr. Hamilton quickly made a name for parents. Attendance Center located in the Brushy himself and earned a place touring with Lionel Mr. Speaker, the selflessness and leader- Creek Community until he graduated from the Hampton’s famed big band. Not only was Mr. ship Mr. Gustafson has shown throughout his 8th grade and had to attend William Henry Hamilton a talented musician, but he also entire life and career is nothing short of re- Holtzclaw School in Crystal Springs, MS and proudly served in the U.S. Army during World markable. At home and abroad, Stan has con- graduated in 1967. War II. Upon his return, his love of music led sistently stepped up to serve his neighbors Corporal Robinson joined the United States him to greatness, as he played alongside art- and his nation. I can attest that he has been, Marines in 1967 and served until 1971. He ists like Count Basie, Jimmy Mundy, and and will continue to be, a true asset to sup- went to Parris Island, SC for his basic training Charlie Barnet. Mr. Hamilton would soon find porting a thriving democracy in our great and he had his Infantry and MOS training at overwhelming success after starting his own State. It is a great honor to represent Stan, Camp Lejeune. He was deployed from Camp quintet in 1955. Betty, and all of Iowa House District 25 in the The Chico Hamilton Quintet was celebrated Pendleton, CA, where he spent 19 months in United States Congress and I invite my col- for its distinctive laid-back swing style and fu- the Vietnam War. His duty there was Motor leagues in the House to join me in congratu- sion of creative sound; it soon became a sta- Transport, which was hauling ammo and sup- lating Stan for his efforts. I wish Representa- ple at many major jazz festivals, clubs and plies to the front line. Afterwards, he was tive Gustafson nothing but the best as he con- college campuses for decades. Even as re- shipped back to Camp Lejeune, where he re- tinues his work to help our State and preserve cently as this past October, Mr. Hamilton per- ceived an honorable discharge in September our freedoms. formed for passionate music fans regularly at 1971. f Corporal Robinson’s Medals and Ribbons Manhattan’s Drom. Throughout his illustrious received are: National Defense Service medal; career, Mr. Hamilton recorded over 60 albums BREAST DENSITY AND Good conduct; Navy Unit Commendation; as a leader on several prominent recording la- MAMMOGRAPHY REPORTING ACT Combat Action Ribbon; Republic of Vietnam bels, including: Columbia, Soul Note, Impulse Service Medal; and Republic of Vietnam Cam- and Pacific Jazz. His work has been HON. PETER A. DeFAZIO eternalized in many classical films and musi- paign Medal. OF OREGON cals, including ‘‘Sweet Smell of Success’’ and Corporal Robinson is a member of Brushy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Creek M. B. Church where he serves as the ‘‘You’ll Never Get Rich,’’ with Fred Astaire. church secretary, Sunday school teacher and Most notably, Mr. Hamilton was a dedicated Tuesday, January 14, 2014 is on the Deacon’s ministry for over 30 years. great-grandfather, grandfather, father and hus- Mr. DEFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Corporal Robinson also served his commu- band who is survived by his daughter Denise one of my constituents, Laura Mason Caldwell nity as Assistant chief of Hopewell Volunteer Hamilton; his brother Don; one granddaughter of Eugene, Oregon, for her tireless advocacy Fire Dept, when it was first organized in the and two great-granddaughters. He will be for- on behalf of breast cancer patients. In large Hopewell Community and is an active member ever remembered for his work as a pioneering part thanks to Laura’s work, we have a new of Hopewell Lodge #507 F & AM where he jazz drummer and his dedication to his family. law in Oregon that requires doctors to inform currently serves as secretary. Mr. Speaker, rather than mourn his passing, patients in writing if they have dense breast Corporal Robinson is married to Joyce I hope that my colleagues will join me in cele- tissue. This is a small change that could have Murry Robinson and they have 3 children: brating the life of my friend Chico Hamilton by a major benefit. Dense breast tissue has been Samantha Murfree, Eugene Robinson, II and remembering that he exemplified greatness in associated with increased risk of breast can- Jarvis Robinson. To provide for his family Cor- every way. cer, and routine mammograms are less likely poral Robinson followed in his father’s foot- f to effectively detect tumors in women who steps and became a pulp wood hauler. He TRIBUTE TO IOWA REPRESENTA- have dense breast tissue. Had Laura been in- soon moved on to become a tree length TIVE STAN GUSTAFSON formed about these risk factors early on, she logger being one of the first black loggers in may have been able to catch her cancer be- the small community of Brushy Creek. He con- HON. TOM LATHAM fore it spread. Oregonians now have that infor- tinued until he owned his own Logging Com- mation, but women in many other states do OF IOWA pany and retired in 2012. not. For that reason House leadership needs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me to bring up the bipartisan Breast Density and in recognizing a remarkable servant and Vet- Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Mammography Reporting Act, H.R. 3404, for a eran, Corporal Eugene Robinson, for his dedi- Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to vote. Passing H.R. 3404 will make sure that cation to serving our country and others. honor Iowa’s newest State Representative, women across the country have access to the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:44 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A14JA8.006 E14JAPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E64 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 14, 2014 information necessary to detect breast cancer In December, 2010 Gregory accepted an IN RECOGNITION OF SARA MILLER early when it is most treatable. offer from the Department of Homeland Secu- MCCUNE f rity as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) with the Transportation Security Agency HONORING GREGORY L. YOUNG HON. LOIS CAPPS (TSA). Currently, he is a dual certified TSO at OF CALIFORNIA the Jackson Municipal Airport. He was se- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON lected as TSO of the Quarter (April–June Tuesday, January 14, 2014 OF MISSISSIPPI 2012) for the State of Mississippi. In January IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of 2013 he was selected as the TSO of The Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Year 2012 for the State of Mississippi. honor Sara Miller McCune for a life and career Gregory is a devout member of North Jack- distinguished by tremendous accomplishment, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- son Baptist Church in Jackson, MS where he success and generosity. er, I rise today to honor a remarkable veteran, serves as a trustee. Mrs. Miller McCune is a prominent business Mr. Gregory L. Young. Mr. Young has shown Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me leader, charitable philanthropist and valued what can be done through hard work, setting in recognizing Mr. Gregory L. Young for his member of the Central Coast community. goals, and aiming high. dedication to serving our great Country and Originally from Queens, New York, Sara and Gregory L. Young was born December 20, his community. her late husband, George McCune, founded 1963 in Yazoo City, Mississippi to Doris and the renowned SAGE Publications in 1965. Neal Young. Gregory graduated from Yazoo f Since that time, SAGE Publications has flour- City High School in May of 1981. He attended ished as a prestigious institution of academic University of Southern Mississippi, Hatties- HONORING AMBASSADOR SHAN- KAR SHARMA FOR HIS DEDI- publishing, employing nearly 1,000 people burg, MS from August 1981 to May of 1982 around the world. The company publishes when he joined the United States Navy in the CATED SERVICE TO THE FED- ERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF hundreds of journals and has thousands of spring of 1982. In August of 1982 he began academic titles in print. Sara is also the found- his U.S. Navy career at the Navy Recruit NEPAL, AS AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES er of the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Training Command (NRTC) in Great Lakes, Il- Media and Public Policy and the SAGE Center linois. for the Study of the Mind at the University of After graduating from his Navy (A) School, HON. ANDER CRENSHAW California Santa Barbara. Gregory was assigned to the U.S.S. Estocin OF FLORIDA Mrs. Miller McCune’s philanthropy is far- FFG–15 home ported at Naval Station IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reaching and has been aimed at improving Mayport, Florida. In October 1985 he trans- Tuesday, January 14, 2014 educational opportunities for all. Her giving ferred to the U.S.S. Charles F. Adams DDG– represents her commitment to the underprivi- 2 and served until February 1989. Later in Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I rise today leged, and fulfilling achievement gaps for stu- February, 1989, Gregory transferred to Navy to thank the Honorable Ambassador of Nepal, dents everywhere. Sara and her husband es- Recruiting District (NRD) St. Louis, MO and Shankar Sharma, on behalf of the Congres- tablished the McCune Foundation in the 1990s served as a Navy Recruiter in Columbia, Mis- sional Nepal Caucus for his dedicated service with the goal of empowering underserved pop- souri until March, 1993. While on recruiting both to his country and to the United States ulations through targeted grant-making. Today, duty, he attained the rank of E–6 and ulti- over the past four years. the Foundation supports a number of commu- mately served as the Recruiter in Charge of No doubt due in part to his tireless and nity building initiatives that address a wide the local recruiting office. committed work for Nepal, the past four years range of issues up and down the Central After a successful tour of recruiting duty, he have brought many positive changes to the Coast. Additionally, Mrs. McCune has en- transferred to the U.S.S. Wainwright CG–28 country and its relations with the United dowed a competitive internship program at the home ported out of Charleston, South Caro- States. Not only has the Congressional Nepal University of California, Santa Barbara to pro- lina. He served onboard the U.S.S. Wainwright Caucus been established, which will continue vide service-learning opportunities for students from April, 1993 until November, 1993 as a to educate Members of Congress on Capitol to give back to their community. CIC Watch Supervisor. Hill about Nepal and the benefits of a strong Sara is also a supporter of Cottage Hospital In November, 1993 Gregory decided to relationship between our two countries, but the and the Granada Theater in my hometown of leave the U.S. Navy and was honorably dis- Peace Corps has resumed in Nepal after an 8 Santa Barbara. These are only a few of the charged as an Operation Specialist First year hiatus due to a now-resolved conflict. In many examples where Sara has proven her Class. He served his country honorably for a addition, the Millennium Challenge Corporation benevolent spirit and we cannot thank her total of 11 years. During that time, he partici- has declared Nepal ‘‘threshold program eligi- enough. pated in three six month deployments, two ble,’’ strengthening the dialogue between the I am pleased to celebrate Sara’s countless Special Operations deployments and numer- two countries and preparing Nepal for a future achievements as she is honored by her ous exercises and humanitarian operations. MCC Compact. And in April of 2011, a Trade friends and colleagues tonight. She is truly a He has also received numerous awards and Investment Framework Agreement was pioneer in the world of publishing and a treas- throughout his naval services including: Navy signed, which established a framework for ured member of our community. trade and resolved outstanding disputes be- Achievement Medal, National Defense Service f Medal, U.S. Coast Guard Meritorious Unit tween our nations. Each of these triumphs Commendation, Battle ‘‘E’’ Award (3), Sea strengthens our relationship and will continue COMMEMORATING THE 225TH ANNI- Service Deployment Ribbon (3), Good Con- to help Nepal in their path to development and VERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF duct Award (2), the Navy Recruiting Ribbon democracy. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY and Gold Wreath Award (2). The Congressional Nepal Caucus would After Gregory’s tenure with the U.S. Navy, also like to acknowledge Ambassador Sharma HON. MICK MULVANEY he was hired by the SkyTel Corp. in May of on his many years of service to Nepal. As OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1994 as a Customer Service Representative in Deputy Chairman at the National Planning IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jackson, MS. While in this position he was se- Commission in Nepal, Chief Advisor in Min- lected along with a few other employees to istry of Finance, Alternate Governor of Nepal Tuesday, January 14, 2014 conduct testing of the Skytel Two Way Paging for the International Monetary Fund, and Sen- Mr. MULVANEY. Mr. Speaker, it is with network through the United States. He was ior Economist in Institute of South East Asian great pride and pleasure that I rise today to later promoted to Network Operator in the Studies, Ambassador Sharma has steered bring to my colleagues’ attention the 225th an- company’s Network Operation Center. Greg- Nepal in a viable direction. niversary of the founding of Georgetown Uni- ory enjoyed working for SkyTel and stayed I am grateful for the leadership and dedica- versity. As a proud alumnus of the George- with the company until it was later sold and re- tion of Ambassador Sharma; and I thank him town University School of Foreign Service, I located in December, 2008. After a long pe- for his contribution to strengthen our relation- will always know that the University and these riod of unemployment due to the economic re- ship between Nepal and the United States. He United States began together in 1789. The cession, he went to work for Comcast as a will be missed in Washington, and the Caucus University’s founding is tied to the first deed of Customer Account Executive in February, wishes him best of luck in his future endeav- property from which the current University took 2010 and remained until November, 2010. ors. shape on January 23, 1789—acquired by

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:44 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K14JA8.004 E14JAPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS January 14, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E65 Bishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop Sherondra McGee Bailey is a resident of County United Way Board of Directors, School in the United States and the University’s Vicksburg, Mississippi born on August 8, 1982 Superintendents of Alabama Board of Direc- founder. to Beverly Thomas and Patrick Pope in New tors District III President, and he and his wife From that date forward, Georgetown’s Orleans, LA. She is the oldest of eleven chil- Paula, a retired educator, are members of the growth and that of our nation have been inter- dren born to Beverly Thomas. She graduated Ozark Baptist Church. He and Paula have two twined. I am proud that the University’s federal from South Delta High School in 2000. children, Mason and Elizabeth. charter—the second such charter approved by After High School Sherondra attended the Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me Congress after that of the U. S. Military Acad- University of Southern Mississippi where she in honoring Donny Bynum as the 2014 Ala- emy—was proposed in legislation introduced met and married Brandon Bailey and to that bama Superintendent of the Year. His excep- by one of the University’s first students, Con- union they have one son, Brayden Bailey. tional moral character, experience, and dedi- gressman William Gaston of North Carolina. Sherondra enlisted in the United States Air cation to the Alabama school system render As a Carolinian myself, I have to say, from the Force in April 2008. She graduated number him a qualified recipient of this honor. I am beginning, Georgetown was off on the right two in her Meteorologist class. She was later grateful for Bynum’s service and proudly rec- footing. It is fitting that the University’s main stationed at the Barksdale Air Force Base lo- ognize his contributions to the betterment of lecture hall bears the name Gaston Hall. cated in Louisiana. the great State of Alabama. Our school colors have roots deep in our Sherondra is a devout member of Clark f nation’s history as well. During the Civil War Chapel United Methodist Church in Cary, MS. more than 1,000 Georgetown alumni served in She enjoys time with family and friends. PERSONAL EXPLANATION both the Union and Confederate armies. The Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me blue and the gray, then, reflect the divided al- in recognizing Mrs. Sherondra McGee Bailey HON. BRETT GUTHRIE legiances of both students and alumni during for her dedication to serving our great Coun- OF KENTUCKY that war. try. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Today, the student body is comprised of f Tuesday, January 14, 2014 students from every state and from 141 na- tions around the globe. CONGRATULATING DONALD Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I was absent I am heartened that Georgetown has re- ‘‘DONNY’’ BYNUM AS THE 2014 from votes in the House January 7–10, 2014, mained true to the Roman Catholic and Jesuit ALABAMA SUPERINTENDENT OF due to the death of my mother. Had I been values on which it was founded. The Univer- THE YEAR present, I would have voted: rollcall No. 1 sity prides itself as a place of vigorous dia- (Quorum call): Present; rollcall No. 2 (H.R. logue. It pushes students to pursue lives en- HON. MARTHA ROBY 724): ‘‘yea’’; rollcall No. 3 (H.R. 3527): ‘‘yea’’; riched by research and scholarship. I am rollcall No. 4 (H.R. 3628): ‘‘yea’’; rollcall No. 5 OF ALABAMA happy to say that, since my election to Con- (Previous Question): ‘‘yea’’; rollcall No. 6 (Rule IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gress, I have had several opportunities to ex- for H.R. 2279 and H.R. 3811): ‘‘yea’’; rollcall plore some of the issues we are working on in Tuesday, January 14, 2014 No. 7 (Sinema Amendment to H.R. 2279): the House of Representatives with faculty who Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ‘‘nay’’; rollcall No. 8 (Tonko Amendment to have deep and valuable knowledge on these congratulate an exemplary public servant, H.R. 2279): ‘‘nay’’; rollcall No. 9 (Motion to Re- topics. Donald ‘‘Donny’’ Bynum, recipient of the distin- commit H.R. 2279): ‘‘nay’’; rollcall No. 10 I was lucky to study at Georgetown under guished 2014 Alabama Superintendent of the (Passage of H.R. 2279): ‘‘yea’’; rollcall No. 11 professors such as Madeline Albright and Fr. Year award. (Passage of H.R. 3811): ‘‘yea.’’ James Reddington. They made me think and A prime example of servant leadership, Su- f challenge my assumptions. They helped me perintendent Bynum has served for over 29 CONGRATULATING MARY KAY grow and shaped my subsequent career. Cer- years as a teacher, coach, and administrator. RUMMEL tainly, Georgetown’s commitment to encour- He holds an AA Degree in School Administra- aging students to explore public service is re- tion plus a Master of Science in School Ad- flected in its Mission Statement which ends ministration, both from Troy University in HON. JULIA BROWNLEY with an admonition to those who have studied Dothan, and a Bachelor of Science in Edu- OF CALIFORNIA there ‘‘to be reflective lifelong learners, to be cation from Troy University. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES responsible and active participants in civic life Prior to his tenure as the Superintendent of Tuesday, January 14, 2014 and to live generously in service to others.’’ It Dale County Schools, Mr. Bynum served as Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, is not surprising then that, since William Gas- an Education Specialist with the Alabama De- today, I rise to recognize Mary Kay Rummel, ton entered Congress in 1814, over 150 partment of Education and in various capac- a community poet, who was inaugurated on Georgetown alumni and faculty members have ities within the Dale County School System. January 10, 2014 as the first Poet Laureate of served in the U. S. Congress. Others have Such positions included the Transportation Su- Ventura County. served as President, governors, cabinet secre- pervisor; Principal at G.W. Long Elementary Nominated by the Ventura County Arts taries, judges and as senior diplomats around School; and as the Assistant Principal at G.W. Council, Mary was ultimately selected as the the globe. Likewise, the University is equally Long School. county’s first laureateship for her long and proud of alumni who have gone on to be lead- Almost one year ago, the nation watched a celebrated career as a poet in the region. In ers in their communities in fields such as busi- terrifying situation emerge in Dale County, Ala- conjunction with the title of Poet Laureate, ness, arts, health care or the law. bama. The murder of a school bus driver, ab- Mary will also serve a two year position as of- It is an honor to recognize Georgetown on duction of a five-year old student, and the pro- ficial poet and ambassador to the community, this occasion of its 225th ‘‘birthday,’’ but, more longed hostage situation that ensued pre- a position that is dedicated to putting a spot- importantly, to wish my alma mater great sented a unique challenge for all levels of light on poetry and expanding the audiences progress in the centuries ahead. state and local government. That was espe- of the literary arts in the area. f cially true for Dale County Schools, which was Mary’s work has been described as ‘‘lumi- HONORING CORPORAL SHERONDRA faced with the murder of an employee and the nous meditations on the nature of love in MCGEE BAILEY abduction of a student, all while the need to which imagery and the beauty of language ensure the safety and stability of the schools shine.’’ Her literary work will serve to promote, was paramount. Superintendent Bynum han- encourage and inspire community members to HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON dled this challenge with strength and grace, OF MISSISSIPPI develop their own creative interests. helping lead the students, parents, faculty and Over the last 35 years, more than 350 of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES community through the tragedy. By all ac- Mary’s poems have appeared in national and Tuesday, January 14, 2014 counts, Dale County emerged stronger and international literary journals and anthologies. Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- more united than ever, thanks in large part to Throughout her career, she has also received er, I rise today to honor a remarkable veteran, Superintendent Donny Bynum’s leadership in over a dozen poetry awards that range from Mrs. Sherondra McGee Bailey. Mrs. Bailey this trying time. local accolades to multiple nominations for the has shown what can be done through hard Also active in the Dale County community, highly prestigious Pushcart Prize. work, dedication and a desire to make a posi- Superintendent Bynum is involved with the Beyond her poetry career, and her duties as tive difference in serving others. Dale County Children’s Policy Council, Dale a wife, mother of three and a grandmother,

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Additionally, she has been OF FLORIDA dents on 15 Florida campuses and internation- ally, as well as offers approximately 90 doc- a professor at California State University, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Channel Islands since it first opened its doors toral through associate degrees, and employs Tuesday, January 14, 2014 in 2002. nearly 3,500 staff and faculty. I am confident that Mary’s talents and pas- Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. Speaker, I have had the great privilege sion for the art will be reflected positively in am truly honored to rise today and recognize of knowing Evelyn Keiser for over 30 years. her new position. I am pleased to join with the Mrs. Evelyn Keiser on the occasion of her She has been a wonderful friend to me. I am Ventura County Arts Council and the people of 90th birthday, which was on January 12, 2014. so happy to be able to honor her on the occa- Ventura County in congratulating our first Poet Evelyn was born Evelyn Cahn in Philadel- sion of her 90th birthday, and wish her many more years of happiness and success. Laureate, Mary Kay Rummel. phia, Pennsylvania in 1924. She graduated from Temple University with a bachelor of f f science degree in Medical Technology, one of CONGRATULATING CHRISTOPHER only a few women in what was then a pre- MILLER FOR STUDIES IN THE HONORING MASTER SERGEANT dominately male field of study. As a military CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLAR- JAMES M. SHINARD, SR. wife, she traveled throughout the United SHIP PROGRAM States where her education and ambition for the medical field led to her employment in HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON several hospitals and medical labs. HON. KENNY MARCHANT OF MISSISSIPPI After World War II, she returned to Philadel- OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES phia and opened her own medical lab, which she operated for more than 12 years. As the Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Tuesday, January 14, 2014 demands of motherhood increased, Evelyn Mr. MARCHANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- sold her medical lab and embarked on a re- to recognize and congratulate Christopher Mil- er, I rise today to honor a remarkably dedi- warding teaching career. She joined the ler, a constituent of mine from Southlake, TX, cated and ambitious Army veteran, who has Franklin School of Sciences and led the Med- on studying the Arabic language in Meknes, over 28 years of service to his country, Master ical Sciences and Lab Technology programs. Morocco, under the Critical Language Scholar- Sergeant James M. Shinard, Sr. In 1961, she moved to South Florida to head ship Program. Master Sergeant Shinard was born Decem- the medical program at Charron-Williams Col- The Critical Language Scholarship program ber 24, 1963 in Bolton, MS. He began his ca- lege in Fort Lauderdale. was established in 2006 as part of the Na- reer in the armed forces in July 1985. Advanc- In 1977, with her son Dr. Arthur Keiser, she tional Security Language Initiative. This inter- ing through a number of military schools of opened the Keiser School on Oakland Park agency effort was formed with recognition of training, Master Sergeant Shinard quickly ad- Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale with one student the need for our future diplomatic and intel- vanced in rank from student to Squad Leader and 2,400 square feet of classrooms. ligence personnel to learn languages such as by January 1986. While serving as Team The Keiser School name progression from Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Chinese. It provides Leader, he was a part of the 1/17 Infantry Bat- Keiser Institute of Technology (1982) to Keiser an intensive regimen of study at beginner, in- talion 2 ID Camp Casey in Korea. As a Squad College (1986) and Keiser University (2006) termediate, and advanced levels for both un- Leader, he was a part of the 155th Infantry reflects milestones that include new degree dergraduate and graduate students. The pro- Brigade Mississippi during Desert Storm from programs, multiple branch campuses, accredi- gram goes beyond just language and provides 1990 to 1991 and 87th Division Camp Shelby, tation achievements, and the addition of the cultural experiences by immersion in the host Mississippi as a soldier during Iraqi Freedom Graduate School offering Master’s degrees. country. It was a pleasure to receive the U.S. State from 2003 to 2010. In 1981, another dream of hers became a reality when the Medical Laboratory Techni- Department’s announcement that one of my In addition to his active duty service with the cian program was added to the Keiser School constituents, Christopher Miller, had success- Army, Master Sergeant Shinard performed course offerings. Evelyn assumed the teaching fully participated in the Critical Language with the Mississippi Army National Guard and faculty development responsibilities. Scholarship Program this past summer. Ac- 155th Brigade (Mechanized) in Brookhaven, Under her direction, the program received ac- ceptance is highly competitive, and so I com- MS and with the United States Army Reserve creditation from the National Accrediting Agen- mend his studying Advanced Arabic in as Observer Controller with the 3/346 Regt cy for Clinical Laboratory Sciences, confirming Meknes. Christopher’s success is a testament Battalion, 87th Division at Camp Shelby Mis- the highest quality in medical laboratory aca- to dedication, skill, and hard work; and I look sissippi, cumulatively from 1989 to 2003. demics and training. forward to his accomplishing great things in Throughout his service, he has been pro- More than 25 years later, although no any endeavor that he pursues in life. moted four times to his current rank as Master longer teaching, she continues to advise fac- Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the 24th Congres- Sergeant, promoted April 15, 2009 in the Army ulty and serve as an advocate for students. sional District of Texas, I ask all my distin- Reserve. Nearly three decades later, Evelyn is still guished colleagues to join me in congratu- Throughout his 28 years of service, Master active in the university, serving as Chair- lating Christopher Miller on his studies in the Sergeant Shinard has received numerous woman of the Board of Advisors. At 90 years Critical Language Scholarship Program. decorations and badges. Among those re- young, and 37 years after co-founding Keiser f ceived are; the Humanitarian Service Medal, University, she is often the first on campus TRIBUTE TO CORONA CHAMBER OF Combat Action Badge, Global War on Ter- each morning. COMMERCE LIFETIME ACHIEVE- rorism Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Throughout her lifelong career in medical MENT AWARD RECIPIENT BUD Service Medal (with Bronze Service Star), and labs and in higher education, Evelyn has been GORDON Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with ‘‘M’’ De- awarded honors too numerous to list, including vice and 20-Year Silver Hourglass). His ‘‘Teacher of the Year’’ and ‘‘Educator of the present assignment is Mobilization/Readiness Year.’’ In February 2004, she was awarded an HON. KEN CALVERT OF CALIFORNIA NCO, 412 Theater Engineer Command (TPU) honorary doctorate from Beijing University, cit- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Vicksburg, MS. Currently, Master Sergeant ing her commitment to educational articulation Shinard is also pursuing an educational de- agreements between China and the United Tuesday, January 14, 2014 gree at Belhaven University, which he plans to States. Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to complete in June 2014. To the faculty and administration of Keiser honor and pay tribute to an individual whose Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me University, Evelyn Keiser sets the example dedication and contributions to the community in recognizing Master Sergeant James M. that all students deserve the highest quality of of Corona, California are exceptional. Corona Shinard, Sr. for his unwavering dedication and academic instruction. As a result, the Univer- has been fortunate to have dynamic and dedi- service as a respected veteran for his family, sity’s top teaching honor awarded to faculty cated community leaders who willingly and un- local community, and country. members that have excelled in a proactive selfishly give their time and talent and make

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Mr. Speak- Golf Club. in the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, er, I rise today to honor a veteran, Mr. D.W. Russia. One of Bud’s greatest achievements has Johnson. D.W. has shown what can be done f been bringing immense growth in the region. through tenacity, dedication, and a desire to He is the visionary behind the Gordon Auto- serve others. PERSONAL EXPLANATION motive Group which includes several auto- Mr. D.W. Johnson, a native of Cary, Mis- motive dealerships throughout Riverside sissippi was born May 23, 1947, the third child HON. RON BARBER born to Kate Turner and James Johnson. He County and greater Southern California. Bud’s OF ARIZONA graduated in 1966 from Henry Weathers High commitment is seen especially at the Gordon IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Automotives Group’s Headquarters, Quality School. In May 1968 Mr. Johnson was drafted to the Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Toyota of Corona, which carries the guiding Vietnam War. He went to Vietnam in October principle of delivering service that is caring, Mr. BARBER. Mr. Speaker, due to flight of 1968 and he received an honorable dis- defect-free, and timely. He has helped add nu- delays beyond my control, I missed one re- charge from the U.S. Army in 1970. After merous jobs in the area which has strength- corded vote on January 7. I would like to indi- being discharged from the Army he accepted cate at this point how I would have voted had ened and bettered the economy in a profound a job at Miller Transporters, Inc. in 1973 until way. I been present for that vote. retirement in 2003. He joined the Mississippi On rollcall No. 1, establishing a quorum in Bud is not only an innovative businessman, National Guard in 1974. While serving in the the House of Representatives for the Second but also an active community member and National Guard he was deployed to Desert Session of the 113th Congress, I would have has spent his life giving back in any way he Storm in December, 1990 until May, 1991. In voted ‘‘present.’’ can. Bud founded and formed the At Risk 1995 D.W. retired from the MS National Guard f Children Angel Foundation in conjunction with after serving over twenty years. members of the Corona Police Department to Mr. Johnson began his political career in PERSONAL EXPLANATION help supply local at risk children with sports November 1995 when he was elected as the equipment, registration fees, and even basic Sharkey County Supervisor for District Two for HON. JIM GERLACH eight years. Then in November 2004 he was necessities. He has also been an active sup- OF PENNSYLVANIA elected as the Sharkey County Election Com- porter of the Happy Hairston Youth Founda- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES missioner until he resigned in August 2011. tion, where he both raised and donated hun- Mr. Johnson is a deacon at Guiding Star M. Tuesday, January 14, 2014 dreds of thousands of dollars to help dis- B. Church which he joined in 1974. He is thor- Mr. GERLACH. Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, advantaged youth achieve their goals and pur- oughly involved in the community. He trans- on January 13, 2014, I missed two recorded sue their dreams. ports the elderly and veterans to the doctor. votes on the House floor. Had I been present, Inspired by his daughter, Bud also created He is a member of the Men’s Fellowship I would have voted ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall 12 and a variety of educational programs to motivate which meets every Saturday to discuss com- ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall 13. and inform students in the community. He re- munity issues. He is a member of the South f created the Oval Office at his Corona head- Delta High School Booster Club. quarters, forming the Quality Toyota West On October 12, 1968 Mr. Johnson married HONORING LT. JUANITA MITCHELL Wing, which has served over 195,000 stu- Dorothy Mae Watley and to that union they have two children: Tonia L. Ross and David L. dents who have participated in the 21⁄2-hour HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON Johnson. He has three grandchildren, Paris, educational learning experience offered there. OF MISSISSIPPI Paul, and David, II. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Bud also recognized a need for a hands-on Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me trade school training facility, and thus, Uncle in recognizing Mr. D.W. Johnson for his pas- Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Bud’s Automotive Museum was born. The Mu- sion and dedication to serving our great Coun- Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- seum offers ‘‘A Journey Through Automotive try and desire to make a difference in the lives er, I rise today to honor a hardworking and History,’’ where students can both see and of others. self motivated woman, Lt. Juanita Mitchell. feel the history of the automobile and hear f Lt. Juanita Mitchell, a native of Mississippi, from docents regarding the variety of careers HONORING NICK GOEPPER was born on May 30, 1972 in Lexington, Mis- offered in the automotive industry. sissippi. She is the daughter of Mr. Jerry and Bud’s passion and leadership are con- Deloris Greer. tagious and when it comes to commitment, he HON. LUKE MESSER Lt. Mitchell is married to Shannon Mitchell OF INDIANA makes sure to match his words with his ac- and they have three children: Shannon, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions. He is a tireless supporter of the Settle- Ayanna and Tynishiwa. She has taught her ment House, which provides food to the Tuesday, January 14, 2014 kids as well as herself to study hard, pray and needy, the Trauma Intervention Program, the Mr. MESSER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to to excel for positive things in life to succeed Alternatives to Domestic Violence Program, recognize Nick Goepper of Lawrenceburg, In- for a promising future. and various organizations supporting local diana on qualifying to represent the United Lt. Mitchell received her education in the schools. States in the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Holmes County Public School Systems, where Sochi, Russia in the event of Freeski she received her High School Diploma from In light of all he has done for the community Slopestyle. Tchula Attendance Center in 1990. of Corona, the Corona Chamber of Commerce Nick has distinguished himself as one of the Lt. Mitchell began her Law enforcement Ca- has given him their Lifetime Achievement world’s most premier athletes in Freeski reer at the Holmes Humphrey’s Correctional Award. Bud’s tireless passion for service has Slopestyle, placing first in an U.S. Olympic se- Facility in February 2000 and was given the contributed immensely to the betterment of the lection event in Breckenridge, Colorado and duties as being a Correctional Officer as well community of Corona, California. He has been placing second at a separate selection event as fulfilling the duties of being the Acting Ser- the heart and soul of many organizations and in Copper Mountain, Colorado. Nick’s hard geant for that shift. In 2004 she became a part events and I am proud to call him a fellow work and dedication has enabled him to excel time 911 Dispatcher for the Holmes County community member, American and friend. I among his competitors, putting him in the Sheriff Department. know that many community members are most elite category of athletes. Lt. Mitchell received a Promotion to become grateful for his service and salute him as he It brings me great pride knowing that such Holmes County Deputy Sheriff in April 2005. receives this prestigious award. a hard working athlete will not only be rep- She attended the Mississippi Delta Community

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Juanita fragment the already underfunded federal I rise today to recognize my friend and long- Mitchell for her dedication to the community Superfund program. This was a step in the time Castro Valley Resident, Mr. Craig Ragg. and the law enforcement. wrong direction. Today, joined by 15 original This month, Craig will complete his term serv- cosponsors, I am reintroducing legislation to ing as the 2013 President of the Bay East As- f reauthorize Superfund taxes on polluting in- sociation of Realtors, where he has also served on the Board of Directors since 2008 dustries; provide more funds to clean up toxic HONORING WILLIE STEVENSON and as Treasurer in 2011. GLANTON waste sites; and relieve much of the funding Craig has worked since 1977 as a Licensed burden currently shouldered by taxpayers Real Estate Agent, Broker, and Realtor. through general revenue funds. Throughout his career, Craig has been ac- HON. BRUCE L. BRALEY Across the country there are 1,321 severely tively involved as a leader in the real estate polluted superfund sites, some federal and OF IOWA profession, and he has always made time to some private. These sites threaten humans IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES invest in his community. with exposure to toxics such as arsenic, ben- A National Association of Realtors Leader- Tuesday, January 14, 2014 zene, PCBs, mercury and a wide range of sol- ship Academy Graduate, Craig is an active vents, resulting in health problems such as in- member of the real estate community at the Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise fertility, low birth weight, birth defects, leu- national, state, and local level. Craig served today to honor Willie Stevenson Glanton on kemia and respiratory difficulties. as a member of the National Association of her tireless efforts throughout her life to break Passed by Congress in 1980, the Superfund Realtors Committees on Land Use and Con- down race and gender barriers and pave the program has resulted in the cleanup of more sumer Communication, as well as the Cali- way for many Americans. Willie Stevenson than 1,000 toxic waste sites in communities all fornia Association of Realtors Federal Com- Glanton has been dedicated to the law, over the U.S., freeing residents from health mittee, Taxation Committee, and Housing Af- human services, and civil rights. risks and fears that come from living close to fordability Fund Committee. Craig also has Willie has been a champion for women and toxic waste. In the majority of cases, EPA served on the Board of Directors of the Cali- minorities throughout her entire life. She was works with the parties who have been found fornia Association of Realtors since 2010. only the second African American woman ad- responsible for the pollution and they pay for Over the course of his career, Craig often mitted to practice law in the State of Iowa, the cleanup. However, at some sites, those re- has been recognized for his efforts in the com- along with becoming the first African American sponsible for the pollution cannot be found or munity. In 1990 and 2009, Craig was honored woman to be appointed as a city clerk, assist- do not have the ability to pay, and the govern- as Bay East Realtor of the Year. He also was ant county attorney, and the first African ment pays for the cleanup. Historically, the the recipient of the John Deadrich Distin- American female to be elected to the Iowa Superfund trust fund was used for this proc- guished Service Award in 2006, and again in State Legislature. In addition to her many ess, which was supported by taxes on petro- 2008. achievements, Willie is the first woman and leum products and chemicals. Because Con- Craig also has honorably served his coun- first African American to be elected president gress has not reauthorized these Superfund try. Craig served in the United States Air of the Iowa Chapter of the Federal Bar Asso- taxes since 1995, the trust fund was depleted Force from 1968 to 1972. Craig has served on ciation. She ‘‘wanted to make an impact for and the funding source for the cleanup of or- the Eden Medical Foundation Board of Direc- black and women’s rights, which are histori- phan sites has shifted primarily to general tors since 2004, and he spent 1988 to 1996 cally intertwined,’’ and ‘‘felt that our black chil- funds. giving back to his community by serving on dren needed more black images in politics to The Superfund Reinvestment Act will rein- the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council. stir their interests.’’ state Superfund taxes to their previous levels, Mr. Speaker, Realtors are an important part of every community, as they enable the Amer- With all of her achievements, another great including excise taxes of $.097 per barrel on ican dream of home ownership. I want to success was her 50-year marriage to the love crude oil or refined oil products, excise taxes thank Craig for his service and his contribu- of her life, the late Luther T. Glanton Jr. who of $.22 to $4.87 per ton on certain chemicals, tions to the East Bay. I wish him the best of was also a pioneer for African Americans by and a corporate environmental income tax of luck as he continues to play an important role becoming Iowa’s first district judge. A thrilling .12 percent on a corporation’s modified alter- in the lives of East Bay residents. day for my family was when Judge Glanton native minimum taxable income that exceeds spoke at my sister’s high school graduation in $2 million. This legislation also includes lan- f 1973. guage to guarantee that money from the Trust HONORING ROBERT H. QUINN, JR. Fund is only spent on Superfund cleanups. As such an important symbol of justice, the I urge my colleagues to join me in working Willie Stevenson Glanton Award was estab- to strengthen the Superfund program by en- HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON lished to recognize a lawyer who exemplifies OF MISSISSIPPI suring that polluters continue to pay. This will Willie’s spirit to help others, reach back, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES go a long way towards cleaning up America’s help his or her community. Recipients are most toxic waste sites, and helping to keep Tuesday, January 14, 2014 honored for working toward the goal of im- our communities and our families safe, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, proving their community, whether through a healthy, and economically secure. I rise today to honor Mr. Robert H. Quinn, Jr., commitment to public service, legislative initia- who is a remarkable investigator and public tives, professional activities, or community ac- f servant. tivities. They must demonstrate a commitment PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. Robert H. Quinn, Jr. was born in Clay to advocacy and activism in the spirit of Wil- County, Mississippi on May 26, 1954 to Nellie lie’s devotion to ‘‘free up people.’’ HON. GEORGE MILLER Rene and Robert H. Quinn, Sr. At the age of Willie is an example of a leader who has OF CALIFORNIA six months, his father was the victim of a worked tirelessly to make her community, her IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES swimming accident and at the age of four his state, and her country a better place to live. mother was the victim of a violent crime. His Tuesday, January 14, 2014 She is a true example of hard work, deter- grandfather and grandmother along with his mination and a good heart, and shows us that Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. aunt reared him along with siblings. we can achieve so much and improve the Speaker, I was unavoidably detained yester- Mr. Quinn, Jr. attended Beasley High lives of so many individuals directly and indi- day and missed roll Nos. 12 and 13. Had I School and after graduation attended Mis- rectly. Willie, on behalf of Iowans and Ameri- been present, I would have voted ‘‘aye’’ on roll sissippi Valley State University. Being inde- cans, you make us proud. Nos. 12 and 13. pendent and desiring a more challenging life,

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The graduated and successfully completed a three twice as many riders and cost half the price school has operated continually since then, of- year tour. During this time he was selected to compared to a trip from Washington to New fering a wide spectrum of artistic courses to attend and graduated Primary Leadership York on the existing high-speed rail line there. children, teenagers, and adults. In 2011, the School, Basic Non Commissioned Officer This is a preposterous estimate for a region school added a Ceramics Studio and Digital School, Advanced Non Commissioned Officer which, compared to the Northeast Corridor, Media Laboratory. Two additional programs in- school and a host of other schools. In 1995 has a smaller population base, lower popu- clude training for teachers in the arts, and a after completion of his military service, Mr. lation density, and less extensive mass transit new contemporary art program. The museum Quinn returned home and began a career in system to connect everyone. provides programs for seniors and special law enforcement. Furthermore, nonpartisan reports as well as needs individuals, as well. In 1996 Mr. Quinn was hired and worked for research by the State Auditor and Legislative Since the opening in 1914, the Museum’s Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) Analyst have cast doubt on the project’s basic collection has grown to over 12,000 works. where he quickly rose to rank of captain. After assumptions, and these misgivings were rein- The American collection includes paintings, four years of service to Correction Corpora- forced recently when a state judge found that drawings, prints, sculptures, and photographs tions of America Mr. Quinn was hired in 2000 the state had no valid financial plan for the dating from the 18th Century to the present and worked as a campus police at Mississippi project. and features works by Benjamin West, Asher Valley State University. After a year of service In light of this stunning level of waste and B. Durand, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hop- Mr. Quinn was hired in 2001 by the Leflore deception, California high-speed rail has al- per, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andy Warhol. The County Sheriff Department. ready proved itself to be a monumental failure. Native American Collection contains over Mr. Quinn worked his way up in rank and in Californians are being forcibly evicted from 4,000 pieces including basketry, pottery, and 2006 became the only second African Amer- their homes and businesses to make way for jewelry from various cultural areas across the ican to hold the position of Investigator for the an extravagant train to nowhere. The only rea- United States. The museum also features Leflore County Sheriff Department. Mr. Quinn sonable course of action is to spare our com- young and emerging artists. attended and graduated the Certified Investi- munities further misfortune by ending this The Montclair Art Museum maintains a gator Program (CIP) becoming a certified in- project once and for all. strong sense of community presence through vestigator in the state of Mississippi. f its public and family programs. Each year, Mr. Quinn is the proud parent of three sons: 10,000 students from Kindergarten to twelfth Travis, Robert, III and D’montre; and three OUR UNCONSCIONABLE NATIONAL grade visit the museum, coming from 190 daughters: Tannisha, Emelja and Denita. DEBT school districts. The museum also holds Mr. Quinn has worked with the Leflore events such as Family Days, Montclair Art Mu- County Drug Court and the Leflore County HON. MIKE COFFMAN seum Park Bench, Home School Days, Family Crime Stoppers. Along with his duties of in- OF CALIFORNIA Learning Laboratory, and birthday parties. vestigator, Mr. Quinn also works with the Mis- As it celebrates its Centennial, the Montclair IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sissippi Community Education Center. Art Museum continues to work towards Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me Tuesday, January 14, 2014 bettering its education programs, outreach ef- in recognizing an Investigator Extraordinaire, Mr. COFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, on January forts, exhibitions, and informing and inspiring Mr. Robert H. Quinn, Jr. for his dedication to 20, 2009, the day President Obama took of- diverse audiences. serving others and giving back to the African fice, the national debt was Mr. Speaker, I ask you and my colleagues American community. $10,626,877,048,913.08. to join me in congratulating the Montclair Art f Today, it is $17,282,527,565,175.09. We’ve Museum, its trustees, staff and many volun- teers, as they celebrate their Centennial Anni- IN OPPOSITION TO CALIFORNIA added $6,655,650,516,262.01 to our debt in 5 versary. HIGH-SPEED RAIL years. This is over $6.6 trillion in debt our na- tion, our economy, and our children could f HON. DEVIN NUNES have avoided with a balanced budget amend- HONORING MR. ROY HARPER ment. OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON Tuesday, January 14, 2014 CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL OF MISSISSIPPI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. NUNES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to OF THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM record a few observations about the California Tuesday, January 14, 2014 high-speed rail project. HON. RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- It’s no surprise that high-speed rail has be- OF NEW JERSEY er, I rise today in honor of a Veteran, Mr. Roy come a boondoggle even before any track has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Harper (1923–2011), of the United States been installed. This was a political project Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Army. from the beginning, backed by local politicians Mr. Roy Harper was born July 20, 1923 to who thought it would raise their political for- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise the parentage of Vollie & Estella Hartfield Har- tunes. For example, as noted by Sacramento today to honor the Montclair Art Museum, lo- per in Hopewell in the state of Mississippi. Mr. Bee columnist Dan Walters, a planned route cated in the Township of Montclair in Essex, Harper was the 2nd child of four (4) children. between Merced and Bakersfield was the di- County, New Jersey, as it celebrates its Cen- His siblings are: Gussie Harper Phillips, rect result of President Obama’s effort to help tennial Anniversary. LeAngie Harper Brown and Nathaniel Harper. an endangered Democrat lawmaker, whose When the Montclair Art Museum opened in Mr. Harper grew up in the Brushy Creek district received $700 million of stimulus fund- 1914, it was not only one of the country’s first Community where he was a member of ing just before the 2010 elections. museums to primarily focus on American and Brushy Creek M.B. Church. He joined at the Californians were deceived about the most Native American art, but also was one of the early age of 10 years old and was baptized in fundamental aspects of this project, whose first museums in the nation to be accredited the creek in back of Reno’s Store. Mr. Harper price tag has already doubled to $68 billion. by the American Association of Museums. The served as: a trustee at Brushy Creek M.B. With independent estimates routinely exceed- museum’s collections began with gifts from Church in 1963; a deacon; choir president; ing $100 billion, it’s hard to believe the initial Montclair residents, which acted as the foun- Cemetery section; and was a member of estimates were put forward in good faith, or dation of its holdings. The American collection Brushy Creek Building fund committee. that voters would have approved the project if started with a gift of 36 paintings from William Mr. Harper was married to Beulah Haley they had known its true cost. Recently, Gov- T. Evans, while the Native American collection Harper and to this union three (3) children ernor Brown has even proposed raiding the was initiated by Mrs. Henry Lang, both co- were born: Adell Harper, now deceased; state’s cap-and-trade program to help finance founders of the museum. When the museum Helen Harper Mckenny; and Willie Fred Har- the ballooning costs. opened, it dedicated a gallery to America’s per.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:44 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A14JA8.024 E14JAPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E70 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 14, 2014 Private Roy Harper was drafted in the life and service of Sgt. J. Michael Phillippi of he’s the type of veteran we all hope that we United States Army on January, 1943 and was Martinsville, Virginia, who passed away while can be one day.’’ sent to Camp Shelby in Mississippi. He was on duty in a tragic auto accident on January Sgt. Phillippi was also a very active and de- honorably discharged from the United States 11, 2014. voted member of the McCabe Memorial Bap- Military Services in the Army Airbase in Lin- Born in Kingsport, Tennessee, in 1948, Sgt. coln, Nebraska on November 27, 1943. Pri- tist Church. He served the church as a deacon Phillippi graduated from Gate City High School and a member of the pastor search com- vate Harper received a Testimonial Certificate in Gate City, Virginia, Hiwassee Junior College mittee, taught Sunday school, and worked with of Honest and Faithful Services to his country. in Madisonville, Tennessee, and East Ten- Mr. Roy Harper remained a member of nessee State University in Johnson City. its youth group. He also was a member of the Brushy Creek Church and held various posi- YMCA and the Elks Club. tions throughout the years until his demise on Sgt. Phillippi dutifully served the Common- December 17, 2011. wealth of Virginia as a respected member of We are honored to pay tribute to this great Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me the State Police for more than 42 years, man. Sgt. Phillippi will long be remembered in recognizing a dynamic Veteran, Mr. Roy spending much of his time with the state po- throughout Martinsville, Henry County, and Harper. lice office that covers the Martinsville, Henry Patrick County as well as the Virginia State f County, and Patrick County area. He became law enforcement community. Our continued a sergeant in 1990. HONORING THE LIFE AND SERVICE prayers and blessings are with Sgt. Phillippi’s OF SGT. J. MICHAEL PHILLIPPI Known by many as ‘‘Flip,’’ his dedication wife Peggy Lawrence Phillippi and his other and service earned him much praise. Col. Ste- loved ones as they grieve. May God give them ven Flaherty, the state police superintendent, comfort during this time. HON. H. MORGAN GRIFFITH said, ‘‘Highly respected for his leadership, OF VIRGINIA strong character, integrity, and dedication to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mission, Sgt. Phillippi was totally loyal to the Tuesday, January 14, 2014 troopers he supervised and mentored, and the Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, community he served,’’ and Lt. Paul Watts Representative ROBERT HURT and I honor the said, ‘‘To have done this job as long he has,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:44 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A14JA8.028 E14JAPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Daily Digest Senate Reid Amendment No. 2634 (to (the instructions) Chamber Action Amendment No. 2633), of a perfecting nature. Routine Proceedings, pages S299–S334 Page S300 Measures Introduced: Eleven bills were introduced, Reid Amendment No. 2635 (to Amendment No. Page S300 as follows: S. 1916–1926. Page S325 2634), of a perfecting nature. During consideration of this measure today, Senate Measures Passed: also took the following action: Poison Center Network Act: Senate passed H.R. By 45 yeas to 55 nays (Vote No. 8), Senate failed 3527, to amend the Public Health Service Act to re- to table Reid motion to commit the bill to the authorize the poison center national toll-free number, Committee on Finance, with instructions, Reid national media campaign, and grant program. Amendment No. 2633, to change the enactment Page S333 date. Page S311 By 52 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 9), three-fifths Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz Commu- of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, not having nity-Based Outpatient Clinic: Committee on Vet- voted in the affirmative, Senate rejected the motion erans’ Affairs was discharged from further consider- to close further debate on Reid (for Reed) Amend- ation of S. 1434, to designate the Junction City ment No. 2631 (listed above). Pages S311–12 Community-Based Outpatient Clinic located at 715 By 55 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 10), three-fifths Southwind Drive, Junction City, Kansas, as the Lieu- of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, not having tenant General Richard J. Seitz Community-Based voted in the affirmative, Senate rejected the motion Outpatient Clinic, and the bill was then passed. to close further debate on the bill. Page S312 Pages S333–34 Subsequently, Senator Reid entered a motion to Measures Considered: reconsider the vote by which cloture was not in- voked on the bill. Page S312 Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act: Senate began consideration of the motion to proceed Further Continuing Appropriations—Agreement: to consideration of S. 1846, to delay the implemen- A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached tation of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters providing that at 12 noon, on Wednesday, January Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. 15, 2014, Senate begin consideration of H.J. Res. Pages S299–S300 106, making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, that there be no amendments, mo- Unemployment Benefits Extension: Senate contin- tions or points of order in order to the joint resolu- ued consideration of S. 1845, to provide for the ex- tion; that there be up to 15 minutes of debate equal- tension of certain unemployment benefits, taking ac- ly divided on the joint resolution; and that upon the tion on the following amendments and motions pro- use or yielding back of time, Senate vote on passage posed thereto: Pages S300–23 of the joint resolution. Page S323 Pending: Messages from the House: Page S324 Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 2631, relating to extension and modification of emergency unem- Measures Referred: Page S324 ployment compensation program. Page S300 Measures Read the First Time: Pages S324, S334 Reid Amendment No. 2632 (to Amendment No. Executive Communications: Pages S324–25 2631), to change the enactment date. Page S300 Executive Reports of Committees: Page S325 Reid motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance, with instructions, Reid Amendment No. Additional Cosponsors: Pages S325–26 2633, to change the enactment date. Page S300 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: Pages S326–29 D42

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Additional Statements: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE Amendments Submitted: Pages S329–33 AND TRAVEL SPENDING Notices of Hearings/Meetings: Page S333 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- fairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S333 conference and travel spending across the Federal Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. government, after receiving testimony from Beth F. (Total—10) Pages S311, S312 Cobert, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and ad- Management and Budget, Executive Office of the journed at 7:11 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, President; Dan Tangherlini, Administrator, and January 15, 2014. (For Senate’s program, see the re- Brian D. Miller, Inspector General, both of the Gen- marks of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on eral Services Administration; Michael E. Horowitz, Page S334.) Inspector General, Department of Justice; and J. Russell George, Inspector General for Tax Adminis- Committee Meetings tration, Department of the Treasury. (Committees not listed did not meet) AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER TRAINING CONTRACTS COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATIONS Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerg- fairs: Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting ing Threats and Capabilities received a closed brief- Oversight concluded a hearing to examine manage- ing on Department of Defense counterterrorism op- ment of air traffic controller training contracts, after erations from Michael G. Vickers, Under Secretary receiving testimony from Mary Kay Langan-Feirson, for Intelligence, Gary Reid, Principal Deputy Assist- Assistant Inspector General for Acquisition and Pro- ant Secretary for Special Operations and Low-Inten- curement Audits, Department of Transportation; Pat sity Conflict, Lieutenant General William C. McNall, Acquisition Executive, Federal Aviation Ad- Mayville, Jr., USA, Director for Operations, Joint ministration; and Lynn Dugle, Raytheon Company, Staff, and Brigadier General Richard C. Gross, Washington, D.C. JAGC, USA, Legal Counsel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. PRESIDENT’S REVIEW GROUP ON BUSINESS MEETING INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATIONS Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- TECHNOLOGIES fairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a nominations of John Roth, of Michigan, to be In- hearing to examine the report of the President’s Re- spector General, and Suzanne Eleanor Spaulding, of view Group on Intelligence and Communications Virginia, to be Under Secretary for National Protec- Technologies, after receiving testimony from Richard tion and Programs, both of the Department of A. Clarke, Michael J. Morell, Geoffrey R. Stone, Homeland Security, and William Ward Nooter, to Cass Sunstein, and Peter Swire, all a Member, Presi- be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the dent’s Review Group on Intelligence and Commu- District of Columbia. nications Technologies.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:51 Jan 15, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D14JA4.REC D14JAPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST D44 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST January 14, 2014 House of Representatives in connection with the transfer of ownership of Chamber Action smaller privately held companies.’’ Page H199 Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 15 pub- Holding Company Registration Threshold lic bills, H.R. 3862–3876; and 1 resolution, H.Res. Equalization Act: H.R. 801, to amend the Securi- 459 was introduced. Page H223 ties Exchange Act of 1934 to make the shareholder Additional Cosponsors: Pages H224–25 threshold for registration of savings and loan holding Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows: companies the same as for bank holding companies, H.R. 801, to amend the Securities Exchange Act by a 2⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 417 yeas to 4 nays, Roll of 1934 to make the shareholder threshold for reg- No. 15; Pages H196–98, H199–H200 istration of savings and loan holding companies the Making further continuing appropriations for same as for bank holding companies (H. Rept. 113–325); fiscal year 2014: H.J. Res. 106, to make further H.R. 2274, to amend the Securities Exchange Act continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014; of 1934 to provide for a notice-filing registration Page H198 procedure for brokers performing services in connec- OPM IG Act: H.R. 2860, to amend title 5, tion with the transfer of ownership of smaller pri- United States Code, to provide that the Inspector vately held companies and to provide for regulation General of the Office of Personnel Management may appropriate to the limited scope of the activities of use amounts in the revolving fund of the Office to such brokers, with amendments (H. Rept. 113–326); fund audits, investigations, and oversight activities, and by a 2⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 418 yeas with none vot- H. Res. 458, providing for consideration of the ing ‘‘nay’’, Roll No. 17; and Pages H200–02, H207 Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 3547) to ex- tend the application of certain space launch liability Presidential and Federal Records Act Amend- provisions through 2014; providing for proceedings ments: H.R. 1233, amended, to amend chapter 22 during the period from January 17, 2014, through of title 44, United States Code, popularly known as January 24, 2014; and for other purposes (H. Rept. the Presidential Records Act, to establish procedures 113–327). Page H223 for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of Presidential Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 2 appointed Representative Stewart to act as Speaker records, by a ⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 420 yeas with none voting ‘‘nay’’. Roll No. 18. pro tempore for today. Page H185 Pages H202–07, H207–08 Recess: The House recessed at 10:22 a.m. and re- convened at 12 noon. Page H188 Recess: The House recessed at 2:43 p.m. and recon- vened at 5 p.m. Page H207 Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker’s approval of the Journal by a yea-and-nay vote of 274 yeas to Quorum Calls—Votes: Five yea-and-nay votes de- 138 nays with 3 answering ‘‘present’’, Roll No. 16. veloped during the proceedings of today and appear Pages H188, H200 on pages H199, H199–H200, H200, H207, H208. There were no quorum calls. Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the following measures: Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and ad- Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and journed at 7:50 p.m. Brokerage Simplification Act: H.R. 2274, amend- ed, to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide for a notice-filing registration procedure Committee Meetings for brokers performing services in connection with PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA MARITIME the transfer of ownership of smaller privately held companies and to provide for regulation appropriate DISPUTES to the limited scope of the activities of such brokers, Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on by a 2⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 422 yeas with none vot- Seapower; and Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sub- ing ‘‘nay’’, Roll No. 14; Pages H192–96, H198–99 committee on Asia and the Pacific held a joint hear- Agreed to amend the title so as to read: ‘‘To ing entitled ‘‘People’s Republic of China Maritime amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to ex- Disputes’’. Testimony was heard from public wit- empt from registration brokers performing services nesses.

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Schultz, cess to Benghazi investigation transcripts; member of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, access request; and held a hearing entitled ‘‘Ongoing Puneet Talwar, of the District of Columbia, to be Assist- Intelligence Activities’’. This was a closed hearing. ant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs, Carlos Roberto Moreno, of California, to be Ambassador to Belize, Rose Joint Meetings Eilene Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary No joint committee meetings were held. for Arms Control and International Security, Frank A. Rose, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for f Verification and Compliance, Adam M. Scheinman, of COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY, Virginia, to be Special Representative of the President for JANUARY 15, 2014 Nuclear Nonproliferation, Timothy M. Broas, of Mary- land, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Nether- (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) lands, Donald Lu, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Robert A. Sherman, of Massachu- Senate setts, to be Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic, Committee on Armed Services: to receive a closed briefing Karen Clark Stanton, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to on the situation in Iraq and Syria, 9:30 a.m., SVC–217. the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Amy Jane Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Sub- Hyatt, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic committee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Pro- of Palau, Tomasz P. Malinowski, of the District of Co- tection, to hold hearings to examine regulating financial lumbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human holding companies and physical commodities, 2 p.m., Rights, and Labor, Crystal Nix-Hines, of California, for SD–538. the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to the United States Permanent Representative to the hold hearings to examine the future of unmanned aviation United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Or- in the United States economy, focusing on safety and pri- ganization, John Hoover, of Massachusetts, to be Ambas- vacy considerations, 2:30 p.m., SR–253. sador to the Republic of Sierra Leone, Thomas Frederick Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider the Daughton, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, to be of Namibia, Dwight L. Bush, Sr., of the District of Co- Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and Rhonda K. lumbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, Schmidtlein, of Missouri, to be a Member of the United Matthew T. Harrington, of Virginia, to be Ambassador States International Trade Commission; to be imme- to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Charles Hammerman Rivkin, diately followed by a hearing to examine the nomination of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for of R. Gil Kerlikowske, of the District of Columbia, to Economic and Business Affairs, Mark Bradley Childress, be Commissioner of Customs, Department of Homeland of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of Security, and L. Paige Marvel, of Maryland, and Tamara Tanzania, Pamela K. Hamamoto, of Hawaii, to be Rep- Wenda Ashford, of Virginia, both to be a Judge of the resentative of the United States of America to the Office United States Tax Court, 10 a.m., SD–215. of the United Nations and Other International Organiza- Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to con- tions in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador, Michael sider S. 1901, to authorize the President to extend the Stephen Hoza, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the term of the nuclear energy agreement with the Republic Republic of Cameroon, Brian A. Nichols, of Rhode Is- of Korea until March 19, 2016, and the nominations of land, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, Eunice Cynthia H. Akuetteh, of the District of Columbia, to be S. Reddick, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambas- Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic, and to serve con- sador to the Republic of Niger, Bruce Heyman, of Illi- currently and without additional compensation as Ambas- nois, to be Ambassador to Canada, Richard Stengel, of sador to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Prin- New York, to be Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, cipe, Catherine Ann Novelli, of Virginia, to be Under and Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, of New York, to be Rep- Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environ- resentative of the United States of America to the Euro- ment, Tina S. Kaidanow, of the District of Columbia, to pean Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador, all be Coordinator for Counterterrorism, with the rank and of the Department of State, Catherine Ann Novelli, of status of Ambassador at Large, Michael A. Hammer, of Virginia, to be United States Alternate Governor of the the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Re- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, public of Chile, Kevin Whitaker, of Virginia, to be Am- United States Alternate Governor of the Inter-American bassador to the Republic of Colombia, Daniel W. Development Bank, and to be United States Alternate

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Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Development, Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of Virginia, to be Human Rights, and International Organizations, hearing Director of the Peace Corps, Michael G. Carroll, of New entitled ‘‘A Report on the G8 Dementia Summit’’, 2 York, to be Inspector General, United States Agency for p.m., 2200 Rayburn. International Development, Mark E. Lopes, of Arizona, to Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, hearing enti- be United States Executive Director of the Inter-Amer- tled ‘‘NAFTA at Twenty: Accomplishments, Challenges, ican Development, Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be and the Way Forward’’, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn. United States Alternate Governor of the International Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, hearing Monetary Fund, and Dana J. Hyde, of Maryland, to be entitled ‘‘A False Narrative Endangers the Homeland’’, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corpora- 10 a.m., 311 Cannon. tion; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protec- implications of the crisis in Ukraine, 2 p.m., SD–419. tion, and Security Technologies, markup on H.R. 3696, Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine the ‘‘National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure aging in comfort, focusing on assessing the special needs Protection Act of 2013’’, 2 p.m., 311 Cannon. of America’s Holocaust survivors, 2:15 p.m., SD–562. Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, markup on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Con- H.R. 7, the ‘‘No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act’’, trol: to hold hearings to examine strategies to counter the 10:15 a.m., 2141 Rayburn. drug trade as United States troop drawdown continues, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Com- focusing on the future of United States counternarcotics mittee, hearing entitled ‘‘Strengthening Agency Over- efforts in Afghanistan, 3 p.m., SD–138. sight: Empowering the Inspectors General Community’’, 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn. House Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on entitled ‘‘The Power of Connection: Peer-to-Peer Busi- Communications and Technology, hearing entitled nesses’’, 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn. ‘‘#CommActUpdate: Perspectives from Former FCC Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Sub- Chairman’’, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn. committee on Railroad, Pipelines, and Hazardous Mate- Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing rials, hearing entitled ‘‘A Review of the Challenges Fac- entitled ‘‘The Impact of the Volcker Rule on Job Cre- ing California High Speed Rail’’, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn. ators, Part I’’ 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Subcommittee on Over- Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing sight and Investigations, hearing entitled ‘‘Vendors in the entitled ‘‘South Sudan’s Broken Promise?’’, 10 a.m., 2172 OR—VA’s Failed Oversight of Surgical Implants’’, 10 Rayburn. a.m., 334 Cannon.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Wednesday, January 15 10 a.m., Wednesday, January 15

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Wednesday: At 12 noon, Senate will begin Program for Wednesday: Consideration of the Senate consideration of H.J. Res. 106, Further Continuing Ap- Amendments to H.R. 3547—Omnibus FY2014 Appro- propriations, and vote on passage of the joint resolution priations Act (Subject to a Rule). at approximately 12:15 p.m.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Crenshaw, Ander, Fla., E64 Messer, Luke, Ind., E62, E67 DeFazio, Peter A., Ore., E63 Miller, George, Calif., E68 Barber, Ron, Ariz., E67 Diaz-Balart, Mario, Fla., E61 Mulvaney, Mick, S.C., E64 Blumenauer, Earl, Ore., E68 Frelinghuysen, Rodney P., N.J., E69 Nunes, Devin, Calif., E69 Braley, Bruce L., Iowa, E68 Gerlach, Jim, Pa., E67 Peters, Gary C., Mich., E61 Brooks, Susan W., Ind., E62 Griffith, H. Morgan, Va., E70 Rangel, Charles B., N.Y., E63 Brownley, Julia, Calif., E65 Guthrie, Brett, Ky., E65 Roby, Martha, Ala., E65 Calvert, Ken, Calif., E62, E66 Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E66 Swalwell, Eric, Calif., E68 Capps, Lois, Calif., E64 Latham, Tom, Iowa, E61, E63 Thompson, Bennie G., Miss., E61, E62, E63, E64, E65, Coffman, Mike, Colo., E69 Marchant, Kenny, Tex., E66 E66, E67, E67, E68, E69

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