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Vol. 162 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2016 No. 109 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was ing but cause greater harm for our watershed. Researchers expect that for called to order by the Speaker pro tem- planet and future generations. Each every degree of Celsius of global warm- pore (Mr. WEBSTER of Florida). day that passes without action on cli- ing, the amount of water that gets f mate change is another day we are evaporated and sucked up by plants wreaking havoc on our world. from the Colorado River could increase DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO I think President Obama said it best 2 or 3 percent. With 4.5 million acres of TEMPORE when he stated: ‘‘If anybody still wants farmland irrigated using the Colorado The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- to dispute the science around climate River water and with nearly 40 million fore the House the following commu- change, have at it. You’ll be pretty residents depending on it, the incre- nication from the Speaker: lonely, because you’ll be debating our mental losses that are predicted will military, most of America’s business have a devastating impact. WASHINGTON, DC, As the West continues to experience July 7, 2016. leaders, the majority of the American I hereby appoint the Honorable DANIEL people, almost the entire scientific less rain and an increase in the sever- WEBSTER to act as Speaker pro tempore on community, and 200 nations around the ity and length of droughts, greater im- this day. world who agree it’s a problem and in- pacts on drinking water supplies are PAUL D. RYAN, tend to solve it.’’ projected. Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is hard to believe that some of my Unfortunately, it is not just the f colleagues are so determined to deny western U.S. that is in danger. In my own region, the Great Lakes are under MORNING-HOUR DEBATE climate science that they are willing to sacrifice the health and safety of threat as they are warming at rates The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Americans. faster than the world’s oceans. It is ex- ant to the order of the House of Janu- Nowhere is the sacrifice more evident pected that the Great Lakes region will ary 5, 2016, the Chair will now recog- than in our waterways. We use water grow warmer and probably dryer dur- nize Members from lists submitted by for everything, from drinking and ing the 21st century, with tempera- the majority and minority leaders for bathing to growing crops, shipping tures in the region warming anywhere morning-hour debate. goods, generating electricity, and from 5 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit. The impact climate change has on The Chair will alternate recognition recreation. But climate change is cre- the five lakes will have serious impli- between the parties, with each party ating profound changes to this precious cations for aquatic life, as well as high limited to 1 hour and each Member commodity, threatening water avail- other than the majority and minority economic costs for our communities. ability, access, and quality. Several different climate models for leaders and the minority whip limited Many areas of the United States, es- to 5 minutes, but in no event shall de- the Great Lakes region all predict that pecially in the West, currently face lake levels will decline over the next bate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. devastating water supply issues. The century. Within another 30 years, Lake f amount of water available in these Superior may be mostly ice free in a areas is already limited, and our de- CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER typical winter and has already experi- mand will continue to rise as the popu- enced increased water temperatures. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The lation grows. Lake Erie water levels, already below Chair recognizes the gentleman from One of the greatest examples of this average, could drop 4 to 5 feet by the Illinois (Mr. QUIGLEY) for 5 minutes. is the Colorado River system, a major end of this century, significantly alter- Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, when it source of water supply for the South- ing shoreline habitat. comes to climate change, the data is in west. In recent decades, water flow We are at the tipping point, and in- and the science clear: Our world is through this important river system stead of addressing the root of the shifting. Sea levels are rising. Glaciers has been lighter than expected given issue, climate change, my colleagues are shrinking. Oceans are becoming annual rain and snowfall rates. Not continue to deny the science. more acidic. surprisingly, studies show that rising Our waterways are national treas- What is more? The Intergovern- temperatures and climate change are ures. They serve as the backbone for mental Panel on Climate Change is 95 the cause of this decreased water flow. our health, economy, ecosystems, and percent certain that humans are caus- As greenhouse gas pollution con- recreation. We cannot simply stand by ing the current climate change trend. tinues to pile up, it traps more heat, while the course of the world is altered. To sit here and deny the science simply continually raising global tempera- The science is clear, the data is because it inconveniences us does noth- tures, and parches the Colorado River pointing us in one direction: Now is the

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We ought to be de- also not required for Internet sales. bating Afghanistan on the floor of the Bipartisan legislation has been intro- STOP SPENDING BILLIONS IN House and we ought to be saying, ‘‘Is it duced by Representatives PETER KING AFGHANISTAN worth it or is it not worth it,’’ and and MIKE THOMPSON that would finally The SPEAKER pro tempore. The have an up-or-down vote. No, we just close this egregious loophole. It is an Chair recognizes the gentleman from let it continue to go down this road entirely sensible reform that would North Carolina (Mr. JONES) for 5 min- with no end to it. have a measurable impact on the safe- utes. Mr. Speaker, I close this way, be- ty of our schools, homes, and neighbor- Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, I am on the cause to me this tells you more about hoods, without preventing law-abiding floor again today with a prophetic po- Afghanistan than anything I could say citizens from using guns for self-de- litical cartoon. In the cartoon, Uncle today. Afghanistan is known as the fense or recreational purposes. Sam is in a wheelchair, and he is at the graveyard of empires. Well, I know one Despite attracting 186 cosponsors, in- edge of a cliff that is known as the fis- empire that is headed for the grave- cluding several Republicans, the back- cal cliff. Then, he has President Obama yard, and it happens to be the United ground check legislation has never pushing him in the wheelchair; and States of America. And if we continue been brought to the floor or even re- then the donkey, representing the to fund and waste the taxpayers’ ceived a hearing in committee. It has Democratic Party, is pushing Mr. money in Afghanistan, then I hope that been languishing for more than 15 Obama. And then the elephant, rep- graveyard will have a headstone, and it months. Meanwhile, the shootings and the suicides and the massacres con- resenting the Republican Party, is will one day, that says ‘‘USA,’’ because tinue to accumulate. pushing the donkey and President we will be in the graveyard of Afghani- stan. My colleagues, we must do better. Obama to push Uncle Sam off the cliff. Our fellow citizens are totally fed up, What is ironic is that Uncle Sam is f both with the unspeakable killing and yelling like he is excited: ‘‘I can see GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION suffering and with a feckless Congress Greece from here.’’ Well, we know what The SPEAKER pro tempore. The that hasn’t lifted a finger to prevent it. has happened to the economy of Now, this week, after intense public Greece. It is in total collapse. Chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. PRICE) for 5 min- criticism and a historic protest by Mr. Speaker, we are $19.2 trillion in Democrats on the House floor, Repub- debt. I was here in the year 2000 when utes. Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. licans seemed for a while to be willing Bill Clinton left office. We were the Speaker, I rise today as a vice chair of to hold a vote on legislation they claim majority in the House and the Senate. the House Gun Violence Prevention would prevent suspected terrorists We were headed for a surplus. The debt Task Force and in solidarity with the from purchasing firearms. After all, in 2000 was $5.6 trillion. Now we are majority of Americans who are de- nearly 2,500 individuals on the terrorist here 16 years later and it is $19.2 tril- manding that Congress take meaning- watch list have successfully purchased lion. ful action to prevent gun violence. weapons in this country. The reason I bring this up is because We all know the statistics. Whether But rather than embrace existing bi- we have an opportunity to stop spend- it is through mass shootings that make partisan legislation to actually fix the ing billions and billions of dollars in the headlines or the unseen violence problem, Republicans put forth a woe- Afghanistan. It is nothing but a waste. that happens daily on our streets, gun fully inadequate proposal that would It is a waste of our young men and violence takes the lives of more than require law enforcement and courts to women in uniform. It is a waste of the 30,000 of our Nation’s citizens each grapple with unworkable processes, taxpayers’ money. year, a number that far exceeds other unreachable standards, to be completed Recently, in an article in The Wash- industrial countries. in an unreasonably short period of ington Post titled ‘‘Former Afghan Now, all these countries have their time. Leader Karzai: Military Action Cannot share of violent extremists and mad- Their bill would allow suspected ter- Resolve Conflict in Afghanistan,’’ the men, but only our country gives easy rorists to receive firearms by default former President of Afghanistan, access to weapons of mass killing. And after only 3 days if the court is unable Hamid Karzai, told The Washington that makes all the difference for Amer- to work through a complicated process. Post recently that he doesn’t think a ica. That is the same flaw that allowed the military effort will bring peace to Af- Rather than seeking out common- White supremacist Charleston shooter ghanistan. He said: ‘‘We did it for the sense solutions to address this crisis, to obtain the weapon that he used to last 14 years and it didn’t bring us that, the Republican majority continues to murder nine people at Emanuel AME so how do we know . . . military action cower to the gun lobby and the fire- Church. In other words, the bill is totally in- will bring us that now?’’ arms manufacturers. Now they plead adequate. Now, under pressure from We are going on 15 years of being in the Second Amendment, but Constitu- their most extreme Members, Repub- that country—and the waste, fraud, tional Law 101 would tell us that all of lican leaders refuse to even put this and abuse in Afghanistan is worse now our rights, including the precious free- than it has ever been. bill on the floor. doms of religion and speech, must be What should be on the floor is bipar- I think about the needs of our vet- balanced to protect innocent third partisan legislation, H.R. 1076, that would erans, I think about the needs of our ties and to protect the safety of the permit the Attorney General to block children, I think about the needs of our wider community. gun sales to suspected terrorists. This senior citizens, and so many other One commonsense measure we should legislation, based on a proposal from needs. We passed a bill yesterday to all agree on is background checks to the Bush Justice Department, would help with the mental health issues of keep guns out of the hands of crimi- still allow individuals to challenge the America, yet it is not funded. But, yes, nals, domestic abusers, and the dan- government in court to restore their we will find the money to fund Afghan- gerously mentally ill. You can’t shout gun ownership rights. istan so we can continue to waste and ‘‘fire’’ in a crowded theater because of We don’t have to choose between pro- spend the taxpayers’ money and get your freedom of speech, and neither tecting our communities and respect- nothing for it. It is just absolutely ri- should you be able to buy a weapon if ing due process. diculous. you have a history of violence and Mr. Speaker, I voted against the De- criminality. b 1015 partment of Defense bill last week sim- In fact, almost 90 percent of Ameri- And so, Mr. Speaker, we ask our col- ply because there is another $43 billion cans, including the majority of gun leagues how much longer must we

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United States maintains significant bi- ther King, Jr., was gunned down, why Thoughts and prayers are not enough. lateral relations and has provided im- does she have to start her description In fact, the Scriptures teach us that portant diplomatic assistance to the of her son with ‘‘He was not a thug’’? such pieties give grave offense when Colombian Government, but we have She said: ‘‘We are being hunted.’’ they mask a refusal to do what we done so without becoming overly in- Mr. Speaker, this is another sad know is right. We need action. I call on volved in their local affairs. chapter in American history. my colleagues to bring these common- So, Mr. Speaker, I want to emphasize I do not feel compelled to say in de- sense proposals to the floor for a vote. my strong support for the Colombian scribing my grandson Luisito: Well, f peace process, and I call on every Mem- first and foremost, he is not a gang ber of this House to also lend their sup- banger, he is not a thug. But for this ONGOING PEACE PROCESS IN port to that process. We need to en- Black mother and for a lot of African COLOMBIA courage our neighbors in South Amer- American mothers in this country, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ica. I want to commend President that is something they feel a necessity Chair recognizes the gentleman from Santos for his leadership and his com- to say. Alabama (Mr. BYRNE) for 5 minutes. mitment to a lasting peace. This mother did everything right. Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise I also want to highlight the impor- Her son was still shot dead by the po- today to applaud and encourage the on- tant work of Ambassador Pinzo´ n. I ap- lice. This young man was riding in the going peace process in Colombia. preciate his friendship, and I applaud passenger seat of a car with his fiance´e Over the last 52 years, Colombia has his work to strengthen the partnership and 4-year-old little daughter in the witnessed an armed conflict between between the United States and Colom- backseat. the government and the Revolutionary bia. He had a permit to carry a weapon, Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Ultimately, only the people of Co- which he announced to the police. So The conflict has taken a serious toll on lombia can reach the lasting peace he had gone through the background the country: 220,000 people have been agreement that restores justice and check, gone through the training, and killed and more than 6.8 million people order to their country, but the United had the concealed carry permit. But he have been forced from their homes. The States can—and I believe we must— was shot dead in front of his loved fighting has been especially difficult stand ready to assist the Colombian ones, his fiance´e and daughter. for the rural areas of the country. Government as they finalize this proc- Why is it in 21st century America we But a new day is on the horizon for ess and then as they move their coun- have to have a conversation about how the people of Colombia. The country is try out of conflict and into a period of to avoid being shot by the police? Why on the verge of a historic peace agree- stability and lasting peace. do I have to instruct my grandson ment with the FARC. In fact, the gov- f about deescalation if he comes in con- ernment and the FARC signed a cease- tact with the police, about strategies fire agreement on June 23. This was ANOTHER AMERICAN SHOT DOWN to prevent a sworn public servant, an seen as one of the few remaining road- BY THE POLICE officer of the court, a trained member blocks to a final peace agreement. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The of law enforcement, and I have to in- With all that is going on in the world Chair recognizes the gentleman from struct my teenage grandson how to today, it would be easy to miss the im- Illinois (Mr. GUTIE´ RREZ) for 5 minutes. prevent that person from shooting him portant progress taking place in Co- Mr. GUTIE´ RREZ. Mr. Speaker, I had to death for no reason? Why, Mr. lombia. The peace process isn’t gar- planned to talk about something else Speaker? nering the media attention that some this morning, but the events of the last We have no national strategy, no na- other foreign affairs are, but it is going 12 hours changed my plans. tional conversation. When Americans to have just as important an impact on I watched this morning on TV and are literally crying out in the streets global affairs. online—like a lot of Americans—an- that, yes, Black lives matter, we have Last year, I had the opportunity to other of our fellow Americans shot no response from the Congress, the peo- travel to Colombia with the Committee down by the police. This time it was in ple’s House. None. on Armed Services and my colleague St. Paul, Minnesota. Earlier this week, The head of the FBI announces he from Arizona, Mr. GALLEGO, whose it was in Baton Rouge. But we know it won’t press charges against a candidate mother is from Colombia. It didn’t is everywhere—in Chicago, in Balti- in the Democratic Party. Stop every- take long for me to realize that Colom- more, in South Carolina. thing; we need to have hearings, con- bia is a beautiful and fascinating coun- It seems that every week or month gressional hearings. Benghazi, let’s try, and I was very impressed with the another Black man is shot by the po- spend millions on hearings, political hospitality of the Colombian people. It lice, and we always have the same reac- hearings. Planned Parenthood, let’s also became clear during my trip that tion: Oh, it is a tragedy; there should form a special committee to do what the majority of Colombian people want be an investigation. A lawsuit is filed, the majority party feels is important things to be better in their country, and another settlement. Oh, the Jus- from their political point of view. and they are committed to the peace tice Department and the FBI need to But a young Black man is shot by po- process. oversee the investigation because we lice in his car in cold blood? Nothing. Mr. Speaker, Colombia is our closest cannot trust the police to police them- Young men are shot by police, video- and strongest ally in Latin America, so selves. And then we go back to business tapes are withheld from the public, and the peace process is very important not as usual, and nobody actually does nothing happens. only to Colombia, but also to the anything. Mr. Speaker, I think Black lives mat- United States. Their future opportuni- State by State, city by city, and ter. I think the lives of young men in ties are also ours. county by county, we might make this inner cities across this country matter. Colombia has a growing economy reform or that reform, but there is no And I think this Congress should be the with immense potential based on their national strategy to stop police from place where America comes together to abundant natural resources and a cul- killing people, especially Black people, decide what we are going to do about ture that values hard work. A more especially Black men. young Black men getting shot by the stable Colombia will allow the country I wept this morning as I watched the police. Not next week, when it is going to further expand their economy, mother of Philando Castile describe to happen again. Not next month, when which would be a benefit to us right her son. She said he had a job, he it is going to happen again. Not wait- here at home. served children in the cafeteria, and ing safely until after the election,

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However, in order to RESTORING ACCESS TO House has passed this bipartisan, com- get that legislation through the House, MEDICATION ACT monsense legislation which places the a costly consensus was made to gun The SPEAKER pro tempore. The healthcare needs of families above the rights supporters and the NRA that al- Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from liberal interests of bureaucrats in lowed the ban to sunset or expire after Missouri (Mrs. WAGNER) for 5 minutes. Washington. It will save families 10 years. So, despite the importance of Mrs. WAGNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise money and put them further in control the assault weapon ban, it was allowed today in support of the Restoring Ac- of their healthcare decisions, some- to expire. cess to Medication Act, introduced by thing the ever-failing Affordable Care From 2003–2008, Senator FEINSTEIN my good friend and colleague, Con- Act will never do. led numerous efforts to reauthorize the gresswoman LYNN JENKINS. f ban, but not a single bill left her com- Mr. Speaker, for far too long, Mis- mittee. We had the same here in the souri families have suffered from the HISTORY OF THE ASSAULT House. Carolyn McCarthy made the never-ending financial burdens and WEAPONS BAN plea over and over again. Her husband health consequences imposed by the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The and son died on a Long Island Railroad Affordable Care Act. From limited ac- Chair recognizes the gentleman from train from a guy who came into the cess to physicians to skyrocketing pre- Washington (Mr. MCDERMOTT) for 5 train and shot up the aisle and killed miums, ObamaCare has failed our minutes. them. One hundred four people were country and our people. Mr. MCDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, dur- gunned down during this time period in For years, Missouri families have ing my 28 years representing Seattle in mass shootings, and all Congress did used health savings accounts and flexi- the Congress, there have, unfortu- was to send a message that weapons de- ble spending accounts as an important nately, been several mass shootings in signed for use in the theater of war tool to save and help pay their medical my district, including one in 2006 at were acceptable for use on our streets. expenses, including over-the-counter the Jewish Community Center and an- While I certainly do not want to min- drugs. In the United States, more than other one in 2014 at Seattle Pacific imize the loss of lives, I find it impor- 20 million individuals and families University. I know the pain and the tant to point out that Congress felt have taken advantage of HSAs and frustration that members of the dele- compelled to act on an assault weapons FSAs. They have counted on them to gation from central Florida are feeling ban in 1994, following two shootings help protect against unexpected 3 weeks after the shooting in Orlando. that killed a combined total of 13 peo- healthcare expenses and better plan for As a psychiatrist, I know and under- ple. For some reason, this body can’t medical costs throughout the year. stand the trauma that these types of seem to summon the courage to act Under ObamaCare, the administra- violent events inflict on individuals after 27 are killed in Connecticut, 24 in tion did its best to get rid of these and communities. As someone who was San Bernardino, 9 in Oregon, 12 in Col- HSAs and FSAs by limiting the around Congress in 1994 when the first orado, and 49 in Orlando. And I could amount of savings people could con- assault weapons ban was passed, and in go on and on and on for my entire tribute to them and how that money 2004 when it expired without action, I speech. could be used. They even mandate that thought it would be useful to talk for a The question you have to ask is: funds in HSAs and FSAs cannot be used few minutes today about the history of Have we become so numb to the pain of to purchase over-the-counter medica- that ban and how Congress capitulated mass shootings that, no matter how tions without a prescription from a to the gun lobby and allowed weapons many innocent people are gunned physician. Simply put, this administra- designed for killing to flood our com- down, we won’t find the will to act? tion added yet another layer of ‘‘Wash- munities. Has the NRA desensitized my Repub- ington knows best’’ red tape to how to Congress began consideration of an lican colleagues so much that the spend your money and how to manage assault weapons ban after two mass slaughter of children in a kindergarten your health care. shootings in California. In January, in doesn’t even result in a single vote on As a mother of three, I remember 1989, a disturbed man with a long the floor, a denial to bring the issue sick children, cold and flu seasons, and criminal history walked into the Cleve- out here and debate it in public? late-night runs to the drugstore for land Elementary School in Stockton, What is the price that the American cough syrup and fever reducers. I know California, and fired 106 rounds in 3 people must pay before Republicans that these unexpected expenses di- minutes from his semiautomatic rifle, quit this obstruction? 100 killed? 200? rectly impact families that are fight- killing 5 children and wounding 32. Fifty doesn’t seem to hit threshold. ing to make ends meet. Adding another Nothing happened. It is no surprise I understand reinstating the assault doctor’s visit just so you can use your that we have the same thing happen in weapons ban will be tough, but, Mr. already saved money to purchase over- Connecticut and nothing happens. Speaker, we must have that debate if the-counter medications is unfair, it is Four years later, in 1993, a failed we are going to have a society in which wrong, and it is downright senseless. businessman opened fire in the Pettit we all feel safe. The Restoring Access to Medication & Martin law firm in San Francisco f Act will repeal this portion of the law with a pair of semiautomatic pistols, BRING THE BILLS FOR A VOTE that unfairly targets pocketbooks and shooting hollow point ammunition. reduces access to everyday medications The SPEAKER pro tempore. The like aspirin and allergy relief. This leg- b 1030 Chair recognizes the gentleman from islation will put Americans back in the The predictable public outcry and Massachusetts (Mr. CAPUANO) for 5 driver’s seat, restoring control of the strong support for an assault weapons minutes. family’s day-to-day health expenses ban following these shootings led Sen- Mr. CAPUANO. Mr. Speaker, I don’t and needs. ator DIANNE FEINSTEIN to put forward like being here. I had meetings I had to Mr. Speaker, in addition to this legis- legislation that would ban semiauto- cancel. I had phone calls I had to put lation increasing access to over-the- matic weapons. In an unprecedented off. But I am committed to doing ev- counter medications that families show of bipartisan support, former erything I can to get two votes on the need, it allows Americans to, most im- Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald floor—just two. They are simple issues: portantly, increase the amount of Reagan, and Gerald Ford joined to- no fly, no buy, and closing the gaping money they contribute to their health gether to publicly urge Congress to loopholes in background checks for the savings accounts. While doubling the ‘‘listen to the American public and to purchase of a gun. That shouldn’t be a

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They are scared time—if we are lucky—but it will not killed outside an ice skating park on to let the American people know where go away, and you cannot hide from June 11 in Stockton, California. they stand on these issues. your refusal to allow a vote on these Reggina Jefferies, 16, was killed as Just yesterday, we had to use a legis- two simple, commonsense proposals. she was attending a memorial service lative gimmick called a motion to re- f on June 14 in Oakland, California. She commit, which nobody in America un- had just performed a praise dance hon- derstands—I didn’t understand it be- VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE oring two boys who drowned. fore I got here—but it was the only way The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Robert Marto, 54, and Jason Moore, we could get the issue on the floor. And Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 41, were killed outside of a bar on June even then, when Mr. THOMPSON offered California (Ms. SPEIER) for 5 minutes. 18 in Warren, Ohio. it, it was ruled out of order. Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I want to Cameron Wilkins, 21, and Felicia Wil- Through machinations of rule on rule associate myself with the outstanding liams, 32, were killed in a housing com- on rule, we weren’t even allowed to comments of my colleague from Massa- plex on June 18 in Waycross, Georgia. vote on that. The item was ruled non- chusetts (Mr. CAPUANO). I couldn’t Cameron had seven children. germane and a motion was made to lay agree with him more. Ronald Graves, 30, was killed in a it on the table. The only vote we got I am, proudly, a member and co-chair house on June 19 in Exmore, Virginia. was to overrule the ruling of the Re- of our task force against gun violence. Gary Porter, 41, was killed at a party publican chair to lay it on the table. I proudly support every American’s on June 19 in Syracuse, New York. He The people who voted to lay it on the right to own a firearm. I believe as had four children. table yesterday voted to allow terror- strongly as anyone in this room that Monte Compton, 24, and his cousin, ists to buy weapons. The people who all we are trying to do here is get a Donte Jefferson, 29, were killed on voted to lay it on the table yesterday vote, a simple vote—let the votes fall June 21 in Louisville, Kentucky. voted to allow criminals and terrorists where they may—a simple vote on clos- Gerald Berkey, 36, Jackson Edens, 28, to continue to buy guns under our cur- ing loopholes as they relate to back- and Terron McGrath, 31, were killed in rent gaps in the background check law. ground checks and making sure terror- a trailer on June 22 in Lacey, Wash- That is what that vote was. ists can’t buy guns if they can’t even ington. Terron leaves behind two Now, I know no Republican who fly. daughters, 8 and 12. voted that way will go home and ex- Now, over the last many months, I An unidentified man was killed on plain it to their constituents. They will have spent many 5-minutes talking June 22 in DeKalb County, Georgia. say: Oh, no, it was just a procedural about all those who have died because Carlina Renee Gray, 50, Jan Marie motion. And many of them will prob- of mass shootings in this country. I Parks, 55, and Allen Rowlett, 60, were ably get away with it. That is a shame. have a memorial wall outside my office killed on June 24 in District Heights, What I don’t understand is why peo- that is filling up quite quickly with all Maryland. ple claim this is somehow against due the lives that have been lost because of Treavon Lewis, 22, and Jordan process—and, by the way, the bills mass shootings. Larkin, 18, were killed at a dance club have due process in them; written by a During our sit-in on the House floor on June 25 in Fort Worth, Texas. Republican during a Republican Presi- last week, we read the names of those Fernando Wingfield, 44, was killed dential administration—when there is in Orlando who were victims. Today, I outside a bar on June 26 in Atlanta, plenty of due process. If anybody wants am going to remember the 54 other vic- Georgia. An unidentified man was killed on to add more, we will add more. tims last month in 51 other mass No one was concerned about due shootings that took place in the month June 26 near a pool in Houston, Texas. Ruben Rigoberto-Reyes, 60, Edmundo process when they voted for the PA- of June. Even excluding Orlando, so Amaro-Bajonero, 26, and Katie TRIOT Act that allowed the NSA to many people last month were affected Gildersleeve, 30, were killed on June 27 listen to everybody’s cell phone con- by mass shootings that I don’t have on a blueberry farm in Woodburn, Or- versations. No one was caring about time within my 5 minutes to list those egon. due process when Americans grabbed who were injured but survived. Phoukeo Dej-Oudom, 35, and her chil- people from around the world and kept Here are those who died in mass dren, Dalavanh, 15, Xonajuk, 14, and them under lock and key for as long as shootings in June that were not vic- Anhurak, 9, were killed by their hus- we want. But now we are concerned tims in Orlando: band and father on June 29 in Las about it. God forbid we offer an amend- Devonne Burton, 28; Sean Pointe, 27; Vegas, Nevada. ment to deal with their concerns. and Derrius Woods, 27; were killed on Chanda Foreman, 37, was killed while All I want is a vote. All I want is June 4 in Denver, Colorado. sitting in her car on June 30, in Chi- Members of this body to have the cour- Brian Harris, 44, and Robert Sykes, cago, Illinois. It was her birthday and age of their convictions. If you think also 44, were killed when a gunman she was going out to celebrate. those bills are bad, bring them to the opened fire in a motel on June 5 in This carnage must end. Just give us a floor and vote ‘‘no’’ and go home and Phoenix, Arizona. vote on two modest bills to help stem explain it to your constituents. I do it Jeremy Taylor, 54, and Sean Strick- the bloodshed. all the time. That is why I came here. land, 26, were killed when a gunman I thought that is what we did. opened fire in a convenience store on f We are not supposed to be the people June 7 in Cape Coral, Florida. A MESSAGE 68 YEARS IN THE who hide. We are supposed to be lead- Raekwon Brown, 17, was killed out- MAKING ers. Lead. Don’t cower in fear behind side a school on June 8 in Dorchester, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The political nonsense and gimmickry be- Massachusetts. Chair recognizes the gentleman from cause you haven’t got the courage of Adrian Potts, 20, was killed outside Texas (Mr. AL GREEN) for 5 minutes. your convictions. of a university apartment complex on Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speak- This issue will not go away. The June 11 in Charlotte, North Carolina. er, I love my country. No one says the American people are tired—and have Stephanie Gonzalez, 17, and her sis- Pledge of Allegiance with greater en- been for a long time—of politicians ter, Kimberly Gonzalez, 13, were killed thusiasm than I. No one sings ‘‘God who refuse to stand up and be counted by their mother’s ex-boyfriend on June Bless America’’ with more love for for their principles. 11 in Los Angeles, California. The country than I. We don’t mind disagreements. I don’t shooter also wounded their mother and mind losing on an issue here and there. brother. b 1045 I do mind not being given the oppor- Cynthia Villegas, 34, and her daugh- Mr. Speaker, I consider it a pre- tunity to debate and vote on the im- ters, Yamilen, 14, Cynthia Janeth, 11, eminent privilege to stand in the well

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:12 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.005 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4476 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 of the Congress of the United States of this country. Every venue has some ac- But I would be remiss, as a Black America to address some of the great count that can be called to our atten- man in America, to pass up the oppor- issues of our time. tion. It is time for us to do something. tunity to comment about life as a Mr. Speaker, the message that I de- Mr. Speaker, I call on you. Mr. Black man in America, in an urban set- liver today has been 68 years in the Speaker, you are the Speaker of the ting, particularly when it comes to po- making. The message that I deliver whole House. Mr. Speaker, I call on lice community relations, you see, be- today had its genesis with my mother, you to assemble the House so that we cause we live in a gun culture, and who cautioned me that I must behave a can address the issue of Black men nowadays, everybody has a gun. certain way in the presence of the con- dying at the hands of police in this Some folks have a culture of growing stabulary, the police; a mother who country. And we ought to investigate up shooting, hunting. Nothing wrong was concerned for her son, who always it to the extent that we come to con- with that. Take the kids to the gun made it very clear to me that I had to clusions about the people that are in- show, the family, on a Saturday after- say yes, sir and no, sir, and that I had volved in these tragedies. We should noon. And at the gun show there is a to always accept whatever the police not have to have another mother to bunch of unlicensed gun dealers there said to me. have her child in the car, 4 years of selling weapons of mass destruction to This message is 68-plus years in the age, when her boyfriend is killed. any and everybody. That is a part of making, Mr. Speaker. The message is, Mr. Speaker, I thank you for the the culture because everybody wants a in part, based upon what my uncle, who time, and I thank God for giving me 68 gun. was a deputy sheriff, shared with me years to develop this message. And I Well, it is time for universal back- about my behavior in the presence of pray, Mr. Speaker, that you will do ground checks. That is a simple piece the police; that I must always, always something about what is happening to of legislation, closing the gun show yield to the police; submit to the po- Black men in this country. loophole, which that loophole is bigger lice; never challenge the police. Sixty- f than the Goodyear Blimp traveling eight years in the making, Mr. Speak- sideways. That loophole is so big that er. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE you could fit the Goodyear Blimp Mr. Speaker, my heart is heavy after CHANHASSEN HIGH SCHOOL through it sideways, and it is worth what has happened over the last 2 days GIRLS SOFTBALL TEAM nothing because unlicensed gun dealers to Black men in the United States of The SPEAKER pro tempore. The can sell guns to any and everybody. America. My heart is heavy. I had the Chair recognizes the gentleman from Any and everybody can purchase a gun unfortunate circumstance of seeing Minnesota (Mr. PAULSEN) for 5 min- over the Internet, no background check what happened to that man in Baton utes. required. We need to close that gun Rouge, Louisiana, on the ground with Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise show loophole by passing legislation his hands flailing, blood flowing from today to congratulate the Chanhassen that enforces the notion that there will his chest. High School girls softball team on be universal background checks. I heard the young lady this morning their State championship. I wanted to talk about that today, pleading to God: Jesus, God, don’t let After finishing their regular season and I still think that is important. But him be dead. Maybe not her exact with a record of 17–3, and in second even if we have universal background words, but very much what she said: place in the West Metro Conference checks in this country, there is still a Don’t let him be dead; don’t let this standings, the third-seeded Storm went problem for Black folks who decide to happen. on to win four games straight to win arm themselves. Mr. Speaker, we have to do some- the Section 2 championship. And then, I mean, we had the case of Philando thing about the killing of Black men at as Section 2 representatives in the Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, the hands of the constabulary in this State tournament, the Storm won over yesterday, pulled over for a busted tail- country. If you don’t want to inves- Forest Lake, Hopkins, and Buffalo, light. Here is a working man in the car tigate the police, if you don’t want to outscoring their opponents 19–5 on with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old investigate the system, the culture their way to the championship. daughter, and he is armed, as everyone that causes it, investigate Black men. Mr. Speaker, it is accomplishments else in America is. But he is a Black Find out why they want to run out in such as these that are a testament to man riding in the streets of a city in front of bullets. the skills and the values that all high America, and so he must not be al- Let’s find out why they are the ones school athletics teach, and these young lowed to have that gun or, at least, if who are consistently, and with some ladies demonstrated determination and he has one, everybody is in such fear degree of systemic order, forcing them- toughness on the field as well as drive that they develop a trigger finger. And selves upon the police such that they and responsibility in the classroom. when he reaches for his license, then he find themselves dead. Investigate us. Balancing schoolwork and athletics gets blasted four times and his life is I am a Black man in the United can be challenging, but these student snuffed out. That is what happens to States of America. I have lived what I athletes proved themselves to be both Black folks in America. am saying. Sixty-eight years in the leaders on the diamond and in the Now we find out that the man had a making, that is how long this speech classroom. The families, teachers, valid license to carry that firearm. In has been made. I don’t need a written friends, and our entire community are many States now, due to what the NRA piece of paper. I know what is going on. very proud of these young ladies. I con- lobby has done, you don’t even need a I was a judge for 26 years. I saw it. I gratulate the Chanhassen High School license to carry the firearm in your can give firsthand testimony about softball team on their win. car. So the man was acting lawfully. what is going on. It is time for us to in- f He gets blasted. He is no longer with vestigate what is happening to Black us. men in this country. LIFE AS A BLACK MAN IN The day before, Alton Sterling got a Black lives do matter. These people AMERICA little hustle going on. He is selling CDs are trying to tell us something, these The SPEAKER pro tempore. The at the store, at the corner store. Why young people. We must listen to them. Chair recognizes the gentleman from shouldn’t he be allowed to have a weap- Let us not ignore what is going on. The Georgia (Mr. JOHNSON) for 5 minutes. on? He has got a weapon in his pocket. camera’s eye doesn’t lie. If you look at Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speak- Everybody else has got a weapon in these videos and you use your common er, my topic today was going to be on their pocket. But no, he is a Black guy, sense, you know that there is some- the issue of gun violence, mass shoot- and so we automatically develop a trig- thing going on, and we need to inves- ings, the need for Congress to take ger finger when the police approach. tigate it. some action to keep America safe, the Take him down hard, two on one, And it is pervasive, it is not just one- fact that 90 percent of the people of throwing him all across the car. You off circumstances that we are having this country want Congress to take saw the video. to contend with. These things are hap- some action. I was going to speak If the man had wanted to shoot, he pening across the length and breadth of about that today. would have pulled the gun out much

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They are pre- at risk. gress has allowed to manifest itself in venting consideration of this measure So what we are saying is if you can’t this way. that is supported by 90 percent of the fly because you will place fliers at risk, We shouldn’t have to live like this. American people. Why? Just to keep you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun. So Nobody should have to live like this. their friends in the NRA lobby happy that is what no fly, no buy is all about. People walking around afraid of what with them. Why? Follow the money. If you are too dangerous to fly, then their neighbor is going to do to them Mr. Speaker, this is unconscionable. you shouldn’t be able to go and pur- because they know that he has got a The week after the Orlando slaughter, chase a gun. That is very simple. mental problem and he should not have I read on this floor the names of the The other is universal background a weapon, but he was able to get it over victims. At that time, I said that while checks, and that is very simple. We the Internet or through the gun show, we will never forget them, their mem- have some background check laws, but unlicensed firearm dealers. ory will inspire us to real change. But still there are people who sell guns out So weapons have proliferated into this is not real change. We do not of the back of their car at these gun our society. We are now at war, not honor the victims of Orlando by pass- shows, and they have no background with a foreign enemy, but with our- ing legislation written by the NRA and checks. They could be murderers, they selves, with our neighbor. It is not fair gun manufacturing lobbyists. In fact, if could be people who are involved with to any of us. anything, this legislation is an insult serious domestic violence, they could But I tell you, when America coughs, to the intelligence of the American be people who are dangerous, and they Black folks have always gotten pneu- people. Well, I have news for you. The could be mentally ill. We are saying we monia. Nowadays, when America American people see through this, and have to have universal background coughs, Black folks die, and it really they are not buying it. checks. has to stop, ladies and gentlemen. This I urge my colleagues: do what is What is controversial about those is not the way that we should live. right. Reject this unworkable NRA- two bills? But they won’t pay atten- f backed trick so that we can vote on tion. They will not take up the bill. As real, meaningful legislation to address a matter of fact, the leadership is A CALL FOR MEANINGFUL ACTION gun violence in this country. threatening us. They want to charge us ON GUN VIOLENCE f with violations of the House rules, take The SPEAKER pro tempore. The us to the Ethics Committee, and have Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from GUN VIOLENCE us sanctioned in some way because New York (Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ) for 5 min- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The they say we have violated the rules. utes. Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Well, I say to them: I won’t be in- Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise California (Ms. MAXINE WATERS) for 5 timidated. I am not afraid of them or to call for meaningful action on gun vi- minutes. the Ethics Committee. If they want to olence. The key word in that sentence Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. take us to the Ethics Committee, come is ‘‘meaningful.’’ Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago, I joined with on, let’s go, because we are going to The tragedy in Orlando served as a my colleagues here in the House of stand up for what we believe in, and we dark wake-up call to all Americans. Representatives, and we took an ex- are not going to be intimidated by Across the Nation, in every major city, traordinary action. We sat in, we ral- being charged with violation of the to every small town, Americans are lied, we challenged the Republican rules of the House. speaking with one voice saying: leadership, and we spoke out about gun Now, while I am talking about not ‘‘Enough is enough.’’ violence in a way that we had never being intimidated by anybody, I want The American people are demanding done before. to congratulate and thank Mr. AL a no fly, no buy bill that prevents We said to the leadership: Enough is GREEN of Texas for what he says has those on the terror watch list from enough; we have got to do something been a 68-year journey where he got up purchasing firearms. about these mass murders; we have got in our caucus today, and he took this How have Republicans responded? to do something about these guns. floor in a way that I have not seen any They have put together a weak, un- We challenged the leadership because Member of Congress in the years that I workable, and convoluted bill that will we all know that the gun lobby has too have been here take the floor and just not address the real problem. much influence and too much control bare their hearts and just say what is Imagine, under this legislation, law in this House. We also know that too on their mind. I have never seen a enforcement must convince a court many of our Members will not confront Member of this House come to tears within 72 hours that the buyer ‘‘has this issue on the opposite side of the and beg us to do something about the committed or will commit an act of aisle because, as it has been said, they killing of Black men, in particular, terrorism’’ before it could block a gun are the handmaidens of the NRA. So we that is going on. sale. gathered, we spoke out, and we were While we are dealing with gun vio- Is this your idea of homeland secu- talking about two simple bills that we lence—and we are dealing with gun vio- rity? Really? Is this how you protect wanted them to vote for. lence to protect everybody—I want to the homeland? We are trying to educate the Amer- tell you, I have been here when we have Mr. Speaker, the standard is simply ican people that those who do not want had the mothers up here from New- unreachable and unworkable. Now, one to go against the gun lobby will have town. I went to Charleston, South has to wonder where Republicans got the American citizens believe that we Carolina, where the Emanuel Nine were such an unfeasible idea. are trying to take away their guns. We killed, and I stayed up all night with are not trying to take away anybody’s people placing flowers in front of the 1100 b guns. This is not about the Constitu- church. I literally went to Mr. AGUILAR The answer is as simple as it is sad. tion or the Second Amendment. We and sat with him when the San The NRA, which represents large weap- simply said we want to bring to the Bernardino massacre happened. We on manufacturers, wrote this legisla- floor two simple pieces of legislation. were here when Columbine happened, tion. We need a real, effective no fly, One is no fly, no buy. What does that and we all thought at that time that no buy bill that stops those on the ter- mean? It simply means if you are on we have got to do something. We have rorist watch list from purchasing fire- the list of persons who are prevented done nothing. arms. The Republican legislation is from flying because you are suspected Then there is Orlando, Florida; there simply a giveaway to the NRA that of being a possible person involved in is Aurora; there is Arizona; there is

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The Chair has exam- woman crying, screaming, and saying: Manuel Ortiz, age 28. ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- ‘‘God, please don’t let him die.’’ Mary Lou Nye, age 62. ceedings and announces to the House The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Dorothy Brown, age 74. his approval thereof. time of the gentlewoman has expired. Barbara Hawthorne, age 68. Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. Rich Smith, age 53. nal stands approved. Well, you may stop me now because my Tyler Smith, age 17. f time is up. But I will be back. I will not Emma Wallace, age 37. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE stop on these two issues: massacres and The Buckner family, including moth- The SPEAKER. Will the gentle- the killing of Black men in particular. er, Kimberly; father, Vic; 18-year-old woman from California (Ms. JUDY CHU) f daughter, Kaitlin; and 6-year-old come forward and lead the House in the daughter, Emma. GUN VIOLENCE Pledge of Allegiance. A deputy sheriff, Corporal Nate The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Ms. JUDY CHU of California led the Carrigan, age 35. Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pledge of Allegiance as follows: Renee Benjamin, age 30. Massachusetts (Mr. MOULTON) for 5 I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Josh Higbee, age 31. minutes. United States of America, and to the Repub- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Mr. MOULTON. Mr. Speaker, I stand lic for which it stands, one nation under God, time of the gentleman has expired. here today as someone who supports indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the Constitution, including the Second f f Amendment. I stand here today as ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER someone who believes in protecting our PRO TEMPORE national security. In fact, I have risked The SPEAKER. The Chair will enter- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The my life to defend it. I stand here as tain up to 15 requests for 1-minute Chair has the responsibility under someone who supports the will of the speeches on each side of the aisle. clause 2 of rule I to preserve order and American people because that is my f decorum. As the Chair ruled on June job. 12, 2003, an exhibition involving Mem- CONGRATULATIONS TO MITCH In my previous job, I was an infantry HERRICK ON HIS RETIREMENT officer in the United States Marine bers trafficking the well is a breach of (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was Corps. Over the course of four tours in decorum. given permission to address the House Iraq, I used guns every single day to do f for 1 minute and to revise and extend my job. In fact, guns saved my life. I do RECESS her remarks.) not want to take away guns from me or Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I any other law-abiding American cit- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- would like to congratulate a dear izen. But I do want to make sure that ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair friend and a patriot, Mitch Herrick, terrorists, criminals, domestic abusers, declares the House in recess until noon who will be retiring after 30 years of in- and the dangerously mentally ill do today. valuable service to our great country, not get guns they shouldn’t have. Accordingly (at 11 o’clock and 15 first as a U.S. marine, and then as an All we need to do to accomplish that minutes a.m.), the House stood in re- air traffic controller. are two simple, commonsense things: cess. I have known Mitch for almost a dec- background checks for all sales of guns f ade, when he began working at the with no loopholes that criminals and b 1200 Miami air traffic control tower at terrorists can exploit; and, second, if Miami International Airport, located you are too dangerous to fly, you are AFTER RECESS in my congressional district. During too dangerous to buy. The recess having expired, the House These simple, commonsense gun safe- his time there, Mitch has also rep- was called to order by the Speaker at resented the National Air Traffic Con- ty measures are supported by nine out noon. of 10 Americans. So if we are going to trollers Association, or NATCA, as its do our job here in Congress, if we are f local facility vice president and also as going to follow the will of the Amer- PRAYER its local facility legislative representa- ican people, if we are going to protect tive. The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick Representing NATCA on Capitol Hill our national security, and if we are J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: and in my south Florida district has going to continue to uphold the Con- Merciful God, we give You thanks for been a labor of love for Mitch, almost stitution, then we should do these giving us another day. as much as he loves his dogs and his things. Every day work is done on this Hill The reason that they are so impor- old Mitsubishi Galant. that is building toward legislation In 2013, NATCA was proud to present tant is because of the Americans who meant to improve the lives of Ameri- have been killed by senseless gun vio- its highest legislative affairs honor, cans and guarantee a future of hope for the Trish Gilbert Legislative Activism lence. our children. Mr. Speaker, the following is a list of Award, to Mitch. On this day, the eyes of our citizens mass shooting victims from just 2016 I thank Mitch for his exceptional are especially focused here. May the alone: service and his commitment to public day be marked by openness, clarity, Antoine Bell, age 17. safety. I wish Mitch and his wife of Raymon Blount, age 29. and goodwill, so that as these months over 20 years, Michelle, all the best on Ira Brown, age 20. lead up to an election that will give us this well-deserved retirement. Joshua Steven Morrison, age 18. the confidence to believe that You are f Randy Peterson, age 64. with us throughout, and that for those Sean Marquez, age 19. who love You and place their trust in VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE Marvin Douglas Lancaster, III, age You, as we claim to do, all things work (Ms. FRANKEL of Florida asked and 21. for good. was given permission to address the

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I want to tell you ments—since the House gaveled back condition, irrespective of your back- and read the names of real people in in on Tuesday, nearly 200 people have ground, irrespective of your intentions, my hometown whose families got that been killed or injured due to gun vio- you can still buy the gun. dreaded, unimaginable knock on the lence. I don’t know how many more We need to close this Charleston door: people must fall victim to gun violence loophole, and we need to enact a law Jacob Walsh, age 25; before this body, before House Repub- that says, if you are not qualified to Greg Bryant, Jr., age 21; licans will get the message. buy a plane ticket, you are not quali- Zedward Jackson, age 52; The time for bold action is now. I do fied to buy a gun. know my Democratic colleagues and I Gary Martin, age 52; f Ledarius Fitzgerald, age 18; are prepared to keep up this fight for Herman Denis, age 18; as long as we have to to get meaningful A FAILURE OF OUR JUSTICE Jack Bellino, age 28; gun legislation passed. SYSTEM Courtney McGriff, age 29; f (Mr. WILLIAMS asked and was given James Cartigiano, age 16; THE THREAT OF RADICAL permission to address the House for 1 Anne Nau, age 21. ISLAMIC TERRORISM minute and to revise and extend his re- And the list goes on. Who will get the marks.) (Mrs. WALORSKI asked and was next knock on the door? Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, the given permission to address the House f revelations of the last few days have for 1 minute and to revise and extend been, at best, an injustice and, at ISIS IS A REAL THREAT her remarks.) worst, government corruption of the Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked highest degree. today to express grave concern over and was given permission to address Earlier this week, FBI Director the House for 1 minute and to revise the threat of radical Islamic terrorism. What we need is a comprehensive James Comey acknowledged that and extend his remarks.) strategy to destroy terrorist organiza- former Secretary of State Hillary Clin- Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. tions like ISIS. Instead, the adminis- ton sent or received 110 emails that Speaker, less than a month ago, an tration is ramping up the release of contained classified information American of Afghan descent shot and Guantanamo Bay detainees. through her unsecured server. He went killed 49 people in Orlando. He did so Make no mistake, these detainees are as far as to say that Secretary Clin- while pledging allegiance to ISIS. In the worst of the worst. One former de- ton’s actions were ‘‘extremely care- the words of the actual gunman, this tainee has become a leader of al less.’’ Despite the FBI Director’s harsh was a terrorist attack. Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen. Another, criticism of Secretary Clinton’s ability What is worse is that many of my released last month, was Osama bin or inability to protect highly sensitive colleagues across the aisle have at- Laden’s bodyguard. Just weeks before material, it appears she will walk away tempted to hijack facts and muddy the the Olympics, here we are again. Au- without punishment. conversation. Why? Because this at- thorities in Brazil are on the hunt for In an era where cybersecurity has be- tack further disproves the President’s a former detainee who went missing. come one of the most important pillars narrative that ISIS is contained. With another two dozen detainees of U.S. national security, this careless- Don’t even get me started on the fact cleared for this summer, I worked to ness is totally unacceptable. What is that the President won’t say the words include key safeguards in next year’s even more unacceptable is that the Na- ‘‘radical Islamic terrorist.’’ The admin- National Defense Authorization Act, tion’s top prosecutor met with Sec- istration even attempted to remove like requiring written agreements with retary Clinton’s husband, former Presi- mention of ISIS in the 9/11 tran- foreign nations that accept these dent Bill Clinton, in private 1 week be- scription. GTMO transfers. I introduced legisla- fore the Justice Department decided Folks, ISIS has declared war against tion with Senator STEVE DAINES to not to press charges. our American way of life, and we need block all GTMO transfers until these Mr. Speaker, it is possible Secretary to work together to protect all Ameri- safeguards are signed into law or until Clinton threatened the security of this cans from future attacks, and our Com- the end of the year. great country. There are those who mander in Chief finally needs to come The President wants to empty GTMO have committed far lesser crimes who up with a strategy to defeat ISIS. and bring the remaining terrorists to have faced far harsher consequences. f U.S. soil. Mr. Speaker, we cannot allow The Attorney General’s decision not to prosecute Secretary Clinton is a failure THE TIME FOR BOLD ACTION IS these terrorist detainees to put Amer- of our justice system. NOW ican lives at risk. In God we trust. f (Mr. CROWLEY asked and was given f permission to address the House for 1 CLOSE THE CHARLESTON minute and to revise and extend his re- LOOPHOLE NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT marks.) (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given (Mrs. TORRES asked and was given Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I under- permission to address the House for 1 permission to address the House for 1 stand the Republican majority has minute and to revise and extend his re- minute.) pulled a bill from the floor agenda that marks.) Mrs. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, last would have created a new loophole al- Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to week on this floor, I told a story of a lowing terror suspects to get a gun. once again call upon Members of Con- 911 call that I took where an 11-year- That is good news. The bill they pulled gress to enact some commonsense gun old girl was murdered at the hands of was the Cornyn-NRA gun lobby bill, reform because I really believe that we her uncle. Her name was Yajaira. and we are pleased that they pulled are misusing the word ‘‘reform’’ every Today I want to tell you about Ethan that bill. It is a terrible proposal that time we talk about this issue. Reform Esparza. will only make matters worse in our means a change for the better. It In 2006, when I was mayor of Pomona, country. doesn’t mean just to go through a proc- Ethan was shot and killed while he was But now it is time to bring up the ess. It means a change for the better. playing in his front yard during his meaningful bipartisan bill, the no fly, Mr. Speaker, we have seen that our birthday party. He would have turned 4 no buy legislation, and the meaningful gun laws need to change. I am very years old the next day.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:40 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.014 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4480 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 The murders of Yajaira and Ethan The NRA tells us the solution is increase background checks to prevent were completely senseless, but they are more guns. Well, we already have more tragedies like the one in my home not rare. Every day, 91 people are guns than any other country in the State of New Hampshire in 1997, when killed because of gun violence. In the world, and it is not working. Having an incredibly disturbed man fatally United States, you are more than 10 more guns would not have helped 4- shot Judge Vickie Bunnell, two State times likely to die because of a firearm year-old Salvador. But we could have. troopers, and a newspaper editor. Indi- than in any other developed country. Enough is enough. We must pass no viduals like this should not be given We have a problem, a problem that fly, no buy and we must pass universal access to lethal weapons. Rather, we isn’t going to be solved by simply put- background checks. should give access to mental health ting our heads in the sand. It is time to f treatment. stop this silence. We aren’t going to Let’s put aside party politics and do solve this. Now is the time to act. Now AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES what is right to keep our communities is the time to have a discussion about AWARENESS WEEK safe. it. (Mr. BENISHEK asked and was given f permission to address the House for 1 f NETWORKS’ COVERAGE OF minute and to revise and extend his re- ORLANDO ATTACK BIASED REMEMBERING PENN STATE marks.) STUDENT MADISON HILL Mr. BENISHEK. Mr. Speaker, this (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania week marks Aquatic Invasive Species given permission to address the House asked and was given permission to ad- Awareness Week. for 1 minute and to revise and extend dress the House for 1 minute and to re- This is a good time to consider the his remarks.) vise and extend his remarks.) threat that invasive species pose to all Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. of our districts. Northern Michigan’s the Media Research Center recently Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of economy depends on the Great Lakes issued a report highlighting the three 19-year-old Madison ‘‘Maddie’’ Hill, a and our beautiful outdoors. Invasive major news networks’ slanted coverage student at Penn State University, who, species represent a direct threat to our of the Orlando terrorist attack. sadly, passed away after a long battle way of life. The Center found that ABC’s, NBC’s, with cancer last week. Even before I came to Congress, I was and CBS’ broadcast network programs Madison was not originally from working on invasive species issues. I ‘‘flooded their shows with statements Pennsylvania’s Fifth Congressional live on an inland lake, and we had a favoring gun control over gun rights by District. In fact, she was a native of really difficult invasive weed get out of a ratio of 8 to 1.’’ The Orlando attacker was a radical York County, but she was no stranger control. I have been working for years Islamic extremist who pledged his alle- to Penn State University even before with my neighbors to control it, so I giance to ISIS before committing the she started classes there as a student. know just how difficult, and important, worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil Following her cancer diagnosis, it is to get local buy-in for this fight. since September 11, 2001. Instead of fo- Madison benefited from the Penn State Volunteers throughout northern cusing on gun control, the liberal na- IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, or Michigan are working right now to at- tional media should tell the American THON, the largest student-run philan- tack invasive species on the ground. people the full story about the Orlando thropy in the world, which raises funds State officials are working to educate attacker’s radical Islamic views as the and awareness for the fight against pe- the public on how we can lessen the cause of these killings. Not a single diatric cancer. chance of spreading these invasive spe- gun control measure in Congress would Upon enrolling in Penn State, Madi- cies. have prevented his actions. son worked to provide that same sup- These efforts are in addition to the port for other cancer patients as a vol- great work in my district by profes- f unteer and family relations co-chair sionals at institutions like Northern GUN LOBBY with THON. She was also a member of Michigan University and the Hammond (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was the university’s Blue & White Society. Bay Biological Station. given permission to address the House I join the entire Penn State commu- I hope this week we will bring further for 1 minute and to revise and extend nity in mourning the loss of Madison attention to this fight and help Con- his remarks.) and offer my thoughts and prayers to gress to focus more resources on this Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, gun her family and friends. issue. violence permeates every aspect of our f f lives, from the streets of Chicago to b 1215 ADDRESSING THE URGENT NEED law enforcement officers to Congress. Everybody is affected by what is going FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOT IN TO PASS NO FLY, NO BUY AND on. But we can do something about it ALTADENA BACKGROUND CHECKS by passing two bills that we have been (Ms. JUDY CHU of California asked (Ms. KUSTER asked and was given talking about: the no fly, no buy and and was given permission to address permission to address the House for 1 universal background checks. Neither the House for 1 minute.) minute and to revise and extend her re- is a solution to the entire problem, but Ms. JUDY CHU of California. Mr. marks.) both are good steps. Speaker, yesterday morning, I woke up Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Speaker, today, I The reason we haven’t done anything to the news that, overnight, a 4-year- rise to stress the urgent need to pass is simple: the $15 million a year gun old boy in my district, in Altadena, legislation to keep our communities manufacturing industry. And by pre- California, became one of the latest safe from those with evil intent and venting action here through their cam- victims of gun violence. who wish to harm innocent Americans. paign donations and Capitol Hill lobby- Salvador Esparza III was sitting on I am a strong supporter of the Second ists, they are controlling the discus- his front porch with a family friend Amendment, and I believe we must up- sion. when a car drove up, fired at least 13 hold the tradition of my home State of When I can’t act, when you can’t act, rounds, and drove off, leaving two bod- New Hampshire for responsible, law- this House is being controlled by the ies. Hours later, we finally heard the abiding gun ownership. But as we saw gun industry. We—all of us, on both tragic news. Little Salvador was dead. in Orlando, it is far too easy for indi- sides of the aisle—are looking to blame I was heartbroken. viduals with evil intent to get ahold of each other when the real culprits are Now, I know the doctors did every- firearms and target innocent American the gun manufacturers. thing they could to save his life. But lives. f what are we doing in Congress? Noth- That is why I strongly urge my col- ing. Another life cut short, another leagues to pass legislation to ban those REPLACE OBAMACARE family torn apart, another day of sion the terrorist watch list from pur- (Mr. LAMALFA asked and was given lence from Congress. chasing guns. What is more, we must permission to address the House for 1

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Mr. Speaker, today, there hall with a Democratic nominee by an today to recognize Ben Craig, a longtime community leader in Overland are over 11 million Americans strug- Ohio woman who saw her premium gling without proper treatment and more than double, from $490 a month to Park, in my district, who is, sadly, battling liver cancer. Ben is known around care for mental health illnesses. $1,081 a month. The answer she re- Our system is riddled with inefficien- ceived? Just keep shopping on the ex- town as the ‘‘Grandfather of Overland Park’’ and ‘‘Mr. Johnson County.’’ cies, as various agencies patch together change until she finds a better deal. different programs with little to no co- For the millions of Americans who As a founder of the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce, he helped de- ordination. Because of this massive continue to see their costs skyrocket, failure, patients far too often end up in this is not an acceptable answer. From velop and expand Johnson County Community College, a crown jewel in the criminal justice system or on the losing coverage, soaring premiums, and streets, because the services are just excess regulations, this system is sim- the metro area. As a member of our Rotary Club, Ben has set the bar pretty not available. ply unsustainable. This week, Congress took decisive ac- Rather than propping up a failing high, with 52 years of perfect attendance. tion to fix this problem by passing a system with temporary, costly fixes, bill that I helped introduce with Rep- Ben truly embodies our Rotary let’s replace it with the patient-cen- resentative TIM MURPHY of Pennsyl- tered policies that actually work. That motto ‘‘service above self.’’ Whether it vania, 422–2. Our bill will genuinely is what Republicans are proposing to was raising money for the college, Har- save lives and improve the quality of do. One with more choices, not man- vesters, or for one of my family’s favor- life for families all across this Nation. dates, one that increases flexibility in ite destinations and landmarks in The bipartisan Helping Families in coverage, spurs competition so rates Overland Park, the Deanna Rose Chil- Mental Health Crisis Act is a perfect will go down and not up, and puts doc- dren’s Farmstead, he encourages others example of what we can accomplish tors and patients, not D.C. bureaucrats, to step up and be part of our commu- when we set aside partisan differences back in charge of healthcare decisions. nity and to give back. and get to work for the people that we These are just some of the common- I consider Ben a mentor and friend, represent. This bill prioritizes treat- sense ideas Republicans are advancing, and I am grateful to know him. His im- ment to proactively prevent tragedy, and they really do represent a better pact will be felt for generations. emphasizing programs and resources way for people’s choices. Mr. Speaker, please join me in saying that focus on getting patients the care ObamaCare has not, is not, and will a prayer for Ben and his family in they need. not work. Let’s start giving people these hard times as he fights against In short, Mr. Speaker, this bipartisan more choices and the answers they de- this horrible disease. bill takes mental illness out of the serve. shadows of ignorance, because we know f that where there is help, there is hope. f f VOTE ON COMMONSENSE KEEP AMERICANS SAFE FROM LEGISLATION GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION GUN VIOLENCE (Ms. TSONGAS asked and was given (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given (Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- permission to address the House for 1 permission to address the House for 1 fornia asked and was given permission minute.) minute and to revise and extend his re- to address the House for 1 minute and marks.) to revise and extend her remarks.) Ms. TSONGAS. Mr. Speaker, my Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, 2 Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- home State of Massachusetts has en- weeks ago, I joined my colleagues in an fornia. Mr. Speaker, I urge Speaker acted some of the most comprehensive historic sit-in on the House floor, de- gun violence prevention laws in the Na- RYAN to bring commonsense gun vio- manding action on gun violence in the lence prevention legislation to the tion, including universal background wake of yet another mass shooting. floor this week. checks. Since then, I have heard from hundreds Justice will never be served for the Thanks to these commonsense re- of Rhode Islanders who, like over 80 victims of Tucson, Aurora, Newtown, forms, Massachusetts has one of the percent of Americans and a high per- Charleston, San Bernardino, and Or- lowest rates of gun deaths in the Na- centage of gun owners themselves, sup- lando as long as this body refuses to tion. Nevertheless, lax gun laws in port our efforts for commonsense legis- act and once again accepts the status other States make us a net importer of lation to keep guns out of the wrong quo. firearms, and we are certainly not im- hands and to address this public health I support the Second Amendment and mune from the tragic impacts of gun crisis. the right of Americans to own fire- violence. Frustratingly, sadly, and inconceiv- arms, but I believe it is the responsi- Americans have a right to be free ably, Republican leaders in this Cham- bility of this body to ensure effective from violence in our own communities, ber continue to ignore the demands of laws are in place to keep all Americans in our homes, in our schools, in our the American people and, most espe- safe from gun violence. Congress did churches, and in our workplace. But it cially and sadly, continue to ignore the nothing after 20 children were fatally is clear that the States cannot do it pleas of so many victims of gun vio- shot in Newtown in 2012, and nothing alone. Congress must do more to keep lence and their families. following what happened in Orlando, guns out of the hands of criminals, do- Republicans trot out old, tired argu- where 49 innocent people were mur- mestic abusers, and the dangerously ments, saying that we oppose the Sec- dered. mentally ill. You can’t know if some- ond Amendment, that we oppose due Congress must pass legislation that one falls into one of these categories process, that backgrounds checks are will require comprehensive background without a background check. ineffective. Mr. Speaker, these asser- checks and close the gun show loop- Mr. Speaker, our constituents sent us tions are simply not true. But rather hole. That is why I am a cosponsor of here to cast a vote on their behalf, and than allow an open debate and a vote, the Thompson-King legislation. We that is what we should be doing. Let us Republicans continue to follow the must make progress in gun safety and have a vote on commonsense, bipar- playbook of the gun lobby. mental health awareness and support tisan legislation that allows back- But, Mr. Speaker, we will not allow gun safety lock laws. ground checks for all gun sales. silence to fill that void of leadership.

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We will be silent no more. f Charlotte.’’ ‘‘Man found shot to death in Thomas- f BIPARTISAN, COMMONSENSE LAWS ville July 4th.’’ TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE b 1230 ‘‘Man shot in Freeman Mills Shop- (Ms. PINGREE asked and was given MICHELLE KELLY-LOVE WAS NOT ping Center.’’ permission to address the House for 1 JUST A NUMBER ‘‘Shooting outside Florida Street minute and to revise and extend her re- Grocery Store in Greensboro.’’ (Ms. HAHN asked and was given per- marks.) ‘‘Winston-Salem woman caught in mission to address the House for 1 Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks crossfire.’’ minute.) ago I joined with many of my col- The media and my Republican col- Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, this is a leagues here on the House floor to de- leagues have focused attention on photo of my former coworker, Michelle mand a debate on commonsense gun which words we have used instead of Kelly-Love. Michelle and I worked to- legislation to increase background the need to define the terms. As a gether at the same company in Los An- checks and keep terrorists from buying former educator, let me define the geles in the early nineties, and she was guns. word ‘‘epidemic.’’ kind and funny and warmhearted, a Despite the fact that the micro- Webster defines it as something ‘‘af- person who was very generous, and a phones and C–SPAN cameras were fecting a disproportionately large num- dear friend of mine. turned off, the discussion we held over ber of individuals within a population, On February 27 of this year, Michelle the next 24 hours was seen and heard a community, or a region at the same was dropping off her son, Jordan, at his by millions of Americans. It was seen time.’’ home in a quiet neighborhood in Car- and heard because my colleagues and I The headlines I cited earlier define son, California. They were parked in took out our smartphones, and we took the term ‘‘gun violence epidemic,’’ an her car in front of the house when they photos and streamed video, and we epidemic faced in my home State of were attacked by a drive-by shooter. tweeted. We posted to Facebook and we North Carolina and across this coun- Both Michelle and her son were struck broadcast on Periscope. We call this Chamber ‘‘the people’s try, an epidemic so vast that it took multiple times and died at the scene. House.’’ In the time that I have been the life of Kevin Rodas, a 7-year old Michelle’s mother, the grandmother of serving here, there has never been a boy shot while playing in the front Jordan, was in the back seat and sur- moment that has felt more like the yard of his Charlotte home. vived. people’s House than that 25 hours. Yet Let’s cure these epidemics. Pass sen- Michelle’s funeral was one of the sad- now we hear that some are calling for sible, bipartisan gun safety legislation dest I have ever attended. She and her us to be punished for bringing that de- to prevent future acts of gun violence son were taken from us so randomly bate and discussion to the American like Orlando or the one that took little and so suddenly. people. It is ‘‘behavior unbecoming’’ of Kevin’s life back in my district. You have heard a lot of numbers and the House of Representatives, they say. statistics related to gun deaths, but Mr. Speaker, I am proud of what my f Michelle was not just a number. She colleagues and I did, and if that is what COMMUNICATION FROM THE was friend and a mother and had a long it takes to get us a vote on bipartisan, CLERK OF THE HOUSE life ahead of her. Her 27-year old son commonsense laws to prevent gun vio- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. was not just a number. lence, I hope we will do it again. HULTGREN) laid before the House the We cannot stand by and do nothing f as our friends and neighbors continue following communication from the to die. We have lost too many lives to GUNS AND OUR PRIORITIES Clerk of the House of Representatives: gun violence. The time for action is (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of OFFICE OF THE CLERK, now. Please. New York asked and was given permis- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, DC, July 7, 2016. f sion to address the House for 1 minute.) Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New Hon. PAUL D. RYAN, GUN VIOLENCE LEGISLATION The Speaker, House of Representatives, York. Mr. Speaker, there is something Washington, DC. (Mrs. CAPPS asked and was given seriously wrong with the priorities in DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per- permission to address the House for 1 Congress. Time and time again, this mission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of minute and to revise and extend her re- body is choosing to put political pos- the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa- marks.) turing above the interests, safety, and tives, the Clerk received the following mes- Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, today I well-being of the American people. sage from the Secretary of the Senate on Earlier today, I attended an Over- July 7, 2016 at 11:56 a.m.: also rise on behalf of the families who That the Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 38. have lost loved ones to gun violence, sight and Government Reform Com- mittee hearing that was termed an With best wishes, I am, including in my very own district in emergency because the committee Re- Sincerely, Isla Vista, California, on May 23, 2014. KAREN L. HAAS. publicans did not approve of a decision That horrific act killed 6 and injured by career officials at the FBI and Jus- f 14—young people full of life and prom- tice Department to end the email case ise: Katherine Cooper, Veronica Weiss, PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION involving Secretary Clinton. In this Christopher Martinez, Cheng Yuan OF CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. hyper-partisan era, that counts as an Hong, George Chen, and Weihan Wang. 524, COMPREHENSIVE ADDICTION emergency. When these lives were tragically cut AND RECOVERY ACT OF 2016; But the continuing plague of gun vio- AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES short, our community banded together lence, one that takes over 32,000 inno- to say ‘‘Not One More’’ life should be cent lives a year, has been, once again, Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, by direc- lost due to gun violence. But that mes- put on the back burner. There is no tion of the Committee on Rules, I call sage has fallen on deaf ears with the sense of urgency. No bill, no vote. up House Resolution 809 and ask for its leadership of this House, resulting in Mr. Speaker, this is no way to take immediate consideration. countless Americans wondering each care of the American people’s interests. The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- day if their community will be next. f lows: This is simply unacceptable. We cannot H. RES. 809 GUN SAFETY delay action any longer. Resolved, That upon adoption of this reso- Mr. Speaker, this House must vote on (Ms. ADAMS asked and was given lution it shall be in order to consider the a bill to address the gun violence epi- permission to address the House for 1 conference report to accompany the bill (S. demic in our country. Americans de- minute.) 524) to authorize the Attorney General to

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The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the con- tween the House and the Senate That is why this legislation is so ference report to its adoption without inter- versions of the National Defense Au- very important. It authorizes new pro- vening motion except: (1) one hour of debate; thorization Act, and that is why we grams and reforms others to ensure and (2) one motion to recommit if applicable. have to have the conference committee that those struggling with opioid addi- SEC. 2. Upon adoption of this resolution— process. This will allow us to iron out tion can get the help that they need. (a) the House shall be considered to have: our differences. The bill includes new grants to (1) taken from the Speaker’s table the bill As a member of the Armed Services States to carry out comprehensive (S. 2943) to authorize appropriations for fis- Committee, I can personally attest to opioid abuse responses with education, cal year 2017 for military activities of the just how important it is we get a treatment, and recovery efforts, and Department of Defense, for military con- prescription drug monitoring pro- struction, and for defense activities of the strong, reform-based NDAA signed into Department of Energy, to prescribe military law this year. grams. personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and Our military is in the midst of a The bill also has multiple provisions for other purposes; (2) stricken all after the readiness crisis. Aircraft cannot fly due dealing with prevention, including a enacting clause of such bill and inserted in to maintenance issues. There are even new intergovernmental task force to lieu thereof the provisions of H.R. 4909, as reports of mechanics having to take identify, review, and, as appropriate, passed by the House; and (3) passed the Sen- parts off of planes inside museums in determine whether there are gaps or ate bill as so amended; and an effort to repair damaged aircraft. inconsistencies between best practices (b) it shall be in order for the chair of the Think about that for a minute. The for chronic and acute pain manage- Committee on Armed Services or his des- ment. ignee to move that the House insist on its United States, home to the greatest fighting force on the face of the Earth, Treatment and recovery are also a amendment to S. 2943 and request a con- priority, with reforms to multiple ex- ference with the Senate thereon. is having to use plane parts from museums in an effort to keep some of our isting grant programs and a new grant The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- program to provide grants to commu- tleman from Alabama is recognized for aircraft operational. That is simply stunning. nity organizations to develop, expand, 1 hour. and enhance recovery services and Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, for the And readiness is so important these days given the serious threat posed by build connections between recovery purpose of debate only, I yield the cus- radical Islamic terrorism. Every morn- networks, including physicians, the tomary 30 minutes to the gentleman ing, it seems we wake up to reports of criminal justice system, and employ- from Colorado (Mr. POLIS), pending another attack. Whether it is in Ban- ers. which I yield myself such time as I gladesh, Baghdad, Istanbul, Kabul, may consume. During consideration of b 1245 Saudi Arabia, or right here in Orlando, this resolution, all time yielded is for The bill also helps women, families, or San Bernardino, these attacks just the purpose of debate only. and veterans. This includes reauthor- reinforce the fact that radical Islamic GENERAL LEAVE ization of a grant program for residen- terrorism must be defeated. tial treatment for pregnant and Mr. BYRNE. I ask unanimous con- The NDAA is also important because sent that all Members have 5 legisla- postpartum women who have an opioid it is a great opportunity to put reforms abuse disorder and a new pilot program tive days to revise and extend their rein place at the Pentagon. Whether it is marks. to enhance the flexibility of funds so reducing bureaucratic obstacles, im- States can more broadly support fam- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there proving military health care, or updat- objection to the request of the gen- ily-based services for pregnant and ing the command structure, the NDAA postpartum women and their children. tleman from Alabama? is the perfect tool to ensure efficiency There was no objection. Moreover, this bill contains other and effectiveness from the Pentagon. commonsense reforms such as clari- Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, House Res- So I hope my colleagues from both olution 809 facilitates the process to fying that pharmacists coordinating sides of the aisle will join me in voting with a doctor and patient may not fill allow us to go to conference with the to get us to conference so we can keep Senate on the National Defense Au- the entire amount of a prescription for the streak alive of passing a strong a Schedule II substance, such as thorization Act. The resolution also NDAA each year. opioids. provides for consideration of a con- The other portion of this rule pro- Mr. Speaker, these are just some of ference report related to our efforts to vides for consideration of the con- the numerous and important pieces of combat the opioid crisis that is wreak- ference report dealing with the opioid this legislation. I am pleased to report ing havoc in communities all across crisis. that 200 different organizations from the United States. I recently heard a story of a young every corner of our country have al- I want to talk first about the need to man from southwest Alabama who suf- ready come out in support of this con- get to conference with the Senate on fered an injury playing sports. He was ference report. the National Defense Authorization prescribed opioid-based pain medica- Now, this bill probably doesn’t do ev- Act. For 54 straight years, the House tion by his doctor, but, unfortunately, erything that every Member would like and Senate have come together to ful- he became addicted. Next thing he for it to do. In my time up here, I have fill our most important responsibility: knew, his addiction had spiraled out of yet to see a perfect bill. But this is a to provide for the common defense. control and he found himself using her- good bill, and I honestly doubt there is My colleagues on the other side of oin. Ultimately, he became seriously anything in this bill that my col- the aisle talk a lot about regular order. ill. leagues disagree with. Well, there is no greater example of Thankfully, this young man was able I understand some of my colleagues regular order than the National De- to enter a treatment program and re- have concerns over funding, but let me fense Authorization Act. This legisla- ceive help, but not everyone who suf- remind my colleagues about the impor- tion has gone from the subcommittee fers from opioid addiction is so fortu- tant distinction between appropria- level to the full committee, to the full nate. tions and authorizing. This bill author- bodies of both Houses; and now we need Studies show that approximately izes programs to address the opioid cri- to continue the process by allowing for 46,000 Americans die because of a drug sis. The Appropriations Committee has this House to enter into negotiations overdose each year. That number adds made clear that they are going to do with the Senate. up to over 130 deaths a day. Tragically, everything that they can to provide Between the House and the Senate, young Americans are disproportion- funding for these programs, and I take hundreds of amendments have been ately impacted. them at their word. But putting fund- adopted to this legislation. Members One of the worst things about opioid ing in an authorization bill is not the from both sides of the aisle have had an abuse is that it can start so innocently. proper way to address this issue.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:40 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.003 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4484 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Mr. Speaker, I worry we are seeing a tunity to finally vote on keeping ter- Mr. LEWIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- larger issue here that started with the rorists from assembling arsenals of imous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, Zika virus legislation a few weeks ago. weapons legally in our country. the bipartisan expanded background My colleagues on the other side de- Mr. Speaker, we can’t wait any checks legislation to honor the mem- mand action on issues, the process longer for Congress to take meaningful ory of Xavier Arnold, a victim of gun plays out, the House and Senate work action. violence who never ever received a mo- together on legislation, and then my Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- ment of silence on the House floor. colleagues on the other side announce sent to insert the text of the amend- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like their opposition to very similar bills to ment in the RECORD, along with extra- to yield to the gentleman from Cali- the ones they previously supported. neous material, immediately prior to fornia—— Let’s not forget that the House the vote on the previous question. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- passed our opioid legislation by a vote The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there tleman will suspend for one moment. of 400–5, and the Senate passed their objection to the request of the gen- The Chair would advise that all time tleman from Colorado? bill by a vote of 94–1. Neither of those has been yielded for the purpose of de- There was no objection. bate only. bills included funding. So it is stunning Mr. POLIS. Without question, the Does the gentleman from Alabama that now many of my colleagues on the NDAA is a very important and serious yield for the purpose of this unanimous other side say that they are going to bill. However, the bill before us today consent request? oppose this bill. is one that the President has said he Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I reiterate Mr. Speaker, I worry that this is would veto. I have argued on this floor my earlier announcement that all time about politics instead of policy. I fear in an amendment that I supported a 1 yielded is for the purpose of debate that my colleagues on the other side of percent cut to the authorization levels. only, and I will not yield for any other the aisle want an issue to debate on the By spending more on the military than purpose. campaign trail instead of actual solu- we can afford as a country and plung- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- tions to the problems facing our coun- ing ourselves deeper into debt, we tleman from Alabama does not yield; try. make ourselves less secure, not more therefore, the unanimous consent re- I sincerely hope that that is not the secure. By making ourselves economi- quest cannot be entertained. case because the American people de- cally beholden to countries like China Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to serve better than that. They can turn and Saudi Arabia, we are less secure the gentleman from California (Mr. on their TVs every night and get rather than more secure. Frankly, this THOMPSON) for the purpose of a unani- enough political theater. But here in bill is more of the same, and if it passes mous consent request. this body we should rise above that and were to become law—which it Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. temptation and actually work on solu- won’t because the President would veto Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to tions. it—it would also make it less secure. bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- The minority will not get everything But this rule and this day it is nota- panded background checks legislation they want. That is the nature of com- ble for what we are not doing rather to honor the memory of Kelly Russler; promise, and that is the realty of being than what we are doing. We are not Jayden, her son, and Laing, her son; in the minority. But this has been a under this rule considering two simple, victims of gun violence who never re- truly bipartisan process, and I hope it plain, commonsense pieces of legisla- ceived a moment of silence on the will not fall victim to political tion that everybody knows will help House floor. grandstanding. protect American lives and prevent ter- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to rorist attacks in our Nation. One is Chair understands that the gentleman support House Resolution 809 and the simply to require a background check from Alabama has not yielded for that underlying legislation. when a person obtains a gun. Another purpose; therefore, the unanimous con- I reserve the balance of my time. would prevent terrorists from assem- sent request cannot be entertained. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the bling arsenals of weapons. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to gentleman for yielding me the cus- In my home State of Colorado, we al- the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. tomary 30 minutes, and I yield myself ready have universal background KELLY) for the purpose of a unanimous such time as I may consume. checks, and they have led to law en- consent request. She is a leader on the Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to forcement arresting 114 fugitives since issue of reducing gun violence. the rule today providing for consider- the beginning of the year. Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I ation of the National Defense Author- It is our duty to simply vote on these ask unanimous consent to bring up ization Act for fiscal year 2017, a bill bills that strengthen and enhance our H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded that the President has said he would Second Amendment rights by ensuring background check legislation to honor veto, and the conference report to ac- that law-abiding gun owners will con- the memory of Serge Pierre Dumas, a company S. 524, the Comprehensive Ad- tinue to be able to purchase guns and victim of gun violence who never received a moment of silence on this diction and Recovery Act of 2016. Many keeping guns out of the hands of violent criminals and those who don’t House floor. of us support the underlying bill, but, have the legal right to own them. Both The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfortunately, it doesn’t allow for—de- of these bills do this, and each has over Chair understands that the gentleman spite nine times having funding being 100 cosponsors, including Members on from Alabama has not yielded for that waived—any funding to deal with de- both sides of the aisle. purpose; therefore, the unanimous con- feating the cycle of addiction or the As we stand here today, we are still sent request cannot be entertained. health issues around opioid abuse. So reeling from the deadliest mass shoot- Mr. POLIS. I ask the gentleman from while it is an innocuous bill and might ing in our country’s history nearly 1 Alabama: How many of us have to help a little bit, it is in no way com- month ago. Pulse nightclub in Orlando come down requesting this until you mensurate with the challenge that was a targeted act of terror against the grant it? families across our country face in gay community, our allies, and the en- Well, your silence speaks words. dealing with opioid addiction. tire Nation. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle- Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the pre- In my home State of Colorado, we woman from California (Ms. HAHN) for vious question, I will offer an amend- have been hard hit with mass shoot- the purpose of a unanimous consent re- ment to the rule that would require the ings: Columbine, Aurora, and the quest. House to consider the bipartisan no fly, Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- no buy legislation which would bar the Springs to name a few. It is time for mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the sale of firearms and explosives to those action, and the simple, commonsense bipartisan expanded background on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. measures before us offer a good first checks legislation in honor of the My amendment would not prevent step to ensure that we get that done. memory of my friend, Michele Love, a the House from considering either of Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman victim of gun violence who never re- the underlying measures of this rule. It from Georgia (Mr. LEWIS) for the pur- ceived a moment of silence on the would simply give the House an oppor- pose of a unanimous consent request. House floor.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:40 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.023 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4485 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Mr. POLIS. You are. It is my time. I Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsyl- Chair understands that the gentleman am yielding for an answer. vania. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous from Alabama has not yielded for that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bi- purpose; therefore, the unanimous con- tleman from Colorado is speaking on partisan expanded background checks sent request cannot be entertained. his time. legislation to honor the memory of Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. POLIS. Reclaiming my time, the Gino Nicholas, a victim of gun violence the gentlewoman from Connecticut parliamentary inquiry in his asking who never received a moment of si- (Ms. ESTY) for the purpose of a unani- about the time should not be detracted lence on the House floor. mous consent request. She is a leader from my time, so that, as well as this, The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- on the issue of reducing gun violence. need to be subtracted. viously announced, the unanimous con- Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- Now, we go back to my time, and I sent request cannot be entertained. mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the yield to the gentleman to ask him how Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I just re- bipartisan expanded background many people we need to come down ceived devastating news in a story that checks legislation in honor of Eliza- here so we can have our vote? was just broken by Politico: House Re- beth Janie Woods, a victim of gun vio- Mr. BYRNE. We are here today to publicans indefinitely delay gun con- lence who never received a single mo- consider—— trol votes. They have indefinitely post- ment of silence on the House floor. Mr. POLIS. Reclaiming my time, poned a vote on the antiterrorism The SPEAKER pro tempore. The that is not an answer. It is a simple package leaving Congress with no leg- Chair understands that the gentleman question with a number. islative response to last month’s mas- from Alabama has not yielded for that I yield to the gentleman from New sacre in Orlando. purpose; therefore, the unanimous con- York (Mr. MEEKS) for the purpose of a b 1300 sent request cannot be entertained. unanimous consent request. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I ask I would hope that this new informa- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. tion will lead the gentleman from Ala- JUDY CHU) for the purpose of a unani- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- bama to consider this very important mous consent request. ground checks legislation to honor the request from my colleague, Mr. Ms. JUDY CHU of California. Mr. memory of Davon Jones, a victim of HUFFMAN. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman gun violence who never received a mo- bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- from California (Mr. HUFFMAN) for the ment of silence on this House floor. panded background checks legislation The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- purpose of a unanimous consent re- to honor the memory of Trooper Chad viously announced, the unanimous con- quest. P. Dermyer, a victim of gun violence Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask sent request cannot be entertained. who never received a moment of si- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to lence on the House floor. 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ground checks legislation, to honor the SCHAKOWSKY) for the purpose of a unan- Chair understands that the gentleman memory of Tanya Skeen, a victim of imous consent request. from Alabama has not yielded for that gun violence who never received a mo- Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. I ask unanimous purpose; therefore, the unanimous con- ment of silence on the House floor. sent request cannot be entertained. consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bi- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to partisan expanded background checks viously announced, the unanimous con- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. legislation to honor the memory of sent request cannot be entertained. LEE) for the purpose of a unanimous Dajae Coleman from my district, a vic- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, given the consent request. tim of gun violence who never received new information that I entered, with Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- a moment of silence on the House floor. regard to what has just broke a the Po- mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- litico article, I think it would be im- viously announced, the unanimous con- bipartisan expanded background portant to hear from Mr. BYRNE again checks legislation to honor the mem- sent request cannot be entertained. about whether he would entertain a ory of Jamie Wilson, a victim of gun Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to unanimous consent request at this violence who never received a moment the gentlewoman from Maryland (Ms. time, understanding his previous an- of silence on the House floor. EDWARDS) for the purpose of a unani- swer was no. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The mous consent request. So I would like, Mr. Speaker, if you Chair understands that the gentleman Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, I ask will, you to pose that question to him from Alabama has not yielded for that unanimous consent to bring up H.R. for consideration. purpose; therefore, the unanimous con- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the sent request cannot be entertained. ground checks legislation to honor the gentleman from Colorado yielding to Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to memory of Keiwuan Murray, a victim the gentleman from Alabama? the gentleman from Texas (Mr. AL of gun violence who never received a Mr. POLIS. I am not yielding. I am GREEN) for the purpose of a unanimous moment of silence on this House floor. asking the Chair to confirm that, in consent request. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- fact, his stated preference is still valid, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speak- viously announced, the unanimous con- and if he would ask the gentleman er, I ask unanimous consent to bring sent request cannot be entertained. from Alabama if that is still the case. up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to The SPEAKER pro tempore. It is background checks legislation to honor the gentleman from Massachusetts still the Chair’s understanding that the the memory of Mr. Rayland ‘‘Ray Ray’’ (Mr. MOULTON) for the purpose of a gentleman from Alabama will not yield Maryland, a victim of gun violence who unanimous consent request. for such a request. never received a moment of silence on Mr. MOULTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask Therefore, the previous unanimous the House floor. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. consent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to viously announced, the unanimous con- ground checks legislation to honor the the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. sent request cannot be entertained. memory of Dana Rhoden, a victim of LARSON) for the purpose of a unani- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I want to gun violence who never received a mo- mous consent request. inquire of the gentleman from Ala- ment of silence on the House floor. Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. bama how many people we need to have The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to more come down here until our request viously announced, the unanimous con- bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- is granted? sent request cannot be entertained. panded background checks legislation, PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to in honor of the memory of Delhaun Mr. BYRNE. May I ask the Chair if I the gentleman from Pennsylvania (MI- Jackson, a victim of gun violence who am on the time of the gentleman from CHAEL F. DOYLE) for the purpose of a never received a moment of silence on Colorado in answering his question? unanimous consent request. the floor.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:40 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.024 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4486 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I viously announced, the unanimous con- the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. ask unanimous consent to bring up sent request cannot be entertained. NORCROSS) for the purpose of a unani- H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to mous consent request. background checks legislation, to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Speaker, I ask honor the memory of AJ Boik, the (Ms. CLARK) for a unanimous consent unanimous consent to bring up H.R. nephew of a friend of mine, Police Ser- request. 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- geant Dave Hoover, who was killed at Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. ground checks legislation, to honor the the Aurora movie theater during the Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to memory of Andres Camacho, III, the premier of the Batman movie. bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- son of a dear friend of mine and a vic- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- panded background checks legislation, tim of gun violence who never received viously announced, the unanimous con- to honor the memory of Damond Daw- a moment of silence on the House floor. sent request cannot be entertained. son, a victim of gun violence who never The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to received a moment of silence on the viously announced, the unanimous con- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. House floor. sent request cannot be entertained. HAHN) for the purpose of a unanimous The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to consent request. viously announced, the unanimous con- the gentleman from California (Mr. Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- sent request cannot be entertained. THOMPSON) for the purpose of a unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to mous consent request. bipartisan expanded background the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. checks legislation, to honor the mem- CICILLINE) for the purpose of a unani- Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ory of Kenneth Rhoden, a victim of gun mous consent request. bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- violence who never received a moment Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, I ask panded background checks legislation, of silence on this House floor. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. to honor the memory of Chris Rhoden, The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- Jr., a victim of gun violence who never viously announced, the unanimous con- ground checks legislation, to honor the received a moment of silence on the sent request cannot be entertained. memory of Hanna Rhoden and Chris- House floor. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to topher Roden, Sr., victims of gun vio- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. lence who never received a moment of viously announced, the unanimous con- BROWNLEY) for the purpose of a unani- silence on the House floor. sent request cannot be entertained. mous consent request. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to viously announced, the unanimous con- Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to the gentlewoman from New York (Miss sent request cannot be entertained. bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- RICE) for the purpose of a unanimous Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like panded background checks legislation, consent request. to inquire of the gentleman from Ala- Miss RICE of New York. Mr. Speaker, to honor the memory of Roosevelt bama how many people we need to have I ask unanimous consent to bring up Burns, a victim of gun violence who come down until the gentleman from H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded never received a moment of silence on Alabama would be willing to simply en- background checks legislation, to the House floor. God bless Mr. Burns. tertain a unanimous consent request to The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- honor the memory of Natalie, Sienna, have the vote? viously announced, the unanimous con- and MJ Srinivasan with the shooter I understand that the gentleman sent request cannot be entertained. from Alabama is opposed to the under- Jeremy Srinivasan, three victims of Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to lying measures. If a majority of the gun violence who never received a mo- the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. ment of silence on the House floor. House is, so be it. But at least I would LEVIN) for the purpose of a unanimous like to know how many requests we The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- consent request. need to make until we can simply have viously announced, the unanimous con- Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- this vote. sent request cannot be entertained. imous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, I am happy to yield to the gentleman Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the bipartisan expanded background from Alabama for an answer. the gentlewoman from California (Ms. checks legislation, to honor the mem- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The LEE) for the purpose of a unanimous ory of Lizzy Williams, a victim of gun Chair continues to understand that the consent request. violence who never received a moment gentleman from Alabama has not Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- of silence on this House floor. yielded for the purpose of these unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- mous consent requests. bipartisan expanded background viously announced, the unanimous con- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I am happy checks legislation, to honor the mem- sent request cannot be entertained. to yield the gentleman from Alabama ory of Rheba Mae Dent, a victim of gun Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to from my time to ask how many more violence who never received a moment the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. unanimous consent requests we need to of silence on the House floor. HOYER), the minority whip, for the pur- have until we can have this vote. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- pose of a unanimous consent request. Reclaiming my time, his silence con- viously announced, the unanimous con- Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I ask tinues to speak volumes, as does the si- sent request cannot be entertained. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. lence of the Republican majority and Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- the Speaker in the wake of an unprece- the gentleman from California (Mr. ground checks legislation. I do so, Mr. dented wave of violence and terrorism AGUILAR) for the purpose of a unani- Speaker, in honor of Shelly Williams, a in our country. mous consent request. victim of gun violence who never re- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman Mr. AGUILAR. Mr. Speaker, I ask ceived a moment of silence on the from California (Mr. TAKANO) for the unanimous consent to bring up H.R. House floor. purpose of a unanimous consent re- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- quest. ground checks legislation, to honor the viously announced, the unanimous con- Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I ask memory of Angelo Barboza, a victim of sent request cannot be entertained. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. gun violence who never received a mo- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- ment of silence on the House floor. to inquire again of the gentleman from ground checks legislation, to honor the The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Alabama how many more requests we memory of Anpha Nguyen, a victim of viously announced, the unanimous con- need to make until this very simple re- gun violence who never received a mo- sent request cannot be entertained. quest is granted to allow us a vote on ment of silence on the House floor. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to these bills. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. I am happy to yield for an answer as viously announced, the unanimous con- PERLMUTTER) for a unanimous consent to how many more people we need to sent request cannot be entertained. request. request a vote on these bills.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:40 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.025 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4487 Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, we are Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I ask McDonald, a victim of gun violence here today on House Resolution 809—— unanimous consent to bring up H.R. who never received a moment of si- Mr. POLIS. Reclaiming my time, I 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- lence on the House floor. am in control of the time. I yielded for ground checks legislation, to honor the The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- an answer. The gentleman from Ala- memory of Devin Hamb, a victim of viously announced, the unanimous con- bama didn’t give it. gun violence who never received a mo- sent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle- ment of silence on the House floor. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to woman from Connecticut (Ms. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. RUSH) DELAURO) for the purpose of a very im- viously announced, the unanimous con- for the purpose of a unanimous consent portant unanimous consent request sent request cannot be entertained. request. that would save lives and prevent ter- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. RUSH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- rorism. the gentleman from New York (Mr. mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the Ms. DELAURO. Mr. Speaker, I ask CROWLEY), the vice chair of the Demo- bipartisan expanded background unanimous consent to bring up H.R. cratic Caucus, for a unanimous consent checks legislation, in honor of the 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- request. memory of Gladys Tordil, a victim of ground checks legislation, to honor the Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask gun violence who never received a mo- memory of Roderick Nelms, a victim of unanimous consent to bring up H.R. ment of silence on the House floor. gun violence who never received a mo- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- ment of silence on the House floor. ground checks legislation, to honor the viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- memory of Billie Jo, Courtney, and sent request cannot be entertained. viously announced, the unanimous con- Collin Hettinger, victims of gun vio- b 1315 sent request cannot be entertained. lence who never received a moment of Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to silence on the House floor. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the gentleman from Massachusetts SWALWELL) for a unanimous consent viously announced, the unanimous con- (Mr. KENNEDY) for a unanimous con- request to prevent terrorist attacks in sent request cannot be entertained. sent request to fight against terrorism our country. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to and save lives. Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. the gentleman from South Carolina Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, I ask Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to (Mr. CLYBURN), the assistant Demo- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- cratic leader, for a unanimous consent 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- panded background checks legislation, request to fight terrorism. ground checks legislation, in honor of to honor the memory of Recco Cobb, a Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I ask the memory of Mike Dawid, a victim of victim of gun violence who never re- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. gun violence who never received a mo- ceived a moment of silence on the 3051, a bill that would close the ment of silence on the House floor. House floor. Charleston loophole that allowed the The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- assassination of Reverend Clementa C. viously announced, the unanimous con- viously announced, the unanimous con- Pinckney and eight of his parishioners. sent request cannot be entertained. sent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to viously announced, the unanimous con- the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. the gentlewoman from California (Ms. sent request cannot be entertained. DAVIS) for the purpose of a very impor- PELOSI), the Democratic leader, for the Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to tant and timely unanimous consent re- purpose of a unanimous consent re- the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. quest. quest. DANNY K. DAVIS) for the purpose of a Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent request to save er, I ask unanimous consent to bring unanimous consent to bring up H.R. lives. up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE background checks legislation, to ground checks legislation, to honor the The SPEAKER pro tempore. First, honor the memory of Cora Wilson, a memory of Carolyn Ann Sanders, a vic- the Chair will make an announcement. victim of gun violence who never re- tim of gun violence who never received As the Chair advised on January 15, ceived a moment of silence on this a moment of silence on the House floor. 2014, and March 26, 2014, even though a House floor. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- unanimous consent request to consider The SPEAKER pro tempore. As previously announced, the unanimous con- a measure is not entertained, embel- viously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, now that, in lishments accompanying such a resent request cannot be entertained. addition to so many rank-and-file quest constitute debate and will be- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, that strikes Members having made this request, the come an imposition on the time of the close to home, I would say to Mrs. Democratic leader and the Democratic Member who yielded for that purpose. DAVIS. That is the name of my daugh- whip have joined in this request per- PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY ter as well, Cora; so that is particu- sonally and have come down here, I Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I have a larly emotional to me as a father. would like to ask the gentleman from parliamentary inquiry. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman Alabama if he would be willing to con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- from Rhode Island (Mr. LANGEVIN) for sider the unanimous consent request at tleman from Colorado will state his the purpose of a unanimous consent re- this point. parliamentary inquiry. quest. I am happy to yield for an answer. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I want to be Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, House Res- clear that the various speakers have unanimous consent to bring up H.R. olution 809 is on the National Defense not embellished to this point; is that 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- Authorization Act—— correct? ground checks legislation, to honor the Mr. POLIS. Reclaiming my time, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The memory of Alicia Norman, a victim of again, I think no matter how the gen- Chair has not deducted time to this gun violence who never received a mo- tleman from Alabama says it, the sim- point. ment of silence on the House floor. ple translation of that is: no, we won’t Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- consider that request. the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. viously announced, the unanimous con- So at this point, we have a very im- DANNY K. DAVIS) for the purpose of a sent request cannot be entertained. portant request that would save lives unanimous consent request. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to and help prevent terrorist attacks in Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. BLU- our country. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to MENAUER) for the purpose of a unani- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- mous consent request. from Massachusetts (Mr. MCGOVERN) panded background checks legislation, Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, I for a unanimous consent request. to honor the memory of Laquan ask unanimous consent to bring up

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.026 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4488 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to background checks legislation, in unanimous consent to bring up H.R. the gentlewoman from Maryland (Ms. honor of the memory of Reid Williams, 1217, which is the bipartisan expanded EDWARDS) for the purpose of a unani- a victim of gun violence who never re- background checks legislation. I do so mous consent request. ceived his moment of silence on the to honor the memory of Welland Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, I ask House floor. ‘‘Buddy’’ Short, a victim of gun vio- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- lence who, himself, never received a 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- viously announced, the unanimous con- moment of silence on the House floor. ground checks legislation, to honor the sent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- memory of Jadarrion Spinks, a victim Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to viously announced, the unanimous con- of gun violence who never received a the gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. sent request cannot be entertained. moment of silence on the House floor. LAWRENCE) for the purpose of a very Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- important unanimous consent request the gentleman from California (Mr. viously announced, the unanimous con- to combat the terrorist threat to our SHERMAN) for the purpose of a very im- sent request cannot be entertained. country. portant unanimous consent request. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, given that Mrs. LAWRENCE. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask not only have we had so many Mem- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. bers from across the country make this 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- unanimous consent request but that ground checks legislation, to honor the ground checks legislation, in honor of they have been joined by every member memory of Gerardo Hernandez of Zanyrah Taylor, a victim of gun vio- of the Democratic leadership, I inquire Chatsworth, a victim of gun violence lence who never received a moment of of the gentleman from Alabama if he who never received a moment of si- would be willing to entertain the next silence on the floor. lence on this House floor. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- unanimous consent request that will be The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- made shortly by the gentlewoman from viously announced, the unanimous con- viously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. California. sent request cannot be entertained. I yield to the gentleman from Ala- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I inquire of Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Alabama how bama. the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, we are many more motions for unanimous SCHAKOWSKY) for a very important and here to speak on House Resolution 809, consent we need to make until it is timely unanimous consent request. the National Defense Authorization granted and we, simply, allow an up-or- Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I Act. down vote on this issue? ask unanimous consent to bring up Mr. POLIS. In reclaiming my time, Again, the silence speaks volumes H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle- not only from the gentleman from Ala- background checks legislation, to woman from California (Ms. LORETTA bama but from the Republican major- honor the memory of Justin Michael SANCHEZ), who has a very important ity that continues to prevent a vote on Murray, from my district—a victim of unanimous consent request that would these commonsense measures to reduce gun violence who never received a mo- save lives and prevent terrorist at- deaths and violence and terrorism. ment of silence on the House floor. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- tacks. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- viously announced, the unanimous con- from New York (Mr. SERRANO) for the fornia. I thank my colleague from Col- sent request cannot be entertained. purpose of a unanimous consent re- orado. quest. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I ask sent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipar- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. bipartisan expanded background checks legislation. tisan expanded background checks leg- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- islation, to honor the memory of Kiara ground checks legislation, to honor the The SPEAKER pro tempore. As previously announced, the unanimous con- Kinard, a victim of gun violence who memory of Malcolm Winffel, a victim never received a moment of silence on of gun violence who never received a sent request cannot be entertained. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to this House floor. moment of silence on this House floor. the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- CLARKE) for the purpose of a unani- viously announced, the unanimous con- viously announced, the unanimous con- mous consent request. sent request cannot be entertained. sent request cannot be entertained. Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Speaker, on behalf of Councilman the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. VAN the gentleman from California (Mr. James E. Davis, who was assassinated HOLLEN) for the purpose of a unani- BECERRA) for the purpose of a unani- at the New York City Council on July mous consent request. mous consent request. He is the chair 23, 2003, I ask unanimous consent to Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I of the Democratic Caucus. bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- ask unanimous consent to bring up Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Speaker, I ask panded background checks legislation, H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded unanimous consent—because it is more to honor his memory. background checks legislation, in than just time for a moment of si- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- honor of the memory of Mercy Cor- lence—that we bring up H.R. 1217, the viously announced, the unanimous con- dova, a victim of gun violence who bipartisan expanded background sent request cannot be entertained. never received a moment of silence checks legislation, to honor the mem- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to here on the House floor. ory of Shannon Johnson, a victim of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- gun violence, who died during the mass BRENDAN F. BOYLE) for the purpose of a viously announced, the unanimous con- shooting in San Bernardino, California, unanimous consent request that would sent request cannot be entertained. who never received a moment of si- save lives and prevent terrorist attacks Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- lence on this House floor, to dignify in our country. self such time as I may consume. the passing and the need to do some- Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsyl- I point out, on my own time, that thing for him and his family. vania. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous granting this request does not take The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bi- away from considering the other two viously announced, the unanimous con- partisan expanded background checks underlying bills. They, too, will be consent request cannot be entertained. legislation, to honor the memory of Je- sidered, but it simply means that these The time of the gentleman from Col- rome Wright, a victim of gun violence additional two bills to reduce gun vio- orado will be charged. who never received a moment of silence, preventing terrorists from as- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to lence on the House floor. sembling arsenals legally in our own the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- country, and making sure that con- CAPPS) for the purpose of a unanimous viously announced, the unanimous convicted felons can’t legally acquire fire- consent request. sent request cannot be entertained. arms, are common sense. I think they

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.028 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4489 would pass this House fairly over- Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I ask the Members of this body feel fervently whelmingly. Chair to bring the House to order. about. We are simply saying, in addition to Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, a point of Those who stand in the way of that the bills that are already being consid- parliamentary inquiry. vote are those who are obstructing, not ered—which some of us may personally The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- those who simply seek a vote to pre- be opposed to in the case of NDAA, but tleman from Alabama is recognized on vent terrorists from acquiring explo- we are not standing in the way of his own time. sives and firearms. those. We are simply allowing for the Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I note for Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle- consideration of these additional bills. the record that the Member who just woman from California (Ms. ROYBAL- Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of a spoke has made the same unanimous ALLARD) for the purpose of a unani- unanimous consent request only, I consent request three times. I would mous consent request. yield to the gentlewoman from Con- also note that other Members have Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, necticut (Ms. ESTY). made the same unanimous consent re- I ask unanimous consent to bring up Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- quests multiple times, and the Chair H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the has indicated that he cannot entertain background checks legislation, to bipartisan expanded background that request. honor the memory of Jordan Croft, a checks legislation, in honor of Gary Mr. Speaker, for the record, at some victim of gun violence who never re- Rhoden, a victim of gun violence who point, this ceases to be an effort to de- ceived a moment of silence on the never received a moment of silence on bate the issue before the House and, House floor. the House floor. rather, becomes an effort to obstruct The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the House from completing its work. viously announced, the unanimous con- viously announced, the unanimous con- I reserve the balance of my time. sent request cannot be entertained. sent request cannot be entertained. PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, a point of the gentlewoman from California (Ms. the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. parliamentary inquiry. MATSUI) for the purpose of a unani- TITUS) for a unanimous consent request The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- mous consent request. that would prevent terrorists from as- tleman will state his parliamentary in- Ms. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I ask sembling arsenals that they would use quiry. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. to cause harm to our fellow Americans. 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, how is the gentleman from Alabama able to seize ground checks legislation, in honor of mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the the memory of Lana Carlson, a victim bipartisan expanded background my time before I have even made my opening statement and simply speak on of gun violence who never received a checks legislation, in honor of the moment of silence on the House floor. memory of Jones Pidcock, a victim of his own time while I control the time? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- gun violence who never received a mo- Chair was alternating recognition be- viously announced, the unanimous con- ment of silence on this House floor. tween the minority manager and the sent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like viously announced, the unanimous con- majority manager. The gentleman from Alabama was recognized using his to inquire of the gentleman from Ala- sent request cannot be entertained. bama how long he plans to continue ob- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I was truly own time. structing this body and preventing this hoping that the motion by Ms. TITUS Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, we have a body from going about its business to would be accepted because, frankly, gentleman with us here today from the vote on these underlying bills by ob- Ms. TITUS’ unanimous consent request great State of Missouri, who has a very jecting to these very simple, common- would have saved lives, prevented con- important unanimous consent request sense, unanimous consent requests to victed felons from acquiring firearms that would save lives and prevent ter- prevent terrorists from acquiring ex- and would have prevented people on rorists from doing harm to our fellow countrymen. plosives and firearms. the terrorist watch list from silently Again, the silence speaks volumes. It assembling arsenals for them to com- I yield to the gentleman from Mis- souri (Mr. CLAY) for the purpose of a sounds like the Republicans and the mit terrorist acts in our country. gentleman from Alabama plan on con- While I am disappointed that Ms. unanimous consent request. tinuing to obstruct this body from TITUS’ unanimous consent request was Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- going about their business. rejected out of hand, I yield to—and I mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the However, luckily, thanks to the gen- am hopeful that the gentleman from bipartisan expanded background tlewoman from New Jersey, there is Alabama will accept—the gentleman checks legislation, to honor the mem- another chance for this body to accept from California (Mr. THOMPSON) for the ory of Michael Brown, one of my con- a very important unanimous consent purpose of a very important unanimous stituents and a victim of gun violence at the hands of a trigger happy police- request. consent request. I yield to the gentlewoman from New Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. man. Michael Brown never received a Jersey (Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) for the Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to moment of silence on this House floor. purpose of a unanimous consent re- bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- quest. panded background checks legislation, viously announced, the unanimous con- Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN. Mr. to honor the memory of Christopher sent request cannot be entertained. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to Houston, a victim of gun violence who The time of the gentleman from Mis- bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- never received a moment of silence on souri will be deducted from the gen- panded background checks legislation, the House floor. tleman from Colorado’s time. to honor the memory of Tre Lane, a The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- b 1330 viously announced, the unanimous con- victim of gun violence who never re- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like sent request cannot be entertained. ceived a moment of silence on this Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- to point out on my own time. floor. self such time as I may consume. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, a point of tleman from Colorado is recognized. viously announced, the unanimous con- parliamentary inquiry. Mr. POLIS. The gentleman from Ala- sent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the bama mentioned the word ‘‘obstruc- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to gentleman from Alabama yield for a tion.’’ And, Mr. Speaker, I would like the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. parliamentary inquiry? you to consider—and, Mr. Speaker, I MOORE) for the purpose of a very im- Mr. BYRNE. I do not. would like the American people to con- portant unanimous consent request to Mr. Speaker, I note far the record—— sider—who and which party is ob- prevent terrorists from silently acquir- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, a point of structing here when there is a very ing arsenals that they would kill our parliamentary inquiry. simple request for a vote that so many fellow Americans with.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.029 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4490 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Ms. MOORE. Mr. Speaker, I ask bipartisan expanded background bama (Mr. BYRNE) how many more unanimous consent to bring up H.R. checks legislation, to honor the mem- Members need to make this very sim- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- ory of Simon Carrillo, a victim of gun ple request until it is a simple courtesy ground checks legislation. violence who never received his mo- they agree to simply hold these votes. Here is Zina Daniel, who was mur- ment of silence on the House floor. I would be happy to yield for an an- dered when her ex-husband bought a The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- swer. weapon from the Internet. viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As present request cannot be entertained. tleman from Colorado yields to the viously announced, the unanimous re- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, would that gentleman from Alabama. quest cannot be entertained. we run out of victims. Mr. Speaker, Mr. POLIS. Reclaiming my time, I The time of the gentlewoman will be would that we run out of victims, but, hear nothing but silence. deducted from the gentleman from tragically, that is not the case. Mr. BYRNE. Well, I thought he yield- Colorado’s time. I yield to the gentleman from New ed to me for—— Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, we are Jersey (Mr. NORCROSS) for the purpose Mr. POLIS. Not to yield for an an- joined by the ranking member of the of a unanimous consent request. swer—absolutely. How many more—— Rules Committee, and I hope that my Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. BYRNE. Do you yield or not? colleague from Alabama will be willing unanimous consent to bring up H.R. Mr. POLIS. I did. You were stand- to grant her very important request 1217, the bipartisan expanded backing—— that she is about to make that will pre- ground checks legislation, to honor the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- vent convicted felons from acquiring memory of Davon Barrett, a victim of tleman from Alabama is recognized. guns legally and also help keep explo- gun violence who never received his Mr. BYRNE. You didn’t allow me to sives and weapons out of the hands of moment of silence here on the House say a word. terrorists. floor. Mr. POLIS. How many more re- I am proud to yield to the gentle- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- quests—— woman from New York (Ms. SLAUGH- viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- TER) for a unanimous consent request. sent request cannot be entertained. tleman from Alabama is recognized. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like Mr. POLIS. Do we need to make? thank the gentleman for yielding, and to yield to the gentleman from Cali- Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, we are I ask unanimous consent to bring up fornia (Mr. HUFFMAN) for the purpose here to talk about House Resolution H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded of a very important unanimous consent 809 that deals with the National De- background checks legislation, to request that would save lives. fense Authorization Act—— honor the memory of Valerie Short, a Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. POLIS. Reclaiming my time, Mr. victim of gun violence who never re- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. Speaker. ceived a moment of silence on the 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- Mr. BYRNE. And an opioid bill and House floor. ground checks legislation, in honor of not anything else. And I—— The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the memory of two of my constituents: Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, the gen- viously announced, the unanimous con- former Deputy Sheriff Rick Del tleman is out of order. sent request cannot be entertained. Mr. BYRNE. I can yield—— Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Fiorentino and former Fort Bragg Mr. POLIS. The gentleman is out of the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Councilman Jere Melo. They are both victims of gun violence who never re- order. I reclaim my time, Mr. Speaker. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON) for the pur- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- pose of a critical and timely unani- ceived a moment of silence on this tleman from Colorado is recognized. mous consent request. House floor. Mr. POLIS. Yes. And yet the gen- Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- tleman from Alabama continues to ob- Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous viously announced, the unanimous construct the consideration of those very consent to bring up H.R. 1217, a bipar- sent request cannot be entertained. underlying measures by not granting tisan expanded background checks leg- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to this simple request, this very simple islation, in honor of Kendrick Forrest, the gentleman from California (Mr. request to consider these two bills. a victim of gun violence from my dis- AGUILAR) who has a very important Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman trict who never received a moment of and timely unanimous consent request from North Carolina (Mr. PRICE) for silence on the House floor. to prevent terrorists from acquiring ar- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- senals to attack our fellow Americans. the purpose of a unanimous consent re- viously announced, the unanimous con- Mr. AGUILAR. Mr. Speaker, I ask quest. sent request cannot be entertained. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. I Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, in the face 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- thank my colleague. of Republican obstructionism on this ground checks legislation, in honor of Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- important issue, I am joined by a col- Kenneth Cornelious Loggins, a victim sent to bring up H.R. 1217, a bipartisan league from the great State of Cali- of gun violence. expanded background checks legisla- fornia. I yield to the gentleman from The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- tion, to honor the memory of Tony and California (Mr. TAKANO) for the purpose viously announced, the unanimous con- Quinn Carlson, victims of gun violence of a unanimous consent request in an sent request cannot be entertained. who never received a moment of si- attempt to break through this grid- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to lence on this House floor. lock. the gentlewoman from California (Ms. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I ask BROWNLEY) who has a very important viously announced, the unanimous con- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. and timely unanimous consent request sent request cannot be entertained. 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- that would save lives. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to ground checks legislation, to honor the Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. memory of Jerry Nguyen, a victim of Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to CICILLINE) who has a unanimous con- gun violence who never received a mo- bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- sent to break through this Republican ment of silence on the House floor. panded background checks legislation, obstruction and allow these bills to The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- to honor the memory of Joanne Woods, come forward. viously announced, the unanimous con- a victim of gun violence who never re- Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, I ask sent request cannot be entertained. ceived a moment of action on this unanimous consent to bring up H.R. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to House floor. 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- the gentleman from Massachusetts The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- ground checks legislation, to honor the (Mr. NEAL) for the purpose of a unani- viously announced, the unanimous con- memory of my constituent, Essence mous consent request. sent request cannot be entertained. Christal, a victim of gun violence who Mr. NEAL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like never received a moment of action on mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the to inquire of the gentleman from Ala- the House Floor.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.031 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4491 The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- And, Mr. Speaker, I would like to ground checks legislation, to honor the viously announced, the unanimous con- know: What are you afraid of? Why memory of Rigoberto Jose Castillo, a sent request cannot be entertained. won’t you give Officer Dooley his time? victim of gun violence who never re- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to What are you afraid of, Mr. Speaker? ceived a moment of silence on this the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Bring the bill to the floor. House floor. BRADY) for the purpose of a very impor- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- tant and timely unanimous consent re- viously announced, the unanimous con- viously announced, the unanimous con- quest. sent request cannot be entertained. sent request cannot be entertained. Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. The time of the gentleman will be Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to subtracted from the gentleman from the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- Colorado’s time. CAPPS) for a unanimous consent re- panded background checks legislation, Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, would that quest. in honor of the memory of Cory James we ran out of victims. Sadly, that is Mrs. CAPPS. I thank my colleague for yielding. Connell, a victim of gun violence who not the case. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- never received a moment of silence on Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman this House floor. sent to please bring up H.R. 1217. It is from New York (Mr. MEEKS) for the a bipartisan bill, the expanded back- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- purpose of a very important unanimous viously announced, the unanimous con- ground checks legislation, and I am consent request that would save lives. doing this today in honor of this beau- sent request cannot be entertained Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to tiful young mother of 2 from Chicago, a unanimous consent to bring up H.R. the gentlewoman from California (Ms. victim of gun violence. She never re- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- HAHN) for the purpose of a unanimous ceived a moment of silence on this ground checks legislation, to honor the consent request. House floor. Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- memory of Laseam Hogan from my dis- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- mous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the trict, a victim of gun violence who viously announced, the unanimous con- bipartisan expanded background never received a moment of action on sent request cannot be entertained. checks legislation, in honor of the this House floor. The time of the gentlewoman from memory of Reginald Williams, a victim The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- California will be deducted from the of gun violence who never received a viously announced, the unanimous con- gentleman from Colorado’s time. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to moment of action on the House floor. sent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, again, I the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. viously announced, the unanimous con- would like to inquire of the gentleman LEVIN) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request only. sent request cannot be entertained. from Alabama: When will the Repub- Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, hoping you Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to lican obstructionism end? will change your misinformed judg- the gentleman from California (Mr. I am happy to yield for an answer. ment, again, I ask unanimous consent LOWENTHAL) for the purpose of a unani- Mr. BYRNE. I reserve the balance of to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- mous consent request to prevent ter- my time. panded background checks legislation, rorists from acquiring explosives and Mr. POLIS. Reclaiming my time, I yield to the gentlewoman from Con- to honor the memory of Enedia firearms. Branch, a victim of gun violence who Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, I necticut (Ms. DELAURO) for the purpose never received one moment of silence ask unanimous consent to bring up of a unanimous consent request. Ms. DELAURO. I ask unanimous con- on this House floor. H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- background checks legislation, to sent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks leg- viously announced, the unanimous con- honor the memory of Jean Carlos sent request cannot be entertained. islation, to honor the memory of Elton Nieves Rodriguez, a victim of gun vio- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to lence who never received a moment of Wayne Madison, a victim of gun vio- the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. lence who never received a moment of silence on the House floor. PALLONE) for the purpose of a very im- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- action on this House floor. portant unanimous consent request viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- that will save lives. sent request cannot be entertained. viously announced, the unanimous con- Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to sent request cannot be entertained. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. the gentlewoman from Massachusetts b 1345 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- (Ms. CLARK) for the purpose of a time- ground checks legislation, to honor the ly, important, and critical unanimous Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina memory of Jamar Small; Tamara, or consent request. Tammy, Wilson-Seidle; and both (Mr. BUTTERFIELD) for the purpose of a Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Cristina LoBrutto and Bryan Breen. very important unanimous consent Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to These are Cristina and Bryan. They are that would save lives and prevent con- bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- four victims of gun violence from my victed felons from acquiring weapons. panded background checks legislation, district who never received a moment Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I to honor the memory of Claudina of action on the House floor. Molina, a victim of gun violence who ask unanimous consent to bring up The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- never received a moment of action on H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded viously announced, the unanimous con- the House floor. background checks legislation, to sent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- honor the memory of Mr. Tevin Eugene Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to viously announced, the unanimous con- Crosby, who was a victim of gun vio- the gentleman from Massachusetts sent request cannot be entertained. lence who never received a moment of (Mr. KEATING) for the purpose of a very Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to silence on this House floor, unlike important and timely unanimous con- the gentleman from Massachusetts other victims in this country. sent request that will save lives. (Mr. CAPUANO) for a unanimous consent The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. KEATING. Mr. Chairman, I ask request to prevent convicted felons viously announced, the unanimous con- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. from legally acquiring firearms. sent request cannot be entertained. 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- Mr. CAPUANO. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to ground checks legislation, to honor the unanimous consent to bring up H.R. the gentleman from Massachusetts memory of Alison Parker, a victim of 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- (Mr. MCGOVERN), my colleague on the gun violence whose family wants more ground checks legislation, to honor the Committee on Rules, for the purpose of than a moment of silence on the House memory of Officer Steven Todd Dooley, a unanimous consent request. floor. a victim of gun violence who never re- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I ask The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- ceived a moment of action on this unanimous consent to bring up H.R. viously announced, the unanimous con- House floor. 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- sent request cannot be entertained.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.032 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4492 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to please, let us have a vote on a bill that means Democrats and Republicans—ex- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. has been awaiting passage for years. panded background checks legislation, MAXINE WATERS) for the purpose of a The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- to honor the memory of Jonathon very important unanimous consent re- viously announced, the unanimous con- Edwards, 22 years old, from Georgia. He quest that will save lives. sent request cannot be entertained. was a victim of gun violence who never Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. The time of the gentlewoman from received a moment of action here in Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Ohio will be deducted from the gen- the House of Representatives. He is de- to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- tleman from Colorado’s time. serving of that action, Mr. Speaker. panded background checks legislation, Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, we have Twenty-two years. No action. Mr. to honor the memory of 5-year-old been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Speaker, it is time for us to act. The Aaron Shannon, Jr., a victim of gun vi- Mr. KILDEE, and I am glad to say that American people need for us to act. olence shot down in his backyard, who he is not only here, but he has an ex- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- never received a moment of silence on cellent idea to break through this Re- viously announced, the unanimous con- the House floor. publican obstruction and save lives. sent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- I am honored to yield to the gen- The time of the gentlewoman from viously announced, the unanimous con- tleman from Michigan (Mr. KILDEE) for New York will be deducted from the sent request cannot be entertained. a very important unanimous consent gentleman from Colorado’s time. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to request. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Mr. KILDEE. I thank my friend for the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. LANGEVIN) for the purpose of a very im- yielding. JACKSON LEE) for a very important portant unanimous consent request. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- unanimous consent request that will Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, as sent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipar- save lives. someone with a background in law en- tisan expanded background checks leg- Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I forcement and someone who lives with islation, to honor the memory of ask unanimous consent to bring up the damaging effects of what guns can Cederrius Hastings, a victim of gun vi- H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded cause every day, I ask unanimous con- olence who never received a moment of background checks legislation, which sent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipar- silence on the floor of the United would fall under the Committee on the tisan expanded background checks leg- States House of Representatives. Judiciary on which I serve as the rank- islation, also to honor the memory of The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- ing member of the Subcommittee on Doris Dooley, a victim of gun violence viously announced, the unanimous con- Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, who never received a moment of action sent request cannot be entertained. and Investigations, to honor the mem- on the House floor. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to ory of Ronald McPhatter, a child of The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the local hometown representative, the some mother and some father, and viously announced, the unanimous con- esteemed representative from the Dis- honor the memory of Ronald sent request cannot be entertained. trict of Columbia (Ms. NORTON) who McPhatter, a victim of gun violence, The time of the gentleman from has a very important unanimous con- who never received a moment of si- Rhode Island will be deducted from the sent request. lence or action on this House floor. gentleman from Colorado’s time. Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask Ronald McPhatter needs justice. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I wish that unanimous consent to bring up H.R. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- we had the time to adequately remem- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- viously announced, the unanimous con- ber all of these victims like Doris ground checks legislation, in honor of sent request cannot be entertained. Dooley and so many others, but given the memory of Brishell Jones, who at The time of the gentlewoman from the limited time we have, I think our 16, with her friends, was gunned down Texas will be deducted from the gen- priority at this point is breaking in a drive-by shooting, but who never tleman from Colorado’s time. through the Republican obstruction received a moment of silence on this Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to and achieving a simple up-or-down vote House floor. the gentleman from New York (Mr. on these commonsense, bipartisan The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- SEAN PATRICK MALONEY) for the pur- bills. viously announced, the unanimous con- pose of a very important unanimous To that end, I yield to the gentle- sent request cannot be entertained. consent request that would save lives. woman from Maryland (Ms. EDWARDS) The time of the gentlewoman from Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of for the purpose of a unanimous consent the District of Columbia will be de- New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- request. ducted from the gentleman from Colo- mous consent to bring H.R. 1217, the bi- Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, I ask rado’s time. partisan expanded background checks unanimous consent to bring up H.R. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like legislation, to the floor to honor the 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- to inquire of the gentleman from Ala- memory of David Washington. David ground checks legislation, to honor the bama how many more unanimous con- Washington is a victim of gun violence. memory of Betty Mungin; her daugh- sent requests we need to make until He can’t speak for himself anymore, ter, Alexis Mungin; her daughter, 8- the Republicans stop this obstruction and he never received a moment of si- year-old Armani Mungin, victims of and allow the bill to come forward. I lence or a moment of action on this gun violence who never received a mo- am happy to yield for an answer. House floor, but he deserves one. ment of silence on the House floor. Mr. BYRNE. I reserve the balance of The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Enough is enough, Mr. Speaker. my time. viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Well, Mr. Speaker, you sent request cannot be entertained. viously announced, the unanimous con- know, I think it is clear that we will The time of the gentleman from New sent request cannot be entertained. not allow the Republicans to continue York will be deducted from the gen- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to to obstruct these commonsense, bipar- tleman from Colorado’s time. the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. KAP- tisan bills to prevent terrorists from Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to TUR) for a very important unanimous assembling arsenals to kill our fellow the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. consent request that will save lives. Americans and to prevent convicted WILSON) for the purpose of a unanimous Ms. KAPTUR. I thank the gentleman. felons from legally acquiring firearms. consent request only that would save Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- We are joined by a leader from New lives. sent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipar- York, and I yield to the gentlewoman Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, tisan expanded background checks leg- from New York (Ms. CLARKE) for the I ask unanimous consent to bring up islation, to honor the memory of purpose of a unanimous consent re- H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded Javier Jorge-Reyes, a victim of gun vi- quest. background checks legislation, to olence who never received a moment of Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. honor the memory of Trayvon Martin action on this House floor. In his mem- Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to from my district, a victim of gun vio- ory, we beg the Republican leadership, bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan—that lence who never received a moment of

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The time of the gentlewoman from The time of the gentlewoman from Mr. MCDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I ask Florida will be deducted from the gen- New Jersey will be deducted from the unanimous consent to bring up H.R. tleman from Colorado’s time. gentleman from Colorado’s time. 1217, bipartisan expanded background Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to b 1400 checks legislation. It is really to honor the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. BLU- the memory of Paul Terrell Henry. He Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, the defini- MENAUER) for the purpose of a very im- was a victim of gun violence in Or- tion of obstruction in the dictionary is portant and timely unanimous consent lando, who never received a moment of ‘‘a thing that impedes or prevents pas- request. silence on this House floor. Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, I sage or progress; an obstacle or block- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- ask unanimous consent to bring up age.’’ viously announced, the unanimous con- The only obstruction here is the fail- H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded sent request cannot be entertained. ure of the Republicans to simply re- background checks legislation, in Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to move that blockage or that thing that honor of the memory of Leatrick Ben- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. prevents passage of this commonsense jamin, a victim of gun violence who BROWNLEY), who has a request that will measure to keep guns out of the hands never received a moment of silence on break through this Republican obstruc- of convicted felons and prevent terror- the House floor, let alone a moment of tion and save lives, for the purpose of a ists from quietly assembling arsenals action. unanimous consent request. to conduct their terrorist acts. Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- I hope that, now that my colleague viously announced, the unanimous con- Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to from New York (Mr. ENGEL) has joined bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- sent request cannot be entertained. us and he will be making a very impor- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to panded background checks legislation, tant unanimous consent request in just the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. to honor the memory of Landon moments, that will finally allow this CASTOR) for the purpose of a very im- Dooley, a victim of gun violence who body an opportunity to break through portant unanimous consent request. never received a moment of action on this obstruction, move to consideration Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Mr. Speaker, this House floor. of both bills under this rule, and move I ask unanimous consent to call up Enough is enough. Put this common- to consideration of the bipartisan bill H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded sense legislation forward today. that will prevent convicted felons from background checks legislation, to The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. acquiring weapons. RIBBLE). As previously announced the honor the memory of 14-year-old Rich- I yield to the gentleman from New ard Newton from my district, a victim unanimous consent request cannot be York (Mr. ENGEL) for the purpose of a of gun violence who never received a entertained. unanimous consent request. PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY moment of silence on this House floor, Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- let alone a moment of action. Mr. POLIS. Point of parliamentary imous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the bipartisan expanded background viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- checks legislation, to honor the mem- tleman will state his parliamentary in- sent request cannot be entertained. ory of this brave soldier, Captain Anto- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to quiry. nio Davon Brown. Mr. POLIS. It is a new Speaker pro the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. I also want to honor the memory of tempore, and I was wondering if the TORRES), who has a very important and people in my district who were victims new Speaker pro tempore would be timely unanimous consent request. of gun violence: Brandon Lawrence, Mrs. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, I ask willing to pose a unanimous consent New Rochelle, New York; Charles request to the gentleman from Ala- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. Smith, Mount Vernon, New York; 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- bama. Wilbert Francis, Mount Vernon, New The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ground checks legislation, to honor the York; Kevin Shaw, Mount Vernon, New Chair has been informed that the gen- memory of Pomona Police Officer York; Allashun Clay, Mount Vernon, tleman from Alabama will not yield for Shaun Diamond, murdered at the New York. the purpose of the gentleman’s request. hands of a Mongol gang member. The We want to honor their memories. Mr. POLIS. Very well. silence has to stop. We need action. To They are all victims of gun violence Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle- honor his memory, I would like the who never received a moment of si- woman from New York (Ms. SLAUGH- House to take up this bill. lence on the House floor. We ought to TER) who has a very important unani- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- be passing sensible gun control legisla- mous consent request. viously announced, the unanimous con- tion in a bipartisan fashion. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I ask sent request cannot be entertained. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. The time of the gentlewoman from viously announced, the unanimous con- 1217, bipartisan expanded background California will be deducted from the sent request cannot be entertained. checks legislation, to honor the mem- gentleman from Colorado’s time. The time of the gentleman from New ory of Elbert L. Merrick, III, a victim Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to York will be deducted from the gen- of gun violence who never received a the gentlewoman from New Jersey tleman from Colorado’s time. moment of action on the House floor. (Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) for the pur- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- pose of a unanimous consent request. the gentlewoman from Washington viously announced, the unanimous con- Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN. Mr. State (Ms. DELBENE) for the purpose of sent request cannot be entertained. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to a very important unanimous consent Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- request. to inquire of the gentleman from Ala- panded background checks legislation, Ms. DELBENE. Mr. Speaker, I ask bama how many more unanimous con- and this is to honor the memory of unanimous consent to bring up H.R. sent requests we need to make until he Carl Batie, a former Mercer County 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- agrees to allow for consideration of corrections officer who was an inno- ground checks legislation, to honor the this bill. cent bystander killed in a hail of gun- memory of Amanda Alvear, a victim of I am happy to yield for an answer. fire in a gang-related fight in the city gun violence who never received a mo- Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve of Trenton in my district. I do this to ment of action on the House floor. the balance of my time.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.035 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4494 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Mr. POLIS. Sadly, the gentleman Ms. TSONGAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask 1217, the bipartisan King-Thompson ex- from Alabama is unable to reserve or unanimous consent to bring up H.R. panded backgrounds checks legislation, stop criminals from legally acquiring 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- to honor the memory of Juan Ramon weapons or terrorists from silently as- ground checks legislation, to honor the Guerrero, a victim of gun violence who sembling arsenals to conduct terrorist memory of Luis Vielma, a victim of never received either a moment of si- acts in our country. The only way the gun violence who never received a mo- lence or a moment of action on this gentleman from Alabama can prevent ment of silence on the House floor. House floor. We ask Speaker RYAN to those acts is to prevent the obstruction The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- allow the vote. of this body by granting this very sim- viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- ple unanimous consent request that is sent request cannot be entertained. viously announced, the unanimous con- about to be made by the gentleman Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to sent request cannot be entertained. from Florida. the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to I yield to the gentleman from Florida CHU) for the purpose of a very impor- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. (Mr. DEUTCH) for the purpose of a unan- tant unanimous consent request that MAXINE WATERS) for the purpose of a imous consent request. will save lives. unanimous consent request. Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I ask Ms. JUDY CHU of California. Mr. Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 1217, bipartisan expanded background bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- checks legislation, to honor the mem- panded background checks legislation, panded background checks legislation, ory of Stanley Almodovar, III, a victim to honor the memory of Brenda Lee in honor of the memory of Darryl R. of gun violence who never received a Marquez McCool, a victim of gun vio- Burt, II, yet another Black man who moment of silence on the House floor. lence who never received a moment of lost his life to senseless violence. He The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- action on the House floor. never received a moment of silence on viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- the House floor. sent request cannot be entertained. viously announced, the unanimous con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to sent request cannot be entertained. viously announced, the unanimous con- the gentlewoman from Massachusetts Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like sent request cannot be entertained. to inquire of the gentleman from Ala- (Ms. CLARK) for the purpose of a very The time of the gentlewoman from important and timely unanimous con- bama how many more requests we need California will be deducted from the sent request. to make until the Republicans stop gentleman from Colorado’s time. their obstructionism and allow a sim- Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRIES Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ple vote on the bill. Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve Mr. POLIS. Point of parliamentary bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan ex- the balance of my time. inquiry, Mr. Chairman. panded background checks legislation Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- to honor the memory of Lori Dooley the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. tleman will state his parliamentary in- and Brooke Dooley, a mother and PERLMUTTER) for the purpose of a very quiry. daughter, victims of gun violence who important unanimous consent request Mr. POLIS. The Chair has stated the never received legislative action on the that would save lives. last several times that the unanimous House floor. Mr. PERLMUTTER. I thank my consent requests cannot be received. Is The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- friend from Colorado. it that it cannot be accepted or that it viously announced, the unanimous con- Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- is willfully not accepted by the gen- sent request cannot be entertained. sent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipar- tleman from Alabama? Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to tisan expanded background checks leg- The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time the gentleman from Massachusetts islation, to honor the memory of Dan- has been yielded for the purpose of de- (Mr. MCGOVERN) for the purpose of an iel Mauser. He is a young man who was bate. important unanimous consent request a victim of gun violence at Columbine Mr. POLIS. Further parliamentary to save lives. High School and was the son of a friend inquiry. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I ask of mine, Tom Mauser. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- unanimous consent to bring up H.R. The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- tleman will state his parliamentary in- 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- viously announced, the unanimous con- quiry. ground checks legislation, to honor the sent request cannot be entertained. Mr. POLIS. When a unanimous con- memory of Eugene Liscomb, a victim Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, in a just- sent request is made, is it not at the of gun violence who never received a breaking Politico article, it says that discretion of the gentleman controlling moment of silence and never received a House leader infighting has forced GOP the time, the gentleman from Ala- moment of action on this House floor. leaders to indefinitely postpone a vote bama, to agree to that request? The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- on an antiterrorism package. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- viously announced, the unanimous con- You know, I don’t know who is going tleman from Alabama has yielded time sent request cannot be entertained. to tell the terrorists that we are post- for debate only. Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to poning a vote on an antiterrorism Mr. POLIS. Further parliamentary the gentleman from New York (Mr. package. I would hope that the Repub- inquiry. SERRANO) for the purpose of a unani- licans would join us Democrats in try- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- mous consent request. ing to prevent terrorists from quietly tleman will state his parliamentary in- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I ask assembling arsenals of explosives and quiry. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. guns and weapons to conduct coordi- Mr. POLIS. Can the gentleman from 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- nated attacks on the people of our Alabama accept a unanimous consent ground checks legislation, to honor the country—that is what we are hoping to request to yield for the purpose of a memory of Eric Ivan Ortiz Rivera, a do—and break through this Republican bill being brought forth? victim of gun violence who never re- obstructionism on this issue. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- ceived a moment of silence or who Hopefully, there will be a new, break- tleman from Alabama has not yielded never received any action on the House ing story based on the acceptance of a for that purpose. floor. unanimous consent request that is Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, point of The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- forthcoming from my colleague from parliamentary inquiry. viously announced, the unanimous con- Ohio. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- sent request cannot be entertained. I yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio tleman will state his parliamentary in- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to (Ms. KAPTUR) for the purpose of a unan- quiry. the gentlewoman from Massachusetts imous consent request. Mr. POLIS. Does the gentleman from (Ms. TSONGAS) for the purpose of a Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I ask Alabama have the ability to yield for unanimous consent request. unanimous consent to bring up H.R. that purpose?

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The way that the answer has position. gentleman from California (Mr. THOMP- been framed, he has not agreed to I am not going to ask every single SON). them. time, but I would appreciate if the Mr. THOMPSON of California. I The gentleman from Alabama and Chair would pose that question to the thank the gentleman for yielding. the Republicans are obstructing this gentleman from Alabama about wheth- Mr. Speaker, we have been trying all body and preventing us from going er he would be willing to accept the day to convince the Republican leader- about our business and getting to these most recent unanimous consent re- ship to bring up H.R. 1217. The reason bills, but it is certainly well within the quest of the gentlewoman from New being is that, for the last 31⁄2 years, we authority under this rule for a unani- Jersey (Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) to save have been trying to get a vote on this mous consent request to be accepted. lives. bipartisan, pro-Second Amendment With that, I am actually glad to say The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- bill. And in the course of those 31⁄2 we have a unanimous consent. tleman from Colorado may yield to the years, 34,000 people have been killed in I yield to the gentlewoman from gentleman from Alabama for a re- our country by someone using a gun; California (Mrs. CAPPS) for the purpose sponse. 34,000. That is someone’s child, some- of a unanimous consent request. Mr. POLIS. I would be happy to yield one’s brother, someone’s loved one, b 1415 if the gentleman from Alabama would someone’s wife, someone’s husband, someone’s partner; and it is absolutely Mrs. CAPPS. I thank my colleague be willing to accept the unanimous shameful. for yielding. consent request from Mrs. BONNIE WAT- Mr. Speaker, I respectfully ask unan- SON COLEMAN. Now we heard yesterday on the steps imous consent to bring up H.R. 1217. It Mr. BYRNE. All time yielded is for of the Capitol a terrifying story from a is a bipartisan piece of legislation the purpose of debate only. woman whose 10-year-old daughter was called the expanded background checks I reserve the balance of my time. murdered by someone with a gun, Mr. POLIS. I will take that as no. bill, and I do so today in honor of a someone who couldn’t legally buy a And, sadly, we are not about to run out particular person who was a victim in gun because he couldn’t pass a back- of victims, Mr. Speaker. the Orlando massacre. Her name is ground check. He was a felon. But he I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman Mercedez Marisol Flores, a young got around that law because he went from California (Ms. PELOSI), the woman who has never received her own online. He found the same gun that you Democratic leader. moment of silence on this House floor. could buy in a gun store online but The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- without the requirement to pass a viously announced, the unanimous con- tlewoman from California is recognized background check. He bought that gun. sent request cannot be entertained. for 1 minute. He shot that brave woman, and he mur- The time of the gentlewoman from Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I ask dered her daughter. California will be deducted from the unanimous consent to bring up H.R. We can take a step today to do some- gentleman from Colorado’s time. 1217, the bipartisan expanded back- thing about that. We can bring up the Mr. POLIS. Well, Mr. Speaker, they ground check legislation, to honor, background check bill. It is bipartisan, could be entertained, if the gentleman once again, the memory of Carolyn pro-Second Amendment. It has 186 co- from Alabama would simply agree to Ann Sanders, a victim of gun violence authors in this House. We can bring it them. who never received a moment of si- up for a vote, and we can pass it. That We actually have a forthcoming lence on the House floor. will provide the first line of defense unanimous consent request. I would The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- against people who shouldn’t be able to hope, Mr. Speaker, that you are willing viously announced, the unanimous con- buy guns from buying guns. to pose it to the gentleman from Ala- sent request cannot be entertained. Who are these people? Criminals, do- bama to see if he would, in fact, agree Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to mestic abusers, terrorists, those who to what I think is a very reasonable re- the gentlewoman from Guam (Ms. are dangerously mentally ill. They quest, to bring forward a bipartisan BORDALLO) for the purpose of a unani- should not be able to get their hands bill. mous consent request. on a gun. I am glad to yield to the gentle- Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I ask Now, can we stop it in every in- woman from New Jersey (Mrs. WATSON unanimous consent to bring up H.R. stance? No. But we know that back- COLEMAN) for the purpose of just such a 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks work. We know that we unanimous consent request. ground checks legislation, to honor the can make a real difference. Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN. I thank memory of Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, a Every day, every day in the United my colleague for yielding to me. victim of gun violence who never re- States of America, 170 felons are Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous conceived a moment of silence on the stopped from buying guns because of sent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipar- House floor. the background check program. Every tisan expanded background checks leg- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- day in the United States of America, 50 islation, to honor the memory of Ed- viously announced, the unanimous con- domestic abusers are stopped from buy- ward Sotomayor, Jr., a victim of gun sent request cannot be entertained. ing a gun because of the background violence in Orlando at the Pulse Night- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, so many of check system. It works. We know it club who never, ever has received a mous have made unanimous consent re- works. ment of action on this floor. quests. Why won’t we bring that bill up for a The SPEAKER pro tempore. As pre- I have asked the gentleman from Ala- vote? viously announced, the unanimous con- bama how many times we have to That woman stood on the steps of the sent request cannot be entertained. make this motion until the Repub- Capitol yesterday. That was a coura- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, would the licans end their obstructionism. I have geous stand she took. She lost her Chair be willing to pose the question as not received an adequate answer. daughter. She watched her daughter be to whether that unanimous consent re- I was hopeful that the gentleman murdered right in front of her eyes. quest is accepted to the gentleman con- from Alabama would have accepted She, herself, was shot. But she is out trolling the time? this unanimous consent request by advocating for sensible, pro-Second The SPEAKER pro tempore. The now. Amendment, reasonable gun laws that Chair understands that the gentleman I was hopeful that the Chair would will protect people. That is brave. from Alabama will not yield for any have posed a question to him multiple What is brave about avoiding a vote such request. times, rather than accept his very first on this bill, a bipartisan bill, a bill that

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A vote against or- cent of the American people. may not make a parliamentary inquiry dering the previous question is a vote Ninety percent of the people that we unless yielded to for that purpose. against the Republican majority agenda and collectively represent are asking us: Do The gentleman from Alabama is rec- a vote to allow the Democratic minority to something about this tragedy that is ognized. offer an alternative plan. It is a vote about Mr. BYRNE. As I was saying, 46,000 what the House should be debating. taking place over 30 times a day in the Mr. Clarence Cannon’s Precedents of the streets of America. Ninety percent. people die every year of drug overdose. That is one of the things that is cov- House of Representatives (VI, 308–311), de- That is unbelievable support. scribes the vote on the previous question on And what has the Republican leader- ered in the bills that are underlying in the rule as ‘‘a motion to direct or control the ship done? Nothing. this resolution, and we just had over 2 consideration of the subject before the House Thirty-four thousand deaths in the hours of obstruction to try to keep us being made by the Member in charge.’’ To from considering that bill. defeat the previous question is to give the last 31⁄2 years that we have been trying The resolution also contains the ef- opposition a chance to decide the subject be- to take up this bill; 1,182 mass shoot- fort to get us to a conference on the fore the House. Cannon cites the Speaker’s ings since we have tried to take up this National Defense Authorization Act, ruling of January 13, 1920, to the effect that bill; 30 moments of silence on the floor which is the policy that defends the ‘‘the refusal of the House to sustain the de- of this House; zero, zero votes to pro- United States of America. If we want mand for the previous question passes the tect the people that we represent; zero control of the resolution to the opposition’’ to keep terrorists from murdering peo- votes to do anything regarding respon- in order to offer an amendment. On March ple in the United States, we need to de- 15, 1909, a member of the majority party of- sible, Second Amendment gun laws feat them over there so that they don’t that will protect the people that we fered a rule resolution. The House defeated come over here. the previous question and a member of the represent. I would ask everybody in this House opposition rose to a parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker, we are not asking for a to get back focused on what this reso- asking who was entitled to recognition. lot. We are asking for a vote. We know lution is about: trying to save people Speaker Joseph G. Cannon (R-Illinois) said: that background checks work. Your who are tragically dying from drug ‘‘The previous question having been refused, side knows it, and our side know it. the gentleman from New York, Mr. Fitz- overdose and protecting the people of gerald, who had asked the gentleman to One of the previous speakers on the the United States of America, the num- underlying bill today said: It is time to yield to him for an amendment, is entitled to ber one thing that we in this Congress the first recognition.’’ put politics aside and look at the pol- are here to do. The Republican majority may say ‘‘the icy. So I am glad that we are back to that vote on the previous question is simply a What in the world is going on with because that is important business for vote on whether to proceed to an immediate background checks? The policy is solid. this House. vote on adopting the resolution. . . . [and] They work. One hundred and seventy Mr. Speaker, I again urge my col- has no substantive legislative or policy im- felons a day are stopped from getting a leagues to support House Resolution plications whatsoever.’’ But that is not what gun because of background checks. they have always said. Listen to the Repub- 809 and the underlying bill. lican Leadership Manual on the Legislative Fifty domestic abusers a day are The material previously referred to Process in the United States House of Rep- stopped from getting a gun because of by Mr. POLIS is as follows: resentatives, (6th edition, page 135). Here’s background checks. AN AMENDMENT TO H. RES. 809 OFFERED BY how the Republicans describe the previous It sounds like pretty solid policy to MR. POLIS OF COLORADO question vote in their own manual: ‘‘Al- me, Mr. Speaker. It must be the poli- At the end of the resolution, add the fol- though it is generally not possible to amend tics on the other side that are getting lowing new sections: the rule because the majority Member con- in the way. And the American people SEC. 3. Immediately upon adoption of this trolling the time will not yield for the pur- do not want that to continue. resolution the Speaker shall, pursuant to pose of offering an amendment, the same re- clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House sult may be achieved by voting down the pre- Ninety percent of the people who we resolved into the Committee of the Whole vious question on the rule. . . . When the represent are with us. They say that House on the state of the Union for consider- motion for the previous question is defeated, criminals, terrorists, domestic abusers, ation of the bill (H.R. 1076) to increase public control of the time passes to the Member and the dangerously mentally ill safety by permitting the Attorney General who led the opposition to ordering the pre- should not be able to get guns and that to deny the transfer of a firearm or the vious question. That Member, because he the men and women who they send to issuance of firearms or explosives licenses to then controls the time, may offer an amend- the Congress of the United States of a known or suspected dangerous terrorist. ment to the rule, or yield for the purpose of amendment.’’ America should take responsible action The first reading of the bill shall be dis- pensed with. All points of order against con- In Deschler’s Procedure in the U.S. House to stop that from happening. sideration of the bill are waived. General de- of Representatives, the subchapter titled Please, give us a vote on the back- bate shall be confined to the bill and shall ‘‘Amending Special Rules’’ states: ‘‘a refusal ground check bill. Help keep our con- not exceed one hour equally divided and con- to order the previous question on such a rule stituents safe. trolled by the chair and ranking minority [a special rule reported from the Committee Mr. POLIS. I yield back the balance member of the Committee on the Judiciary. on Rules] opens the resolution to amend- of my time. After general debate the bill shall be consid- ment and further debate.’’ (Chapter 21, section 21.2) Section 21.3 continues: ‘‘Upon re- Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- ered for amendment under the five-minute rule. All points of order against provisions in jection of the motion for the previous ques- self the balance of my time. tion on a resolution reported from the Com- We are here on House Resolution 809. the bill are waived. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the mittee on Rules, control shifts to the Mem- House Resolution 809 deals with two Committee shall rise and report the bill to ber leading the opposition to the previous underlying bills. The first one is a con- the House with such amendments as may question, who may offer a proper amendment ference report related to efforts to have been adopted. The previous question or motion and who controls the time for de- combat the opioid crisis that is wreak- shall be considered as ordered on the bill and bate thereon.’’ Clearly, the vote on the previous question amendments thereto to final passage with- ing havoc in communities across the on a rule does have substantive policy impli- out intervening motion except one motion to United States. 46,000 people die—— cations. It is one of the only available tools recommit with or without instructions. If Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. for those who oppose the Republican major- the Committee of the Whole rises and re- Speaker, I have a point of parliamen- ity’s agenda and allows those with alter- ports that it has come to no resolution on native views the opportunity to offer an al- tary procedure. the bill, then on the next legislative day the ternative plan. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the House shall, immediately after the third gentleman from Alabama yield for a daily order of business under clause 1 of rule Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I yield back parliamentary inquiry? XIV, resolve into the Committee of the the balance of my time, and I move the Mr. BYRNE. I do not. Whole for further consideration of the bill. previous question on the resolution.

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This amendment is no dif- The yeas and nays were ordered. from Wisconsin. ferent. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I yield These proposals overlook the exten- ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- myself such time as I may consume. sive review process that already exists ceedings on this question will be post- Mr. Chairman, this is an amendment for rules. For example, every new rule that deals with an issue that quite poned. is already scrutinized up and down by often comes up on this floor. It is an f numerous Federal agencies as well as issue about regulation and overregula- key stakeholders and the public. For FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GEN- tion. What this amendment would do is economically significant rules, an ERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIA- prohibit the administration from using agency must provide the Office of Man- TIONS ACT, 2017 any of these funds to implement a rule agement and Budget with an assess- that would cost the economy $100 mil- GENERAL LEAVE ment and, to the extent possible, a lion more. This is kind of like the quantification of the benefits and costs Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I ask REINS Act, but the rule doesn’t come unanimous consent that all Members of the proposed rule. back for a vote; it is just prohibited. In accordance with Executive Order may have 5 legislative days in which to The reason is there have been so revise and extend their remarks and to 12866, the agency has to justify the many new rules and regulations that costs associated with the rule, and include extraneous material on the fur- our economy is having a hard time ther consideration of H.R. 5485, and these costs are justified with benefits— keeping up. Just last year alone, there something this amendment appears to that I may include tabular material on were 3,400 new rules—administrative the same. think don’t exist. But that is just false. rules, not from Congress, but these are For example, in its 2015 analysis of the The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. from agencies. There were 80,000-plus BYRNE). Is there objection to the re- estimated cost and benefits of signifi- pages of rules and regulations last year cant Federal regulations, OMB esti- quest of the gentleman from Florida? alone, and over half a million regula- There was no objection. mated that, over the last decade, the tion pages over this President’s admin- benefits of these rules outweighed the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- istration. ant to House Resolution 794 and rule economic costs by up to 9 to 1. This is having a real impact on the This amendment would upend years XVIII, the Chair declares the House in American economy. We have businesses of precedent and could prohibit agen- the Committee of the Whole House on that are having a more difficult time cies from revising rules and regulations the State of the Union for the further accessing loans to expand their busi- in response to changes in technology, consideration of the bill, H.R. 5485. nesses, to grow their innovation, to in- the economy, or public demand. Will the gentleman from Wisconsin vest in innovation and create good-pay- Republicans should stop trying to un- (Mr. RIBBLE) kindly take the chair. ing jobs within our communities. We dermine the rulemaking process and b 1439 have an increased cost of financing should stop ignoring the real-world business expansions and home financ- benefits of these rules to society. IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE ing because of the compliance cost of Mr. Chairman, I oppose this amend- Accordingly, the House resolved our whole financial sector. ment very strongly, and I urge a ‘‘nay’’ itself into the Committee of the Whole The costs have increased so much be- vote. House on the state of the Union for the cause the rules are now so complex and I reserve the balance of my time. further consideration of the bill (H.R. so many that it is trickling down to 5485) making appropriations for finan- the business community and to our b 1445 cial services and general government families. It is impacting our economy. Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 for the fiscal year ending September 30, So I think it is time. At least right minute to the gentleman from Florida 2017, and for other purposes, with Mr. now, for a year, in this funding bill, (Mr. CRENSHAW), our chairman. RIBBLE (Acting Chair) in the chair. let’s take a pause. Let’s just take a Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I The Clerk read the title of the bill. break on all the regulation. Let’s stop, thank the gentleman for yielding. The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- let’s review, and then we can have a I rise in support of this, and thank mittee of the Whole rose on Thursday, discussion about how we move forward. the gentleman for bringing this before July 7, 2016, a request for a recorded But this is a pause on the big regula- the House. vote on amendment No. 25, printed in tion. We have an administration that just House Report 114–639, offered by the Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance loves to regulate. They love to regu- gentleman from Ohio (Mr. DAVIDSON) of my time. late. They have rules for everything. had been postponed. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I rise They have no regard for the cost of the regulations. Small businesses, govern- AMENDMENT NO. 26 OFFERED BY MR. DUFFY in opposition to the amendment. ments, and States are all hard pressed The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman to do all this stuff. The administration to consider amendment No. 26 printed from New York is recognized for 5 min- tries to sidestep us by going through in House Report 114–639. utes. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield executive orders and Presidential Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I have an myself such time as I may consume. memorandums. amendment desk. It is a surprise to the gentleman that All this amendment does is force the The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will we still have 6 months to go in this administration to seek congressional designate the amendment. Congress and in this administration. approval on the most significant of the The text of the amendment is as fol- This amendment would limit the ad- new regulations. lows: ministration’s ability to propose or fi- It is a great amendment, and I urge At the end of the bill (before the short nalize important rules or regulations. all the Members to support it. title), insert the following: The administration issues rules be- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I re- SEC. ll. None of the funds made available cause Congress has conveyed a specific serve the balance of my time. by this Act may be used to implement, ad- responsibility to them. Rather than Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I find it minister, or enforce a new regulatory action for which the aggregate costs of State, local, enact every contingency into law, we interesting that my good friend across and tribal government compliance or private rely on public comment and technical the aisle talks about the great review sector compliance, as estimated under sec- advice to make sure the laws are im- process that we have by Federal agen- tion 202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform plemented efficiently. cies. These are the faceless, nameless

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What I do is I write a (United States Court of Appeals for the Fed- insert ‘‘(increased by $5,000,000)’’. letter. eral Circuit; No. 2015-3234, decided on June 7, AMENDMENT NO. 67 OFFERED BY MR. ENGEL OF We have disenfranchised the Amer- 2016). NEW YORK ican people because we don’t make the AMENDMENT NO. 48 OFFERED BY MR. ZELDIN OF At the end of the bill (before the short laws anymore. We have outsourced NEW YORK title), insert the following: that to the regulators. Let’s take that At the end of the bill, before the short SEC. ll. None of the funds made available power back. title, add the following new section: by this Act may be used to lease or purchase When we empower the Congress, we SEC. ll. None of the funds appropriated new light duty vehicles, for any executive empower the American people to have by this Act may be used to enforce section fleet, or for an agency’s fleet inventory, ex- 540 of Public Law 110–329 (122 Stat. 3688) or a say in their government on the rules cept in accordance with Presidential Memo- section 538 of Public Law 112–74 (125 Stat. 976; randum-Federal Fleet Performance, dated that have a huge impact on their lives. 6 U.S.C. 190 note). May 24, 2011. Let’s have the backbone to take tough AMENDMENT NO. 53 OFFERED BY MR. JEFFRIES AMENDMENT NO. 69 OFFERED BY MR. GRAYSON votes, to say ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no’’ to these OF NEW YORK OF FLORIDA kind of rules. But let’s not outsource it At the end of the bill (before the short At the end of the bill (before the short to an agency that has no relationship title), insert the following: title), insert the following: with the American people and no ac- SEC. lll. None of the funds made avail- SEC. ll. None of the funds made available countability to the American people. able by this Act may be used for the reloca- by this Act may be used to enter into a con- This is saying ‘‘no.’’ Let’s take a stop tion of the Office of Disability Adjudication tract with any offeror or any of its principals and let’s reempower the Congress to and Review of the Social Security Adminis- if the offeror certifies, as required by Federal have a say, which, again, empowers the tration located at 111 Livingston Street in Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or Brooklyn, New York. any of its principals— American people. (1) within a three-year period preceding I yield back the balance of my time. AMENDMENT NO. 56 OFFERED BY MR. GRAYSON OF FLORIDA this offer, has been convicted of or had a Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, it is Page 11, line 22, after the dollar amount, civil judgment rendered against it for— amazing. I think it could be December insert ‘‘(increased by $3,250,000)’’. (A) commission of fraud or a criminal of- 31 of this year and we would still be fense in connection with obtaining, attempt- AMENDMENT NO. 59 OFFERED BY MRS. COMSTOCK ing to obtain, or performing a public (Fed- trying to find a way to make the Presi- OF VIRGINIA dent look bad. That is what this is eral, State, or local) contract or subcontract; Page 37, line 21, after the dollar amount, about. It is about this President having (B) violation of Federal or State antitrust insert ‘‘(increased by $7,000,000)’’. statutes relating to the submission of offers; an administration. Page 92, line 21, after the dollar amount, or If it was up to some on the other side, insert ‘‘(reduced by $7,000,000)’’. (C) commission of embezzlement, theft, there would be no Federal agencies, Page 96, line 17, after the dollar amount, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction there would be no Federal employees, insert ‘‘(reduced by $7,000,000)’’. of records, making false statements, tax eva- they might invent a new computer that AMENDMENT NO. 60 OFFERED BY MS. SPEIER OF sion, violating Federal criminal tax laws, or would run the whole government, and CALIFORNIA receiving stolen property; the rest of us would just sit around. Page 46, line 18, after the dollar amount, (2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise insert ‘‘(reduced by $1,000,000)’’. criminally or civilly charged by a govern- But be careful, because then somebody mental entity with, commission of any of would suggest that there should not be Page 90, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by $1,000,000)’’. the offenses enumerated above in paragraph a Congress. (1); or AMENDMENT NO. 61 OFFERED BY MR. HIMES OF This should be left alone. We have (3) within a three-year period preceding CONNECTICUT agencies. We have secretaries. These this offer, has been notified of any delin- agencies carry out. And when they Page 92, line 21, after the dollar amount, quent Federal taxes in an amount that ex- insert ‘‘(reduced by $1,784,000)’’. don’t carry out to our understanding, ceeds $3,000 for which the liability remains Page 96, line 17, after the dollar amount, unsatisfied. believe me, just look at the appropria- insert ‘‘(reduced by $1,784,000)’’. tions bills. There are riders upon riders Page 114, line 2, after the dollar amount, The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to upon riders to try to undo what is insert ‘‘(increased by $1,784,000)’’. House Resolution 794, the gentleman being done, which, in many cases, is ex- AMENDMENT NO. 62 OFFERED BY MISS RICE OF from Florida (Mr. CRENSHAW) and the cellent work. This is just more of the NEW YORK gentleman from New York (Mr. same. Page 92, line 21, after the dollar amount, SERRANO) each will control 10 minutes. It may come as a shock to you, but insert ‘‘(reduced by $800,000)’’. The Chair recognizes the gentleman the President is still around for 6 more Page 96, line 17, after the dollar amount, from Florida. months and we are around for 6 more insert ‘‘(reduced by $800,000)’’. Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, the Page 113, line 11, after the dollar amount, majority and the minority have agreed months and those administrators are insert ‘‘(increased by $800,000)’’. around for 6 more months, so we better to these amendments en bloc. They are AMENDMENT NO. 63 OFFERED BY MR. LYNCH OF learn to get along for those 6 months. noncontroversial amendments that af- MASSACHUSETTS I yield back the balance of my time. fect a variety of topics, such as whis- Page 6, line 12, after the dollar amount, in- tleblower protection, property disposal, The Acting CHAIR. The question is sert ‘‘(increased by $3,300,000)’’. and reducing drug trafficking. on the amendment offered by the gen- Page 92, line 21, after the dollar amount, Additionally, the sponsors of the tleman from Wisconsin (Mr. DUFFY). insert ‘‘(reduced by $3,300,000)’’. amendments have agreed to the consid- The amendment was agreed to. Page 96, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by $3,300,000)’’. eration of these amendments en bloc. AMENDMENTS EN BLOC OFFERED BY MR. I urge adoption of the amendment. AMENDMENT NO. 64 OFFERED BY MR. WALBERG CRENSHAW OF FLORIDA I reserve the balance of my time. OF MICHIGAN Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, pur- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, this is suant to House Resolution 794, I offer Page 37, line 21, after the dollar amount, going to be a historic moment, so let’s amendments en bloc. insert ‘‘(increased by $2,000,000)’’. Page 92, line 21, after the dollar amount, pay attention. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will insert ‘‘(reduced by $2,000,000)’’. I rise in support of the en bloc designate the amendments en bloc. Page 96, line 17, after the dollar amount, amendments. I appreciate the chair- Amendments en bloc No. 1 consisting insert ‘‘(reduced by $2,000,000)’’. man’s inclusion of amendments for of amendment Nos. 27, 48, 53, 56, 59, 60, AMENDMENT NO. 65 OFFERED BY MR. CONNOLLY Democratic Members. 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, and 69, printed in OF VIRGINIA I urge a ‘‘yes’’ vote on the en bloc House Report 114–639, offered by Mr. Page 40, line 5, after the dollar amount, in- amendment. I think it is a fine exam- CRENSHAW of Florida: sert ‘‘(increased by $5,000,000)’’. ple of what we can do every so often.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:22 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.046 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4499 I reserve the balance of my time. With that, I urge my colleagues to vote yes. I intend to work in a bipartisan fashion and Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I Mrs. COMSTOCK. Mr. Chair, I rise today to with the Committee on Oversight and Govern- yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from offer an amendment which would transfer $7 ment Reform to fix the Whistleblower Protec- Michigan (Mr. WALBERG). million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking tion Act to address this ruling. Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Chairman, I Areas Program, also known as HIDTA. In the meantime, I ask adoption of my thank the chairman and the ranking HIDTA coordinates federal, state, and local amendment to put the House on record that member. drug task forces to disrupt and dismantle drug I rise to support a bipartisan amend- Federal workers should follows laws and rules trafficking operations. and regulations. ment that I have offered with my col- So many individuals—and by extension, Mr. LYNCH. Mr. Chair, I would like to thank league, the gentlewoman from Michi- their families and friends—are suffering the ef- Chairman CRENSHAW and Ranking Member gan (Mrs. DINGELL), which helps com- fects of drug abuse. SERRANO for including my amendment into the munities combat the opioid and heroin The heroin and opioid epidemic is affecting en bloc amendment to H.R. 5485, the FY2017 epidemic by increasing funding for the all of northern Virginia. Financial Services Appropriations Act. High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas But currently, only part of my district is program by $2 million. HIDTA-designated. I offered this amendment to increase the Across the country, HIDTA officials Two counties—Clarke and Frederick—have funding provided to the Treasury Department’s are doing important work to curb drug not yet received a HIDTA designation. Office of Financial Crimes Enforcement Net- trafficking and bring law enforcement But I will not rest until my constituents in the work (FinCEN) by $3,300,000. By sharing fi- and community stakeholders together Shenandoah Valley are afforded the same re- nancial intelligence with law enforcement, pri- to stem the tide of drugs like heroin sources to combat this scourge. vate industry, and its foreign counterparts, and fentanyl. Providing these addi- The funding increase proposed by my FinCEN supports financial crime investigations tional resources will allow for even amendment will ultimately save lives. throughout the world. Terrorists’ proven ability more local partnerships to fight drug I urge my colleagues to support my amend- to move money through innovative means ne- trafficking. ment. cessitates continued progress in this critical I urge adoption of the amendment. Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chair, those of us in this in- counterterrorism area. The $3,300,000 is Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I stitution talk a lot about how America is a na- needed to enhance FinCEN’s supervisory have no further speakers, and I yield tion of laws. strategy of Money Services Businesses and to back the balance of my time. But unfortunately, a recent decision by the meet the growing demand for FinCEN’s ex- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that, while we are panded national security response efforts. back the balance of my time. Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Chair, I have an amend- a nation of laws, we are not a nation of rules. The amendment would offset this necessary ment at the desk. At least not if you are a Federal worker. increase through corresponding decreases in I rise to offer my amendment to the Finan- My amendment would prohibit the use of the funding provided for the ‘‘Rental of Space’’ cial Services and General Government Appro- funds made available in the underlying bill with account within the General Services Adminis- priations Act to improve the FTC enforcement respect to Rainey v. Merit System Protection tration. of the Do Not Call Registry list, and to improve Board. Through my work as Ranking Member of public education about FTC–supported solu- Allow me to explain the case and why it’s the Financial Services Committee’s Task tions that can block these malicious and an- relevant to the bill before us today. Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing and noying robocalls. Dr. Timothy Rainey is a State Department the Co-Chair of the bipartisan Task Force on Mr. Chair, all of us have suffered the re- employee who, while serving as a contracting Anti-Terrorism & Proliferation Financing, I wit- peated ringing from calls from unknown num- officer in 2013, was ordered by his supervisor nessed the vital work that FinCEN engages in bers from robocalls. to violate the Federal Acquisition Regulation. to safeguard our financial system from evolv- It only takes one day sitting at home to real- Dr. Rainey refused, and in doing so he was ing money laundering and national security ize how invasive robocalls have become. This removed from his duties. threats. By analyzing financial intelligence and is what our elderly and retired citizens have to When Dr. Rainey invoked the ‘‘right–to–dis- sharing it with law enforcement, private indus- deal with every single day. obey’’ provision of the Whistleblower Protec- try, and its foreign counterparts, FinCEN sup- Robocall scammers steal over $350 million tion Act, the Merit Systems Protection Board ports financial crime investigations throughout every year from those who fall prey to inces- ruled that the law only protects him from refus- the world. ing to violate Federal laws, but not rules or sant calls. Without proper enforcement and At this time, FinCEN needs additional fund- regulations. support from the FTC, these calls will continue ing to enhance its supervisory strategy of On June 7th, the United States Court of Ap- and all of our constituents will continue to suf- Money Services Businesses (MSBs) and to peals for the Federal Circuit upheld this ruling. fer. This amendment I offer today would in- establish a specialized response team to focus crease funding for the FTC for the purpose of So what does this mean, Mr. Speaker? I chair the Financial Services Oversight on high priority threats. This is important be- additional enforcement of the Do Not Call cause banks are increasingly derisking by Registry and for educating for consumers Subcommittee where we frequently get valuable tips from Federal whistleblowers about exiting the MSB market due to the high risks about their options. associated with MSB customers. For example, The relatively small increase in this amend- questionable and illegal activities at Federal this is making it nearly impossible for families, ment would result in 6.5 percent more funds agencies. charities, and businesses to send remittances for enforcement. Since 2004, the FTC has This ruling will have the effect of taking to people in Somalia. A specialized response brought in $41 million in penalties. That’s a away their protections to stand up to bad ac- team will encourage banks to more consist- paltry $3.4 million each year. Considering tors in the Federal workforce. ently service the financial needs of the MSB scammers owe the FTC an estimated $1.2 bil- Let’s not forget that our rules and regula- market that is seen as higher risk. lion in penalties, there’s a lot more that can be tions are supposed to be derived from law. done. In effect, this ruling will give permission to In addition, FinCEN could use these addi- For the past several years, the FTC has political appointees and other supervisors in tional funds to meet the growing demand for held contests to support the development of positions of authority to force Federal works to its expanded national security response ef- robocall blocking apps such as Nomorobo and violate the rules and regulations that Con- forts. FinCEN continues to support the broader Robokiller. However, many people don’t know gress, through law, directs the agencies to im- Department of Treasury efforts by identifying that they are free and are effective solutions plement. sources of revenue for organizations such as for some consumers. By allowing the FTC to At the Treasury Department, one of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and conduct more education and outreach, this many agencies funded by this bill, this would their attempts to access the international fi- amendment would further leverage existing mean that Federal workers could be forced to nancial system. However, without adequate FTC investment in this area. violate sanctions against Russia for its viola- funding FinCEN will be unable to meet the de- I urge my colleagues to support my amend- tion of Ukraine’s territorial integrity. mand for expanded intelligence reporting and ment. This amendment would provide a signifi- Many of those sanctions are enforced increased investigations into terrorism finance. cant increase to the FTC’s ability to crack through the Code of Federal Regulations pur- As evidenced by recent support to the Paris down on illegal robocalls and provide our con- suant to laws enacted by Congress. and Belgium terrorists attack investigations, stituents some peace for the constant robocall Ultimately, Congress will need to fix the FinCEN’s expertise assisted in quickly identi- ringing. Whistleblower Protection Act. fying links between the two attacks. FinCEN

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Moreover, work as investors demand that boards other congressional mandate to sim- FinCEN’s financial intelligence has played an and management be more responsive to plify and modernize our current cor- important role in identifying potential foreign their request for how to improve the porate disclosure regime. terrorist fighters (FTFs). company and their long-term perform- This is an initiative that has bipar- With today’s increasingly complex and rap- ance. tisan support and would help boost idly evolving terrorist networks, we cannot risk A number of regulatory hurdles still confidence by making quarterly and our national security by not adequately funding need to be overcome to improve the annual reports more effective for the this important Department. U.S. proxy system, which remains one small investor by reducing some of the The Acting CHAIR. The question is of the primary ways in which public unnecessary and the not material dis- on the amendments en bloc offered by companies communicate between the closures within them. the gentleman from Florida (Mr. CREN- two. Back in 2010, the SEC put forth a Unfortunately, once again, the SEC SHAW). number of ideas, the so-called ‘‘Proxy chose to ignore what Congress man- The en bloc amendments were agreed Plumbing’’ concept release, which ex- dated and, instead, prioritized to. plored various ways to improve the rulemakings over such things as that AMENDMENT NO. 28 OFFERED BY MR. GARRETT transparency, if you will, of corporate universal proxy I mentioned, which, The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order government systems here in the United again, would benefit simply a minority to consider amendment No. 28 printed States. of insider special interests over the in House Report 114–639. Importantly, the Proxy Plumbing vast majority of public company share- Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Chairman, I have concept release also discussed at length holders. an amendment at the desk. the importance of getting retail inves- This rulemaking should be nowhere The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will tors more involved in the process. For on the SEC’s agenda. My amendment designate the amendment. a variety of reasons, retail investors would simply disallow the SEC from The text of the amendment is as fol- have for years been disenfranchised by using its finite resources. lows: the current proxy system, and they I urge all of my colleagues’ support. At the end of the bill (before the short rarely exercise the rights of share- Mr. CRENSHAW. Will the gentleman title), insert the following: holders to engage in improving the way yield? SEC. ll. None of the funds made available that the companies work. Mr. GARRETT. I yield to the gen- by this Act may be used by the Securities Unfortunately, for nearly 6 years, the and Exchange Commission to propose, issue, tleman from Florida. SEC has, and maybe not surprisingly, Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I implement, administer, or enforce any re- allowed this Proxy Plumbing concept quirement that a solicitation of a proxy, want to thank the gentleman for bring- consent, or authorization to vote a security release to languish and has chosen not ing the amendment before us. This is a of an issuer in an election of members of the to act on it, even on some of the most very good amendment. It keeps the board of directors of the issuer be made basic and noncontroversial parts of it. SEC on track, it gets them focused on But then last year, out of the blue, using a single ballot or card that lists both their core dual mission—investor pro- SEC Chair Mary Jo White had directed individuals nominated by (or on behalf of) tection and capital formation. the issuer and individuals nominated by (or the SEC staff to develop a rulemaking I urge a ‘‘yes’’ vote. on behalf of) other proponents and permits for what is known as ‘‘universal proxy Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Chairman, the the person granting the proxy, consent, or ballots.’’ authorization to select from among individ- You ask: What are universal proxy gentleman said it more succinctly than uals in both groups. ballots? Good question. Put simply, I did in the last 4 minutes, and I thank The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to while they sound quite benign, actu- him. House Resolution 794, the gentleman ally, universal proxy ballots are a The Acting CHAIR. The time of the from New Jersey (Mr. GARRETT) and a means for special interest groups to gentleman from New Jersey has ex- Member opposed each will control 5 easily then nominate their preferred pired. minutes. candidates to a company’s board, and Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I The Chair recognizes the gentleman that would fundamentally change claim the time in opposition to the from New Jersey. things. It would fundamentally change amendment. Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Chairman, I rise the way in which public company di- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman today on an amendment that would rectors are elected here in the U.S. from New York is recognized for 5 min- prohibit special interests from having This is an initiative that has been utes. their agendas advanced by Washington pushed for years by insiders and special Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, it is bureaucrats, and to refocus the Securi- interests. It has also been pushed by a amazing to hear the other side pro- ties and Exchange Commission on its number of activist pension funds, many tecting the right of the SEC to do its important threefold policy mission: to of which have been horribly managed work when the budget and the bill protect investors; maintain fair, or- themselves and now find themselves show just the opposite. derly, and efficient markets; and to fa- with unfunded liabilities that threaten This amendment is yet another at- cilitate capital formation. the retirement security of the public tack on the independence and efficacy Strong and efficient communication sector workers over which they were of the Securities and Exchange Com- between the boards and management of responsible. mission. It also represents an attack public companies and their share- The adoption of the universal proxy on shareholders. holders is foundational to healthy cap- rule would only increase the likelihood When special interests cannot win ital markets and to maintaining the of high profile proxy fights at public ballot questions put to their share- ability of companies to innovate and to companies, which would then serve to holders, they seek protection from create jobs for everyone. distract the employees and manage- Congress to change the rules of the Fortunately, recent studies have ment of these companies from carrying game. shown that communication between out their core mission. Specifically, this amendment would the investors and the companies has More importantly, it would make the prohibit the SEC from proposing, im- actually improved over recent years, vast majority of public company share- plementing, or enforcing any regu- and shareholders are now increasingly holders, including the smaller retail in- latory action on the issue of universal able to effectuate change without all of vestor, pay the price for the costs asso- proxy ballots. These universal proxy the drastic measures, such as launch- ciated with these big fights. ballots would let shareholders vote for ing a proxy fight. Finally, it is unfair to those inves- whomever they wish to represent them In fact, according to a 2015 report tors who do not wish to carry the water on the corporate boards. This is a vital from Ernst & Young, the number of for these special interests. consideration in proxy contests since

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(3) make a determination that material fi- So it should come as no surprise that, nancial distress at a nonbank financial com- Right now, there is a two-tiered sys- pany, or the nature, scope, size, scale, con- instead of solving the problem, Dodd- tem governing shareholder elections. centration, interconnectedness, or mix of the Frank gave ‘‘too big to fail’’ the force Shareholders in attendance at meet- activities of such company, could pose a of the law. FSOC is not working as in- ings, particularly in proxy contests, threat to the financial stability of the tended because it is unworkable. have the ability to receive a legal bal- United States. Finally, even with its absolute and lot that allows them to pick and The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to unaccountable powers, its faulty choose among all of the candidates who House Resolution 794, the gentleman premise dooms FSOC to failure. We are duly nominated. from New Jersey (Mr. GARRETT) and a must prevent FSOC from continuing to Member opposed each will control 5 dig a deeper hole in free market cap- b 1500 minutes. italism and get Wall Street off the Shareholders who are not in attend- The Chair recognizes the gentleman backs and out of the pockets of the ance do not have that ability and, typi- from New Jersey. American taxpayers. cally, can only choose from among Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Chair, I rise to Mr. Chair, I yield to the gentleman nominees who appear on management’s prevent government regulators from from Florida (Mr. CRENSHAW). or a dissident’s ballot, but not both. expanding the corrupt doctrine of ‘‘too Mr. CRENSHAW. I thank the gen- This limits shareholders’ choice. big to fail’’ into even greater parts of tleman for bringing this amendment Many advocates and investors, in- our economy. before us, and I urge everyone to sup- cluding the Council of Institutional In- Under Dodd-Frank, the Financial port it. vestors, have written to the SEC and Stability Oversight Council, FSOC, has Mr. Chair, FSOC is there to mitigate have asked them to address this issue. the power now to designate companies risk, not to just go around looking for Indeed, the CII filed a rulemaking peti- as systemically important financial in- people to designate. In our underlying tion to this effect. Likewise, the SEC stitutions, SIFIs. I have heard it said bill, we say that, before you can des- Investor Advisory Committee, which is that the SIFI status does not nec- ignate a nonbank, you have to give it the group of outside experts tasked essarily mean ‘‘too big to fail,’’ but the right to cure whatever the problem with the responsibility under Dodd- that is a ridiculous claim that is on par is. This takes it one step further in Frank to advise the SEC on issues of with the reassurances that there was asking: Why do we designate nonbanks investor protection, called upon the no implicit guarantee with Fannie and as significantly important financial in- SEC to take action on this issue. Freddie. In the real world, the Federal stitutions? Corporate governance is only effec- Government will never allow a SIFI to We ought to focus on where the focus tive when boards are elected in a free fail. The SIFI designation is nothing ought to be and just leave the and fair manner. The SEC should take less than the government’s stamp of nonbanks out of this. steps to eliminate disenfranchisement approval and the enshrining of tax- I urge the support of this amend- in proxy contests in cases where share- payer bailouts. Simply put, a SIFI des- ment. holders have no ability to ‘‘split their ignation is the guarantee that the tax- Mr. GARRETT. Once again, the ticket’’ and vote for a combination of payers will, once again, be on the hook chairman said it more succinctly than shareholder and management nomi- for the bailouts of Wall Street. I. I urge all Members to support the nees. First, megabanks were designated as legislation. This amendment would curtail the ‘‘too big to fail.’’ Now FSOC is claim- Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of SEC’s existing authority in this regard, ing that nonbank firms, such as insur- my time. to the detriment of shareholders and ance companies and asset managers, Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I rise in corporate accountability. should also be designated as SIFIs. opposition to the gentleman’s amend- I urge opposition to the amendment. FSOC’s words and actions belie its true ment. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of purpose, which is to grow its regula- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman my time. tion of the economy so that every sec- from New York is recognized for 5 min- The Acting CHAIR. The question is tor of the financial industry is propped utes. on the amendment offered by the gen- up on the backs of taxpayers. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, we finally tleman from New Jersey (Mr. GAR- I am offering this amendment to pre- found something we agree on again. RETT). vent the Secretary of the Treasury and This is becoming a habit. We want to The question was taken; and the Act- the Chairman of the SEC, who are both keep Wall Street in its place. I wish the ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- voting members of FSOC, from desig- gentleman would help us with empow- peared to have it. nating any additional nonbank compa- ering the SEC to do so. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I demand nies as SIFIs. When companies become Dodd-Frank does not designate any a recorded vote. SIFIs, they cease to operate in the free entity as ‘‘too big to fail,’’ as the Gar- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to market. Instead, they operate under a rett amendment suggests. Instead, clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- new system—a system that protects Dodd-Frank provides regulators with ceedings on the amendment offered by entities by sparing them from the costs the tools to address the risks posed by the gentleman from New Jersey will be and the consequences that other reg- large, complex, and interconnected fi- postponed. ular companies face in a competitive nancial institutions—both banks and AMENDMENT NO. 29 OFFERED BY MR. GARRETT market. So, over time, the combina- nonbanks alike. This is crucial in ad- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order tion of this protected status and the dressing one of the main regulatory to consider amendment No. 29 printed Fed’s risk-averse regulation will zap gaps we witnessed leading up to the in House Report 114–639. the energy and competitiveness of this 2008 crisis. Too many nonbanks were in Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Chair, I have an company. Simply put, the government the shadows, having had escaped crit- amendment at the desk. will corrupt the private sector, which, ical regulation that could have pre- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will in turn, will corrupt the government. vented the crisis. For example, regulators have already designate the amendment. ‘‘Too big to fail’’ must not take root designed AIG as a nonbank system- The text of the amendment is as fol- in the nonbank financial sector. These ically important financial institution, lows: companies serve as an important coun- terbalance to the megabanks. You see, a SIFI. Recall that the London arm of At the end of the bill (before the short Dodd-Frank was built on a foundation AIG’s was speculating in derivative title), insert the following: SEC. ll. None of the funds made available of sand—a foundation that mistakenly products, such as credit default swaps, by this Act may be used to— views the financial crisis as having leading up to the 2008 crisis. By the fall (1) designate any nonbank financial com- been caused exclusively by the greed of of 2007, AIG Financial Products had al- pany as ‘‘too big to fail’’; large financial institutions and that in- ready begun a tailspin that helped

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Other nonbank broker dealers, like it has had a debilitating effect on the Under the direction of Commissioner Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, overall economy. It has created dis- John Koskinen, IRS officials have led a were at the center of the creation of incentives in the marketplace, which is coordinated effort to hide the truth toxic assets, which were central to the bad for the economy, and it is why we about this IRS’ targeting of innocent crisis and necessitated the need for a are having such a slow growth in the Americans based on their political be- Wall Street bailout. The Garrett GDP, which translates into less job liefs. Rather than cleaning up this amendment would stop our banking growth, fewer jobs for the American rogue agency, Koskinen has doubled regulators from subjecting the next public, and fewer jobs for your neigh- down on the agency’s lawlessness and Lehman Brothers from heightened reg- bor and my neighbor as well. We need political culture. ulation. Hedge funds were also key this legislation to fix it. On Koskinen’s watch, the IRS inten- intermediaries in the distribution and Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of tionally destroyed nearly 24,000 emails structuring of toxic assets. Again, the my time. from Lois Lerner and failed to comply Garrett amendment would stop our Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, how much with a congressional subpoena. To banking regulators from providing the time do I have remaining? make matters worse, Commissioner heightened regulation of their oper- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman Koskinen made a series of false and ations. from New York has 1 minute remain- misleading statements under oath to The Garrett amendment is an ating. Congress at multiple committee hear- tempt to roll back the critical rules of Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, the other ings on this matter. the road we have passed in the wake of side doesn’t like ObamaCare; it doesn’t Koskinen said in March of 2014 that the greatest financial crisis since the like Dodd-Frank; it doesn’t like the the IRS had turned over all of Lerner’s Great Depression. Large financial in- SEC. Maybe I am going to try an emails and all requested information; stitutions are fighting the SIFI des- amendment on the bailout of the auto- yet the Treasury Inspector General for ignation because they know that being mobile industry to see if they like that Tax Administration uncovered more identified as one means being subjected one, because that helped a lot of folks. than 1,000 emails that the IRS tried to to regulation that is above and beyond This amendment is misguided. The hide. current requirements, including ‘‘liv- gentleman is a good man who honestly b 1515 ing wills,’’ which will help regulators believes in what he is saying and in plan how to wind down the firms in an what he is doing, but it is only going to The recent transgressions per- orderly fashion in the event they be- hamper the SEC’s ability to do its petrated by this agency are not only come insolvent. The heightened regula- work. We do that enough in this bill, so disgraceful, they border on corrupt. tion also includes the ability for regu- it should be left alone. I urge a vote The trust Americans once had has been lators to ‘‘stress test’’ the entity to see against the amendment. utterly destroyed. if it can withstand financial distress, Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of In July 2013, Danny Werfel, Acting demand more capital, or to demand my time. Commissioner of the IRS, sought to more stringent reporting. The Acting CHAIR. The question is eliminate bonuses for union employees Former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, on the amendment offered by the gen- and senior executives within the agen- a Republican appointee, noted in con- tleman from New Jersey (Mr. GAR- cy, sending an email to employees gressional testimony after the passage RETT). which stated: ‘‘I do not believe there of Dodd-Frank: ‘‘Many institutions are The question was taken; and the Act- should be performance awards this year vigorously lobbying against such a des- ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- for IRS employees, managers, or execu- ignation,’’ and ‘‘being designated a peared to have it. tives.’’ SIFI will in no way confer a competi- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I demand Unfortunately, Koskinen chose to ig- tive advantage by anointing an institu- a recorded vote. nore Werfel’s attempts to restore trust tion as ‘too big to fail.’ ’’ The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to within the agency. In February of 2014, The capacity to designate nonbanks clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Koskinen announced his decision to as SIFIs is critical to the U.S. financial ceedings on the amendment offered by pay out bonuses to senior IRS bureau- system for appropriate regulatory the gentleman from New Jersey will be crats in order to improve ‘‘employee oversight. The designation process al- postponed. morale.’’ ready has in place multiple procedural AMENDMENT NO. 30 OFFERED BY MR. GOSAR In April 2014, the Treasury inspector safeguards and opportunities for appeal The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order general reported that more than 1,100 via a lengthy process. Therefore, I urge to consider amendment No. 30 printed IRS employees with delinquent tax re- my colleagues to oppose the Garrett in House Report 114–639. turns received bonuses of more than a amendment as it does much more harm Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chair, I have an million dollars. That same investiga- than we would think. amendment at the desk. tion found: ‘‘2,800 IRS employees facing I reserve the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will disciplinary actions received more Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Chair, how much designate the amendment. than $2.8 million in monetary bo- time do I have remaining? The text of the amendment is as fol- nuses.’’ The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman lows: The Office of Personnel Management 1 reported that in fiscal year 2014 alone, from New Jersey has 1 ⁄2 minutes re- At the end of the bill (before the short maining. title), insert the following: 61.5 percent of all senior executives Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Chair, the harm SEC. ll. None of the funds made available within the Treasury Department re- that has occurred is from the Dodd- by this Act may be used to pay a perform- ceived performance awards. Frank legislation, and the harm that ance award under section 5384 of title 5, Lawlessness within this agency has occurred by the FSOC designations United States Code, to any career appointee should not be rewarded. This amend- is twofold. within the Senior Executive Service. ment seeks to effectuate a policy of ac- One, the large one, is the fact that it The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to countability and change the corrupt has given a regulator the ability to put House Resolution 794, the gentleman culture of this agency by prohibiting financial institutions and non-financial from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR) and a Mem- bonuses and performance awards for institutions and their problems on the ber opposed each will control 5 min- Senior Executives Service employees backs of the American taxpayers, utes. within the IRS. meaning that you and I and everybody The Chair recognizes the gentleman It is unconscionable that Lois Lerner who is listening to us may someday from Arizona. and other dishonest senior officials

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Also, in order to keep 2,400 emails in order to stymie an in- well targeted or well thought out. good employees, you have to find ways vestigation, and providing an ex- I think we also should know that this to reward them. tremely poor level of service to tax- is the one agency that has been re- This agency, through the hits it payers doesn’t warrant a bonus of even duced in its employee number by the takes, has lost—the one you intend, ac- a penny, in my mind. largest in the last few years, so I really cording to your comments, the IRS— Fifty-seven Democrats joined every don’t understand what this is trying to has lost 18,000 employees in a couple of single Republican in seeking to prevent accomplish. years since 2010, I believe, 18,000 em- senior bureaucrats within the IRS from I reserve the balance of my time. ployees. Now we go further here. collecting these lavish bonuses in the Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chair, let me now Secondly, I am glad to see that you fiscal year 2015 by voting in favor of ask the gentleman from New York a spoke about other agencies, which my amendment that passed the House question. means you must have read the amend- with strong bipartisan support. I yield 15 seconds to the gentleman ment a little closer. But I still think it The Council for Citizens Against from New York (Mr. SERRANO) to re- is not a good amendment. I still think Government Waste supports this spond. it should be defeated. amendment and FreedomWorks is key If you disagree with my amendment I yield back the balance of my time. voting in favor of this amendment. and feel that it will have unintended ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Once the IRS can prove that it will consequences, name the agencies in the The Acting CHAIR. The Members on hold rogue employees accountable for bill that you think should be allowed both sides are reminded to direct their their ineptitude, I will cease my efforts to dole out lavish bonuses to their sen- remarks directly to the Chair and not to prohibit these awards. ior executives. to each other. Again, I thank the chairman and Mr. SERRANO. I think that if an— The Acting CHAIR. The question is ranking member for their continued Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chair, I am asking the on the amendment offered by the gen- work on the committee. gentleman: Name me an agency here tleman from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR). I reserve the balance of my time. that should not be doling out— The amendment was agreed to. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I claim Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, with all AMENDMENT NO. 31 OFFERED BY MR. GOSAR the time in opposition. due respect, and I am not answering The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman the gentleman’s question, my role is to consider amendment No. 31 printed from New York is recognized for 5 min- not to tell you what you should have in House Report 114–639. utes. put in the bill. Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chairman, I have an Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I am Mr. GOSAR. Reclaiming my time, if amendment at the desk. going to start backwards here. the gentleman from New York can’t The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will We are not going to call for a vote on give an answer— designate the amendment. this, and the reason for it is, when peo- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I am tell- The text of the amendment is as fol- ple read your amendment, they are ing the gentleman from Arizona what lows: going to realize someone didn’t write it he didn’t write. At the end of the bill (before the short correctly. It doesn’t speak to the IRS. Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chair, reclaiming title), insert the following: It actually allows for this cut to be my time, I think most hardworking SEC. lll. None of the funds made avail- across the board on the whole bill, Americans would agree that the senior able by this Act may be used in contraven- which should make our chairman not bureaucrats with the Customer Finan- tion of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigra- very happy, and I am interested in my cial Protection Bureau, the Federal tion Reform and Immigrant Responsibility chairman’s happiness. Labor Relations Authority, and the Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373(a)). I rise to oppose the amendment. This Federal Communications Commission The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to amendment would prevent agencies should not be receiving lavish bonuses House Resolution 794, the gentleman under this bill from giving employees when we are $19 trillion in the hole. from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR) and a Mem- in the Senior Executive Service bo- As I mentioned at the outset, the in- ber opposed each will control 5 min- nuses. This seems to be aimed at the tent of this amendment is to prohibit utes. IRS since the summary on the Rules the use of funds in this act to pay a The Chair recognizes the gentleman Committee Web site emphasizes the performance award to any senior exec- from Arizona. IRS, but it would have the same effect utive employee within the IRS. When Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chairman, I yield across the board. the staff realized the actual language myself such time as I may consume. No one is saying that poor perform- in the amendment could be more far I rise today to offer a commonsense ance should be rewarded, but this takes reaching than intended, we attempted amendment. The Gosar-Bridenstine- one class of employees and punishes all to work with the committee to correct Duncan-Gohmert-Huelskamp-Jones- of them regardless of their individual this occurrence. Barletta-Brat-Brooks-Black amend- merits. It will cause us to lose good One thing that this House agrees on ment prohibits funds within this act employees, which is not what we need. is that senior executives within IRS from being used in contravention of I realize Members on the other side of should not be collecting bonuses, and Federal immigration law for sanctuary the aisle are eager to get their kicks in this amendment prohibits exactly that city policies. against the IRS—they even put them occurrence. The concept of sanctuary city poli- in bills when they are not the only I urge adoption of this amendment. cies is in direct opposition to the rule ones in the bill—but I argue that this I yield back the balance of my time. of law and our Constitution. Article I, amendment would have unintended Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, how much section 8, clause 4 gives Congress clear consequences. time do I have remaining? jurisdiction on immigration matters. Rather than somehow making the The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman A nation of laws must enforce estab- IRS or any other agency better, this is from New York has 21⁄2 minutes re- lished law, not seek ways to skirt likely to make it worse. This amend- maining. around it. Sanctuary cities defy Fed- ment is going to simply ensure that we Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I will be eral immigration statutes by harboring have less accomplished employees at brief. untold numbers of illegal immigrants the IRS and at other government agen- I don’t want to read into the gen- and providing safe havens for crimi- cies. It would have a negative effect on tleman from Arizona’s statement, sir, nals, many of whom are violent offend- recruitment and retention of highly that you were trying to get the chair- ers. talented senior executives necessary to man not to notice that you were writ- Our amendment prohibits the use of ensure tax administration and other ing the amendment that he dislikes the funds which are appropriated by this agency duties. It may also conflict most across the board—that we both act from being used in contravention of

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Sanctuary cit- or obstruct government and law en- b 1530 forcement officials from sharing infor- ies thumb their nose at Congress; they mation regarding a person’s immigra- ignore Federal law; and they endanger Lastly, your amendment talks about tion status with the Immigration and the lives of their citizens. cutting funds, and the gentlewoman Naturalization Service. While I urge passage of this amend- talked about cutting funds. To our Despite being the law of the land, ment, I also believe that we must act knowledge, there is nothing in here more than 200 State and municipal ju- by passing my bill, the Stop Dangerous that funds anything having to do with risdictions across the country have es- Sanctuary Cities Act, which takes a sanctuary cities or, for that matter, tablished policies that directly violate broad-based approach to defunding having to do with immigration. So the law and shield criminal illegal sanctuary city policies once and for all. wrong bill, wrong place, wrong time, aliens from enforcement. The shocking I thank the gentleman from Arizona wrong idea. case of Kate Steinle in San Francisco (Mr. GOSAR) for his leadership on this Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- in 2015 revealed the danger sanctuary issue. I support his amendment. ance of my time. cities pose to our Republic. Mr. GOSAR. I reserve the balance of The Acting CHAIR. The question is Just over a year ago, on July 1, 2015, my time. on the amendment offered by the gen- Steinle was shot and killed by Juan Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I claim tleman from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR). the time in opposition. Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal The question was taken; and the Act- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman immigrant who had been deported five ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- from New York is recognized for 5 min- times. San Francisco authorities were peared to have it. utes. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- asked to detain Sanchez until he could Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, this is one mand a recorded vote. be turned over to Immigration and of those moments where you realize The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Customs Enforcement officials. The that an amendment is put forth not to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- city declined and held Sanchez in jail deal with an issue but, rather, to put it ceedings on the amendment offered by for less than a month on a 20-year-old on the floor so you can discuss it. the gentleman from Arizona will be drug charge before releasing him on First of all, this is not the place to postponed. April 15, 2015, less that 2 months before discuss immigration policy. And I can AMENDMENT NO. 32 OFFERED BY MR. GUINTA he killed Steinle. tell you that we would both agree that Sadly, Kate’s tragic murder is not The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order our immigration policy, our program, to consider amendment No. 32 printed alone. Between 2010 and 2014, criminal is broken and it has to be fixed. aliens who were released by DHS went in House Report 114–639. Here is the problem, one that I have Mr. GUINTA. Mr. Chairman, I have on to commit 124 homicide-related of- been arguing for years, and a lot of fenses across the country. an amendment at the desk. other people have been doing the same The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will Let’s not forget the many others who thing for years and lately, and that is designate the amendment. have been killed by criminal aliens: that law enforcement officials, for the The text of the amendment is as fol- Jerry Braswell, Sr., and Jerry most part, will tell you that, regardless lows: Braswell, Jr., of North Carolina; Dani of whether we deal with the immigra- Countryman of Oregon; Chandra Levy At the end of the bill (before the short tion issue or not, they need to speak to title), insert the following: of Washington, D.C.; the Gonzalez fam- the local people and get information so SEC. ll. None of the funds made available ily of Texas; Kevin Will of Texas; they can do their job. by this Act may be used by the Bureau of Christopher ‘‘Buddy’’ Rowe of Cali- If they are seen as agents of the im- Consumer Financial Protection to imple- fornia; Jamiel Shaw of California; migration department, if you will, the ment, administer, or enforce any guidance Alvert John Mike of Utah; and Grant people won’t speak to them who are with respect to indirect auto lending. Ronnebeck of Arizona and countless here undocumented. They won’t speak The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to others. to them. So they are faced with a very House Resolution 794, the gentleman These brutal murders have called at- difficult situation. They are saying: from New Hampshire (Mr. GUINTA) and tention to the dangers sanctuary city You guys and ladies are supposed to a Member opposed each will control 5 policies pose to the safety and security handle immigration reform. Do it. minutes. of the American people. The Federa- Take care of it. Do it in the way you The Chair recognizes the gentleman tion for American Immigration Reform want. Take care of that. But in the from New Hampshire. supports this amendment stating: meantime, let me do my job. Mr. GUINTA. I yield myself such ‘‘Gosar amendment 31 addresses a crit- So a guy steals a car, and three peo- time as I may consume. ical public safety problem and sends a ple in the neighborhood know who Mr. Chairman, in March of 2013, the clear message to sanctuary city juris- stole it. They go up. If they think that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dictions that their dangerous policies that police officer is also enforcing im- issued flawed and inaccurate guidance are unacceptable.’’ migration policy, they are not going to that would threaten to eliminate auto NumbersUSA is key voting in sup- talk to him. That is just a fact of life. dealers’ flexibility to discount the in- port of this amendment and has stated: So you may think you are doing a terest rate offered to consumers financ- ‘‘The Gosar Amendment is a targeted great thing, but you are actually hurting vehicle purchases. approach to sanctuary policies.’’ ing law enforcement in the job that it Whether a person seeks to buy an I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman has to do. What we need to do is have automobile, an RV, or a motorcycle, from Tennessee (Mrs. BLACK). an immigration policy that speaks consumers rely heavily on their neigh- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chair, I rise today about all the issues that are covered by borhood auto dealer to provide them in strong support of the Gosar amend- immigration policy. the best possible rate. However, this ment to cut off the funding to sanc- Secondly, we hear from the other faulty and unstudied guidance could in- tuary cities through the financial ap- side about local control, local control, crease the cost for consumers, ulti- propriations bill. local control. Well, some cities have mately making it more difficult to ob- When I came to Congress in 2011, I decided that they are sanctuary cities, tain an automobile. quickly cosponsored the Enforce the that they are going to deal with the Roughly 6 months ago, my good Law for Sanctuary Cities Act, and I immigration issue differently than friend across the aisle, Mr. PERL- have worked to hold these governments other people deal in other places—less MUTTER, and I, introduced H.R. 1737, accountable ever since. Here is why. mean, less aggressive and being nasty, which passed the House with an over- We all know that, for years now, Con- more understanding of a problem rath- whelming bipartisan and veto-proof gress has ceded more and more power er than just saying that people come vote, 332–96. My bill, along with 13 bi- to the executive branch. But less here to rip us off. partisan letters sent by Congress over

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So we know what the change course even with a solution and this amendment tries to undo a lot intent of this amendment is, but on a modeled on the Department of Justice of work that we are doing and a lot of practical level, the amendment will consent order that is supported by auto work that should be done in the future. only invite confusion into the industry. dealers and lenders and do not resort to Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance After all, this amendment does noth- eliminating dealer discounts. Congress of my time. ing to address lenders’ obligations has given the CFPB an opportunity to Mr. GUINTA. Mr. Chairman, I agree under the Equal Credit Opportunity correct and reissue their guidance, and with the gentleman that there is no Act. Instead, the amendment only that would take into account con- place for discrimination. Based on in- strikes guidance the CFPB has pro- sumers and bring clarity to the mar- formation from the CFPB, CBO expects vided to those lenders providing clarity ket. that the agency would not prepare a re- on how they can meet their obligations Mr. Chairman, my amendment will placement bulletin if H.R. 1737 were en- under the law. The issue has come up leave no doubt that either the CFPB acted. That is because the bill would before in this Congress, but no matter will fix this problem they created or not affect the underlying statute or where you stood on H.R. 1737, a bill we Congress will, and if we do it, we will regulations to implement it. The Bu- considered last year, you should be do it in a bipartisan way. reau can continue to enforce the Equal against this amendment. I would like to thank Chairman Credit Opportunity Act without the To the Members on the opposite side CRENSHAW and Chairman HENSARLING bulletin. I also remind the gentleman of the aisle, you are supposed to have a of the Committee on Financial Serv- that the minority report also stated poverty agenda, and you claim that ices for their support. I urge my col- that this would not negatively impact you are taking on a new direction, that leagues to support this amendment. the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. you want to have reduced poverty and I yield such time as he may consume Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance deal with the problems of minorities to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. of my time. and people in rural communities, et Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, how CRENSHAW). cetera. Mr. CRENSHAW. I thank the gen- much time do I have remaining? This is what keeps poverty in these The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman tleman for yielding and thank him for communities. We have these blue from New York has 3 minutes remain- bringing this before the body. suede, slick dealers of all kinds— ing. Here is another example of the CFPB whether they are automobile lenders or Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield payday loans or auto loans, all of this overregulating, trying to find a solu- 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from tion to a problem that doesn’t exist. I stuff—coming into these communities, California (Ms. MAXINE WATERS). taking advantage of the most vulner- support this amendment, and I urge a Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. ‘‘yes’’ vote. able people who want to get out of pov- I thank Mr. SERRANO for yielding. erty. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I You just described this as a shot claim the time in opposition to the You say you want to help, but then across the bow to the Consumer Finan- you come in and you attack the Con- amendment. cial Protection Bureau, and you are ab- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman sumer Financial Protection Bureau. solutely right. They are attempting to You hate the Consumer Financial Pro- from New York is recognized for 5 min- tell them not to bring fair lending utes. tection Bureau. You want to do every- cases against indirect automobile fi- thing to undermine their authority. Mr. SERRANO. I yield myself such nance companies. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR time as I may consume. This amendment is about protecting The Acting CHAIR. Members on both Mr. Chairman, this amendment pro- wrongdoers who gouge racial and eth- sides are reminded to direct their re- hibits the CFPB from implementing, nic minorities with high markups on marks to the Chair and not each other. administering, or enforcing any guid- car loans even when their income, their ance related to indirect auto lending. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I yield credit scores, and their financial back- back the balance of my time. This is meant as a shot across the bow grounds are the same as Whites. The Mr. GUINTA. Mr. Chairman, the Bu- to the CFPB, telling them not to bring amendment is about protecting compa- reau’s guidance was issued without fair lending cases against indirect nies like Ally Financial, Fifth Third public notice or comment and without automobile finance companies. But on Bank, Honda and Toyota Motor Credit, any study of its impact on consumers a practical level, the amendment will all of whom have had to enter into set- or small businesses. only invite confusion into the industry. tlements with the Bureau over their in- I want to thank the ranking member After all, this amendment does noth- direct auto loan practices. for authoring the minority report that ing to address lenders’ obligations All told, the CFPB, again, has se- states: ‘‘H.R. 1737 does not alter regu- under the Equal Credit Opportunity cured nearly $162 million in borrower lated entities’ obligations under the Act. Instead, the amendment only relief and penalties to help these bor- Equal Credit Opportunity Act or the strikes guidance the CFPB has pro- rowers. In their investigations, the Bu- CFPB’s examination or enforcement vided to those lenders, providing clar- reau found that minority borrowers activity pursuant to ECOA.’’ This is ity on how they can meet their obliga- paid more than $200 over the life of a nothing more than a continuation of tions under the law. car loan than White borrowers, even H.R. 1737. Discrimination in any finance mar- when controlling for borrowers’ credit- I also want to repeat my thanks to ket is unacceptable, and we know that worthiness. my colleague on the other side of the discrimination is still alive and well in Studies have shown that minority aisle, Mr. PERLMUTTER, for helping me the indirect auto lending marketplace. borrowers are less likely to be aware of with a successful 332–96 vote in favor of In the three settlements to date interest rate markups. According to that bill. This amendment is almost against Ally Financial, Fifth Third the Center for Responsible Lending, 68 identical to it, and I would appreciate Bank, Honda and Toyota Motor Credit, percent of all borrowers were unaware the ongoing support on behalf of con- the CFPB secured nearly $162 million that dealers have the ability to mark sumers not just in New Hampshire, but in borrower relief and penalties, find- up an interest rate above what a lender all across the country. ing that minority borrowers paid more offers based on their creditworthiness Mr. Chairman, I would again thank than $200 over the life of a car loan and the car being sold, but nearly 75 the chair, Mr. CRENSHAW, as well as Mr. than White borrowers, even when con- percent of African American and His- HENSARLING, those Members who voted trolling for borrowers’ creditworthi- panic borrowers are unaware that the in favor, 332–96, on H.R. 1737. I urge a ness. practice of dealer markups even exists. ‘‘yes’’ vote on this amendment.

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GUINTA). every new rule that comes out of Wash- For another example, the Alcohol The question was taken; and the Act- ington. and Tobacco Tax Trade Bureau, or ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- Now, I recognize some regulations TTB, in Treasury would not be able to peared to have it. are necessary, but we need a regulatory publish implementing regulations re- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- system that is transparent, one that lating to taxation of cider and removal mand a recorded vote. balances the needs of our environment of bond requirements for small bev- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to and public safety with economic erage alcohol producers, and numerous clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- strength and jobs, one that benefits other rules, such as a final rule reduc- ceedings on the amendment offered by hardworking Americans, not big gov- ing formula burdens on industry for the gentleman from New Hampshire ernment, big labor, and big business. It specially denatured spirits and com- will be postponed. is time for us to chart a new pro- pletely denatured alcohol, and the AMENDMENT NO. 33 OFFERED BY MR. HUDSON growth course away from this adminis- modernization of beverage alcohol. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order tration’s burdensome regulations so It is easy to say: no more regulations to consider amendment No. 33 printed that Americans can get back to work, from October 1 to January 21. Let the in House Report 114–639. and this amendment is one solution. next President deal with it. You are Mr. HUDSON. Mr. Chairman, I have b 1545 rolling the dice, assuming you think you know who is going to be President. an amendment at the desk. It will prevent the President from But that is okay, I can roll along with The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will unleashing a new hailstorm of regula- you. designate the amendment. tions in an attempt to cement his leg- The problem is that this is not the The text of the amendment is as fol- acy in the last months of his adminis- way to go. The dislike of the Obama lows: tration. I encourage my colleagues to administration by the other side is so At the end of the bill (before the short support it. title), insert the following: Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance evident, especially in amendments like SEC. ll. None of the funds made available of my time. this, where it is directed. At least, to in this Act may be used to propose or finalize your credit, you had the honesty in you a regulatory action until January 21, 2017. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition. to say the Obama administration. You The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman called it by name, and I respect for you House Resolution 794, the gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 min- that. Other than that, I don’t have a from North Carolina (Mr. HUDSON) and utes. lot of respect for your amendment. a Member opposed each will control 5 Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, it is Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance minutes. interesting that there is a new biparti- of my time. The Chair recognizes the gentleman sanship here. I notice that this bill Mr. HUDSON. Mr. Chairman, how from North Carolina. takes effect from now until January 21. much time do I have remaining? Mr. HUDSON. Mr. Chairman, I rise So that means we will wait for Mrs. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman today to urge my colleagues to support Clinton to become President before any from North Carolina has 21⁄2 minutes my amendment that prohibits future new regulation would take effect. remaining. regulations from the Obama adminis- Secondly, the other side is always Mr. HUDSON. I thank my colleague tration. This is a commonsense step to complaining about regulations. But for his comments. I do agree that we rein in our regulatory system and every so often, we should step back don’t need to eliminate all regulations. make it work for the American people and, instead of knocking our country That is certainly not what we are say- and not the other way around. so much, kind of pay attention to what ing here. We are saying that, from Oc- Since my first days in office, one some of those regulations have done. tober 1 until January 21, we don’t need message I continue to hear is people Sure, we have regulations. We have new regulations. are tired of an unaccountable govern- regulations about conditions in coal With all due respect, I think we have ment that oversteps its bounds. In mines. Is that bad? We have regula- had plenty. The amount of regulations April, I was successful in pushing the tions about the water we drink. Is that that have come out of the Obama ad- EPA to withdraw a harmful regulation bad? We have regulations about the air ministration has been astounding. If that would have devastated the motor- we breathe. you compare the amount of regulations sports industry. I recently had the op- Those regulations make us different to all other administrations combined, portunity to visit a national leader in from other countries where there is no it is astounding, and they affect every custom auto-racing parts in my home- respect for the population and no pro- aspect of people’s lives. town of Concord, North Carolina. I tection. There is a regulation that says Mr. Chairman, the gentleman men- spoke with one worker who told me you have to go to school up to a cer- tioned regulations in the past have that if this one regulation would have tain age. That is great. There is a regu- been good. For example, regulating gone through, he would have lost his lation that says no children can be coal mines. I am sure that there were entire livelihood. That, Mr. Chairman, working in factories or in the garment good regulations on coal mines, but we is unacceptable. industry in New York. That is wonder- are at the point now where this admin- The problem is, agencies have moved ful. istration is going to make coal mines beyond their constitutional authority, So I am not afraid of regulations. illegal. and Washington bureaucrats are ac- Overregulating, okay, we can discuss The gentleman also mentioned, Mr. countable to no one. They show little that. But that side wants no regula- Chairman, regulating water and air. regard for the real world damage of tion. It wants a computer to run the We certainly all agree that we want their new rules on working families, on country. I keep claiming I want to see clean air and clean water. But this ad- people looking for jobs, on our econ- who is going to invent that computer. ministration issues a clean air regula- omy in general. Here we go again, just talking about tion, or a new rule, and even before it From regulatory gut punches like overregulating. goes into effect, they issue the next ObamaCare and ever-expanding EPA There are questions. This provision, one to reduce the levels even lower—to rules, stacking one on top of the other for instance, would also be in direct levels that even experts agree aren’t often before the previous rule is even conflict with other statutory require- necessary. enacted, regulations under this Presi- ments. For example, EPA is required to In fact, members of the other party, dent have woven a web so complex and finalize annual renewal fuel standards in our hearing in the Energy and Com- large, it risks ensnaring every Amer- regulations by November 30 of each merce Committee, testified to the fact ican. This means fewer job opportuni- year. I am sure there are others. that the air today is so much cleaner

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If we truly care fore the science is to determine what Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of about peace in central Africa, then the effect of the last regulation was is my time. good intentions aren’t enough. We have simply going too far. The Acting CHAIR. The question is to demand results, Mr. Chairman. What that means is, in places like on the amendment offered by the gen- Sadly, we have gotten the wrong Montgomery County, North Carolina, tleman from North Carolina (Mr. HUD- kind of results from section 1502. Re- where we desperately need jobs, you SON). cently, I spoke with some missionaries can’t have a new job. You can’t have a The amendment was agreed to. from my own denomination who con- new road. You can’t have a new water- AMENDMENT NO. 34 OFFERED BY MR. HUIZENGA firmed this. However, let’s start by sewer line. You have can’t add any new OF MICHIGAN highlighting the voices of those who manufacturing jobs. That is ridiculous. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order too often go unheard in this debate— This administration has had 71⁄2 to consider amendment No. 34 printed the voices of the Africans themselves. years, and they have used that time in House Report 114–639. I include in the RECORD an open let- wisely if their goal was to overregulate Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. ter from 70 Congolese leaders and other the American people. All I am saying Chairman, I have an amendment at the regional experts who wrote: ‘‘But in demanding that companies is, in the last few months of this ad- desk. prove the origin of minerals sourced in ministration, let’s put the brakes on. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will the eastern DRC or neighbouring coun- As my colleague mentioned, we don’t designate the amendment. tries before systems able to provide know who the next President is going The text of the amendment is as such proof have been put in place, con- to be. It may be someone from the follows: other party. But that new President flict mineral activists and resultant At the end of the bill (before the short will have won a mandate, and that new legislation—in particular Section 1502 title), insert the following: of the Dodd-Frank Act—inadvertently President can then address the regu- SEC. ll. None of the funds made available latory scheme. I look forward to hav- by this Act may be used to implement, ad- incentivize buyers on the international ing that debate. But as far as this administer, or enforce a rule issued pursuant to market to pull out of the region alto- ministration, the votes are in. We have section 13(p) of the Securities Exchange Act gether and source their minerals else- gotten our results. This administration of 1934. where. has gone way too far with regulation. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to ‘‘As a result, the conflict minerals So I urge my colleagues to support House Resolution 794, the gentleman movement has yet to lead to meaning- this amendment to put on the brakes from Michigan (Mr. HUIZENGA) and a ful improvement on the ground, and 1 has a number of unintended and dam- and say: 7 ⁄2 years; enough is enough. Member opposed each will control 5 Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- minutes. aging consequences.’’ ance of my time. The Chair recognizes the gentleman According to a Washington Post article titled ‘‘How a well-intentioned U.S. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, how much from Michigan. law left Congolese miners jobless,’’ sec- time do I have remaining? Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. tion 1502 ‘‘set off a chain of events that The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman Chairman, I yield myself such time as 1 has propelled millions of miners and from New York has 1 ⁄2 minutes re- I may consume. their families deeper into poverty,’’ maining. Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act with many miners forced to find other Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, you know, requires the Securities and Exchange ways to survive, including by joining it is amazing. Many of us—and I am Commission to issue a rule mandating armed groups. not suggesting you—get elected to Con- that public companies disclose whether gress, and we are in awe of the fact This article goes on to share the the minerals they use benefit armed story of a Congolese teenager who ac- that we come from where we come groups in the Democratic Republic of when we get to Congress. I am in that tually joined a militia because mining Congo, also known as the DRC, and its could no longer put food on his table. category. I am very blessed. There are nine neighboring countries. others who come to Congress, and it ‘‘If we were earning money more from ‘‘Conflict materials’’ refer to tin, mining, I would not have entered the seems that they come to Congress to tungsten, tantalum, and gold, which undo Congress and undo the govern- militia,’’ he said. have been used in a huge variety of I ask my colleagues to remember the ment. products, from cell phones, cosmetics, We are the greatest nation on Earth. Congolese, who aren’t alone in their How did we get that? jewelry, chemicals, footwear, and in- suffering. The SEC rule applies to nine Obviously, the fighting and the work- cluding auto parts made right in west other African nations as if they were ing spirit of the American people. But Michigan. all a single country. Section 1502 treats it was also the protections placed on Simply put, section 1502 produced a over 230 million people living in 10 dis- the American people; the fact that rule that has failed everyone, and my tinct nations as one undifferentiated children were told you have to go to amendment would, therefore, suspend group. school, the fact that we try to get the its implementation for 1 year. The peo- Little wonder that Africans them- best water. ple of central Africa don’t want it. selves take issue with Washington’s We spoke before about an immigra- President Obama’s own SEC chair one-size-fits-all mentality. In testi- tion issue. I don’t call it a problem. doesn’t want it. Parts of the rule have mony to the Financial Services Com- Why does it exist? been judged by the courts to violate mittee last November, Rwanda’s Min- Because people still know that we are First Amendment rights, and busi- ister of State for Mining, Evode Imena, the greatest country on Earth, and nesses throughout America are bur- noted that—despite Rwanda’s actions they want to come here. dened with a reporting task that even to strengthen due diligence in its min- So a lot of what you see as govern- the Department of Commerce has ad- ing sector, and despite the fact that ment intrusion, a lot of what you see mitted is impossible. Rwanda has no armed groups in the as government being a pain could actu- Recently, the European Union—ap- first place—‘‘the region is now suf- ally be some of the reasons that we be- parently sobered by other own experi- fering from an ‘Africa-free’ and not a came the great country we are. We just ence in the U.S.—rejected this ap- ‘conflict-free’ minerals situation. Sec- didn’t let people go on their own and proach to conflict minerals. It is easy tion 1502 has caused a de facto boycott hurt each other, and so on. to see why they did so. by companies in the U.S. and much of We had people elected by the people As we debate this amendment, let’s Europe on most of our valuable re- to say: Hey, hold on. Why don’t we do be clear on what this isn’t about. It is sources.’’ This disaster ‘‘has largely

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Na- have largely traded mineral exploitation on hard numbers. tional and regional political struggles over site for mineral taxation a few steps down A GAO study found last year that not power and influence as well as issues such as the supply chain, operating numerous road- a single company sampled could deter- access to land and questions of citizenship blocks that can bring in millions of dollars a mine whether its minerals supported and identity are just some of the more struc- year. Others are reported to have sent in armed groups. Professor Jeff Schwartz tural drivers of conflict. The ability to ex- family members or civilian allies to run of the University of Utah Law School ploit and profit from minerals is often a business for them on site, while they remain has come to a similar conclusion, after means to finance military operations to ad- safely at a distance. reviewing 1,300 filings under section dress these issues, rather than an end in For the few mining sites fortunate enough itself. Internal UN assessments, for instance, to be reached by Joint Assessment Teams re- 1502. show that only 8% of the DRC’s conflicts are sponsible for determining their ‘conflict-free’ Additionally, I wrote to SEC Chair linked to minerals, and specific motivations status, these teams have been unable to pro- White asking for a detailed description vary greatly across the vast array of dif- vide the regular, three-month validation vis- of the funds and hours expended to date ferent armed groups. its envisaged in legislation. There is an addi- on the SEC conflict minerals disclosure Second, armed groups are not dependent on tional delay of several months following rule. In the SEC response letter, she mineral revenue for their existence. The these visits before the Congolese Ministry of stated that from July 2010 to March 16, eastern DRC is a fully militarised economy, Mines reviews and approves the assessment 2015, the SEC spent over 21,000 hours in which minerals are just one resource at the national level. Given the speed at among many that armed groups—and the na- which situations can change in volatile envi- and approximately $2.7 million on this tional army FARDC—can levy financing particular provision which the SEC has ronments, infrequent assessments and from. The M23, until recently the most pow- lengthy delays raise concerns over the accu- little to no experience with. erful non-state armed group in DRC, never racy of certification and the credibility of Given the lack of benefits from this sought physical control over mining activ- the system. rule, it is no wonder SEC Chair Mary ity. More worrying still, multinational cor- Jo White has said: Moreover, few local stakeholders have been porations such as Apple and Intel are audit- ‘‘Seeking to improve safety in mines included in on-going international policy- ing smelters to determine the conflict-free for workers or to end horrible human making, and as a result realities on the status of the minerals they source, and not rights atrocities in the Democratic Re- ground have not always been taken into ac- the mines themselves. As smelters are lo- count. Setting up the required systems and public of the Congo are compelling ob- cated outside of the DRC and audits are not procedures to regularly access and audit always conducted by third parties, these jectives, which, as a citizen, I whole- thousands of artisanal mining sites in iso- heartedly share. But, as the Chair of processes raise further concerns over wheth- lated and hard-to-reach locations spread er conflict-free certifications reflect produc- the SEC, I must question, as a policy across an area almost twice the size of tion realities. matter, using the federal securities France would be a challenge for any govern- By far the most advanced site in terms of laws and the SEC’s powers of manda- ment. In the eastern DRC, where road infra- producing ‘conflict-free’ minerals for sale to tory disclosure to accomplish these structure is poor to non-existent and state the international market is Kalimbi, a tin goals.’’ capacity desperately low, the enormity of mining area home to externally-financed ini- I agree with the SEC, and I appre- the task is hard to overstate. But in demand- tiatives running an industry-led bagging- ing that companies prove the origin of min- and-tagging scheme called iTSCi. Yet even ciate support for this amendment. erals sourced in the eastern DRC or here, despite the establishment of a ‘closed neighbouring countries before systems able AN OPEN LETTER pipeline’ from mine to exportation, the mine to provide such proof have been put in place, Dear governments, companies, non-govern- still suffers from the sporadic influence of conflict minerals activists and resultant leg- mental organisations, and other stake- armed actors, and miners are made to bear islation—in particular Section 1502 of the holders implicated in efforts of various kinds the additional costs of ‘conflict-free’ Dodd-Frank Act—inadvertently incentivize related to the issue of ‘conflict minerals’: In schemes. This raises further concerns over buyers on the international market to pull early 2014, two international industry gi- the credibility of the system in place, and its out of the region altogether and source their ants—Intel and Apple—issued refined cor- suitability for the scale-up and expansion to minerals elsewhere. porate social responsibility policies for min- other, more remote mine sites currently un- erals sourced in the eastern Democratic Re- THE RESULT derway. Coupled with slow progress in imple- public of the Congo (DRC). The announce- As a result, the conflict minerals move- mentation, the trend towards the ments followed an unprecedented wave of ment has yet to lead to meaningful improve- monopolisation of ‘conflict-free’ supply guidelines, law-making, and initiatives over ment on the ground, and has had a number of chain initiatives, in particular traceability the past few years to ‘clean up’ the eastern unintended and damaging consequences. by iTSCi, is economically damaging to local DRC’s mining sector, and were met with Nearly four years after the passing of the populations since it currently excludes and widespread praise. Dodd-Frank Act, only a small fraction of the isolates the overwhelming majority of min- Perhaps the most widely publicised of hundreds of mining sites in the eastern DRC ing communities from legal access to inter- these efforts is US legislation known as Sec- have been reached by traceability or certifi- national markets. tion 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which asks cation efforts. The rest remain beyond the THE ALTERNATIVE all companies registered on the US stock pale, forced into either illegality or collapse market to reveal their supply chains to the as certain international buyers have re- There is broad consensus for the need to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sponded to the legislation by going ‘Congo- clean up the eastern Congo’s minerals sector, when sourcing minerals from the eastern free’. yet much disagreement about the inter- DRC or neighbouring countries. Canada is in This in turn has driven many miners into national community’s current model for the advanced stages of developing similar the margins of legality (for instance, feeding achieving this goal. As such, efforts to im- legislation, and many other countries are into smuggling rackets), where armed actors prove transparency in the eastern DRC’s looking closely at the issue. The European return through the loopholes of mineral supply chains should continue. Yet a Union has introduced a voluntary conflict transnational regulation. Others have simply more nuanced and holistic approach that minerals regulation scheme for all member lost their jobs, and in areas where mining takes into account the realities of the east- states, and the United Nations (UN) and has ceased, local economies have suffered. To ern DRC’s mining sector and the complexity Organisation for Economic Cooperation and put this in context, an estimated eight to of the conflict is needed. To this end, we Development (OECD) have developed guide- ten million people across the country are de- make the following five recommendations: lines on sourcing natural resources in high- pendent on artisanal mining for their liveli- Improve consultation with government and risk areas such as the eastern DRC. hood. Some former miners have returned to communities: Congolese government and These efforts primarily target artisanal (or subsistence agriculture, but persisting inse- civil society were poorly consulted on Sec- ‘informal’) mining in the eastern DRC, due curity levels leave them in abject poverty tion 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act prior to its to widespread international recognition that facing dire living conditions, in fear of miss- passing, and as a result many were unaware so-called conflict minerals (most notably ing harvests due to displacement. Others of its implications. The few who were contin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold) produced have been prompted to join militias as a sulted were unanimously pro-Dodd-Frank, by artisanal mining in this part of the world means to quick cash in the absence of other creating additional conflicts on local levels have helped conflict actors generate revenue opportunities; a particularly perverse im- where endorsement and dissent compete. to finance their operations in the DRC over pact, when one considers the intentions of More Congolese voices must be listened to, the past two decades. the movement. and the local context and power structures

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Koen Vlassenroot (Director, Conflict gion’s (ICGLR) Regional Initiative against Institute of Social Studies & ‘Obama’s Law’ Research Group & Professor, Ghent Univer- the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Re- Producer) sity) sources. 5. Bonnie Campbell (Professor of Political 40. Kris Berwouts (Independent Consultant Work towards meaningful reform: The Science, Universite´ du Que´bec a` Montreál) and Author) audit process should be designed to improve 6. Christiane Kayser (Independent Analyst 41. Kristof Titeca (Assistant Professor, policies and practices rather than to just & Civil Peace Service-Bread for the World University of Antwerp) provide window-dressing. The dominant be- mobile team) 42. Laura Seay (Assistant Professor of Gov- lief that static oversight and validation 7. Christoph Vogel (Researcher, University ernment, Colby College) processes ensure ‘conflict-free’ mineral trade of Zurich & Independent analyst/writer) 43. Ley Uwera (Independent Journalist and is misplaced given the volatile security situ- 8. Cyprien Birhingingwa (Executive Sec- Author, Goma) ation in most of the eastern DRC. Both retary, COSOC-GL & Coordinator of 44. Loochi Muzaliwa (Programme Coordi- mines and smelters should be regularly in- CENADEP Kivu) nator, Life and Peace Institute DRC) spected and the time period between inspec- 9. Daniel Rothenberg (Professor of Prac- 45. Micheline Mwendike (Activist, on be- tion and certification minimized. Where this tice, School of Politics and Global Studies, half of LUCHA—Lutte pour le Changement/ is not feasible, additional waivers or similar Arizona State University) Struggle for Change) measures should not be ruled out. 10. David Rieff (Independent Author and 46. Manuel Wollschla¨ ger (Conseiller Tech- Create incentives towards better practice: Commentator) nique, ZFD-AGEH in Bukavu) Legal frameworks must be supported by real 11. Deo Buuma (Executive Secretary, Ac- 47. Milli Lake (Assistant Professor, Ari- projects on the ground that can meet their tion pour la Paix et la Concorde—APC, zona State University) requirements. If this is not possible—which Bukavu) 48. Nicole Eggers (Assistant Professor of is clearly still the case today, nearly four 12. Didier de Failly s.j., (Directeur, Maison African History, Loyola University New Or- years after the passing of Dodd-Frank—then de Mines du Kivu, Bukavu) leans) transition periods must be extended and the 13. Dominic Johnson (Africa Editor and 49. Odile Bulabula (Deputy Coordinator, lowering of excessively high standards for Deputy Foreign Editor, die tageszeitung) RIO—Network for Organisational Innova- ‘conflict-free’ minerals should be considered. 14. Dorothea Hilhorst (Professor of Human- tion, Bukavu) Similarly, former conflict actors should be itarian Aid and Reconstruction, Wageningen 50. Pa´ draic MacOireachtaigh (Regional Ad- incentivised where appropriate to join new University) vocacy and Communications Officer, Jesuit ‘conflict-free’ schemes. This may help avoid 15. Emmanuel Shamavu (Director, Refugee Service) the eventual subversion or infiltration of the APRODEPED, Bukavu) 51. Pamela Faber (Researcher, St. Cath- ‘clean’ system put in place, as has been seen 16. Eric Kajemba (Coordinator, erine’s College, University of Oxford) to date. Observatoire Gouvernance et Paix, Bukavu) 52. Passy Mubalama (Independent Jour- Promote fair competition: Regulation 17. Esther Marijnen (Researcher, Institute nalist and Author, Goma) must be based on competition that allows for European Studies/Vrije Universiteit 53. Paul Muhindo Mulemberi (Member of not only international businesses but also Brussel) Parliament, Democratic Republic of the Congolese producers to influence (i.e. in- 18. Evariste Mfaume (Executive Director, Congo) crease) local price schemes. This in turn ‘‘Solidarite´ des Volontaires pour 54. Paul-Romain Namegabe (Professor of would encourage a regime that ensures min- l’Humanite´’’) Law, Director of CEGEMI, Universite imum wages which mining cooperatives can 19. Gabriel Kamundala (Researcher, Catholique de Bukavu) guarantee to their members based on their CEGEMI & Universite Catholique de Bukavu) 55. Paulin Bishakabalya (Director of Hu- increased leverage on the price fluctuation. 20. Ganza Buroko (Cultural Operator & Co- manitarian Assistance and Development Widen the lens: Root causes of conflict ordinator of Yole´!Africa, Goma) Committee, Bukavu) such as land, identity, and political contest 21. Godefroid Ka¨ Mana (Professor, ULPGL 56. Peer Schouten (Postdoctoral Re- in the context of a militarized economy, Goma & UEA Bukavu & Universite´ Kasavubu searcher, University of Gothenburg) rather than a single focus on minerals, must Boma) 57. Phil Clark (Reader in Comparative and be considered by advocates seeking to reduce 22. Godefroid Muzalia (Professor, Institut International Politics, SOAS/University of conflict violence. Furthermore, efforts to Supe´rieur Pe´dagogique de Bukavu) London) eradicate conflict minerals should not over- 23. Henning Tamm (Postdoctoral Prize Re- 58. Rachel Niehuus (Postdoctoral Re- look the fact that artisanal mining is a key search Fellow, Nuffield College, University searcher at University of California, San livelihood in the eastern DRC that holds as of Oxford) Francisco) much potential to help steer the region away 24. Herbert Weiss (Emeritus Professor of 59. Rachel Strohm (Researcher in Political from conflict as it does to contribute to- Political Science, City University of New Science, University of Berkeley) wards it. More supportive measures are need- York) 60. Raf Custers (Independent Journalist ed—such as those found in the earlier 2009 25. James Smith (Associate Professor of and Author on Mining) draft of the US Conflict Minerals Act—that Anthropology, University of California/ 61. Re´my Kasindi (Director, Centre for Re- can help capture the economic potential of Davis) search and Strategic Studies in Central Afri- artisanal mining. Finally, other critical 26. Jean Ziegler (Former UN Special ca, Bukavu) challenges such as access to credit, technical Rapporteur for the Right to Food and Pro- 62. Rodrigue Rukumbuzi (Coordinator, knowledge, hazardous working conditions, fessor at University of Geneva) AGAPE-Hauts Plateaux, Uvira) and environmental degradation should not 27. Jeroen Cuvelier (Postdoctoral Re- 63. Rosebell Kagumire (Independent Con- be ignored by multinational corporations if searcher, Wageningen University and Ghent sultant and Blogger, Kampala/Addis Ababa) they seek to improve business practices and University) 64. Salammbo Mulonda Bulambo (Director, increase transparency in their supply chains. 28. John Kanyoni (Independent Consultant PIAP, Bukavu) So far, progress has been made in pro- and Vice-President of the Congolese Cham- 65. Sara Geenen (Postdoctoral Researcher, ducing more ethical products for consumers, ber of Mines) Institute of Development Policy, Antwerp but stakeholders have not yet proceeded to 29. Josaphat Musamba (Assistant Pro- University) improve the lives of Congolese people, nor fessor, Universite´ Simon Kimbangu of 66. Sekombi Katondolo (Director, Radio address the negative impact current ‘con- Bukavu) Mutaani, Goma) flict-free’ initiatives are having. If the con- 30. Joschka Havenith (Independent Re- 67. Severine Autesserre (Assistant Pro- flict minerals agenda is to lead to positive searcher and Consultant, Cologne) fessor, Barnard College, Columbia Univer- change on the ground, legislation passed by 31. Jose Diemel (Researcher, Special Chair sity) national governments and steps such as for Humanitarian Aid & Reconstruction, 68. Thomas Idolwa Tchomba (Consultant those outlined by Apple or Intel need to be Wageningen University) and Mining Expert, Goma) grounded in a more holistic approach that is 32. Joshua Walker (Postdoctoral Research 69. Timothy Makori (Researcher, Depart- better tailored to local realities. Failure to Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand) ment of Anthropology, University of To- do so will continue to seriously limit the 33. Josue Mukulumanya (President of the ronto) ability of conflict minerals initiatives to im- South Kivu mining cooperatives board 70. Timothy Raeymaekers (Lecturer in Po- prove the daily lives of the eastern Congolese GECOMISKI) litical Geography, University of Zurich) and their neighbours. Worse, these initia- 34. Justine Brabant (Independent Re- 71. Yvette Mwanza (President of the Min- tives will risk contributing to, rather than searcher and Journalist) ing Committee, Fe´de´ration des Entreprises alleviating, the very conflicts they set out to 35. Juveńal Munubo (Member of Par- Congolaises North Kivu) address. liament, Democratic Republic of the Congo) 72. Zacharie Bulakali (Independent Re- LIST OF SIGNATORIES 36. Juveńal Twaibu (Director, Centre searcher on mining in eastern Congo) 1. Aloys Tegera (Director, POLE Institute Inde´pendant de Recherches et d’Etudes All the signatories listed express their sup- Goma) Strate´giques au Kivu) port to the open letter in its above form but

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:02 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.019 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4510 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 not necessarily approve of accompanying cut off the money to the militias. To ceedings on the amendment offered by opinion pieces and/or explanatory notes, say there is not armed conflict in east- the gentleman from Michigan will be which remain their respective authors’ ern Congo is somebody who has got postponed. views. their head buried in the sand; because AMENDMENT NO. 35 OFFERED BY MR. HUIZENGA Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. if you go over there, you know that OF MICHIGAN Chair, I yield back the balance of my there is conflict from Rwanda and The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order time. Uganda and all the countries in that to consider amendment No. 35 printed Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I area, because this stuff is valuable and in House Report 114–639. claim time in opposition. people want it, and they want it on the Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman cheap. Chairman, I have an amendment at the from New York is recognized for 5 min- Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Will the desk. utes. gentleman yield? The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will Mr. MCDERMOTT. I yield to the gen- b 1600 designate the amendment. tleman from Michigan. The text of the amendment is as fol- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. I appre- lows: 5 minutes to the gentleman from Wash- ciate the gentleman yielding. At the end of the bill (before the short ington (Mr. MCDERMOTT). I maybe, possibly like yourself, have title), insert the following: Mr. MCDERMOTT. I thank the gen- occasional differences with my own SEC. ll. None of the funds made available tleman for yielding. church denomination. I have chal- by this Act may be used the Securities and Mr. Chairman, this amendment is lenged them to talk to their own mis- Exchange Commission to finalize, imple- just another devious Republican at- sionaries that are in the surrounding ment, administer, or enforce pay ratio dis- tempt to undermine efforts to end the areas, whom I have talked to, who are closure rules, including the final rule titled ‘‘Pay Ratio Disclosure’’, published Aug. 18, decade-long scourge of rape and murder also out on the coast, who are now see- 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 50103). in Congo. ing minerals exported. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to I have been in Congo many times. I Mr. MCDERMOTT. Reclaiming my House Resolution 794, the gentleman served in the State Department in time, I get your point. You are saying from Michigan (Mr. HUIZENGA) and a Kinshasa. I know the area. And the that your church in wherever they are Member opposed each will control 5 gentleman’s statement that there is no located, in Michigan or wherever, they are out of touch with what is going on minutes. company that is able to do this is abso- The Chair recognizes the gentleman lutely incorrect. There is a company in on the ground. I am in touch with the people on the from Michigan. Coral Gables, Florida, Kemet Corpora- Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. ground. There are groups like HEAL tion. They certify every bit of their Chairman, I yield myself such time as Africa, which have been operating a metal is conflict-free. It is possible to I may consume. hospital in Goma, which has been filled do. Mr. Chairman, my amendment would with people that come from this whole Now, why is this important? Well, all prohibit any funds from being used by process. And when you go over there the 5 million people that have died in the SEC to implement, administer, or and talk to them, they say the only eastern Congo since Rwanda in 1992–93 enforce the ineffective pay ratio disclo- way you are ever going to do it here is have been from armed militias that are sure mandate in section 953(b) of the cut off the money, and that means say- getting their money by taking min- Dodd-Frank Act. erals out of the ground and selling ing to people you have got to know Under Dodd-Frank, section 953(b) re- them abroad using slave labor. where that tin or tungsten or tantalum quires all publicly traded companies to The way you enslave a man is to rape came from and was it gotten by using calculate and disclose, for each filing his wife in front of him, and then bring slave labor. with the SEC, the median annual total If you are unwilling to do that, as a him down and chain him and make him compensation of all employees of the company, in the United States, you dig up the minerals. That is what has company, excluding the CEO, disclose have no moral fiber. If you are not will- been going on there, and it has been the annual total compensation of the ing to say you will not use slave labor going on for a long time, and everyone CEO, and calculate and disclose a ratio for the material that is in your prod- in this room is benefiting from that. comparing those two numbers. Everybody who has a cell phone has uct, in your cell phone—and believe In adopting the final rule, the SEC tin, tungsten, tantalum in it. And what me, it wouldn’t be hard to get a boy- admitted that the pay ratio disclosure this amendment is about is companies cott going in this country against some provides ‘‘no quantifiable benefit to that will not go through the process. folks who want to, but nobody wants to public shareholders, yet it will cost They do not want to do it. They want come out in the open. public companies billions of dollars in This amendment gets slid in at the to get it from wherever it comes from. initial and ongoing compliance ex- last minute every year. Senator DUR- They don’t care who it is. penses that could otherwise be used for BIN, Senator COONS, Barney Frank, all Now, you can’t tell me, and I know investment in equipment and in job of us worked on this. We have heard it enough about Boeing and a lot of other creation.’’ companies, that they know their sup- all. While the SEC provided modest flexi- And of course the SEC doesn’t want ply chain right down to where it starts bility in the final rule as compared to to do it. They don’t want to do any- in the ground somewhere. Everything its initial proposal, the final rule did thing that doesn’t have to do with that is in a plane, they know where it not mitigate the most significant bur- paper shuffling and letting the deriva- came from. And for them to say they dens that the public companies will tives run through the economy. They don’t know where it comes from or I face as they collect and calculate the simply have been given this because can’t know is simply that they want to compensation information necessary to they handle the money. get it on the cheap and don’t care I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘no.’’ comply. about human value in central Africa. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield Companies must still all include all Now, the gentleman has given me the back the balance of my time. employees—including temporary, part- opening, which I didn’t know if I would The Acting CHAIR (Mr. time, seasonal employees—and non- have, but his own church, the Christian FARENTHOLD). The question is on the U.S. employees into their pay ratio cal- Reformed Church in North America, amendment offered by the gentleman culation. The rule’s 5 percent exclusion their coordinator of office of social jus- from Michigan (Mr. HUIZENGA). for non-U.S. employees, which includes tice says defunding section 1502 and The question was taken; and the Act- any foreign employee whose salary amendment No. 34 is immoral. It will ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- data is protected by their home coun- result in violations and will undo work peared to have it. try privacy laws, will not defray the to our conflict-free mining in Africa. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- significant compliance costs, which the This is a long-time battle, and we mand a recorded vote. SEC estimates at $1.3 billion in initial have had no one come up with any The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to compliance costs and $526 million on an other way to deal with this except to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- ongoing annual cost basis.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:14 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.020 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4511 Even the former Financial Services I imagine my Republicans colleagues York that he is actually wrong. We chairman, Barney Frank, acknowl- will describe the alleged costs to indus- marked this bill up in committee in edged that burden before a September try. Indeed, industry has offered wildly April of this year. 24, 2010, hearing, stating: ‘‘I would exaggerated estimates of the SEC’s ini- And the interesting thing, Mr. Chair- note, again, that it was a Senate provi- tial proposal, 10 times what the SEC man, is they want it both ways. We sion, and I think our inclination is to economists estimated. However, none have to follow the SEC until they don’t see to what extent it can be lessened as of these estimates are credible. There want to do it, and then they disagree a burden, and, if not, we would be able is no indication that industry has yet with it. They disagree with the state- to work and try to change that next to come up with any credible estimate ment that the SEC apparently has year.’’ for the cost of the final rule. In fact, no come up with that this is going to cost That was almost 6 years ago, Mr. one has, as the House Financial Serv- $1.7 billion in this initial year. Chairman. During that same hearing, ices Committee has failed to convene a They want to say that the Obama the Democratic witness, Mr. Martin hearing on the final rule and the flexi- economy is great—until it isn’t and it Baily of the Squam Lake Group, stat- bility provided by the SEC. Worse, the doesn’t work in their favor. ed: ‘‘I am quite concerned about the committee has failed to hold a hearing I, too, am very concerned and join level of poverty in the United States. I on the bill, itself, this Congress. Rath- my colleagues of all stripes to say that am quite concerned about the fact that er, the Republicans are rushing this this economy has not responded the ordinary workers have not done very bill through the House and once again way it needs to and we need to have well in the last few years. I don’t see seek to repeal outright this provision those wages up. And here we are rob- how publishing that ratio helps any- in Dodd-Frank. bing Peter to pay Paul, because we are body very much, so I am not a big fan In the past, and before the SEC final- going to take that money that could go of that.’’ ized its flexible rule, Democrats offered into investing in equipment and pro- Amen. I could not agree more, Mr. amendments to ease burdens on busi- ductivity and actual workers, and we Baily. nesses, but Republicans weren’t inter- are going to do meaningless reports to In his dissent, SEC Commissioner ested then and are apparently worried this that tell us nothing. And the Gallagher stated: ‘‘Addressing per- that the American public and investors words of the SEC Chair—not my words, ceived income inequality is not the will finally see that not all public com- the SEC Chair—says that this brings province of the securities laws or the panies pay their employees the same. no meaningful information to people in Commission.’’ In fact, some companies pay their CEO the economy. Additionally, SEC Chair Mary Jo 400 times the median employee. b 1615 White has expressed similar concerns My Republican colleagues aren’t con- about the provision of the Dodd-Frank cerned that CEOs and the rest of the 1 So I don’t understand why, other Act, noting that several provisions percent continue to take most of the than window dressing, once again, and ‘‘appear more directed at exerting soci- income and wealth of this country. My trying to set up a straw man argument, etal pressure on companies to change colleagues aren’t concerned that mi- for why the businesses are doing what behavior rather than to disclose finan- norities and low-income Americans they are doing, why they would move cial information that primarily in- haven’t seen a raise in decades. ahead. forms investments decisions.’’ The SEC has provided industry with Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- Again, I could not agree more, Mr. as much flexibility as it could while ance of my time. Chairman. still being consistent with the congres- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield This useless disclosure requirement sional mandate. I will also note that myself such time as I may consume. creates a number of lengthy and bur- the requirement doesn’t affect small Mr. Chairman, I have never seen a densome reporting obligations whose businesses or emerging growth compa- corporation tell you that studying costs far outweighs any perceived bene- nies, but it is targeted to companies their business practices is well-spent fits. This includes failing to provide that retail investors overwhelmingly money. Everybody wants to keep ev- shareholders with useful information choose to invest in. erybody in the dark as to what is going or facilitate a better understanding of I know that industry, especially the on. pay practices, which some falsely global manufacturers, oppose the SEC The American people have a sense of trumpet this provision would do. rule, but I think that the information what is going on. We have heard Mr. Chairman, we are all concerned provided by this number matters. It enough, especially during this last about creating more jobs in our various will go a long way to identify the dis- campaign, about the 1 percent and the congressional districts, and instead of parity between the top 1 percent and 99 percent. We have heard enough companies being forced to spend mil- the everyday worker. It will go a long about how on Wall Street, in my city lions of dollars trying to comply with a way towards enabling everyday inves- of New York, part of the problem was regulatory mandate for which the SEC tors to fund companies that properly the lack of supervision by the FCC and has been unable to quantify any bene- compensate their employees, or punish by the SEC. And part of the problem— fits to the public, shouldn’t these bur- those that inappropriately compensate a large part—was the bonuses that densome costs, instead, be converted their CEO. these folks were getting. A $50 million and used by manufacturers, retailers, I urge my colleagues to think seri- bonus in some cases and a $25 million and other public companies for much- ously about this amendment, and I bonus in some cases was not something needed investment and job creation? I urge my colleagues to oppose this unheard of. think so. I urge my colleagues on both amendment. So I think that every so often the sides of the aisle to vote in favor of I reserve the balance of my time. American people need to know and get this amendment. Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. information that may seem like a I reserve the balance of my time. Chairman, may I inquire of the remain- waste of money to some people, but ac- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I ing time on both sides. tually can get at a problem. claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman We need to know in this capitalist so- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Michigan has 1 minute remaining, ciety that we have—and we are not from New York is recognized for 5 min- and the gentleman from New York has about to change that. We all like it. I utes. 2 minutes remaining. like it. I want to keep it. But I think Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I rise Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. And I we have to try to look for ways to bal- in opposition to this amendment. It believe I have the right to close; cor- ance so that 99 percent of the people would repeal a requirement that com- rect? are not in danger of hurting while 1 panies show just how much more the The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman percent of the folks are in great shape. CEO is paid compared to the company’s from New York has the right to close. To find out that CEOs sometimes get median worker. Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. 400 times the salary of one of their Why are Republicans so scared about Chairman, first of all, I would like to workers is totally outrageous, and the reporting this number? point out to my colleague from New American people should know that and

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This would be put amendment just tries to—I am not say- undeserved reward to a country that into statutory law, and it would pro- ing you do—but your amendment, the tortures its own people, denies human ceed after this President leaves office. final result will be to try to cover up rights to women, and has the blood of I believe that it is important that the truth, and that is not a good thing. Americans and our allies on its hands. this fundamental principle—that Iran Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- But in an effort to advance the nu- not have access to the U.S. dollar— ance of my time. clear agreement, I worry that the should be in statutory law and not The Acting CHAIR. The question is President may act unilaterally—as he merely a matter of executive action. on the amendment offered by the gen- has done so often in the past—and per- That is why I have proposed the tleman from Michigan (Mr. HUIZENGA). mit the Treasury Department and amendment. other Federal entities to proceed with The question was taken; and the Act- I hope that all Members will consider granting Iran the access to the dollar ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- the amendment. it so desperately wants. A vote for this peared to have it. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance amendment will eliminate that possi- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- of my time. bility. mand a recorded vote. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Mr. Chairman, let me say that this does not change what is currently the myself such time as I may consume. clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ceedings on the amendment offered by situation in this country. Last summer, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew tes- note that we speak about it, and it is the gentleman from Michigan will be not directed at any one President. But postponed. tified that Iranian banks will not be able to clear U.S. dollars through New we have a unique system. We only have The Chair understands that Amend- one President at a time. So it is di- ment No. 36 will not be offered. York, hold correspondent account relationships with U.S. financial institu- rected at one President. AMENDMENT NO. 37 OFFERED BY MR. LANCE tions, or enter into financing agree- I suspect that if we were going to The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order ments with U.S. banks. stay in session—which we are not—for to consider Amendment No. 37 printed As the Secretary made clear, Iran, in every week from now until the end of in House Report 114–639. other words, will continue to be denied the year, we would see more and more Mr. LANCE. Mr. Chairman, I have an access to the world’s largest financial and more bills—up to December 31— amendment at the desk. and commercial market. bills that would try to limit the power The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will This amendment simply puts that of the office of the Presidency because designate the amendment. promise into statutory law, and that is of who occupies it right now and the The text of the amendment is as fol- why I have proposed it. The Lance disdain that the other side, so many lows: amendment will eliminate any possi- Members, have for our President. At the end of the bill (before the short bility that we might move in the other I see it differently. I see the Iran deal title), insert the following: direction. as a possibility for peace. Maybe his- SEC. l. None of the funds made available Mr. Chairman, I urge its adoption. tory will say that I was naive. But I by the Act may be used in contravention of, I reserve the balance of my time. know the alternative, and the alter- or to implement changes to, section 560.516 Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I rise of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in native is war. So any time that I can effect on June 22, 2016. in opposition to the amendment. take a chance on evading and not hav- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman ing war, let’s go for it. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to from New York is recognized for 5 min- House Resolution 794, the gentleman Secondly, to legislate by suggesting utes. that something could happen and from New Jersey (Mr. LANCE) and a Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield Member opposed each will control 5 therefore we have to head it off at the myself such time as I may consume. pass is not the way to legislate. minutes. I don’t, as you can see, have much to I would hope that we could vote The Chair recognizes the gentleman say on this because it is really an in- against this amendment. I urge opposi- from New Jersey. teresting situation. It is an amendment tion to it. Mr. LANCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield looking for a problem that doesn’t myself such time as I may consume. exist. It is an amendment looking for Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- Mr. Chairman, I rise today to offer an the possibility that the President— ance of my time. amendment to eliminate the potential there we go again, the gentleman in Mr. LANCE. Mr. Chairman, let me of Iran’s gaining access to the U.S. dol- the White House—that the President conclude by saying that the Iranian lar. may do something he hasn’t said any- agreement is, of course, extremely con- As Iran continues to violate inter- thing about doing. troversial. It was voted down by the national law with illicit ballistic mis- The Treasury Department says that House of Representatives. Unfortu- sile tests, as it undermines U.S. foreign there are no current plans to amend nately, there was never any vote in the policy, and as it destabilizes the Middle the regulation and that flexibility is other House because cloture was not East, the Obama administration may not at issue at this point because no achieved. be willing to ease restrictions on Iran’s one is discussing this. The President submitted the Iranian access to the dollar and potentially re- The second part to this amendment agreement as an agreement, not as a ward Iran’s international provocations is the underlying feeling by some Mem- treaty, based upon the fact that legis- with coveted access to world financial bers still that the deal with Iran was a lation has been passed to make it an markets. bad deal, that that deal won’t work, agreement. I think it is important that We cannot allow this to happen. and that somehow we will be left hold- as a matter of statutory law we make Since agreeing to the Iranian deal ing the bag. Well, giving peace a sure that Iran not have access to the last year, the Obama administration chance, as the song says, is never a bad U.S. dollar, and that is why I propose has seemingly gone out of its way to thing to do. the amendment. appease Iran. Sanctions were lifted I would hope that in the future we Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- with little to show in the way of nu- deal only with amendments that speak ance of my time. clear disarmament. The rogue regime to an existing problem and not to an The Acting CHAIR. The question is is now selling oil on the international amendment that simply speaks about: on the amendment offered by the gen- market, and Iran has received access to What if? We have too many what-ifs in tleman from New Jersey (Mr. LANCE). tens of billions of dollars held abroad amendments. The amendment was agreed to.

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He can’t pass up the opportunity Europe and so on, children at the age have an amendment at the desk, Num- to say something about immigrants of 10 speak two, three, or four lan- ber 38. and say something about English as guages; grownups speak a couple of The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will the official language. languages. It doesn’t hurt them in any designate the amendment. Let me start off by saying this: I way. The text of the amendment is as fol- don’t speak for any community, and I What is wrong if you speak another lows: certainly don’t know what other com- language? At the end of the bill (before the short munities go through. But I can tell you But here we are talking about serv- title), insert the following: ices, going to the Department of Motor SEC. ll. None of the funds made available that in the Hispanic/Latino commu- by this Act may be used to enforce Executive nity, when people sit around the dinner Vehicles and getting someone who can Order 13166 (August 16, 2000; 65 Fed. Reg. table and the issue of language comes understand what you are saying until 50121). up, it is not a plot against the English you learn to speak English. But trust The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to language. It is usually a conversation me, the big line here is ‘‘until you House Resolution 794, the gentleman about how the children and the grand- speak English,’’ because no one wants from Iowa (Mr. KING) and a Member op- children no longer speak Spanish; they to come here and remain only speaking posed each will control 5 minutes. speak only English. That is just a fact. Spanish or their own country’s lan- The Chair recognizes the gentleman Number two, this assimilation issue, guage and forgetting English. from Iowa. do you really think that someone I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I would leave all their small belongings Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may con- behind, leave in many cases their wife would say first in response to the gen- sume. and their children to come into this tleman, and I respect his position and Mr. Chairman, my amendment is an country undocumented—assuming we his background, but I would say if he amendment that I offered before in the are talking about undocumented peo- had a development in the Greek lan- past. It simply says: ‘‘None of the funds ple—before they can find a way to guage, he might think of that pursuit made available by this Act may be used bring the rest of the family, to not of happiness as what our Founding Fa- to enforce Executive Order 13166.’’ learn English, to purposely keep them- thers did. They called it eudaimonia, That is an executive order that was selves away from immigrating into the E-U-D-A-I-M-O-N-I-A, the Greek word. filed by then-President Clinton on Au- American society? That means developing the whole gust 16 in the year 2000, in the last On the contrary, some of the jokes human being—the body, the mind, the months of his Presidency, that directs are that some of the better—not better, spirit, and the soul—all together. all Federal fund recipients—and that That pursuit of happiness wasn’t but stronger-feeling Americans, the would include Federal contractors, about a tailgate party. It was about be- ones who want to vote, the ones who State and local governments, as well as coming the best human being that you want to wave the flag strongly and the Federal Government—to facilitate could. That is a little difference in the proudly, are people who came from language interpretation with anyone translation of the language that got other countries. who seeks to engage with them. lost. It is an example of how we are di- That has been an executive order b 1630 vided by language rather than unified that has been highly costly not only to Just about everybody has somebody by a common language. the taxpayers, but to the consumers in that came from another country, ei- Another example would be Israel. It this country, in time and in money. It ther now or a long time ago. became a country in 1948. In 1954, they was one of the initial things that began The reason that President Clinton adopted Hebrew as their official lan- to slow down this process of assimila- and so many of us have supported the guage. I asked them why, and they tion in America. issue—and I am speaking about the said: Because we saw the example of We know that a common language is first President Clinton, not the next the United States, that you have em- the most powerful unifying force one—the fact that we support the issue braced English as your common lan- known throughout all of history, of giving service is because in many guage. It has unified the people. We whether it is English or whether it is ways this could be a constitutional needed to have a language to unify the some other language in some other question. Israelis. country, and that we have a strong ef- I will give you an example. I am not And it has been successful, and I fort to establish English as the official a lawyer, but it says life, liberty, and could give you examples. One day I got language of the United States. in a taxicab and there was a gentleman I happen to be the author of that ac- the pursuit of happiness, that is what we are promised. Well, life could be a there. He spoke perfect English and he complishment in the State of Iowa. didn’t seem to fit what a normal taxi- Thirty other States have English as paramedic being able to speak to you in a language that you understand. cab driver was. I said: Where were you the official language, and some 83 per- raised? cent of Americans support this policy. Liberty could be you in a trial getting an interpreter so what you have to say He said: Bosnia. Yet President Clinton’s executive order How long have you been here? subverts this and works to fracture us to that judge and to that jury can be Seven years. rather than unify us. understood. And the pursuit of happi- Did you learn English before you So it will save us billions of dollars. ness, of course, is a separate issue, but came? I didn’t bring that figure to the floor it allows you to grow two cultures at Not a word. with me, but we know it has been very the same time. How can you speak perfect English in expensive over time. We are 16 years I speak Spanish, I speak English, and 7 years? into this. It has been destructive to the I am a Member of the U.S. Congress. I He said: It helps when you have to. unity of the American people. I want to don’t think the fact that I speak Span- So I am not about discouraging the see us united as a people, and this is ish has made me a worse Congressman utilization of other languages, and this one of the steps that we can take. or a worse American. I was born in an amendment does not do that. What it I reserve the balance of my time, Mr. American territory that speaks a lot of says is I am dispatched by the taxpayer Chairman. Spanish. I grew up speaking Spanish dollars that are contributing to the di- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I and English at the same time. I am vision of America rather than let us claim time in opposition. still working on both to be better at have an encouragement to pull to- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman them every day, but I am a living ex- gether in the same language. That is from New York is recognized for 5 min- ample that there is nothing wrong with what this is about. It is a fiscally re- utes. speaking more than one language. sponsible amendment that addresses an

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Mr. Chairman, maining. before the Small Business Committee, how does the Federal Government get Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I have she said: We have a problem. We don’t rid of an industry it doesn’t like? been informed that the gentleman have enough workers in the factories Simple. It cuts that industry off from picked the wrong example—Israel—be- to run our punch presses and our the financial services sector—the life- cause they have more than one official lathes. Simple industrial work. blood of every business in this country. language, but that is okay. The more Why is that? It sounds impossible, doesn’t it? the merrier. She said: Well, the applicants are not However, that is exactly what the The fact of life is that the gentleman literate in the English language, and FDIC is doing in conjunction with the picked the example of someone who we have great difficulty in teaching Department of Justice. By this point, learned English. Well, everybody wants them how to operate these machines. we are all familiar with Operation to learn to speak English. If you go to I said: I can understand that if they Choke Point. It is the program de- my community in the South Bronx, are first-generation immigrants. In signed to force legally operating and li- you see small-business owners. Those fact, I can understand it if some of censed entities out of business by chok- are the best examples. Some of them them are second generation. ing them off from the financial services speak what we would call broken She cut me off and said: Even third they need. English. Some of them speak perfect generation. What started with nondepository English. Their children, half of them So the pick-up of the language and lenders has spread to many other inno longer speak Spanish; they speak the transition into the next generation dustries. Reports indicate that the English. Their children are attending is not happening at the speed it did be- FDIC and DOJ continue to pressure fi- Fordham University or a university cause our enclaves are getting larger nancial institutions that service the down South. They are not going to be and more populated and people are gun, ammunition, and tobacco indus- bodega owners when they grow up, or more isolated into that. tries. These are legal industries, and it cab drivers. They most likely will go I want to encourage people to be suc- is my belief that no joint FDIC and work on Wall Street or somewhere else cessful, to go out and get an education DOJ operation should broadly target or teach. and to assimilate more broadly. I want lawful commerce. In other words, we have a pattern in to be able to look across this country I want to be very clear. I strongly this country that hasn’t been broken. and know that I can walk into a city support the FDIC and other Federal What made us great is the fact that council meeting anywhere and know banking regulators’ authority to mon- people come here, they adapt, they be- that it is being conducted in English. I itor financial institutions and identify come part of this country, and then want people to be able to talk and com- risky behavior. But what cannot be tol- they defend this country with every- municate with each other. When I go to erated is the Federal Government abus- thing they have got, including their a foreign country and they speak their ing its authority to target entire in- blood. That happens all the time, it language, I get the sense of that, too. dustries, including those that obey the happens all the time, and it is not We gravitate towards common kind, laws and live within the rules. going to stop happening. and the more common we can be, the This isn’t a Republican issue; this So if you have a worry—and I have more things we can have in common isn’t a Democratic issue; it isn’t a lib- heard you for years—that somehow with each other, the more likely we are eral or a conservative issue. This is an speaking Spanish is going to wreck to be bonded together. That is what issue of the DOJ, FDIC, and potentially this country, on the contrary. Just this amendment is about. other banking regulators stepping out- learn to speak Spanish and you will I urge its adoption. side the law. feel much better. I yield back the balance of my time. We worked on a bipartisan basis to I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is inform the DOJ, FDIC, and others of Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, on the amendment offered by the gen- the consequences of Operation Choke how much time do I have remaining? tleman from Iowa (Mr. KING). Point, but those concerns have fallen The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman The question was taken; and the Act- on deaf ears. Operation Choke Point is has 2 minutes remaining. ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- still happening. In the last few months, Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I peared to have it. I have heard from a debt buyer in Cali- would say in response to the gen- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- fornia, a tobacco shop in Florida, and, tleman, I give some thought to the mand a recorded vote. just this week, a veteran-owned shoot- story of the Tower of Babel. We know The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to ing sports company in Virginia. that the construction manager there clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- I am now concerned that Operation was Nimrod. He was building a tower ceedings on the amendment offered by Choke Point-like tactics have spread to the heavens. They had the arrogance the gentleman from Iowa will be post- beyond the FDIC to the Office of the to believe that they could bypass God poned. Comptroller of the Currency. Despite Comptroller Curry’s remarks on the and get to heaven without Him. The AMENDMENT NO. 39 OFFERED BY MR. Lord looked down on the Tower of LUETKEMEYER dangers of de-risking, we continue to Babel and He said: The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order hear from financial institutions that Behold, they are one people, they to consider amendment No. 39 printed OCC examiners are applying pressure speak all one language, and nothing in House Report 114–639. in an effort to force banks to drop long- that they propose to do will now be im- Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chairman, standing customers and correspondent possible for them. I have an amendment at the desk. banking relationships for no valid rea- He scrambled their languages and The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will son. scattered them to the four winds. Hu- designate the amendment. I would like to remind my colleagues manity on the planet has been at each The text of the amendment is as fol- that similar amendments to prohibit other’s throats ever since. That is the lows: the use of funds for Operation Choke message of the Tower of Babel. Point were attached without opposi- At the end of the bill (before the short My message is unify us as one people. title), insert the following: tion to appropriations bills in fiscal It is not discouraging the utilization of SEC. ll. None of the funds made available years 2015 and 2016. In February, the other languages, but it is discouraging in this Act may be used to carry out Oper- House passed a bipartisan vote of 250– the idea that we should establish ethic ation Choke Point. 169 H.R. 766, the Financial Institution

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:14 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.078 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4515 Customer Protection Act. That legisla- forts that require cooperation with information from individuals who have tion included measures that would pro- banking regulators and which have been wronged by Operation Choke hibit Operation Choke Point through produced significant results. Point activities. They are in legal busi- increased transparency and responsible b 1645 nesses, doing legal business. And we governance. got another hit just this week. Over This amendment is an important step For example, the Branch, together the last several months, we have had in ensuring that the FDIC and other with U.S. Attorneys across the coun- numerous hits from different busi- Federal banking regulators continue try, obtained over 150 criminal convic- nesses across the country. Yet we have their job, but do so without abuse of tions and more than $7 billion in crimi- continued to see this happen. nal fines, forfeitures, and restitution power. I ask for the support of the amend- ordered to victims. Limiting the fund- I ask my colleagues for their support ment. ing it receives would be a serious blow of this amendment which, again, has Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of to consumers who need the protection generated no opposition and has been my time. adopted by voice vote in previous of the government from the financial predators. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I yield years. back the balance of my time. I reserve the balance of my time. This is something that we should not Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I rise be doing at this point. We, certainly, The Acting CHAIR. The question is in strong opposition to the amend- shouldn’t be doing it in this bill, but on the amendment offered by the gen- ment. we shouldn’t be doing it at all. I urge tleman from Missouri (Mr. LUETKE- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman its opposition. MEYER). from New York is recognized for 5 min- Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of The amendment was agreed to. utes. my time. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, at the Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chair, as The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to behest of the House Republicans’ in- somebody who has been on both sides clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will quiry, the Department of Justice’s Of- of the table with regard to financial now resume on those amendments fice of Professional Responsibility in- services—as a regulator and on the printed in House Report 114–639 on vestigated whether there was mis- other side of the table as a businessper- which further proceedings were post- conduct or targeting of legal businesses son—I think I have a unique perspec- poned, in the following order: by Operation Choke Point. The DOJ’s tive on what is going on here. Amendment No. 22 by Mrs. BLACK- We also have a couple of reports from OPR, in their report from last year, BURN of Tennessee. the Oversight and Government Reform found that absolutely no wrongdoing Amendment No. 23 by Mr. BUCK of had occurred. Committee that took the emails of Colorado. both of these agencies—their own The DOJ’s Office of Professional Re- Amendment No. 25 by Mr. DAVIDSON emails—and showed them to be en- sponsibility ‘‘concluded that the De- of Ohio. partment of Justice attorneys involved gaged in Operation Choke Point activi- Amendment No. 28 by Mr. GARRETT ties with the intent not to go after in Operation Choke Point did not en- of New Jersey. gage in professional misconduct,’’ and somebody who is doing something ille- Amendment No. 29 by Mr. GARRETT gal, but to go after people who are that, ‘‘OPR’s inquiry further deter- of New Jersey. mined that Civil Division employees doing something legal. That is the difference. Amendment No. 31 by Mr. GOSAR of did not improperly target lawful par- Arizona. ticipants.’’ I support, as the gentleman indicated Amendment No. 32 by Mr. GUINTA of Moreover, a follow-on report from a minute ago, some of the activities of New Hampshire. the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora- the regulators in going after bad ac- Amendment No. 34 by Mr. HUIZENGA tion inspector general found that the tors. I support that 110 percent. As a of Michigan. FDIC’s involvement in Operation former regulator, I am with the gen- Choke Point was inconsequential to tleman all the way. My problem is Amendment No. 35 by Mr. HUIZENGA the direction and outcome of the ini- what is going on with Operation Choke of Michigan. tiative. Point as we are going after legal busi- Amendment No. 38 by Mr. KING of Operation Choke Point is an enforce- nesses that are doing legal business. Iowa. ment action by the Department of Jus- That is a big difference because their The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes tice, whose funding is not addressed by own emails indicate their own, internal the time for any electronic vote after this particular appropriations bill. In attorneys—the legal authorities in the first vote in this series. fact, that is part of the large problem their own agencies—questioned their AMENDMENT NO. 22 OFFERED BY MRS. with this amendment—that it really own ability to be doing what they are BLACKBURN speaks to issues that belong in another doing. The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished bill. This should send a chill down the business is the demand for a recorded What this provision really does is tell spine of every single American when vote on the amendment offered by the the banking regulators not to cooper- you have the Department of Justice’s gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. ate with law enforcement when the De- own attorneys telling them we BLACKBURN) on which further pro- partment of Justice has identified mass shouldn’t be doing this because this is ceedings were postponed and on which market fraud and other abuses of the not legal. Yet this is the legal entity the ayes prevailed by voice vote. payments system. that is supposed to be leading our The Clerk will redesignate the The Department of Justice has made country and providing us protection amendment. it a priority to hold the perpetrators of with the law, itself. The Clerk redesignated the amend- consumer fraud accountable. Recently, It is interesting because the FDIC ment. for example, they prosecuted the opera- has already implemented a lot of these RECORDED VOTE tors of lottery scams, the promoters of changes that we requested in our bill. The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote fake business opportunities, and the In committee—and to me, personally— has been demanded. criminals behind a telemarketing fraud they admitted what was going on and A recorded vote was ordered. targeting Spanish-speaking customers. said: We are going to fix our problems. The vote was taken by electronic de- Preventing banking regulators from They admitted Operation Choke Point vice, and there were—ayes 182, noes 241, cooperating with legitimate law en- was going on and that they were tar- not voting 10, as follows: forcement requests would restrict the geting legal businesses that were doing ability of the Civil Division’s Con- legal business. They said: We can’t [Roll No. 377] sumer Protection Branch in enforcing have that. We are going to stop it. The AYES—182 consumer protection statutes through- problem is it is continuing to go on, as Abraham Barton Blackburn Allen Bilirakis Blum out the United States. I indicated in my testimony. Amash Bishop (MI) Boustany Operation Choke Point is just one of Just this week, there was another Babin Bishop (UT) Brady (TX) the Consumer Protection Branch’s ef- one. I have an email address that takes Barr Black Brat

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Pompeo Buchanan Hultgren Poliquin Kuster O’Rourke Shimkus Bishop (UT) Hill Posey Buck Hunter Pompeo LaHood Pallone Simpson Black Holding Price, Tom Bucshon Hurd (TX) Posey Langevin Pascrell Sinema Blackburn Hudson Ratcliffe Burgess Hurt (VA) Price, Tom Larsen (WA) Payne Sires Blum Huelskamp Reed Byrne Issa Ratcliffe Larson (CT) Pelosi Slaughter Boustany Hultgren Roe (TN) Carter (GA) Jenkins (KS) Ribble Lawrence Perlmutter Smith (WA) Brady (TX) Hunter Rogers (AL) Chabot Johnson (OH) Rice (SC) Lee Peters Speier Brat Hurd (TX) Rogers (KY) Chaffetz Johnson, Sam Roe (TN) Levin Peterson Stefanik Bridenstine Hurt (VA) Rohrabacher Clawson (FL) Jones Rogers (AL) Lewis Pingree Swalwell (CA) Brooks (IN) Issa Rokita Coffman Jordan Rohrabacher Lipinski Pocan Takano Buck Jenkins (KS) Ros-Lehtinen Collins (GA) Kelly (MS) Rokita Loebsack Polis Thompson (CA) Burgess Jenkins (WV) Ross Conaway King (IA) Rothfus Lofgren Price (NC) Thompson (MS) Byrne Johnson (OH) Rothfus Lowenthal Quigley Cook Kline Rouzer Thompson (PA) Calvert Johnson, Sam Rouzer Lowey Rangel Cooper Knight Royce Thornberry Carter (GA) Jones Royce Cramer Labrador Russell Lujan Grisham Reed Chabot Jordan Russell Titus Crawford LaMalfa Salmon (NM) Reichert Chaffetz Katko Salmon Tonko Culberson Lamborn Sanford Luja´ n, Ben Ray Renacci Clawson (FL) Kelly (MS) Sanford Torres Davidson Lance Scalise (NM) Rice (NY) Coffman King (IA) Scalise Tsongas Dent Latta Schweikert Lynch Richmond Cole Kline Schweikert Valadao DeSantis LoBiondo Scott, Austin MacArthur Rigell Collins (GA) Knight Scott, Austin DesJarlais Long Sensenbrenner Maloney, Roby Van Hollen Collins (NY) Labrador Sensenbrenner Duffy Loudermilk Sessions Carolyn Rogers (KY) Vargas Comstock LaHood Sessions Duncan (SC) Love Shuster Maloney, Sean Ros-Lehtinen Veasey Conaway LaMalfa Shimkus Duncan (TN) Lucas Smith (MO) Marino Roskam Vela Cook Lamborn Shuster Ellmers (NC) Luetkemeyer Smith (NE) Matsui Ross Vela´ zquez Cramer Lance Smith (MO) Farenthold Lummis Smith (NJ) McCollum Roybal-Allard Visclosky Crawford Latta Smith (NE) Fincher Marchant Smith (TX) McDermott Ruiz Walz Crenshaw LoBiondo Smith (NJ) Fitzpatrick Massie Stewart McGovern Ruppersberger Wasserman Culberson Long Smith (TX) Fleming McCarthy Stivers McKinley Rush Schultz Davidson Loudermilk Stefanik Flores McCaul Stutzman McNerney Ryan (OH) Waters, Maxine Davis, Rodney Love Stewart Forbes McClintock Tiberi Meehan Sa´ nchez, Linda Watson Coleman Denham Lucas Stivers Foxx McHenry Tipton Meeks T. Welch DeSantis Luetkemeyer Stutzman Franks (AZ) McMorris Trott Meng Sanchez, Loretta Westmoreland DesJarlais Lummis Thompson (PA) Garrett Rodgers Upton Moore Sarbanes Whitfield Diaz-Balart Marino Thornberry Gibbs McSally Wagner Moulton Schakowsky Wilson (FL) Duffy Massie Tipton Gohmert Meadows Walberg Murphy (FL) Schiff Womack Duncan (SC) McCarthy Trott Goodlatte Messer Walden Napolitano Schrader Yarmuth Duncan (TN) McCaul Upton Gosar Mica Walker Neal Scott (VA) Young (AK) Emmer (MN) McClintock Valadao Gowdy Miller (FL) Walorski Newhouse Scott, David Young (IN) Farenthold McHenry Wagner Graves (GA) Miller (MI) Walters, Mimi Fincher McKinley Walberg Graves (LA) Moolenaar Weber (TX) NOT VOTING—10 Fitzpatrick McMorris Walden Graves (MO) Mooney (WV) Webster (FL) Bost Lieu, Ted Takai Fleischmann Rodgers Walker Griffith Mullin Wenstrup Brown (FL) Nadler Turner Fleming McSally Walorski Grothman Mulvaney Westerman Delaney Nugent Flores Meadows Walters, Mimi Guinta Murphy (PA) Williams Hastings Rooney (FL) Forbes Messer Weber (TX) Guthrie Neugebauer Wilson (SC) Franks (AZ) Miller (FL) Webster (FL) Hardy Nunes Wittman Garrett Miller (MI) Wenstrup Harris Olson Woodall b 1711 Gibbs Moolenaar Westerman Hartzler Palazzo Yoder Gohmert Mooney (WV) Westmoreland Hensarling Palmer Yoho Messrs. WOMACK, HIMES, MEEKS, Goodlatte Mullin Whitfield Hice, Jody B. Paulsen Young (IA) Ms. BASS, Messrs. REED, ROGERS of Gosar Mulvaney Williams Hill Pearce Zeldin Kentucky, Ms. MCCOLLUM, and Mr. Gowdy Murphy (PA) Wilson (SC) Holding Perry Zinke FRELINGHUYSEN changed their vote Graves (GA) Neugebauer Wittman Graves (LA) Nunes Womack NOES—241 from ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Graves (MO) Olson Woodall Messrs. MULLIN, TROTT, and Griffith Palazzo Yoder Adams Comstock Fudge ROYCE changed their vote from ‘‘no’’ Grothman Palmer Yoho Aderholt Connolly Gabbard Guthrie Paulsen Young (AK) Aguilar Conyers Gallego to ‘‘aye.’’ Harper Pearce Young (IA) Amodei Costa Garamendi So the amendment was rejected. Harris Perry Zeldin Ashford Costello (PA) Gibson Hartzler Pitts Zinke Barletta Courtney Graham The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Bass Crenshaw Granger NOES—224 Beatty Crowley Grayson AMENDMENT NO. 23 OFFERED BY MR. BUCK Becerra Cuellar Green, Al Adams Cicilline Edwards Benishek Cummings Green, Gene The Acting CHAIR (Mr. COLLINS of Aderholt Clark (MA) Ellison Bera Curbelo (FL) Grijalva Georgia). The unfinished business is Aguilar Clarke (NY) Ellmers (NC) Beyer Davis (CA) Gutie´rrez the demand for a recorded vote on the Amodei Clay Engel Bishop (GA) Davis, Danny Hahn Ashford Cleaver Eshoo Blumenauer Davis, Rodney Hanna amendment offered by the gentleman Barletta Clyburn Esty Bonamici DeFazio Harper from Colorado (Mr. BUCK) on which fur- Bass Cohen Farr Boyle, Brendan DeGette Heck (NV) ther proceedings were postponed and Beatty Connolly Fortenberry F. DeLauro Heck (WA) on which the ayes prevailed by voice Becerra Conyers Foster Brady (PA) DelBene Herrera Beutler Bera Cooper Foxx Brownley (CA) Denham Higgins vote. Beyer Costa Frankel (FL) Bustos DeSaulnier Himes The Clerk will redesignate the Bishop (GA) Costello (PA) Frelinghuysen Butterfield Deutch Hinojosa amendment. Blumenauer Courtney Fudge Calvert Diaz-Balart Honda Bonamici Crowley Gabbard Capps Dingell Hoyer The Clerk redesignated the amend- Boyle, Brendan Cuellar Gallego Capuano Doggett Huffman ment. F. Cummings Garamendi Ca´ rdenas Dold Israel RECORDED VOTE Brady (PA) Curbelo (FL) Gibson Carney Donovan Jackson Lee Brooks (AL) Davis (CA) Graham Carson (IN) Doyle, Michael Jeffries The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Brownley (CA) Davis, Danny Granger Carter (TX) F. Jenkins (WV) has been demanded. Buchanan DeFazio Grayson Cartwright Duckworth Johnson (GA) A recorded vote was ordered. Bucshon DeGette Green, Al Castor (FL) Edwards Johnson, E. B. Bustos DeLauro Green, Gene Castro (TX) Ellison Jolly The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Butterfield DelBene Grijalva Chu, Judy Emmer (MN) Joyce minute vote. Capps Dent Gutie´rrez Cicilline Engel Kaptur The vote was taken by electronic de- Capuano DeSaulnier Hahn Clark (MA) Eshoo Katko vice, and there were—ayes 197, noes 224, Ca´ rdenas Deutch Hanna Clarke (NY) Esty Keating Carney Dingell Hardy Clay Farr Kelly (IL) not voting 12, as follows: Carson (IN) Doggett Heck (NV) Cleaver Fleischmann Kelly (PA) [Roll No. 378] Carter (TX) Dold Heck (WA) Clyburn Fortenberry Kennedy Cartwright Donovan Higgins Cohen Foster Kildee AYES—197 Castor (FL) Doyle, Michael Himes Cole Frankel (FL) Kilmer Abraham Amash Barr Castro (TX) F. Hinojosa Collins (NY) Frelinghuysen Kind Allen Babin Barton Chu, Judy Duckworth Honda

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:14 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.024 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4517 Hoyer McCollum Rush Brat Heck (NV) Perry Huffman McGovern Sa´ nchez, Linda Huffman McDermott Ryan (OH) Bridenstine Hensarling Pittenger Israel McNerney T. Huizenga (MI) McGovern Sa´ nchez, Linda Brooks (AL) Herrera Beutler Pitts Jackson Lee McSally Sanchez, Loretta Israel McNerney T. Brooks (IN) Hice, Jody B. Poe (TX) Jeffries Meehan Sanford Jackson Lee Meehan Sanchez, Loretta Buchanan Hill Pompeo Johnson (GA) Meeks Sarbanes Jeffries Meeks Sarbanes Buck Holding Posey Johnson, E. B. Meng Schakowsky Johnson (GA) Meng Schakowsky Bucshon Hudson Price, Tom Jolly Moore Schiff Johnson, E. B. Mica Schiff Burgess Huelskamp Ratcliffe Kaptur Moulton Schrader Jolly Moore Schrader Byrne Huizenga (MI) Reichert Katko Murphy (FL) Scott (VA) Joyce Moulton Scott (VA) Calvert Hultgren Renacci Keating Napolitano Scott, David Kaptur Murphy (FL) Scott, David Carter (GA) Hunter Rice (SC) Kelly (IL) Neal Serrano Keating Napolitano Serrano Carter (TX) Hurd (TX) Roe (TN) Kennedy Noem Sewell (AL) Kelly (IL) Neal Sewell (AL) Chabot Hurt (VA) Rogers (AL) Kildee Nolan Sherman Kelly (PA) Newhouse Sherman Chaffetz Issa Rogers (KY) Kilmer Norcross Shimkus Kennedy Noem Simpson Clawson (FL) Jenkins (KS) Rohrabacher Kind O’Rourke Sinema Kildee Nolan Sinema Coffman Jenkins (WV) Roskam Kinzinger (IL) Pallone Sires Kilmer Norcross Sires Cole Johnson (OH) Ross Kirkpatrick Pascrell Slaughter Kind O’Rourke Slaughter Collins (GA) Johnson, Sam Rothfus Kuster Payne Smith (WA) King (NY) Pallone Smith (WA) Comstock Jones Rouzer Langevin Pelosi Speier Kinzinger (IL) Pascrell Speier Conaway Jordan Royce Larsen (WA) Perlmutter Swalwell (CA) Kirkpatrick Payne Swalwell (CA) Cook Joyce Russell Larson (CT) Peters Takano Kuster Pelosi Takano Costello (PA) Kelly (MS) Salmon Lawrence Peterson Thompson (CA) Langevin Perlmutter Thompson (CA) Lee Cramer Kelly (PA) Scalise Pingree Thompson (MS) Larsen (WA) Peters Thompson (MS) Levin Pocan Titus Crawford King (IA) Schweikert Larson (CT) Peterson Tiberi Lewis Poliquin Tonko Cuellar King (NY) Scott, Austin Lawrence Pingree Titus Loebsack Polis Torres Culberson Kline Sensenbrenner Lee Pittenger Tonko Davidson Knight Lofgren Price (NC) Tsongas Sessions Levin Pocan Torres Davis, Rodney Labrador Lowenthal Quigley Van Hollen Shuster Lewis Polis Tsongas DeSantis LaHood Lowey Rangel Vargas Simpson Lipinski Price (NC) Van Hollen DesJarlais LaMalfa Lujan Grisham Reed Veasey Smith (MO) Loebsack Quigley Vargas Diaz-Balart Lamborn (NM) Ribble Vela Smith (NE) Lofgren Rangel Veasey Dold Lance Luja´ n, Ben Ray Rice (NY) Vela´ zquez Smith (NJ) Lowenthal Reichert Vela Donovan Latta (NM) Richmond Visclosky Smith (TX) Lowey Renacci Vela´ zquez Duffy Lipinski Lummis Rigell Walz Stefanik Lujan Grisham Ribble Visclosky Duncan (SC) LoBiondo Lynch Roby Wasserman Stewart (NM) Rice (NY) Walz Duncan (TN) Long Maloney, Ros-Lehtinen Schultz Stivers Luja´ n, Ben Ray Rice (SC) Wasserman Ellmers (NC) Loudermilk Carolyn Roybal-Allard Waters, Maxine (NM) Richmond Schultz Emmer (MN) Love Stutzman Maloney, Sean Ruiz Watson Coleman Lynch Rigell Waters, Maxine Farenthold Lucas Thompson (PA) Matsui Ruppersberger Welch MacArthur Roby Watson Coleman Fincher Luetkemeyer Thornberry McCollum Rush Wilson (FL) Maloney, Roskam Welch Fitzpatrick MacArthur Tiberi McDermott Ryan (OH) Yarmuth Carolyn Roybal-Allard Wilson (FL) Fleischmann Marchant Tipton Maloney, Sean Ruiz Yarmuth Fleming Marino Trott NOT VOTING—13 Matsui Ruppersberger Young (IN) Flores Massie Upton Bost Murphy (PA) Takai Valadao Forbes McCarthy Brown (FL) Nadler Turner NOT VOTING—12 Wagner Fortenberry McCaul Delaney Nugent Williams Bost Hastings Nugent Foxx McClintock Walberg Hastings Rokita Brown (FL) Lieu, Ted Rooney (FL) Franks (AZ) McHenry Walden Lieu, Ted Rooney (FL) Delaney Marchant Takai Frelinghuysen McKinley Walker Guinta Nadler Turner Garrett McMorris Walorski Announcement by the Acting Chair Gibbs Rodgers Walters, Mimi The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Gibson Meadows Weber (TX) There is 1 minute remaining. The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Gohmert Messer Webster (FL) Wenstrup There is 1 minute remaining. Goodlatte Mica Gosar Miller (FL) Westerman b 1718 Gowdy Miller (MI) Westmoreland b 1715 Granger Moolenaar Whitfield So the amendment was agreed to. Wilson (SC) Mr. BISHOP of Michigan changed his Graves (GA) Mooney (WV) The result of the vote was announced Graves (LA) Mullin Wittman as above recorded. vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Womack Graves (MO) Mulvaney Stated for: So the amendment was rejected. Griffith Neugebauer Woodall The result of the vote was announced Grothman Newhouse Yoder Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chair, Guinta Nunes Yoho as above recorded. on rollcall No. 379, I was unavoidably de- Guthrie Olson Young (AK) tained. Had I been present, I would have AMENDMENT NO. 25 OFFERED BY MR. DAVIDSON Hardy Palazzo Young (IA) Young (IN) voted ‘‘yes.’’ The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Harper Palmer Harris Paulsen Zeldin AMENDMENT NO. 28 OFFERED BY MR. GARRETT business is the demand for a recorded Hartzler Pearce Zinke vote on the amendment offered by the The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded gentleman from Ohio (Mr. DAVIDSON) NOES—203 vote on the amendment offered by the on which further proceedings were Adams Cicilline Doyle, Michael postponed and on which the ayes pre- Aguilar Clark (MA) F. gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. GAR- Amodei Clarke (NY) Duckworth vailed by voice vote. RETT) on which further proceedings Ashford Clay Edwards were postponed and on which the ayes The Clerk will redesignate the Barletta Cleaver Ellison amendment. Bass Clyburn Engel prevailed by voice vote. Beatty Cohen Eshoo The Clerk will redesignate the The Clerk redesignated the amend- Becerra Collins (NY) Esty ment. amendment. Benishek Connolly Farr The Clerk redesignated the amend- RECORDED VOTE Bera Conyers Foster Beyer Cooper Frankel (FL) ment. The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Bishop (GA) Costa Fudge RECORDED VOTE has been demanded. Blumenauer Courtney Gabbard A recorded vote was ordered. Bonamici Crenshaw Gallego The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Boyle, Brendan Crowley Garamendi has been demanded. The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- F. Cummings Graham minute vote. A recorded vote was ordered. Brady (PA) Curbelo (FL) Grayson The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- The vote was taken by electronic de- Brownley (CA) Davis (CA) Green, Al vice, and there were—ayes 217, noes 203, Bustos Davis, Danny Green, Gene minute vote. Butterfield DeFazio Grijalva not voting 13, as follows: The vote was taken by electronic de- Capps DeGette Gutie´rrez vice, and there were—ayes 243, noes 180, [Roll No. 379] Capuano DeLauro Hahn Ca´ rdenas DelBene Hanna not voting 10, as follows: AYES—217 Carney Denham Heck (WA) [Roll No. 380] Abraham Barr Black Carson (IN) Dent Higgins Aderholt Barton Blackburn Cartwright DeSaulnier Himes AYES—243 Allen Bilirakis Blum Castor (FL) Deutch Hinojosa Abraham Amash Babin Amash Bishop (MI) Boustany Castro (TX) Dingell Honda Aderholt Amodei Barletta Babin Bishop (UT) Brady (TX) Chu, Judy Doggett Hoyer Allen Ashford Barr

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Price, Tom Gabbard (NM) Sarbanes Carter (GA) Hurd (TX) Renacci ´ Boustany Hill Ratcliffe Gallego Lujan, Ben Ray Schakowsky Carter (TX) Hurt (VA) Ribble Garamendi (NM) Brady (TX) Holding Reed Schiff Chabot Issa Rice (SC) Brat Hudson Graham Lynch Chaffetz Jenkins (KS) Rigell Reichert Schrader Bridenstine Huelskamp Grayson Maloney, Clawson (FL) Jenkins (WV) Roby Renacci Scott (VA) Brooks (AL) Huizenga (MI) Green, Al Carolyn Coffman Johnson (OH) Roe (TN) Ribble Scott, David Brooks (IN) Hultgren Green, Gene Maloney, Sean Cole Johnson, Sam Rogers (AL) Rice (SC) Serrano Buchanan Hunter Rigell Grijalva Matsui Collins (GA) Jolly Rogers (KY) Gutie´rrez McCollum Sewell (AL) Buck Hurd (TX) Roby Collins (NY) Joyce Rohrabacher Hahn McDermott Sherman Bucshon Hurt (VA) Roe (TN) Comstock Katko Rokita Burgess Issa Hanna McGovern Sinema Conaway Kelly (MS) Rogers (AL) Ros-Lehtinen Byrne Jenkins (KS) Heck (WA) McNerney Sires Cook Kelly (PA) Roskam Rogers (KY) Calvert Jenkins (WV) Higgins Meeks Slaughter Costello (PA) King (IA) Ross Rohrabacher Carter (GA) Johnson (OH) Himes Meng Smith (WA) Cramer King (NY) Rothfus Rokita Carter (TX) Johnson, Sam Hinojosa Moore Speier Crawford Kinzinger (IL) Rouzer Ros-Lehtinen Chabot Jolly Honda Moulton Swalwell (CA) Crenshaw Kline Royce Roskam Chaffetz Jones Hoyer Murphy (FL) Takano Cuellar Knight Russell Ross Clawson (FL) Jordan Huffman Napolitano Thompson (CA) Culberson Labrador Salmon Rothfus Coffman Joyce Israel Neal Thompson (MS) Curbelo (FL) LaHood Sanford Rouzer Cole Katko Jackson Lee Nolan Titus Davidson LaMalfa Scalise Collins (GA) Kelly (MS) Royce Jeffries Norcross Davis, Rodney Lamborn Schweikert Russell Tonko Collins (NY) Kelly (PA) Johnson (GA) O’Rourke Torres Denham Lance Scott, Austin Salmon Johnson, E. B. Pallone Comstock King (IA) Tsongas Dent Latta Sensenbrenner Conaway King (NY) Sanford Kaptur Pascrell DeSantis LoBiondo Van Hollen Sessions Cook Kinzinger (IL) Scalise Keating Payne DesJarlais Long Shimkus Vargas Costello (PA) Kline Schweikert Kelly (IL) Pelosi Diaz-Balart Loudermilk Shuster Veasey Cramer Knight Scott, Austin Kennedy Perlmutter Dold Love Simpson Vela Crawford Labrador Sensenbrenner Kildee Peters Donovan Lucas Smith (MO) ´ Crenshaw LaHood Sessions Kilmer Pingree Velazquez Duffy Luetkemeyer Smith (NE) Cuellar LaMalfa Shimkus Kind Pocan Visclosky Duncan (TN) Lummis Smith (NJ) Culberson Lamborn Shuster Kirkpatrick Poliquin Walz Ellmers (NC) MacArthur Smith (TX) Curbelo (FL) Lance Simpson Kuster Polis Wasserman Emmer (MN) Marchant Stefanik Davidson Latta Smith (MO) Langevin Price (NC) Schultz Farenthold Marino Stewart Davis, Rodney LoBiondo Smith (NE) Larsen (WA) Quigley Waters, Maxine Fincher Massie Stivers Denham Long Smith (NJ) Larson (CT) Rangel Watson Coleman Fitzpatrick McCarthy Stutzman Dent Loudermilk Smith (TX) Lawrence Rice (NY) Welch Fleischmann McCaul Thompson (PA) DeSantis Love Stefanik Lee Richmond Wilson (FL) Fleming McClintock Thornberry DesJarlais Lucas Stewart Levin Roybal-Allard Yarmuth Flores McHenry Tiberi Diaz-Balart Luetkemeyer Forbes McKinley Tipton Stivers NOT VOTING—10 Dold Lummis Stutzman Fortenberry McMorris Trott Donovan MacArthur Thompson (PA) Bost Lieu, Ted Takai Foxx Rodgers Upton Duffy Marchant Thornberry Brown (FL) Nadler Turner Franks (AZ) McSally Valadao Duncan (SC) Marino Tiberi Delaney Nugent Frelinghuysen Meadows Wagner Duncan (TN) Massie Tipton Hastings Rooney (FL) Garrett Meehan Walberg Ellmers (NC) McCarthy Trott Gibbs Messer Walden ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Emmer (MN) McCaul Upton Gibson Mica Walker Farenthold McClintock Gohmert Miller (FL) Valadao The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Walorski Fincher McHenry Goodlatte Miller (MI) Walters, Mimi Wagner There is 1 minute remaining. Fitzpatrick McKinley Gosar Moolenaar Weber (TX) Walberg Fleischmann McMorris Gowdy Mooney (WV) Webster (FL) Walden 1721 Fleming Rodgers b Granger Mullin Wenstrup Walker Flores McSally Graves (GA) Mulvaney Westerman Walorski So the amendment was agreed to. Forbes Meadows The result of the vote was announced Graves (LA) Murphy (PA) Westmoreland Fortenberry Meehan Walters, Mimi Graves (MO) Neugebauer Whitfield Foxx Messer Weber (TX) as above recorded. Griffith Newhouse Williams Webster (FL) Franks (AZ) Mica AMENDMENT NO. 29 OFFERED BY MR. GARRETT Grothman Noem Wilson (SC) Frelinghuysen Miller (FL) Wenstrup Guinta Nunes Wittman Garrett Miller (MI) Westerman The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Guthrie Olson Womack Gibbs Moolenaar Westmoreland business is the demand for a recorded Hardy Palazzo Woodall Gibson Mooney (WV) Whitfield vote on the amendment offered by the Harper Palmer Yoder Gohmert Mullin Williams Harris Paulsen Yoho gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. GAR- Goodlatte Mulvaney Wilson (SC) Hartzler Pearce Young (AK) Gosar Murphy (PA) Wittman RETT) on which further proceedings Heck (NV) Perry Young (IA) Gowdy Neugebauer Womack were postponed and on which the ayes Hensarling Pittenger Young (IN) Granger Newhouse Woodall prevailed by voice vote. Herrera Beutler Pitts Zeldin Graves (GA) Noem Yoder Hice, Jody B. Poe (TX) Zinke Graves (LA) Nunes Yoho The Clerk will redesignate the Graves (MO) Olson Young (AK) amendment. NOES—182 Griffith Palazzo Young (IA) The Clerk redesignated the amend- Adams Castro (TX) Doggett Grothman Palmer Young (IN) ment. Guinta Paulsen Zeldin Aguilar Chu, Judy Doyle, Michael Guthrie Pearce Zinke RECORDED VOTE Ashford Cicilline F. Bass Clark (MA) Duckworth The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote NOES—180 Beatty Clarke (NY) Edwards has been demanded. Becerra Clay Ellison Adams Ca´ rdenas Courtney A recorded vote was ordered. Bera Cleaver Engel Aguilar Carney Crowley Beyer Clyburn Eshoo Bass Carson (IN) Cummings The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Bishop (GA) Cohen Esty Beatty Cartwright Davis (CA) minute vote. Blumenauer Connolly Farr Becerra Castor (FL) Davis, Danny The vote was taken by electronic de- Bonamici Conyers Foster Bera Castro (TX) DeFazio vice, and there were—ayes 239, noes 182, Boyle, Brendan Cooper Frankel (FL) Beyer Chu, Judy DeGette F. Costa Fudge Bishop (GA) Cicilline DeLauro not voting 12, as follows: Brady (PA) Courtney Gabbard Blumenauer Clark (MA) DelBene [Roll No. 381] Brownley (CA) Crowley Gallego Bonamici Clarke (NY) DeSaulnier Bustos Cummings Garamendi Boyle, Brendan Clay Deutch AYES—239 Butterfield Davis (CA) Graham F. Cleaver Dingell Abraham Barr Blackburn Capps Davis, Danny Grayson Brady (PA) Clyburn Doggett Aderholt Barton Blum Capuano DeFazio Green, Al Brownley (CA) Cohen Doyle, Michael Allen Benishek Boustany Ca´ rdenas DeGette Green, Gene Bustos Connolly F. Amash Bilirakis Brady (TX) Carney DeLauro Grijalva Butterfield Conyers Duckworth Amodei Bishop (MI) Brat Carson (IN) DelBene Gutie´rrez Capps Cooper Edwards Babin Bishop (UT) Bridenstine Cartwright Deutch Hahn Capuano Costa Ellison Barletta Black Brooks (AL) Castor (FL) Dingell Hanna

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Cramer Jolly Reed Langevin Neal Schrader Himes Carolyn Sanchez, Loretta Crawford Jones Renacci Larsen (WA) Nolan Scott (VA) Hinojosa Maloney, Sean Sarbanes Crenshaw Jordan Ribble Larson (CT) Norcross Scott, David Honda Matsui Schakowsky Cuellar Joyce Rice (SC) Lawrence O’Rourke Serrano Hoyer McCollum Schiff Culberson Katko Rigell Lee Pallone Sewell (AL) Huffman McDermott Schrader Davidson Kelly (MS) Roby Levin Pascrell Sherman Israel McGovern Scott (VA) Davis, Rodney Kelly (PA) Roe (TN) Lewis Payne Sires Jackson Lee McNerney Scott, David Denham King (IA) Rogers (AL) Lieu, Ted Pelosi Slaughter Jeffries Meeks Serrano Dent King (NY) Rogers (KY) Lipinski Perlmutter Smith (WA) Johnson (GA) Meng Sewell (AL) DeSantis Kinzinger (IL) Rohrabacher Loebsack Peters Speier Johnson, E. B. Moore Sherman DesJarlais Kline Rokita Lofgren Peterson Swalwell (CA) Jones Moulton Sinema Donovan Knight Roskam Lowenthal Pingree Takano Kaptur Murphy (FL) Sires Duffy Labrador Ross Lowey Pocan Thompson (CA) Keating Napolitano Slaughter Duncan (SC) LaHood Rothfus Lujan Grisham Polis Thompson (MS) Kelly (IL) Neal Smith (WA) Duncan (TN) LaMalfa Rouzer (NM) Price (NC) Titus Kennedy Nolan Speier Ellmers (NC) Lamborn Royce Luja´ n, Ben Ray Quigley Tonko Kildee Norcross Swalwell (CA) Emmer (MN) Lance Russell (NM) Rangel Torres Kilmer O’Rourke Takano Farenthold Latta Salmon Lynch Reichert Tsongas Kind Pallone Thompson (CA) Fincher LoBiondo Sanford Maloney, Rice (NY) Valadao Kirkpatrick Pascrell Thompson (MS) Fitzpatrick Long Scalise Carolyn Richmond Van Hollen Kuster Payne Titus Fleischmann Loudermilk Schweikert Maloney, Sean Ros-Lehtinen Vargas Langevin Pelosi Tonko Fleming Love Scott, Austin Matsui Roybal-Allard Veasey Larsen (WA) Perlmutter Torres Flores Lucas Sensenbrenner McCollum Ruiz Vela Larson (CT) Peters Tsongas Forbes Luetkemeyer Sessions McDermott Ruppersberger Vela´ zquez Lawrence Peterson Van Hollen Fortenberry Lummis Shimkus McGovern Rush Visclosky Lee Pingree Vargas Foxx MacArthur Shuster McNerney Ryan (OH) Wasserman Levin Pocan Veasey Franks (AZ) Marchant Simpson Meeks Sa´ nchez, Linda Schultz Lewis Polis Vela Frelinghuysen Marino Smith (MO) Meng T. Watson Coleman Lieu, Ted Price (NC) Vela´ zquez Garrett Massie Smith (NE) Moore Sanchez, Loretta Welch Lipinski Quigley Visclosky Gibbs McCarthy Smith (NJ) Moulton Sarbanes Wilson (FL) Loebsack Rangel Walz Gibson McCaul Smith (TX) Murphy (FL) Schakowsky Yarmuth Lofgren Rice (NY) Wasserman Gohmert McClintock Stefanik Lowenthal Richmond Schultz Goodlatte McHenry Stewart NOT VOTING—15 Lowey Roybal-Allard Waters, Maxine Gosar McKinley Stivers Bost Farr Sinema Lujan Grisham Ruiz Watson Coleman Gowdy McMorris Stutzman Brat Hastings Takai (NM) Ruppersberger Welch Granger Rodgers Thompson (PA) Brown (FL) Nadler Turner Luja´ n, Ben Ray Rush Wilson (FL) Graves (GA) McSally Thornberry Delaney Nugent Walz (NM) Ryan (OH) Yarmuth Graves (LA) Meadows Tiberi Eshoo Rooney (FL) Waters, Maxine Graves (MO) Meehan Tipton NOT VOTING—12 Griffith Messer Trott ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Bost Duncan (SC) Nugent Grothman Mica Upton The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Brown (FL) Hastings Rooney (FL) Guinta Miller (FL) Wagner There is 1 minute remaining. Delaney Jordan Takai Guthrie Miller (MI) Walberg DeSaulnier Nadler Turner Hanna Moolenaar Walden Hardy Mooney (WV) Walker b 1727 ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Harper Mullin Walorski The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Harris Mulvaney Walters, Mimi So the amendment was agreed to. There is 1 minute remaining. Hartzler Murphy (PA) Weber (TX) The result of the vote was announced Heck (NV) Neugebauer Webster (FL) as above recorded. 1724 Hensarling Newhouse Wenstrup b Herrera Beutler Noem Westerman AMENDMENT NO. 32 OFFERED BY MR. GUINTA So the amendment was agreed to. Hice, Jody B. Nunes Westmoreland The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished The result of the vote was announced Hill Olson Whitfield Holding Palazzo Williams business is the demand for a recorded as above recorded. Hudson Palmer Wilson (SC) vote on the amendment offered by the AMENDMENT NO. 31 OFFERED BY MR. GOSAR Huelskamp Paulsen Wittman gentleman from New Hampshire (Mr. Huizenga (MI) Pearce Womack GUINTA) on which further proceedings The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Hultgren Perry Woodall business is the demand for a recorded Hunter Pittenger Yoder were postponed and on which the ayes vote on the amendment offered by the Hurd (TX) Pitts Yoho prevailed by voice vote. Hurt (VA) Poe (TX) Young (AK) gentleman from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR) The Clerk will redesignate the Issa Poliquin Young (IA) on which further proceedings were Jenkins (KS) Pompeo Young (IN) amendment. postponed and on which the ayes pre- Jenkins (WV) Posey Zeldin The Clerk redesignated the amend- vailed by voice vote. Johnson (OH) Price, Tom Zinke ment. RECORDED VOTE The Clerk will redesignate the NOES—182 amendment. The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Adams Clyburn Fudge The Clerk redesignated the amend- Aguilar Cohen Gabbard has been demanded. ment. Ashford Connolly Gallego A recorded vote was ordered. RECORDED VOTE Bass Conyers Garamendi The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Beatty Cooper Graham The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Becerra Costa Grayson minute vote. has been demanded. Bera Courtney Green, Al The vote was taken by electronic de- A recorded vote was ordered. Beyer Crowley Green, Gene vice, and there were—ayes 260, noes 162, Bishop (GA) Cummings Grijalva answered ‘‘present’’ 1, not voting 10, as The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Blumenauer Curbelo (FL) Gutie´rrez minute vote. Bonamici Davis (CA) Hahn follows: The vote was taken by electronic de- Boyle, Brendan Davis, Danny Heck (WA) [Roll No. 383] vice, and there were—ayes 236, noes 182, F. DeFazio Higgins Brady (PA) DeGette Himes AYES—260 not voting 15, as follows: Brownley (CA) DeLauro Hinojosa Abraham Black Carter (TX) [Roll No. 382] Bustos DelBene Honda Aderholt Blackburn Chabot Butterfield DeSaulnier Hoyer Aguilar Blum Chaffetz AYES—236 Capps Deutch Huffman Allen Boustany Clawson (FL) Abraham Black Calvert Capuano Diaz-Balart Israel Amash Boyle, Brendan Coffman Aderholt Blackburn Carter (GA) Ca´ rdenas Dingell Jackson Lee Amodei F. Cole Allen Blum Carter (TX) Carney Doggett Jeffries Ashford Brady (TX) Collins (GA) Amash Boustany Chabot Carson (IN) Dold Johnson (GA) Babin Brat Collins (NY) Amodei Brady (TX) Chaffetz Cartwright Doyle, Michael Johnson, E. B. Barletta Bridenstine Comstock Babin Bridenstine Clawson (FL) Castor (FL) F. Kaptur Barr Brooks (AL) Conaway Barletta Brooks (AL) Coffman Castro (TX) Duckworth Keating Barton Brooks (IN) Cook Barr Brooks (IN) Cole Chu, Judy Edwards Kelly (IL) Benishek Buck Cooper Barton Buchanan Collins (GA) Cicilline Ellison Kennedy Bera Bucshon Costa Benishek Buck Collins (NY) Clark (MA) Engel Kildee Bilirakis Burgess Costello (PA) Bilirakis Bucshon Comstock Clarke (NY) Esty Kilmer Bishop (GA) Byrne Cramer Bishop (MI) Burgess Conaway Clay Foster Kind Bishop (MI) Calvert Crawford Bishop (UT) Byrne Cook Cleaver Frankel (FL) Kirkpatrick Bishop (UT) Carter (GA) Crenshaw

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:34 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.028 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4520 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Cuellar Katko Rigell Kildee Meeks Sarbanes Diaz-Balart Kelly (PA) Renacci Culberson Keating Roby Kilmer Meng Schakowsky Dold King (IA) Ribble Curbelo (FL) Kelly (MS) Roe (TN) Kind Moore Schiff Donovan King (NY) Rice (SC) Davidson Kelly (PA) Rogers (AL) Kirkpatrick Moulton Scott (VA) Duffy Kinzinger (IL) Rigell Davis, Rodney King (IA) Rogers (KY) Kuster Murphy (FL) Serrano Duncan (SC) Kline Roby Denham King (NY) Rohrabacher Langevin Napolitano Sewell (AL) Duncan (TN) Knight Roe (TN) Dent Kinzinger (IL) Rokita Larsen (WA) Neal Sherman Ellmers (NC) Labrador Rogers (AL) DeSantis Kline Ros-Lehtinen Larson (CT) Nolan Slaughter Emmer (MN) LaHood Rogers (KY) DesJarlais Knight Roskam Lawrence Norcross Smith (WA) Farenthold LaMalfa Rohrabacher Diaz-Balart Labrador Ross Lee O’Rourke Speier Fincher Lamborn Rokita Dold LaHood Rothfus Levin Pallone Swalwell (CA) Fitzpatrick Lance Ros-Lehtinen Lewis Payne Donovan LaMalfa Rouzer Takano Fleischmann Latta Ross Lieu, Ted Pelosi Thompson (CA) Duffy Lamborn Royce Fleming LoBiondo Rothfus Duncan (SC) Lance Loebsack Perlmutter Thompson (MS) Ruppersberger Flores Long Rouzer Duncan (TN) Latta Lofgren Peters Titus Russell Forbes Loudermilk Russell Ellmers (NC) Lipinski Lowenthal Pingree Tonko Salmon Fortenberry Love Salmon Emmer (MN) LoBiondo Lowey Pocan Torres Sanford Foxx Lucas Sanford Farenthold Long Lujan Grisham Polis Tsongas Scalise Franks (AZ) Luetkemeyer Scalise Fincher Loudermilk (NM) Price (NC) Van Hollen Frelinghuysen Lummis Schweikert Fitzpatrick Love Schrader Luja´ n, Ben Ray Quigley Vargas Schweikert Garrett Marchant Scott, Austin Fleischmann Lucas (NM) Rangel Vela´ zquez Gibbs Marino Sensenbrenner Fleming Luetkemeyer Scott, Austin Lynch Rice (NY) Visclosky Scott, David Gibson Massie Sessions Flores Lummis Maloney, Richmond Walz Gohmert McCarthy Shimkus Sensenbrenner Forbes MacArthur Carolyn Roybal-Allard Wasserman Goodlatte McCaul Shuster Sessions Fortenberry Marchant Maloney, Sean Ruiz Schultz Gosar McClintock Simpson Shimkus Foxx Marino Matsui Rush Waters, Maxine Gowdy McHenry Smith (MO) Shuster Franks (AZ) Massie McCollum Ryan (OH) Watson Coleman Granger McKinley Smith (NE) Simpson ´ Frelinghuysen McCarthy McDermott Sanchez, Linda Welch Graves (GA) McMorris Smith (TX) Sires Garrett McCaul McGovern T. Wilson (FL) Graves (LA) Rodgers Stefanik Smith (MO) Gibbs McClintock McNerney Sanchez, Loretta Yarmuth Graves (MO) McSally Stewart Smith (NE) Gibson McHenry Griffith Meadows Stivers Smith (NJ) ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—1 Gohmert McKinley Grothman Meehan Stutzman Smith (TX) Goodlatte McMorris Buchanan Guinta Messer Thompson (PA) Gosar Rodgers Stefanik NOT VOTING—10 Guthrie Mica Thornberry Gowdy McSally Stewart Hardy Miller (FL) Tiberi Granger Meadows Stivers Bost Nadler Takai Harper Miller (MI) Tipton Graves (GA) Meehan Stutzman Brown (FL) Nugent Turner Harris Moolenaar Trott Graves (LA) Messer Thompson (PA) Delaney Rooney (FL) Hartzler Mooney (WV) Upton Graves (MO) Mica Thornberry Hastings Sinema Heck (NV) Mullin Valadao Green, Gene Miller (FL) Tiberi Hensarling Mulvaney Wagner ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Griffith Miller (MI) Tipton Herrera Beutler Murphy (PA) Walberg Grothman Moolenaar Trott The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Hice, Jody B. Neugebauer Walden Guinta Mooney (WV) Upton There is 1 minute remaining. Hill Newhouse Walker Guthrie Mullin Valadao Holding Noem Walorski Hanna Mulvaney Veasey Hudson Nunes Weber (TX) Hardy Murphy (PA) Vela b 1730 Huelskamp Olson Webster (FL) Harper Neugebauer Wagner Huizenga (MI) Palazzo Wenstrup Harris Newhouse Walberg So the amendment was agreed to. Hultgren Palmer Westerman Hartzler Noem Walden The result of the vote was announced Hunter Paulsen Westmoreland Heck (NV) Nunes Walker Hurd (TX) Pearce Whitfield Hensarling Olson as above recorded. Walorski Hurt (VA) Perry Williams Herrera Beutler Palazzo Walters, Mimi AMENDMENT NO. 34 OFFERED BY MR. HUIZENGA Issa Peterson Wilson (SC) Hice, Jody B. Palmer Weber (TX) OF MICHIGAN Jenkins (KS) Pittenger Wittman Hill Pascrell Webster (FL) Jenkins (WV) Pitts Womack Holding Paulsen The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Wenstrup business is the demand for a recorded Johnson (OH) Poe (TX) Woodall Hudson Pearce Johnson, Sam Poliquin Yoder Huelskamp Perry Westerman Westmoreland vote on the amendment offered by the Jolly Pompeo Yoho Huizenga (MI) Peterson gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Jones Posey Young (AK) Hultgren Pittenger Whitfield Williams HUIZENGA) on which further pro- Jordan Price, Tom Young (IA) Hunter Pitts Joyce Ratcliffe Young (IN) Hurd (TX) Poe (TX) Wilson (SC) ceedings were postponed and on which Wittman Katko Reed Zeldin Hurt (VA) Poliquin the ayes prevailed by voice vote. Kelly (MS) Reichert Zinke Issa Pompeo Womack Jenkins (KS) Posey Woodall The Clerk will redesignate the Jenkins (WV) Price, Tom Yoder amendment. NOES—188 Johnson (OH) Ratcliffe Yoho The Clerk redesignated the amend- Adams Conyers Grayson Johnson, Sam Reed Young (AK) ment. Aguilar Cooper Green, Al Jolly Reichert Young (IA) Ashford Costa Green, Gene Jones Renacci Young (IN) RECORDED VOTE Bass Costello (PA) Grijalva Jordan Ribble Zeldin The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Beatty Courtney Gutie´rrez Joyce Rice (SC) Zinke Becerra Crowley Hahn has been demanded. Bera Cuellar Hanna NOES—162 A recorded vote was ordered. Beyer Cummings Heck (WA) Bishop (GA) Davis (CA) Higgins Adams Cohen Frankel (FL) The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Blumenauer Davis, Danny Himes Bass Connolly Fudge minute vote. Bonamici DeFazio Hinojosa Beatty Conyers Gabbard The vote was taken by electronic de- Boyle, Brendan DeGette Honda Becerra Courtney Gallego vice, and there were—ayes 236, noes 188, F. DeLauro Hoyer Beyer Crowley Garamendi Brady (PA) DelBene Huffman Blumenauer Cummings Graham not voting 9, as follows: Brownley (CA) DeSaulnier Israel Bonamici Davis (CA) Grayson [Roll No. 384] Bustos Deutch Jackson Lee Brady (PA) Davis, Danny Green, Al Butterfield Dingell Jeffries Brownley (CA) DeFazio Grijalva AYES—236 Capps Doggett Johnson (GA) Bustos DeGette Gutie´rrez Abraham Brady (TX) Cole Capuano Doyle, Michael Johnson, E. B. Butterfield DeLauro Hahn Aderholt Brat Collins (GA) Ca´ rdenas F. Kaptur Capps DelBene Heck (WA) Allen Bridenstine Collins (NY) Carney Duckworth Keating Capuano DeSaulnier Higgins Amash Brooks (AL) Comstock Carson (IN) Edwards Kelly (IL) Ca´ rdenas Deutch Himes Amodei Brooks (IN) Conaway Cartwright Ellison Kennedy Carney Dingell Hinojosa Babin Buchanan Cook Castor (FL) Engel Kildee Carson (IN) Doggett Honda Barletta Buck Cramer Castro (TX) Eshoo Kilmer Cartwright Doyle, Michael Hoyer Barr Bucshon Crawford Chu, Judy Esty Kind Castor (FL) F. Huffman Barton Burgess Crenshaw Cicilline Farr Kirkpatrick Castro (TX) Duckworth Israel Benishek Byrne Culberson Clark (MA) Foster Kuster Chu, Judy Edwards Jackson Lee Bilirakis Calvert Curbelo (FL) Clarke (NY) Frankel (FL) Langevin Cicilline Ellison Jeffries Bishop (MI) Carter (GA) Davidson Clay Fudge Larsen (WA) Clark (MA) Engel Johnson (GA) Bishop (UT) Carter (TX) Davis, Rodney Cleaver Gabbard Larson (CT) Clarke (NY) Eshoo Johnson, E. B. Black Chabot Denham Clyburn Gallego Lawrence Clay Esty Kaptur Blackburn Chaffetz Dent Cohen Garamendi Lee Cleaver Farr Kelly (IL) Blum Clawson (FL) DeSantis Connolly Graham Levin Clyburn Foster Kennedy Boustany Coffman DesJarlais

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:23 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.031 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4521 Lewis Pallone Sewell (AL) Fincher LaHood Rogers (KY) Maloney, Poliquin Slaughter Lieu, Ted Pascrell Sherman Fitzpatrick LaMalfa Rohrabacher Carolyn Polis Smith (WA) Lipinski Payne Sinema Fleischmann Lamborn Rokita Maloney, Sean Price (NC) Speier Loebsack Pelosi Sires Fleming Lance Ros-Lehtinen Matsui Quigley Swalwell (CA) Lofgren Perlmutter Slaughter Flores Latta Roskam McCollum Rangel Takano Lowenthal Peters Smith (NJ) Forbes LoBiondo Ross McDermott Reed Thompson (CA) Lowey Pingree Smith (WA) Fortenberry Long Rothfus McGovern Rice (NY) Thompson (MS) Lujan Grisham Pocan Speier Foxx Loudermilk Rouzer McNerney Richmond Titus (NM) Polis Swalwell (CA) Meeks Roybal-Allard Franks (AZ) Love Royce Tonko Luja´ n, Ben Ray Price (NC) Takano Frelinghuysen Lucas Russell Meng Ruiz Torres (NM) Quigley Thompson (CA) Garrett Luetkemeyer Salmon Moore Ruppersberger Tsongas Lynch Rangel Thompson (MS) Gibbs Lummis Sanford Moulton Rush Van Hollen MacArthur Rice (NY) Titus Gohmert MacArthur Scalise Murphy (FL) Ryan (OH) Maloney, Richmond Tonko Goodlatte Marchant Schweikert Napolitano Sa´ nchez, Linda Vargas Carolyn Roskam Torres Gosar Marino Scott, Austin Neal T. Veasey Maloney, Sean Roybal-Allard Tsongas Gowdy Massie Sensenbrenner Nolan Sanchez, Loretta Vela Matsui Royce Van Hollen Granger McCarthy Sessions Norcross Sarbanes Vela´ zquez McCollum Ruiz Vargas Graves (GA) McCaul Shimkus O’Rourke Schakowsky Visclosky McDermott Ruppersberger Veasey Graves (LA) McClintock Shuster Pallone Schiff Walz McGovern Rush Vela Graves (MO) McHenry Simpson Pascrell Schrader Wasserman McNerney Ryan (OH) Vela´ zquez Griffith McKinley Smith (MO) Payne Scott (VA) Schultz Meeks Sa´ nchez, Linda Visclosky Grothman McMorris Smith (NE) Pelosi Scott, David Waters, Maxine Meng T. Walters, Mimi Guinta Rodgers Smith (NJ) Perlmutter Serrano Watson Coleman Moore Sanchez, Loretta Walz Guthrie McSally Smith (TX) Peters Sewell (AL) Welch Moulton Sarbanes Wasserman Hanna Meadows Stefanik Peterson Sherman Wilson (FL) Murphy (FL) Schakowsky Schultz Hardy Meehan Stewart Pingree Sinema Yarmuth Napolitano Schiff Waters, Maxine Harper Messer Stivers Pocan Sires Neal Schrader Watson Coleman Harris Miller (FL) Stutzman Nolan Scott (VA) Welch Hartzler Miller (MI) Thompson (PA) NOT VOTING—12 Norcross Scott, David Wilson (FL) Heck (NV) Moolenaar Thornberry Bishop (GA) Delaney Nugent O’Rourke Serrano Yarmuth Hensarling Mooney (WV) Tiberi Bost Hastings Rooney (FL) Herrera Beutler Mullin Tipton Brown (FL) Mica Takai NOT VOTING—9 Hice, Jody B. Mulvaney Trott Curbelo (FL) Nadler Turner Bost Hastings Rooney (FL) Hill Murphy (PA) Upton Brown (FL) Nadler Takai Holding Neugebauer Valadao ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Delaney Nugent Turner Hudson Newhouse Wagner The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Huelskamp Noem Walberg There is 1 minute remaining. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Huizenga (MI) Nunes Walden The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Hultgren Olson Walker b 1737 There is 1 minute remaining. Hunter Palazzo Walorski Hurd (TX) Palmer Walters, Mimi Ms. FOXX changed her vote from Hurt (VA) Paulsen Weber (TX) ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ b 1734 Issa Pearce Webster (FL) Jenkins (KS) Perry Wenstrup So the amendment was agreed to. So the amendment was agreed to. Jenkins (WV) Pittenger Westerman The result of the vote was announced The result of the vote was announced Johnson (OH) Pitts Westmoreland Johnson, Sam Poe (TX) Whitfield as above recorded. as above recorded. Jolly Pompeo Williams AMENDMENT NO. 38 OFFERED BY MR. KING OF AMENDMENT NO. 35 OFFERED BY MR. HUIZENGA Jones Posey Wilson (SC) IOWA OF MICHIGAN Jordan Price, Tom Wittman Joyce Ratcliffe Womack The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Kelly (MS) Reichert Woodall business is the demand for a recorded business is the demand for a recorded Kelly (PA) Renacci Yoder vote on the amendment offered by the King (IA) Ribble Yoho vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. KING) on gentleman from Michigan (Mr. King (NY) Rice (SC) Young (AK) Kinzinger (IL) Rigell Young (IA) which further proceedings were post- HUIZENGA) on which further pro- Kline Roby Young (IN) poned and on which the ayes prevailed ceedings were postponed and on which Knight Roe (TN) Zeldin by voice vote. the ayes prevailed by voice vote. Labrador Rogers (AL) Zinke The Clerk will redesignate the The Clerk will redesignate the NOES—185 amendment. amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amend- The Clerk redesignated the amend- Adams Cuellar Hinojosa Aguilar Cummings Honda ment. ment. Ashford Davis (CA) Hoyer RECORDED VOTE RECORDED VOTE Bass Davis, Danny Huffman Beatty DeFazio Israel The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Becerra DeGette Jackson Lee has been demanded. has been demanded. Bera DeLauro Jeffries A recorded vote was ordered. A recorded vote was ordered. Beyer DelBene Johnson (GA) The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Blumenauer DeSaulnier Johnson, E. B. Bonamici Deutch Kaptur minute vote. minute vote. Boyle, Brendan Dingell Katko The vote was taken by electronic de- The vote was taken by electronic de- F. Doggett Keating vice, and there were—ayes 192, noes 232, Brady (PA) Doyle, Michael vice, and there were—ayes 236, noes 185, Kelly (IL) not voting 9, as follows: Brownley (CA) F. Kennedy not voting 12, as follows: Bustos Duckworth Kildee [Roll No. 386] Butterfield Edwards [Roll No. 385] Kilmer Capps Ellison AYES—192 Kind AYES—236 Capuano Engel Abraham Burgess Duncan (TN) Kirkpatrick Abraham Brooks (AL) Costello (PA) Ca´ rdenas Eshoo Aderholt Byrne Farenthold Kuster Aderholt Brooks (IN) Cramer Carney Esty Allen Calvert Fincher Allen Buchanan Crawford Carson (IN) Farr Langevin Amash Carter (GA) Fitzpatrick Amash Buck Crenshaw Cartwright Foster Larsen (WA) Babin Carter (TX) Fleischmann Amodei Bucshon Culberson Castor (FL) Frankel (FL) Larson (CT) Barletta Chabot Fleming Babin Burgess Davidson Castro (TX) Fudge Lawrence Barr Chaffetz Flores Barletta Byrne Davis, Rodney Chu, Judy Gabbard Lee Benishek Cole Forbes Barr Calvert Denham Cicilline Gallego Levin Bilirakis Collins (GA) Fortenberry Barton Carter (GA) Dent Clark (MA) Garamendi Lewis Bishop (MI) Collins (NY) Foxx Benishek Carter (TX) DeSantis Clarke (NY) Gibson Lieu, Ted Bishop (UT) Conaway Franks (AZ) Bilirakis Chabot DesJarlais Clay Graham Lipinski Black Cook Frelinghuysen Bishop (MI) Chaffetz Diaz-Balart Cleaver Grayson Loebsack Blackburn Cramer Garrett Bishop (UT) Clawson (FL) Dold Clyburn Green, Al Lofgren Blum Crawford Gibbs Black Coffman Donovan Cohen Green, Gene Lowenthal Boustany Culberson Gohmert Blackburn Cole Duffy Connolly Grijalva Lowey Brady (TX) Davidson Goodlatte Blum Collins (GA) Duncan (SC) Conyers Gutie´rrez Lujan Grisham Brat Davis, Rodney Gosar Boustany Collins (NY) Duncan (TN) Cooper Hahn (NM) Bridenstine DeSantis Gowdy Brady (TX) Comstock Ellmers (NC) Costa Heck (WA) Luja´ n, Ben Ray Brooks (AL) DesJarlais Granger Brat Conaway Emmer (MN) Courtney Higgins (NM) Buchanan Duffy Graves (GA) Bridenstine Cook Farenthold Crowley Himes Lynch Buck Duncan (SC) Graves (LA)

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.032 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4522 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Graves (MO) Massie Russell Neal Roybal-Allard Thompson (MS) prescription opioid abuse and heroin Griffith McCarthy Salmon Newhouse Royce Tipton abuse; and for other purposes, on which Grothman McCaul Sanford Nolan Ruiz Titus Guinta McClintock Scalise Norcross Ruppersberger Tonko the yeas and nays were ordered. Guthrie McHenry Schweikert Nunes Rush Torres The Clerk read the title of the resolu- Harper McKinley Scott, Austin O’Rourke Ryan (OH) Tsongas ´ tion. Harris McMorris Sensenbrenner Pallone Sanchez, Linda Upton Hartzler Rodgers Sessions Pascrell T. Valadao The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Paulsen Sanchez, Loretta Hensarling Meehan Shimkus Van Hollen question is on ordering the previous Hice, Jody B. Mica Payne Sarbanes Shuster Vargas Hill Miller (FL) Pearce Schakowsky question. Simpson Veasey Pelosi Schiff Holding Miller (MI) Vela This will be a 5-minute vote. Hudson Moolenaar Smith (MO) Perlmutter Schrader Vela´ zquez The vote was taken by electronic de- Huelskamp Mooney (WV) Smith (NE) Peters Scott (VA) Visclosky Hultgren Mullin Smith (NJ) Peterson Scott, David vice, and there were—yeas 244, nays Walters, Mimi Hunter Mulvaney Smith (TX) Pingree Serrano 179, not voting 10, as follows: Hurt (VA) Murphy (PA) Stewart Pocan Sewell (AL) Walz Issa Neugebauer Stivers Poe (TX) Sherman Wasserman [Roll No. 387] Schultz Jenkins (KS) Noem Stutzman Polis Sinema YEAS—244 Jenkins (WV) Olson Thompson (PA) Price (NC) Sires Waters, Maxine Johnson (OH) Palazzo Thornberry Quigley Slaughter Watson Coleman Abraham Graves (LA) Noem Aderholt Johnson, Sam Palmer Tiberi Rangel Smith (WA) Welch Graves (MO) Nunes Allen Griffith Olson Jones Perry Trott Reichert Speier Wilson (FL) Amash Grothman Palazzo Jordan Pittenger Wagner Ribble Stefanik Yarmuth Amodei Guinta Palmer Joyce Pitts Walberg Rice (NY) Swalwell (CA) Young (IA) Babin Guthrie Paulsen Kelly (MS) Poliquin Walden Richmond Takano Young (IN) Barletta Hanna Pearce Kelly (PA) Pompeo Walker Ros-Lehtinen Thompson (CA) Zinke King (IA) Posey Barr Hardy Perry Walorski NOT VOTING—9 Barton Harper Peterson King (NY) Price, Tom Weber (TX) Kline Ratcliffe Benishek Harris Pittenger Webster (FL) Bost Hastings Rooney (FL) Knight Reed Bilirakis Hartzler Pitts Wenstrup Brown (FL) Nadler Takai Labrador Renacci Delaney Nugent Turner Bishop (MI) Heck (NV) Poe (TX) Westerman LaHood Rice (SC) Bishop (UT) Hensarling Poliquin LaMalfa Rigell Westmoreland b 1741 Black Herrera Beutler Pompeo Lamborn Roby Whitfield Blackburn Hice, Jody B. Posey Latta Roe (TN) Williams So the amendment was rejected. Blum Hill Price, Tom Long Rogers (AL) Wilson (SC) The result of the vote was announced Boustany Holding Ratcliffe Loudermilk Rogers (KY) Wittman as above recorded. Brady (TX) Hudson Reed Brat Huelskamp Love Rohrabacher Womack Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. Chair, Reichert Lucas Rokita Woodall Bridenstine Huizenga (MI) Renacci Luetkemeyer Roskam Yoder I move that the Committee do now Brooks (AL) Hultgren Ribble Lummis Ross Yoho rise. Brooks (IN) Hunter Rice (SC) Marchant Rothfus Young (AK) The motion was agreed to. Buchanan Hurd (TX) Rigell Marino Rouzer Zeldin Buck Hurt (VA) Roby Accordingly, the Committee rose; Bucshon Issa Roe (TN) NOES—232 and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. CAR- Burgess Jenkins (KS) Rogers (AL) Byrne Jenkins (WV) TER of Georgia) having assumed the Rogers (KY) Adams DeFazio Jeffries Calvert Johnson (OH) chair, Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Acting Rohrabacher Aguilar DeGette Johnson (GA) Carter (GA) Johnson, Sam Rokita Amodei DeLauro Johnson, E. B. Chair of the Committee of the Whole Carter (TX) Jolly Ros-Lehtinen Ashford DelBene Jolly Chabot Jones House on the state of the Union, re- Roskam Barton Denham Kaptur Chaffetz Jordan Ross Bass Dent Katko ported that that Committee, having Clawson (FL) Joyce Rothfus Beatty DeSaulnier Keating had under consideration the bill (H.R. Coffman Katko Rouzer Becerra Deutch Kelly (IL) Cole Kelly (MS) 5485) making appropriations for finan- Royce Bera Diaz-Balart Kennedy Collins (GA) Kelly (PA) cial services and general government Russell Beyer Dingell Kildee Collins (NY) King (IA) Salmon Bishop (GA) Doggett Kilmer for the fiscal year ending September 30, Comstock King (NY) Sanford Blumenauer Dold Kind Conaway Kinzinger (IL) 2017, and for other purposes, had come Scalise Bonamici Donovan Kinzinger (IL) Cook Kirkpatrick to no resolution thereon. Schweikert Boyle, Brendan Doyle, Michael Kirkpatrick Costello (PA) Kline Scott, Austin F. F. Kuster f Cramer Knight Brady (PA) Duckworth Lance Crawford Labrador Sensenbrenner Brooks (IN) Edwards Langevin ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Crenshaw LaHood Sessions Brownley (CA) Ellison Larsen (WA) PRO TEMPORE Culberson LaMalfa Shimkus Bucshon Ellmers (NC) Larson (CT) Curbelo (FL) Lamborn Shuster Bustos Emmer (MN) Lawrence The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Davidson Lance Simpson Butterfield Engel Lee ant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings Davis, Rodney Latta Smith (MO) Capps Eshoo Levin will resume on questions previously Denham LoBiondo Smith (NE) Capuano Esty Lewis Dent Long Smith (NJ) Ca´ rdenas Farr Lieu, Ted postponed. DeSantis Loudermilk Smith (TX) Carney Foster Lipinski Votes will be taken in the following DesJarlais Love Stefanik Carson (IN) Frankel (FL) LoBiondo order: Diaz-Balart Lucas Stewart Cartwright Fudge Loebsack Ordering the previous question on Dold Luetkemeyer Stivers Castor (FL) Gabbard Lofgren Donovan Lummis Stutzman Castro (TX) Gallego Lowenthal House Resolution 809; and Duffy MacArthur Thompson (PA) Chu, Judy Garamendi Lowey Adoption of House Resolution 809, if Duncan (SC) Marchant Thornberry Cicilline Gibson Lujan Grisham ordered. Duncan (TN) Marino Tiberi Clark (MA) Graham (NM) Ellmers (NC) Massie Tipton Clarke (NY) Grayson Luja´ n, Ben Ray All electronic votes will be conducted Emmer (MN) McCarthy Trott Clawson (FL) Green, Al (NM) as 5-minute votes. Farenthold McCaul Upton Clay Green, Gene Lynch f Fincher McClintock Valadao Cleaver Grijalva MacArthur Fitzpatrick McHenry Wagner Clyburn Gutie´rrez Maloney, PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION Fleischmann McKinley Walberg Coffman Hahn Carolyn OF CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. Fleming McMorris Walden Cohen Hanna Maloney, Sean Flores Rodgers Walker Comstock Hardy Matsui 524, COMPREHENSIVE ADDICTION Forbes McSally Walorski Connolly Heck (NV) McCollum AND RECOVERY ACT OF 2016; Fortenberry Meadows Walters, Mimi Conyers Heck (WA) McDermott AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Foxx Meehan Weber (TX) Cooper Herrera Beutler McGovern Franks (AZ) Messer Webster (FL) Costa Higgins McNerney The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Frelinghuysen Mica Wenstrup Costello (PA) Himes McSally finished business is the vote on order- Garrett Miller (FL) Westerman Courtney Hinojosa Meadows Gibbs Miller (MI) Westmoreland Crenshaw Honda Meeks ing the previous question on the reso- Gibson Moolenaar Whitfield Crowley Hoyer Meng lution (H. Res. 809) providing for con- Gohmert Mooney (WV) Williams Cuellar Huffman Messer sideration of the conference report to Goodlatte Mullin Wilson (SC) Cummings Huizenga (MI) Moore accompany the bill (S. 524) to authorize Gosar Mulvaney Wittman Curbelo (FL) Hurd (TX) Moulton Gowdy Murphy (PA) Womack Davis (CA) Israel Murphy (FL) the Attorney General to award grants Granger Neugebauer Woodall Davis, Danny Jackson Lee Napolitano to address the national epidemics of Graves (GA) Newhouse Yoder

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.034 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4523 Yoho Young (IA) Zeldin The vote was taken by electronic de- Castro (TX) Honda Perlmutter Young (AK) Young (IN) Zinke vice, and there were—ayes 243, noes 177, Chu, Judy Hoyer Peters Cicilline Huffman Peterson NAYS—179 not voting 13, as follows: Clark (MA) Israel Pocan Adams Fudge Neal [Roll No. 388] Clarke (NY) Jackson Lee Polis Aguilar Gabbard Nolan Clay Jeffries Price (NC) Ashford Gallego Norcross AYES—243 Cleaver Johnson (GA) Quigley Clyburn Kaptur Bass Garamendi O’Rourke Abraham Guinta Pearce Rangel Cohen Keating Beatty Graham Pallone Aderholt Guthrie Perry Rice (NY) Connolly Kelly (IL) Becerra Grayson Pascrell Allen Hanna Pittenger Richmond Conyers Kennedy Bera Green, Al Payne Amodei Hardy Pitts Roybal-Allard Cooper Kildee Beyer Green, Gene Pelosi Babin Harper Poe (TX) Ruiz Costa Kilmer Bishop (GA) Grijalva Perlmutter Barletta Harris Poliquin Ruppersberger ´ Courtney Kuster Blumenauer Gutierrez Peters Barr Hartzler Rush Pompeo Crowley Labrador Bonamici Hahn Pingree Barton Heck (NV) Posey Cuellar Langevin Ryan (OH) Boyle, Brendan Heck (WA) Pocan Benishek Hensarling ´ Price, Tom Cummings Larsen (WA) Sanchez, Linda F. Higgins Polis Bilirakis Herrera Beutler Ratcliffe Davis (CA) Larson (CT) T. Brady (PA) Himes Price (NC) Bishop (MI) Hice, Jody B. Reed Davis, Danny Lawrence Sarbanes Brownley (CA) Hinojosa Quigley Bishop (UT) Hill Reichert DeFazio Lee Schakowsky Bustos Honda Rangel Black Holding Renacci DeGette Levin Schiff Butterfield Hoyer Rice (NY) Blackburn Hudson Ribble DeLauro Lewis Schrader Capps Huffman Richmond Blum Huelskamp Rice (SC) DelBene Lieu, Ted Scott (VA) Capuano Israel Roybal-Allard Boustany Huizenga (MI) Rigell DeSaulnier Lipinski Scott, David Ca´ rdenas Jackson Lee Ruiz Brady (TX) Hultgren Roby Deutch Loebsack Serrano Carney Jeffries Ruppersberger Brat Hunter Roe (TN) Dingell Lofgren Sewell (AL) Carson (IN) Johnson (GA) Rush Bridenstine Hurd (TX) Rogers (AL) Doggett Lowenthal Cartwright Johnson, E. B. Ryan (OH) Brooks (AL) Hurt (VA) Sherman Rogers (KY) Doyle, Michael Lowey Castor (FL) Kaptur Sa´ nchez, Linda Brooks (IN) Issa Sires F. Lujan Grisham Castro (TX) Keating T. Buchanan Jenkins (KS) Rohrabacher Slaughter Duckworth (NM) Chu, Judy Kelly (IL) Sanchez, Loretta Buck Jenkins (WV) Rokita Smith (WA) Edwards Luja´ n, Ben Ray Cicilline Kennedy Sarbanes Bucshon Johnson (OH) Ros-Lehtinen Speier Ellison (NM) Clark (MA) Kildee Schakowsky Burgess Johnson, Sam Roskam Swalwell (CA) Engel Lynch Clarke (NY) Kilmer Schiff Byrne Jolly Ross Takano Eshoo Maloney, Clay Kind Schrader Calvert Jones Rothfus Thompson (CA) Esty Carolyn Cleaver Kuster Scott (VA) Carter (GA) Jordan Rouzer Thompson (MS) Farr Maloney, Sean Clyburn Langevin Scott, David Carter (TX) Joyce Royce Titus Foster Matsui Cohen Larsen (WA) Serrano Chabot Katko Russell Tonko Frankel (FL) McCollum Connolly Larson (CT) Sewell (AL) Chaffetz Kelly (MS) Salmon Torres Fudge McGovern Conyers Lawrence Sherman Clawson (FL) Kelly (PA) Sanchez, Loretta Tsongas Gabbard McNerney Cooper Lee Sinema Coffman Kind Sanford Gallego Meeks Van Hollen Costa Levin Sires Cole King (IA) Scalise Garamendi Meng Vargas Courtney Lewis Slaughter Collins (GA) King (NY) Schweikert Graham Moore Veasey Crowley Lieu, Ted Smith (WA) Collins (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Scott, Austin Grayson Moulton Vela Cuellar Lipinski Speier Comstock Kirkpatrick Sensenbrenner Green, Al Murphy (FL) Vela´ zquez Cummings Loebsack Swalwell (CA) Conaway Kline Sessions Green, Gene Napolitano Visclosky Davis (CA) Lofgren Takano Cook Knight Shimkus Griffith Neal Walz Davis, Danny Lowenthal Thompson (CA) Costello (PA) LaHood Shuster Grijalva Nolan Wasserman DeFazio Lowey Thompson (MS) Cramer LaMalfa Simpson Gutie´rrez Norcross Schultz DeGette Lujan Grisham Titus Crawford Lamborn Sinema DeLauro (NM) Tonko Hahn O’Rourke Waters, Maxine Crenshaw Lance Smith (MO) DelBene Luja´ n, Ben Ray Torres Heck (WA) Pallone Watson Coleman Culberson Latta Smith (NE) DeSaulnier (NM) Tsongas Higgins Pascrell Welch Curbelo (FL) LoBiondo Smith (NJ) Deutch Lynch Van Hollen Himes Payne Wilson (FL) Davidson Long Smith (TX) Dingell Maloney, Vargas Hinojosa Pelosi Yarmuth Davis, Rodney Loudermilk Stefanik Doggett Carolyn Veasey Denham Love Stewart NOT VOTING—13 Doyle, Michael Maloney, Sean Vela Dent Lucas F. Matsui Vela´ zquez Stivers Bost Johnson, E. B. Rooney (FL) DeSantis Luetkemeyer Stutzman Duckworth McCollum Visclosky Brown (FL) McDermott Takai DesJarlais Lummis Thompson (PA) Edwards McGovern Walz Diaz-Balart MacArthur Castor (FL) Nadler Turner Thornberry Ellison McNerney Wasserman Dold Marchant Delaney Nugent Tiberi Engel Meeks Schultz Donovan Marino Hastings Pingree Tipton Eshoo Meng Waters, Maxine Duffy Massie Trott ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Esty Moore Watson Coleman Duncan (SC) McCarthy Upton Farr Moulton Welch Duncan (TN) McCaul The SPEAKER pro tempore (during Valadao Foster Murphy (FL) Wilson (FL) Ellmers (NC) McClintock the vote). There are 2 minutes remain- Frankel (FL) Napolitano Yarmuth Emmer (MN) McHenry Wagner Walberg ing. NOT VOTING—10 Farenthold McKinley Fincher McMorris Walden Walker Bost McDermott Takai Fitzpatrick Rodgers b 1755 Brown (FL) Nadler Turner Fleischmann McSally Walorski Delaney Nugent Fleming Meadows Walters, Mimi So the resolution was agreed to. Hastings Rooney (FL) Flores Meehan Weber (TX) Forbes Messer Webster (FL) The result of the vote was announced ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Fortenberry Mica Wenstrup as above recorded. The SPEAKER pro tempore (during Foxx Miller (FL) Westerman A motion to reconsider was laid on the vote). There are 2 minutes remain- Franks (AZ) Miller (MI) Westmoreland the table. Frelinghuysen Moolenaar Whitfield ing. Garrett Mooney (WV) Williams The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Gibbs Mullin Wilson (SC) ant to House Resolution 809, S. 2943, as Gibson Mulvaney Wittman amended, is considered as passed. b 1749 Gohmert Murphy (PA) Womack So the previous question was ordered. Goodlatte Neugebauer Woodall Gosar Newhouse Yoder f The result of the vote was announced Gowdy Noem Yoho as above recorded. Granger Nunes Young (AK) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Graves (GA) Olson Young (IA) FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GEN- question is on the resolution. Graves (LA) Palazzo Young (IN) ERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIA- Graves (MO) Palmer Zeldin TIONS ACT, 2017 The question was taken; and the Grothman Paulsen Zinke Speaker pro tempore announced that The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- NOES—177 the ayes appeared to have it. ant to House Resolution 794 and rule Adams Beyer Bustos RECORDED VOTE Aguilar Bishop (GA) Butterfield XVIII, the Chair declares the House in Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I demand a Amash Blumenauer Capps the Committee of the Whole House on recorded vote. Ashford Bonamici Capuano the state of the Union for the further A recorded vote was ordered. Bass Boyle, Brendan Ca´ rdenas consideration of the bill, H.R. 5485. Beatty F. Carney The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a Becerra Brady (PA) Carson (IN) Will the gentleman from Georgia 5-minute vote. Bera Brownley (CA) Cartwright (Mr. COLLINS) kindly resume the chair.

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Frank, and they deny businessowners authorizing committees of jurisdiction 5485) making appropriations for finan- basic liability protections guaranteed have not even considered this issue cial services and general government to them under the statute of limita- during hearings or markups. At the for the fiscal year ending September 30, tions. Without those protections, the very least, it would be premature to 2017, and for other purposes, with Mr. CFPB could threaten litigation forever, adopt this amendment, which signifi- COLLINS of Georgia (Acting Chair) in handcuffing businesses’ ability to cre- cantly alters existing law and throws the chair. ate jobs in perpetuity. into flux cases pending before the The Clerk read the title of the bill. You can’t just make it up. This is The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- courts, without any regard for regular lawless behavior and it is dangerous for mittee of the Whole rose earlier today, order. the rule of law. Finally, this amendment creates un- amendment No. 38 printed in House re- My amendment is very simple. It pro- certainty and complications as to how port 114–639, offered by the gentleman hibits the CFPB from using any funds our regulatory agencies can enforce the from Iowa (Mr. KING) had been disposed to take administrative actions past the law. of. express 3-year statute of limitations in The Wall Street Reform Act trans- AMENDMENT NO. 40 OFFERED BY MR. MESSER Dodd-Frank. ferred enforcement authority to the The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues Bureau for a host of consumer protec- to consider amendment No. 40 printed to support the amendment, and I re- tion statutes. Yet banking and other in House Report 114–639. serve the balance of my time. market regulators have retained au- Mr. MESSER. Mr. Chairman, I have Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I rise thority on a number of those laws, an amendment at the desk. in opposition to the amendment. thereby creating two sets of standards: The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman one for banking and market regulators, designate the amendment. from New York is recognized for 5 min- where the statute of limitations would The text of the amendment is as fol- utes. still be being interpreted by the courts, lows: Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield and one for our lead consumer regu- At the end of the bill (before the short myself such time as I may consume. lator, the Bureau. This will only serve title), insert the following: Mr. Chairman, this amendment pro- to confuse the industry. SEC. ll. None of the funds made available hibits funds from the CFPB to com- That is the main reason why I oppose by this Act may be used by the Bureau of mence any administrative adjudication the amendment and urge a ‘‘no’’ vote. Consumer Financial Protection to com- or civil action beyond the 3-year stat- mence any administrative adjudication or Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance civil action under section 1053 of the Con- ute of limitation in Dodd-Frank. of my time. sumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 more In doing so, it would limit the Mr. MESSER. Mr. Chairman, may I than 3 years after the date of discovery of board’s ability to bring enforcement inquire how much time I have remain- the violation to which the adjudication or action against wrongdoers. This rep- ing? action relates. resents a free pass for bad actors who The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to have swindled borrowers on a host of from Indiana has 21⁄2 minutes remain- House Resolution 794, the gentleman practices and products under the Bu- ing. from Indiana (Mr. MESSER) and a Mem- reau’s jurisdiction—credit cards, stu- Mr. MESSER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 ber opposed each will control 5 min- dent loans, mortgages, auto loans, debt minute to the gentleman from Florida utes. collection practices, and payday loans, (Mr. CRENSHAW), the chairman. The Chair recognizes the gentleman just to name a few. Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I from Indiana. Title X of Dodd-Frank does provide a rise to support this amendment. It is Mr. MESSER. Mr. Chairman, I want 3-year statute of limitations for claims common sense. We all believe in regu- to thank my colleague, the gentleman being brought by the Bureau under lation, but we believe in reasonable from Florida (Mr. CRENSHAW), for his that title. However, the Bureau has ar- regulation. What the gentleman is try- great work on this important bill. gued in court that the statute of limi- ing to do is just kind of curtail some of Mr. Chairman, the amendment I am tations does not govern claims brought this regulatory overreach. offering today is a simple and modest under the enumerated consumer pro- When this agency was set up, it was proposal. It ensures that the CFPB fol- tection laws transferred to the Bu- outside the appropriations process. lows the statute of limitations estab- reau—laws like the Equal Credit Op- They get a check from the Federal Re- lished by Dodd-Frank during agency portunity Act, the Truth in Lending serve for $600 million with no strings administrative proceedings. Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices attached. Nobody asks anything. In our This amendment is a response to the Act, and the Real Estate Settlement underlying bill, we put them under the CFPB blatantly ignoring the express Procedures Act. appropriations process. We say: You statute of limitations in Dodd-Frank While some of these enumerated stat- ought not just have a single director. and the Real Estate Settlement Proce- utes have their own statutes of limita- Have a five-member commission like a dures Act, otherwise known as RESPA. tions, others do not. The board has ar- lot of these regulatory agencies. So it gued in court that, even under those is a good amendment. b 1800 laws that do have statutes of limita- Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues In January of 2014, CFPB launched an tion, they do not apply to the Bureau, to support it. administrative proceeding against the but instead only apply to private liti- Mr. MESSER. Mr. Chairman, I re- PHH Corporation alleging a violation gation. serve the balance of my time. of RESPA. In the case, CFPB Director Of the enumerated laws that do not Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield Richard Cordray claimed the express 3- have statutes of limitation, the Bureau myself such time as I may consume. year statute of limitations within has argued in court that no statute of Mr. Chairman, what I would ask the Dodd-Frank did not apply to the limitation applies. gentleman to do is to consider the fact CFPB’s administrative proceedings When it comes to administrative law that this is being still dealt with in the process—deliberately ignoring the law. judge proceedings, rather than those courts, and this is not the right time Using this unprecedented rationale, brought in court, the Bureau also con- for us—or any time—to get involved the CFPB retroactively imposed fines tends the statute of limitation does not before the court has decided. That is of $109 million against PHH Corpora- apply. one of the problems that we have on tion for alleged violations dating back In the final analysis, this is currently many of these issues, that we get in- to 1995, meaning that the CFPB im- being adjudicated by the Bureau and volved and we try to get our will, our

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.107 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4525 way on an issue, before the courts have Mr. Chairman, I would like, first of Employers who oppose abortions and decided what to do with it. all, to thank the gentleman from Flor- paying for them as part of a compensa- This is a big issue for them to decide, ida (Mr. CRENSHAW) for his work on tion package have every right to exer- and I would hope that we can see our this bill. cise their freedom not to do so, and way to letting those decisions be made My amendment would prohibit funds those who want to receive abortions or before we set a tone that kind of sways from being used to implement the Dis- have them paid for have every right to what the final outcome might be, and trict of Columbia’s Reproductive seek employment from someone will- that is not the right thing to do. Health Non-Discrimination Amend- ing to do so. That is how freedom Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance ment Act of 2014, or RHNDA. works. It does not work with one group of my time. The Declaration of Independence de- imposing its version of freedom on the Mr. MESSER. Mr. Chairman, I re- clares that: ‘‘We hold these truths to other, which is what this District law spect the gentleman’s position. I would be self-evident, that all men are cre- currently provides for. just submit that the express language ated equal, that they are endowed by In its 2012 opinion in the case of Ho- of Dodd-Frank says what we should do their Creator with certain unalienable sanna Tabor v. EEOC, the Supreme here. It creates a 3-year statute of limi- Rights, that among these are Life, Lib- Court unanimously affirmed the right tations for the CFPB, and the CFPB is erty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’’ of religious organizations to hire em- ignoring the rule of law and ignoring These founding principles remain ployees that support the mission of the that express language. All this amend- true today. The reason life was in- organization where their employees are ment does is say that the CFPB cannot cluded by our Founders as the first responsible for carrying out its misuse dollars to violate the express letter principle is because without life there sion. The opinion says: ‘‘The interest of of the law. I urge my colleagues for is no liberty; it is a prerequisite for lib- society in the enforcement of employ- their support. erty. Without life, there is no pursuit ment discrimination statuses is un- Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of happiness. In fact, it is self-evident, doubtedly important. But so too is the of my time. without life, there isn’t even a discus- interest of religious groups in choosing Mr. SERRANO. Very briefly, Mr. sion about any rights. who will preach their beliefs, teach Chairman, there are other parts cov- Liberty encompasses social and polit- their faith, and carry out their mis- ered by the Bureau that have their own ical freedoms, and the tenets associ- sion.’’ statute of limitations. That is why ated with liberty were those used in Would you require PETA to hire these questions are being asked. While drafting the First Amendment to the someone that comes to an interview in the gentleman is correct that Dodd- Constitution. With life and liberty, you a fur coat? Would you require Planned Frank says 3 years, in other areas it is can pursue happiness. Take away ei- Parenthood to hire a nun or anyone not 3 years. It is being settled, and we ther and the pursuit becomes difficult adamantly opposed to abortion? Nei- should stay out of it until then. or impossible. ther of these situations makes sense, Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- My amendment protects all three, nor does requiring a pro-life organiza- ance of my time. but I will focus my comments on lib- tion to hire someone who explicitly Mr. MESSER. Mr. Chairman, I yield erty as it relates to the free exercise of contradicts their moral conscience or back the balance of my time. religion clause in the First Amend- religious beliefs. The Supreme Court The Acting CHAIR. The question is ment. agrees. on the amendment offered by the gen- The First Amendment states in part My amendment would restore reli- tleman from Indiana (Mr. MESSER). that: ‘‘Congress shall make no law re- gious freedom to employers inside the The question was taken; and the Act- specting an establishment of religion, District of Columbia. Those who want ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- or prohibiting the free exercise there- to have abortions do not have to work peared to have it. of.’’ Without my amendment, some em- for employers who oppose them. They Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- ployers in the District of Columbia have life and the liberty to pursue mand a recorded vote. would not only be prohibited from ex- their own interests with another em- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to ercising their religion, but would be ployer. clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- forced to embrace the beliefs of the 13 Mr. Chairman, I urge Members to ceedings on the amendment offered by members of the D.C. Council. vote ‘‘yes’’ on this amendment, and I the gentleman from Indiana will be The District of Columbia allows abor- reserve the balance of my time. postponed. tions until the moment of birth, but a Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I rise number of employers in the District of AMENDMENT NO. 41 OFFERED BY MR. PALMER in opposition to the amendment. Columbia believe in the sanctity of life The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman and protecting it. In fact, many organi- to consider amendment No. 41 printed from New York is recognized for 5 min- zations in D.C.—such as March for Life, in House Report 114–639. utes. Americans United for Life, and the Na- Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman, I have Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield tional Right to Life Committee—exist an amendment at the desk. myself such time as I may consume. solely to protect life. The Constitution Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposi- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will provides them the right to exercise tion to the amendment. This amend- designate the amendment. those beliefs, just like it does those ment would, once again, overreach into The text of the amendment is as fol- who oppose it. the District of Columbia’s local affairs lows: That is why when the District of Co- by prohibiting funds for D.C.’s local At the end of the bill (before the short lumbia passed the Reproductive Health law, the Reproductive Health Non-Dis- title), insert the following: Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of crimination Amendment Act of 2014. SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act (including title IV and title VIII) 2014, former Mayor Vincent Gray ex- The D.C. law this amendment would may be used to carry out the Reproductive pressed concerns about the law. In De- vacate prohibits discrimination based Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act cember 2014, Gray wrote a letter to the on reproductive health decisions. This of 2014 (D.C. Law 20-261) or to implement any D.C. Council about RHNDA, describing amendment would allow workplace dis- rule or regulation promulgated to carry out it as ‘‘legally problematic’’ and saying: crimination if the employer disagrees such Act. ‘‘. . . the bill raises serious concerns with the employee’s use of contracep- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to under the Constitution and under the tion, in vitro fertilization, and even House Resolution 794, the gentleman Religious Freedom Restoration Act of perhaps a medically necessary abor- from Alabama (Mr. PALMER) and a 1993. Religious organizations, reli- tion. Member opposed each will control 5 giously affiliated organizations, reli- D.C. is attempting to protect workers minutes. giously driven for-profit entities, and from losing their jobs because their su- The Chair recognizes the gentleman political organizations may have pervisors may or may not agree with from Alabama. strong First Amendment and RFRA their personal decisions. This amend- Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield grounds for challenging the law’s appli- ment offered today would strip those myself such time as I may consume. cability to them.’’ protections from D.C. workers.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.109 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4526 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 In addition to being bad policy, this this country, maybe communities even AMENDMENT NO. 43 OFFERED BY MR. MULLIN amendment goes around the law which in the gentleman’s and many of the The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order states that Congress has 30 days to re- gentlemen and gentlewomen on the to consider amendment No. 43 printed view bills passed by the D.C. Council. other side’s districts. in House Report 114–639. The 30 days are up, and the Republican- I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. MULLIN. Mr. Chairman, as the controlled Congress did not legally Ms. NORTON. Mr. Chair, I strongly oppose designee of the gentleman from Kansas stop these laws from going into effect. this amendment. The amendment prohibits the (Mr. POMPEO), I offer amendment No. The House passed a resolution dis- District of Columbia from using its local funds, 43. approving the D.C. bill on reproductive consisting of local taxes and fees, to enforce The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will health, and the Republican-controlled a local nondiscrimination law, the Reproduc- designate the amendment. Senate did not. tive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment The text of the amendment is as fol- The Congress had time to act on Act, giving employers license, in the name of lows: these issues, and it failed to do so. D.C. religion, to discriminate against employees, At the end of the bill (before the short residents should not be subject to end- their spouses and their dependents based on title), insert the following: less efforts to overturn its laws. It con- their private, constitutionally protected repro- SEC. ll. None of the funds made available ductive health decisions. Contrary to the spon- by this Act may be used to finalize, imple- tinues to be part of what I always comment, administer, or enforce the proposed plain about, this desire that we have on sor’s claim, the D.C. law does not require employers to provide insurance coverage for re- rule entitled ‘‘Voluntary Remedial Actions the other side to tell the District of Co- and Guidelines for Voluntary Recall No- lumbia what to do. productive health decisions. The law states tices’’ published by the Consumer Product expressly: ‘‘This section shall not be construed 1815 Safety Commission in the Federal Register b to require an employer to provide insurance on November 21, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 69793). In this case, there was actually pro- coverage related to a reproductive health deci- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to tection for the Congress if the Congress sion.’’ House Resolution 794, the gentleman The amendment permits employers to fire a had acted within 30 days. But it didn’t, from Oklahoma (Mr. MULLIN) and a and now we want to, in this bill, get woman for having an abortion due to rape, or Member opposed each will control 5 around that lack of action by putting to decline to hire a woman for using in vitro minutes. in new action to overturn their law. fertilization, or to fire a man for using The Chair recognizes the gentleman I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘no’’ on condoms, or to reduce the salary of a parent from Oklahoma. this amendment. for buying birth control for his or her child. Mr. MULLIN. Mr. Chairman, this I reserve the balance of my time. The D.C. law is valid under both the U.S. amendment would prohibit funds for Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman, obvi- Constitution and federal law. Indeed, the law the voluntary recall proposed rule at ously, Article I, section 8, clause 17 of has been in effect for more than a year, and the Consumer Product Safety Commis- there appear to have been no lawsuits chal- the Constitution states that Congress sion and prevent them from moving lenging it. shall have power ‘‘to exercise exclusive forward with a rule that would cripple Under the U.S. Constitution, laws may limit Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, the highly successful voluntary recall over such District.’’ religious exercise if they are neutral, generally applicable and rationally related to a legitimate program currently in place. Moving aside the jurisdictional issue, Congress has expressed significant governmental interest. The D.C. law applies to I take exception to my colleague’s concerns over this proposed rule. Two all employers, does not target religion and pro- point that it is acceptable to infringe years ago, the House approved this motes workplace equality. Under the federal on the religious liberties of certain amendment, and Congress has repeat- Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which ap- people, those who actually believe in edly made it clear to the CPSC that it plies to D.C., laws may substantially burden protecting life. If those who don’t be- would cease in its quest to make un- religious exercise if they further a compelling lieve in protecting life want to find em- necessary changes to a recall system governmental interest in the least restrictive ployment, let them find employment that has worked well over the past 40 means. D.C. has a compelling interest in elimi- at like-minded organizations. years. This system—one based on a nating discrimination, and the D.C. law is the The D.C. government should not be successful partnership between busi- able to compel pro-life organizations to least restrictive means to do so. The D.C. law protects religious liberty. The nesses and the Commission—has helped hire pro-abortion employees. That is law is subject to constitutional and statutory ensure that consumer products sold in exactly what the Religious Freedom exceptions to non-discrimination laws. The the U.S. are the safest in the world. Restoration Act was in place to pro- Constitution’s narrow ministerial exception al- Congressional intent has been ex- tect, as Mayor Gray pointed out in his lows religious organizations to make employ- pressed in House-passed legislation, re- letter to the D.C. Council. I can’t say ment decisions for ministers and ministerial port language, letters from lawmakers, that I always agree with the Mayor, employees for any reason whatsoever. D.C. and oversight hearings. However, the but his serious concerns were, and re- law permits religious and political organiza- Commission has failed to withdraw the main to be, completely valid. tions to make employment decisions based on proposed rule and has continued to in- I yield back the balance of my time. dicate in its operating plan that it will Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, very religion and political views. Under the D.C. law, employees must be willing to carry out move forward. carefully let me say that there are The CPSC does not even have the many instances where people have dis- employers’ missions and directives. I urge Members to vote NO on this amend- statutory authority to issue the rule. agreements, but the law prevails. Not ment in order to protect employees’ reproduc- The CPSC has presented absolutely no every employer agrees with everything tive health decisions, workplace equality and evidence supporting its proposal, and that the employee does and vice versa, D.C.’s right to self-government. all but one comment submitted ex- but if there is a law in place, then the The Acting CHAIR. The question is pressed serious concerns over how the law prevails. Here there is a law in on the amendment offered by the gen- proposed rule would actually delay replace, number one. tleman from Alabama (Mr. PALMER). calls and harm the effectiveness of our Number two, we should continue to The question was taken; and the Act- recall program. try not to meddle in the District of Co- ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- The Commission unilaterally seeks lumbia’s issues. peared to have it. to transform the voluntary recall proc- Number three, I repeat, we had a pe- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- ess into a legal negotiation equivalent riod, a legal period for us to act—some mand a recorded vote. to a settlement agreement. The pro- would say a constitutional period for The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to posed changes would require companies us to act—and we didn’t act. Now we clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- seeking to implement a recall to hire want to get around that by using this ceedings on the amendment offered by an attorney, dragging out the process bill improperly to undo what the peo- the gentleman from Alabama will be and creating a financial burden for ple in the District of Columbia, postponed. small businesses. through their representatives, found to The Acting CHAIR. The Chair under- The CPSC’s proposed rule on vol- be correct for them, just like other stands that amendment No. 42 will not untary recalls would slow down a proc- States, other communities throughout be offered. ess meant to be conducted with speed

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Mr. Chairman, my forcing or codifying into law its 2010 in- make it more difficult to remove defec- amendment would prohibit the Securi- terpretive guidance to public compa- tive products from the marketplace. ties and Exchange Commission from nies intended to provide greater trans- Mr. Chairman, passage of this amend- using funds under this act to pursue a parency to investors on the material ment would remind the Commission political agenda on climate change risks—and opportunities—of those that its mission is to protect the public and, instead, return its focus to their companies to climate change. against unreasonable risks of injury as- three-part mission: to protect inves- This guidance was put forth after sociated with consumer products in an tors; maintain fair, orderly, and effi- nearly 100 investors, representing $7 efficient and reasonable manner. The cient markets; and facilitate capital trillion in wealth management, specifi- proposed rule to significantly alter the formation. cally petitioned the SEC for this clar- voluntary recall process is contrary to My amendment relates to the SEC’s ity. that mission. 2010 interpretive guidance for compa- Additionally, the guidance doesn’t I urge Members to adopt this amend- nies to disclose the impact that global create new climate change regulatory ment. climate change may have on their busi- frameworks or mandates. Instead, it I reserve the balance of my time. nesses. simply provides clarity on what compa- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I My amendment is necessary and nies should view as a ‘‘material’’ risk claim the time in opposition to the timely, given the SEC’s recent regula- or opportunity that ought to be dis- amendment. tion S-K Concept Release that suggests closed to investors. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman the SEC is moving toward further ac- Given that Hurricane Sandy caused from New York is recognized for 5 min- tion on this issue. It is even more im- $70 billion in damage, it is difficult to utes. portant, in light of a campaign by sev- say that climate change doesn’t have Mr. SERRANO. I rise in opposition to eral States’ attorneys general, to im- an impact on business, unless you deny this amendment. It would prohibit the pede the First Amendment rights of the existence of climate change in the CPSC from taking action on the pro- those who dare question the accuracy first place. posed rule on voluntary recall actions of climate change science. Democrats support efforts by the and voluntary recall notices. More and more, we have seen the SEC to modernize public company dis- The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Federal securities laws and disclosure closures so that investors are appro- system abused for political purposes— was published in 2013. There has been priately apprised of the material risks, from the median pay ratio disclosure no further official rulemaking action including the risks of climate change. taken on it since then, so this amend- requirement of Dodd-Frank to conflict H.R. 4792, for example, represents a ment is not necessary. minerals, to climate change. These po- bicameral effort by Democrats to en- For that reason, I oppose the amend- litically motivated and mandated discourage the SEC to do more, not less, ment, and I urge my colleagues to do closures are not about protecting in- to ensure investors are aware of cli- so as well. vestors, they are about shaming com- mate change risks like the effect of I yield back the balance of my time. panies, or at least attempting to shame carbon costs on oil and gas companies. Mr. MULLIN. Mr. Chairman, I urge companies, into adopting their agenda. This amendment always runs counter my colleagues to support this amend- It is a waste of resources for the comment. panies, for their shareholders, and for to a recent decision by the SEC to re- I yield back the balance of my time. the SEC. Publicly traded companies quire ExxonMobil to allow a share- The Acting CHAIR. The question is are already required to disclose all ma- holder proposal from the New York on the amendment offered by the gen- terial information. Having companies State Common Fund and the Church of tleman from Oklahoma (Mr. MULLIN). disclose information on immaterial England to come up for a vote on this The question was taken; and the Act- issues, like the climate, is highly spec- issue. That proposal would require ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- ulative and dubious at best. ExxonMobil to disclose to shareholders peared to have it. Regardless of how you feel about cli- how climate change may impact their Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- mate change policy, securities law is profits. mand a recorded vote. not the place for it. We already have Indeed, shareholders are increasingly The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to agencies in place to help protect our craving this information. Since the be- clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- environment. The SEC’s job is to pro- ginning of 2016, eight shareholder proceedings on the amendment offered by tect investors, and that means making posals have gone to a vote at oil and the gentleman from Oklahoma will be sure they have material information to gas and utility companies requesting postponed. make sound investments. increased disclosure of their plans to AMENDMENT NO. 44 OFFERED BY MR. POSEY The SEC’s guidance is also at odds mitigate the impact from climate The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order with the FAST Act of 2015—legislation change on their operations. Average to consider amendment No. 44 printed the President signed—and that requires support for the proposal was 31 percent, in House Report 114–639. the SEC to simplify, not make more but at Occidental Petroleum, nearly a Mr. POSEY. Mr. Chairman, I have an complex, the current disclosure regime majority of shareholders voted in amendment at the desk. by June 1, a deadline which the SEC favor. In comparison, in 2015, climate The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will has already missed. Clearly, there are change-related proposals received an designate the amendment. better, more pressing, uses for the average of 17.5 percent support, with The text of the amendment is as fol- SEC’s finite resources. the highest support of 36.3 percent at lows: I urge my colleagues to support this Marathon Oil Corporation. At the end of the bill (before the short commonsense amendment and refocus If the SEC guidance on this was title), insert the following: the SEC on their core mission. stronger, and if the SEC enforced this SEC. ll. None of the funds made available I reserve the balance of my time. mandate, these shareholder proposals, by this Act may be used to implement, ad- which go further than voluntary disclo- minister, enforce, or codify into regulation, Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I rise the guidance relating to ‘‘Commission Guid- in opposition to the amendment. sures, would not be necessary. ance Regarding Disclosure Related to Cli- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman As the impacts of climate change mate Change’’, affecting parts 211, 231, and from New York is recognized for 5 min- continue to be felt by individuals and 249 of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations utes. businesses alike, shareholders will de- (as described in Commission Release Nos. 33- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I am mand more information about the risks 9106; 34-61469; FR-82). not trying to be funny here, but I am associated with their investments. The The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to trying to figure out what political cli- SEC should do more, not less, to clarify House Resolution 794, the gentleman mate issues are. Maybe it is Democrats to companies the material risks they from Florida (Mr. POSEY) and a Mem- manipulate the weather so it only must disclose to their shareholders and ber opposed each will control 5 min- hurts certain people. I don’t know what owners. utes. it means. I urge opposition to this amendment.

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If a company wants who were culpable in allowing Madoff mean everybody. Capitol Hill agrees; to weigh in on climate change, nothing to run free are no longer with the agen- the administration agrees; the Presi- in this amendment would prevent it cy. She couldn’t tell us what happened dent says that is true; the Secretary of from volunteering that information; to them, if they were with another State says that is true. Yet they are on but the reality is that companies are Federal agency or if they retired on the the verge of getting something that already required to disclose all mate- public dime. That is just like saying a can be used for a military purpose. rial information. pedophile changed neighborhoods— What is that? That is a Boeing plane. We shouldn’t allow the disclosure problem solved. This is a tweet from May of this year system to continue to be used as a tool The fact is that we need to have the when the Boeing Company tweeted for special interests. Instead of forcing SEC focus on protecting investors. this: ‘‘These airplanes don’t retire. agendas on companies, the SEC should That is their main course. That is what They’re getting another 20 years of life. be focused on protecting investors, they are supposed to do, and that is See how. #freighters.’’ maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient what the public expects them to do. That is exactly it. Boeing, in a mo- markets, and facilitating capital for- That is what this amendment will ment of candor, overdisclosed one of mation. The SEC let Bernard Madoff allow them to do. the interesting things—and they are run free for 10 years—a decade—while Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of really attractive things—about their he evaporated $70 billion worth of peo- my time. products. Why? Their products can be ple’s life savings and hard-earned The Acting CHAIR. The question is used as freighters. Their products can money. They were asleep at the switch. on the amendment offered by the gen- be used to transfer things on behalf of They were busy doing something else tleman from Florida (Mr. POSEY). the Iranian Revolutionary Guard like this. Their job is to protect inves- The question was taken; and the Act- Corps, whom everybody acknowledges tors, and that is the intent of this ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- has been complicit in terror. amendment. peared to have it. This amendment is very simple, and I urge my colleagues to support the Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I demand it is very clear. It says that the Treas- amendment. a recorded vote. ury Department cannot use money Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to that is appropriated to license this my time. clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- deal. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I have ceedings on the amendment offered by I urge its passage. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of been in public office for 42 years, 43 the gentleman from Florida will be postponed. my time. years, and only once in those years in Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I rise in AMENDMENT NO. 45 OFFERED BY MR. ROSKAM the New York State Assembly and in opposition to the gentleman’s amend- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Congress did an agency come before me ment. and say: ‘‘We don’t want any more to consider amendment No. 45 printed The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman money. We have enough.’’ That was the in House Report 114–639. from New York is recognized for 5 min- Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chair, I have an SEC in the old days, under another ad- utes. ministration. They didn’t want any amendment at the desk. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, if you lis- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will more money, and I was shocked. No ten to the last comment by the gen- designate the amendment. agency ever does that. Then, when Wall tleman, for whom I have a lot of re- Street fell apart, we found out why. The text of the amendment is as follows: spect, this is really not about this par- They didn’t want any more money be- ticular situation. It is about the Iran At the end of the bill (before the short cause they didn’t want to enforce any- deal. Anything to make it look bad—to thing. title), insert the following: SEC. l. None of the funds made available make the agreement look bad, to make The gentleman is right in that to the Department of Treasury by this Act any future work on it look bad, to Madoff got away with a lot of stuff; but may be used to issue a license pursuant to make any future vote on it look bad— now, when we have an SEC that looks any Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) some folks will do. at things differently—that says that memo regarding Section 5.1.1 of Annex II to What he says is not to allow any dol- we should ask questions, that we the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action of lars to be appropriated by this com- should, for instance, tell shareholders July 14, 2015 (JCPOA), including the January mittee to help in any way, shape, or what they are doing to mitigate the 16, 2016, OFAC memo titled, ‘‘Statement of Licensing Policy For Activities Related to form, or to get involved with the Iran problems that they may face as share- the Export Or Re-Export to Iran of Commer- deal. That is a situation we see a lot of holders—we want to stop them. We cial Passenger Aircraft and Related Parts on this committee, and it shouldn’t be. can’t have it both ways. and Services’’ and any other OFAC memo of It doesn’t belong here. It belongs in an- I agree with the gentleman in that the same substance. other committee. Madoff and people like him got away The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to If you are opposed to what the Presi- with things, but not because this SEC, House Resolution 794, the gentleman dent has proposed—with what the in these modern times, was looking the from Illinois (Mr. ROSKAM) and a Mem- President is trying to do and with what other way. It was because it was during ber opposed each will control 5 min- many of us believe is correct—then we a period of time when they didn’t care, utes. should work on that but not nec- when they didn’t enforce anything. A The Chair recognizes the gentleman essarily work on trying to cut funding lot of people didn’t enforce anything. I from Illinois. and say that this particular part can- will give you an example which is re- Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chair, we have an not be done and that that particular lated. opportunity to do a good thing, and the part cannot be done. It simply speaks To my understanding, not a single good thing is this: to prohibit the Ira- to a larger issue, and I think we should person from Wall Street went to pris- nian regime from getting a product be fair and honest with ourselves and on. I don’t know if that is possible any- that is fungible militarily. One begins say: I oppose this whole deal. I oppose where else. to ask oneself: What can that be, and this proposal. I oppose all of this, and The Acting CHAIR. The time of the how could the Congress be involved in I am simply trying to get at it in an- gentleman from New York has expired. that? It is very simple. other way. Mr. POSEY. Mr. Chair, may I inquire There is a large American company, Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of as to how much time I have left. which is the Boeing Company, that is my time.

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Secondly, when do we defer cial passenger aircraft to the Islamic Repub- JCPOA—that is the nuclear deal—and to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for lic of Iran. the activity around Iran and the abil- military and national security advice? The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to This is a good amendment. It is tar- ity to sell. So what am I saying? The House Resolution 794, the gentleman geted. It is thoughtful. I urge its pas- Iranians, under the JCPOA, are enti- from Illinois (Mr. ROSKAM) and a Mem- tled to civilian aircraft, but it is to use sage. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of ber opposed each will control 5 min- for civilian purposes. utes. Boeing, by their own admission, Mr. my time. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, in closing, The Chair recognizes the gentleman Chair, says this: ‘‘Building on success: from Illinois. Boeing’s commercial jetliners make an it is interesting that he singles out this ideal platform for a variety of military particular situation, because, if we b 1845 derivative aircraft.’’ Mr. Chair, this is were to look at every place to which we Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chairman, similar Boeing’s language from their own pro- send any kind of armament that, theme, this is a limitation amendment motional materials. maybe, some people would disagree that would prohibit the administration How about this? This is according to with sending it to, we may not be sell- from being involved in expediting the Boeing: ‘‘Good news. Modifications can ing anything to anyone throughout the financing for the Boeing sale to Iran. take 3 months to 2 years. It all depends world because there are plenty of peo- I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman on how much militarization they want ple who oppose just about everything. I from California (Mr. SHERMAN). to do.’’ mean, we probably would only be send- Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Chair, the last Don’t you see the point, Mr. Chair? ing stuff to the British and to no one amendment dealt with the actual sale Don’t you see the point? To give these else, perhaps, and everybody else would of the planes. The Iran nuclear deal, types of planes to the Iranian regime, be in trouble. So that is not such a the JCPOA, does provide that we which is still the world’s largest state strong argument. should license those planes if we are sponsor of terror, is to give them a The thing is that, if we start sure they are going to be used for civil- product that can be used for a military nitpicking—and I am not saying the ian purposes. So there is, at least, some purpose. We are not talking about baby gentleman is—this piece and that piece argument about what Iran is supposed formula. We are not talking about lico- and that piece, then we could find so to get under the JCPOA. rice. We are not talking about sandals, much that we can’t send to Iran, and This amendment deals with whether for crying out loud. We are talking we will have no relationship at all. The we finance airplanes, whether they are about aircraft that can be used. whole purpose of what we are trying to made by Boeing or Airbus or anybody What can fit in a Boeing 747? This do here is to establish some sort of un- else, and exactly what we are going to can fit in. It can fit 100 Shahab bal- derstanding of who they are and an un- let our banks finance. listic missiles or 15,000 rocket-pro- derstanding of what their behavior is, This amendment has nothing to do pelled grenades or 25,000 AK–47 assault but to still hope that, through con- with the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal. rifles. versation, though diplomacy, through Nothing in that agreement promises, Let’s not do this. Adopt this amend- other means, we can reach agreements hints, or even discusses the possibility ment. that are good for us, good for them, that we would go so far as to lend Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of and good for the world and world peace. money to one of the state sponsors of my time. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of terrorism. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I reserve my time. I know there is concern: Do we want the balance of my time. Mr. ROSKAM. I thank the gentleman to boycott everybody in the world? Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chair, may I infor acknowledging that we are not There are only three countries that are quire as to the time remaining. nitpicking. state sponsors of terrorism, and two of Mr. Chair, let me just say this. Look, The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman them—Syrian and Sudan—no bank let’s set aside every other country in from Illinois has 2 minutes remaining, would lend money to. So this is one the world. Let’s come together, and and the gentleman from New York has country that we have to deal with that let’s agree on one thing. As for the 31⁄2 minutes remaining. is a state sponsor of terrorism that world’s largest state sponsor of terror Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chair, let me might borrow money. that has been involved and complicit in point out one other piece of literature. Why shouldn’t we allow it? Again, this comes from the Boeing killing thousands of Americans—the First, because we shouldn’t allow our Company. This is from their Frontiers number one of the hit parade of evil re- banks to endanger their depositors’ Magazine: ‘‘Military derivatives front gimes that are projecting terror and money with loans to Iran. and center.’’ This is a continuing prob- malevolence—let’s agree not to give Second, because we don’t want major lem. them more capacity. banks lobbying this Congress and say- I urge the passage of this amend- Look, this is in stark contrast, Mr. ing: ‘‘Oh, my God, you have got to be ment. Chair, for a company like Lockheed Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of nice to the Iranians or we won’t get Martin. Lockheed Martin has said they my time. paid back and we might fail and then are not going to do business with the The Acting CHAIR. The question is you will have to bail us out.’’ We don’t Iranians. God bless Lockheed Martin. on the amendment offered by the gen- need Wall Street to become a lobbyist They could be assembling helicopters— tleman from Illinois (Mr. ROSKAM). for Iran. they could be doing all kinds of The amendment was agreed to. Finally, because when it comes to things—but they recognize that they AMENDMENT NO. 46 OFFERED BY MR. ROSKAM fairness under the Iran deal, some say ought not to be complicit in this ad- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order the Iranians have violated it. Some say venture. to consider amendment No. 46 printed they are barely technically complying. It is also interesting to me to say in House Report 114–639. But everyone agrees they are not over- that, a couple of minutes ago, my Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chair, I have an performing, they are not erring in the friend, the gentleman from New York, amendment at the desk. direction of being consistent with the was echoing a criticism from the U.S. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will overall purposes of the deal. There is Chamber. The U.S. Chamber said this: designate the amendment. no reason we should massively overper- ‘‘Congress should avoid intervening in The text of the amendment is as fol- form and provide financing we didn’t commercial contract agreements in in- lows: even hint that we might do. stances such as these where national At the end of the bill (before the short Finally, keep in mind what we would security matters are not involved.’’ title), insert the following: be financing if we finance these planes.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.119 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4530 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have intrusive inspection regime ever nego- showed, Mr. Chair, are very good, are been killed. Most of the country is ei- tiated to monitor a nuclear program. If very strong, with a lot of information. ther in an internal exile or is fleeing Iran tries to cheat, if they try to build But I am wondering, aren’t those the country. Bodies wash up on the a bomb covertly, we will catch them. charts being shown to our military? beaches of Greek islands from people The President has repeatedly said Aren’t those charts, in fact, being seen who risk their lives to escape an Assad that he will continue to take aggres- by our government? Isn’t our President regime that is kept in power by the sive steps to counter any activities in aware of whatever the gentleman thugs, the money, and the weapons car- violation of existing sanctions. There claims? ried to Damascus by Iran. is no reason to believe that the next He makes it sound like it is a secret We don’t have to finance this ter- President will not do the same. that somehow folks on the other side rorism. We’re not obligated to do so, I strongly oppose this harmful found out. Whatever is happening, if even if we are going to be in the strict- amendment and encourage my col- something is happening, our govern- est compliance with the JCPOA. We leagues to oppose it as well. ment, our military will react to it. shouldn’t expose our banks to that I reserve the balance of my time. He says to separate the Iran deal risk. Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chairman, I yield from what is going on. Well, separate Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chair, I reserve myself such time as I may consume. the military from this President that the balance of my time. Quickly, there is the nuclear deal the other side doesn’t like. The mili- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I over here. There is Iran, the terrorism tary very carefully looks at this and claim the time in opposition. regime, over here. What we are focus- advises the President. So, if something The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman ing on is the latter, the terrorism re- was going on that was out of order from New York is recognized for 5 min- gime. within the deal, they would tell him utes. This is a map. This is a map that was immediately. I know that, and I am Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, this put together by the Foundation for the confident of that. amendment has the same purpose as Defense of Democracies. It shows This, I repeat, is just one of the many the amendment we just debated, that flights. ways that we will see, not only tonight is, to undermine the Iran agreement A few weeks ago, an Airbus A300 air- and have seen today, but on many and penalize American manufacturing craft belonging to Iran Air, which his- other bills and for as long as we can, to companies. torically has been on the terrorist see if we can undo the Iran deal, just We have already gone over this, but the same way some people are trying it is worth repeating. The JCPOA watch list by the way, took off from an to undo some other deals that were put closed the four pathways through airfield in southwestern Iran. The com- together recently by this President. which Iran could get to a nuclear weap- mercial jet left Abadan, a logistical hub for the Islamic Revolutionary I yield back the balance of my time. on in less than a year. We do not gain The Acting CHAIR. The question is anything by putting limitations on the Guard Corps, and left for Syria. This is not a regularly scheduled flight. There on the amendment offered by the gen- United States’ ability to engage or tleman from Illinois (Mr. ROSKAM). monitor Iran’s compliance with the is nobody with a straight face that can say these were tourists, this was com- The amendment was agreed to. agreement. AMENDMENT NO. 47 OFFERED BY MR. SANFORD My objection to this amendment is mercial travel. Complete nonsense. This is illicit behavior. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order the same objection I had to the last to consider amendment No. 47 printed amendment: I see no need to Let me show you one other slide. This is from yesterday, Mr. Chair. in House Report 114–639. proactively cut off domestic industry’s Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I have access to a large market and, at the Iran’s air force flew a Boeing 747 from Tehran to Damascus yesterday, and an amendment at the desk. same time, undermine the commit- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will this is the documentation of it. Iran ment under the agreement regarding designate the amendment. the exportation of commercial pas- systemically uses commercial aircraft The text of the amendment is as fol- senger aircraft and related parts and to spread death, destruction, and may- lows: hem; and we can do something about services to Iran. At the end of the bill (before the short The financial mechanism for any it. title), insert the following: transaction regarding U.S.-manufac- So divorce in your mind, Mr. Chair- SEC. l. None of the funds made available tured commercial aircraft has not yet man, the notion of the nuclear deal in this Act may be used to administer or en- been determined. Once the contracts that the gentleman from New York was force part 515 of title 31, Code of Federal Reg- are completed, Iran Air will decide how speaking about. It is completely sepa- ulations (the Cuban Assets Control Regula- it wants to finance its purchases. Like rate. This is our ability to stop an tions) or section 910(b) of the Trade Sanc- iconic American company that has ba- tions Reform and Export Enhancement Act the discussion on the gentleman’s last of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7209(b)) with respect to any amendment, all payment matters will sically said: ‘‘Well, look, somebody else travel or travel-related transaction. The lim- be done in full compliance with U.S. is doing it.’’ itation described in this section shall not sanctions. Let me ask you one question in clos- apply in the case of the administration of a I understand that there is concern ing, Mr. Chairman. When does history tax or tariff. amongst some that the financing of ever treat well the entity that said: ‘‘I The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to any arrangement would be done did this terrible thing because some- House Resolution 794, the gentleman through the Export-Import Bank of the body else did it too’’? from South Carolina (Mr. SANFORD) United States. I would just note here I urge the adoption of this amend- and a Member opposed each will con- that the Export-Import Bank of the ment. trol 5 minutes. U.S. is prohibited from providing fi- I yield back the balance of my time. The Chair recognizes the gentleman nancing to any Iranian airline. We Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, how from South Carolina. should not be dictating the finance much time do I have remaining? Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I want mechanisms for the purchase of Amer- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman to be clear that in just a few moments, ican-made commercial aircraft, con- from New York has 2 minutes remain- I am going to be withdrawing my sistent with an international agreeing. amendment. ment and U.S. law and policy. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield Before I do so, I just want to say a Mr. Chairman, I am afraid I have re- myself such time as I may consume. couple of things because this amend- peated myself. So let me just say this: This is about the Iran deal, and you ment was a very simple and straight- The amendment harms U.S. manufac- could paint it any way you want. Any- forward amendment that did nothing turing jobs and ensures that U.S. com- one can say what they want about it, more than allow Americans to travel panies will be locked out of a large but it is about a deal that people would to Cuba, which is to say this amend- aerospace market which is expected to like to destroy. And so any oppor- ment ultimately was about American grow for decades to come. tunity we find, we do it. liberty. Under this agreement, Iran is being The charts that you showed are very We just heard a long conversation subjected to the most comprehensive, good. The charts that the gentleman about Iran, and yet, as an American,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.138 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4531 you can travel to Iran. You could trav- Finally, I want to say, there is real by this right now, so we can’t wait to el to Syria. You could travel to North momentum. As I just mentioned, just see if such a provision is enacted as Korea. There is no prohibition for any today U.S. transportation is outlining part of those reforms. Our communities other place on the globe, except for eight airlines that will be able to trav- and the economies in those areas need one, and that is Cuba. And that may el to Cuba. Last night, I think there help now. have made sense 50 years ago. was something of a deal struck be- The SBA’s HUBZone program was The reality of today is that it does tween ag interests and the ability to created in 1997. It was designed to en- not make sense today. And so this has export product or a deal that will be courage economic growth in histori- ultimately been about American lib- formed in exporting product to Cuba. I cally underutilized areas, areas that erty. It has been about the bundle of think that makes sense. have often struggled with poverty and rights that come with liberty. The Su- Given the fact that the Speaker is a lack of opportunity. Small businesses preme Court has said that as real as working against this amendment, I see in SBA HUBZones receive contracting the food that we eat or the clothes that the handwriting on the wall. I think it assistance and a pricing preference for we wear or the books that we read, the best to withdraw, so that is exactly Federal contracts. ability to choose where you come and what I am going to do. For the last two decades, this pro- go, where you travel to, is an American Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous con- gram has enjoyed bipartisan support. It liberty. sent to withdraw the amendment. benefits communities in both rural and So Jefferson said 200 years ago that The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection urban areas. Right now the Census Bu- the normal course of things was for to the request of the gentleman from reau works with the SBA to update the government to gain ground and for lib- South Carolina. locations of Federal HUBZones and, in erty to yield. And I think it is very, There was no objection. some cases, to remove an area’s very important wherein we run into The Acting CHAIR. The amendment HUBZone status. Many small busi- policies that have outlived their use- is withdrawn. nesses and communities that lose their fulness, that may have made sense 50 The Chair understands that amend- HUBZone status, including in Mr. years, that don’t make sense today, ment No. 49 will not be offered. DELANEY’s district in Garrett County, that we push back against them. That AMENDMENT NO. 50 OFFERED BY MR. CARNEY Maryland, believe that the process is is what this amendment was about and, The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order just too abrupt, there is not enough again, affording people the true Amer- to consider amendment No. 50 printed time for these small businesses and the ican way, which is to travel as they in House Report 114–639. communities they support to adjust. choose, not as government sees. Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chairman, as the The short redesignation process also Two, it is about bringing change. I designee of the gentleman from Mary- inhibits long-term investment in these signed on to the original Helms-Burton land (Mr. DELANEY), I offer amendment communities, which is badly needed. language. The definition of insanity is No. 50. This does not give local lawmakers in continuing the same process and ex- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will those areas enough time to adjust to pecting a different result. We have designate the amendment. potentially large job losses that would tried this approach for 50 years. We The text of the amendment is as fol- negatively impact those communities. have the longest-serving dictatorship lows: The Delaney amendment extends the in the world in the form of the Castro brothers in Cuba. And it would seem to At the end of the bill (before the short redesignation process, giving under- me, if it hadn’t worked in 50 years, title), insert the following: served areas additional time to respond SEC. lll. None of the funds made avail- to the loss of their HUBZone status. might we not trying something dif- able by this Act may be used by the Admin- ferent? This is good for small businesses that istrator of the Small Business Administra- are using the HUBZone program; this It was Ronald Reagan that encour- tion to remove any area from the list of aged engagement. In fact, that has areas considered to be HUBZones, until such is good for the employees who work for been the policy of this country. So I area has been designated as a redesignated those businesses; and it is good for the don’t like what goes on in Russia or in area by the Administrator for at least 7 communities that are benefiting from China or in Vietnam, but we allow years (as such terms are defined under sec- these additional local jobs. Americans to travel there, believing tion 3(p) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. Mr. Chairman, on behalf of my friend that that personal diplomacy is part of 632(p)). and colleague, Congressman DELANEY, changing those places. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to I urge support of this amendment. Finally, this is about government House Resolution 794, the gentleman I reserve the balance of my time. regulation. It is interesting that we are from Delaware (Mr. CARNEY) and a Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I at the eve of real connections, real Member opposed each will control 5 claim time in opposition to the amend- flights going down to Cuba. But we will minutes. ment. have to sign affidavits. We will have to The Chair recognizes the gentleman The Acting CHAIR (Mr. JODY B. HICE store records for 5 years. We will be from Delaware. of Georgia). The gentleman from Flor- subject to 10 years in prison and Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chair, I rise to- ida is recognized for 5 minutes. $250,000 in penalties if we fill out a night to offer this amendment on be- Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I form wrong. And so this is also about half of my colleague and good friend, yield 1 minute to the gentleman from easing government regulation. Congressman JOHN DELANEY of Mary- Ohio (Mr. CHABOT), the chairman of the So, in my closing, I would just like to land. Unfortunately, Mr. DELANEY Committee on Small Business. say a couple of thoughts. I want to couldn’t be with us this evening. His Mr. CHABOT. I thank the gentleman thank KEVIN CRAMER, TOM EMMER, father passed away a few days ago, and for yielding. RICK CRAWFORD, TED POE, JIM MCGOV- he is at the funeral in north Jersey to- Mr. Chairman, the House Committee ERN, KATHY CASTOR, BARBARA LEE, and night. He did ask me to make sure that on Small Business, which I chair, has about 130 other Members of this House this amendment was given consider- oversight responsibility of the who signed on to this bill. I want to ation as a part of this legislation. HUBZone program. Our committee has thank Senators JEFF FLAKE, JERRY not yet had the opportunity to hold b 1900 MORAN, MIKE ENZI, and others over on hearings on the program to uncover the Senate side. Mr. Chairman, the Delaney amend- ways it can properly be improved. It I want to thank the U.S. Chamber, ment is a simple reform to the Small wouldn’t be prudent to extend or ex- who is going to key vote this vote to- Business Administration’s HUBZone pand the program until the committee night, the National Association of program to give affected communities has had the opportunity to perform its Manufacturers, the Washington Office additional time to respond to the po- due diligence. of Latin America, Engage Cuba, the tential loss of their HUBZone status. I am committed to working in a bi- Farm Bureau, the Americans for Tax The Committee on Small Business has partisan manner with our ranking Reform, and a long list of others who expressed a desire to reform the pro- member, Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ, and others to said that this is something that makes gram more broadly, but there are more hold hearings and develop legislation sense. than 2,000 HUBZones that are affected to update and reform and improve the

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It is unacceptable for additional U.S. That way we can be sure to take the The question was taken; and the Act- taxpayer dollars to flow into the hands action that best serves American small ing Chair announced that the noes ap- of the world’s leading state sponsor of businesses and this country. peared to have it. terrorism, and that is why this amend- Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chairman, I would Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chairman, I de- ment is needed. It prohibits funds from like to thank the gentleman for his mand a recorded vote. being used to pay final judgments, willingness to work in a bipartisan way The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to awards, compromise settlements, or in- with the Committee on Small Busi- clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- terests and costs specified in the judg- ness—in particular, my colleague Ms. ceedings on the amendment offered by ments to Iran using amounts appro- VELA´ ZQUEZ—on this issue and the re- the gentleman from Delaware will be priated under section 1304 of title 31, forms therein. postponed. United States Code, or interest from Mr. DELANEY, I know, would like to amounts appropriated under such sec- AMENDMENT NO. 51 OFFERED BY MR. ZELDIN see an extension, which is why he has tion. offered this amendment, so that the af- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance fected communities have some time to to consider amendment No. 51 printed of my time. react to the phaseout, potential phase- in House Report 114–639. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I out of the HUBZones in their areas. I Mr. ZELDIN. Mr. Chairman, as the claim the time in opposition to the would again urge support of Mr. designee of the gentleman from Florida amendment. (Mr. DESANTIS), I offer amendment No. DELANEY’s amendment to extend the The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman HUBZone redesignation period. 51. from New York is recognized for 5 min- Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will utes. ance of my time. designate the amendment. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, this Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I The text of the amendment is as fol- amendment would put the United yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman lows: States in breach of its international from New York (Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ). At the end of the bill (before the short legal obligations. It would also lead Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. I thank the gen- title), insert the following: other countries to question U.S. integ- tleman for yielding. SEC. l. None of the funds made available rity and reliability in entering into Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to by this Act may be used to pay final judg- settlements and dispute resolution this amendment. Over the years, the ments, awards, compromise settlements, or clauses in a wide range of treaties that Committee on Small Business has seen interest and costs specified in the judgments directly affect our international eco- to Iran using amounts appropriated under the HUBZone program move further section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, nomic interests, including treaties de- and further away from its goal, and or interest from amounts appropriated under signed to protect U.S. investors abroad. this amendment would only amplify such section. Under the 1981 Algiers Accords, this problem. Allowing a massive ex- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to awards of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tri- pansion of the program, as has been bunal are final and binding and en- House Resolution 794, the gentleman proposed, would greatly reduce the effi- forceable in the courts around the from New York (Mr. ZELDIN) and a cacy of the program by steering con- country. If the U.S. does not pay, Iran Member opposed each will control 5 tracts away from active economically will attempt to enforce the awards minutes. distressed areas. against U.S. assets around the world, The Chair recognizes the gentleman The amendment will also dilute the which are significant. Even if not suc- from New York. competition in HUBZone contracting cessful, Iran could tie up U.S. assets in Mr. ZELDIN. I yield myself such opportunities as well as in the free and litigation for years. open marketplace. In some cases, agen- time as I may consume. In almost every administration, the cies will even be required to pay up to Mr. Chairman, earlier this year, the United States has entered into settle- 10 percent more for goods and services Treasury Department transferred $1.7 ments with Iran, including especially to companies that would otherwise not billion to Iran’s Central Bank to re- with respect to claims at the Iran-U.S. qualify for the program. The chairman solve a long-running financial dispute Claims Tribunal. Settling certain cases and I are committed to working on the regarding Iran’s arms purchases before with Iran is key to the U.S. ability to HUBZone program. the revolution of 1979. avoiding far greater liability where we The committee plans on conducting a The agreement involved the return of believe the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal hearing in the fall, and I am working $400 million in Iranian funds that the is likely to award a far larger award on a comprehensive reform bill. We United States seized after the revolu- against the United States. will welcome Mr. DELANEY’s participation plus an additional $1.3 billion in The U.S. has settled certain cases or tion as we look further into how we interest. This financial transaction was parts of cases in the past for this rea- can improve this program, while ensur- carried out through the Department of son, including most recently the settle- ing that contracts are awarded to those the Treasury Judgment Fund, a perma- ment in January involving the Iran areas that need them most. nent, indefinite appropriation that was FMS Trust Fund. In cases where the However, I cannot, in good con- created by Congress in 1956 to pay judg- administration does not believe we science, support the inclusion of this ments entered against the United have serious exposure, it litigates vig- provision. It has not been vetted by the States. orously. committee of jurisdiction, and there is While the U.S. Department of the In sum, this amendment would put not any evidence that this amendment Treasury claims that the Islamic Revo- the United States in breach of its will further the mission of the lutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, remains international obligation, expose U.S. HUBZone program of supporting eco- sanctioned under our current sanctions assets abroad to needless attachment nomically disadvantaged areas. I there- regime, an associate fellow at the litigation, and remove our ability to fore ask my fellow Members to vote Foundation for Defense of Democ- assess U.S. litigation risk regarding ‘‘no’’ on this amendment. racies, Saeed Ghasseminejad, recently claims against the United States and Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, let noted that Iran’s Guardian Council ap- prevent the United States from making me close by saying that we know there proved the government’s 2017 budget important settlement decisions that is some concern about redesignating that instructed Iran’s Central Bank to are in the U.S. taxpayers’ interest. the HUBZones, but we have listened, transfer that $1.7 billion to Iran’s mili- For that reason, for trying not to ex- and I think it is best that we wait and tary establishment, which includes the pose our country to those problems, I let the authorizing committees of ju- IRGC. urge opposition to the amendment. risdiction work through this issue; and According to administration offi- Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance so, therefore, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote. cials, outstanding legal claims against of my time.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.128 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4533 Mr. ZELDIN. Mr. Chairman, I ask my retary of the Treasury to prescribe reg- both as a Member of Congress and out colleagues to support this amendment ulations to prohibit, or impose strict of Congress. I would rather give peace offered by Mr. DESANTIS of Florida, conditions on, the opening or main- a chance. The Iran deal allows for that which has been part of a very effective taining in the United States of a cor- situation. effort on behalf of Mr. DESANTIS advo- respondent account or payable-through Secondly, the Iran deal closed many cating for a more effective foreign pol- account by a foreign financial institu- of the pathways that Iran had to build- icy, especially in light of a deal entered tion that the Secretary finds knowing a bomb within a year. And those into approximately 1 year ago with ingly engages in Iran’s illicit activi- are still there. Iran that is not in our best interests. ties. The President, trust me—do I know this for a fact? Am I in the room there Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- b 1915 ance of my time. in the oval office? No—if there is one Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, in Under section 401(f), the Secretary of item the President does not want to closing, the gentleman just proved to the Treasury may waive these prohibi- fail, it is on this one. So there are peo- me what we already know, and that is tions or conditions if the Secretary de- ple looking at this on a daily basis. that this is about feelings about the termines that such a waiver is nec- Any chart we come up with, any photo- deal that we arranged some time ago. essary to the national interest of the graph we come up with, they have it at It is also an attempt to embarrass the United States, and submits to the ap- the White House, I assure you, and people who put the deal together, em- propriate congressional committees a they are dealing with this on a daily barrass our President, whatever the report describing the reasons for the basis. issue may be; but this one is a dan- determination. So I understand the gentleman from gerous one, because this one exposes However, as noted in a recent Con- New York, my colleague, has this the United States to various situations gressional Research Service report, amendment representing someone else, throughout the world that we should section 401 was not waived to imple- but he believes in it, and I respect him not be caught up in. ment the Joint Comprehensive Plan of for that, but I think we should give We have a reputation about paying Action, while many entities with which this an opportunity to work. And if it our debts, about keeping to our trea- transactions would have triggered doesn’t work, the very people who sup- ties, about keeping to our arrange- sanctions under section 401 were ported it, I assure you, will be the first ments, even with people we may not be delisted in accordance with the deal. ones criticizing it and making sure crazy about. If that is what the idea is This delisting is unacceptable, given that it gets undone or is done away and that is what the deal is, we should that the U.S. Department of the Treas- with. But this needs a chance to work, live up to it, and this amendment goes ury claims to be more than aware of and it is the best we can do. It is the against that. I still oppose the amend- the ‘‘concerns that remain’’ regarding responsibility we have to bring peace ment. Iran, ‘‘such as transparency issues, cor- to future generations. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- ruption, and regulatory obstacles,’’ as Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of ance of my time. reported in a recent Free Beacon arti- my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is cle. Mr. ZELDIN. Mr. Chair, I thank Mr. on the amendment offered by the gen- Given that the U.S. Department of DESANTIS for bringing this important tleman from New York (Mr. ZELDIN). the Treasury is circumventing the law, amendment as we strive to hold Iran The amendment was agreed to. this amendment was introduced to pro- accountable. AMENDMENT NO. 52 OFFERED BY MR. ZELDIN hibit funds from being used by the Sec- There are many other bad activities The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order retary of the Treasury to modify regu- Iran has been involved in directly im- to consider amendment No. 52 printed lations that prohibit or impose strict pacting the United States, our allies in in House Report 114–639. conditions on the opening or maintain- the Middle East, and around the rest of Mr. ZELDIN. Mr. Chairman, as the ing in the United States of a cor- the world. So I do commend the gen- designee of the gentleman from Florida respondent account or a payable- tleman from Florida for bringing this (Mr. DESANTIS), I offer amendment No. through account by a foreign financial amendment. I would ask all of my col- 52. institution that the Secretary finds leagues to vote for it this evening. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will knowingly engages in any activity de- Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of designate the amendment. scribed in section 401(c)(2) of the Com- my time. The text of the amendment is as fol- prehensive Iran Sanctions, Account- The Acting CHAIR. The question is lows: ability, and Divestment Act of 2010. on the amendment offered by the gen- At the end of the bill (before the short I would encourage my colleagues in tleman from New York (Mr. ZELDIN). title), insert the following: this Chamber to support this amend- The amendment was agreed to. SEC. l. None of the funds made available ment. AMENDMENT NO. 54 OFFERED BY MR. YARMUTH by this Act may be used by the Secretary of Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order the Treasury to modify regulations that pro- my time. to consider amendment No. 54 printed hibit, or impose strict conditions on, the Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I rise in opening or maintaining in the United States in House Report 114–639. opposition. Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I of a correspondent account or a payable- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman through account by a foreign financial insti- have an amendment at the desk. tution that the Secretary finds knowingly from New York is recognized for 5 min- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will engages in any activity described in subpara- utes. designate the amendment. graphs (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of section Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, it is the The text of the amendment is as fol- 104(c)(2) of the Comprehensive Iran Sanc- same thing. I am repeating myself over lows: tions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of and over again. That is redundant. At the end of the bill (before the short 2010 (Public Law 111–195; 22 U.S.C. 8513(c)(2)). Anyway, it is just the same thing. It is title), insert the following: The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to that we are not happy with the Iran SEC. ll. None of the funds made available House Resolution 794, the gentleman deal and want to try to find any way by this Act may be used in contravention of from New York (Mr. ZELDIN) and a possible to undo it. section 317 of the Communications Act of Member opposed each will control 5 There is enough support all around to 1934 (47 U.S.C. 317). minutes. at least try to reach a new day with The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to The Chair recognizes the gentleman the Government of Iran and try to find House Resolution 794, the gentleman from New York. a way to have a better understanding. from Kentucky (Mr. YARMUTH) and a Mr. ZELDIN. Mr. Chairman, I present You know, I am a big supporter of this Member opposed each will control 5 this amendment on behalf of Mr. situation, and people have asked: Why? minutes. DESANTIS of Florida. Simply because I have seen, I have The Chair recognizes the gentleman Section 401 of the Comprehensive been a Member of Congress during war- from Kentucky. Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Di- time, I have been alive during wartime, Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I rise vestment Act of 2010 requires the Sec- I have been alive during peacetime, to offer an amendment with Ms. ESHOO,

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The Chair under- flood our airwaves with anonymous will help change that and, hopefully, stands that amendment No. 55 will not ads, with no true disclosure whatso- restore a minimum level of honesty in be offered. ever. our electoral system. The Chair understands that amend- Section 317 of the Communications I urge my colleagues to support my ment No. 57 will not be offered. Act of 1934 requires broadcasters to dis- amendment. AMENDMENT NO. 58 OFFERED BY MR. JENKINS OF close the true identity of political ad Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of WEST VIRGINIA sponsors on air during the ad. The FCC my time. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I currently relies on an outdated 1979 to consider amendment No. 58 printed rise in opposition. in House Report 114–639. staff interpretation of this law that The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman does not account for the dramatic Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia. Mr. from Florida is recognized for 5 min- Chairman, I have an amendment at the changes in our campaign system that utes. have taken place over the last 6 years. desk. Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will This has resulted in a major loophole have been looking at this amendment designate the amendment. in which special interests and wealthy and what it says is that none of the The text of the amendment is as fol- donors can anonymously spend limit- funds made available by this act may lows: less sums of money to influence the be used in contravention of section 317 Page 34, line 6, after the dollar amount, in- outcomes of our elections. of the Communications Act. This says sert ‘‘(reduced by $2,000,000)’’. To be honest, when an ad disclaimer that you can’t do anything against Page 37, line 21, after the dollar amount, says, ‘‘Paid for by Americans for Kit- what the law says. I guess that is an- insert ‘‘(increased by $2,000,000)’’. tens and Puppies,’’ or ‘‘Paid for by other way of saying you have got to do The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Americans for a Brighter Tomorrow,’’ what the law says. We call that a dou- House Resolution 794, the gentleman that really doesn’t help the American ble negative. from West Virginia (Mr. JENKINS) and a voter understand who may be behind It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, Member opposed each will control 5 those ads. This is not what Congress in- but I guess it is a good opportunity for minutes. tended. Despite having the authority my good friend to stand up and talk The Chair recognizes the gentleman to do so, the FCC has yet to take ac- about Citizens United and make his from West Virginia. tion to close this loophole. points, which I find interesting, and I Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia. Mr. In January, 168 Members joined Ms. am willing to listen some more. Chairman, one of the most effective ESHOO and me in sending a letter to the I want to urge my colleagues to vote tools in fighting the drug crisis is the FCC to unmask secret sponsors of po- ‘‘no’’ on this somewhat superfluous High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas litical ads. They have yet to act. It is amendment that maybe would prevent program. It is also known as HIDTA. my hope that our amendment, which the FCC from actually doing its job. This program works at Federal, simply states that none of the funds That is my observation. And I respect State, and local levels, bringing to- may be used in contravention of sec- my good friend a great deal. I am just gether law enforcement to stop drug tion 317, will send a strong message to curious as to why he filed this amend- trafficking in our communities. In my the FCC that it is time to uphold the ment, other than to talk a little bit district, the funding is to provide nec- original congressional intent. about what he has been talking about. essary resources to local police depart- But this is not just congressional in- Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance ments and county sheriffs’ offices to tent; it is also the intent of the Su- of my time. help facilitate efforts to stop drug traf- preme Court. In the widely discussed Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I ap- ficking. It teams up with local law en- Citizens United decision—something preciate the comments of my good forcement, the FBI, and the DEA to get that I certainly don’t support—Justice friend from Florida. I understand that drugs off our streets and lock up traf- Kennedy, writing for the majority, this amendment has no legal impact in fickers. said: terms of forcing the FCC to do what it The police chief in my hometown of The First Amendment protects political is statutorily required to do. It is just Huntington, West Virginia, says speech; and disclosure permits citizens and a prod. It is a way to say to them: We HIDTA is critical to the success of shareholders to react to the speech of cor- expect you to do your job. their counterdrug mission. They rely porate entities in a proper way. This trans- We are in the middle of a very, very on HIDTA funding to support training parency enables the electorate to make in- contentious political season in which and operational activities. formed decisions and give proper weight to hundreds of millions of dollars are The amendment I offer today is different speakers and messages. being spent anonymously to influence straightforward and completely offset. He also wrote: voters’ opinions and their votes. And It will increase funding for the HIDTA There was evidence in the record that inde- we think that it is time for the FCC to program by $2 million. The increase pendent groups were running election-react. will go a long way in ensuring our sher- lated advertisements while hiding behind du- I urge my colleagues to support this iff and police departments can con- bious and misleading names. amendment, which will help ensure tinue making strides in combating the In the McCutcheon decision, which that the public knows exactly who is drug crisis. basically said that anybody can give trying to influence their vote during I want to thank Chairman CRENSHAW unlimited sums to Federal elections, elections. and the committee for their tireless ef- Chief Justice Roberts wrote: Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of forts to fund programs making a dif- Disclosure of contributions minimizes the my time. ference in our communities. His work potential for abuse of the campaign finance Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I on this bill and continued support of system. Disclosure requirements are, in part, hope the FCC got the urge. HIDTA are truly making a difference justified based on a governmental interest in Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- in combating the drug epidemic. providing the electorate with information ance of my time. about the sources of election-related spend- The Acting CHAIR. The question is b 1930 ing. on the amendment offered by the gen- Mr. Chairman, while I have only So what we are hearing here is not tleman from Kentucky (Mr. YARMUTH). served on the Appropriations Com- just congressional intent, but also the The question was taken; and the Act- mittee for 2 years, it has been a pleas- recognition by the Supreme Court that ing Chair announced that the noes ap- ure working with my colleague from disclosure is an important part of guar- peared to have it. Florida, Mr. CRENSHAW.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.135 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4535 Again, thanks to the chairman, witnessed the physical and emotional clare war. Given a choice, I don’t want Chairman CRENSHAW, and I ask for sup- toll that joblessness can take on a vet- any war. port for my amendment. eran’s life and on their families. But coming back from that war, I I yield back the balance of my time. Simply put, the Senate language is a have become a big-spending liberal The Acting CHAIR. The question is step in the wrong direction. After years when it comes to veterans. Give them on the amendment offered by the gen- of painful progress in combating eco- whatever they want. Give them what- tleman from West Virginia (Mr. JEN- nomic distress and homelessness ever they need. Give them whatever KINS). among our veterans, now is not the they deserve. And I mean that sin- The amendment was agreed to. time to dilute a system that is work- cerely. AMENDMENT NO. 68 OFFERED BY MR. GALLEGO ing, that has been proven highly suc- So this, to me, is an important The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order cessful in promoting veteran employ- amendment that the gentleman brings to consider amendment No. 68 printed ment. up. This, to me, is one that sticks to in House Report 114–639. The American people recognize that our comments that we care about the Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Chairman, I have we owe an immense debt of gratitude veterans. If we start chipping away at an amendment at the desk. to the brave men and women that have the benefits that veterans get, the day The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will served our country. Many of them left will come when we treat veterans just designate the amendment. civilian jobs, left their lives behind for like any other Federal agency and cut The text of the amendment is as fol- months, or even years, to risk their away all their benefits and all the sup- lows: lives to defend our Nation. port that they need from us. At the end of the bill (before the short The veterans preference system helps So I strongly support this amend- title) insert the following: create a fair playing field for veterans ment, and I hope that everybody else SEC. ll. None of the funds appropriated by compensating them for the time will do the same. or otherwise made available in this Act may they spent fighting overseas instead of I yield back the balance of my time. be used to revise any policy or directive re- working in government or the private Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Chairman, I yield lating to hiring preferences for veterans. sector. back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Instead of getting master’s degrees, The Acting CHAIR. The question is House Resolution 794, the gentleman veterans were going door to door look- on the amendment offered by the gen- from Arizona (Mr. GALLEGO) and a ing for insurgents. While other civil- tleman from Arizona (Mr. GALLEGO). Member opposed each will control 5 ians were building their re´sume´ in ci- The question was taken; and the Act- minutes. vilian jobs, our men and women in uni- ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- The Chair recognizes the gentleman form put in time away from their fam- peared to have it. from Arizona. ily, in dangerous situations, with little Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Chairman, I de- Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Chairman, I want monetary compensation. mand a recorded vote. to thank, first, my colleagues, Con- Veterans are not asking for a hand- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to gresswoman KIRKPATRICK and Con- out. We have earned this preference clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- gressmen TAKANO and AGUILAR, for through the blood, sweat, and tears we ceedings on the amendment offered by helping me with this amendment. We have given this country. the gentleman from Arizona will be strongly believe that veterans who Mr. Chairman, this provision sends postponed. served our Nation in uniform deserve the wrong message to our troops. It es- AMENDMENT NO. 70 OFFERED BY MRS. HARTZLER the chance to serve our Nation in the tablishes the wrong policy for our gov- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Federal Government. ernment and for our country and sets to consider amendment No. 70 printed Unfortunately, a provision slipped the wrong precedent for our future. in House Report 114–639. unseen into this 1,700-page document, On behalf of America’s veterans, I Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Chairman, I the Senate defense authorization bill, urge every Member of this House to have an amendment at the desk. severely undermines these policies that support this amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will have been helping veterans get jobs I reserve the balance of my time. designate the amendment. with the Federal Government. Specifi- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I The text of the amendment is as fol- cally, it will prevent veterans from move to strike the last word. lows: benefiting from the preference system The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman At the end of the bill (before the short if they are already employed by the from New York is recognized for 5 min- title), insert the following: Federal Government. utes. SEC. lll. None of the funds made avail- Mr. Chairman, this misguided provi- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I want able by this Act may be used by the Bureau sion was never the subject of a public to thank the gentleman for his amend- of Consumer Financial Protection for a con- hearing, it was never the subject of a ment. I did not have as illustrious a tract for consumer awareness and engage- public debate, it was never the subject military career as he had, but in the ment tools and resources communication. of a roll call vote, and it was never sixties I was proud to serve our coun- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to voted on in the committee or on the try. House Resolution 794, the gentlewoman Senate floor. I am willing to bet the There is something that troubles me from Missouri (Mrs. HARTZLER) and a vast majority of my colleagues in the a lot, and I have to say it. There is al- Member opposed each will control 5 Senate do not know that this provision ways so much talk about our veterans, minutes. is in the National Defense Authoriza- our veterans, our veterans, and yet, at The Chair recognizes the gentle- tion Act. the same time, people cut the Veterans woman from Missouri. America’s veterans deserve better. Health Administration. At the same Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Chairman, I We deserve the chance to proudly and time, they try to take away pref- rise today to offer an amendment that publicly make our case for veterans erences that they have gotten and they would limit the CFPB’s ability to uni- preference, a system which has done so have earned the hard way. laterally enter into fiscally irrespon- much to help courageous Americans re- When we think of veterans, we sible contracts for the purpose of ad- turning from war to find good jobs so shouldn’t only think of that picture we vertising. they can provide for their families. always see of the person in uniform and The CFPB has shown itself to be irre- That is why I am offering this amend- so on. There is also the veteran in a sponsible with their spending and po- ment. I want to give the Members of wheelchair. There are the young kids litically motivated with their choice of this body the chance to go on record in that come here and greet us Monday advertising firms. In fiscal year 2016, support of our Nation’s veterans. nights sometimes, with a missing limb the CFPB has so far spent $15.3 million Mr. Chairman, this issue is deeply and so on. on Internet ads which have achieved personal to me. After I got back from So, to me, I am either a contradic- questionable results. The CFPB is de- Iraq, I saw my friends and fellow vet- tion or I am the way a lot of people voting a greater portion of its budget erans struggle to find employment and should be. I will have to be really to advertising than nearly every other to get on with their lives. I personally forced into voting for Congress to de- Federal agency.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:02 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.139 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4536 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Moreover, nearly all the CFPB’s ad- sive, Google recently banned adver- came aware that this agency has spent vertising dollars, including a $12.5 mil- tising for payday loans on the basis 2.5 percent of its budget this year on lion contract signed in February of this they were harmful to Google’s own cus- ads, the second-highest level among all year, are going to a single advertising tomers. Federal departments and comparable firm that just happened to be used by The Bureau has developed a number regulatory agencies for this year to the Presidential campaigns of Presi- of tools that we should all be helping date. dent Barack Obama and former Sec- to make Americans more aware of, in- So this is egregious. There is no ac- retary of State Hillary Clinton. This is cluding a great set of resources on countability. It is not needed. So I reckless, out-of-control government home ownership and mortgages called would urge my colleagues to support spending at its worst, and it reeks of ‘‘Know Before You Owe,’’ as well as an this amendment. cronyism. online tool that arms consumers with I reserve the balance of my time. Congress must act to rein in this the information they need to identify b 1945 abusive waste of taxpayer funds and the most competitively priced loans in Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I yield stop the agency from throwing away the marketplace. back the balance of my time. money. We need to end this misuse of The Bureau has used Internet adver- Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Chairman, I tax dollars by passing my amendment. tising, as well as TV advertising, encourage all my colleagues to support And I thank the Rules Committee for through GSA-approved contractors this commonsense measure to save the making my amendment in order. that offer advertising management taxpayer dollar and to curb irrespon- Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the services to get the word out about sible spending. More thorough over- gentleman from Florida (Mr. CREN- these important resources that help sight of the CFPB is necessary, and I SHAW). consumers plan for their financial fu- believe this is a step in the right direc- Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I tures and save their hard-earned tion. thank the gentlewoman for yielding, money. So I thank the chairman for his sup- and I want to thank her for bringing While Republicans claim to support port. this before the body tonight, and urge transparency and competition in mar- I yield back the balance of my time. its adoption. kets, they want to shut down the Bu- The Acting CHAIR. The question is This underlying bill talks about the reau’s efforts to educate consumers on on the amendment offered by the gen- CFPB, the Consumer Financial Protec- how to get the best deals on financial tlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. tion Bureau. We have talked about it a services and avoid debt traps. HARTZLER). lot tonight. One of the things the un- At the same time, Republican allies The question was taken; and the Act- derlying bill does is it puts it under the have spent millions of dollars on Inter- ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- appropriations process, and this is a net and television for a smear cam- peared to have it. pretty good example of why they ought paign cynically named ‘‘Protect Amer- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I de- to be under the appropriations process. ica’s consumers,’’ which has falsified mand a recorded vote. Most other agencies in the Federal quotes from Members of Congress and The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Government are. They come to Con- misrepresented Bureau activities to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further progress, and they say: This is what we discourage taxpayers from taking ad- ceedings on the amendment offered by plan our spending on and here is how vantage of the Bureau’s services. the gentlewoman from Missouri will be much we would like. But they are not One Sunlight Foundation analysis postponed. Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I accountable to anybody. So we are just found that this bogus group spent move that the Committee do now rise. $58,000 just on television advertise- trying to bring some transparency. The motion was agreed to. But this is the classic example of ments smearing the Bureau. What real Accordingly, the Committee rose; why they ought to be under the appro- consumer nonprofits have that kind of and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. COL- priations process. If they would walk in money to throw around? Not anyone LINS of Georgia) having assumed the and say, ‘‘We just want to spend $15 that I know. chair, Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia, million of hard-earned taxpayer dollars Fortunately, none of the Republican Acting Chair of the Committee of the on advertising,’’ we might ask them attacks have been able to keep the Bu- Whole House on the state of the Union, questions about that. reau from returning $11.4 billion to reported that that Committee, having So it is a good amendment, and I consumers, or from providing financial had under consideration the bill (H.R. urge its adoption. advice to more than 12 million unique 5485) making appropriations for finan- Mrs. HARTZLER. I thank the Chair- visitors to their Web site. cial services and general government man. I really appreciate his support. We would, however, like to thank the for the fiscal year ending September 30, I reserve the balance of my time. Republicans for giving the Bureau 2017, and for other purposes, had come Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I some free advertising for those who are to no resolution thereon. claim the time in opposition. watching the debate. Make sure you f The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman visit consumerfinance.gov for more in- from New York is recognized for 5 min- formation on mortgages, student loans, RECESS utes. credit cards, and banking accounts. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, this is And that is consumerfinance.gov, just ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair an ambiguous and punitive amendment in case anyone missed it. declares the House in recess for a pe- which could prevent the Bureau from I urge opposition to the amendment. riod of less than 15 minutes. making seniors, servicemembers, and I reserve the balance of my time. Accordingly (at 7 o’clock and 46 min- students aware of predatory financial Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Chairman, I utes p.m.), the House stood in recess. practices, interrupt the Bureau’s abil- would just thank the gentleman for f ity to work with consumer advocates giving some free advertising there to and the financial services industry on the agency and proving my point: that b 2000 consumer education, and keep Amer- we don’t need to spend over $15 million AFTER RECESS ican consumers in the dark about the of taxpayer money on this. All these The recess having expired, the House only agency designed specifically to services are available already online. was called to order by the Speaker pro protect their interests. Consumers can find this information. tempore (Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia) For every dollar spent on financial This is about fiscal responsibility and at 8 p.m. education, $25 is spent on financial accountability. We weren’t even aware f marketing. You can see that for your- that the CFPB was spending this self by searching for a ‘‘car loan’’ or amount of money. As the chairman FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GEN- ‘‘credit card offer’’ on Google, or look- mentioned, there is no accountability ERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIA- ing through the junk you get in your for the agency. So Congress didn’t TIONS ACT, 2017 mailbox every week. In fact, marketing know until a newspaper article did an The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- of these products has become so perva- investigation on it. That is how we be- ant to House Resolution 794 and rule

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Brat Hill Reed Heck (WA) Maloney, Sean Schrader Bridenstine Holding Reichert Higgins Matsui Scott (VA) b 2001 Brooks (AL) Hudson Renacci Himes McCollum Scott, David Brooks (IN) Huelskamp Ribble Hinojosa McDermott Serrano IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Buchanan Huizenga (MI) Rice (SC) Honda McGovern Sewell (AL) Accordingly, the House resolved Buck Hultgren Rigell Hoyer McNerney Sherman itself into the Committee of the Whole Bucshon Hunter Roby Huffman Meeks Sinema Israel Meng Sires House on the state of the Union for the Burgess Hurd (TX) Roe (TN) Byrne Issa Rogers (AL) Jackson Lee Moore Slaughter further consideration of the bill (H.R. Calvert Jenkins (KS) Rogers (KY) Jeffries Moulton Smith (WA) 5485) making appropriations for finan- Carter (GA) Jenkins (WV) Rohrabacher Johnson (GA) Murphy (FL) Speier cial services and general government Carter (TX) Johnson (OH) Rokita Johnson, E. B. Napolitano Swalwell (CA) Chabot Johnson, Sam Rooney (FL) Kaptur Neal Takano for the fiscal year ending September 30, Chaffetz Jolly Ros-Lehtinen Keating Nolan Thompson (CA) 2017, and for other purposes, with Ms. Clawson (FL) Jones Roskam Kelly (IL) Norcross Thompson (MS) FOXX (Acting Chair) in the chair. Coffman Jordan Rothfus Kennedy O’Rourke Titus Kildee Pallone Tonko The Clerk read the title of the bill. Cole Joyce Rouzer Collins (GA) Katko Royce Kilmer Pascrell Torres The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- Collins (NY) Kelly (MS) Russell Kind Payne Tsongas mittee of the Whole rose earlier today, Comstock Kelly (PA) Salmon Kirkpatrick Perlmutter Van Hollen a request for a recorded vote on amend- Conaway King (IA) Sanford Kuster Peters Vargas Cook King (NY) Scalise Langevin Peterson Veasey ment No. 70 printed in House Report Larsen (WA) Costello (PA) Kinzinger (IL) Schweikert Pingree Vela Larson (CT) Pocan Vela´ zquez 114–624, offered by the gentlewoman Cramer Kline Scott, Austin Lawrence Polis Visclosky from Missouri (Mrs. HARTZLER), had Crawford Knight Sensenbrenner Lee Price (NC) Walz Crenshaw Labrador Sessions been postponed. Culberson LaHood Levin Quigley Wasserman Shimkus Curbelo (FL) LaMalfa Lewis Rangel Schultz ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Shuster Davidson Lamborn Lieu, Ted Rice (NY) Waters, Maxine The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Simpson Davis, Rodney Lance Lipinski Richmond Watson Coleman Smith (MO) clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will Denham Latta Loebsack Roybal-Allard Welch Smith (NE) Dent LoBiondo Lofgren Ruiz Wilson (FL) now resume on those amendments Smith (NJ) DeSantis Long Lowenthal Ruppersberger Yarmuth printed in House Report 114–639 on Smith (TX) DesJarlais Loudermilk Stefanik which further proceedings were post- Dold Love NOT VOTING—19 Stewart poned, in the following order: Donovan Lucas Aderholt Hastings Poe (TX) Stivers Duffy Luetkemeyer Bost Hurt (VA) Ross Amendment No. 40 by Mr. MESSER of Stutzman Duncan (SC) Lummis Brown (FL) Miller (FL) Indiana. Thompson (PA) Takai Duncan (TN) MacArthur Clay Moolenaar Thornberry Turner Amendment No. 41 by Mr. PALMER of Ellmers (NC) Marchant Delaney Nadler Tiberi Yoho Alabama. Emmer (MN) Marino Diaz-Balart Nugent Tipton Amendment No. 43 by Mr. MULLIN of Farenthold Massie Eshoo Pelosi Fincher McCarthy Trott Oklahoma. Fitzpatrick McCaul Upton Amendment No. 44 by Mr. POSEY of Fleischmann McClintock Valadao b 2023 Florida. Fleming McHenry Wagner Flores McKinley Walberg Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania Amendment No. 50 by Mr. CARNEY of Forbes McMorris Walden changed his vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Delaware. Fortenberry Rodgers Walker So the amendment was agreed to. Walorski Amendment No. 54 by Mr. YARMUTH Foxx McSally The result of the vote was announced of Kentucky. Franks (AZ) Meadows Walters, Mimi Frelinghuysen Meehan Weber (TX) as above recorded. Amendment No. 68 by Mr. GALLEGO of Webster (FL) Garrett Messer AMENDMENT NO. 41 OFFERED BY MR. PALMER Arizona. Wenstrup Gibbs Mica The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Amendment No. 70 by Mrs. HARTZLER Gibson Miller (MI) Westerman Westmoreland business is the demand for a recorded of Missouri. Gohmert Mooney (WV) Goodlatte Mullin Whitfield vote on the amendment offered by the The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes Gosar Mulvaney Williams gentleman from Alabama (Mr. PALMER) the time for any electronic vote after Gowdy Murphy (PA) Wilson (SC) on which further proceedings were the first vote in this series. Granger Neugebauer Wittman Graves (GA) Newhouse Womack postponed and on which the ayes pre- AMENDMENT NO. 40 OFFERED BY MR. MESSER Graves (LA) Noem Woodall vailed by voice vote. Yoder The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Graves (MO) Nunes The Clerk will redesignate the business is the demand for a recorded Griffith Olson Young (AK) Grothman Palazzo Young (IA) amendment. vote on the amendment offered by the Guinta Palmer Young (IN) The Clerk redesignated the amend- gentleman from Indiana (Mr. MESSER) Guthrie Paulsen Zeldin ment. on which further proceedings were Hanna Pearce Zinke RECORDED VOTE postponed and on which the ayes pre- NOES—179 The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote vailed by voice vote. Adams Carson (IN) DeFazio has been demanded. The Clerk will redesignate the Aguilar Cartwright DeGette A recorded vote was ordered. amendment. Ashford Castor (FL) DeLauro The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- The Clerk redesignated the amend- Bass Castro (TX) DelBene minute vote. ment. Beatty Chu, Judy DeSaulnier Becerra Cicilline Deutch The vote was taken by electronic de- RECORDED VOTE Bera Clark (MA) Dingell vice, and there were—ayes 223, noes 192, Beyer Clarke (NY) Doggett The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote not voting 18, as follows: has been demanded. Bishop (GA) Cleaver Doyle, Michael Blumenauer Clyburn F. [Roll No. 390] A recorded vote was ordered. Bonamici Cohen Duckworth AYES—223 The vote was taken by electronic de- Boyle, Brendan Connolly Edwards vice, and there were—ayes 235, noes 179, F. Conyers Ellison Abraham Bilirakis Bridenstine Brady (PA) Cooper Engel Allen Bishop (MI) Brooks (AL) not voting 19, as follows: Brownley (CA) Costa Esty Amash Bishop (UT) Brooks (IN) [Roll No. 389] Bustos Courtney Farr Amodei Black Buchanan Butterfield Crowley Foster Babin Blackburn Buck AYES—235 Capps Cuellar Frankel (FL) Barletta Blum Bucshon Abraham Amodei Barr Capuano Cummings Fudge Barr Boustany Burgess Allen Babin Barton Ca´ rdenas Davis (CA) Gabbard Barton Brady (TX) Byrne Amash Barletta Benishek Carney Davis, Danny Gallego Benishek Brat Calvert

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JY7.146 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4538 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Carter (GA) Jenkins (KS) Renacci Keating Meng Schrader Coffman Issa Ratcliffe Carter (TX) Jenkins (WV) Ribble Kelly (IL) Moore Scott (VA) Cole Jenkins (KS) Reed Chabot Johnson (OH) Rice (SC) Kennedy Moulton Scott, David Collins (GA) Jenkins (WV) Reichert Chaffetz Johnson, Sam Rigell Kildee Murphy (FL) Serrano Collins (NY) Johnson (OH) Renacci Clawson (FL) Jones Roby Kilmer Napolitano Sewell (AL) Comstock Johnson, Sam Ribble Cole Jordan Roe (TN) Kind Neal Sherman Conaway Jolly Rice (SC) Collins (GA) Joyce Rogers (AL) Kirkpatrick Nolan Sinema Cook Jones Rigell Collins (NY) Kelly (MS) Rogers (KY) Kuster Norcross Sires Costa Jordan Roby Langevin O’Rourke Comstock Kelly (PA) Rohrabacher Slaughter Costello (PA) Joyce Roe (TN) Conaway King (IA) Larsen (WA) Pallone Cramer Katko Rokita Smith (WA) Rogers (AL) Larson (CT) Pascrell Cook King (NY) Rooney (FL) Crawford Kelly (MS) Rogers (KY) Lawrence Payne Speier Cramer Kinzinger (IL) Ros-Lehtinen Crenshaw Kelly (PA) Rohrabacher Crenshaw Kline Lee Pelosi Stefanik Culberson King (IA) Roskam Rokita Culberson Knight Levin Perlmutter Swalwell (CA) Curbelo (FL) King (NY) Ross Takano Rooney (FL) Davidson Labrador Rothfus Lewis Peters Davidson Kinzinger (IL) Thompson (CA) Ros-Lehtinen Davis, Rodney LaHood Rouzer Lieu, Ted Pingree Davis, Rodney Kline Thompson (MS) Roskam Denham LaMalfa Royce Loebsack Pocan Denham Knight Titus Ross DeSantis Lamborn Russell Lofgren Poliquin Dent Labrador DesJarlais Lance Lowenthal Polis Tonko DeSantis LaHood Rothfus Salmon Rouzer Donovan Latta Sanford Lowey Price (NC) Torres DesJarlais LaMalfa Lujan Grisham Royce Duffy Lipinski Scalise Quigley Tsongas Diaz-Balart Lamborn (NM) Rangel Russell Duncan (SC) LoBiondo Schweikert Van Hollen Dold Lance Luja´ n, Ben Ray Reed Salmon Duncan (TN) Long Scott, Austin Vargas Donovan Latta (NM) Rice (NY) Sanford Ellmers (NC) Loudermilk Sensenbrenner Veasey Duffy LoBiondo Emmer (MN) Love Lynch Richmond Duncan (SC) Scalise Sessions Vela Long Farenthold Lucas Maloney, Roybal-Allard Duncan (TN) Loudermilk Schweikert Shimkus Vela´ zquez Fincher Luetkemeyer Carolyn Ruiz Ellmers (NC) Love Scott, Austin Shuster Visclosky Fleischmann Lummis Maloney, Sean Ruppersberger Emmer (MN) Lucas Sensenbrenner Simpson Walz Fleming MacArthur Matsui Rush Farenthold Luetkemeyer Sessions Smith (MO) Wasserman Flores Marchant McCollum Ryan (OH) Fincher Lummis Shimkus Smith (NE) Schultz Forbes Marino McDermott Sa´ nchez, Linda Fitzpatrick MacArthur Shuster Smith (NJ) Fortenberry Massie McGovern T. Waters, Maxine Fleischmann Marchant Simpson Smith (TX) Foxx McCarthy McNerney Sanchez, Loretta Watson Coleman Fleming Marino Smith (MO) Stewart Franks (AZ) McCaul McSally Sarbanes Welch Flores Massie Smith (NE) Stivers Frelinghuysen McClintock Meehan Schakowsky Wilson (FL) Forbes McCarthy Smith (NJ) Stutzman Garrett McHenry Meeks Schiff Yarmuth Fortenberry McCaul Smith (TX) Thompson (PA) Gibbs McKinley Foxx McClintock Stefanik Thornberry NOT VOTING—18 Gohmert McMorris Frelinghuysen McHenry Stivers Tiberi Goodlatte Rodgers Aderholt Delaney Nadler Garrett McKinley Stutzman Tipton Gosar Meadows Bost Diaz-Balart Nugent Gibbs McMorris Thompson (PA) Trott Gowdy Messer Brown (FL) Fitzpatrick Poe (TX) Gibson Rodgers Thornberry Upton Granger Mica Clay Hastings Takai Gohmert McSally Tiberi Valadao Graves (GA) Miller (FL) Cleaver Hurt (VA) Turner Goodlatte Meadows Tipton Graves (LA) Miller (MI) Wagner Crawford Moolenaar Yoho Gosar Meehan Walberg Trott Graves (MO) Mooney (WV) Gowdy Messer Upton Walden ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Griffith Mullin Granger Mica Valadao Grothman Mulvaney Walker The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Graves (GA) Miller (FL) Walorski Wagner Guinta Murphy (PA) There is 1 minute remaining. Graves (LA) Miller (MI) Walberg Guthrie Neugebauer Walters, Mimi Graves (MO) Moolenaar Walden Hardy Newhouse Weber (TX) Griffith Mooney (WV) Walker Harper Noem Webster (FL) b 2027 Grothman Mullin Walorski Harris Nunes Wenstrup Guinta Mulvaney Walters, Mimi Hartzler Olson Westerman Mr. HUDSON changed his vote from Guthrie Murphy (PA) Weber (TX) Heck (NV) Palazzo Westmoreland ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Hanna Neugebauer Hensarling Palmer Whitfield Hardy Newhouse Webster (FL) So the amendment was agreed to. Wenstrup Herrera Beutler Paulsen Williams The result of the vote was announced Harper Noem Hice, Jody B. Pearce Wilson (SC) Harris Nunes Westerman Hill Perry Wittman as above recorded. Hartzler Olson Westmoreland Whitfield Holding Peterson Womack AMENDMENT NO. 43 OFFERED BY MR. MULLIN Heck (NV) Palazzo Hudson Pittenger Woodall Hensarling Palmer Williams Huelskamp Pitts Yoder The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Herrera Beutler Paulsen Wilson (SC) Huizenga (MI) Pompeo Young (AK) business is the demand for a recorded Hice, Jody B. Pearce Wittman Hultgren Posey Young (IA) vote on the amendment offered by the Hill Perry Womack Woodall Hunter Price, Tom Young (IN) gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Holding Peterson Hurd (TX) Ratcliffe Zeldin Hudson Pittenger Yoder Issa Reichert Zinke MULLIN) on which further proceedings Huelskamp Pitts Young (AK) were postponed and on which the ayes Huizenga (MI) Poliquin Young (IA) NOES—192 prevailed by voice vote. Hultgren Pompeo Young (IN) Hunter Posey Zeldin Adams Cohen Farr The Clerk will redesignate the Hurd (TX) Price, Tom Zinke Aguilar Connolly Foster amendment. Ashford Conyers Frankel (FL) NOES—179 Bass Cooper Fudge The Clerk redesignated the amend- Beatty Costa Gabbard ment. Adams Clark (MA) Engel Becerra Costello (PA) Gallego RECORDED VOTE Aguilar Clarke (NY) Eshoo Bera Courtney Garamendi Ashford Cleaver Esty Beyer Crowley Gibson The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Bass Clyburn Farr Bishop (GA) Cuellar Graham has been demanded. Beatty Cohen Foster Blumenauer Cummings Grayson A recorded vote was ordered. Becerra Connolly Frankel (FL) Bonamici Curbelo (FL) Green, Al Bera Conyers Fudge Boyle, Brendan Davis (CA) Green, Gene The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Beyer Cooper Gabbard F. Davis, Danny Grijalva minute vote. Bishop (GA) Courtney Gallego Brady (PA) DeFazio Gutie´rrez The vote was taken by electronic de- Blumenauer Crowley Garamendi Brownley (CA) DeGette Hahn vice, and there were—ayes 240, noes 179, Bonamici Cuellar Graham Bustos DeLauro Hanna Boyle, Brendan Cummings Grayson Butterfield DelBene Heck (WA) not voting 14, as follows: F. Davis (CA) Green, Al Capps Dent Higgins [Roll No. 391] Brady (PA) Davis, Danny Green, Gene Capuano DeSaulnier Himes Brownley (CA) DeFazio Grijalva Ca´ rdenas Deutch Hinojosa AYES—240 Bustos DeGette Gutie´rrez Carney Dingell Honda Abraham Bishop (MI) Buchanan Butterfield DeLauro Hahn Carson (IN) Doggett Hoyer Aderholt Bishop (UT) Buck Capps DelBene Heck (WA) Cartwright Dold Huffman Allen Black Bucshon Capuano DeSaulnier Higgins Castor (FL) Doyle, Michael Israel Amash Blackburn Burgess Ca´ rdenas Deutch Himes Castro (TX) F. Jackson Lee Amodei Blum Byrne Carney Dingell Hinojosa Chu, Judy Duckworth Jeffries Babin Boustany Calvert Carson (IN) Doggett Honda Cicilline Edwards Johnson (GA) Barletta Brady (TX) Carter (GA) Cartwright Doyle, Michael Hoyer Clark (MA) Ellison Johnson, E. B. Barr Brat Carter (TX) Castor (FL) F. Huffman Clarke (NY) Engel Jolly Barton Bridenstine Chabot Castro (TX) Duckworth Israel Clyburn Eshoo Kaptur Benishek Brooks (AL) Chaffetz Chu, Judy Edwards Jackson Lee Coffman Esty Katko Bilirakis Brooks (IN) Clawson (FL) Cicilline Ellison Jeffries

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Meng Schiff Keating Meng Scott (VA) Chaffetz Issa Reed Kaptur Moore Schrader Kelly (IL) Moore Scott, David Clawson (FL) Jenkins (KS) Renacci Keating Moulton Scott (VA) Kennedy Moulton Serrano Coffman Jenkins (WV) Ribble Kelly (IL) Murphy (FL) Scott, David Kildee Murphy (FL) Sewell (AL) Cole Johnson (OH) Rice (SC) Kennedy Napolitano Serrano Kilmer Napolitano Sherman Collins (GA) Johnson, Sam Rigell Kildee Neal Sewell (AL) Kind Neal Sinema Collins (NY) Jolly Roby Kilmer Nolan Sherman Kirkpatrick Nolan Sires Comstock Jones Roe (TN) Kind Norcross Sinema Kuster Norcross Slaughter Conaway Jordan Rogers (AL) Kirkpatrick O’Rourke Sires Langevin O’Rourke Smith (WA) Cook Joyce Rogers (KY) Kuster Pallone Slaughter Larsen (WA) Pallone Speier Cramer Katko Rohrabacher Langevin Pascrell Smith (WA) Larson (CT) Pascrell Swalwell (CA) Crawford Kelly (MS) Rokita Larsen (WA) Payne Speier Lawrence Payne Takano Crenshaw Kelly (PA) Rooney (FL) Larson (CT) Pelosi Stefanik Lee Pelosi Thompson (CA) Lawrence Perlmutter Culberson King (IA) Roskam Swalwell (CA) Levin Perlmutter Thompson (MS) Lee Peters Davidson King (NY) Ross Takano Lewis Peters Titus Davis, Rodney Kinzinger (IL) Levin Peterson Rothfus Thompson (CA) Lieu, Ted Pingree Tonko Denham Kline Rouzer Lewis Pingree Thompson (MS) Lipinski Pocan Torres Dent Knight Royce Lieu, Ted Pocan Titus Loebsack Polis Tsongas DeSantis Labrador Russell Lipinski Poliquin Tonko Lofgren Price (NC) Van Hollen DesJarlais LaHood Salmon Loebsack Polis Torres Lowenthal Quigley Vargas Diaz-Balart LaMalfa Scalise Lofgren Price (NC) Tsongas Lowey Rangel Veasey Donovan Lamborn Schweikert Lowenthal Quigley Lujan Grisham Rice (NY) Vela Duffy Lance Scott, Austin Lowey Rangel Van Hollen (NM) Richmond Vela´ zquez Duncan (SC) Latta Sensenbrenner Lujan Grisham Reichert Vargas Luja´ n, Ben Ray Roybal-Allard Visclosky Duncan (TN) LoBiondo Sessions (NM) Rice (NY) Veasey (NM) Ruiz Walz Ellmers (NC) Long Shimkus Luja´ n, Ben Ray Richmond Vela Lynch Ruppersberger Wasserman Emmer (MN) Loudermilk Shuster (NM) Ros-Lehtinen Vela´ zquez Maloney, Rush Schultz Farenthold Love Simpson Lynch Roybal-Allard Visclosky Carolyn Ryan (OH) Waters, Maxine Fincher Lucas Smith (MO) Maloney, Ruiz Walz Maloney, Sean Sa´ nchez, Linda Watson Coleman Fitzpatrick Luetkemeyer Smith (NE) Carolyn Ruppersberger Wasserman Matsui T. Welch Fleischmann Lummis Smith (NJ) Maloney, Sean Rush Schultz McCollum Sanchez, Loretta Wilson (FL) Fleming MacArthur Smith (TX) Matsui Ryan (OH) Waters, Maxine McDermott Sarbanes Yarmuth Flores Marchant Stewart McCollum Sa´ nchez, Linda Watson Coleman Forbes Marino Stivers McDermott T. Welch NOT VOTING—14 Fortenberry Massie Stutzman McGovern Sanchez, Loretta Wilson (FL) Bost Hastings Stewart Foxx McCarthy Thompson (PA) McNerney Sanford Yarmuth Brown (FL) Hurt (VA) Franks (AZ) McCaul Thornberry Takai NOT VOTING—10 Clay Nadler Turner Frelinghuysen McClintock Tiberi Delaney Nugent Yoho Garrett McHenry Tipton Bost Hastings Takai Franks (AZ) Poe (TX) Gibbs McKinley Trott Brown (FL) Nadler Turner Gohmert McMorris Upton Clay Nugent ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Goodlatte Rodgers Valadao Delaney Poe (TX) The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Gosar McSally Wagner ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR There is 1 minute remaining. Gowdy Meadows Walberg Granger Messer Walden The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Graves (GA) Mica Walker There is 1 minute remaining. b 2031 Graves (LA) Miller (FL) Walorski Graves (MO) Miller (MI) Walters, Mimi 2034 So the amendment was agreed to. Griffith Moolenaar Weber (TX) b The result of the vote was announced Grothman Mooney (WV) Webster (FL) So the amendment was agreed to. as above recorded. Guinta Mullin Wenstrup The result of the vote was announced Guthrie Mulvaney Westerman PERSONAL EXPLANATION Hardy Murphy (PA) Westmoreland as above recorded. Mr. YOHO. Madam Chair, on rollcall Nos. Harper Neugebauer Whitfield AMENDMENT NO. 50 OFFERED BY MR. CARNEY 389, 390, and 391, I was unavoidably detained. Harris Newhouse Williams Hartzler Noem Wilson (SC) The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Had I been present, I would have voted ‘‘yes’’ Heck (NV) Nunes Wittman business is the demand for a recorded on all three. Hensarling Olson Womack vote on the amendment offered by the Herrera Beutler Palazzo Woodall AMENDMENT NO. 44 OFFERED BY MR. POSEY gentleman from Delaware (Mr. CAR- Hice, Jody B. Palmer Yoder The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Hill Paulsen Yoho NEY) on which further proceedings were business is the demand for a recorded Holding Pearce Young (AK) postponed and on which the noes pre- vote on the amendment offered by the Hudson Perry Young (IA) vailed by voice vote. Huelskamp Pittenger Young (IN) gentleman from Florida (Mr. POSEY) on Huizenga (MI) Pitts Zeldin The Clerk will redesignate the which further proceedings were post- Hultgren Pompeo Zinke amendment. poned and on which the ayes prevailed The Clerk redesignated the amend- by voice vote. NOES—193 ment. The Clerk will redesignate the Adams Clarke (NY) Ellison RECORDED VOTE amendment. Aguilar Cleaver Engel Amash Clyburn Eshoo The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote The Clerk redesignated the amend- Ashford Cohen Esty has been demanded. ment. Bass Connolly Farr A recorded vote was ordered. RECORDED VOTE Beatty Conyers Foster Becerra Cooper Frankel (FL) The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Bera Costa Fudge minute vote. has been demanded. Beyer Costello (PA) Gabbard The vote was taken by electronic de- A recorded vote was ordered. Bishop (GA) Courtney Gallego vice, and there were—ayes 131, noes 292, Blumenauer Crowley Garamendi The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Bonamici Cuellar Gibson not voting 10, as follows: minute vote. Boyle, Brendan Cummings Graham [Roll No. 393] F. Curbelo (FL) Grayson The vote was taken by electronic de- AYES—131 vice, and there were—ayes 230, noes 193, Brady (PA) Davis (CA) Green, Al Brownley (CA) Davis, Danny Green, Gene Adams Ca´ rdenas DeGette not voting 10, as follows: Bustos DeFazio Grijalva Aderholt Carney DeLauro [Roll No. 392] Butterfield DeGette Gutie´rrez Ashford Cartwright DelBene Capps DeLauro Hahn Barletta Cicilline Denham AYES—230 Capuano DelBene Hanna Benishek Clarke (NY) Dent Abraham Bilirakis Bridenstine Ca´ rdenas DeSaulnier Heck (WA) Bera Clyburn DeSaulnier Aderholt Bishop (MI) Brooks (AL) Carney Deutch Higgins Beyer Connolly Deutch Allen Bishop (UT) Brooks (IN) Carson (IN) Dingell Himes Bishop (GA) Cooper Dold Amodei Black Buchanan Cartwright Doggett Hinojosa Blumenauer Costa Donovan Babin Blackburn Buck Castor (FL) Dold Honda Bonamici Courtney Doyle, Michael Barletta Blum Bucshon Castro (TX) Doyle, Michael Hoyer Brady (PA) Crowley F. Barr Boustany Burgess Chu, Judy F. Huffman Bustos Davis (CA) Duckworth Barton Brady (TX) Byrne Cicilline Duckworth Israel Butterfield Davis, Danny Esty Benishek Brat Calvert Clark (MA) Edwards Jackson Lee Capuano DeFazio Fitzpatrick

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Pelosi Scalise Wagner Davis, Danny Kilmer Richmond Green, Al Maloney, Sean Sarbanes Perry Schakowsky Walberg DeFazio Kind Rigell Pittenger Schiff Green, Gene Matsui Scott (VA) Walden DeGette Kirkpatrick Roybal-Allard Hahn McCollum Pitts Schrader DeLauro Kuster Sewell (AL) Walker Ruiz Hanna McDermott Pocan Schweikert DelBene Langevin Shimkus Walorski Ruppersberger Heck (NV) McNerney Pompeo Scott, Austin DeSaulnier Larsen (WA) Sinema Rush Heck (WA) Meeks Posey Scott, David Walters, Mimi Deutch Lawrence Smith (WA) Waters, Maxine Ryan (OH) Higgins Mooney (WV) Price (NC) Sensenbrenner Dingell Lee ´ Stefanik Weber (TX) Sanchez, Linda Himes Moulton Price, Tom Serrano Doggett Levin T. Swalwell (CA) Webster (FL) Honda Mulvaney Ratcliffe Sessions Donovan Lewis Sanchez, Loretta Thompson (CA) Wenstrup Huffman Murphy (PA) Reed Sherman Doyle, Michael Lieu, Ted Sarbanes Thompson (MS) Reichert Shuster Westerman Hurd (TX) Neal F. Lipinski Schakowsky Jackson Lee Nolan Titus Renacci Simpson Westmoreland Duckworth Loebsack Schiff Johnson, E. B. Norcross Tonko Ribble Sires Whitfield Edwards Lofgren Schrader Jones Pallone Torres Rice (NY) Slaughter Williams Ellison Lowenthal Scott (VA) Kaptur Pascrell Tsongas Rice (SC) Smith (MO) Engel Lowey Wilson (FL) Scott, David Keating Pearce Rigell Smith (NE) Eshoo Lujan Grisham Van Hollen Wilson (SC) Serrano Kennedy Perlmutter Vargas Roby Smith (NJ) Wittman Esty (NM) Kilmer Peters Roe (TN) Smith (TX) Farr Luja´ n, Ben Ray Sewell (AL) Vela Womack Sherman Kind Peterson Walz Rogers (KY) Speier Woodall Fortenberry (NM) Rohrabacher Sinema Larsen (WA) Pingree Wasserman Stewart Yarmuth Foster Lynch Lawrence Poliquin Rokita Stivers Frankel (FL) Maloney, Sires Schultz Yoder Lee Polis Rooney (FL) Stutzman Fudge Carolyn Slaughter Watson Coleman Yoho Levin Quigley Ros-Lehtinen Takano Gabbard Maloney, Sean Smith (WA) Welch Young (AK) Lieu, Ted Rangel Roskam Thompson (PA) Gallego Matsui Stefanik LoBiondo Richmond Zeldin Ross Thornberry Young (IA) Garamendi McCollum Swalwell (CA) Rothfus Tiberi Young (IN) Gibson McDermott Takano NOES—292 Rouzer Tipton Zinke Graham McGovern Thompson (CA) Grayson McNerney Thompson (MS) Abraham Diaz-Balart Johnson, Sam NOT VOTING—10 Green, Al Meeks Titus Aguilar Dingell Jolly Bost Hastings Takai Green, Gene Meng Tonko Allen Doggett Jordan Brown (FL) Nadler Turner Grijalva Moore Torres Amash Duffy Joyce Clay Nugent Gutie´rrez Moulton Tsongas Amodei Duncan (SC) Katko Delaney Poe (TX) Hahn Murphy (FL) Van Hollen Babin Duncan (TN) Kelly (IL) Hanna Napolitano Vargas Barr Edwards Kelly (MS) ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Heck (WA) Neal Veasey Barton Ellison Kelly (PA) The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Higgins Nolan Vela Bass Ellmers (NC) Kildee ´ There is 1 minute remaining. Himes Norcross Velazquez Beatty Emmer (MN) King (IA) Hinojosa Pallone Visclosky Becerra Engel King (NY) Honda Pascrell Walz Bilirakis Eshoo Kinzinger (IL) b 2038 Hoyer Payne Wasserman Bishop (MI) Farenthold Kirkpatrick Huffman Pelosi Schultz Bishop (UT) Farr Kline Mr. PAULSEN changed his vote from Israel Perlmutter Waters, Maxine Black Fincher Knight ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Jackson Lee Peters Watson Coleman Blackburn Fleischmann Kuster Jeffries Peterson Webster (FL) Blum Fleming Labrador Ms. KAPTUR and Mr. KENNEDY Johnson (GA) Pingree Welch Boustany Flores LaHood changed their vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Johnson, E. B. Pocan Wilson (FL) Boyle, Brendan Forbes LaMalfa Jones Poliquin Yarmuth F. Foxx Lamborn So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced Brady (TX) Franks (AZ) Lance NOES—232 Brat Frelinghuysen Langevin as above recorded. Bridenstine Fudge Larson (CT) Abraham Crenshaw Hartzler Brooks (AL) Gabbard Latta AMENDMENT NO. 54 OFFERED BY MR. YARMUTH Aderholt Culberson Heck (NV) Brooks (IN) Garrett Lewis The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Allen Curbelo (FL) Hensarling Brownley (CA) Gibbs Lipinski business is the demand for a recorded Amash Davidson Herrera Beutler Buchanan Gohmert Lofgren Amodei Davis, Rodney Hice, Jody B. Buck Goodlatte Long vote on the amendment offered by the Babin Denham Hill Bucshon Gosar Loudermilk gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. YAR- Barletta Dent Holding Burgess Gowdy Love MUTH) on which further proceedings Barr DeSantis Hudson Byrne Granger Lowey were postponed and on which the noes Barton DesJarlais Huelskamp Calvert Graves (GA) Lucas Benishek Diaz-Balart Huizenga (MI) Capps Graves (LA) Luetkemeyer prevailed by voice vote. Bilirakis Dold Hultgren Carson (IN) Graves (MO) Lummis The Clerk will redesignate the Bishop (MI) Duffy Hunter Carter (GA) Grayson Lynch amendment. Bishop (UT) Duncan (SC) Hurd (TX) Carter (TX) Griffith Maloney, Black Duncan (TN) Hurt (VA) Castor (FL) Grijalva Carolyn The Clerk redesignated the amend- Blackburn Ellmers (NC) Issa Castro (TX) Grothman Marchant ment. Blum Emmer (MN) Jenkins (KS) Chabot Guinta Marino RECORDED VOTE Boustany Farenthold Jenkins (WV) Chaffetz Guthrie Massie Brady (TX) Fincher Johnson (OH) Chu, Judy Gutie´rrez McCarthy The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Brat Fitzpatrick Johnson, Sam Clark (MA) Hardy McCaul has been demanded. Bridenstine Fleischmann Jolly Clawson (FL) Harper McClintock A recorded vote was ordered. Brooks (AL) Fleming Jordan Cleaver Harris McGovern Brooks (IN) Flores Joyce Coffman Hartzler McHenry The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Buchanan Forbes Kelly (MS) Cohen Hensarling McKinley minute vote. Buck Foxx Kelly (PA) Cole Herrera Beutler McMorris The vote was taken by electronic de- Bucshon Franks (AZ) King (IA) Collins (GA) Hice, Jody B. Rodgers vice, and there were—ayes 189, noes 232, Burgess Frelinghuysen King (NY) Collins (NY) Hill McSally Byrne Garrett Kinzinger (IL) Comstock Hinojosa Meadows not voting 12, as follows: Calvert Gibbs Kline Conaway Holding Meehan [Roll No. 394] Carter (GA) Gohmert Knight Conyers Hoyer Meng Carter (TX) Goodlatte Labrador Cook Hudson Messer AYES—189 Chabot Gosar LaHood Costello (PA) Huelskamp Mica Adams Boyle, Brendan Castor (FL) Chaffetz Gowdy LaMalfa Cramer Huizenga (MI) Miller (FL) Aguilar F. Castro (TX) Clawson (FL) Granger Lamborn Crawford Hultgren Miller (MI) Ashford Brady (PA) Chu, Judy Coffman Graves (GA) Lance Crenshaw Hunter Moolenaar Bass Brownley (CA) Cicilline Cole Graves (LA) Larson (CT) Cuellar Hurt (VA) Moore Beatty Bustos Clark (MA) Collins (GA) Graves (MO) Latta Culberson Israel Mullin Becerra Butterfield Clarke (NY) Collins (NY) Griffith LoBiondo Cummings Issa Murphy (FL) Bera Capps Cleaver Comstock Grothman Long Curbelo (FL) Jeffries Napolitano Beyer Capuano Clyburn Conaway Guinta Loudermilk Davidson Jenkins (KS) Neugebauer Ca´ rdenas Cohen Cook Guthrie Love Bishop (GA) Davis, Rodney Jenkins (WV) Newhouse Carney Connolly Costello (PA) Hardy Lucas Blumenauer DeSantis Johnson (GA) Noem Carson (IN) Conyers Cramer Harper Luetkemeyer Bonamici DesJarlais Johnson (OH) Nunes Cartwright Cooper Crawford Harris Lummis

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:45 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.057 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4541 MacArthur Pompeo Smith (TX) Chabot Guthrie McKinley Sherman Tipton Watson Coleman Marchant Price, Tom Stewart Chaffetz Gutie´rrez McMorris Shimkus Titus Weber (TX) Marino Ratcliffe Stivers Chu, Judy Hahn Rodgers Shuster Tonko Webster (FL) Massie Reed Stutzman Cicilline Hanna McNerney Simpson Torres Welch McCarthy Reichert Thompson (PA) Clark (MA) Hardy McSally Sinema Trott Wenstrup McCaul Renacci Thornberry Clarke (NY) Harper Meadows Sires Tsongas Westerman McClintock Ribble Tiberi Clawson (FL) Harris Meehan Slaughter Upton Westmoreland McHenry Rice (SC) Tipton Cleaver Hartzler Meeks Smith (MO) Valadao Whitfield McKinley Roby Smith (NE) Van Hollen Trott Clyburn Heck (NV) Meng Williams McMorris Roe (TN) Smith (NJ) Vargas Upton Coffman Heck (WA) Messer Wilson (FL) Rodgers Rogers (AL) Cohen Hensarling Mica Smith (TX) Veasey Valadao Wilson (SC) McSally Rogers (KY) Wagner Cole Herrera Beutler Miller (FL) Smith (WA) Vela ´ Wittman Meadows Rohrabacher Walberg Collins (GA) Hice, Jody B. Miller (MI) Speier Velazquez Meehan Rokita Stefanik Womack Walden Collins (NY) Higgins Moolenaar Visclosky Messer Rooney (FL) Stewart Wagner Woodall Walker Comstock Hill Mooney (WV) Mica Ros-Lehtinen Stivers Walberg Yarmuth Walorski Conaway Himes Moore Miller (FL) Roskam Stutzman Walden Yoder Walters, Mimi Connolly Hinojosa Moulton Miller (MI) Ross Swalwell (CA) Walker Young (AK) Weber (TX) Conyers Holding Mullin Moolenaar Rothfus Takano Walorski Young (IA) Wenstrup Cook Honda Mulvaney Mooney (WV) Rouzer Thompson (CA) Walters, Mimi Young (IN) Westerman Cooper Hoyer Murphy (FL) Mullin Royce Thompson (MS) Walz Zeldin Westmoreland Costa Hudson Murphy (PA) Mulvaney Russell Costello (PA) Huelskamp Napolitano Thompson (PA) Wasserman Zinke Murphy (PA) Salmon Whitfield Thornberry Schultz Williams Courtney Huffman Neal Neugebauer Sanford Cramer Huizenga (MI) Neugebauer Tiberi Waters, Maxine Newhouse Scalise Wilson (SC) Wittman Crawford Hultgren Newhouse NOES—14 Noem Schweikert Noem Womack Crenshaw Hunter Nunes Scott, Austin Crowley Hurd (TX) Nolan Amash Kelly (PA) McClintock Woodall Olson Sensenbrenner Cuellar Hurt (VA) Norcross Brat King (IA) Palmer Yoder Palazzo Sessions Culberson Israel Nunes Brooks (AL) Long Perry Yoho Palmer Shimkus Cummings Issa O’Rourke Buck Lummis Yoho Young (AK) Paulsen Shuster Curbelo (FL) Jackson Lee Olson Franks (AZ) Marino Pearce Simpson Young (IA) Davidson Jeffries Palazzo Perry Smith (MO) Young (IN) NOT VOTING—10 Davis (CA) Jenkins (KS) Pallone Pittenger Smith (NE) Zeldin Davis, Danny Jenkins (WV) Pascrell Bost Hastings Takai Pitts Smith (NJ) Zinke Davis, Rodney Johnson (GA) Paulsen Brown (FL) Nadler Turner NOT VOTING—12 DeFazio Johnson (OH) Payne Clay Nugent DeGette Johnson, E. B. Pearce Delaney Poe (TX) Bost Hastings Poe (TX) DeLauro Johnson, Sam Pelosi ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Brown (FL) Nadler Speier DelBene Jolly Perlmutter Clay Nugent Takai Denham Jones Peters The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Delaney O’Rourke Turner Dent Jordan Peterson There is 1 minute remaining. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR DeSantis Joyce Pingree DeSaulnier Kaptur Pittenger The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). DesJarlais Katko Pitts b 2047 There is 1 minute remaining. Deutch Keating Pocan Diaz-Balart Kelly (IL) Poliquin So the amendment was agreed to. b 2042 Dingell Kelly (MS) Polis The result of the vote was announced Doggett Kennedy Pompeo as above recorded. So the amendment was rejected. Dold Kildee Posey The result of the vote was announced Donovan Kilmer Price (NC) AMENDMENT NO. 70 OFFERED BY MRS. HARTZLER as above recorded. Doyle, Michael Kind Price, Tom The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished F. King (NY) Quigley business is the demand for a recorded AMENDMENT NO. 68 OFFERED BY MR. GALLEGO Duckworth Kinzinger (IL) Rangel The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Duffy Kirkpatrick Ratcliffe vote on the amendment offered by the business is the demand for a recorded Duncan (SC) Kline Reed gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. vote on the amendment offered by the Duncan (TN) Knight Reichert HARTZLER) on which further pro- Edwards Kuster Renacci ceedings were postponed and on which gentleman from Arizona (Mr. GALLEGO) Ellison Labrador Ribble on which further proceedings were Ellmers (NC) LaHood Rice (NY) the ayes prevailed by voice vote. postponed and on which the ayes pre- Emmer (MN) LaMalfa Rice (SC) The Clerk will redesignate the Engel Lamborn Richmond amendment. vailed by voice vote. Eshoo Lance Rigell The Clerk will redesignate the Esty Langevin Roby The Clerk redesignated the amend- amendment. Farenthold Larsen (WA) Roe (TN) ment. Farr Larson (CT) Rogers (AL) RECORDED VOTE The Clerk redesignated the amend- Fincher Latta Rogers (KY) ment. Fitzpatrick Lawrence Rohrabacher The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote RECORDED VOTE Fleischmann Lee Rokita has been demanded. Fleming Levin Rooney (FL) A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Flores Lewis Ros-Lehtinen has been demanded. Forbes Lieu, Ted Roskam The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- A recorded vote was ordered. Fortenberry Lipinski Ross minute vote. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Foster LoBiondo Rothfus The vote was taken by electronic de- Foxx Loebsack Rouzer vice, and there were—ayes 242, noes 179, minute vote. Frankel (FL) Lofgren Roybal-Allard The vote was taken by electronic de- Frelinghuysen Loudermilk Royce not voting 12, as follows: vice, and there were—ayes 409, noes 14, Fudge Love Ruiz [Roll No. 396] Gabbard Lowenthal Ruppersberger not voting 10, as follows: Gallego Lowey Rush AYES—242 [Roll No. 395] Garamendi Lucas Russell Abraham Brooks (AL) Costello (PA) Garrett Luetkemeyer Ryan (OH) Aderholt Brooks (IN) Cramer AYES—409 Gibbs Lujan Grisham Salmon Allen Buchanan Crawford Abraham Bilirakis Buchanan Gibson (NM) Sa´ nchez, Linda Amash Buck Crenshaw Adams Bishop (GA) Bucshon Gohmert Luja´ n, Ben Ray T. Amodei Bucshon Culberson Aderholt Bishop (MI) Burgess Goodlatte (NM) Sanchez, Loretta Babin Burgess Curbelo (FL) Aguilar Bishop (UT) Bustos Gosar Lynch Sanford Barletta Byrne Davidson Allen Black Butterfield Gowdy MacArthur Sarbanes Barr Calvert Davis, Rodney Amodei Blackburn Byrne Graham Maloney, Scalise Barton Carter (GA) Denham Ashford Blum Calvert Granger Carolyn Schakowsky Benishek Carter (TX) Dent Babin Blumenauer Capps Graves (GA) Maloney, Sean Schiff Bilirakis Chabot DeSantis Barletta Bonamici Capuano Graves (LA) Marchant Schrader Bishop (MI) Chaffetz DesJarlais Barr Boustany Ca´ rdenas Graves (MO) Massie Schweikert Bishop (UT) Clawson (FL) Diaz-Balart Barton Boyle, Brendan Carney Grayson Matsui Scott (VA) Black Coffman Dold Bass F. Carson (IN) Green, Al McCarthy Scott, Austin Blackburn Cole Donovan Beatty Brady (PA) Carter (GA) Green, Gene McCaul Scott, David Blum Collins (GA) Duffy Becerra Brady (TX) Carter (TX) Griffith McCollum Sensenbrenner Boustany Collins (NY) Duncan (SC) Benishek Bridenstine Cartwright Grijalva McDermott Serrano Brady (TX) Comstock Duncan (TN) Bera Brooks (IN) Castor (FL) Grothman McGovern Sessions Brat Conaway Ellmers (NC) Beyer Brownley (CA) Castro (TX) Guinta McHenry Sewell (AL) Bridenstine Cook Emmer (MN)

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:45 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.058 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H4542 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 7, 2016 Farenthold Labrador Rogers (AL) Luja´ n, Ben Ray Pingree Slaughter The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Fincher LaHood Rogers (KY) (NM) Pocan Smith (WA) Clerk will report the motion to recom- Fitzpatrick LaMalfa Rohrabacher Lynch Polis Speier Fleischmann Lamborn Rokita Maloney, Price (NC) Swalwell (CA) mit. Fleming Lance Rooney (FL) Carolyn Quigley Takano The Clerk read as follows: Flores Latta Ros-Lehtinen Maloney, Sean Rangel Thompson (CA) Mr. Peters moves to recommit the bill H.R. Forbes LoBiondo Roskam Matsui Rice (NY) Thompson (MS) 5485 to the Committee on Appropriations Fortenberry Long Ross McCollum Richmond Titus McDermott Roybal-Allard with instructions to report the same back to Foxx Loudermilk Rothfus Tonko Franks (AZ) Love Rouzer McGovern Ruiz the House forthwith with the following Torres Frelinghuysen Lucas Royce McNerney Ruppersberger amendment: Tsongas Garrett Luetkemeyer Russell Meng Rush In the ‘‘Office of Terrorism and Financial Gibbs Lummis Salmon Moore Ryan (OH) Van Hollen Vargas Intelligence—Salaries and Expenses’’ ac- Gibson MacArthur Sanford Moulton Sa´ nchez, Linda count, on page 4, line 2, after the dollar Murphy (FL) T. Veasey Gohmert Marchant Scalise amount, insert ‘‘(increased by $5,000,000)’’. Goodlatte Marino Schweikert Napolitano Sanchez, Loretta Vela Gosar Massie Scott, Austin Neal Sarbanes Vela´ zquez Page 92, line 21, after the dollar amount, Gowdy McCarthy Sensenbrenner Nolan Schakowsky Visclosky insert ‘‘(reduced by $5,000,000)’’. Granger McCaul Sessions Norcross Schiff Walz Page 96, line 17, after the dollar amount re- Graves (GA) McClintock Shimkus O’Rourke Schrader Wasserman lating to rental of space, insert ‘‘(reduced by Graves (LA) McHenry Shuster Pallone Scott (VA) Schultz $5,000,000)’’. Graves (MO) McKinley Simpson Pascrell Scott, David Waters, Maxine Griffith McMorris Smith (MO) Payne Serrano Watson Coleman The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Grothman Rodgers Smith (NE) Pelosi Sewell (AL) Welch ant to the rule, the gentleman from Guinta McSally Smith (NJ) Perlmutter Sherman Wilson (FL) California is recognized for 5 minutes. Guthrie Meehan Smith (TX) Peters Sinema Yarmuth Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, this is Hanna Meeks Stefanik Peterson Sires the final amendment to the bill. It will Hardy Messer Stewart NOT VOTING—12 Harper Mica Stivers not require that it go back for further Harris Miller (FL) Stutzman Bost Hastings Nugent action. My amendment would increase Hartzler Miller (MI) Thompson (PA) Brown (FL) Larson (CT) Poe (TX) Heck (NV) Moolenaar Thornberry Delaney Meadows Takai funding for the Office of Terrorism and Hensarling Mooney (WV) Tiberi Gutie´rrez Nadler Turner Financial Intelligence by $5 million. Herrera Beutler Mullin Tipton ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR It is our responsibility as a Congress Hice, Jody B. Mulvaney Trott to provide the American people with fi- Hill Murphy (PA) Upton The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Holding Neugebauer Valadao There is 1 minute remaining. nancial security, national security, and Hudson Newhouse Wagner security in the belief that their voice Huelskamp Noem Walberg b 2050 counts in Washington, D.C. Instead, Huizenga (MI) Nunes Walden So the amendment was agreed to. Hultgren Olson Walker the underlying bill rolls back reforms Hunter Palazzo Walorski The result of the vote was announced put in place after the 2008 financial col- Hurd (TX) Palmer Walters, Mimi as above recorded. lapse, further undermines the cam- Hurt (VA) Paulsen Weber (TX) The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- paign finance system, reduces access to Issa Pearce Webster (FL) port the last two lines. Jenkins (KS) Perry Wenstrup affordable health care, and underfunds Jenkins (WV) Pittenger Westerman The Clerk read as follows: the Office of Terrorism and Financial Johnson (OH) Pitts Westmoreland This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Intelligence, which is tasked with tar- Johnson, Sam Poliquin Whitfield Services and General Government Appropria- geting the finances of terrorist groups. Jolly Pompeo Williams tions Act, 2017’’. Jones Posey Wilson (SC) In an era of new and dynamic Jordan Price, Tom Wittman The Acting CHAIR. There being no threats, we need a tough, smart na- Joyce Ratcliffe Womack further amendments, under the rule, tional security strategy to keep Ameri- Katko Reed Woodall the Committee rises. cans safe. Even as we counter aggres- Kelly (MS) Reichert Yoder Accordingly, the Committee rose; Kelly (PA) Renacci Yoho sors like China and Russia, we are and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. King (IA) Ribble Young (AK) faced with threats from nonstate ter- King (NY) Rice (SC) Young (IA) BYRNE) having assumed the chair, Ms. rorist groups like ISIS, al Qaeda, and Kinzinger (IL) Rigell Young (IN) FOXX, Acting Chair of the Committee the Taliban. Kline Roby Zeldin of the Whole House on the state of the Knight Roe (TN) Zinke Our military has taken the fight to Union, reported that that Committee, them. In May, an American drone having had under consideration the bill NOES—179 strike in Pakistan killed Taliban lead- (H.R. 5485) making appropriations for Adams Costa Heck (WA) er Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Aguilar Courtney Higgins financial services and general govern- Mansour, and as of June 28, the U.S. Ashford Crowley Himes ment for the fiscal year ending Sep- military and its coalition partners had Bass Cuellar Hinojosa tember 30, 2017, and for other purposes, Beatty Cummings Honda conducted over 13,000 strikes against and, pursuant to House Resolution 794, Becerra Davis (CA) Hoyer ISIS. Those strikes have destroyed Bera Davis, Danny she reported the bill back to the House Huffman over 26,000 targets in Iraq and Syria. Beyer DeFazio Israel with sundry amendments adopted in Bishop (GA) DeGette Coupled with our brave special opera- Jackson Lee the Committee of the Whole. Blumenauer DeLauro Jeffries tors on the ground, this air campaign The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Bonamici DelBene Johnson (GA) has helped our allies make consider- Boyle, Brendan DeSaulnier the rule, the previous question is or- Johnson, E. B. able progress in the fight against ISIS. F. Deutch Kaptur dered. Brady (PA) Dingell Keating ISIS has lost 45 percent of the territory Brownley (CA) Doggett Is a separate vote demanded on any Kelly (IL) it once held in Iraq and 20 percent of Bustos Doyle, Michael amendment reported from the Com- Kennedy Butterfield F. what it once held in Syria, and ISIS no Kildee mittee of the Whole? If not, the Chair Capps Duckworth longer occupies strongholds like Kilmer will put them en gros. Capuano Edwards Fallujah and Ramadi. Pentagon Ca´ rdenas Ellison Kind The amendments were agreed to. Carney Engel Kirkpatrick The SPEAKER pro tempore. The spokesman Captain Jeff Davis recently Carson (IN) Eshoo Kuster question is on the engrossment and said: ‘‘There has been no strategic vic- Cartwright Esty Langevin tory for ISIS in over a year now.’’ Larsen (WA) third reading of the bill. Castor (FL) Farr But even as we have taken back ter- Castro (TX) Foster Lawrence The bill was ordered to be engrossed Chu, Judy Frankel (FL) Lee and read a third time, and was read the ritory and degraded their capabilities, Cicilline Fudge Levin third time. the last few months have demonstrated Clark (MA) Gabbard Lewis MOTION TO RECOMMIT ISIS’ prevailing ability to direct or in- Clarke (NY) Gallego Lieu, Ted Clay Garamendi Lipinski Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, I have a spire attacks in the West. Paris, Brus- Cleaver Graham Loebsack motion to recommit at the desk. sels, Baghdad, Istanbul, and recently Clyburn Grayson Lofgren The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the Orlando—ISIS’ ability to direct or in- Cohen Green, Al Lowenthal spire attacks poses a clear threat to Connolly Green, Gene Lowey gentleman opposed to the bill? Conyers Grijalva Lujan Grisham Mr. PETERS. I am in its current our security and to American lives at Cooper Hahn (NM) form. home and abroad.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:45 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.059 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4543 In the United States, we have seen that office. I don’t think we need to He has represented the Fourth Dis- how difficult it is for our law enforce- give them another $5 million. They trict of Florida for 15 years. His leader- ment and intelligence agencies to stop have got more than they can deal with ship will be shown on so many pieces of lone-wolf attackers inspired by ISIS, right now. They are happy we did that. legislation, but his heart, his passion, and in Europe we have seen the devas- What this bill does is deal with the and his persuasion was really shown on tation that highly coordinated ISIS-di- big problems we face here in Wash- the ABLE Act. He never gave up. Be- rected terrorist attacks can inflict on ington. Number one, we spend money cause of the ABLE Act, it is now help- soft targets like airports and train sta- that we don’t have, and up here in ing millions of Americans with disabil- tions. These attacks involved terrorist Washington, we exercise power that no- ities lead more independent lives. He fighters financed by ISIS using mili- body gave us, and we deal with that has changed their lives. tary-grade weaponry. In many cases, right here. So I think I speak for all Members in the fighters traveled to and from the We lower the spending under this bill wishing him well in his retirement and Middle East to be trained. by 5.6 percent. We are getting a handle his quest to become a scratch golfer. Even as we kill their leaders, destroy on the out-of-control spending. Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I yield their safe havens, and take back their But we spend money where we ought back the balance of my time. territory, the threat from ISIS will not to spend it, like the SBA. They help The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without be eliminated until we remove their small businesses get the loans and objection, the previous question is or- ability to direct and finance terrorist make the next big deal. They grow the dered on the motion to recommit. attacks. economy. They create jobs. There was no objection. Created by President Bush in 2004, b 2100 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The the Office of Terrorism and Financial The Office of Terrorism and Finan- question is on the motion to recommit. Intelligence has extensive and critical cial Intelligence enforces sanctions. The question was taken; and the responsibilities that include combating They get extra money. That is great. Speaker pro tempore announced that terrorist financing domestically and But guess what? The way we reduce the noes appeared to have it. internationally. They work with law spending overall is we take money Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, on that I enforcement, diplomats, and intel- away from those agencies that waste demand the yeas and nays. ligence agencies, and with the private money. In fact, we cut spending on 12 The yeas and nays were ordered. sector and foreign governments to different agencies. We lower spending The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- identify and eliminate sources of fi- and we eliminate 6 agencies altogether. ant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair nancing for terrorist networks. They So we are dealing with that part of will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum also combat financial support for the it. And, by the way, one of the big time for the electronic vote on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. problems in Washington is exercising question of passage. The Office of Terrorism and Finan- all this regulatory overreach. We kind This is a 5-minute vote. cial Intelligence cuts lines of financial of rein that in here. We say to some of The vote was taken by electronic de- support, freezes assets, and makes it these agencies: Stop, stop, stop. Pause. vice, and there were—yeas 183, nays harder for terrorist cells to finance and The Federal Communications Com- 241, not voting 9, as follows: carry out attacks. By hitting the ter- mission, they oversee one of the most [Roll No. 397] rorists where it hurts—in their wal- creative, innovative aspects of our YEAS—183 lets—our financial intelligence officers economy; and yet they are more active Adams Dingell Levin make Americans safer. than ever before. So we say: Stop mak- Aguilar Doggett Lewis My amendment will provide the Of- ing these politically charged rules and Ashford Doyle, Michael Lieu, Ted fice of Terrorism and Financial Intel- get back to your core mission. Bass F. Lipinski ligence with the additional resources it Beatty Duckworth Loebsack So at the end of the day, it is a good Becerra Edwards Lofgren needs to carry out this mission; and bill. Let me just tell you I have got Bera Engel Lowenthal moving forward, the House should also four good reasons, but let me tell you Beyer Eshoo Lowey consider bipartisan legislation intro- two quick good reasons. This is the Bishop (GA) Esty Lujan Grisham duced by Representatives SINEMA and Blum Farr (NM) fourth time I have brought this bill be- Blumenauer Foster Luja´ n, Ben Ray FITZPATRICK to develop a coordinated fore the House. Every year, the bill Bonamici Frankel (FL) (NM) governmentwide strategy to combat gets better and better. I am going tell Boyle, Brendan Fudge Lynch terrorist financing. F. Gabbard Maloney, you right now, this is the best bill that Brady (PA) Gallego Carolyn By supporting this smart, targeted I have ever brought before the House. Brownley (CA) Garamendi Maloney, Sean approach to undermining terrorist net- That ought to be one good reason. The Bustos Graham Matsui works, we can support the American other reason is, since I am leaving this Butterfield Grayson McCollum pilots and special operators who are Capps Green, Al McDermott year, this is the last time I will ever Capuano Green, Gene McGovern risking their lives in the fight against bring the bill. Ca´ rdenas Grijalva McNerney terrorism, and we can help prevent fu- Finally, just let me say to everybody Carney Gutie´rrez Meeks ture attacks. here, if everybody is willing to rein in Carson (IN) Hahn Meng I urge my colleagues to support this Cartwright Heck (WA) Moore this wasteful spending, then you will Castor (FL) Higgins Moulton amendment. like this bill; if you are ready to exer- Castro (TX) Himes Murphy (FL) Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance cise a little courage and say to those Chu, Judy Hinojosa Napolitano of my time. Cicilline Honda Neal nameless, faceless bureaucrats, We are Clark (MA) Hoyer Nolan Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I rise going to put an end to regulatory ram- Clarke (NY) Huffman Norcross in opposition to the motion to recom- page, then vote ‘‘no.’’ Clay Israel O’Rourke mit. I yield to the gentleman from Cali- Cleaver Jackson Lee Pallone The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Clyburn Jeffries Pascrell fornia (Mr. MCCARTHY), the majority Cohen Johnson (GA) Payne tleman from Florida is recognized for 5 leader. Connolly Johnson, E. B. Pelosi minutes. Mr. MCCARTHY. I thank the gen- Conyers Jones Perlmutter Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I tleman for yielding. Cooper Kaptur Peters would really like to thank the gen- Costa Keating Peterson Mr. Speaker, I rise for one purpose. I Courtney Kelly (IL) Pingree tleman for bringing this motion to re- rise to recognize the gentleman from Crowley Kennedy Pocan commit to increase funding for the Of- Florida (Mr. CRENSHAW) on his last Fi- Cuellar Kildee Polis fice of Terrorism and Financial Intel- nancial Services bill. Cummings Kilmer Price (NC) Davis (CA) Kind Quigley ligence by $5 million because it makes Mr. Speaker, I know they are not ris- Davis, Danny Kirkpatrick Rangel an excellent point as to why this bill is ing because it is his last bill. They are DeFazio Kuster Rice (NY) such a good bill, because this bill al- rising because this man has always DeGette Langevin Richmond ready funds the Office of Terrorism and been a gentleman and a statesman re- DeLauro Larsen (WA) Roybal-Allard DelBene Larson (CT) Ruiz Financial Intelligence higher than it gardless of what side of the aisle he has DeSaulnier Lawrence Ruppersberger has ever been funded in the history of been on. Deutch Lee Rush

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Stewart Walorski Young (AK) Serrano Torres Wilson (FL) Stivers Walters, Mimi Young (IA) Sewell (AL) Tsongas Yarmuth b 2109 Stutzman Weber (TX) Young (IN) Sherman Van Hollen Thompson (PA) Webster (FL) Zeldin Sinema Vargas Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California Thornberry Wenstrup Zinke changed her vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ NAYS—185 NAYS—241 So the motion to recommit was re- Abraham Graves (MO) Palmer Adams Fudge Moulton jected. Aguilar Gabbard Murphy (FL) Aderholt Griffith Paulsen The result of the vote was announced Amash Gallego Napolitano Allen Grothman Pearce Bass Garamendi Neal Amash Guinta Perry as above recorded. Beatty Graham Nolan Amodei The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Guthrie Pittenger Becerra Grayson Norcross Babin Hanna Pitts question is on the passage of the bill. Bera Green, Al O’Rourke Barletta Hardy Poliquin Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas Beyer Green, Gene Pallone Barr Harper Pompeo and nays are ordered. Bishop (GA) Grijalva Pascrell Barton Harris Posey Blumenauer Gutie´rrez Payne Benishek Hartzler Price, Tom This is a 5-minute vote. Bonamici Hahn Pelosi Bilirakis Heck (NV) Ratcliffe The vote was taken by electronic de- Boyle, Brendan Heck (WA) Perlmutter Bishop (MI) Hensarling Reed vice, and there were—yeas 239, nays F. Higgins Peters Bishop (UT) Herrera Beutler Reichert 185, not voting 9, as follows: Brady (PA) Himes Pingree Black Hice, Jody B. Renacci Brooks (AL) Hinojosa Pocan Blackburn Hill Ribble [Roll No. 398] Brownley (CA) Honda Polis Boustany Holding Rice (SC) YEAS—239 Buck Hoyer Price (NC) Brady (TX) Hudson Bustos Huffman Quigley Rigell Abraham Forbes MacArthur Brat Huelskamp Butterfield Israel Rangel Roby Aderholt Fortenberry Marchant Bridenstine Huizenga (MI) Roe (TN) Capps Jackson Lee Rice (NY) Allen Foxx Marino Capuano Jeffries Richmond Brooks (AL) Hultgren Rogers (AL) Amodei Frelinghuysen McCarthy Ca´ rdenas Johnson (GA) Roybal-Allard Brooks (IN) Hunter Rogers (KY) Ashford Garrett McCaul Carney Johnson, E. B. Ruiz Buchanan Hurd (TX) Rohrabacher Babin Gibbs McClintock Carson (IN) Jones Ruppersberger Buck Hurt (VA) Rokita Barletta Gibson McHenry Bucshon Issa Cartwright Kaptur Rush Rooney (FL) Barr Gohmert McKinley Castor (FL) Keating Ryan (OH) Burgess Jenkins (KS) Ros-Lehtinen Barton Goodlatte McMorris Castro (TX) Kelly (IL) Sa´ nchez, Linda Byrne Jenkins (WV) Roskam Benishek Gosar Rodgers Chu, Judy Kennedy T. Calvert Johnson (OH) Ross Bilirakis Gowdy McSally Cicilline Kildee Sanchez, Loretta Carter (GA) Johnson, Sam Rothfus Bishop (MI) Granger Meadows Clark (MA) Kilmer Sarbanes Carter (TX) Jolly Rouzer Bishop (UT) Graves (GA) Meehan Clarke (NY) Kind Schakowsky Chabot Jordan Royce Black Graves (LA) Messer Clay King (IA) Schiff Chaffetz Joyce Russell Blackburn Graves (MO) Mica Cleaver Kirkpatrick Schrader Clawson (FL) Blum Griffith Miller (FL) Katko Salmon Clyburn Kuster Scott (VA) Coffman Boustany Grothman Miller (MI) Kelly (MS) Sanford Cohen Langevin Scott, David Cole Kelly (PA) Brady (TX) Guinta Moolenaar Scalise Connolly Larsen (WA) Serrano Collins (GA) King (IA) Brat Guthrie Mooney (WV) Schweikert Conyers Larson (CT) Sewell (AL) Collins (NY) King (NY) Bridenstine Hanna Mullin Scott, Austin Cooper Lawrence Sherman Comstock Kinzinger (IL) Brooks (IN) Hardy Mulvaney Costa Lee Sensenbrenner Sinema Conaway Kline Buchanan Harper Murphy (PA) Courtney Levin Sires Sessions Cook Knight Bucshon Harris Neugebauer Crowley Lewis Slaughter Shimkus Costello (PA) Labrador Burgess Hartzler Newhouse Cummings Lieu, Ted Smith (WA) Shuster Byrne Heck (NV) Noem Cramer LaHood Davis (CA) Lipinski Speier Simpson Calvert Hensarling Nunes Crawford LaMalfa Davis, Danny Loebsack Swalwell (CA) Smith (MO) Carter (GA) Herrera Beutler Olson Crenshaw Lamborn DeFazio Lofgren Takano Smith (NE) Carter (TX) Hice, Jody B. Palazzo Culberson Lance DeGette Lowenthal Thompson (CA) Smith (NJ) Chabot Hill Palmer Curbelo (FL) Latta DeLauro Lowey Thompson (MS) Smith (TX) Chaffetz Holding Paulsen Davidson LoBiondo DelBene Lujan Grisham Titus Stefanik Clawson (FL) Hudson Pearce Davis, Rodney Long DeSaulnier (NM) Tonko Stewart Coffman Huelskamp Perry Deutch Luja´ n, Ben Ray Denham Loudermilk Torres Stivers Cole Huizenga (MI) Peterson Dingell (NM) Tsongas Dent Love Collins (GA) Hultgren Stutzman Pittenger Doggett Lynch Van Hollen DeSantis Lucas Collins (NY) Hunter Pitts Thompson (PA) Doyle, Michael Maloney, Vargas DesJarlais Luetkemeyer Comstock Hurd (TX) Poliquin Thornberry F. Carolyn Veasey Diaz-Balart Lummis Conaway Hurt (VA) Pompeo Tiberi Duckworth Maloney, Sean Vela´ zquez Dold MacArthur Cook Issa Posey Edwards Massie Visclosky Donovan Marchant Tipton Costello (PA) Jenkins (KS) Price, Tom Trott Ellison Matsui Walz Duffy Marino Cramer Jenkins (WV) Ratcliffe Engel McCollum Wasserman Upton Duncan (SC) Massie Crawford Johnson (OH) Reed Eshoo McDermott Schultz Valadao Duncan (TN) McCarthy Crenshaw Johnson, Sam Reichert Esty McGovern Waters, Maxine Wagner Ellison McCaul Cuellar Jolly Renacci Farr McNerney Watson Coleman Ellmers (NC) McClintock Walberg Culberson Jordan Ribble Foster Meeks Welch Emmer (MN) McHenry Walden Curbelo (FL) Joyce Rice (SC) Frankel (FL) Meng Wilson (FL) Farenthold McKinley Walker Davidson Katko Rigell Franks (AZ) Moore Yarmuth Fincher McMorris Walorski Davis, Rodney Kelly (MS) Roby Fitzpatrick Rodgers Walters, Mimi Denham Kelly (PA) Roe (TN) NOT VOTING—9 Fleischmann McSally Weber (TX) Dent King (NY) Rogers (AL) Bost Hastings Poe (TX) DeSantis Kinzinger (IL) Fleming Meadows Webster (FL) Rogers (KY) Brown (FL) Nadler Takai DesJarlais Kline Rohrabacher Flores Meehan Wenstrup Delaney Nugent Turner Diaz-Balart Knight Rokita Forbes Messer Westerman Dold Labrador Rooney (FL) ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Fortenberry Mica Westmoreland Donovan LaHood Ros-Lehtinen Whitfield The SPEAKER pro tempore (during Foxx Miller (FL) Duffy LaMalfa Roskam Williams the vote). There are 2 minutes remain- Franks (AZ) Miller (MI) Duncan (SC) Lamborn Ross Frelinghuysen Moolenaar Wilson (SC) Duncan (TN) Lance Rothfus ing. Garrett Mooney (WV) Wittman Ellmers (NC) Latta Rouzer Gibbs Mullin Womack Emmer (MN) LoBiondo Royce b 2115 Gibson Mulvaney Woodall Farenthold Long Russell So the bill was passed. Gohmert Murphy (PA) Yoder Fincher Loudermilk Salmon The result of the vote was announced Goodlatte Neugebauer Yoho Fitzpatrick Love Sanford Gosar Newhouse Young (AK) Fleischmann Lucas Scalise as above recorded. Gowdy Noem Young (IA) Fleming Luetkemeyer Schweikert A motion to reconsider was laid on Granger Nunes Young (IN) Flores Lummis Scott, Austin the table. Graves (GA) Olson Zeldin Graves (LA) Palazzo Zinke

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:45 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00074 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY7.063 H07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4545 IT IS TIME FOR ACTION Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I made a ience among vulnerable populations, and for other purposes. (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was request in the Judiciary Committee to our chairperson to have hearings on S. 2845. An act to extend the termination of given permission to address the House sanctions with respect to Venezuela under for 1 minute and to revise and extend this issue. We have a bill that would re- the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and her remarks.) quire each State to set up a system of Civil Society Act of 2014. independent prosecutors to look at law Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I f said this earlier today. When I left my enforcement killings, shootings. hometown, four people were gunned The fact is an Attorney General can’t ADJOURNMENT down during the July Fourth holiday, look at a law enforcement shooting Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Speaker, I move and over the time period we have all without prejudicing their ability to do that the House do now adjourn. been working to find common ground their jobs. They work hand in glove The motion was agreed to; accord- on making sure that we have sensible, with law enforcement, and if they have ingly (at 9 o’clock and 24 minutes safe gun legislation. to police law enforcement, they have a p.m.), the House adjourned until to- But right now, outside the United problem in effectively doing their jobs morrow, Friday, July 8, 2016, at 9 a.m. States Capitol are throngs of individ- later on. f uals who have come because of the in- We have asked that each State set up a system of independent prosecutors so EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, cidents of the last 48 hours, the loss of ETC. Mr. Sterling in Baton Rouge, Lou- people know there is justice and fair- isiana, in an unfortunate and unspeak- ness and oversight. That is reasonable, Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive able and inexplicable shooting by law and we should have hearings. communications were taken from the enforcement; and then, unfortunately, What happened in Baton Rouge, what Speaker’s table and referred as follows: the tragic shooting of Mr. Castile, a happened in Minnesota has happened in 5912. A letter from the Under Secretary, cafeteria manager loved by children New York, has happened in North Rural Development, Department of Agri- culture, transmitting the Department’s in- and a licensed gun owner. Charleston. It has happened in Cleve- land, Ohio. It has happened in Mem- terim rule — Community Facility Loans We love our police. We call 911. But (RIN: 0575-AD05) received July 5, 2016, pursu- there have to be hearings, meetings phis, Tennessee. And African American ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- with the Attorney General, and an un- men are subject to being shot for rea- 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee derstanding of how we can address the sons that others aren’t. on Agriculture. question of the shootings of African Police need to be more careful, and 5913. A letter from the Chairman, Farm American men. we need to see that our country takes Credit System Insurance Corporation, trans- The numbers are high, the statistics this, as President Obama has in his mitting the annual report for CY 2015, in ac- statement from Europe: this is an cordance with Sec. 5.64 of the Farm Credit documented, and we must find relief— Act of 1971, as amended; to the Committee on not a moment of silence, but action. American problem. Agriculture. The phone in my office is ringing f 5914. A letter from the Under Secretary, constantly. People are in pain. Young Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, De- people want to ask the question, ‘‘Do LEAVE OF ABSENCE partment of Defense, transmitting a report Black lives matter?’’ and we want to By unanimous consent, leave of ab- on the total dollar value of Department of answer the question, ‘‘Yes.’’ We want sence was granted to: Defense purchases from foreign entities during FY 2015, pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 8305; Pub- to do it in a bipartisan, multicultural Mr. POE of Texas (at the request of lic Law 104-201, Sec. 827 (as amended by Pub- way. Mr. MCCARTHY) for today after 6 p.m. lic Law 111-350, Sec. 3); (124 Stat. 3833) and America has to address these con- and for the balance of the week on ac- Public Law 113-235, Sec. 8028; (128 Stat. 2258); cerns and do it now. count of personal reasons. to the Committee on Armed Services. f Mr. TURNER (at the request of Mr. 5915. A letter from the Acting Under Sec- MCCARTHY) for July 6 after 7:30 p.m. retary, Personnel and Readiness, Depart- SOMETHING IS WRONG IN THE ment of Defense, transmitting a letter on the UNITED STATES and for the balance of the week on account of his address to the Heads of approved retirement of Lieutenant General (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given Michael S. Tucker, United States Army, and State and Government in his role as his advancement to the grade of lieutenant permission to address the House for 1 President and Chairman of the U.S. minute and to revise and extend his re- general on the retired list, pursuant to 10 Delegation to the North Atlantic Trea- U.S.C. 1370(c)(1); Public Law 96-513, Sec. 112 marks.) ty Organization Parliamentary Assem- (as amended by Public Law 104-106, Sec. Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise bly at the 2016 Warsaw Summit of the 502(b)); (110 Stat. 293); to the Committee on today with a heavy heart, knowing North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Armed Services. what has transpired in the last 48 hours 5916. A letter from the Director, Defense has been horrific. Two men—fathers, f Security Cooperation Agency, Department of brothers, sons—gunned down by law en- ENROLLED BILL SIGNED Defense, transmitting a proposed Letter of forcement. Offer and Acceptance to the Government of Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the House, We understand that our police have a Israel, Transmittal No. 16-40, pursuant to 22 reported and found truly enrolled a bill U.S.C. 2776(b)(1); Public Law 90-629, Sec. 36(b) job to do that can be difficult, but we of the House of the following title, (as amended by Public Law 106 -113, Sec. need restraint from our law enforce- which was thereupon signed by the 1000(a)(7)); (113 Stat. 536); to the Committee ment officers until they are able to de- Speaker: on Armed Services. termine whether there is a threat or 5917. A letter from the Secretary, Securi- not. You cannot be a threat just be- H.R. 3766. An act to direct the President to ties and Exchange Commission, transmitting establish guidelines for covered United cause you are an African American in a the Commission’s Major final rule — Disclo- States foreign assistance programs, and for sure of Payments by Resource Extraction car. other purposes. No one should die being stopped for a Issuers [Release No.: 34-78167; File No.: S7-25- f 15] (RIN: 3235-AL53) received June 30, 2016, taillight. And Mr. Castile, in Min- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law nesota, was very compliant. He had SENATE ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Com- told the officer he was reaching for his The Speaker announced his signature mittee on Financial Services. wallet and lost his life. 5918. A letter from the Assistant Attorney to enrolled bills of the Senate of the There is something wrong in the General, Office of Legislative Affairs, De- following titles: United States of America, and we need partment of Justice, transmitting a report to address it soon. S. 1252. An act to authorize a comprehen- entitled ‘‘Coming Into Focus: the Future of sive strategic approach for United States for- Juvenile Justice Reform, 2014 Annual Re- f eign assistance to developing countries to report’’, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 5617; Public Law AN AMERICAN PROBLEM duce global poverty and hunger, achieve food 93-415, Sec. 207 (as added by Public Law 100- and nutrition security, promote inclusive, 690, Sec. 7255); (102 Stat. 4437); to the Com- (Mr. COHEN asked and was given per- sustainable, agricultural-led economic mittee on Education and the Workforce. mission to address the House for 1 growth, improve nutritional outcomes, espe- 5919. A letter from the Assistant Secretary minute.) cially for women and children, build resil- for Legislation, Department of Health and

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A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ment’s report entitled ‘‘The Comprehensive ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six- ment’s final rule — Establishment of Class E Community Mental Health Services for Chil- month periodic report on the national emer- Airspace; Ketchum, OK [Docket No.: FAA- dren with Serious Emotional Disturbances’’, gency with respect to transnational criminal 2016-1288; Airspace Docket No.: 15-ASW-23] pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 290ff(c)(2); July 1, 1944, organizations that was declared in Executive received June 28, 2016, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ch. 373, title V, Sec. 565(c)(2) (as amended by Order 13581 of July 24, 2011, pursuant to 50 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Public Law 106-310, Sec. 3105(c)) (114 Stat. U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transpor- 1175); to the Committee on Energy and Com- (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public tation and Infrastructure. merce. Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the 5940. A letter from the Management and 5920. A letter from the Director, Office of Committee on Foreign Affairs. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Technology Transitions, Department of En- 5929. A letter from the President and Chief Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ergy, transmitting the Department’s report Executive Officer, Inter-American Founda- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- entitled ‘‘Technology Transfer and Related tion, transmitting proposed legislation to tives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Dock- Technology Partnering Activities at the Na- authorize the Inter-American Foundation to et No.: FAA-2015-1428; Directorate Identifier tional Laboratories and Other Facilities for create a subsidiary corporation, pursuant to 2015-NM-026-AD; Amendment 39-18499; AD Fiscal Year 2014’’, pursuant to the Tech- 22 U.S.C. 290f; to the Committee on Foreign 2016-09-01] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received June 28, nology Transfer and Commercialization Act Affairs. 2016, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public of 2000; to the Committee on Energy and 5930. A letter from the Chairman and Chief Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Commerce. Executive Officer, Farm Credit Administra- Committee on Transportation and Infra- 5921. A letter from the Assistant General tion, transmitting the Administration’s stra- structure. Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and En- tegic plan for fiscal years 2016 through 2021 5941. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, in compliance with the Government Per- ergy Efficiency, Office of Energy Efficiency Legislative Affairs, Department of State, formance and Results Act; to the Committee and Renewable Energy, Department of En- transmitting a Report to the Congress Con- on Oversight and Government Reform. ergy, transmitting the Department’s final cerning the Emigration Laws and Policies of rule — Energy Conservation Program: Test 5931. A letter from the President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uz- Procedures for Integrated Light-Emitting bekistan, pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 2432(b); Pub- Diode Lamps [Docket No.: EERE-2011-BT- of Pittsburgh, transmitting the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh 2015 State- lic Law 93-618, Sec. 402(b); (88 Stat. 2056) and TP-0071] (RIN: 1904-AC67) received July 1, 19 U.S.C. 2439(b); Public Law 93-618, Sec. 2016, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public ment on the Systems of Internal Controls and the 2015 audited financial statements, 409(b); (88 Stat. 2064); to the Committee on Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Ways and Means. Committee on Energy and Commerce. pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9106; Public Law 97-258, Sec. 9106; (96 Stat. 1044); to the Committee on 5942. A letter from the Assistant Secretary 5922. A letter from the Director, Regula- for Legislation, Department of Health and tions Policy and Management Staff, FDA, Oversight and Government Reform. 5932. A letter from the Acting Director, Of- Human Services, transmitting the report to Department of Health and Human Services, fice of Personnel Management, transmitting Congress entitled, ‘‘Alternative Payment transmitting the Department’s final rule — the Office’s Semiannual Report of the In- Models and Medicare Advantage’’, pursuant Revisions to Exceptions Applicable to Cer- spector General and the Agency Response for to Public Law 114-10, Sec. 101(e)(6); (129 Stat. tain Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and the period of October 1, 2015 to March 31, 123); jointly to the Committees on Energy Tissue-Based Products [Docket No.: FDA- 2016, in accordance with Sec. 5 of Public Law and Commerce and Ways and Means. 2014-N-1484] received June 30, 2016, pursuant 94-452, as amended; to the Committee on 5943. A letter from the Assistant Secretary to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Oversight and Government Reform. for Legislation, Department of Health and Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on 5933. A letter from the District of Columbia Human Services, transmitting the 2016 In- Energy and Commerce. Auditor, Office of the District of Columbia dian Health Service and Tribal Health Care 5923. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Auditor, transmitting a report entitled ‘‘Re- Facilities’ Needs Assessment Report to Con- for Legislation, Department of Health and view of Sustainable Energy and Energy As- gress; jointly to the Committees on Energy Human Services, transmitting the Adminis- sistance Trust Funds’’; to the Committee on and Commerce and Natural Resources. tration’s 2016 status report on the Best Phar- Oversight and Government Reform. maceuticals for Children Act and the Pedi- 5934. A letter from the Executive Director, f atric Research Equality Act; to the Com- World War One Centennial Commission, PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS mittee on Energy and Commerce. transmitting the Commission’s periodic re- 5924. A letter from the Assistant Secretary port for the period ended March 31, 2016, pur- Under clause 2 of rule XII, public for Legislation, Food and Drug Administra- suant to Public Law 112-272, Sec. 5(b)(1); (126 bills and resolutions of the following tion, Department of Health and Human Serv- Stat. 2450); to the Committee on Oversight titles were introduced and severally re- ices, transmitting the FY 2015 Compounding and Government Reform. ferred, as follows: Quality Act Annual Report as required by 5935. A letter from the Attorney General, By Ms. MAXINE WATERS of Cali- the Compounding Quality Act; to the Com- Department of Justice, transmitting a deci- fornia: mittee on Energy and Commerce. sion on United States v. Pawlak, No. 15-3566, 5925. A letter from the Director, Office of 2016 WL 2802723 (6th Cir. May 13, 2016), pursu- H.R. 5651. A bill to prohibit the Secretary Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regulatory ant to 28 U.S.C. 530D(a); Public Law 107-273, of Transportation from approving under sub- Commission, transmitting the Commission’s Sec. 202(a); (116 Stat. 1771); to the Committee title VII of title 49, United States Code, any final rule — Standard Review Plan for Re- on the Judiciary. project for the relocation of Runway 24R at newal of Specific Licenses and Certificates of 5936. A letter from the Director, Adminis- Los Angeles International Airport, and for Compliance for Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear trative Office of the United States Courts, other purposes; to the Committee on Trans- Fuel [NUREG-1927, Revision 1] received July transmitting a letter with information on lo- portation and Infrastructure. 5, 2016, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Pub- cating the annual report on bankruptcy sta- By Mrs. BLACK (for herself and Mr. lic Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the tistics online, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 159(b)(3); BLUMENAUER): Committee on Energy and Commerce. Added by Public Law 109-8, Sec. 601(a); (119 H.R. 5652. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- 5926. A letter from the Director, Office of Stat. 119); to the Committee on the Judici- enue Code of 1986 to provide for coverage by Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regulatory ary. high deductible health plans of medical man- Commission, transmitting the Commission’s 5937. A letter from the Director, Adminis- agement of a chronic disease without deduct- final rule — Safety Evaluation of the trative Office of the United States Courts, ible; to the Committee on Ways and Means. BWRVIP-234 Report ‘‘BWR Vessel and transmitting the Court’s annual report to By Mr. CROWLEY (for himself and Mr. Internals Project: Thermal Aging and Neu- Congress concerning intercepted wire, oral, SMITH of New Jersey): tron Embrittlement Evaluation of Cast Aus- or electronic communications, pursuant to H.R. 5653. A bill to require reporting on tenitic Stainless Steel for BWR Internals 18 U.S.C. 2519(3); Added by Public Law 90-351, acts of certain foreign countries on Holo- (BWRVIP-234)’’ [TAC No.: ME5060] received Sec. 802; (82 Stat. 222); to the Committee on caust era assets and related issues; to the July 5, 2016, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); the Judiciary. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to 5938. A letter from the Management and By Mrs. BLACK (for herself, Mr. WEBER the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of of Texas, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. WESTMORE- 5927. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- LAND, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six- ment’s final rule — Establishment of Class E COOK, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Mr. month periodic report on the national emer- Airspace; Danville, AR [Docket No.: FAA- ZINKE, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. gency with respect to Lebanon that was de- 2015-4836; Airspace Docket No.: 15-ASW-16] ROE of Tennessee, Mr. LONG, Mr. clared in Executive Order 13441 of August 1, received June 28, 2016, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. BABIN, Mr. BYRNE, Mr. JODY B. HICE 2007, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 of Georgia, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transpor- MULVANEY, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. BRAT, U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); tation and Infrastructure. Mr. RENACCI, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. (91 Stat. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign 5939. A letter from the Management and MEADOWS, Mr. SALMON, Mr. PALAZZO, Affairs. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Mr. ALLEN, Mr. FINCHER, Mr. ROGERS

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of Alabama, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. LAM- institution are not considered to be funds ob- purposes; to the Committee on Ways and BORN, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. tained by or through a deposit broker, and Means. LAMALFA, Mr. MARINO, Mr. GUINTA, for other purposes; to the Committee on Fi- By Mr. JONES: Mr. JONES, Mr. OLSON, Mr. nancial Services. H.R. 5670. A bill to guarantee the right of DESJARLAIS, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of By Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania: individuals to receive Social Security bene- Texas, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. GRAVES H.R. 5661. A bill to establish the Flag Of- fits under title II of the Social Security Act of Georgia, Mr. BRIDENSTINE, Mr. fice Revolving Fund for services provided by in full with an accurate annual cost-of-living BARTON, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. YOHO, the Flag Office of the Architect of the Cap- adjustment; to the Committee on Ways and Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Mrs. BLACK- itol; to the Committee on House Administra- Means. BURN, Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. AUSTIN tion. By Ms. KELLY of Illinois (for herself, SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. LATTA, Mr. By Mr. BURGESS (for himself, Mr. Mrs. LAWRENCE, Ms. JACKSON LEE, BUCK, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. MILLER of GROTHMAN, Mr. GUINTA, and Mr. DUN- Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mrs. WATSON COLE- Florida, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. WILSON CAN of Tennessee): MAN, Mr. RICHMOND, Ms. DUCKWORTH, of South Carolina, Mr. CULBERSON, H.R. 5662. A bill to provide an exception to Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. and Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana): certain mandatory minimum sentence re- CLARKE of New York, Ms. CLARK of H.R. 5654. A bill to ensure that State and quirements for a person employed outside Massachusetts, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. RUSH, local law enforcement may cooperate with the United States by a Federal agency, who Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mrs. Federal officials to protect our communities uses, carries, or possesses the firearm during BEATTY, Ms. LEE, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. from violent criminals and suspected terror- and in relation to a crime of violence com- CLEAVER, Ms. MAXINE WATERS of ists who are illegally present in the United mitted while on-duty with a firearm issued California, Ms. BASS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. States; to the Committee on the Judiciary, by the agency; to the Committee on the Ju- CICILLINE, Mr. JEFFRIES, Ms. ADAMS, and in addition to the Committees on Trans- diciary. Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. LARSON of portation and Infrastructure, and Financial By Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania Connecticut, Mr. CLYBURN, Ms. Services, for a period to be subsequently de- (for himself and Mr. LOEBSACK): FUDGE, Ms. DEGETTE, and Mr. termined by the Speaker, in each case for H.R. 5663. A bill to amend the Carl D. Per- MCGOVERN): consideration of such provisions as fall with- kins Career and Technical Education Act of H.R. 5671. A bill to expand economic oppor- in the jurisdiction of the committee con- 2006 to deliver high-quality career and tech- tunities, improve community policing, and cerned. nical education opportunities, and for other promote common-sense gun violence preven- By Mr. CARTWRIGHT (for himself and purposes; to the Committee on Education tion in underserved communities, and for Ms. NORTON): and the Workforce. other purposes.eliminate the requirement H.R. 5655. A bill to establish programs re- By Mr. CUMMINGS: that a firearms dealer transfer a firearm if lated to prevention of prescription opioid H.R. 5664. A bill to amend the Consumer the national instant criminal background misuse, and for other purposes; to the Com- Credit Protection Act to strengthen debt col- check system has been unable to complete a mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in ad- lection exemptions to protect debtors and background check of the prospective trans- dition to the Committees on the Judiciary, their families from poverty or bankruptcy, feree within 3 business days; to the Com- Ways and Means, and Education and the and for other purposes; to the Committee on mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to Workforce, for a period to be subsequently Financial Services. the Committees on Education and the Work- determined by the Speaker, in each case for By Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Mr. force, Financial Services, Ways and Means, consideration of such provisions as fall with- ELLISON, Ms. SLAUGHTER, and Mr. Small Business, Oversight and Government in the jurisdiction of the committee con- POCAN): Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and Energy and H.R. 5665. A bill to amend the Defense Pro- cerned. Commerce, for a period to be subsequently duction Act of 1950 to provide for a net ben- By Mr. CARTWRIGHT (for himself, Mr. determined by the Speaker, in each case for efit review of certain covered transactions, BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. consideration of such provisions as fall with- and for other purposes; to the Committee on LOWENTHAL, Mr. DEFAZIO, and Mr. in the jurisdiction of the committee con- Financial Services. MCNERNEY): cerned. H.R. 5656. A bill to amend the Solid Waste By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri (for him- By Mr. KILDEE (for himself, Ms. MAX- Disposal Act to authorize States to restrict self, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. INE WATERS of California, Mr. HONDA, interstate waste imports and impose a high- MILLER of Florida, and Mr. and Mr. LANGEVIN): er fee on out-of-State waste; to the Com- LAMALFA): H.R. 5672. A bill to help small businesses mittee on Energy and Commerce. H.R. 5666. A bill to limit the authority of access capital and create jobs by reauthor- By Mr. PASCRELL (for himself and States and local governments to impose izing the successful State Small Business Mr. ROHRABACHER): taxes payable with respect to the sale of cer- H.R. 5657. A bill to amend the Immigration tain firearms or ammunition, or to impose Credit Initiative; to the Committee on Fi- and Nationality Act to reform and reduce new or increased taxes payable for back- nancial Services. fraud and abuse in certain visa programs for ground checks incident to sales of firearms By Mr. KILDEE (for himself and Mrs. USTOS): aliens working temporarily in the United or ammunition; to the Committee on the Ju- B States, and for other purposes; to the Com- diciary. H.R. 5673. A bill to authorize the President mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to By Ms. JENKINS of Kansas (for herself to provide major disaster assistance for con- the Committee on Education and the Work- and Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ of Cali- tamination of drinking water from public force, for a period to be subsequently deter- fornia): water systems; to the Committee on Trans- mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- H.R. 5667. A bill to amend title XVIII of the portation and Infrastructure. sideration of such provisions as fall within Social Security Act to improve the way By Mr. LANCE: the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. beneficiaries are assigned under the Medi- H.R. 5674. A bill to provide for the award of medals or other commendations to handlers By Mr. MCCARTHY: care shared savings program by also basing H.R. 5658. A bill to amend title 5, United such assignment on services furnished by of military working dogs and military work- States Code, to codify the Presidential Inno- Federally qualified health centers and rural ing dogs, and for other purposes; to the Com- vation Fellows Program, and for other pur- health clinics; to the Committee on Ways mittee on Armed Services. poses; to the Committee on Oversight and and Means, and in addition to the Committee By Ms. MCSALLY (for herself, Ms. Government Reform. on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be JUDY CHU of California, Mr. CALVERT, By Mr. SMITH of Missouri (for himself, subsequently determined by the Speaker, in Ms. SINEMA, Mr. YOHO, Mr. MCNER- Mr. LEWIS, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. SCHRA- each case for consideration of such provi- NEY, Mr. YODER, and Mr. TAKANO): DER, and Mr. MARINO): sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the H.R. 5675. A bill to provide for the conver- H.R. 5659. A bill to amend title XVIII of the committee concerned. sion of temporary judgeships to permanent Social Security Act with respect to expand- By Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia (for judgeships, and for other purposes; to the ing Medicare Advantage coverage for indi- himself, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. CULBER- Committee on the Judiciary. viduals with end-stage renal disease (ESRD); SON, Mr. LAHOOD, and Mr. MULLIN): By Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself, Ms. to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in H.R. 5668. A bill to prohibit the Secretary DUCKWORTH, Mr. FOSTER, Ms. KELLY addition to the Committee on Energy and of Energy and the Administrator of the Envi- of Illinois, Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois, Commerce, for a period to be subsequently ronmental Protection Agency from taking and Mr. BOST): determined by the Speaker, in each case for the social cost of carbon or the social cost of H.R. 5676. A bill to designate the facility of consideration of such provisions as fall with- methane into account when taking any ac- the United States Postal Service located at in the jurisdiction of the committee con- tion, and for other purposes; to the Com- 6300 N. Northwest Highway in Chicago, Illi- cerned. mittee on Energy and Commerce. nois, as the ‘‘Officer Joseph P. Cali Post Of- By Mr. WILLIAMS (for himself and Ms. By Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia: fice Building‘‘; to the Committee on Over- MOORE): H.R. 5669. A bill to provide emergency un- sight and Government Reform. H.R. 5660. A bill to amend the Federal De- employment compensation to coal mining By Mr. RUIZ: posit Insurance Act to provide that the sta- workers who lost their jobs due to Federal H.R. 5677. A bill to establish the United ble retail deposits of an insured depository environmental regulations, and for other States-Israel joint commission to address

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Iranian compliance with the Joint Com- of California, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. PERL- Indiana, Mr. CLAY, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. prehensive Plan of Action; to the Committee MUTTER, Ms. SINEMA, Mr. AUSTIN DOGGETT, Mr. FARR, Mr. KILDEE, Ms. on Foreign Affairs. SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SWALWELL of LOFGREN, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. NEAL, Mr. By Mr. RUIZ: California, Ms. TITUS, Mr. AGUILAR, NORCROSS, Mr. PALLONE, Ms. ROYBAL- H.R. 5678. A bill to authorize assistance Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Ms. GRA- ALLARD, Mr. SMITH of Washington, and training to increase maritime security HAM, Ms. LEE, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. TAKAI, and Mr. THOMPSON of Cali- and domain awareness of foreign countries Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. GALLEGO, Ms. fornia): bordering the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, BROWNLEY of California, Ms. LOF- H. Res. 810. A resolution expressing the or the Mediterranean Sea in order to deter GREN, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. POLIS, Mr. sense of the House of Representatives regard- and counter illicit smuggling and related ALLEN, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. HASTINGS, ing the life and work of Elie Wiesel in pro- maritime activity by Iran, including illicit Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. HECK of Nevada, moting human rights, peace, and Holocaust Iranian weapons shipments; to the Com- Mr. TIBERI, Mr. TAKANO, and Mr. remembrance; to the Committee on Foreign mittee on Armed Services, and in addition to LEVIN): Affairs. the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a pe- H. Con. Res. 142. Concurrent resolution By Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Mr. riod to be subsequently determined by the supporting the bid of Los Angeles, California ISRAEL, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mr. Speaker, in each case for consideration of to bring the 2024 Summer Olympic Games DUFFY): such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- back to the United States and pledging the H. Res. 811. A resolution expressing support tion of the committee concerned. cooperation of Congress with respect to that for the designation of September 2016 as Na- By Mr. RYAN of Ohio (for himself and bid; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. tional Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month; to Mr. REED): By Mr. ISRAEL (for himself, Mr. the Committee on Oversight and Govern- H.R. 5679. A bill to establish a grant pro- ASHFORD, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BECERRA, ment Reform. gram at the National Science Foundation to Mr. BEYER, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, By Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee (for him- encourage States and local school districts Mr. BLUM, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. self, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. to develop and implement sustainable engi- BONAMICI, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. neering education programs in elementary BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, COOPER, Mrs. BLACK, and Mr. and secondary schools, through public-pri- Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mrs. FINCHER): vate partnerships; to the Committee on BUSTOS, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. CAPUANO, H. Res. 812. A resolution commending the Science, Space, and Technology, and in addi- Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Ms. Tennessee Valley Authority on the 80th an- tion to the Committee on Education and the JUDY CHU of California, Mr. niversary of the unified development of the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently CICILLINE, Ms. CLARK of Massachu- Tennessee River system; to the Committee determined by the Speaker, in each case for setts, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. on Transportation and Infrastructure. consideration of such provisions as fall with- CLEAVER, Mr. COFFMAN, Mr. COHEN, By Mr. ROONEY of Florida: in the jurisdiction of the committee con- Mrs. COMSTOCK, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. H. Res. 813. A resolution amending the cerned. COSTA, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. CROWLEY, rules of the House of Representatives to ex- By Mr. SALMON: Mr. CURBELO of Florida, Mrs. DAVIS clude provisions relating to existing or pro- H.R. 5680. A bill to amend the Water Re- of California, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of posed water resources development projects sources Development Act of 1986 with respect Illinois, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. DEUTCH, of the Corps of Engineers from the definition to periodic beach renourishment, and for Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. DOLD, Mr. DONO- of congressional earmark, and for other pur- other purposes; to the Committee on Trans- VAN, Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Penn- poses; to the Committee on Rules. portation and Infrastructure. sylvania, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. ENGEL, By Mr. YOUNG of Indiana (for himself, ´ By Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of Cali- Ms. ESHOO, Ms. ESTY, Mr. Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois, and Mrs. LEISCHMANN OSTER fornia (for herself and Mr. ROSKAM): F , Mr. F , Ms. BROOKS of Indiana): H.R. 5681. A bill to require the Center for FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. FRANKS of H. Res. 814. A resolution calling on the Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test Arizona, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, Mr. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) the efficacy of providing Alzheimer’s Disease GALLEGO, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. GOHMERT, to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic caregiver support services in delaying or re- Ms. GRAHAM, Mr. GRAYSON, Mr. GENE Treaty and conduct a military campaign ducing the use of institutionalized care for GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ´ Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s Dis- GUTIERREZ, Ms. HAHN, Mr. HANNA, (ISIS); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ease or a related dementia; to the Com- Mr. HARRIS, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. HIG- f mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition GINS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. HONDA, Mr. to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, ISSA, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. JEFFRIES, CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY for a period to be subsequently determined Mr. JOYCE, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. KILMER, STATEMENT by the Speaker, in each case for consider- Mr. KING of New York, Mrs. KIRK- ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- PATRICK, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. LAN- Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of risdiction of the committee concerned. GEVIN, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, the Rules of the House of Representa- By Ms. SLAUGHTER: Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. tives, the following statements are sub- H.R. 5682. A bill to support educational en- LEVIN, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. TED LIEU of mitted regarding the specific powers tities in fully implementing title IX and re- California, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. LOBI- granted to Congress in the Constitu- ducing and preventing sex discrimination in ONDO, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mrs. LOWEY, tion to enact the accompanying bill or all areas of education; to the Committee on Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New joint resolution. Education and the Workforce. York, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. By Ms. STEFANIK (for herself, Ms. MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. By Ms. MAXINE WATERS of Cali- MENG, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. MEEHAN, fornia: H.R. 5651. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. ASHFORD, Mrs. Ms. MENG, Mr. MICA, Ms. MOORE, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- ROBY, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. JONES, Mrs. MOULTON, Mr. MURPHY of Florida, lation pursuant to the following: COMSTOCK, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. CURBELO Mr. NADLER, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. Article 1, Section 8. of Florida, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. PERL- By Mrs. BLACK: MUTTER, Mr. PETERS, Ms. PINGREE, O’ROURKE, Mr. COOK, and Mr. WITT- H.R. 5652. OLIS, Mr. PRICE of North Caro- MAN): Mr. P Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5683. A bill to amend title 37, United lina, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. REED, Ms. lation pursuant to the following: States Code, to authorize, in connection with ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. RUP- Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution which the permanent change of station of a mem- PERSBERGER, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. states, ‘‘(t)he Congress shall have power to ´ ber of the Armed Forces requiring relocation LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Ms. lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and to another State, the reimbursement of the LORETTA SANCHEZ of California, Mr. excises, to pay the debts and provide for the member for qualified relicensing costs in- SARBANES, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. common defense and general welfare of the curred by the spouse of the member to secure SCHIFF, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. DAVID United States.’’ a license or certification required by the SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SCOTT of Vir- By Mr. CROWLEY: State to which the member and spouse relo- ginia, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SHERMAN, H.R. 5653. cate, to encourage States to expedite license Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. SIRES, Ms. SLAUGH- Congress has the power to enact this legis- portability for military spouses, and for TER, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Ms. lation pursuant to the following: other purposes; to the Committee on Armed STEFANIK, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. TITUS, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United Services. Mr. TONKO, Mrs. TORRES, Ms. TSON- States Constitution. By Mr. BECERRA (for himself, Mr. GAS, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, By Mrs. BLACK: KNIGHT, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. MCCARTHY, Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ, Ms. WASSERMAN H.R. 5654. Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. SCHULTZ, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- WESTMORELAND, Mr. LANGEVIN, Ms. WEBER of Texas, Mr. WELCH, Ms. WIL- lation pursuant to the following: HAHN, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. SCHIFF, SON of Florida, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 of the United Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ ZELDIN, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. CARSON of States Constitution which grants Congress

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Article I; Section 8; Clause 1 of the Con- United States, or in any Department or Offi- Congress has the power to enact this legis- stitution states The Congress shall have cer thereof. lation pursuant to the following: Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Im- By Ms. DELAURO: clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the posts and Excises, to pay the Debts and pro- H.R. 5665. Constitution vide for the common Defence and general Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. RUIZ: Welfare of the United States... lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5678. By Mr. CARTWRIGHT: Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitu- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5656. tion lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri: clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5666. Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (relating to Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. RYAN of Ohio: the power of Congress to regulate Commerce lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5679. with foreign Nations, and among the several Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution Congress has the power to enact this legis- States, and with the Indian Tribes.) gives Congress the power to ‘‘lay and collect lation pursuant to the following: Article I; Section 8; Clause 18 taxes, duties, imports and excises.’’ To make all Laws which shall be necessary The Congress shall have Power To make Article VI, Clause 2 clarifies that federal and proper for carrying into Execution the all Laws which shall be necessary and proper law ‘‘shall be the supreme law of the land.’’ foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vest- for carrying into Execution the foregoing By Ms. JENKINS of Kansas: ed by this Constitution in the Government of Powers, and all other Powers vested by this H.R. 5667. the United States, or in any Department or Constitution in the Government of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- Officer thereof. United States, or in any Department or Offi- lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. SALMON: cer thereof Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 H.R. 5680. By Mr. PASCRELL: By Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5657. H.R. 5668. lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I, Section 9, Clause 7—‘‘No money lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; By Mr. MCCARTHY: Constitution and a regular Statement and Account of the H.R. 5658. By Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia: Receipts and Expenditures of all public Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5669. Money shall be published from time to lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- time.’’ Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 which grants lation pursuant to the following: By Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ of Cali- Article 1, Section 8 of the United States to the Congress power to make all laws fornia: Constitution which shall be necessary and proper for car- H.R. 5681. By Mr. JONES: rying into execution the foregoing powers, Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5670. and all other powers vested by this Constitu- lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- tion in the government of the United States, This bill is enacted pursuant to the power lation pursuant to the following: or in any department or officer thereof. granted to Congress under Article I, Section Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitu- By Mr. SMITH of Missouri: 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. tion H.R. 5659. By Ms. SLAUGHTER: By Ms. KELLY of Illinois: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5682. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5671. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- The constitutional authority on which this lation pursuant to the following: bill rests is the power of Congress to make lation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, clauses 1 & 3 Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the rules for the government and regulation of Constitution. the land and naval forces, as enumerated in By Mr. KILDEE: H.R. 5672. By Ms. STEFANIK: Article I, Section 8, Clause 14 of the United H.R. 5683. States Constitution. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. WILLIAMS: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5660. Article I, Section 8. Clause 18 of section 8 of article 1 of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. KILDEE: Constitution lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5673 Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 (‘‘To regulate Congress has the power to enact this legis- f Commerce with foreign Nations, and among lation pursuant to the following: the several States, and with the Indian Article I, Section 8 ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Tribes’’) By Mr. LANCE: Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 5674. By Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania: were added to public bills and resolu- H.R. 5661. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: tions, as follows: lation pursuant to the following: Article I, Sec. 8, Clause 1, of the United H.R. 239: Ms. KAPTUR. Article I. State Constitution This states that ‘‘Con- H.R. 430: Mr. FOSTER. By Mr. BURGESS: gress shall have the power to. . .lay and col- H.R. 449: Mr. LOWENTHAL. H.R. 5662. lect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to H.R. 546: Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Congress has the power to enact this legis- pay the debts and provide for the common H.R. 571: Mr. CALVERT. lation pursuant to the following: defense and general welfare of the United H.R. 610: Mr. HUELSKAMP. The attached language falls within Con- States.’’ H.R. 612: Mr. BABIN and Mr. BISHOP of gress’ enumerated authority to provide for By Ms. MCSALLY: Michigan. the common defence and general welfare of H.R. 5675. H.R. 711: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. SCA- the United States, found in Article I, Section Congress has the power to enact this legis- LISE, and Ms. BORDALLO. 8, Clause 1, and to make rules for the govern- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 775: Mrs. NOEM. ment, found in Article I, Section 8, clause 14 Article 1, Section 8, Clause 9: The Congress H.R. 932: Mrs. TORRES. of the U.S. Constitution. shall have Power to. . .constitute Tribunals H.R. 1076: Mr. CONYERS and Mr. VELA. By Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania: inferior to the supreme Court. H.R. 1151: Mr. VALADAO. H.R. 5663. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: The Con- H.R. 1192: Mr. NADLER, Mr. VALADAO, and Congress has the power to enact this legis- gress shall have Power to. . .make all Laws Ms. MENG. lation pursuant to the following: which shall be necessary and proper for car- H.R. 1217: Mr. VELA. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of rying into Execution the foregoing Power, H.R. 1358: Mr. COHEN. the United States and all other Powers vested by this Constitu- H.R. 1439: Mr. WELCH, Mr. DESAULNIER, and By Mr. CUMMINGS: tion in the Government of the United States Mrs. TORRES. H.R. 5664. or in any Department or Officer thereof. H.R. 1459: Mr. CARSON of Indiana.

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H.R. 1464: Ms. SLAUGHTER. H.R. 4247: Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. LOBIONDO, and H.R. 5545: Mr. POLIS. H.R. 1549: Mr. LOEBSACK. Mr. MESSER H.R. 5555: Mr. BERA and Mr. TAKAI. H.R. 1559: Mr. MOULTON. H.R. 4352: Mrs. BLACKBURN and Ms. ESTY. H.R. 5560: Mr. MCGOVERN. H.R. 1608: Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. MCSALLY, Mr. H.R. 4362: Mr. HUELSKAMP. H.R. 5578: Mr. CICILLINE. CRAMER, and Mr. FINCHER. H.R. 4381: Mr. GIBSON. H.R. 5587: Ms. STEFANIK. H.R. 1643: Mrs. NOEM. H.R. 4474: Mr. HUELSKAMP and Mr. KING of H.R. 5589: Mr. LANCE. H.R. 1752: Mr. SMITH of Texas. Iowa. H.R. 5593: Ms. KUSTER. H.R. 4479: Ms. SLAUGHTER. H.R. 1904: Ms. ESTY and Mr. LANCE. H.R. 5594: Mr. ROTHFUS, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. H.R. 4481: Ms. CASTOR of Florida and Mr. H.R. 1905: Ms. ESTY and Mr. LANCE. STIVERS, and Ms. MAXINE WATERS of Cali- JOLLY. H.R. 2058: Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. ASHFORD, and fornia. H.R. 4526: Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. MACARTHUR. H.R. 5598: Ms. ESHOO, Ms. KUSTER, and Mr. H.R. 4559: Mr. ISRAEL and Mr. COOK. H.R. 2096: Ms. KELLY of Illinois. LEVIN. H.R. 4584: Mr. SENSENBRENNER. H.R. 2142: Mr. BENISHEK. SHOO USTER H.R. 4591: Mr. KING of New York. H.R. 5599: Ms. E and Ms. K . H.R. 2189: Mr. COSTA. H.R. 4594: Mr. MEEHAN. H.R. 5606: Mr. LYNCH. H.R. 2216: Mr. COHEN. H.R. 4603: Mr. LEVIN. H.R. 5607: Ms. MAXINE WATERS of Cali- H.R. 2221: Ms. KUSTER. H.R. 4616: Ms. MCSALLY and Mr. YOUNG of fornia. H.R. 2302: Mr. LOEBSACK. Iowa. H.R. 5619: Mr. BLUM. H.R. 2315: Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of H.R. 4625: Mr. RYAN of Ohio. H.R. 5625: Mr. PETERS. Texas. H.R. 4626: Ms. PINGREE, Mr. POLIS, Mr. H.R. 5639: Mrs. COMSTOCK, Ms. ESTY, and H.R. 2342: Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. TURNER, and LONG, and Mr. MOOLENAAR. Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. VELA. H.R. 4632: Mr. VALADAO and Mr. DAVID H.R. 5646: Mr. BARLETTA. H.R. 2566: Mr. CRAMER. SCOTT of Georgia. H. Con. Res. 19: Mr. SHERMAN. H.R. 2799: Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. RODNEY H.R. 4681: Ms. LOFGREN. H. Con. Res. 140: Mr. HIMES, Mr. SANFORD, DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. VELA, Mr. H.R. 4764: Ms. GRANGER and Mrs. BLACK- Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. LIPINSKI, NORCROSS, Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia, BURN. and Mrs. BLACK. OEM ISHOP Mrs. N , Mr. B of Georgia, and Ms. H.R. 4828: Mr. SCALISE. H. Res. 28: Ms. PLASKETT. SINEMA. H.R. 4864: Mr. LYNCH. H. Res. 112: Mr. NOLAN. H.R. 2846: Mr. SWALWELL of California. H.R. 4893: Mr. BILIRAKIS and Mr. WOODALL. H. Res. 130: Mr. CICILLINE. H.R. 2887: Mr. NADLER. H.R. 4918: Mr. FOSTER. H. Res. 174: Mrs. DAVIS of California. H.R. 2903: Mr. THORNBERRY and Mr. H.R. 4932: Mr. GRIJALVA. H. Res. 393: Mr. MCNERNEY. LOUDERMILK. H.R. 4954: Mr. PERLMUTTER and Ms. H. Res. 647: Mr. LIPINSKI. H.R. 2962: Ms. TITUS and Mr. KILDEE. KUSTER. H. Res. 729: Mr. POLIS, Mr. HECK of Nevada, H.R. 2994: Mr. MURPHY of Florida. H.R. 4992: Mr. LANCE. Mr. EMMER of Minnesota, and Mr. CASTRO of H.R. 3012: Mrs. LUMMIS. OLIS H.R. 5009: Mr. P . Texas. H.R. 3051: Mr. YARMUTH. H.R. 5025: Mr. COHEN, Mr. KILDEE, and Ms. H. Res. 752: Ms. BASS, Mr. UPTON, Mr. H.R. 3092: Mr. LEVIN. BORDALLO. SWALWELL of California, Mr. JOHNSON of H.R. 3108: Mr. TONKO. H.R. 5045: Mrs. BLACKBURN. Georgia, Mr. YOUNG of Iowa, Mr. DOLD, Mr. H.R. 3110: Ms. NORTON. H.R. 5082: Mr. BYRNE. PERLMUTTER, Mr. PETERS, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. H.R. 3308: Mr. PALAZZO. H.R. 5119: Mr. SESSIONS. MCNERNEY, Mr. POSEY, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. H.R. 3312: Mrs. ELLMERS of North Carolina. H.R. 5127: Mr. FITZPATRICK. KIND, Mr. JOYCE, Mr. ROSS, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. H.R. 3381: Mr. SESSIONS, Ms. STEFANIK, and H.R. 5129: Mrs. LUMMIS. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Mr. TIPTON. H.R. 5146: Ms. SINEMA. JOLLY. H.R. 3395: Mr. VARGAS. H.R. 5172: Mr. KING of New York. H. Res. 784: Ms. NORTON, Mr. KING of New H.R. 3406: Mr. WELCH. H.R. 5180: Mr. LOUDERMILK, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. York, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. H.R. 3411: Mr. MEEKS and Ms. WASSERMAN KING of New York, and Mr. COOK. ITZPATRICK ESSIONS ASHFORD, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. COOK, Mr. SCHULTZ. H.R. 5183: Mr. F , Mr. S , AKANO POCAN, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. H.R. 3666: Mr. NOLAN. and Mr. T . H.R. 5187: Mr. VALADAO and Mrs. WAGNER. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. H.R. 3706: Mr. CARNEY, Mr. POMPEO, and H.R. 5232: Ms. JUDY CHU of California. DEFAZIO, and Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. KLINE. H.R. 5258: Ms. MCCOLLUM and Mr. HANNA. H. Res. 807: Ms. STEFANIK. H.R. 3710: Mr. VALADAO. H.R. 5263: Mr. KILMER. H. Res. 808: Mr. POMPEO. H.R. 3815: Mr. COURTNEY and Mr. ZELDIN. H.R. 5292: Mrs. CAPPS, Mrs. LOVE, Mr. KIL- H.R. 3888: Mr. VARGAS. DEE, Mr. RENACCI, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, and H.R. 3929: Ms. MATSUI, Mr. COSTA, Mr. f Mr. LEWIS. VALADAO, Mr. GIBSON, Ms. HAHN, Mr. H.R. 5299: Mr. ZELDIN and Mr. BISHOP of DELANEY, Ms. EDWARDS, Mr. BRENDAN F. Utah. CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, LIM- BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. H.R. 5324: Mr. ROYCE. ITED TAX BENEFITS, OR LIM- PERLMUTTER, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. H.R. 5365: Mr. SMITH of Missouri. ´ ITED TARIFF BENEFITS VELAZQUEZ, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, H.R. 5374: Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. LEVIN, Mr. SIRES, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. H.R. 5396: Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. KAP- Under clause 9 of rule XXI, lists or ´ DOGGETT, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. BEN RAY LUJAN of TUR, Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. NORTON, Mr. statements on congressional earmarks, New Mexico, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. LEWIS, and Mr. MCGOVERN. limited tax benefits, or limited tariff SCHRADER, Ms. GRAHAM, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. H.R. 5423: Ms. KUSTER. benefits were submitted as follows: HINOJOSA, Mr. PETERSON, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, H.R. 5440: Mr. BYRNE and Mr. RENACCI. OFFERED BY MR. NUNES Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and H.R. 5475: Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. FARR. H.R. 5488: Mr. PAYNE. The provisions that warranted a referral to H.R. 4043: Mr. KILDEE and Mr. CA´ RDENAS. H.R. 5513: Mr. KATKO and Mr. BRAT. the Permanent Select Committee on Intel- H.R. 4172: Mr. BARR. H.R. 5523: Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. ligence in H.R. 5631 do not contain any con- H.R. 4177: Mr. CAPUANO and Mr. CARSON of H.R. 5543: Ms. NORTON, Ms. JACKSON LEE, gressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or Indiana. Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. PAYNE, and limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 H.R. 4186: Mr. SESSIONS. Ms. CLARKE of New York. of rule XXI.

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Vol. 162 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2016 No. 109 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was There’s no excuse for inaction and par- dozens more. Many have seen the im- called to order by the President pro tisanship. We can’t afford to waste another pact of this epidemic firsthand. They tempore (Mr. HATCH). day, a week, another month. know the difference this legislation f Maybe Democrats are finally ready could make, and they are calling for us to end their partisan attack on wom- to send this bill to the President as PRAYER en’s health. I certainly hope so, and, as soon as possible. I have said many times, they will have The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- There is no reason our Democratic fered the following prayer: that opportunity soon. colleagues shouldn’t support this con- Let us pray. f ference report now as well, especially Almighty God, draw near and walk COMPREHENSIVE ADDICTION AND given their support for CARA when the with us today. Lead our Senators be- RECOVERY BILL Senate voted 94 to 1 to pass it. side still waters and restore their souls. Comfort them with Your grace Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, far The senior Senator from Vermont as they strive to keep America strong. too many Americans know the toll the called the bill ‘‘historic’’ and said he Use them to make our Nation a less prescription opioid and heroin epi- was ‘‘proud to be a cosponsor.’’ dangerous place to live. demic is taking on our families, our The senior Senator from Ohio has May our lawmakers find fellowship communities, and each of our States. commended colleagues for ‘‘coming to- Anti-drug groups certainly know the with You as they seek Your guidance gether in a bipartisan way’’ and ‘‘tak- toll this crisis is taking. Nearly 200 and rely on Your wisdom. Direct their ing action on the opioid epidemic that groups dealing with this crisis in their steps, providing them with confidence is devastating communities across our communities called for action in a let- for every contingency. Make them country.’’ more than conquerors in all of life’s alter to Congress just this week. They ternating and fluctuating intricacies. wrote to endorse the conference report Just last week, the senior Senator Fill them with reverential awe as they for the Comprehensive Addiction and from Washington penned an op-ed comprehend their accountability to Recovery Act. praising the progress on addressing the You. Let me share what they wrote: epidemic. She wrote: ‘‘I’m proud to be We pray in Your merciful Name. We commend the conferees for the final working with Republicans and Demo- Amen. bill and are calling on Congress for quick ac- crats to conference legislation, the tion to send this to the President’s desk for f Comprehensive Addiction and Recov- signature. ery Act (CARA), which would offer cit- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The report is truly a comprehensive re- ies and states stronger tools to con- sponse to the opioid epidemic, which in- The President pro tempore led the cludes critical policy changes and new re- front opioid addiction.’’ Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: sources. The report also acknowledges that It is understandable why she should I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the the six pillars of a comprehensive response be proud. The Trilogy Recovery Com- United States of America, and to the Repub- are each of equal import and interdependent munity, an organization in Washington as a whole, including prevention, treatment, lic for which it stands, one nation under God, State that has joined the chorus of indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. recovery support, criminal justice reform, overdose reversal, and law enforcement. Only those calling for passage of the CARA f through a comprehensive response can we re- conference report, would certainly RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY verse current trends and provide individuals agree. LEADER and families impacted by addiction with the The conference report the Senate will services they need. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. As you know, 129 Americans die each day soon consider can make a difference for JOHNSON). The majority leader is recog- as a result of drug overdose and this epi- the American people. It is the product nized. demic affects the public health and safety in of years of hard work, and it is very f every community across this country. This similar to the CARA bill that already bill is the critical response we need. passed the Senate with no Democratic ZIKA VIRUS FUNDING These are groups such as the opposition. Now is the time to finalize Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, the Vermont Recovery Network, the Free it, as the nearly 200 groups that fight Democratic leader, who has been lead- Heroin’s Hold in Minnesota, Kent this epidemic in our States are advo- ing a partisan filibuster of anti-Zika County Memorial Hospital in Rhode Is- cating, because this issue is just too funding for over a week, said this about land, and Voices of Hope, in my home important to be caught up in partisan anti-Zika funding yesterday: State of Kentucky, among dozens and politics.

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We are having a conference report mittee came to the floor to talk about These measures would have sought to come to us that gives no resources. the compromise bill that would protect prevent the kind of pain that Kate’s That is why you have people all over middle-class families from unnecessary family has been forced to endure, a the country, and Rausch went to the and unfair higher food prices while also pain that no family should have to ex- White House with 20 other law enforce- ensuring access to more information perience. ment leaders from across the country about the food they purchase. f to talk about this. They came for one Chairman ROBERTS said this bipartisan bill will benefit consumers ‘‘by RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY reason and one reason only—to get greatly increasing the amount of food LEADER money so they can do something to information at their fingertips’’ while The PRESIDING OFFICER. The stop this terrible thing that is going on avoiding ‘‘devastating increases in the Democratic leader is recognized. in America today. But, again, just like Zika, it is all for price of food.’’ Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest show—no money. Ranking Member STABENOW noted the absence of a quorum. The threat of Zika continues to rise. that it will ‘‘prevent a confusing patch- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republicans are intent on wasting time work of 50 different labeling require- clerk will call the roll. with their partisan and deeply ments in 50 different States,’’ and it The bill clerk proceeded to call the unserious conference report. They will ‘‘recognize[s] the scientific consensus roll. force yet another failed vote on this that biotechnology is safe.’’ Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- cynical legislation and then pack their It is the result of bipartisan work to imous consent that the order for the bags for the longest Senate vacation address an issue that could negatively quorum call be rescinded. since 1954. The Senate will not pass harm consumers and producers. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without this Republican conference report. could actually pass it today. objection, it is so ordered. President Obama will not sign it. This f f reckless exercise will leave the public SANCTUARY CITY POLICY IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION, health experts and officials no closer to LEGISLATION OPIOID CRISIS, AND ZIKA VIRUS getting the funding they need to help Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, we FUNDING combat this horrible epidemic. all know that so-called sanctuary city As we speak, there are more than Mr. REID. Mr. President, my friend policies are extreme. They undermine 2,900 people in the United States and the Republican leader talks about play- the safety of our communities. They our territories with Zika. Nearly 500 ing politics. There is no better example can inflict incredible pain on innocent pregnant women are showing evidence of that than what has taken place this victims and their families. President of infection by the Zika virus. At least week. Obama’s own Secretary of Homeland seven babies have been born in the Everyone knows the innate problems Security has called such policies ‘‘not United States with Zika-related birth with what was tried on sanctuary cities acceptable’’ and ‘‘counterproductive to defects. We all know what they are— and on the so-called Kate’s Law. Every- public safety.’’ little heads, skulls caved in, brains one knows they are just a political Yet Democrats voted to block two that are small. And it is only going to message that means nothing for com- proposals that would have worked to get worse unless we act. prehensive immigration reform or im- prevent so-called sanctuary city poli- There is a path forward toward a bi- migration reform of any kind. So that cies from existing in the first place and partisan solution combating this ter- is why those matters were brought up. would have enhanced penalties to keep rible virus if Republicans are willing to It is obvious we have a Senator in more criminals off our streets when do something. In May, the Senate Pennsylvania, a Republican incumbent, cities refuse to do away with such poli- passed a bipartisan compromise to ad- who is in deep trouble politically, and cies. dress the Zika crisis. It had money in that is why they tried to jam us with Senator TOOMEY offered one of them, it—real money. It got 89 votes, which is the Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities that. There is no better example than an unimaginable margin for many Act, which he described this way: what is going on with this opioid mat- pieces of legislation. Only the most ter that is sweeping the country. My legislation stands for the simple propo- conservative, conservative rightwing sition that the safety of the American people I came to the floor 15 minutes ago. In Members of this body voted against it. matters. The life of Kate Steinle matters. another half hour there will be another So maybe that is not a plus for my Re- Protecting our neighborhoods from violent two people who die from opioids in publican friends. Maybe they want to criminals and terrorists matters. America, all over the country. To show be a part of that. You don’t receive Senator TOOMEY’s bill would have en- how disingenuous and political the ma- anything from the Koch brothers if you sured more fairness for citizens and jority is on opioids, one need only look are not way over there. governments that do the right thing. It to Tennessee. In Tennessee, Knoxville The bill we approved with 89 votes would have supported police officers, chief of police David Rausch knocks wasn’t perfect. I didn’t like it because who risk everything for our safety, and Congress over opioid funding. I thought there should be more money. it enjoyed critical support from several My friend talks about the authoriza- We asked for $1.9 billion, but with 89 law enforcement organizations. tion that shot through here. Of course votes, we got $1.1 billion in funding, Democrats again chose partisan poli- it came through the Senate pretty eas- which is short of what we feel is need- tics over making a difference for the ily—because it was an authorization. ed. It is not sufficient, but at least it is American people. There is no money there. That is why a step in the right direction. I know Senator TOOMEY won’t be de- you have the chief of police from a When our country is faced with an terred. I know he will continue his place such as Knoxville, TN, who is emergency, the American people work to do something about this issue. saying: Shame on you for not giving us should be able to turn to us—Con- He has been an outspoken leader money. We can’t do anything. All you gress—to act. They expect us to put against the dangerous and extreme are doing is authorizing more programs politics aside. We have already done policies of sanctuary cities for some that cost more resources. In the police that in the Senate—we Democrats. The time now. I thank him for his leader- department we can’t do it all. Rausch Senate bill, while imperfect, was not ship on this issue and his tireless work said: riddled with toxic, partisan provisions. to advance this measure. It’s absolutely disappointing that Congress We need to get the compromise to the I also recognize Senator CRUZ for his didn’t move today on funding. Unfortu- President’s desk. legislation, Kate’s Law, which would nately, today Congress did not do their job. Today I call upon Speaker RYAN to have helped protect the public even He is right. He said: bring the Senate-passed Zika bill to us

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In 2009, the Depart- RYAN has this deal that he is following, I am sure my Republican friends are ment was given a charitable 7-year re- which is a deal into oblivion. It didn’t happy voting for this one. What we prieve from the requirement to have work for my friend, whom I care so sent over there said you can’t have the their books auditable, and it was given much about, former Speaker Boehner. Confederate flag flying over military until September 30, 2017. Those 7 bonus It didn’t work for him, and it is not cemeteries. They took that out. That years did not buy us in the Congress going to work for Speaker RYAN. He must be a real joy, that we can now much. All the slipping and sliding and cannot do this. He cannot try to do ev- start flying Confederate flags in ceme- stumbling have continued erything in his power to appease the teries. undiminished. far-right crazies in his caucus. They This legislation sets a terrible prece- The 25-year push to audit the books are even adhering to the Hastert rule, dent of offsetting emergencies. It is is stuck at a roadblock. Billions of dol- named after the disgraced former wrong. lars have been spent trying to solve the Speaker Dennis Hastert, who is now in Mr. President, I ask the Chair to an- root cause of the problem, but the fix is prison. nounce the business of the day. nowhere in sight. And until it is, audit- Speaker RYAN should listen to the f ing the books will remain an elusive American people. They desperately goal for the Department of Defense but want Congress to act. Americans have RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME a goal that has been met by every had enough of Republicans putting The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under other agency of the Federal Govern- party over country this year—and any the previous order, the leadership time ment. year, frankly. They want us to respon- is reserved. What I am talking about is the De- sibly solve problems like the Zika f partment’s broken accounting system. virus and opioids and not waste time This problem has been a festering sore NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE appealing to the most extreme ele- for many years. It adversely affected PROGRAM AMENDMENTS ACT OF ments in our political system. every facet of the audit effort. The bro- The Hastert rule is that the Speaker 2015 ken accounting system is driving the will not allow a vote unless it can pass The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under audit freight train. How could the with the majority of the majority. To the previous order, the Senate will re- mighty Defense Department be buffa- get a majority of the majority over sume consideration of the House mes- loed for so long by something so sim- there is worse than trying to get a ma- sage to accompany S. 764, which the ple? The Pentagon develops and pro- jority of the majority over here. We clerk will report. duces the most advanced weapons the have some dandies over here, but they The bill clerk read as follows: world has ever known and does it with take the cake in their efforts. It is not House message to accompany S. 764, a bill relative ease. Yet the Defense Depart- going to work for us, Speaker RYAN. to reauthorize and amend the National Sea ment can’t seem to acquire the tools it We are willing to work with you to get Grant College Program Act, and for other needs to keep track of the money it this done. purposes. spends. We shouldn’t just leave here for this Pending: With little or no fiscal account- 7-week-long vacation with nothing McConnell motion to concur in the House ability, Congress cannot exercise effec- done on Zika, this terrible scourge we amendment to the bill, with McConnell (for tive oversight of defense spending. If have. It is time for Speaker RYAN and Roberts) amendment No. 4935, in the nature Congress can’t do that, then adding his fellow Republicans to put politics of a substitute. money to the defense budget, and bor- aside and let the whole House vote on McConnell amendment No. 4936 (to amend- rowing at the same time to do it, is this. Our country is facing an emer- ment No. 4935), to change the enactment foolish, in my book. That is precisely date. gency with Zika, and it is time for Re- why I opposed a recent amendment to publicans to start treating it as such. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- add $18 billion to the Defense bill. Mr. President, I heard a Republican ator from Iowa. I want to take a moment to put my Senator come to the floor yesterday AUDITING THE BOOKS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF spotlight on the issue. My hope is to and she said: I don’t know what they DEFENSE stimulate creative problem-solving and are talking about. The words ‘‘Planned Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I innovative solutions that seem to not Parenthood’’ are not in the legislation come to the floor today to send a mes- be getting their proper attention at the we have. sage to Secretary of Defense Carter. I Department of Defense. Of course it doesn’t say ‘‘Planned wish to alert him to a problem that A recent press report pinpointed the Parenthood,’’ but if you read the needs high-level attention. It is stand- cause for all the stumbling that is English language, it stops people from ing in the way of one of the top pri- going on at the Defense Department. It going to these Planned Parenthood ority goals of the Congress—auditing drew on testimony by the govern- clinics to get their advice on birth con- the books of the Defense Department. ment’s preeminent authority on ac- trol, where millions of American The need for annual financial audits counting, Comptroller General Gene women go. was originally established by the Chief Dodaro. His testimony before the Sen- My Republican friends have an obses- Financial Officers Act of 1990. By ate Committee on the Budget had a sion with Planned Parenthood. They March of 1992, each agency of the Fed- razor-sharp edge. It zeroed right in on want to do everything they can to stop eral Government was supposed to the old stumbling block—underlying them. In fact, as you know, there were present a financial statement to an in- accounting problems. While the Pen- Republicans who went and got phony spector general for audit in accordance tagon is spending in excess of $10 bil- pictures that were proven false. And, with the prescribed standards. To date, lion a year to modernize its vast ac- oh, that gave the Republicans such— all departments have earned unquali- counting system, the GAO director said oh, they loved that. Oh, what terrible fied or clean opinions. But there is one these investments ‘‘have not yielded stuff is going on; they are selling body glaring exception; that is, the Defense positive results.’’ And since DOD offi- parts. That was totally wrong. It was a Department. It has a dubious distinc- cials ‘‘continue to make system invest- scam by some rightwing character who tion, under both Republican and Demo- ments that don’t produce better sys- has been shown to be just that—a scam crat administrations, of earning an un- tems,’’ he said, those responsible ‘‘need artist. blemished string of failing opinions to be held accountable.’’ They are The provision we are asked to vote known as ‘‘disclaimers.’’ wasting money, in other words. As a for exempts pesticide spraying from In the face of endless slipping and clear, unambiguous indicator of the the Clean Water Act provisions. It cuts stumbling, Congress finally cracked continuing accounting mess, he cited

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These coming out the other end of the sau- That is what I call unlawful spending. were some of the Department’s earliest sage machine? How is it Comptroller A good accounting system, one with ef- attempts to comply with the Chief Fi- General Dodaro knows it? Why do I see fective internal controls, should be nancial Officers Act, requiring all it plain as day? It is written all over able to detect and should be able to agencies of the government to have that Marine Corps audit that failed— stop illegal spending and particularly auditability of their books. and a whole bunch of other audits—in fraud and theft. What is in place today The results of my study were mixed. big bold print. So why can’t Mr. doesn’t accomplish that goal. Unau- This work provided a startling intro- McCord see it? He does not seem to thorized spending is usually discovered, duction to a problem. During extensive have a handle on the core problem—the instead, by chance and long after the interviews, senior managers readily ad- so-called feeder systems. Though ridi- fact. mitted that auditors had to do manual culed recently on Federal News Radio When asked how much of DOD’s $600 workarounds that are prone to errors. as being ‘‘museum ready,’’ they remain billion in yearly expenditures is actu- They could not connect the dots be- the heart and soul—the foundation—of ally accounted for, the Comptroller tween contracts and payments and ac- any accounting system. General stated bluntly—his words— counting records and make the nec- In most business operations, trans- ‘‘very little.’’ The Comptroller Gen- essary match-ups. Transactions were actions are transmitted instanta- eral’s assessment is a very bruising in- not properly posted to accounts and neously from the cash register or other dictment of how the taxpayers’ pre- supporting documentation had gone points of origin to finance and account- cious money is mishandled in the Pen- missing. In fact, financial records were ing. At the Pentagon, they take a tagon. so bad it took hundreds of highly paid roundabout route. From their points of The Secretary of Defense has a fidu- certified public accountants doing origin, transactions must first pass ciary responsibility under the Con- manual labor, characterized as ‘‘audit through a series of gates—literally stitution and under the law to account trail reconstruction work’’ or ‘‘pick- thousands of feeder and other business for every penny spent. None has hon- and-shovel work’’ to finish the job. systems. The trip through the bureau- ored that responsibility. One Secretary Such labor-intensive accounting proce- cratic maze is neither smooth nor cer- of State, however, made a good-faith dures are very costly—$50 million for tain. Somewhere along the way, vital effort. Leon Panetta formally launched the Corps of Engineers alone—and linkages are broken. When ledgers and the audit readiness initiative in Octo- leave gaping holes in audit evidence account balances are no longer hooked ber of 2011. While giving it a big boost even after it is spent. Such unorthodox up to transactions, forget about audit- with visibility, this effort sputtered to procedures place outcomes on very ing the books. It is nothing more than a standstill, like all the others, over shaky ground. a pipedream. the past decades. True, these observations were made 5 In a nutshell, this is the root cause of During Secretary Carter’s nomina- years ago, but I keep running into the the problem that still has the very tion hearing, Senator MANCHIN of West same old problems. For example, I am mighty Pentagon buffaloed, and it is Virginia questioned him about the fal- seeing it again today in my ongoing in- lying in wait for the next go-around. tering efforts to audit the Defense De- quiry into the Department’s Task According to Comptroller General partment. The Secretary replied: ‘‘I am Dodaro, Mr. McCord is making the committed on the audit front.’’ In re- Force for Business and Stability Oper- wrong choices, wasting billions of dol- sponse to a followup question, he stat- ations in Afghanistan. I see it every- lars on systems that don’t work. CFO ed: I will hold the Chief Financial Offi- where I go. The recently concluded Marine Corps cer ‘‘responsible and accountable for McCord wants us to believe that stay- audit is a perfect example of the same making auditability one of my top ing the course offers the best chance old problem. The broken accounting business reform priorities.’’ During a for success. I disagree. More of the system is still driving the audit freight meeting in my office, he provided me same will not cut it. He needs to similar assurances. These solemn vows train. The Marine Corps, which is the refocus on doable solutions. Maybe it is don’t give me a whole lot of confidence. smallest of the military services, had time for some new ideas, a whole new His predecessors spoke the same words, been claiming for several years that it approach. The audit strategy needs to be rebal- but all we see is a trail of broken prom- was audit ready. However, when the ises. time came, the Marine Corps flunked anced. It is out of whack. The road- To win this war on making the books the test. Oversight audits by the in- blocks need to be bypassed. Other agen- auditable, it will take perseverance spector general and the Government cies seem to be taking care of business and guts. It will take top-notch, hands- Accountability Office concluded there by pooling accounting resources to on leadership skills and a chief finan- was not sufficient, appropriate audit save money. So why not draw on those cial officer who grasps the root cause evidence to support a clean opinion. skills and capabilities from other gov- problem and is committed to solving it. The transaction data was largely in- ernment agencies that meet the re- In watchdogging the audit process for complete, unreliable, unverifiable, and quirements of the law and use them to years, I have come to know the under- unsupportable. In the opinion of the ex- leverage a potential solution—maybe lying problem all too well. I have been perts, the final call ‘‘was not even where we know things have worked down in the trenches and have seen it close.’’ successfully. up close with my own eyes. I was intro- When I spoke about the results of the Why not allow a service provider— duced to the problem when it just Marine Corps audit on the floor last let’s say, at the Department of Defense popped up right in the face. It came in August 4, 2015, I underscored the need as an example, take any Department— the form of unusual notations in audit for reliable transaction data. Trans- to handle a slice of the Defense Depart- reports published by the inspector gen- actions are the lifeblood of financial ment’s bookkeeping pie, like civilian eral. They read: ‘‘No audit trail found.’’ statements, and the lack of those pay? Run a test and see if it works. If That red flag prompted me to dig deep- transaction statements doomed the it works, build on it. For the next go- er. So I asked: How do you perform fi- Marine Corps audit from the get-go. around, tear off a bigger chunk, farm it nancial audits with no money trail to I ask Secretary Carter to pause and out, and see what happens. Try alter- follow? reflect on why the Marine Corps audit native solutions. Keep experimenting The answer: You don’t, except with was unsuccessful. I urge him to explore until the answer is found. After all great difficulty, risk, and expense. the questions with Chief Financial Of- these decades, nothing seems to be One question led to another and ficer Mike McCord. He might be sur- right for this agency, compared to all eventually to my first indepth audit prised at what he hears. Maybe Mr. the other agencies of government that

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If you are suspected of being him to think outside the box. Maybe until the task is completed, the mind a terrorist or having terrorist connec- Comptroller General Dodaro and CFO wanders, the student loses focus, and tions, our government can stop you McCord could put their heads together. unfortunately the net result is the lack from boarding an airplane. The theory Maybe if they would team up, they of a positive learning experience. behind it is obvious. We want to keep could figure out how to simplify the There are many critics of Congress the passengers on the airplane safe, whole system and make it play like a today and of the Senate for our failure and we would rather run the risk of a symphony orchestra. to address some of the major issues suspected terrorist being denied a Mr. McCord seems to be having trou- that are challenging us in America. It flight than run the risk of a suspected ble shaking mistaken notions, and here turns out that when it comes to one terrorist coming onto an airplane and is a new one. He thinks the whole De- issue, the problem in the Senate is at- endangering innocent lives. partment is poised for a major break- tention deficit disorder. Let me be spe- The proposal Senator FEINSTEIN through; that the looming congression- cific. brought to the floor of the Senate said ally mandated September 2017 deadline A few weeks ago, we had the worst that if you are on the no-fly list or the is within reach. The Marine Corps mass shooting in the modern history of selectee list, which means you go audit proves that isn’t possible. The the United States of America. A crazed through a special search, or are reason- military services—the Army, Navy, person went into the Pulse nightclub in ably suspected of terrorist involve- and Air Force—echo his assessment. Orlando, FL, killing 49 people and in- ment, you would be disqualified from They claim to be ‘‘on track to be ready juring dozens more. It was a shocking buying a firearm. It seems to stand to for audit’’ by the deadline. I suspect experience, and we heard about it early reason, does it not, that if we are wor- they are about as ready as the Marine on Sunday morning. The entire Nation ried about a terrorist in our midst Corps was. The experts think the other responded. The President spoke to the hurting innocent people, we certainly services are in far worse shape than the issue, even going down to Orlando with don’t want that terrorist to legally buy Marine Corps. If true, the probability the Vice President to meet with some an assault weapon in the United States of earning a departmentwide clean of the families and some of those who of America. That seems obvious. opinion is slim to none. survived this terrible mass shooting. These assault weapons, semiauto- Now, suddenly, to my amazement, Then we came back to Washington, matic and automatic, are dangers to Mr. McCord appears to be backing and the obvious question was: What not just a few but to dozens of people. away from his prediction about meet- will the Senate do in response? The There was a Snapchat that was taken ing the deadline. On June 15, he told Senate had a plan, and the plan from by one of the victims in Orlando during the House Armed Services Committee the Republican leadership was to have the last 9 seconds of her life. The that the Department is, in his words, a moment of silence. Well, that is en- shooter at the Orlando nightclub fired ‘‘many years’’ away from a clean opin- tirely appropriate. I am glad we did, off 17 rounds in 9 seconds. You can see ion. How can the Department be audit and we should, but it is not sufficient. the devastating impact of these weap- ready and meet the deadline if it is It is not enough. So a number of us ons when they get in the wrong hands. still years away from a clean opinion? came to the floor—under the leadership The Feinstein amendment attempted His messages are downright confusing of Senator CHRIS MURPHY of Con- to close that loophole. and maybe contradictory. If he knows necticut, Senator BLUMENTHAL of Con- Over 90 percent of the American peo- DOD is years away from a clean opin- necticut, and Senator BOOKER of New ple think the issues I just described— ion, then he must also know it is not Jersey—and initiated a filibuster on closing background check loopholes, audit ready or even close to it. Mr. the floor of the Senate, demanding that closing the gun show loophole, keeping McCord needs to explain his apparent we at least consider legislation that guns out of the hands of suspected ter- inconsistency. Clearly, the impending deadline re- would reduce the likelihood of more rorists—are reasonable steps toward mains an elusive goal. However, of one mass murders and reduce the likeli- gun safety. We have to do more to keep thing I am certain, the next round is hood of more violent crimes and gun guns out of the hands of people who being touted as ‘‘the largest audit ever deaths in America. have no business owning them and The proposal we suggested was undertaken.’’ If Mr. McCord fails to might misuse them. come up with some workable solution straightforward. It said we should close In light of that, you would have that gets a firm handle on trans- the loophole in the background check thought that this proposal would have actions, there will not be enough audi- system. It turns out that if you go to a passed, that there wouldn’t have been tors in the universe to tackle this job. licensed gun dealer in America, you much controversy, particularly after This job is just too big for the pick- will go through a background check the mass murder in Orlando. At the and-shovel routine, and the cost could through a computer. They will see if end of filibuster, we had votes. Both be astronomical. there is any evidence that you are a measures were defeated on the floor of I want Secretary Carter to succeed. I convicted felon or have a history of the Senate. Then Senator SUSAN COL- am counting on him to get the fal- mental instability or other prohibitor. LINS of Maine, a Republican, decided to tering audit readiness initiative back If that is the case, you are disqualified. try her best to come up with a bipar- on track and moving in the right direc- You can’t buy a firearm. But those who tisan compromise. I salute her. She tion. The taxpayers deserve nothing are paying close attention know there worked long and hard. It wasn’t easy, less. are alternatives to a licensed gun deal- and it certainly wasn’t popular in some Mr. President, I yield the floor. er. If you went instead to a gun show— corners of the Senate. She brought her The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. which happens in Illinois and many measure to the floor—a no-fly, no-buy ROUNDS). The assistant Democratic other States on a regular basis—many measure, a variation on the Feinstein leader. of them have no background check for amendment—and there was an attempt GUN VIOLENCE firearm sales. That is the case in to table it, to stop the amendment in Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, if a stu- northern Indiana where the laws are its tracks, but Senator COLLINS man- dent is failing in school, many people very flexible and light when it comes aged to get eight Republicans, includ- will rally around that student and ask: to background checks. The bill we sup- ing herself, to vote with the Demo- What is missing? Is the student work- ported from Senator MURPHY, similar crats, and the measure was not tabled, ing hard enough? Is the teacher con- to an earlier bill by Senators MANCHIN but the measure now sits as part of an necting with the student? But we are and TOOMEY, would have closed the so- appropriations bill and has not been concerned. called gun show loophole so you would addressed again.

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Our Speaker of the House, PAUL RYAN, has or a larger section there. friends in the House of Representatives We talked about the lack of trust and promised them a vote this week. It is had a similar effort. I was also proud to cooperation between citizens and law unlikely that anything is going to pass support the Democratic Members of in the House of Representatives. enforcement. We talked about the Congress, ROBIN KELLY, JAN SCHA- What is next? The American people overwhelming number of children and KOWSKY, DANNY DAVIS, BILL FOSTER, ask us: Is that it? Are you finished young adults who have either been the MIKE QUIGLEY, and STENY HOYER, who with gun safety? You play to a draw on victims of violent trauma or who have joined with local leaders and commu- the amendments in the Senate, you directly witnessed it. Solving any of nity members last Thursday in Federal take up a measure in the House, which these challenges is difficult, but we has a dim likelihood of passing, and need to do all we can to reduce the dev- Plaza in Chicago to protest Congress’s that is all you are going do? And then astating level of gun violence and to failure to act on gun violence. we leave. Next week will be the last save lives. We can’t wait for the next The American Medical Association a week in session before September. We mass murder. few weeks ago declared that gun vio- will be gone for 7 weeks, the longest pe- The most immediate problem in the lence is ‘‘a public health crisis.’’ It is. riod of recess in 50 or 60 years in the Harrison District in the city of Chicago Each year more than 32,000 Americans U.S. Senate, while we recess for the is that it is far too easy for dangerous are killed by guns, and 80,000 are in- conventions and for the August period people to get their hands on guns. So jured. On average, 297 Americans are when we spend time with our families. many of the shootings that kill and in- shot every day—every day—and 91 die. My concern, of course, is one that is jure people in Chicago are preventable. The daily toll of gun homicides, sui- shared by many. It would be miracu- They never would have happened if our cides, assaults, and accidental shoot- lous if we didn’t have another mass laws did a better job of keeping guns ings is devastating. Our Nation suffers shooting in that 7-week period of time. out of the hands of dangerous people. from mass shootings on a daily basis. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, I hope we do not. I pray we do not. His- Since 49 people were murdered in Or- Firearms and Explosives division of the tory tells us that it is highly likely it lando, FL, and 53 injured in the worst Federal Government told me last year will happen. Then we will return and mass shooting in modern American his- have a moment of silence, and then we that they had looked at the crime guns tory, there have been at least 47 more will do nothing. that were confiscated in the deadliest mass shootings in America. These are You see, it is attention deficit dis- sections of Chicago and that up to order in the Senate when it comes to forty percent of those guns were com- shooting incidents where at least four issues involving gun safety, but for ing from gun shows in Northern Indi- people were hit gun by gunfire. That is many Americans all around this coun- ana where there are no background a staggering total. try, this is an issue they think about checks. The traffickers and gang lead- No city has suffered more from the regularly. I can certainly tell you that ers literally opened the trunks of their epidemic of gun violence than my city in my home State of Illinois, the city cars and filled them with firearms in of Chicago. So far this year, 2,026 peo- of Chicago I am honored to represent, Northern Indiana and then took a one- ple have been shot in that city, and 329 it is an issue that is on the front page half hour trip back to the city and sold have been murdered. And 7 of the 47 of every newspaper every day. them at night in the neighborhood and mass shootings that have occurred Over the holiday weekend, the alleys. since Orlando have taken place in Chi- Fourth of July holiday weekend, at That is the reality—no background cago. No city in America has experi- least 66 people were shot in the city of checks. We can close that loophole. enced the number of shootings and gun Chicago. At least five of them died. The Will it end gun violence? Of course not. deaths that we have in Chicago. These victims of the gun violence include Will it make it more difficult for those shootings are the result of a flood of il- children. A 5-year-old girl and her 8- who have no business to own guns to legal guns brought into the city by gun year-old cousin were shot and wounded get them? Yes. Why shouldn’t we do it? traffickers and straw purchasers. They while playing with sparklers on the We cannot allow this to continue. We take advantage of clear loopholes in Fourth of July. An 11-year-old boy was need to stand up to the gun lobby and our Federal gun laws, and they put hit in the arm. A 15-year-old boy was their allies in Congress who block com- guns into the hands of gangbangers and shot in the chest while he was coming monsense gun reforms that are sup- dangerous people. It has to stop. out of a store. These shootings took ported by 90 percent of the American There are so many victims of gun vi- place, despite a surge in police pres- people. olence in Chicago it is overwhelming. ence and thousands of additional offi- Let’s be honest. Reforms like requir- Let me mention a few recent ones. On cers over the weekend. ing universal background checks to Father’s Day, a 3-year-old boy named Sadly, it is not rare to see a weekend keep guns out of the hands of suspected Devon Quinn was sitting in a car seat like this in Chicago marked by dozens terrorists are no-brainers. The only next to his father in the Woodlawn of shootings. The weekend before this, reason these reforms get tied up and neighborhood when their car was rid- at least 58 people were shot in Chicago, dropped in Congress is that the politi- dled with bullets by a drive-by shooter. 7 of them fatally; Memorial Day week- cians in Washington are afraid to death The gunman tried to target nearby end, 69 people were shot in Chicago, 7 of the gun lobby. The truth is, the gun gang members. He was a terrible shot. of them fatally. lobby is not about the Second Amend- Last week I visited the 11th District ment. The gun lobby is about selling Innocent people were hurt. The boy’s police station on the West Side of Chi- guns. If you reduce their volume of father dove in front of his son to try to cago. The 11th is the Harrison District. sales, you reduce their profits, and shield him, but a bullet struck 3-year- It is one of the most violent in the they will fight you. Many of the col- old Devon, who almost died. This 3- city. More than 270 people have been leagues I joined in this Chamber are year-old is currently alive but para- shot in the Harrison Police District scared to death of what they might do lyzed, unable to breathe on his own. this year. I met with the commander, to them in the next election. On June 30, Chanda Foreman was Chicago Police Deputy Chief James The gun lobby may care about selling killed on her 37th birthday in a mass Jones, as well as other officers in the guns, but I care more about saving shooting in the Washington Heights district. We had a long talk about the lives. I have been fighting their agenda neighborhood that also injured 4 other violence and drug sales taking place on for many years in the Senate. I am people. She was described by her fam- the streets in that district. We talked going to keep at it. I am proud to join ily as a great person and responsible about so many different challenges— my colleagues in the House and Senate worker. She had a 6-year-old daughter

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They and his 3-year-old daughter Endia were debated law is the threat that has driv- say that our analysis and interpreta- shot and killed in their home in Hazel en millions of dollars in lobbying to tion of the legislation is incorrect. Crest. Investigators said this appeared the doors of the U.S. Senate. And the They say to trust them. They say this to be a targeted attack. They described millions of dollars from lobbyists seem bill gives USDA broad authority to it as pure evil. Erin Neely, the wife of to have paid off because suddenly, even label GE products. They point to a let- Dionus and mother of Elle and Endia, with all of the unsolved problems fac- ter from USDA last week—and remind said: ing America—we don’t have our appro- us that USDA would be the only agen- Endia was the light of this world, always priations bills done, we don’t have cy with authority to implement and smiling and hugging and laughing. And Elle money for Zika, and we can’t do any- enforce the GE labeling rules. In that was a dancer. She was the life of the party. thing about the sale of high-powered letter, USDA said that the bill as cur- And my husband, he was a stay-at-home dad. weapons to gangs who then use them to rently drafted would include all tradi- He was a good father. shoot innocent people—lobbyists can tional gene modification products She said: come in and say: Change all the rules. which have come through the USDA They did not deserve this. Ignore all of the precedence. Forget the approval process, such as GE corn, soy- I am going to keep these shooting pledges you have made. Let’s just zip beans, sugar, and canola products on victims and families in my thoughts through this bill and get it done be- the market today, as well as products and prayers, but thoughts and prayers cause we want it. developed using gene editing tech- and moments of silence are not enough. No wonder this Congress is disfavored niques. Lawmakers have a responsibility to do by the American people. This bill does So, yes, on the surface, this bill ap- everything in their power to protect in- not consider that 9 out of 10 consumers pears to give USDA broad authority to nocent Americans from being shot and support a mandatory GE label on their develop a label for GE products. How- killed in their homes, their cars, and in food products. What this bill does not ever, with the swift speed with which their neighborhoods. We can’t allow recognize is that 64 countries around the proponents of this bill have moved, this to continue. the world mandate GE labeling. This with no committee process, no debate I am going to join my allies in Con- bill does not benefit from a thorough, or amendment process, we will not be gress to try to stop it with real gun re- open, constructive debate, but it has able to ensure the language in this bill form. I am going to focus my attention apparently benefited from millions of does exactly what they say that it on the problem that will not go away. lobbying dollars and campaign con- does. Just take their word for it. The My colleagues who think if they just tributions. Consumers want a simple, language and definition for a bioengi- wait long enough we will forget this easy to read label. Instead, this concoc- neered food for this new label—and let issue are just plain wrong. I am not tion of a so-called deal would offer me quote directly from the bill here— going to quit. We need the American them a complicated scavenger hunt. is a food that ‘‘contains genetic mate- people to stand with us. If they will I was here in March when the Senate rials that has been modified through in help us in speaking out for common- voted, convincingly, to reject the vitro recombinant DNA techniques.’’ sense reform, we can finally beat the DARK Act. Well, what do we have Well, let me interpret that for gun lobby and stop putting guns in the today? We have a rebooted DARK Act Vermonters and consumers across the hands of people who have no business that makes modest improvements, but country. That means that, if the food owning them and save lives across falls far short of the disclosure that does not have genetic material in it, America. consumers demand and Vermonters then it is not considered bioengineered Mr. President, I yield the floor. have required. It does not have the dis- under this bill. So even with the assur- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- closure that 9 out of 10 consumers say ances from USDA last week, a simple ator from Vermont. they want. We are listening to a hand- study of this definition says that those Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I thank ful of very well-financed lobbyists and foods that are highly processed and no the distinguished senior Senator from campaign contributors, but we will not longer have the modified genetic mate- Illinois for what he said. As he knows, listen to 9 out of 10 of the American rials would not fall under this new like many Vermonters, I consider my- people. Once again, their objective is label. self a responsible gun owner, but I not to honor and empower consumers’ The definition also goes on to say don’t think it is responsible when peo- right to know, but to derail State laws that a bioengineered food is one that— ple are allowed to come in and buy that do and to get by with as little con- and, again, let me quote directly from guns with no background checks, get sumer transparency as possible. the bill—‘‘for which the modification whatever they want, and then make a In this shortened period of debate, I could not otherwise be obtained profit selling them to gangs. I don’t hope to create for the RECORD what the through conventional breeding or know how anybody, any lobby or any Agriculture Committee has not: the found in nature.’’ This raises more red Member of Congress, can say they can shortcomings of this proposal, and the flags because many of the genes that support that. I thank the Senator from ways in which it should—and could—be have been modified or introduced do Illinois for what he said. He is abso- improved. occur in nature, just not in the par- lutely right. I will first discuss the uncertainty ticular crop the gene has been added Mr. President, it has been just 2 the definition in this bill creates. We to. They might occur naturally—in weeks since negotiators released what have heard repeatedly these past 2 frogs, say—but not in our crops. can only be called a farce of a proposal weeks both worry and apprehension We have heard countless questions to require the labeling of genetically that the legislation before the Senate asking: Well, would it apply to this engineered foods. Less than a week would actually exclude virtually all crop, or is it their intention that this after it was released—without any the GE products that are now on the other variety would have to be labeled committee action, any testimony, no market. This concern stems from the if the gene being introduced occurs in recorded feedback from either pro- very narrow scope of the definition in nature? USDA says yes today, but will ponents or opponents—the Senate ma- this bill. This definition excludes any it say yes tomorrow? If you look at jority leader filed cloture on a privi- foods that do not actually contain the this bill, there is no clear-cut answer. leged vehicle to fast-track this bill. genetic material of a GE crop. So what We have seen with the Vermont label- Gone are the promises of regular does this mean in practice? This defini- ing law, where the Grocery Manufac- order. Gone are the pledges of an open tion would exclude a wide variety of turer’s Association took the State of amendment process. Instead, the Sen- highly processed foods, from soybean Vermont to court to challenge its

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Doing so would ensure The sponsors of this bill also tell us up through the complicated regulatory there would be no ‘‘patchwork’’ we that they feel that ‘‘public sentiment’’ process and in court, where surely a have been warned about and would let will be enough to get these companies farm group or food manufacturer will existing laws to stay on the books. to comply and just do the right thing. challenge this law. On another matter, the sponsors of Will our consumers have to be the cops If the sponsors of this bill would this proposal took careful steps to en- on the beat to go after these compa- allow us to improve this definition and sure that there are no teeth in this bill nies? When these families are already clarify what is covered, there would be for any enforcement by the USDA. having a tough enough time trying to a lot less concern and heartburn, and it They specifically spell out in the bill squeeze every minute out of their days, could help to shed light on the true that there is no authority for the now they will police these multimillion congressional intent of this proposal. USDA to recall products found to be dollar companies to make sure they That is why I have filed an amendment improperly labeled under the require- comply? That is highly unlikely, and it to strengthen the definition in this bill ments in the bill for GE foods. This bill is patently unfair. and to bring it more in line with what is also void of any fines or punishments Of course, then there is the matter of we have seen in other countries, where for violators, and there is no compli- international labeling laws. Although some groups and Members of the Sen- many of these same food manufactur- ance deadline for companies. How, with ate try to make it appear that what ers are labeling already for their export a straight face, can we call this a man- Vermont has done is completely novel, markets. datory label? Moving on to genetically engineered The sponsors tell us again: Don’t the fact is that labeling laws for GE fish, another point the sponsors of this worry—there is enough ‘‘strong en- crops exist in 64 other countries today. bill have tried to refute is how this bill forcement authority through several Certainly, they are not all identical, but I will tell you one thing: The defi- treats genetically engineered salmon, mechanisms in the bill.’’ First, they as- nition for bioengineered food used in potentially exempting such salmon sert that, since USDA has been given this bill is unlike any other in the rest from labeling. Again, the sponsors say the authority to audit any company of the world. we have it all wrong—that this bill that mislabels a food product or does On this point, we hear from the pro- would require the labeling of GE salm- not otherwise comply with the GMO ponents of this bill that, among the 64 on and will not affect the FDA’s au- disclosure requirements, it will allow countries who require labeling of GMO thority to require a label under the them to ‘‘hold them publicly account- foods, there is no consistently used def- agency’s existing authority. able.’’ They point out that State and inition of biotechnology or consistent However, at issue is that this bill Federal consumer protection laws are way that this is applied to foods. In preempts more than just Vermont’s preserved in this bill and that the FDA fact, they highlight that some of our Act 120 on GE labeling. It also blocks retains its existing authority to regu- major trading partners exclude some of laws like Vermont’s seed labeling law late ‘‘truthful and misleading’’ claims the very products that they believe and Alaska’s fish labeling law, which on the labels. this bill provides authority to USDA to requires that any GE fish in the State Now, that is a confusing point since label. of Alaska bear a simple label to let the proponents of this bill have just The fact is that consumers want the consumers know. The salmon industry told us that USDA was the only agency right to know for many varied reasons. is vitally important to Alaska, and with authority to implement and en- For some, the question is a religious that is why the Alaskan Legislature force the GE labeling rules. So how is point. For others, they want to know passed their fish labeling law a decade it that the FDA can still regulate the extent to which GE crops may in- ago. ‘‘truthful and misleading’’ claims? Are crease herbicide use, not just the pres- And what do we hear again from the we to then believe that the FDA will ence of the genetic materials in the bill’s sponsors? I will tell you: They use its authority to enforce these la- food. That is why I have filed an say don’t worry. The FDA could still bels that actually comply with a USDA amendment to strengthen the defini- require GE labels for salmon. But we requirement? Perhaps if we could clar- tion for the foods that must be labeled all know how the FDA has dragged its ify that issue in this bill, it would help under this bill. My amendment is based heels already in responding to concerns to set the record straight when it on the United Nations’ Codex, an inter- from Congress on the labeling of ge- comes to congressional intent and the governmental body with more than 180 netically engineered fish. Just last Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. members, established by the frame- year, the omnibus appropriations bill But, again, no. We will be blocked from work of the Joint Food Standards Pro- directed the FDA to provide guidelines offering any amendments to this bill to gramme established by the Food and for the labeling of a fish as genetically clear up this confusion and to ensure Agriculture Organization of the United engineered before the approval of a new that the FDA can use their residual au- Nations and the World Health Organi- genetically engineered salmon. thority in the Federal Food, Drug, and zation. A broader definition, as I have By preempting Alaska’s law, the Sen- Cosmetic Act’s section 403, which cov- proposed, will also allow for this new ate will tell the people of that great ers truthful and misleading labels. label and USDA to keep up with mod- State that folks here in Washington To go from a State law that has some ern science and the rapidly changing know best. Even though you have a teeth and enforcement capability, as pace of gene modifications we are see- State law in place today to require this we have in Vermont, to a Federal ing developed and our researchers label, a law you have had on the books standard with no penalties, recall op- working on today. for a decade, Congress is going to pre- portunity, or other ways to enforce This bill should not be so narrowly empt your State law and give USDA this new labeling requirement is drafted that it ties USDA’s hands and another 2 or 3 years before completing alarming. The proponents point out ignores the fact that there are dra- their labeling regulations. In the mean- that states have the ability to enact an matic advancements in biotechnology time, not your State—or any State— identical State GMO labeling law and every day. Ten years ago, it would have may have a law in place to ensure this can provide additional enforcement au- been hard to have predicted the sci- label. That is not fair to the seafood in- thority if desired. entific innovations in today’s world, dustry in Alaska or to consumers who So first they want to take away and who knows what developments we are looking for this information. That strong meaningful State laws on label- will see in the next 10 years. This bill is why I have offered an amendment to ing. Then they tell those States they should be drafted so that we ensure grandfather in those State laws that can pass something identical to the that USDA has sufficient authority to were enacted before January 1, 2016. We Federal law, as weak as you may think make these determinations in the fu- took this same step in the recent Toxic it is, and enforce it on behalf of USDA. ture, without Congress needing to up- Substances Control Act reform bill. All this because Congress appears too date this authorization every time

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They claim that the exist- ments to address serious flaws in this ing law—as the gold standard and the ing State laws will cause confusion for proposal’s use of electronic or digital floor for any national law, instead of consumers and food companies. But codes. I am a proud supporter of Sen- using Vermont’s law as an instructive what they fail to explain is that we do ator MERKLEY’s legislation, long-pend- starting point for a national label, we not have a patchwork of State laws ing in the Senate, to require a manda- throw away the work of our legisla- today. What every Member of the Sen- tory, on-package label of some kind to ture, the voices of my constituents. ate should know is that Vermont is the identify genetically engineered food for Well, Vermonters will not be silenced only State that has a broad labeling consumers. This proposal includes on this matter. I am here to give voice law in place and in effect today. Maine among its options digital codes—or QR to their views, even as the Senate muf- and Connecticut’s laws have yet to codes, for those versed in the lingo. fles the progress our State has made in take effect due to trigger clauses in They are black and white boxes. The advancing a consumer’s right to know. those laws. Even if they were to take idea is a consumer takes their Speaking of which, I have heard from effect, these three States have worked smartphone, scans the code; the Inter- hundreds of Vermonters about this so- in tandem and all require that the net takes them to a page, where they called mandatory labeling bill. For the same language—‘‘Produced with Ge- can then scroll to find the information benefit of the Senate’s short record on netic Engineering’’—appear on the they seek. I don’t know if many of you this issue, I will take this opportunity package. in this Chamber have been to Vermont. to share with the Chamber some of the In Vermont, our attorney general If you haven’t, you should. It is beau- messages that I have received over the was given the authority to make tiful, especially this time of the year. past few weeks. amendments and changes to the It is also rural. We still face internet This is a map of our State, and the State’s labeling standard to ensure it is challenges. More than that, consumers dots show where I have heard from my in line with other state standards to should not be forced to scan the codes constituents. Many have shared their prevent consumer or industry confu- of 30 items in their shopping basket, concerns about digital or electronic sion. So we do not have this fictional simply to learn if they include GE in- disclosure options. I could read thou- ‘‘patchwork’’ that some have claimed gredients. What was once a quick trip sands of these letters, but I will just and used as reason to act immediately, to the market for milk and bread will read from a couple of them. without thorough debate and without turn into a 2-hour ordeal—and that is if John from Fairlee, VT, wrote: ‘‘I am opportunity for improvement. That is you can access the Internet in the incensed over the Senate proposal to why I have filed another amendment to store. I have filed an amendment to allow companies to put a bar code style grandfather existing State laws for la- strike the use of these so-called QR label on packaging that could be read beling, whether it be for seeds, GE codes as a means of labeling. by using a smart phone to determine salmon and Frankenfish, or GE foods. While this bill requires the Depart- GMO content. First, I don’t even have Given the mounting unanswered ment of Agriculture to study the po- a smart phone and have no plans to buy questions and legal ambiguity that sur- tential challenges to consumer access, one since we have no cell reception rounds this bill, I cannot fathom why it does nothing to assess consumer where I live. Even if stores have Wi-Fi, the Senate is intent to fast-track it. awareness. One of my amendments and I were willing to buy a smart Rather than going through any sort of would expand this study. Another phone, why should I have to go the orderly committee process, with hear- amendment would require that if such extra step of connecting to a comings and markup, its sponsors have a study determines that consumers will pany’s website to determine if its prod- sought to use procedural tactics to not have sufficient access to informa- uct contains GMOs?’’ avert a lengthy, controversial debate. tion via electronic or other digital Well, John from Fairlee makes a lot It is in part why there was commotion codes, the Secretary of Agriculture will of sense. For example, suppose you and confusion last week when the Sen- require only on-package disclosure. have a peanut allergy. Packages today ate held a rare rollcall vote on the mo- Another amendment I have filed would will say if the food has peanuts in it or tion to lay before the Senate a message simply require the language accom- not. Suppose you have a gluten allergy. from the House to accompany a bill. panying an electronic or digital code to You can go into a store and the store The Senate Library and the Congres- say ‘‘GE information,’’ instead of sim- will have whole aisles of gluten-free sional Research Service had to hunt ply ‘‘food information.’’ What harm products, which would also be labeled back to an example from 1976 that is would there be in giving consumers that way. Why shouldn’t you be able to cited in Riddick’s Senate Procedure for more descriptive and direct informa- just look at a simple label and see when the Senate had to have such a tion? whether the ingredients were produced vote. Another amendment that I have filed with genetic engineering? Campbell’s This is a complex issue, one that the would strike this proposal’s effort to Soup is going to do it. Why can’t we Senate should consider deliberately, preempt Vermont’s longstanding seed just have a label? with a full and open debate of reason- law. On the books since 2004 and sup- Katharine from Brattleboro, VT, able, germane, and relevant amend- ported by organic farmers and hobby wrote: ‘‘I’m one of the many people ments. Only that process would ensure gardeners alike, there is no need for who cannot afford a cell phone. The that we truly have a mandatory Fed- this bill to go so far as to preempt this federal proposal for GMO labels that eral label that does encompass the GE longstanding law that gives farmers requires a cell phone would be useless foods in the marketplace today and fu- more information about what they are to me and many others on fixed in- ture advancements in biotechnology. buying. comes, disability, etc. Please pass a Again, I am discouraged that Sen- Like others, I have filed an amend- federal law that doesn’t require a cell ators—Senators like me who have the ment to strengthen the definition of phone to access information. I deserve benefit of their States creating a long bioengineering and to strengthen con- to know what I am consuming as much record to support effective, mandatory sumer privacy with in the bill’s re- as people with extra money who can af- GE labeling—have been cut out of the quirements. I have an amendment to ford a cell. It just isn’t fair to the rest process in crafting this proposal. That match the amount of GE food required of us to keep us in the dark. I pay my is why I have nonetheless joined other to trigger a label to the 0.9 percent re- bills and live frugally and responsibly. Senators, including Senators MERKLEY, quired in Vermont’s Act 120 and other I do not use my money for entertain- SANDERS, TESTER, BLUMENTHAL, international labeling standards. ment or extras. But I do not deserve to FRANKEN, and MURKOWSKI, in filing And, importantly, I have filed an be restricted from access to important amendments for consideration. I would amendment to grandfather in information.’’

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If ‘‘Vermont’s GE food labeling law Act Maureen said: ‘‘I do not have a smart they were, we would not be contem- 120, which is in effect as of July 1, pro- phone, as is true for most older Ameri- plating an electronic or digital disclo- vides a more meaningful, enforceable, cans, and should not have to buy one in sure method when many rural areas, and consumer-friendly labeling frame- order to find out if the food I buy is ge- including most of Vermont, face sig- work than the current federal proposal. netically modified. This is a dishonest nificant technological challenges, not It should be allowed to stand.’’ attempt to pander to big industry at to mention that this digital disclosure I heard directly from Ben & Jerry’s, the citizens’ expense.’’ would also discriminate against low-in- which wrote: ‘‘We are incredibly proud Others, like Carl from Putney and come and elderly populations. of the ingredients we use and we Barbara from Hinesburg, said: ‘‘I don’t I have also heard from a number of couldn’t be happier to tell our fans and use a smart phone, and a label I have Vermont organizations, all with griev- consumer about them. That’s why we to scan will do me no good. I doubt I ous concerns about the proposal before find it so hard to believe that there are would want to scan everything I looked us today. food companies that do not want to at in my supermarket, in any case. The Vermont Public Interest Re- disclose the ingredients they use. That ‘‘The proposed ‘labeling law’ is in search Group wrote: ‘‘VPIRG opposes they are fighting so hard to oppose fact not a labeling law at all. As I un- the . . . proposal because it is a thinly what polls show 90% of American’s derstand it, the food producers would veiled attempt to keep consumers in want, the ability to look at a food not need to disclose anything, just pro- the dark about what is in their food. package and know whether or not the vide a phone number or website that This proposal is nothing but a sham product contains GMO ingredients.’’ consumers could use to find out wheth- aimed at eliminating Vermont’s label- And others have reached out as well, er the food is genetically modified.’’ ing law without replacing it with any saying this from the League of Con- Carl and Barbara went on to say: meaningful federal standard. servation Voters: ‘‘Under the proposal, ‘‘ . . . to have a label that can be read ‘‘Vermont’s labeling law took effect companies may disclose GMO content only with a phone app is ridiculous. We on July 1, and companies are already through a QR code, a digital code personally do not have such a phone providing consumers with clear on- which requires a smart phone or other and will not obtain one because where package labeling that allows them to scanning device to decipher. Those who we live reception is challenging.’’ make informed decisions about the do not have access to a smart phone— Hundreds of Vermonters even joined more than 50% of rural and low income together in sending me a letter that food they are purchasing.’’ They went on to say: ‘‘Vermont’s law populations, and more than 65% of the said: ‘‘The bill requires the labeling of is not novel or unique. Over 90% of elderly—will have to rely upon scan- packaged foods containing GMOs in Americans support labeling genetically ners provided by another party to ac- one of three ways: an electronic code cess information about GMO content.’’ that consumers can scan; USDA-devel- engineered foods, and these products are already labeled in more than 64 Other Vermonters have reached out oped symbol; or a label. The bill leaves to me to share their concerns about the it to manufacturers to decide which of countries around the world.’’ Others, like Rural Vermont, said: right of States to legislate in a way the three methods they prefer. that furthers the legitimate and sig- ‘‘Now guess which method Big Food ‘‘On behalf of the members of the Board of Directors of Rural Vermont, nificant interests of the State. They will choose? I have no doubt that they have reached out, urging me to reject will choose the electronic code that who are all working farmers, and our statewide membership of other farmers this ‘‘deal’’ or any other bill that can only be read with a scanner. They would prohibit states from requiring know that few will want to do this and and their customers, I am writing to urge you to do everything you can to the labeling of genetically engineered even fewer will be able to.’’ foods unless it is replaced by a strong prevent passage of this bill that pro- The letter continued: ‘‘A recent na- mandatory national label. poses to provide a national standard tional survey showed that only 16 per- Jennifer from Bethel, VT, said: ‘‘I cent of consumers have ever scanned a for the labeling of food that is geneti- and many other Vermonters urge you QR code for any purpose. Unless I want cally engineered. This bill does not to reject this bill, we want Vermont’s to take each item to the customer meet the fundamental needs of the over precedent-setting, mandatory labeling service desk in the grocery store, I 90% of Americans who want genetically bill to go into effect, and for it not to must download a scanning app onto my engineered food products to be labeled. be thwarted by efforts for a weaker, ‘‘This bill is no better than its prede- smartphone—assuming I even own one! overriding federal program of vol- No matter which app I choose, it may cessors in the Senate or the bill passed untary, or QR-code based labeling, take a few tries to actually scan the by the House in 2015. The fact that the which would only let some consumers code properly. Then I will have to wait bill offers as a ‘label’ the option for know what’s in their food some of the for the website to pop up on the screen, food producers to require customers to time.’’ which could take a long time depend- use so-called QR codes to access infor- James wrote: ‘‘We have worked too ing on your network coverage inside mation about the content of the prod- long and hard to have our efforts the store, after which I might have to uct they are considering purchasing is scrapped by politicians who know little sift through the company’s informa- absurd and blatantly discriminatory. or nothing about growing natural nu- tion to find the GMO information I am The use of a QR code as a ‘label’ re- tritional food.’’ looking for. quires that the customer A) Own a He continued to explain that he and ‘‘The QR code is hardly a label in any ’smart’ cell phone, B) Have the applica- his wife testified before the Vermont meaningful sense of the word. It adds a tion required to read the QR code in- State Legislature in support of Act 120, barrier between the consumer and the stalled on that phone, C) have adequate Vermont’s GE labeling law. information he or she wants, and dis- access to cellular service inside their Another Vermonter said that this criminates against those who do not grocery store (highly problematic, esp. bill, which would nullify Vermonters’ own smartphones—which is half of peo- in Vermont), and D) Have the time and right to know what is in their food and ple living in rural areas, 75 percent of patience to navigate the web site to legally bar any other State from enact- those over 65, and half of those making which the QR code will direct them in ing such a law, is ‘‘an outrage.’’ Many less than $30,000 a year. This legisla- order to find the information regarding others also reached out to express their tion discriminates against all these the product they are holding in their concerns that this ‘‘deal’’ is really just people and especially the poorest hand—the content and transparency of an attempt to undermine Vermont’s Americans.’’ which is still entirely determined by law. Well, it is clear that the proposal be- the food producer. Try suggesting this The overwhelming message that I fore us today is driven more by the per- scenario to a busy mom with a couple have heard loud and clear from so

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I remain concerned that this proposal Eric from Strafford, VT, said: ‘‘I The legislation before us today un- doesn’t truly support a consumer’s strongly urge you to fight to defeat the dermines the public’s right to know right to know. Consumers were an GMO labeling agreement proposed by and preempts labeling requirements for afterthought in the crafting of this Senators STABENOW and ROBERTS. It genetically engineered ingredients in ‘‘deal.’’ We should stay true to the would undermine the Vermont labeling States. While it is true that the pro- kinds of things most of us say in our law and fails to offer consumers the posal makes modest improvements to campaigns and our political adver- clarity they deserve about what’s in the legislation that the Senate wisely tising. We say: We are there for you. their food.’’ rejected in March, the fact remains We are there to protect you. We are And others have reached out as well, that this was hastily crafted solely in there for you. saying: ‘‘I am very disappointed that an effort to undermine Vermont’s GE Well, that is not true. You, the con- legislators in Washington are more in- labeling law that just took effect last sumer, were an afterthought of the terested in protecting the food indus- Friday. And so I would like to recap crafting of this deal. The prime moti- tries than they are in providing infor- some of these concerns. vation was to allow large corporations mation to the consumer. We consumers I remain concerned that this legisla- to get by with doing as little as pos- have a right to know what’s in our tion takes away the rights of sible, and the bill’s lack of trans- food, how it was produced, and its ori- Vermont—or actually any other parency is counterproductive. The gins.’’ State—to legislate in a way that ad- more information that we seek to hide And: ‘‘We have the right to know vances public health and food safety, from consumers about how their food is what is in our food in order to make in- informs consumers about potential en- grown and manufactured, the more un- formed choices about what we eat and vironmental threats, avoids consumer necessary red flags we raise for them. feed our families.’’ confusion, and protects religious tradi- Our farmers and food producers should ‘‘People need to have the right to tion. Not only would this legislation be proud to inform consumers about know the contents of their food, it is preempt Vermont’s Act 120 GE disclo- what they plant, how they grow it, the ludicrous to deny this information to sure requirement, but it would block choices they make, and why. the people of this nation.’’ other State laws like Alaska’s require- I also remain concerned that this ‘‘Consumers have a right to know ment to label all products containing proposal—even if you like the pro- what is in their food. And providing genetically engineered fish and shell posal—has no enforcement mechanism. consumers that information shouldn’t fish, and Vermont and Virginia’s laws I have trouble believing that public be left up to the manufacturer.’’ requiring the labeling of genetically pressure will be enough to force these ‘‘As a concerned consumer, I want engineered seed or transgenetic seed. multimillion-dollar corporations to the choices I make for my family to be I remain concerned that the bill’s comply. You would think that 9 out of completely informed.’’ definition of ‘‘bioengineered foods’’ has 10 consumers would be enough public As well as: ‘‘Like most Americans, I been written so narrowly that it allows pressure for Congress to respond, but it simply want to know what’s in my food some of the most common foods to go didn’t do a single thing for this legisla- and how it was produced. That is why unlabeled. Whether this bill was draft- tion. Consumers are not going to be I support GMO labeling.’’ ed with the intent to exempt certain able to make these multimillion-dollar From the many letters that I have foods remains unclear. What is clear, is corporations comply. This proposal received from Vermonters since this that the definition has created signifi- makes consumers the cops on the beat, ‘‘deal’’ was announced, there is one in cant confusion, not just among con- policing companies to provide informa- particular that I would like to share in sumers, but also in this very Chamber tion about the contents of their prod- full. and across Federal agencies. That is uct. Michael of Brookfield, VT, writes: why we should be having a full debate These corporations show that they ‘‘Dear Senator LEAHY, I have recently and amendment process to allow for don’t really care what the consumers learned that Senators ROBERTS and technical corrections and to ensure think, with some notable exceptions. STABENOW have proposed GMO labeling clarity. Campbell’s Soup, which is a multibil- legislation. The proposed measure has I remain concerned that this bill al- lion-dollar corporation, has voluntarily numerous defects, and I urge you lows for the use of electronic disclosure decided to label their products, and I strongly to oppose it. methods. In many rural parts of the applaud them for doing that. So many ‘‘The bill allows the agency to set the country—including rural parts of the others are not going to do so. Surely thresholds so high as to render the la- distinguished Presiding Officer’s State, our Nation’s families, who are busy beling requirement practically tooth- the rural parts of the distinguished squeezing every minute, out of every less. It also contains a loophole that Senator from Oregon’s State, who is on day, will not have time to hold compa- could exempt corn and soy, the two the floor, and the many rural parts of nies accountable in the court of public most widely grown GMO crops in the Vermont—we have significant techno- opinion. We should not place this added country. Further, the actual required logical challenges that make it nearly burden on consumers who only want to labeling would not require any actual impossible for consumers to access the know what they are feeding their fami- information about the food to be put electronic or digital disclosure meth- lies. on the label, but instead can direct ods allowed in this bill. I do believe Since this proposal was unveiled, I consumers to a website that has the re- that by requiring the Secretary of Ag- have heard from many Vermonters who quired information. This would require riculture to complete a study on this care deeply about this issue. Just last both a smart phone and in-store inter- issue, these difficulties unavoidably Friday, I joined several hundred net connectivity in order to make a will be recognized. However, signifi- Vermonters on the statehouse lawn in point-of-sale purchasing decision, nei- cant questions remain. If the Secretary my hometown of Montpelier to cele- ther of which are universal, especially finds, as I am sure will be the case, brate Vermont’s Act 120 law taking ef- here in Vermont. It seems that the au- that additional disclosure options are fect on that day, July 1. I heard their thors of the bill are trying to make it required for rural areas, will the USDA voices loud and clear on this issue. The as hard as possible to learn about be responsible for installing scanners proposed ‘‘deal’’ before us falls short. It what’s in our food. in grocery stores? Or are the pro- doesn’t offer consumers what they need ‘‘I can understand the desire to pre- ponents of this proposal going to put or what Vermont’s legislators had in vent numerous conflicting GMO label- the burden on our retail establish- mind when they passed Vermont’s Act

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This Congress didn’t have time to let’s not have anybody going home say- do not get cell phone service in their debate these issues and hear expert tes- ing we are protecting consumers. In- towns. Katharine, from Brattleboro, timony. The U.S. Senate did not have stead, some Senators voted for a sham VT, wrote to me and said: ‘‘I’m one of one single hearing so that any of those put up by a few well-heeled corporate the people who cannot afford a cell 325 million Americans could be heard. lobbyists. phone. . . . Please pass a federal law If you saw this in a movie or some- I have said it before and I will say it that doesn’t require a cell phone to ac- thing where they were poking satirical again: 625,000 Vermonters deserve bet- cess information. I deserve to know fun at the Congress, you would say: Oh, ter. But even more importantly, all 325 what I’m consuming, just as much as they have gone too far; that would million Americans deserve better. people with extra money who can af- never happen. Unfortunately, it has They should at the very least have had ford a cell phone. It just isn’t fair to happened. the benefit of hearings and full de- the rest of us to keep us in the dark.’’ This backroom deal made by the food bate—to have people talk about this Katharine’s sentiments were echoed industry has left too many gaping bill and have the opportunity to have by Maureen, from Fairlee, VT, who holes and questions that should have our amendments considered. Instead, it said: ‘‘I do not have a smart phone, as been addressed before this bill was fast- was written in back rooms by heavily is true for most older Americans, and I tracked through the Senate. financed lobbyists, with input from should not have to buy one in order to Is the Vermont law perfect in every corporate interests not the interests of find out if the food I buy is genetically way? No, I do not contend that it is. the American people. modified.’’ The State was blocked and preempted Mr. President, I reserve the remain- Carl from Putney, VT also wrote to from requiring a label on products that der of my time. me, saying: ‘‘I don’t use a smart phone, contain meat. And I will be the first to I suggest the absence of a quorum, and a label I have to scan will do me no point out that there are challenges and ask unanimous consent that the good. I doubt I would want to scan ev- with Vermont being out there on its time run equally on both sides. erything I looked at in the super- own with a label, but what we need to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without market, in any case.’’ replace it is a strong national label objection, it is so ordered. And you know Katherine and that has been thoroughly debated and The clerk will call the roll. Maureen and Carl and the hundreds of any confusion over intent clarified. The senior assistant legislative clerk This bill has been brought forward at other Vermonters who I have heard proceeded to call the roll. this time simply to preempt Vermont’s from are right. It is not fair, and it is Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask GE labeling law that just took effect exactly what these large corporations unanimous consent that the order for on July 1. This, despite the fact that want: They want to hide information the quorum call be rescinded. Vermont has a 6-month safe harbor or behind a QR code or a 1–800 number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without grace period until January 1, 2017. With Americans want to make informed objection, it is so ordered. 6 months left before Vermont’s grace decisions for their families and with TREATIES period ends, why are we not taking the their limited grocery budgets. One Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I come time to hold a hearing? Why are we not Vermonter, Denis, said it well in his to the floor today as the ranking Dem- having a full debate and amendment message to me: ‘‘The issue is simple: ocrat on the Senate Foreign Relations process? Why are we not listening to consumers deserve to know what they Committee to discuss the importance consumers in Vermont and across the are consuming, including whether or of treaties to the United States and to nation who simply want to know what not the ingredients are produced natu- express my strong support for the rati- is in the food they feed their families fication of a number of treaties whose rally or through genetic engineering, and how it was produced? so they can make personal choices I hope other Senators will join me in consistency with current U.S. law, cou- about what to purchase. GMO informa- rejecting these efforts to undermine pled with the tangible and material tion needs to be clearly disclosed on the ability of States, such as Vermont, benefits they would deliver to U.S. citi- the label as part of the nutrition and Alaska, Virginia, and others that zens, businesses, and law enforcement ingredient details.’’ choose to offer consumers and farmers authorities, should make their ratifica- Lewis from Enosburg Falls also purely factual, noncontroversial, and tion noncontroversial. wrote to me about the importance of a commercial information that furthers Treaties enhance and increase sta- consumer’s right to know. He said: the legitimate and substantial interest bility in an uncertain world. They offer ‘‘Everyone has the right to know what of the State. a framework for U.S. global engage- they are eating. Period. Vermont’s la- I really can’t support this so-called ment in which we can work to promote beling law will not judge GMOs as good compromise. There have been no hear- American values such as equal rights, or bad, it will simply confirm their ings and we have heard no testimony freedom of navigation, and the pro- presence in any product. I want to on it. It was suddenly handed to us as motion of global commerce. Yet, with make informed decisions about what is a fait accompli. We were told to take it the 114th Congress drawing to a close, in the food my family and I eat, wheth- or leave it. After all, the Big Money in- the Senate has not yet ratified a single er it’s salt, sugar, fat, or GMOs.’’ terests want us to take it. It is a last- treaty—a situation I consider to be an What Vermont did, unlike the U.S. minute attack on Vermont’s law, and extraordinary state of affairs for this Senate, which had no hearings or open it is a last-minute attack on States’ body, and I hope we can change this discussions—the Republican leader rights to set priorities at State govern- shortly. brought this bill out here under a fast- ment level. The value and importance of treaties track so we couldn’t have any real de- Instead of caving in to the lobbyists, to the interests of the United States bate on it—was debate this issue for we should be moving in a direction and its citizens can be seen in the years. They held over 50 hearings on that offers consumers more informa- seven treaties the Senate Foreign Rela- the subject. They had over 130 wit- tion and more choices rather than hid- tions Committee recently reported out. nesses testify and all sides of the issue ing behind a toothless law that puts I thank Senator CORKER and the mem- were heard. Yet the U.S. Senate has the industry’s interests ahead of a con- bers of the Senate Foreign Relations failed to hold a single hearing to de- sumer’s right to know and sets indus- Committee for reporting these treaties bate these issues and hear expert testi- try interests ahead of consumers’ right to the floor of the Senate for its con- mony. to know. sideration. The little State of Vermont had over This ‘‘deal’’ substitutes an easy-to- These treaties include the Conven- 50 hearings and more than 130 wit- read label that everyone can under- tion on the Law Applicable to Certain

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The list includes the two extradition treaties with the Do- more resistant to pests and diseases, American Seed Trade Association, the minican Republic and Chile, and three show improved yields, and can better National Farmers Union, the Bio- mutual legal assistance treaties with tolerate environmental stresses such as technology Industry Organization, the Jordan, Algeria, and Kazakhstan. drought. National Association of Wheat Grow- Let me talk about these treaties. I The treaty is also unanimously sup- ers, the National Corn Growers Asso- am sure they are not getting the head- ported by relevant U.S. stakeholders. ciation, the American Soybean Asso- lines of many other actions, but they I ask unanimous consent to have the ciation, numerous universities, and are important to U.S. interests. full list printed in the RECORD. nearly 100 other farm, agricultural, and The Hague Securities Convention was There being no objection, the mate- research groups. This agreement again negotiated to address uncertainty as to rial was ordered to be printed in the is supported by all these stakeholders what law governs cross-border trans- RECORD, as follows: that understand the importance to actions in stocks, bonds, and other se- ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING U.S. RATIFICA- American farmers, American commer- curities. That legal uncertainty has TION OF THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON cial interests, and American con- imposed friction costs on securities PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND sumers. transactions and increased risks for in- AGRICULTURE I am deeply grateful to Chairman vestors. The convention provides vol- AgReliant Genetics (Indiana), American CORKER and my colleagues on the For- untary choice-of-law rules for securi- Farm Bureau Federation, American eign Relations Committee who worked ties that are held by an intermediary. Phytopathological Society, American Seed hard to advance these treaties to the It was drafted with close attention to Trade Association, American Society of Senate floor. My only regret is that I the relevant passages of U.S. law on se- Plant Biologists, American Soybean Associa- hoped we would have considered these tion, Arkansas Seed Dealers’ Association, cure transactions, articles 8 and 9 of Bayer CropScience LP (North Carolina), two worthy, uncontroversial treaties the Uniform Commercial Code. The re- Beck’s Hybrids (Indiana), Biotechnology In- earlier. Both the Hague Securities Con- sult modernizes these transactions and novation Organization (BIO), California Seed vention and the plant genetic treaty greatly enhances their predictability. Association, Colorado Seed Industry Associa- provide tangible benefits to the United It is totally consistent with current tion, Condor Seed (Arizona), Crop Production States and its stakeholders. Neither re- U.S. law. U.S. ratification of the Hague Services (Colorado), Crop Science Society of quires changes to U.S. law. Let me re- Securities Convention would be the de- America, Curtis & Curtis (New Mexico), peat that. Neither of these treaties ciding vote in bringing the convention Delaware-Maryland Agribusiness Associa- would require us to change U.S. law. tion, Dow AgroSciences (Indiana), DuPont into force, which will encourage other Pioneer (Iowa), Enza Zaden U.S. (California). The Hague convention was signed by countries to sign on to this treaty that Georgia Agribusiness Council, Georgia the United States in 2006 and has been promotes global commerce and legal Crop Improvement, Georgia Seed Associa- awaiting ratification in this body since certainty with a system patterned on tion, Grain and Feed Association of Illinois, 2012. The plant genetics treaty was sub- longstanding U.S. commercial law. The Grassland Oregon, GROWMARK (Illinois), mitted to the Senate Foreign Relations benefit of this treaty to U.S. business HED Seeds (California), HeinzSeed (Cali- Committee in 2008, received a hearing is obvious, which is why the conven- fornia), HM.CLAUSE, Inc. (California), on November 10, 2009, and was reported tion is unanimously supported by the Idaho-Eastern Oregon Seed Association, Illi- by the committee in December 2010. Al- nois Fertilizer & Chemical Association, Illi- relevant stakeholders in the United nois Seed Trade Association, Independent most 6 years later, it still has not been States, including the Uniform Law Professional Seed Association, Indiana Seed considered by the full Senate. We can Commission, which drafted the Uni- Trade Association, Iowa Seed Association, do better. form Commercial Code on which the J.R. Simplot Company (Idaho), JoMar Seeds I am hopeful the Senate will soon act convention is based, the U.S. Chamber (Indiana), Justin Seed (Texas), Kansas Seed to ratify these two treaties. However, I of Commerce, the Commercial Finance Industry Association, Kansas Wheat Alli- fear the long delay in their consider- Association and Securities Industry ance. ation speaks to a larger problem. I am Keithly-Williams Seeds (Arizona), Land and Financial Markets Association, the dismayed some of my colleagues on the O’Lakes, Inc (Minnesota), Latham Hi-Tech other side of the aisle do not see the Financial Services Forum, the Emerg- Seeds (Iowa), Limagrain Cereal Seeds, Mon- ing Markets Traders Association, the santo (Missouri), National Association of value of treaties and the benefits they Depository Trust & Clearing Corpora- Plant Breeders, National Association of accrue to U.S. citizens and businesses. tion, and numerous other securities Wheat Growers, National Corn Growers Asso- As the ranking member of the Senate clearance and banking entities. The ciation, National Cotton Council, National Foreign Relations Committee, I call stakeholders who understand the im- Council of Commercial Plant Breeders, Na- attention to my colleagues that we portance to U.S. business interests all tional Farmers Union, National Sorghum also have eight tax treaties pending on Producers, Nebraska Agri-Business, New Jer- support the ratification of this treaty. the floor of the Senate: tax conven- sey Agricultural Experiment Station tions with Poland, Hungary, and Chile; The second treaty the Foreign Rela- (NJAES) at Rutgers University, New York tions Committee just reported is the State Agribusiness Association, North Caro- protocols amending existing tax con- International Treaty on Plant Genetic lina Seedsmen’s Association, Northern Seed ventions with Japan, Switzerland, Resources. This treaty has been in Trade Association, Northwest Nursery Im- Spain, and Luxembourg; and a protocol force for 12 years and already has 139 provement Institute, Ohio AgriBusiness As- amending the Multilateral Convention contracting partners. The U.S. ratifica- sociation, Oregon Seed Association. on Mutual Administrative Assistance tion of the plant genetics treaty will Oregonians for Food & Shelter, Pacific in Tax Matters. With the exception of benefit U.S. farmers as well as U.S. ag- Seed Association, Produce Marketing Asso- the Japan treaty, which was sent to ciation, RiceTec (Texas), Rocky Mountain the Senate relatively recently, each of ricultural and research institutions. Agribusiness Association, Rural and Agri- Plant breeders, farmers, and re- culture Council of America, Sakata Seed these treaties has been considered and searchers need access to raw plant ma- America (California), Seedway LLC (Penn- reported multiple times by the Senate terials to develop improved plants that sylvania), Sharp Bros Seed (Kansas), South- Foreign Relations Committee in recent are more productive and nutritious. ern Crop Production Association, Southern years. They reflect the practices and The plant genetics treaty aims to ad- Seed Association, Syngenta North America procedures consistent with the tax dress this need through the creation of (Minnesota), Texas Ag Industries Associa- treaties and protocols passed by the a formal global network for banking tion, Texas Seed Trade Association, Univer- Senate since 1973. Since then, 68 tax and sharing seeds. The treaty estab- sity of California, Davis College of Agricul- treaties have been passed by this body tural and Environmental Sciences, Univer- lishes a stable legal framework for sity of Kentucky College of Agriculture, by unanimous consent. Yet, because of international germ plasm exchanges of Food and Environment, US Rice Producers the opposition of a single Member, the 64 different crops, including wheat, Association, USA Rice, Vilmorin, North Senate has not ratified these vital rice, potatoes, oats, maize, rye, straw- America (California), Warner Seeds (Texas), treaties.

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They es- fenses with a modern dual criminality would be able to rely on proven U.S. tablish a common framework with fa- approach, in which instead of a long standards in crafting disability and ac- cilitating trade and investment and treaty list of extraditable offenses, of- commodation policies that would not can reduce the taxes assessed on U.S. fenders can be extradited if the offense only positively affect their citizens but companies and individuals who have in- is a crime in both the United States also U.S. students, tourists, service- terests or work overseas. The seven and the other country. The treaties in- members, and veterans who travel countries with pending tax treaties corporate a series of procedural im- abroad. have invested approximately $700 bil- provements to streamline and speed up The disabilities treaty was over- lion in the United States, with hun- the extradition process. whelmingly supported by veterans and dreds of thousands of U.S. jobs and Mutual legal assistance treaties are disabilities groups. Unfortunately, and businesses tied to these investments. agreements between countries for the to the great dismay of so many, the Ratification of these treaties would purpose of gathering and exchanging Senate fell five votes short of ratifica- provide increased certainty and facili- information in an effort to cooperate tion of the disabilities treaty in De- tate further investment in the United on law enforcement issues. America cember of 2012. In July 2014, the Senate States and its people. can provide some assistance without Foreign Relations Committee again ad- The sole declared opponent of these these treaties, but ratification makes vanced the disabilities treaty out of tax treaties has raised privacy con- this process much clearer and much committee. I was proud to vote in cerns regarding the collection of finan- more streamlined. favor, and it is my hope the United cial records. So let me be absolutely Ratification of these enforcement States will ratify this valuable treaty clear. These tax treaties are entirely treaties will be of great benefit to the so we can give the United States a say consistent with the Fourth Amend- United States. To give but one example with how people with disabilities, in- ment protections ensuring that Amer- of how beneficial these treaties are to cluding our own citizens, are treated ican citizens are protected against un- the United States, it has been esti- around the world. reasonable searches and seizures. As mated that for every person extradited It has now been over 2 years since the stated so eloquently by Chairman from the United States to the Domin- committee has acted on this, and I CORKER, tax information exchanges ion Republic, 10 are extradited here to would hope the Senate would act on with another country under any tax face charges for crimes they have com- this in a responsible manner and that treaty are subject to stringent con- mitted against the laws of the United the United States would join with the trols, are forbidden from so-called fish- States. So these treaties are very much other nations in support of the dis- ing expeditions, and are explicitly pro- in the U.S. interest. ability community. hibited from information exchange re- Of the 15 treaties I have discussed The failure to pass the Law of the quests for nontax purposes. That is thus far, all should be entirely Sea Treaty has been a failure of many protected in the treaty. The exchange uncontroversial and capable of being Congresses. The United States played a of information standards in the pend- passed without delay. Indeed, until critical role in developing the treaty in ing treaty is in fact already being used very recently, tax and law enforcement the 1970s, and we have the most to gain in 56 tax treaties currently in force. treaties were passed routinely by unan- from being a part of this treaty. We The proposed threshold of these trea- imous consent, but there are other shaped the construct of the treaty to ties would apply the same statutory treaties the Senate has considered in be very favorable to the United States, standards to Americans with bank ac- recent years where ratification would including giving the United States the counts abroad as already applies to also bring tangible benefits to the only permanent seat on the inter- Americans with bank accounts in the United States and its citizens. I want national council that would oversee United States. We are not imposing to highlight two in particular—the and make decisions about deep seabed any additional burdens on these ac- Convention on the Rights of Persons mining. Unfortunately, the permanent counts that are outside the United with Disabilities and the Law of the seat remains vacant and decisions are States. It is identical to what we im- Sea Treaty. being made about seabed mining in pose on Americans in the United The Senate owes a great deal to international waters without U.S. par- States. There is no reason people with former Senator Kerry and Senator ticipation. The estimated area of the foreign bank accounts should be able to MENENDEZ for their work on the dis- territorial expansion over which the hide their money from the IRS in a abilities convention. Through multiple United States could claim sovereignty way that the average hard-working hearings across the 112th and 113th under the continental shelf expansion American cannot. Congresses, it was established, beyond conventions of the treaty is an area es- Continued obstruction and indefinite a shadow of a doubt, that the treaties’ timated to be about 291,000 square delay of these eight tax treaties is an principles are firmly based on Amer- miles, or roughly 1.5 times the size of unacceptable state of affairs that does ican values. From the U.S. Constitu- the State of Texas. Though the Sen- harm both to U.S. businesses and indi- tion, the treaty borrows principles of ate’s failure to ratify the Law of the viduals who invest and work overseas equality and the protection of minori- Sea Treaty is a longstanding one, re- and to U.S. businesses and citizens ties; from the Declaration of Independ- cent events have brought the viability whose livelihoods remain linked to ence, it borrows the unalienable right and wisdom of U.S. nonparty status continued foreign investment in the to pursue happiness; and from the even further into question. United States. The Senate should act Americans with Disabilities Act, the For example—and we talked about as soon as possible to give these trea- gold standard for disability rights, the this before on the floor of the Senate— ties the long-awaited up-or-down vote treaty borrows the concept of reason- the disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, they deserve. able accommodation. U.S. ratification coupled with increased access to min- There are other vital treaties that of the disability treaty would deliver eral resources in the Arctic seabed, is are pending before the Senate that are material and palpable benefits to the 58 influencing the territorial claims our critical to American security and law million Americans who have one or Arctic neighbors—Canada, Russia, Den- enforcement interests. I hope the Sen- more disabilities, including 5.5 million mark, Greenland, Iceland, and Nor- ate will move forward in an expeditious American veterans. Ratification would way—are making, and all of these fashion to ratify these treaties. In par- impose no additional obligations on the countries are making legal claims ticular, I want to highlight five pend- United States but would give the under the Law of the Sea Treaty. The ing law enforcement treaties—two ex- United States a leadership position on United States is the only Arctic nation tradition treaties with the Dominican the Committee on the Rights of Per- not staking any expanded claims in the Republic and Chile and three mutual sons with Disabilities, from which we Arctic, nor are we challenging the ac- legal assistance treaties with Jordan, could effectively promote human tions of our neighbors who may be en- Algeria, and Kazakhstan. The extra- rights and equal rights for those with croaching on waters to which we could

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Mr. President, I ask with a mission to help persons with purely out of an unfounded and ideo- unanimous consent that the order for disabilities, not companies getting rich logically partisan opposition to the the quorum call be rescinded. from subminimum wage labor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without United States being a party to the Law I recognize that some in the dis- objection, it is so ordered. of the Sea Treaty. ability rights community oppose 14(c). The situation in the Arctic is just MARVA I met with some good people who de- one reason to reconsider ratification of Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, a few vote their lives to serving the disabled the Law of the Sea Treaty. Our failure weeks ago, I had the privilege of vis- and have this point of view. There are to be a party of the treaty framework iting the Mid-Arkansas River Valley bills in both the House and the Senate means we lack the ability to fully work Abilities Workshop, better known as to eliminate 14(c), and, in turn, likely with our allies and partners in the MARVA, in Russellville, AR, just over shut down organizations like MARVA. South China Sea region to address the the bridge from my hometown of I am sympathetic to their concerns, es- ongoing maritime security issues. A Dardanelle. pecially in rare isolated cases of abuse. broad set of stakeholders—ranging For more than 40 years, MARVA has And if there is a choice between a from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to provided individuals with develop- workshop job and a suitable market job the environmental organizations and mental disabilities meaningful work in in, say, a retail store, for many dis- our Nation’s military to industry-spe- a supportive environment and given abled persons the market job would be cific trade groups representing com- them access to a variety of social serv- a better option. But as the client-work- mercial fishing, freight shipping, and ices. Those employed at MARVA ers and their families told me, at mineral extractions—all support U.S. produce and sell, for example, top-qual- MARVA they don’t have this choice. ity recyclables, planners, and cal- accession to the treaty. They can’t choose between a sheltered endars. I remember the hearing in the Senate workshop job and a market job. It is My visit to MARVA deeply moved Foreign Relations Committee where we this employment or nothing. And who had our generals testifying before us me. I saw firsthand how important this organization is to so many Arkansans, can argue that the client-workers of that it is in our U.S. national security MARVA would be better off not having interests to be a member of the Law of and I met and heard from some truly amazing people, like Ron, who has been this opportunity? Would that be the Sea and to ratify that treaty. progress? Or would that be an uninten- In particular, our naval leaders have at MARVA for 17 years. Ron said he tional but tragic return to the failed made it clear that the United States’ had dropped out of 3 different colleges and was fired from 10 jobs before he and limiting policies of the past? participation in the Law of the Sea will I encourage all of my colleagues to was diagnosed with a mental illness. help them maintain navigational visit a workshop like MARVA and talk rights more effectively and with less Ron was actually told by one former employer: ‘‘You are dumb and have no to the full-time staff and the client- risk to the men and women they com- workers, talk to the family members of mand. future.’’ Ron moved back to Arkansas the client-workers, and see for yourself I can only hope that the Senate will and found his place at MARVA, where how important these organizations are soon ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty, he is currently thriving. In Ron’s which will secure U.S. interests and re- words: in the lives of people with disabilities who have found a place that offers affirm the principles of freedom of op- MARVA has helped me to feel that I can be erations and freedom of navigation in independent and encouraged me to feel a them meaningful work in their com- international waters and airspace, in sense of worth. I feel that my life has come munity. MARVA and similar organiza- accordance with established principles from the gutter to glory. I can’t imagine any tions are a true blessing to their client- and practices of international law. other life. I don’t want to get fired again. workers, their families, customers, and I must note that for many of the I also met Mike, an Arkansan who all Arkansans. I am committed to pro- treaties whose benefits I have just de- has been employed at MARVA for 38 tecting MARVA and organizations like scribed, there is a disturbing pattern to years—38 years. Mike was diagnosed it from any effort to close them down. the continued obstruction and delaying with cerebral palsy at the age of 2. He And if you want the simplest reason their consideration. Regardless of how was lucky enough to have parents who why, I will close by reading a Facebook many hearings are held by the Senate took him to the best schools and the post from Mike’s brother: Foreign Relations Committee to exam- best physical therapy, but there are Whether it’s shredding by hand outdated ine the treaties, regardless of how still real limitations from his dis- phone books or making ballpoint pens for many benefits would accrue to the ability. For Mike, MARVA has been a area businesses, these people WANT to work saving grace. His mom said it is a safe and are fiercely dedicated to doing their jobs United States, and no matter how with pride, and they want to work in the en- many stakeholders weigh in in favor of environment for him to grow as a per- vironments where they feel sheltered, safe, ratification, even the most inoffensive son, providing purpose for his life and a and where their needs are met. God bless treaties can languish for years without network of friends with whom to so- MARVA and may all healthy sheltered work- advancing and sometimes be scuttled cialize—and earn a little money while shops survive and keep giving life and a by one lone objector whose reasoning doing it. sense of purpose to people like Mike. has nothing to do with the facts about MARVA offers Ron, Mike, and 28 Mr. President, I yield the floor. the treaty in question but has every- other Arkansans a chance to be part of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- thing to do with partisan politics and a team, a chance to do meaningful ator from North Dakota. ideology. Continued delay on treaty work, make friends, and have loving, Ms. HEITKAMP. Mr. President, I ratification only hinders the interests understanding coaches and mentors come to the floor to urge all my col- of the United States and its citizens. who recognize their limitations. It of- leagues to stop denying science and to I welcome the recent movement of fers them integration and a chance to start understanding that GMO ingredi- the Hague Security Convention and the live a full and meaningful life. ents are just as healthy for American plant genetics treaty and the five law I talk about MARVA today not just consumers as any other ingredient. enforcement treaties by the Senate because it is an incredible place with We all recognize that there are a fair Foreign Relations Committee reported incredible people but because there is a number of consumers—some of whom out last week. But I believe it is time movement afoot in Congress that could we heard from loudly yesterday—who for the Senate to do more—much harm or even eliminate places like have concerns. So as we address this more—to ratify additional treaties MARVA. issue and as we see the growing inter- that deliver tangible, material benefits Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor est in knowing more about ingredients to the United States and its citizens. Standards Act helps create employ- in our food, the more we realize that

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It increases and sta- said: ‘‘I don’t know the answer to that; debated this issue from the standpoint bilizes yields and fights against crop Google it.’’ It has become almost a of a public health issue and not a con- pests and disease. knee-jerk reaction for us to get that sumer issue. I think it is critically im- Agricultural biotechnology is also instant information. This is an oppor- portant that we set the record straight great for consumers, not just in stabi- tunity not only with this label and on genetically modified ingredients lizing or reducing prices. It can lit- with this packaging to know about ge- and that we make sure everyone in our erally save lives, like the golden rice netically modified ingredients. There is country understands the science of can. Just last week, as we prided our- a possibility if you want to know about what we have been doing over almost selves on this side by saying we need to antibiotics in your food, if you want to centuries of work in growing more re- make decisions based on science, over know about whether it is gluten-free or silient and better yielding crops. We 100 Nobel laureates wrote to dispute whether it contains some kind of pea- wouldn’t be able to do that in America claims involving golden rice and to nut oil. All of that information would today or across the world without ge- talk about how important those inno- readily be provided to consumers. netics, without actually looking at ap- vations were to saving populations If consumers don’t have the ability plying science to the work we do in ag- from blindness and from disease. to scan when they are in the grocery riculture. If we really are concerned about store, most places, especially major As I have said on this floor many science, let’s start talking about grocery store chains, will provide that times, North Dakota prides itself in science, and let’s start realizing that in access. We are expanding, in a way that being the top producer of a wide vari- no place has there ever been a study really is unheard of, access to con- ety of crops, and our diversity is some- that said these ingredients, GMO in- sumer information. That is why I think thing I am particularly proud of. This puts, are bad for consumers or in any all of the arguments we have been includes conventionally bred, organic, way injure our livelihood or our health. hearing that we somehow are hiding and genetically modified, or GMO, The bottom line is this technology is something or that we are trying to crops. We grow GMO sugar beets, corn, safe, and we have nothing to hide. If keep this in the dark—what we are try- soybeans, and canola. I will say that anyone has heard me talk about GMOs, ing to say is this: If we are going to again, and I will say it proudly. We I frequently say, when people come in have a label, it should be a national grow GMO sugar beets, corn, soybeans, to argue with me: I give them to my label and that label should provide the and canola, but we also grow non-GMO grandchildren. There is no higher en- information to all the people of our products, including many organics. dorsement for any woman than being country or access to that information I think that is what makes American willing to gladly feed her grand- for all the people of our country. agriculture so resistant and resilient, children GMO foods, and I realize I I don’t want to leave this debate and it makes American agriculture wish every grandchild throughout the without reiterating once again that great. GMOs increase and stabilize pro- world had access to the quality prod- what this bill does is for the first time ductivity, and high yields can make a ucts we grow. to give national access to every con- big difference in the prices we have I also have said time and again that sumer in this country and a way to find today. Non-GMO options provide paid the more we fight efforts to provide out what the ingredients are in their premiums to farmers, and there are a this transparency, the more we look food, particularly whether their food group of consumers willing to pay it. like we have something to hide. That is has been processed or manufactured That is the diversity we see in agri- why I proudly support the Roberts-Sta- with genetically modified ingredients. culture today. benow compromise bill. I don’t think As to people who suggest that we are We should be encouraging this inno- GMO labeling is something I am par- not looking at a bill that provides vation and doing what we can to en- ticularly interested in. It is not some- transparency, that label is going to be courage new products, not just for our thing I am going to look for in my mandatory. It is going to provide es- farmers’ benefit but for the benefit of label, but if you want to know, then sential information, and it resolves agricultural biotechnology all across you should have a right to know. that issue of transparency. As the time the world and the benefits that bio- If consumers want to know the ingre- bottom line, what we need to do in this technology provide. dients in their food, let’s tell them. country is we need to do a better job of After all, when you look at the story Let’s tell the real story of the com- educating consumers about what ge- of American agriculture, it is one of in- promise bill and what that means for netically modified ingredients are, why novation. Some of our greatest accom- consumer information literally across they are safe, why every agency and 100 plishments as Americans have come the country. Today in America, there Nobel laureates have told us we have from our agricultural research and our is just one piece of legislation, one nothing to fear from genetically modi- innovation. Whether it is our land State that requires GMO labeling on fied ingredients. We need to learn the grant universities, extension services, their packaging, and that is the State lesson of Norman Borlaug—the lesson co-op organizations, or Federal re- of Vermont. The other States that that through technology, through ap- search investments, agricultural inno- have enacted this will only implement plication of good science, we can feed a vation has helped to increase produc- their bill if four more States adopt the very hungry world. We ought not to tion, preserve resources, and literally same kind of provision. hide from that. We ought to be proud of save lives. What it means is for all of these that. I want to remind everyone about a other consumers who want to know I know this debate is not yet over. I person who is a great American hero. what is in their ingredients, they are know we will continue to have a de- This person is Nobel Peace Prize lau- going to have to wait generations or bate, certainly, among consumer reate Norman Borlaug. Borlaug is they may never have access to that groups, and I am more than willing to thought of as the forefather of modern kind of information. engage in that debate and defend what agricultural biotechnology. Because of The GMO label, what consumers can our farmers do, which is to provide op- Borlaug’s dedication to innovation and know about their food and whether tions to all consumers. Whether it is making sure we can feed a growing their food actually contains geneti- genetically modified organisms, wheth- world, he is known as ‘‘The Man Who cally modified ingredients, will be na- er it is organic or non-GMO, we are Saved a Billion Lives.’’ tionwide. Instead of that very small ready to provide that kind of input, but His wheat breeding work created a group of consumers in Vermont know- we have to educate on the science why wheat that didn’t bend and break as it ing, the entire country will have access these products are completely safe. I grew, enabling increased production to that information. think that is where we have failed.

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The FCC’s own tion instead of the one small State of agencies to be places where expertise rules prohibit its employees from dis- Vermont. in complex areas of the Nation’s econ- closing nonpublic information to any- I yield the floor. omy informs policymaking within lim- one outside the Commission unless ex- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. its set by Congress. One such congres- pressly authorized by the Commission FISCHER). The Senator from Arkansas. sional creation is the Federal Commu- or its rules. Nonpublic information in- TRIBUTE TO PATRICK COMBS nications Commission. cludes details of upcoming Congress conferred independence on Mr. COTTON. Madam President, I rulemakings or other actions the Com- the FCC so it would be free from the would like to recognize Patrick Combs, missioners are still negotiating. These normal control exercised by the Presi- of Hot Springs, AK, as this week’s Ar- rules are intended to foster the Com- dent over the executive branch. In re- kansan of the Week, for teaching Ar- mission’s ability to have honest and cent years, the FCC has behaved less kansas students to share his love of fulsome negotiations among the Com- like an independent commission ac- music and pushing them to succeed in missioners and staff and to prevent any countable to Congress and more as a de everything they do. special interests from gaining a par- facto arm of the executive branch, Patrick just completed his fourth ticular advantage over other stake- wholly subservient to the President. At year as band director for the entire holders. the same time, the FCC has become Earlier this year, however, Commis- Fountain Lake School District. As the more partisan than ever before and an sioner Michael O’Rielly wrote a blog program’s sole instructor, Patrick institution that has seized greater reg- post expressing his concerns that teaches instrumental music for all ulatory power while simultaneously Chairman Wheeler was instead using middle school and high school students shutting down bipartisan dialogue and these rules to muzzle other Commis- and directs both the marching and compromise. sioners. Though Commissioner O’Rielly symphonic bands. To put that in per- The recent rulemaking proceedings respected the Commission’s rules spective, the Fountain Lake Middle regarding title II common carrier au- against disclosing details without au- School and High School have a com- thority, the massively expanded E-rate thorization to the press or other stake- bined student body of over 800 stu- and Lifeline programs, backward-look- holders, he pointed out that Chairman dents. ing set-top box rules, and the agency’s Wheeler was freely disclosing non- Patrick is remarkable not just for power grab over privacy regulations public information whenever he want- teaching so many students, although I have all been characterized by a lack of ed. Commissioner O’Rielly was con- know that is a feat in and of itself. bipartisan compromise or respect for cerned that this allowed Chairman Under his direction, the Fountain Lake the limits of the authority delegated Wheeler to frame and influence the music program has truly soared. Over by Congress. Much of the responsibility public’s understanding of upcoming the last 4 years the number of Foun- for this downward trajectory rests with issues to his advantage by selectively tain Lake students who earned a place the current FCC chairman, Tom Wheel- disclosing information that no other in all-region bands more than doubled, er. Commissioner is allowed to discuss and the number of students who won For example, during Chairman publicly. Indeed, the Chairman’s staff competitive tryouts in the Four States Wheeler’s confirmation process, I would later tell my staff that Commis- Honor Band and the Arkansas All-Star asked him if he would commit to com- sioner O’Rielly would not be permitted Band both more than tripled. ing to Congress for more direction be- to correct a factual error stated by As a group, the Fountain Lake band fore attempting another iteration of Chairman Wheeler if doing so meant earned a first division ranking in con- net neutrality rules. Mr. Wheeler un- discussing nonpublic information. cert assessment for all 4 years of Pat- equivocally said that he would do so. As chairman of the Commerce Com- rick’s tenure. In 3 of his 4 years, the However, not only did Mr. Wheeler not mittee, I sent a letter this past March band also had the honor of being an Ar- come to Congress for more direction, at asking Chairman Wheeler to explain kansas Sweepstakes band. Most re- the behest of President Obama, he whether he discloses nonpublic infor- cently, the Fountain Lake band was jammed through the most radical im- mation to outside groups and how the one of only two Arkansas bands se- plementation of net neutrality rules Commission authorizes the disclosures. lected to participate in this year’s Na- ever—a power grab of stunning propor- Madam President, I refer my col- tional Independence Day Festival on tions—and he did so on a purely par- leagues to the letters with the ex- the Fourth of July here in Washington. tisan vote. change between myself and Chairman I was able to see the Fountain Lake The number of 3-to-2 party-line votes Wheeler that can be found at http:// band while they were in town and con- on Commission meeting items during bit.ly/29r76uO. gratulate them on this big achieve- Mr. Wheeler’s tenure are a clear indica- Chairman Wheeler maintained that ment. While I, unfortunately, wasn’t tion of an FCC Chairman who embraces as chairman he can unilaterally au- able to see the parade in person, all re- partisanship over compromise. In just thorize disclosures of nonpublic infor- ports indicated their performance was the first year of his chairmanship, Mr. mation whenever he wants without any spectacular. I know I speak for all Ar- Wheeler forced through more items on need for approval by the Commission, kansans when I say they truly made party-line votes than the previous four despite the clear prohibition against the Natural State proud. I am con- chairs combined. Chairman Wheeler doing so in the Commission’s own fident their success was due in no small speaks often of his belief in the impor- rules. part to Patrick’s leadership, as well as tance of competition and market The events surrounding the FCC’s the hard work of Fountain Lake stu- forces. Hearing that, one might think March 31 open meeting are a striking dents. he might exercise his agency’s powers example of how the selective leaking of I am honored to recognize Patrick with a light touch in order to promote nonpublic information can be used to Combs as this week’s Arkansan of the the incredible innovation in which our distort an ongoing debate and turn an Week and commend him for his dedica- communication sector is capable. In- emerging bipartisan consensus into a tion to music education and the Foun- stead, Chairman Wheeler seems more partisan power grab. The open meeting tain Lake School District. Arkansas is focused on waging partisan battles and agenda included an order expanding lucky that a passionate educator like accumulating more power while at the Lifeline, which is a program that has Patrick calls our State home. same time avoiding accountability to spent billions of ratepayer dollars in an I yield the floor. Congress and the American people. effort to improve access to communica- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- I have come to the floor to talk tions technology for low-income Amer- ator from South Dakota. about the most recent example of icans. While the goal of this program is

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This followed up with Mr. Wheeler’s staff placed on the agency’s authority. compromise would have included a several times on this matter, and they The regulatory power grabs over title spending cap to prevent the program emphatically stated that Chairman II’s common carrier authority and the from wasting ratepayer dollars. How- Wheeler refuses to answer this ques- FCC’s recent privacy rule are further ever, it turns out Chairman Wheeler tion. evidence that Chairman Wheeler shares was not on board with this com- Everyone who cares about govern- the Obama administration’s propensity promise. ment accountability should pause to for legal overreach and the intentional On the morning of March 31, Chair- think about this. Even though Chair- circumvention of Congress. In this en- man Wheeler delayed the open meeting man Wheeler claims he has the legal vironment, congressional oversight is by several hours, a highly unusual authority to leak whatever nonpublic more important than ever as a critical move. During the delay, Politico pub- information he wants whenever he check on bureaucratic power. Regard- lished a story about the emerging bi- wants, he nevertheless has refused to less of who sits at the helm of a com- partisan compromise, citing ‘‘sources answer this simple question about mission, such oversight must be pur- familiar with the negotiations.’’ Dis- whether he indeed authorized the leak sued, and I am committed to make sure closure of any information about ongo- on the morning of March 31. Since Mr. it does. ing negotiations right before an open Wheeler could have just said no, if he FORMER SECRETARY CLINTON’S USE OF AN meeting is a direct violation of the did not actually authorize the leak of UNSECURED EMAIL SERVER FCC’s sunshine rules, which protect nonpublic information, that leaves Madam President, this week FBI Di- rector James Comey announced the re- Commissioners’ deliberations. only two possible conclusions; one, sults of Hillary Clinton’s email use What happened next is exactly what that Chairman Wheeler did authorize during her time as Secretary of State. you might expect. The Politico story the leak but is not confident in his What we discovered was this: As Sec- spurred outside political pressure roundabout interpretation of the rules retary of State, Hillary Clinton repeat- against the emerging bipartisan com- and fears admitting to violating them edly mishandled classified intelligence. promise, which subsequently fell apart. or, two, Chairman Wheeler simply does Here is what Director Comey had to Ultimately, the Lifeline order moved not respect the legitimate role of con- say: forward on a 3-to-2 party-line vote, gressional oversight and believes he is Although we do not find clear evidence without a cap or other bipartisan re- unaccountable to the American people. that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues informs, right in line with Chairman I would also note that while Chair- tended to violate laws governing the han- Wheeler’s preference. Yet another 3-to- man Wheeler refused to answer wheth- dling of classified information, there is evi- 2 party-line vote—forced by the Chair- er he authorized the disclosure, he dence that they were extremely careless in man—thwarting a commonsense and sought to obfuscate and cast blame by their handling of very sensitive, highly clas- bipartisan compromise. Just last week, stating it was the Republican Commis- sified information. 12 States, including my home State of sioner Ajit Pai who leaked the public That is a quote from FBI Director South Dakota, sued the FCC in the information in advance of the open Comey. Let me repeat that quote. The Federal appellate court here in Wash- meeting. This shell game is unworthy FBI concluded that President Obama’s ington, DC, challenging the regulatory of a chairman of an independent com- Secretary of State—our Nation’s chief overreach of the FCC’s Lifeline order mission. diplomat and the person who is fourth that came out at that very March 31 Indeed, Mr. Wheeler’s attempt to cast in line to the Presidency—displayed open meeting. blame on another Commissioner only gross carelessness when handling infor- In April, I sent another letter asking adds emphasis to the overall point I am mation related to our national secu- Chairman Wheeler to explain the making; that is, that Chairman Wheel- rity. If Hillary Clinton can’t be trusted source of his claim of authority to dis- er seeks to use the rule prohibiting the to safeguard national security informa- close whatever nonpublic information disclosure of nonpublic information as tion as Secretary of State, she cannot he wants whenever he wants, which both a shield and a sword. On the one be trusted to protect national security was the assertion he made. I also asked hand, he claims the rule prohibiting information as the Democratic nomi- a direct question: Did you, Chairman the disclosure of nonpublic information nee for President, and she certainly can’t be trusted as our Commander in Wheeler, authorize the disclosure of does not apply to him, but on the other Chief. nonpublic information to Politico on hand he seeks to shut down criticism There are some who would like to the morning of March 31 in advance of and debate from another Commissioner take the FBI Director’s speech as vin- the open meeting? Chairman Wheeler by stating the Commissioner may have dication for Secretary Clinton, since responded that his position as chief ex- violated the rule prohibiting disclosure the FBI Director ultimately did not ecutive of the Commission empowers of nonpublic information. The FCC’s recommend prosecution, but the FBI him to do anything that streamlines nonpublic information rules were in- Director’s statement is no vindication. the FCC’s work. According to his inter- tended to facilitate and protect inter- It is an indictment. The Secretary be- pretation, if the Chairman decides on nal communication deliberations. trayed the trust the American people his own that releasing nonpublic infor- Chairman Wheeler is instead using had placed in her. She repeatedly lied mation will make the FCC operate them to stifle or manipulate the other to the American people about the pur- more efficiently, he can do it, even Commissioners. pose of the server, what was on the though the FCC’s rules explicitly pro- Fortunately, the FCC Office of the server, and the threat it posed to our hibit the disclosure of nonpublic infor- Inspector General is now investigating national security. Secretary Clinton mation. what happened on March 31. The IG is repeatedly claimed there was no classi- I appreciate the role the Chairman looking into who disclosed the non- fied information on her server, but the plays in the day-to-day management of public information about ongoing nego- FBI investigation found otherwise. the Commission, but this appears to be tiations among the Commissioners, in- According to Director Comey, Sec- a specious attempt to exempt the cluding any role Chairman Wheeler had retary Clinton sent or received at least Chairman from a very clear rule. In- in the leak to Politico. I look forward 110 emails in 52 separate email chains deed, there is no record the Commis- to the IG’s findings and expect we will containing classified information—52 sion ever intended for its Chairman to learn the answers to the questions I separate classified conversations. And be exempt when the agency adopted have posed to Chairman Wheeler, par- of those 52 classified email conversa- the rule 20 years ago, and the rule very ticularly the one question he has re- tions, 8 contained top secret informa- clearly gives the Commission, not its fused to answer so far. Taken alone, tion, the highest level of classification,

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So what happened be- fied email system—‘‘There is evidence to a higher standard, not a lower one. tween then and now? to support a conclusion that any rea- Do we really want to set the precedent If the President says, as he did, ‘‘I’m sonable person in Secretary Clinton’s that wielding political power places an not the emperor,’’ why is it that it position, or in the position of those individual above the law? Boy, I sure seems that almost every action he government employees with whom she don’t think we want to go there, but takes seems to show that he wants to was corresponding about these mat- that is exactly what is happening as a act as if he is the emperor? Time after ters, should have known that an un- result of this decision. time, he has shown that he considers classified system was no place’’ for top- I look forward to hearing what Direc- himself above the law. We know he secret communications. tor Comey has to say in his testimony doesn’t like to deal with Congress—not As a reasonable person, the Secretary today before the House Oversight and with Republicans or with Democrats; unquestionably knew that the proper Government Reform Committee. I hope he likes to ignore Congress—and he place for classified information was on we will hear him discuss the reasoning doesn’t like having to deal with the a classified server, but she decided to behind the decision not to recommend courts, so he tries to pack them full of use her personal server anyway. prosecution when the Secretary so people who will rule the way he tells Secretary Clinton has tried to argue clearly displayed, in the Director’s own them to rule. We saw that when HARRY that using a private server in violation words, extreme carelessness in han- REID changed the rules of the Senate. of State Department rules did not jeop- dling classified information. It seems the President doesn’t like to ardize our national security. Even I also hope the FBI will release the listen to the voters, either, so he goes President Obama, in what was a highly transcript of Secretary Clinton’s FBI ahead and does what he wants to do no suspect public comment on an ongoing interview and other documents re- matter what the American people say FBI investigation, said her private quested by Senator GRASSLEY, the they want. server wasn’t a national security chairman of the Senate Judiciary Com- This case last month is not the first threat. But according to the FBI Direc- mittee. A Secretary of State mis- time a Federal court has said that tor, that certainly wasn’t the case. Di- handling classified information is a President Obama acted above the law rector Comey explicitly stated that it grave matter. The American people de- or even against the law. Last June, the was entirely possible that ‘‘hostile ac- serve to know all the facts, and they Supreme Court struck down a regulators gained access to Secretary Clin- deserve the truth. tion that was a big part of the Obama ton’s personal e-mail account.’’ And he I yield the floor. administration’s War on Coal. The Su- wasn’t just referring to ordinary hack- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- preme Court said that the Washington ers. The Director noted that Secretary ator from Wyoming. bureaucrats who wrote this rule never Clinton ‘‘used her personal e-mail ex- EXECUTIVE OVERREACH even considered the overwhelming tensively while outside the United Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, costs—this is the Supreme Court say- States, including sending and receiving Senator THUNE was just on the floor ing this—never even considered the work-related e-mails in the territory of talking about Executive overreach. overwhelming costs that they were im- sophisticated adversaries’’ and that Well, let me tell my colleagues that 2 posing on hard-working American fam- that fact was one that led the FBI to weeks ago, the Supreme Court of the ilies. The President never even consid- the conclusion that her email account United States issued a stinging rebuke ered that. The Court said: ‘‘One would might have been compromised. In other and a stinging defeat to the Obama ad- not say that it is even rational’’—the words, it is entirely possible that our ministration and to its immigration President’s actions weren’t even ra- Nation’s enemies gained access to Sec- amnesty plan. There have been a string tional—‘‘never mind appropriate, to retary Clinton’s emails thanks to her of stinging defeats for the President’s impose billions of dollars in economic decision to use her personal account. approach of what I believe is an Execu- costs in return for a few dollars in Despite Secretary Clinton’s claim tive overreach. The courts agree with health and environmental benefits.’’ that the servers were protected, Direc- me. For years, President Obama has The Supreme Court told President tor Comey went to great lengths to de- been acting as though he believes he Obama that he is the President of the scribe how the servers had substan- has unlimited power to do whatever he United States, not the emperor of the tially less protection than government wants to do, regardless of what the law United States. servers and even had less protection of the land says. Now the courts have Then look what happened last Octo- than common commercial servers like finally said: Enough is enough. ber. Another court, a U.S. appeals Gmail. In this case, President Obama de- court, blocked the Obama administra- Yesterday, Senator GARDNER intro- cided that for political purposes, he tion’s new regulation that vastly ex- duced legislation, which I cosponsored, was going to stop enforcing some of the panded the definition of ‘‘waters of the that would remove the security clear- country’s immigration laws. Twenty- United States.’’ The Environmental ance of Secretary Clinton and any of six States said that was outrageous and Protection Agency wanted to give her staff members involved in the mis- they filed a lawsuit. itself control over all the waters—all of handling of classified information and It is the President’s job to enforce them, including huge chunks of private block Secretary Clinton from accessing the laws of the United States, and the property in this country, including classified information in her capacity law is very clear. The law is clear when farms and ranches—and do it by taking as a Presidential candidate. I have to it comes to immigration, and the control of isolated ponds, prairie pot- say, unfortunately, that I think that is President deciding to change it basi- holes, and irrigation ditches—all of the right call. cally says he is willing to ignore the these little areas the government can Secretary Clinton has demonstrated law, because he didn’t come to Con- take control of, and they control the that she has no respect for the security gress to get it changed, he decided to land. What did the appeals court do? of classified information, and she, like do it with regulation alone. The courts The appeals court stepped in and anybody else, should face the con- have said it is not the President’s call, stopped the administration’s actions sequences. As the FBI Director noted, and they have now blocked the Presi- because of what it called ‘‘the sheer most people who had done what the dent’s amnesty plan. breadth of the ripple effects caused by Secretary did would face consequences During an event in 2013, the Presi- the rule.’’ This appeals court told for their actions. Other individuals dent actually seemed to understand President Obama that he is the Presi- found by the FBI to have engaged in that he was just one part of America’s dent of the United States, he is not the such reckless handling of classified in- Government. He said: ‘‘The problem is emperor.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:44 Jul 07, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G07JY6.026 S07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with SENATE S4858 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 7, 2016 That is the same thing the Supreme had to do with regulations on hydrau- the Fourth of July weekend in one that Court told President Obama back in lic fracturing on land controlled by city in Ohio. This is happening all over February. The Supreme Court stopped Washington and by Indian tribes. The our country, and it is an issue we have another EPA rule over carbon dioxide judge in this case said the administra- to address. emissions from existing powerplants— tion had no authority whatsoever to The Federal Government has an im- powerplants that have been there and issue the regulation in the first place. portant role to play. There is much are functioning. Just like the so-called This was a judge appointed by Presi- more we can do. This body recognizes waters of the United States rule, the dent Obama. The judge wrote that that. Back on March 10, the Senate Court said that the administration ‘‘Congress has not directed the [admin- passed something called the Com- could not just go ahead and do what- istration] to enact regulations gov- prehensive Addiction and Recovery ever it wanted to do. The rule could do erning hydraulic fracturing.’’ The Act—CARA. CARA was on this floor for so much damage that the Court said judge went on to say: ‘‘Indeed, Con- 21⁄2 weeks, and there was some back they had to stop the President in his gress has expressly removed federal and forth about the legislation, but by tracks. agency authority to regulate the activ- the end of the process—I think partly The Supreme Court said that it was ity, making its intent clear.’’ The because Members were going home and skeptical anytime a Washington agen- judge said Congress made it clear. The hearing from their constituents about cy claims to suddenly find broad pow- President wanted to ignore it. The it—94 Senators in this body voted yes ers. And that is what has been hap- court told President Obama definitely on it. One voted no, and it passed 94 to pening now—the Washington agency is and definitively that he is the Presi- 1. Those kinds of votes almost never going back to old laws and finding new dent of the United States, not the em- happen around here. It happened be- broad powers that have been in law and peror of the United States. cause people realize this is a crisis that that have been on the books and func- There have been six different court we do need to address, and the bill that tioning for a long time. The Supreme decisions in the past year, and all of we came up with actually made sense Court said they are very skeptical of them have been against the President. because it was based on the best prac- an administration that does that. Even the Justices that he handpicked tices from around the country. The Court said: ‘‘We expect Congress for the Supreme Court are refusing to So I have come to the floor every sin- to speak clearly if it wishes to assign play along with all of his power grab gle week we have been in session since to an agency decisions of vast eco- and his illegal overreach. March 10 to talk about this issue, to nomic and political significance.’’ Well, The American people are no longer urge my House colleagues to act, which Congress never did that with carbon di- buying the President’s excuses and his they did, and over the past several oxide. The Obama administration just promises. Back in January the White weeks to urge that the House and Sen- made it up, and the Supreme Court House Chief of Staff promised that the ate versions be brought together. That told the President that he is the Presi- Obama administration—and I was as- happened yesterday. dent of the United States, not the em- tonished when I saw this on television, Finally, from March 10 until now, peror. saw a video of it, saw it again, listened going back and forth, we have what is In May, the Supreme Court issued to it again. The White House Chief of called a conference committee report, another decision to stop the Obama ad- Staff promised that the Obama admin- meaning the House and Senate versions ministration from taking away peo- istration is going to in this final year— have been reconciled. There were com- ple’s rights—the rights to use their this eighth year of his administra- promises made and changes made, and own land. This had to do with the U.S. tion—have a year of audacious Execu- we have one bill to go back to both the Army Corps of Engineers taking con- tive action. There is going to be auda- House and Senate for a vote and to the trol of private land. The Obama admin- cious Executive action in the Presi- President for his signature and, most istration went so far overboard that dent’s last year in office. importantly, to get to our commu- they said people shouldn’t even be al- It is time for the President and his nities to begin to provide more help on lowed to challenge the Obama adminis- staff to rethink their plan. They should prevention and education, recovery, tration’s decisions in court. I mean, recognize that they do not have the treatment, helping law enforcement, can my colleagues imagine that? The legal support or the popular support for and stopping overprescribing of drugs. Obama administration went so far all of the regulations and all of their il- It is a comprehensive approach to have overboard that they said people legal action. the Federal Government be a better shouldn’t be allowed to challenge the The President is not an emperor, al- partner with State and local govern- Obama administration’s decisions in though he may think that he is. It is ments and nonprofits to be able to ad- court. This President doesn’t want time for him to recognize this fact. It dress this issue that unfortunately mil- Congress to have any say in what he is time for the President of the United lions of families in America are now does, and now he doesn’t even want the States to do the job he was elected to facing. courts to have a say in what he does. do and to follow and to obey the law of I want to thank the Members of the American families shouldn’t have to the land. conference committee. On the Senate fight Washington just to use their own Thank you, Madam President. side that would be Senators GRASSLEY, property. They certainly shouldn’t I yield the floor. ALEXANDER, HATCH, SESSIONS, LEAHY, have to fight with one hand tied behind I suggest the absence of a quorum. MURRAY, and WYDEN. I also want to their backs. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The thank all the House conferees. They Amazingly, this was a unanimous de- clerk will call the roll. did some good work. Each one of these cision against the President by the Su- The senior assistant legislative clerk Members I just mentioned has a real preme Court. Even the most liberal proceeded to call the roll. passion for this issue. They care about Justices voted against the President on Mr. PORTMAN. Madam President, I this issue. this issue, to show how much Execu- ask unanimous consent that the order I want to thank my coauthor, Sen- tive overreach we are dealing with. The for the quorum call be rescinded. ator SHELDON WHITEHOUSE of Rhode Is- Supreme Court told the President once The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without land, because he did a pretty good job again that he is the President of the objection, it is so ordered. of talking to the conferees on his side United States, not the emperor of the COMPREHENSIVE ADDICTION AND RECOVERY BILL of the aisle, as some of us did, includ- United States. Mr. PORTMAN. Madam President, I ing me, talking to conferees on our side It has been one case after another rise again to talk about the heroin and of the aisle. Senator WHITEHOUSE and I saying the exact same thing. prescription drug epidemic that has started this process 3 years ago. We I wish to give one final example of gripped our country and has affected had five conferences here in Wash- this string of stinging defeats for Presi- every single State represented in this ington, DC. We brought in experts from dent Obama. Last month, the U.S. dis- body. Sadly, it is a problem that is get- all around the country. So we had a trict court in Wyoming shut down ting worse, not better. I say that hav- real interest in getting this done, and I President Obama’s latest attempt to ing been in Dayton, OH, where sadly we commend him and congratulate him stop American energy production. It had 15 people overdose in the space of for this result as well.

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I forcement folks, and health care priate because I believe this is an heard it over the weekend, when some- folks—are also very happy that this emergency, and I voted for that emer- one came up to me at a parade and conference report has come together. gency spending, but many of my col- said: I am one of those people who Senator WHITEHOUSE and I are very leagues did not. It did not pass. cares about this issue. Thank you for happy that the conference report kept On the mandatory spending side, fighting on it. We have had this issue to the substance of the Senate bill and again, it is interesting because that in my family, and it broke our family frankly added some good elements that was never brought up before. I for one apart. came out of the House legislative proc- would be for more spending, but I cer- People say the drugs become every- ess. They had 18 separate bills, we had tainly wouldn’t want to block the new thing. one comprehensive bill, and we had to spending that we have in CARA, which We don’t have time for partisan bring them all together. is a substantial increase in spending, games. This is urgent. I think it is There are now more than 230 groups because I am concerned about having more urgent than any issue we are from all around the country. A lot of more spending. dealing with. Nine out of ten of those them are national groups, and some are Every day we are losing about 129 who are struggling with addiction are State groups that have come out in Americans. This is why there is a not getting the treatment they need. I support of this conference report—in group out there called the CARA fam- think if this were the case of any other other words, supporting the final ily coalition that came to Washington disease, it would be viewed as a na- CARA product. Yesterday I met with recently. There were 129 families rep- tional scandal. It is wrong and it is un- about two dozen of these groups to talk resenting that one family who every acceptable. about the process and how we got to day loses somebody to heroin and pre- Addiction is a disease. One of the te- where we are, to talk about the need to scription drug addiction through nets of this whole legislation is to ac- act quickly to get this into law because overdoses. Those families are waiting. knowledge that. With all of the specific they are desperate. If you are a profes- Some of them are here this week be- improvements we have in terms of sional in the area of treatment and re- cause they are interested in seeing grants going out—for treatment, recov- covery, you want this help. You wanted what happens. ery, prevention education, helping po- it yesterday. We need it now. More Americans are now dying from lice with Narcan, and so on—in a sense, By the way, these are people we con- drug overdoses than car accidents. It is the biggest thing for this legislation is sulted with during these 3 years. They the No. 1 cause of accidental death. In to say: Let’s get this stigma out of the all came and participated in these five Akron, OH, 2 days ago, over a 10-hour way. Let’s deal with this as a disease conferences. We also consulted with span—this is one city, Akron, OH, 2 and get people into the treatment they many others, including the Obama ad- days ago—15 people overdosed on her- need to get back on their feet. ministration. They testified at these oin. Two more people overdosed later Again, a few months ago, I, along conferences. They also testified at the the same day. It included a woman and with others, worked with the Senate hearing we had at the Judiciary Com- her two daughters, all of whom were Appropriations Committee to be sure mittee. They were supportive of CARA found unconscious. It included a 44- we did have additional funding to fully in part because we took their input. We year-old man who died of an overdose. fund CARA, of course, and to get more took everybody’s good ideas, not Re- There have been 55 people just in funding into the pipeline for treat- publican ideas and Democrat ideas but Akron, OH, who have died from heroin ment, recovery, education, and preven- good ideas. We kept this not just bipar- overdoses this year. This means they tion. When people talk about the fund- tisan but nonpartisan. It would be nice will set a tragic record this year in ing issue, let me just be clear, we are if we keep it that way. terms of overdose deaths. The problem increasing funding. Of course, the I understand this is an election year is getting worse, not better. CARA bill itself increases funding in and that some people may want to On Tuesday in Dayton, OH, I met the authorization, but here is what the score a few political points. But having with law enforcement and treatment Appropriations Committees have done. gone through this process in a non- service providers. We announced a new The 2015 number was $41 million. partisan way, having gotten this great program called the Front Door Initia- This is for the Department of Health vote out of the Senate and a strong tive. Sheriff Phil Plummer was there. and Human Services, discretionary vote in the House, and now having this He told me that in one weekend in one spending for heroin and opioid abuse. It conference report that has the right town—again, in Dayton, OH—15 people went up to $136 million for this year, mix of good House and Senate sub- died of overdoses. No one is immune the year we are in now. That is a 237- stantive policies, I would hope to be from this. We have lost moms and dads, percent increase. Next year, for 2017— able to make a difference in the fight. college students, grandmothers, celeb- when and if we can get CARA passed I would hope that we would not hear rities, rich, poor, and people of every this week or next week, this is what any more talk threatening to block background to this epidemic. It knows would apply—we are seeing a 93-per- this conference report at the last no ZIP Code. It is in the inner city, it cent increase from the 237-percent in- minute. is in the suburbs, and it is in the rural crease. That is more funding. I wasn’t Some of the concerns people are areas. In the 117 days that have passed great at math in school, but that is bringing up in the last minute are con- since the Senate passed CARA on more funding. In fact, it is a 539-per- cerns that were never raised on the March 10, approximately 14,000 Ameri- cent increase from 2015. Senate floor. Some conferees did not cans have died of overdoses from pre- For those who say we are not taking sign the conference report because they scription drugs and from heroin—14,000 this seriously enough on the funding said they wanted the mandatory spend- Americans. It is time to act. side—of course, I would like to do ing that is in the President’s budget be Again, the good news is, we had a more, but we have to acknowledge that a part of the bill. That was never raised meeting yesterday of this conference a lot has been done. In terms of the on the Senate floor. It was never raised committee between the House and Sen- overall spending, not just the HHS even as an amendment in the appro- ate to finally pass this legislation, then spending, we have also seen increases. priations process. It just took place to the House and Senate for a final This would include Department of Jus- over the past several weeks. So this is vote, then getting it to the President, tice and other grantmaking. We have new. and most importantly out to our com- seen an increase from 41 to 136 to 262 in It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have munities. the Senate appropriations. I am sorry. more spending. In fact, as some of you By the way, the 14,000 is not the This is to add to the House version of know, we had a vote on the floor on whole story, as tragic as that is, be- the appropriations for 2017. For next more spending. It was about emergency cause of course there are millions of year, again in the Senate, we have a spending—not mandatory spending, other casualties—fellow Americans big increase that will start on October

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If working in treatment and in recovery. priations Committee. partisanship is going to slip into this The number of people who relapse is This week, this is what the House re- at the end of the process and keep peo- shockingly high. The success rate is ported passing. So as big as this in- ple from getting the help they need and not what any of us would like it to be. crease is in the Senate—again, a 93-per- save lives, that would be a tragedy. Part of that is because some treatment cent increase from this year’s in- These new spending programs will and recovery programs work better crease—it looks like, from what we help, but we also have to point out that than others. We want to be darn sure have seen from reports from the House CARA is not just about spending, it is the tax dollars we are putting against Appropriations Committees and in con- about authorizing better programs. this are being responsibly spent be- versations with them, they are talking There are lots of examples of that cause we are good stewards of the tax- about a 393-percent increase in 1 year. where we have done that in this body payers’ dollars and because this crisis Again, this is the House Appropriations in other areas. I am the author of the needs to be addressed. Committee—a 1,500-percent increase Drug-Free Communities Act. It author- Again, this legislation is not just over, again, 2015. ized spending to create anti-drug coali- about more money, although it does For those who say there is not new tions around the country. It has helped authorize more money and that is spending being dedicated to this, of spawn the creation of 2000 coalitions. I good. It is also about changing the way course there is. That is good. founded one in my hometown of Cin- we spend the money so it goes to evi- With regard to the total discre- cinnati over 20 years ago. Another 2000 dence-based prevention, treatment, and tionary spending, this is not just HHS have benefited from that. recovery programs that have been but all the different areas, including That legislation did not have an ap- proven to work. That is why we cannot the Department of Justice and so on, propriation—because it was an author- let a debate about funding jeopardize which has also seen an increase. This is ization, as CARA is—but it set up new the critical policy changes that CARA the Senate only. We don’t have the programs, as CARA does. That program would make and because CARA would House number yet, but for the Senate, to date, the Drug-Free Communities help ensure that these new resources we have gone from 220 to 320 to 470, a Act, has spent $1.35 billion focused on would be spent on what we know 113-percent increase over last year’s prevention and education on drugs. works. That is what this 3-year process spending. We are seeing more spending, We have more prevention and edu- was about. That is what the con- and that is good. cation programs that I think are even ferences were about. That is what all By the way, this spending is con- an improvement in the CARA legisla- the experts coming to Washington to nected to the CARA legislation. This tion, but that is an example of what an tell us what works in the States was increase was increased with the provi- authorization bill does. In 2013, the about—getting those best practices sions that were in the CARA legisla- Senate voted to reauthorize a bill into this legislation. Again, the CARA legislation im- tion to be sure that the two matched called the Violence Against Women proves prevention by sponsoring a na- up. Act. I voted for it. Every single Demo- Finally, this is the increase we got in cratic Member of Congress voted for it. tional awareness campaign about the the conference committee for the It passed the Senate on a bipartisan dangers of abusing prescription opioids. Probably four out of five heroin addicts amount that is authorized—not the ac- basis, 78 to 22. who overdose today started on pre- tual spending but the amount that the The bill increased authorizations to scription drug. That information needs Senate and the House would authorize $655 million annually and made policy to get out there. We need to explain for increased spending for new pro- changes, but it did not—and I repeat it this connection to people if we are grams in CARA. Again, the Senate- did not—include the spending in the bill. It was an authorization bill. The going to get at this issue. passed bill, 94 to 1, had a $78 million- The legislation also targets anti-drug spending bills come with the appropria- per-year increase. The conference re- coalitions in areas where the epidemic tions process. It didn’t have mandatory port more than doubled that to $181 is worse. So where it is at its worst, spending. It didn’t have immediate ap- million. there is more funding targeted to these propriations. It was an authorization This is what is interesting to me. anti-drug coalitions to focus on preven- bill. It was an incredibly important There are Senators on this floor who tion and education. That is key to keep voted for CARA because it was the issue, violence against women—a pri- people out of the funnel of addiction, right thing to do—a nonpartisan exer- ority. Yet we didn’t see some of these the grip of addiction. We should all be cise with a lot of bipartisan support, a same concerns raised. Nobody voted for that. That is in this legislation. 94-to-1 vote. against the Violence Against Women It would increase access to treatment All that has changed since then is we Act because it didn’t have appropria- by increasing the availability of have it more than doubling the author- tions attached to it. That just wouldn’t naloxone, which is a miracle drug. It ized amount of spending in CARA. With have made sense, as it would not for can actually reverse an overdose while regard to the appropriations process— any other authorization we pass around it is happening. It will train our first because we didn’t have this appropria- here. I know that wasn’t an election responders to be able to use Narcan or tions in place then, the Senate com- year, but we voted for it. Then we naloxone more effectively. These provi- mittee had not acted, the sub- fought for the funding as part of the sions will save lives, particularly when committee had not acted—in those 117 appropriations process. We were suc- it is connected—when saving a life is days since CARA was passed, we now cessful in doing that, just as we will be connected to getting somebody into see a 46-percent increase overall in the successful in fighting for these appro- treatment. discretionary spending. With regard to priations, as we did this year, getting a The conference agreement would also HHS, which is where most of the treat- big increase, a 237-percent increase, improve recovery for those who have ment money is, we see a 93-percent in- and as we will next year—as we see al- been treated for addiction. It will build crease. For the House version, it looks ready. Thanks to our advocacy, those recovery communities like the ones at to be an over 393-percent increase. of us who were focused on the issue, we colleges and universities—perhaps at All that has changed since CARA has are getting the increases to cover these the State of the Presiding Officer. We passed with a 94-to-1 vote were these changes in CARA. have one we are very proud of at Ohio big increases in spending. Again, I Of course, all the funding in the State University. voted for emergency spending on the world isn’t going to make a dent in These recovery communities will floor. I think it is an emergency. I this issue if it is not spent the right give the peer support that is necessary would go further, but for those who say way, and that is why you have the au- to follow through on addiction treat- they now cannot support this good leg- thorization bills like CARA because we ment over the long term. We know that

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Now they are both healthy— where I go, whether it is in the cities, Cornerstone Project, and the entire and not just healthy; Bethani is now a the suburbs, or the rural areas, people Montgomery County Drug-Free Coali- college graduate, she is now married ask me about it. And they ask me why tion in Dayton, OH, for their daily with two kids, and she is now the coor- we aren’t doing more, why we are not fight to get treatment to those who dinator of the same program that got acting on this. need it and help people get their lives her back on track and, as she would Two weeks ago in Southwest Ohio, in back on track. say, saved her. She is the coordinator my hometown of Cincinnati, a 28-year- The conference report that has just there, and she is helping others get old was arrested after a young man in been voted out will help. It will help their lives back on track as she did. the Cincinnati area who bought heroin law enforcement agencies like those in She is beating this because she got the from him was found dead of an over- Dayton and Lucas County and other right treatment for her, the right re- dose. A 17-year-old teenager was found places around Ohio find alternatives to covery program for her. dead of an overdose. That is what is incarceration. Mr. President, this is personal for happening on our streets today. Ohioans are taking action, and they me. It is personal for all of us—it A few days ago, a man from Canton, expect Congress to take appropriate ac- should be. I know too many people who OH, was pulled over in Akron, in tion too. This is a crisis. They want the have gotten caught up in this grip of Northeast Ohio, for speeding. He had 13 Federal Government to be a better addiction. I know too many families pounds of heroin on him. By one meas- partner. They have been patient. who have gone through what may be ure, that is about $400,000 of heroin— Let me just say respectfully that, in viewed by some as the ultimate grief, enough for 20,000 injections. If not for my view, this is not like every other which is to have your child predecease that apprehension, we would have had issue we address here. And we address you because that child got involved a lot more distribution of heroin and some very important issues, as we did with prescription drugs, then heroin, overdoses and potentially lives lost. yesterday on sanctuary cities, issues and then overdosed. In Madison County, in Central Ohio, that relate to spending bills, but this is Two families I have gotten to know police arrested 16 people for trafficking about saving lives and allowing people lost their children because when their heroin. At one of the drug houses they to achieve their God-given purpose in children had their wisdom teeth taken went to, there was a 5-year-old child. life by not getting off track and not out, they were given pain medication That is what is happening. According being casualties of this addiction epi- and they got addicted to the pills and to the sheriff’s office, a high percent- demic. then heroin. These were teenagers who age of property crimes in that county I think this is urgent. And for those had to have their wisdom teeth taken are directly tied to opioid addiction. who might say ‘‘Well, what hope is out. These families are waiting, but Sheriff James Sabin says that out of there? How can more money help?’’ I they need help, and we need to give it all the problems facing law enforce- will tell you, No. 1, it is money that to them. ment in Central Ohio, heroin is the No. will be wisely spent. That is how it will I would urge my colleagues to set the 1 issue we are dealing with. That is help. Secondly, if it is well spent, politics aside. This is not a partisan what is happening. treatment can work and it does work. issue. It hasn’t been from the start. Ohioans know this is happening to Recovery can work and it does work. This is an issue of helping the people their friends, their neighbors, and their There are so many stories I can tell be- we represent. family members. They understand the cause I have been at over a dozen treat- urgency of this crisis. That is why all ment centers around Ohio and spoken For all those people who voted for over the Buckeye State people are tak- to hundreds of recovering addicts and the legislation as it came through—94 ing action at the local level and at the heard so many stories. to 1—remember, all that has changed is State level. But they want the Federal Let me tell you one about Bethani that there is more money in this bill Government to be a better partner in Temple from Prospect, OH. When she now than there was before. Remember, helping them do what they know has to was 18 years old, her dad died of cancer. in the 117 days since you voted for this be done to fight this epidemic. To help her cope with her grief, she legislation, over 10,000 Americans have As I said, on Tuesday I was in Day- tried one of the pain killers he had died, including Americans in each of ton. There have been over 400 overdoses been prescribed. He had pain medica- our States. Remember, there is an elec- just this year in Dayton. By some tion for his cancer, and she was griev- tion every 2 years. There is always measure, Dayton, OH, has been named ing, so she thought she would try one going to be politics. This needs to come the top big city in America for of these pain killers, and she became above politics. We need to get this overdoses—not something we are proud addicted to these pain killers. Soon done, and we need to get it done now. of. These 400 overdoses are going to be they were too expensive and not as ac- I yield the floor. helped by a new program that was just cessible as something else, which was The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. launched and announced on Tuesday—I heroin. Bethani became addicted to SASSE). The Senator from Connecticut. was there for the announcement— heroin. While she was addicted, she Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, called the Front Door Initiative. It will gave birth to a daughter who was de- the Senate is presently on the verge of get treatment to those who have pendent on opioids. approving a measure that is supposedly overdosed. Once they are clean, it will By the way, there has been a 750-per- a compromise to provide for GMO la- get them skill training, help them find cent increase in babies born in Ohio in beling. I want to express my thanks a job, and teach them how to be better the last 12 years who are dependent on and respect for the principal authors of moms and dads. The notion is that in- opioids. It is tragic. this legislation, my colleagues Sen- stead of putting people into prison, get Bethani’s boyfriend got into a car ac- ators ROBERTS and STABENOW. They them into treatment. It is a diversion cident while he was high on heroin and have worked hard to forge this com- program that is going to be customized he died. Bethani was eventually ar- promise. and personalized for the particular per- rested. Fortunately, she was in an area Unfortunately, this falls far short of son’s problems. Through looking at of Ohio where, although she got ar- what is necessary to really inform con- what works and what doesn’t work, we rested, they helped get her into treat- sumers, provide the essential facts have found that is an effective way to ment. They diverted her into treat- they need to make informed and edu- get people back on track. ment. She got help. Bethani was the cated choices about what they want to This innovation is happening in other very first graduate of the Marion Ohio eat and to have their families eat, what places, too, around Ohio. Sheriff Tharp Court family dependency treatment they want to put on their dinner table.

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The they care more than ever now because sufficient access to bioengineering dis- last thing a parent has is spare time to they know how important it is. They closure through electronic or digital take out their phone and scan every also know about the unwanted features disclosure methods, he ‘‘shall provide product before placing it in their cart, of food that could impair their health. additional and comparable options to even assuming the store has the Inter- Not long ago, we as a body rejected a access the bioengineering disclosure.’’ net service that would enable someone measure called the DARK Act, which The Secretary of Agriculture will be- to do so, and even assuming that per- stood for Deny Americans the Right to come responsible and accountable for son has a smartphone. Know. Unfortunately, this legislation the cost, the mechanical process, and This proposal is simply not practical, will continue to leave consumers in the all of the aspects of providing this dis- logical, or fair to consumers. It is in dark about what they are eating. This closure when, in fact, electronic or dig- fact anti-consumer. It is unacceptable new compromise is as misguided and ital disclosure methods available to as a consumer protection measure. anti-consumer as that bill was, even manufacturers or retailers are insuffi- Let’s give States the freedom to pro- though it may seem better. cient. What will be the cost? What will tect their own people, as Connecticut The bill also betrays the desires of 90 be the obstacles? There has been no has done. That is the reason I proposed percent of the American people who hearing that would indicate those an amendment that would restore the want clear, comprehensive, truthful, facts. right of States to adopt such legisla- accurate information—labeling they So what we have here is a failure of tion, and make this legislation a floor can understand and readily see when drafting and of process. In this sweep- rather than a ceiling that enables they shop in their supermarkets or gro- ing so-called compromise, the laws of States to do more. cery stores, labels that tell them Connecticut will be decimated. My I thank my colleagues, Senators whether there has been genetic engi- State will be stripped of robust, grass- LEAHY and SANDERS, as well as Senator neering. roots GMO labeling measures—includ- TESTER and others, who have cham- Not only do 90 percent of the Amer- ing in Maine and Vermont—not only pioned this cause, and, most impor- ican people want it, but the people of applying to food but also to seeds tantly, Senator MERKLEY, who has Connecticut have spoken. My State planted in the ground and information helped to lead this effort. I believe the adopted a law that requires it. That about whether they have been bioengi- concerns we have expressed are urgent law will go into effect if 4 other States neered. These deficiencies are funda- and immediate. Even at this late hour, comprising 20 million people move mental to this legislation. I repeat, the I urge my colleagues to reject this ahead with the same legislation. It is issue here is not about warning and not measure as it has been drafted now, not arbitrary. It is not dictatorial or about safety, although those topics are and adopt these commonsense amend- draconian. It is simple, commonsense, reasonable to debate. It is simply about ments that will improve it. effective legislation adopted by the leg- the public’s right to know. I yield the floor. islature and signed by the Governor of I have a basic faith in our markets in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- my State. the United States and in our free enter- ator from West Virginia. What probably offends me most prises that consumers will make smart OPIOID EPIDEMIC about this legislation is that it over- judgments and wise choices if they Mr. MANCHIN. Mr. President, I have rides the will of the people of Con- have the information that enables been coming to the floor every week necticut, their determination that they them to do it. But only if they have for quite some time talking about an want clear, comprehensive labeling on that information. epidemic that we all have to fight GMO products. When the Connecticut My question to the proponents of this through, and that is the epidemic of Legislature adopted its statute—and bill is this: What do we have to fear by opiates—drug abuse. This is prescrip- now as we are considering ours—the de- providing that kind of information tion—legal—drug abuse. We have come bate has never been about whether that consumers need and want, and to a crisis in our country. I think both GMOs are safe or unsafe to consume. I that 15,000 Connecticut citizens have Democrats and Republicans realize will leave to the scientists—readily written to me asking to defend, and this. This is not a partisan issue. It delegate to them those judgments that constituents of mine, such as Tara doesn’t pick sides. It doesn’t choose about the science of GMOs. Nor is this Cook-Littman, have shown is des- whether you are rich or poor, what race a debate about whether we should have perately and dramatically needed? you may be, what religion you may warning labels. The labeling on these Tara has said: practice. It basically attacks every- packages would not be in any way a Anything short of on package, clear label- body. warning to consumers; it would be in- ing shows total disregard for what it is like In 2014, 18,893 people died due to pre- formational only. The debate here and to be a mom shopping in a store with her scription opiate overdose. That is an the objective of this measure is simply children. When I’m shopping, I need to get in average of 51 people every day. We are to provide information as dispassion- and out as fast as I possibly can. And, wheth- talking about legal prescription drugs. ately and clearly and objectively as er a product contains GMOs is only one of These are made by pharmaceutical possible. That is the goal, and that is the many things I am looking for before companies that we depend on to make what the legislation I have cosponsored making my purchasing decision. My son is products needed for quality of life. with my colleague Senator MERKLEY allergic to nuts so I always look at packages They are also approved by the Food would achieve. That is what we have to make sure the item is nut free. I like to and Drug Administration. Basically, know the calories, fat and sugar of an item sought to do through the amendments before I purchase it. I look at how many in- the Food and Drug Administration is we have offered to correct the defi- gredients a product has. All of that informa- responsible for making sure the prod- ciencies in this measure. Among those tion I can get in seconds. I pick up the item, ucts we consume are safe. Then, they deficiencies is the lack of an adequate I scan the box for the information I need and are prescribed to us by the most trust- definition of ‘‘bioengineering.’’ Right keep moving. I should be able to do the same ed person next to our family member, now, that definition fails to include for GMOs. I would never have the time to which is our doctor. many of the forms of GMOs that could pull out my phone and scan the packages or So when we think about it, how could be adopted. go to a website in order to get the simple in- something that has been approved by The deficiencies include the reliance formation I am looking for. Assuming I so many reputable people and institu- would have the time or ability shows a total on QR codes, which discriminate lack of understanding about shopping in the tions do so much harm and then we not against people who don’t have real world. When shopping for a family of 5, react to it? That is the hard thing I smartphones or are in areas not served my shopping cart could end up having over have to imagine. I can’t say: You know by the Internet or go to shop in stores 50 items. Having to scan or look up items on what; I don’t think it was anybody’s in- that don’t have that service. a website is not feasible. tent, but it is what it is.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:44 Jul 07, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G07JY6.034 S07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with SENATE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4863 We have a full-blown epidemic. Over West Virginians—including 4,000 chil- senses now and found out addiction is 2,000 people have died since 1999. We dren—sought treatment for illegal drug an illness. Any other illness you might talk about Zika, and we talk about abuse but failed to receive it. The larg- have, you are going to find treatment Ebola. We are concerned about all est long-term facility in West Virginia for. There is treatment to take care of these horrific illnesses that can attack with more than 100 beds is the Recov- you if you are ill, whatever it may be. a human being, and we have one right ery Point of Huntington, one of the Sorry, but not for opiates, not for a in front of us that is a silent killer, and most successful places we have. It is drug addiction. We can’t. We just don’t we are not doing anything about it. run by recovering addicts. Every one of have the money to do it. Sixteen percent more people died in them is a recovering addict. They know We charge a fee for cigarettes. We 2014 than died in 2013. We have to take exactly every excuse, every type of di- know cigarettes are dangerous to you. action to stop the epidemic, and it can version that you will give them. They It is not healthy for you. It will kill only happen right here in the halls of have had everything thrown at them. you. We know that. It is put on the Congress in the Senate and with our They know it all. This group has been packs when you buy any tobacco prod- counterparts on the other side of this the best at having success ratios in ucts, and you pay a tax or a fee. Call it great Capitol of ours. putting people back into productive anything you want to call it, you pay. Unfortunately, a major barrier those lives. They only have 100 beds, and Alcohol—when you buy alcohol, you suffering opioid addicts face is insuffi- they have a 4-month to 6-month wait- pay a fee, a tax, or anything else that cient access to substance abuse treating list—unbelievable. you want to put to that. But, by golly, ment. I spoke to my cousin, Michael In 2014, about 15,000 West Virginians if we talk about: Oh, my goodness, we Aloi, who is a Federal magistrate received some form of drug or alcohol need one penny per milligram to start judge. He said: JOE, let me just tell you abuse treatment. That is 15,000 who re- providing treatment for people who are the sad scenario. I have to sentence ceived it. Guess what. There was an- addicted so we can put them back into many people for the wrong they have other 60,000 who went untreated—60,000 productive life—I am not voting for done and the crimes they have com- with no treatment at all. any taxes. I can’t vote for tax in- mitted. I have never once had anyone Based on my conversation with po- creases. I am not voting for any of stand and say: Judge, I’m sorry; you lice departments, I would say that all these things. Can’t you vote for a can’t sentence them to a jail sentence of us—all 100 Senators in this room, treatment for your child, for your because we have no more jails—no Democrats and Republicans—can talk grandchild, for your neighbor? Can’t more jails. to their law enforcement, and I will as- you save a society that we are losing? He said: I have never been turned sure you that they will tell you that at Can’t you see that 8 out of 10 of our down. We have always found a jail cell least 8 out of 10 of the calls they are crimes are committed by people who or a bed to imprison somebody. We called to for any type of disturbance, are drug-induced? have never lacked for that. But so any type of criminal activity is caused If you are concerned about the econ- many times I have tried to place a per- by drugs. Almost 80 percent are drug omy, if you are concerned about the son in treatment whom I know needed driven. Then we say that we can’t af- well-being and welfare of this country, treatment. Their family wanted it, and ford it so we don’t find any money. We can’t you do something responsible and they wanted to change their life. And can’t find the money to pay for treat- not worry about going out and defend- guess what I have been told: I am ment centers. ing yourself—yes, I will be happy to I have a bill that is called the Life- sorry, but we have no place to put tell you I voted for a penny. You want BOAT Act. It is bipartisan. We hope it them. to call that a tax? I am pretty austere is bipartisan. We are asking for all the If you are a parent, the only thing about that. When I was Governor, I al- help we can get. Here is really what it you can do—I know Nebraska is the ways said I was very financially re- does. It is truly designated to fund same as West Virginia. Isn’t it an awful sponsible, fiscally responsible, socially treatment centers. What we are asking situation where, in America, you have compassionate. to hope that your child gets arrested for is one penny—one penny—per milligram of every opiate product produced This is just common sense. You have and convicted, and maybe then they to find a way to fund it. That is what could be sentenced to drug court to and distributed in America. One penny per milligram. That one penny will we have asked for. So the LifeBOAT maybe get a chance in life? It is a sad Act is something I am hoping every scenario in this great country of ours give us $1.5 to $2 billion a year. Can you believe that—$1.5 to $2 billion from one one of my colleagues will take a good, that we can’t save this generation. hard look at. And don’t look at it as a It is of epidemic proportion from this penny per milligram? Imagine the tax or a fee; look at it as a treatment standpoint. I don’t think there is a per- enormity of what we are consuming. plan that helps get Americans straight son who I know of in my State or any- When we think of a country that is less again. Help us get it back into produc- one I have ever met in my travels in than 5 percent of the world population tion. America who doesn’t know someone— that consumes anywhere from 80 to 90 in their immediate family, extended percent of all opioid products produced We talked about the silent killer. family, or close friend—who has not in the world, how can we become so ad- This is a silent killer because no one been affected by drug abuse. It is of dicted? How are we so pain intolerant talks about it. Guess what. Since I epidemic proportion. that we have to have these powerful, have been coming to the floor, people I say it is a silent killer because we addictive drugs? What happened to us? have been sending me letters. They keep our mouths shut. We are afraid. If With all that being said, we have to said: Please, we want you to read our it is our child, we don’t want anybody first of all treat addiction as an illness. letter. I want you to know about my to know. It would be embarrassing. If I am as guilty as anybody in politics or son, my child, my grandchild, my hus- it is our mother or father, if it is an in political life or making policy for band, my wife, my mother, my father. aunt or uncle, brother or sister, we will any period of time—20 years or more. I I am going to read Stephanie take care of that. We don’t want any- am as guilty as they are, thinking, at Sowell’s story. Stephanie put her name body to know about it. Guess what. We first: If you are fooling with drugs, you to this, and she wanted me to read this have a full-blown epidemic that is kill- are committing a crime; we will put for you. She says: ing your brothers, your sisters, your you in jail. Guess what. We have filled I applaud and thank you for your efforts at children, your aunts and uncles and the jails, and when they get out, they helping those with addiction. moms and dads, and we say: Why didn’t are no better off than when we put My son, Tommy Sowell, died of an acci- we say something? them in. They haven’t been relieved of dental overdose of heroin mixed with So this is what we are dealing with, their addiction. They haven’t been Fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl on February 13, 2016, at the age of 24. I am quite sure he and this is something we intend to cured of their addiction. They haven’t did not know the drug contained Fentanyl fight. even been treated for their addiction. and acetyl fentanyl. I will give an example of how hard it We just thought that by throwing them He developed a hernia during 9th grade and is to get treatment. In 2014, in my in a prison or in a jail cell, we would had surgery, after which they prescribed beautiful State of West Virginia, 42,000 take care of it. We have come to our OxyContin.

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He willingly helped gineered salmon—we have dubbed it a you, who do you think is really going his dad in the hay field from a young age Frankenfish in Alaska because it is to voluntarily place a label on some- every year. He loved his family. He wanted and needed to work and be productive. splicing DNA from one animal, an thing that says ‘‘This is not the real He wanted to go to college from a young ocean pout, with DNA from another thing. This is not your wild Alaska age but the lure of the oil & gas field won fish, a farmed fish, and inserting that salmon; this is a genetically engi- out with its high pay. However, with those into a Chinook salmon. We are doing a neered species’’? jobs beginning to close in WV around 2014– little bit of a science experiment here The reality is, we will not see the la- 2016, he began to spiral down . . . with no job that concerns many of us. beling that I as an Alaskan who is put- prospects to speak of here, but not wanting Having grown up in the State of ting fish on the dinner table for my to leave WV and his family, he instead Alaska, I know fish. I know the signifi- family would require and would want. turned to more drugs to deal [with and] cope cance of a strong, healthy fishery. It is We have been trying to work through with feeling lost and unproductive. His dad and I found him. He died alone, our No. 1 employer throughout the this with the chairman and ranking which makes me even sadder to know. State of Alaska. Not only do we look to member of the committee, trying to Tommy was a good boy, a wonderful son, the strength of our fisheries for strong provide for what we believe are very and he lit up our world with laughter and economies and good jobs, it is critical sensible, reasonable fixes, and yet we joy. He was loving, respectful, kindhearted, and it is integral to those who live a are at a place where those accommoda- and full of life and fun. subsistence lifestyle. It is so much a tions have simply not been made. I know in my heart he would have over- part of who we are as Alaskans. Alas- Let me assure you that Alaskans are come this and gone on to do wonderful very unified on this issue. We will not things if he’d just had the chance. We are kans identify themselves with their heartbroken and will be forever heartbroken. salmon. Right now, people in Alaska accept GE salmon or this Frankenfish Saturday, June 11th, would have been his are not necessarily talking about what being sold to us without clear labeling. 25th birthday. is going on here in Washington, DC. Again, I for one am not going to feed If this letter helps you in any way please They are wondering when the next run my boys this fish. I use that term feel free to use it. It would bring a bit of of Pinks is coming in. They are won- lightly because I am looking at it and peace to us to know that his story will help dering what is happening on the Yukon this is not even like a fish. You are others. and the Kuskokwim with the runs up taking DNA from an ocean pout. What This is a hidden secret. This is basi- there. When is the red run going to is an ocean pout? It is an eel. I usually cally a hidden killer we are talking come in in full tilt? When is the dip am here with a big picture of an ugly about. When you have Stephanie and netting going to be starting? It is all eel. I figured you might be tired of the parents and grandparents willing about our fish. looking at that picture by now, but ap- to speak up and say: Put a face with it. We have been assured that if these parently it is not getting through to Put a boy or young girl coming out of genetically engineered salmon should people. When we talk about a neighborhood, whom we had high be allowed out onto the market, that if Frankenfish, this is no joke to Alas- hopes for and who was snuffed out— this production moves forward, you kans. It poses a serious threat to the this is what they want us to share. don’t need to worry, Alaska, about any livelihoods of our fishermen, and that This is what they are asking us to take escapement because we are going to is not something that I am willing to up and do—provide the treatment that make sure these don’t get loose. Nice take a risk on, that I am willing to can help save the lives of their children promise, but we know in this State take a gamble on. and the lives of a generation of Ameri- that fish can get out of the pens. They Our fisheries in the State of Alaska cans. escape from hatcheries. They can be are world-renowned for their high qual- Mr. President, I yield the floor. accidentally released from where fish ity and their sustainability. The Alas- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- are grown. We take very seriously the ka seafood industry supports more ator from Alaska. issues that present themselves with the than 63,000 direct jobs and contributes Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, we introduction of a new species that has over $4.6 billion to our State’s econ- are on the floor this afternoon with the the potential to wreak havoc, to do omy. Nearly one in seven Alaskans is issue of GMO foods—genetically modi- harm to our wild natural stocks. employed in our commercial seafood fied organisms—before us. I don’t want Again, whether it is escapement or industry. It is a major part of the sea- to talk about GMO foods in that space; the promise of ‘‘Don’t worry, these fish food economy. Commercial fishermen I want to talk about a more specific ge- are going to be sterile; you are not ever around the State harvested more than netically engineered species. going to have to worry about them 265 million salmon this past year, in- I would like to speak this afternoon interbreeding, breeding with your wild cluding the wild Chinook salmon, about genetically engineered salmon. I stocks. You are going to be safe, Alas- Sockeye, Coho, Chums, and Pinks. It is think it is important to acknowledge ka. You are going to be OK, Alaska,’’ all coming on right here, right now. I that this is separate from the larger the folks I represent back home look at was in Naknek on Friday. Everyone is GMO debate we have been engaged in this and say ‘‘No, we don’t believe we waiting for the Sockeye to hit. It is an on the floor. Genetically engineered have the assurances. We don’t believe incredibly important part of our animals are not crops. They are not we have the certainty. We don’t believe State’s economy, but it is more than something that grows in a field and we have the standards that are nec- just the economic benefit—the dollars stays stationary. A genetically engi- essary to provide for the protection of that come to our State, the jobs it has neered salmon is something that our wild stocks.’’ created—it is the good, healthy stuff. swims. It moves around. It is some- So I have made clear throughout the Wild Alaska salmon has tremendous thing entirely new. It is a new spe- larger debate on GMOs that I have op- health benefits. It is a lean protein cies—a new species designed specifi- posed this bill because contained with- source of omega-3, B–6, B–12, niacin. It cally for human consumption. in this broader debate of GMOs—we do is good stuff. It is naturally good stuff. This is the first time the FDA has nothing to make it clear that if geneti- It is so good that there are over 1.5 ever signed off on a genetically engi- cally engineered salmon is to go for- million people who wrote in to the neered new species designed for human ward as the FDA has said that it will, FDA and said: We oppose this geneti- consumption—the first time. I happen there needs to be clear and unequivocal cally engineered salmon. They weighed to think the FDA signoff was wrong, labeling of this GE salmon. Contained in. What did the FDA do? They basi- and I am going to continue to object to within this broader bill, we do not have cally went the other way. They weren’t that because this species that poten- the clear requirement for labeling of listening. Many of the grocery stores

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Apparently it has will vote in favor of final passage on a tomers ‘‘This is wild Alaska sustain- caused all kinds of issues, and I do not bill requiring the labeling of foods that able, the real thing; and this is not.’’ A see why. I have offered multiple sen- contain genetically engineered mate- voluntary label does not cut it. sible solutions over the course of sev- rials. I have worked with colleagues for Safeway, Kroger, Whole Foods, Trader eral months while this bill was work- months on this issue. I know this is Joe’s, and Target all announced they ing its way through the process, and I about much more than just words or are not going to sell it. Despite this am here today to again push for consid- symbols on a label; it is about ensuring immense opposition, in November of eration of what I believe is truly sen- we have confidence in the food we eat last year, the FDA approved sible and truly reasonable. It has been and feed our children. As a Hoosier, I AquaBounty Technologies’ application incorporated and adopted before. It also know this bill is about preserving for its GE AquAdvantage salmon. makes sense for a host of different rea- a long and proud Indiana tradition of I put ‘‘salmon’’ or ‘‘fish’’ in quotation sons, and it certainly makes sense for growing the food that feeds our com- marks because what we are doing is we the people of Alaska. munities and provides a safe and reli- are taking a transgenic Atlantic salm- I am here today, as we talk about the able food supply for the world. on egg, which has genes from this broader GMO debate, to make sure col- The labeling legislation before us is ocean pout, this eel, and combining it leagues understand that my opposition the result of our working together as with the genes of a Chinook. The egg is here is to anything that would mistak- Republicans and Democrats to achieve meant to produce a fish that grows to enly allow genetically engineered our shared objectives to provide con- full size in half the time as a normal salmon into anyone’s homes mislabeled sumers with access to accurate infor- Atlantic salmon. Again, they are as salmon. I will continue to demand mation about the food we eat and to do ramping this up on steroids, if you will, that the voices of Alaskans and those so in a way that does not mislead con- to cause it to grow twice as fast. who care deeply about this are heard. sumers into thinking their food is un- Under the FDA application, these With that, I see other colleagues safe. When this bill is enacted into law, eggs will be produced in Canada, so it have joined me on the floor. I thank for the first time ever consumers is not as though we are getting any the Presiding Officer for his attention across our country will have access to American jobs there, and then the to this matter, and I yield the floor. the information they want, and it will smolt—although I don’t even really The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. be easy to find. That information will want to use the term ‘‘smolt’’ because HOEVEN). The Senator from Indiana. also be delivered in a way that is fair, only part of this fish is real salmon— COMPREHENSIVE ADDICTION AND RECOVERY BILL objective, and based on sound science. they are then going to ship this to Pan- Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. President, I rise Today I ask my colleagues to join me ama, where they will be raised in pens. to talk about the bipartisan Com- in supporting this bill for final passage, Again, there are no U.S. jobs there. prehensive Addiction and Recovery not because everyone got everything The FDA made no mandatory labeling Act, also known as CARA, and the they wanted but because it is a good requirement; instead, they made it vol- opioid abuse and heroin use epidemics. compromise that achieves our shared untary. This bill we have in front of us, As I have said, I believe it will take all objectives. Labeling genetically engi- the larger GMO bill, does not create a of us working together to address this neered materials will be required so clear labeling mandate, either, and public health crisis that is gripping consumers everywhere will have access that is the concern I have. That is why Hoosier families and communities to the information. It will provide fair I fought to secure mandatory labeling across Indiana and our country. We all and objective information without stig- requirements both before the approval have a role to play to address these matizing foods that are completely of AquaBounty’s application and since epidemics—officials at the Federal, safe, and it contains provisions based its approval. local, and State levels, as well as pre- on an amendment that my good friend We have been making good headway scribers, pharmacists, law enforce- Senator CARPER from Delaware and I on this issue over the time I have been ment, first responders, and parents and introduced, which will require clear here in Washington, but unfortunately families. and direct access to information on the bill we have in front of us today This bipartisan CARA legislation bioengineering through multiple meth- will wipe out that work instead of would provide States and local commu- ods of disclosure. Consumers, farmers, using the legislative tools we have at nities with important tools to prevent and food producers have been looking our disposal to effectively and pre- and treat drug addiction and support to the Senate for leadership. After cisely amend this legislation in order individuals in recovery. It includes sev- months of discussion, we have found a to address the issue of GE salmon. eral provisions adapted from my bipar- sensible proposal that will bring the I have offered up an amendment. It tisan legislation that would enhance right information into our homes and has been sponsored by Senators SUL- prescribing practices and raise public to grocery stores in a responsible way. LIVAN, CANTWELL, MURRAY, and awareness. We were also successful in I yield the floor. MERKLEY. What it would do is require getting a provision included that would The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the FDA to create a new market name encourage first responder units to con- ator from Colorado. for GE salmon in order to remedy this nect individuals who receive naloxone TRUST ACT flaw in the current bill. In other words, with treatment and other necessary Mr. GARDNER. Mr. President, any- give the certainty to the consumer. If services. This bill includes programs body who has been watching the news you are shopping in your grocery store, that will make a difference and should knows what has happened with the FBI you will know whether what you buy be enacted into law. It is also critically investigation of former Secretary of for your family is the real thing or a important that we fund these initia- State Hillary Clinton. I think that the genetically engineered fish. tives. CARA is an important step, but FBI’s press conference detailing the The amendment is essentially the make no mistake, there is work left to findings of the FBI’s investigation has same language that was adopted by do to ensure that our communities made it very clear that Secretary Clin- voice vote during the Agriculture ap- have the resources and funding to im- ton has proven she cannot be trusted in propriations markup earlier this year. plement many of these important pro- protecting this Nation’s most sensitive It is substantially similar to language grams. We have a chance to do some- secrets. That is the takeaway from the that was adopted by voice in each of thing meaningful and bipartisan that FBI Director’s press conference just the previous 2 years. We have had this will help save lives. For every family days ago. That is not opinion; that is before us. We have seen it. You have and community in Indiana and across the conclusion that can be derived and seen it. Yet it is not included right the Nation who has been devastated by taken from the findings of a very in- now. the opioid abuse and heroin use tensive FBI investigation.

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She knew this information was tions on North Korea and the first-ever FBI Director James Comey said he did classified, and some of it was even mandatory cyber sanctions as well. not recommend punishment in the case marked ‘‘classified.’’ The FBI Director This legislation was a recognition of Secretary Clinton’s mishandling of himself has said that even if it is not that this administration’s policy of classified information, but in the other marked ‘‘classified,’’ but you know it is strategic patience has been a strategic cases, he pointed out that there had classified, you should be aware of it. If failure. As the Washington Post edi- been adverse consequences. We saw the you have the potential to carry for- torial board stated on February 8, just news reports today that talked about ward and disclose classified informa- 2 days before our bill passed on the security and administrative sanctions tion, then you shouldn’t send it over an Senate floor, ‘‘President Obama’s pol- on those who violated the policies and unsecured server, as Secretary Clinton icy since 2009 of strategic patience has laws of handling classified information. did hundreds, if not thousands, of failed. The policy has mostly consisted That is why Senator JOHN CORNYN and times. of ignoring North Korea while mildly I have introduced legislation to address The New York Times reported today cajoling China to pressure the regime.’’ this very serious abuse of handling and that based on the words and comments, I am pleased to see the administra- mishandling classified information. which you can parse from the FBI Di- tion is now shifting its failed policies The bill we have introduced is called rector’s statements just a couple of by implementing key portions of the the TRUST Act because it makes sure days ago, you can basically tell that North Korea legislation that cracks that there are consequences for people Clinton’s unsecured server was very down on the North Korean regime. who handle our classified and most im- likely hacked by foreign actors who On June 1, the Treasury Department portant secrets in an extremely care- ‘‘were far too skilled to leave evidence designated North Korea as a jurisdic- less manner. The TRUST Act provides of their work.’’ That is why Secretary tion of ‘‘primary money laundering consequences for anyone who exercises Clinton’s security clearance ought to concern’’ under section 311 of the PA- extreme carelessness in handling clas- be revoked, and she should be denied TRIOT Act, which will further isolate sified information. Any clearances that access to classified material unless and North Korea from the international fi- Secretary Clinton holds ought to be re- until she has a legal right to such acts. nancial system. voked because of her mishandling of That is also why those who acted with Yesterday, Treasury took another these secrets, and she should be denied extreme carelessness around her—be- important step by designating Kim access to classified material unless and cause they know better—should have Jong Un and a number of his top offi- until she has a legal right to such ac- their security clearances revoked. So cials as human rights abusers. This cess by becoming President-elect. In they can’t continue to perpetrate this designation is long overdue and came addition, those around the Secretary kind of extreme recklessness, this kind about only because Congress mandated and the people to whom she emailed of extreme carelessness, as identified it, along with a human rights report classified information—emails that by the Director of the FBI. that was delivered to Congress yester- were marked ‘‘classified’’ in some The Clintons are the great escape day. cases—ought to lose their security artists, the Houdinis of American poli- We have known for years that this clearances as well. tics. They push the law to the very regime is one of the world’s foremost Secretary Clinton has consistently edge, and just when they get caught or abusers of human rights. The North misled the American people about her trapped, they pull back. It is a double Korean regime maintains a vast net- emails. Just look at the Associated standard the American people are sick work of political prison camps, where Press report published yesterday. In a and tired of dealing with, and I hope as many as 200,000 men, women, and news conference in March of 2015, Sec- my colleagues will support the TRUST children are confined to atrocious liv- retary Clinton said: ‘‘I did not email Act to protect the integrity of Ameri- ing conditions and are tortured, any classified material to anyone on cans and American classified informa- maimed, and killed. I have spoken to my email. There is no classified mate- tion. defectors. I have had conversations rial.’’ That is not true. NORTH KOREA with a defector from North Korea who In an NBC interview on July 16, Sec- Mr. President, I also rise to speak served in the military there and who retary Clinton said: ‘‘I never received about the threat from North Korea and spoke to me of their torture in these or sent any material that was marked the role Congress has played in enact- prisons, of people who were put in jail classified.’’ That is not true. ing tougher policies to counter the Kim because of their opposition to the Kim During a news conference in March of Jong Un regime. Jong Un regime, people who were tor- 2015, Secretary Clinton said: ‘‘I re- On January 6, 2016, North Korea con- tured because of their defiance of Kim sponded right away and provided all of ducted its fourth nuclear test, which is Jong Un’s leadership. my emails that could possibly be work the third such test since President On February 7, 2014, the United Na- related’’ to the State Department. Obama has taken office. tions Human Rights Commission re- That is not true. On February 7, North Korea con- leased a groundbreaking report detail- In March of 2015, Secretary Clinton ducted a satellite launch, which is es- ing North Korea’s horrendous record on said: The server was ‘‘guarded by the sentially a test of an intercontinental human rights. The Commission found Secret Service, and there were no secu- ballistic missile but just disguised as that North Korea’s actions constituted rity breaches.’’ As we can see through something else, but the launch was cer- a ‘‘crime against humanity.’’ the FBI Director’s statement, that tainly to test a missile that would, in Now, we all are probably asking our- most likely is also untrue. their words, be capable of reaching the selves why it took so long for the ad- Time and again, Secretary Clinton U.S. mainland. ministration to come to the same con- has not told the truth to the American In response, on February 10, the Sen- clusion and then finally do something people, and there should be con- ate came together 96 to nothing to pass about it. Nonetheless, this week we fi- sequences related to these actions, es- the North Korea Sanctions and Policy nally are, but more remains to be done pecially when her recklessness relates Enhancement Act, a bill I authored in to send the strongest message we can to the most sensitive classified infor- the Senate Foreign Relations Com- to this regime, which poses a very seri- mation this country has. mittee along with Senator BOB MENEN- ous threat to peace and stability Even President Bill Clinton noted the DEZ from New Jersey. Together, our throughout Asia, Eastern Asia, and the immense harm that results from dan- legislation mandated—not simply au- United States. gerous actions like those outlined by thorized but mandated—sanctions Last month, we learned that North the FBI Director. In Executive Order against individuals who contribute to Korea successfully tested a missile 12968, President Clinton said: ‘‘The un- North Korea’s nuclear program and that is capable of reaching U.S. bases

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And the impor- dium-range ballistic missiles, and 100 is serious about changing its policies tance of that is that all of those green- intermediate-range ballistic missiles. toward Pyongyang. house gases that otherwise would have To counter this threat, we need to While the administration needs to been emitted into the atmosphere from proactively work with South Korea to pursue constant and vigorous diplo- these new coal-burning facilities and immediately station the Terminal matic efforts with Beijing, it should these new gas-burning facilities in the High Altitude Area Defense—or also not hesitate to impose penalties United States will never happen be- THAAD—in South Korea. The regime’s on Chinese entities as appropriate, if cause those plants never had to be nuclear stockpile is growing fast. Most they are found in violation of the sanc- built. recently, nuclear exports have reported tions this Congress has passed. Let’s go back to 2015. In 2015, there that North Korea may currently have Finally, we also need to make sure was 6,000 new megawatts of natural gas as many as 20 nuclear warheads and we develop a strong trilateral alliance electrical generation capacity in the has the potential to possess as many as between South Korea and Japan, in- United States that was installed, and 100 warheads within the next 5 years. cluding enhanced defense and intel- all other electrical-generating new ca- Our military leaders have repeatedly ligence cooperation, to better deter the pacity in 2015, including coal, was al- stated that North Korea may have al- North Korean threat. We must never most nonexistent, although there was ready developed the ability to minia- forget that more than 20 years ago, some but a very small amount. turize a nuclear warhead, to mount it North Korea pledged to dismantle its Now, let’s go to this little bit of his- onto their own intercontinental bal- nuclear program, and yet now we see a tory that I think is important for Sen- listic missile called the KN–08, and to regime that has no respect for inter- ators and for the American people to ‘‘shoot it at the homeland.’’ national agreements or international hear about. Let me give my colleagues Pyongyang is also quickly developing norms and is on the cusp of over 100 nu- an idea as to what the profile of elec- its cyber capabilities as another dan- clear warheads. The United States trical generation in America looked gerous tool of intimidation—an asym- should never again engage in negotia- like in 2005. In 2005, 50 percent of all metric threat to the United States—as tions with Pyongyang without impos- electrical generation in America came demonstrated by the attack on the ing strict preconditions that North from coal, 20 percent came from nu- South Korean financial and commu- Korea take immediate steps to halt its clear, which is about the same as it is nication systems in March of 2013 or nuclear program, to cease all military today; natural gas was 19 percent; hy- the Sony Pictures hacking incident in provocation, and to make credible dropower, 5 percent, and that is about November of 2014. steps to respecting the human rights of the same as today; oil, 3 percent, and According to a report that was re- that is pretty much down to zero in the leased last year in 2015 by the Center the people of North Korea. If the United States does not pursue United States today, but wind and for Strategic and International Stud- increased actions against North Korea solar combined were less than one-half ies, ‘‘North Korea is emerging as a sig- now, we will face a much greater of 1 percent of all electrical generation nificant actor in cyberspace with both threat in the future, and these threats in the United States in 2005. We had its military and clandestine organiza- will be immensely consequential to the gone through the entire energy history tions gaining the ability to conduct of the United States, and that was the cyber operations.’’ safety and well-being of the U.S. home- According to the Heritage Founda- land. best we could do—one-half of 1 percent tion, ‘‘Contrary to perceptions of North Mr. President, I thank you, and I wind and solar. Again, the tax breaks weren’t there Korea as a technically backward na- yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- for wind and solar. They were there for tion, the regime has a very robust and natural gas and coal and oil and nu- active cyber warfare capability.’’ ator from Massachusetts. The Reconnaissance General Bureau, RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY GENERATION clear, but they were not there for wind North Korea’s intelligence agency, Mr. MARKEY. Mr. President, we just and solar. Then policies in America oversees 3,000 cyber warriors dedicated celebrated Independence Day and began to level the playing field so wind to attacking Pyongyang’s enemies. rightfully so. It was a big break with and solar could compete. So, now, by Cyber experts have assessed that North the past, a big break with the whole the time we reach 2015, coal is now Korea’s electronic warfare capabilities history of the United States, up until down to only 33 percent of all elec- were surpassed only by the United July 4, 1776. Well, we have good news. tricity generated in the United States, States and Russia. There is another new dawn of independ- natural gas is up from 19 percent, up to Last month, South Korean authori- ence which has arrived in the United 33 percent from 2005. Again, natural gas ties uncovered a massive North Korean States, and that independence is grow- emits half of the greenhouse gases that cyber attack into more than 140,000 ing by the day. coal does when it is generating elec- computers at 160 South Korean firms By ‘‘independence,’’ I am talking tricity in our country. Nuclear stays and government agencies. Reports indi- about how we generate electricity in the same at about 20 percent, hydro- cate that more than 40,000 defense-re- the United States. For 100 years, we power is still 5 or 6 percent, but here is lated documents were stolen, including were dependent upon oil, upon natural the interesting thing. All of a sudden, the blueprints for components of the gas, upon coal as our principal source solar plus wind is up to 6 percent of all F–15 fighter jet. Let me say that again. of electricity in our country, combined electrical generation over the last 10 North Korea perpetrated a hack on with nuclear generation, plus some hy- years. But the interesting story is how South Korea that resulted in them ob- dropower. But now, over the last 10 fast wind and solar are now being taining the blueprints for the F–15 years, we have seen a true American added to the total mix of electricity in fighter jet. revolution which has broken out. our country. Yet, in light of these gross viola- In 2015, in terms of new electrical Now let’s go to 2016, this year. What tions, the administration still has not generation in the United States, 8,600 is on the books for this year is 14,500 acted to impose sanctions on North Ko- new megawatts of wind—again, people megawatts of solar, 9,000 new rean cyber criminals as required by the ask: What is a megawatt? Well, when megawatts of wind, natural gas at law that passed 96 to 0 by this Senate. we think of a big coal-burning or nat- about 8,800 megawatts, and nothing In fact, the administration is now near- ural gas-burning or electrical-gener- else coming in. There is no coal on the ly 2 months late in producing a report ating facility, that 8,600 of new wind books planned for this year in the required under the bill which would megawatts would be about 8 or 10 new United States of America. You can see name and shame those violators—the electrical generating plants using coal that solar and wind are on track to perpetrators of these cyber attacks. in our country. produce two to three times as much However, the crux of the success of Last year: 7,500 new megawatts of new electricity as natural gas, and the sanctions efforts rests with Bei- solar in the United States. Seven to there is no other competition.

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It is on pace Whereas in 2005 only 79 total new solar world leadership, and an ability to to have 600,000 people working in those megawatts were installed in the coun- avoid the worst, most catastrophic two industries by the year 2020. We are try, this year 14,500 megawatts are consequences of climate change to our down to 65,000 coal miners in America going to be installed. planet. as this new set of technologies con- This is a delayed revolution. The reg- Last year was the warmest year ever tinues to expand, continues to lower in ulatory policy, the tax policy did not recorded. This year is the warmest price, and we are seeing a dramatic in fact give a break to the new energy year ever recorded. It keeps getting change in this energy mix. technology, but the truth is that we more and more dangerous, but the an- Let me add that the United States is are now on a pathway to having a revo- swer, the solution, is within our grasp. not alone in this. Last year in 2015, lution where, by the year 2030, we could I thank the Presiding Officer, and I across the whole planet, one-half of all easily have 400,000 megawatts of wind yield the floor. new electrical generating capacity and solar and other renewables in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- came from renewable energy—one-half stalled in the United States. By the ator from Texas. for the whole planet in new electrical end of next year, we will have 150,000 SANCTUARY CITIES AND ZIKA VIRUS FUNDING generation capacity. megawatts. After 70 years, the nuclear LEGISLATION Something else that is important for industry has 100,000 megawatts. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I want people to understand is that even as we Every time I use that term to begin by briefly commending the ef- make these incredible investments in ‘‘megawatts,’’ I know that it can get forts of the junior Senator from Penn- the new energy technologies across the confusing, but just understand the bot- sylvania, Mr. TOOMEY, for his work and planet, for the last 2 years global en- tom line is that wind and solar are leadership in crafting legislation that ergy-related carbon emissions actually coming as new additions to the grid at the Senate considered yesterday that stayed flat while the global economy an average of 1 to 1.5 percent to the would protect families from the dan- grew. That defies conventional eco- total every single year. So by the year gers of so-called sanctuary cities. nomic wisdom that there is a direct 2030, it could be between 25 percent and Sanctuary cities are, frankly, not correlation between how much you pol- 30 percent of all electrical generation particularly appropriately named be- lute and how much you can generate in at the current peak at which it is being cause these are cities that have made a new gross domestic product. That has deployed in our country. conscious decision to refuse to cooper- now been broken. It is an anomaly. So that level playing field that we ate with the lawful orders of Federal Gross domestic product continues to go have been working hard to create and authorities, especially when it comes up, and emissions are flat. That means which we have to continue to work to removal of criminal illegal aliens. we are now on a pathway where, as hard to create is making a huge dif- The bottom line is that the failure to more and more renewables, more hy- ference. The Clean Power Plan which cooperate with Federal law and Federal brid automobiles, electric automobiles, President Obama has propounded will officials is a danger to the very com- and more new technologies come on drive it more. The 30 States that have munities that many of our colleagues line, we are going to see a decline in renewable electricity standards as a who blocked this legislation claim they greenhouse gases even as the global goal in their States make a difference, want to protect. economy continues to grow. How are but also the policies we create here for In other words, these so-called sanc- we going to accomplish it? Well, we tax breaks for these new industries will tuary city policies—they refuse to co- have to have tax policies on the books make a huge difference toward meeting operate with the removal of people who that give incentives to these new tech- our goals. demonstrate their untrustworthiness nologies. From my perspective, we have a by committing crime after crime after You don’t have to worry about the oil chance to have America with 100 per- crime. They are a threat to the entire industry. They have been taken care of cent renewable electricity by the year community, including legal immi- for 100 years. What we do have to look 2050 in our country. We have a chance grants and native-born Americans. at, however, is the Koch brothers and to change the whole path of the planet Senator TOOMEY’s legislation would others who have a business stake in oil, in terms of how they look at these en- have cut Federal funding to these cit- gas, and coal and continue to argue ergy technologies. ies and counties that refused to follow against giving the same kinds of tax No one had these small cell phones in the rule of law and would empower breaks to the renewable energy indus- their pockets in 1993—no one. They local authorities to crack down on try that have always been given to the were big bricks that cost 50 cents a those who commit crimes on our soil. fossil fuel industry. minute, but we began to have a revolu- Unfortunately, once again, our In fact, when we were debating last tion, and 7 or 8 years ago everyone de- Democratic colleagues filibustered this year whether or not we were going to cided to have one in their pocket. It commonsense proposal, in addition to have extensions of tax breaks for wind was unimaginable to a preceding gen- another bill that would have helped and solar, the Koch brothers wrote a eration of Americans. protect our communities. It is begin- letter to every Member of the House How about this: 800 million Africans ning to appear they are making a habit and Senate saying that would be de- who did not have wireless devices in out of blocking bills that this country structive to the free market system. the year 2000 now have them in their needs. They forgot to write this letter with pockets. We can deploy wind and solar Let me give another example. Just regard to subsidies for the oil industry, to Africa, Asia, South America, and all last week, our Democratic colleagues the coal industry, the natural gas in- around the planet if we make the same were faced with a choice. They had dustry, and the nuclear industry. All of kind of investment in developing these made the point over and over again a sudden, when there is a new tech- new technologies. that the Zika virus—which is being nology that does not pollute and which Recently, in Germany, for 1 day the carried by a mosquito native to our they are not heavily invested in, they whole country was renewable. In Por- southern parts of the United States— decide that the purity of this system tugal, for 4 days the entire country was was at our Nation’s doorstep. They said requires that we not have tax breaks generating renewable electricity. I be- that in order to combat this threat, we for the new energy technology. How do lieve that we can and should do 100 per- need additional funding for mosquito they handle that? They just make sure cent generation by the year 2050, and eradication, developing clinical trials that they have all kinds of interests that is why I will be introducing a res- for a vaccine, and advising and inform- out there that try to then make the ar- olution in the Senate, expressing the ing and educating the public on what

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I urge we send a message that this is not ac- ture of a child with microcephaly—the them to reconsider so we can get these ceptable and there will be a price to be shrunken skull and brain—and a de- funds into the hands of those who pro- paid. scription of the tragic circumstances tect us and our children. In light of the FBI Director’s an- they will face in that child’s short life. TRUST ACT nouncement, I have introduced legisla- We could avoid all of that if our Sen- On another matter, Mr. President, tion with the junior Senator from Colo- ate colleagues would just quit playing yesterday I spoke on FBI Director rado, Mr. GARDNER, to do just that. politics. They really had a choice: to Comey’s announcement regarding Sec- This legislation is called the TRUST protect pregnant women and their ba- retary Clinton’s use of her personal Act. It would revoke the security clear- bies from the devastating impact of a email server. He called her and the ance of anyone found to have dem- birth defect caused by the Zika virus or staff who enabled her to use this pri- onstrated extreme carelessness in the to play partisan politics. What did they vate server to transmit classified infor- handling of classified information and choose? Well, it is pretty obvious they mation ‘‘extremely careless.’’ He made would keep them from receiving a chose to play partisan politics. clear that their actions were egregious clearance in the future so they couldn’t Every Senate Democrat voted for $1.1 in the sense that they put classified in- do this again. It would also clarify ex- billion in Zika funding. What did the formation at risk that our Nation’s en- isting law so that everyone under- joint conference committee in the emies would love to have and use stands that extreme carelessness, House and Senate produce that they against us. In summary, he said they which the FBI found in the case of Sec- filibustered? Zika funding for $1.1 bil- should have known better, which is retary Clinton and her staff, basically lion. In other words, they voted against pretty self-evident, and he said they becomes the legal standard whether or the very amount of money that they put our country at risk. not you think it constituted gross neg- had previously voted for. Even more devastating, his an- ligence. They need to quit gambling with the nouncement on Tuesday proved that There are many people whose legal health of Americans. That is what Sen- Secretary Clinton had been lying to opinion I respect, such as former Attor- ator REID, the Democratic leader, said the American people about her server ney General Michael Mukasey, who when he urged us to fund the Presi- from day one. From Director Comey’s said that extreme carelessness and dent’s request for Zika funding. But investigation, it is clear now that she gross negligence are basically the same then they abruptly did an about-face did send and receive classified informa- thing. when presented with a bill at the same tion, some at the very highest levels of I heard Mayor Giuliani—former dis- funding level that they themselves had classification. It is clear now that her tinguished U.S. prosecutor, former previously voted on. So who is gam- server didn’t provide adequate secu- third person in line at the Justice de- bling now? Who is gambling now? Who rity, leaving sensitive information vul- partment—say there is plenty of evi- is going to answer to the mother of a nerable to our Nation’s adversaries. It dence with which to prosecute some- child born with a devastating birth de- is evident now that she didn’t give the body who has done the things and said fect and explain to them why they authorities full access to all of her the things Secretary Clinton and her thought that politics was more impor- work-related emails. Director Comey staff have. But we understand that Di- tant than actually coming up with pre- said the FBI uncovered several thou- rector Comey has taken that off the vention and coming up with a vaccine sand more that she hadn’t turned over. table, and now Attorney General that actually would stop the threat of In a word, this is unacceptable. For Lynch has said we are going to close these dangerous and devastating birth somebody with so much experience in the file. But the truth is, Secretary defects? government—as First Lady, as a U.S. Clinton and her staff have proven that If the Democrats in the Senate want Senator, and then as Secretary of they are either unable or disinterested to gamble on the future health of the State—to gamble with our Nation’s in keeping safe highly sensitive classi- next generation, I want no part of it. most important secrets is completely fied information, and they have gone so Zika poses a real and immediate threat irresponsible. Unfortunately, it tends far as to cover up this scandal at every to our country, particularly in places to reinforce the narrative Secretary step along the way. I think that should like Texas where I come from. Ignoring Clinton herself has been responsible for mean at minimum that they forfeit the the devastating impact of this virus is writing, and that narrative is, when it privilege of having a security clearance irresponsible and heartless. comes to her activities, anything goes. so at least they cannot do this again. We will soon provide another oppor- The rules may apply to you and me, Yesterday, Director Comey made tunity for our Democratic colleagues but they certainly don’t apply to her. clear that Secretary Clinton and her to move forward with a bipartisan, bi- Unfortunately, she feels like she is staff should have known better. That cameral funding bill that includes the above the law, and, as I said, the rules seems self-evident with somebody with needed resources to fight Zika here at that apply to others don’t apply to her. long experience in the Federal Govern- home at the funding level that the This is simply unacceptable. ment—from First Lady, to U.S. Sen- Democrats in the Senate have pre- As Director Comey noted, people who ator, to Secretary of State. With the viously supported. Our public health engage in what Secretary Clinton did— highest level of security clearance in officials need to continue the good the mishandling of classified informa- the Federal Government, she should work they are doing to study the virus, tion—are often at least held account- have known better. contain it, and keep it from spreading able through some security or adminis- She was reckless and careless in the here in the United States, and they trative sanction, and that is if they way she handled this classified infor- need the financial resources to do it. It don’t get fired or put in prison for their mation. Add to that the frightening is just beyond comprehension why our misconduct. implications of this sensitive informa- Senate colleagues would continue to We have to do what we can here to tion getting into the hands of our ad- filibuster this important funding. hold her and her staff accountable. It is versaries, such as the Russians or Chi- Saying that the bill lacks sufficient part of the oath we take to uphold the nese intelligence agencies, and any rea- funding to fight the virus is just plain Constitution and the laws of the sonable person would come to one con- ridiculous. That is what they have United States. No less than if we were clusion: They have to be held account- said. According to reports from just an FBI agent or a Federal judge, as able and there has to be some penalty yesterday, administration officials es- Senators we have to take that oath, for putting our Nation’s security at timate that they still have nearly half and it is the right thing to do. risk. a billion dollars of unspent Ebola funds It is very important that we send a I will continue to call on the Depart- that could be put to use for combating firm message that this sort of behavior ment of Justice to be open and trans- Zika. is unacceptable, and hopefully we will parent. Director Comey said that he

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That is cerning Top Secret information, some of cial emergency’’ is an official term which apparently ‘‘bore markings indicating that refers to a vacancy in our court why he made the really unprecedented the presence of classified information.’’ announcement that he did, which system for a court that carries a heavy These conclusions, among others, directly caseload or a vacancy that has re- frankly far exceeded his authority as contradict many of the public statements the investigative agency, where he said that former-Secretary Clinton and her sup- mained open for an extended period of no reasonable prosecutor would have porters have made in defense of her unprece- time. sought an indictment in this case. dented conduct. Nevertheless, yesterday you In the United States, we now have But I hope the Justice Department accepted his recommendation and, in a terse, dozens of judicial emergencies. Why responds to the letter which I sent on two-sentence statement, announced that are there so many judicial emer- today’s date wherein I asked him to re- ‘‘the thorough, year-long investigation’’ was gencies? Why are there so many vacan- lease any unclassified information as it now closed and that ‘‘no charges [would] be cies in courts that have heavy case- brought against any individuals within the loads? Why are there so many long- relates to this scandal. The American scope of the investigation.’’ taxpayers deserve to see all of the in- term vacancies? Well, the reason is vestigation—which cost the American The Director’s lengthy public statement simple. When it comes to confirming was ‘‘unusual,’’ as he noted, but he asserted taxpayers millions of dollars—espe- judges, Senate Republicans simply that ‘‘the American people deserve . . . de- refuse to do their jobs. Their view cially in light of the fact that there tails in a case of intense public interest,’’ will be no criminal prosecution, ac- seems to be very simple. If government and that ‘‘given the importance of the mat- isn’t working for them or their rich cording to Director Comey’s rec- ter, . . . unusual transparency is in order.’’ ommendation and according to the de- His public statement, he said, was an effort friends or their rightwing allies, then cision of the Justice Department to to ‘‘assure the American people . . . that they will simply refuse to let it work close the case yesterday. this investigation was done competently, for anyone. I urge Secretary Clinton to ask the honestly, and independently. No outside in- Yesterday the Senate confirmed one Justice Department to release the FBI fluence of any kind was brought to bear.’’ In judge, Brian Martinotti, to sit on the contrast, your public announcement con- district court in New Jersey—one reports and any transcript of her 31⁄2- tained no similar disclosures or otherwise judge, one noncontroversial nominee hour long interview as well because I provided the American people with much for a noncontroversial job who had think the American people deserve it. I needed transparency and information about been waiting for a vote for over a year. suspect what we would find is that Sec- that investigation. The Republicans who control the Sen- retary Clinton’s lawyers said: No mat- For more than a year, I also have noted ate seem to think that is reasonable. It ter what you have done before, don’t that this case was incredibly important and 1 is not. lie to the FBI in that 3 ⁄2-hour inter- highly unusual and that the American people Sixteen district court judges have view, because that lawyer and Sec- deserved a fair and impartial investigation. been investigated, gone through hear- retary Clinton would know that no That’s why I called for you to appoint a Spe- cial Counsel in this matter. The need for a ings, been voted out of committee, and matter what you have done or haven’t are pending on the Senate floor right done before, if you actually lie to an Special Counsel, the appointment of which would give the American people greater now. One circuit court nominee is also FBI agent, that is an indictable and transparency and assurance of independence, on this list for a vacancy that has re- prosecutable crime in and of itself. So was underscored after you decided to meet mained vacant for more than 6 years. I have reasonable confidence that she privately with Secretary Clinton’s husband Fourteen States have judges on this did finally come clean and tell the just days before the Director’s public an- list. About half of these nominees have truth to the FBI in that interview. nouncement and the conclusion of that in- been sitting for nearly a year or more. Now, the only right thing to do, in the vestigation. I will continue to press for this These courts do an enormous amount appointment because I believe it is the best interests of the sort of transparency of work. Their work is not political. Director Comey talked about—since and most appropriate way for the American people to have faith in the administration of Democratic and Republican Senators there can be no prosecution and no injustice in this case. have worked with the President to se- dictment, the only right thing to do in lect these nominees to fill vacancies on the interests of transparency and pub- In the meantime, and because the Director and I both agree about the importance of these courts, and those nominees de- lic accountability is for that transcript this matter and the need for unusual trans- serve votes. Right now, there is no in- 1 of the 3 ⁄2-hour-long interview to be re- parency, I call on the Department of Justice dication that they are going to get leased to the American people so they to immediately release the FBI’s report and votes. And in a few days, the Repub- can judge for themselves. I believe the any transcript of the FBI’s three-and-a-half licans who control the Senate are plan- American people deserve at least that. hour interview of former-Secretary Clinton ning to pack up their things and shut Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- on July 2. As you know, such interview re- down the Senate for most of the rest of sent to have printed in the RECORD my ports often become public when a criminal the year. This is ridiculous. No other letter of July 7 to the Honorable Loret- investigation results in a criminal prosecu- workers in America get to walk off the tion. And the Federal Rules of Criminal Pro- ta Lynch. job before the job is done, and the same There being no objection, the mate- cedure require the Department of Justice to provide an interview report directly to a should be true for the U.S. Congress. rial was ordered to be printed in the criminal defendant. Of course, here you have We shouldn’t leave until we do our RECORD, as follows: declined to appoint a Special Counsel and work. U.S. SENATE, the FBI has decided that ‘‘no reasonable The Senate can act right now to con- Washington, DC, July 7, 2016. prosecutor would bring such a case,’’ so the firm these 17 nominations, all of whom Hon. LORETTA LYNCH, American people will not enjoy the same have bipartisan support. Attorney General, United States Department of transparency that they have come to expect Mr. President, I rise today to ask Justice, Washington, DC. from their own government. But as the Di- unanimous consent that the Senate DEAR ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH: On July rector said, ‘‘only facts matter,’’ and the proceed to executive session to con- 5, 2016, the Director of the Federal Bureau of American people deserve the facts under- Investigation (FBI) announced in a lengthy lying former-Secretary Clinton’s FBI inter- sider the following nominations: Cal- press conference that the FBI was officially view to evaluate the Department of Justice’s endar Nos. 359, 362, 363, 364, 459, 460, 461, recommending that ‘‘no charges are appro- conclusions and the public statements that 508, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573, 597, 598, 599, priate’’ in the investigation of former Sec- former-Secretary Clinton and her supporters and 600; that the Senate proceed to retary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a per- have made regarding her use of a personal vote without intervening action or de- sonal email system during her time as Sec- email system and her egregious handling of bate on the nominations in the order retary of State. The Director made this rec- classified information. listed; that the motions to reconsider ommendation even though the FBI found Sincerely, be considered made and laid upon the that ‘‘there is evidence of potential viola- JOHN CORNYN, table with no intervening action or de- tions of the statutes regarding the handling United States Senator. of classified information,’’ including evi- bate; that no further motions be in dence that ‘‘Secretary Clinton or her col- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- order to the nominations; that any re- leagues . . . were extremely careless in their ator from Massachusetts. lated statements be printed in the

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Mr. President, reserv- taken, we are trying to deal with a bio- When President Reagan was in office, ing the right to object, as the Senator technology issue when it comes to our almost no uncontroversial nominees knows, we have a process for consid- agriculture supply, which was voted took longer than 100 days to confirm. ering district judges. It is the preroga- out of the Committee on Agriculture, Let us at least give these four nomi- tive of the majority to set those votes. Nutrition, and Forestry, and I know nees who have been waiting nearly a Frankly, in light of the process we do the Senator from Kansas, the distin- year or more for their vote. The Senate have, as the Senator knows, this is not guished chairman of the committee, can do this, it can do it quickly, and we the appropriate process. would like to get to it but for the di- will be done. There is bipartisan sup- But I do agree with her on one thing: versions caused by these sorts of report for every one of them. that the Senate ought to do its job. quests which the Senator knows will be Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- One of the things we could do, which objected to. sent that the Senate proceed to execu- has received broad bipartisan, bi- If the Senator is really concerned tive session to consider the following cameral support, is to fund the efforts about doing our job and taking care of four nominations: Calendar Nos. 359, to combat the Zika virus, which cre- our Nation’s business, then she ought 362, 363, and 364; that the Senate pro- ates the devastating birth defects we to join me in voting for the $1.1 billion ceed to vote without intervening ac- talked about a moment ago. While I ob- in funding for the Zika virus, which is tion or debate on the nominations in ject to this request, there are things we a national health care emergency, and the order listed; that the motions to ought to be able to do before we break. certainly the pictures I have had here reconsider be considered made and laid The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- previously demonstrate the con- upon the table with no intervening action is heard. sequences of a failure to deal with this tion or debate; that no further motions The Senator from Massachusetts. Zika virus. Unfortunately, this baby be in order to the nominations; that Ms. WARREN. Mr. President, we do has suffered a devastating birth defect any related statements be printed in not have a process that is working. known as microcephaly—literally a the RECORD; that the President be im- The Nation faces a judicial vacancy shrunken skull and brain—and is con- mediately notified of the Senate’s ac- crisis. Ten percent of the district court demned to an uncertain future in life, tion, and the Senate then resume legis- judgeships in this country are empty. not to mention the consequences on lative session. We face nearly twice as many judicial the family. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there emergencies as President Bush faced in I would implore the Senator from objection? 2008 or President Clinton faced in 2000. The Senator from Texas. Massachusetts, let’s get to work doing Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, reserv- Cases are piling up, and courts are this, which I believe the Senator has ing the right to object, we can have the starved for help. The Supreme Court of already voted for the $1.1 billion in debate about judges, but I think we the United States sits paralyzed, un- funding. Yet when we brought this up, ought to first take care of the business able to deal with some of its most chal- all we got were objections and before us that the Senate voted to pro- lenging cases. But the majority whip is stonewalling from our colleagues on ceed to, which is to deal with the legis- going to pack up and go home, leaving the other side of the aisle. Frankly, I lation to avoid the State-by-State re- 18 judgeships vacant because—well, don’t understand it. It is a terrible mis- quirement for labeling our food prod- that is the process? take, and I don’t want one baby in ucts, which has been agreed to by the This isn’t a game. There is no score- America to suffer this sort of birth de- Senator from Michigan, the ranking board. You don’t get to ignore a na- fect because we dithered and did not do member of the Committee on Agri- tional crisis because you care more our duty when it came to providing culture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to- about scoring political points than adequate funding to combat the Zika gether with the chairman of the com- keeping government functioning. virus. mittee, the Senator from Kansas. President Obama’s job is to nominate This is something we should take We ought to be taking care of that, judges to fill vacancies, and the Repub- care of before we break on July 15. We and we also ought to be taking care of licans’ job here is to lead us to confirm can fight about judges any other time, this. This is urgent. How people can those judges to fill those vacancies. Do but this is a true public health emer- think we need to deal with these lists your job. gency. And how Senators can come of judges and sort of hijack the agenda So if you won’t confirm all of the down here and try to hijack the floor and distract us from our work on pre- pending judicial nominees who have to talk about something else when we venting these sort of birth defects is, been voted out of committee and are are ignoring the very work before us in frankly, a misplacement of priorities. currently waiting on the Senate floor, dealing with this biotechnology agri- I object. then before you leave town for months, culture issue or dealing with some- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- let’s at least confirm the 13 judges on thing even more pressing, such as tion is heard. that list who were nominated last year avoiding birth defects and these sorts The Senator from Massachusetts. to fill district court vacancies. of devastating consequences as a result Ms. WARREN. Mr. President, it Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- of this Zika virus, I do not understand. would take no time to confirm these sent that the Senate proceed to execu- I do not understand the Senator’s pri- judges. These are all people who have tive session to consider the following 13 orities, and I object. been examined by the committee, who nominations: Calendar Nos. 359, 362, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CAS- have passed out of committee, who are 363, 364, 459, 460, 461, 508, 569, 570, 571, SIDY). Objection is heard. pending on the floor, and who have bi- 572, and 573; that the Senate proceed to The Senator from Massachusetts. partisan support. These are judges vote without intervening action or de- Ms. WARREN. Mr. President, this from Tennessee, New Jersey, New bate on the nominations in the order has been going on now for a year and a York, California, Rhode Island, Penn- listed; that the motions to reconsider half. The Republicans have delayed and sylvania, Hawaii, Utah, Massachusetts, be considered made and laid upon the delayed and delayed and delayed until Maryland, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Lou- table with no intervening action or de- we face dozens of judicial emergencies. isiana, and Indiana. Fourteen States bate; that no further motions be in There is always an excuse not to take will be left without vital judges be- order to the nominations; that any re- up even noncontroversial appoint- cause of the Republican blockade. lated statements be printed in the ments. At a certain point, reasonable people RECORD; that the President be imme- We can’t get the 17 who were voted have to ask: Why are Republicans actu- diately notified of the Senate’s action, out of committee and are currently ally doing this? Is it so that if Donald

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Our veterans wait is a guy who just a few weeks ago race- Mr. President, I would like to also way too long to get the disability pay- baited a Federal judge—attacked a comment on the Zika virus and the ments they deserve for having served judge who spent years defending Amer- threat to the United States. You bet it our country. The Republicans cut $500 ica from the terrors of murderers and is serious. We have seen the photo- million from that effort, but they drug traffickers. Trump attacked him graphs that have been displayed here of weren’t finished. They then turned simply because the judge refuses to the children who are born with serious around and said: We want to make an bend the law to suit Trump’s personal birth defects because of the Zika virus. exemption in the Clean Water Act so financial interests. It is so serious the President of the certain chemicals can be sprayed And where do you think Donald United States notified this Senate in around water supplies. What has that Trump got the idea he can attack the February—February of this year—to got to do with this and why do we need integrity of Federal judges with impu- act immediately on providing $1.9 bil- to do it at this moment? It is one thing nity? He got it from you—from the Re- lion—$1.9 billion—to protect as many they have been longing for. The third publicans in the Senate and their deci- people as possible from the spread of thing they turned around and did, after sion to turn scores of highly qualified, this virus and the terrible effects it they cut the money from the VA and nonpartisan judicial appointees into has. The President asked for $1.9 bil- after they made this provision to political footballs. lion not only to deal with the mosqui- change what the EPA can regulate and, Talk is cheap. If Republicans really toes and the infection but also to de- as I mentioned earlier, took the money do disagree with Donald Trump’s ap- velop a vaccine so we can liberate out of Ebola—they then moved on to proach to judges, then do something America from the concern of this virus say: We know that women across about it. Confirm these highly quali- showing up next year and the year America will be concerned about fam- fied noncontroversial judges. Do it now after. ily planning because of the threat of before shutting off the lights and leav- So there was a $1.9 billion request in the Zika virus so they put language in ing town. February. To date—to date—the Re- the bill prohibiting Planned Parent- I yield the floor. publican leadership in the House and hood from providing family planning to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Senate have failed to produce the $1.9 those who are concerned about the ator from Illinois. billion that was suggested by the Presi- spread of the Zika virus. They just Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I would dent. can’t stay away from Planned Parent- like to address the issue just raised by We had a compromise number of $1.1 hood, and they included it. the Senator from Massachusetts and billion that was approved by the Sen- And while you might think that was responded to by the Senator from ate with a strong bipartisan vote al- enough to make this the most con- Texas. most a month ago. I think there were troversial political bill to move from The Senator from Massachusetts 87 Senators who voted for it because we the House, they had one more trick up carefully avoided mentioning the obvi- all understand it is a public health their sleeve—a provision to allow the ous. This is the same Republican ma- emergency. Well, in our bicameral sys- display of Confederate flags in our vet- jority that will not fill the vacancy on tem, the bill then went over to the erans cemeteries—Confederate flags. the Supreme Court. For the first mo- House of Representatives. What hap- Why? ment in the history of the United pened next tells the story of what is Why would you take an important States—in the history of the United wrong with the Republican-controlled bill dealing with a public health crisis States—we have a Presidential nomi- Senate today. They took our bipartisan and lard it up with all of these miser- nee sent to fill the vacancy of the late bill for $1.1 billion to fight the Zika able provisions that just excite the Justice Scalia, and the Republicans in virus, they put it in a conference com- hearts of some political rightwingers? the Senate refuse to give him a hearing mittee, they held a meeting but didn’t They did it because they were hoping or a vote. That has never—underline invite any Democrats, and they then we would stop the funding for the Zika the word ‘‘never’’—happened in the his- came up with a bill that provided $1.1 virus. It is stopped now waiting for a tory of the United States of America. billion, but listen to how they did it. clean bill. They know the President When we say do your job, it starts at They took money away from fighting will never sign this bill as written. the highest Court and goes straight the Ebola virus in Africa, which we If we would go back to the original down to every Federal court in Amer- feared several years ago would spread bipartisan bill passed in the Senate, we ica. to the United States and still is a would certainly get approval for it. I sit on the Judiciary Committee, threat to Africa and to many other That is why, I answer the Senator from and what I think is particularly gall- people. They took the public health Texas, we wait for the day when we can ing, troubling, and worrisome is that money to fight the Ebola virus and get back to bipartisanship on this im- each one of these nominees has been said: We will transfer it over, and you portant public health threat. carefully vetted by the Department of can fight the Zika virus. I see there are others seeking the Justice, by the FBI, by Republican Apparently, the Republicans believe floor. The last point I will make is that staffers—everyone imaginable—culling we can only fight one public health we are going to vote in a short period through every aspect of their life to see challenge at a time. We don’t have of time on this GMO legislation. I have if they are truly worthy of being a lifetime for Ebola. We are going to move a lengthy statement that I will put in time appointee to the Federal bench, to Zika. The Centers for Disease Con- the RECORD about my position, but I and they all passed the test. They were trol—the preeminent agency in the ask unanimous consent to have printed all voted out of committee, and they world when it comes to fighting public in the RECORD an article from the New all languish on the floor of the Senate health disasters—has warned us don’t England Journal of Medicine. This is for the very reason the Senator men- do this. We are still worried about the an August 20, 2015, article from the tioned. spread of Ebola and the danger of it. New England Journal of Medicine enti- The Senator from Texas and many But they didn’t stop with that. They tled ‘‘GMOs, Herbicides, and Public others are lying awake at night pray- didn’t stop with taking the Ebola Health.’’ It makes the point very di- ing for the moment when President money and putting it into the Zika rectly that there has been no credible Donald Trump can pick Federal judges virus. They then turned around and scientific evidence that GMO foods in America. Unless Judge Judy is com- larded the bill up with every political pose any danger to consumers who con- ing out of retirement, I have no idea ornament they could think of that sume them. But there is a credible con- where he is going to turn to find judi- would captivate the hearts of the right- cern about the use of chemicals in the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:38 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G07JY6.047 S07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with SENATE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4873 production of these GMO products and creased by a factor of more than 250—from of chemical herbicides applied to GM crops. how they are being larded on these 0.4 million kg in 1974 to 113 million kg in It would respect the wishes of a growing fields, creating real concern about the 2014. Global use has increased by a factor of number of consumers who insist they have a more than 10. Not surprisingly, glyphosate- right to know what foods they are buying ultimate impact on public health by resistant weeds have emerged and are found and how they were produced. And the argu- these agricultural chemicals and the today on nearly 100 million acres in 36 ment that there is nothing new about ge- runoff. states. Fields must now be treated with mul- netic rearrangement misses the point that There being no objection, the mate- tiple herbicides, including 2,4-D, a compo- GM crops are now the agricultural products rial was ordered to be printed in the nent of the Agent Orange defoliant used in most heavily treated with herbicides and RECORD, as follows: the Vietnam War. that two of these herbicides may pose risks The first of the two developments that GMOS, HERBICIDES, AND PUBLIC HEALTH of cancer. We hope, in light of this new infor- raise fresh concerns about the safety of GM mation, that the FDA will reconsider label- (By Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., and Charles crops is a 2014 decision by the Environmental ing of GM foods and couple it with ade- Benbrook, Ph.D.) Protection Agency (EPA) to approve Enlist quately funded, long-term postmarketing Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) Duo, a new combination herbicide com- surveillance. are not high on most physicians’ worry lists. prising glyphosate plus 2,4-D. Enlist Duo was Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask If we think at all about biotechnology, most formulated to combat herbicide resistance. unanimous consent to have printed in of us probably focus on direct threats to It will be marketed in tandem with newly human health, such as prospects for con- approved seeds genetically engineered to re- the RECORD an article from the Camp- verting pathogens to biologic weapons or the sist glyphosate, 2,4-D, and multiple other bell Soup Company. implications of new technologies for editing herbicides. The EPA anticipates that a 3-to- There being no objection, the mate- the human germline. But while those debates 7-fold increase in 2,4-D use will result. rial was ordered to be printed in the simmer, the application of biotechnology to In our view, the science and the risk as- RECORD, as follows: agriculture has been rapid and aggressive. sessment supporting the Enlist Duo decision [From Campbell Soup Company, July 6, 2016] The vast majority of the corn and soybeans are flawed. The science consisted solely of CAMPBELL ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR grown in the United States are now geneti- toxicologic studies commissioned by the her- MANDATORY GMO LABELING cally engineered. Foods produced from GM bicide manufacturers in the 1980s and 1990s CAMDEN, N.J.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 7, crops have become ubiquitous. And unlike and never published, not an uncommon prac- 2016—Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) regulatory bodies in 64 other countries, the tice in U.S. pesticide regulation. These stud- today announced its support for the enact- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does ies predated current knowledge of low-dose, ment of federal legislation to establish a sin- not require labeling of GM foods. endocrine-mediated, and epigenetic effects gle mandatory labeling standard for foods Two recent developments are dramatically and were not designed to detect them. The changing the GMO landscape. First, there derived from genetically modified organisms risk assessment gave little consideration to (GMOs). have been sharp increases in the amounts potential health effects in infants and chil- This Smart News Release features multi- and numbers of chemical herbicides applied dren, thus contravening federal pesticide media. View the full release here: http:// to GM crops, and still further increases—the law. It failed to consider ecologic impact, www.businesswire.com/news/home/ largest in a generation—are scheduled to such as effects on the monarch butterfly and 20160107006458/en/. occur in the next few years. Second, the other pollinators. It considered only pure Campbell believes it is necessary for the International Agency for Research on Cancer glyphosate, despite studies showing that for- federal government to provide a national (IARC) has classified glyphosate, the herbi- mulated glyphosate that contains standard for labeling requirements to better cide most widely used on GM crops, as a surfactants and adjuvants is more toxic than inform consumers about this issue. The com- ‘‘probable human carcinogen’’ and classified the pure compound. pany will advocate for federal legislation a second herbicide, 2,4- The second new development is the deter- that would require all foods and beverages dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), as a mination by the IARC in 2015 that regulated by the Food and Drug Administra- ‘‘possible human carcinogen.’’ glyphosate is a ‘‘probable human car- tion (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agri- The application of genetic engineering to cinogen’’ and 2,4-D a ‘‘possible human car- culture (USDA) to be clearly and simply la- agriculture builds on the ancient practice of cinogen.’’ These classifications were based beled for GMOs. Campbell is also supportive selective breeding. But unlike traditional se- on comprehensive assessments of the of a national standard for non-GMO claims lective breeding, genetic engineering vastly toxicologic and epidemiologic literature that made on food packaging. expands the range of traits that can be linked both herbicides to dose-related in- As a result of its decision to support man- moved into plants and enables breeders to creases in malignant tumors at multiple an- datory national GMO labeling, Campbell will import DNA from virtually anywhere in the atomical sites in animals and linked withdraw from all efforts led by coalitions biosphere. Depending on the traits selected, glyphosate to an increased incidence of non- and groups opposing such measures. genetically engineered crops can increase Hodgkin’s lymphoma in humans. The company continues to oppose a patch- yields, thrive when irrigated with salty These developments suggest that GM foods work of state-by-state labeling laws, which water, or produce fruits and vegetables re- and the herbicides applied to them may pose it believes are incomplete, impractical and sistant to mold and rot. hazards to human health that were not ex- create unnecessary confusion for consumers. The National Academy of Sciences has amined in previous assessments. We believe Campbell is optimistic a federal solution twice reviewed the safety of GM crops—in that the time has therefore come to thor- can be established in a reasonable amount of 2000 and 2004. Those reviews, which focused oughly reconsider all aspects of the safety of time if all the interested stakeholders co- almost entirely on the genetic aspects of bio- plant biotechnology. The National Academy operate. However, if that is not the case, technology, concluded that GM crops pose no of Sciences has convened a new committee Campbell is prepared to label all of its U.S. unique hazards to human health. They noted to reassess the social, economic, environ- products for the presence of ingredients that that genetic transformation has the poten- mental, and human health effects of GM were derived from GMOs, not just those re- tial to produce unanticipated allergens or crops. This development is welcome, but the quired by pending legislation in Vermont. toxins and might alter the nutritional qual- committee’s report is not expected until at The company would seek guidance from the ity of food. Both reports recommended devel- least 2016. FDA and approval by USDA. opment of new risk-assessment tools and In the meantime, we offer two rec- Campbell continues to recognize that postmarketing surveillance. Those recommendations. First, we believe the EPA GMOs are safe, as the science indicates that ommendations have largely gone unheeded. should delay implementation of its decision foods derived from crops grown using geneti- Herbicide resistance is the main char- to permit use of Enlist Duo. This decision cally modified seeds are not nutritionally acteristic that the biotechnology industry was made in haste. It was based on poorly de- different from other foods. The company also has chosen to introduce into plants. Corn signed and outdated studies and on an in- believes technology will play a crucial role and soybeans with genetically engineered complete assessment of human exposure and in feeding the world. tolerance to glyphosate (Roundup) were first environmental effects. It would have bene- Campbell has been engaged in the con- introduced in the mid-1990s. These ‘‘Round- fited from deeper consideration of independ- versation about GMO labeling for several up-Read ‘‘crops now account for more than ently funded studies published in the peer-re- years and has taken action to provide con- 90% of the corn and soybeans planted in the viewed literature. And it preceded the recent sumers with more information about how its United States. Their advantage, especially in IARC determinations on glyphosate and 2,4- products are made, including the presence of the first years after introduction, is that D. Second, the National Toxicology Program GMOs, through efforts like its website they greatly simplify weed management. should urgently assess the toxicology of pure www.whatsinmyfood.com. With 92 percent of Farmers can spray herbicide both before and glyphosate, formulated glyphosate, and mix- Americans supporting the labeling of GMO during the growing season, leaving their tures of glyphosate and other herbicides. foods, Campbell believes now is the time for crops unharmed. Finally, we believe the time has come to the federal government to act quickly to im- But widespread adoption of herbicide-re- revisit the United States’ reluctance to label plement a federal solution. sistant crops has led to overreliance on her- GM foods. Labeling will deliver multiple ben- More information about the rationale be- bicides and, in particular, on glyphosate. In efits. It is essential for tracking emergence hind Campbell’s decision can be found on the United States, glyphosate use has in- of novel food allergies and assessing effects Campbell’s newsroom.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:23 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G07JY6.049 S07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with SENATE S4874 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 7, 2016 CAMPBELL’S—WHY WE SUPPORT MANDATORY multiple trips to Capitol Hill to meet with Agriculture which we can educate the NATIONAL GMO LABELING elected officials. Despite these efforts, Con- public on that can really signal as to (By Campbell Team) gress has not been able to resolve this issue. whether this product has GMO prod- Today the New York Times (http:// We now believe that proposing a mandatory ucts. The third is the one that troubles national solution is necessary. Printing a www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/business/a-new- me—something called a YRL or URL. I fact-on-the-foodlabel.html) wrote about clear and simple statement on the label is the best solution for consumers and for may have that designation wrong, but Campbell’s decision to support mandatory it is that kind of scrambled screen you national labeling of products that may con- Campbell. tain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). I want to stress that we’re in no way dis- see that you can’t read but some com- Campbell’s President and CEO Denise Mor- puting the science behind GMOs or their puters can read. What these food com- rison shared the message below with our em- safety. The overwhelming weight of sci- panies want to do is not tell you as a ployees about the reasons behind our deci- entific evidence indicates that GMOs are safe consumer whether the food has GMOs sion. and that foods derived from crops using ge- or not. As you go through the grocery netically modified seeds are not nutrition- TAKING A MAJOR STEP FORWARD AS WE LIVE ally different from other foods. In America, store, they want you to hold your cell OUR PURPOSE many farmers who grow canola, corn, soy- phone up to that box of macaroni and At Campbell, we are unleashing the power bean and sugar beets choose to use geneti- cheese to see if it has GMO in it or not of our Purpose, Real food that matters for cally modified seeds and have done so for by reading all that is written on your life’s moments. Our Purpose calls for us to nearly twenty years. More than 90% of these cell phone. That is a bad joke. acknowledge that consumers appreciate four crops in America are currently grown I just went shopping with my two 41⁄2- what goes into our food, and why—so they using GMO seeds. It takes an average of thir- can feel good about the choices they make, year-old grandkids. I cannot imagine teen years to get a GMO seed approved by walking through that store, trying to for themselves and their loved ones. the government for safety. Ingredients de- Today, consistent with our Purpose, we an- rived from these crops are in many of our keep them from raiding different dis- nounced our support for mandatory national products. We also believe that GMOs and plays, and using my cell phone on box labeling of products that may contain ge- other technologies will play a crucial role in after box of macaroni and cheese. That, netically modified organisms (GMO) and pro- feeding the world. to me, is the ‘‘secret decoder ring’’ ap- posed that the federal government provide a We will continue to be a member of GMA proach to this, and I think it is an em- national standard for non-GMO claims made and will participate in food industry initia- on food packaging. barrassment to consumers to ask them tives that align with our Purpose and busi- We are operating with a ‘‘Consumer First’’ to go through that. So I will be voting ness goals. However, as a result of the mindset. We put the consumer at the center in opposition to the GMO bill when it change in our position on GMO labeling, of everything we do. That’s how we’ve built Campbell is withdrawing from all efforts led comes before us later in the day. trust for nearly 150 years. We have always by groups opposing mandatory GMO labeling I yield the floor. believed that consumers have the right to legislation, including those led by GMA. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- know what’s in their food. GMO has evolved The New York Times reported on our deci- ator from North Carolina. to be a top consumer food issue reaching a sion, and we issued a press release. I encour- Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, the Pre- critical mass of 92% of consumers in favor of age you to read both. We recognize that this siding Officer and I are fairly new to putting it on the label. In addition, we have declared our intention announcement may spark discussion. It’s dif- this Chamber. I know Senate rules pre- to set the standard for transparency in the ficult to predict the exact nature of the en- vent me from engaging anyone who food industry. We have been openly dis- suing commentary, but I suspect it will be a happens to be in the gallery, so I will cussing our ingredients, including those de- mixed bag. What I do know is that our deci- not do that. But I have to admit, sion was guided by our Purpose; rooted in rived from GMO crops, through our watching what has gone on here for the WhatsinmyFood.com website. We are sup- our consumer-first mindset; and driven by our commitment to transparency—to be last 15 or 20 minutes, I can’t help but porting digital disclosure through the Gro- think at least one or two are saying: cery Manufacturers Association’s (GMA) open and honest about our food. I truly believe it is the right thing to do for consumers What on Earth is going on down on SmartLabelTM program. We have announced the removal of artificial colors and flavors and for our business. that Senate floor? We have heard argu- from our products. However, our support of Best, ments embedded in arguments. ENISE MORRISON, mandatory federal GMO labeling sets a new D The issue we have before us today is bar for transparency. President and CEO. on the biotechnology labeling vote. We There is currently no federal regulation re- Mr. DURBIN. Campbell Soup Com- have heard about judges. Look, every- quiring labeling that informs consumers pany has decided they are going to face body says we are in gridlock here. about the presence of GMOs in their food. In this issue squarely, honestly, and There are obviously instances where we the absence of federal action, many states— waste no time. It is a company that I disagree. Let’s set those aside and ad- from California to Maine—have attempted to trust. I can’t imagine how many cans address this issue. Campbell has opposed this dress legislation where we do agree we state-by-state patchwork approach, and has of Campbell’s soup we have consumed have pressing issues, and we have two worked with GMA to defeat several state in my household throughout my life. of those before the Senate today. ballot initiatives. Put simply, although we They said: It is time to be honest The one immediately before us is on believe that consumers have the right to with consumers. We will tell them. We biotechnology labeling, and I am going know what’s in their food, we also believe will tell them pointblank on the label to get to that in a minute. The other that a state-by-state piecemeal approach is so they can read whether or not there has to do with funding Zika. It has to incomplete, impractical and costly to imple- are GMO products contained in the do with trying to understand why some ment for food makers. More importantly, it’s soup. Then they can make the decision confusing to consumers. 38 of my colleagues on the other side of Most recently, Vermont passed legislation as to whether they want to buy it. the aisle voted for $1.1 billion in Zika that will require food companies including I wish that were the outcome of this funding, and now it is back before us. Campbell to label products regulated by the entire debate, but it is not. It is one vote away from going to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that The third point I want to make is it President’s desk, and now they are all may contain ingredients made from GMO is mindless for us to allow individual voting against it. Collectively, the crops. However, this legislation does not in- States like Vermont to decide the la- Members who voted for the $1.1 billion clude products with meat or poultry, because beling standards for national compa- and now vote against it represent they are regulated by United States Depart- ment of Agriculture (USDA). Under Vermont nies. It makes no sense. We cannot States that have 671 Zika cases re- law, SpaghettiO’s original variety, guided by allow it to occur. ported to date. It looks as if we are the FDA, will be labeled for the presence of The last point I will make is this: going to be here a little bit tonight, GMOs, but SpaghettiO’s meatballs, guided by One of the provisions in this bill I and I will get into the details and share the USDA, will not. Yet these two varieties think is embarrassing, and it is a pro- the roll call vote, but today I want to sit next to each other on a store shelf, which vision which I cannot support. We give talk about biotechnology. is bound to create consumer confusion. three options to food companies when I want to start by thanking Senator Campbell has been actively involved in it comes to labeling for GMOs. First, ROBERTS and Senator STABENOW for the trying to resolve this issue since 2011. We’ve worked with GMA, legislators and regulators declare right on the label, just as work they did in reaching a bipartisan to forge a national voluntary solution. We’ve Campbell Soup Company does, if GMO solution to this controversial issue. We engaged a variety of stakeholders, from law- products are included. Second, use a voted on cloture yesterday, and we had makers to activists. I’ve personally made symbol created by the Department of a majority of over 60—65 to be exact—

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You can board an airplane with creases the cost of food prices to con- the Obama administration, said: None them, you can get information about sumers. This is what we are proposing whatsoever. Then I moved to the EPA, your fuel, you can get medical services. to avoid in the language we have before the Environmental Protection Agency. It is everywhere. It is ubiquitous. It is us that I hope we vote on and I hope we I asked precisely the same question. I prevalent. Everywhere you go, you see focus on. This is only one choice of one got precisely the same answer. Then I them. When I go to the store, because State—the State of Vermont. There are went to the U.S. Department of Agri- my wife is pretty strict on how much several dozen States that plan to have culture. I asked precisely the same money I can spend, I will scan a QR their own variance, and I will talk question and got precisely the same an- code to see if I can find a comparative about the absurd exemptions and ex- swer. shop, and maybe I need to go down the ceptions later on. When we walk the halls here, people street to buy that same product. In The bottom line: Complexity creates say: THOM, I know. I know they are other words, it is an integral part of cost—cost to the American consumer. safe. But for some reason we have lost our lives. For somebody to say it is In Vermont alone, the Vermont law the argument. Ladies and gentlemen, new, weird, different, hard to use—it will increase the annual cost of food the reason we can’t lose the argument only takes one button, one click on per family—in Vermont alone—by on agricultural biotech—what some your phone, to actually get to the rich about $2,000 a year. There are people people call GMO—is that our Nation information on the Internet. That is struggling to pay for the food they and our world’s food supply rely on it. what this bill is about. So what if that QR code is on the have right now. There are people try- Over ninety percent of all corn grown product—a can of soup, a bag of flour, in Iowa is grown as a result of ing to decide, do they pay to heat their or any product you buy in the grocery biotech—not some sort of home or eat? Now we are talking about store that is subject to this law. You go Frankencorn, but corn that is heat re- raising food costs, for some of the poor- to your phone, you hit QR code reader est people, by $2,000 a year. sistant, corn that is moisture resist- which is on your smartphone, and it Complexity equates to cost. This pro- ant, fungus resistant. would immediately bring you to a vides clarity. I am going to talk a little If we were to roll back 30 or 40 years website. This is what this proposed law bit about that, but I do appreciate Sen- of progress in agriculture biotech and requires. It immediately brings you to take it out of our food supply chain, we ator ROBERTS and Senator STABENOW a website, in the cases I have done it, could literally be in a position where for getting those of us who are willing in 2 or 3 seconds. The minute you get people will starve—maybe not in the to work together, who are willing to to the site, you get all kinds of infor- United States but all the nations we say to people at either end of the spec- mation. You get nutritional informa- trum: Guys, we are going to come up export to—because we simply cannot tion, caloric value, and all kinds of with a compromise and solve this prob- produce the world’s food supply if we things you need to know about what is lem. We have that opportunity before go back 10, 20, or 30 years. So it is a in your food. Right on the page you can us now, and I hope we will get to an af- very important part of our food supply, click down, and you can see whether it firmative vote later today. it is a safe food, it is an environ- has any agriculture biotech content. As I said earlier, the state-by-state mentally sound food, and it is one that Then you can even draw down further patchwork is unsustainable. Right we just have to understand. and find out what that means. It is in now, we are talking about what Having said that, I firmly believe this bill. It can be done. Small busi- Vermont decided to do. What about that everybody has the right to know nesses use this. Political people use California? What about my State of what is in their food. That is why I love this. Everybody uses this as a way to North Carolina and all the other ones? the compromise bill that Senator ROB- rapidly get to the Internet. Some people say: Well, you are pre- ERTS and Senator STABENOW have be- I don’t know about you all, but I empting State law. When a State law fore us today. It is pretty simple. think this Internet thing is going to affects interstate commerce across the Again, I know I can’t interact with the take off. I think it is going to be here Nation—because if I am a Campbell gallery, so I will not. But my guess is for a while. So I think we are going to Soup Company or a Kellogg’s or a that most of the people in the gallery be increasingly comfortable with this small mom-and-pop shop trying to dis- over the age of about 12 have a sort of way to get the richest informa- tribute in Vermont—if I don’t get the smartphone. One or two may have flip tion available on the food we are going labeling exactly right, I could be sub- phones—and there is an alternative to eat. For those who say this is some ject to millions of dollars of fines just that I will talk about—but most prob- sort of weird code or outdated, I don’t because I have a jar or a can or a box ably have smartphones. As a matter of know about you all, but that is not the on a shelf that isn’t consistent with fact, 207 million people in the United world I live in. I think it is a very ef- their labels. States have smartphones. I know Sen- fective way to get it. I live in Charlotte, NC. Charlotte is ator DURBIN is not familiar with it, but Let’s assume you are a small busi- right on the border of North Carolina many of them come with what is called ness and you don’t have the ability to and South Carolina. If you have a a QR code reader. I will give those create a QR code. Frankly, I would tell truck carrying cans of Campbell’s soup, watching from home a chance to actu- that small business to do it because it has to be labeled one way in North ally scan it while hearing me talk live. that creates a competitive advantage. Carolina and another in South Caro- I remember—I think it was President That makes you look as big as Camp- lina. Does that make sense? It adds Bush back in the 1990s who went bell Soup Company and lets you com- cost. It doesn’t add value. That is why through a shopping line and was as- pete. It is easy to put up a website. we are trying to prevent this patch- tounded because he saw a bar code Most of us have them or know how to work of laws that could go on the reader. He said: Wow, that is new tech- get them up pretty easily. I can put books. nology. It had been around for a while. one up in 2 or 3 hours and then have a I want to talk a little bit about bio- Guess what, folks. QR codes have been QR code to go to it. But let’s assume technology for a minute because Sen- around a while. As a matter of fact, they don’t want to do it. It is a mom- ator DURBIN said something that I yesterday when the distinguished gen- and-pop shop, and they just don’t like think is very important. I sit on the tleman from Oregon spoke, he had a QR code readers. You can have a 1–800 Agriculture Committee. I asked all the QR code up on the screen. I said: Heck, number if you satisfy certain thresh- heads of the FDA, the EPA, and the I want to see what that is. So I clicked olds: For more product information, U.S. Department of Agriculture the on the QR code on the Campbell’s can. call this number. And they have a stat- same question in the same committee It brought up on Wikipedia the history utory obligation to disclose to you the

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Then we need to get support the Zika bill that is in front of The fact is, this bill does that. It on to Zika, which I will come back and us because Republicans know exactly fully discloses and creates a statutory talk about a little bit later on, and why we can’t support it. It is because requirement that says the food manu- then we can get to all the other myriad the compromise that we all worked on facturer must disclose the content of of things we need to get done here. got thrown out and all sorts of polit- their food, the nutritional information, When I came here in January of last ical poison pills got added to it that ev- biotech content, et cetera. year, I was accustomed to getting eryone in the conference knew would It is mandatory. There were disagree- things done in the North Carolina mean it wouldn’t pass the Senate. ments on our side because we had House. This is an opportunity to get OPIOID EPIDEMIC Members on our side of the aisle who something done that makes sense, that Mr. President, I want to talk about said they didn’t like ‘‘mandatory.’’ We removes the threat of raising food another public health crisis that is decided in the interest of compromise costs and not producing one iota of confronting this country, and that is to accept the mandatory requirement. positive difference in health outcomes. the overdose crisis that is plaguing It takes 2 years before the rules are I hope my friends on both sides of the every single State that we hail from. made and about 3 years before most aisle recognize that this is an oppor- Here is the picture of overdoses in my businesses will have to be fully phased tunity where we can prove to the peo- State over the course of the last 4 in. Quite honestly, most manufacturers ple in this gallery and the people in years. It is a harrowing chart in that, are going to do it because they under- this Nation that we can actually get if you go back to 2012, we had just stand, as I do, the advantage of quick things done. under 400 drug overdose deaths that access to having a consumer get to This is a compromise. This is some- year. We are on pace in 2016 to more their Web presence, and there are other thing my friends on the right do not than double that number. Our pro- things they can do once they get there. necessarily like and I know some of my jected number of overdose deaths is 832. We know that the QR code, the friends on the left don’t like, but it is If you look deeper into this chart, it URLs, and the 1–800 numbers work. We right. It is necessary now so we can is fentanyl and heroin that are driving know that everybody has the right to protect the people who don’t know these numbers. In fact, our cocaine know what is in their food. This law overdoses have remained relatively that, if this bill doesn’t get passed, mandates that this happens. It elimi- stable. It is fentanyl and heroin that they are going to be paying more for nates the absurd exceptions and exemp- are skyrocketing. You can put this food for no more value. tions. For anybody who wants to do The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- chart up for almost every other State this, I know this code works. If you are ator from Connecticut. in the country and see the same phe- at home right now and you see this nomenon. Here it is broken down by ZIKA VIRUS FUNDING code, you should be able to take your town. There is almost no town in Con- Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I am QR code scanner and go up to your TV, necticut that hasn’t been visited by not supportive of the bill we will be like I did yesterday, and go to this this epidemic. This small town here is voting on shortly relative to the label- website and see in real time what I just one that you probably know. That is ing of GMOs, but I do admit the Sen- demonstrated on the prior slide. New Haven, CT. On June 23, a few ator is right in that this was an exam- Why do we need to do this? Why do weeks ago, city officials in New Haven we need a Federal consistent frame- ple of a group of Democrats and Repub- declared a public health emergency work for doing this? Why is it the Fed- licans working on a solution that may after 17 individuals overdosed and 3 eral Government’s responsibility to get end up getting the support of a super- people died from fentanyl in less than involved in this? Going back to the majority of this body. That is the dif- 24 hours. Some of the patients needed first slide, I don’t want families in ference between what happened on the as many as five doses of Narcan to re- Vermont to pay an additional $2,000 a process of developing a GMO bill and vive them. The public health authori- year for their food. I don’t want fami- the process of developing our response ties and law enforcement in the city ef- lies in North Carolina to pay an addi- to the Zika epidemic. fectively ran out of Narcan overnight tional $1,100 a year for the same food Everybody knows what happened because of this batch of straight, pure they bought last year only because of here. We had a bipartisan compromise fentanyl that killed 3 people and sent these state mandated labeling require- that passed the Senate. It went to a 17 others to the hospital. That is just ments. conference committee. Democrats were one night in one town. Let me give you a couple of examples shut out of the conference committee. Two years ago, the United States of what I am talking about in the I am a member of that conference com- Congress authorized $4 billion in emer- Vermont law. Imagine if this were mul- mittee. There was no negotiation be- gency funding to combat the Ebola tiplied by 2-dozen or 3-dozen other tween Republicans and Democrats. Re- virus—$4 billion for a virus that had States. Frozen pepperoni pizza is ex- publicans on the conference committee less than 10 confirmed cases in the empt from the Vermont law. Frozen threw out the bipartisan compromise United States. In Connecticut, we are cheese pizza has to be labeled. Vege- that was negotiated here in the Senate going to have 830 people die from opioid table beef soup is exempt from the in order to address the concerns of very overdose this year. We are a small Vermont law. Vegetable soup has to be conservative Members of the House Re- State. We represent 1 percent of the labeled. Multiply that by dozens and publican caucus, and the bill got loaded Nation’s population. We are going to dozens of other States. Think about all up with all of the things that Senator have 830 people die from overdoses this of these absurd exceptions and exemp- DURBIN mentioned. At the top of the year, and this Congress hasn’t appro- tions that can occur if we have 50 list was a ban on funding for Planned priated one dime of emergency funding. statehouses trying to create a patch- Parenthood, which Republicans on the You can’t help but think there is a work of laws. conference committee knew would poi- double standard here—that perhaps the For an American family, the son the well. They knew that by put- reason we are not allocating emer- Vermont law will add an additional ting in a ban on funding for Planned gency funding for this epidemic, which cost of about $1,200 a year to the gro- Parenthood, they would make it impos- is killing dozens of people every week cery bill. Imagine if we had 24 or 36 dif- sible to pass the Zika supplemental rein my State, is because of the nature of ferent States that we had to interpret, quest. the epidemic. It is rooted in addiction, the cost would go up. The food is no We don’t need to engage in hyperbole and we still have a stigma about addic- more nutritious. It just costs more. or histrionics. That is what happened. tion in which we blame the addict. That is why we need a Federal stand- What happened is the Republicans de- Marvin and Laura Beninson came ard. cided to put a bill on the floor of the into my office, and they told me the

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I thank the body for its time. needles and little packets of a sub- Yet you get kicked out of many treat- I yield the floor. stance, and they said: Thus began our ment centers within a handful of days. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- battle with heroin addiction. This is a discriminatory provision in ator from Utah. This is the father talking now. He our law, and it is leading in parts of REMEMBERING ELIE WIESEL said: this epidemic because once they show Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise My daughter has been through detox and up in the emergency room, there is no today to celebrate the life of a cher- six treatment centers. She has stolen and place to put them. ished friend and a champion of freedom hocked all of my wife’s jewelry while we Third, we need to build on what the in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel. In Auschwitz were on vacation, stolen $3,000 to 4,000 from administration announced recently and and Buchenwald, Elie traveled far be- my oldest daughter’s bank account while she pass the TREAT Act. The TREAT Act yond the limits of human suffering, de- was in the Army, written thousands of dol- would allow for more patients to get scending deep into an abyss of agony lars of bad checks from her friend’s check book and been arrested for shop lifting. prescription naloxone— and pain that surpassed the torment of The truth is that addiction is a disease just buprenorphine—for treatment of their hell itself. Yet Elie survived this hell, like cancer and there is no choice once you addiction. It is an effective drug, but as and he lived to tell his story. have it. It certainly was our daughter’s of now doctors can only see a relative Through his solemn witness, he choice to take heroin but it wasn’t her handful of patients before they hit a worked tirelessly to ensure that the choice to become addicted. statutory cap. We have examples in world would never forget the horrors of Addiction is a disease, and it can be Connecticut of individuals traveling on the Holocaust. With Elie’s passing, we treated medically, just like every other 12 buses for 12 hours to find a pre- have lost a true hero and a luminary of disease. There may be an element of scriber who still had room under the Holocaust literature. Now that Elie is choice in taking that first dose, but cap in order to prescribe gone, we must remember—now more after that there is a medical solution. buprenorphine. than ever—his solemn charge to all Yet, for some reason, we allocate $4 bil- The lengths you have to go to get mankind: Never forget. Never forget lion to combat Ebola and not a dime to medical treatment for addiction are the Holocaust that it may never hap- combat the epidemic of opioid abuse. more evidence of this discriminatory pen again. The funding that we are asking for— treatment and this stigma that re- Elie was the living conscience of a and my colleague Senator SHAHEEN put mains in the law. There is no cap when generation. He knew perhaps better a vote before this body to appropriate it comes to the number of patients a than anyone the depths of human de- $600 million in emergency funding— cancer doctor or an orthopedic surgeon pravity. Having suffered as few ever would go to SAMHSA for treatment. It can have, but there is a cap on the have, he spoke on matters of human would go to education programs, to number of patients addiction doctors nature with a moral authority un- prescription drug monitoring pro- can have. matched by his contemporaries. grams, and $230 million of it would go We have to pass the TREAT Act as I was blessed to know Elie and even to justice assistance grants to make well. These addictions can be treated. more fortunate to call him a friend. I sure we are catching the bad guys who I sat down with a group of former first met Elie when I was asked to are selling this kind of Fentanyl that heroin users, individuals in recovery, serve with him on the board of trustees is killing people in New Haven. in Bristol, CT, back in March. I spent for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mu- Every day that we wait, this epi- an entire day in March living the life of seum. Elie’s warmth was immediate, demic becomes worse and more people the epidemic. I visited emergency his spirit contagious. That he remained perish. We need to come together and rooms, first responders, and people in compassionate and kind even after the appropriate emergency funding to take recovery. atrocities of Auschwitz is a testimony on this epidemic. We need to do it soon, Greg told me his story. He injured his to his character and the resiliency of but we need to do other things as well. back in his line of work as an arborist. his spirit. Deeply buried into our Medicaid reim- He works with trees, and he injured his I remember speaking with Elie when bursement laws is a discriminatory back. He was prescribed prescription he came to watch Prime Minister prohibition on Medicaid funding being painkillers for his herniated disk. You Netanyahu address a joint session of used for long-term substance abuse and have heard this story before. He got Congress. I surprised Elie that day mental health treatment beds. The hooked on the prescription painkillers when I showed him my mezuzah, which Presiding Officer and I are trying to re- and continued to see doctors so he I have worn around my neck every day peal this provision as it relates to the could get as many prescriptions as pos- for 40 years. I carry this mezuzah as a treatment of people with mental ill- sible—until he ran out. When he symbol of my respect and love for the ness, but it also relates to people who couldn’t get any more prescription Jewish people and the nation of Israel. are struggling with substance abuse. drugs, he turned to heroin and became The mezuzah represents the Lord’s Medicaid dollars cannot be used for an addict. He looked and looked and watchful presence in our lives. Elie was long-term treatment beds for individ- looked for treatment but couldn’t find delighted that I, a gentile, would wear uals with substance abuse and mental it. Finally, he ran into Courtney this religious symbol. I wanted to show illness. It is one of the few instances in Labonte, who runs a Web site called Elie my mezuzah as if to say: I am still our reimbursement policy at the Fed- ctsuboxone.com. She found a treat- listening; I am still remembering; I am eral level in which we specifically pro- ment provider who could get him on still fighting the incessant tides of hibit reimbursement for a treatment medication therapy. Today he is in re- anti-Semitism that threaten Jews that has been prescribed by a medical covery and doing better. He has made across the globe. professional. Again, this seems rooted the decision to change his life, and he Through his writing, Elie gave a in this decades-old stigma about people has the resources to do it. There are voice to the millions of Jews whose with mental illness and substance millions of people who can tell that voices had been stifled and silenced abuse—that they should just get over story as well, but not enough. during the genocide. Of course, Elie’s it, they should just cure themselves, Without this funding and the repeal account is but one story; there are 6 and they should make a different of the discriminatory Medicaid rule million more. Although we can never choice. So there is not a need for these and without passage of the TREAT begin to fathom the suffering of each long-term beds. Act, we are denying medical treatment individual Holocaust victim, Elie used The second thing we need to do, in to the thousands of people in my the power of his pen to make their suf- addition to appropriating emergency State—including the 800 people who fering more tangible to all of us.

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Mr. President, the community who came forward to share one long night seven times sealed. their stories. It was an interesting Never shall I forget that smoke. men and women who wear our uniform are selfless heroes who embody the interview because the reporter wanted Never shall I forget the small faces of the to ask me about some legislation I children whose bodies I saw trans- American spirit, courage, honor, and formed into smoke under a silent sky. patriotism. They are defenders of our have been involved with here in the Never shall I forget those flames that con- freedom. Senate. But it gave me an opportunity sumed my faith forever. I am here to honor and pay my re- to reflect back on the time when I was Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence spects to one of America’s finest: Ar- a new mother with a beautiful, hand- that deprived me for all eternity of the kansas Army National Guard SGT Syl- some little boy and the responsibilities desire to live. of being a mom literally overnight. Never shall I forget those moments that vester Bruce Cline. Sergeant Cline graduated from Hum- Coming from a family of six, you figure murdered my God and my soul and you know how to deal with children, turned my dreams to ashes. phrey High School, where he was a bas- Never shall I forget those things, even were ketball standout. He continued his edu- but until you walk out of that hospital I condemned to live as long as God cation at Arkansas Baptist College and and you have that responsibility, it is Himself. the University of Arkansas at Pine not something you come prepared for Never. Bluff. or with a guidebook for. It is kind of How did Elie ever find hope after wit- In 2002, Sergeant Cline enlisted in the trial by error every day. nessing such unspeakable atrocities? Arkansas National Guard. In more I recalled the reality of the respon- He found hope in the promise of a Jew- than a decade of service, he dem- sibilities I faced as a new mother. I re- ish nation. He found hope in the belief onstrated his dedication, perseverance, called some of the angst and concern I that Israel matters, that Israel is both and commitment to excellence in de- had about whether I was doing things a state and a state of being. Although fense of our country. Sergeant Cline right. Here I was supposed to be happy many disagreed with his view, Elie re- was a veteran of a combat deployment and joyous and excited about this beau- mained steadfast in his support for to Iraq with the 39th Infantry Brigade tiful bundle of baby boy I had and in- Israel. After being recognized for the in 2008. For his service, he was awarded stead I was tired and fatigued and Nobel Peace Prize, Elie pleaded before the Iraq Campaign Medal, a Global War stressed. I was stressed. Was I doing ev- world leaders who had grown apathetic on Terror Service Medal, as well as erything right? I wasn’t sure. While I did not deal or suffer the anx- in their own support. He said: other awards and decorations. Sergeant iety that comes with postpartum de- If you could remember what I remembered, Cline served in the Arkansas Army Na- pression, as a new mother filled with you would understand Israel is the only national Guard’s Company A, 39th Bri- tion in the world whose existence is threat- just my own level of concern, I did feel gade Support Battalion, 39th Infantry ened. Should Israel lose but one war, it the symptoms that I think many Brigade Combat Team. His mom called would mean her end, and ours as well. But I women feel and share. Yet you don’t him ‘‘Mr. Mom’’ for his devotion to his have faith. . . . Without it no action would want to talk about it because you are children and entire family, which truly be possible. And action is the only remedy to supposed to be excited and happy and indifference, the most insidious danger of was his greatest passion. not in a state that is described as any- all. On June 14, 2015, Sergeant Cline died thing less than joyful. So I think, un- Elie warned us that neutrality only during an annual training exercise fortunately, many women don’t share helps the oppressor, never the victim. with his unit at Fort Chaffee, AK. their concerns, don’t express their feel- He also taught us that we must take I ask my colleagues to keep his fam- ings. Instead, they deal with it and sides. Perhaps most importantly, Elie ily—his children, mother and father, sometimes deal with it in ways that told us to never forget. There is a quiet sisters, brother, extended family, and can be tragic. elegance and fierce determination in friends—in their thoughts and prayers this plea. Oftentimes, people try to put So I have been inspired. I have been during these difficult times, and I hum- very encouraged by the stories I have a positive spin on this by saying ‘‘al- bly offer my appreciation and gratitude ways remember,’’ but Elie eschewed shared with and heard from women and for his service to the United States of other advocates who are fighting to this more uplifting phrase because he America. wasn’t concerned with helping people raise awareness of the issue of PPD. I yield the floor. Today I wish to share the story of feel better about the Holocaust, he was The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- one woman who lost her daughter to concerned with helping them under- ator from Alaska. postpartum depression. I met this stand the true horror of the genocide POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION to ensure that it would never happen woman shortly after I had filmed this Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I again. He wanted all who listened, all interview. She works in Anchorage as wish to take a few moments this after- who read, and all who prayed to under- well as Wasilla as a child and adoles- noon to shed some light and speak stand that hate is a virus and it is a cent psychiatrist. She has been abso- about the issue of postpartum depres- virus that spreads quickly. For Elie, it lutely passionate about providing care sion. As a physician himself, the Pre- was not enough to merely remember and support to children and adoles- siding Officer is aware of the reality those who died; he wanted us to never cents in an effort to reduce and prevent many new, young mothers face when forget how they suffered. suicide. So this is her life’s work. She Today we can honor Elie Wiesel and they deal with issues relating to began to advocate for PPD after her his legacy by remembering always his postpartum depression, but I think own daughter, Brittany, suffered and humble plea: Never forget. what is perhaps unknown is the inci- ultimately lost her life to PPD. Brit- I suggest the absence of a quorum. dence of postpartum depression here in tany was 25 years old. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the United States. The fact is that one Brittany was a beautiful, passionate, clerk will call the roll. in seven mothers nationwide will suffer lively, bright young woman. She was The bill clerk proceeded to call the from postpartum depression. In my born close to here, in Fairfax, VA, in roll. State of Alaska, the numbers are even 1989. She excelled in school. She grad- Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I ask more troubling. In Alaska, one in three uated with an International Bacca- unanimous consent that the order for new mothers will deal with the dif- laureate degree at 16 from Mount the quorum call be rescinded. ficulty of postpartum depression. Vernon High School. She loved ani- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without About a month ago—it has been a lit- mals. She dreamt of being a sports vet- objection, it is so ordered. tle bit more than that by now—I sat erinarian one day. She continued to

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That is grants to perform massages on rab- race in the Iditarod, one of my favorite why I have been supporting legislation bits—yes, massages on rabbits—to see sporting events—certainly my favorite like the Bringing Postpartum Depres- whether a massage makes them feel Alaskan event. She owned, she raced, sion Out of the Shadows Act. I wish to better after a strenuous workout, I and she showed several Siberian thank the occupant of the chair, Sen- think any one of us could basically say huskies. She worked as a dog handler ator CASSIDY, along with Senators you don’t need to spend several hun- for Karen Ramstead. She was part of ALEXANDER, MURRAY, and MURPHY, for dred thousand dollars to prove that is Karen’s preparation for the Iditarod. including PPD in the Mental Health something that works, or whether it is So she was into her dogs. She was into Reform Act. I cosponsored both pieces solar-fried burgers—I think 7,000 or really her life. But as much as she of legislation because I think we need so—that fly over a mirrored number of loved the Iditarod, as much as she to do more to ensure we are ensuring acres in a desert in California that are loved what she was doing, she consid- proper screening and treatment for reflecting sunlight to a boiler, which ered motherhood to be her greatest PPD. I want to support the efforts to has not proved to be cost-effective, and achievement. improve culturally competent pro- in the meantime it creates so much But, very sadly, she began to strug- grams that will help educate physi- heat it has caused the cables that are gle with PPD after the complicated de- cians, especially our primary care pro- necessary to produce the heat to be livery that resulted in her newborn son viders, on the proper detection and fried and also birds that fly over this solar field. I am surprised the environ- spending a week in the neonatal inten- treatment. We recognize this will not mentalists are not on top of that. Then sive care unit. She dealt with some only benefit the women who are suf- there are the gambling monkeys, to see very powerful emotions, some very vio- fering but also improve the health and whether the monkeys were willing to lent emotions. She sought treatment the well-being of their children and take a greater risk and continue gam- from her physicians for her PPD, but their families as a whole. bling if they had a reward for it—like, she was in a situation where her cries With so many moms across my State in their case, for food. I could have were unanswered because she was deal- and across the Nation who are facing proven that with my dog that will eat postpartum depression, I think it is im- ing with physicians who were unable or anything I put in front of him, no mat- perhaps ill-equipped to help her. portant, it is worthwhile that we do ter how much I put down there. It was about the time of her son’s what we can to raise the issue, raise We are talking about several hun- first birthday when Brittany lost her the awareness, put it at the forefront, dreds of thousands, if not millions, of battle with PPD. As sad and as tragic openly discuss it, educate, and help im- dollars. Those are ludicrous. They are as that was for all in Brittany’s family, prove our understanding of this illness. designed to catch people’s attention so it was another woman outside the fam- I thank the Chair for the opportunity they will pay more attention to some ily—another woman musher—who real- to raise this issue before the body of the examples of egregious wastes of ly moved forward in working for and today. money, designed for, perhaps, a good advocating for Brittany. It was DeeDee With that, I yield the floor. motive or the right purpose, but ex- Janrowe who raced the Iditarod in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- posed, it is something that falls within Brittany’s honor. She took forward ator from Indiana. that category of waste. that cause, that crusade. WASTEFUL SPENDING In one of my very first ‘‘Waste of the Again, Brittany was a bright, moti- Mr. COATS. Mr. President, I return Week’’ speeches, I talked about the vated, loving young woman who was to the floor now for the 47th week for issue of double dipping in Social Secu- struck down early in life because she the 47th edition of the ‘‘Waste of the rity disability funds and unemploy- didn’t have access to the treatment she Week.’’ I highlight documented exam- ment insurance. To receive clearance needed. Unfortunately, her story is just ples of waste, fraud, and abuse of hard- to receive Social Security and dis- one of many. PPD impacts women in earned taxpayers’ dollars that come to ability payments, you have to prove every race, every income, and all back- the Federal Government and that the you can’t work; you are disabled, you grounds. public has every right to expect us to can’t work. But to receive unemploy- All too often, women who have PPD spend wisely, effectively, and effi- ment insurance, you have to be work- feel helpless. They feel overwhelmed. ciently. ing and then be told you can no longer They are certainly confused. They feel Nonpartisan agencies like the Gov- keep your job, and in that interim pe- like they haven’t done something ernment Accountability Office and in- riod of time until you get a new job, we right. They haven’t properly bonded spectors general are the watchdogs are going to pay you insurance bene- with their baby or they are ill-pre- that examine how various agencies fits. What the General Accounting Of- pared, ill-equipped for parenthood. spend money and then report areas fice found out was that people were They just can’t understand or figure where they think expenditure doesn’t getting checks for doing both. Look, out what may have gone wrong. The as- live up to the promises that have been you can do one or the other but not sumption out there is you have this made, in terms of what it would accom- both. That was no small change. That beautiful baby, you should be joyful; plish, or question whether it ever was $6 billion. I think it is $5.7 billion why aren’t you? And so because that should have been provided in the first of documented waste every year. expectation is different than what you place. Well, here we are at No. 47, and I are feeling, there is a hesitation to Some of the examples I have provided would like to highlight yet another se- bring it up. There is a hesitation to over these 47 weeks have been labeled rious and very concerning example of speak about it. simply as ridiculous. I raised those be- waste: improper payments of taxpayer Again, I will repeat our statistics. cause it grabs the attention of the money through Medicare. All of us Across the country, one in seven moth- American public, saying: How in the agree Medicare is an important pro- ers will suffer from PPD and in Alaska, world could the Federal Government gram for millions of Americans, and we one in three women, twice the national allow something like that to happen need to do what we can to preserve average. There are some nonprofit or- with my tax dollars? I get up every these important health care benefits ganizations that are seeking to raise Monday morning and go to work and I for those who depend on them and need awareness and to help women connect work hard for those dollars and I have them, but an essential part of pre- with treatment for PPD, but often they a mortgage to pay and I have bills to serving these benefits is protecting are located in the populous areas of the pay. I have gasoline I have to put in Medicare from waste, fraud, and abuse. State, but think about my State, my car to get to work and back. Then Throughout its history, we have read, which is so extraordinarily rural, I hear something on the floor of the and it has been determined by inspec- where most of our communities are not U.S. Senate, from the Senator from In- tors general and by the Government

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This makes no sense to solvency of Medicare, they leave mil- bill for Medicare services that were not me. lions of seniors vulnerable because provided. This was tens of millions of Do you want to know why Congress’s when these improper payments are the dollars. These are just examples of approval rating is at 1, 2, or 3 percent, result of fraud and abuse, they can what the IGs found in terms of looking if that? It is because on an issue of pub- jeopardize the health and well-being of at Medicare payments. That is why I lic health we cannot find a way for- Medicare beneficiaries for this reason: continue to come down every week to ward. My hope is that in the days to The reason is, Medicare is going broke. urge my colleagues in the Senate, in come, we will have an understanding It is careening toward insolvency. the House of Representatives, and the that allows us to move forward. I am The Medicare trustees have said we administration to take the necessary not just talking to the Senate, I am are only 12 short years away from in- steps to tighten the screws on bad ac- also talking to the House. Let’s appro- solvency under Medicare Part A. When tors in Medicare, in agencies across the priate money and move forward and you determine waste, fraud, and abuse, realm of this government, not only be- deal with this issue appropriately, with on a year-after-year-after-year basis in cause they are gambling with the the urgency it deserves, or everyone is the billions and tens of billions of dol- health of some of America’s most vul- going to have to answer to their con- lars, these are dollars not available to nerable patients but also because we stituents as to why this public health keep that program solvent. That is have such precious little time to work crisis has blossomed and bloomed and going to have a devastating effect on to save this program from insolvency. we did nothing about it. the ability for us to provide the Medi- Our goal should be—in fact, it must I truly hope, in the hours and days care services people of a certain age be—to protect seniors, to promote good leading up to our recess, we will find a need. government practices, and achieve real rapid and quick way forward so we can How many taxpayers’ dollars am I savings by addressing these issues now. address this and fix it and give our peo- talking about today? Well, in fiscal With that, I am adding another ple the help they need in the short year 2015 alone, just in that year, the major amount of waste, fraud, and term and ultimately move toward the last year where the audits have been abuse for an ever-growing total. This money we need to research for a vac- done, the Centers for Medicare & Med- week it is $59 billion for Medicare im- cine so this issue can be prevented and icaid Services, or CMS, which admin- proper payments, bringing the total all this disease can be prevented from isters Medicare, improperly paid out the way to $234-plus billion in waste, spreading in the future. Thank you, Mr. President. $59 billion for health services—in one fraud, and abuse of hard-earned tax- I yield the floor. single year, $59 billion of improper pay- payer dollars. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ments, representing nearly 10 percent We wonder why the public has lost ator from Vermont. of the total amount Medicare spent confidence and faith in their elected Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, I rise that year. representatives and their institutions to speak in very strong opposition to As I said, just last month the Medi- of government, when we see this kind the Roberts-Stabenow bill concerning care trustees said Medicare Part A of bureaucratic mess, when we see this the labeling of genetically modified or- would be insolvent by 2028. Think kind of waste of hard-earned tax dol- ganisms, GMOs, and to discuss an about how much that 1 year of $59 bil- lars, the fraud that is involved that is amendment of mine that I hope will lion can do to help keep the program not detected and the abuse and terrible get to the floor as soon as possible. solvent. All of this is why it is all the decision making by people who, re- The simple truth is, people have the more necessary for Congress, the ad- spectfully, work for government agen- right to know what is in the food they ministration, and the health care agencies but don’t exercise the kind of judg- eat, and when parents go to the store cies to work in unison to solve this cri- ment the American taxpayer expects and purchase food, they have the right sis of Medicare solvency. from them in terms of dealing with the to know what is in the food their kids There is a group known as the Medi- money they send to Washington. are going to be eating. That is why 64 care Fraud Strike Force, and I com- Mr. President, with that, I yield the countries all over the world, including mend whoever put that idea in play. It floor. the European Union, Japan, Australia, needs to be advanced significantly, but The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Brazil, Russia, and China, require la- the idea with the strike force was it ator Florida. beling of foods containing genetically could root out the bad actors and bring ZIKA VIRUS FUNDING modified organisms, GMOs. That is them to justice. As an example, re- Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, I thank why my own State of Vermont, Maine, cently the strike force uncovered a the Senator from Vermont, who is Connecticut, and Alaska have adopted ring of over 300 people—from physi- next, for yielding me just a couple min- laws to label foods containing GMOs. cians and pharmacists to nurses and utes. That is why the major environmental government officials—who have alleg- I want to be brief and to the point. groups in this country, including the edly conspired to defraud Medicare out Congress is 1 week away from recessing Natural Resources Defense Council, the of $900 million. before the conventions. We have yet to Sierra Club, the League of Conserva- How did they do it? Well, some of the appropriate significant funds to fight tion Voters, the Environmental Work- examples in this fraud ring include the Zika. At this point, quite frankly, I ing Group, Center for Food Safety, billing of Medicare for procedures the don’t care whose fault it is anymore— Food & Water Watch, and others have providers claim took place after the Republicans or Democrats. This whole all come out in opposition to the Rob- patient passed away. They were sub- partisan argument that is going on erts-Stabenow bill. mitting Medicare claims for dead pa- around this issue is inexcusable. It is no secret my own State of tients and receiving significant pay- Every single day now we have mas- Vermont has led the way in requiring ments. Other providers billed Medicare sive numbers of Zika cases being re- companies to label their products. Last for home health care, which is reserved ported in my home State. Every day Friday, Vermont became the first for bedridden seniors, for services that new records are being set. Just today a State in the Nation to require GMO la- were not even provided to the patients new case was found in a county that beling, and several other States have in need. It was fraud, in terms of people hadn’t had a case yet. Forty-five out of undertaken similar efforts. Passage of submitting many bills to CMS and re- fifty States in this country now have a Vermont’s law was a triumph for con- ceiving payments when the services Zika case. We have yet to see a local sumers, for ordinary Americans, over were not provided. transmission, but it is coming, and I the powerful interests of companies In Detroit, a so-called medical clinic don’t know, for the life of me, how any- like Monsanto and other multinational billed Medicare for tens of millions of one in this Chamber can go back home food industry corporations.

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Instead of a uniform label- Essentially, if the genetic engineering lions of dollars in lobbying and in cam- ing standard like Vermont’s law, the done by a company could have occurred paign contributions to overturn the language in this bill allows text sym- in nature, there is no requirement to GMO right-to-know legislation that bols or an electronic QR code to be label it, which would prevent GMO States have already passed and that used. This is intentionally confusing to corn, beet sugar, and soy oils from other States are on the verge of pass- consumers, and the information may being labeled. The FDA has confirmed ing. They have also spent many mil- be entirely inaccessible if the con- this loophole, stating that as the lan- lions more to pass Federal legislation sumer does not have access to the guage is currently written, ‘‘many of like what we are considering today, Internet. The QR code is not required the foods from [genetically engineered] which would deny States the right to to have text next to it to make it clear sources will not be subject’’ to labeling go forward in this area. that the code provides additional infor- requirements. Let’s be clear. This is just another mation about GMOs. It can merely say Under this bill, consumers will be left shameful example of how big-money in- ‘‘Scan here for more food information.’’ in the dark for at least another 2 years, terests are using their influence to That makes no sense. People may not maybe longer. Once USDA has pub- enact policies that are contrary to even know to scan it to learn more lished its regulations, there is no man- what the vast majority of the Amer- about GMOs specifically. datory timeline for companies to com- ican people want and what they sup- You can imagine how ridiculous this ply. In other words, we are pushing this port. These companies are spending will be in the real world. A mom goes issue further and further into the fu- millions and tens of millions and hun- to a store with two kids who are run- ture. dreds of millions of dollars to make ning around, and she is supposed to Perhaps the real giveaway as to why certain that their interests prevail take out her cell phone and scan a this is not a serious piece of legislation against what ordinary Americans feel label in a store that may or may not is that, most shockingly, this bill im- very strongly about. have a good Internet connection. This poses no Federal penalties whatsoever The Grocery Manufacturers Associa- is not an effort to provide information; for violating the so-called labeling re- tion, which sued and lost in trying to this is an effort to deny information to quirement, making the law essentially stop Vermont’s law, has 34 lobbyists consumers. meaningless. In other words, you have Reading information right on the working on this issue alone. They a confusing law that will not be uti- label takes a matter of seconds. Why spent $8.5 million lobbying in 2015. In lized by most people, but then on top of would we require families and shoppers 2016, the Grocery Manufacturers Asso- all of that, if a company does not obey to take considerable time when under ciation has already spent $1.5 million the law, there is no penalty whatso- Vermont’s law they only need a mo- in total lobbying. Monsanto has spent ever. So that will give a great incen- ment to look at a label? Right now we $2 million in 2016 lobbying Congress. tive for companies to continue to do have labels that tell us the amount of The Environmental Working Group has nothing. calories and give us other information calculated that food and biotech com- In other words, this bill is weak, it is on what is in a product. We look at it panies and trade associations have full of loopholes, and it has no require- and we make a judgment as to whether spent nearly $200 million to oppose ment to comply. this is a product we wish to purchase, In addition to the bill’s many flaws, State GMO labeling initiatives like and that is clearly what should be the Vermont’s legislation. When combined the bill most significantly is not nec- case with products that contain GMOs. essary. In fact, many large companies, with Washington lobbying expenditures There is also an argument to be made such as Campbell’s, Frito-Lay, that note GMO labeling as a purpose, that this bill is discriminatory in its Kellogg’s, and ConAgra, have begun to the total amount spent by labeling op- impact. Putting the onus on the con- label their products nationally in an- ponents is close to $400 million—$400 sumer, making it necessary for that ticipation of Vermont’s law. For exam- million in order to prevent the people consumer to have a smartphone and ple, here is a label that appears on of our country knowing what is in the Internet access, prohibits those with- food they eat. out that access. Not everybody in M&Ms. Everybody knows M&Ms. They This particular piece of corporate- America owns a cell phone. Many low- are manufactured by Mars, one of the backed legislation we are considering income people and working people do major candy companies in the world. right now will create a confusing, mis- not own a cell phone. Here it is, five words: ‘‘partially pro- leading, and unenforceable national Yesterday’s New York Times noted duced with genetic engineering.’’ That standard for labeling GMOs. This bill in an editorial that ‘‘the biggest prob- is it. It is right here on the label. This will preempt my State’s law—the law lem with the Senate bill is that—in- is what you will see if you pick up a in the State of Vermont—roll back the stead of requiring a simple label, as the package of M&Ms today. It is out progress we have made, and is a huge Vermont law does—it would allow food there. It is on the label. People can setback to consumers’ right to know companies to put the information in make their determination as to wheth- what is in their food. electronic codes that consumers would er they want to buy the product. Other I would say to my Republican col- have to scan with smartphones or at major companies are already doing leagues who so often tell us about the scanners installed by grocery stores.’’ that. Campbell’s is doing it, Frito-Lay need to get the Federal Government According to the New York Times, is doing it, Kellogg’s is doing it, and out of the lives of the people, who talk ‘‘The only reason to do this would be to ConAgra is doing it. In other words, about States’ rights, what this legisla- make the information less accessible many of the major companies are al- tion does is preempt a law passed in to the public.’’ ready complying with the law. We do the State of Vermont, which thousands Less accessible to the public. The not need to go beyond that. Guess of our people were involved in passing, New York Times has it exactly right. what. These companies that began to which the State legislature held nu- Further, this bill allows the U.S. De- label these products did it and the sky merous hearings on, where the State partment of Agriculture to rule on didn’t fall. I guess people are still buy- law was sued and yet was sustained by what percentage of GMO material is ing M&Ms, other candies, and the other a court. present in a particular food before it products manufactured by these com- We have gone through all of that in gets labeled, in contrast to Vermont’s panies. the State of Vermont. We have Maine and the European Union’s standards, In addition to a consumer’s right to passing similar legislation, Con- both of which require products with know, it is important to note that necticut passing legislation, Alaska more than nine-tenths of 1 percent when we talk about GMOs, it is not passing legislation. Yet many of my GMO to be labeled. just the question of the manipulation

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In fact, the use of toxic Stabenow bill. proper labeling and provides for con- chemicals to grow food has only in- The amendment I intend to offer, sumers to be able to sue to ensure en- creased. Herbicide use has increased which I hope my colleagues will all forcement. exponentially and glyphosate use spe- support, would make Vermont’s law The issue of labeling of our food is cifically has increased by 3,000 percent the national standard. For those who not controversial. It is something the since the 1990s. have argued that companies would be American people want. It is something In the State of Vermont, Monsanto, unable to comply with a 50–State that common sense dictates. The over- Dow, and Syngenta promised our farm- patchwork of GMO regulation, my whelming majority of Americans favor ers that GMO corn would allow them to amendment would alleviate that con- GMO labeling, nearly 9 out of 10. reduce the amount of chemicals needed cern. People have a right to know what is for their crop production. Instead, her- Specifically, Vermont’s law—unlike in the food they eat. Instead, the needs bicide and chemical fertilizer use on the bill before the Senate—enjoyed a of consumers, the needs of the Amer- Vermont dairy farms has almost dou- full hearing and amendment process. It ican people have been completely dis- bled from 2002 to 2012 just to keep up was much discussed in the Vermont regarded in this legislation at the be- with the need for more pesticides and State Legislature. Vermont’s law was hest of major corporate interests and herbicides to get enough corn to feed years in the making, and legislators campaign donors. Congress must stand the dairy cows. heard hours of testimony from dozens up to the demands of Monsanto and This is troubling not only because it of stakeholders, including organic other multinational food industry cor- is extremely expensive for farmers to farmers and environmental organiza- porations and reject the Roberts-Stabe- keep up with the seed and pesticide tions. The Roberts-Stabenow language now piece of legislation. needs, it is also very dangerous because has had none of this scrutiny and was My amendment would provide a eight of the active ingredients in use brought to the floor by a procedural meaningful alternative to the con- have been linked to birth defects, de- means without one hearing or one com- fusing and ineffective measure we are velopmental defects, and contaminated mittee markup. considering, and I ask that colleagues drinking water. Unlike the Roberts-Stabenow bill, support my amendment. In addition to these concerns, I also Vermont’s law requires clear, on-pack- With that, I reserve—— want to appeal to my colleagues who age labeling instead of allowing a con- Mr. LEAHY. Before the Senator have come to the Senate floor to speak fusing QR code. Under Vermont’s law yields the floor, he talked about what in support of States’ rights. As I said and this amendment, consumers can Vermont did. Isn’t it a fact that the earlier, make no mistake about it—this glance quickly at a product and be able Senate didn’t hold one single hearing is significantly a States’ rights issue, to determine the GMO contents with or have one single witness come before and this bill is an assault on States’ no need of a smartphone or Internet they set this bill; is that correct? rights. This bill would preempt connection. Mr. SANDERS. My colleague from Vermont’s laws, Connecticut’s laws, Once again, and very importantly, Vermont is absolutely correct. In and Maine’s laws. many major food companies are al- Vermont, there was a lot of discussion, According to the Center for Food ready complying with Vermont’s law. and there were a number of hearings, Safety, this bill would preempt more Pick up a package of M&Ms, and there but not here in the U.S. Senate. than 100 State and municipal food and it is right now on the label, five words: Mr. LEAHY. In fact, the Vermont seed laws. The center notes specifically ‘‘partially produced with genetic engi- Legislature, is it not a fact, had at that Virginia’s seed law allows farmers neering.’’ Mars, which manufactures least 50 hearings with at least 130 wit- to have the critical information they M&Ms, has done it, and it is not a prob- nesses? need to make informed choices about lem. Other companies are already Mr. SANDERS. My colleague from which seed is the most appropriate for doing the same thing. Vermont makes a very, very important them to purchase and plant. What makes sense is to build on what point. In Vermont, this issue was seri- I will name just a few of the other Vermont has done, not come up with ously discussed. Over 50 hearings were State laws that would be preempted. It an unenforceable, confusing, weak held, with different points of view and would override Alaska’s labeling law, piece of legislation paid for by the objections being raised. which requires that genetically engi- large food corporations in this country. I would ask my colleague, just to neered fish be labeled. The Roberts- This amendment making Vermont confirm with me: How many hearings Stabenow bill would also preempt a the national standard will also prevent on this important and controversial Florida statute that requires a permit the gaping loopholes in the Roberts- bill were held here in the Senate? for the release of exotic organisms and Stabenow language that will prevent Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I would includes genetically modified orga- labeling of the most common GMO answer my friend and colleague from nisms. The Roberts-Stabenow bill foods. Unlike the Roberts-Stabenow Vermont—especially, as a member of would preempt a Michigan statute that language, this amendment defines the Committee on Agriculture, Nutri- created an invasive species advisory ‘‘food’’ and ‘‘genetic engineering’’ in a tion, and Forestry, I am well aware of council. It would preempt a Missouri way that would require labeling of this—that there was not one single statute that authorizes the State ento- foods derived from GMOs, such as hearing, not one single witness. mologist to determine whether some- starches, oils made from GMOs, sugar Unlike Vermont, with 50 hearings thing is not only a plant pest but also derived from GMO sugar beets, or high- and 130 witnesses who expressed every whether the pest is of such a harmful fructose corn syrup. None of these single view, over 2 years of time and nature that its introduction to or dis- types of products will require labeling debate, we didn’t have 2 minutes of de- semination within the State should be under the Roberts-Stabenow language. bate and discussion. Vermont did 2 prevented. It would also preempt a Also, my amendment sets a specific years. South Carolina regulation that defines percentage of GMOs in food to trigger Mr. SANDERS. So here is what we plant pests. the labeling requirement—nine-tenths have. I thank my friend from Vermont In other words, I find it interesting of 1 percent, which is consistent with for raising this issue. On the one hand, that this legislation has the support of Vermont’s law and European Union we have a State—the State of the vast majority of Republicans who standards. Under the Roberts-Stabe- Vermont—which addressed this issue in day after day tell us how they want to now language, this determination will a serious way, listening to all points of get the Federal Government out of peo- be left up to the USDA, which could review, having the legislature go over ple’s lives, but this legislation pre- quire 10 percent before labeling or 51 this in a thorough manner. Then, here

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The commerce ing it through in the last week or two most of the Nation’s food supply for a clause in article I, section 8, clause No. before we adjourn for summer break. single State would impact citizens in 3, provides that ‘‘the Congress shall I thank the Senator from Vermont each of our home States. have Power . . . To regulate commerce for raising that enormously important A recent study on the impact of an with foreign Nations and among the issue. on-package label estimates that the several States and with the Indian With that, I yield the floor and re- cost to consumers could total as much Tribes.’’ But note ‘‘among the several serve the remainder of my time. as $82 billion annually—$82 billion—ap- states’’—more than several States The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. proximately $1,050 per hard-working today. TILLIS). The Senator from Kansas. American family. Let me repeat that. This labeling uniformity is based on Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. President, I rise That is $1,050 per hardworking Amer- science and allows the value chain— today as the Senate considers legisla- ican family. Now is not the time for from farmer to processor to shipper to tion on an issue that is critically im- Congress to make food more expensive retailer to consumer—to continue as portant to our Nation’s food supply. for anybody to eat or produce—not the the free market intended. To accom- From our producers in the fields to our consumer and certainly not the farmer. plish national uniformity, we crafted a families purchasing food in the aisles Today’s farmers are being asked to mandatory disclosure requirement. We of the grocery stores, without the Sen- produce more safe and affordable food are talking about mandatory disclo- ate action we are considering today, to meet the growing demands at home sure, not just labeling. The Senate bi- this country will be hit with a wreck- and around a very troubled and hungry partisan agreement is mandatory dis- ing ball that will disrupt the entire world. At the same time, they are fac- closure with several options—text on food chain. We need to act now to pass ing increased challenges to production, package, a symbol, or an electronic our amendment to S. 764. link to a Web site that Senator TILLIS This is a bipartisan—a bipartisan— including limited land and water resources, uncertain weather patterns, so aptly demonstrated. The legislation approach that provides a permanent so- is clear that the link cannot include lution to the patchwork of bio- and pest and disease issues. Agricultural biotechnology has be- any text on the package that could be technology labeling laws that will come a valuable tool in ensuring the used to denigrate biotechnology. It will wreak havoc on the flow of interstate success of the American farmer in simply say: ‘‘Scan here for more food commerce of agriculture and food prod- information.’’ ucts in our Nation’s marketplace. That meeting the challenge of increasing yield in a more efficient, safe, and re- We also allow for Web sites or tele- is what this is exactly about—the mar- phone numbers to satisfy the require- ketplace. It is not about safety. It is sponsible manner. In fact, thanks to modern agriculture technology, we ment for small food manufacturers, not about health or nutrition. It is and we completely exempt very small have seen a 48-percent increase in corn about marketing. Science has proven food manufacturers and restaurants yields. That is good for the farmer, again and again that the use of agri- from having to comply. culture biotechnology is 100-percent that is good for the consumer, and that The disclosure requirement applies safe. is good for a troubled and hungry to food subject to the Federal Food, The Senator from North Carolina, world. There has been a 36-percent in- Drug, and Cosmetic Act labeling re- Mr. TILLIS, provided on the floor just a crease in soybean yields in the last 20 quirements as well as some meat and moment ago that, in fact, the Com- years. That is the value of agricultural poultry products. We do not include al- mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and biotechnology. cohol, as those items are subject to la- Now, I have also heard—and I do un- Forestry last year heard from the three beling requirements under a different Federal agencies tasked with regu- derstand the concern—from some of my authority at the U.S. Treasury. In this lating agriculture biotechnology—the colleagues about consumers and avail- respect, alcohol is similar to other food USDA’s Animal and Plant Health In- able information about our food. Some that is labeled under a different au- spection Service, the Environmental consumers want to know more about thority than the Federal Food, Drug, Protection Agency, and the Food and ingredients. This is a good thing. Con- and Cosmetic Act. Drug Administration. Their work is sumers should take an interest in their The scope of this agreement includes based on sound science and is the gold food, where it comes from, and the human food, not animal feed. The lan- standard for our policymaking, includ- farmers and ranchers that produce guage prohibits the Secretary from ing this policy we are debating today— their food. considering any food product derived one of the most important food and ag- This legislation puts forward policies from an animal to be bioengineered riculture decisions in recent decades. that will help consumers find informa- based only upon the animal eating bio- Many people say this issue is the big- tion—almost guaranteed. It does so engineered feed. gest issue for agriculture in 20 years. I without jeopardizing the technology It is important, as with any Federal agree. upon which our farmers rely. More im- legislation on this topic, for Congress At our hearing, the Federal Govern- portantly, the legislation before us pro- to consider scientific fact and unin- ment expert witnesses highlighted the vides an immediate and comprehensive tended consequences. We include a steps their agencies have already taken solution to the unworkable State-by- safety statement. The agreement en- to ensure that agriculture bio- State patchwork of labeling laws. sures that the regulations will treat technology is safe—safe for other State consumer protection laws and bioengineered food the same as its plants, safe for the environment, and anything beyond the wrecking ball nonbioengineered counterpart. We safe for our food supply. It was clear that we see related to biotechnology agree that these products have been that our regulatory system ensures labeling mandates are codified as ex- found safe through the Federal regu- biotechnology crops are among the empt from preemption. We ensure that latory review process. most tested in the history of agri- the solution to the State patchwork— I want to emphasize this, and I want culture. At the conclusion of the hear- one thing we can all agree upon—is ef- my colleagues to understand this. This ing, virtually all of the members of the fective. legislation has the support of more Agriculture Committee were in agree- The amendment focuses on human than 1,000 organizations—large and ment. Not one disagreed. Thus, it is food that may or may not be bioengi- small—representing the entire food clear that what we are facing today is neered. We do not set up any new of- chain, and that number continues to not a safety or a health issue, despite fices at the Department of Agriculture, grow every day. Never before in the claims by a couple of my colleagues on and we minimize any impact on other history of the Senate Agriculture Com- the Senate Floor. It is a market issue. agencies. Instead, we direct the Sec- mittee—and, I would venture of any

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Mr. President, I am keep in mind the debate that took those on the committee who joined me pleased that it looks like we are going place almost a year ago on the other by voting to approve our committee to be voting this afternoon on a meas- side of the world. bill, those who supported a solution in ure that would, for the first time, give I have said to my colleagues around March, and those who voted to consider American families access to GMO in- here any number of times that people this agreement. We have again made formation about the food they buy. ask me what is one of the proudest significant changes to address the con- As my colleague from Kansas pre- things that I have done in my life. I cerns of the ranking member and oth- pares to leave the Chamber, I just want have discussed this issue. I don’t know ers. Now, we all must carry this across to express my thanks to him, to his if the Presiding Officer remembers it. I the finish line. I urge my colleagues to staff, to Senator DEBBIE STABENOW of am proudest of all of raising two—actu- support this bipartisan approach and Michigan and her staff, and a lot of ally, three—boys who are now all protect the safest, most abundant, and others, including members of my own grown up and off into the world on affordable food supply in the world. staff, and the administration—espe- their own. My wife and I wanted to Now, I want to say something else. I cially Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of make sure they grew up healthy, want to talk about the men and women Agriculture—for the work that they sound, and strong. They had nutritious whom the Agriculture Committee rep- and many others have done to bring us food to eat. As Governor of Delaware resents and whom everyone on the Ag- to this point in this important debate. and chairman of the National Gov- riculture Committee should champion I was with the Aspen Institute sem- ernors Association, I felt we did well, and protect. I am going to describe inar visit to Tanzania about a year and I want to make sure that kids—not that person to my colleagues on the ago. We got into a discussion with a lot just my own kids but young people all floor, with reverence to Paul Harvey. of young African leaders and scholars, over the world—and not so young peo- And on the 8th day, God looked down on and a number of Democratic and Re- ple have the benefit of eating healthy his planned paradise and said, ‘‘I need a care- publican House Members and Senate and nutritious food. taker.’’ So God made a farmer. Members. I understand the calls from parents God said, ‘‘I need somebody willing to get The debate ended up going into an who want to know more about the food up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in area I never expected it to go. We they are putting on their tables in this the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and ended up talking about drought in Afri- country and other countries as well. I then go to town and stay past midnight at a ca. We ended up talking about what is believe the Stabenow-Roberts com- meeting of the school board.’’ So God made going on with climate change that ex- promise for GMO labeling will help all a farmer. acerbates their problems with raising ‘‘I need somebody with arms strong enough consumers make more informed to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to de- crops. We talked about how it might be choices no matter where they live in liver his own grandchild. Somebody to call possible for them to use genetically America. hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come modified seeds to better endure and Part of our job in Congress is to en- home hungry, have to wait on lunch until his survive drought and to enable them to sure that our Federal regulations set wife’s done feeding visiting ladies and then maybe raise some crops that would be forth a reasonable framework for tell the ladies to be sure and come back real healthier for their constituents. We American businesses, too, so they can soon—and mean it.’’ So God made a farmer. ended up in an interesting debate on grow and thrive. A week ago, our coun- God said, ‘‘I need somebody willing to sit sound science with respect to sea level up all night with a newborn colt. And watch try’s first human labeling law took efit die. Then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe rise and climate change. fect in one State, Vermont, but that next year.’ I need somebody who can shape The message from our Democrats law regulates only food being sold an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe who happened to be present at that within that State’s lines. a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can seminar was this: Our Republican Again, I call myself a recovering make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and friends should be guided by sound Governor, but as a former Governor, I shoe scraps. And who, planting time and har- science when it comes to climate know a patchwork approach to regula- vest season, will finish his forty-hour week change and sea level rise. Delaware is tions that apply to interstate com- by Tuesday noon, then, pain’n from ‘tractor the lowest lying State in the country. merce is very problematic. Businesses back,’ put in another seventy-two hours.’’ So God made a farmer. We are especially mindful of this issue. want and need certain predictability. God had to have somebody willing to ride Republicans, after we had reminded For food businesses, large and small, the ruts at double speed to get the hay in them of the need to rely on good waiting for each State to produce its ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid- science with respect to climate change own labeling laws, its own rules, would field and race to help when he sees the first and sea level rise, had this rejoinder for create a haphazard and totally unman- smoke from a neighbor’s place. So God made us Democrats. They said: Well, maybe ageable regulatory landscape. a farmer. if we were to agree to that, you guys— I believe it is absolutely critical that God said, ‘‘I need somebody strong enough Democrats present—should agree to be we act on the Federal level to create to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and guided by good science with respect to labeling requirements that give contend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop genetically modified organisms. sumers the information they need and his mower for an hour to splint the broken As it turns out, close to 98 or 99 per- deserve without creating a logistical leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody cent of scientists around the world be- nightmare that would stifle American who’d plow deep and straight and not cut lieve that climate change is real, sea businesses. The question is, Can we corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed level rise is real, and we human beings have both or are they mutually exclu- and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie are directly contributing to that. I am sive of one another? I think we can the fleece and strain the milk and replenish told that 98 or 99 percent of the sci- have both. the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work entists on the other side of the issue Under the Stabenow-Roberts com- with a five-mile drive to church.’’ ‘‘Somebody who’d bale a family together with respect to genetically modified promise, in the next 2 years, all foods with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who organisms have concluded—again, we that contain GMOs will be labeled with would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, have had recently, just in the last sev- a QR code that sends consumers di- with smiling eyes, when his son says he eral weeks, additional confirmation of rectly to the producer’s Web site and wants to spend his life ‘doing what dad this—that most of the scientists in the outlines clear information about what does.’ ’’ So God made a farmer. world who follow this think we ought is in the product that consumers are It is our responsibility to protect to be guided by sound science with re- about to buy or considering buying. that farmer, and to protect what he spect to genetically modified orga- That means consumers in the dozens of

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We had the committee hearing says, it says that this is Iraq, a big part I pleased by the agreement that we within the Agriculture Committee of this area here is Iraq. Right down have reached, but I am also pleased by months ago with the EPA, FDA, and here is Iraq. Right here is Baghdad. the way that we got here. My wife says many witnesses declaring that agricul- That is Syria over here. We have Tur- I am an eternal optimist—maybe too tural biotechnology is safe. Note I key up here, and Iran is over here on optimistic some days, but I hope the changed the name because GMO has be- the other side of Iraq. bipartisan work we have done to get come a pejorative. It is hard to fix A couple of years ago, these folks in here, led by Senator STABENOW and that, but that is what it is—agricul- ISIS decided they were going to estab- Senator ROBERTS, reminds our con- tural biotechnology. We went to work lish their own caliphate, if you will, a stituents that they, too, can be opti- and passed a bill, 14 to 6. Then we tried country. That would be a theocracy mistic about the ability of Congress to to change the bill so that the minority guided by their perverted view of get things done. could possibly vote for it. Unfortu- Islam, not the view held by most Mus- This comes on the heels of the bipar- nately, we were not able to get the re- lims in the world. tisan work done on the Toxic Sub- quired number of votes for cloture. Islam is one of the great religions of stances Control Act, where Democrats Back then, it would have been very the world. The more I learn about it, I and Republicans worked together with appropriate, it seems to me, for any- am struck by the similarities between the administration to pass one of the body interested to bring their amend- the faiths. I am Protestant. I am not best environmental laws that we have ment to the floor. Senator MERKLEY is sure what our Presiding Officer is, but done maybe in decades in this country. here. We offered—at least through we are here and are people of different Finally, I would like to address some staff—he tells me he didn’t get the faiths. Whatever your faith happens to of the critics of this compromise who message, but I was for all amendments be, almost any faith in the world—I assert that we didn’t go far enough to at that particular time. We didn’t even don’t care if you are Protestant, Catho- protect Americans from GMOs. We talk get cloture. lic, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist; Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, will often about the overwhelming sci- even Confucius used to embody and em- the Senator yield for a question? entific data that proves our climate is brace the Golden Rule to treat other Mr. ROBERTS. I do not have the changing at a troubling rate and that people the way you want to be treated. time. The Senator from Delaware has humans are the primary drivers of There is a section in the New Testa- yielded to me. I will finish my state- that. On GMOs, the scientific data is ment, Matthew 25, where we read about ment in just a minute, if I can. also overwhelming. the least of us: When I was hungry, did Here we are with the July 1 deadline you feed me? When I was thirsty, did I mentioned earlier in my remarks having been met, and here we are with you give me a drink? When I was that at a seminar at the African insti- the Vermont labeling law becoming, in naked, did you clothe me? When I was tute in Tanzania last year, both the effect, the national law. I know there a stranger in your land, did you take Democrats and the Republicans ex- are some for that. There was one Sen- me in? When I was sick and in prison, changed ideas that both of us should be ator from the other side of the aisle, did you come and see me? There is a guided by sound science on GMOs or and that was the Senator from Dela- passage in the Koran that is actually sea level rise climate change. ware, who went to work to get a rea- very similar to what we have in the More recently, in May of this year, sonable bill. This is a well-crafted com- Bible, the New Testament. the National Academy of Sciences re- promise. If it is a well-crafted com- Nonetheless, the folks who have this leased an independent report that de- promise between the ranking member perverted view of Islam launched an ef- termined genetically engineered crops and the chairman with appropriate fort about 2 years ago in this area that are just as safe to eat as conventional people like the Senator himself work- we see here—I am going to call this a crops. I will say it again. In May of this ing hard to get support for that, we salmon-colored area, and the area that year, the National Academy of should go ahead and get this done. I ap- is more of a green color is the area that Sciences released an independent re- preciate the willingness of the Senator ISIS seized control of 2 years ago, and port that determined genetically engi- to work in a bipartisan fashion, and I there are other pockets around these neered crops are just as safe to eat as thank him again. two countries, Syria and Iraq. That is conventional crops. Mr. CARPER. Reclaiming my time— what they took over—rolled right over More recently, more than 100 Nobel boy, I am glad I yielded. Thank you so the Iraqis. A lot of the Iraqi military laureates sent a letter to Greenpeace, much for those words and for the op- units fled and left, and the leaders did the United Nations, and governments portunity to participate in this proc- too. around the world. What did the 100 ess. We had a fight on our hands. The bad Nobel laureates have to say? They ISIS guys got within 20, 25 miles of Bagh- urged all the folks that they wrote to Mr. President, I want to change gears dad, and they got no further. The end opposition to GMOs. to talk about another battle going on President of our country has helped I think our Federal Government in another part of the world, and it is lead the way to put together a 60-na- should take a reasonable, principled, a battle to degrade and destroy ISIS. tion coalition. Some are Arab; some and science-based approach to address- Recently on the Senate floor, I heard a are Protestant or Catholic—mixed reli- ing the issue of GMO labeling. That is couple of our colleagues in the major- gions. A lot of different religions rep- exactly what this bipartisan bill seeks ity, I believe, claim that the President, resent the coalition. Some are democ- to do. I believe that is what it does. the current administration, is not racies; some are not. Some have a King I thank our colleagues, Senators doing enough to fight ISIS. However, I or a Queen. It is an interesting group ROBERTS and STABENOW, and their staff say to my friends—and they are my and a diverse group. But 60-some na- for working so hard with ours and oth- friends, they know that—that the ma- tions were put together. ers to achieve a compromise that I jority are forgetting some of the key I mentioned before that I spent a fair think is a win for consumers, compa- facts, and I just want to revisit that. number of years of my life as a naval nies, and farmers. It shows the country The truth is, they are taking the flight officer, 5 years in a hot war in that Congress can work together across fight to ISIS, and we are making seri- Southeast Asia during the Vietnam the aisle to get things done. ous progress in the battle to degrade war and another 18 years beyond that Mr. President, I want to change gears and destroy them. As I like to say, it is right up until the end of the Cold War. here for a moment if I could. not time to spike the football. We are I had the opportunity to participate in

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When we tried to in- President, his administration, and our gladesh show that ISIS still has the troduce and work with units from military folks have built an anti-ISIS ability to mobilize its followers to other branches of other countries’ mili- coalition that consists of 60 countries, carry out attacks on soft targets. The tary units, other naval units, it was including some you expect to hear, terror attack in Orlando last month even more difficult. such as the United Kingdom, Canada, serves as a reminder that disturbed and Imagine trying to put together a coa- France, and Germany, but, frankly, a mentally imbalanced young Americans lition and 60 different nations speaking lot you would not expect to hear about. are susceptible to the twisted propa- different languages with different The coalition also consists of some of ganda of ISIS. modes of operation, different aircraft, Iraq’s and Syria’s Arab neighbors, such In November, before the Senate different ships, different artillery and as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emir- Homeland Security and Governmental trying to get us all to pull in the same ates, Jordan, and Egypt, just for start- Affairs Committee, renowned counter- direction to take on this battle. It has ers. As a result of these partnerships, terrorism expert Peter Bergen told the taken a while. we have not only taken territory away committee that ‘‘every American who’s You know what is happening now? from ISIS, but we have also cut off its been killed by a jihadi terrorist in this Here is what has happened. The land main sources of supplies, its reinforce- country since 9/11 has been killed by an that ISIS took over 2 years ago has ments, and its funding. American citizen or resident.’’ Think been cut by almost half—47 percent, al- In recent weeks, anti-ISIS forces about that. Every person who has been most half. While the area of Syria con- have surrounded a place called Manbij, killed by a jihadi terrorist in this coun- trolled by ISIS is a lot smaller than Syria, which is up here, just north of try—in America—since 9/11 has been the land in Iraq, 20 percent of that land Raqqa, and cut off the route through killed by an American citizen or legal has been recaptured from ISIS. Turkey that ISIS previously used to resident. Think about it. The threat Last year, Iraqi counterterrorism smuggle oil, money, and move fighters. doesn’t come from Syrian refugees or forces, backed by U.S. air support, As of June 29, less than a month ago— those who travel here as tourists or on scored key victories in Ramadi to the maybe a couple of weeks ago—about the visa waiver programs. The greatest west of Baghdad, 30, 40 miles to the 300 airstrikes against the Islamic threat to our country now comes from west of Baghdad. And then a place State’s oil network in Iraq and Syria within—from American citizens and called Tikrit—we remember Tikrit be- conducted over the last 2 years have legal residents. cause it is the birthplace where Sad- cut the terrorist group’s oil revenues When these young Americans carry dam Hussein grew up. In the last cou- by at least half. It is estimated that out attacks in ISIS’s name, much like ple of weeks, there was some more good ISIS now collects about $15 million the Orlando killer appears to have news. Fallujah, which is right here— each month, down from $30 million and done, they help to project the image these three cities, Fallujah, Ramadi, $42 million each month at its peak. that ISIS is all-powerful and ever and Tikrit, make up what is called the Cash reserves held by ISIS have also present. Sunni Triangle. It is where a lot of been hit hard. Over the past year, coa- We need to do a better job of coun- Sunnis in Iraq live. It was once con- lition airstrikes have destroyed $500 tering ISIS’s narrative here in the trolled by ISIS, and they have now fall- million and $800 million in ISIS funds— United States. Right now, ISIS por- en to the alliance, our forces. cold cash. Our partnership has helped trays a winner’s message, or at least As we speak, Kurdish, Iraqi, Syrian to keep ISIS from getting reinforce- they sought to, even though the results democratic forces backed by U.S. Spe- ment from outside of Iraq and Syria on the battlefield are beginning to cial Forces are training and making too. show otherwise. preparations to retake other key ISIS The flow of foreign recruits has been We need to make sure the truth is strongholds. Here is Baghdad. You go dramatically reduced from a high of told about ISIS and all the defeats they to the north, northwest, up here next about 2,000 a month in 2014—coming are beginning to absorb. They are cow- to the areas controlled by the Kurds, from all around the world to joining ards, not heroes. They are oppressors which are part of Iraq but controlled the ISIS team—to 200 a month in June. and killers of Muslims. They imprison by the Kurds, and over here—almost It went from 2,000 to 200 over the and enslave women. They are not pro- due west from Mosul, over here to course of the last year. About a year or tectors of Islam. Raqqa, which is the spiritual capital of so ago in the United States, we had 10 As we help the Sunni Arab world free ISIS. Those are where the fights are Americans per month leave the United itself from the horror and oppression of headed next. States to join the ISIS folks. Last ISIS, we must also ensure that the For weeks American airpower has month there was about one—one per truth about ISIS gets out in order to conducted scores of airstrikes on these month. This has happened because peo- undermine ISIS’s recruitment propa- two ISIS strongholds, Mosul and ple all around—and certainly people in ganda. Congress can strengthen our Raqqa, in order to clear the way for the United States—are learning the ability to fight the ISIS narrative by our Iraqi and Syrian partners on the truth about ISIS. They don’t want any empowering the Department of Home- ground. We are using F–15 and F–16 air- part of it. land Security to build partnerships craft—in some cases, carrier-based and In cyber space, over 125,000 pro-ISIS here at home. out of the Persian Gulf. We are using Twitter handles have been taken off- The Senate Homeland Security Com- drones and A–10s. We are using B–52s, line. For every pro-ISIS Twitter han- mittee passed legislation that I had which are being staged in a variety of dle, there are now six anti-ISIS handles worked on, along with others, that em- places, including Qatar and as far away challenging ISIS’s twisted ideology and powers the Department of Homeland as a couple of thousand miles, I am criticizing its actions. That is a real Security to build partnerships with the told, to conduct precision strikes all game changer. Muslim community here and with faith over the planet to target ISIS. At home, the FBI is cracking down leaders, civic groups, and other non- All in all, the United States and our on recruits as well. Over the past 2 profits. These partnerships will help to allies have taken about 25,000 ISIS years, the FBI has arrested nearly 100 develop local solutions for countering fighters off the battlefield and killed individuals on ISIS-related charges. ISIS messages and to stop the recruit- more than 120 key ISIS leaders since Just because we have made clear ment of young Americans. the beginning of this conflict. Recent progress on these fronts, it does not I will say in conclusion that the bat- reports indicate that coalition allied mean there is not more work to be tle to defeat ISIS is far from over, but forces kill an ISIS leader every 3 days done, because there is. There is a lot I think we are on the right track. We

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There is a lot going on around the Not every person in the country who is losing team, and if we keep working world, and we face a lot of threats. here illegally is a violent felon, but for hard and pulling together in the same This week has also concluded the se- those who are, can’t we find the com- direction with our coalition partners, curity issue of the United States deal- mon ground to say that those individ- they will be a losing team. All of us, ing with drug policy. Behind the uals should be convicted and deported? Democrats and Republicans, have a scenes, in the Senate, there is a long- This body apparently doesn’t believe role to play in making that clear to all term argument that is happening right that. Americans, especially those who are now about whether we are going to What should have been the most susceptible to ISIS’s silent song. I hope have a drug war or a political war. We baseline argument about our domestic my colleagues on the other side of the have a bill that deals with opioids. We and national security can’t get through aisle will keep that in mind as we go are trying to help local law enforce- this body because we can’t agree on the forward. ment engage in this opioid conference, simplest things. It is not all immigra- I hope we can also work together but our Democratic colleagues have tion policy. This is just: Should you de- without the partisanship of this elec- held that bill up and won’t allow it to port people convicted of a violent fel- tion cycle to come up with construc- move through the conference process. ony? Should there be communities in tive ways to help enhance the ability of While we should be dealing with the the country where violent felons are this administration and our military fast-moving opioid crisis, we are actu- protected and kept in the United men and women to join with the other ally dealing with the gridlock in the States even if they are here illegally? 60 or so nations to finally defeat ISIS. Senate. If we can’t agree on that simple policy, With that, as I look around the floor, This is a bill that already over- how in the world are we going to agree I believe one of my colleagues from whelmingly passed in a bipartisan on any immigration policy? Oklahoma is poised to address us, and method when it came through origi- It has been a week about national se- I will yield for the Senator. nally. It has only been strengthened curity but also the threat of ISIS and I thank the Presiding Officer. since that time, and it now goes to con- the movement of terrorism around the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ference. We want to be able to finish world. We have gridlock here—dealing ator from Oklahoma. the conference report so we can con- with basic immigration policy and na- NATIONAL SECURITY tinue to fight the drug war here in the tional security, basic drug policy, and Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, this United States, but instead we can’t dealing with an opioid conference. It has been a week really dealing with a fight the drug war because of the polit- has also been a week dealing with na- lot of national security issues, both se- ical war going on behind the scenes. It tional security in a very unusual way. curity here in our country and security is a national security issue. It can be spun politically, but it is real- around the world. It is a moment when This is a national security issue. This ly a national security issue. we turn around and look at what is week we dealt with immigration policy The Director of the FBI completed an happening internationally. We think and what should be the simplest, most investigation over a holiday weekend about ISIS and terrorism being con- baseline area of immigration: Should and interviewed former Secretary of fined to Syria and Iraq, and we face it individuals that have been convicted of State Clinton on the Saturday of the here. We lose track that there are a felony—even a violent felony—be de- Fourth of July weekend. He then came countries around the world dealing ported out of the United States if they out after the day of the Fourth of July with this threat as well. What do we do are here illegally? The argument from and said there is a lot of evidence of about this, and where does it go from the other side of the aisle is this: We breaking the rules, there is a lot of evi- here? should not force communities to deport dence of being sloppy and careless, Let me recount the past couple of individuals who have been convicted of there is a lot of evidence of what he days. On Wednesday, two suicide bomb- violent felonies. called extremely careless handling of ers carried out an attack in Yemen. On This week a year ago, specifically sensitive, highly classified informa- Tuesday, an Indonesian suicide bomb- July 1, 2015, a young lady named Kate tion, but would not recommend a pros- er, believed to be a supporter of the Is- Steinle was walking down a pier in San ecution. lamic State, attacked a city there, Francisco with her dad. A gentleman Now, why do I bring this up in a na- killing himself and wounding a police walked up to her with a gun and shot tional security conversation? Because officer and other security personnel. and killed her on the pier. There was it does connect to our national secu- On Monday, there were three separate no connection or altercation. He just rity. It is not just a political issue. attacks in Saudi Arabia. On Sunday, walked up and shot her. This man, who The first calls that I received after there was a massive bomb explosion was in the country illegally, had al- that statement came out from Director carried out in Baghdad that killed over ready been convicted of seven felonies Comey were from people who have clas- 250 people—one bomb. Later that same and had been deported five times. sified clearances. They work in the in- day, there was another one, also in The San Francisco Police Depart- telligence community, they work in Iraq, that killed five people. On Friday ment was forced to release him and did the U.S. military, they work on our of last week, in Bangladesh, our Nation not give him to the Federal authorities military installations, they are con- watched in horror as gunmen stormed because San Francisco is a sanctuary tractors, and they have gone through a restaurant in the diplomatic zone and city. They believe that even if you the extensive process of getting clear- killed 20. They took those long-term have been convicted of violent felonies ance. Those individuals started con- hostages, pledging their allegiance to before—if you are in the United States tacting me with one statement; that is, ISIS. illegally—you should not be turned if I had done what the Secretary of We forgot what else happened on Fri- over to Federal authorities. State did—which is to take classified day. Those things happened around the This body had a debate on that. This information out of the government world, but on Friday of last week, body’s debate was this: Do we agree computer, move it to my home com- many people may not know that the that there should be places in the puter, store it at home—I would have FBI picked up a man named Mohamed United States where violent, been fired and I would have lost my se- Jalloh in Virginia. He was plotting to multicount felons should be kept and curity clearance. In fact, I had an indi- carry out a Fort Hood-style attack. He protected in communities here even vidual contact me who worked at one is a Virginia National Guardsman who though they are here illegally? Repub- of my military installations and who purchased weapons. He had self- licans overwhelmingly voted that sanc- recounted to me a story from just last radicalized after watching Anwar al- tuary cities should lose some of our year. Someone who worked at that par- Awlaki’s videos. He pledged to ISIS and Federal support. There should be an in- ticular installation had brought their

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Thirty years ago, when I we need to take every step we need to how we are going to protect our Na- was Governor of Tennessee, I would take to help keep the Zika virus from tion’s secrets and whether there is a have gotten the ‘‘public enemy of the infecting as many people as we can. standard anymore. In a day when we NEA’’ award. But what they like and This is a very simple disease. It is face threats from around the world, in what teachers and Governors and chief carried by a mosquito, and if a mos- a day when we face threats from all State school officers and parents like quito bites you, you get the Zika virus. over different regions and from Ameri- was that last year we came together For many people, it makes no dif- cans even here who are being self- and fixed No Child Left Behind. We ference, but for pregnant women, it radicalized, we should at least have the stopped Washington from telling could be a problem. It is July, and the standard that classified information schools so much about what to do and mosquitoes are out, and it is time to means classified information, and any restored that responsibility where it eradicate the mosquitoes. The Centers individual, regardless of their last ought to be—with teachers and parents for Disease Control asked us for name, would be held to account. No one and Governors and legislators. We have money, and so we passed $1.1 billion in America is above the law—at least been thanked for that because it af- here, money for Zika. We are ready to that is what we used to say. fects 50 million children and 31⁄2 million pass $1.1 billion. Because of a small The challenge we face now as a na- teachers and 100,000 public schools. We provision the House of Representatives tion, with all of the threats, with all of did our job. put in that has to do with who is a the issues that we face, is, will we just So there is mental health, there is Medicaid provider in Puerto Rico— argue about political things here and fixing No Child Left Behind, and we are there are many Medicaid providers in will political people get special favors, working on something called 21st cen- Puerto Rico who can go about this or will we take seriously the national tury cures. The House of Representa- business in July and August and Sep- security threats we face from terrorism tives has passed it. Again, the Senator tember to deal with trying to keep the abroad, from terrorists who are plan- from Louisiana has been working on an mosquitoes away. Our friends on the ning attacks here in the United States, important part of it having to do with other side of the aisle won’t let us pass from the opioid and heroin crisis we electronic medical records as an exam- the bill. face, the immigration crisis we face? ple. This has the opportunity to be by Now, let’s stop and think about this. Will we take these things seriously? This is the Hatfields and McCoys at its I would call this body out to say we far the most important legislation we worst. This is not the same spirit we cannot continue to just do politics here pass this year, and we will pass it be- had when fixing No Child Left Behind. and not work toward resolutions on cause it is part of Speaker RYAN’s It is not the same spirit we had work- things that matter to the American agenda; the majority leader, Senator ing with the President and Speaker people in the most basic things we face. MCCONNELL, wants to pass it; and the This is a time we should continue to do President of the United States is inter- RYAN and Senator MCCONNELL on 21st the right thing. The American people ested in it because of his focus on pre- century cures. It is not the same spirit need to not only see their government cision medicine and the Vice Presi- Senator MURPHY and Senator CASSIDY working, they need to know their gov- dent’s focus on Cancer Moonshot. have shown in taking grave differences ernment is actually doing something to There is funding for the BRAIN Initia- over mental health and putting them protect the Nation—our borders, the tive, which has to do with Alzheimer’s. in in a way that we will get some ad- drug wars, our national secrets, and These are breathtaking discoveries vances on that this year. There is no our security dealing with radical Is- which we are on the verge of in Amer- excuse whatsoever for delaying the lamic terrorism from around the world. ica and which would affect millions of spending of $1.1 billion to help preg- Let’s confront these issues, not just de- people—research for that and then nant women and other families avoid bate them. Let’s deal with them, and moving them through the regulatory the Zika virus this summer. We don’t let’s resolve them. Let’s remind the and investment process and into the need mosquito control in the winter; American people that we can get medicine cabinets. we need it in the summer. And we need things done to fulfill our basic con- I saw a Forbes poll the other day that to pass it now because we leave and go stitutional responsibility and that we showed that 82 percent of the American away on our recess and come back in can carry out the law, regardless of a people would like for Congress to do September. person’s last name. more on biomedical research. They There may be a provision in the bill Mr. President, I yield the floor. agree on that. We are doing that. that some of us would have written a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- So there are three things: fixing No different way. Maybe some of us would ator from Tennessee. Child Left Behind, mental health, and like some more money. But the provi- WORKING TOGETHER IN THE SENATE 21st century cures. Then we get to sion that is offensive to some people is Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, let opioids and we get to Zika. So what a very small provision. There are Med- me pick up from where the distin- has happened here? This reminds me of icaid providers all over Puerto Rico guished Senator from Oklahoma ended. the Hatfields and the McCoys in the who can deal with this part of the This Senate and the House are capable mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee. money, and there is no excuse for not of doing some awfully good bipartisan They fought so long, they forgot what approving the $1.1 billion that we are work that helps the American people, they were fighting about. They just ready to spend for Zika, period, and it and we do a lot of it. killed each other because that is what is wrong for the Democrats to block The Senator from Louisiana—the their grandfathers did. that. It is wrong as it can be, and it is Presiding Officer today—has been We have two issues here of intense not in the right spirit. working with the Senator from Con- interest to the American people, and I think I have a reputation here for necticut, a Democrat. They have dif- we are on the verge of a significant trying to get results. I would say to my ferent political persuasions, and they step to help. The first is Zika. The Zika friends on the other side of the aisle: have us very close to passing a very virus is terrifying young women in our Please stop and think about this. This important mental health bill in the country. They are postponing their is the Hatfields and McCoys example Senate—one that passed the House yes- pregnancies. They are afraid to have that the American people really don’t terday. They have worked hard on babies. They are afraid their babies like. We are on the verge of doing that. We are going to get that done will be born with deformities because something that would help a lot of this year. I would like to do it next we have found that if women have the Americans, especially young women, week, but if not, we should be able to Zika virus, some women have babies and we ought to do it. We ought to do do it in September. who have deformities when they are it today or next week, and we surely

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We came along today and said: We want to other side of the aisle, this opioids con- have talked a lot about the opioids go even further than that. That is in ference is not a Republican bill. It is abuse. I know what happens in Ten- the regular appropriations process. filled with Democratic priorities. nessee. Opioid overdose is killing more That is how we do our business here. Mr. WHITEHOUSE is the lead sponsor, people every year than car wrecks or For example, last year, as I men- the Senator from Rhode Island. He is gunshots—car wrecks or gunshots. I tioned, we fixed No Child Left Behind. passionate about it. There are 44 Demo- had a roundtable in Knoxville several The President called it a Christmas cratic Senators who voted for his months ago. It was filled with people— miracle. Everybody is happy about it. version of it. Senator WARREN is the judges, parents, doctors, hospital man- It doesn’t spend a penny. It reformed lead sponsor for the Reducing Unused agers. Everybody is overwhelmed with the education law. We spend the money Medication Act. It is in the package. this. They want some help in doing it. in the appropriations process. Senator DURBIN led an amendment re- We can’t fix it from here, but we can Every year we pass a Defense author- garding the opioid action plan at the support those on the frontlines, and we ization bill. It reforms everything that FDA that is included. Senator SHAHEEN are doing it. We are making some has to do with keeping us safe in the and nine other Democratic Senators changes. country, but we don’t spend a penny. led the National All Schedules Pre- We have come back to Secretary That is in the appropriations process. scription Electronic Reauthorization Burwell and the President and said: We have an energy bill we are going which is included. Congressman SAR- Change the provision on the pain man- to conference on. It doesn’t spend a BANES has a bill on expanding access agement survey that hospitals are tell- penny. That is in the appropriations through cold prescribing. Senator ing us encourage doctors to overpre- process. CASEY introduced a plan of safe care scribe opioids. Well, at first they didn’t So we are spending money on opioids. improvement that was included. Sen- listen, but to the President’s credit and We are spending money on opioids. A ators BROWN, KING, and MANCHIN are to Secretary Burwell’s credit, they did five times increase over 21⁄2 years, in cosponsors of a Healthy Babies Act it; they listened and they did it at the addition to policy that 200 groups sup- that was included. Senators BROWN, urging of Congress. port and that passed the Senate 94 to 1. KING, CASEY, and FEINSTEIN were co- They have increased the level of pre- Now, some say there should be more. I authors in another provision. We all scriptions that treatment doctors can agree. I would like to spend even more put this together. We all care about it. prescribe. That was something Senator for opioids. I would like to see a more The people we work for all need our PAUL, Senator MARKEY, and Democrats significant amount of money for State help. We should pass it. We should pass and Republicans in the House wanted grants to help with opioids because it. to do. We might do more of it, but that that is where the bottom line is, but To come up with a lame excuse that was the TREAT Act. there are a lot of discussions going on we are not funding it when, in fact, we Then we came up with a bipartisan about doing that. There is some discus- are—five times more over 21⁄2 years— opioid bill in the Senate and in the sion about doing that in the 21st cen- that is not the kind of thing that will House. It has contributions from half tury cures bill, perhaps. We talked gain respect for the U.S. Senate. the Democrats and many of the Repub- about it and even voted on it last year. I am here today as someone who licans. In the House, it passed 400 to 1. Republicans put through a bill in our spends most of his time trying to get In the Senate, it passed 94 to 1. Pardon so-called reconciliation process in results in this body, and often achieves me, it was 400 to 5 in the House and 94 which all but five Republicans in the results. I do that only because of rela- to 1 here. It has more than 200 groups Senate and House voted for $750 million tionships with Democratic Members as across the country who say opioid each year for 2 years for opioids. That well as Republican Members. I told the abuse is an epidemic and a crisis, so is $750 million each year for opioids. National Education Association today let’s fix it. So we have taken a substan- That is $1.5 billion the Republicans to give PATTY MURRAY a big hand for tial step to fix it. voted for. The President vetoed it be- being the friend of the NEA on fixing Yesterday we approved a merger of cause it also repealed ObamaCare. We No Child Left Behind because it would what the House did and the Senate did, thought we were getting two good not have happened without her. and both will come to the House and things—repeal ObamaCare and support I would say that when we pass the next week to the Senate for approval. opioids. Of course, the President dis- opioids conference, give a big hand to One would think that something that agreed with that. This isn’t all on Senators DURBIN and SHAHEEN and Con- had passed the Senate 94 to 1, when it Democrats or Republicans because we gressman SARBANES and especially comes back for approval, would pass have also voted for more money for Senator WHITEHOUSE, Senator CASEY, again 94 to 1. One would think that opioids. and Senator WARREN because they all something as urgent as dealing with But let’s get out of this Hatfields- made major contributions to this, they opioid drug abuse—an epidemic, as I and-McCoys posture in this last week voted for the funding over the last 2 said, that is killing more people every or 10 days before the convention starts years, and I am sure they will this year in my State than gunshots, kill- when we are dealing with the lives of year, which will go up at least five ing more people every year in my State so many Americans. Every Senator times—five times. than car wrecks—one would think we who talked yesterday at the conference So let’s put the Hatfields and McCoys would want to do something about it, report had some story of someone from back in Kentucky and Tennessee. Let’s particularly when we have worked hard his or her State who had died from an say young women all over the country and we have a very good package. Two opioid abuse—several from one family are terrified by the Zika virus. Let’s hundred of the advocacy groups in this in several cases. Everyone has that spend $1.1 billion or make it available country who work on opioid abuse like story. Then how can we dare go home for the Centers for Disease Control now what we have done. next week without having passed a pol- to help. Let’s take this opioids con- So what is the problem? Well, our icy that everyone who understands the ference report we are on the verge of friends on the other side say you need subject says will help, in terms of pre- passing that we are all for, and let’s do to fund it. We are funding it, and they vention and State grants and treat- it and go home. And let’s add to the helped fund it. Over the last 3 years, ment and a variety of other things, and fixing No Child Left Behind, the 21st count the last two Congresses where when we have increased funding by five century cures progress, the mental the money was already appropriated, in times over 21⁄2 years—how can we dare health progress, our work on opioids other words, it is there to spend; count go home without having passed that? abuse, and our work on Zika. That

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The Senator from West Vir- would increase access to important fol- You can see on this chart that in 2015 ginia. lowup services. Again, it is another bi- it was $220 million. In 2016, we had a 46- COMPREHENSIVE ADDICTION AND RECOVERY BILL partisan amendment to prevent over- percent increase to $321 million. In the Mrs. CAPITO. Thank you, Mr. Presi- prescribing. There is also a provision bill that came out of the Senate Appro- dent, for recognizing me, and I want to that would improve acute pain-pre- priations Committee that had bipar- thank the chairman of the HELP Com- scribing practices. You have acute pain tisan support, there was a 46-percent mittee, the Senator from Tennessee, which is different than having constant increase to $470 million. Those are sig- who has in the Senate made a very pas- pain. What are the prescribing proto- nificant resources that can help and sionate argument on why we should be cols for that? We have too many stories will help in the treatment and gets passing the bill that contains the Zika of addiction that started with patients money to our providers and to States funding but also for the opioid and her- taking painkillers after suffering a for block grants. Let’s look at HHS discretionary ap- oin abuse overdose issue that we have minor injury or a minor surgery. Also, propriations that we passed in the ap- in this country. there are provisions that would allow propriations bill that passed bipar- He did mention the Hatfields and doctors to partially fill certain opioid tisan. In 2015, we appropriated $41 mil- McCoys more than a few times in ref- prescriptions. Senator WARREN from lion. In 2016, we increased that funding erence to Tennessee and Kentucky, and Massachusetts and I worked together to $136 million, a 237-percent increase. I will throw West Virginia in there be- on this. This helps to limit the avail- This problem has been escalating cause we have a good history of Hat- ability of unused painkillers. across our country, and you can see it fields and McCoys. We understand a Lastly, a provision I worked on with reflected in the dollars we are spend- feud, and I don’t like to see a feud over my colleague from West Virginia on ing; in 2017, $262 million, which is a 93- these issues either. This is about the House side, Congressman JENKINS, percent increase. These are significant. health care, women and babies, and would protect babies who are born ex- It goes to problems that help with re- these are families who are torn apart posed to opioids during pregnancy and search, treatment, and community by this scourge of opioid and heroin get them the specialized care they health centers. This is a very signifi- need. We see it in Lily’s Place in Hun- abuse. cant rise. I would like to talk about the Com- tington, and we need to have this Our last chart shows what is in the prehensive Addiction and Recovery across the country. conference report we are now consid- Act, known as CARA, and strongly In March, we stood together and ering. It goes out of the Senate at 78 urge my colleagues to lay down the passed this bill 94 to 1, with broad bi- million more dollars. The conference feud and have common sense. I am partisan support. CARA has had broad report comes back with $181 million, a going to talk about why this is so very bipartisan support in the House as 132-percent increase. Again, the ur- important. well, but not one single Democrat gency of what we are seeing is reflected This is a comprehensive step forward. signed the conference report. What in the real dollars we are willing to It has been worked on for years. This is changed? What happened? I don’t spend, so don’t listen to the argument not a fly-by-night bill. This is a very know. Out of the blue, after they had that no money is being spent. It comprehensive bill, a national response already voted for this, they demanded couldn’t be further from the truth. to the drug epidemic that we see like a a new mandatory funding—which This is what has been decided and fire rushing across America. It expands means a different type of funding out agreed upon in the Appropriations prevention and education efforts and of the Appropriations Committee was Committee in a bipartisan way to deal promotes resources for treatment and not added to this bill in conference. with this very difficult problem. recovery. I say often there is no one so- Some apparently believe that without I think that 94 Members of this body lution to this problem. There is a spec- this funding, CARA is not worth pass- already voted for this $78 million. Why trum of solutions, and CARA addresses ing. I strongly disagree for the reasons in the world would we continue this a spectrum of solutions. It helps law I am going to line out. This is not the feud that has been created and is bub- enforcement respond, provides review of the over 200 treatment organi- bling up in a political fashion and turn sources for treatment, alternatives to zations that are in favor of this con- our backs on a 132-percent increase in incarceration. I know many Senators ference report—groups such as the Ad- this conference report? have been to see and visit drug court diction Policy Forum, the American As I have shared on the floor several programs that have had successful Psychological Association, the Na- times before, this problem is particu- graduations. They have gotten people tional Association of Counties, the Na- larly hard-hitting in the State of West back on their feet. They operate in tional Association of Addiction and Virginia, the State I represent. Unfor- West Virginia and many other States. Treatment Providers. These groups are tunately, West Virginia leads the Na- I was very pleased to see many ele- calling for quick action on this con- tion in drug-related overdose deaths— ments of the Senate-passed bill in- ference report. They wrote a letter more than twice the national average. cluded in the final conference report. stating ‘‘the report is truly a com- I mentioned that 129 Americans die Members on both sides of the aisle and prehensive response to the opioid epi- every day. That means there are people the Senator from Tennessee talked demic which includes critical policy dying in West Virginia in larger num- about many of those Members who changes and new resources.’’ bers per capita than in any other State have worked hard to create the reali- The letter continues, ‘‘As you know, in the Union. It also means we ties of those living with and impacted 129 Americans die each day as a result shouldn’t be taking the time for par- by addiction. The bill is just a com- of a drug overdose and this epidemic af- tisan politics and delay the passage of monsense response so let’s have a com- fects the public health and safety in a much needed piece of legislation. monsense vote in response to the com- every community across the country,’’ I say this all the time because I be- monsense bill. not to mention the devastation, and I lieve it to be true. I hope it is not. I be- For me, my personal passion has have seen it in my own communities, lieve we are in danger of losing an en- been the ability to craft several provi- to families all across this Nation. tire generation to this scourge if we sions that are included in this con- ‘‘This bill is the critical response we don’t act with force, together, and ference bill, one that would provide for need.’’ make sure that we not only fund our safer, more effective pain management As a member of the Appropriations programs but that we do the com- services to our veterans. Too many of Committee, we all worked hard to en- prehensive approach to it that we see our veterans are having opioid abuse sure our States have the resources they in this CARA bill.

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But you have to remember that is pending on the VA’s ability to help contributes about $70 million a year to from an increased baseline, not a total them treat their opioid addiction or the Montana economy, as well as sugar cut, and it happened in the fourth the newborn born dependent on opioids factories in Billings and Sidney. quarter of the year because we didn’t or the addict who is willing to seek As Shane Strecker, the director of get the spending bills done in time, treatment and needs the help CARA the Southern Montana Sugar Beet which is the norm around here. But if will provide. They do not deserve to be Growers, put it, ‘‘Without bio- you have to take a 2-percent cut in the held hostage to a political situation. technology, the hundreds of jobs Mon- last quarter of the year, you are mak- I will proudly support the passage of tana’s sugar beet industry supports ing an 8-percent cut of the money that the CARA conference report, and I en- would not exist.’’ you have left. That is not far off from courage all of my colleagues to do the Make no mistake—this Vermont law what Wyoming faces, and we have a lot same. is an attack on Montana’s way of life, more money and a lot more programs I yield the floor. it is an attack on Montana’s farm and to work with to find those cuts at the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ranch operations, and I am not going Federal level. In fact, we have 260 pro- ator from Montana. to stand for it. I will stand up for Mon- grams that I keep talking about that Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, one of tana and continue to fight to ensure have expired that we spend $293.5 bil- the great privileges I have serving in that Montana’s agricultural products lion on. I talked about that enough a the U.S. Senate is standing up every are not unfairly and arbitrarily dis- year ago that we got that down to $256 day on behalf of Montana agriculture. criminated against. As always, I am billion, but now we are spending $310 In fact, across the great State of Mon- proud to stand with Montana farmers, billion on expired programs. tana, signs of our State’s strong agri- to stand with Montana ranchers, to Wyoming’s annual budget is $1.5 bil- cultural heritage are at virtually every stand with Montana agriculture, and I lion, compared to the Federal discre- turn, from wheat and sugar beet fields, urge my colleagues to do the same. tionary budget—those are the program to grazing cattle and sheep. It is truly I yield back the remainder of my we get to make decisions on—of $1,100 impossible to miss the expansiveness of time. billion. Wyoming has about 8,500 State our State’s No. 1 economic driver, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- employees, compared to about 2.7 mil- that is agriculture. ator from Wyoming. lion Federal civilian employees. If Wy- Agriculture is more than just an eco- WYOMING’S BUDGET oming can find a way to cut its budget, nomic driver of our State, it is a way of Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I rise today the Federal Government should be able life for thousands of Montana families. to talk about the tough situation my to do the same. But instead of leading It provides for a safe, reliable, and af- home State of Wyoming finds itself in the way, people in this body and the fordable food supply not only for our and to urge my colleagues to take a House and the administration acted Nation but for the world. It supports page from Wyoming’s book. like the sky was falling after they tens of thousands of jobs throughout Last week, Wyoming’s Governor pro- agreed to the Budget Control Act. As a the State. Let me say that again. It posed cutting $248 million from the result, while Wyoming stays on firm fi- supports tens of thousands of jobs in State budget because Wyoming has nancial footing, the United States has the State of Montana. seen a reduction in revenue. To my gone from owing $14 trillion—that is Over the past several weeks and friends from urban States, $248 million $14,000 billion—in 2014 to owing $19 tril- months, I have heard directly from might not sound like a lot of money, lion—$19,000 billion—today, and we are stakeholders in Montana—from the but that amounts to 8 percent of Wyo- on track to owe $29 billion by 2026. Montana Farm Bureau, the Montana ming’s budget. Grain Growers Association, the Mon- The downturn in energy develop- Here is where one of the difficulties tana Sugar Beet Growers, the Montana ment—particularly coal—reduced Wyo- comes in. We are at $19 trillion and on Retailers Association, the Montana ming’s revenue last January, when the our way to $20 trillion. If you were pay- Chamber of Commerce, as well as re- legislature met, and they had to make ing 1 percent interest on $20 trillion, searchers at Montana State University, cuts. Then new figures came out after that would be $200 billion a year. We my alma mater, a land-grant univer- the legislature was over requiring the are actually paying a little bit more sity. All demonstrated how their liveli- Governor to make cuts to meet the than that already, but the norm for the hoods would be negatively impacted if new level of revenue that there is, Federal Government is 5 percent. If a single State on the east coast could which is requiring him to make addi- that $200 billion in interest becomes be allowed to have such wide-raging tional cuts of 8 percent. five times that amount, it becomes impacts on jobs in Montana, as well as Around here, we don’t make cuts; we $1,000 billion in interest. I just men- the price we pay at the grocery store. reduce the amount of increase a pro- tioned that we only get to make deci- I believe that a State like Vermont gram gets and we call that a cut. sions on $1,100 billion—actually, it is and the junior Senator from Vermont The Governor had a very clever way $1,070 billion. So if interest rates in- should not dictate the laws that govern of prioritizing. He asked every agency crease and we pay $1,000 billion in in- our food and affect the prices Mon- to give him a list of the things they are terest, we would have $70 billion left to tanans pay at the checkout line. doing and suggest where they would fund the military, education, com- Defenders of Vermont’s fringe law take a 1-percent cut, a 5-percent cut, merce, roads, everything that the Fed- and the ideology behind it ignore hard- and a 10-percent cut. Then all he had to eral Government does right now. ships on agricultural jobs. They ignore do was compare the lists. If it wound We have to reverse that course and hardships on family incomes. They ig- up on all three lists, it wasn’t that im- address the Federal Government’s insa- nore scientific consensus. They ignore portant. If it was only on the 1-percent tiable appetite for spending, which is the existing transparency tools and the list, maybe there was some value to leading to America’s mammoth na- new ones created by this bipartisan that program. tional debt. I have several ideas on how compromise legislation. That is the chart Wyoming is using we can make reasonable but real Montanans were clear that Congress to make their 8 percent cuts. That progress on our debt. needed to act. While this bill is by no doesn’t leave easy cuts for the Gov- First, we need to take a page from means perfect, its passage is important ernor to make, but the Governor— Wyoming’s playbook. My home State to prevent increased costs for busi- while he acknowledged that he didn’t has acknowledged how much money it nesses and higher prices at the check- like to cut, he did what he is supposed has and is making targeted cuts to live out stands for families. to do, and that is to lead the State. within its means.

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We need to clerk will call the roll. weren’t done a few years ago, the Ad- prioritize how we spend taxpayers’ dol- The assistant bill clerk proceeded to ministration shut down the national lars, just like Wyoming. call the roll. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I parks, which, incidentally, raise money Second, we need to implement my ask unanimous consent that the order for the Federal Government. penny plan, which cuts overall spend- In Jackson Hole where the Tetons ing by 1 percent—that is one cent out for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without are, the federal government actually of every dollar we spend—and cap fu- objection, it is so ordered. put up barriers so that people couldn’t ture spending so that government lives Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, for use the parking lot to take pictures. within its means. If we did that, within all Members of the Senate, let me sum They also put up signs that said you 5 years we could balance the budget. up where we are. There are three votes Wyoming is finding a way to cut 8 can’t park along the road. I had to ask left to be cast. It is cleared on this side percent. Why can’t this body agree to the Park Service where they got the of the aisle to have all three of those cut 1 percent each year until our rev- money to put up the barriers and I had votes momentarily. If there are objec- enue is the same or less than expendi- to ask them why they put up the bar- tions to the consent request I am about tures? I am pretty sure after the first riers to begin with. to offer, the three votes would occur at They said: Well, we didn’t want peo- year people would say: You know, that 10:20 tonight. But whether we do it now ple putting their garbage there because wasn’t too bad; we can live with that. or we do it then, there are three votes there would be nobody to pick up the And I think they would suggest we do to finish the bill. garbage. two cents instead of one cent and get This bill is a product of a negotiation I said: That is easy. Remove the gar- this done faster so that the next gen- between the top Republican and the bage cans. There is no cost to that, and eration has hope for the same kind of top Democrat on the Committee on Ag- nobody will have to pick up any gar- country we have enjoyed. riculture, Nutrition, and Forestry bage. Lastly, Congress needs to thoroughly which will protect middle-class fami- But that’s not the way the Federal consider and review its spending. The lies from unnecessary and unfair high- Government does things. They don’t Wyoming Legislature considers its er food prices, while also ensuring ac- look for the easy solution; they look spending bills on time because they cess to more information about the for the most painful one. They even have created incentives to encourage food we all purchase. barricaded off the World War II Memo- it, and they use a 2-year spending cycle Chairman ROBERTS said this bipar- rial here during the 2013 shutdown. that provides more certainty and pre- tisan bill will benefit consumers by We furloughed a bunch of people dur- dictability than an annual cycle. Con- greatly increasing the amount of food ing that time, but when they came gress should follow Wyoming’s lead by information at their fingertips, while back to work, we paid them for the forcing timely consideration of regular avoiding devastating increases in the time they were off. It really cost a lot appropriations bills—spending bills— price of food. to try to save a little bit of money and and locking in that funding for 2 years The ranking Democrat on the com- not get our work done on time. instead of 1. A biennial process would mittee, Senator STABENOW, noted that We should learn to cut the worst also allow more time to review the de- it will prevent a confusing patchwork first, not the best first, because if you tails of proposed spending, eliminate of 50 different labeling requirements in cut the best, you have people com- duplication and waste and ensure the 50 different States, and it recognizes plaining and they get the money re- elimination of the worst first. the scientific consensus that bio- instituted. Mr. President, I would like to make technology is safe. Governor Mead is making smart cuts. one point to differentiate the problem It is the result of bipartisan work to He is proposing smaller cuts for the de- Wyoming faces from the problem we address an issue that could negatively partment of corrections because that face here. Wyoming is facing spending harm consumers and producers. agency already saw its budget cut se- cuts because of declining revenues The amendments being bandied about verely in March. The Department of from oil, gas, and coal, which provide threaten to derail this process, and the Family Services faces a smaller cut be- 70 percent of the State’s budget. Those end result will be a tax on food for mid- cause it serves as the State’s safety reductions are due to direct actions dle-class families. net. And the Public Defender’s Office this administration has taken to make So here is the deal, Mr. President. We isn’t expected to see any cuts because it harder to drill for oil and gas and to need to pass it today. We need the they are already strapped for re- mine for coal. House to take it up and pass it, and we sources. But at the Federal level, we don’t need them to send it to the President The Federal Government should be have a revenue problem, we have a to sign it. So the end game is clear. doing the same thing and cutting the spending problem. This year alone, we The only issue before the Senate at the worst first. I would argue that we have seen attempts to increase spend- moment is whether we do it in the near should focus on identifying and elimi- ing by tens of billions of dollars with- future or at 10:20 tonight. nating the wasteful spending that oc- out offsets. We cannot spend our way Bearing that in mind, as I have said, curs here in DC before we look to im- to prosperity. We definitely need to we are prepared to vote on the Sanders portant programs and services in our look at expired programs. alternative to the Roberts-Stabenow home States, but this isn’t something I sit up nights worrying about our compromise language and to finish up we should guess at. Like Wyoming, we Nation’s $19 trillion debt and how it this bill now rather than waiting until should require all government depart- will affect our children and grand- time expires at 10:20 tonight. ments and agencies to list what they children. We have run out of money A bipartisan majority voted to end do best and what they do worst, al- and are living on what we borrow from debate on the bill. Everyone has had an though I have never seen anyone admit other countries. If we don’t get serious opportunity to be heard. It is time to to anything they do worst. So I would about cutting spending soon, the pro- finish this bill. suggest we do the prioritization system grams people enjoy and rely on won’t Under the regular order, there would like Wyoming went through where just shrink, they will disappear en- be no further amendments on the bill. every agency has to list all the pro- tirely—again, think about my example Under the consent agreement I am grams they do and suggest which ones of what happens if we go to 5 percent about to offer, the opponents would be they would cut at 1 percent, which ones interest for this country. able to vote on the Sanders alter- they would cut at 5 percent, and which It is long past time for us to apply native. ones they would cut at 10 percent. That reasonable constraints on our spend- Therefore, Mr. President, I ask unan- way we could tell which programs ing, and if we need a blueprint of how imous consent that notwithstanding

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Objec- USDA, FDA, and EPA to the Senate Ag ing back of that time, the Senate vote tion is heard. Committee last fall made clear that on the Sanders amendment, with a 60- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I foods produced with the benefits of bio- affirmative-vote threshold needed for believe everybody has objected. If not, technology are safe. Just last week, 107 adoption; and that following disposi- I object. Nobel laureates signed a joint letter to tion of the Sanders amendment, the re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- Greenpeace urging it to stop cam- maining amendment be withdrawn and tions heard in duplicate. paigning against biotechnology and the Senate vote on the motion to con- Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I sug- GMOs, stating that ‘‘Opposition [to cur in the House amendment with fur- gest the absence of a quorum. GMO’s] based on emotion and dogma ther amendment with no further inter- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The contradicted by data must be stopped.’’ vening action or debate. clerk will call the roll. The real risk is that if we don’t ad- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there The senior assistant legislative clerk dress Vermont’s GMO law, real families objection? proceeded to call the roll. will have a tougher time making ends The Senator from Oregon. Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, I ask meet. In fact, if food companies have to Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, re- unanimous consent that the order for apply Vermont’s standards to all prod- serving the right to object, the issue the quorum call be rescinded. ucts nationwide, it will result in an es- before this body is whether there is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without timated increase of over $1,050 a year going to be an opportunity for amend- objection, it is so ordered. per household. For families having a ments to be considered and voted upon. Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, every tough time paying bills, this is in es- We have heard today that we have now and then we have a chance to sup- sence a regressive tax, and it will hurt three Republican amendments—three port a bipartisan bill that tackles a the poor more than those with substan- Republican amendments that address a tough issue in the face of stiff, stiff op- tial means. prohibition on Federal labeling, that position. The biotechnology bill before From a jobs perspective, the story address criminal penalties, that ad- us today is just such legislation, and I isn’t any better. It has been calculated dress salmon. We also have three come to the floor to speak in support of that if Vermont’s law is applied nation- Democratic amendments we would like its passage. wide, it will cost over $80 billion a year to have votes on. This measure will avoid a patchwork to switch products over to non-GMO Once upon a time—it now starts to of State labeling regulations, and in supplies. Those billions of dollars a seem like a fairy tale—this Senate was doing so will save families thousands of year in additional cost will hurt an ag known as a great deliberative body. dollars a year, protect American jobs, and food industry that creates over 17 Well, a great deliberative body enter- and provide consumers with accurate, tains ideas, discusses them, and votes million jobs nationwide. In my State of transparent information about their North Dakota alone, 94,000 jobs and 38 on them. So in support and honor of food. This bipartisan solution is a prod- the tradition of the Senate to put percent of our State’s economy rely on uct of the hard work of Ag Committee amendments forward and have them the ag and food economy. Chairman PAT ROBERTS and Ranking This is a bad time to be making it debated and voted upon, we are offering Member DEBBIE STABENOW, who have more expensive to do business in the ag an alternative. I would ask the major- shown real leadership in putting this ity leader to modify his request and to sector. Earlier this year, economists at bill together and are now working to do so in the following fashion: I ask the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas get it passed. unanimous consent that the following City testified that net farm income in Specifically, the Roberts-Stabenow amendments be the only amendments 2015 is more than 50 percent less than it biotechnology disclosure bill accom- in order to the motion to concur with was in 2013, and it is expected to go plishes three important objectives: respect to S. 764 with an amendment: down again in 2016. A State patchwork First, it protects consumers by imme- Sanders No. 4948, Leahy No. 4966, of food labeling laws will only make diately ending the problem of having a Merkley No. 4969, Sasse No. 4972, Paul this situation worse, as many farmers No. 4947, and Murkowski No. 4954; that patchwork of inconsistent State GMO who rely on biotech crops to increase there be 1 hour for debate, to run con- labeling programs that would increase productivity will be deprived of a crit- currently, prior to votes in relation to prices; second, it ensures farmers and ical tool. I know how hard farmers the amendments in the order listed; ranchers can continue to provide work and how much they put on the that all amendments be subject to a 60- Americans with an affordable, reliable, line every year when they have to take vote threshold required for adoption; and safe food supply; third, it creates a out an operating loan for crops that and that upon disposition of the uniform national disclosure system may or may not materialize. We amendments, all postcloture time be that will provide consumers with more shouldn’t ask them to feed the Nation yielded back with no intervening ac- information about their food products. with one hand tied behind their backs tion or debate. This bill will ensure that the by taking away biotechnology. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Vermont GMO labeling law, which More than just overcoming the prob- Senator so modify his request? went into effect last week, July 1, does lems associated with having a patch- The Senator from Kansas. not end up costing American families work of State regulations, I think it is Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. President, it is billions of dollars when they fill up important for Americans to know that my understanding the Senator has their grocery carts. this legislation ensures consumers made a unanimous consent request for Food companies are already having have consistent, accurate information six amendments. Is that correct? to choose between one of three bad op- about the bioengineered content of The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is tions for complying with the Vermont their food. This measure creates great- correct. law and laws from additional States er transparency for consumers by put- Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. President, reserv- that may follow Vermont’s lead: First, ting in place a new national bioengi- ing the right to object, as I go over order new packaging for products going neered food disclosure standard that each of these amendments, each one to each individual State with a label- will ensure products labeled as having would undo the carefully crafted coming law; second, reformulate products been produced with biotechnology promise that has been put together by so that no labeling is required; or meet a uniform, national standard. the distinguished ranking member, third, stop selling to States with man- As I mentioned, foods produced with Senator STABENOW, and me, so I must datory labeling laws. All of these op- the aid of bioengineering are, accord- object. tions will increase the cost of food and ing to the FDA, EPA, and USDA, safe.

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But it doesn’t make sense to me standard. passe in moving forward and providing when you have cases reported—5 cases Many of us who sit on the Ag Com- appropriations that will let us increase in Colorado—yet we have someone op- mittee would have preferred a vol- funding to veterans. posing the bill. There are 24 cases in untary labeling standard. After all, as The bill that we seem not to be able Pennsylvania, and before they sup- has been demonstrated by scientific ex- to get consensus on—although we had ported it, and now they are opposing it. perts, whether a food contains bioengi- consensus when we first sent it out of There are 27 cases in Virginia, 26 cases neered material is not a food safety this Chamber—provides critical fund- in Maryland, 52 cases in California, and issue. Yet there are many perspectives ing for veterans housing, for their dis- 198 cases in New York, for a total of 671 on this issue, and in the true spirit of ability compensation, for suicide hot- cases that have been reported to date compromise, Senator ROBERTS and lines, for treatment for PTSD, and for in the United States. Most of these are Senator STABENOW deserve a great deal opioid addiction treatment. For all the travel related, but we have the threat of credit for coming up with a legisla- promises that we are not keeping of sexual transmission. Now that we tive solution. today, we can help fulfill those prom- are in the height of mosquito season, This bill’s national bioengineered ises by providing the desperately need- we have the real threat of mosquitoes food labeling standard will ensure that ed funding the VA needs. infecting American citizens, and the a consumer who buys a food product But instead of working to get this threat is real. Without going through with text, symbol, or electronic link funding done, we are at an impasse the whole list, Florida is another ex- indicating bioengineered content in, now, and I simply don’t understand it. ample, with 162 cases reported already. say, North Dakota, for example, is pur- To me, some of them may be genuine It would seem to me that the Senators chasing a product that is held to the disagreements with the policy, but in from Florida would want to get this same disclosure standards as foods sold some respects it feels a little bit like funding to the President’s desk so we in another State—for example, New scoring political points, and I don’t get can start solving the problem. Again, Members who now oppose this York or California. Meanwhile, this it. funding voted for it just a couple of bill will provide regulatory flexibility What I really want to talk about to- months ago. Again, if you add up the to ensure farmers and ranchers can night is the other provision of the bill, numbers, that is 671 cases solely in the continue to produce affordable and re- and that has to do with something that States where Members now are oppos- liable food for the Nation. is desperately needed in our Nation. It ing the bill, and the cases are growing. We need a solution, and this bill de- is funding—and taking seriously—the We now seem to be engaged in this po- livers that solution. It helps keep our threat of the Zika virus. Zika is here. We are in mosquito sea- litical divide, which really is the Sen- Nation’s food affordable, it supports son. I went hiking this weekend, and I ate at its worst, and we are better than jobs, and it provides consumers con- know mosquitoes are out in North that. sistent information about bioengi- Carolina. In fact, they are all over the I know there are a lot of reasons that neered foods. I urge my colleagues to Nation. We need to work quickly to get have been put forth to oppose it in this support this commonsense measure. version where they weren’t against it Mr. President, I yield the floor. a vaccine. We need it desperately. We before. There were some that said it is The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- are told by the CDC we could be 18 because we are not funding or we are ator from North Carolina. months away from having a vaccine for Zika. What we need to do is make sure preventing funding for certain organi- MILCON-VA AND ZIKA VIRUS FUNDING BILL we are funding research efforts so that zations. It is not true. The funding can Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, I thank we can win the fight against Zika. But flow through Medicaid to any organiza- my colleague for once again rein- I will tell you, we can’t do this without tion which provides health services forcing why it is so important for us to providing financial support. that would be relevant to the disease. get this compromise bill—this bipar- As I said before, the Senate passed a The way you control the population tisan bill on agriculture biotech—to bill earlier this year, and we sent it to of the mosquitoes that can potentially the President’s desk so we can move on the House. Now it is back in the Sen- carry the disease is to kill them—to to take on other matters, and that is ate, and it is one vote away from going kill them where they breed. Right now one of the matters I want to talk about to the President’s desk. The bill spends we think, temporarily, for this mos- now. over $1 billion to fight Zika in all of its quito season we should do whatever we Again, I know that when we come forms, and my Democratic friends can to make sure that we kill the po- into this Chamber and are on C–SPAN, voted for this bill earlier in the spring tential source of the disease that is sometimes for people who are watching at the same funding level we talked transmitted through these mosquitoes. or may be in the gallery, it is hard to about. There is discussion about spend- It can be done. It can be done with understand some of what we are talking more, but it seems illogical that we chemicals the World Health Organiza- ing about. What I am talking about is would spend nothing at all. That seems tion says is safe in so many other juris- a bill that I hope we vote on next week. to be the position that my colleagues dictions. All we are saying is during It is a bill that in two separate meas- on the other side of the aisle are taking this mosquito season, before we get a ures went to the House with strong bi- right now. vaccine, we use this chemical—this partisan support. Now it is coming We stand ready as Republicans in the compound—that can kill Zika mosqui- back in what we call a conference re- majority to provide this funding, but it toes and prevent them from transmit- port, and we are one vote away from appears as though, because we have ting the disease. That doesn’t seem potentially sending this bill to the reached this political impasse, we like an unreasonable thing to do. For President’s desk. It has two parts. I am could put Americans’ health and safety 180 days, allow us to try to dramati- going to speak predominantly on the at risk. cally reduce the threat to the popu- second part, but the first part has to do Again, we have a rollcall vote from lation. These are commonsense poli- with funding our veterans. earlier this year where most of us—vir- cies. I come from the State of North Caro- tually all of us—voted for $1.1 billion in The fact that we are having this dis- lina. We have a population of 10 mil- funding. I will talk a little later about cussion, the fact that we can’t get it, lion. Ten percent of our State—nearly 1 what that funding was directed toward. the fact that time is running out and million of our citizens—are veterans. We have Members who voted with us on we have to get it done next week is ri- We are very proud of our military tra- that bill who are not willing to vote diculous. We are well into the mosquito dition, and we are certainly proud of now to send this to the President’s season. There is probably not anybody those who have decided to call North desk. listening to this or in this Chamber Carolina their home after their mili- I am going to submit for the record right now that has not been bitten by tary service. As a matter of fact, I the list of people who voted for this bill a mosquito already this year.

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The Sen- and then encouraging the farmers who cals leading to more environmental ator from Maryland. bought it to use this weedkiller or her- danger. They conclude that there Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I bicide in their fields, saying this herbi- should be labeling. It is a different ap- yield my hour assigned to me to the cide would not hurt the corn crop, just proach, but it is one that I think is Democratic leader. the weeds. valid, and it comes from a totally non- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- These two doctors of the New Eng- political source—the New England ator has that right. land Journal of Medicine then pro- Journal of Medicine. The assistant Democratic leader. ceeded to analyze what happened next. The question then comes, if we are Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, eventu- What happened was that over time, going to have labeling, what kind of la- ally this evening, we will be voting on there were weeds that were becoming beling? I mentioned earlier today—and GMO labeling. As I mentioned earlier, more and more resistant to Roundup— I want to repeat it—that my hat is off this is the most politically contentious stronger, thicker, bigger weeds. To put to the Campbell Soup Company. They and divisive issue I can ever remember. it a different way, Mother Nature was have been around a long time. They I have been in Congress for a few years. not cooperating with Monsanto. Weeds put out information in a press release Whenever this comes up in our caucus, were appearing that they didn’t antici- in January of this year announcing it is going to be a heated argument. It pate. So they decided to apply even that they supported the enactment of evokes so many emotions, not just more of this herbicide, this weedkiller Federal legislation to establish a single among the members of our caucus but called Roundup, to see if that con- mandatory labeling standard for foods certainly with the American people. It trolled the problem, and it didn’t. They derived from genetically modified orga- gets down to some basic questions. had to add another weedkiller—another nisms. If you are dealing with a food product herbicide—2,4–D, which has a long his- They went on to say that Campbell’s that has bioengineered contents or ge- tory in the United States, and then believes it is necessary for the Federal netically modified content, there are they started combining the two, hoping Government to provide a national several questions we need to ask. The to stop the weeds with this new com- standard for labeling requirements to first question is, Should the consumer bination. better inform consumers. I agree. know this? Well, 92 percent of Ameri- The net result, which these two doc- They go on to say that the notion of cans believe, yes, they have a right to tors published in this article of the every State setting a labeling standard know if there is GMO content in the New England Journal of Medicine, was is madness. It would be impossible for food they eat. That is what the polls a dramatic increase in this major food manufacturers to keep up show—92 percent. That is an over- glyphosate—this Roundup, that was with the variety of different labeling whelming number when you have lived being applied across the world. Round- requirements, and it isn’t practical in a with polls as long as most of us have. up-ready crops now account for more nation like ours for us to really accom- Then you ask a question, delving into than 90 percent of corn and soybeans modate that kind of labeling require- it: Is that because GMO modified food planted in the United States. They go ment. is dangerous to a consumer? on to say: Campbell’s has stepped forward and I think the answer is very clear that But widespread adoption of herbicide-re- said we don’t believe that GMOs in our the scientific analyses of GMO food sistant crops has led to overreliance on her- product are any danger to consumers, have not reached that conclusion. They bicides and, in particular, on glyphosate. and we are prepared to declare on our believe—the National Academy of In the United States, glyphosate use has product, in clear words, whether or not Sciences and others—that GMO food by increased by a factor of more than 250—from they contain genetically modified or- itself is not dangerous to consumers. 0.4 million kg in 1974 to 113 million kg in ganisms. I think this is a responsible That is the scientific evidence. Never- 2014. Global use has increased by a factor of corporate answer to a vexing problem more than 10. Not surprisingly, glyphosate- theless, there is this strong public resistant weeds have emerged and are found we faced for years. opinion that people want to know today on nearly 100 million acres in 36 I salute Campbell’s for trusting con- whether GMOs are part of the food that states. Fields must now be treated with mul- sumers and trusting their ability to they are consuming. tiple herbicides, including 2,4–D, a compo- convince consumers the food they are I have done some research on this, nent of the Agent Orange defoliant used in selling is wholesome. I wish the food and I am sure every Member has tried the Vietnam War. industry had followed the Campbell’s to look at this very carefully. The one The EPA anticipates that a 3-to-7- motto, but the bill we have before us article that has stuck with me through fold increase in 2,4–D use will be the re- does not. It provides three different op- the entire debate was published in the sult of these Roundup resistant weeds. portunities to disclose on food prod- New England Journal of Medicine in Is that important? I think it is very ucts—mandatory—whether or not they August of 2015 last year. It was about a important. It is important because we contain genetically modified orga- year ago when two doctors, Dr. Philip know that if you apply large quantities nisms. One is a simple declaration: Landrigan and Dr. Charles Benbrook, of chemicals to our agricultural fields, GMO, non-GMO. The second is using published this article in what I think is you may produce and harvest a big something that will be developed by highly regarded as a nonpolitical pro- crop, but there is an environmental the U.S. Department of Agriculture fessional medical journal, the New risk. How much of a risk depends on and that consumers will come to England Journal of Medicine. the chemicals being provided, being learn—a signal or some sort of a sign They go through an analysis of GMO used by the farmers. or symbol as to whether GMO is in- in foods. They acknowledge at the out- If GMO foods on your table are not a cluded. set what I have already said—that concern to your family because of sci- It is the third approach that troubles there is no scientific evidence of dan- entific analysis, there is another ques- me the most. I have said this over and ger if there is GMO content in your tion. Is the method that is being used over to the people in the food industry food. Then they take it to a different to grow these Roundup-resistant crops, across America who support this ap- level—an important level, as far as I these GMO crops, an environmental proach. I call this the secret decoder am concerned. Is there any difference danger to anyone? These two doctors ring approach. What it means is, if you in the way GMO products or plants are came to a conclusion that it is—a de- are a consumer walking into a store grown? The answer is yes, and it was termination in 2015 that glyphosate is buying groceries for your family, you designed to be different. This was in- a probable human carcinogen and 2,4–D will be facing what is known as a QR. spired initially by Monsanto, a com- is a possible human carcinogen. I am learning as it goes on what this

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I was prepared to lock-in. What they do is, when they has the right approach. speak, but when my colleague re- discover a person is doctor shopping, The QR codes would literally have quested to go first, I asked if he might they require that person to get their consumers who want to know—and 92 keep his comments to a reasonable pe- prescription from a single doctor and a percent do want to know—about the riod. single pharmacy so they can’t continue GMOs in their food either use their cell Mr. TOOMEY. Mr. President, I had the abuse. phones on the products they are about the nature of the courtesy slightly This tool does not exist in Medicare. to buy in the grocery store or turn to wrong, but nevertheless the principle I sat down with Senator BROWN, Sen- some reader in the grocery store that remains, and I appreciate the coopera- ator PORTMAN, and Senator KAINE and will give them a page or two of infor- tion of my colleague. I will keep my wrote a bill that would give Medicare mation about the contents. I really be- comments to 10 minutes, especially if the power that Medicaid and private lieve that is an attempt to obfuscate the Presiding Officer is kind enough to insurers already use that would allow the situation. I think most consumers inform me when the 10 minutes has ex- Medicare to lock in a patient to a sin- will rightly assume that if there is not pired. gle prescriber and a single pharmacy a clear declaration on the product OPIOID EPIDEMIC when they discover doctor shopping. which shows that it is non-GMO, that Mr. President, I wish to speak about This has broad bipartisan support. it contains GMOs. an epidemic that every one of us knows The President called for this legisla- I think the food industry is taking an is raging across every one of our States tion in his budget. The Pew Charitable approach which can’t be defended with and is absolutely the case in the Com- Trusts, law enforcement officers, doc- a straight face. Can you really expect a monwealth of Pennsylvania, and that tors, and seniors groups all support busy consumer—a mother with chil- is the heroin and opioid epidemic. This this legislation. It will help stop fraud, dren in her shopping cart to pull out is excruciating to so many families. I help coordinate care, reduce costs, but her cell phone and stop at every can of think at this point we all know people most importantly, it will safe lives. It soup to try to get a reading and then who have been victims of this epi- will reduce the diversion of addictive read her cell phone to see if there is a demic. I certainly do. We have to do all narcotics onto the streets, and that is page or two of information about that we can about this issue. something we can do. product? That isn’t fair to consumers, I have the privilege of being the This bill that Senators BROWN, and that is why major consumer orga- chairman of a health subcommittee on PORTMAN, KAINE, and I wrote is in nizations oppose this bill. It is one of the Finance Committee. In that capac- CARA. It is in this legislation. It is a the major reasons I oppose the bill as ity, I have tried to learn what I can good thing. well. about this epidemic. I have traveled all No. 2, I mentioned reducing overpre- If there were a declaration, such as a across Pennsylvania hosting round- scribing. The Centers for Disease Con- symbol, or straight acknowledgement table discussions, field hearings, and trol has found that we are, in fact, of wording as to whether the product getting as much input as I can. What I overprescribing opioids for many med- contains GMOs or is non-GMO, which have learned is that there are at least ical conditions, and doctors don’t al- every seasoned consumer would come three things that we could be doing ways know this when they are seeing a to understand, I think that is an hon- here in Congress to at least help ad- patient. They don’t know that maybe est approach. I don’t think it is reason- dress this terrible epidemic of opioid there is another doctor who is maybe able or honest to expect a consumer to and prescription drug abuse. None of providing similar or equivalent pre- have to scan a QR code and then have them is a silver bullet that will end scriptions. There is an electronic data- to read their cell phone to determine this epidemic, but it can help, and we base system that would allow physi- what is in the product. need to do what we can to help. No. 1, cians to know what a patient has al- Let me conclude by saying I salute we can reduce the diversion of these ready been prescribed so they wouldn’t those who have taken up this battle. powerful prescription narcotics, and create an excessive or inappropriate Many have taken this up for many dif- there are ways we can do that. No. 2, prescription. It is a called prescription ferent reasons. It has been a vexing and we can deal with overprescribing be- drug monitoring program, or PDMP, contentious issue for a long period of cause that is a problem. No. 3, we can and it will provide that information, time. I do not support State labeling. improve access to and the quality of such as the patient’s history. We have to avoid that. I do support treatment for people who are already Senator SHAHEEN was the lead on the honest disclosures on food products so addicted. We have an opportunity to bill. Senator COLLINS and I joined her American consumers who rightly be- make progress on all three of these on this legislation in order to provide lieve they have a right to know have a really important areas if we will just assistance to States to make sure their way of finding that information in a approve the conference report on the prescription drug monitoring programs way that is reasonable. Comprehensive Addiction and Recov- are interoperable across State lines. I also want to add that it is my un- ery Act. We know it as CARA, the This is a tool that will help reduce the derstanding that there is a 2-year delay Comprehensive Addiction and Recov- overprescription and end up making in terms of imposing this requirement. ery Act, which we will be voting on sure we have better care and diminish I don’t know why 2 years would be nec- soon. Let me quickly run through how the incidence of these narcotics getting essary. It would seem to me that if this bill helps in all three of these into the wrong hands. Campbell’s can move on this more areas. Finally, I mentioned that we need to quickly, the rest of the food industry No. 1, I mentioned reducing the di- improve access to and the quality of should be able to do so as well. version of powerful narcotics. The Gov- treatment. The CARA bill does that in I thank the Senator from Oregon, ernment Accountability Office esti- a number of ways. It will establish a who has been working hard on this mated that in a single year, 170,000 demonstration program for evidence- issue. Medicare beneficiaries were doctor based treatment programs. It will help I yield the floor. shopping. That is to say they were connect individuals battling addiction The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- going to multiple doctors getting mul- with services. It expands access to ator from Pennsylvania. tiple prescriptions, getting them all naloxone, or Narcan, which is a drug Mr. TOOMEY. Mr. President, it is my filled at multiple pharmacies, and end- that immediately reverses the effects understanding that either directly or ing up with a commercial-scale quan- of the overdose and saves lives. CARA indirectly, the Senator from Oregon tity of these powerful, addictive nar- will help law enforcement set up heroin

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The conference report Why do we put the number of calories GMO soybeans and GMO sugar beets we will be considering is substantively on the label? This is an issue citizens and GMO corn. So they sell the plants the same as the bill that passed the care about. Folks often wonder how to be raised that are tolerant to this Senate. In fact, it is broader and does much that food is going to add to their weedkiller, glyphosate, and then they more to help deal with this terrible weight or how much they may need to sell the glyphosate itself, and that has problem. It has the support of all kinds exercise. resulted in a massive increase in the of public health groups. It has Demo- By the way, folks also want to know amount of weedkiller applied across cratic and Republican ideas. It is ex- how much sugar is in a product, how America. actly the kind of thing that we should much fat is in a product, how much un- That has a variety of impacts that come together and get done. saturated fat, and whether there are people are concerned about related to I urge my colleagues not to play poli- peanuts in a product. We answer these the environment. It has an impact be- tics with this one. I know this is the questions because consumers care cause we start to see the emergence of political season and there is a tempta- about these issues. It is related to the superweeds—which are weeds that be- tion. It has happened with other pieces consumers’ health, and that is the key. cause they are exposed so often and of legislation. But this is too impor- The consumer has a right to know. To- there are random mutations, they start tant. There is broad bipartisan support. night we are addressing a specific to become resistant to glyphosate so It is constructive. It won’t end the epi- issue, which is the right to know you have to apply more of it than you demic, but it will save individual lives whether the ingredients in the food we did before—or, as pointed out in this and help us make progress for the peo- are eating are genetically modified, article my colleague from Illinois was ple we represent. has gene splicing occurred to change reading from a little while ago, you I hope that very soon we will approve the makeup of the food we are eating. have to start applying a different weed- this conference report and get it over Just a little while ago, the Senator killer because of the emerging to the House so they can approve it and from Illinois was sharing a study with superweeds resistant to the weedkiller get it to the President’s desk. I am this body from the New England Jour- Roundup. sure the President will sign it. That is nal of Medicine in which two doctors Also, we have the evolution of exactly what we need to do. looked very carefully at this question superbugs. Now, what is a superbug? With that, I yield the floor. and they came away with a simple con- The corn has been modified so then not The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clusion: It is reasonable, they found, only is it resistant to glyphosate or the Democratic leader. for citizens to be concerned about the weedkiller, but it also produces a pes- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I yield 2 impact of consuming GMO ingredients, ticide inside the cells called Bt corn. I hours to the junior Senator from Or- and therefore it is reasonable for citi- think many citizens would want to egon, Senator JEFF MERKLEY. zens to be able to have this informa- know more about that. They would be The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tion on the package and they supported a little bit concerned that there is a ge- ator has that right. labeling. netic code inside every cell of the corn The Senator from Oregon. I know from other studies I have ex- plant that is designed to generate a Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, to- amined, that in areas where pesticide within the cell of the corn. night in this Chamber, we are dis- glyphosate, a weedkiller, is applied, And then if they looked into it a little cussing an issue that is of concern to which is very much tied to glyphosate further, they would find out the insect millions of Americans. It is an issue resistance to genetically modified this is attempting to kill is also start- that goes to the heart of one of the crops—crops such as sugar beets and ing to evolve to be resistant to this most important concerns to a family, soybeans and corn—we have results pesticide. So not only are they con- and that is the food that we eat as that show the glyphosate actually ends cerned about does this pesticide get adults or parents and that we provide up in samples of the rainwater because generated inside the corn kernel, since to our children. The real heart of the it is dispersed in a spray. We have re- the DNA grower of this pesticide is now question is, Does a citizen have a right sults that show it ends up in the urine inside every cell, but what about the to know what is in the food they are of people who live in these areas, and evolution of superbugs—bugs which putting into their own mouths or put- we know various international bodies now, because they are resistant to the ting on the dinner table for their chil- have said glyphosate is a probable car- pesticide inside the corn, are in a corn- dren? cinogen. So if it is showing up in urine, field and the farmer has to start to The simple point that I will argue as a parent, you might have concern apply other pesticides to the corn as day and night is that a citizen does about a probable carcinogen showing well. have that right. It is the right to have up in that fashion and what impact it What happens when this pesticide information about an issue related to might have on your health. runs off the cornfield? What happens your family’s health and related to the There are those here who say we when the weedkiller, glyphosate— environment. How can you, as a con- can’t find an established cancer cluster Roundup—runs off the cornfield or the sumer, make responsible choices re- that is directly related so we are com- sugar beet field? This runoff puts a lot lated to both the health of your family fortable making the decision for the of weedkiller into our creeks and into and the health of the environment if men and women and children of Amer- our streams and into our rivers, and you do not have the information at the ica. We are comfortable denying the that has an impact on the biology of point you are purchasing a product? right to know. That is why this bill is the streams. So a key concern is the That is why we have all kinds of infor- labeled the DARK Act: Deny Ameri- issue of the impact of this type of mation disclosure rules in America. cans the Right to Know. farming surrounding these particular For example, let’s say you are consid- I am going to go through how it is genetic modifications and its impact ering buying fish in the supermarket. that this act that is before us tonight— on our environment. If the fish is farm-raised, it has to say which has been presented as a manda- In addition, we have another impact on the package that it is farm-raised. tory labeling bill and is nothing of the where it is heavily applied. It has Why is that rule in place? Well, that such. In fact, it is an effort to guar- killed the milkweed, and the milkweed rule is in place because people buying antee that citizens do not get a label has been the primary food for monarch the fish often care a lot about whether they can use. butterflies so we see a huge crash in it is a wild fish or a farm-raised fish. So let’s talk about these various the Midwest population of the monarch They care in part because it may differ loopholes in this bill—these Monsanto butterfly. Well, that is reasonable for in the quality of the food they are put- loopholes. Monsanto loophole No. 1. people to be concerned about.

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We were world—everywhere in the world—corn wrong. But here we have an issue where noting that our kids are not even sure oil from GMO corn would be a GMO in- Democrats and Republicans and Inde- what a monarch butterfly looks like. gredient. That would be true whether pendents all agree they want a simple That is how much of the population you are talking about the two dozen- label on the package. It is kind of ex- has decreased. plus countries in the European Union citing. It is kind of exciting to have In a very short period of time, we or you go south to Brazil or you go something that Americans completely have had a profound impact on the en- around the world to China, but under agree on. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to vironment. That is a reasonable con- this definition in the USA, magically, have Congress say: Finally, we found cern for individuals. this GMO corn oil is no longer a GMO something we can all agree on, and we Here we have a bill that says we are ingredient. going to label products as GMO in Soybean oil is covered if it comes are going to honor the desire of our order to address the citizens’ concern, from GMO soybeans in the European citizens of every political stripe to except the bill doesn’t actually do that, countries—in Brazil, in China, all have a simple consumer label on the and it has some serious loopholes that around world—but not in the United package. serve Monsanto and its various crops States. Well, I would love to state that this very well. So let’s look at the first Sugar from sugar beets, GMO sugar Senate, these 100 Members of the Sen- Monsanto loophole; that is, that the beets. It is a GMO ingredient in every ate, actually are honoring the perspec- definition exempts most of the Mon- undertaking around the world to pro- tive of their Republican, Democratic, santo GMO crop. Let’s address that a vide labels, except in the United States and Independent citizens and that they little bit. of America under this bill. are determined to make sure that any What does the bill actually say? Well, So this is a massive GMO loophole. bill written honors this desire for a it starts with a definition of bio- That is not the only Monsanto loophole simple on-label indication of whether engineering that is not used anywhere in this bill. Let’s go to the second one. there are GMO ingredients. I would else in the world. I will just read it: The second one is there is no require- love to tell you that is the case. ‘‘The term ‘bioengineering,’ and any ment for a GMO label. You say: Wait, Wouldn’t that be complimentary of similar term, as determined by the wait, wait. We have heard from the this Chamber of 100 Members, this Secretary with respect to a food, refers proponents that this is a GMO labeling Chamber that I have been so honored to food: that contains genetic mate- bill—a mandatory GMO labeling bill. to serve in and affectionate toward rial’’—those key words, ‘‘contains ge- Let me say it again. There is no re- since I was an intern here 40 years ago? netic material’’—‘‘that has been modi- quirement in this bill to put a GMO fied through in vitro recombinant tech- label on your product. This is the no But something destructive has hap- niques.’’ label required, no GMO label required pened in America. This Chamber seems And I will go to the second loophole bill. So it is a little bit of false adver- to no longer care about the opinions of in a moment. So it says ‘‘that contains tising or actually a lot of false adver- consumers and Americans. They seem genetic material.’’ tising to call this a mandatory GMO la- to care about one thing: Is there a pow- Isn’t that clever because, you see, beling bill. erful special interest that I need to toe here is the way it works. When you What the bill says is, there are a cou- the line for, that I need to be obedient take genetically modified corn and you ple of options that exist today that to, that I need to make sure will help make high-fructose corn syrup, the ge- people can use voluntarily. Let me me when the next election comes up? netic material is stripped out. So what show my colleagues an example of So we have that powerful special in- this definition does is it says that GMO that. This is a Mars product. It is the terest that doesn’t want American citi- high-fructose corn syrup used in prod- omnipresent Mars peanut M&Ms, one zens to know what is in the food products throughout America is magically of my particular favorites. Mars has ucts, and that is Monsanto and no longer considered GMO in the defi- said we want to make sure our con- friends—powerful special interests nition in this bill. Furthermore, the sumers know what is in the product so versus 90 percent of American citizens. same thing with sugar beets. GMO they list all of the traditional things— Powerful special interests, 90 percent sugar beets produce GMO sugar, except the serving size and the calories and of American citizens, and this Chamber that under this definition, once again, the total fat, cholesterol, the protein, tonight is prepared to vote for that the genetic material is stripped out so and the sodium. But our consumers powerful special interest instead of the the sugar is magically not a GMO in- also want to know if there are GMO in- American people. gredient. How about soybeans? The gredients so they answer the question: same issue. Soybean oil does not con- ‘‘Partially produced with genetic engi- That is not the way it is supposed to tain genetic material. So this defini- neering.’’ It is a GMO product. Now, we be in our country. In fact, the first tion, used nowhere else in the world, don’t know from this label which ingre- three words of our Constitution sum it was written specifically targeted to ex- dient is the one they are referring to, up: ‘‘We the people.’’ The whole idea empt the three big Monsanto GMO but to the consumer, that tells them was that, contrary to Europe where crops and the things that are made the first important thing they want to there was this powerful, elite class and from them. know, and the consumer can look into monarchies and Kings and Queens who We have looked across the country the details elsewhere if they want to made decisions for the people, here we and many people—many scientists, explore it more thoroughly. were going to have a system of govern- many groups—have pointed out this That is integrity. That is honesty. ment that was responsive to the peo- shortcoming. The Food and Drug Ad- That is responsiveness to consumer ple. Well, if we are going to be respon- ministration gave technical advice and concerns. Why do I say responsiveness sive to the people tonight, we will vote made it very clear that this definition to consumer concerns? Here is why: Be- down this Monsanto DARK Act, the fails the test of covering these prod- cause across the country there have Deny Americans the Right to Know ucts—high-fructose corn syrup and soy- been surveys of whether individuals Act. Unfortunately, I am sorry to say— bean oil—but here is what another per- want to have a simple label on their I am sorry to feed the cynicism across son from outside government said: product. The answer is, rounding off the country—that tonight, instead, you ‘‘This definition leaves out a large slightly, 9 out of 10 Americans want a are going to see a majority vote with number of foods derived from GMOs simple label on the product. Monsanto and against the people. Our such as corn and soybean oil, sugar Here is something else that is kind of Founders wrote those three words, ‘‘We beet sugar, and HFCS’’—high-fructose intriguing. This number is essentially the people,’’ in supersized font. They corn syrup. ‘‘That is because, although the same whether you are a Republican put them in really big font so you can

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And later, decades later, centuries later, duced with genetic engineering.’’ that is the idea. that is what our Constitution is all Campbell’s says ‘‘Partially produced So I proposed an amendment. The about. with genetic engineering.’’ They chose amendment simply says that instead of Jefferson summed this up. He said: the same phrase even though there is saying ‘‘Scan here for more food infor- We can only claim to be a republic to no law that lays it out. mation,’’ it says ‘‘Scan here for more the extent that the decisions we make Why can’t we have a bill that says GMO food information’’ or, alter- as a government reflect the will of the that if there are GMO ingredients you natively, it could be ‘‘Scan here for people. He said that will happen only if will put below your ingredients list more information on GMO ingredients the people, each member of the citi- ‘‘Partially produced with genetic engi- of this product.’’ But see, that would zenry, have an equal voice. What he neering.’’ Why can’t we have that? actually be a label. That would be a was basically conveying in a powerful That would be an honest labeling bill. GMO label. That would actually be way is that in order to have a ‘‘we the This is being done voluntarily right honestly labeling the product, and people’’ government, you can run a now. Under this bill that is coming up, Monsanto is determined that the prod- test. This Jefferson test—he referred to it can still be done voluntarily. But the ucts not be labeled. it as the ‘‘mother principle’’ of our re- proponents of this bill aren’t saying it So perhaps we are wondering, what public—was that we were only a repub- is a voluntary labeling bill; they are do we do with this code? Just scan it. lic if our decisions reflected the will of saying this is a mandatory labeling Well, most Americans have never the people, and that would only happen bill. This is simply not true. This is a scanned something with a smartphone. if people, each member of the citizenry, voluntary option. You can get an app and you can put it have an equal voice. Another option is to put a symbol on on your phone and you can take a pic- But today citizens no longer have an the package—a symbol to be chosen by ture of this, and it can take you to a equal voice because of a couple of court the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Web site. That is what they are talking decisions that have created dispropor- That would be a reasonable way to go. about. OK. That is an obstacle course. tionate voices, giving multimillion- What if we said you either need to put It is an obstacle course because you aires and billionaires a very powerful, in this phrase and maybe a Web site to have to have your phone with you. You loud voice and giving ordinary people a go to for more information or you can have to have wireless service in the very tiny, quiet voice. put in a symbol? Brazil uses a symbol. grocery store. You would have to have The first of these decisions was Buck- They use a T in a triangle. Why do a digital plan on your phone. Most im- ley v. Valeo, 40 years ago. The second they use a T? Because T means portantly, you would have to be willing was Citizens United. These two deci- transgenetic, which means one gene to take the enormous amount of time sions turn our Constitution on its head. has been plucked out and inserted into that it takes. They change it from ‘‘We the people,’’ another. It is another way of saying If what is on the package is ‘‘Par- and they take the word ‘‘people,’’ and bioengineering. We can use Brazil’s ap- tially produced with genetic engineer- they pluck it out of our Constitution, proach—a T with a triangle. It is easy ing,’’ I flip it over, and I see it in one and they change it to the word ‘‘power- to see at the bottom. We can take a B second. I know the answer. I can com- ful’’—‘‘We the powerful.’’ That is what for bioengineering and put it in a circle pare five products in 5 seconds. That is those two corporate decisions do be- or we can proceed to put the letters functional for a consumer shopping in cause they allow the very wealthy and GMO in a rectangle. It doesn’t really a grocery store. Maybe you have 20 they allow powerful corporations to matter what the symbol is, as long as things on your list. You spend 5 sec- spend unlimited sums in campaigns in it has some connection, and an ordi- onds reviewing products on GMO ingre- America, and that spending corrupts nary consumer knows the answer to dients. That is 100 seconds. this body so that when this body is the question if a symbol is there that Here you would probably have to making a choice between that powerful means it is partially produced with ge- spend one-half an hour to go to five dif- special interests and the people, it netic engineering. ferent Web sites and scroll through all chooses the powerful special interests. So a requirement for a phrase or a the information to try to find the an- That vote—that type of vote—is being symbol—that would be a labeling bill. swer—that is, if you had a smartphone held tonight. You are going to see But they are voluntary now, and they and you had an app for reading this and Members of this body voting with that are voluntary in this bill. you wanted to spend your digital time powerful special interest rather than What is required if you don’t volun- doing that. No shopper—no shopper—is the people. tarily put this phrase or voluntarily going to make use of this in ordinary So let’s return to this Monsanto put a symbol? Here is what is required. shopping in a grocery store to make de- loophole No. 2. Essentially, if this bill All right. I wonder if anyone in this cisions. That is the whole idea. Set up were a true labeling bill it would do Chamber can look at this computer an obstacle course to ensure that shop- this: This is a poster of a Campbell’s code, this box, and tell me if there are pers never find out that there are GMO label. Now Campbell’s, like Mars, val- GMO ingredients in this product. Well, ingredients, not in any fashion that ues its integrity with its customers, so humans are not very good at reading helps them at the point of sale. it put a simple label on its soup that computer boxes, so I think I can safely Some say, of course, that people states ‘‘Partially produced with ge- say that no one here can look at this don’t have to have a smartphone. We netic engineering.’’ Then it says ‘‘For box and tell me if there are GMO ingre- will ask stores to set up a scanner. more information about G.M.O. ingredients. It says to ‘‘scan here for more Well, I found this interesting because dients, visit [our Web site].’’ And it food information.’’ What type of infor- when there wasn’t a price on a product lists the Web site. Well, that is pretty mation would that be? There is no con- that I was shopping for one Christmas, cool. They are going the extra step. nection to GMOs. It is just any old food I asked somebody who worked in the They are not only saying, yes, there information. It could be information store—I said: Hey, what is the price of are GMO ingredients, but we will give about the entire product line of this this product? you all the details on our Web site. The company. What food do they produce? And they said: Oh, well, there is a customer at the store, at the point of It could be information about the de- scanner here in the store somewhere, sale, immediately has an answer to the tails of what type of tomato puree it and you can scan the code on this, and question, and they know where to go has or about what type of wheat flour you can find out about the price. for immediate information. or how much there is in it. Or maybe it They weren’t sure where the scanner Mars, Campbell’s, and so many other is a repetition of the other list of how was, and they went and checked and big companies—those that value hon- much sugar is there or how much glu- found out where the scanner was. They

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In this product, but it is a kind of testimony ridiculousness of this whole scanning World Trade Organization, someone as to how powerful that consumer con- option, this whole obstacle course can complain that your requirements cern is. So there we are with these being set up. for disclosure inhibit the entry of their three fundamental loopholes in this What really bothers me the most is products into the market. So various bill that serve Monsanto very well. that the Members here are presenting countries complained that labeling You can see now why this is simply a this as a mandatory GMO labeling bill meat, chicken, or pork and beef, spe- repackaged version of the earlier when they know darn well it doesn’t cifically—labeling them would unfairly DARK Act, the Deny Americans the require a GMO label. That really both- prejudice people against buying their Right to Know Act. That is why some ers me. It is deception of the public. out-of-country beef or their out-of- have called this the DARK Act 2.0, be- (Mr. ROBERTS assumed the Chair.) country pork. I will tell you some- That is not the only problem with cause it is simply a rehashing of what thing. I want to live in a country where this bill. Monsanto was very thorough we saw previously. in the number of loopholes they in- an American citizen who wants to support American ranchers can make that This is representational. It is a quote cluded. Here is of the third one. The from a letter to Senators from a group bill prohibits basic enforcement of its decision when they buy their beef, of 76 pro-organic organizations and own provisions. I know you are think- when they buy their steak, when they farmer groups. They are writing spe- ing it cannot be true that, unlike every buy their pork chops. That should be cifically about this act we have before other labeling requirement we have the right of every consumer to choose us tonight, the DARK Act 2.0, that we which has penalties if you don’t par- to buy a product grown in America by ticipate in it according to the rules, red, white, and blue American ranch- will be voting on tonight—this act that this law has no penalties. Well, I am ers. tonight we will be voting on that takes But we signed a trade agreement that sorry to say that is the case. There are away the power of States to put the gave away our sovereignty on this no penalties in this bill. Isn’t that type of label on the package that con- amazing? Even if you ignore this bill issue to an international tribunal, an sumers want across this entire coun- completely, the U.S. Department of international tribunal that has no try. Agriculture doesn’t have the power to stake in the future of America. It has This is what they said: ‘‘We oppose tell you not to sell your food in the no stake in our vision, our ‘‘we the peo- the bill because it is actually a non-la- grocery stores. It doesn’t have the ple’’ Republic. We gave away our sov- beling bill under the guise of a manda- power to tell you to recall your prod- ereignty and that court said: No, that tory labeling bill.’’ discriminates. They didn’t see it as the ucts from the grocery stores. It doesn’t Well, who are these organizations? have the power to levy a fine on you, consumer right to choose, as simply information that would be provided, no. Let’s just give them their opportunity no. Here is the only thing that comes to be recognized. close to being a penalty in this bill. It They said that discriminates and says the U.S. Department of Agri- therefore we are striking down the The Center for Food Safety, Food & culture can audit to determine whether American law. Water Watch, the Abundance Coopera- Our law, our COOL law—it wasn’t you are complying, and they can re- tive Market, the Beyond Pesticides, struck down by a vote on the floor of lease the results of that audit to the the BioSafety Alliance, the Cedar Cir- the Senate, it wasn’t struck down by public. cle Farm & Education Center, the Cen- So if you choose to not proceed in some amendment slipped into a last- tral Park West CSA, Citizens for GMO any way to adhere to this law, you get minute bill over in the House, it wasn’t Labeling, Crop CSA, Crush Wine & an audit, and the Department, after a struck down because a coalition of Spirits, Dr. Bronner’s, the East New long period of time, says: Well, OK, we American ranchers wanted to strike it York Farms, the Empire State Con- are telling the public we audited you down, it was struck down by a court sumer Project, the Family Farm De- and you are not compliant with the that had no foundation in America, but fenders, Farm Aid, Food Democracy law. And you say: Oh, my goodness. we were controlled by it because we Now, Foundation Earth, Friends of the That really worries me. gave away our sovereignty. Earth, Genesis Farm, the GMO Action By the way, that is something we Of course, it wouldn’t worry you at Alliance, GMO Free NY, GMO Free should be very concerned about when all. No civil fine, no impact on the dis- USA, GMO Inside, Good Earth Natural thinking about the Trans-Pacific Part- tribution of your products, no recall of Foods, iEatGreen, the Institute for Re- nership because that can have an im- your product, no teeth. This is like the sponsible Technology, the Inter- pact as well on the flow of goods, and old man whose teeth have all fallen national Center for Technology Assess- I might just take a while to address out, and all they can do is gum the ment, Katchkie Farm, the Institute for that, but right now what I wanted to food. That is what this law is like. Responsible Technology, the Inter- convey is before the WTO court struck They can just kind of gum a little bit, national Center for Technology Assess- down our country-of-origin labeling which doesn’t worry anyone. ment, the Institute for Responsible law, there were teeth in that law, teeth It is kind of amazing the three levels Technology, the Keep the Soil in Or- that we put in the law, teeth that were of complete protection Monsanto in- ganic Coalition, Diesel Lane Farm, put into the law on the floor of the corporated into this bill—the three lev- Kezialain Farm, the LIC Brewery, Senate and on the floor of the House. It els of completely betraying the Amer- Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners provided a fine if you didn’t comply. ican public, those 9 out of 10 Americans Association, the Midwest Organic & You had to label where the meat was who want a very simple, a very simple Sustainable Education Service, grown. That was great because it label on their food products. Let me Miskell’s Premium Organics, Moms meant that people followed the law. put it another way on this enforcement Across America, the National Family But in this case do we have the same provision. This bill would create the Farm Coalition, the National Organic fine structure that was in country-of- first and only food label without a fine Coalition, Nature’s Path, the Nine Mile origin labeling or that affects other for violators—the first and only food Market, the Non-GMO Project. label without a fine for violators. provisions like, for example, labeling We have had other food label require- fish as wild? No, we don’t. I am reading all these names to con- ments. I mentioned one that if you We even require labeling as to wheth- vey how, within just a few days, just a have farmed fish, you have to put a er juice is fresh squeezed or reconsti- short period of time in which this bill label on it that it has been farmed tuted. Why is that? Because the con- has been brought to this floor in a fash- rather than wild caught, and you sell it sumer wants to know, and it is their ion that completely bypassed comin a grocery store. right to know. In fact, this belief that mittee process in the U.S. Senate, how We can look at another that is called the consumer right to know about the many have responded. I am only part- COOL, C-O-O-L, country-of-origin la- food they put in their mouth is so pow- way through this list so we will give

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But saying that the GMO crops—the Mon- tion of New York, the Northeast Or- before we talk about that, remember santo big three—are not actually GMO ganic Farming Association of New that we looked at the first part of this, because they are resistant to Hampshire, the Northeast Organic which said that it has to contain ge- glyphosate and can be found in nature? Farming Association of Vermont, NYC netic material. I have already ex- It sure sounds like that is what is H2O, Oregon Right to Know, the Or- plained how it is that the major prod- going on here. ganic Consumers Association, the Or- ucts—the oil, high-fructose corn syrup, There is something interesting here ganic Farmers’ Agency for Relation- sugar from genetically modified as well. This first loophole, which says ship Marketing, the Organic Seed plants—don’t actually contain genetic ‘‘contains genetic material’’ only pro- Growers and Trade Association, Our materials. That is a big loophole. vides a free pass for the derivatives of Family Farms, PCC Natural Markets, If this bill had been in committee, the big three crops. By that, I mean the Pesticide Action Network North my sincere colleagues exploring this the soybean oil that comes from GMO America, Presence Marketing, Regen- could have asked about this second soybean, the sugar that comes from eration Vermont, the Riverside-Salem piece of the definition that says that it GMO sugar, and the high-fructose United Church of Christ/Disciples of only refers to a food as ‘‘bioengi- syrup that comes from GMO corn. But Christ, Rodale Institute, the Rural Ad- neered’’ if the modification could not this second loophole here could be a vancement Foundation International, otherwise be obtained through conven- way of saying that even the GMO corn Rural Vermont, the Sierra Club, Slow tional breeding or found in nature. itself, if you were to eat it as corn on Food California, Slow Food Hudson Well, that is very interesting. Why is the cob, wouldn’t be GMO because it is Valley, Slow Food North Shore, Slow that in the bill? Is that designed to resistant to glyphosate and is found in Food USA, Soil Not Oil Coalition, Sun- allow a genetically modified plant, nature. I am not sure if that is what nyside CSA, the Cornucopia Institute, under this provision, to be considered drove this because there was no com- the Organic & Non-GMO Report, the nongenetically modified because it mittee hearing; there was no expla- U.S. Public Interest Research Group, might possibly have been obtained nation; there was no investigation; Vermont Public Interest Research through conventional breeding or is there was no testing of what is here. Group, Vermont Right to Know GMOs found in nature? I don’t know why this I made reference to the fact that the Coalition, and Wood Prairie Farm. was included because there has never massive application of glyphosate is, in Now, if this bill had gone to com- been a hearing on this definition. fact, changing what is happening in mittee, there would have been people So here we are, violating a major America and producing superweeds, but coming to testify pro and against this premise that Americans believe— I thought it would be useful to show all-new definition put here on the Sen- Americans who are Republicans, who how much that has changed. ate floor with no review. They would are Democrats, who are Independents. This chart shows a couple of things. have analyzed it. They would have edu- That major premise is that they have a First, let’s look at the increased use of cated Members of the Senate about right to know what is in the food they glyphosate—and that is Monsanto’s why this new definition was included in put into their mouths. And this says: Roundup product. It was introduced the bill. Senators would have been able Well, you know what, we are not going around 1994 here, and we are talking to ask questions directly of the spon- to define it as GMO, even if it is geneti- about 7.4 million, I believe that was—I sors, such as, when did you decide to cally modified, if it could possibly be want to read the notes to be sure I have use a definition that excludes the found in nature. it right. It is pounds or tons. I thought major products from GMO Monsanto I would love to know exactly what it was 7.4 million tons. I may be wrong. crops in America? When did you decide executive came up with this phrase and I may have to come back and correct to do that? They could have asked the what product they are trying to pro- that. But you can see that as the dis- question: Why did you decide to do it? tect, but we don’t know because no one tribution of GMO seed for sugar beets Doesn’t this mislead the public—pre- will tell us. I would be interested in and corn and soybeans spread across tending to cover GMO products but having Senator ROBERTS, who leads the America, the application of this weed- slipping in a definition that excludes Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, killer increased enormously, until in the big three in America—the GMO and Forestry, come and tell us where 2012 we are up to 158.9 million—and I soybeans, the GMO corn, and the GMO this phrase came from, who suggested believe that is tons, but I will have to sugar beets? Isn’t that a little mis- it, and why it was suggested. check. It is a massive amount of weed- leading? They could have asked that I will tell you what it makes me killer being sprayed all across Amer- question if there had been a committee think of. I talked earlier about the fact ica. hearing on this definition. And, in fact, that with the massive application of This note is from the U.S. Fish and they could have explored it further and glyphosate weedkiller across Amer- Wildlife Service. They say: ica—in a moment, I will show you how asked: Why not use one of the defini- The wide-scale adoption of herbicide-re- tions from the 64 countries around the much of an increase there has been— sistant corn and soy crops has drastically world that have a mandatory GMO la- with that massive application on mil- changed the agricultural landscape. This re- beling bill that actually covers what lions of acres across this country, so sistance enables broad and non-targeted ap- most people consider to be GMO prod- many weeds have been exposed that, plication of herbicides that indiscriminately ucts? slowly, genetic mutations in the weeds kills vegetation growing around farm fields In fact, here is an interesting point that make the weeds naturally resist- and in nearby habitat, including Milkweed. about the definition included in this ant to glyphosate have, in fact, started That is a statement from the U.S. bill. This definition speaks about re- to spread because those are the weeds Fish and Wildlife Service dated April combinant DNA—genetic modification that can reproduce because they are 25, 2015. through recombinant DNA—but there not killed by the glyphosate. So we And we see here this massive in- is a new technique called CRISPR that have this growth in superweeds, essen- crease in the application of weedkiller. changes the genetic code with a com- tially through natural selection driven That certainly supports what the U.S. pletely different technology. Why isn’t by this massive application of weed- Fish and Wildlife Service is saying. that included, or would it be included? killer. Can one say, therefore, that we When they are referring to the fact That is a reasonable thing to ask. What now have resistance to glyphosate that the spray affects nearby habitat, about other new techniques for modi- found in nature? We find it in the that reflects that this spray drifts in fying genetic code? Someone might weeds. The weeds haven’t been geneti- the wind and it affects weeds off the have asked: Why not include those fu- cally modified; they have been modi- field, and one of the things it affects is ture techniques rather than excluding fied through the driving force of mil- milkweed. Milkweed is the them? lions of tons of weedkiller applied foundational support plant, the

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Last year, the police deaths by gunfire, we can bring by the time we get out here—and we number of police officers killed by gun- down the rate of people killed by the don’t have 2013, 2014, 2015, but if we did fire had come down to 42. This year, po- police. But we cannot do it unless we have it, we would see high bars as lice deaths by gunfire are at the same care and unless we act. well—we see the monarch population level as 2015. I yield the floor. crashing. Sometimes we use the word We know that one police death by Mr. President, inquiry: We are not in ‘‘decimation,’’ meaning one-tenth of a gunfire is too many, and police die in a quorum call; is that correct? population, but this is in the more traffic accidents and by other work-re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is broad use of the term because it is far lated causes that also need our atten- correct. more than a reduction to one-tenth. It tion and resolution. But the experience Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I yield the is more reduction than that. It is a of our Nation in the last 40 years—and remainder of my time under cloture to smaller fraction from this high in 1997 this is what should give us hope—is the Democratic leader. on down to 2015. So that certainly is this: We have made our police safer With that, I suggest the absence of a the case. from death by gunshot. We have shown quorum. Mr. President, I think this would be we can tackle a problem and begin to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The a good moment to take a pause and resolve it, and that should give us hope clerk will call the roll. serve the remainder of my time. that we can bring down the number of The senior assistant legislative clerk I suggest the absence of a quorum. police killed by gunfire even more. proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. The second city is the world of peo- Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I ask SASSE). The clerk will call the roll. ple, especially young African-American unanimous consent that the order for The legislative clerk proceeded to males shot by the police. In 2015, ac- the quorum call be rescinded. call the roll. cording to painstaking research under- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I ask taken by the Guardian newspaper, 1,010 objection, it is so ordered. unanimous consent that the order for people were shot and killed by the po- Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I want the quorum call be rescinded. lice in the United States. Young Afri- to say a word on behalf of Senator The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without can-American males were five times MERKLEY. He has a very reasonable objection, it is so ordered. more likely to be killed by police than compromise on this GMO bill. I wish A TALE OF TWO CITIES White males of the same age. This data we would get a chance to vote on it be- Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I rise suggests that 102 unarmed African- cause that is what the Senate is sup- briefly to offer a tale of two cities. My American males were killed by police posed to do—debate and to express our comments are in a deep and disturbed in 2015. This number was also five opinions and then vote. A bill that is a reaction to the police shootings of times the rate of unarmed Whites compromise, that was put together Alton Sterling in Louisiana and killed by police. with great intentions, and yet one that Philando Castile in Minnesota. The How does this number compare to did not go through the regular order, as videos of these shootings—one of an Af- past years? It is nearly impossible to hard as the negotiations were, and all rican-American father of five selling know. While deaths of law enforcement the good intent—it is just a shame that CDs outside a convenience store and officers have been carefully tracked for the Senate is sitting here until—the one of a beloved African-American decades, the deaths of individuals parliamentary rules allow us to run a school cafeteria supervisor stopped for killed by the police in this country certain number of hours, which is a broken taillight—are shocking. All have only recently been counted. At going to occur somewhere around 10:30 people of good will have to ask—in the least since the early 1990s, there have tonight, to proceed to the voting on words that President Obama uttered an been legal reporting requirements at this bill. hour or so ago: ‘‘What if this happened the Federal level for such deaths, but The only expression of those of us to somebody in your family?’’ actual data collection was weak, and it who would like Senator MERKLEY to The first city is the world of Amer- has not been until the last 2 years that have a vote is that we got to vote on a ica’s police officers. Our law enforce- there has been an effort driven by jour- motion to table an amendment that is ment officers are heroes. While we are nalists and citizens to systematically unrelated, and it all has to do with the told in the Scriptures that the greatest collect this data. Even now, there are parliamentary procedure. It is a shame love is to lay one’s life down for a questions about whether current data that we can’t have the substance of a friend, police officers risk their lives is actually comprehensive. real debate on a real issue facing the every day not just for friends but for How did our Nation bring down the country. people they have never even met. number of police killed by gunfire even ZIKA VIRUS FUNDING As a mayor and Governor, I came as the Nation grew and even as the Mr. President, as the Senate is biding face to face with the danger of police number of firearms in this country in- its time, I can tell you we are not work and went to too many funerals creased? Because we cared about it. Be- biding our time in Florida on two sub- for local and State law enforcement of- cause we kept records and resolved to jects, the first of which is that in these ficials who gave up their lives in serv- do better, and police departments closing days of the Senate before we re- ice to their fellow citizens. Just in Feb- trained to reduce risks and society sup- cess for the rest of the summer because ruary of this year, Prince William ported those efforts with budgets and of the political conventions—we had County police officer Ashley Guindin emotional commitment. another 11 cases of the Zika virus yes- was shot and killed on her first day How will our Nation bring down the terday in Florida. There are now well working her beat after service as a Ma- number of people—especially African- over 250 cases in Florida, and in Flor- rine reservist and veteran. Police work American males, especially young Afri- ida there are somewhere around 40 is hard and dangerous, and we have to can-American males, especially un- pregnant women who are infected with be grateful for those who do it. armed African American males—killed the Zika virus. You know what that But here is one glimmer of hope. For by police? We will decide that we must means because you have seen the hor- a police officer, the threat of death by care about it. Again, in the words that rible pictures of the babies. When the gun violence is being dramatically re- President Obama said an hour or so Zika virus infects a pregnant female, it duced even as our Nation’s population ago, because we will decide that ‘‘this attacks the growing fetus and stunts grows and even as the number of weap- is not just a black issue, it’s an Amer- the growth of the brain and the head. ons grows. The death of police officers ican issue.’’ We must decide that we We are starting to see that now in by gun violence hit its peak in the care about it. We must decide that we about six babies born in the United early 1970s. In 1973, 156 police officers in will keep rigorous records and resolve States with microcephaly, three of

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:29 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G07JY6.093 S07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with SENATE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4903 whom died at childbirth. You can chobee, which is a huge lake. This they did a few months ago during an imagine the tragedies for those fami- water pressure is now threatening the emergency. This is obviously an emer- lies in which this is occurring. integrity of the dike around the entire gency, and they need to do that. It could all be done if we would go lake where thousands and thousands of There is one more thing that can be ahead and develop the vaccine. There is people live. In order to relieve that done. A couple of years ago, the people a lot of promising research and devel- pressure immediately, the Corps of En- of Florida voted to amend the Florida opment on a vaccine, but that means gineers has opened the floodgates. It constitution to provide for a dedicated we need to get money through the Na- has allowed that nutrient-rich water to source of funding that is already tional Institutes of Health, NIH, to flow out to the east into the St. Lucie there—it is real estate taxes—and use continue the research. We have a Zika River, which eventually empties into that money for the acquisition of en- bill for supposedly $1.1 billion that was the Atlantic in Stuart, FL, and to the dangered lands and lands that are need- passed last week in the House, but it is west of Lake Okeechobee and into the ed to preserve the environment. Thus, not a serious bill. It has all of these Caloosahatchee River, which goes out there is a ready source of funding for poison pills in it. It has all of these po- into Fort Myers. This is obviously a the State of Florida if they would ap- litical messages. It is totally partisan. sick river. propriate the money to start pur- In fact, one of the things it does to What happens when you get too chasing lands south of the lake that fund the so-called Zika bill from the many nutrients in the water? It causes would become storage areas in a flow House is to take money from the Med- the algae to grow. In order for the way going south and cleansing areas as icaid Program in Puerto Rico—the algae to grow—it is a plant—it sucks the water moves south into the river of very place that needs it the most right up the oxygen in the water and nothing grass otherwise known as the Florida now because 3.5 million American citi- can live. The fish can’t breathe, and it Everglades. zens on that island are now at risk of becomes a dead river. That is a dead There are many things that have to being infected when that mosquito river. Not only is it dead, but all of the be done all together, but what we could bites or by sexual transmission. algae has floated to the surface, and do here right now—before we adjourn Another part of the bill doesn’t allow now it has all of that brown rot. next week—is bring up the WRDA bill. birth control through Planned Parent- Can you imagine what that smells It is ready to go. It is bipartisan, and it hood. Well, isn’t that inimical to the like? Well, as a Florida boy, to me it will also include the projects that will very reason that you want to stop the smells like rotting algae. If you have start the process of alleviating this pregnancy so that you don’t have this any kind of a respiratory situation or problem so that no river in America tragedy? Yet the House bill is elimi- if you have allergies, go over there and would have to experience what the St. nating those funds. take a deep breath on that dock and all Lucie River and the Caloosahatchee on This is what I hope, and this is what of a sudden you will be coughing, the west side of Florida are experi- I did this morning. I wrote to the ma- wheezing, and sneezing. There are a lot encing now. Lord knows that I hope we jority leader, Senator MCCONNELL, and of environmental medical health ef- can suddenly have a miracle around asked him if he would take up the Zika fects as well. here and get this bipartisan legislation bill that we passed in the Senate. It What do we need to do? Well, here up and moving. was bipartisan. It was overwhelmingly again, I have written to the two leaders I yield the floor. supported. It was not the $1.9 billion as to what we should do, and I have I suggest the absence of a quorum. the President requested, but it was $1.1 written to the President about what we The PRESIDING OFFICER. The billion. Take that up, send it out of ought to do. Ultimately, you don’t clerk will call the roll. here to the House so that before Con- solve a problem like this until you get The senior assistant legislative clerk gress adjourns at the end of next week, a reversal of over three-quarters of a proceeded to call the roll. we would have a chance of having this century of diking and draining, and Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I ask money be there over the summer to that is called the Everglades Restora- unanimous consent that the order for continue the assistance to local gov- tion Plan. It has been going on for 20 the quorum call be rescinded. ernments for mosquito control, to con- years, and it is going to go on for an- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tinue the research and development of other 20 years, but in the meantime, objection, it is so ordered. a vaccine, and to help with the medical especially when we have emergencies SHOOTINGS IN MINNEAPOLIS AND BATON ROUGE counseling that is going on and is nec- like this, we need to tinker around Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, it essary not just in Florida, not just in with that plan. seems as though every time we turn Puerto Rico, but Zika is now in more First of all, we need to get to the around, we have a situation where than 30 States in the Union. I wanted Water Resources Development Act, or some individual in the African-Amer- to talk about that one thing, which is, WRDA, that we thought was going to ican community is shot while in the in fact, an emergency. come up in July and has the bipartisan custody of police, and many in Amer- CENTRAL EVERGLADES PLANNING PROJECT support of the leaders on the environ- ica, myself included, are mourning the Mr. President, I want to tell you mental committee, Senator INHOFE and death of Alton Sterling and Philando about another emergency, and I want Senator BOXER. It is ready to go. We Castile, the individuals who were shot everyone to see these photographs. need to get it on the floor and pass it. in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge. This blue-green algae is surrounding The WRDA bill has the Corps of Engi- The ubiquity of video cameras today these docks. You can see how it has neers authorized plan to continue the has shown the rest of the country what collected. The brown that you see Everglades restoration with what is African-Americans have always known: mixed in with the blue and green is rot- called the Central Everglades Planning That with shocking and horrifying reg- ting algae. Project, which includes four or five ularity, African-American men and This photo shows a wave coming up projects over a number of years, so you boys are the victims of police—the very on shore in Stuart, FL. This is the St. don’t have to dump the water to the people who are charged with keeping Lucie River. You can see how much east and west out of Lake Okeechobee all of us safe. algae is in the river. What is algae? and create situations like this. I don’t know what it is like to be Algae is a plant. It is a plant that is in There is something else that we can fearful for my life during a traffic stop water. Algae grows like this. Instead of do. We can hold as much water as pos- by law enforcement. Unacceptably, being naturally balanced in the water sible north of the lake in the Kis- however, that is the everyday reality column, it grows like this when it is simmee River basin during the time of of Black Americans in our Nation. fed a lot of fertilizer. the rains that are going to fill up Lake While I will never know this experience Where is that fertilizer coming from? Okeechobee anyway; don’t allow the firsthand, I stand with communities of Right now it is coming from the excess water to go south into the lake. color and demand that those who swear nutrient-laden water that is being There is something else that the to uphold our laws to protect and serve dumped out of Lake Okeechobee by the Corps of Engineers can do. They can all in America do so equally and that Corps of Engineers because the water send more water south by raising the they are held accountable when they has gotten too high in Lake Okee- level of the canals to the south just as don’t.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:59 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G07JY6.095 S07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with SENATE S4904 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 7, 2016 We must also realize that this is not that we only have one organic farmer around the Nation that are rep- just a police problem; it is an American that I am aware of in the Senate, and resenting millions of organic con- problem. We need to come to terms that individual is the Senator from sumers and thousands of organic farm- with our Nation’s long history of rac- Montana, JON TESTER. I have heard ers who are voicing their opposition to ism and the many ways that racism him speak to this issue. I know that he the bill that we are considering in this continues to permeate nearly every as- feels that the bill does not do for Chamber tonight. pect of our society. organics anything that the organic So I thought that was worth noting. Our country has made enormous community doesn’t already have. That It is very important because one of progress from the worst days of Jim is my understanding of his perspective. the items that the proponents of this Crow. We elected an African-American So it is important to call attention bill have said is that they have put President to two terms, but there is an to the fact that many organic organi- some wonderful stuff in there for or- enormous difference between progress zations across the country, despite the ganic farmers. If there is wonderful and success, and that difference is language that has been placed in this stuff, why are the organic farmers say- measured in Black lives cut short, the bill, are strongly opposed to it. They ing that this bill could change impor- resegregation of our schools, health believe that if you are going to put out tant regulations governing the Federal disparities, housing patterns, dropout a bill that is a mandatory GMO label- organic program, including those pro- rates, and incarceration rates. ing bill, it has to actually have manda- hibiting the use of genetic engineering We will not end the scourge of racism tory GMO labeling in it. So let me read or organic? until we understand that racism is not this from Andrew Kimbrell, executive That is right. You heard that it is ac- just Bull Connor, firehoses, and dogs. director of the Center for Food Safety. tually possible that this bill would en- We will never solve the problem if we Andrew says: able those growing GMO crops to label don’t admit we have one. Organic organizations, farmers and compa- their crops organic—how completely I was thinking about the situation nies rightly fear that this bill could change absurd. What hall of mirrors have we back in the 1980s when I was working important regulations governing the federal entered into with the twisted defini- with a friend from across the street. He organic program including those prohibiting tions in this bill that GMO crops could the use of genetic engineering in organic. was actually the brother of the woman They also refuse to be part of a sham label- be labeled organic because of this bill? who lived across the street. He had ing bill that blatantly discriminates against Now, let me turn to why we are here come up to DC for a while and was low-income, rural, elderly and a dispropor- on the floor waiting for these 30 hours helping me install some windows. tionately high number of minority Ameri- to run out. We attempted to strike a We needed to go to a hardware store cans. deal earlier today simply to have but didn’t know exactly where the Then let me read this as well: amendments voted on. In fact, get this: store was, so when we pulled up next to Organic organizations, farmer groups and We agreed to vote on every single Re- the sheriff’s car, I asked my friend to companies around the nation representing publican amendment—every single one. roll down his window and ask the sher- millions of organic consumers and thousands We asked for the ability to vote on iff for directions to the hardware store. of organic farmers have voiced their opposi- some Democratic amendments as well. He looked over at the sheriff, and he tion to the discriminatory and deeply-flawed Now, that is what the Senate used to GMO labeling bill being offered. Thirty-six do. This body was known as a delibera- turned back straight ahead. He just major organic groups have signed on to a let- looked straight ahead and didn’t say a ter sent by a national coalition of consumer, tive body because people were actually word. food safety, farm, environmental, and reli- here arguing with each other, debating Then I looked over and I saw the two gious groups to all members of the Senate with each other, offering amendments, sheriffs, and I saw the gun mounted be- earlier this week. The groups condemn the debating the amendments, voting on tween them at an upward angle. It was so-called compromise bill which could be the amendments, voting on the bills— a shotgun or a rifle. But, as I looked to devastating to the organic standard. almost always by simple majority. the right past him, I saw the absolute Organic groups that have signed on That is why this was a deliberative fear on his face. There was absolutely to this letter include the following: Be- body. The Members brought the power no way he was going to roll down his yond Pesticides, Consumers Union, of their life experiences into this room. window and ask the sheriff—the sheriff Center for Food Safety, Dr. Bronner’s, They brought their intellect, their in the car next to ours—for directions. Equal Exchange, Farm Aid, Food and knowledge, their reading, and their To me it was just a casual interaction Water Watch, Genesis Farm, Good wisdom into this room. They brought among folks getting a little bit of help, Earth Natural Foods, Katchkie Farm, the stories of their constituents, the which was to him a potential life- Keep the Soil in Organic Coalition, experiences from the front line in threatening situation. Kezialain Farm, Maine Organic Farm- America into this room. They debated, Nobody in our society should live in ers and Gardeners Association, Mid- and they argued, and they voted. fear of our public safety officials. Of west Organic & Sustainable Education That Senate is the opposite of what course, I celebrate that the vast major- Service, Miskell’s Premium Organics, we are experiencing here at this mo- ity of our public safety officials treat the National Grocers Coop, the Na- ment—a Senate where the majority everyone equally, but we need for 100 tional Organic Coalition, Nature’s leader refuses to allow any amend- percent of our public safety teams to Path, the Northeast Organic Dairy ments on these bills to be debated or to treat everyone equally. That small Producers Alliance, the Northeast Or- be voted on. fraction that doesn’t is responsible for ganic Farming Association, the North- Now, the unanimous consent pro- an enormous number of lives cut short, east Organic Farming Association of posal that I put forward a couple of and that is unacceptable, and we have New Hampshire, the Northeast Organic hours ago said there are three Repub- to change that. We have to talk about Farming Association of New York, the lican amendments that have been filed. it, and we have to wrestle with it. Northeast Organic Farming Associa- Let’s vote on all of them. One of them So, once again, it seems like this is tion of Vermont, Nutiva, Ohio Ecologi- is from my colleague who is sitting in the case every week or so. We have an- cal Food and Farm Association, Or- the chair, and that amendment puts a other death that seems like it should ganically Grown Company, Organic prohibition on Federal labeling. Now, I have been possible to avoid, and some- Consumers Association, Organic Seed tell my colleague that if that was up, I times these deaths are very clearly Alliance, Organic Farmers Agency for would be voting against it, and I would ones of intentional infliction. We have Relationship Marketing, Organic Seed be happy to explain why. He would be to work hard together to change this. Growers and Trade Association, Our happy to explain why it is a good Mr. President, I thought it would be Family Farms, PCC Family Farms, amendment, and that is called a de- worthwhile to consider a little bit PCC Natural Markets, Rural Advance- bate. That is called a discussion. The about the organics provision in the bill ment Foundation International, the vote is a decision in which we are all we are considering tonight. Now, there Organic & Non-GMO Report, Sunnyside bringing our best insights to bear. But, are several organics labeling provi- CSA, and Wood Prairie Family Farm. unfortunately, we are not debating the sions, and the sponsors of the bill said So these are organic organizations, amendment of my colleague on a prohi- this is very wonderful stuff. I know farmer groups, and companies from bition on Federal labeling because the

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I agree with President leading marketing which the good guys colleague from Kentucky, Senator Obama that acknowledging we must do in the world of business certainly want PAUL, could be considered. His amend- better in no way contradicts our re- to avoid. It is about providing more in- ment seeks to clarify and make sure spect for law enforcement. formation, as much accurate informa- that there are no criminal penalties in As a former prosecutor, a U.S. attor- tion as possible, because consumers this labeling law. Well, I would be ney, and attorney general of my State have a right and a need to know. happy to vote for that amendment, be- for 20 years, I worked with law enforce- Throwing roadblocks in the way of cause there are no criminal penalties ment officials closely for more than that right doesn’t do justice for them. and there shouldn’t be any, and if we two decades. I worked with them with They deserve better. want to put an exclamation point be- great admiration for their courage and So I will continue this fight. We are hind that through this particular professionalism. I understand and ap- near an hour now where we will vote. I amendment from my colleague, I would preciate the challenges they face every greatly respect the dedication of my be fine with that. If he were allowed to day, their selflessness in the line of colleagues who have worked hard on bring up that amendment, maybe he duty, and their commitment to keep- this measure. My very distinguished would show some other aspects of it on ing our communities safe, often at and able friend from Michigan Senator the floor—some other ways that rever- great sacrifice to themselves. STABENOW is now with us. She and I are berate and some other ways that I Tragedies like the deaths of Philando in agreement, my guess is, 99 percent don’t actually recognize when I read Castile and Alton Sterling threaten to of the time, and I respect as well our his amendment. undermine trust and understanding be- colleague Senator ROBERTS, chairman But he can’t fill us in on the details tween law enforcement and the com- of the Agriculture Committee, but the of what his amendment would do be- munities they serve. That is why I cause he is not allowed to bring it up. issue here is supremely important to fought to pass the Death in Custody Even though he is a Republican, he is the health and well-being of Ameri- Reporting Act—bipartisan legislation not allowed to bring it up, even though cans—not just today, not just children which requires States to report to the the Chamber is governed by a Repub- and families at this moment but for U.S. Department of Justice informa- lican majority. His own leader refuses years and decades to come. While the tion regarding individuals who die to allow him to have his amendment science may be debated, the consumer every year while in police custody or brought up and debated. In fact, we protection issue is beyond doubt. Let’s during the course of an arrest. I have agreed for another Republican amend- open information to the American con- also supported funding to help local ment, the Murkowski amendment, on sumers, make it more available, not law enforcement agencies cooperate the labeling of genetically engineered less so; remove the obstacles, not cre- salmon to be brought up and debated— and collaborate more closely with com- ate more hurdles; reduce the costs, not an issue we have wrestled with here be- munities and build trust by purchasing raise the expense; and provide the ac- fore. We have probably all heard most and using body-worn cameras, which cess that Americans need to full and of the pros and cons. But perhaps in the have been shown to reduce citizen com- fair information about GMOs that may formulation of this amendment, there plaints by as much as 88 percent. be in their food. We have much more to do in effec- are some new aspects that would have Thank you, Mr. President, and I yield tively assuring justice for communities been brought to bear that would have the floor. of color. We must have an honest con- influenced us to support it or to oppose The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- it. versation about the role of race in soci- ator from Michigan. But this Republican amendment ety, not just in the disparities in the Ms. STABENOW. Thank you, Mr. can’t be brought up because the Repub- criminal justice system but in our President. lican leader rejected a unanimous con- economy, our media, and our commu- I couldn’t agree more with my friend sent request that would have allowed nities. Words alone are insufficient. We from Connecticut. I think probably 99 all of these amendments to be brought must act. I will continue to work with percent of the time we are voting the up. In fact, there were only three Re- my colleagues in Washington, across same way. There are good people on publican amendments, and we agreed the country, and Connecticut to bring both sides of this discussion. There is a to hear all of them and, in exchange, Americans together and make our soci- lot of emotion, and I think this issue we asked for three Democratic amend- ety more just for all. around information and GMO labeling ments. As a separate part of the record, if is really a proxy fight in many ways I see that my colleague Senator there is no objection, Mr. President, I for those who support biotechnology, BLUMENTHAL has arrived to speak. I would like to continue our discussion those who don’t, and those who want to think I will come back and explain about the GMO labeling bill. I regret debate pesticides and other important what those Democratic amendments very sincerely the absence of an oppor- issues that don’t relate to labeling but were a bit from now. tunity to offer these amendments that have come into this situation. Mr. President, I yield the floor. might improve this bill and enable us I think what we need to focus on is The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- to provide the American people with the fact that, A, people have a right to ator from Connecticut. what they need and deserve—the best know information, how do we make SHOOTINGS IN LOUISIANA AND MINNESOTA possible legislative product this body sure it is done effectively, and at the Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I can provide, a legislative product that same time we certainly don’t want thank my colleague, Senator MERKLEY, matches the desires of 90 percent of costs to be going up as was indicated. I for his very powerful arguments for im- Americans to know more about what know if we have 50 different labeling proving this law. I wish to speak about they are eating, the 15,000 Connecticut laws in 50 different States, that means the GMO labeling act. But before I do people who have corresponded with me, the cost of putting those labels on and so, I wish to speak separately about and the many individuals, activists, manufacturing and to grocers and so concerns that are on the hearts and and advocates who tell me they believe on, it is going to go up and not down, minds of every American today after they have a right to know what is in which is why there was great concern the shootings that we have seen in their food when it comes to GMOs. in the House when the bill was passed Louisiana and Minnesota. These are in- The science is beyond my advocacy, there a year ago. cidents that weigh on our hearts and but the consumer protection issue is So the question for us is, How do we our minds as we watched—literally one all of us are experts on. We all make sure costs don’t go up? How do watched—the videos that have been know we need better and more infor- we ensure we have a right to know? played again and again and again on mation, and so to make access to that And how do we make sure we believe in TV around the Nation. information more difficult and cum- the science and respect the science?

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And I very much respect and So looking at the National Academy we had 50 different laws. appreciate the fact that when they of Sciences and the FDA and others, I went through this at one time back were able to achieve all four items they both world medical groups as well as years ago when we were debating fuel felt were critical for organic farmers, those in this country, it is clear this is economy standards when California they indicated they were very sup- not a health and safety issue, but it is passed its own fuel economy standard portive of that and what we are doing an information issue, and I believe it for automobiles. As other States here. needs to be addressed, which is why the looked at that, they were trying to Then we made sure that State and FDA, which handles the information push the Federal Government—rightly Federal consumer laws were protected, and marketing, is the place where this so—and the industry said: We can’t so that the label is preempted, having belongs because the FDA does not behave 50 different standards for fuel a label, but enforcing penalties if there lieve it is in their jurisdiction related economy. So we said: OK. You are is fraud or misinformation or some- to science around food safety. right, but that means you have to have thing else related to the label—those So we know if we go back a mo- a national standard on fuel economy, enforcement mechanisms are main- ment—let me just say, before talking and that is where we ended up. tained. So that is where the enforce- about labeling, I believe in supporting So the people of Vermont, first of all, ment comes from. all sorts of agriculture. When I chaired should feel very good that what they The only way we are like the House the Agriculture Committee and we have done has created this situation to is that we prevent a patchwork of 50 started working on the 5-year farm bill get us to a national labeling program, different labeling laws. But everything a number of years ago—it is hard to be- but here’s what happens if we do noth- else we have done builds on and lieve we are halfway through it right ing right now. We have a couple of strengthens the public’s right to know now—but I said it was very important choices. One is that Vermont has a as it relates to GMO ingredients. that we support all parts of agriculture GMO label. We have two other States One of the big debates: OK, there are and not pit one group against the that are waiting to see if States around three different options. Vermont has other, which is one of my concerns them pass labeling laws that at some words on the package, and we have right now in this whole debate, pitting point may come into this, but that is some companies now that are doing one side against the other, because we basically who is getting information. that. They are going to indicate—re- didn’t do that in the farm bill. We cre- We talked about everyone should have gardless of what we do, they want the ated great increases in organic re- information. Right there. Those are definition settled and they want a national policy, but based on consumer search, organic checkoff and mar- the folks who have labeling laws. There were attempts on the west demand, they are going to proceed to keting as well as traditional produc- coast to pass labeling laws, and those have words on the package. I believe tion agriculture. We did some very ex- were not successful so this is what we we will see more and more of that hap- citing creative things for local food have. pening in the marketplace, companies hubs and urban agriculture that had Now what we are proposing is that responding to consumer demand. not been done before. We said we were everybody will have information, peo- The other option we give is a label, going to support all of agriculture. ple in my home State of Michigan, peo- an on-pack symbol. We don’t specifi- I believe, from a consumer stand- ple across the country, everybody will cally say ‘‘GMO’’ in a circle, but some- point, if we give choices, then con- get information and there will have to thing like that. sumers will decide. We know also that be a mandatory label. We give three The third option we give is an elec- the fastest growing sector of the food choices on food that contain GMOs, not tronic label. Some people say QR code, sector is organic, which is non-GMO, voluntary but a mandatory labeling which actually came from the auto in- by the way, and one of the things we do system. So what do we do and how is it dustry and stands for quick response is strengthen that label and make it different than what happened in the code—when they were tracking labels clear for the public to know they are House? and checking parts and other parts of purchasing organic and a non-GMO Well, first of all, as I have indicated, the system, which actually has worked product. a national mandatory labeling require- very well. But the fact is that some We came out of the farm bill with all ment, and I will talk more about that kind of electronic label—and tech- parts of agriculture working together in a moment. nology is changing every day. Apps are and we won a good farm bill. I think Secondly, in Vermont and at the changing every day. So there will prob- probably one of, if not the most, pro- State level, meat, eggs, cheese, and ably be other options that are talked gressive farm bills we have had, sup- dairy are exempt—totally exempt. So about other than a QR code. porting all parts of agriculture because someone called it the Vermont meat But the reality is, just as a number we weren’t pitting one group against loophole. So we said: You know what. of groups right now that care about the other, which, unfortunately, that is That is not acceptable. So we added food and the environment have their what this debate has become right now. 25,000 more food products under this own apps that give consumers informa- When the House almost exactly a law that we would be voting on to- tion, this is the other option. You year ago passed a bill to preempt night. On this bill, 25,000 more food would be able to take your phone—by States—I know Vermont passed a State products will be labeled for people to the way, according to Nielsen, 82 per- law. When the House voted to indicate know whether they are getting GMO cent of the public has a smartphone—82 there shouldn’t be 50 different States ingredients. percent, not 10 percent—and we are ex- with 50 different labeling laws and Next, the organic label. I have to say pecting that to be more like 90 percent passed a preemption, they included the organic trade organization was ex- very shortly. You are able to scan, and only voluntary labeling, and consumers tremely effective in the efforts in pass- immediately it will come up on the called that the DARK Act because it ing the farm bill. They came to me front—immediately, not hidden some- wasn’t a required mandatory labeling with four different items they were in- where, not two or three clicks to get of information and transparency. So terested in including. It was tough to there, but you will immediately get in- the House bill, with the voluntary get all four of those. I didn’t think we formation, yes or no, on whether there process, came here and I opposed it. I actually could get them in negotia- are GMOs. In fact, when you see what- opposed it at every turn and indicated tions. After our tough negotiations, I ever the code is, you are probably we had to have a mandatory system of appreciate that we actually were able going to have a pretty good hint by information and of labeling for con- to achieve all four requests of the Or- that as well. sumers that should be done in a way ganic Trade Association. So why do that? Well, some in the that does not stigmatize bio- Even though they would prefer to food industry would say there is a de- technology, and it should be done in a have one kind of label, like Vermont, sire to make sure that when people are

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People expect us to actually get things this, and the reason it has been sug- Cheese pizza is labeled in Vermont, but done. And contrary to what was done gested in other forms is so that people if you put pepperoni on it, it is not, in the House, we have a mandatory na- really do get more information about even though it still has GMO ingredi- tional labeling system with 25,000 addi- their food. The reality is that the No. 1 ents. So 25,000 additional products will tional products than what is currently question people ask is about food aller- be labeled because people have a right being labeled in Vermont or proposed gies. It is very difficult to find that out to know. in other States. We strengthen the or- right now. Going forward, I think we Let me finally indicate again that we ganic label. We protect consumer laws can create an effective, user-friendly have strengthened the ‘‘USDA Or- to be able to enforce when there is electronic label that will give people ganic’’ label. This is no small thing. fraud or there are other mislabeling ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no’’ on not just GMOs but on This is very important. The public issues. And at the same time, we make food allergies. needs to know, has the right to know, sure that citizens across the country, The next question was about anti- that USDA Organic also means non- not just in one part of the country, are biotics in meat. There are multiple GMO and that that is a choice you have getting their right to know in a way questions people have that need to be right now, to be able to make sure you that provides accurate information. answered, not just one. There are mul- are getting the products that have the I thank everyone. I thank my part- tiple things people are interested in. kinds of ingredients you want. ner, Senator ROBERTS. I appreciate the Despite the emotions around this de- Again, I appreciate the emotion- debate on all sides. I hope we are going bate, I think probably in the future we alism. In all honesty, I have to say this to be coming to a conclusion shortly so are going to see effective uses of our debate has gone in a lot of directions. that we can move on and actually im- technology to give us more informa- A lot of things have been said that I plement and share information for con- tion in a user-friendly way. certainly don’t agree with. I question a sumers about how to access very im- The other thing we do is say that the lot of the things that have been said in portant information not only about USDA has to review accessibility of terms of a factual nature. I also think GMO ingredients and labeling, but I be- broadband, accessibility of the tech- we have gone into a lot of other tan- lieve there are other important pieces nology before this starts, that they gents on things, debating other kinds of information for consumers to have have to do that right away. They are of things and using the debate about as well. I think we should be looking required to and are given the authority the label as a proxy for a broader de- for ways to make sure consumers get to be able to put additional scanners in bate about biotechnology in the public. all of the kinds of information they are stores, so that if somebody doesn’t I appreciate and I respect that debate. interested in as it relates to their food. have a phone, they can take the can, Even though I disagree with things Thanks again for everyone’s hard put it up to the scanner, and it will that are said, I respect that; that is work and patience this evening as we give them information about food al- why we are here. have held everyone later this evening. lergies or GMOs or whatever. The first I also will say in conclusion that we I would finally say one thing, if I thing that comes up has to be GMOs. have a responsibility to govern, and might, and that is that I have worked The USDA is required to look at ac- governing means that you have to in the last 24 hours to do everything I cessibility because there are legitimate come together and work together. If we can to help my friends on the other issues around accessibility that need to are going to get things done, it has to side of this issue be able to get the be addressed, and that is one of the be bipartisan, or it doesn’t get done. votes they are interested in as it re- things they are given the authority to That is just a fact. lates to amendments. Unfortunately, So if we are going to do something address, and we need to make sure that there was not agreement on how to do that is meaningful, that makes sure all continues to be addressed. that. There was an offering two dif- of the country has the opportunity to But the final thing I will say about ferent times on amendments, to have have information and a national stand- this is that companies, consumers, an amendment vote on an important ard and the maximum amount of prod- stores, grocery stores will drive this. amendment, and folks opposed to the ucts labeled and that will protect the Once we say this is it—we have compa- bill did not feel they wanted to do that, organic label in all of the country—by nies right now saying: Great. Three op- that that was enough. I respect that, the way, the organic protections we tions. We are doing this one because but we now are at a point where we have are not in the Vermont law. So if that is what our customers want. really need to come to a close and We have stores, great stores like we are going to make sure all the pro- move forward on this important bill. Whole Foods, that say: You know what, visions I talked about are not just I yield the floor. you can have three options, but we are available in some places but every- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- only going to allow an on-pack symbol place, that means we have to come to- jority leader. or words in our store. gether and work together. That means That is going to drive the market- rough-and-tumble negotiations, tough DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL place. The marketplace is going to be negotiations. These are some of the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, this driven by those who are involved—by toughest negotiations I have ever been evening, both sides will have an oppor- consumers, by the companies, by oth- in, and we have to be willing to have tunity to take the next step and begin ers who make sure they are giving peo- some give-and-take. debate on the fiscal year 2017 Defense ple the information the way they want In the climate we are in today, I appropriations bill. it. know it is a lot easier to go to your President Obama’s announcement Let me say just a couple of other corner and point fingers at the other yesterday about our troops in Afghani- things. I mentioned 25,000 additional side and to develop conspiracy theories stan only underscores the Senate’s food products in the stores. Anything and to create situations and say things need to take up and pass the Defense that is a GMO product, package, fro- that, frankly, are extremely dispar- appropriations bill right now. Although zen, that includes some meat in it—we aging about people’s motives and so on, I support a high level of force to train are going to be adding to the informa- and that is unfortunate. But we also and equip the Afghan forces and con- tion consumers will have access to. I know that we are people of good will; duct counterterrorism operations, the will give an example. Right now, that is why we get things done. We President’s announcement reminds us fettuccine Alfredo is labeled in may disagree on this one particular of the need for this bill. Vermont, but if you put chicken in it, issue, but we are a group who gets The President made a commitment it is not labeled. To go on, if you have things done when we work together, to our allies, and Senate Democrats

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We are led by a num- viding funding for law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, invest in spare parts and fuel consumed in train- ber of stalwart people, not the least of job creating infrastructure and scientific re- ing, and operations and the ammuni- which is the ranking member on the search, and address national emergencies tion needed to execute their missions, Committee on Armed Services, JACK like Zika, opioids, and access to clean drink- not to mention their basic pay, is fund- REED. JACK REED is a West Point grad- ing water. However, the amendment fell on a ed through this bill. uate, a man who everyone respects— largely party-line vote. Our all-volunteer force does not Democrats and Republicans—and he is The willingness of Republicans to consider shrink from this commitment, and this a man of integrity. He is going to vote the McCain amendment and to reject the Senate shouldn’t fail our duty to pro- against moving forward on this bill. Reed-Mikulski amendment, combined with the reported desire of Senate Republicans to vide for them. This funding is for cur- BARBARA MIKULSKI, the matriarch of rent operations, for combat readiness, offer an OCO amendment to the Defense ap- the Senate, someone who is respected propriations bill sends a deeply troubling and for the commitment announced worldwide for her integrity and the signal about your willingness to appropriate just yesterday by President Obama. work she has done in the Senate, will by the parity principle. Further, this unbal- Last month, the Secretary of Defense vote no. anced approach does not truly keep Ameri- made a long-term commitment, stating We need a strong defense, and we ac- cans safe or protect our interests abroad. that ‘‘the United States will remain knowledge that, but we also under- Without sufficient funding for the vital na- the most powerful military and main stand that a strong defense is more tional security work done by local law en- underwriter of security in the [Asia Pa- than the Pentagon. The Pentagon forcement agencies, enforcement of sanctions and cutting off terrorist financing, and cific] region for decades to come.’’ He would tell you that. They do not like made that commitment knowing our counterterrorism, we hinder a coherent na- the OCO funding that is being talked tional security policy. allies and the Chinese were listening to about, whispered about. To have a analyze our Nation’s intentions and And here is the last paragraph of this strong defense means more than the letter. our plans. These promises cannot be Pentagon, I repeat. It means making We urge you to publicly give your word upheld if we fail to fund the weapons sure the Department of Homeland Se- systems, munitions, training, and per- that all appropriations bills considered in curity is well financed. We want to both chambers and sent to the President for sonnel required to balance against Chi- make sure the Drug Enforcement Ad- na’s plans to expand its sphere of influ- his signature will comply with the principle ministration is strong and well fi- of fair funding, parity, and a rejection of poi- ence in the region. nanced. We want to make sure the FBI son pill riders. If you cannot give us such as- We have a near-term and long-term is an agency that we take good care of. surance, we will be forced to oppose pro- need to pass this bill, and commit- There are a lot of other entities we are ceeding to future appropriations bills until ments like these made by the adminis- concerned about. you agree to keep your promises and honor tration cannot be met—cannot be The Republican leader, I am stunned, our agreement. met—if our Democratic friends block is concerned because we sent him a let- This is signed by REED, DURBIN, this critical funding. ter yesterday; four Democratic leaders SCHUMER, and MURRAY. I would remind everyone that at a sent him a letter. We simply said that So Mr. President, we really want to time when we face an array of terror it is important we not be given a little do the appropriations bills. We have threats around the globe, we cannot af- dance step on this matter. We all know had a little trouble, as you know. We ford to put politics above support for what they are trying to do here. We have had this situation with the vet- our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and ma- erans bill. It brings back a Zika bill rines or our efforts to move the appro- have a defense bill, it is an appropriations bill, and once that is done, the that has been formulated not here. We priations process forward. So I was passed a very good Zika bill. It wasn’t troubled by a letter I received earlier appropriations process will be wiped out, and we will be at the mercy of the as much money as I wanted—$1.1 bil- today from Democratic leaders imply- lion in emergency funding. It passed ing they might actually block this bi- Republicans in some form or fashion. With the defense bill done, everything here by 89 votes. What do we get back partisan bill and, with it, critical fund- from the House? What do we get back ing to provide for our warriors and pro- else will be pushed away someplace else. from the House? They whack Planned vide for our national defense. Parenthood. They have to do that. They called for regular order, but I I want to read just a few things. That is the only thing they can get out will remind my colleagues this bill is Time doesn’t run out until 10:22, and I of the House Republicans. They cut the epitome—the epitome—of regular understand that, but I want to read a $500 million from veterans, and that order. The Senate passed the author- few things from the letter we wrote to izing legislation—the National Defense the Republican leader. The letter was money is to be used for processing Authorization Act. The bipartisan bill sent by me, DURBIN, SCHUMER, and claims. We really need help with those. respects the budget caps in place. And MURRAY. Here is what we said, among There is $500 million they take from it was reported out of the Committee other things: ObamaCare, money from Ebola. And, of on Appropriations with the support of Without strong, public assurance that you course, they have to do something every single Democrat and every single are committed to honoring the core tenets of about the EPA. You have to do some- Republican on the committee. the bipartisan compromise—including fair thing there or let’s do something with As the top Democrat on the Defense funding, parity, and a rejection of poison pill the Clean Water Act. riders—through the completion of the full Subcommittee himself has said, ‘‘This So that is all in this bill. What we appropriations process, we will no longer be sent to the House you wouldn’t recog- defense bill takes a responsible ap- able to support proceeding to new appropria- proach to protecting our country—hon- tions bills. nize in what we have back here. The oring the bipartisan budget deal in For example, the House has passed a De- Zika mosquitoes are still out floating place,’’ and the senior Democrat on the fense Appropriations Bill that uses a budget around. And then, to make this bill committee said of this bill that she is gimmick to hand out extra taxpayer dollars even more strange—what we got back ‘‘happy to support’’ the bill. for the Pentagon, with no equivalent support from the House—they stuck in a provi- There is no excuse to filibuster this for domestic security and other initiatives sion that said we can fly the Confed- important to the middle class. Similarly, erate flag in veterans cemeteries. How bill. Everybody in the committee sup- during consideration of the fiscal year 2017 ported it. It is consistent with the National Defense Authorization Act, Senator about that. budget agreement reached last year. So MCCAIN offered an amendment to authorize So is there any reason we should be I would urge all my colleagues to sup- an additional $18 billion in overseas contin- suspect about what is going on around port moving forward to debate this im- gency operations— here? Of course we are. And unless we portant legislation they say they are in This is the gimmick— hear something publicly from the Re- favor of. funding only for the Pentagon, a clear vio- publican leader today, just as I indi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mi- lation of the parity principle. Senators Reed cated, that he publicly give his word nority leader. of Rhode Island and Mikulski offered a com- that all appropriations bills considered

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It said: go to a different plane, and it is just on with this, but let me remind him of The biggest problem with the Senate bill is unfair to do anything else. what he always reminded me—that I that—instead of requiring a simple label, as All we need is the one example of will have the last word. the Vermont law does—it would allow food what we have just been through—Zika Mr. REID. I have no doubt that is the companies to put the information in elec- funding—which has all the craziness I case. tronic codes that consumers would have to just talked about. So if we want to talk The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mi- scan with smartphones or at scanners in- nority leader. stalled at grocery stores. The only reason to about political games, this is a picture- do this would be to make the information perfect example of what happened on Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that when we finish our remarks, Sen- less accessible. the veterans bill, and we are concerned Another problem is that the bill might not ator MERKLEY be recognized for up to 2 the same thing would happen on what cover some kinds of genetic engineering. The we are doing right now. minutes to make a motion. Food and Drug Administration warned that The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there So I am going to recommend to all the bill ‘‘would result in a somewhat narrow objection? my Senators that, until we have a pub- scope of coverage’’—for example, food that Without objection, it is so ordered. lic assurance from the Republican lead- includes oil made from genetically engi- The minority leader. neered soybeans might not need to be la- er, we should vote no on this cloture Mr. REID. Mr. President, I do have to beled. vote. say this. To call the Democratic Party The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. We have amendments to fix these the party of disunity—look at what is things. If one really believes in a man- HOEVEN). The majority leader. going on with my Republican col- datory GMO labeling bill, these amend- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, one leagues. Look at what is going on. thing my good friend the Democratic ments would be allowed to come up and They are the party of Trump. So don’t be debated. We offered to agree for leader always used to remind me of call us dysfunctional. when he was the majority leader is the every Republican amendment filed to The example given by my friend the be debated and voted on. We asked, majority leader always gets the last Republican leader that we supported word. So I will take advantage of that simply, for three amendments on the the bill dealing with Zika—we sure did. Democratic side, in balance to all the tonight. We had 98 votes. I mentioned that in For anyone who may still be watch- Republican amendments being consid- my remarks. Of course we did, because ered, and that was objected to by the ing C–SPAN 2 at this late hour, let me it was emergency funding. It wasn’t as suggest the Democratic Party ought to majority leader. much money as we wanted, but we ac- So let me just close by saying that I be renamed the ‘‘dysfunction party.’’ cepted it because of the work done by When they were in the majority they will offer a motion to take away the Senators MURRAY and BLUNT. But what roadblock to amendments put in place, didn’t function and when they are in have we gotten back from the House? the minority they do not function. and that is McConnell amendment No. It isn’t even in the same category of 4936. I will move to table that amend- Let’s just take a look at the last cou- the world. It is something totally dif- ple of weeks. A Zika MILCON bill goes ment so that amendments—Republican ferent. amendments, Democratic amendments, through here with every Democrat sup- So I say to my friend the Republican six amendments, three on each side— porting it, and then all of a sudden leader and to all of his colleagues: can be considered so we can truly de- they do not like it. A CARA bill goes Please don’t try this—that the Demo- bate and fix the problems that are in through here with not a single Demo- cratic Party is the party of disunity— this bill. crat opposing it, and then they refuse when you are being led by Donald to sign the conference report. And now I also want to close by thanking my Trump. colleague from Michigan, who has done what the Democratic leader is saying is The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- an incredible effort. She will be so re- that the Republican Senate needs to jority leader. lieved to have this bill completed. We guarantee what the democratic House Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I will do as a condition for passing a bill see the ranking member of the Appro- have debated many, many times. Real- through the Senate that every single priations Committee on the floor. I ly, there is so much we agree on—a sin- Democrat on the Committee on Appro- would recount to everyone that I said gle national standard that will work priations supported. It came out of to her weeks and weeks ago that we across this country, a single national committee unanimously. will devote as much time as it takes to GMO standard. She has made the case This is the definition of dysfunction. try to get back to a regular process and that we are achieving that. I re- So, apparently, what we will witness move appropriation bills across the sponded: Not quite, and we need to still here shortly is our Democratic friends, floor. So we have devoted an enormous fix the bill. That is the type of debate all of whom on the committee sup- amount of time to try to get the appro- we should have on the floor of the Sen- ported the bill, preventing us from tak- priations process functioning again ate, and it is why we should allow ing it up because they want us to get a here in the Senate. amendments. guarantee from the House as to what I don’t understand why the Demo- AMENDMENT NO. 4936 the House result will be. That is not cratic leadership refuses to honor what Mr. President, I move to table the way it works. The way you pass a I think are the wishes of the majority McConnell amendment No. 4936, and law is the Senate passes a bill, the of the Democrats on the committee ask for the yeas and nays, so that we House passes a bill, and you negotiate who have been supporting these bills— could consider amendments such as with each other and with the adminis- most of which have come out of com- those presented by my Republican col- tration. mittee on an overwhelmingly bipar- leagues and my Democratic colleagues. So the hour is late and the die seems tisan basis and this particular defense The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a to be cast. It is my understanding that bill, unanimously. They don’t even sufficient second? when I yield the floor, we will be going want to go to it and let the Senate There is a sufficient second. to a vote; is that correct, Mr. Presi- function. The question is on agreeing to the dent? But I know the hour is late. That is motion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is the final observation I intend to make The clerk will call the roll. 7 minutes remaining postcloture. tonight. The legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. MCCONNELL. It is my under- I understand Senator MERKLEY is Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators standing, Mr. President, that Senator going to make a motion. are necessarily absent: the Senator MERKLEY—— The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- from Indiana (Mr. COATS), the Senator Mr. REID addressed the Chair. ator from Oregon. from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), the

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Are there and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. The legislative clerk called the roll. any other Senators in the Chamber de- COONS) are necessarily absent. Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators siring to vote? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there are necessarily absent: the Senator The result was announced—-yeas 31, any other Senators in the Chamber de- from Indiana (Mr. COATS), the Senator nays 62, as follows: siring to vote? from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), the [Rollcall Vote No. 122 Leg.] The result was announced—-yeas 63, Senator from Nevada (Mr. HELLER), the YEAS—31 nays 30, as follows: Senator from Utah (Mr. LEE) and the Blumenthal Markey Sanders [Rollcall Vote No. 123 Leg.] Senator from Louisiana (Mr. VITTER). Booker Menendez Schatz YEAS—63 Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Cantwell Merkley Schumer Alexander Enzi McConnell Senator from California (Mrs. BOXER) Cardin Mikulski Sullivan Ayotte Ernst Menendez is necessarily absent. Durbin Murkowski Tester Baldwin Feinstein Mikulski Gillibrand Murphy Udall The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich Murray Barrasso Fischer Moran Warren Bennet Franken Nelson FLAKE). Are there any other Senators Hirono Nelson Whitehouse Kaine Paul Blunt Gardner Perdue in the Chamber desiring to vote? Wyden King Reed Boozman Grassley Peters The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 50, Leahy Reid Brown Hatch Portman nays 44, as follows: Burr Heitkamp Risch NAYS—62 Capito Hirono Roberts [Rollcall Vote No. 124 Leg.] Alexander Donnelly McConnell Carper Hoeven Rounds YEAS—50 Casey Inhofe Rubio Ayotte Enzi Moran Cassidy Isakson Scott Alexander Enzi Paul Baldwin Ernst Perdue Ayotte Ernst Perdue Barrasso Feinstein Cochran Johnson Shaheen Peters Barrasso Fischer Portman Bennet Fischer Corker Kaine Shelby Portman Cornyn Kirk Stabenow Blunt Flake Risch Blunt Flake Risch Boozman Gardner Boozman Franken Cotton Klobuchar Thune Roberts Roberts Crapo Lankford Tillis Burr Grassley Rounds Brown Gardner Rounds Capito Hatch Burr Grassley Cruz Manchin Toomey Rubio Rubio Daines McCain Warner Cassidy Hoeven Sasse Capito Hatch Cochran Inhofe Sasse Donnelly McCaskill Wicker Scott Carper Heitkamp Collins Isakson Scott Sessions Casey Hoeven NAYS—30 Corker Johnson Sessions Shelby Cassidy Inhofe Cornyn Kirk Cochran Isakson Shaheen Blumenthal Leahy Sasse Sullivan Shelby Booker Markey Schatz Cotton Lankford Collins Johnson Crapo Manchin Thune Stabenow Cantwell Merkley Schumer Corker Kirk Cruz McCain Tillis Thune Cardin Murkowski Sessions Cornyn Klobuchar Daines Moran Toomey Tillis Collins Murphy Sullivan Cotton Lankford Donnelly Murkowski Wicker Crapo Manchin Toomey Durbin Murray Tester Cruz McCain Warner Flake Paul Udall NAYS—44 Daines McCaskill Wicker Gillibrand Reed Warren Heinrich Reid Whitehouse Baldwin Heitkamp Peters NOT VOTING—7 King Sanders Wyden Bennet Hirono Reed Blumenthal Kaine Reid Boxer Graham Vitter NOT VOTING—7 Booker King Sanders Coats Heller Brown Klobuchar Coons Lee Boxer Graham Vitter Schatz Coats Heller Cantwell Leahy Schumer The motion was rejected. Coons Lee Cardin Markey Shaheen Carper McCaskill Stabenow CHANGE OF VOTE Casey McConnell The motion was agreed to. Tester Coons Menendez Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on Udall f Durbin Merkley rollcall vote No. 122, I voted nay. It was Warner Feinstein Mikulski my intention to vote yea. Therefore, I CLOTURE MOTION Franken Murphy Warren ask unanimous consent that I be per- Gillibrand Murray Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant Wyden mitted to change my vote since it will to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Heinrich Nelson not affect the outcome of the vote. Senate the pending cloture motion, NOT VOTING—6 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without which the clerk will state. Boxer Graham Lee objection, it is so ordered. The legislative clerk read as follows: Coats Heller Vitter (The foregoing tally has been CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this changed to reflect the above order.) We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 44. VOTE ON AMENDMENT NO. 4936 ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby sen and sworn not having voted in the question is on agreeing to amendment move to bring to a close debate on the mo- affirmative, the motion is rejected. No. 4936. tion to proceed to Calendar No. 524, H.R. The majority leader. 5293, an act making appropriations for the The amendment (No. 4936) was re- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I jected. Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other pur- enter a motion to reconsider the vote. VOTE ON MOTION TO CONCUR WITH AMENDMENT poses. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- NO. 4935 Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Shelley tion is entered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Moore Capito, Mike Crapo, Thad Coch- the previous order, the question now ran, Jerry Moran, Richard C. Shelby, f occurs on agreeing to the motion to John Hoeven, Lamar Alexander, Orrin concur in the House amendment to S. G. Hatch, Daniel Coats, Pat Roberts, 764 with amendment No. 4935. John Barrasso, Bill Cassidy, John MORNING BUSINESS The yeas and nays have been pre- Thune, John Boozman, John Cornyn. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I viously ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- The clerk will call the roll. imous consent, the mandatory quorum ate be in a period of morning business, The senior assistant legislative clerk call has been waived. with Senators permitted to speak called the roll. The question is, Is it the sense of the therein for up to 10 minutes each. Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators Senate that debate on the motion to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without are necessarily absent: the Senator proceed to H.R. 5293, an act making ap- objection, it is so ordered.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:59 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JY6.025 S07JYPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with SENATE July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4911 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE how the Bluegrass State shaped and I am not alone in recognizing Allen’s NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK formed him. talents and tenacity. In 2012, the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, For 100 years, the National Park Vermont Press Association awarded Kentucky is proud to be the birthplace Service has kept careful watch over him with the Matthew Lyon Award for and boyhood home of one of our Na- this sacred ground. I want to congratu- his lifetime commitment to the First tion’s greatest Presidents, Abraham late and extend my gratitude to all Amendment and protecting the public’s Lincoln. We commemorate this great those National Park Service employees right to know. The award is named man’s humble origins with the Abra- and volunteers who have contributed after the Vermont Congressman who ham Lincoln Birthplace National His- to this important effort. Kentucky is won reelection from jail in 1798, while toric Park, in Hodgenville, KY. proud of them, and we are proud to be serving time for violating the Sedition On July 17, 1916, this park site was the birthplace of America’s 16th Presi- Act because he challenged the power of donated to the American people and be- dent. This park reminds us that one the Presidency. Matthew Lyon is con- came part of the National Park Serv- our Nation’s greatest leaders emerged sidered one of our Nation’s earliest free ice, and so this year, we celebrate the from the hills of the Kentucky coun- speech heroes. centennial anniversary of this most tryside. Allen’s commitment to freedom of historic and revered park being in the f speech and equality extends far past his 12 years at the ACLU–VT. In earlier care of the American people. TRIBUTE TO ALLEN GILBERT At the center of the park stands the years, Allen was a reporter and editor Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I want to Memorial Building, constructed to at the Rutland Herald and the Barre- take a moment to recognize the commemorate the life and accomplish- Montpelier Times Argus. He also achievements and contributions of a ments of the 16th President of the taught writing at a number of Vermont remarkable advocate and distinguished United States. The Memorial Build- colleges and served as chair of the leader in my home State of Vermont. Worcester, VT, School Board while it ing—built before the iconic Lincoln This summer, Allen Gilbert will be Memorial on the National Mall here in supported a case for equal education stepping down from his position as ex- opportunity. That 1997 Vermont Su- the Nation’s Capital—was the first Lin- ecutive director of the American Civil coln memorial built in America. preme Court case ultimately changed Liberties Union of Vermont. For more the way we fund public education in It was built by the American people, than 12 years, Allen has inspired with over 100,000 citizens, young and Vermont. Vermonters and many others as an ad- Although Allen is leaving ACLU–VT, old, both in the north and the south, vocate for personal freedoms. donating sums as small as 25 cents. I know he will remain a lifelong advo- When Allen began at the ACLU–VT, cate for the freedoms and liberties we Fifty-six steps lead up to the building, the office had three staff members, representing the 56 years of Lincoln’s hold dear. As Allen has said, ‘‘There’s a only one of whom was full time. Under saying that civil liberties are never life. The 16 windows symbolize Lin- Allen’s leadership, the office has grown permanently won; you have to con- coln’s status as the 16th President. to a staff of five, with two lawyers tinue to fight for them constantly.’’ He Inside the Memorial Building is the committed to the State’s legislative Symbolic Birth Cabin, a replica of the is an exemplary Vermonter, and I know activities. Allen has become widely he will continue that fight. single-room log cabin Lincoln was born known for expanding the work and visi- f in on February 12, 1809. The original bility of the ACLU–VT. Those who cabin that Lincoln was born in and have had the privilege of working with 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE lived in until age 2 was apparently dis- Allen cite his boundless wisdom and NATIONAL PARK SERVICE mantled sometime before 1865. The passion for civil liberties among his Mr. ROUNDS. Mr. President, today I Symbolic Birth Cabin reminds us of the many notable qualities. wish to commemorate the 100th anni- rural, hardscrabble life the future During his time with the ACLU–VT, versary of the National Park Service President faced on the Kentucky fron- Allen has been a champion of free and 100 years of national parks. tier, a life that would eventually take speech, government transparency, and Often called the land of ‘‘Great him to the Oval Office. privacy rights, not just in Vermont but Faces, Great Places,’’ South Dakota’s The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Na- nationwide. I have long counted him as differing landscapes and abundance of tional Historic Park also includes the an ally in my own work. I was proud to outdoor activities mean there is some- Knob Creek site, the area where Lin- invite him to testify before the U.S. thing for everyone to enjoy. As a re- coln lived from age 2 to the age of 7. Senate Judiciary Committee in 2007 sult, spending time outside with our Lincoln himself recalled that his ear- about the REAL ID Act. More recently, family and friends is one of our favor- liest memories were of Knob Creek. Allen’s contributions were extremely ite pastimes. Here, he helped his family with plant- helpful as I developed reforms to cur- This August marks the 100th anniver- ing the garden, carrying water, and tail government surveillance powers, sary of the National Park Service. collecting wood for fires. culminating in the enactment of the South Dakota is fortunate to be home More than 200,000 people every year USA FREEDOM Act of 2015. Allen and to six national parks located through- visit the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace I have also worked together to end out the State. Among them are the National Historic Park in central Ken- Federal vehicle checkpoints near White desolate but beautiful Badlands and tucky to see the origins of our leader River Junction. one of our country’s oldest national and President. The park has received Among many successes, Allen is well- parks: Wind Cave. Jewel Cave in Cus- visitors from as far away as Mongolia, known in Vermont for his work on ter, the Lewis & Clark Trail, the Min- China, Russia, and Australia, among cases to protect students’ rights to uteman Missile Site, and Mount Rush- other places, who come to this tiny freedom of speech and political expres- more are all maintained by the Na- town to see proof that the ideals of sion and the rights of the LGBT com- tional Park Service as well. The sixth America really are true, that even one munity. More recently, Allen and the national park, the Missouri River, cuts born into the most modest means can ACLU–VT have worked to create more the State in half and provides energy rise to become a great nation’s Presi- consistency among Vermont law en- and entertainment to people across the dent. forcement agencies regarding the use State. Few realize that a 100-mile I know my colleagues join me in of force. And Allen’s work highlighting stretch of the Missouri River is part of commemorating the 100th anniversary automated license plate readers, cell both the National Park System and the of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Na- phone tracking devices, facial recogni- National Wild and Scenic Rivers Sys- tional Historic Park. It is an important tion technology, and the use of domes- tem. milestone to mark, both for Kentucky tic drones has helped to educate The world’s first national park, Yel- and our country, and the National Vermonters and its policymakers lowstone, was established by Congress Park Service will celebrate it later this about the need to address these evolv- in 1872, before Montana or Wyoming month. The Abraham Lincoln Birth- ing technologies. In doing so, Allen has were official States. Following that, place National Historic Park is a last- once again demonstrated his leadership the Organic Act of 1916 created the Na- ing tribute to Abraham Lincoln and to in protecting Vermonters. tional Park Service as an agency under

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Hall of Fame for their invaluable con- therein and to provide for the enjoy- Musicians Elvis Costello and Annie tributions to agriculture and the Wyo- ment of the same in such manner and Lennox have refused to perform in ming community. This year, Dennis by such means as will leave them Israel. It now makes news when a per- Thaler, a third-generation Wyoming unimpaired for the enjoyment of future former shows up in Israel. Two years rancher, will be honored as one of these generations.’’ The National Park Serv- ago, Sir Elton John courageously stood individuals during the 104th Wyoming ice has continued to fulfill this mission up to the mob and proudly shouted State Fair. for the past 100 years. from an Israeli stage, ‘‘Shalom! We are Selection as a member of the Wyo- There is no better place to spend so happy to be back here! Ain’t nothin’ ming Agriculture Hall of Fame is not quality time with friends and family gonna stop us from comin’, baby!’’ just about the quality of a calf crop or than the great outdoors of South Da- Our own Department of Education environmental improvements on the kota, and there is no better time to has awarded millions of dollars to so- ranch, though both of these are impor- celebrate the great outdoors than this called Middle East Studies National tant. This award also considers the in- year. Resource Centers, NRC, on 16 college volvement and dedication to the local campuses. According to published re- f communities that make Wyoming such ports, fully half of the directors of a special place to live. I am happy to BOYCOTTING THE BDS these federally funded centers have say that Dennis and his family embody Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, last week called for support of the BDS Move- the Western values that guide life in we were reminded of the tragic history ment and six signed a letter calling for Wyoming. The Thalers raise crops like of the 20th century and the reemer- a boycott of Israeli universities and oats, millet, and wheat; run a cow-calf gence of the State of Israel from the scholars. The open promotion of anti- and yearling operation; and operate a embers of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel, Israeli boycotts by academic officers is backgrounding feedlot. Still, Dennis Holocaust survivor and the voice of the a direct violation of Title VI of the finds the time to be involved in the unconquerable human spirit, died. Higher Education Opportunity Act and Wyoming Association of Conservation Wiesel summed up his mission and is an open assault on fundamental Districts, the Wyoming Stock Growers what should be the driving creed of rights to freedom of association and ex- Association, and the National Cattle- American Foreign Policy in 1986 when pression. men’s Beef Association. The Thalers accepting the Nobel Peace Prize: BDS is not a typical act of political share their knowledge and experience ‘‘Whenever and wherever human beings correctness, undertaken by radical aca- with local students, fellow ranchers, demics whose usual prey is the youth endure suffering and humiliation, take and University of Wyoming researchers of America. This is a worldwide move- sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, through the many field days, open ment designed to destroy the one de- never the victim. Silence encourages houses, and workshops they host at mocracy in the Middle East and the the tormentor, never the tormented.’’ their ranch. Dennis’s dedication to his hopes of people who have occupied that On the cornerstone of the Holocaust community is evident in the high Museum here in Washington are his land for over 3,000 years. Indeed if the BDS Movement was iso- praise he receives from his family, words: ‘‘For the dead and the living, we lated to a few tenured college outliers, neighbors, and his many agency part- must bear witness.’’ that would be easy enough to handle. ners. Wiesel defended Soviet Jews, Cam- Dennis has been described as a ‘‘lead- Unfortunately, it is not. Iran has bodian refugees, the Kurds, and the vic- er,’’ a ‘‘mainstay,’’ and a ‘‘driving pledged to wipe Israel off the map. It tims of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. He force’’ in his community. He has been has tipped its missiles with the warn- was Israel’s most vocal supporter, al- recognized for both his innovative na- ing ‘‘Death to Israel’’ written on the though he was criticized by the left for ture and his pursuit of an inclusive, cones in Hebrew. Hamas and Hezbollah his friendship with and support for well-rounded ‘‘teamwork approach’’ in shower missiles upon Israeli schools Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. making land management decisions. and villages. If Israel did not exist, the When Mr. Netanyahu spoke to Con- These characteristics make for both a United Nations would go out of busi- gress last year, denouncing President hearty rancher and a healthy land- ness. Last year, the General Assembly Obama’s appeasement of the Iranian scape. Dennis and his family were rec- adopted 25 resolutions against par- mullahs, Wiesel was the guest of honor. ognized for their hard work in 2006 ticular countries; 22 were aimed at Elie Wiesel’s passing comes at a time when their ranch, the Thaler Land and Israel—the others at Bashar Assad’s re- when the specter of anti-Semitism is Livestock Company, was selected to regime in Syria and Kim Jong-un’s pris- gaining new life across the globe and ceive the Environmental Stewardship on state in North Korea. All of this for sadly within the United States. On Award. The award considers manage- the 153rd largest country in the world, many campuses, including some in my ment of water, air, soil, and wildlife re- a place that is one four-hundredths the State, we have seen the advancement sources, as well as the recipient’s lead- of the ‘‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanc- size of the United States. Enough is enough. We can’t remain ership qualities and the business’s sus- tions’’ Movement—an orchestrated silent. As Elie Wiesel said, ‘‘we must tainability. Dennis and his family ex- campaign to delegitimize the State of bear witness.’’ The Obama administra- ceed expectations in each of these cat- Israel, shun Jewish academics, boycott tion must end its indifference. It must egories. Jewish goods, and disrupt Jewish com- For nearly five decades, Dennis has cut off and defund those organizations merce. been at the helm of his family ranch in that promote the hate that fuels anti- Israeli flags and books are burned on southeast Wyoming. He and his family Semitism. Standing up for Israel at campuses in the United States and have worked to improve the land and home validates those fundamental Western Europe, recalling the words of water resources to ensure a future for principles of freedom enshrined in our the German Jewish poet Heine, who livestock, wildlife, and the next gen- Constitution. warned that ‘‘where one first burns I will close with the words of John F. eration. Together with his family, I books, one then burns people.’’ Kennedy: have no doubt that Dennis will lead the We have seen this all before, and we Thaler Land and Livestock Company know where it can lead. Israel was not created in order to disappear—Israel will Endure and flourish. It is into the next 100 years with the same Formally launched a decade ago, the child of hope and the home of the brave. mind for growth and conservation the BDS advocates divestment by compa- It can neither be broken by adversity nor de- ranch has experienced since 1916. nies with holdings in Israel and boy- moralized by success. It carries the shield of I am honored to recognize this out- cotts by academics and artists. In May democracy and the sword of freedom. standing individual and his family. It

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A communication from the Sec- Thaler as one of the 2016 inductees into ience among vulnerable populations, and for retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of other purposes. ant to law, a six-month periodic report on Fame. S. 2845. An act to extend the termination of the national emergency that was declared in f sanctions with respect to Venezuela under Executive Order 13441 with respect to Leb- the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and anon; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Civil Society Act of 2014. ing, and Urban Affairs. Messages from the President of the H.R. 3766. An act to direct the President to EC–6058. A communication from the Sec- United States were communicated to establish guidelines for covered United retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- States foreign assistance programs, and for the Senate by Mr. Williams, one of his ant to law, a six-month periodic report on other purposes. the national emergency with respect to secretaries. The enrolled bills were subsequently transnational criminal organizations that f signed by the President pro tempore was declared in Executive Order 13581 of July EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED 24, 2011; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- (Mr. HATCH). ing, and Urban Affairs. As in executive session the Presiding f EC–6059. A communication from the Sec- Officer laid before the Senate messages retary, Division of Corporation Finance, Se- MEASURES REFERRED from the President of the United curities and Exchange Commission, trans- States submitting sundry nominations The following bills were read the first mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule which were referred to the appropriate and the second times by unanimous entitled ‘‘Disclosure of Payments by Re- consent, and referred as indicated: source Extraction Issuers’’ (RIN3235–AL53) committees. received during adjournment of the Senate (The messages received today are H.R. 4361. An act to amend section 3554 of in the Office of the President of the Senate printed at the end of the Senate pro- title 44, United States Code, to provide for on June 30, 2016; to the Committee on Bank- ceedings.) enhanced security of Federal information ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. systems, and for other purposes; to the Com- f EC–6060. A communication from the Assist- mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- ant Director for Legislative Affairs, Con- MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE mental Affairs. sumer Financial Protection Bureau, trans- H.R. 4369. An act to authorize the use of At 11:42 a.m., a message from the mitting, pursuant to law, the Semiannual passenger facility charges at an airport pre- Report of the Bureau for the period from Oc- House of Representatives, delivered by viously associated with the airport at which Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, an- tober 1, 2015 through March 31, 2016; to the the charges are collected; to the Committee Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban nounced that the House has passed the on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Affairs. following bills, without amendment: f EC–6061. A communication from the Gen- S. 1252. An act to authorize a comprehen- eral Counsel of the Federal Housing Finance sive strategic approach for United States for- MEASURES PLACED ON THE Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the eign assistance to developing countries to re- CALENDAR report of a rule entitled ‘‘Implementation of duce global poverty and hunger, achieve food The following bill was read the first the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of and nutrition security, promote inclusive, and second times by unanimous con- 1986’’ (RIN2590–AA76) received in the Office of sustainable, agricultural-led economic sent, and placed on the calendar: the President of the Senate on June 29, 2016; growth, improve nutritional outcomes, espe- to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and cially for women and children, build resil- H.R. 3079. An act to take certain Federal Urban Affairs. ience among vulnerable populations, and for land located in Tuolumne County, Cali- EC–6062. A communication from the Dep- other purposes. fornia, into trust for the benefit of the uty Secretary, Division of Trading and Mar- S. 2845. An act to extend the termination of Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, and for kets, Securities and Exchange Commission, sanctions with respect to Venezuela under other purposes. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and f a rule entitled ‘‘Adjustments to Civil Mone- Civil Society Act of 2014. tary Penalty Amounts’’ (RIN3235–AL94) re- The message further announced that MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME ceived in the Office of the President of the the House has passed the following The following bill was read the first Senate on June 29, 2016; to the Committee on bills, in which it requests the concur- time: Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. EC–6063. A communication from the Assist- rence of the Senate: H.R. 1270. An act to amend the Internal ant Secretary for Export Administration, H.R. 1270. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the amend- Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the amendments made by the Patient Protection and ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant ments made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which disqualify ex- to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- Affordable Care Act which disqualify expenses for over-the-counter drugs under ments to Existing Validated End-User Au- penses for over-the-counter drugs under health savings accounts and health flexible thorization in the People’s Republic of health savings accounts and health flexible spending arrangements. China; Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.’’ spending arrangements. f (RIN0694–AG91) received in the Office of the H.R. 2646. An act to make available needed President of the Senate on June 29, 2016; to psychiatric, psychological, and supportive EXECUTIVE AND OTHER the Committee on Banking, Housing, and services for individuals with mental illness COMMUNICATIONS Urban Affairs. and families in mental health crisis, and for EC–6064. A communication from the Assist- other purposes. The following communications were laid before the Senate, together with ant Secretary for Export Administration, H.R. 4361. An act to amend section 3554 of Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- title 44, United States Code, to provide for accompanying papers, reports, and doc- ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant enhanced security of Federal information uments, and were referred as indicated: to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Tem- systems, and for other purposes. EC–6055. A communication from the Chief porary General License: Extension of Valid- H.R. 4369. An act to authorize the use of Human Capital Officer, Department of En- ity’’ (RIN0694–AG82) received in the Office of passenger facility charges at an airport pre- ergy, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report the President of the Senate on June 29, 2016; viously associated with the airport at which relative to a vacancy in the position of Dep- to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and the charges are collected. uty Administrator for Defense Programs, Urban Affairs. ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED National Nuclear Security Administration, EC–6065. A communication from the Gen- At 8:12 p.m., a message from the Department of Energy, received in the Office eral Counsel of the National Credit Union House of Representatives, delivered by of the President of the Senate on June 29, Administration, transmitting, pursuant to Ms. Chiappardi, one of its reading 2016; to the Committee on Armed Services. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Civil Mon- EC–6056. A communication from the Alter- etary Penalty Inflation Adjustment’’ clerks, announced that the Speaker has nate Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office (RIN3133–AE59) received in the Office of the signed the following enrolled bills: of the Secretary, Department of Defense, President of the Senate on June 29, 2016; to S. 1252. An act to authorize a comprehen- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and sive strategic approach for United States for- a rule entitled ‘‘Transition Assistance Pro- Urban Affairs.

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A communication from the Dis- uty Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- Network, Department of the Treasury, trans- entitled ‘‘Revised Medical Criteria for Evalu- suant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Review of mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule ating Neurological Disorders’’ (RIN0960– Sustainable Energy and Energy Assistance entitled ‘‘Civil Monetary Penalty Adjust- AF35) received in the Office of the President Trust Funds’’; to the Committee on Home- ment and Table’’ (RIN1506–AB33) received in of the Senate on June 29, 2016; to the Com- land Security and Governmental Affairs. the Office of the President of the Senate on mittee on Finance. EC–6085. A communication from the Direc- June 29, 2016; to the Committee on Banking, EC–6076. A communication from the Direc- tor, Administrative Office of the United Housing, and Urban Affairs. tor, Office of Regulations and Reports Clear- States Courts, transmitting, pursuant to EC–6067. A communication from the Chief ance, Social Security Administration, trans- law, an annual report to Congress concerning of the Regulations and Standards Branch, mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule intercepted wire, oral, or electronic commu- Bureau of Safety and Environmental En- entitled ‘‘Extension of Effective Date for nications; to the Committee on the Judici- forcement, Department of the Interior, Temporary Pilot Program Setting the Time ary. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of and Place for a Hearing Before an Adminis- EC–6086. A communication from the Direc- a rule entitled ‘‘Civil Penalty Inflation Ad- trative Law Judge’’ (RIN0960–AI02) received tor, Administrative Office of the United justment’’ (RIN1014–AA30) received in the Of- in the Office of the President of the Senate States Courts, transmitting, pursuant to fice of the President of the Senate on June on June 29, 2016; to the Committee on Fi- law, a report entitled ‘‘2015 Report of Statis- 28, 2016; to the Committee on Energy and nance. tics Required by the Bankruptcy Abuse Pre- Natural Resources. EC–6077. A communication from the Attor- vention and Consumer Protection Act of EC–6068. A communication from the Chief ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department 2005’’; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Human Capital Officer, Department of En- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- EC–6087. A communication from the Attor- ergy, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ney-Advisor, Office of the Secretary, Depart- relative to a vacancy in the position of As- ‘‘Regulated Navigation Area; Holiday ment of Transportation, transmitting, pur- sistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Re- Events; Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL’’ suant to law, the report relative to a va- newable Energy, Department of Energy, re- ((RIN1625–AA11) (Docket No. USCG–2015– cancy for the position of General Counsel, ceived in the Office of the President of the 0786)) received in the Office of the President Department of Transportation, received in Senate on June 29, 2016; to the Committee on of the Senate on June 29, 2016; to the Com- the office of the President of the Senate on Energy and Natural Resources. mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- June 29, 2016; to the Committee on Com- EC–6069. A communication from the Chief tation. merce, Science, and Transportation. Human Capital Officer, Department of En- EC–6078. A communication from the Acting f ergy, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Regu- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES relative to a vacancy in the position of In- latory Services, Office of Postsecondary Edu- spector General, Department of Energy, re- cation, Department of Education, transmit- The following reports of committees ceived in the Office of the President of the ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- were submitted: Senate on June 29, 2016; to the Committee on titled ‘‘Final Priorities and Definitions— By Mr. INHOFE, from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Pro- EC–6070. A communication from the Chief Environment and Public Works, without gram—Short-Term Projects and Long-Term Human Capital Officer, Department of En- amendment: Projects’’ (Docket No. ED–2015–OPE–0134) re- ergy, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report S. 921. A bill to direct the Secretary of the ceived in the Office of the President of the relative to a vacancy in the position of In- Interior to establish a nonregulatory pro- Senate on June 28, 2016; to the Committee on spector General, Department of Energy, re- gram to build on and help coordinate funding ceived in the Office of the President of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. for restoration and protection efforts of the EC–6079. A communication from the Execu- Senate on June 29, 2016; to the Committee on 4-State Delaware River Basin region, and for tive Analyst (Political), Department of Energy and Natural Resources. other purposes (Rept. No. 114–294). EC–6071. A communication from the Direc- Health and Human Services, transmitting, f tor, Office of Technology Transitions, De- pursuant to law, a report relative to a va- partment of Energy, transmitting, pursuant cancy in the position of General Counsel, De- PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS to law, a report entitled ‘‘Technology Trans- partment of Health and Human Services, re- The following petition or memorial fer and Related Technology Partnering Ac- ceived in the Office of the President of the was laid before the Senate and was re- tivities at the National Laboratories and Senate on June 29, 2016; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. ferred or ordered to lie on the table as Other Facilities for Fiscal Year 2014’’; to the indicated: Committee on Energy and Natural Re- EC–6080. A communication from the Execu- POM–196. A concurrent resolution adopted sources. tive Analyst (Political), Department of EC–6072. A communication from the Direc- Health and Human Services, transmitting, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio tor of the Regulatory Management Division, pursuant to law, a report relative to a va- urging the President of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- cancy in the position of Assistant Secretary and the United States Congress to preserve ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- for Planning and Evaluation, Department of the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds; to titled ‘‘Standards of Performance for Sta- Health and Human Services, received in the the Committee on Finance. tionary Compression Ignition Internal Com- Office of the President of the Senate on June HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NUMBER 7 bustion Engines’’ (FRL No. 9948–65–OAR) re- 29, 2016; to the Committee on Health, Edu- Whereas, A fundamental principle of tax- ceived during adjournment of the Senate in cation, Labor, and Pensions. exempt financing is the ability of local gov- the Office of the President of the Senate on EC–6081. A communication from the Dep- ernments to issue bonds that are free from June 30, 2016; to the Committee on Environ- uty Special Master, Civil Division, Depart- federal taxation in order to raise capital to ment and Public Works. ment of Justice, transmitting, pursuant to finance infrastructure projects that are vital EC–6073. A communication from the Direc- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘James to our nation, such as road, bridge, hospital, tor of the Regulatory Management Division, Zadroga 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Re- school, and utility system projects; and Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- authorization Act’’ (RIN1105–AB49) received Whereas, The exclusion of interest on state ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- in the Office of the President of the Senate and local obligations from federal gross in- titled ‘‘Significant New Use Rules on Certain on June 28, 2016; to the Committee on come is an important financing tool at a Chemical Substances; Technical Correction’’ Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. time when building and rebuilding infra- ((RIN2070–AB27) (FRL No. 9947–33)) received EC–6082. A communication from the Acting structure is required to meet federal man- during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- Director of the Office of Personnel Manage- dates, promote community growth, and sup- fice of the President of the Senate on June ment, transmitting, pursuant to law, the port economic development programs that 30, 2016; to the Committee on Environment Semiannual Report of the Inspector General are critical to the state and local economies and Public Works. and the Agency Response for the period from of our nation; and EC–6074. A communication from the Direc- October 1, 2015 through March 31, 2016; to the Whereas, The federal tax exemption is part tor of the Regulatory Management Division, Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- of a more-than-century-old system of recip- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- ernmental Affairs. rocal immunity under which owners of mu- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- EC–6083. A communication from the Direc- nicipal bonds are not required to pay state titled ‘‘Air Plan Approval and Air Quality tor, Office of Government Ethics, transmit- and federal income tax on the interest they Designation; TN; Redesignation of the Sul- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- receive from municipal bonds; and livan County Lead Nonattainment Area to titled ‘‘Civil Monetary Penalties Inflation Whereas, The federal tax exemption pro- Attainment’’ (FRL No. 9948–68–Region 4) re- Adjustments for Ethics in Government Act vides a significant difference between public ceived during adjournment of the Senate in Violations’’ (RIN3209–AA00 and RIN3209– sector and private sector debt financing; and the Office of the President of the Senate on AA38) received during adjournment of the Whereas, The benefits of lower capital June 30, 2016; to the Committee on Environ- Senate in the Office of the President of the costs attributable to tax-exempt financing ment and Public Works. Senate on June 30, 2016; to the Committee on include reduced property tax rates for tax- EC–6075. A communication from the Direc- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- payers, greater local investments, or both; tor, Office of Regulations and Reports Clear- fairs. and

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Whereas, From time to time the President counsel at all stages of the adversarial proc- ERNST, Mr. PETERS, and Mr. BOOZ- and the Congress of the United States have ess, to confer jurisdiction upon the district MAN): proposed legislation to tax or alter the fed- courts of the United States to provide de- S. Res. 522. A resolution designating July eral exemption of interest earned on munic- claratory and injunctive relief against sys- 30, 2016, as ‘‘National Whistleblower Appre- ipal bonds; temic violations of such right, and for other ciation Day’’; considered and agreed to. Now therefore be it Resolved, That we, the purposes; to the Committee on the Judici- By Mr. MCCONNELL (for himself, Mr. members of the 131st General Assembly of ary. REID, Mr. ALEXANDER, Ms. AYOTTE, the State of Ohio, oppose any effort to elimi- By Mr. BOOKER: Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. nate or limit the federal tax exemption on S. 3145. A bill to amend title 18, United BENNET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. interest earned on municipal bonds, and urge States Code, to establish a corporation to ad- BLUNT, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. BOOZMAN, the President, and any future administra- vocate on behalf of individuals in noncaptial Mrs. BOXER, Mr. BROWN, Mr. BURR, tion, and the Congress of the United States, criminal cases before the Supreme Court of Ms. CANTWELL, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. to retain the current tax-exempt status of the United States, and for other purposes; to CARDIN, Mr. CARPER, Mr. CASEY, Mr. municipal bonds; the Committee on the Judiciary. CASSIDY, Mr. COATS, Mr. COCHRAN, and be it further Resolved, That the Clerk By Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Ms. COLLINS, Mr. COONS, Mr. CORKER, of the House of Representatives transmit BOOKER, and Mr. MERKLEY): Mr. CORNYN, Mr. COTTON, Mr. CRAPO, duly authenticated copies of this resolution S. 3146. A bill to require servicers to pro- Mr. CRUZ, Mr. DAINES, Mr. DONNELLY, to the President of the United States, the vide certain notices relating to foreclosure Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ENZI, Mrs. ERNST, Speaker and Clerk of the United States proceedings, and for other purposes; to the Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. House of Representatives, the President Pro Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban FLAKE, Mr. FRANKEN, Mr. GARDNER, Tempore and Secretary of the United States Affairs. Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. Senate, each member of the Ohio Congres- By Ms. HIRONO (for herself, Mrs. GRASSLEY, Mr. HATCH, Mr. HEINRICH, sional delegation, and the news media of GILLIBRAND, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mrs. Ms. HEITKAMP, Mr. HELLER, Ms. Ohio. BOXER, Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. SHAHEEN, HIRONO, Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. f Ms. CANTWELL, Ms. MIKULSKI, and ISAKSON, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. KAINE, Ms. BALDWIN): Mr. KING, Mr. KIRK, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND S. 3147. A bill to support educational enti- Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. LEE, JOINT RESOLUTIONS ties in fully implementing title IX and re- Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. ducing and preventing sex discrimination in MCCAIN, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. The following bills and joint resolu- all areas of education; to the Committee on MENENDEZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Ms. MIKUL- tions were introduced, read the first Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. SKI, Mr. MORAN, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. and second times by unanimous con- By Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. MURPHY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON, sent, and referred as indicated: WARREN, Mr. HATCH, and Mr. Mr. PAUL, Mr. PERDUE, Mr. PETERS, By Mrs. CAPITO (for herself and Ms. MCCAIN): Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. REED, Mr. RISCH, STABENOW): S. 3148. A bill to establish the John F. Ken- Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. RUBIO, S. 3137. A bill to require the Center for nedy Centennial Commission; to the Com- Mr. SANDERS, Mr. SASSE, Mr. SCHATZ, Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test mittee on the Judiciary. Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SCOTT, Mr. SES- the efficacy of providing Alzheimer’s Disease By Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. SIONS, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. SHELBY, caregiver support services in delaying or re- BOOKER): Ms. STABENOW, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. ducing the use of institutionalized care for S. 3149. A bill to posthumously award a TESTER, Mr. THUNE, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s Dis- Congressional Gold Medal to Lawrence Eu- TOOMEY, Mr. UDALL, Mr. VITTER, Mr. ease or a related dementia; to the Com- gene ‘‘Larry’’ Doby in recognition of his WARNER, Ms. WARREN, Mr. WHITE- mittee on Finance. achievements and contributions to American HOUSE, Mr. WICKER, and Mr. WYDEN): By Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. COT- major league athletics, civil rights, and the S. Res. 523. A resolution relating to the TON, Mr. CORNYN, and Mr. CRUZ): Armed Forces during World War II; to the death of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, S. 3138. A bill to prevent Iran from directly Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban powerful advocate for peace and human or indirectly receiving assistance from the Affairs. rights, and award-winning author; consid- Export-Import Bank of the United States; to By Mr. MARKEY: ered and agreed to. S. 3150. A bill to use certain revenues from the Committee on Banking, Housing, and f Urban Affairs. the outer Continental Shelf to reduce the By Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mrs. Federal budget deficit; to the Committee on ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS FEINSTEIN): Energy and Natural Resources. S. 386 S. 3139. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- By Mr. TOOMEY: enue Code of 1986 to allow the energy credit S. 3151. A bill to enhance investment in At the request of Mr. THUNE, the for certain high-efficiency linear generator education and employment programs by names of the Senator from North Caro- property; to the Committee on Finance. eliminating duplication, cutting red tape, lina (Mr. TILLIS), the Senator from By Mr. ENZI (for himself, Mr. BAR- and increasing flexibility, and for other pur- New Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN), the RASSO, Mr. VITTER, Mr. ISAKSON, and poses; to the Committee on Health, Edu- Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. BALDWIN) Mr. RUBIO): cation, Labor, and Pensions. and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. S. 3140. A bill to prevent a fiscal crisis by f MURRAY) were added as cosponsors of enacting legislation to balance the Federal S. 386, a bill to limit the authority of budget through reductions of discretionary SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND and mandatory spending; to the Committee SENATE RESOLUTIONS States to tax certain income of employees for employment duties per- on the Budget. The following concurrent resolutions By Mr. ROUNDS: formed in other States. and Senate resolutions were read, and S. 3141. A bill to direct the Secretary of S. 498 referred (or acted upon), as indicated: Veterans Affairs to establish a grant pro- At the request of Ms. MURKOWSKI, her gram to improve the monitoring of mental By Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. JOHN- name was added as a cosponsor of S. health and substance abuse treatment pro- SON, and Mr. MCCONNELL): grams of the Department of Veterans Af- S. Res. 520. A resolution reaffirming the 498, a bill to allow reciprocity for the fairs; to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. strong relationship, both in defense and carrying of certain concealed firearms. By Ms. BALDWIN (for herself and Mr. trade, between the United States and the S. 681 RUBIO): United Kingdom; to the Committee on For- At the request of Mrs. GILLIBRAND, S. 3142. A bill to require reporting on acts eign Relations. the name of the Senator from Florida of certain foreign countries on Holocaust era By Ms. AYOTTE (for herself, Ms. STA- (Mr. RUBIO) was added as a cosponsor of assets and related issues; to the Committee BENOW, Mr. BROWN, Mr. BURR, Mr. on Foreign Relations. COONS, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. MENEN- S. 681, a bill to amend title 38, United By Mr. MERKLEY: DEZ, Mr. PETERS, and Mr. RUBIO): States Code, to clarify presumptions S. 3143. A bill to amend the Consumer S. Res. 521. A resolution expressing support relating to the exposure of certain vet- Credit Protection Act to strengthen debt col- for the designation of September 2016 as Na- erans who served in the vicinity of the lection exemptions to protect debtors and tional Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month; to Republic of Vietnam, and for other pur- their families from poverty or bankruptcy, the Committee on the Judiciary. poses. and for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. S. 774 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. WYDEN, Mr. KIRK, Mrs. MCCASKILL, By Mr. BOOKER: Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. CARPER, Mrs. At the request of Mr. MORAN, the S. 3144. A bill to enforce the Sixth Amend- FISCHER, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. TILLIS, name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. ment right to the assistance of effective Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. BOXER, Mrs. ISAKSON) was added as a cosponsor of S.

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GRASSLEY) was added as a cosponsor of name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. S. 3070 S. 827, a bill to amend the Communica- BROWN) was added as a cosponsor of S. At the request of Mr. FRANKEN, the tions Act of 1934 to ensure the integrity 2823, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- name of the Senator from Connecticut of voice communications and to pre- enue Code of 1986 to extend and modify (Mr. MURPHY) was added as a cosponsor vent unjust or unreasonable discrimi- the section 45 credit for refined coal of S. 3070, a bill to amend the Public nation among areas of the United from steel industry fuel, and for other Health Service Act to address the in- States in the delivery of such commu- purposes. creased burden that maintaining the nications. S. 2830 health and hygiene of infants and tod- S. 1056 At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the dlers places on families in need, the re- At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the names of the Senator from Connecticut sultant adverse health effects on chil- name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. (Mr. MURPHY) and the Senator from dren and families, and the limited child BROWN) was added as a cosponsor of S. Connecticut (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) were care options available for infants and 1056, a bill to eliminate racial profiling added as cosponsors of S. 2830, a bill to toddlers who lack sufficient diapers. by law enforcement, and for other pur- amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to S. 3083 poses. provide for a school and child care lead At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the S. 2006 testing grant program. name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. S. 2912 ISAKSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the name of the Senator from Kentucky At the request of Mr. JOHNSON, the 3083, a bill to provide housing opportunities in the United States through (Mr. PAUL) was added as a cosponsor of name of the Senator from Mississippi S. 2006, a bill to reform the process by (Mr. WICKER) was added as a cosponsor modernization of various housing pro- which Federal agencies analyze and of S. 2912, a bill to authorize the use of grams, and for other purposes. formulate new regulations and guid- unapproved medical products by pa- S. 3111 ance documents. tients diagnosed with a terminal ill- At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the ness in accordance with State law, and name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. S. 2066 for other purposes. NELSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. At the request of Mr. SASSE, the S. 2927 3111, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- name of the Senator from North Da- At the request of Mr. LANKFORD, the enue Code of 1986 to extend the 7.5 per- kota (Mr. HOEVEN) was added as a co- name of the Senator from South Da- cent threshold for the medical expense sponsor of S. 2066, a bill to amend title kota (Mr. ROUNDS) was added as a co- deduction for individuals age 65 or 18, United States Code, to prohibit a sponsor of S. 2927, a bill to prevent gov- older. health care practitioner from failing to ernmental discrimination against pro- S. 3129 exercise the proper degree of care in viders of health services who decline At the request of Mr. THUNE, the the case of a child who survives an involvement in abortion, and for other name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. abortion or attempted abortion. purposes. GRASSLEY) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2067 S. 2932 S. 3129, a bill to provide for the exten- At the request of Mr. WICKER, the At the request of Mr. CASSIDY, the sion of the enforcement instruction on name of the Senator from New York name of the Senator from Colorado supervision requirements for out- (Mr. SCHUMER) was added as a cospon- (Mr. BENNET) was added as a cosponsor patient therapeutic services in critical sor of S. 2067, a bill to establish EURE- of S. 2932, a bill to amend the Con- access and small rural hospitals KA Prize Competitions to accelerate trolled Substances Act with respect to through 2016. discovery and development of disease- the provision of emergency medical S. 3132 modifying, preventive, or curative services. At the request of Mrs. FISCHER, the treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and S. 2989 name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. related dementia, to encourage efforts At the request of Ms. MURKOWSKI, the MORAN) was added as a cosponsor of S. to enhance detection and diagnosis of names of the Senator from Mississippi 3132, a bill to direct the Secretary of such diseases, or to enhance the qual- (Mr. WICKER) and the Senator from Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot ity and efficiency of care of individuals South Dakota (Mr. ROUNDS) were added program to provide service dogs to cer- with such diseases. as cosponsors of S. 2989, a bill to award tain veterans with severe post-trau- S. 2595 a Congressional Gold Medal, collec- matic stress disorder. At the request of Mr. CRAPO, the tively, to the United States merchant S. 3135 names of the Senator from South Da- mariners of World War II, in recogni- At the request of Mr. GARDNER, the kota (Mr. THUNE) and the Senator from tion of their dedicated and vital service names of the Senator from North Caro- Massachusetts (Mr. MARKEY) were during World War II. lina (Mr. TILLIS), the Senator from added as cosponsors of S. 2595, a bill to S. 2996 South Dakota (Mr. THUNE), the Sen- amend the Internal Revenue Code of At the request of Mr. SCHATZ, the ator from Louisiana (Mr. VITTER) and 1986 to permanently extend the rail- name of the Senator from Michigan the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. road track maintenance credit. (Mr. PETERS) was added as a cosponsor ROUNDS) were added as cosponsors of S. S. 2598 of S. 2996, a bill to amend the Internal 3135, a bill to prohibit any officer or At the request of Ms. WARREN, the Revenue Code of 1986 to phase out tax employee of the Federal Government name of the Senator from Missouri preferences for fossil fuels on the same who has exercised extreme carelessness (Mr. BLUNT) was added as a cosponsor schedule as the phase out of the tax in the handling of classified informa- of S. 2598, a bill to require the Sec- credits for wind facilities. tion from being granted or retaining a retary of the Treasury to mint coins in S. 3039 security clearance. recognition of the 60th anniversary of At the request of Mr. KING, the name S.J. RES. 35 the Naismith Memorial Basketball of the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. At the request of Mr. FLAKE, the Hall of Fame. ALEXANDER) was added as a cosponsor name of the Senator from Wisconsin S. 2612 of S. 3039, a bill to support programs (Mr. JOHNSON) was added as a cosponsor At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the for mosquito-borne and other vector- of S.J. Res. 35, a joint resolution pro- name of the Senator from New Hamp- borne disease surveillance and control. viding for congressional disapproval

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During the middle of the process, known as the merits stage, the office At the request of Mr. NELSON, the Nearly 5 decades after Gideon, its would be empowered to zealously rep- name of the Senator from Massachu- promise of equal justice remains resent the poor. From filing merits and setts (Mr. MARKEY) was added as a co- unfulfilled. Today, the federal govern- ‘‘friend of the court’’ briefs to respond- sponsor of S. Con. Res. 36, a concurrent ment has no entity dedicated to fur- nishing legal counsel for criminal de- ing to the Court’s ‘‘call for views’’ on resolution expressing support of the complex criminal law issues to partici- goal of ensuring that all Holocaust vic- fendants in Supreme Court cases. Rath- er, lawyers in private practice who vol- pating at oral argument in criminal tims live with dignity, comfort, and se- cases, the office could provide all forms curity in their remaining years, and unteer their services or public defenders who often have never argued before of advocacy on behalf of the poor. As urging the Federal Republic of Ger- such, the office would provide a nec- many to reaffirm its commitment to the High Court are often tasked with delivering competent legal representa- essary counter-weight for defendants that goal through a financial commit- to prosecutors’ specialized Supreme ment to comprehensively address the tion to the poor in Supreme Court criminal cases. Court expertise within Solicitor Gen- unique health and welfare needs of vul- eral’s Office. It would also provide a nerable Holocaust victims, including The prosecution, however, has highly specialized lawyers from the U.S. De- centralized resource for defenders to home care and other medically pre- develop uniformity on federal criminal scribed needs. partment of Justice who represent its interests. With a small cadre of law- case law. On the back end, after a Supreme f yers from the Solicitor General’s Office Court case is completed, the office dedicated solely to Supreme Court liti- STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED could help train other defenders gation, the government amasses con- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS throughout the nation on the unique siderable appellate experience before experience of practicing before the Su- the Court. As the most frequent advo- preme Court. In addition, the office By Mr. BOOKER: cate before the Court, the Solicitor would have the power to participate in S. 3144. A bill to enforce the Sixth General routinely files writs of certio- appellate advocacy before the highest Amendment right to the assistance of rari and argues criminal cases each effective counsel at all stages of the State courts in our land, if resources term. With this experience, the govern- permit. This tool is necessary to help adversarial process, to confer jurisdic- ment has the opportunity, foreclosed tion upon the district courts of the develop criminal case law nationwide to defendants with private attorneys, since most criminal cases that the Su- United States to provide declaratory to establish familiarity and, ulti- and injunctive relief against systemic preme Court hears a term come Fed- mately, credibility with the Court. eral criminal law issues arising from violations of such right, and for other The structural imbalance between State courts, rather than from Federal purposes; to the Committee on the Ju- prosecutors and defendants at the Su- diciary. courts. preme Court has a profound impact on Today, I am also introducing the Mr. BOOKER. Mr. President, I rise to our justice system. Without counsel introduce the Clarence Gideon Full Ac- Senate companion to H.R. 5124, the trained and experienced in Supreme Equal Justice Under Law Act. This bill cess to Justice Act, Gideon Act, and Court advocacy, the likelihood that aims to address America’s public de- the Equal Justice Under Law Act of cases are decided against criminal defense crisis, and I thank Rep. PATRICK 2016, two bills aimed at addressing the fendants increases. In addition, the de- MALONEY for his leadership on this bill access to justice crisis. Today, Amer- velopment of criminal precedent can in the House of Representatives. ica’s broken justice system is riddled far too often tilt in favor of the govern- Today, many State and local govern- with deficiencies in our indigent de- ment and against the civil rights of or- ments have failed to provide the fund- fense system and gaps in legal services dinary Americans seeking justice in ing necessary for public defenders to to the poor. To repair those short- criminal cases. keep pace with the flood of criminal comings, these bills would improve the To address these structural defi- cases. Without resources, many public justice delivery system that serves peo- ciencies, I am introducing the Gideon defenders lack the staff, training, or ple who are unable to afford counsel. Act. This bill would establish a Federal time to investigate each case ade- Gaps in legal services to the poor corporation called the Defender Office quately and prepare a robust legal de- exist at all levels of our justice system. for Supreme Court Advocacy, which fense. As a result of being underpaid To fill in those gaps in the highest would be dedicated to Supreme Court and overworked, they are simply un- court of our land and better balance advocacy on behalf of criminal defend- able to provide the accused with their the scales of justice between the gov- ants. The bill aims to breathe life into right to effective assistance of counsel. ernment and the defendants, the Gid- the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of Ample evidence exists that shows the eon Act would establish an independent effective assistance of counsel and to state of public defense in America is in federal public defender office charged help level the playing field at the Su- crisis. According to the American Bar with representing poor defendants be- preme Court between prosecutors and Association, anywhere from 60 to 90 fore the United States Supreme Court. defendants. percent of criminal defendants need To address the indigent defense crisis The Gideon Act would empower the publically funded attorneys. Yet, due in the states, the Equal Justice Under office with critical tools to zealously to a lack of resources, far too many Law Act would create a private right of represent indigent defendants at the public defenders are unable to meet action that allows a class of indigent front end, middle, and back end of the this demand. In fact, a 2013 report from defendants to sue in federal court when Supreme Court advocacy process. the Brennan Center for Justice con- systemic violations of their Sixth At the front end, known as the writ cluded that public defense offices are Amendment rights to counsel occur. of certiorari stage, the office would so overworked and underfunded that In 1963, the Nation’s highest court have authority to monitor noncapital clients are not getting the legal rep- ruled that Americans have a Sixth Federal and State cases seeking Su- resentation they need. Citing a funding Amendment right to an attorney in a preme Court review for Federal law disparity between the prosecution and criminal case, even if they cannot af- issues. By allowing the office to file public defenders, the report found that ford one. In Gideon v. Wainwright, the cert petitions in criminal cases, the of- State prosecutors’ office budgets were Supreme Court declared it an ‘‘obvious fice could have critical input into $5.8 billion in 2007, while State and truth’’ that ‘‘any person hailed into which criminal cases the Supreme local public defender expenditures were court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, Court accepts to hear and decide. By only $2.3 billion.

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In 2009, the Constitu- ment to peace and security; (4) urges the President to commence dis- tion Project’s National Right to Coun- Whereas, on August 14, 1941, President cussions with the Government of the United Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Win- Kingdom, at their request, to ensure the con- sel Committee—comprised of current ston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, tinuance of our current bilateral trade rela- and former judges, prosecutors, public which defined American and British war tionship and as necessary, negotiations for defenders, and law enforcement offi- aims and laid the foundation for a post-war the development of a free-trade agreement cials—released a report entitled ‘‘Jus- international system founded on free trade between our two countries. tice Denied: America’s Continuing Ne- and freedom of the seas that persists to this glect of Our Constitutional Right to day; f Counsel.’’ The report found that all too Whereas, on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his ‘‘Iron Curtain SENATE RESOLUTION 521—EX- often indigent defendants were pro- Speech’’ in Fulton, Missouri, stating, ‘‘Nei- PRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE vided counsel late or not at all. Even ther the sure prevention of war, nor the con- DESIGNATION OF SEPTEMBER when a public defender represented a tinuous rise of world organization will be 2016 AS NATIONAL OVARIAN CAN- defendant, the report showed that law- gained without what I have called the fra- CER AWARENESS MONTH yers’ excessive caseloads made effec- ternal association of the English-speaking tive representation simply not pos- peoples . . . a special relationship between Ms. AYOTTE (for herself, Ms. STABE- sible. In conclusion, the report rec- the British Commonwealth and Empire and NOW, Mr. BROWN, Mr. BURR, Mr. COONS, ommended ‘‘litigation to remedy such the United States’’; Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. deficiencies should be instituted.’’ Whereas the United States and United PETERS, and Mr. RUBIO) submitted the Kingdom have stood side by side through two following resolution; which was re- To help fix the indigent defense cri- World Wars, the Korean War, the Cold War, sis, the Equal Justice Under Law Act the Gulf War, and the Global War on Terror ferred to the Committee on the Judici- of 2016 would implement this common- with Americans and Britons fighting and ary: sense recommendation into action. The dying together to defend our common inter- S. RES. 521 bill would create a federal cause of ac- ests and principles; Whereas ovarian cancer is the deadliest of tion that allows indigent criminal de- Whereas the United States and the United all gynecologic cancers; fendants to file a lawsuit against states Kingdom have played central roles in the Whereas ovarian cancer is the fifth leading and localities for systemic failures to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) cause of cancer deaths among women in the and are critical to maintaining its future United States; provide effective assistance of counsel strength; in felony cases. Litigation to be a use- Whereas in 2016, approximately 22,280 new Whereas senior military officers from the cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed, ful tool to remedy systemic failures United Kingdom have served in advisory or and 14,240 women will die of ovarian cancer when indigent defense systems require command positions in United States head- in the United States; defense attorneys to represent more quarters, including combatant commands Whereas the mortality rate for ovarian clients than they can competently rep- such as CENTCOM, and officers from the cancer has not significantly decreased since resent or otherwise fail to assure legal United States have served in similar roles in the ‘‘War on Cancer’’ was declared more than representation in compliance with the the British military; 40 years ago; Whereas the United States and United Whereas a quarter of women will die with- Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel. Kingdom made immense contributions in The bill would require states to con- in 1 year of diagnosis with ovarian cancer personnel and resources to the International and over half will die within 5 years; sult with representatives from the pub- Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the Whereas there is the mammogram to de- lic defender community prior to dis- NATO-led effort to train the Afghan Na- tect breast cancer and the Pap smear to de- tributing Byrne JAG funds. Currently, tional Security Forces, and to assist the Af- tect cervical cancer, there is currently no re- Federal defenders are eligible for Byrne ghan people in rebuilding their country; liable early detection test for ovarian can- JAG funds. Yet, in practice, Federal Whereas the Defense Trade Cooperation cer; defenders may not get the same propor- Treaty between the United States and Whereas the lack of an early detection test United Kingdom, which was signed in 2007, means that approximately 80 percent of tion of these funds as prosecutors and ratified by the Senate on September 29, 2010, law enforcement. So this provision cases of ovarian cancer are detected at an and entered into force in April 2012, intro- advanced stage; would ensure that defenders are con- duces greater cooperation and access in Whereas all women are at risk for ovarian sulted before critical Federal funds are order to meet the requirements of mutual cancer, and approximately 20 percent of distributed. defense frameworks; women diagnosed with ovarian cancer have a This access to justice legislation has Whereas both nations continue a close hereditary disposition for ovarian cancer, the support of numerous civil rights strategic partnership in developing and which places them at even a higher risk; groups, such as the National Associa- maintaining an effective nuclear deterrent, Whereas scientists and physicians have un- tion for the Advancement of Colored including developing the next-generation of covered changes in the BRCA genes that nuclear ballistic missile submarines and the some women inherit from their parents, People and the Innocence Project. continued deployment and modernization of Our public defender system is broken. which may make them 30 times more likely a submarine-launched ballistic missile; to develop ovarian cancer; It is time we fix it. I am proud to intro- Whereas the close and expanding economic Whereas the family history of a woman has duce the Gideon Act and the Equal Jus- ties between the United States and United been found to play an important role in ac- tice Under Law Act and I urge their Kingdom, including the world’s largest bilat- curately assessing her risk of developing speedy passage. eral foreign direct investment partnership, ovarian cancer and medical experts believe have greatly contributed to the continued f the family history of a woman should be prosperity of both nations; and taken into consideration during her annual SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS Whereas, on June 23, 2016, the United King- well woman visit; dom held a European Union membership ref- Whereas many experts in health preven- erendum, and the British people voted to tion now recommend genetic testing for SENATE RESOLUTION 520—RE- leave the European Union: Now, therefore, be young women with a family history of breast AFFIRMING THE STRONG RELA- it and ovarian cancer; TIONSHIP, BOTH IN DEFENSE Resolved, That the Senate— Whereas women who know they are at high AND TRADE, BETWEEN THE (1) reaffirms that the special relationship risk of breast and ovarian cancer may under- UNITED STATES AND THE between the United States and the United take prophylactic measures to help reduce Kingdom will not be affected by the outcome the risk of developing these diseases; UNITED KINGDOM of the June 23, 2016 referendum or by changes Whereas the Society of Gynecologic Oncol- Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. JOHN- to the United Kingdom’s relationship with ogy now recommends that all women diag- SON, and Mr. MCCONNELL) submitted the European Union; nosed with ovarian cancer receive counseling the following resolution; which was re- (2) recognizes that continued defense and and genetic testing; ferred to the Committee on Foreign intelligence cooperation between the United Whereas many people are unaware that the Relations: States and United Kingdom is vital to the symptoms of ovarian cancer often include national security of both countries; bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain, difficulty S. RES. 520 (3) supports the continued political and eating or feeling full quickly, urinary symp- Whereas the United States and the United military leadership displayed by both na- toms, and several other symptoms that are Kingdom have a special relationship ground- tions in the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- easily confused with other diseases;

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Whereas Elie Wiesel received numerous (2) supports the goals and ideals of Na- f awards throughout his life for his human tional Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. rights activism and literary works, including f SENATE RESOLUTION 523—RELAT- the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the SENATE RESOLUTION 522—DESIG- ING TO THE DEATH OF ELIE Congressional Gold Medal; Whereas Elie Wiesel served as the Andrew NATING JULY 30, 2016, AS ‘‘NA- WIESEL, HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, POWERFUL ADVOCATE FOR W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at TIONAL WHISTLEBLOWER AP- Boston University until his death; PRECIATION DAY’’ PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Whereas Elie Wiesel received more than 100 Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. honorary degrees; WYDEN, Mr. KIRK, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. Mr. MCCONNELL (for himself, Mr. Whereas Elie Wiesel authored dozens of literary works; JOHNSON, Mr. CARPER, Mrs. FISCHER, REID, Mr. ALEXANDER, Ms. AYOTTE, Ms. Whereas Elie Wiesel was a passionate advo- Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. MARKEY, BALDWIN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BENNET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. cate for the State of Israel and the Jewish Mrs. BOXER, Mrs. ERNST, Mr. PETERS, people and a tireless defender against anti- BOOKER, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. and Mr. BOOZMAN) submitted the fol- Semitism; lowing resolution; which was consid- BROWN, Mr. BURR, Ms. CANTWELL, Mrs. Whereas Elie Wiesel dedicated his life to ered and agreed to: CAPITO, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. CARPER, Mr. teaching the world ‘‘never to be silent when- S. RES. 522 CASEY, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. COATS, Mr. ever wherever human beings endure suffering Whereas, in 1777, before the passage of the COCHRAN, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. COONS, Mr. and humiliation’’ and to uphold the promise Bill of Rights, 10 sailors and marines blew CORKER, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. COTTON, Mr. ‘‘never again’’; the whistle on fraud and misconduct harmful CRAPO, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. DAINES, Mr. DON- Whereas Elie Wiesel served as an inspira- to the United States; NELLY, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ENZI, Mrs. tion and example of the triumph of the human spirit over unimaginable horrors; Whereas the Founding Fathers unani- ERNST, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mrs. FISCHER, Whereas Elie Wiesel was a lifelong advo- mously supported the whistleblowers in Mr. FLAKE, Mr. FRANKEN, Mr. GARD- words and deeds, including by releasing gov- cate for the protection of human life, dig- NER, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. GRAHAM, ernment records and providing monetary as- nity, and freedom for all people, regardless sistance for reasonable legal expenses nec- Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. HATCH, Mr. HEIN- of race, religion, or political views; essary to prevent retaliation against the RICH, Ms. HEITKAMP, Mr. HELLER, Ms. Whereas Elie Wiesel passed away on July 2, whistleblowers; HIRONO, Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. 2016, at 87 year of age; Whereas, on July 30, 1778, in demonstration ISAKSON, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. KAINE, Mr. Whereas the Nation is deeply indebted to of their full support for whistleblowers, the KING, Mr. KIRK, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. Elie Wiesel, who has inspired and challenged the world with his message, legacy, and ex- members of the Continental Congress unani- LANKFORD, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. LEE, Mr. ample: mously enacted the first whistleblower legis- MANCHIN, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MCCAIN, lation in the United States that read: ‘‘Re- Now, therefore, be it Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. solved, That it is the duty of all persons in Resolved, That the Senate— the service of the United States, as well as MERKLEY, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. MORAN, (1) extends its deepest condolences and all other the inhabitants thereof, to give the Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. sympathy to the family of Elie Wiesel; earliest information to Congress or other MURRAY, Mr. NELSON, Mr. PAUL, Mr. (2) recognizes that Elie Wiesel, as an proper authority of any misconduct, frauds PERDUE, Mr. PETERS, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. award-winning author, helped the world understand the true horrors of the Holocaust or misdemeanors committed by any officers REED, Mr. RISCH, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. or persons in the service of these states, and gave a voice to the millions who suffered ROUNDS, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. and perished in Nazi death camps; which may come to their knowledge’’ (legis- SASSE, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. lation of July 30, 1778, reprinted in Journals (3) honors the legacy of Elie Wiesel for his SCOTT, Mr. SESSIONS, Mrs. SHAHEEN, of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. Wor- lifelong commitment to advancing human thington C. Ford et al. (Washington, D.C., Mr. SHELBY, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. SUL- dignity, freedom, and respect throughout the 1904–37), 11:732); LIVAN, Mr. TESTER, Mr. THUNE, Mr. world; Whereas whistleblowers risk their careers, TILLIS, Mr. TOOMEY, Mr. UDALL, Mr. (4) reiterates its continued support for jobs, and reputations by reporting waste, VITTER, Mr. WARNER, Ms. WARREN, Mr. human rights and protection of religious liberty throughout the world; and fraud, and abuse to the proper authorities; WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WICKER, and Mr. (5) expresses admiration for Elie Wiesel’s Whereas, when providing proper authori- WYDEN) submitted the following reso- ties with lawful disclosures, whistleblowers legacy as an example and advocate of the en- lution; which was considered and during power of the human spirit in the face save taxpayers in the United States billions agreed to: of dollars each year and serve the public in- of evil. terest by ensuring that the United States re- S. RES. 523 f mains an ethical and safe place; and Whereas Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO Whereas it is the public policy of the Transylvania (now Romania), in 1928 to United States to encourage, in accordance Shlomo Wiesel and Sarah (Feig) Wiesel; MEET with Federal law (including the Constitu- Whereas Elie Wiesel was deported to COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES tion, rules, and regulations) and consistent Auschwitz concentration camp by the Nazis Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask with the protection of classified information when he was 15 years old; unanimous consent that the Com- (including sources and methods of detection Whereas Elie Wiesel suffered the loss of his of classified information), honest and good mother, father, and younger sister, who died mittee on Armed Services be author- faith reporting of misconduct, fraud, mis- in Nazi concentration camps; ized to meet during the session of the demeanors, and other crimes to the appro- Whereas Elie Wiesel was freed when Bu- Senate on July 7, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. priate authority at the earliest time pos- chenwald concentration camp was liberated The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without sible: Now, therefore, be it in April 1945; objection, it is so ordered.

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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS A bill (H.R. 1270) to amend the Internal Whereas the United Nations Assistance Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the amend- Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the United Na- unanimous consent that the Com- ments made by the Patient Protection and tions Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said in mittee on Foreign Relations be author- Affordable Care Act which disqualify ex- a January 2016 report that it believes ISIL is penses for over-the-counter drugs under holding around 3,500 slaves, predominantly ized to meet during the session of the health savings accounts and health flexible women and children, ‘‘primarily from the Senate on July 7, 2016, at 2:15 p.m., to spending arrangements. Yezidi community, but a number are also conduct a hearing entitled ‘‘An Assess- from other ethnic and religious minority Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask for a second ment of U.S. Economic Assistance.’’ communities’’; reading and, in order to place the bill The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Whereas ISIL specifically targets religious on the calendar under the provisions of objection, it is so ordered. and ethnic minorities, and has reportedly rule XIV, I object to my own request. kidnapped, forcibly displaced, killed, raped, SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- electrocuted, and crucified members of eth- Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask tion is heard. nic and religious groups, including Christian, unanimous consent that the Select The bill will be read for the second Shabak, Turkmen, and Shia of all Committee on Intelligence be author- time on the next legislative day. ethnicities; ized to meet during the session of the Whereas ISIL has deliberately destroyed Senate on July 7, 2016, at 9:30 a.m., in f and looted numerous cultural sites, religious room SH–219 of the Hart Senate Office EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF CON- shrines, places of worship, monasteries, and GRESS THAT THE SO-CALLED IS- museums in order to eradicate the cultures Building. of ethnic and religious minorities; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without LAMIC STATE IN IRAQ AND AL- Whereas these atrocities have been under- objection, it is so ordered. SHAM (ISIS OR DA’ESH) IS COM- taken with the specific intent to bring about SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE MITTING GENOCIDE, CRIMES the eradication of those communities and Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask AGAINST HUMANITY, AND WAR the destruction of their cultural heritage; unanimous consent that the Select CRIMES Whereas ISIL operations have in fact driven minority religious and ethnic commu- Committee on Intelligence be author- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I nities from their ancestral homelands; ized to meet during the session of the ask unanimous consent that the Sen- Whereas under applicable domestic and Senate on July 7, 2016, at 2 p.m., in ate proceed to the consideration of Cal- international law codified in section 2441 of room SH–219 of the Hart Senate Office endar No. 447, S. Res. 340. title 18, United States Code, murder, torture, Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mutilation, rape, cruel treatment, and hos- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without clerk will report the resolution by tage taking of non-combatants constitute objection, it is so ordered. war crimes; title. Whereas crimes against humanity, as de- f The senior assistant legislative clerk fined by the International Military Tribunal PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR read as follows: convened at Nuremberg in 1945, include mur- A resolution (S. Res. 340) expressing the der, extermination, enslavement, deporta- Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I ask sense of Congress that the so-called Islamic tion, and other inhumane acts committed unanimous consent that a fellow who State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS or Da’esh) is against any civilian population, as well as has worked on this issue, Dave Keahey, committing genocide, crimes against human- persecution on political, racial, or religious be granted floor privileges for the re- ity, and war crimes, and calling upon the grounds in connection with such crimes; mainder of the calendar year. President to work with foreign governments Whereas the United Nations Convention on The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and the United Nations to provide physical the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime objection, it is so ordered. protection for ISIS’ targets, to support the of Genocide, signed and ratified by the United States, defines genocide as ‘‘any of Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I ask creation of an international criminal tribunal with jurisdiction to punish these the following acts committed with the intent unanimous consent that Nick Howard crimes, and to use every reasonable means, to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, and Mark Owens, congressional fellows including sanctions, to destroy ISIS and dis- ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: in Senator HATCH’s office, be granted rupt its support networks. (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing floor privileges for the remainder of serious bodily or mental harm to members of There being no objection, the Senate the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the the 114th Congress. proceeded to consider the resolution, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without group conditions of life calculated to bring which had been reported from the Com- about its physical destruction in whole or in objection, it is so ordered. mittee on Foreign Relations, with an part; (d) Imposing measures intended to pre- f amendment and an amendment to the vent births within the group; (e) Forcibly APPOINTMENTS preamble and an amendment to the transferring children of the group to another title. group’’; The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Whereas according to the United Nations Chair, on behalf of the Democratic S. RES. 340 Commission of Inquiry, in February 2014, leader, pursuant to Public Law 114–187, Whereas Christians and other religious and ISIL ordered Christians in Raqqa, Syria to and in consultation with the ranking ethnic minorities have been an integral part either convert to Islam, pay jizya, a tax spe- member of the Senate Committee on of the cultural fabric of the Middle East for cifically applied on the basis of religious be- millennia; lief, and accept serious curbs on their faith, Energy and Natural Resources and Whereas the Islamic State in Iraq and the or face execution; with the ranking member of the Senate Levant (ISIL or Da’esh) and associated ex- Whereas according to the Department of Committee on Finance, appoints the tremists are committing egregious atrocities State, in August 2014, as ISIL began to ex- following individuals as members of against ethnic and religious minorities in pand beyond Mosul, an estimated 450,000 the Congressional Task Force on Eco- Iraq and Syria, including Christians (among Yezidis, 300,000 Turkmen, and 125,000 Chris- nomic Growth in Puerto Rico: the Hon- them Assyrian Chaldean Syriac, Armenian, tians, as well as Iraqi Arabs, Shia Muslims, orable BILL NELSON of Florida (Energy Evangelicals, Antiochian and Greek Ortho- Sunni Muslims, Shabak and other ethnic and and Natural Resources) and the Honor- dox, Maronite, Melkite, and Roman Catholic religious groups, were forced from their com- communities), Yezidis, Turkmen, Shi’a, munities; able ROBERT MENENDEZ of New Jersey Shabak, Sabaean-Mandeans, and Kaka’i, Whereas in areas controlled by ISIL, (Finance). among others; churches, monasteries and other places of f Whereas ISIL specifically targets these re- worship have effectively been shuttered and ligious and ethnic minorities, intending to do not publicly conduct worship services; MEASURE READ THE FIRST kill them or force their submission, conver- Whereas, on August 7, 2014, Secretary of TIME—H.R. 1270 sion, or expulsion; State John Kerry declared that ‘‘ISIL’s cam- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Whereas religious and ethnic minorities paign of terror against the innocent, includ- understand there is a bill at the desk, have been murdered, subjugated, forced to ing Yezidi and Christian minorities, and its and I ask for its first reading. emigrate, and subjected to grievous bodily grotesque and targeted acts of violence bear The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and psychological harm, kidnapping, human all the warning signs and hallmarks of geno- trafficking, torture, and rape; cide’’: clerk will read the bill by title for the Whereas ISIL engages in, and publicly ar- Whereas, in August 2014, the United States first time. gues in favor of, the sexual enslavement of conducted targeted airstrikes and humani- The senior assistant legislative clerk non-Muslim women, including prepubescent tarian assistance operations to help break read as follows: girls; the siege of Mount Sinjar, saving the lives of

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and Christian minorities, and its grotesque and word—is taking place, and it must end’’; Whereas ISIL specifically targets these reli- targeted acts of violence bear all the warning Whereas a March 13, 2015, report by the Of- gious and ethnic minorities, intending to kill signs and hallmarks of genocide’’: fice of the United Nations High Commis- them or force their submission, conversion, or Whereas, in August 2014, the United States sioner for Human Rights detailed ‘‘acts of vi- expulsion; conducted targeted airstrikes and humanitarian olence perpetrated [by ISIL] against civil- Whereas religious and ethnic minorities have assistance operations to help break the siege of ians because of their affiliation or perceived been murdered, subjugated, forced to emigrate, Mount Sinjar, saving the lives of thousands of affiliation to an ethnic or religious group’’ and subjected to grievous bodily and psycho- Yezidi men, women, and children; and stated that ‘‘[i]t is reasonable to con- logical harm, kidnapping, human trafficking, Whereas His Holiness, Pope Francis, has clude that some of these incidents, consid- torture, and rape; noted that ‘‘entire communities, especially—but ering the overall information, may con- Whereas ISIL engages in, and publicly argues not only—Christians and Yezidis, have suffered stitute genocide’’; in favor of, the sexual enslavement of non-Mus- and are still suffering inhuman violence because Whereas, on December 7, 2015, the United lim women, including prepubescent girls; off their ethnic and religious identity’’ and stat- States Commission on International Reli- Whereas the United Nations Assistance Mis- ed that, for Christians being killed for their gious Freedom called on the United States sion for Iraq (UNAMI) and the United Nations faith in the Middle East ‘‘a form of genocide— Government ‘‘to designate the Christian, Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said in a Janu- I insist on the word—is taking place, and it Yezidi, Shi’a, Turkmen, and Shabak commu- ary 2016 report that it believes ISIL is holding must end’’; nities of Iraq and Syria as victims of geno- around 3,500 slaves, predominantly women and Whereas a March 13, 2015, report by the Office cide by ISIL’’ and urged world leaders ‘‘to children, ‘‘primarily from the Yezidi community, of the United Nations High Commissioner for condemn the genocidal actions and crimes but a number are also from other ethnic and re- Human Rights detailed ‘‘acts of violence per- against humanity of ISIL that have been di- ligious minority communities’’; petrated [by ISIL] against civilians because of rected at these groups and other ethnic and Whereas ISIL specifically targets religious their affiliation or perceived affiliation to an religious groups’’; and ethnic minorities, and has reportedly kid- ethnic or religious group’’ and stated that ‘‘[i]t Whereas, on February 3, 2016, the European napped, forcibly displaced, killed, raped, elec- is reasonable to conclude that some of these in- Parliament expressed the view that ISIL ‘‘is trocuted, and crucified members of ethnic and cidents, considering the overall information, committing genocide against Christians and religious groups, including Christian, Shabak, may constitute genocide’’; Yezidis, and other religious and ethnic mi- Turkmen, and Shia of all ethnicities; Whereas, on December 7, 2015, the United norities’’; and Whereas ISIL has deliberately destroyed and States Commission on International Religious Whereas, on March 17, 2016, Secretary of looted numerous cultural sites, religious shrines, Freedom called on the United States Govern- State John Kerry issued a declaration stat- places of worship, monasteries, and museums in ment ‘‘to designate the Christian, Yezidi, Shi’a, ing, that in his judgement, ‘‘Da’esh is re- order to eradicate the cultures of ethnic and re- Turkmen, and Shabak communities of Iraq and sponsible for genocide against groups in ligious minorities; Syria as victims of genocide by ISIL’’ and urged areas under its control, including Yezidis, Whereas these atrocities have been under- world leaders ‘‘to condemn the genocidal actions Christians, and Shia Muslims,’’ and is ‘‘also taken with the specific intent to bring about the and crimes against humanity of ISIL that have responsible for crimes against humanity and eradication of those communities and the de- been directed at these groups and other ethnic ethnic cleansing directed at these same struction of their cultural heritage; and religious groups’’; Whereas ISIL operations have in fact driven groups and in some cases against Sunni Mus- Whereas, on February 3, 2016, the European minority religious and ethnic communities from lims and Kurds and other minorities’’: Now, Parliament expressed the view that ISIL ‘‘is their ancestral homelands; therefore, be it committing genocide against Christians and Whereas under applicable domestic and inter- Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate Yezidis, and other religious and ethnic minori- national law codified in section 2441 of title 18, that— ties’’; and United States Code, murder, torture, mutilation, (1) the atrocities perpetrated by the Is- Whereas, on March 17, 2016, Secretary of rape, cruel treatment, and hostage taking of lamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) State John Kerry issued a declaration stating, non-combatants constitute war crimes; against Christians, Yezidis, Shi’a, and other that in his judgement, ‘‘Da’esh is responsible for Whereas crimes against humanity, as defined religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and genocide against groups in areas under its con- by the International Military Tribunal con- Syria constitute war crimes, crimes against trol, including Yezidis, Christians, and Shia vened at Nuremberg in 1945, include murder, ex- humanity, and genocide; Muslims,’’ and is ‘‘also responsible for crimes termination, enslavement, deportation, and (2) all governments, and international or- against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed other inhumane acts committed against any ci- ganizations should call ISIL atrocities by at these same groups and in some cases against vilian population, as well as persecution on po- their rightful names: war crimes, crimes Sunni Muslims and Kurds and other minori- litical, racial, or religious grounds in connection against humanity, and genocide; ties’’: Now, therefore, be it with such crimes; Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate (3) the member states of the United Na- Whereas the United Nations Convention on that— tions should coordinate urgently on meas- the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of (1) the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic ures to prevent further war crimes, crimes Genocide, signed and ratified by the United State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against against humanity, and genocide by ISIL in States, defines genocide as ‘‘any of the fol- Christians, Yezidis, Shi’a, and other religious Iraq and Syria, and to punish those respon- lowing acts committed with the intent to de- and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria con- sible for these ongoing crimes, including by stroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, stitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, the collection and preservation of evidence racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing and genocide; and, if necessary, the establishment and op- members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily (2) all governments, and international organi- eration of appropriate tribunals; or mental harm to members of the group; (c) De- zations should call ISIL atrocities by their right- (4) the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the liberately inflicting on the group conditions of ful names: war crimes, crimes against humanity, Lebanese Republic, the Republic of Turkey, life calculated to bring about its physical de- and genocide; and the Kurdistan Regional Government in struction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing (3) the member states of the United Nations Iraq are to be commended for, and supported measures intended to prevent births within the should coordinate urgently on measures to pre- in, their efforts to shelter and protect those group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the vent further war crimes, crimes against human- fleeing the violence of ISIL and other com- group to another group’’; ity, and genocide by ISIL in Iraq and Syria, and batants until they can safely return to their Whereas according to the United Nations to punish those responsible for these ongoing homes in Iraq and Syria; and Commission of Inquiry, in February 2014, ISIL crimes, including by the collection and preserva- (5) the protracted Syrian civil war and the ordered Christians in Raqqa, Syria to either tion of evidence and, if necessary, the establish- indiscriminate violence of the Assad regime convert to Islam, pay jizya, a tax specifically ment and operation of appropriate tribunals; have contributed to the growth of ISIL and applied on the basis of religious belief, and ac- (4) the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the will continue to do so as long as this conflict cept serious curbs on their faith, or face execu- Lebanese Republic, the Republic of Turkey, and continues. tion; the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq are S. RES. 340 Whereas according to the Department of to be commended for, and supported in, their ef- Whereas Christians and other religious and State, in August 2014, as ISIL began to expand forts to shelter and protect those fleeing the vio- ethnic minorities have been an integral part of beyond Mosul, an estimated 450,000 Yezidis, lence of ISIL and other combatants until they the cultural fabric of the Middle East for mil- 300,000 Turkmen, and 125,000 Christians, as well can safely return to their homes in Iraq and lennia; as Iraqi Arabs, Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Syria; and

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Mr. President, I software license agreements using automated ask unanimous consent that the com- discovery and inventory tools; ernmental Affairs be discharged from (B) regularly track and maintain software li- mittee-reported amendment to the res- further consideration of H.R. 4372 and censes to assist the Executive agency in imple- the Senate proceed to its immediate olution be agreed to, the resolution, as menting decisions throughout the software li- amended, be agreed to, the committee- consideration. cense management life cycle; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without reported amendment to the preamble (C) analyze software usage and other data to objection, it is so ordered. be agreed to, the preamble, as amend- make cost-effective decisions; The clerk will report the bill by title. ed, be agreed to, and the committee-re- (D) provide training relevant to software li- The senior assistant legislative clerk ported title amendment be agreed to, cense management; (E) establish goals and objectives of the soft- read as follows: and the motions to reconsider be con- ware license management program of the Execu- sidered made and laid upon the table A bill (H.R. 4372) to designate the facility tive agency; and of the United States Postal Service located with no intervening action or debate. (F) consider the software license management at 15 Rochester Street, Bergen, New York, as The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without life cycle phases, including the requisition, re- the Barry G. Miller Post Office. objection, it is so ordered. ception, deployment and maintenance, retire- There being no objection, the Senate The committee-reported amendment ment, and disposal phases, to implement effec- proceeded to consider the bill. in the nature of a substitute was tive decision-making and incorporate existing Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I agreed to. standards, processes, and metrics. The resolution (S. Res. 340), as (c) REPORT ON SOFTWARE LICENSE MANAGE- ask unanimous consent that the bill be MENT.— read a third time and passed, and the amended, was agreed to. (1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning in the first fiscal The committee-reported amendment motion to reconsider be considered year beginning after the date of enactment of made and laid upon the table. to the preamble in the nature of a sub- this Act, and in each of the following 5 fiscal stitute was agreed to. years, the Chief Information Officer of each Ex- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The preamble, as amended, was ecutive agency shall submit to the Director a re- objection, it is so ordered. agreed to. port on the financial savings or avoidance of The bill (H.R. 4372) was ordered to a The committee-reported title amend- spending that resulted from improved software third reading, was read the third time, ment was agreed to, as follows: license management. and passed. (2) AVAILABILITY.—The Director shall make Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A resolu- each report submitted under paragraph (1) pub- tion expressing the sense of the Senate that f lically available. the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous NATIONAL WHISTLEBLOWER religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and consent that the committee-reported APPRECIATION DAY Syria include war crimes, crimes against hu- substitute amendment be agreed to, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I manity, and genocide.’’. the bill, as amended, be read a third ask unanimous consent that the Sen- f time and passed, and the motion to reate proceed to the consideration of S. consider be considered made and laid MEGABYTE ACT OF 2015 Res. 522, submitted earlier today. upon the table. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ask unanimous consent that the Sen- objection, it is so ordered. clerk will report the resolution by ate proceed to the immediate consider- The committee-reported amendment title. ation of Calendar No. 533, S. 2340. in the nature of a substitute was The senior assistant legislative clerk The PRESIDING OFFICER. The agreed to. read as follows: clerk will report the bill by title. The bill (S. 2340), as amended, was or- A bill (S. Res. 522) designating July 30, The senior assistant legislative clerk dered to be engrossed for a third read- 2016, as ‘‘National Whistleblower Apprecia- tion Day.’’ read as follows: ing, was read the third time, and A bill (S. 2340) to require the Director of passed. There being no objection, the Senate the Office of Management and Budget to proceeded to consider the resolution. issue a directive on the management of soft- f Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ware licenses, and for other purposes. KENNETH M. CHRISTY POST ask unanimous consent that the reso- There being no objection, the Senate OFFICE BUILDING lution be agreed to, the preamble be proceeded to consider the bill, which agreed to, and the motions to recon- had been reported from the Committee Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I sider be considered made and laid upon on Homeland Security and Govern- ask unanimous consent that the Com- the table with no intervening action or mental Affairs, with an amendment to mittee on Homeland Security and Gov- debate. strike all after the enacting clause and ernmental Affairs be discharged from The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without insert in lieu thereof the following: further consideration of H.R. 4960 and objection, it is so ordered. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. the Senate proceed to its immediate The resolution (S. Res. 522) was This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Making Elec- consideration. agreed to. tronic Government Accountable By Yielding The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The preamble was agreed to. Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016’’ or the objection, it is so ordered. (The resolution, with its preamble, is ‘‘MEGABYTE Act of 2016’’. The clerk will report the bill by title. printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- SEC. 2. OMB DIRECTIVE ON MANAGEMENT OF The senior assistant legislative clerk mitted Resolutions.’’) SOFTWARE LICENSES. read as follows: (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— A bill (H.R. 4960) to designate the facility f (1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of of the United States Postal Service located the Office of Management and Budget; and at 525 N Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, as the (2) the term ‘‘Executive agency’’ has the ‘‘Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building.’’ RELATING TO THE DEATH OF ELIE meaning given that term in section 105 of title 5, WIESEL United States Code. There being no objection, the Senate (b) OMB DIRECTIVE.—The Director shall issue proceeded to consider the bill. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I a directive to require the Chief Information Offi- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Sen- cer of each Executive agency to develop a com- ask unanimous consent that the bill be ate proceed to the consideration of S. prehensive software licensing policy, which read a third time and passed, and the Res. 523, submitted earlier today. shall— motion to reconsider be considered The PRESIDING OFFICER. The (1) identify clear roles, responsibilities, and made and laid upon the table. clerk will report the resolution by central oversight authority within the Executive The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without agency for managing enterprise software license title. agreements and commercial software licenses; objection, it is so ordered. The senior assistant legislative clerk and The bill (H.R. 4960) was ordered to a read as follows: (2) require the Chief Information Officer of third reading, was read the third time, A resolution (S. Res. 523) relating to the each Executive agency to— and passed. death of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor,

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TRIBUTE TO LARGO KINDERCARE THE NEED FOR CONGRESS TO ACT HONORING DAVID GANN OF TO END OUR COUNTRY’S GUN VI- PENNSYLVANIA HON. DAVID W. JOLLY OLENCE EPIDEMIC OF FLORIDA HON. SCOTT PERRY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PENNSYLVANIA HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, July 7, 2016 OF FLORIDA Thursday, July 7, 2016 Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize the Largo KinderCare Learning Center for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, today I honor my constituent, Colonel David R. Gann, on his re- receiving national accreditation. Thursday, July 7, 2016 The KinderCare Learning Center has retirement upon more than 40 years of service cently been granted accreditation by the Na- Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to with the United States Air Force, United States tional Accreditation Commission for Early Care give voice to the millions of Americans across Army Reserve and the Pennsylvania Air Na- tional Guard. and Education Programs, a leading profes- this country who are tired of this body’s lead- Since December 2004, Colonel Gann has sional organization in the early education in- ership being held hostage by the Gun Lobby. dustry for children, between two months old served as Commander of the 193rd Special The dilatory response by House Republicans, and five years old. Operations Medical Group of the 193rd Spe- a response directly linked to the fact that they Accreditation is distinct from licensing as the cial Operations Wing, Pennsylvania Air Na- latter only ensures a basic threshold level of a are so closely intertwined with the nefarious tional Guard. He previously served as a medic center’s ability to provide whereas accredita- Gun Lobby, is as shameful as it is reckless. and emergency medical technician in the action enables the center to provide high quality Over 33,000 people lose their lives every tive Air Force and as chief warrant officer/phy- early learning programs. Less than ten percent year to the gun violence epidemic. What does sician assistant in the Army Reserve. Colonel of programs receive accreditation in the na- Republican Leadership do in the face of these Gann deployed on numerous occasions in direct medical support of Operations Desert tion, which makes this very important for deaths? Nothing. That is not negligence, it is Pinellas County. Storm, Uphold Democracy, Joint Guard, gross negligence and those who stand firmly Desert Thunder, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize the Largo in the way of those of us trying desperately to KinderCare Learning Center for the education Freedom. He has earned numerous awards make this country a safer place for our chil- they provide to our children. A national ac- and decorations for his service. credited center is very important to Pinellas dren and grandchildren are increasingly cul- Colonel Gann’s tireless dedication, profes- and I ask that this body join me in recognizing pable in the deaths that most certainly and sionalism and sacrifice touched the lives of them for their efforts. tragically lay ahead. countless people and challenged all with Mr. Speaker, all Americans have a right to whom he served to be the best. He’s left an f make their communities safe from the on- enduring legacy of service to our Nation. On behalf of Pennsylvania’s Fourth Con- slaught of gun violence this country witnesses IN RECOGNITION OF THE NEWARK gressional District, with great pride I commend CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL BASE- year after year. They have a right to demand and congratulate David R. Gann upon his re- BALL TEAM that felons and domestic abusers cannot buy tirement after more than 40 years of selfless a gun without any questions asked. They have service to the United States of America. HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI a right to demand that dangerous loopholes f allowing terrorists to buy weapons are closed. OF OHIO DEL LATTA, A DEDICATED PUBLIC IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES They have a right to demand that an end is put to the unbelievable number of military-style SERVANT Thursday, July 7, 2016 firearms flowing through their streets. And de- SPEECH OF Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- manded they have, Mr. Speaker. Indeed, a ognize Newark Catholic High School for win- majority of Americans support ensuring that a HON. BRAD R. WENSTRUP ning the Division IV Ohio High School Base- husband with a proven history of violent acts OF OHIO ball State Championship. committed against his wife should not have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES An achievement such as this certainly de- access to a firearm. A majority of Americans Tuesday, July 5, 2016 serves recognition. The Ohio High School Ath- think it is absolutely ridiculous that we do not letic Association has enabled talented teams Mr. WENSTRUP. Mr. Speaker, I recently stop felons from purchasing firearms. And a and individuals to earn state titles since its came across a short poem called ‘‘The Dash,’’ founding in 1907. Throughout this time, the majority of Americans think it is beyond com- and I’d like to submit the first few lines: champions of OHSAA state level competitions prehensible that members of this body would I read of a man who stood to speak have represented the highest achieving and stand in the way of us working to ensure that at the funeral of a friend. most talented athletes in Ohio. Each year terrorists do not have access to weapons of He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning . . . to the end. these elite competitors join the ranks of those mass murder. who embody Ohio’s proud history of athletic He noted that first came the date of birth Mr. Speaker, the time has well since passed and spoke the following date with tears, success. when we should have enacted these common but he said what mattered most of all Newark Catholic’s victory caps a tremen- sense reforms. The time has well since was the dash between those years. dous season. This sort of achievement is passed since we ought to have taken action to For that dash represents all the time earned only through many hours of practice, protect our communities—to make those com- that they spent alive on earth. perspiration and hard work. They have set a munities safer for our children and grandchild. And now only those who loved them new standard for future athletes to reach. Ev- know what that little line is worth. There is bipartisan legislation in this House eryone at Newark Catholic High School can For it matters not, how much we own, be extremely proud of their performance. that will address these pressing issues and it the cars . . . the house . . . the cash. On behalf of the citizens of Ohio’s 12th is time for the Republican Leadership to bring What matters is how we live and love Congressional District, I congratulate the New- this legislation to the House Floor for a vote and how we spend our dash. ark Catholic Baseball Team on their state immediately. Any further delay is a shameful Del Latta’s dash represents a life dedicated championship. I wish their team continued dereliction of duty on the part of House Re- to his fellow Ohioans and his fellow Ameri- success in their future athletic endeavors. publican Leadership. cans.

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A07JY8.001 E07JYPT1 smartinez on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS E1054 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks July 7, 2016 First as a state senator, and then later as a IN RECOGNITION OF THE WOR- COMMEMORATING THE ACHIEVE- U.S. Congressman, Mr. Latta was a true pub- THINGTON KILBOURNE HIGH MENTS OF PRESIDENT J. DAVID lic servant, a trait he passed on to his son, SCHOOL BOYS LACROSSE TEAM ARNOLD and my friend, BOB. I offer my prayers and condolences to BOB, HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI HON. DARIN LaHOOD and to his family, and I thank his father for OF ILLINOIS OF OHIO spending his dash in service to our state and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our country. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, July 7, 2016 f Thursday, July 7, 2016 Mr. LAHOOD. Mr. Speaker, I would like to EDINA GIRLS GOLF TEAM ARE Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- honor President J. David Arnold for his service CHAMPS ognize Worthington Kilbourne High School for to the state of Illinois, as well as to his stu- winning the Division II Ohio High School Boys dents and staff during his tenure as President HON. ERIK PAULSEN Lacrosse State Championship. of Eureka College. Dr. Arnold has served as the President of OF MINNESOTA An achievement such as this certainly de- Eureka College for eleven years. His dedica- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES serves recognition. The Ohio High School Ath- tion to the school’s vision, ‘‘An intentional se- Thursday, July 7, 2016 letic Association has enabled talented teams quence of learning, service, and leadership,’’ and individuals to earn state titles since its Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, congratulations has inspired each one of his 1,676 graduating founding in 1907. Throughout this time, the to the Edina High School Girls Golf Team for students to achieve their academic dreams. winning the Minnesota State High School champions of OHSAA state level competitions Always eager to facilitate educational dis- Championship. have represented the highest achieving and cussions, Dr. Arnold created the Reagan For- Not only did the Hornets win, but they won most talented athletes in Ohio. Each year ward initiative and the Ronald W. Reagan So- big by defeating the closest team by 36 these elite competitors join the ranks of those ciety, which celebrates the legacy of President strokes. They were led by Hannah Hankinson who embody Ohio’s proud history of athletic Ronald Reagan, a graduate of Eureka Col- who shot a 149 over the two rounds and tied success. lege, and encourages his vision of American for second. Edina’s talent did not stop there, Worthington Kilbourne’s victory caps a tre- opportunity. Dr. Arnold also created over thirty however. Christine Portillo and Grace Kellar mendous season. This sort of achievement is endowed scholarships to reward students for tied for fourth place with 150, Katie Engelking earned only through many hours of practice, their hard work and dedication to their studies. finished ninth with a score of 153 and Isabelle perspiration and hard work. They have set a The Growth and Integrity strategic plan that Ouyang got tenth with a score of 155. The new standard for future athletes to reach. Ev- Dr. Arnold established achieved record enroll- combination of all of these talented players eryone at Worthington Kilbourne High School ment in 2010, maintained a balanced budget could not be beat. This is the second con- can be extremely proud of their performance. with consistent low tuition costs, and raised a secutive victory for Coach Mark Harelstad and On behalf of the citizens of Ohio’s 12th record level of $7.3 million in 2014, the largest tenth state title in team history. Congressional District, I congratulate the Wor- amount raised in the college’s history. Dr. Ar- Mr. Speaker, it is also important to point out thington Kilbourne High School Boys Lacrosse nold worked in conjunction with the community that these student athletes must effectively Team on their state championship. I wish their to complete his $30 million project to construct manage their time in order to excel on the team continued success in their future athletic buildings on campus including Ivy Resident course and in the classroom. It is commend- endeavors. Hall, Christine Bonati Bollwinkle Arena, and able that they are able to perform on such a Convocation Center for current and future stu- high level in both areas. f dents to enjoy. Golf is a game that requires incredible pa- As a result of Dr. Arnold’s contributions to tience and dedication in order to achieve suc- PERSONAL EXPLANATION Eureka College and the community, he has cess. And there is no doubt the Edina High been appointed Chancellor of the institution, School Girls Golf Team showed both this sea- HON. SUSAN A. DAVIS where he will continue to develop new stra- son. Congratulations and go Hornets. tegic initiatives and implement a leadership in- OF CALIFORNIA f stitute. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I would like to acknowledge Dr. Arnold’s re- TRIBUTE TO PINELLAS COUNTY markable tenure as President of Eureka Col- HOUSING AUTHORITY Thursday, July 7, 2016 lege. Dr. Arnold’s commitment to educating Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, had the next generation of leaders generated HON. DAVID W. JOLLY I been present for votes on July 5, 2016, I some of the most successful years in Eureka OF FLORIDA would have voted the following way: College’s storied history. Dr. Arnold has set an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES No on the Motion on Ordering the Previous outstanding example for educators around our Thursday, July 7, 2016 Question on H. Res. 796. nation, and I am proud to represent both him Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I want to recog- No on H. Res. 796. and Eureka College. nize the Pinellas County Housing Authority No on the Motion on Ordering the Previous f (PCHA) for continuing to help our veterans. Question on H. Res. 793. TRIBUTE TO CLEARWATER The PCHA was formed in 1965 as an inde- No on H. Res. 793. AQUARIUM pendent agency. They provide more than eight Yes on H.R. 4854. thousand people housing and rental assist- Yes on H.R. 4855. HON. DAVID W. JOLLY ance when they are most in need. Their cur- OF FLORIDA rent focus has been on veterans, ensuring that f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this important section of our community receives appropriate housing through the HUD- PERSONAL EXPLANATION Thursday, July 7, 2016 Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program. Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I want to recog- The PCHA has a ‘‘veteran’s preference’’ for nize the Clearwater Aquarium for their new veterans who are on the waiting list for regular HON. ROBERT HURT sea turtle habitat. vouchers which has helped them find homes OF VIRGINIA Recently, the Clearwater Aquarium opened for 63 local homeless veterans in partnership IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a new habitat designed for sea turtles. These animals are native to our community, but they with the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center. Thursday, July 7, 2016 Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the PCHA for are endangered animals and must be pro- their help and efforts to ensure veterans who Mr. HURT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I was tected. The Clearwater Aquarium has one of offered their lives in service of our country can not present for Roll Call vote Number 372 on the few sea turtle habitats in the world occu- fully enjoy the homes that they truly deserve. the Blackburn of Tennessee Amendment No. pied solely by rescued turtles. Its residents are I ask that this body join me in recognizing their 21 to H.R. 5485, Financial Services and Gen- not able to be released back into the wild due efforts and accomplishments of the PCHA in eral Government Appropriations Act, 2017. to poor health or as a result of injuries they serving homeless veterans in Pinellas County. Had I been present, I would have voted ‘‘yes.’’ have sustained.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A07JY8.003 E07JYPT1 smartinez on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS July 7, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1055 The habitat is a large, spacious area that IN RECOGNITION OF ANDREW come to mind. In high school and college, he gives the turtles plenty of room to maneuver JORDAN was a sports hero excelling in football, basket- and not be confined to one area. ball, baseball, and track. He received an ath- Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the Clearwater HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI letic scholarship to attend Alcorn State Univer- Aquarium for their new exhibit that provides OF OHIO sity and later became the university’s first Afri- needed protection and a better way of life for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES can-American physical education teacher. As Mr. Davis continued his legacy in education these endangered creatures. I ask that this Thursday, July 7, 2016 body join me in thanking the Clearwater and athletics, he became the first African- Aquarium for their efforts. Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- American coach in the Tupelo Public School ognize Andrew Jordan of Watkins Memorial District. He is affectionately referred to as f High School for winning the Boys 3,200 Meter ‘‘Coach Davis’’ among his former athletes, Run at the Division I Ohio High School Track friends, and colleagues. IN RECOGNITION OF THE 25TH AN- and Field State Championship as well as the While Mr. Davis is remembered for his ath- NIVERSARY OF THE SUPERIOR Boys 1,600 Meter Run during the Midwest letic legacy, community service, and leader- TOWNSHIP CHAPTER OF THE Meet of Champions. ship within the civil rights movement, he is SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN LAND Since 1907, the Ohio High School Athletic equally known for the loving partnership he CONSERVANCY Association has enabled talented teams and had with his wife, Mrs. Nettie Davis. A trail- individuals to earn state titles. Throughout this blazer herself, Mrs. Davis was the first African- time, the champions of OHSAA state level American woman elected to serve on the HON. DEBBIE DINGELL competitions have represented the highest Tupelo City Council. Together, the couple OF MICHIGAN achieving and most talented athletes in Ohio. fought for a better, more unified city. As a resi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The young student athletes who emerge vic- dent of the Tupelo area, my family has directly torious then have the privilege to compete benefited from their hard work and drive to im- Thursday, July 7, 2016 against fellow champions from the states of In- prove our community. I am honored to have Mrs. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to diana and Michigan in the Midwest Meet of known Mr. Davis and call him a friend. As we recognize the 25th anniversary of the Superior Champions. remember his remarkable life, I want to extend Township Chapter of the Southeast Michigan Andrew’s victories cap a tremendous sea- my deepest condolences to Mr. Davis’s family Land Conservancy. son. This sort of achievement is earned only and friends. through many hours of practice, perspiration The Superior Township Chapter (STC) of f and hard work. He has set a new standard for the Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy future athletes to reach. Everyone at Watkins IN HONOR OF EDDY RAE’LAURIN (SMLC) has protected and preserved the nat- Memorial High School can be extremely proud GATES ural habitats of Superior Township for the last of his performance. 25 years. Starting with humble origins as a On behalf of the citizens of Ohio’s 12th HON. RENEE L. ELLMERS committee of the Southeast Michigan Land Congressional District, I congratulate Andrew Conservancy, this group of active citizens OF NORTH CAROLINA Jordan on his State and Midwestern regional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES formed to protect what was deemed the ‘‘last championships. I wish him continued success frontier’’ between Ann Arbor and Detroit in in both his athletic and academic endeavors. Thursday, July 7, 2016 order to maintain the rural character and nat- f Mrs. ELLMERS of North Carolina. Mr. ural ecosystems of Superior Township. Since Speaker, today I rise seeking to honor the life 1991, the STC has been steadfast in its dedi- OUR UNCONSCIONABLE NATIONAL of Eddy Rae’Laurin Gates, who passed away cation to protecting this land, fostering a DEBT on June 2, 2016 in Fort Hood, Texas at the healthy environment, and engaging and edu- age of 20. cating the public about the need for conserva- HON. MIKE COFFMAN Ms. Gates was a passionate defender of our tion. OF COLORADO nation, and died serving our citizens in the Started after a class lecture at Henry Ford IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tragic flood at Fort Hood, Texas. A recent Community College, Bill Secrest and Jack Thursday, July 7, 2016 graduate of Triton High School in Dunn, North Smiley began organizing interested citizens Carolina, Ms. Gates eagerly joined the Army Mr. COFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, on January with the goal of advancing environmental pres- in December 2015 and was excited for her as- 20, 2009, the day President Obama took of- ervation. From the start of this project with the signment to Fort Hood in May. Her dedication fice, the national debt was generous donation of thirty acres to establish to serving her community was apparent in her $10,626,877,048,913.08. the Springhill Nature Preserve, the STC has roles as Homecoming Queen, youth leader at Today, it is $19,327,746,021,669.98. We’ve continued to grow and has not looked back. Kingdom Impact Global Ministries, and as a added $8,700,868,972,756.90 to our debt in 7 The STC now protects over twenty four hun- frequent volunteer with the Junior ROTC drill years. This is over $8.7 trillion in debt our na- dred acres in our community, safeguarding team at Triton High. Members of the commu- tion, our economy, and our children could this precious natural habitat and resources for nity including her family, Triton High School have avoided with a balanced budget amend- future generations. Today the STC operates principal, and ROTC Major Steve Jones, serve ment. twelve nature preserves which are all open to as witnesses to the impact she made in the the public and the new Superior Greenway f lives of others. Nature Trail, which is a project that leads the HONORING THE LIFE OF CALVIN Rae’Laurin, a beloved neighbor and family way in environmental maintenance, preserva- FREDERICK ‘‘FRED’’ DAVIS friend, is survived by her parents, Marlene J. tion, and education. The STC has imple- Strongs (Benjamin) and Deacon Eddie R. mented a long term plan for the nature pre- Gates; siblings Darryl L. Snipe, Anstrice Epps, serves which will ensure that future genera- HON. TRENT KELLY OF MISSISSIPPI Quinn Williams, Dominique Robinson, Traci tions will be able to enjoy them. Our natural Strongs, and Deja R. Shaw; grandparents, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES resources are invaluable and must continue to Eddie and Willie Faye Gates, Ernest and Jean be cherished and protected. The Superior Thursday, July 7, 2016 Carter, and Joyce Strongs. A celebration of Township Chapter has worked tirelessly with Mr. KELLY of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I Ms. Gate’s life was held in Dunn, North Caro- local stakeholders to ensure environmental rise today to recognize the life of Calvin lina, at the Veterans Park on June 7, 2016, to harmony and preservation in Superior Town- Fredrick ‘‘Fred’’ Davis of Tupelo, Mississippi. commemorate our hometown hero. ship and beyond, and for that we owe them a Mr. Davis was a committed husband and fam- Rae’Laurin, like so many of our military great deal of gratitude. ily man, a remarkable athlete and coach, and members, made the ultimate sacrifice for her Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me a pillar of the Tupelo community. For 52 country: giving her life for the safety of others. in recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Su- years, he was married to Councilwoman Nettie This tragic event at Fort Hood not only im- perior Township Chapter of the Southeast Davis, and together they worked tirelessly to pacted the Gates family, but also many others Michigan Land Conservancy. We look forward improve their beloved hometown of Tupelo. across the nation, and serves as a reminder of to their next twenty five years of success and When reflecting on Mr. Davis’s life, his love the sacrifices made by members of the mili- beyond. of family, sports, and community immediately tary, both abroad and at home. Ms. Gates’

VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:04 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A07JY8.008 E07JYPT1 smartinez on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS E1056 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks July 7, 2016 bright smile and devotion to this nation will as loyal defenders in public, and honest bro- FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GEN- surely never be forgotten. kers in private. Del Latta was both a loyal de- ERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIA- f fender, and an honest broker. TIONS ACT, 2017 Del was eminently likeable, even if you dis- TRIBUTE TO K–9 DOBIES AND OF- agreed with him on policy. He possessed a SPEECH OF FICER THANH ‘‘TOMMY’’ NGUYEN truly collaborative nature, enabling him to work HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS with other Members to achieve landmark legis- OF FLORIDA HON. DAVID W. JOLLY lation that would shape the party’s platform. In IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF FLORIDA 1981 Mr. Latta shepherded passage of an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES economic package in the House for a new Wednesday, July 6, 2016 President, Ronald Reagan. He led with his Thursday, July 7, 2016 The House in Committee of the Whole amiable charm, keen wit, and resilience, all House on the state of the Union had under Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to rec- characteristics that I also see in his son, our consideration the bill (H.R. 5485) making ap- ognize Dobies and Officer Thanh ‘‘Tommy’’ colleague, Congressman BOB LATTA. propriations for financial services and gen- Nguyen for their participation in the USPCA In 1988 the Congressman chose to end his eral government for the fiscal year ending National Detector Dog Certification and Field congressional career on his own terms. At the September 30, 2017, and for other purposes: Trials. time, he served as Dean of the Ohio Congres- Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Chair, this body will The USPCA National Detector Dog Certifi- sional delegation. Flash forward twenty years vote on amendments to H.R. 5485, Financial cation and Field Trials was held in Philadel- and Del’s son BOB sought the same seat, Services and General Government Appropria- phia and comprised of more than 100 police Ohio’s Fifth Congressional district. tions Act, 2017. Included in these amend- and K–9 teams throughout the United States Congressman Latta’s passion and commit- ments was Amendment Number 17, which and Canada that compete for national certifi- ment to his country and his government de- would have struck language from the under- cation and individual awards. serve recognition and the utmost respect. Del lying legislation that delays the implementation The team of Dobies and Officer Nguyen re- was a man who served faithfully with a hum- of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ceived stellar marks across the board. They ble spirit that embodies the Midwest. It was (CFPB) recently proposed rule regulating pay- finished in third for the Room Search, first for my privilege to have served with him in the day loans. While I will not be present to vote the Region Team, and took home the ‘‘Top U.S. House at a time when there were but a on the adoption of this amendment, I will vote Dog’’ award for first place in the nation of nar- handful of veteran Members. He was always against this measure. cotics detection. respectful and of good humor. It is an unfortunate reality that many people Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize the Tarpon Over the past several weeks I have thought live paycheck-to-paycheck in this country. For Springs team of Dobies and Officer Thanh about those weekly trips from Washington to these individuals, any unexpected bill, whether ‘‘Tommy’’ Nguyen for receiving high honors in Ohio that I would often share with Del Latta, it is a car repair or a medical emergency, can this national competition. It makes me proud and how often he spoke fondly about his wife wreak havoc. Short-term, small-dollar loans to hear that our K–9 team is well trained and Rose Mary, and his daughter Rose Ellen, and are essential resources for those who need making Pinellas County safe, and I ask that our colleague BOB. How proud he would be just a little help overcoming these types of un- this body join me in recognizing the efforts of today of his five grandchildren and three expected expenses. Likewise, just as these Dobies and Officer Nguyen. great-grandchildren. small-dollar, short-term loans are essential to f We offer them our prayers and hope that many working-class American families, pro- they find comfort in the wonderful memories of tecting consumers from unscrupulous actors is REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF our dear colleague and fellow Ohioan, Del also imperative. DELBERT ‘‘DEL’’ LATTA Latta. However, I fear that in trying to protect con- f sumers, the CFPB’s proposed rule will cut off HON. MARCY KAPTUR IN RECOGNITION OF NICK access to short-term credit without providing a OF OHIO STRICKLEN necessary alternative. By some estimates, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES current proposed rule will force nearly 80 per- Thursday, July 7, 2016 cent of payday lenders to shutter their doors. HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI Ironically, in trying to protect consumers, the OF OHIO Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to CFPB’s efforts to regulate payday lenders will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES commemorate my former colleague, retired end up hurting consumers and their ability to Congressman Delbert ‘‘Del’’ Latta, who Thursday, July 7, 2016 access much needed sources of credit. passed away this past May in Bowling Green, Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- Mr. Chair, it is for this reason that I oppose Ohio. ognize Nick Stricklen of Lexington High School the implementation of the CFPB’s proposed Congressman Latta honorably served the for winning the Boys 3200 Meter Run at the rulemaking at this time and will vote against people of Ohio’s 5th Congressional district for Division II Ohio High School Track and Field the amendment preventing the rule’s delay. I thirty years, and was a pillar of the Republican State Championship. will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that Party, while making friends on both sides of An achievement such as this certainly dean appropriate balance is struck: ensure work- the aisle. He served as close friend and advi- serves recognition. The Ohio High School Ath- ing-class Americans have unencumbered ac- sor to Presidents Nixon and Reagan. Del was letic Association has enabled talented teams cess to vital short-term, small-dollar credit, a man of strong convictions, helping him to and individuals to earn state titles since its while protecting consumers from unscrupulous quietly and steadily serve as a leader of his founding in 1907. Throughout this time, the actors in the industry. party for nearly three decades. champions of OHSAA state level competitions f Before winning his seat in the House of have represented the highest achieving and Representatives, Del served as a member of most talented athletes in Ohio. Each year PERSONAL EXPLANATION the Ohio Senate for five years. During his these elite competitors join the ranks of those early tenure in the U.S. House he served on who embody Ohio’s proud history of athletic HON. MIKE BOST the Rules Committee, but after 16 years his success. OF ILLINOIS sterling reputation for honesty and integrity Nick’s victory caps a tremendous season. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES earned him a spot on the Judiciary Committee This sort of achievement is earned only Thursday, July 7, 2016 in 1974. through many hours of practice, perspiration His time on the Judiciary Committee coin- and hard work. He has set a new standard for Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, I was not present cided with the Watergate hearings, perhaps future athletes to reach. Everyone at Lex- to vote on the following roll call votes. On Roll the most challenging constitutional period of ington High School can be extremely proud of Call 351, I would have voted YEA. On Roll recent history. Del Latta was steadfast and his performance. Call 352, I would have voted Yea. On Roll Call resolute during this trying time, serving as a On behalf of the citizens of Ohio’s 12th 353, I would have voted Yea. On Roll Call loyal defender of a President under siege. For Congressional District, I congratulate Nick 354, I would have voted Yea. On Roll Call those of us who have been through similar pe- Stricklen on his state championship. I wish 355, I would have voted Yea. On Roll Call riods of history in this chamber, a President him continued success in both his athletic and 356, I would have voted Yea. On Roll Call truly values Members of Congress who serve academic endeavors. 357, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call

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She is a val- have the same opportunities as Oregonians 364, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call ued member of Pinellas County and I ask that like Erin. That is where Congress should be 365, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call this body rise in recognizing her efforts. focused, not trying to dismantle important con- 366, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call f sumer protections for American’s retirement 367, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call savings. H.J. RES. 88 368, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call Mr. Speaker, I voted against H.J. Res. 88 369, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call and will continue to support the implementa- 370, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call HON. SUZANNE BONAMICI tion of this rule. 371, I would have voted Yea. On Roll Call OF OREGON f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 372, I would have voted Yea. On Roll Call IN RECOGNITION OF THE LEX- 373, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call Thursday, July 7, 2016 INGTON HIGH SCHOOL BOYS 374, I would have voted Nay. On Roll Call Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I would like to TRACK AND FIELD TEAM 375, I would have voted Yea. On Roll Call express my opposition to H.J. Res. 88, a mis- 376, I would have voted Yea. guided attempt to prevent the implementation HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI f of the Department of Labor’s Conflict of Inter- OF OHIO est rule that will safeguard Americans by mak- CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EDINA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing sure financial advisors are acting in the ULTIMATE FRISBEE TEAM Thursday, July 7, 2016 best interest of their clients. Too many people in Oregon and across our country are strug- Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- HON. ERIK PAULSEN gling to get by. I know the sacrifice that is in- ognize Lexington High School for winning the OF MINNESOTA volved in each and every dollar they set aside Boys 4 × 800 Meter Relay at the Division II IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to contribute to their retirement. Ohio High School Track and Field State Championship. Thursday, July 7, 2016 The Department of Labor didn’t rush this rule. They took time, listened to perspectives For over a century, the Ohio High School Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, I want to con- from the industry as well as consumer protec- Athletic Association has provided Ohio’s finest gratulate the Edina Ultimate Frisbee team for tion groups, considered thousands of com- student athletes with the opportunity to earn a winning the State High School Championship. ments, and made thoughtful changes to make state championship. Each year young men The Hornets won 13–7 in the final round sure the conflict of interest rule is workable. and women spend countless hours practicing last month to win their first state champion- That’s a good thing. Retirement products are and training in an effort to join the ranks of ship. Their hard work and dedication helped complex, and our constituents should be able Ohio’s elite athletes. Although many strive to them earn their state-wide title in one of the to rely on the advice of professionals and be earn the title of state champion, only a select fastest-growing sports in the nation. confident that those advisors are doing what’s few will achieve this honor. Ultimate Frisbee is first and foremost a team best for the retiree. Lexington’s victory caps a tremendous sea- sport and Hornet coach Nate Wohl did an out- Instead of voting to eliminate the rule, Con- son. This sort of achievement stands as a tes- standing job leading this dedicated and self- gress should be focused on the challenges tament to their hard work. Nick Stricklen, Bai- less team. working families have balancing their respon- ley Stach, Ryan Johnston, and Forest Volz Every one of the players displayed perse- sibilities at home and in the workplace. have set a new standard for future athletes to verance, diligence, and cooperation that will That is what my home state of Oregon is reach. Everyone at Lexington High School can aid them both on and off the field of play. I doing. be extremely proud of their performance. want to recognize their commitment not only In January, employees in Oregon started On behalf of the citizens of Ohio’s 12th to their sport, but to being leaders in the class- earning sick days they can use when they get Congressional District, I congratulate Lex- room as well as in their community. They are sick, or to care for a sick child or family mem- ington High School’s Boys Track and Field on setting a great example of what all student ber. They can access sick time for preventive their state championship. I wish their team athletes should strive to be as young role health care, or in cases of domestic violence. continued success in their future athletic en- models. About half a million workers benefit from this deavors. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to represent such law, helping make Oregon a better place to f a talented group of athletes. The coaches, live, work, and thrive. Workers shouldn’t have RECOGNIZING WADE HENDERSON parents, and fans of the Hornets team are to choose between paying their rent or taking OF THE LEADERSHIP CON- very proud. Congratulations again to the Edina care of themselves or loved ones. FERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN Hornets Ultimate Frisbee team. Stories and personal experiences dem- RIGHTS f onstrate the importance of paid sick days. I would like to tell the story of Erin, who lives in TRIBUTE TO STACY SHELTON Portland, Oregon. To make ends meet, Erin HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN OF MASSACHUSETTS works 75 hours a week at two part-time jobs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. DAVID W. JOLLY as a seamstress. She said, ‘‘Before the law Thursday, July 7, 2016 OF FLORIDA passed, if I missed one day of work I wouldn’t IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES get paid and I couldn’t afford to pay my bills. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to Recently, I woke up barely able to move and recognize Wade Henderson for his leadership Thursday, July 7, 2016 was in so much pain that I knew I needed and decades-long commitment to civil and Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to rec- help and couldn’t go to work. After a few min- human rights. I have been privileged to know ognize Stacy Shelton for being awarded utes of stress and panic I realized that I had Wade for over 30 years, having worked to- Teacher of the Year by the Kiwanis Club of paid sick days. I called in and was able to stay gether on immigration and refugee issues Largo and Mid-Pinellas. home to get the care I needed to recover. It’s when I was a congressional aide with Con- The Largo and Mid-Pinellas Kiwanis, the a great relief to be able to have the safety net gressman Joe Moakley (MA). He has always largest and oldest leadership organization of paid sick days. I know that I don’t have to been an advocate for and champion of the service for teens, helps teach graduating make myself even sicker and feel worse just most vulnerable among us, and he was a gen- members of the Largo Key Club leadership because I will miss out on my next paycheck. erous mentor to me on the importance of pro- skills, helps them with service projects, and I’m so grateful for sick days because I live tecting and advancing human rights. also offers college scholarship money. paycheck-to-paycheck and no longer have to On July 19th, the Coalition on Human Ms. Shelton was awarded Teacher of the worry about my finances when I am sick for a Needs will honor Wade for his years of ex- Year on June 9th, 2016 by the Head of the day or two.’’ traordinary leadership, advocacy and orga- Sponsored Youth Committee of the club, Dr. It’s time our workplace practices address nizing. He is a giant of the civil rights move- Regina Bennet. Ms. Shelton is a member of the needs of our workforce. Oregon took a ment, mentioned—rightfully so—alongside

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Shortly afterwards, Diner, formerly Ellen’s Cafe, which was lo- most effective advocacy organizations for civil David was offered the position of Deputy cated across from City Hall for over 20 years rights and human rights in America. Mayor of New York by then Mayor Abraham and was a popular gathering place for many During my years in office, I have been Beam. He then secured the position of City NYC mayors. Ellen’s started a ritual where the proud to work with The Leadership Con- Clerk which he held for ten years from 1975 Mayors would come in on their birthdays and ference under Wade’s leadership on many to 1985. On his third run for the office, my Ellen’s would donate their favorite pie to char- issues of mutual interest and concern. Under cherished colleague was elected as Manhat- ity. In honor of this long-standing charitable his tenure, The Leadership Conference has tan’s Borough President in 1985. In 1989, tradition, Stardust Diner owner Ellen Hart- worked to secure the rights of women, com- David ran for Mayor of New York and became Sturm will be donating pies to David’s favorite munities of color, ex-offenders, people with the 106th Mayor of the City of New York. charity the Association to Benefit Children. disabilities, and the LGBTQ community. He My valued friend was the first African-Amer- Mr. Speaker, with great love and admiration has fought tirelessly to meet the needs of low- ican Mayor of New York City. He was truly a for my brother loyal friend and outstanding income people, recognizing that freedom from peacekeeper amid the racial tensions that public servant, I ask you and my colleagues to want is a human right. He believes and fights erupted throughout the city, testing his ability join me in celebrating the 89th Birthday of to make sure that everyone is included in the as a municipal leader. He presided over a de- David Dinkins, in recognition of all of his ac- rights and benefits of our democracy, that all crease in crime in the city, balanced the city complishments. budget by turning a $1.8 billion dollar deficit have a place at the table. So much of this is f now possible today because of Wade, his into a $200 million surplus and maintained ra- commitment and dedication. cial peace after the Rodney King verdict MARWAN ALTAWEEL As the President and CEO of The Leader- sparked rioting in a number of cities across ship Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation. Under his watch, New York City HON. ED PERLMUTTER Wade has been a constant source of trusted had many great successes including the his- OF COLORADO toric New York City Tribute to Nelson leadership, an unending recipient of our admi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ration, and an enduring guide on our path to- Mandela—‘‘Safe Streets, Safe City: Cops and ward making this a more just and equal nation Kids,’’ the revitalization of Times Square, and Thursday, July 7, 2016 for all. It is my honor today to recognize Wade the historic agreement which has kept the US Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise Henderson for his dedication and skill and to Open Tennis Championship in New York City. today to recognize and applaud Marwan thank him for all he has done on behalf of jus- His administration created Fashion Week, Altaweel for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge tice and on behalf of our nation. I thank him Restaurant Week, and Broadway on Broad- Service Ambassadors for Youth award. for his service, and I wish him nothing but the way, which are events that New Yorkers and Marwan Altaweel is an 8th grader at Drake best in his well-deserved retirement. tourists continue to enjoy. In 2015, The Munic- Middle School and received this award be- f ipal Building was renamed in his honor to the cause his determination and hard work have David N. Dinkins Municipal Building. allowed him to overcome adversities. IN CELEBRATION OF MAYOR My highly respected colleague’s accomplish- The dedication demonstrated by Marwan DAVID N. DINKINS 89TH BIRTHDAY ments lie not only in politics but also through Altaweel is exemplary of the type of achieve- his educational career. David accepted a pro- ment that can be attained with hard work and HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL fessorship at Columbia University’s Center for perseverance. It is essential students at all OF NEW YORK Urban Research and Policy at Columbia Uni- levels strive to make the most of their edu- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES versity’s School of International and Public Af- cation and develop a work ethic which will fairs in 1994 after his role as Mayor. He Thursday, July 7, 2016 guide them for the rest of their lives. serves on the school’s advisory board and has I extend my deepest congratulations to Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to hosted the David N. Dinkins Leadership & Marwan Altaweel for winning the Arvada celebrate the 89th Birthday of Mayor David N. Public Policy Forum for nearly 20 years. In Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth Dinkins. Let me congratulate my beloved 2003, the David N. Dinkins Professorship award. I have no doubt he will exhibit the Brother and partner in government and in life Chair in the Practice of Urban & Public Affairs same dedication and character in all of his fu- and colleague for his dedication and commit- was established at Columbia University. The ture accomplishments. ment to New York City and for all of his great David Dinkins Archives & Oral History collec- f accomplishments over the many years that I tion was opened by Columbia University Li- have known him. He has truly made a historic brary in December 2015 in his honor. In 2013, FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GEN- imprint on the city that we know and love he released his memoir A Mayor’s Life: Gov- ERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIA- today. erning New York’s Gorgeous Mosaic, which TIONS ACT, 2017 To speak of all his accomplishments and in chronicles the life of this devoted public serv- recognition of his birthday on July 10, 2016, it ant as a New Yorker who remains in love with SPEECH OF is only right to begin with the day of his birth, this city. HON. LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER on July 10, 1927, in Trenton, New Jersey. David, my fondest comrade and greatest OF NEW YORK After graduating from high school, he enlisted supporter, is also involved with many organi- in the Marine Corps at 18 and served briefly zations and a board member of several non- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in World War II. My fellow veteran was the re- profit and charitable groups. He is a proud Wednesday, July 6, 2016 cipient of The Congressional Gold Medal for member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He is The House in Committee of the Whole his service as a Montford Point Marine in the a founding member of the Black & Puerto House on the state of the Union had under United States Marine Corps, during World War Rican Legislative Caucus of New York State, consideration the bill (H.R. 5485) making ap- II. After the war, he attended Howard Univer- the Council of Black Elected Democrats of propriations for financial services and gen- sity, graduating with a B.A. in Mathematics in New York State and The One Hundred Black eral government for the fiscal year ending 1950. David then moved to New York City and Men. He was also vice president of the United September 30, 2017, and for other purposes: received a law degree from the Brooklyn Law States Conference of Mayors, and is a mem- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Chair, I rise today in School in 1956. ber-at-large of the Black Leadership Forum. support of Congressman GRAYSON’s amend- My esteemed colleague’s political career David serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Na- ment number 12 to the FY 2017 Financial began when he joined the Carver Club head- tional Black Leadership Commission on AIDS Services and General Government Appropria- ed by J. Raymond Jones, known as the Har- and the Constituency for Africa (CFA), and tions legislation. This pro-woman amendment lem Fox. At that time, David befriended three serves on the steering committee of the Asso- would strike a long-standing and unfair policy up and coming New York politicians: Basil ciation for a Better New York and the New rider from the underlying legislation that re- Paterson, Sr., Percy Sutton, and me. We later York Urban League Advisory Council. He is on stricts abortion coverage for those ensured became known as the ‘‘Gang of Four’’ and to- the board of New York City Global Partners under the Federal Employees Health Benefits

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Unlike other IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES employees in the private sector, however, fed- ognize Emily Richards of Ohio Northern Uni- Thursday, July 7, 2016 eral employees are unable to access health versity for winning the Women’s 800-Meter plans that cover abortion. Run in the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, on July 6, and Field Championships. 2016, I was unavoidably detained and missed Since 1983, Congress has adopted lan- An achievement such as this certainly de- guage through the Financial Services Appro- one vote. Had I been present, I would have serves recognition. The National Collegiate voted ‘‘aye’’ on Roll Call No. 368. priations bill to eliminate abortion coverage Athletic Association has enabled talented f from FEHPB except in narrow circumstances teams and individuals to earn national titles when the pregnancy would endanger the since its founding in 1906. Throughout this DECODING DYSLEXIA GROUP woman’s life or the pregnancy resulted from time, the champions of NCAA national level VISITS CAPITOL HILL rape or incest. I rise in support of this amend- competitions have represented the highest ment because it is time to end this prohibition. achieving and most talented athletes in the HON. DAVID SCHWEIKERT Every woman in the United States is entitled country. Each year these elite competitors join to access the constitutionally-protected full the ranks of those who embody the nation’s OF ARIZONA range of pregnancy-related care, including proud history of athletic success. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES abortion. No employer—including the federal Emily’s victory caps a tremendous season. Thursday, July 7, 2016 government—should be allowed to dictate how This sort of achievement is earned only Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Speaker, on July 11 an employee uses health care coverage or through many hours of practice, perspiration through 13th, 2016 youth leaders and families interfere in the benefits an employee chooses and hard work. She has set a new standard from Decoding Dyslexia will be hosting and to access. Congress should respect the health for future athletes to reach. Everyone at Ohio participating in programs on Capitol Hill to care decisions of each federal employee and Northern University can be extremely proud of raise awareness, encouraging our nation to treat women with the dignity and compassion her performance. #SayDyslexia. Congress extends a warm wel- they rightly deserve. On behalf of the citizens of Ohio’s 12th come. I urge my colleagues to support this impor- Congressional District, I congratulate Emily tant amendment to protect the rights of federal Richards on her National Championship. I f employees and their right to access constitu- wish her continued success in both her ath- POLICE SERGEANT TERESA tionally-protected medical services. For too letic and academic endeavors. DOUGHERTY long, this body has interfered with the difficult f decisions women should make with their fami- 2016 CONGRESSIONAL ART lies, their doctors and whomever they choose. HON. ED PERLMUTTER COMPETITION It’s time that Congress lifts this ban and all OF COLORADO bans on abortion coverage not just in FEHBP. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. JOE WILSON Thursday, July 7, 2016 OF SOUTH CAROLINA f Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES today to recognize and applaud Federal TRIBUTE TO DAWN FOUNTAIN Thursday, July 7, 2016 Heights Police Sergeant Teresa (Terry) Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speak- Dougherty for her decades of service to the HON. DAVID W. JOLLY er, on June 23, the House of Representatives City of Federal Heights, Colorado. For over hosted the reception for the 2016 Congres- thirty years, Sergeant Dougherty has been ac- OF FLORIDA sional Art Competition. I was honored to serve tive within the community and the police de- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as the Republican co-chair for the competition, partment serving constituents of Federal alongside Congresswoman KYRSTEN SINEMA Heights. Thursday, July 7, 2016 of Arizona. Sergeant Dougherty started her career in Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to rec- For the past 34 years, the Congressional Art 1985 in the dispatch center within the Federal ognize Dawn Fountain for the care and kind- Competition has inspired and encouraged Heights Police Department. From there she ness she provides to victims of domestic vio- young artists around the country. The competi- served in various parts of the department in- lence. tion was very personal to me. With my mother cluding service in records and code enforce- being an artist, I understand how important it ment. She worked her way up to a patrol offi- Ms. Fountain is a founder of Purses and is to give proper recognition to these talents cer and detective, finally ending a stellar ca- Love, a non-profit organization in aid of the who are making a difference in society reer at her current rank of Sergeant. The po- victims of domestic violence; but first and fore- through arts. lice chief of Federal Heights credits her with a most, she is also a survivor. Alongside her I was grateful to invite local artist Yvonne rare ability to bring calmness to chaos in a va- mother and other volunteers, she helps the Kinney, from North Augusta, to Washington to riety of circumstances. Sergeant Dougherty victims and their children by providing them speak to the students about her work and continuously brought passion to her job and with essential items when they arrive at shel- highlight the importance of giving back to your made a personal investment in the employees ters after leaving their home. The sad reality community. within the police department. Her hard work exists that these victims often come to shel- The winner from the Second District was and dedication each and every day to making ters empty-handed, as many have to flee their Mary Aufuldish from Cardinal Newman High the community of Federal Heights a great homes in a hurry. Ms. Fountain provides, School in the Midlands. I look forward to see- place to live and work demonstrate her exem- among other things, clothing, kids’ toys and ing her winning piece, America the Beautiful, plary work as a police officer in Federal medical supplies for the victims of abuse. every day for the next year as it hangs in the Heights. Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize Ms. Foun- Cannon tunnel. I am humbled to represent all I extend my deepest thanks to Sergeant tain for the work she does for these survivors. of the young talent in the Second Congres- Dougherty for her service to the community. I thank her for her efforts and I ask that this sional District. Thank you for your continuous dedication to body join me in recognizing her for all that she In conclusion, God Bless Our Troops and serving the people and the City of Federal provides to our community. may the President by his actions never forget Heights, Colorado.

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Mr. Speaker, I want to con- who is retiring as the Executive Director of the Pinellas County as a Sunstar Paramedic. gratulate the Edina Rugby Football Club for Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory after Mr. Fogarty has recently received the 2016 years of service to the renewable energy in- winning their fifth consecutive Minnesota High Commissioner Morroni Award of Excellence in School State Championship. dustry in Colorado. EMS at the 21st annual Appreciation Lunch- The Colorado Energy Research The Hornets capped off their perfect season eon for Emergency Personnel. Mr. Fogarty Collaboratory is a research consortium among by defeating Minnetonka in the state finals by has worked with Sunstar Paramedics for 11 four leading research institutions—University a score of 22–10. Tries scored by Nick Bloom, years and has been an emergency medical of Colorado Boulder, Colorado School of Evan Holm, and Will Hoff, combined with a technician and a paramedic since 2012. Mines, Colorado State University, and the Na- suffocating defensive effort, helped carry the Mr. Fogarty’s recent actions won him this tional Renewable Energy Laboratory. Through Edina side to victory. Theo Madison added to prestigious award when he saved the life of a Mr. Hiller’s leadership, the Collaboratory the scoring as well, contributing two conver- Clearwater resident who went into cardiac ar- worked with industry partners, public agencies, sion kicks and a penalty kick. It was truly a rest in his home. Thanks to Mr. Fogarty’s deci- and other universities and colleges to develop team effort and all of the Edina players should sive thinking and years of medical experience and advance the commercialization of renew- be proud of their accomplishment. the resident’s rare heart condition was quickly able energy technologies, energy manage- Mr. Speaker, it is not often that a team can identified and the man’s life was saved. ment systems, and energy efficiency tech- sustain success the way the Edina Rugby Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize Chris- nologies. These efforts have supported tre- Football Club has over the past five seasons, topher Fogarty’s service and dedication to mendous economic growth in Colorado and but their achievement is a testament to the Pinellas County. He has saved one citizen, the nation with renewable energy industries. dedication of both Coach Mark Dalton and all and I am sure he will save many more. I ask They educate our nation’s finest energy re- of his players. that this body join me in recognizing the ac- searchers, technicians, and workforce. Balancing school and athletics is not an tions of Mr. Fogarty for Pinellas County. Mr. Hiller started his career in 1991 as a easy task and these student athletes work f partner at the Don, Hiller & Galleher, P.C. law hard in the classroom and continually strive to PERSONAL EXPLANATION firm. He served in this position for twelve improve their craft. The families, teachers, years and then moved to public service. In friends, and the entire community are very 2005, Mr. Hiller began working for then-Sen- proud of the Edina Rugby Football Club. Way HON. BILL FOSTER ator Ken Salazar as his State Issues Counsel. to go Hornets. OF ILLINOIS In 2007, Mr. Hiller became Executive Director IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the Colorado Energy Research f Thursday, July 7, 2016 Collaboratory and focused on advanced clean Mr. FOSTER. Mr. Speaker, during Roll Call energy in biofuels, solar and wind tech- IN RECOGNITION OF THE COLUM- Vote number 370 on H.R. 5485, I mistakenly nologies. The Collaboratory also expanded re- BUS ACADEMY BOYS TRACK AND recorded my vote as no when I should have search to include energy systems integration FIELD TEAM voted yes. and carbon management cutting across re- f newable and traditional energy technologies. HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI Through his time at the Collaboratory, Mr. Hill- WAYZATA BOYS TRACK AND er continuously brought his passion, hard work OF OHIO FIELD TEAM WIN and dedication each and every day to growing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the renewable energy community and we will forever be grateful. Thursday, July 7, 2016 HON. ERIK PAULSEN OF MINNESOTA I extend my deepest thanks to David Hiller Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for his service to the renewable energy community and wish him all the best in his future ognize Columbus Academy for winning the Thursday, July 7, 2016 Boys 4 × 200 Meter Relay at the Division III endeavors. I thank him for his continuous Ohio High School Track and Field State Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to dedication to serving the people and the State Championship. congratulate the Wayzata High School Boys of Colorado. Track and Field team on winning their second For over a century, the Ohio High School f consecutive Minnesota State championship. Athletic Association has provided Ohio’s finest The Trojans defended their title led by first TRIBUTE TO JAMES PREVITERA student athletes with the opportunity to earn a place finishes by Jaret Carpenter in both the state championship. Each year young men sixteen-hundred meter and thirty-two-hundred and women spend countless hours practicing HON. DAVID W. JOLLY meter races, and strong performances from and training in an effort to join the ranks of OF FLORIDA the relay teams. Wayzata used a complete Ohio’s elite athletes. Although many strive to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES team effort to win the title and I commend earn the title of state champion, only a select Thursday, July 7, 2016 them for their accomplishments. few will achieve this honor. These athletes spend countless hours prac- Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to rec- Columbus Academy’s victory caps a tre- ticing to reach their personal bests. They un- ognize James Previtera, St. Petersburg Assist- mendous season. This sort of achievement derstand the value of teamwork and sports- ant Chief of Police. stands as a testament to their hard work. manship to not only become better athletes Mr. Previtera is a St. Petersburg native and Logan Baker, Michael Kusi, Kevin Boyce, and and teammates, but better students, members recently joined the local law enforcement divi- Jerome Buckner have set a new standard for of the community, and future leaders. sion. In 1983, as a senior in high school, he future athletes to reach. Everyone at Colum- In addition, they manage their time to excel went on a ride-along with local law enforce- bus Academy can be extremely proud of their at school, as well as fulfill and exceed family ment, sparking his passion for police work. performance. and social obligations. Subsequently he joined the force and in 1986 On behalf of the citizens of Ohio’s 12th Mr. Speaker, the families, teachers, friends, he became a deputy for the Pinellas County Congressional District, I congratulate Colum- and our entire community are very proud of Sheriff’s Department where he would serve for bus Academy Boys Track and Field on their these high school champs. Congratulations to 11 years. state championship. I wish their team contin- the Wayzata High School Boys Track and In 1997, Mr. Previtera left the Sheriff’s Of- ued success in their future athletic endeavors. Field team on a job well done. fice and joined the U.S. Secret Service. He

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KEATING success. of the Training Divisions before becoming a OF MASSACHUSETTS Logan’s victory caps a tremendous season. colonel in command for the county’s jail facili- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This sort of achievement is earned only ties. through many hours of practice, perspiration It was in this role within the jail facilities that Thursday, July 7, 2016 and hard work. He has set a new standard for Mr. Previtera observed first-hand how mental Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to future athletes to reach. Everyone at Colum- illness can induce criminal activity and how recognize the 100th anniversary of the bus Academy can be extremely proud of his the justice system had previously neglected Pocasset Golf Club. performance. this reality. He started a program to transfer In search of a place to gather, socialize and On behalf of the citizens of Ohio’s 12th mentally-ill inmates from jail into treatment unwind during the summer months, the Club’s Congressional District, I congratulate Logan centers where they could be treated effec- founders purchased the Overlook House in Baker on his state championship. I wish him tively. Pocasset, Massachusetts in 1916. Initially de- continued success in both his athletic and In 2014, when a new police chief in St. Pe- signed as a nine-hole golf course, the found- academic endeavors. tersburg gave Mr. Previtera the chance to join ers contracted Donald Ross, widely regarded f the police department as an assistant chief in as one of the premier architects of golf charge of the Investigative Services bureau courses, to outline the next nine holes. Mr. HONORING DR. DAVID CASH down there, he jumped at the opportunity. It Ross’ vision produced the renowned course gave him the chance to finally return to his we know today, spanning acres of Pocasset’s HON. LOIS CAPPS home city and make a difference where it all scenic landscape. OF CALIFORNIA started. Like so many clubs of its time, the Pocasset IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize Mr. Golf Club was hit hard by the Great Depres- Thursday, July 7, 2016 Previtera for the work he has done for Pinellas sion. Its owners at the time made the difficult County and for our nation. I ask that this body decision to sell the club in subsequent years. Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in join me in thanking Mr. Previtera for his con- It was during this period that the holes along honor of Dr. Dave Cash, who is retiring as the tinued outstanding service. Hen Cove were converted to houses. The club Superintendent of the Santa Barbara Unified f persevered and, in 1951, was acquired by Wil- School District after 28 years of public service liam Carr. Under his careful stewardship, the as an educator. DEFAZIO AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5485 club began to modernize—including the con- After graduating from the University of Cali- struction of the clubhouse that is still in use fornia at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1979, Dr. HON. MIKE COFFMAN today. The current ownership group, Pocasset Cash attended law school at Willamette Uni- OF COLORADO Golf Club, Inc., purchased the club in 1989 versity where he received his Juris Doctorate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and in the intervening years they upgraded the in 1981. In 1990, he received his Master’s De- Thursday, July 7, 2016 clubhouse to its current form. With over 350 gree in Education at UCSB and in 2008, his Mr. COFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I cosponsored members, the Club continues to provide its Doctorate of Education from the University of this amendment today because I do not sup- members with a place to recreate and relax. Southern California (USC). He has served as port the continuation of the Selective Service The Pocasset Golf Club will remain a pillar an educator and administrator for several local System at all—for anyone—regardless of gen- in the community through its tireless commit- schools in the Santa Barbara School District der. This is why I have either introduced or co- ment to developing the next generation of including Peabody Elementary School, Goleta sponsored legislation to do away with it every golfers. That development includes the club’s Valley Junior High, and Dos Pueblos High year that I have been here in Congress. junior golf program that attracts prospective School. The United States military has been entirely players early, emphasizing the fundamentals Dr. Cash’s distinguished career as an edu- dependent on an all-volunteer force since the of this life sport. The Pocasset Golf Club also cator and leader in the Central Coast of Cali- end of the draft in 1973. Since then we have offers itself as the home course for the Bourne fornia is only preceded by his commitment to fostered the most professional and elite fight- High School golf team, where student athletes his students and the local Santa Barbara coming force in the history of this country. We compete at the club, at no charge, against re- munity. His leadership has helped generations should commit to keeping it that way. gional rivals. Finally, the membership annually of students successfully prepare for the future. Since 1973, the United States has engaged supports the Massachusetts based Oiumet Over the years, Dave’s passion and tireless multiple operations around the world including Scholarship Fund that provides student tuition efforts have succeeded in closing achievement the Gulf War and later two large-scale oper- for high school caddies to attend college. gaps and improving student outcomes at all ations simultaneously. At the height of Oper- Mr. Speaker, I am proud to recognize the grade levels. ations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom Pocasset Golf Club on its 100th anniversary. During his tenure, Dr. Cash committed his nearly 300,000 American volunteer service- I ask that my colleagues join me in commemo- career to addressing inequality in our edu- men and women deployed to support these rating the Club’s centennial and look forward cation system by seeking to hire more Span- missions. We have done all of this without en- to a future of continued prosperity. ish-speaking teachers and invest in resources for English language learner students to enacting a draft. f Retired General Carter Ham, Chairman of sure all Central Coast students have the op- the Commission on the Future of the Army, re- IN RECOGNITION OF LOGAN portunity to achieve. Furthermore, Dr. Cash’s cently said that ‘‘[A] return to the draft or other BAKER ingenuity and forward thinking mindset have model of compulsory military service will not earned the respect and admiration of so many yield the quality Army the nation requires.’’ HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI in the educational field. His restorative justice And in his testimony to the Senate Armed OF OHIO initiative, aimed at reducing suspensions and Services Committee, Secretary of Defense IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES keeping kids in the classroom, and initiatives Ash Carter said, and I quote, ‘‘the . . . thing to better integrate technology into the class- Thursday, July 7, 2016 I’d like to say about the Selective Service Sys- room are just two of his many accomplish- tem and the draft generally is this: We want to Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- ments as Superintendent of the Santa Barbara pick our people. We don’t want people forced ognize Logan Baker for winning the Boys 800 School District, and they serve as a testament to serve us.’’ Meter Run in the Division III Ohio High School to his dedication to his students’ success. I agree with General Ham and with the Sec- Track and Field State Championship. Dr. Cash’s work and influence have been retary of Defense. An achievement such as this certainly de- immeasurable and will continue to have an ef- This is why I ask my esteemed colleagues serves recognition. The Ohio High School Ath- fect on his students and the entire Santa Bar- to join me in supporting this amendment to re- letic Association has enabled talented teams bara community for many years to come. I am move funding from this outdated system and and individuals to earn state titles since its pleased to recognize Dr. Cash’s countless route it instead toward payment of the national founding in 1907. Throughout this time, the achievements and would like to express my debt. champions of OHSAA state level competitions upmost gratitude for his service to his students

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The Renegades C side—affectionately IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, July 7, 2016 called the ‘‘Silver’’ side due the age of some Thursday, July 7, 2016 Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to of its players—went to the finals of its competition, losing 12–10 to the Lost Souls of Dal- Mr. TAKAI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- congratulate the Minnetonka High School Boys Tennis team on their Minnesota State las, Texas in the Challenger Cup Final. The ognize and thank Colonel Robert Preiss, an Renegades are already looking forward to an- American hero who has devoted his life to Team Championship. The Skippers had come up just short in the other season in USA Rugby competition this serving our country. fall as well as to the next Bingham Cup in During his career spanning over 30 years, previous two years, but this year they would not be denied. Although they were seeded 2018. Colonel Robert Preiss has proven his ability to The Renegades are more than just excep- successfully manage organizations and deliver fourth out of eight teams in the tournament, the Skippers showed grit and determination as tional athletes; they are also exceptional citi- results to the most critical problems facing our zens. They volunteer with such programs as nation. He began his military career with his they upset the top two teams on their way to the school’s first tennis championship since Food and Friends, preparing hundreds of enlistment in the Texas Army National Guard. Thanksgiving meals for people living with HIV/ Throughout his career, Colonel Preiss has 1974. They upset Rochester Century in a closely contested final, winning four matches AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses. They worked on an array of important projects, from have held school supply drives and holiday toy shaping our policies in Iraq as Deputy Chief in to three. Mr. Speaker, in a sport like tennis where drives, and have donated Nook electronic the National Guard Affairs Office of United success in a match is a combination of singles readers to schoolchildren. They have con- States Forces-Iraq, to drafting recommenda- and doubles, it is especially noteworthy to rec- ducted rugby clinics for youth in the District of tions for our Reserve Forces as part of the ognize how this group of young men worked Columbia, and were featured in a series of Reserve Forces Policy Board. Through his together to achieve their goal. These student after-school activities dedicated to having dads service, he has furthered U.S. military objec- athletes showed that together they were great- or father representatives participate in sports tives both at home and abroad. er than the sum of their parts. drills and related activities with their children. Colonel Preiss has been decorated with nu- The families, teachers, friends, and the en- The Renegades have been recognized by the merous commendations, including the Bronze tire community are very proud of the D.C. Mayor and D.C. Council for their athletic Star. In September of 2013, he received the Minnetonka High School Boys Tennis team achievement and charitable activities, and by Distinguished Service Medal from the National both on the court and in the classroom. Con- the U.S. Department of the Interior for their ef- Guard Association of the United States to rec- gratulations. forts in cleaning and maintaining the original ognize his research into the efficiency and effi- f Flight 93 Memorial in Shankesville, Pennsyl- cacy of the National Guard and Reserve. Our vania. nation is safer today in part due to the work HONORING THE WASHINGTON Mr. Speaker, I ask the House to join me in and patriotism of Colonel Preiss. RENEGADES RUGBY FOOTBALL commending the Washington Renegades and Colonel Robert Preiss, thank you for your CLUB wishing them continued success in the impor- patriotism and selfless service to the United tant work they do of modeling sporting excel- States. As you are surely aware, our nation is HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON lence and breaking down barriers on the field, proud of all you have accomplished during OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA and serving the community off the field. The your career. Thank you (Mahalo nui loa) for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Washington Renegades are amateurs in the your service to our county, and I wish you the Thursday, July 7, 2016 truest sense of the word, for the word ‘‘ama- best in your future endeavors. teur’’ derives from the Latin word for ‘‘love.’’ f Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to The Renegades do what they do not for ask the House of Representatives to join me money or glory, but for love—love for their TRIBUTE TO BRAD KENDELL in honoring the Washington Renegades Rugby teammates, love for their game, and love for Football Club. Founded in 1998, the Rene- the city and country they call home. HON. DAVID W. JOLLY gades are the first rugby club in the United f OF FLORIDA States to actively recruit gay players, and are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a founding member of International Gay HONORING THE LIFE OF DR. Rugby (IGR), an association that today is ROSCOE BROWN Thursday, July 7, 2016 comprised of over 70 gay and gay-supportive Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to rec- rugby clubs worldwide. HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL ognize Brad Kendell for his tenacity and per- The Renegades represent Washington, D.C. OF NEW YORK severance in the face of adversity. in Division III and Division IV rugby. The club’s IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Brad Kendell is a Pinellas County native, Division III side is the three-time defending from Clearwater. His passion for sailing with champions of the Mid-Atlantic Conference Thursday, July 7, 2016 his father at the Clearwater Yacht Club began Central Division, having reached the national Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor when he was just 7 years old. However, in quarter/semi-finals in 2014. The club’s Division and celebrate the life of an American hero, Dr. 2003, his life drastically changed when he lost IV side has also made two consecutive playoff Roscoe Brown, who will be greatly missed by both his legs in a horrific plane crash with his appearances. all those inspired by him. Dr. Brown flew com- father and flight instructor. Over this past Memorial Day weekend, the bat missions during World War II as a member Mr. Kendell coped with his injury by meeting Washington Renegades finished the 2016 of the prestigious Tuskegee Airmen, the first with other disabled sailors and soon discov- Bingham Cup Tournament in Nashville, Ten- African-American military aviators in the ered that his disability could not stop him from nessee as the most successful club overall in United States Armed Forces. As a proud pursuing his true passion of sailing. He began attendance. The Bingham Cup is the Cham- sponsor of the bill that awarded the Congres- to sail competitively this year and has already pionship of IGR, and is named for gay rugby sional Gold Medal, our highest civilian honor, won a world championship. This qualifies him player Mark Bingham, of the San Francisco to the Tuskegee Airmen in 2007, I was hum- to represent the U.S. in the 2016 Paralympic Fog Rugby Football Club, who lost his life on bled to meet Dr. Brown who embodied the Games in Rio this summer. September 11, 2001. Bingham, along with fel- best that our nation has to offer. Mr. Speaker, I want to acknowledge Mr. low passengers and crew of United Flight 93, Our troops at home and abroad make the Kendell’s courage after a horrific accident and is widely credited with preventing the hijackers greatest sacrifices every day to defend our ask that this body join me in wishing Mr. from reaching their intended target. country. What makes the story of Dr. Brown

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Through their patriot- SARY OF THE CORNWALL HONORING THE CAREER OF ism, the walls of segregation were finally re- BROTHERS STORE SERGEANT JOHN SAVAGE moved from our Armed Forces on July 26, 1948. It is then when I enlisted in the Army HON. ELISE M. STEFANIK HON. JOHN KATKO and was able to follow in Dr. Brown’s foot- OF NEW YORK OF NEW YORK steps as a decorated soldier in the Korean IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES War. Thursday, July 7, 2016 After the war and off the battlefield, Dr. Thursday, July 7, 2016 Brown has left a lasting impact in my congres- Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Mr. KATKO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay trib- sional district that continues to be felt today. honor and recognize the 150th Anniversary of ute to the esteemed career of Sergeant John His service to our nation took a new form after the Cornwall Brothers Store in Jefferson Savage, who served 30 years with the City of he settled in Riverdale, New York City. As a County, New York. The Cornwall Brothers Syracuse Police Department. professor at New York University and City Uni- Store is the only surviving historic waterfront Sergeant Savage was appointed to the Syr- versity of New York, Dr. Brown expanded Afri- building in Alexandria Bay. acuse Police Department on June 28, 1986 can American study programs everywhere he Built in 1866, The Cornwall Brothers Store and served commendably in various units taught, eventually becoming the President of has served the community of Alexandria Bay within the Department until his retirement in Bronx Community College. A longtime mem- in many ways. This building originally opened June of 2016. Sergeant Savage served honor- ber of the Boys and Girls Club of America and as a store that sold everything from dry goods ably as an officer from June of 1986 and the Jackie Robinson Foundation, Dr. Brown to fine clothing but was forced to close during earned the rank of Sergeant in June of 1995. worked tirelessly to improve the lives of every- the Great Depression. Since that time, the As a result of his excellent service throughout one around him. building served first as a customs house, then his 30 years of service, he received 2 Divi- Dr. Brown left his indelible mark as a vet- a United States Coast Guard station and a sional Commendations, 3 Bureau Commenda- eran, educator, community leader, and an ac- United States Post Office, before officially be- tions, 5 Departmental Commendations, 2 Unit tivist, devoting his life to the betterment of his coming the store and museum that it is today. Citations, the John Dillon Award in 2011, the fellow man, community, and country. I join my The restoration of the store and the devel- Timothy Laun Award in 2016, as well as sev- constituents and rest of the nation as we say opment of a museum sprang from an order to eral letters of appreciation. goodbye and pay tribute to a true American demolish the building in 1973. Knowing the During my time as a federal prosecutor I hero. significance of the Cornwall Brothers Store, a had the opportunity to serve with Sergeant f band of citizens came together to form the Al- Savage as part of the Syracuse Gang Vio- exandria Township Historical Society, a group HONORING JOHN F. WOLFE lence Task Force. Sergeant Savage was an whose first priority was to protect the Cornwall early leader of the Task Force and his work HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI Brothers Store. After launching an intense helped to drastically reduce the gang pres- campaign to save the building, the Alexandria ence in some of our community’s most violent OF OHIO Historical Society was able to save the build- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES neighborhoods. ing and have it registered in both the National For 30 years, Sergeant Savage served with Thursday, July 7, 2016 Registry of Historic Places in 1975 and then great dignity, loyalty and devotion to our com- Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to the New York Registry of Historic Places in munity. He has truly helped to make the City honor Mr. John F. Wolfe, the former publisher 1991. The museum now holds a variety of ex- of Syracuse a better, safer place for its citi- of my hometown paper, the Columbus Dis- hibits showcasing the lifestyles of residents of zens. I am honored to have had the oppor- patch. the Saint Lawrence River from the 19th and tunity to work with such a great man and I John passed away on June 24, 2016. He 20th centuries. wish him the very best in his retirement. was cherished by all as a humble leader, a Congratulations to the Cornwall Brothers generous friend and an unselfish advocate for Store on the 150th anniversary of your forma- f others. tion. I wish this business and museum contin- PERSONAL EXPLANATION I was honored and privileged to have known ued success in the future. him. He loved our city, our state, and our na- f tion greatly. He was a gentle giant whose leg- HON. H. MORGAN GRIFFITH TRIBUTE TO DR. ALLEN BAKER acy includes improving the quality of life in Co- OF VIRGINIA lumbus for generations to come. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES His family purchased the Dispatch in 1905, HON. DAVID W. JOLLY Thursday, July 7, 2016 and as John wrote in his farewell letter to OF FLORIDA Mr. GRIFFITH. Mr. Speaker, on roll call no. readers last year, the world was vastly dif- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 349 on motion to suspend the rules and pass ferent then. The telegraph and telephone were Thursday, July 7, 2016 H.R. 4854, to amend the Investment Company recent inventions, and the first radio broadcast Act of 1940 to expand the investor limitation was still a year away. Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to rec- Today, it is the Wolfe family legacy that the ognize Dr. Allen Baker for his commitment to for qualifying venture capital funds under an Dispatch, the very paper I grew up reading as the Rotary Club. exemption from the definition of an investment a kid in Columbus, stands as a trusted, lead- This past month, Dr. Baker celebrated his company, I incorrectly voted ‘‘nay’’ when I in- ing and highly respected newspaper in our re- 70 years of perfect attendance to the Rotary tended to vote ‘‘yea’’. gion and beyond. Club. He first joined the Rotary Club in 1946 f When John became publisher in 1975, his in Illinois and has since attended more than devotion to transform Columbus into a vibrant 3,500 meetings over his 70 years of being a PERSONAL EXPLANATION and booming city never wavered. member. He supported the Nationwide Children’s He has also attended 53 foreign Rotary HON. BEN RAY LUJA´ N Hospital, the Ohio State University, the Colum- Club meetings, the most notable of which was OF NEW MEXICO bus Zoo, the Franklin Park Conservatory, our in Poland where the meeting was conducted IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sports teams and much more. Without a in English in his honor. He joined the Belleair Thursday, July 7, 2016 doubt, Columbus would not be what it is today club in 1991 when he moved here and has without his dedication and commitment to since served as secretary and on the club’s Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mexico. Mr. Central Ohioans. board of directors. Speaker, on roll call no. 357, I was unavoid- On behalf of the U.S. House of Representa- Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize Dr. Allen ably detained. Had I been present, I would tives, let us offer our deepest appreciation for Baker for his diligence and dedicated service have voted Aye.

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HIGHLIGHTS Senate agreed to the motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 764, National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act, as amended. Senate to designate the facility of the United States Postal Chamber Action Service located at 15 Rochester Street, Bergen, New Routine Proceedings, pages S4839–S4923 York, as the ‘‘Barry G. Miller Post Office’’, and the Measures Introduced: Fifteen bills and four resolu- bill was then passed. Page S4922 tions were introduced, as follows: S. 3137–3151, and National Whistleblower Appreciation Day: Sen- S. Res. 520–523. Page S4915 ate agreed to S. Res. 522, designating July 30, Measures Reported: 2016, as ‘‘National Whistleblower Appreciation S. 921, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to Day’’. Page S4922 establish a nonregulatory program to build on and Relating to the Death of Elie Wiesel: Senate help coordinate funding for restoration and protec- agreed to S. Res. 523, relating to the death of Elie tion efforts of the 4-State Delaware River Basin re- Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, powerful advocate for gion. (S. Rept. No. 114–294) Page S4914 peace and human rights, and award-winning author. Measures Passed: Page S4922–23 Atrocities Perpetrated by ISIL: Senate agreed to Measures Considered: S. Res. 340, expressing the sense of the Senate that Department of Defense Appropriations Act— the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq Agreement: By 50 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 124), and the Levant (ISIL) against religious and ethnic three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, minorities in Iraq and Syria include war crimes, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate rejected crimes against humanity, and genocide, after agree- the motion to close further debate on the motion to ing to the committee amendment in the nature of proceed to consideration of H.R. 5293, making ap- a substitute. Pages S4920–22 propriations for the Department of Defense for the MEGABYTE Act: Senate passed S. 2340, to re- fiscal year ending September 30, 2017. Page S4910 quire the Director of the Office of Management and Senator McConnell entered a motion to reconsider Budget to issue a directive on the management of the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the software licenses, after agreeing to the committee motion to proceed to consideration of the bill. amendment in the nature of a substitute. Page S4922 Page S4910 Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building: Com- A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- viding that at approximately 4 p.m., on Monday, fairs was discharged from further consideration of July 11, 2016, Senate resume consideration of the H.R. 4960, to designate the facility of the United motion to proceed to consideration of the bill. States Postal Service located at 525 N Broadway in Page S4923 Aurora, Illinois, as the ‘‘Kenneth M. Christy Post House Messages: Office Building’’, and the bill was then passed. National Sea Grant College Program Amend- Page S4922 ments Act: By 63 yeas to 30 nays (Vote No. 123), Barry G. Miller Post Office: Committee on Senate agreed to the motion to concur in the House Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs was amendment to S. 764, to reauthorize and amend the discharged from further consideration of H.R. 4372, National Sea Grant College Program Act, with D757

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Merit Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he Systems Protection Board; Zeldin (No. 48) that pro- appointed Representative Webster (FL) to act as hibits funds from being used by the GSA to market Speaker pro tempore for today. Page H4471 or sell Plum Island, NY; Jeffries (No. 53) that pre- Decorum Statement: The Chair made the following cludes the relocation of an Office of Disability Adju- announcement regarding decorum in the House dication and Review, of the Social Security Adminis- Chamber: ‘‘The Chair has the responsibility under tration, away from the population center it mainly clause 2 of rule 1 to preserve order and decorum. As serves; Grayson (No. 56) that increases the minimum the Chair ruled on June 12, 2003, an exhibition in- funding level for Tax Counseling for the Elderly by volving Members trafficking the well is a breach of 50%; Comstock (No. 59) that increases resources for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) decorum.’’. Page H4478 Program, offset by resources for GSA rental space; Recess: The House recessed at 11:15 a.m. and re- Speier (No. 60) that increases funding for the Federal convened at 12 noon. Page H4478 Trade Commission by $1 million for additional en- Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of forcement of the Do Not Call Registry and edu- 2016—Rule for Consideration: The House agreed cation for the public about avoiding telemarketer de- to H. Res. 809, providing for consideration of the ception and abuse; Himes (No. 61) that increases conference report to accompany the bill (S. 524) to funding for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight authorize the Attorney General to award grants to Board by $1,784,000; Rice (NY) (No. 62) that in- address the national epidemics of prescription opioid creases funding for the Office of Special Counsel abuse and heroin use, by a recorded vote of 243 ayes (OSC) by $800,000; Lynch (No. 63) that increases to 177 noes, Roll No. 388, after the previous ques- funding for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Net- tion was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote of 244 yeas work (FinCEN) by $3,300,000; Walberg (No. 64) to 179 nays, Roll No. 387. Pages H4482–97, H4522–23 that increases funding for the High Intensity Drug Pursuant to Sec. 2 of H. Res. 809, upon adoption Trafficking Area program (HIDTA) by $2 million; of the resolution, the House was considered to have: Connolly (No. 65) that reduces the General Services (1) taken from the Speaker’s table the bill S. 2943, Administration’s Federal Building Fund Rental of (2) stricken all after the enacting clause of such bill Space Account by $5 million and increases the IT and inserted in lieu thereof the provisions of H.R. Oversight and Reform Office by $5 million; Meng 4909, as passed by the House, and (3) passed the (No. 66) that increases funding for Small Business Development Centers by $5 million; Engel (No. 67) Senate bill as so amended. Pages H4482–83 that prohibits funds made available by this Act from Financial Services and General Government Ap- being used to lease or purchase new light duty vehi- propriations Act, 2017: The House passed H.R. cles unless those vehicles meet the requirements of 5485, making appropriations for financial services President Obama’s May 24, 2011 Executive Order and general government for the fiscal year ending on Federal Fleet Performance; and Grayson (No. 69) September 30, 2017, by a yea-and-nay vote of 239 that prohibits the government from entering into a yeas to 185 nays, Roll No. 398. contract with an entity that discloses, as it is re- Pages H4497–H4522, H4523–36, H4536–44 quired to by the Federal Acquisition Regulation, Rejected the Peters motion to recommit the bill that it has been convicted of fraud or another crimi- to the Committee on Appropriations with instruc- nal offense in the last three years in connection with tions to report the same back to the House forthwith obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a with an amendment, by a yea-and-nay vote of 183 public contract or subcontract; prohibits the govern- yeas to 241 nays, Roll No. 397. Pages H4542–44 ment from contracting with entities that have been

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Rept. 114–639) that prohibits any funds from being used 114–639) that prohibits funding to propose or final- to issue a license pursuant to any Office of Foreign ize a regulatory action until January 21, 2017; Assets Control (OFAC) memo regarding section Pages H4506–07 5.1.1 of Annex II to the JCPOA, including the Lance amendment (No. 37 printed in H. Rept. OFAC memo titled, ‘‘Statement of Licensing Policy 114–639) that prohibits funds from being used to For Activities Related to the Export Or Re-Export give Iran access to the U.S. dollar; Page H4512 to Iran of Commercial Passenger Aircraft and Re- Luetkemeyer amendment (No. 39 printed in H. lated Parts and Services’’ and any other OFAC memo Rept. 114–639) that prohibits funding for Operation of the same substance; Pages H4528–29 Choke Point; Pages H4514–15 Roskam amendment (No. 46 printed in H. Rept. Davidson amendment (No. 25 printed in H. Rept. 114–639) that prohibits any funds from being used 114–639) that was debated on July 6 that prohibits to authorize a transaction by a U.S. financial institu- the use of funds to change the Selective Service Sys- tion (as defined under section 561.309 of title 31, tem registration requirements (by a recorded vote of Code of Federal Regulations) that is ordinarily inci- 217 ayes to 203 noes, Roll No. 379); Page H4517 dent to the export or re-export of a commercial pas- Garrett amendment (No. 28 printed in H. Rept. senger aircraft to the Islamic Republic of Iran; 114–639) that prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission from proposing or implementing a rule Pages H4529–30 that mandates the use of universal proxy ballots dur- Zeldin amendment (No. 51 printed in H. Rept. ing proxy contests (by a recorded vote of 243 ayes 114–639) that prohibits funds made available by the Act to be used to pay final judgments, awards, com- to 180 noes, Roll No. 380); Pages H4500–01, H4517–18 Garrett amendment (No. 29 printed in H. Rept. promise settlements, or interest and costs specified in 114–639) that prohibits the use of funds to des- the judgments to Iran using amounts appropriated ignate any nonbank financial company as ‘‘too big to under section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, fail’’ or as a ‘‘systemically important financial insti- or interest from amounts appropriated under such tution’’ or to make a determination that material fi- section; Pages H4532–33 nancial distress at a nonbank financial company Zeldin amendment (No. 52 printed in H. Rept. could pose a threat to U.S. financial stability (by a 114–639) that prohibits funds made available by the recorded vote of 239 ayes to 182 noes, Roll No. Act to be used to circumvent the conditions of Sec- 381); Pages H4501–02 H4518–19 tion 104 of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Ac- Gosar amendment (No. 31 printed in H. Rept. countability, and Divestment Act of 2010; 114–639) that prohibits the use of funds made avail- Page H4533 able by this Act to be used to provide financial as- Jenkins (WV) amendment (No. 58 printed in H. sistance to Sanctuary Cities (by a recorded vote of Rept. 114–639) that increases funding for the High 236 ayes to 182 noes, Roll No. 382); Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) by $2 Pages H4503–04, H4519 million with an offset; Pages H4534–35 Guinta amendment (No. 32 printed in H. Rept. Messer amendment (No. 40 printed in H. Rept. 114–639) that makes no funds available to the 114–639) that prohibits funds from being used by CFPB to enforce or administer guidance pertaining the CFPB to commence any administrative adjudica- to indirect auto lending (by a recorded vote of 260 tion or civil action beyond the 3 year statute of limi- ayes to 162 noes with 1 answering ‘‘present’’, Roll tation established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street No. 383); Pages H4504–06, H4519–20 Reform and Consumer Protection Act (by a recorded Huizenga (MI) amendment (No. 34 printed in H. vote of 235 ayes to 179 noes, Roll No. 389); Rept. 114–639) that states no funds appropriated in Pages H4524–25, H4537 this Act may be used to enforce a SEC rule pursuant Palmer amendment (No. 41 printed in H. Rept. to Section 1502 of Dodd-Frank relating to ‘‘conflict 114–639) that prohibits funds from being used to minerals’’ (by a recorded vote of 236 ayes to 188 implement D.C.’s Reproductive Health Non-Dis- noes, Roll No. 384); Pages H4507–10, H4520–21 crimination Amendment Act (RHNDA) (by a re- Huizenga (MI) amendment (No. 35 printed in H. corded vote of 223 ayes to 192 noes, Roll No. 390); Rept. 114–639) that states no funds shall be made Pages H4525–26, H4537–38

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:10 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D07JY6.REC D07JYPT1 smartinez on DSK3GLQ082PROD with DIGEST D762 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST July 7, 2016 SOUTH CHINA SEA MARITIME DISPUTES DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY: THE Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on ADMINISTRATION’S RECKLESS RELEASE OF Seapower and Projection Forces; and the Sub- TERRORISTS FROM GUANTANAMO committee on Asia and the Pacific of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Full Committee held a Committee on Foreign Affairs held a joint hearing hearing entitled ‘‘Demanding Accountability: The entitled ‘‘South China Sea Maritime Disputes’’. Tes- Administration’s Reckless Release of Terrorists from timony was heard from Abraham M. Denmark, Dep- Guantanamo’’. Testimony was heard from Lee uty Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia, De- Wolosky, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, partment of Defense; and Colin Willett, Deputy As- Department of State; and Paul M. Lewis, Special sistant Secretary for Strategy and Multilateral Affairs, Envoy for Guantanamo Detention Closure, Depart- Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department ment of Defense. of State. HOW PERVASIVE IS MISCONDUCT AT TSA: EXAMINING FINDINGS FROM A JOINT AN INTRODUCTION TO REGULATORY SUBCOMMITTEE INVESTIGATION BUDGETING Committee on Homeland Security: Subcommittee on Committee on the Budget: Full Committee held a hear- Oversight and Management Efficiency; and Sub- ing entitled ‘‘An Introduction to Regulatory Budg- committee on Transportation Security, held a joint eting’’. Testimony was heard from public witnesses. hearing entitled ‘‘How Pervasive is Misconduct at TSA: Examining Findings from a Joint Sub- MISCELLANEOUS MEASURE committee Investigation’’. Testimony was heard from Committee on Education and the Workforce: Full Com- Huban Gowadia, Deputy Administrator, Transpor- mittee held a markup on H.R. 5587, the ‘‘Strength- tation Security Administration, Department of ening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Homeland Security; and Andrew Oosterbaan, Assist- Century Act’’. H.R. 5587 was ordered reported, as ant Inspector General for Investigations, Office of In- spector General, Department of Homeland Security. amended. MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL Committee on the Judiciary: Full Committee held a AGREEMENTS AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS markup on H.R. 320, the ‘‘Rapid DNA Act of FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL DISPOSAL 2015’’; H.R. 5578, the ‘‘Survivors’ Bill of Rights Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Act of 2016’’; and H.R. 3765, the ‘‘ADA Education Environment and the Economy held a hearing enti- and Reform Act of 2015. The following bills were tled ‘‘Federal, State, and Local Agreements and Eco- ordered reported, as amended: H.R. 320 and H.R. nomic Benefits for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal’’. 3765. H.R. 5578 was ordered reported, without Testimony was heard from Representatives Amodei; amendment. Dold; Hardy; and Titus; Joseph Hardy, State Sen- STATE PERSPECTIVES ON BLM’S DRAFT ator, State of Nevada; Dan Schinhofen, County Com- PLANNING 2.0 RULE missioner, Nye County, Nevada; and a public witness. Committee on Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing entitled ‘‘State Perspectives on BLM’s Draft Planning 2.0 EXAMINING THE ADVANCING CARE FOR Rule’’. Testimony was heard from Jim Lyons, Dep- EXCEPTIONAL KIDS ACT uty Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Manage- Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on ment, Department of Interior; Kathleen Clarke, Di- Health held a hearing entitled ‘‘Examining the Ad- rector, Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office, Salt vancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act’’. Testimony Lake City, Utah; and public witnesses. was heard from public witnesses. OVERSIGHT OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT THE IMPLICATIONS OF U.S. AIRCRAFT Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Full SALES TO IRAN Committee held a hearing entitled ‘‘Oversight of the State Department’’. Testimony was heard from James Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Comey, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Monetary Policy and Trade held a hearing entitled Steve Linick, Inspector General, Department of State; ‘‘The Implications of U.S. Aircraft Sales to Iran’’. and I. Charles McCullough III, Inspector General, Testimony was heard from public witnesses. Intelligence Community.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 4 p.m., Monday, July 11 9 a.m., Friday, July 8

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Monday: Senate will resume consideration Program for Friday: Consideration of the Conference of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 5293, Report to Accompany S. 524—Comprehensive Addiction Department of Defense Appropriations Act. and Recovery Act of 2016. Consideration of the Motion to go to Conference and the Motion to Instruct Conferees on S. 2943—National Defense Authorization Act for Fis- cal Year 2017.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Jolly, David W., Fla., E1053, E1054, E1054, E1056, Perlmutter, Ed, Colo., E1058, E1059, E1060 E1057, E1059, E1060, E1060, E1062, E1063 Perry, Scott, Pa., E1053 Bonamici, Suzanne, Ore., E1057 Kaptur, Marcy, Ohio, E1056 Rangel, Charles B., N.Y., E1058, E1062 Bost, Mike, Ill., E1056 Katko, John, N.Y., E1063, E1064 Schweikert, David, Ariz., E1059 Capps, Lois, Calif., E1061 Keating, William R., Mass., E1061 Slaughter, Louise McIntosh, N.Y., E1058 Coffman, Mike, Colo., E1055, E1061 Kelly, Trent, Miss., E1055 Stefanik, Elise M., N.Y., E1063 Davis, Susan A., Calif., E1054 LaHood, Darin, Ill., E1054 Dingell, Debbie, Mich., E1055 Luja´ n, Ben Ray, N.M., E1063 Takai, Mark, Hawaii, E1062 Ellmers, Renee L., N.C., E1055 McGovern, James P., Mass., E1057 Tiberi, Patrick J., Ohio, E1053, E1054, E1055, E1056, Foster, Bill, Ill., E1060 Norton, Eleanor Holmes, The District of Columbia, E1057, E1059, E1060, E1061, E1063 Griffith, H. Morgan, Va., E1063 E1062 Van Hollen, Chris, Md., E1059 Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E1053, E1056 Paulsen, Erik, Minn., E1054, E1057, E1060, E1060, Wenstrup, Brad R., Ohio, E1053 Hurt, Robert, Va., E1054 E1062, E1064 Wilson, Joe, S.C., E1059

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