E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 114 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

Vol. 161 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2015 No. 124 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, at 12 p.m. Senate MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2015

The Senate met at 2 p.m. and was RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME The Supreme Court’s rebuke to the called to order by the President pro The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COT- White House in June on another envi- tempore (Mr. HATCH). TON). Under the previous order, the ronmental regulation underlines the leadership time is reserved. wisdom of this approach. Even though f f that mercury regulation was ulti- mately tossed out, most of its damage RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY PRAYER had already been done. It reminded LEADER Governors that it would be reckless not The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- to take a wait-and-see approach this fered the following prayer: jority leader is recognized. time. Let us pray. f Now, several Governors have already Lord God omnipotent, Your power ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS decided they will not allow the admin- and love sustain us. Rule the wills of istration to rush them into adopting our lawmakers by Your might as You Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, in these regulations, and I expect more to use them to do Your work on Earth. just a few minutes, President Obama follow. I was recently able to place lan- Lord, give our Senators faith to look will deliver another blow to the econ- guage in the Senate Interior appropria- beyond today’s challenges and trials, omy and to the middle class. He will tions bill that would prohibit the ad- finding in You the source of their opti- unveil regressive regulations that are ministration from arbitrarily imposing mism and confidence. May their con- set to harm struggling workers and its will on States that take this re- fidence in the unfolding of Your loving families. They are projected to cost lit- sponsible approach. providence lighten every task, pro- erally billions. They threaten to ship Senator CAPITO also has a bill that viding them with reasons to rejoice. good middle-class jobs overseas and would prohibit the regulations from Give them the gift of perseverance, en- will likely make it harder to maintain moving forward until the courts have abling them to refuse to become weary reliable sources of energy to meet de- ruled on their legality. These aren’t in doing Your will. When they fall, help mand. They will also likely result in the only legislative options Congress them always to rise again. higher energy bills for those who can can consider. We can pursue other ave- Lord, thank You for providing us least afford them, potentially raising electricity rates by double digits for nues like CRA resolutions and further with faith to look beyond today’s vicis- appropriations riders as these regula- situdes, always knowing that nothing people I represent. All of this, and for what? Not only tions are published and as they wind can separate us from Your love. their way through the courts. We pray in Your sovereign Name. will these massive regulations fail to Here is the bottom line about today’s Amen. meaningfully affect the global climate, but they could actually end up harm- announcement. If the Obama adminis- ing the environment by outsourcing tration were actually serious about ad- f the energy production to countries vancing renewable energy, then it with poorer environmental records like would follow the example of what lead- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE India and China. ers like Senator MURKOWSKI have been The President pro tempore led the They may also be illegal. That is why achieving in the Energy Committee. Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: I wrote the Governors earlier this year, She is showing how we can make big I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the suggesting they take a responsible strides on energy diversification and United States of America, and to the Repub- wait-and-see approach and allow the that we can do it in a bipartisan way lic for which it stands, one nation under God, courts to weigh in before subjecting and that we don’t have to punish the indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. their citizens to such unnecessary pain. middle class to do it.

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And for many women, Planned is why the administration is now try- excerpt from an article in the Repub- Parenthood may be the only provider ing to impose these deeply regressive lican leader’s hometown newspaper, where they can seek medical help. Re- regulations—regulations that may be the Louisville Courier-Journal: publicans are trying to eliminate their illegal, won’t meaningfully impact the Sara Hall started going to Planned Parent- access to health centers. global environment, and will likely hood when she was in her late teens and Last Thursday, I listened to the sen- harm middle and lower class Ameri- needed birth control, and she’s gotten care ior Senator from Texas, where he cans the most—by executive fiat. It there ever since. claimed this bill we are going to vote represents a triumph of blind ideology Without them, ‘‘I wouldn’t have a doctor on soon would actually increase access over sound policy and honest compas- to see. I don’t know where I would have gone. to care for women. I am surprised this sion. It would have meant I wouldn’t get the care distinguished Member of the Senate, a In Kentucky, these regulations would I needed.’’ longtime member of the Texas Su- likely mean fewer jobs, shuttered pow- Like Sara, millions of American preme Court, would say something like erplants, and higher electricity costs women depend on Planned Parenthood that. for families and businesses. I am not for much needed health services. Every He and other Republicans believe, I going to sit by while the White House year, Planned Parenthood helps guess, that clinics like community takes aim at the lifeblood of our women, just like Sara, get the impor- health centers will pick up the slack State’s economy. I am going to keep tant services they need, such as birth should Planned Parenthood be doing everything I can to fight them. control measures, but it is more than defunded. That is simply not true. I am just birth control. f a strong supporter of community Here are a few of the health services health centers. It is part of PLANNED PARENTHOOD Planned Parenthood provides to Amer- ObamaCare, the Affordable Care Act, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, the ican women, and they did it, for exam- because I believe in community health revelations we have seen from Planned ple, in 2013. Half a million women went centers. We put billions of dollars in Parenthood are deeply disturbing. to Planned Parenthood for breast can- that bill, and during the years it has They raise fundamental questions cer screening, 400,000 women received a been in existence, it has done so much about what kind of society we want to cervical exam from Planned Parent- to provide help for community health be, so I want to thank Senators ERNST, hood’s medical staff, and 4.5 million centers, but we still have far, far much PAUL, LANKFORD, and a number of oth- treatments and tests for sexually to do. There are not enough commu- ers, for accepting my invitation to lead transmitted diseases and infections nity health centers, even with what we the effort on the Senate’s response. were performed. Yet, here we are once have done, to increase their ability to The legislation they worked to de- again, faced with another Republican meet the current demand. To throw in velop is all about restoring America’s attempt to limit women’s access to a few more women who have been commitment to care and to compas- health care. knocked out of Planned Parenthood— sion. It would fund women’s health, not A few hours from now, the Senate and ‘‘a few’’ is a pejorative term; it Planned Parenthood, and we will take will vote on a Republican bill to defund would be millions of women—is wrong. a vote to advance it tonight. Instead of Planned Parenthood. Let’s understand The director of women’s health pol- subsidizing a political group, this bill what that vote means. Defunding icy at the Kaiser Family Foundation would protect Federal funding for Planned Parenthood would limit Amer- says: ‘‘Across the nation, Community health services for women. Instead of ican women’s access to critical health health centers are already at capac- subsidizing a political group, this bill services, such as contraception, breast ity.’’ would ensure funds continue to flow to and cancer screenings, and well-women Take a look, for example, at the as- community health centers and hos- visits. This legislation is just another sistant Republican leader’s home State pitals that provide more comprehen- Republican attack on the health care of Texas. A recent report from George sive health services and may have of millions of women, like Sara from Washington University detailed what it many more facilities nationwide. In- Kentucky. would take for other providers to re- stead of subsidizing a political group, Over the past few months, Repub- place Planned Parenthood—exactly this bill would help women receive licans have worked to trick American what the senior Senator from Texas health services, such as screenings, women into believing Republicans has suggested. prenatal and post-natal care, well-child don’t want to limit women’s access to For example, in Midland County, TX, care, diagnostic laboratory and radi- contraceptives or other critical health there would have to be an increase of ology services, immunizations, and services provided by Planned Parent- 537 percent by non-Planned Parenthood other care they need. That is a true hood, but votes like the one we are clinics, if Planned Parenthood is commitment to women’s health. That going to take in a couple of hours lay defunded. Lubbock County would see is real compassion. bare the truth. The cold, hard fact is an increase of 250 percent. Community I know Democrats have relied on that a vote to defund Planned Parent- health centers cannot handle that, nor Planned Parenthood as an ally re- hood is a vote to limit women’s access can they handle that increase in heav- cently, but they must be moved by the to cancer screenings, contraceptives, ily populated Dallas County, where it horrifying images we have all seen. and other important services that would be an almost 200-percent in- They must be shocked by the utter Planned Parenthood provides. crease. lack of compassion that has been on Our Nation is already facing a short- What the Republican legislation does display. They must care about women’s age of primary care providers. For is makes it nearly impossible for health as much as they care about many women, Planned Parenthood is women who need medical attention to some scandal-plagued political organi- their preferred medical provider. One get the care they need. If women can- zation. That is why tonight I am ask- in five American women will go to not go get health care from Planned ing them to truly reflect on what is im- Planned Parenthood for services at Parenthood, where do they go? portant. I am asking them not to block some time during their lives. Take a look at what happened in the this funding for women’s health just to Defunding Planned Parenthood and re- State of Indiana in 2011, when that protect some political group mired in ducing the number of providers avail- State’s legislature voted to deny State scandal. Women deserve better, and our able for women to receive contracep- funding for Planned Parenthood health country deserves better. tives and other critical health services centers. Republicans then argued that

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Mr. President, I rise and community health centers. providers for women that the Indiana to discuss Federal funding for Planned Our focus should be on supporting or- Republicans said could take the place Parenthood. ganizations that prioritize women’s of the State’s Planned Parenthood Every now and then we see some- health, not organizations hiring pricey health centers? Prisons—listen to thing that is so horrific that we must PR firms for damage control. this—prisons, they suggested, juvenile answer it. And by now, we are all fa- Across the country there are 1,200 detention centers, and homeless shel- miliar with the deeply disturbing vid- Federally qualified health centers and ters. These are certainly not the kinds eos of Planned Parenthood doctors 9,000 clinic sites. These community of places my Republican colleagues cavalierly discussing their practice and health centers vastly outnumber the would want to send their daughters, methods of harvesting baby body parts. roughly 700 Planned Parenthood facili- sisters or wives for care. Like so many Nebraskans, I am ties nationwide. In Nebraska, we have 6 It is common sense—if you take away shocked by the lack of compassion for health centers and 36 clinic sites that Planned Parenthood health centers, these women and their unborn babies. have served over 64,000 people. These women will have no ability to access My colleague and friend from Iowa, centers serve all of Nebraska—from the care, and most will go without the care Senator JONI ERNST, has introduced panhandle to our metropolitan areas in they need. legislation that takes immediate ac- Omaha and Lincoln. Fifty-two percent The Republican senior Senator from tion and cuts off funding for this scan- of those patients are uninsured and 30 Maine agrees. Here is what she said: dal-plagued organization. I am proud to percent are on Medicaid. Meanwhile, The problem is, in my state and many oth- join her in sponsoring this very impor- there are only two Planned Parenthood ers, Planned Parenthood is the primary pro- tant legislation. centers in Nebraska. vider of women’s health services in certain This bill has nothing to do with So it begs the question: Wouldn’t pa- parts of my state. So I don’t know how you whether one is pro-life or pro-choice. It tients be better served if that money would ensure that all of the patients of is not going to settle the issue of abor- was redirected to community health Planned Parenthood could be absorbed by al- tion, which has divided our country for ternative care providers. centers? I believe the answer is yes. over 40 years. This bill simply says These health centers deliver many— In Nevada, Planned Parenthood cen- that taxpayer dollars should not go to and sometimes more—of the health ters there serve about 22,000 patients a organizations mired in scandal and services provided by Planned Parent- year. Where will these patients go if likely illegal activity. This has noth- hood. In 2012 alone, federally qualified the Republicans’ legislation passes? I ing to do with ideology. It has nothing health centers performed 400,000 mam- do not know. They will not get the care to do with religious conviction. This is mograms and over 2 million cervical they need, that is for sure. about the responsible and conscien- cancer screenings. Senate Republicans are not being fair tious use of Federal tax dollars. to American women. They are trying Elected officials have a responsibility These health centers are better able to shift the responsibility to someone to be wise stewards of public funding. I to respond to the needs of these women who does not exist. believe it is irresponsible to continue because they are closer to the commu- It is our responsibility in the Senate to support funding for a group that has nities they serve. They are indispen- to ensure that American women have lost the public’s trust and engages in sable in providing preventive health access to care. It is our obligation to violations of Federal law. services and preventive screenings to protect our wives, our sisters, our I believe it is important to note that the uninsured and our medically under- daughters, and our granddaughters Federal law clearly prohibits abortion served populations. from the absurd policies of a Repub- providers from the intentional manipu- In conclusion, I believe elected offi- lican Party that has lost its moral lation of the bodies of unborn children cials have a basic duty to stop sending compass. Today, Senate Democrats for the purposes of obtaining body tax dollars to an organization mired in will do just that. This Planned Parent- parts. Section 498A of title 42 of the scandal and likely illicit activity. hood bill is not going anywhere in the U.S. Code clearly states: It is time for us to come together and Senate. Senate Democrats will fight In research carried out under subsection support truly compassionate care for this vigorously and any other attempt (a) of this section, human fetal tissue may be women and their unborn children. It is from Republicans to deprive American used only if the attending physician with re- time to cut funding for Planned Par- women health care. spect to obtaining the tissue from the enthood and to use that money for its Mr. President, I do not see anyone woman involved makes a statement, made in original intent, which is providing re- here to speak. I would ask the Chair to writing and signed by the physician, declar- sources and care for women’s health. announce the business of the day. ing that—No alteration of the timing, meth- Thank you, Mr. President. od, or procedures used to terminate the preg- f nancy was made solely for the purposes of I yield the floor. PROHIBITING FEDERAL FUNDING obtaining the tissue. I suggest the absence of a quorum. OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED- A video released on July 21, 2015, de- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ERATION OF AMERICA—MOTION tails a Planned Parenthood doctor dis- clerk will call the roll. TO PROCEED cussing using a ‘‘less crunchy’’ abor- The senior assistant legislative clerk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under tion technique to get more whole speci- proceeded to call the roll. the previous order, the Senate will re- mens. Let me repeat the law: A doctor Mrs. ERNST. Mr. President, I ask sume consideration of the motion to must certify that ‘‘no alteration of the unanimous consent that the order for proceed to S. 1881, which the clerk will timing, method, or procedures used to the quorum call be rescinded. report. terminate the pregnancy was made The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The senior assistant legislative clerk solely for the purposes of obtaining the objection, it is so ordered. read as follows: tissue.’’ Mrs. ERNST. Mr. President, I rise Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 169, S. Senators can reach their own conclu- today to speak on an issue that has 1881, a bill to prohibit Federal funding of sions. shaken the moral compass of our soci- Planned Parenthood Federation of America. I think the truth is pretty self-evi- ety. The phrase ‘‘it’s a boy’’ is one we Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest dent, and I believe the law and these often use when celebrating new life. In- the absence of a quorum. videos speak for themselves. stead, this was spoken by a Planned The PRESIDING OFFICER. The I wish to address another important Parenthood employee as the body of an clerk will call the roll. point. This legislation is not an attack unborn baby boy was picked apart and The senior assistant legislative clerk on women’s health. To the contrary, as harvested for organs, such as a liver, proceeded to call the roll. a mother and a grandmother, I am kidneys, and heart. We have watched

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Planned Parenthood. Of the 2.7 million and shining a light on what is really Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Madam Presi- women Planned Parenthood serves happening. This is human life, and dent, even in the greatest deliberative every year, 78 percent are low-income Planned Parenthood—the Nation’s sin- body in this Nation and likely the women who depend on Planned Parent- gle largest provider of abortion serv- world, there are moments of profound hood for breast cancer screening, test- ices—is harvesting baby body parts. sadness and regret, and this moment is ing for sexually transmitted infections, The American people are shocked and one for me. I am deeply dismayed that hepatitis B vaccines, family planning horrified by the utter lack of compas- the Republican leadership is engaging counseling, education on how to recog- sion and disregard shown by Planned in an effort—an effort doomed to fail in nize and leave abusive relationships, just a couple of hours—to defund prob- Parenthood for these women and their domestic violence, referrals to other ably the most trusted provider of babies. This gruesome footage reso- medical specialists, and many other es- health care for women in the United nates with our collective conscience sential services that would be and goes against the very principles we States of America. It is misguided because there are so unaffordable and inaccessible without stand for. many significant issues that should be Planned Parenthood. As a mother and grandmother, I be- Over half of Planned Parenthood’s front and center for this body: making lieve the gravity of Planned Parent- clinics serve women in medically un- sure that we invest in our roads and hood’s callus and morally reprehensible derserved areas or in health provider bridges, making sure that we improve behavior cannot be ignored. I am com- our education system, making sure shortage areas. So 13 of Connecticut’s mitted to defending life because pro- that we keep faith with our veterans. 17 women’s health centers serve women tecting the most vulnerable is an im- So many of them are going nowhere be- in rural or medically underserved parts portant measure of any society. cause of this partisan paralysis and of my State. Defunding Planned Par- I am proud to stand before you today gridlock. Dismayingly to the American enthood would mean 64,000 of my con- with 45 cosponsors and offer legislation people, that has prevented real action. stituents could lose access to quality that will defund Planned Parenthood I regret that we are, in effect, dis- health services. while safeguarding funding for women’s tracted from those goals and those mis- Because there is no network of health services. This legislation pro- sions that the American people expect health care providers with the capacity hibits Federal funding for Planned Par- us to fulfill. to serve this population if Planned Par- enthood, protects Federal funding for Once again, many of my colleagues enthood is denied funding, millions of women’s health services, such as pre- across the aisle have aligned them- women—particularly Medicaid recipi- natal and post-partum care, cervical selves with the most extreme of the ents—would lose access to quality and breast cancer screenings, diag- anti-choice movement to undermine health services, and the result would be nostic laboratory and radiology serv- access to critical health care services a public health crisis. That is the stark ices, and guarantees there will be no for women—for millions of women in reality of these numbers and statistics. reduction in overall Federal funding this country and thousands in Con- Dry and abstract as they are, they available to support women’s health. necticut who depend on Planned Par- stand for real-life consequences—real This legislation redirects Federal enthood for basic health care women whose lives will be inevitably funding taken from Planned Parent- screenings, cancer diagnosis, family transformed for the worse if this meas- hood to other eligible entities that pro- planning, and contraception services, ure were to pass. vide health services for women, such as which distinguish it as one of the most Beyond the din of this place that so community health centers and hos- trusted health care providers in the often consumes us—the confusion and pitals. There would be absolutely no re- United States. the noise—there are real people whose duction in overall Federal funding It is the Republican leadership—not lives will be affected by these kinds of available to support women’s health. just a few Senators but the Republican measures and whose lives are affected Community health centers provide leadership—that has set up this vote to even by the effort to defund Planned more comprehensive primary and pre- defund Planned Parenthood. So instead Parenthood because of the uncertainty ventive health care services—except of the Senate moving forward to pro- and doubt that it creates. abortion—regardless of a person’s abil- vide additional health care services to These real people are women such as ity to pay. Meanwhile, Planned Parent- women, it has engaged in this on- Elizabeth A., who said: hood facilities do not perform in-house slaught and assault on women’s health When I didn’t have health insurance 3 mammograms. care, taking a step back with legisla- years ago, I went to Planned Parenthood The American taxpayers should not tion that is really—let me say blunt- where I had access to safe, affordable, repro- be asked to fund an organization such ly—a political charade, a stunt, a bill ductive health care. I still go there for my as Planned Parenthood that has shown health needs! I was able to get STD testing or legislative measure that will go no- and birth control when I couldn’t afford it a sheer disdain for human dignity and where and is as much a sham for the anywhere else. complete disregard for women and supporters as it is for opponents. The Rachel S. of Naugatuck, CT: their babies. These videos are hard for fact is Planned Parenthood provides anyone to defend and pull back the cur- health care services to women across Birth control helped my husband and me put off having a family until we were finan- tain on Planned Parenthood’s careless this country. Only 3 percent of its ac- cially ready to care for a child. The effects of practice of rummaging for unborn baby tivity relates to abortion. So 97 percent pregnancy, both physically and financially, organs to be harvested and sold at a of what it does is to provide screenings, mean that free or low-cost birth control is price. diagnosis, and family planning. If this an important factor in a successful future for I leave you with this one question: measure goes through, millions of both the woman and her family. Who do we want to be as a nation? Be- women will be undiagnosed with cer- And Nicole B. of West Haven, CT: fore us today is an opportunity to vote vical and breast cancer, millions of I come to Planned Parenthood because it is for legislation that will protect the women will be denied access to contra- a safe place to get birth control and exams. most vulnerable and women’s health. ception and family planning, and mil- Everyone is helpful and non-judgmental. The I thank the Presiding Officer, and I lions of young women will be denied city needs a place like this and many women yield the floor. the kind of education they need to pre- benefit from Planned Parenthood services. I suggest the absence of a quorum. vent pregnancy. These stories are from real people The PRESIDING OFFICER. The It is in preventing pregnancy that so whose lives we in the Senate are sup- clerk will call the roll. often Planned Parenthood is engaged, posed to care about. I care about them

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And this One spoke to me on Saturday after- ened faith, greater moral courage, and is an important consideration because I noon—one of the low points last week an unshakeable passion for ending the am sure every Senator here believes in during the controversy that has envel- slave trade. He said: ensuring that all women, regardless of oped Planned Parenthood—about how So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable their status and regardless of their fi- she was inspired and revived by simply did the [slave] trade’s wickedness appear nancial situation, deserve to have ac- passing by a room where one of the that my own mind was completely made up cess to vital services that health care counselors was talking to a group of for abolition. Let the consequences be what providers provide. young people, both men and women, they would: I from this time determined that The bill before us that we will be vot- about the education that was impor- I would never rest until I had effected its ing on today, offered by the Presiding abolition. tant to them as far as preventing un- Officer, Senator ERNST of Iowa, ad- wanted pregnancy and how seeing It took Wilberforce 20 years of blood, dresses these concerns. Her legislation Planned Parenthood at work in that sweat, tears, and even death threats, would transfer money provided to setting—the real work of providing but he succeeded in pushing the House Planned Parenthood to a whole range health care and education—inspired of Commons and the House of Lords to of women’s health care providers. I her to keep going despite those dif- put abolition into law when the Slave have the bill here in front of me. It is ficulties. Trade Act of 1807 passed. very simple, a very basic bill. The fact is that over and over my I believe today, just 2 hours from I want to read from this bill: constituents, the people of Con- now, we will have a William Wilber- State and county health departments, necticut, have told me they choose force moment facing the Senate. community health centers, hospitals, physi- Planned Parenthood because of the Through a series of video releases over cians offices, and other entities currently professionalism, dedication, and the past few weeks, the American peo- provide, and will continue to provide, health nonjudgmental approach to their pa- ple have learned about the shocking services to women. Such health services in- tients. Many view Planned Parenthood and barbaric practices Planned Parent- clude relevant diagnostic laboratory and ra- as a safe space to come when they need hood uses to terminate innocent diology services, well-child care, prenatal advice, when they need medical exami- human lives. In several different vid- and postpartum care, immunization, family planning services including contraception, nations. eos, senior Planned Parenthood offi- sexually transmitted disease testing, cer- If Republicans succeed in defunding cials openly and candidly discussed the vical and breast cancer screenings, and refer- it, women will be without their most organ harvesting of fetuses. rals. trusted health care provider. So many In one video, the senior director of The bill goes on to say that such en- of them are relying on it because it is medical research for Planned Parent- tities provide services to all persons, trustworthy, professional, and dedi- hood explained the process by which regardless of their ability to pay and cated to them—first and foremost to aborted body parts are harvested. I am provide services in medically under- them. not going to describe that process on served areas and to medically under- Today I stand with Planned Parent- the floor. I talked about it last week. hood and the thousands and thousands served populations. But for those who have seen the video So what is being offered here and of women in Connecticut and around and those who have read about the what we will be voting on this evening the country who benefited from their practices, it is abhorrent to hear the doesn’t take anything away from wom- services. I will vehemently oppose cold, calculating consideration of how en’s ability—regardless of their finan- these efforts to allow a secretive and best to disassemble, to tear apart, to cial situation or where they live—to dishonest group to discredit and to dis- rip apart a growing life so that they have the services that are needed and may so many. They have manipulated could harvest certain body parts and need to ensure their health and the fu- the facts, put employees and volun- then sell them for research. And they ture health of their children. teers in danger, and have eliminated were negotiating prices. In the United States there are five the organization’s ability to provide es- It was like describing to somebody times as many community health cen- sential services. But the important how they could go to Home Depot and ters as there are Planned Parenthood point is that we resist this effort today pick things off the shelf: Let’s see what operations. In my own State, we have to defund an organization that has pro- this costs; no, maybe we can get a bet- 108 community health centers in urban vided so many services to so many peo- ter price for this. But in this case we and rural areas all throughout the ple in need and has enabled this Nation are talking about living human tissue State of Indiana—5 times the amount to avert a public health crisis that will being taken, harvested, and sold from of Planned Parenthood facilities. So ensue if we follow this misguided ef- aborted babies. the issue of denying women needed fort, and that we follow our better in- So let’s consider for a second what is health care simply is not the case stincts and make sure that we keep the the bottom line. The bottom line is we under this legislation. faith with women who need health care are talking about an organization that The barbaric practice of conducting in this Nation. is embracing the dismembering of abortions in a way that promotes har- I yield the floor. human life with taxpayer support. Mil- I suggest the absence of a quorum. vesting fetal organs or profiting from The PRESIDING OFFICER. The lions of Americans who have seen these such practice has no place in a modern clerk will call the roll. videos are outraged by the cavalier at- society. Planned Parenthood’s prac- The legislative clerk proceeded to titude that Planned Parenthood has tices, I would suggest, should not re- call the roll. about human life. Americans from all ceive a dime of taxpayer money. The Mr. COATS. Madam President, I ask walks of life, Americans of different question is, Do we want taxpayer dol- unanimous consent that the order for faiths and, maybe, even of different po- lars to continue to support an organi- the quorum call be rescinded. litical parties abhor this. zation that treats human body parts The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Then we learned that our tax dollars, like a product on the shelves of a objection, it is so ordered. our hard-earned tax dollars, are sent to store? Mr. COATS. Madam President, Wil- an organization that practices these Today the Senate will decide if we liam Wilberforce is a man whom I methods. Surely, we can come to a con- fight for what we believe is morally have, over the years, looked to as a clusion that this is something that vio- right or whether we stand by and allow role model and an example of what lates the faith and beliefs of many mil- the trivialization of life to continue. public service should be and what pub- lions Americans and is subsidized by I am here to urge my colleagues to lic servants should be. the Federal taxpayer? vote yes on this vitally important Wilberforce served as a Member of Now, over the past few days, we have piece of legislation that we will be tak- the British Parliament from 1784 to heard many who say they object to ing up in less than 2 hours.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:37 Aug 03, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G03AU6.012 S03AUPT1 rfrederick on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with SENATE S6218 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 3, 2015 I yield the floor. and how fetal tissue should be con- Madam President, I yield the floor. Madam President, I suggest the ab- trolled and whether it should be al- I suggest the absence of a quorum. sence of a quorum. lowed to be used for medical research. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The But that is a debate we should have on clerk will call the roll. clerk will call the roll. that issue. There is no reason we The legislative clerk proceeded to The legislative clerk proceeded to should be defunding Planned Parent- call the roll. call the roll. hood because of a debate we may or Ms. COLLINS. Madam President, I Mr. KING. Madam President, I ask may not want to have in the future ask unanimous consent that the order unanimous consent that the order for about the use of fetal tissue. We are de- for the quorum call be rescinded. the quorum call be rescinded. nying medical services to women—par- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ticularly low-income women—because objection, it is so ordered. objection, it is so ordered. of an issue that has nothing to do with (The remarks of Ms. COLLINS per- Mr. KING. Madam President, I rise to the 97 percent of services this organiza- taining to the introduction of S. 1917 speak in opposition to S. 1881, the bill tion provides. To me, this bill is like are printed in today’s RECORD under that will be coming before us this attacking Brazil after Pearl Harbor—it ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and afternoon, and I have several quick is a vigorous response, but it is the Joint Resolutions.’’) points that I think need to be made. wrong target. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The first is that this bill has nothing If the concern is Planned Parenthood ator from Maine. to do with abortion. Ninety-seven per- or any other organization having ac- Ms. COLLINS. Madam President, I cent of the activities of the Planned cess to fetal tissue and then using that am informed that it is in order for me Parenthood Federation of America and tissue in medical research—by the way, to file the substitute amendment that I its associated facilities have nothing to designed to save lives and ameliorate just described, and I send that to the do with abortion. They have to do with the effects of diseases such as Parkin- desk. women’s health, they have to do with son’s or Alzheimer’s—then let’s focus The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cancer screening, and they have to do on that. Let’s talk about whether it amendment will be received. with contraception and early detec- should be legal, how it should be con- Ms. COLLINS. Thank you, Madam tion. The 3 percent that do involve trolled, what the limitations should be. President. abortion have no involvement whatso- But we should not eliminate an organi- I yield the floor. ever with Federal funds. This is not a zation which for many years—almost The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- case where Federal funds are going to 100 years—has been providing health ator from Oregon. support abortion or any of the related care for women, particularly low-in- Mr. WYDEN. Madam President, this activities. come women, basic female health care weekend I watched the Planned Par- The net effect of this bill is simply to such as cancer screenings and contra- enthood videos that are in the news, in- deny basic health care, including con- ception and family planning. cluding one in which the organization’s traception, to millions of women, par- This is a straightforward attack on leadership says very clearly that the ticularly low-income women. And the women’s health, in my view, particu- statements made by some of their staff irony is that it will undoubtedly in- larly the health of low-income women. are totally unacceptable. I believe that crease abortions in this country. ‘‘No American woman should be de- is important for everyone to hear. I have never understood why people nied access to family planning assist- With that said, here is the great dan- who are opposed to abortion also seem ance because of her economic condi- ger with the legislation before the Sen- to be opposed to the provision of family tion.’’ That radical statement wasn’t ate today: This bill paints a big red planning and contraceptive informa- made by me. It wasn’t made by Jimmy target on some of the most basic, es- tion which can prevent unwanted preg- Carter. It wasn’t made by John F. Ken- sential health care services for women nancies and, indeed, prevent abortions. nedy. It was made by that known rad- in America: birth control, gone; preg- The Guttmacher Institute, a respected, ical Richard M. Nixon in 1970. So access nancy tests, gone; prenatal services, nonpartisan institution, estimates that to family planning information goes gone; HIV tests, gone; breast cancer without family planning information back almost 50 years. If people in this screenings, gone; cervical cancer supplied by organizations such as body don’t think that is appropriate, screenings, gone; ovarian cancer Planned Parenthood, abortions would then let’s debate that, but let’s not use screenings, gone; vaccinations that increase in this country by 345,000 a this collateral issue of fetal tissue, prevent cancers, gone; treatment for year. That is not a result anybody which we can debate, to defund an or- urinary tract infections, gone; testing wants. It is certainly not one I want. ganization that serves the needs of and treatment for sexually transmitted That would mean an increase in abor- many women in my State and in States infections, gone; basic physical exams, tions—345,000 a year. across the country, particularly low-in- gone; treatment for digestive or I understand the bill does make funds come women. Two-thirds of Planned breathing problems, gone; treatment generally available to a whole host of Parenthood’s patients are low-income for chronic conditions, gone; pediatric different organizations, some of which women. They serve the needs of those care, gone; adoption referrals, gone; may or may not provide the kinds of women in a responsible, legal, and nutrition programs, gone; referrals to family planning services that have thoughtful way. hospitals and specialists, gone. been provided for over 70 years by This is targeting an organization for When you wipe out Planned Parent- Planned Parenthood. It is a narrower the wrong reason. If we want to discuss hood’s funding, you dramatically and network. It eliminates clinics that fetal tissue and how to deal with it and painfully reduce women’s access to have been available to women and doc- what the pros and cons are, then let’s services that have absolutely nothing tors who have been available to women do so, but I don’t believe it is appro- to do with abortion—nothing to do for many years. priate to do it in the context of legisla- with abortion. This bill will take away Ironically, amidst all the discussion tion that will basically crush an orga- the guarantee that Medicaid patients about the Affordable Care Act, a criti- nization that has been enormously have their free choice of doctors in the cism which was ‘‘Maybe you can’t keep helpful in maintaining women’s health program. The people who this bill will your own doctor,’’ this is a bill de- throughout this country and will not, hurt the most are poor women who signed to keep you away from your in fact, end whatever concerns people have nowhere else to turn. doctor, the doctor you have been seeing have about the use of fetal tissue. I urge my colleagues today to drop and have confidence in at a clinic run Again, Madam President, this bill this misguided campaign. Instead of re- by Planned Parenthood. has nothing to do with abortion. It has stricting women’s access to health care The issue, which my colleague from everything to do with women’s health. services—such as the ones I have just Indiana noted, is not about abortion. It I hope my colleagues will move on, de- outlined—let’s work on a bipartisan is not about Planned Parenthood. It is bate the real issues, and oppose this ill- basis to improve access to health care not about contraception. It is about founded and I believe unsupported services for women in America. fetal tissue and the uses of fetal tissue piece of legislation. I yield the floor.

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In fiscal year floor, that there will be a lot of mis- would eliminate taxpayer funding for 2014, Planned Parenthood performed representation about what is in the abortions, consistent with four decades 327,653 abortions. At the same time, bill. We need to be clear. This legisla- of U.S. law. Contrary to the comments Planned Parenthood received $528 mil- tion defends women’s health and en- made by our friend from Oregon who lion from Federal taxpayers. sures women access across the country just spoke, rather than withhold those Planned Parenthood reported rev- to essential health services. funds, it would take that same amount enue in fiscal 2014 of $1.1 billion. In As I said a few moments ago, in of money and redirect it for women’s other words, almost half of its income many respects the debate that we are health services and actually give them came from tax dollars from the Federal having was already decided in 1976, the better access to health services at the Government at the same time they per- year of the Hyde amendment, named same time. In other words, this legisla- formed 327,653 abortions. after Henry Hyde, which, as my col- tion will fund women’s health care but You will hear some of our friends leagues all know, prevents taxpayer not abortions on the taxpayers’ dime. who are defending Planned Parenthood dollars from funding abortions, except I particularly want to thank Senator say: Oh, well, this is different because in rare circumstances. We talked about ERNST, Senator LANKFORD, Senator the money is kept separate. But we that a lot during the course of the anti- FISCHER, and Senator PAUL for their know that money that comes from the human trafficking bill. But this has leadership on this important issue. Federal Government can keep the been the law of the land for 40 years. This is the beginning of the fight to re- lights on and keep the doors open so I strongly encourage all of our col- gain America’s conscience and the the abortions can continue to be per- leagues to vote to get on this bill. An fight to restore the law that has been formed. It is simply a fiction to claim organization that so callously reduces on the books for 40 years when it comes that Federal tax dollars are not sup- our most vulnerable to spare parts for to taxpayer funding of abortions. porting conduct proscribed by the Hyde sale has no business receiving any We all understand that the Supreme amendment for the last 40 years. money from the Federal taxpayers. If Court in Roe v. Wade has held that We don’t stop there, though, when it people want to raise money from other abortion is a right. But we also know comes to this legislation. As I men- private sources to support this effort, that there is a rare area where there is tioned at the outset, we would actually then let them do that. But tax dollars a consensus between pro-choice and redirect the money to ensure that tax- are not available and should not be pro-life people, such as myself, and payer dollars that once went to available to fund Planned Parenthood’s that is that we draw the line—and have Planned Parenthood now go to provide abortion practice—again, the largest since 1976—when it comes to taxpayer for women’s health, such as in thou- single abortion provider in America. While many of our colleagues on the funding of abortions. Of course, what sands of community health centers other side have agreed that the vile brought us to this point most imme- across the country. practices that we witnessed in these diately was that our collective con- I am a big fan of community health videos are disturbing, still some have science was shocked by videos depict- centers because they really represent tried to put off having this discussion ing Planned Parenthood executives dis- one-stop shopping when it comes to at all. I think what would be the big- cussing the harvesting and sale of the primary health care needs. The ironic gest failure on our part—no matter organs of unborn babies—an abhorrent, thing is we can actually provide better what the outcome of our vote on the disgusting practice that we cannot ig- access and more access for women by underlying legislation—would be to fail nore. Perhaps the only thing more transferring the money from Planned shocking than the actual dis- to have this discussion and this debate Parenthood to community health cen- membering of unborn children for sale for the American people to hear so we ters and other nonabortion providers. is the cavalier attitudes by the can get their input. The real travesty For example, in my State, we have as Planned Parenthood staff who seem to would be if we shut off debate because many as eight times more community have sacrificed their humanity and 60 Senators didn’t see fit to vote to get health centers as there are Planned show so little regard for the sanctity of on the bill. That vote will be in rough- Parenthood providers. We can provide human life. ly 1 hour and 15 minutes. What was shown in these videos is an women with eight times more oppor- There are others who say we simply outrage, and it demands our action. tunity to see that their health care have more important things to do. I Many of our colleagues from across the needs are taken care of and at the same disagree. For example, the senior Sen- aisle have cited their own disapproval time respect the law that prohibits ator from New York said consideration of what has been presented in these taxpayer dollars to be used for abor- of this bill was ‘‘wasting valuable videos. They will be given an oppor- tions and to support abortions. time’’ and that we should instead tunity at 5:30 when we vote on the mo- In fact, according to data from 2013— ‘‘[start] urgent budget negotiations.’’ tion to proceed to get on this bill to the most recently available nation- Really? Really? I hardly know what demonstrate that their actions actu- wide—every State in the country has to say. To those who share my disgust ally match their words. more community health centers than for the conduct depicted in these videos According to one report, the junior Planned Parenthood clinics. and who agree they are disgraceful, dis- Senator from Indiana said he found the Since I didn’t want to mention all 50 turbing, and extremely troubling, how comments by Planned Parenthood per- of them here—that would be a little can you now turn around and refuse to sonnel in the video disgraceful. Simi- overwhelming and be hard to read at vote with us to get on this legislation larly, the junior Senator from Virginia the same time—I just picked out two so we can have that discussion, so we said that he found the videos ‘‘ex- States, along with the nationwide sta- can have that debate, and so we can tremely troubling.’’ When asked about tistic—13 community health centers to vote our conscience? If your conscience the videos last week, former Secretary every 1 Planned Parenthood provider is shocked by the footage in these vid- of State Hillary Clinton also called that would still be able to provide pri- eos, I really can’t see how anybody them ‘‘disturbing.’’ And they are. mary health care services to women could possibly vote no on this legisla- Like our recent successful bipartisan under this legislation. But if we look at tion at 5:30 when we vote to get on the efforts to fight the scourge of human Indiana, for example, we would have bill. trafficking, we have a rare opportunity four times more providers under this Somehow, we as a nation have been to make a difference and address the legislation. In the State of Virginia, we lulled into a sense of complacency and moral imperative to defend those who would have 20 times more providers by have become somehow so desensitized cannot defend themselves. simply defunding Planned Parenthood, to these barbaric practices depicted in It is important—because I have al- the abortion provider, and using tax these videos that they no longer stimu- ready heard some of our colleagues dollars and transferring that money to late us to act. But today we have a

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The every other time they have tried these controversial, bipartisan bill to stop clerk will call the roll. partisan tactics, we are sending a very human trafficking. Why? Because they The senior assistant legislative clerk clear message to those who choose po- demanded new anti-abortion restric- proceeded to call the roll. litical pandering over women’s health. tions to cover private funding meant to Mrs. MURRAY. Madam President, I Political attacks and threats to shut help the victims of human trafficking. ask unanimous consent that the order down the government are not going to In June, House Republicans passed a for the quorum call be rescinded. get in the way of women’s access to the budget eliminating funding for the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without care they need—not on our watch. Title X Family Planning Program, the objection, it is so ordered. Why? Because we know millions of only Federal grant program that pro- Mrs. MURRAY. Madam President, women and their families are counting vides birth control, HIV tests, STD thanks to my colleagues on the other on us, and we are going to keep stand- screening, and other preventive serv- side of the aisle, the Senate is unfortu- ing up for them. ices for poor and uninsured people. nately taking a vote on whether crit- I will close today by sharing the Over the past few years, Republicans ical health care services should be story of a woman from my home State have voted to repeal the Affordable taken away from millions of women of Washington. Shannon is from Care Act more than 50 times, including across the country. We will be voting Tumwater, WA. When she was a teen- the portions that require insurers to on whether a young woman should be ager, she experienced ‘‘unbearable cover contraception. Let’s be clear. It able to go to a provider she trusts to pain’’ and went to see a doctor to find is not just Congress. Over the past 5 get birth control, whether cancer out whether she had endometriosis. years Republican State legislators screenings should be more or less avail- That is a serious disease that can keep have passed nearly 300 new restrictions able to women across the country, and women from having children if it goes on abortion access. This year alone Re- whether the U.S. Senate is going to untreated. Her doctor told her she was publican State legislators have passed turn back the clock on women’s health. far too young to have endometriosis more than 50 new restrictions on wom- To me—and to many Democrats and and sent her home. A few years later en’s access to legal health care. even some Republicans who want to when she turned 18, Shannon tried Let’s be really clear about some- help women get the care they need—it again, and this time she went to a thing. The Republican scheme to is deeply disappointing that we are Planned Parenthood center. There, her defund Planned Parenthood is not some even having this debate because ex- provider confirmed that she did indeed sort of surprised response to a highly treme Republicans have attacked have endometriosis. Her lesions were edited video. Nope. The Republican Planned Parenthood and women’s removed, and Shannon got the medica- vote to defund Planned Parenthood is health so many times before—on the tion to manage her condition, thanks just one more piece of a deliberate, me- budget, the highway bill, the Afford- to Planned Parenthood. She no longer thodical, orchestrated, rightwing at- able Care Act, and even on the legisla- has to live with chronic pain, and now tack on women’s rights, and I am sick tion I introduced last week to help she is the proud mother of a little girl. and tired of it. Women everywhere are wounded veterans start families. That Shannon said, ‘‘My daughter is truly sick and tired of it. The American peo- is right. Some of my Republican col- a gift, and I really have Planned Par- ple are sick and tired of it. leagues were more interested in scoring enthood to thank for her.’’ Scheduling this vote during the week political points with their extreme So today, as many Members on the of a big FOX News Presidential pri- base by picking fights over women’s other side of the aisle vote to take mary debate, days before candidates health than they were in helping our health care away from women and take trips to Iowa or New Hampshire, wounded veterans. their families, as they try as hard as isn’t just some clever gimmick. This is Unfortunately, it is clear they will they can to appeal to the extreme an all-out effort to build support to jump at any opportunity to put politics fringe of their party no matter the take away a woman’s right to control before women’s health. The bill we are cost, I hope they think of women like her own body and access to medical talking about this evening that would Shannon whose lives are happier and care she may need. defund Planned Parenthood is just healthier because of the services This affects all of us, whatever your more of the same. Planned Parenthood provides to so age, wherever you live. I guarantee My Republican colleagues who sup- many communities in our country. that you know someone who has used port this bill claim it would simply re- That is whom I will be thinking about. Planned Parenthood health care cen- direct funding for Planned Parenthood I am very proud to vote no tonight and ters. No one may mention it at to other providers. Let’s keep in mind will continue to keep fighting for Thanksgiving dinner or post it on that 2.7 million people visited Planned women, their health care, and their Facebook for the whole world to know, Parenthood for their health care last rights. but just look at the facts. One in five year, and 1 out of every 5 women in the I yield the floor. women in America is a Planned Par- United States will visit a Planned Par- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- enthood patient at least once in her enthood center at some point in her ator from Massachusetts. life. Every single year nearly 2.7 mil- life. So Planned Parenthood is a crit- Ms. WARREN. Madam President, I lion women and men show up for help ical source of health care in commu- come to the Senate floor to ask my Re- at Planned Parenthood. nities across this country, and claim- publican colleagues a question: Do you Why do so many people use Planned ing that other providers can simply ab- have any idea what year it is? Did you Parenthood? Because they are non- sorb those patients is like saying you fall down and hit your head and think profit and they are open. More than can pour a bucket of water into a cup. you woke up in the 1950s or the 1890s? half of Planned Parenthood centers are It will not work. Instead, what this bill Should we call for a doctor? Because I located in areas without ready access would actually do is take access to simply cannot believe that in the year to health care. Women who can’t get birth control, cancer screenings, STD 2015, the U.S. Senate would be spending appointments anywhere else go to tests, and other important preventive its time trying to defund women’s Planned Parenthood for pap tests and care away from women. It would leave health care centers. cancer screenings. Couples go to families and communities without On second thought, maybe I Planned Parenthood for STD treat- trusted, quality health care providers shouldn’t be that surprised. The Repub- ments or pregnancy tests. Young peo- they rely on, and it would mean that in licans have had a plan for years to ple go to Planned Parenthood for birth the United States of America in the strip away women’s rights to make control. And, yes, 3 percent of patients 21st century the tea party gets to tell choices about their own bodies. Just visit Planned Parenthood for a safe and

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In the fourth video, a Planned Par- ment is not paying for any of them— Planned Parenthood performs 174 abor- enthood medical director talks about not one dime. For almost 40 years the tions for every 1 adoption referral. In how ‘‘a little bit of training’’ will make Federal Government has prohibited fact, Planned Parenthood’s abortion sure that fetal organs can be removed Federal funding for abortions except in business is growing while its adoption intact. She says that charging a fee for the cases of rape, incest or life referrals and prenatal care services are each body part ‘‘works a little better, endangerment. shrinking. just because we can see how much we Most of the money Planned Parent- We are also told that Planned Par- can get out of it.’’ And to top it all off, hood receives from the government enthood provides other women’s health this medical director talks about how comes in the form of Medicaid pay- services. Those same annual reports, calling this gruesome business ‘‘re- ments for medical care provided to however, show that cancer prevention search’’ helps to avoid getting caught. low-income patients, the same pay- services are down 17 percent over the The truth about Planned Parenthood ments any other doctor or clinic re- year before. Planned Parenthood does is finally coming out, and Congress ceives for providing cancer screenings not provide what the American Cancer should respond in two ways. First, we or other medical exams. The rest of Society calls a ‘‘very effective and val- should exercise our oversight authority Planned Parenthood’s Federal funding uable tool’’ for breast cancer screening: to investigate how Planned Parenthood comes from title X that provides birth mammograms. That procedure requires is using the hundreds of millions of control to low-income and uninsured an FDA certification and no Planned taxpayer dollars it annually receives. people, the same program the House Parenthood clinic in America has such Federal law, for example, makes it ille- Republicans voted to cut in June. a certification. gal ‘‘for any person to knowingly ac- The government doesn’t fund abor- It is no wonder that Planned Parent- quire, receive, or otherwise transfer tions, period. A vote today to defund hood has fought anything that could any fetal tissue for valuable consider- Planned Parenthood is not a vote to conceivably reduce the number of abor- ation.’’ If our investigation turns up defund abortions. It is a vote to defund tions. That is the business they are in. any evidence of possible criminal cancer screenings, birth control, and They oppose measures to inform wrongdoing, such evidence should be basic health care for millions of women about abortion dangers or al- turned over to the proper authorities. Second, we should stop giving women. ternatives, they oppose any kind of in- Planned Parenthood taxpayer money. I say to my Republican colleagues: volvement by parents when children Even if the investigations show that The year is 2015, not 1955 and not 1895. seek an abortion. They even oppose re- Planned Parenthood has broken no Women have lived through a world stricting the horrible practice of par- laws, regulations, or other rules, we where backward-looking ideologues tial-birth abortion. should get American taxpayers out of tried to interfere with the basic health We have learned recently what such a the business of harvesting and selling decisions made by a woman and her commitment to abortion produces. baby body parts. Senator ERNST’s bill doctor, and we are not going back—not Not one, not two, not three, but four videos released so far show Planned would do just that. now, not ever. The abortion lobby’s misdirection, The Republican plan to defund Parenthood’s own leaders discussing distraction, and spin are already in the harvesting and selling of baby Planned Parenthood is a Republican high gear. Last week here on the Sen- parts as casually as a mechanic sells plan to defund women’s health care. ate floor, one of my Democratic col- car parts. They discuss how Planned For my daughter, for my grand- leagues said that this bill is an ‘‘attack Parenthood abortionists arrange their daughters, for people all across Massa- on women’s health.’’ It is no such chusetts, and all across this country, I procedures and techniques to obtain thing. Planned Parenthood is not the stand with Planned Parenthood, and I the intact baby body parts that they only provider of prenatal services or hope my colleagues will do the same. need. These videos are revolting. They cancer screenings. It is, however, the I thank the Presiding Officer, and I reveal an attitude toward human life only organization financed by Amer- yield the floor. that I thought we left behind long ago, ican taxpayers that traffics in baby Mr. HATCH. Madam President, Con- when we decided human beings were body parts. gress provides billions of dollars in tax- not commodities to be traded. Just as everyone should judge payer money for many different pro- Planned Parenthood has responded to Planned Parenthood’s words for them- grams in various areas, including wom- these videos with propaganda and dis- selves, everyone should also read this en’s health. Sometimes, however, we traction. After the first video was re- bill for themselves. It says that while have to draw the line, rearrange our leased, for example, they said that it Planned Parenthood will no longer re- priorities, and put some things off-lim- had been heavily edited, and their com- ceive taxpayer money, overall funding its. This is one of those times. The tax- ments were taken out of context. That for women’s health will not decrease. payers should not be funding an organi- is often the first response by someone This bill supports women’s health but zation engaged not only in the abortion exposed by their own words. I urge my defunds Planned Parenthood. business but, as we now know, in the colleagues and fellow citizens not to be This bill does not prohibit Planned baby body parts business. distracted. The Center for Medical Parenthood from performing abortions, In the last fiscal year, Planned Par- Progress, which released the video, has it does not even prohibit Planned Par- enthood received more than one-half made the full video and complete tran- enthood from continuing its practice of billion dollars of taxpayer money in script available. harvesting and selling baby body parts. the form of government grants, con- Planned Parenthood also claims that But if Planned Parenthood wants to be tracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. it receives cost reimbursement for the in this gruesome business, it should do That is nearly $1.5 million per day, ‘‘services’’ it provides. I remind my col- so without being subsidized by Amer- every day, and more than 40 percent of leagues of two things. First, even if ican taxpayers. Planned Parenthood’s revenue. The that were true, these are costs associ- I reiterate that this bill does not re- group’s annual reports reveal what it ated with the harvesting of baby body duce services for women’s health by a does. In the last 3 years, it performed parts. We must never forget what is at single dime. Healthcare providers all nearly 1 million abortions. In fact, this the heart of this whole thing—the har- over this country, including commu- taxpayer-supported organization is the vesting and selling of pre-born body nity health centers, offer all sorts of nation’s largest abortion provider. parts. Second, Planned Parenthood’s services for women. These include the Some of Planned Parenthood’s propa- senior director of medical services says very services that my Democratic col- ganda suggests the group focuses more in one of the videos that if they can league mentioned here last week, such

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The recent revelations about Planned needs, including annual health exams, The arrogance and shortsighted atti- Parenthood have pulled back the cur- cervical and breast cancer screenings, tude of a minority has put at risk the tain on something very ugly in our cul- and HIV screenings. Last year in lives and health of millions of women. ture. Millions of abortions over mul- Vermont, Planned Parenthood centers Does this Congress care more about tiple decades have devalued human life provided critical primary and preven- what looks good on a bumper sticker or to the point where—at least to some— tive services to over 16,000 patients. In what matters in the daily lives of real preborn babies are little more than a small State like Vermont, this im- people? My wife Marcelle is a cancer commodities, collections of parts that pact cannot be overstated. survivor. We were lucky. We had good can be harvested and sold. Is that the Proponents of this bill argue that if health care and the ability to pay the kind of country we want? No, it is not. we defund Planned Parenthood, women bills when she got sick. Others are not We should use this opportunity to ex- will find care at other health centers. so lucky. Without the services that This is simply not the case. Planned amine our values to chart a better Planned Parenthood provides, thou- Parenthood centers overwhelmingly course. sands of low-income women in Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, we serve populations in rural and medi- Vermont would lose their ability to are now 7 months into the 114th Con- cally underserved parts of the country have regular cancer screenings that gress, and our Nation is faced with where access to health care, especially could save their lives too. That we are many challenges. Less than 1 year ago, for low-income individuals, is difficult. even considering the elimination of the American people were promised In fact, over 90 percent of Vermont’s these health services to America’s Planned Parenthood centers are lo- that if Republicans took control of the women is shameful. cated in rural or medically-under- Senate, our focus would be on com- What a travesty it would be to gut served areas. Many women in my State mittee-reported bills and promoting bi- health services that have literally describe Planned Parenthood as their partisanship. Leader MCCONNELL meant the difference between life or primary source of health care. What pledged not to fill the amendment tree death, health or grave illness, to count- this partisan bill would do is force the and instead to allow for an open less American women. This bill is women in Vermont who have trusted amendment process when bills were merely an effort to score political Planned Parenthood for their health brought to the floor. These promises points at the expense of women’s care to try to find another doctor have already been broken and this health. I hope the Senate rejects this where few are available, or, more like- week we will likely see them broken irresponsible, partisan legislation. I ly, go without care at all. That under- urge the Senate majority leadership to again. mines all of our efforts to strengthen We are just a few days before the return to its promise that it would lead our Nation’s health care system, and first debate for the many Republicans this Chamber responsibly and act ensure access to care for everyone. seeking their party’s nomination for through regular order. Planned Parenthood health centers Ms. MIKULSKI. Madam President, I President. Given the crowded stage, are eligible for Federal funds in two they have already resorted to atten- am strongly opposed to the bill before ways, and under the Hyde amendment, us today, S. 1881, introduced by Sen- tion-getting attacks designed to excite funds cannot be used for abortion serv- the most extreme right wing of their ator ERNST. ices except in very limited cir- I stand in strong support of Planned base. It should surprise no one then cumstances. First, Planned Parenthood Parenthood, which every year provides that at the top of the Senate’s agenda centers can receive Federal grant fund- 2.7 million people—including over 30,000 this week is a bill that would jeop- ing through title X of the Public Marylanders and one in five women— ardize the health and well-being of Health Service Act. Title X is the only with important health care services, women across the country. Federal grant program dedicated to of- such as breast and cervical cancer I spoke in opposition to this mis- fering people comprehensive family screenings, sexually transmitted dis- guided, partisan effort last week. It is planning and related preventive health ease, STD, testing and counseling, and disappointing that instead of using the services. President Nixon was instru- birth control. few remaining weeks before the end of mental in enacting this legislation, and The bill before us today does one the fiscal year working to reach an it has long been supported by law- thing. It defunds Planned Parenthood. agreement on how to fund the govern- makers and Presidents of both parties. Every year Planned Parenthood ment, we are considering ideologically- It cannot be emphasized enough that health centers receive approximately driven legislation to bar funding for title X was a remarkable breakthrough $520 million in Federal funds to provide Planned Parenthood health centers. in women’s health care. The second preventive health services to 2.7 mil- This issue is unfortunately all too fa- way Planned Parenthood receives Fed- lion people in the United States, in- miliar. A few years ago, a small but eral funding is through Medicaid reim- cluding one in five women. These serv- vocal minority nearly shut down the bursements, when women using Med- ices include cancer screenings, STD Federal Government over a provision icaid choose a Planned Parenthood pro- testing and counseling, and birth con- prohibiting funding for Planned Par- vider as their doctor. trol. If the Ernst bill passes, Planned enthood. Thankfully, we prevailed in The federally supported services of- Parenthood would lose that money and the end, removing the rider and assur- fered by Planned Parenthood are the could no longer provide those services ing women’s access to vital health core of their work and mission. Despite to women and men in need. care. I hope the Senate makes the right the misleading and blatantly false For decades, anti-choice activists choice again today. statements of some ideologically-driv- have looked for any excuse to elimi- This latest attack on women’s health en advocates, more than 90 percent of nate funding to Planned Parenthood is fueled by an extreme organization the care Planned Parenthood health health centers because they use non- that is in the process of releasing sur- centers offer is preventive care like Federal funds to provide legal abor- reptitiously recorded videos, which the cancer screenings, annual checkups, tions. This time around, the excuse is group heavily edited in a misleading and contraception. As noted by several that we should defund Planned Parent- way to suggest wrongdoing on the part observers over the weekend, the irony hood because of some misleading vid- of Planned Parenthood. The Attorney is that defunding Planned Parenthood eos. Videos that, while uncomfortable General is currently reviewing the would result in more unintended preg- in nature, have shown nothing illegal matter, and I have every confidence nancies, and probably more abortions. to date. that if there is credible evidence to Should we walk back from the re- Let us talk about what Planned Par- warrant an investigation of any of the markable progress we have made as a enthood means to Maryland. In my

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And what types of on this issue, there is no justification 14,000 screenings for breast cancer in health care are Marylanders getting for continuing to subsidize Planned just 1 year. These screenings save wom- from these health centers? Approxi- Parenthood’s profitable venture with en’s lives, women such as Liz Steele mately 5,000 breast exams every year. taxpayer dollars. It is time for big from Minneapolis. Nearly 4,000 cervical cancer screenings abortion businesses like this one to be Liz’s first job after graduating from and Pap tests. More than 34,000 STD investigated and defunded. the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire tests and counseling sessions. And Senator ERNST’s bill, of which I am didn’t offer health insurance, so she re- more than 26,000 Marylanders rely on very proud to be a lead co-author, lied on Planned Parenthood for basic Planned Parenthood health centers for would prohibit Planned Parenthood, or health care services. When a blood birth control. any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, suc- sample taken during a routine physical The bill before us today is just the cessors, or clinics, from receiving any exam more than 25 years ago indicated latest in a series of unrelenting attacks Federal funds. Instead, funds that are that Liz had a deadly form of leu- on Planned Parenthood. Those sup- currently offered to Planned Parent- kemia, the nurse practitioner who porting this bill are simply latching on hood would be available to other eligi- cared for Liz at Planned Parenthood to yet another misguided attempt to ble entities to provide women’s health tracked her down and connected her try and eliminate Planned Parenthood care services, including diagnostic lab- with a physician who treated her can- in an effort to undermine women’s re- oratory and radiology services, well- cer and saved her life. Liz said, ‘‘With- productive rights. child care, prenatal and postnatal care, out [the nurse’s] persistence, I quite I urge my colleagues to oppose this immunizations, and cervical and breast frankly wouldn’t be here right now. bill on behalf of the 2.7 million people, cancer screenings. Planned Parenthood is responsible for and 1 in 5 American women, who rely The sanctity of human life is a prin- saving my life.’’ on Planned Parenthood for their health ciple that Congress should proclaim at Unfortunately, the bill we are dis- care. every opportunity. The time has come cussing today ignores women like Liz. Mr. NELSON. Madam President, be- to respect the wishes of the majority of Rather than recognizing Planned Par- fore us this evening is a decision Americans who adamantly oppose enthood’s role in protecting women’s whether or not to take money away using taxpayer dollars for abortions by health, the legislation continues a se- from Planned Parenthood. denying Federal funds to these abor- ries of unrelenting attacks on Planned For close to 100 years, Planned Par- tion providers. I strongly encourage Parenthood and on women’s access to enthood has provided critical health the support of my fellow Senators on basic health care. We have seen this services to millions, providing care to efforts to defund Planned Parenthood strategy before. In 2007, the Senate 2.7 million people in 2013 alone. and protect these innocent babies from voted on a measure that would have In fact, many Planned Parenthood af- being the target of Planned Parent- eliminated support for any health care filiates operate in rural and medically hood’s gruesome practices. provider—including Planned Parent- underserved areas. In some cases, clos- Ms. WARREN. I suggest the absence hood—that provides safe, legal abor- ing these facilities could cause patients of a quorum. tion services. In 2011, the Senate voted to travel great distances to receive The PRESIDING OFFICER. The on a proposal that singled out Planned health services. clerk will call the roll. Parenthood by name and would have Now, that said, I find the videos at The senior assistant legislative clerk disqualified it from receiving Federal issue to be extremely disturbing and I proceeded to call the roll. support. Each time, these attempts to believe we have a responsibility to de- Mr. FRANKEN. Madam President, I place political hurdles between a termine all the facts. ask unanimous consent that the order woman and the health care provider of More investigation is needed before for the quorum call be rescinded. her choice failed—by a vote of 41 to 52 we even start talking about taking The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without in 2007 and 42 to 58 in 2011. Today’s at- away vital health services like annual objection, it is so ordered. tempt will fail as well. wellness exams and cancer screenings Mr. FRANKEN. Madam President, I Recently, antiabortion activists se- from the millions who rely on them for rise today to speak in strong opposi- cretly recorded videos of Planned Par- care. tion to legislation that would defund enthood doctors and staff. In these vid- Mr. VITTER. Madam President, I Planned Parenthood and jeopardize eos, some of the physicians captured on would like to take a moment to express women’s access to health care. tape did not treat the issue of repro- my sincere disappointment in Planned Each year Planned Parenthood opens ductive health services with the appro- Parenthood’s apparent disregard for its doors to millions of Americans, in- priate level of sensitivity. I was glad to human life. As a father of four and a cluding more than 54,000 people in my see that the president of Planned Par- strong advocate for the sanctity of life, State of Minnesota, people who need enthood apologized for the tone of I am deeply disturbed by reports of the affordable, quality health care, such as those remarks. But these videos—de- gruesome and inhuman actions being breast and cervical cancer screenings, ceptively edited to paint a misleading performed by Planned Parenthood and pregnancy tests, and family planning picture of the organization—were de- their affiliates. services. One in five women in this signed to distort the truth and create I am proud to be a lead coauthor of country has received that care at controversy, a controversy that oppo- Senator ERNST’s bill that we are con- Planned Parenthood, and for many nents of reproductive rights are now sidering today to defund this organiza- women Planned Parenthood is their exploiting by pushing the same failed tion and hope my fellow Senators will primary source of health care. Yet strategy, only this time they have fo- put the sanctity of life ahead of any po- today the Senate is considering open- cused their opposition to reproductive litical interests. ing debate on a proposal to defund rights in disingenuous rhetoric that Last year, Planned Parenthood re- Planned Parenthood—a proposal to purports to value women’s health. ceived $528 million in taxpayer funding, block this health care provider from The bill’s lead sponsor claimed that or more than $1.4 million per day, ac- continued participation in our Federal ‘‘[t]here will be no reduction in overall counting for 41 percent of Planned Par- safety net health programs. It is a pro- federal funding available to support enthood’s overall revenue. Although posal that would close Planned Parent- women’s health.’’ Another cosponsor of the organization claims to use this hood’s doors and leave millions with- this legislation claimed the bill would funding to provide necessary health out a provider. ‘‘provide additional money for women’s services to women, the fact is that Make no mistake, this proposal has primary health care services,’’ but the abortions made up 94 percent of nothing to do with protecting women’s bill’s operative language makes no

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We need to be giving the Amer- from a federally supported women’s Once again, this 114th Congress is ican people more options when it health center—more than any other proving its priorities are completely comes to their health care, not fewer. provider—but those sponsors have no misguided. Last week the House of I would urge my colleagues to stop plan for where the millions of patients Representatives adjourned for a 6-week the political gaming and simply vote currently receiving health care from recess instead of taking up the Senate no on this bill. Planned Parenthood would go if this 6-year highway bill. That bill would I yield the floor. legislation were successful—no plan. strengthen our transportation infra- I suggest the absence of a quorum. Moreover, claims that opponents of structure and reauthorize the Export- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Planned Parenthood support con- Import Bank, which helps businesses clerk will call the roll. tinuing or even increasing funding for compete globally and returns hundreds The senior assistant legislative clerk women’s health services are especially of millions of dollars to the Treasury. proceeded to call the roll. Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unan- hard to believe in light of the fact that By skipping town, the House forced an- imous consent that the order for the some of the same people also support other short extension, delaying long- quorum call be rescinded. cutting the very programs that fund term investments and denying States The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. women’s health services now. Just a and businesses long-term certainty. COATS). Without objection, it is so or- Today we are debating whether to little over 1 month ago, House appro- dered. priators approved a spending bill that defund Planned Parenthood and deny Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, there would completely eliminate the title X thousands of women access to primary comes a time in the history of nations family planning program—the Nation’s health care. Outside of these walls, this when a civilized people must stand up only Federal program exclusively dedi- debate was settled decades ago. Most and decide whether life is important, cated to reproductive health care. Sen- voters—including over 70 percent of whether life is something special, and ate appropriators proposed slashing Independents—oppose this effort be- whether there is maybe something title X—a program that is already run- cause they see it for what it is: an ag- greater than just us that has to do with ning on fumes—by $30 million. So gressive assault on women’s health life. claims that a bill to ban one of Amer- care. It sickens me to see what has been ica’s most trusted health care pro- If you don’t believe me, let me tell going on with Planned Parenthood. viders from Federal programs would you the story of one of my constituents Some of my first memories of my chil- support women’s health—claims made named Liz from Billings. Planned Par- dren were the ultrasounds I saw before while the bill’s proponents are working enthood has been Liz’s primary health they were born. We still keep those. We to gut Federal programs that provide care provider for 30 years. The doctors now find out, though, that this tech- services like breast and pelvic exams, and nurses at her local facility found nology that can do wonders, that can contraceptives, testing and treatment precancerous cells and got her the save babies—now you can perform sur- for sexually transmitted infections and treatment she needed to prevent a life- gery in the uterus and the baby can HIV—are nothing short of prepos- threatening disease. Despite a com- survive. These same techniques are terous. plicated medical history, she was able being used by Planned Parenthood to It is no secret that attacks on to start a family thanks to the pre- manipulate the baby into a position to Planned Parenthood are part and par- natal care she accessed at Planned Par- harvest the baby’s organs. I think all cel of a longstanding campaign to enthood. Now she has a daughter of her America should be sickened by this. It make safe and legal abortion in this own and trusts the providers of should also trouble us if we are a soci- country virtually impossible to access. Planned Parenthood to provide critical ety that is not sickened by this. Ironically, the defunding of Planned health care to her and her family. But I think the time has come to have a Parenthood would interfere with the Liz isn’t alone. full-throated debate. The time has delivery of health care that actually In 2013, in my home State of Mon- come to end all taxpayer funding for prevents unintended pregnancy and re- tana, over 15,000 men and women were Planned Parenthood. Some will say: duces the need for abortion. If the pro- patients at Planned Parenthood for ev- Well, where will people get their health ponents of this bill were truly sincere erything from affordable primary care care? We have 9,000 community health in their desire to support women’s to cancer screenings, to family plan- centers and 700 Planned Parenthood health, they would embrace efforts to ning services. Four out of ten women clinics. The only difference is abortion. improve contraceptive coverage and in- who receive care at a title X-funded In fact, you can get many things at a crease access to birth control rather health care center consider it their community health center you cannot than continue to attack the Nation’s only source of health care. Taking get at Planned Parenthood, but the No. 1 provider of basic women’s health away this funding is political, short- only thing you get at Planned Parent- services. sighted, and outright dangerous. Unfor- hood that you cannot get anywhere The ability to access reproductive tunately, it is not their only attempt else is an abortion. health care by the services that to rob women of their health care But this debate is not just about Planned Parenthood provides has a choices. As it sits now, next year’s U.S. abortion; this debate is about little ba- powerful effect on the choices women House appropriations bill for Health bies who have not given their consent. and families make every day—choices and Human Services eliminates all of It is about time we had a debate in about finishing college or graduate the title X family planning health clin- our country about this, and it is about school, whether to buy a home or start ics. While that is the kind of short- time we said enough is enough. The a business. The ability to decide wheth- sightedness we have come to expect question is, Can a civilization long en- er or when to start a family shapes from the House in recent years, the dure that does not respect life? Do we lives, and for nearly 100 years Planned Senate Labor-HHS appropriations bill lose everything else that makes us Parenthood has played an important isn’t much better because it signifi- human if we are unwilling to protect role in ensuring that women are able to cantly cuts title X funding. It cuts teen life? Can we stand up and defend our make that decision for themselves and pregnancy prevention funding by 81 other rights if we are not willing to shape their own destinies. I urge my percent. In a large rural State like stand up and defend the most basic of colleagues to resist the impulse to let Montana, access to quality health care rights? politics stand between a woman and is always a serious challenge. Without I come here today to ask my fellow her health care and to oppose legisla- a serious effort to recruit more doctors Senators to vote to defund Planned tion to defund Planned Parenthood. and nurses, we could soon be facing a Parenthood. I hope they will.

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This is about in that ecstatic phone call that comes objection, it is so ordered. a different body with a different DNA. from an expecting mom or as the new Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I This is about a little baby—a baby who father takes that newborn son into his would first like to enter into a col- now has a price not just on its head but arms. That doctor was the same one to loquy with Senator DAINES. This is an on literally every part, as these videos say: It is a baby. issue which many of us here in this exposed. There is no doubt that this is what body feel extremely passionate about. When we place a price on the out- the little boy is; it is a baby. We will talk about Planned Parenthood come of the destruction of our chil- I cannot support an organization that and what is going on and the basic dren, we incentivize it. In another set- would place a dollar amount on body issue of children. ting, we would call this price-per-speci- parts. I cannot support an organization This has been spun multiple different men arrangement a bounty scheme, be- that would incentivize his death. That ways, but really this is not about a lot cause with potential for such financial is why I will vote for this bill, and my of other issues other than one thing. gain, there is little wonder why there vote will be a vote for women’s health. This is about children—children who are 149 abortions to every 1 adoption To be very clear, this bill won’t are recognizable outside of the womb, referral at these clinics—149 abortions touch 1 cent of funding for women’s and once they have been carved up and to every 1 adoption referral at these health—not 1 cent. That means that set out on a table to be sold as parts, clinics. this vote is for one thing and one thing they can be plainly seen to be children. The discussions we heard are not ex- only. A ‘‘yes’’ vote is a vote for women. So my conversation today will circle ceptions or even the actions of a single It is a vote for our children. I urge my around a little bit about what we are clinic. This is a systemic issue within colleagues: Let us vote for women. Let doing, where we are headed, what this Planned Parenthood. We heard direct us vote for our children. Let us vote vote this evening is all about, and what testimony that clinics act in concert, yes. this debate is that should begin here in with the consent of their corporate Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, this America about what happens with headquarters at Planned Parenthood, ongoing conversation has happened. I Planned Parenthood. and that no single clinic acts alone. would like to be able to demonstrate So I would like to entertain a con- We learned that an overarching legal what we are really up against and what versation with Senator DAINES. department works to build layers upon this really looks like in practical Mr. DAINES. I thank the Senator layers of defenses so that no one clinic from Oklahoma for having this col- terms. is left holding the bag. Such a culture I brought a chart with me here for loquy today because I do believe we are shows little regard for women’s health. at a crossroads. With this vote we will when we talk about women’s health be- This is a culture that has been em- cause there is an accusation that is sit- have in about 20 minutes, we have a broiled in a number of lawsuits about choice set before us, one that each one ting out there that this is about cut- making false reimbursement claims to ting off access to women’s health. The of us must make as a Senator and one the Federal Government and helping to that each American must make with chart I have on the right shows all facilitate the covering up of sexual Planned Parenthood licensed mammo- us. abuse and statutory rape. In fact, just With a ‘‘yes’’ vote—a ‘‘yes’’ vote is to gram facilities. They would be a dot on last week a complaint was filed with this map. If you were looking close at defund Planned Parenthood—we reaf- the Colorado Department of Regu- firm our dedication to women’s health. the map, you would see no dots on it. It latory Agencies against one of these is clear there is not a single one. The In fact, we recommit every dollar made clinics regarding a little 13-year-old available to support things such as accusation is, over and over, that if girl who was sexually abused, had an women are going to get access to mam- well-baby care, cervical and breast can- abortion, and was returned to her mograms, they have to be able to get cer screening, prenatal and postpartum abuser. No report was made by the to Planned Parenthood. The dirty se- care, immunizations, family planning clinic or the abortionist. Her parents cret is they are referred to other loca- services, including contraception, sexu- were not contacted—all in violation of tions. They recommend that you go get ally transmitted disease testing, and the laws of Colorado. relevant diagnostic, laboratory, and ra- So a ‘‘no’’ vote on this bill supports a mammogram, but Planned Parent- diology services. this culture. It devalues both the hood doesn’t do any of them. On the This bill does not take a single dollar woman and that tiny little baby, that left, these are the 8,000-plus facilities— away from women’s health. I think it child. the dots on the map here—where you is very important, as we debate this de- We do have a choice today. We can can actually get a mammogram. We cision in front of us, that we do not get work to change that culture if we are talking about taking funding from caught up in rhetoric. Let’s get focused choose to vote for women, if we would a location that refers patients to the on the facts, on what this does and choose to vote yes, because a ‘‘yes’’ location that actually does the mam- what it does not do. This is a vote vote redirects—again, let’s get the mogram. about our culture. This is a vote about facts straight here and separate them This is about women’s health, but it our ethics. Most importantly—and I from the rhetoric—funds from Planned is also about the health of children. I say this as a daddy of four children, Parenthood and provides that money have a very difficult time talking two boys and two girls—this is about for women’s health services to the nu- about things such as early childhood the value of our children. merous community health centers. education on this floor with individuals Over the last few weeks, we have seen You heard Senator PAUL talk about who are passionate about early child- these videos. Americans have been hor- 9,000 community clinics around the hood education, but if that child was rified at high-level Planned Parent- country versus 700 Planned Parenthood just a couple of years younger, they hood executives who are callously dis- centers. It would provide these dollars would have no issue with them being cussing the price of baby organs har- to those clinics, to local clinics, to hos- aborted and their body parts being vested from the tiny bodies of aborted pitals, to other providers that already sold. babies. In fact, just last week we wit- serve the majority of women. That is the same child. That is the nessed an abortion doctor poking I must tell you I was deeply dis- same child whose early childhood edu- through the pieces of a tiny and broken turbed—as a daddy of four—with this cation we are passionate about. That is body. He was pointing out the heart most recent video where a doctor pokes the same child whom we are passionate and lungs and discussing what each of around the aborted baby’s parts until about in the Women, Infants, and Chil- them should cost when sold, meanwhile she finds the legs, and she shouts and dren funding to make sure that they exclaiming it is a baby. exclaims: It is another boy. get proper nutrition at birth. That is

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Yes, I was going to ask aware of new legislation by Senator Joni video coming out is that for the first unanimous consent that following my Ernst that would redirect federal funding time in a long time, this is not an in- friend from Louisiana I be given 2 min- from Planned Parenthood to other health visible thing that is happening some- utes. care providers. The purported goal of such where in secret. Now it is something Mr. LANKFORD. Could we just swap legislation is to prevent a decrease in federal and go straight to the Senator now? funding for women’s health services, while that is actually happening where peo- eliminating Planned Parenthood as a health ple can see it. I think our culture, for Would that be appropriate? care provider. the first time in a while, is having to Mrs. BOXER. Whatever the Senator As the state-wide representatives of com- slow down and deal with the reality of wants. munity clinics and health centers in Cali- this: Is it possible that this culture has Mr. LANKFORD. Let’s do that then. fornia, who serve 5.6 million patients annu- been wrong, that this really is a child? I have a unanimous consent for an ally, we believe this action would negatively I spoke last week to a friend of mine. ongoing colloquy, and I would be impact the health of our community. pleased to have the Senator join this Planned Parenthood currently operates 115 His child was born a year ago at 14 health centers in California and serves near- ounces. So 14 ounces was the birth conversation. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ly 800,000 patients through 1.5 million en- weight. The child was born very, very counters annually. Eliminating Planned Par- premature. Their child is now 14 ator from California. enthood from our state’s comprehensive net- pounds, a year later, and doing ex- Mrs. BOXER. I thank my friend from work of care would put untenable stress on tremely well. That 14-ounce child is a Oklahoma for his generosity here. I tell remaining providers. We do not have the ca- child that everyone sees now, but that him that I would really rather work pacity for such an increase in care and build- 14-ounce child is exactly what Planned with him on transportation. ing such capacity would require significant I gave birth to two premature kids, capital investment on par with the Patient Parenthood was harvesting, was turn- and I just don’t like lectures from men Protection and Affordable Care Act expan- ing in the womb so they could crush about what it is like—and thank God sion. the head to be able to gather the or- Even then, the legislation would still they made it. gans to be able to sell them. eliminate patient’s ability to choose the pro- As a culture, we have to deal with I am pro-choice. I just have to say vider with which they feel most comfortable. this one simple reality. That child is that using pregnancy as a political Planned Parenthood is seen by many as important. This is not about Cecil the football doesn’t sit well with the people women’s health centric, which provides their lion. This is not about whales at I represent and the people of this coun- patients with a level of comfort that cannot be easily duplicated. The women’s health SeaWorld. This is about children. try. We have to respect one another. I re- focus allows them to be a provider of choice Maybe we as a culture should slow to hundreds of thousands of women who seek down and be able to answer that one spect your view entirely. I am asking you to respect mine. Keep Uncle Sam out a variety of services that include well simple question and at least for this woman exams, breast exams, birth control moment with Planned Parenthood to out of my private life, and that of my and sexually transmitted disease testing. say this to an organization where there children, my grandkids, and yours. In 2013 alone, Planned Parenthood con- Families will make these decisions are a couple of things that are hanging ducted 733,641 tests for Chlamydia—the lead- with their God and their doctor. Nine- ing cause of preventable infertility—that re- over them right now that are very seri- ty-seven percent of the work Planned sulted in 37,014 positive results and follow-up ous. One is that it is not legal under Parenthood does has nothing to do treatment. Federal law to sell parts of a human for with abortion. It is primary health Planned Parenthood is a vital component profit. Now, it is still yet to be deter- of the health care system in California and care. mined what was done. But it is also not for that reason, we are opposed to legislation I have to say that in 2011 Republicans legal to be able to change the timing, that will diminish their capacity to provide threatened to shut down the govern- procedure or method of an abortion to care in our state. We respectfully request ment if Planned Parenthood wasn’t be able to gather organs to be sold. that you oppose this legislation. defunded. I heard my friend from Wash- Sincerely, That is very clear in Federal law as ington, PATTY MURRAY, say they were ANDIE MARTINEZ PATTERSON, MPP, well. serious. They were going to shut down Director of Government Affairs. So if the method is changed, if the the government to deny health care to They say they cannot take any more timing is changed, if the procedure has 2.7 million women and men every patients. They cannot take those changed, specifically to harvest organs, year—for some of them, basic health 800,000 patients. that is not legal. In the videos, over care. So they say to the women: Go to the and over you hear doctors talking I will show you a particular person, community health care centers. They about how they changed the method, Doreen from California, who said: voted against ObamaCare, which ex- how they used the ultrasound to turn panded the community health care cen- the child around, how they used a dif- I went to Planned Parenthood and I talked to the clinician. . . . She gave me a referral ters, and the health care centers are ferent technique than they would have to a breast care center where I had a mam- saying no, they are sorry, they cannot normally done because they wanted to mogram and a biopsy [and] was ultimately do it. Planned Parenthood does a great be able to gather these organs for sale. diagnosed with breast cancer. . . . I was job. Those are serious accusations. These scheduled for a lumpectomy in about two So this is a continuation of the Re- are children—children. We think it is weeks. publican war on women. I hope we will entirely reasonable to say let’s take That woman could have died, and you defeat this ill-considered bill that is the funding that has been committed say: Go to community health care cen- about to come our way. to Planned Parenthood, which is the ters. First, I find it ironic because they The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- single largest abortion provider in the were set up in ObamaCare and all of ator from Oklahoma. country—40 percent of their revenue you voted no on ObamaCare. We ex- Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I comes from the Federal taxpayer, 40 panded community health centers. wish to be able to continue this con- percent. Let’s take that funding and Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- versation because it is extremely im- let’s commit it to organizations that sent to have printed in the RECORD a portant that we continue this as a na- do full women’s health—mammograms, letter from the community health care tion. testing, contraceptives, and the center association in California. I wish to make a couple of comments works—not just recommending it to There being no objection, the mate- to you as well. others and also do abortions, but we rial was ordered to be printed in the I am a dad with two daughters. I had would commit it to those individuals. RECORD, as follows: something to do with the birth as well

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I am pas- important we ensure access for women tunity to vote for legislation that will sionate about my daughters having to health care. protect the most vulnerable in our so- every single opportunity. So this is im- Currently, Planned Parenthood gets ciety and fund women’s health. portant to us as well. This is not just a $500 million in Federal funding per With that, I yield the floor. women’s issue. This is a men’s issue as year. If we redirect this funding to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- well because this is a family issue, and community health centers, which I ator from Connecticut. families are extremely important to all have worked with for 30 years, their Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I of us. health can be better served. am tempted to say there they go again, But I would say that community There are two Planned Parenthood because we have seen this attack on health centers don’t serve 3.2 million facilities in Louisiana, and there are women’s health care again and again people, like Planned Parenthood. Com- 160 community health centers. The two and again. It is a very weak excuse to munity health centers serve 23 million Planned Parenthood offices, one in New defund Planned Parenthood. people around the country. There are Orleans and one in Baton Rouge, are in We know 97 percent of Planned Par- around 650 Planned Parenthood loca- the southeastern portion of the State. enthood’s activities have nothing to do tions around the country. There are The community health centers are with abortion. Let’s stand strong for 9,000 community health centers around scattered all over the State, and, women’s health care to protect women the country. The Planned Parenthood again, there are 160 of those. against cancer, against hepatitis, facilities refer people to go get breast For every American who is troubled against sexually transmitted diseases. cancer screenings. The community by these videos, we should be equally Eighty percent of Planned Parent- health centers actually do that testing troubled by the fact that the Planned hood’s clients have nowhere else to go there. They actually do the mammo- Parenthood provision of health care is for those vital services. We will not tol- grams there and not just say that you geographically centered in some areas erate this attack on women’s health should get one. but not as broadly as the community care under the guise of stopping abor- So this is about women’s health. It is health centers. tion. also about the efficiency of what we I will also point out, as a physician, Mr. President, I yield the floor. are going to be about. that the Planned Parenthood model of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- I would also say one other thing on care is outdated. We now talk about ator from Oklahoma. this issue about ObamaCare and the clinics which are medical homes, not Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I am community health centers. The com- which are siloed into only the provi- grateful for this conversation about munity health centers were funded sion of birth control pills and, in the children. under ObamaCare, but they long case of Planned Parenthood, abortion. Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, what is preexisted before ObamaCare. Commu- The community health centers can pro- regular order at this point? nity health centers are not an inven- vide the whole range of services includ- Parliamentary inquiry. What is the tion of ObamaCare. There was a section ing those for diabetes, hypertension, et regular order? of ObamaCare that funded some of cetera. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The reg- them an additional amount, but they It is time for Congress to act. I ask ular order is that all time has expired. have been around for decades and dec- my colleagues to support this redis- Mr. LANKFORD. I would advise my ades. They are an extremely efficient tribution of money, sending it closer to colleague from California I have a form of health care, especially to those where those patients live, to better en- unanimous consent request under rule on Medicaid. sure a woman’s access to health care, XXII. I yield to my friend and fellow Sen- and to address the troubling issues Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- ator from Louisiana. raised by these videos. sent that the mandatory quorum call The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- I yield back. under rule XXII be waived. ator from Louisiana. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. President, I am a ator from Iowa. objection? physician, a doctor. For the last 25 Mrs. ERNST. Mr. President, I ask Without objection, it is so ordered. years, I have worked in hospitals for unanimous consent for 1 additional CLOTURE MOTION the uninsured. So when my friend from minute. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays California mentions the need to ensure Mrs. BOXER. Reserving the right to before the Senate the pending cloture access for those who might not other- object, I will not object if Senator motion, which the clerk will state. wise afford it, that is what I have been BLUMENTHAL can respond with 1 The legislative clerk read as follows: attempting to do in my medical prac- minute. CLOTURE MOTION tice for the last 25 years. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- As a practicing physician, one of the objection? ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the first things you are taught in medical Without objection, it is so ordered. Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby school is ‘‘first, do no harm.’’ Trag- The Senator from Iowa. move to bring to a close debate on the mo- ically, these videos demonstrate that Mrs. ERNST. Mr. President, the tion to proceed to S. 1881, a bill to prohibit some do not share that perspective. question before us today is clear: Who Federal funding of Planned Parenthood Fed- do we want to be as a nation? eration of America. When patients see their doctors, they Mitch McConnell, James M. Inhofe, Rand want an honest, objective opinion. But It is hard for anyone to defend these Paul, Pat Roberts, Ben Sasse, James what the video suggests is that morally reprehensible videos as Lankford, Joni Ernst, Daniel Coats, Planned Parenthood puts profits and Planned Parenthood callously har- Cory Gardner, Steve Daines, Roger F. special interests before the women who vested the organs of unborn babies to Wicker, Johnny Isakson, Lindsey Gra- call on them for their advice. be sold at a price. The American peo- ham, Michael B. Enzi, Jerry Moran, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ple, Republicans and Democrats alike, Tim Scott, John Cornyn. ator should be advised that the time are horrified by the blatant disregard The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- for the vote, scheduled for 5:30, has ar- and utter lack of compassion shown by imous consent, the mandatory quorum rived. He can ask unanimous consent Planned Parenthood for these women call has been waived. for additional time if he so wishes. and their babies. The question is, Is it the sense of the Mr. CASSIDY. Oh, is it 5:30 now? I It is wrong. The American people Senate that debate on the motion to am sorry. I ask unanimous consent for know it, and they should not be asked proceed to S. 1881, a bill to prohibit another 2 minutes? to foot part of the bill. We can no Federal funding of Planned Parenthood

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South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM). CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Further, if present and voting, the We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- LANKFORD). The Senator from Ohio. Senator from South Carolina (Mr. GRA- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the DRINKING WATER PROTECTION ACT Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby HAM) would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I have move to bring to a close debate on the mo- come back to the floor again this after- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there tion to proceed to calendar No. 28, S. 754, an any other Senators in the Chamber de- original bill to improve cybersecurity in the noon to plead with my colleagues to siring to vote? United States through enhanced sharing of pass legislation that deals with the The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 53, information about cybersecurity threats, toxic algal blooms that affect many of nays 46, as follows: and for other purposes. our States, including my State of Ohio. [Rollcall Vote No. 262 Leg.] Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, James It turns out this is the 1-year anni- Lankford, Roger F. Wicker, John YEAS—53 versary of the water crisis that oc- McCain, Richard C. Shelby, Tom Cot- curred in Toledo, OH. I see my col- Alexander Enzi Paul ton, Marco Rubio, Susan M. Collins, Ayotte Ernst Perdue league from Ohio is now on the floor John Thune, Daniel Coats; Richard also. He will remember this well. But it Barrasso Fischer Portman Burr, Pat Roberts, John Barrasso, Blunt Flake Risch James E. Risch, Orrin G. Hatch, Roy was a year ago when we found that Boozman Gardner Roberts there were toxic algal blooms around Burr Grassley Blunt. Rounds the intake valve in Toledo, OH, making Capito Hatch Rubio Mr. MCCONNELL. I yield the floor. Cassidy Heller Sasse The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the water unsuitable. There was an ad- Coats Hoeven Scott visory sent out to 500,000 people that Cochran Inhofe ator from Oregon. Sessions Collins Isakson Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I will be said: Do not drink the water. Shelby Corker Johnson brief. You can imagine the chaos that oc- Cornyn Lankford Sullivan curred. You can imagine how difficult Thune I understand why our colleagues Cotton Lee this was for the people who live in the Crapo Manchin Tillis want to respond in some way to the Cruz McCain Toomey horrendous hack at the Office of Per- Toledo area, who rely on this water. By Daines Moran Vitter sonnel Management. I wish to say to the way, there are about 3 million Donnelly Murkowski Wicker my colleagues that it needs to be a re- Ohioans who rely on Lake Erie water NAYS—46 sponse that is going to work. My con- and more than twice that many around Baldwin Heitkamp Peters cern is that this bill, in its present the country and in other States, such Bennet Hirono Reed form, will create more problems than it as Michigan. Blumenthal Kaine Reid solves, and it would be a mistake to This is a critical issue. Last week it Booker King Sanders turned out that there were algal Boxer Kirk bring it up without agreeing to an in- Schatz blooms that were moving within a few Brown Klobuchar Schumer clusive process for considering relevant Cantwell Leahy Shaheen amendments. miles of this same intake valve—the Cardin Markey Stabenow same kind of blue-green toxic algal Carper McCaskill I appreciate that the sponsors of the Tester Casey McConnell bill have been working on a managers’ blooms. I was on the lake the weekend Udall Coons Menendez before last to see some of this. Within Warner amendment to address some of the very Durbin Merkley Warren serious concerns that have been raised. a couple of days, the city of Toledo Feinstein Mikulski changed the city’s water quality status Franken Murphy Whitehouse My own view is that the bill needs a lot Gillibrand Murray Wyden more work. For example, the man- from ‘‘clear’’ to ‘‘watch.’’ We are on a Heinrich Nelson agers’ amendment does not fix the pro- ‘‘watch’’ status right now because of NOT VOTING—1 vision of this bill that will allow pri- the amounts of toxins that have drifted closer to the intake valve. Graham vate companies to hand over large vol- umes of their customers’ personal in- We have a problem right now. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this formation to the Government with know that the toxic algal blooms pre- vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 46. only a cursory review, even if that in- diction for this year in Lake Erie is Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- formation is not necessary for cyber se- projected to be worse than it was last sen and sworn not having voted in the curity. year, almost as bad as it was during affirmative, the motion is rejected. Cyber security experts and privacy another crisis period in 2011, when a lot The majority leader. advocates have been raising concerns of the beaches were closed down and Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I about these issues for many months. people weren’t able to take their pets enter a motion to reconsider the vote. They state that they have sent some- to the water and when fishing was pret- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- thing like 6 million communications to ty much shut down because of the algal tion is entered. the Hill in the last few days. blooms. This is a huge issue. It is an f For me, the bottom line is that the economic development issue. It is a legislation, as it stands today, doesn’t health and safety issue. It is an issue CYBERSECURITY INFORMATION do a whole lot to protect U.S. networks that goes to the heart of the economy SHARING ACT OF 2015—MOTION against sophisticated hacks, and it will in this part of Ohio where we have rel- TO PROCEED do a lot to undermine the privacy atively high unemployment and where Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I rights of the American people. Lake Erie is the single biggest driver of move to proceed to S. 754. I see the distinguished senior Senator economic activity. In fact, it is the big- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The from California here, and I know she gest destination in the State of Ohio. It clerk will report the motion. has a different view. My colleague from is our biggest resource for tourism. The legislative clerk read as follows: North Carolina is here. I look forward It is not just Lake Erie. We now have Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 28, to working with both of them and the this in Grand Lake St. Marys. There is S. 754, a bill to improve cybersecurity Senate and hope that we will have an an advisory out on water in Grand in the United States through enhanced inclusive debate that will ensure that Lake St. Marys, which is a reservoir sharing of information about cyberse- all sides get a chance to raise their that is inland that is a freshwater res- curity threats, and for other purposes. concerns. ervoir south of Lake Erie. It is the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- Cyber security is a very real problem same thing—toxic algal blooms. We jority leader. in America. My constituents have been had a lot of rain earlier this spring and

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We know a bad combination. with a voice vote and get it done, it that people are getting rashes right Again, I see my colleague Senator will go to the President and he will now from some other freshwater res- BROWN is on the floor too. We drafted sign it. In other words, it will become ervoirs in our area, from being in con- legislation to get the EPA more en- law. That is what the people I rep- tact with the water. gaged in this issue, to help Ohio more, resent are looking for. If we don’t deal with this issue, we and to help all of the States rep- Again, I notice my colleague Senator know we are going to have more of resented here. BROWN is on the floor. If he is inter- this. We know it has already cost our We have had this legislation on the ested, I would certainly yield to him. communities a lot to mitigate it. In floor of the Senate for over 40 days—45 Any comments he has, I would appre- Grand Lake St. Marys, as I mentioned days, I think. We have had it cleared ciate hearing. earlier, they have already shut down on both sides of the aisle. In other The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- some of the beaches because of this. words, there is no substantive concern ator from Ohio. The city of Celina spends $450,000 annu- about it. It took a while to do that. Mr. BROWN. I will be brief and turn ally to deal with this. So this is also a We had to work with some people on it back to Senator PORTMAN. taxpayer issue. Columbus was recently my side of the aisle who thought We worked on this issue for a long forced to spend $700,000 to mitigate an maybe EPA didn’t have a role here. time. We remember what happened outbreak in their reservoir. This is But EPA does have a role. It is a really with algal blooms 4 years ago. We re- happening right now as we speak. important role. It can bring best prac- member just last year—1 year ago—in We just want this legislation to be tices, and it certainly can bring the August, 500,000 people in northwest out there as one of the tools in the best research done in the country. It Ohio didn’t have drinking water. Imag- toolbox to deal with it, and it is a very happens to be done in Cincinnati, ine what that does to a community for sensible one. It gets the EPA engaged among other places, at EPA. We have 21⁄2, 3 days. in a way so that Republicans and required EPA under this legislation to We know that the Western Basin of Democrats in both the House and Sen- come up with a plan to deal with this Lake Erie is the shallowest part of any ate can agree on it. Let’s get this done issue immediately for Lake Erie, work- of the Great Lakes—only 30 feet deep tonight. ing with the other agencies, such as in the Western Basin. Contrast that UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST—H.R. 212 USGS, NOAA, or the National Oceanic with Lake Superior, where 600 feet deep Mr. President, I ask that we get this and Atmospheric Administration, and is the average. You can see the vulner- legislation done now by asking unani- USDA, and to come up with a plan that ability of Lake Erie and what it means. mous consent that the Senate proceed helps us to deal with this issue right Whether it is from runoff, whether it is to H.R. 212, which is at the desk, and now. from agriculture and homeowners and that the bill be read a third time and If you live in the Toledo area this commercial and industrial establish- the Senate vote on passage of the bill evening, you are worried. There is a ments, the Maumee River Basin is the with no intervening action or debate. watch on. Once again, you are worried largest river feeding any of the Great The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there that you are not going to have water Lakes. Whether it is coming together objection? Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, supply that is safe for you and your on climate change and heating of the reserving the right to object. kids. If you live somewhere else along water and all the issues that affect the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the lake—say, in Cleveland or San- short term and long term, our legisla- ator from Rhode Island. dusky—you are worried too because tion will help us this year and help us Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, we these same toxic algal blooms know no the next couple of years. We obviously have been through this before, so I barriers, know no boundaries, and they need long-term solutions. This is crit- think the Senator from Ohio knows move around the lake. ical. what I am going to say. The bill he pro- All we are asking tonight is that we I called the mayor of Toledo today, poses to go forward on these terms has be able to pass legislation that is and I know Senator PORTMAN is work- been paired by our side with the Na- straightforward, that is nonpartisan. It ing with the city, the county, the State tional Estuary Program, which, like is not just bipartisan. I would say it is EPA, and the U.S. EPA on this. This is his bill, is bipartisan and, like his bill, nonpartisan. It is very sensible, and it very crucial for people in our State and is not controversial. It has been passed highlights the need for us to take im- ultimately throughout the Great Lakes over and over again by the Senate. In- mediate action because it talks about as these problems proliferate. deed, I think it was originally the work some of the issues that are involved. I yield the floor. of Republican Senator John Chafee of There are 42 water systems in Ohio The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Rhode Island. It has been passed by the that are now susceptible to harmful ator from Ohio. House over and over again. This is a re- algal blooms, for instance. It talks Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I authorization. If we clear it through about the fact that we have to be sure thank my colleague from Ohio for his the House, it will go to the President that we are not just protecting Lake good work on this bill. He helped to im- for signing. Erie but other bodies of freshwater, prove this legislation and make it more Our bill came through the Environ- and it forces the EPA to come up with effective. It is about having the EPA ment and Public Works Committee in a plan that helps us deal with this play a bigger role on not only how we regular order, whereas this came over issue right now. monitor but also how we treat the from the House, was held at the desk, This legislation passed the House al- water and how we establish when there was never reviewed by the committee ready. It didn’t just pass the House; it is a problem. This is needed, it is need- of jurisdiction, and is now being passed the House with a vote of 375 to ed now, and it is immediate. hotlined, which is fine except that I un- 37. Not many pieces of legislation pass This is a photograph that was taken derstand it to be a tradition around the House with those kinds of numbers. about 8 days ago—not this past week here that we compare noncontroversial Again, Senator BROWN and I have been but the weekend before—on the lake. bills. trying for more than 4 months to get The jar in the photograph was col- I don’t understand. Our bill, the estu- that House-passed bill passed here in lected by the charter boat captain. He ary bill, is noncontroversial also. Our the Senate. We have worked through is actually one of the charter boat cap- bill is also bipartisan. It is the work of the substantive problems. I tried to do tains who go out every day and collect Senator VITTER, who is the chairman this on Thursday evening, and I was samples that are then used by the ex- of the committee. Why is there this ef- told I had to stop and I was going to perts to determine not just where the fort week after week to separate the get blocked from doing it because the algal blooms are but the level of tox- two rather than just pass them both?

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I am happy to Families were desperate to be sure which is the Drinking Water Protec- support the Senator’s bill, but the Sen- they had water for their kids. Mothers tion Act, a bill to provide for the as- ator from Rhode Island shouldn’t block were desperate to make sure they had sessment and management of the risk our bill because they are looking for water to be able to ensure that their of algal toxins in drinking water, and me to support their bill. I am happy to families weren’t going to be left with- S. 1523, a bill to reauthorize the Na- support their bill but not if it is going out access to what is perhaps the most tional Estuary Program; further, that to keep us from moving forward to- important thing any of us can imagine, the Senate proceed to their immediate night. I can’t agree to pair it because which is clean water one can drink and consideration en bloc, the Senate pro- there will be an objection because peo- use for cooking. ceed to vote on passage of the bills, and ple haven’t had a chance to look at it. UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST—H.R. 212 the motions to reconsider be consid- I know the committee sometimes likes I again ask unanimous consent that ered made and laid upon the table with to pair legislation. They don’t always my colleague yield and that we allow no intervening action or debate. pair legislation, by the way. this bill to go forward. I ask unani- If the Senator will agree to that so I think it is ridiculous that we can’t mous consent that the Senate proceed that the pairing is maintained, then I move forward on a very simple piece of to H.R. 212, which is at the desk, that will have no objection. If he will not legislation that we worked on for over the bill be read a third time, and that agree to it, then I must object because 40 days. And everybody is fine with it. the Senate vote on passage of the bill I don’t know why these bills are being There are no substantive problems. It with no intervening action or debate. repeatedly taken apart. is a health-and-safety issue. Let’s go The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the ahead with this. In this instance, let’s objection? Senator from Ohio modify his request? put partisanship aside. Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I object. Mr. PORTMAN. No, I can’t modify I support the Senator’s bill. I will The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- my request because his bill has not support his bill. I will vote for his bill. tion is heard. Mr. PORTMAN. I am sorry to hear cleared, and he knows that. I will continue to try to clear it even that. I will be back again tomorrow The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there though they didn’t clear it. I am the and the next day. I will be back again objection to the original request? one trying to clear it. I don’t know if and again because we want to get this Mr. WHITEHOUSE. There is. they have even cleared it on their side. done. This is simple. There is no real The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- I don’t know if they even put it in the mystery here. This is an opportunity to tion is heard. process yet. But obviously you have to The Senator from Ohio. get something done that helps people do that in order for this to happen. not just in my State but around the Mr. PORTMAN. Look, this is ridicu- I am amazed that we are going to ac- country deal with a very real problem lous. We have a health and safety issue tually stop legislation that is needed on the floor of the Senate that is ready they are facing this summer, now. right now for legislation that has not The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- to go. You just heard from me and Sen- passed the House, is not going to the ator from Rhode Island. ator BROWN. It is bipartisan, bicameral, President for his signature, and is not Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, and is ready to go to the President. due to an imminent health-and-safety may I suggest to my friend the Senator I must say to my friend the Senator issue. from Ohio that if he is going to keep from Rhode Island, who talked about The Federal Government is not going coming back every day, it might be his legislation, that I have no problem to be there for the people in northern productive if during the course of the with his legislation, but he hasn’t had Ohio and throughout our State who are day he were to get his side to clear the it cleared. The Senator said this has worried about the algal blooms right paired piece of legislation, which, as I been going on for weeks and weeks, and now, because of some disagreement on have said, is bipartisan. His colleague that is not true. This came onto our the floor of this Chamber where at the Senator VITTER, for instance, is the co- radar screen on Thursday night of last very last minute Democrats stepped author of it. It has cleared the EPW week when, after over 40 days on the forward and said: No, we are not going Committee, which is chaired and run floor with our bill, we got it all to let this bipartisan bill go forward by the Republicans now. If their side cleared, and then we found out just because we want to insist that it be isn’t aware of this bill, it came through prior to my going and asking to have a paired with one that has not gone regular order through the committee voice vote on it that now they want to through the clearance process. that they run. If their side isn’t aware pair it with another piece of legislation I commit to my friend that I will of this bill—it has been sitting over that has nothing to do with health and support his bill. I have had a chance to here ever since it cleared the com- safety. It is a reauthorization of a pro- look at it over the weekend. I am OK mittee. All they have to do is clear it, gram that has not been passed by the with it. But it has not been cleared, and we will be done. House. The Senator from Rhode Island and it is not going to go to the Presi- So perhaps if the Senator will put his said it has been passed by the House. It dent for signature. effort into clearing a noncontroversial, has not been passed by the House. It The House of Representatives is not bipartisan bill that for decades has may have been passed by the House in in session this week, so even if by some been passed and reauthorized by this a previous Congress, but that doesn’t miracle they could get their bill body, then we can move forward. It count. What counts is that our bill cleared here, they can’t get it cleared should be a fairly easy task. I would be passed the House with a vote of 375 to by the House because the House is out very happy to support him in any way 37, and it is now on the floor. of session. They are coming back in I can. The people I represent deserve to September. We are in session. We can With that, I yield the floor. have our government work for them get this done. We can send it to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- right now to help deal with this algal President. We can let people know they ator from Ohio. bloom problem, and they are blocking can sleep a little more comfortably at Mr. PORTMAN. So this is all about my bill with legislation they say is night, with a little more peace of mind, leverage—to leverage me to be able to nonpartisan and noncontroversial? knowing that we have actually taken help you on your bill, which I told you I am happy to support their bill. In action here to get this expert agency I support, in order for us to get some- fact, what I did last week when I found that deals with water quality engaged thing done that has been on the floor out about it on Thursday was I started and involved to help the local folks, for over 40 days. clearing it for them because they the State folks, and experts back home Look, I am happy to talk to my col- hadn’t done it. I put it in the clearance to be able to do the right thing so they leagues. I am the one who started

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You have leveraged me. You and I’m gonna see if I can get it all in- organization that ends life. In fact, in have already done it. You have suc- tact.’’ our State, there are two offices of ceeded. I already started clearing it. I Another Planned Parenthood official Planned Parenthood, but there are 50 support it. I am happy to help, and I in another video—this one from Cali- community health centers. It would ac- am sure Senator BROWN is happy to fornia—said this: tually be more available. Women would help also, but let’s not block this in the It’s been years since I talked about com- have more access to health care serv- meantime. pensation, so let me just figure out what ices if the money was provided through We will be able to get your bill done; others are getting. If this is in the ballpark, community health centers. We are a I am sure of it. I am sure, if it is as it’s fine. If it’s still low, then we can bump rural State and only through that proc- popular as you say it is, we can get it it up. I still want my Lamborghini. ess would many women be able to ac- done in the House too. It has not These words by two different officials cess this service. Hard-working Ameri- cleared the House at this point. In the in two different settings reflect a view cans—our constituents—deserve to meantime, let’s not block this legisla- that unborn children are nothing more have their taxpayer dollars going to- tion. This is ridiculous. This is not the than a commodity to be exploited and ward local community centers and way this Senate ought to operate. abused and they seemingly would do county health departments, places that We have a smart bill on the floor that for material gain. Is this where we value life instead of destroying it. that has been looked at over 40 days. It would want our scarce tax dollars to Women deserve affordable health is ready to go. It has been cleared by go? In fact, if we had an abundance, is care, and it is being provided by a num- both sides. There are no substantive this a place we would want those dol- ber of organizations that have nothing concerns. And it is time that we deliver lars to go? to do with abortion. We can and should for the people we represent. Critics contend that the videos are support these health providers and we I thank the Presiding Officer. heavily edited. Yet the videos have can and should protect the unborn. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- been released in their entirety and the can do both. S. 1881 would be a signifi- ator from Rhode Island. transcripts of the full conversations cant step, an important step, in accom- Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I have been provided. It is telling that plishing both of those goals, and I be- respect the Senator from Ohio greatly. despite full access to what was dis- lieve it should have passed with broad I know this lake is important to him. cussed, these critics have not been able support. We are a State that is wrapped around to justify their grotesque practices Though I am deeply disappointed by the estuary, Narragansett Bay, and being described, nor the inappropriate the result of tonight’s vote, I remain that, too, is important to us. If my tone adopted with regard to selling tis- hopeful for a solution that will advance friend is sure, as he just said, that this sues and organs of an unborn child. the life and health of both mother and bill will clear on his side, then I urge This isn’t news. We have long known child. In fact, as science improves our him to please go ahead and clear it, of the hundreds of thousands of abor- understanding of the unborn and the and let’s clear this unnecessary block- tions Planned Parenthood performs practices of abortion providers are fur- age and move both good bills forward. each year. If we can only avert our ther exposed, I think a solution will be I yield the floor. eyes and look the other way, as critics inevitable. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- would have us do, we can avoid what is Unfortunately, that time apparently ator from Kansas. obscene and hugely uncomfortable. has not yet come, but I and others will PLANNED PARENTHOOD That can no longer happen. Light needs remain focused on this goal. I encour- Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, just a to be shed on an organization that de- age my colleagues in the Senate to act short time ago, the Senate rejected leg- stroys human lives while hiding behind appropriately to do the same. islation that would promote and pro- the veil of women’s health services. Mr. President, I yield the floor. tect women’s health and protect the It is alarming that Politico reports The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- lives of unborn children. The legisla- that Planned Parenthood’s public rela- ator from North Dakota. tion introduced by Senator JONI ERNST tions firm is requesting that members HONORING VIETNAM VETERANS AND NORTH DA- would deny the Nation’s largest abor- of the media refrain from airing the KOTA’S SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN tion provider taxpayer funding and videos that expose the truth of Planned VIETNAM shift that funding to local health orga- Parenthood practices. We cannot allow Ms. HEITKAMP. Mr. President, I rise nizations to provide necessary health atrocities such as this to be swept to speak again about the 198 North Da- care and medical treatment for women. under the rug because of the power this kotans who died during the Vietnam This issue arises once more after the organization wields. war. In a moment I will speak about release of several undercover videos Kansans have long made it clear they some of the things I have learned about that successively have become more don’t want their tax dollars contrib- who they are. gruesome than the last. The videos of uting to abortion providers, and I have I also wish to thank Vietnam vet- Planned Parenthood that have been re- worked to make their voices heard in erans who have served our State and leased so far reveal the breadth of in- Washington. Taxpayers should not fear our country, and one of those Vietnam stitutionalized disregard for human life that their money is going to fund ac- veterans is Robert ‘‘Bob’’ Wefald of at its earliest stages. tions they find sincerely and seriously Bismarck. At the basic level of decency, we are morally wrong. This legislation would The year Bob graduated from the repulsed by these videos because prevent taxpayer dollars from funding University of North Dakota, he en- science and reason inform our con- Planned Parenthood, allowing our tax- listed in the Navy. He served 3 years on sciences and lead us to the inescapable payers peace of mind and a sense of Active Duty during the conflict in conclusion that lives are being ended morality that their hard-earned money Vietnam. In Bob’s 2010 autobiography through this exploitation. If individual is not facilitating something they titled ‘‘Moments,’’ he wrote: ‘‘Going to organs and tissues can be harvested abhor. WESTPAC and Vietnam was the big- from aborted babies, it is impossible to Instead, S. 1881 would reallocate the gest and most intense experience of my make the case that this is not a human funds Planned Parenthood receives 27 years in the Navy.’’ After his Active- life that is being destroyed. Why do we through grants back into their commu- Duty service, Bob continued to serve place more value on the parts and the nities. The money would go to local his country in the Naval Reserve. pieces of a human life than the life as health care providers that offer impor- In 1970, Bob began law school at the a whole? tant women’s health services, allowing University of Michigan and saw his

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To everyone who shared with us, lings, Herb was survived by his wife moved to Bismarck, ND, and spent I imagine it was difficult to speak Juanita; daughter Diana; and son their careers and even now their retire- about your loved one, and I can hon- Marcus. ment in public service. estly say that doing so made a dif- ROGER ALBERTS Bob’s first job after law school was ference to my staff, made a difference Roger Alberts was from Fort Totten. clerking for the North Dakota Supreme to so many people, made a difference to He was born on July 11, 1947. He served Court. He later worked in private prac- many of the Senators who have lis- in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division. tice as an attorney. In 1981, he was tened to these speeches, and I hope it Roger died on February 5, 1968. He was elected North Dakota’s Attorney Gen- has made a great difference to the 20 years old. eral. I have him to thank for appoint- young pages who have been so patient Roger was the ninth of 10 children, ing me as assistant attorney general in as I have talked about these fallen he- and his older sister Winona helped her the tax department and for fighting for roes. parents raise Roger. Winona remem- me to earn a decent wage while I was WILLIAM ‘‘BILL’’ POTTER bers Roger as a quiet person who did in that position. Bob made me say Today I begin with William ‘‘Bill’’ many great things, including helping that. Potter. Bill was from Grand Forks. He his family around their home. Winona In 1998, Bob was elected as a district was born December 28, 1942. He served said, ‘‘Everything was good about that court judge and served there until his as a pilot in the Air Force’s 432nd Tac- young boy.’’ retirement in 2010. While working, Bob tical Recon Wing. Bill was 25 years old Roger had a desire so strong to serve and Susan, who was North Dakota’s on February 5, 1968, when his plane was his country that he enlisted in the public service commissioner for 16 shot down and burned. Army before he graduated from high years, raised three children. Through- The Air Force awarded Bill the Air school. At the same time that Roger out their careers, and now, Bob and Medal and the Distinguished Flying was serving in Vietnam, his brother Susan have both volunteered to serve Cross in recognition for his heroism in Allen was serving in the Navy on a ship on many boards and organizations aerial flight. For 7 years after Bill’s close to Vietnam. Allen remembers throughout our State, including the plane crashed, the Air Force listed Bill looking toward Vietnam and seeing Boys and Girls Scouts, the American as missing in action. flares and wondering where Roger was Legion, and Boys State. Bill was survived by his wife Betsy. and if he was OK. Bob was the spark that lit the fire in Betsy wrote the following poem regard- When he had less than a month to making two significant military ing the need in her life to file for di- projects a reality for North Dakota. serve in Vietnam, Roger was shot. On vorce from Bill while he was listed as February 2, his family received notice One was establishing a State veterans missing. Eyewitnesses had described cemetery and the other was having a that Roger was missing. Finally, at the watching his plane crash and burn. end of February, the Army confirmed Navy ship named after North Dakota— This is her poem: the USS North Dakota. Both ideas be- that they found his body and that In my adult life as a serviceman’s wife Roger had been killed. They later came a reality. For over 20 years, the I stayed home so ‘‘the man’’ could deploy. vets cemetery outside my community learned from another North Dakota Had dependent I.D. card—and first passport soldier, Wesley Howling Wolf, that of Mandan has been a beautiful resting got stamped place for those who gave so much to ’66 was a year of some joy when Roger died, Wesley hid his body our country. In 2013, I had the honor of ’67 not bad—’68 very sad so the opposing forces would not be attending the 2013 christening of the Potter’s body got lost in Nam’s shuffle able to find his body, but after hiding USS North Dakota, and I could see MIA was the status, completely non-gratis Roger’s body, Wesley was hurt and And the Air Force told me that I should muf- Bob’s involvement in every thoughtful went into a coma. When he awoke, he fle. told the Army officials that he had hid- detail. Crashed in Laos (the site) Bob is an example of a true public den Roger’s body to protect him and and try as I might Roger was found. servant. Thank you, Bob, for your con- D.O.D would not call it a death. tinued drive and your dedication to Civil court was my choice if I wanted a voice Roger’s family appreciates the Army service. North Dakota loves and appre- for my life to move forward with breadth. for sending an escort to remain with ciates you. As I saw no dishonor to distance myself Roger’s body until he could reach them Bob also wanted to make a point to from a pilot flown into the earth. in North Dakota, and to Roger’s publicly recognize other people’s serv- The life I have led since Bill Potter was dead girlfriend for giving them the letters Second husband, kids/grandkids and mirth. ice and sacrifice. One of Bob’s Univer- he wrote while Roger was serving in Peter Rice career Navy, Vietnam. sity of North Dakota Sigma Chi Fra- now our son in the Army ternity brothers, Bill Potter served in continued our serviceman’s code MITCHEL ‘‘MITCH’’ HANSEY the Air Force and died serving in the As a widow, wife, mother, North Dakotan or Mitchel ‘‘Mitch’’ Hansey was a native Vietnam war. Bob regularly writes OTHER of Scranton and was born March 25, about Bill to encourage others to re- I have carried my share of the load. 1947. Mitchel died December 14, 1968. He member and honor Bill. HERBERT ‘‘HERB’’ LAPP was 21 years old. Now I am going to conclude my se- Herbert ‘‘Herb’’ Lapp was from He- He grew up on his family’s farm and ries of speeches on the floor of the U.S. bron. He was born February 1, 1923. He was the oldest of eight children, born Senate by remembering Bill Potter, as served in the Army’s 25th Infantry Di- to Dennis and Bertha Hansey. In his well as other North Dakotans who died vision. Herb was 43 years old when he early years, he attended country during the Vietnam war. Today is the died on July 3, 1966. school, and later graduated from last of my weekly trips to the Senate He had seven brothers and eight sis- Scranton High School. floor to talk about the men from our ters. Herb’s sister Betty remembers His youngest sister Gwyn laughs and State who died during the war. I have him as someone with a great sense of remembers the time she felt Mitchel taken to the floor 15 times to honor humor and that he was easy to get saved her life by kicking a grasshopper these fallen soldiers, these fallen he- along with. off her leg despite his arms being full roes, and every time has been an enor- Herb enlisted in the Army as a young of the groceries he was carrying. mous and special privilege. I have man and served in World War II prior Mitchel’s family is dedicated to serv- made it a point to reach out to the to serving in Vietnam. Five of his ing their country. His father Dennis families of each of the 198 North Dako- brothers served their country by serv- served in the Army during World War

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She described a lifetime of moments 10 years ago from the marine who was They understand that when he was on Randy didn’t get to have, such as hot with Cleo the day he died. his way to mail them Christmas cards, summer days by the lake and walking DAVID ‘‘DAVE’’ NESSET Mitchel fell off a plank as he was walk- his daughters down the aisle. Shell David ‘‘Dave’’ Nesset was from ing between two ships and drowned. concluded her column describing that Fargo. He was born April 16, 1942. He MICHAEL ‘‘MIKE’’ WOLF, JR. Randy didn’t die so his name would be served in the Army’s 1st Cavalry Divi- Michael ‘‘Mike’’ Wolf, Jr., was from etched on a granite wall or for a park sion. Dave died on April 19, 1968, 3 days Beulah, and he was born June 27, 1946. named after him. He died and gave up after his 26th birthday. He served in the Marine Corps H Com- everything so you and I could have it Dave and his sister Arlene grew up in pany, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st all. Fargo. Their father Oscar worked for Marine Division. He was 21 years old THOMAS ‘‘TOM’’ SENNE the North Dakota State University Ex- when he died on September 10, 1967. Thomas ‘‘Tom’’ Senne was from Val- tension Service and lived in different He was the fifth of 12 children. Mike’s ley City, and he was born November 14, parts of the world, including Iran and sister Laurel said Mike was a quiet 1948. He served in the Army’s 1st Infan- Korea, with his wife and children. After man who was involved in just about try Division. Tom died on October 26, graduating from Fargo Central High every sport offered in high school. His 1968. He was 19 years old. School, Dave earned a degree from dream was to work as a high school Tom worked at the Red Owl store in NDSU. He enlisted in the Army and be- coach someday. Mike enlisted at the Valley City and was looking forward to came a helicopter pilot. same time as his cousin Rick Wolf and a future in that business. He was a Dave’s sister Arlene named her son two of their friends from Beulah en- great athlete and top wrestler at his David after her brother. The younger listed. The day he died, Rick was sent high school. Everyone knew and loved Dave remembers his uncle’s infectious ahead as a scout and was killed in an Tom. He made friends easily. He was so smile and said it was always a pleasure ambush. He had been expected to re- well liked that sometimes folks would to see him. He was their ‘‘cool’’ uncle. turn home about 3 weeks later. look the other way when he did things He still clearly remembers when he was Mike’s 1955 Pontiac Chieftain sat in like take part in an impromptu drag in the third grade and his mother re- the yard for 30 years. Laurel’s husband race down Central Avenue in Valley ceived a call in the middle of the night spent 10 years restoring Mike’s car and City on a Sunday morning. Now, I from her parents in Korea explaining gave it to Laurel’s son Donovan, who is would just tell you that is hearsay. that Dave was missing and, a few hours currently having it painted. As a trib- Tom came from a family with a deep later, an officer coming to his door to ute to Mike, they made a scrapbook history of serving their country. His deliver his mother a telegram explain- which shows the process of restoring dad served in World War II, his uncles ing her brother had died. his car. from both sides of his family served in Dave and Arlene’s mother Ruth lives either World War II or Korea, and two RANDOLPH ‘‘RANDY’’ MARTHE in Colorado and is 104 years old. She is of his brothers served with the Na- Randolph ‘‘Randy’’ Marthe was from a woman who has buried both of her tional Guard. Esmond. He was born November 17, children during her lifetime. 1950. He served in the Army’s 52nd Ar- CLEO LEVANG tillery Group. Randy died March 31, Cleo Levang was from Forman. He DAVID JOHNSON 1971. He was 20 years old. was born February 6, 1946. He served in David Johnson was born August 20, He was the youngest of his family of the Marine Corps, Company I, 3rd Bat- 1950. He spent his high school years in 10 children. His older siblings enjoyed talion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Divi- West Fargo. He served in the Army’s spoiling him and treating him like the sion. Cleo died on January 5, 1967. He 25th Infantry Division. David was only baby of the family. Randy’s sister Rita was just 20 years old. 19 years old when he died on May 17, said he was a good, quiet boy who liked He was the third of four children 1970. to have fun and never caused his par- born to Cliff and Leckny Levang and Right after high school, David chose ents any problems. Rita remembers grew up on his family’s farm northwest to enlist in the Army. His sister Eva that after she was married and living of Forman. His sister Bev said Cleo believes David’s trip to basic training on a farm, Randy and two of his broth- loved to tease in good fun. She recalls in California was his first airplane ride. ers, Pat and Dale, would go to Rita’s Cleo visiting her, sneaking around be- While David was serving in Vietnam, farm to help. Rita’s basement bath- hind her in the kitchen and opening Eva’s first daughter, Stephanie, was room shower had a window in it, and the cupboard doors behind her. After born. David became Stephanie’s god- Randy had a great time surprising his closing them several times, she finally father by proxy. About 2 months later, showering brothers with a blast of cold realized her jokester brother was be- Dave was wounded and died. When she water from the garden hose. hind the recurring problem. Bev’s son had children of her own, Stephanie Randy’s family appreciates the calls Rick also went into the Marine Corps. named her son Nelson David in honor he made and letters he sent them from Bev said that seeing Rick wearing a of the uncle she never met. Vietnam. Rita remembers Randy call- marine uniform is a striking similarity In the 1980s, the Fargo area Armed ing her from Vietnam. He said he to Cleo in his uniform. Forces rededicated a building the would be going on duty for a while, so My friend from Rutland, Bill Ander- David F. Johnson United States Armed she would not hear from him again for son, remembers Cleo well. He said that Forces Reserve Center. Fargo residents a while. She never heard from him Cleo was a tall, good-looking guy with chose David for his contributions, rec- again. a ready smile. He particularly remem- ognizing his Army medals, including The Army awarded Randy the Silver bers Cleo’s exceptional musical talent, the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Star for gallantry due to his heroic ac- playing ‘‘Bugler’s Holiday’’ in a trum- Heart, Army Commendation Medal, tions the day he was killed in Vietnam. pet trio with the Sergeant Central Ca- and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge. That day, Randy’s firebase was under dets Marching Band. Bill said that Members of David’s 3rd Platoon, heavy attack and he defended his posi- band, ‘‘The Governor’s Band,’’ was, in called the Bobcats, maintain contact tion, despite being injured and ulti- fact, the best in the State. with David’s family. In June, the Bob- mately sacrificing himself, which saved After high school, Cleo moved to Wis- cats held their annual reunion in the lives of many of his fellow soldiers. consin to work, but his love of the Fargo. They held a memorial service In 2010, Randy’s family was touched trumpet and music drew him back to and visited David’s grave. His sisters to read a Benson County Farmer’s North Dakota and he enrolled in col- and their families were thankful to the Press column written by a young lege to study music. With the Vietnam Bobcats for inviting them and helping woman, Shell Eyl, who was born after War beginning, Cleo joined the Ma- David’s memory to live on.

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In this himself Jon’s Army buddy. inquiries into Planned Parenthood’s debate, Planned Parenthood’s defend- I want to read a poem that Lester army of clerks, lawyers, and book- ers’ true adversary is not the Center shared that he wrote about Jon the day keepers who turned barbarism into for Medical Progress or the pro-life Jon died. I think Lester’s poem is a commerce. There might well be civil movement or the millions of even pro- tribute to all of the people who served litigation brought against Planned choice Americans outraged by the in the Vietnam War who had little to Parenthood by former patients who did scandal. Like all defenders of institu- no combat training. These people were not realize their harrowing personal or- tional violence, their real adversary is nurses, clerks, and other staff. Lester’s deals were being exploited for profit by the truth. poem is titled, ‘‘The February Awak- people they thought they could trust. The pro-life movement today may ening.’’ It may be some time before all the love different sinners and hate dif- From peaceful sleep and dreams of home facts come out about the full scope of ferent sins than previous social reform I’m thrown into the night. Planned Parenthood’s moral and eco- movements, but they fight for the At two A.M. the twenty-third nomic corruption, but the revelations same truth: that not only are all men I know that I must fight, exposed in just the first four videos all created equal but that all human For sirens blow, as rockets fall by themselves are more than enough to beings are, in fact, human beings. And flares illume the night. disqualify Planned Parenthood from Abortion on demand survives today as I still recall with saddened heart other peculiar institutions once did, The night I went to war continued taxpayer support. After all, And how I lost, so thoroughly, nobody is entitled to taxpayer money. violating a universal moral principle My innocence before. Nobody is entitled to it. Nobody can by disguising a biological fact. I know that I will ne’er forget just assume that it is theirs. Recipi- Such is the nature of violence. As the The UGLINESS of war. ents have to continually demonstrate Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn When charlie hit from out ’the night their worthiness for public support. put it in his Nobel lecture in 1974: He came intent to kill. I think we can all agree it is not too [L]et us not forget that violence does not Just office clerks who’d never fought, much to ask that our women’s health live alone and is not capable of living alone: We met him on our will. it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. And so the price we paid was dear—Jon Rob- care grants not finance a criminal con- Between them lies the most intimate, the bins did they kill! spiracy against American women and deepest of national bonds. Violence finds its A shocking hell to see him fall, But one of children. So, of course, we should pass only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only many more. Senator ERNST’s bill. Now, it does not support in violence. Any man who has once And now I wonder why I made it cut any funding. We have to remember acclaimed violence as his method must inex- Through that night of war. that. It does not cut anything; it just orably choose falsehood as his principle. At Yes I’m alive and free to do transfers Planned Parenthood’s grants its birth violence acts openly and even with What Jon will do no more— to other women’s and community pride. But no sooner does it become strong, And so I’ll ne’er forget my friend firmly established, than it senses the rar- Who wanted so to live. health centers. efaction of the air around it and it cannot Who gave for us his precious life This is a no-brainer. This is some- continue to exist without descending into a The most a man can give. thing every Member of this body fog of lies, clothing them in sweet talk. It In freedom’s name my buddy died should be able to vote for and do so en- does not always, not necessarily, openly In his name must I live. thusiastically. Yet this bill did not throttle the throat, more often it demands This is the 50th commemoration of pass today. It did not get past the clo- from its subjects only an oath of allegiance the Vietnam War, and we all have an ture vote. Planned Parenthood’s de- to falsehood, only complicity in falsehood. important part to play in recognizing fenders don’t even want to debate it. Complicity in falsehood, Mr. Presi- those soldiers and families who gave so They are not willing even to bring it to dent, that some of us created in the much and who were rewarded so little the floor to allow it to be debated, dis- image and likeness of a loving God are at the time. cussed, and voted on on the merits at not; that some of us endowed with in- This has been a project of great emo- the end of the day. alienable human rights weren’t; that tion for me and great love, and I en- Now, in a sense, I cannot say I blame because of the color of our skin, the ar- courage other people to pick up the them, but the fear of open dialogue on rangement of our genes, the content of mantle and remember those soldiers the other side of the aisle is itself part our prayers or the tiny size of a little who gave their all. and parcel of the unfolding scandal. girl’s hand, some of us become them— Thank you, Mr. President. Now, let’s be honest. Let’s be honest all to absolve ourselves from doing to I yield the floor. about the fact that the multibillion- them, to the weak, the vulnerable, the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- dollar abortion industry includes grisly voiceless, terrible, unspeakable things ator from Utah. revenue streams, legal corner-cutting, that we know are terrible. That is what PLANNED PARENTHOOD and the bullying dehumanization of the violence demands. Mr. LEE. Mr. President, I rise in sup- human family’s most vulnerable mem- Because the inhumane but all too port of S. 1881, which would transfer bers. This should not surprise anyone common logic goes: If we all do it, and Federal funds now granted to Planned who gives the matter 5 minutes of con- we all agree only to speak of it in com- Parenthood to other women’s health centrated thought. For all of the polit- forting words, then, maybe, just care and counseling centers. It is a ical spin, at the end of the day, maybe, we can tell ourselves it isn’t modest, commonsense response to the Planned Parenthood makes its money wrong. ‘‘Clump of cells,’’ ‘‘tissue speci- blood-chilling scandal besetting Amer- doing things any child could tell you mens,’’ ‘‘products of conception’’—but ica’s leading abortion provider. are simply indefensible. That is why even as we grope through this fog of To date, only 4 of the promised 12 un- those things are almost never actually lies, we all know the truth. We know dercover videos of Planned Parenthood defended, including on this floor today. that one day, that truth is going to officers and facilities have been re- Defenders of Planned Parenthood offer, burn through the euphemisms like the leased. To be sure, in coming months instead, gauzy rhetoric about ‘‘care’’ sun through the clouds. When that day there will be more revelations about and ‘‘access’’ and ‘‘choice,’’ which are comes, we are going to have to choose Planned Parenthood’s profiteering, vio- totally irrelevant to Senator ERNST’s whether to stay complicit in the false- lence, and fraud. There will be congres- thoughtful, focused compromise pro- hood, to crouch down a while longer in sional investigations to cut through posal. our comforting fog or stand up and face the obstructions and obfuscations of On the other hand are the shocking the searing truth of what is being done Planned Parenthood’s army of lawyers, words at the heart of this scandal. to these little hands and hearts, our

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On be- though Planned Parenthood apparently of Nursing and Health Professions, and half of the citizens of Indiana, I con- breaks some laws, its lucrative busi- the Pott College of Science, Engineer- gratulate each and every member of ness remains protected by others. ing, and Education. USI is a Carnegie the USI community on this 50th anni- So even when we do pass the Ernst Foundation Community Engaged Uni- versary. I wish the University of bill, and we will one day soon, Planned versity and offers continuing education Southern Indiana continued success Parenthood will nonetheless continue and special programs to more than and growth for many more years to at least for a while in its grisly work, 15,000 participants annually through come. but not in our name, and not with our outreach and engagement. USI also f money. Planned Parenthood has be- houses the Indiana University School ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS trayed our trust and the trust of the of Medicine-Evansville. women who came to them for help. More than 9,300 students are cur- Within the community of women’s rently enrolled at USI, and the univer- TRIBUTE TO BOB FRAUMANN health and services, even among those sity serves full-time, part-time, com- ∑ Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I am who support its mission, Planned Par- muting and continuing education stu- proud to pay tribute to Bob Fraumann enthood now stands apart. dents. USI takes great care to keep on the occasion of his retirement after Planned Parenthood has chosen a class sizes small to maintain a high 60 years of ministry through music. path we cannot follow, crossed a line quality of individualized instruction; 40 Bob will be honored on Sunday, August we cannot ignore, and profited from an percent of classes have fewer than 20 9, at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church unspeakable business we cannot sup- students and only 7 percent have more in Marietta, GA, where he has been port. We can, and under the Ernst bill than 50. These numbers reinforce an in- music director for the last 33 years. we will, support health care, especially stitution committed to its vision of Bob Fraumann graduated from As- for vulnerable women and children who ‘‘Shaping the future through learning bury University with a degree in music are always targets for exploitation. and innovation.’’ The USI curriculum education and a minor in organ and That is why we must pass the Ernst offers a wide variety of classes in 70 un- conducting. Bob was married to the bill, and why I urge my colleagues to dergraduate majors in the areas of lib- love of his life, Jan, and they raised support it, to protect America’s women eral arts, preprofessional, professional, two sons, Rick and Greg, who are both and children from Planned Parent- technical, and occupational programs Christian musicians. hood’s ongoing abuse and to protect at both the associate and bacca- Many have enjoyed Bob’s music but American taxpayers from financing it. laureate levels, in addition to its 10 none more than those at the National We no longer have to be complicit in master’s programs and a nursing doc- Prayer Breakfast on February 4, 2010, the lie of Planned Parenthood or the torate. With more than 140 student where Bob played selections from his violence that it protects. The Ernst groups on campus, USI’s student body great CD ‘‘To God Be the Glory.’’ Over legislation, S. 1881, finally accepts the is living up to the university’s mission 3,000 dignitaries including the Presi- facts, embraces the truth, and would to be an ‘‘engaged learning commu- dent and many Members of Congress help move our Nation a small step for- nity,’’ one that always strives to joined Christians and leaders of all ward toward the culture of life Amer- achieve its goal of ‘‘advancing edu- faiths to enjoy Bob’s testimony ica’s every mother and child deserve. cation and knowledge, enhancing civic through music. Bob’s friendship and music have been I yield the floor. and cultural awareness, and fostering a blessing to me, and I am proud to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- partnerships through comprehensive honor him in the Senate Chamber. Join jority leader is recognized. outreach programs.’’ USI has exceled outside of the class- me in wishing Bob Fraumann all the f ∑ room as well. The Screaming Eagles best in his retirement. MORNING BUSINESS compete as a member of the NCAA Di- f Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I vision II athletics in the Great Lakes RECOGNIZING THE NATIONAL AS- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- Valley Conference. USI boasts 17 var- SOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ate proceed to a period of morning sity teams and has claimed three na- HEALTH CENTERS tional championships—men’s basket- business, with Senators permitted to ∑ Mr. KING. Mr. President, today I speak therein for up to 10 minutes ball in 1995 and men’s baseball in 2010 wish to recognize the National Associa- each. and 2014. The Screaming Eagles have tion of Community Health Centers, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without finished as national finalists three NACHC, for their hard work and dedi- objection, it is so ordered. times—men’s basketball in 1994 and cation to providing Americans with the f 2004 and women’s basketball in 1997. In care they need and deserve. The asso- addition, the USI men’s and women’s ciation is celebrating 50 years of pro- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN cross country/track teams have com- INDIANA 50TH ANNIVERSARY viding support through health centers bined to capture seven individual na- across the Nation. A series of events Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. President, I tional championships since 1997. These will be held during National Health wish to congratulate the University of teams have accomplished much over Center Week, scheduled for August 9 Southern Indiana, USI, on its 50th An- the past 50 years, all the while meeting through August 15, to recognize the im- niversary. I also want to recognize the high academic standards in the class- portance of health care and to cele- outstanding faculty and staff for the room. brate 50 years of support. extraordinary impact they have had on USI has, for the last five decades, The NACHC was organized in 1965 and the education and lives of hundreds of provided its students from south- held demonstration programs under thousands of students. western Indiana, across our State, and the Federal Office of Economic Oppor- USI was founded September 15, 1965, around the country with the oppor- tunity to help Americans receive med- in Evansville to respond to the need for tunity to achieve their dreams through ical support regardless of their income. a public higher education institution in higher education. USI remains rep- Also during this time, the first four southwestern Indiana. It began first as resentative of the hard work, dedica- health care centers opened in Massa- a regional campus of Indiana State tion, and innovation that are such in- chusetts, Mississippi, Colorado, and University and then on April 16, 1985, tegral parts of the Hoosier spirit. I con- New York. Since 1965, the NACHC has legislation was signed into law making gratulate president Linda L. M. Ben- worked to address our Nation’s wide- USI a separate State university. The nett, the entire faculty and staff, and spread lack of access to basic health university started out small, but students both past and present, on this care services.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Aug 04, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G03AU6.084 S03AUPT1 rfrederick on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with SENATE S6236 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 3, 2015 Devoted to the mission of, ‘‘pro- gan Association of Insurance Agents, program recognized internationally for moting the provision of high quality, including chairman of the education its innovative approach to the study of comprehensive and affordable health committee and as a member of the marine mammals. care that is coordinated, culturally and Michigan Legislative Affairs Com- I am particularly excited to witness linguistically competent, and commu- mittee. In all his roles, David has the results of OSU’s world-class Marine nity directed for all medically under- sought to promote an environment Studies Initiative. In addition to the served populations,’’ the NACHC helps where independent insurance agents in construction of a top-notch research educate Americans on the importance Michigan and across the country can and teaching facility, the Marine Stud- of health care. The NACHC also pro- thrive by providing excellent customer ies Initiative will offer students the op- vides health centers with a unified service. portunity to see how marine studies voice and a common source for re- As I recognize Mr. Walker, I would intersects with the other elements of a search, information, training, and ad- also like to acknowledge his active in- liberal arts education. Thousands of vocacy. volvement in his community. He has young adults, as well as experienced Maine currently has 19 organizations served on the board of directors for the professionals, will gain a greater appre- that run 135 health center sites. The 19 Hartland Area Chamber of Commerce. ciation for the role of business, govern- federally-funded health center organi- Mr. Walker has also worked as a trust- ment, and big data in the world of ma- zations in Maine serve 184,546 patients, ee and president of the Fenton Area rine studies. The addition of an under- 17.8 percent of whom are uninsured, Public Schools. He currently serves as graduate degree program in marine and create over 200 jobs. Mr. President, a Tyrone Township trustee and sits on studies, projected to attract 500 stu- 89 percent of people relying on these the board of the Michigan Basic Prop- dents in-residence to Newport by 2025, centers live in extremely rural areas of erty Association. He is also a founding will yield tremendous partnerships in the State. These Mainers would not be member of the Hartland Rotary. the years ahead. The Federal Area Re- able to access adequate health care I am pleased to join Mr. Walker’s col- development Administration must be services if these sites did not exist. The leagues from across Michigan and the incredibly proud of the intellectual work that has been done in Maine con- United States in congratulating him as profit that its $960,000 investment has tinues to help the State become he finishes his term as chairman of the produced. healthier and smarter. Big ‘‘I.’’ I, along with his family and The future of our planet depends The theme for this year’s National friends, appreciate all that he has ac- upon unique and innovative approaches Health Center Week is ‘‘America’s complished.∑ to the environmental challenges of our Health Centers: Celebrating Our Leg- era. Higher education is an integral acy, Shaping Our Future.’’ This theme f part of the solution. But more specifi- showcases the numerous ways in which 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF OREGON cally, interdisciplinary programs that America’s health centers are driving STATE UNIVERSITY HATFIELD promote awareness of agricultural, en- and empowering healthier commu- MARINE SCIENCE CENTER ergy, and oceanic issues, and that si- nities and Americans. With more than ∑ Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I am a multaneously connect the environment 9,000 delivery sites throughout the Na- firm believer in the power of higher to the liberal arts, are a key to build- tion, health centers employ hundreds education. It is our Nation’s responsi- ing the training necessary to solve im- of thousands of individuals nationally bility to honor the institutions that minent problems. I could not be which, in turn, powers local economies. consistently provide America’s youth prouder of what OSU’s Hatfield Marine During the National Health Center with the skills necessary to make our Science Center means for our State, Week, health centers in all 50 States country a better place. I am thrilled to our Nation, and for the world.∑ will be hosting a variety of public recognize the achievements of Oregon f events to highlight their work in local State University’s Hatfield Marine TRIBUTE TO REBECCA ACKERMAN communities and to honor the elected Science Center, on its 50th anniversary ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I officials who have supported the work as a center for marine studies. recognize Rebecca Ackerman, a 2015 of the health centers. I would like to Over the last half-century, thanks in summer intern in my Jacksonville of- join the National Association of Com- large part to early collaboration with fice, for all of the hard work she has munity Health Centers in highlighting the National Oceanographic and At- done for me, my staff, and the people of the success that has been demonstrated mospheric Administration, the Hat- over the last 50 years by local health the State of Florida. ∑ field Center has served students from Rebecca is a student at the Univer- centers throughout the Nation. community college to post-doctoral f sity South Carolina, where she is ma- candidates. In addition to providing joring in international studies. She is a TRIBUTE TO DAVID ALLEN educational opportunities, the Hatfield dedicated and diligent worker who has WALKER Center works closely with the Environ- been devoted to getting the most out of ∑ Mr. PETERS. Mr. President, I wish mental Protection Agency to research her internship experience. to recognize David Walker of Fenton, the most pressing environmental issues I extend my sincere thanks and ap- MI, as he nears the end of his term as of our generation. As climate change preciation to Rebecca for all the fine the 110th chairman of the Independent and sustainability increasingly impact work she has done and wish her contin- Insurance Agents & Brokers of Amer- our Nation’s agriculture and energy ued success in the years to come.∑ policies, Oregonians can take comfort ica, also known as the Big ‘‘I.’’ Mr. f Walker was installed as chairman of in knowing that OSU’s Marine Science the Big ‘‘I’’ in September 2014, and has Center has the technology and partner- TRIBUTE TO DANIEL ALMEIDA been a strong and thoughtful leader for ships necessary to spearhead State, na- ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I independent insurance agents across tional and global initiatives. recognize Daniel Almeida, a 2015 sum- the country throughout his term. It always amazes me how quickly mer intern in my Miami office, for all Mr. Walker is president of the Hart- novel ideas transform into success sto- of the hard work he has done for me, land Insurance Agency which is ries. Since its establishment in 1965, my staff, and the people of the State of headquartered in Hartland, MI. the Hatfield Marine Science Center has Florida. Throughout his career, he has been an worked extensively with the colleges of Daniel is a student at the University active leader at both the State and na- Oregon State University and various of Edinburgh, where he is majoring in tional level. He previously served as State and Federal agencies to produce philosophy and politics. He is a dedi- president of the Michigan Association seawater systems, experimental wet cated and diligent worker who has been of Independent Agents, president of the labs, and other programs that have at- devoted to getting the most out of his Genesee County of Independent Agents, tracted some of the Nation’s top sci- internship experience. and as the Michigan director on the entific minds. It gives me great pleas- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- Big ‘‘I’’ national board. ure to say that the Hatfield Marine preciation to Daniel for all the fine Mr. Walker has also held numerous Science Center is home to the Coastal work he has done and wish him contin- leadership positions within the Michi- Oregon Marine Experiment Station—a ued success in the years to come.∑

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:13 Aug 04, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G03AU6.002 S03AUPT1 rfrederick on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with SENATE August 3, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6237 TRIBUTE TO LAUREN BALTIMORE summer intern in my Tampa office, for mer intern in my Miami office, for all ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I all of the hard work he has done for of the hard work she has done for me, recognize Lauren Baltimore, a 2015 me, my staff, and the people of the my staff, and the people of the State of summer intern in my Miami office, for State of Florida. Florida. all of the hard work she has done for Joshua is a student at the University Hailey is a student at the University me, my staff, and the people of the Virginia, where he is majoring in polit- of Miami, where she is majoring in po- State of Florida. ical philosophy, policy, and law. He is a litical science. She is a dedicated and Lauren is currently a student at Pine dedicated and diligent worker who has diligent worker who has been devoted Crest High School. She is a dedicated been devoted to getting the most out of to getting the most out of her intern- and diligent worker who has been de- his internship experience. ship experience. voted to getting the most out of her in- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- ternship experience. preciation to Joshua for all the fine preciation to Hailey for all the fine I extend my sincere thanks and ap- work he has done and wish him contin- work she has done and wish her contin- preciation to Lauren for all the fine ued success in the years to come.∑ ued success in the years to come.∑ work she has done and wish her contin- f f ued success in the years to come.∑ TRIBUTE TO ANTONELLA TRIBUTE TO DESTINY GOEDE f DAVALOS ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I TRIBUTE TO MAX BERGER ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I recognize Destiny Goede, a 2015 sum- ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I recognize Antonella Davalos, a 2015 mer intern in my Naples office, for all recognize Max Berger, a 2015 summer summer intern in my Miami office, for of the hard work she has done for me, intern in my Miami office, for all of all of the hard work she has done for my staff, and the people of the State of the hard work he has done for me, my me, my staff, and the people of the Florida. staff, and the people of the State of State of Florida. Destiny is a student at the Univer- Florida. Antonella is a student at the Univer- sity of Florida, where she is majoring Max is currently a student at West- sity of Florida, where she is majoring in economics. She is a dedicated and ern High School. He is a dedicated and in political science. She is a dedicated diligent worker who has been devoted diligent worker who has been devoted and diligent worker who has been de- to getting the most out of her intern- to getting the most out of his intern- voted to getting the most out of her in- ship experience. ship experience. ternship experience. I extend my sincere thanks and ap- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- preciation to Destiny for all the fine preciation to Max for all the fine work preciation to Antonella for all the fine work she has done and wish her contin- he has done and wish him continued work she has done and wish her contin- ued success in the years to come.∑ ∑ ∑ success in the years to come. ued success in the years to come. f f f TRIBUTE TO ROBERT GUTIERREZ TRIBUTE TO KASSANDRA TRIBUTE TO ALLISON DIENER ∑ CABRERA Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I recognize Robert Gutierrez, a 2015 sum- ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I recognize Allison Diener, a 2015 sum- mer intern in my Miami office, for all recognize Kassandra Cabrera, a 2015 mer intern in my Miami office, for all of the hard work he has done for me, summer intern in my Miami office, for of the hard work she has done for me, my staff, and the people of the State of all of the hard work she has done for my staff, and the people of the State of Florida. me, my staff, and the people of the Florida. Robert is currently a student at Co- State of Florida. Allison is a student at the University lumbus High School. He is a dedicated Kassandra is a student at the Univer- of Michigan, where she is majoring in and diligent worker who has been de- sity of Central Florida, where she is business. She is a dedicated and dili- voted to getting the most out of his in- majoring in political science. She is a gent worker who has been devoted to ternship experience. dedicated and diligent worker who has getting the most out of her internship I extend my sincere thanks and ap- been devoted to getting the most out of experience. preciation to Robert for all the fine her internship experience. I extend my sincere thanks and ap- work he has done and wish him contin- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- preciation to Allison for all the fine ued success in the years to come.∑ preciation to Kassandra for all the fine work she has done and wish her contin- f work she has done and wish her contin- ued success in the years to come.∑ ued success in the years to come.∑ TRIBUTE TO TREVOR HANSEN f f ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I TRIBUTE TO EMILY CLARK TRIBUTE TO SAMUEL FALIC recognize Trevor Hansen, a 2015 sum- ∑ ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I mer intern in my Miami office, for all recognize Emily Clark, a 2015 summer recognize Samuel Falic, a 2015 summer of the hard work he has done for me, intern in my Tallahassee office, for all intern in my Miami office, for all of my staff, and the people of the State of of the hard work she has done for me, the hard work he has done for me, my Florida. my staff, and the people of the State of staff, and the people of the State of Trevor is a student at Broward Col- Florida. Florida. lege, where he is majoring in inter- Emily is a student at the University Samuel is a student at the University national relations. He is a dedicated of West Florida, where she is majoring of Miami, where he is majoring in ac- and diligent worker who has been de- in agriculture communications. She is counting. He is a dedicated and diligent voted to getting the most out of his in- a dedicated and diligent worker who worker who has been devoted to get- ternship experience. has been devoted to getting the most ting the most out of his internship ex- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- out of her internship experience. perience. preciation to Trevor for all the fine I extend my sincere thanks and ap- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- work he has done and wish him contin- preciation to Emily for all the fine preciation to Samuel for all the fine ued success in the years to come.∑ work she has done and wish her contin- work he has done and wish him contin- f ued success in the years to come.∑ ued success in the years to come.∑ TRIBUTE TO TODD HIGGINBOTHAM f f ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I TRIBUTE TO JOSHUA COCKREAM TRIBUTE TO HAILEY FROMKIN recognize Todd Higginbotham, a 2015 ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I summer intern in my Jacksonville of- recognize Joshua Cockream, a 2015 recognize Hailey Fromkin, a 2015 sum- fice, for all of the hard work he has

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He is a dedicated and I extend my sincere thanks and ap- preciation to Thomas for all the fine diligent worker who has been devoted preciation to David for all the fine work he has done and wish him contin- to getting the most out of his intern- work he has done and wish him contin- ued success in the years to come.∑ ∑ ship experience. ued success in the years to come. f I extend my sincere thanks and ap- f preciation to Todd for all the fine work TRIBUTE TO FRANCO RIVERA he has done and wish him continued TRIBUTE TO NATALIE MARTINEZ ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I success in the years to come.∑ ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I recognize Franco Rivera, a 2015 sum- f recognize Natalie Martinez, a 2015 sum- mer intern in my Miami office, for all TRIBUTE TO NICHOLAS JOHNSON mer intern in my Tampa office, for all of the hard work he has done for me, of the hard work she has done for me, my staff, and the people of the State of ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I my staff, and the people of the State of Florida. recognize Nicholas Johnson, a 2015 Florida. Franco is currently a student at summer intern in my Jacksonville of- Natalie is a student at the University Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. He is fice, for all of the hard work he has of Florida, where she is majoring in po- a dedicated and diligent worker who done for me, my staff, and the people of litical science. She is a dedicated and has been devoted to getting the most the State of Florida. diligent worker who has been devoted out of his internship experience. Nicholas is a student at Heidelberg to getting the most out of her intern- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- University, where he is majoring in po- ship experience. preciation to Franco for all the fine litical science and communications. He I extend my sincere thanks and ap- work he has done and wish him contin- is a dedicated and diligent worker who preciation to Natalie for all the fine ued success in the years to come.∑ has been devoted to getting the most work she has done and wish her contin- f out of his internship experience. ued success in the years to come.∑ I extend my sincere thanks and ap- TRIBUTE TO MICHELLE RIVERA f preciation to Nicholas for all the fine ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I work he has done and wish him contin- TRIBUTE TO AMANDA MEADOR recognize Michelle Rivera, a 2015 sum- ∑ ued success in the years to come. ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I mer intern in my Jacksonville office, f recognize Amanda Meador, a 2015 sum- for all of the hard work she has done TRIBUTE TO CARLOS SAN JOSE mer intern in my Miami office, for all for me, my staff, and the people of the of the hard work she has done for me, State of Florida. ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I my staff, and the people of the State of Michelle is a student at the Univer- recognize Carlos San Jose, a 2015 sum- Florida. sity of North Florida, where she is ma- mer intern in my Miami office, for all Amanda is a student at Washington joring in political science. She is a of the hard work he has done for me, and Lee University, where she is ma- dedicated and diligent worker who has my staff, and the people of the State of joring in business, accounting, and en- been devoted to getting the most out of Florida. vironmental studies. She is a dedicated her internship experience. Carlos is a student at Miami-Dade and diligent worker who has been de- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- College, where he is majoring in polit- voted to getting the most out of her in- preciation to Michelle for all the fine ical science. He is a dedicated and dili- ternship experience. work she has done and wish her contin- gent worker who has been devoted to I extend my sincere thanks and ap- ued success in the years to come.∑ getting the most out of his internship preciation to Amanda for all the fine experience. f work she has done and wish her contin- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- ued success in the years to come.∑ TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL RUSSELL preciation to Carlos for all the fine ∑ work he has done and wish him contin- f Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I ued success in the years to come.∑ recognize Michael Russell, a 2015 sum- TRIBUTE TO BRIANNA MORENO mer intern in my Tampa office, for all f ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I of the hard work he has done for me, TRIBUTE TO ISABELLA LLANO recognize Brianna Moreno, a 2015 sum- my staff, and the people of the State of ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I mer intern in my Miami office, for all Florida. recognize Isabella Llano, a 2015 sum- of the hard work she has done for me, Michael is a student at the Univer- mer intern in my Miami office, for all my staff, and the people of the State of sity of Florida, where he is majoring in of the hard work she has done for me, Florida. political science and criminology. He is my staff, and the people of the State of Brianna is a student at Vanderbilt a dedicated and diligent worker who Florida. University, where she is majoring in has been devoted to getting the most Isabella is a student at the Univer- public policy. She is a dedicated and out of his internship experience. sity of Florida, where she is majoring diligent worker who has been devoted I extend my sincere thanks and ap- in political science. She is a dedicated to getting the most out of her intern- preciation to Michael for all the fine and diligent worker who has been de- ship experience. work he has done and wish him contin- voted to getting the most out of her in- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- ued success in the years to come.∑ ternship experience. preciation to Brianna for all the fine f I extend my sincere thanks and ap- work she has done and wish her contin- TRIBUTE TO CHRISTIAN SADLER preciation to Isabella for all the fine ued success in the years to come.∑ work she has done and wish her contin- f ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I ued success in the years to come.∑ recognize Christian Sadler, a 2015 sum- TRIBUTE TO THOMAS MORRISON f mer intern in my Naples office, for all ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I of the hard work he has done for me, TRIBUTE TO DAVID MALLIS recognize Thomas Morrison, a 2015 my staff, and the people of the State of ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I summer intern in my Tallahassee of- Florida. recognize David Mallis, a 2015 summer fice, for all of the hard work he has Christian is currently a student at intern in my Miami office, for all of done for me, my staff, and the people of the University of Florida. He is a dedi- the hard work he has done for me, my the State of Florida. cated and diligent worker who has been staff, and the people of the State of Thomas is currently a student at devoted to getting the most out of his Florida. Lincoln High School. He is a dedicated internship experience.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:20 Aug 05, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD15\S03AU5.REC S03AU5 bjneal on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE August 3, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6239 I extend my sincere thanks and ap- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- work he has done and wish him contin- preciation to Christian for all the fine preciation to Franco for all the fine ued success in the years to come.∑ work he has done and wish him contin- work he has done and wish him contin- f ued success in the years to come.∑ ued success in the years to come.∑ REPORTS OF COMMITTEES f f TRIBUTE TO DANIELA SHIED The following reports of committees TRIBUTE TO JORGE TREVILLA were submitted: ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I By Mr. JOHNSON, from the Committee on recognize Daniela Shied, a 2015 summer recognize Jorge Trevilla, a 2015 sum- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- intern in my Tallahassee office, for all mer intern in my Miami office, for all fairs, without amendment: of the hard work she has done for me, of the hard work he has done for me, S. 1629. A bill to revise certain authorities my staff, and the people of the State of my staff, and the people of the State of of the District of Columbia courts, the Court Florida. Florida. Services and Offender Supervision Agency Daniela is a student at Florida State Jorge is currently a student at Co- for the District of Columbia, and the Public Defender Service for the District of Colum- University, where she is majoring in lumbus High School. He is a dedicated international affairs and political bia, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 114– and diligent worker who has been de- 110). science. She is a dedicated and diligent voted to getting the most out of his in- worker who has been devoted to get- ternship experience. f ting the most out of her internship ex- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND perience. preciation to Jorge for all the fine JOINT RESOLUTIONS I extend my sincere thanks and ap- work he has done and wish him contin- The following bills and joint resolu- preciation to Daniela for all the fine ued success in the years to come.∑ work she has done and wish her contin- tions were introduced, read the first ued success in the years to come.∑ f and second times by unanimous con- sent, and referred as indicated: f TRIBUTE TO NATHAN WATTERS ∑ By Ms. AYOTTE (for herself, Mr. BOOK- TRIBUTE TO DRIENA SIXTO Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I ER, and Mr. COONS): recognize Nathan Watters, a 2015 sum- ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I S. 1915. A bill to direct the Secretary of mer intern in my Jacksonville office, recognize Driena Sixto, a 2015 summer Homeland Security to make anthrax vac- for all of the hard work he has done for cines and antimicrobials available to emer- intern in my Miami office, for all of me, my staff, and the people of the gency response providers, and for other pur- the hard work she has done for me, my State of Florida. poses; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- staff, and the people of the State of Nathan is a law student at Florida rity and Governmental Affairs. Florida. By Mr. THUNE: Coastal Law School. He is a dedicated Driena is a student at Florida Inter- S. 1916. A bill to include skilled nursing fa- and diligent worker who has been de- national University, where she is ma- cilities as a type of health care provider voted to getting the most out of his in- joring in political science and inter- under section 254(h) of the Communications ternship experience. national relations. She is a dedicated Act of 1934; to the Committee on Commerce, I extend my sincere thanks and ap- Science, and Transportation. and diligent worker who has been de- preciation to Nathan for all the fine By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. KIRK, voted to getting the most out of her in- work he has done and wish him contin- and Ms. MURKOWSKI): ternship experience. ued success in the years to come.∑ S. 1917. A bill to prohibit the provision of I extend my sincere thanks and ap- Federal funds to an entity that receives com- preciation to Driena for all the fine f pensation for facilitating the donation of fetal tissue derived from an abortion; to the work she has done and wish her contin- TRIBUTE TO SHANNON WEST ued success in the years to come.∑ Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I Pensions. f recognize Shannon West, a 2015 sum- By Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. TRIBUTE TO JACKSON STORY mer intern in my Tampa office, for all BOOKER, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. MIKULSKI, and Mr. MAR- ∑ of the hard work she has done for me, Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I KEY): recognize Jackson Story, a 2015 sum- my staff, and the people of the State of S. 1918. A bill to amend the Endangered mer intern in my Jacksonville office, Florida. Species Act of 1973 to extend the import- and for all of the hard work he has done for Shannon is a student at Boston Col- export-related provision of that Act to spe- me, my staff, and the people of the lege, where she is majoring in political cies proposed for listing as threatened or en- State of Florida. science and international studies. She dangered under that Act; to the Committee Jackson is a student at the Univer- is a dedicated and diligent worker who on Environment and Public Works. sity of Florida, where he is majoring in has been devoted to getting the most f political science and public relations. out of her internship experience. I extend my sincere thanks and ap- SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND He is a dedicated and diligent worker SENATE RESOLUTIONS who has been devoted to getting the preciation to Shannon for all the fine most out of his internship experience. work she has done and wish her contin- The following concurrent resolutions I extend my sincere thanks and ap- ued success in the years to come.∑ and Senate resolutions were read, and preciation to Jackson for all the fine f referred (or acted upon), as indicated: work he has done and wish him contin- By Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. MI- TRIBUTE TO CONRAD WITTE ued success in the years to come.∑ KULSKI, Mr. NELSON, Mr. GARDNER, ∑ Mr. PETERS, Mr. CARDIN, and Mr. f Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I recognize Conrad Witte, a 2015 summer BENNET): TRIBUTE TO FRANCO DEL TORRO intern in my Miami office, for all of S. Res. 240. A resolution recognizing the ∑ National Aeronautics and Space Administra- Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I the hard work he has done for me, my tion and its partners for the success of the recognize Franco del Torro, a 2015 sum- staff, and the people of the State of historic flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons mer intern in my Tallahassee office, Florida. spacecraft; to the Committee on Commerce, for all of the hard work he has done for Conrad is a student at the University Science, and Transportation. me, my staff, and the people of the of Arkansas, where he is majoring in By Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. MUR- State of Florida. political science and international re- KOWSKI, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. Franco is a student at the University lations. He is a dedicated and diligent MANCHIN, Mrs. CAPITO, Mrs. MURRAY, of Florida, where he is majoring in po- worker who has been devoted to get- Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. CORKER, Mr. REID, Mr. WICKER, Mr. litical science. He is a dedicated and ting the most out of his internship ex- TESTER, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. PERDUE, diligent worker who has been devoted perience. Mr. TILLIS, Mr. BURR, Ms. COLLINS, to getting the most out of his intern- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. PAUL, Mr. ship experience. preciation to Conrad for all the fine ROUNDS, and Mr. CASEY):

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:13 Aug 04, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G03AU6.048 S03AUPT1 rfrederick on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with SENATE S6240 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 3, 2015 S. Res. 241. A resolution designating Au- qualify expenses for over-the-counter crimination and promote women’s gust 16, 2015, as ‘‘National Airborne Day’’; drugs under health savings accounts health and economic security by ensur- considered and agreed to. and health flexible spending arrange- ing reasonable workplace accommoda- f ments. tions for workers whose ability to per- ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 898 form the functions of a job are limited IRK by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related S. 298 At the request of Mr. K , the name of the Senator from Montana (Mr. medical condition. At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the S. 1566 name of the Senator from New York TESTER) was added as a cosponsor of S. 898, a bill to amend the Public Health At the request of Mr. KIRK, the name (Mr. SCHUMER) was added as a cospon- Service Act to provide for the partici- of the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. sor of S. 298, a bill to amend titles XIX VITTER) was added as a cosponsor of S. and XXI of the Social Security Act to pation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and 1566, a bill to amend the Public Health provide States with the option of pro- Service Act to require group and indi- viding services to children with medi- loan repayment programs, and for other purposes. vidual health insurance coverage and cally complex conditions under the group health plans to provide for cov- S. 993 Medicaid program and Children’s erage of oral anticancer drugs on terms Health Insurance Program through a At the request of Mr. FRANKEN, the no less favorable than the coverage care coordination program focused on name of the Senator from Vermont provided for anticancer medications improving health outcomes for chil- (Mr. SANDERS) was added as a cospon- administered by a health care provider. sor of S. 993, a bill to increase public dren with medically complex condi- S. 1719 safety by facilitating collaboration tions and lowering costs, and for other At the request of Ms. BALDWIN, the purposes. among the criminal justice, juvenile name of the Senator from Minnesota S. 377 justice, veterans treatment services, (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a co- mental health treatment, and sub- At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the sponsor of S. 1719, a bill to provide for name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. stance abuse systems. the establishment and maintenance of KIRK) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 1020 a National Family Caregiving Strat- 377, a bill to amend title XVIII of the At the request of Mr. VITTER, the egy, and for other purposes. Social Security Act to increase access name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. S. 1722 to ambulance services under the Medi- CRAPO) was added as a cosponsor of S. At the request of Mr. ROUNDS, the care program and to reform payments 1020, a bill to amend title XVIII of the name of the Senator from Arkansas for such services under such program, Social Security Act to ensure the con- (Mr. COTTON) was added as a cosponsor and for other purposes. tinued access of Medicare beneficiaries of S. 1722, a bill to amend the Dodd- S. 404 to diagnostic imaging services, and for Frank Wall Street Reform and Con- At the request of Mr. RUBIO, the other purposes. sumer Protection Act to repeal certain name of the Senator from Louisiana S. 1090 additional disclosure requirements, (Mr. CASSIDY) was added as a cosponsor At the request of Mr. BOOKER, the and for other purposes. of S. 404, a bill to amend title 18, name of the Senator from Arkansas S. 1742 United States Code, to prohibit taking (Mr. BOOZMAN) was added as a cospon- At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the minors across State lines in cir- sor of S. 1090, a bill to amend the Rob- names of the Senator from Wisconsin cumvention of laws requiring the in- ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and (Ms. BALDWIN) and the Senator from volvement of parents in abortion deci- Emergency Assistance Act to provide Minnesota (Mr. FRANKEN) were added sions. eligibility for broadcasting facilities to as cosponsors of S. 1742, a bill to im- prove the provision of postal services S. 429 receive certain disaster assistance, and to rural areas of the United States. At the request of Ms. BALDWIN, the for other purposes. name of the Senator from New York S. 1143 S. 1767 At the request of Mr. ISAKSON, the (Mr. SCHUMER) was added as a cospon- At the request of Ms. CANTWELL, the sor of S. 429, a bill to amend title XIX names of the Senator from California name of the Senator from Pennsyl- vania (Mr. TOOMEY) was added as a co- of the Social Security Act to provide a (Mrs. BOXER) and the Senator from sponsor of S. 1767, a bill to amend the standard definition of therapeutic fos- California (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) were added Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ter care services in Medicaid. as cosponsors of S. 1143, a bill to make the authority of States of Washington, with respect to combination products, S. 471 and for other purposes. At the request of Mr. HELLER, the Oregon, and California to manage Dun- S. 1774 name of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. geness crab fishery permanent and for other purposes. At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, WARNER) was added as a cosponsor of S. the name of the Senator from Illinois 471, a bill to improve the provision of S. 1148 (Mr. DURBIN) was added as a cosponsor health care for women veterans by the At the request of Mr. NELSON, the of S. 1774, a bill to amend title 11 of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and name of the Senator from Massachu- United States Code to treat Puerto for other purposes. setts (Mr. MARKEY) was added as a co- Rico as a State for purposes of chapter S. 586 sponsor of S. 1148, a bill to amend title 9 of such title relating to the adjust- At the request of Mrs. SHAHEEN, the XVIII of the Social Security Act to ment of debts of municipalities. provide for the distribution of addi- name of the Senator from West Vir- S. 1785 tional residency positions, and for ginia (Mrs. CAPITO) was added as a co- At the request of Mr. LEE, the name sponsor of S. 586, a bill to amend the other purposes. of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Public Health Service Act to foster S. 1314 THUNE) was added as a cosponsor of S. more effective implementation and co- At the request of Mr. BOOKER, the 1785, a bill to repeal the wage rate re- ordination of clinical care for people name of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. quirements of the Davis-Bacon Act. with pre-diabetes, diabetes, and the WARNER) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 1798 chronic diseases and conditions that 1314, a bill to establish an interim rule At the request of Mr. RUBIO, the result from diabetes. for the operation of small unmanned name of the Senator from Missouri S. 709 aircraft for commercial purposes and (Mr. BLUNT) was added as a cosponsor At the request of Mr. ROBERTS, the their safe integration into the national of S. 1798, a bill to reauthorize the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. airspace system. United States Commission on Inter- KIRK) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 1512 national Religious Freedom, and for 709, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- At the request of Mr. CASEY, the other purposes. enue Code of 1986 to repeal the amend- name of the Senator from Washington S. 1863 ments made by the Patient Protection (Mrs. MURRAY) was added as a cospon- At the request of Mr. KIRK, the name and Affordable Care Act which dis- sor of S. 1512, a bill to eliminate dis- of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr.

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In other words, the Hyde amend- At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the ment—which has been on the books for STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED so many years—applies fully to this name of the Senator from Pennsyl- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS vania (Mr. CASEY) was added as a co- Federal funding. sponsor of S. 1875, a bill to support en- Some contend that other health care hanced accountability for United By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. providers such as community health States assistance to Afghanistan, and KIRK, and Ms. MURKOWSKI): centers could somehow fill the gap in for other purposes. S. 1917. A bill to prohibit the provi- family planning and other women’s sion of Federal funds to an entity that health services if Federal funding were S. 1876 receives compensation for facilitating to be cut off to Planned Parenthood. In At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, the donation of fetal tissue derived my State, the four Planned Parenthood the name of the Senator from North from an abortion; to the Committee on clinics see almost 40 percent of the pa- Dakota (Ms. HEITKAMP) was added as a Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- tients seeking title X family planning cosponsor of S. 1876, a bill to rename sions. services, and they treat virtually all of the Office to Monitor and Combat Traf- Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, this the patients seeking those services in ficking of the Department of State the afternoon the Senate will be voting on southern Maine. By way of contrast, Bureau to Monitor and Combat Traf- a motion to proceed to a bill that the 20 community health sites in Maine ficking in Persons and to provide for an would completely eliminate all Federal that receive title X funding see just 17 Assistant Secretary to head such Bu- funding for Planned Parenthood. While percent of the patients seeking those reau, and for other purposes. I do not support this legislation, I have services. If we were to defund Planned At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the received assurances from the majority Parenthood, other family planning name of the Senator from New Hamp- leader that should the motion to pro- clinics in Maine, including community shire (Ms. AYOTTE) was added as a co- ceed succeed, there will be ample op- health centers, would see a 63-percent sponsor of S. 1876, supra. portunity to offer amendments. There- increase in their patient load. They S. 1881 fore, I would like to take this oppor- would be forced to absorb 8,583 more At the request of Mrs. ERNST, the tunity to propose an alternative ap- patients if Federal funds to Planned name of the Senator from Arizona (Mr. proach which Senator KIRK and I will Parenthood were eliminated. Moreover, FLAKE) was added as a cosponsor of S. offer as a substitute for the bill. these other family planning clinics are 1881, a bill to prohibit Federal funding Throughout my service in the Sen- predominantly in central, western, and of Planned Parenthood Federation of ate, I have been a strong proponent of the northern parts of my State. None is America. family planning and measures to pro- in the area that is served by Planned S. 1882 mote and protect women’s health. The Parenthood in southern Maine. I don’t At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the fact is that the best way to reduce the see how we can ensure that all of the name of the Senator from Massachu- number of abortions in this country is patients currently served by Planned setts (Mr. MARKEY) was added as a co- to ensure that women have access to Parenthood can be absorbed by alter- sponsor of S. 1882, a bill to support the family planning services they need to native health care providers. sustainable recovery and rebuilding of protect against unintended preg- The bill that has been proposed by Nepal following the recent, devastating nancies. That is why I have long sup- several of my colleagues would require earthquakes near Kathmandu. ported title X family planning pro- women to give up the health care pro- S. 1883 grams. vider of their choice, when we don’t yet At the request of Mr. REED, the name My support for family planning aside, know all of the facts about Planned of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. BROWN) however, I was sickened when I viewed Parenthood’s actions. was added as a cosponsor of S. 1883, a the recently released videos featuring Therefore, I am joining my colleague bill to maximize discovery, and accel- Planned Parenthood physicians in both from Illinois Senator KIRK in intro- erate development and availability, of their edited and unedited versions. The ducing legislation, which we intend to promising childhood cancer treat- callousness with which Planned Par- turn into an amendment if we proceed ments, and for other purposes. enthood employees discuss the sale of to this bill, that would require the De- S. 1893 fetal tissue is appalling. It deserves our partment of Justice to investigate whether Planned Parenthood or its af- At the request of Mr. ALEXANDER, the attention. The videos also raise valid name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. questions about the ethics and legality filiates have engaged in any illegal ac- tivity pertaining to fetal tissue and MURKOWSKI) was added as a cosponsor of Planned Parenthood’s practices in of S. 1893, a bill to reauthorize and im- some of its clinics, albeit a minority of support a report to Congress on its prove programs related to mental its clinics. As a result, I believe a full findings within 90 days. Activities involving fetal tissue have health and substance use disorders. investigation is warranted to deter- mine whether Planned Parenthood no relationship to Planned Parent- S. RES. 176 broke the law prohibiting the sale of hood’s primary mission of promoting At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the fetal tissue. and protecting women’s health. While name of the Senator from Delaware Reviews by State medical boards are Planned Parenthood claims that only a (Mr. COONS) was added as a cosponsor also warranted because it appears that very small number of its affiliates en- of S. Res. 176, a resolution designating some Planned Parenthood doctors may gage in the sale of fetal organs and tis- September 2015 as ‘‘National Brain An- have been putting the procurement of sue, let’s determine the facts. Those or- eurysm Awareness Month’’ . fetal organs ahead of the well-being of ganizations that do engage in this rep- S. RES. 228 their patients. rehensible practice are the ones that At the request of Ms. AYOTTE, the We do, however, need to keep in mind have sparked this outrage and rightly name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. the fact that Planned Parenthood pro- so. I believe these are the organizations KING) was added as a cosponsor of S. vides important family planning, can- that should be the focus of our efforts. Res. 228, a resolution designating Sep- cer screening, and basic preventive I know none of the Planned Parenthood tember 2015 as ‘‘National Ovarian Can- health care to millions of women clinics in my State engage in the prac- cer Awareness Month’’ . across this country. For many women, tice of the procurement and sale of S. RES. 232 Planned Parenthood clinics provide the fetal tissue. I think we should keep in At the request of Mr. BOOZMAN, the only health care services they receive. mind that we can come up with a more name of the Senator from Maryland The title X Federal family planning tailored and targeted approach that is

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Whereas, on July 14, 2015, after a 9 1⁄2-year ture and origin of our solar system and be- So the more targeted approach pro- journey, the New Horizons probe successfully yond; and posed by Senator KIRK and me accom- flew within approximately 7,800 miles (12,500 (4) recognizes the significance of the sci- plishes three important goals: First, it kilometers) of the surface of the dwarf plan- entific and engineering research by NASA would not cause women served by et Pluto; with respect to stimulating economic Whereas the National Aeronautics and Planned Parenthood clinics that do not growth, strengthening national competitive- Space Administration (referred to in this ness, and inspiring humankind. engage in these reprehensible fetal tis- preamble as ‘‘NASA’’) has now completed f sue sales to lose their health care pro- missions to each of the 9 largest planetary vider for basic services like family bodies orbiting the sun; SENATE RESOLUTION 241—DESIG- planning and cancer screening. After Whereas the successful New Horizons mis- NATING AUGUST 16, 2015, AS ‘‘NA- all, many of us have been critical of sion to Pluto was achieved through years of TIONAL AIRBORNE DAY’’ ObamaCare because it has forced fami- planning, research, design, testing, and mis- sion operations conducted by the dedicated Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. MUR- lies in this country to give up the doc- scientists, engineers, and staff at NASA and KOWSKI, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. MANCHIN, tor of their choice. Well, that is what affiliated academic and private sector part- Mrs. CAPITO, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. ISAK- this amendment would do. It would re- ners; SON, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. CORKER, Mr. quire women and other patients to find Whereas the New Horizons mission was the REID of Nevada, Mr. WICKER, Mr. first mission to study Pluto, the moons of alternative health care providers, even TESTER, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. PERDUE, Mr. Pluto, and other planetary building blocks if their Planned Parenthood clinic has TILLIS, Mr. BURR, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. done nothing wrong and is not engaged within the Kuiper Belt, which is the ring of icy objects that surrounds the solar system MCCONNELL, Mr. PAUL, Mr. ROUNDS, in the reprehensible sale of fetal tissue. beyond the orbit of Neptune; and Mr. CASEY) submitted the fol- How is that fair? How is that a tar- Whereas the findings of the New Horizons lowing resolution; which was consid- geted approach? interplanetary space probe have dem- ered and agreed to: Second, our legislation would allow onstrated the great scientific value of the S. RES. 241 Congress to get the facts to determine continued exploration of Pluto and the Whereas the members of the airborne if those few Planned Parenthood affili- outer-region of our solar system; Whereas New Horizons is the first mission forces of the Armed Forces of the United ates that do engage in fetal tissue pro- States have a long and honorable history as curement have broken Federal law and to collect high-resolution images and a vari- ety of other data about the geological and bold and fierce warriors who, for the na- violated medical ethics. We need to atmospheric composition of Pluto as well as tional security of the United States and the know the answer to those questions, the space environment near Pluto and the defense of freedom and peace, project the and we need to know how widespread moons of Pluto; ground combat power of the United States this practice actually is. Whereas the initial images and data re- by air transport to the far reaches of the bat- Third, our legislation would defund turned from the New Horizons spacecraft tle area and to the far corners of the world; those affiliates, subsidiaries, and clin- have already led to new discoveries about Whereas the experiment of the United States with airborne operations began on ics that do receive compensation for Pluto, the moons of Pluto, and the space en- vironment near Pluto; June 25, 1940, when the Army Parachute Test procuring fetal organs and tissues, thus Whereas images of Pluto show ice moun- Platoon was first authorized by the Depart- putting an end to this reprehensible tains that have never been seen before and ment of War, and 48 volunteers began train- trafficking in fetal tissue. that are comparable in height to the Rocky ing in July 1940; I believe the proposal that Senator Mountains; Whereas August 16 marks the anniversary KIRK and I offer to our colleagues is a Whereas images of Charon, the largest of the first official Army parachute jump, more targeted approach, a fairer ap- moon of Pluto, show deep canyons and a row which took place on August 16, 1940, to test proach, an approach that will be based of cliffs and troughs stretching 600 miles the innovative concept of inserting United States ground combat forces behind a battle on the facts, and is the best way for- wide; Whereas images of Pluto and Charon show line by means of a parachute; ward as we deal with this important a lack of impact craters, suggesting that Whereas the success of the Army Para- issue. I encourage my colleagues to their relatively young surfaces have been re- chute Test Platoon in the days immediately join us in support of our more targeted shaped by internal geological activity; before the entry of the United States into legislation. Whereas the data collected by instruments World War II validated the airborne oper- This is the bill that should we pro- on the New Horizons spacecraft confirms ational concept and led to the creation of a ceed to the underlying legislation, that the Pluto system contains a large formidable force of airborne formations that would be offered as a substitute to the amount of frozen water, which is considered included the 11th, 13th, 17th, 82nd, and 101st an essential building block of life; Airborne Divisions; bill by Senator KIRK and me. Whereas the data collected by the New Ho- Whereas, included in those divisions, and f rizons spacecraft will continue to provide among other separate formations, were SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS scientific insight, data to train the next gen- many airborne combat, combat support, and eration of planetary scientists, and inspira- combat service support units that served tion to humanity for years to come; and with distinction and achieved repeated suc- SENATE RESOLUTION 240—RECOG- Whereas the New Horizons spacecraft could cess in armed hostilities during World War continue traveling to the far edges of our II; NIZING THE NATIONAL AERO- solar system and could be capable of explor- Whereas the achievements of the airborne NAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINIS- ing the Kuiper Belt and collecting data on units during World War II prompted the evo- TRATION AND ITS PARTNERS our solar system that is not detectable from lution of those units into a diversified force FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE HIS- any other spacecraft or telescope due to its of parachute and air-assault units that, over TORIC FLYBY OF PLUTO BY THE unique position, instrumentation, and long- the years, have fought in Korea, Vietnam, NEW HORIZONS SPACECRAFT lasting power supply: Now, therefore, be it Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf region, Resolved, That the Senate— and Somalia, and have engaged in peace- Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. MI- (1) congratulates the National Aeronautics keeping operations in Lebanon, the Sinai Pe- KULSKI, Mr. NELSON, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. and Space Administration (referred to in this ninsula, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bos- PETERS, Mr. CARDIN, and Mr. BENNET) resolving clause as ‘‘NASA’’), the Johns Hop- nia, and Kosovo; submitted the following resolution; kins University Applied Physics Laboratory Whereas, since the terrorist attacks of which was referred to the Committee in Maryland, the Southwest Research Insti- September 11, 2001, the members of the on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- tute in Colorado, and the academic and pri- United States airborne forces, including tation: vate sector partners of the New Horizons members of the XVIII Airborne Corps, the mission for their roles in the historic flyby 82nd Airborne Division, the 101st Airborne S. RES. 240 of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft; Division, the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Whereas, in 1930, from the Lowell Observ- (2) recognizes the importance of the New Team, the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Air- atory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Clyde Tombaugh Horizons mission to the long-term explo- borne) of the 25th Infantry Division, the 75th

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Mr. BOOKER (for himself Ms. AYOTTE, and Mrs. MCCASKILL) sub- Whereas the modern-day airborne forces and Mr. HELLER) submitted an amend- mitted an amendment intended to be also include other elite forces composed of ment intended to be proposed by him proposed by her to the bill S. 754, to airborne trained and qualified special oper- improve cybersecurity in the United ations warriors, including Army Special to the bill S. 754, to improve cybersecu- Forces, Marine Corps Reconnaissance units, rity in the United States through en- States through enhanced sharing of in- Navy SEALs, and Air Force combat control hanced sharing of information about formation about cybersecurity threats, and pararescue teams; cybersecurity threats, and for other and for other purposes; which was or- Whereas, of the members and former mem- purposes; which was ordered to lie on dered to lie on the table; as follows: bers of the United States airborne forces, the table; as follows: At the end, add the following: thousands have achieved the distinction of On page 32, between lines 20 and 21, insert TITLE II—FEDERAL INFORMATION SECU- making combat jumps, dozens have earned the following: RITY MANAGEMENT REFORM ACT OF the Medal of Honor, and hundreds have (6) LIMITATION ON RECEIPT OF CYBER THREAT 2015 earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the INDICATORS.—A Federal entity may not re- Silver Star, or other decorations and awards SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE. ceive a cyber threat indicator that another This title may be cited as the ‘‘Federal In- for displays of heroism, gallantry, intre- Federal entity shared through the process formation Security Management Reform Act pidity, and valor; developed and implemented under paragraph of 2015’’. Whereas the members and former members (1) unless the Inspector General of the re- of the United States airborne forces are all SEC. 202. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF HOME- ceiving Federal entity certifies that the re- LAND SECURITY RELATED TO IN- members of a proud and honorable tradition ceiving Federal entity meets the data secu- FORMATION SECURITY. that, together with the special skills and rity standard for receiving such a cyber Section 3553(b)(6) of title 44, United States achievements of those members, distin- threat indicator, as established by the Sec- Code, is amended by striking subparagraphs guishes the members as intrepid combat retary of Homeland Security. (B), (C), and (D) and inserting the following: parachutists, air assault forces, special oper- ‘‘(B) operating consolidated intrusion de- ation forces, and, in the past, glider troops; On page 52, strike line 14 and insert the fol- lowing: tection, prevention, or other protective capa- Whereas individuals from every State of bilities and use of associated counter- the United States have served gallantly in SEC. 10. REPORT ON REDUCTION OF CYBERSECU- RITY RISK IN AGENCY DATA CEN- measures for the purpose of protecting agen- the airborne forces, and each State is proud cy information and information systems of the contributions of its paratrooper vet- TERS. Not later than 1 year after the date of en- from information security threats; erans during the many conflicts faced by the ‘‘(C) providing incident detection, analysis, United States; actment of this Act, the Secretary of Home- land Security, in coordination with the Di- mitigation, and response information and re- Whereas the history and achievements of mote or onsite technical assistance to the the members and former members of the rector of the Office of Management and Budget, shall submit to the Committee on head of an agency; United States airborne forces warrant spe- ‘‘(D) compiling and analyzing data on cial expressions of the gratitude of the peo- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- fairs of the Senate and the Committee on agency information security; ple of the United States; and ‘‘(E) developing and conducting targeted Whereas, since the airborne forces, past Homeland Security of the House of Rep- resentatives a report on the feasibility of risk assessments and operational evaluations and present, celebrate August 16 as the anni- for agency information and information sys- versary of the first official jump by the Federal civilian agencies creating an envi- ronment for the reduction in cybersecurity tems in consultation with the heads of other Army Parachute Test Platoon, August 16 is agencies or governmental and private enti- an appropriate day to recognize as National risks in agency data centers, including by— (1) increasing compartmentalization be- ties that own and operate such systems, that Airborne Day: Now, therefore, be it may include threat, vulnerability, and im- Resolved, That the Senate— tween systems; and pact assessments; (1) designates August 16, 2015, as ‘‘National (2) providing a mix of security controls be- ‘‘(F) in conjunction with other agencies Airborne Day’’; and tween such compartments. and the private sector, assessing and fos- (2) calls on the people of the United States SEC. 11. CONFORMING AMENDMENT. tering the development of information secu- to observe National Airborne Day with ap- rity technologies and capabilities for use propriate programs, ceremonies, and activi- SA 2545. Ms. COLLINS (for herself, across multiple agencies; and ties. Mr. KIRK, and Ms. MURKOWSKI) sub- ‘‘(G) coordinating with appropriate agen- f mitted an amendment intended to be cies and officials to ensure, to the maximum AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND proposed by her to the bill S. 1881, to extent feasible, that policies and directives PROPOSED prohibit Federal funding of Planned issued under paragraph (2) are complemen- Parenthood Federation of America; tary with— SA 2544. Mr. BOOKER (for himself and Mr. which was ordered to lie on the table; ‘‘(i) standards and guidelines developed for HELLER) submitted an amendment intended national security systems; and to be proposed by him to the bill S. 754, to as follows: ‘‘(ii) policies and directives issued by the improve cybersecurity in the United States Strike all after the enacting clause and in- Secretary of Defense and the Director of Na- through enhanced sharing of information sert the following: tional Intelligence under subsection (e)(1); about cybersecurity threats, and for other SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON FUNDING. and’’. purposes; which was ordered to lie on the (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any SEC. 203. COMMUNICATIONS AND SYSTEM TRAF- table. other provision of law, no Federal funds shall FIC AND DIRECTION TO AGENCIES. SA 2545. Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. be made available to any affiliate, sub- Section 3553 of title 44, United States Code, KIRK, and Ms. MURKOWSKI) submitted an sidiary, successor, or clinic of the Planned is amended by adding at the end the fol- amendment intended to be proposed by her Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. if lowing: to the bill S. 1881, to prohibit Federal fund- that affiliate, subsidiary, successor, or clinic ‘‘(h) COMMUNICATIONS AND SYSTEMS TRAF- ing of Planned Parenthood Federation of receives compensation for facilitating the FIC.— America; which was ordered to lie on the donation of fetal tissue products derived ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— table. ‘‘(A) ACQUISITION BY THE SECRETARY.—Not- SA 2546. Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. from an abortion. (b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in withstanding any other provision of law and WARNER, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. COATS, Ms. this Act shall be construed to— subject to subparagraph (B), in carrying out AYOTTE, and Mrs. MCCASKILL) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her (1) affect any limitation contained in an the responsibilities under subparagraphs (B), to the bill S. 754, to improve cybersecurity in appropriations Act relating to abortion; or (C), and (E) of subsection (b)(6), if the Sec- the United States through enhanced sharing (2) reduce overall Federal funding available retary makes a certification described in of information about cybersecurity threats, in support of women’s health. paragraph (2), the Secretary may acquire, and for other purposes; which was ordered to (c) INVESTIGATION AND REPORT.—Not later intercept, retain, use, and disclose commu- lie on the table. than 90 days after the date of enactment of nications and other system traffic that are SA 2547. Mr. HELLER submitted an this Act, the Attorney General shall conduct transiting to or from or stored on agency in- amendment intended to be proposed by him an investigation, and submit to Congress a formation systems and deploy counter- to the bill S. 754, supra; which was ordered to report on the findings of such investigation, measures with regard to the communications lie on the table. concerning whether or not the Planned Par- and system traffic. SA 2548. Mr. HELLER submitted an enthood Federation of America, Inc. or any ‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The authorities of the amendment intended to be proposed by him of its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or Secretary under this subsection shall not

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Mr. HELLER submitted an sistance to the Secretary under paragraph and amendment intended to be proposed by (A), information traveling to or from or ‘‘(iii) providing notice to potentially af- him to the bill S. 754, to improve cyber- stored on an agency information system, fected third parties; security in the United States through notwithstanding any other law that would ‘‘(B) specify the reasons for the required enhanced sharing of information about otherwise restrict or prevent agency heads action and the duration of the directive; from disclosing such information to the Sec- ‘‘(C) minimize the impact of a directive cybersecurity threats, and for other retary. under this subsection by— purposes; which was ordered to lie on ‘‘(2) CERTIFICATION.—A certification de- ‘‘(i) adopting the least intrusive means the table; as follows: scribed in this paragraph is a certification by possible under the circumstances to secure On page 16, beginning on line 11, strike the Secretary that— the agency information systems; and ‘‘knows’’ and all that follows through ‘‘(A) the acquisitions, interceptions, and ‘‘(ii) limiting directives to the shortest pe- ‘‘knows’’ on line 19, and insert ‘‘reasonably other countermeasures are reasonably nec- riod practicable; and believes at the time of sharing to be personal essary for the purpose of protecting agency ‘‘(D) notify the Director and the head of information or information that identifies a information systems from information secu- any affected agency immediately upon the specific person not directly related to a cy- rity threats; issuance of a directive under this subsection. bersecurity threat and remove such informa- ‘‘(B) the content of communications will be ‘‘(3) IMMINENT THREATS.— tion; or retained only if the communication is asso- ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary deter- (B) implement and utilize a technical capa- ciated with a known or reasonably suspected mines that there is an imminent threat to bility configured to remove any information information security threat, and commu- agency information systems and a directive contained within such indicator that the en- nications and system traffic will not be sub- under this subsection is not reasonably like- tity reasonably believes ject to the operation of a countermeasure ly to result in a timely response to the unless associated with the threats; threat, the Secretary may authorize the use SA 2548. Mr. HELLER submitted an ‘‘(C) information obtained under activities of protective capabilities under the control amendment intended to be proposed by authorized under this subsection will only be of the Secretary for communications or retained, used, or disclosed to protect agency him to the bill S. 754, to improve cyber- other system traffic transiting to or from or security in the United States through information systems from information secu- stored on an agency information system rity threats, mitigate against such threats, without prior consultation with the affected enhanced sharing of information about or, with the approval of the Attorney Gen- agency for the purpose of ensuring the secu- cybersecurity threats, and for other eral, for law enforcement purposes when the rity of the information or information sys- purposes; which was ordered to lie on information is evidence of a crime which has tem or other agency information systems. the table; as follows: been, is being, or is about to be committed; ‘‘(B) LIMITATION ON DELEGATION.—The au- ‘‘(D) notice has been provided to users of On page 11, line 22, strike ‘‘knows’’ and in- thority under this paragraph may not be del- agency information systems concerning the sert ‘‘reasonably believes’’. egated to an official in a position lower than potential for acquisition, interception, re- f an Assistant Secretary of the Department of tention, use, and disclosure of communica- Homeland Security. tions and other system traffic; and AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO ‘‘(C) NOTICE.—The Secretary shall imme- ‘‘(E) the activities are implemented pursu- MEET diately notify the Director and the head and ant to policies and procedures governing the chief information officer (or equivalent offi- COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS acquisition, interception, retention, use, and Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask disclosure of communications and other sys- cial) of each affected agency of— tem traffic that have been reviewed and ap- ‘‘(i) any action taken under this sub- unanimous consent that the Com- proved by the Attorney General. section; and mittee on Foreign Relations be author- ‘‘(ii) the reasons for and duration and na- ‘‘(3) PRIVATE ENTITIES.—The Secretary may ized to meet during the session of the enter into contracts or other agreements, or ture of the action. Senate on August 3, 2015, at 5 p.m., to otherwise request and obtain the assistance ‘‘(D) OTHER LAW.—Any action of the Sec- conduct a classified briefing entitled retary under this paragraph shall be con- of, private entities that provide electronic ‘‘JCPOA: The Verification and Assess- communication or information security sistent with applicable law. ‘‘(4) LIMITATION.—The Secretary may di- ment Report.’’ services to acquire, intercept, retain, use, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and disclose communications and other sys- rect or authorize lawful action or protective tem traffic in accordance with this sub- capability under this subsection only to— objection, it is so ordered. section. ‘‘(A) protect agency information from un- f authorized access, use, disclosure, disrup- ‘‘(4) NO CAUSE OF ACTION.—No cause of ac- NATIONAL AIRBORNE DAY tion shall exist against a private entity for tion, modification, or destruction; or assistance provided to the Secretary in ac- ‘‘(B) require the remediation of or protect Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I cordance with paragraph (3). against identified information security risks ask unanimous consent that the Sen- with respect to— ‘‘(i) DIRECTION TO AGENCIES.— ate proceed to the immediate consider- ‘‘(1) AUTHORITY.— ‘‘(i) information collected or maintained by or on behalf of an agency; or ation of S. Res. 241. ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 3554, and subject to subparagraph (B), in re- ‘‘(ii) that portion of an information system sponse to a known or reasonably suspected used or operated by an agency or by a con- clerk will report the resolution by information security threat, vulnerability, tractor of an agency or other organization title. or incident that represents a substantial on behalf of an agency.’’. The senior assistant legislative clerk threat to the information security of an SEC. 204. REPORT TO CONGRESS REGARDING OF- read as follows: agency, the Secretary may issue a directive FICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET A resolution (S. Res. 241) designating Au- to the head of an agency to take any lawful ENFORCEMENT ACTION. gust 16, 2015, as ‘‘National Airborne Day.’’ action with respect to the operation of the Section 3553 of title 44, United States Code, information system, including such systems as amended by section 203, is further amend- There being no objection, the Senate owned or operated by another entity on be- ed by inserting at the end the following new proceeded to consider the resolution. half of an agency, that collects, processes, subsection: Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I stores, transmits, disseminates, or otherwise ‘‘(j) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.— ask unanimous consent that the reso- maintains agency information, for the pur- ‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than Feb- lution be agreed to, the preamble be pose of protecting the information system ruary 1 of every year, the Director shall re- agreed to, and the motions to recon- from, or mitigating, an information security port to the appropriate congressional com- sider be considered made and laid upon threat. mittee regarding the specific actions the Di- the table with no intervening action or ‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The authorities of the rector has taken pursuant to subsection Secretary under this subsection shall not (a)(5), including any actions taken pursuant debate. apply to a system described in paragraph (2) to paragraph (5) of title 40 of section 11303(b). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without or (3) of subsection (e). ‘‘(2) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COM- objection, it is so ordered. ‘‘(2) PROCEDURES FOR USE OF AUTHORITY.— MITTEE.—In this subsection, the term ‘appro- The resolution (S. Res. 241) was The Secretary shall— priate congressional committee’ means— agreed to.

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SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Meeting Street in Charleston, South abuse and neonatal abstinence syn- Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Carolina, as the ‘‘J. Waties Waring Ju- drome, S. 1893, to reauthorize and im- dicial Center’’, S. 124, to amend the prove programs related to mental agreed to by the Senate of February 4, Water Resources Development Act of health and substance use disorders, S. 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- 1996 to deauthorize the Ten Mile Creek 481, to amend the Controlled Sub- tem for a computerized schedule of all Water Preserve Area Critical Restora- stances Act and the Federal Food, meetings and hearings of Senate com- tion Project, H.R. 2559, to designate the Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- ‘‘PFC Milton A. Lee Medal of Honor drug scheduling recommendations by tees, and committees of conference. Memorial Highway’’ in the State of the Secretary of Health and Human Texas, and other pending calendar This title requires all such committees Services, and with respect to registra- business. to notify the Office of the Senate Daily tion of manufacturers and distributors SD–406 Digest—designated by the Rules Com- Committee on Finance seeking to conduct clinical testing, and mittee—of the time, place and purpose Closed business meeting to consider the nominations of Karen Bollinger of the meetings, when scheduled and pending calendar business, S–211, to be DeSalvo, of Louisiana, to be an Assist- any cancellations or changes in the immediately followed by a business ant Secretary of Health and Human meetings as they occur. meeting to consider the nominations of Services, Kathryn K. Matthew, of As an additional procedure along Marisa Lago, of New York, to be a Dep- South Carolina, to be Director of the with the computerization of this infor- uty United States Trade Representa- Institute of Museum and Library Serv- mation, the Office of the Senate Daily tive, with the rank of Ambassador, and ices for a term of four years, W. Thom- Digest will prepare this information for W. Thomas Reeder, Jr., of Virginia, to as Reeder, Jr., of Virginia, to be Direc- printing in the Extensions of Remarks be Director of the Pension Benefit tor of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Guaranty Corporation. Corporation, and Walter A. Barrows, of section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SD–215 Ohio, to be a Member of the Railroad on Monday and Wednesday of each Committee on Health, Education, Labor, Retirement Board for a term expiring week. and Pensions August 28, 2019. Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Au- To hold hearings to examine reauthor- SD–430 gust 4, 2015 may be found in the Daily izing the Higher Education Act, focus- Committee on the Judiciary Digest of today’s RECORD. ing on opportunities to improve stu- Business meeting to consider S. 1814, to dent success. withhold certain Federal funding from SD–430 sanctuary cities, and S. 32, to provide MEETINGS SCHEDULED Committee on the Judiciary the Department of Justice with addi- AUGUST 5 To hold hearings to examine the Depart- tional tools to target extraterritorial Time to be announced ment of Justice’s legal obligation to drug trafficking activity, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and ensure Inspector General access to all nominations of John Michael Vazquez, Transportation records needed for independent over- Business meeting to consider pending sight. to be United States District Judge for calendar business. SD–106 the District of New Jersey, Wilhelmina TBA 2 p.m. Marie Wright, to be United States Dis- 10 a.m. Committee on Foreign Relations trict Judge for the District of Min- Committee on Banking, Housing, and To hold hearings to examine the implica- nesota, and Paula Xinis, to be United Urban Affairs tions of the Joint Comprehensive Plan States District Judge for the District To hold hearings to examine the implica- of Action for United States policy in of Maryland. tions of sanctions relief under the Iran the Middle East. SD–226 agreement. SD–419 1 p.m. SD–538 Committee on Small Business and Entre- Committee on Environment and Public AUGUST 6 preneurship Works 9 a.m. To hold hearings to examine rising after Business meeting to consider S. 1324, to Committee on Homeland Security and disaster, focusing on improvements and require the Administrator of the Envi- Governmental Affairs continuing challenges. ronmental Protection Agency to fulfill Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and SR–428A certain requirements before regulating Federal Management standards of performance for new, To hold hearings to examine agency SEPTEMBER 10 modified, and reconstructed fossil fuel- progress in retrospective review of ex- 10 a.m. fired electric utility generating units, isting regulations. Committee on Banking, Housing, and S. 1523, to amend the Federal Water SD–342 Urban Affairs Pollution Control Act to reauthorize 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the nomina- the National Estuary Program, S. 1500, Committee on Armed Services tion of Adam J. Szubin, of the District to clarify Congressional intent regard- To hold hearings to examine the procure- of Columbia, to be Under Secretary for ing the regulation of the use of pes- ment, acquisition, testing, and over- Terrorism and Financial Crimes, De- ticides in or near navigable waters, S. sight of the Navy’s Gerald R. Ford-class partment of the Treasury. 722, to extend the date after which in- aircraft carrier program. SD–538 terest earned on obligations held in the SD–G50 wildlife restoration fund may be avail- 10 a.m. able for apportionment, S. 1707, to des- Committee on Foreign Relations CANCELLATIONS ignate the Federal building located at To hold hearings to examine the 2015 617 Walnut Street in Helena, Arkansas, Trafficking in Persons Report. AUGUST 6 as the ‘‘Jacob Trieber Federal Build- SD–419 2:30 p.m. ing, United States Post Office, and Committee on Health, Education, Labor, Select Committee on Intelligence United States Court House’’, S. 1147, to and Pensions To receive a closed briefing on certain designate the Federal building and Business meeting to consider S. 799, to intelligence matters. United States courthouse located at 83 combat the rise of prenatal opioid SH–219

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HIGHLIGHTS See Re´sume´ of Congressional Activity. Senate in the United States through enhanced sharing of in- Chamber Action formation about cybersecurity threats. Pages S6228–35 Routine Proceedings, pages S6213–S6245 A motion was entered to close further debate on Measures Introduced: Four bills and two resolu- the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill, tions were introduced, as follows: S. 1915–1918, and and, in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII S. Res. 240–241. Pages S6239–40 of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on clo- ture will occur on Wednesday, August, 5, 2015. Measures Reported: Page S6228 S. 1629, to revise certain authorities of the Dis- A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- trict of Columbia courts, the Court Services and Of- viding for further consideration of the motion to fender Supervision Agency for the District of Colum- proceed to consideration of the bill at approximately bia, and the Public Defender Service for the District 11 a.m., on Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Page S6245 of Columbia. (S. Rept. No. 114–110) Page S6239 Additional Cosponsors: Pages S6240–41 Measures Passed: Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: National Airborne Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. Pages S6241–43 241, designating August 16, 2015, as ‘‘National Airborne Day’’. Pages S6244–45 Additional Statements: Pages S6235–39 Measures Considered: Amendments Submitted: Pages S6243–44 Prohibit Federal Funding of Planned Parent- Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S6244 hood: Senate resumed consideration of the motion to Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. proceed to consideration of S. 1881, to prohibit Fed- (Total—262) Page S6228 eral funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m. and ad- America. Pages S6215–28 journed at 7:10 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Au- During consideration of this measure today, Senate gust 4, 2015. (For Senate’s program, see the remarks also took the following action: of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on page By 53 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 262), three-fifths S6245.) of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate rejected the motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to Committee Meetings consideration of the bill. Pages S6227–28 (Committees not listed did not meet) Senator McConnell entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the VERIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT REPORT motion to proceed to consideration of the bill. Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded Page S6228 a closed hearing to examine the Joint Comprehensive Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act—Cloture: Plan of Action verification and assessment report, Senate began consideration of the motion to proceed after receiving testimony from members of the intel- to consideration of S. 754, to improve cybersecurity ligence community.

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Committee on Environment and Public Works: August 4, of Maryland, to be United States Director of the Euro- Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and pean Bank for Reconstruction and Development, all of Regulatory Oversight, to hold an oversight hearing to ex- the Department of State, 2:30 p.m., SD–419. amine litigation at the Environmental Protection Agency August 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- and Fish and Wildlife Service, focusing on impacts on the ine the implications of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of United States economy, States, local communities, and Action for United States policy in the Middle East, 2 the environment, 9:30 a.m., SD–406. p.m., SD–419. August 5, Full Committee, business meeting to con- August 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- sider S. 1324, to require the Administrator of the Envi- ine the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report, 10 a.m., ronmental Protection Agency to fulfill certain require- SD–419. ments before regulating standards of performance for new, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Au- modified, and reconstructed fossil fuel-fired electric util- gust 5, to hold hearings to examine reauthorizing the ity generating units, S. 1523, to amend the Federal Higher Education Act, focusing on opportunities to im- Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the National prove student success, 10 a.m., SD–430. Estuary Program, S. 1500, to clarify Congressional intent August 6, Full Committee, business meeting to con- regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or sider S. 799, to combat the rise of prenatal opioid abuse near navigable waters, S. 722, to extend the date after and neonatal abstinence syndrome, S. 1893, to reauthorize which interest earned on obligations held in the wildlife and improve programs related to mental health and sub- restoration fund may be available for apportionment, S. stance use disorders, S. 481, to amend the Controlled 1707, to designate the Federal building located at 617 Substances Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Walnut Street in Helena, Arkansas, as the ‘‘Jacob Trieber Act with respect to drug scheduling recommendations by Federal Building, United States Post Office, and United the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and with re- States Court House’’, S. 1147, to designate the Federal spect to registration of manufacturers and distributors building and United States courthouse located at 83 seeking to conduct clinical testing, and the nominations Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, as the ‘‘J. of Karen Bollinger DeSalvo, of Louisiana, to be an Assist- Waties Waring Judicial Center’’, S. 124, to amend the ant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathryn K. Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to deauthor- Matthew, of South Carolina, to be Director of the Insti- ize the Ten Mile Creek Water Preserve Area Critical Res- tute of Museum and Library Services for a term of four toration Project, H.R. 2559, to designate the ‘‘PFC Mil- ton A. Lee Medal of Honor Memorial Highway’’ in the years, W. Thomas Reeder, Jr., of Virginia, to be Director State of Texas, and other pending calendar business, 10 of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and Walter a.m., SD–406. A. Barrows, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Railroad Re- Committee on Finance: August 4, to hold hearings to ex- tirement Board for a term expiring August 28, 2019, 10 amine preserving families and reducing the need for foster a.m., SD–430. care, 10 a.m., SD–215. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: August 5, Full Committee, closed business meeting to August 4, to hold an oversight hearing to examine the consider pending calendar business, S–211, to be imme- Bureau of Prisons, focusing on first-hand accounts of diately followed by a business meeting to consider the challenges facing the Federal prison system, 10 a.m., nominations of Marisa Lago, of New York, to be a Dep- SD–342. uty United States Trade Representative, with the rank of August 6, Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Ambassador, and W. Thomas Reeder, Jr., of Virginia, to Federal Management, to hold hearings to examine agency be Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, progress in retrospective review of existing regulations, 9 10 a.m., SD–215. a.m., SD–342. Committee on Foreign Relations: August 4, to hold hear- Committee on the Judiciary: August 5, to hold hearings ings to examine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, to examine the Department of Justice’s legal obligation focusing on non-proliferation, inspections, and nuclear to ensure Inspector General access to all records needed constraints, 10 a.m., SD–419. for independent oversight, 10 a.m., SD–106. August 4, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- August 6, Full Committee, business meeting to con- ine the nominations of Ann Calvaresi Barr, of Maryland, sider S. 1814, to withhold certain Federal funding from to be Inspector General, United States Agency for Inter- sanctuary cities, and S. 32, to provide the Department of national Development, and David Malcolm Robinson, of Justice with additional tools to target extraterritorial drug Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary (Conflict and trafficking activity, and the nominations of John Michael Stabilization Operations), and to be Coordinator for Re- Vazquez, to be United States District Judge for the Dis- construction and Stabilization, Edwin Richard Nolan, Jr., trict of New Jersey, Wilhelmina Marie Wright, to be of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of United States District Judge for the District of Min- Suriname, John L. Estrada, of Florida, to be Ambassador nesota, and Paula Xinis, to be United States District to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and Scott Allen, Judge for the District of Maryland, 10 a.m., SD–226.

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Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: August Select Committee on Intelligence: August 4, to hold closed 6, to hold hearings to examine rising after disaster, focus- hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 3 p.m., ing on improvements and continuing challenges, 1 p.m., SH–219. SR–428A. House Committees No hearings are scheduled.

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Re´sume´ of Congressional Activity

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

DATA ON LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY DISPOSITION OF EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS January 6 through July 31, 2015 January 6 through July 31, 2015 Senate House Total Civilian nominations, totaling 272, disposed of as follows: Days in session ...... 111 104 . . Confirmed ...... 60 ′ ′ Time in session ...... 716 hrs, 15 533 hrs, 22 .. Unconfirmed ...... 205 Congressional Record: Withdrawn ...... 7 Pages of proceedings ...... 6,211 5,783 . . Extensions of Remarks ...... 1,204 . . Public bills enacted into law ...... 9 32 41 Other Civilian nominations, totaling 2,466, disposed of as follows: Private bills enacted into law ...... Confirmed ...... 1,834 Bills in conference ...... 2 2 . . Unconfirmed ...... 631 Measures passed, total ...... 245 330 575 Withdrawn ...... 1 Senate bills ...... 45 11 . . House bills ...... 38 212 . . Air Force nominations, totaling 4,897, disposed of as follows: Senate joint resolutions ...... 1 1 . . House joint resolutions ...... 1 3 . . Confirmed ...... 3,425 Senate concurrent resolutions ...... 8 5 . . Unconfirmed ...... 1,471 Withdrawn ...... 1 House concurrent resolutions ...... 13 15 . . Simple resolutions ...... 139 83 . . Measures reported, total ...... 168 233 401 Army nominations, totaling 1,708, disposed of as follows: Senate bills ...... 127 2 . . Confirmed ...... 552 House bills ...... 16 183 . . Unconfirmed ...... 1,156 Senate joint resolutions ...... House joint resolutions ...... 1 . . Senate concurrent resolutions ...... 1 . . . . Navy nominations, totaling 1,952, disposed of as follows: House concurrent resolutions ...... 3 . . Confirmed ...... 1,635 Simple resolutions ...... 24 44 . . Unconfirmed ...... 317 Special reports ...... 16 5 . . Conference reports ...... 1 1 . . Marine Corps nominations, totaling 1,064, disposed of as follows: Measures pending on calendar ...... 125 45 . . Measures introduced, total ...... 2,185 3,978 6,163 Confirmed ...... 1,061 Bills ...... 1,905 3,437 .. Unconfirmed ...... 3 Joint resolutions ...... 21 63 . . Concurrent resolutions ...... 20 71 . . Summary Simple resolutions ...... 239 407 . . Quorum calls ...... 6 1 . . Total nominations carried over from the First Session ...... 0 Yea-and-nay votes ...... 261 187 . . Total nominations received this Session ...... 12,359 Recorded votes ...... 301 . . Total confirmed ...... 8,567 Bills vetoed ...... 2 . . . . Total unconfirmed ...... 3,783 Vetoes overridden ...... Total withdrawn ...... 9 Total returned to the White House ...... 0

* These figures include all measures reported, even if there was no accom- panying report. A total of 109 written reports have been filed in the Senate, 239 reports have been filed in the House.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Tuesday, August 4 12 noon, Tuesday, August 4

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Tuesday: After the transaction of any Program for Tuesday: The House is scheduled to meet morning business (not to extend beyond one hour), Senate in a Pro Forma session at 12 noon on Tuesday, August will continue consideration of the motion to proceed to 4, 2015. consideration of S. 754, Cybersecurity Information Shar- ing Act. (Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for their respective party conferences.)

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