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Vol. 165 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2019 No. 43 House of Representatives The House met at noon and was Grand Island Public Schools actually than we can ever grasp, and as near as called to order by the Speaker pro tem- has partnered with the Career Path- the intake of our own breath. pore (Mr. KILDEE). ways Institute to offer courses on sub- Expose our stubborn bias that de- f jects ranging from business and mar- prives our life. Reconstruct relation- keting to human services and health ships to enliven joy in the work ahead. DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO science. Ignite our integrity and right-size us in TEMPORE Arnold High School’s only School our britches. Refuse our apathy with The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- House Graphic Products teaches stu- an outpouring of Your hope. Untangle fore the House the following commu- dents about technology, design, and our pride and pain, allowing room for nication from the Speaker: business, with the opportunity to earn Your truth to creep in and guide our WASHINGTON, DC, college credit through Mid-Plains Com- way. March 11, 2019. munity College. We make this prayer resting in the I hereby appoint the Honorable DAN- And Scottsbluff High School recently promise that we belong to You, and IEL T. KILDEE to act as Speaker pro launched its career academies, includ- thus to one another. tempore on this day. ing agriculture, business, and technical Amen. NANCY PELOSI, sciences. f Speaker of the House of Representatives. These are just a few of the home- THE JOURNAL f grown initiatives from across the State MORNING-HOUR DEBATE of Nebraska which are making a dif- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ference in the lives of Nebraskans, Chair has examined the Journal of the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- last day’s proceedings and announces ant to the order of the House of Janu- strengthening our workforce, and growing the economy. to the House his approval thereof. ary 3, 2019, the Chair will now recog- Pursuant to clause one, rule I, the nize Members from lists submitted by f Journal stands approved. the majority and minority leaders for RECESS f morning-hour debate. The Chair will alternate recognition The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE between the parties. All time shall be ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the equally allocated between the parties, declares the House in recess until 2 gentleman from Texas (Mr. WILLIAMS) and in no event shall debate continue p.m. today. come forward and lead the House in the beyond 1:50 p.m. Each Member, other Accordingly (at 12 o’clock and 2 min- Pledge of Allegiance. than the majority and minority leaders utes p.m.), the House stood in recess. Mr. WILLIAMS led the Pledge of Al- and the minority whip, shall be limited f legiance as follows: to 5 minutes. b 1400 I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the f United States of America, and to the Repub- AFTER RECESS lic for which it stands, one nation under God, NEBRASKA CAREER PROGRAMS indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The recess having expired, the House The SPEAKER pro tempore. The f Chair recognizes the gentleman from was called to order by the Speaker pro Nebraska (Mr. SMITH) for 5 minutes. tempore (Mr. KILDEE) at 2 p.m. CONGRATULATING CARUTHERS Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. Speak- f GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM er, I rise to highlight several efforts in (Mr. COX of California asked and was my Nebraska congressional district PRAYER given permission to address the House which prepare Nebraskans to join the Reverend Meg Peery McLaughlin, for one minute and to revise and ex- workforce and encourage entrepreneur- Burke Presbyterian Church, Burke, tend his remarks.) ship. Virginia, offered the following prayer: Mr. COX of California. Mr. Speaker, I I visited the New Heavy Equipment O God, our help in ages past, our hope rise today to congratulate the Operator Training program at the Has- for years to come, in You we live and Caruthers girls basketball team, our tings Campus of Central Community move and have our being. CIF Division V State Basketball Cham- College. It provides both training and Amid these public servants, gathered pions. hands-on experience with heavy con- to govern as they swore to do, we in- On Friday afternoon, despite playing struction equipment. voke Your presence, O God, greater a school with roughly four times the

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HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER MOBIL- give up.’’ During last week’s Homeland Secu- ITY DEMONSTRATION ACT OF I am proud to represent: Anna Mar- rity hearing, I asked Secretary Nielsen 2019 shall, Eshnoor Gasoj, Felicia Ramirez, about any recent significant seizures of Jacklyn Kulow, Kathleen Duran, Des- fentanyl at America’s borders. Sec- Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I move to tiny Giles, Jennyfer Balino, Paige retary Nielsen’s response was abso- suspend the rules and pass the bill Sterling, Aileen Cortez, Elvis Ponce, lutely frightening, as she informed the (H.R. 1122) to authorize the Secretary Jaque Magana, Malia Ishii, Mikayla committee that the amount of fentanyl of Housing and Urban Development to Duran, and Jasmine Torres. seized by ICE in the last year alone was carry out a housing choice voucher mo- I am excited to see their future vic- enough to kill every living American bility demonstration to encourage fam- tories and the success I know they will twice. ilies receiving such voucher assistance continue to have on the court and in This statistic should trouble each to move to lower-poverty areas and ex- pand access to opportunity areas. life. and every one of my colleagues. Con- The Clerk read the title of the bill. I ask my colleagues to join me in gress must take immediate action to The text of the bill is as follows: congratulating the Blue Raiders, our ensure law enforcement has all the nec- H.R. 1122 Division V California State Basketball essary tools to prevent illicit synthetic Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Champions. opioids from entering the country. resentatives of the United States of America in f My bill last Congress, the Stop the Congress assembled, Importation and Trafficking of Syn- RECOGNIZING USMC LANCE SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. thetic Analogues Act, would have ad- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Housing CORPORAL PLUNK dressed these issues, and I intend to re- Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act (Mr. WILLIAMS asked and was given introduce that bill in a similar legisla- of 2019’’. permission to address the House for tion form in the coming months. SEC. 2. HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER MOBILITY DEMONSTRATION. one minute.) Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I would (a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Housing join me in the critical effort to combat and Urban Development (in this section re- like to take this time to recognize a substance abuse and save American ferred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may carry out member of the United States Marine lives. a mobility demonstration program to enable Corps from the 25th District of Texas, f public housing agencies to administer hous- Lance Corporal Alyssa Joy Plunk. ing choice voucher assistance under section On December 20, 2018, a little over a ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 year into her enlistment, the U.S. Ma- PRO TEMPORE (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) in a manner designed to encourage families receiving such voucher rine Corps took notice of her impres- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- sive level of leadership and awarded assistance to move to lower-poverty areas ant to clause 4 of rule I, the following and expand access to opportunity areas. her the Navy and Marine Corps enrolled bill was signed by the Speaker (b) SELECTION OF PHAS.— Achievement Medal. on Friday, March 8, 2019: (1) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall es- During a training operation, she was S. 49, to designate the outstation of tablish requirements for public housing tasked with transporting a number of the Department of Veterans Affairs in agencies to participate in the demonstration people and cargo over 700 miles. Her re- North Ogden, Utah, as the Major Brent program under this section, which shall pro- vide that the following public housing agen- view stated that her superior pro- Taylor Vet Center Outstation. ficiency enabled her to negotiate chal- cies may participate: f (A) Public housing agencies that to- lenging conditions without any inci- gether— dents. RECESS (i) serve areas with high concentrations of She was awarded for the professional The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- holders of rental assistance vouchers under achievement she demonstrated during ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act this operation and for a job well done. declares the House in recess until ap- of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) in poor, low-oppor- I think it goes without saying that proximately 4 p.m. today. tunity neighborhoods; and (ii) have an adequate number of mod- the men and women who make up our Accordingly (at 2 o’clock and 7 min- Armed Forces are a unique bunch that erately priced rental units in higher-oppor- utes p.m.), the House stood in recess. tunity areas. embodies everything that is good about f (B) Planned consortia or partial consortia America. of public housing agencies that— They serve our country selflessly, b 1601 (i) include at least one agency with a high- and for that, I am eternally grateful. AFTER RECESS performing Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) I appreciate Lance Corporal Plunk’s program; and dedication to her country and am The recess having expired, the House (ii) will enable participating families to proud of all that she has already was called to order by the Speaker pro continue in such program if they relocate to achieved in a short amount of time. tempore (Mr. COX of California) at 4 the jurisdiction served by any other agency o’clock and 1 minute p.m. of the consortium. I am praying for her safety while she (C) Planned consortia or partial consortia is deployed and look forward to her re- f of public housing agencies that— turn. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT (i) serve jurisdictions within a single re- God bless the United States Marine gion; Corps. A message in writing from the Presi- (ii) include one or more small agencies; In God We Trust. dent of the United States was commu- and (iii) will consolidate mobility focused oper- f nicated to the House by Ms. Mariel Ridgway, one of his secretaries. ations. THE ONGOING OPIOID CRISIS (D) Such other public housing agencies as f (Mr. KATKO asked and was given the Secretary considers appropriate. (2) SELECTION CRITERIA.—The Secretary permission to address the House for ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE shall establish competitive selection criteria one minute.) for public housing agencies eligible under Mr. KATKO. Mr. Speaker, I rise The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- paragraph (1) to participate in the dem- today to bring attention to the role of ant to clause 8 of rule XX, the Chair onstration program under this section.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:31 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K11MR7.003 H11MRPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2619 (3) RANDOM SELECTION OF FAMILIES.—The (2) ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS.—The Sec- Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1122 would help re- Secretary may require participating agen- retary shall provide additional authority for duce barriers to mobility by estab- cies to use a randomized selection process to public housing agencies in a selected region lishing a demonstration program that select among the families eligible to receive to form a consortium that has a single hous- would enable and incentivize public mobility assistance under the demonstration ing choice voucher funding contract, or to program. enter into a partial consortium to operate housing agencies to come together to (c) REGIONAL HOUSING MOBILITY PLAN.— all or portions of the Regional Housing Mo- come up with a regional plan to in- The Secretary shall require each public bility Plan, including agencies participating crease mobility across their jurisdic- housing agency applying to participate in in the Moving To Work Demonstration pro- tions. the demonstration program under this sec- gram. This is a bipartisan proposal that was tion to submit a Regional Housing Mobility (3) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Any waiver or alter- included in HUD budget requests under Plan (in this section referred to as a ‘‘Plan’’), native requirements pursuant to this sub- the Obama administration. Further, which shall— section shall not take effect before the expi- $25 million in funding for this dem- ration of the 10-day period beginning upon (1) identify the public housing agencies onstration was included in fiscal year that will participate under the Plan and the publication of notice of such waiver or alter- number of vouchers each participating agen- native requirement in the Federal Register. 2019 funding bill for HUD programs, cy will make available out of their existing (f) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary may and a version of this bill passed the programs in connection with the demonstra- implement the demonstration, including its House last Congress 368 to 19. tion; terms, procedures, requirements, and condi- This demonstration will not only (2) identify any community-based organi- tions, by notice. provide thousands of families with op- zations, nonprofit organizations, businesses, (g) EVALUATION.—Not later than 5 years portunities to move to better neighbor- and other entities that will participate under after implementation of the regional housing mobility programs under the demonstration hoods, but it will also lay the founda- the Plan and describe the commitments for tion for how successful outcomes can such participation made by each such entity; program under this section, the Secretary (3) identify any waivers or alternative re- shall submit to the Congress and publish in be replicated at a larger scale across quirements requested for the execution of the Federal Register a report evaluating the the country. the Plan; effectiveness of the strategies pursued under I congratulate the gentleman from (4) identify any specific actions that the the demonstration, subject to the avail- Missouri (Mr. CLEAVER) and the gen- public housing agencies and other entities ability of funding to conduct the evaluation. tleman from Wisconsin (Mr. DUFFY) for will undertake to accomplish the goals of the Through official websites and other methods, introducing this initiative. demonstration, which shall include a com- the Secretary shall disseminate interim find- Mr. Speaker, I urge all Members to prehensive approach to enable a successful ings as they become available, and shall, if promising strategies are identified, notify vote ‘‘yes’’ on H.R. 1122, and I reserve transition to opportunity areas and may in- the balance of my time. clude counseling and continued support for the Congress of the amount of funds that families; would be required to expand the testing of Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I (5) specify the criteria that the public these strategies in additional types of public yield myself such time as I may con- housing agencies would use to identify op- housing agencies and housing markets. sume. portunity areas under the plan; The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. (6) provide for establishment of priority ant to the rule, the gentlewoman from 1122, the Housing Choice Voucher Mo- and preferences for participating families, California (Ms. WATERS) and the gen- bility Demonstration Act of 2019. including a preference for families with tleman from Missouri (Mr. LUETKE- As currently administered, housing young children, as such term is defined by MEYER) each will control 20 minutes. vouchers often are insufficient in help- the Secretary, based on regional housing ing American families get access to needs and priorities; and The Chair recognizes the gentle- (7) comply with any other requirements es- woman from California. neighborhoods with greater opportuni- tablished by the Secretary. GENERAL LEAVE ties. That is why H.R. 1122 is so impor- (d) FUNDING FOR MOBILITY-RELATED SERV- Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I ask tant. ICES.— unanimous consent that all Members A strong body of research shows that (1) USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE FEES.—Public may have 5 legislative days in which to growing up in a safe, lower-poverty housing agencies participating in the dem- revise and extend their remarks on this neighborhood with good schools im- onstration program under this section may legislation and to insert extraneous proves children’s academic achieve- use administrative fees under section 8(q) of material thereon. ment and long-term chances of success, the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 and may reduce intergenerational pov- U.S.C. 1437f(q)), their administrative fee re- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there serves, and funding from private entities to objection to the request of the gentle- erty. provide mobility-related services in connec- woman from California? A recent groundbreaking Harvard tion with the demonstration program, in- There was no objection. study found that young children in cluding services such as counseling, port- Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield families who used housing vouchers to ability coordination, landlord outreach, se- myself such time as I may consume. move to better neighborhoods fared curity deposits, and administrative activi- Mr. Speaker, rigorous studies have much better as young adults than simi- ties associated with establishing and oper- demonstrated that giving a low-income lar children who remained in ex- ating regional mobility programs. family an opportunity to move to a tremely poor neighborhoods. (2) USE OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE FUNDS.— The Harvard study found that young Public housing agencies participating in the lower-poverty neighborhood can have a demonstration under this section may use profound impact, particularly for chil- boys and girls in families who use a housing assistance payments funds under dren. voucher to move to lower-poverty section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act For example, one study found that neighborhoods were 32 percent more of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for security depos- young boys and girls in families that likely to attend college and earned 31 its if necessary to enable families to lease used a voucher to move to lower-pov- percent more as young adults than units with vouchers in designated oppor- erty neighborhoods were 32 percent their counterparts in families who did tunity areas. more likely to attend college and not receive an MTO voucher. Girls in (e) WAIVERS; ALTERNATIVE REQUIRE- earned 31 percent more, or nearly $3,500 families who moved to lower-poverty MENTS.— a year, compared to their counterparts neighborhoods were also 30 percent less (1) WAIVERS.—To allow for public housing agencies to implement and administer their in families who did not receive a likely to be single parents as adults. Regional Housing Mobility Plans, the Sec- voucher. And let us not forget that location retary may waive or specify alternative re- Unfortunately, families with housing also affects adults in many ways, such quirements for the following provisions of choice vouchers who want to move to a as access to jobs, the cost of getting to the United States Housing Act of 1937: better neighborhood can face signifi- work, the feasibility of balancing child (A) Sections 8(o)(7)(A) and 8(o)(13)(E)(i) (re- cant challenges, particularly if it in- care responsibilities with work sched- lating to the term of a lease and mobility re- volves moving from one public housing ules, and other basic goods and serv- quirements). agency jurisdiction to another. In fact, ices. (B) Section 8(o)(13)(C)(i) (relating to the public housing plan for an agency). data shows that only one in eight fami- Voucher mobility is key to enabling (C) Section 8(r)(2) (relating to the responsi- lies with children with a housing families with children to move to safer bility of a public housing agency to admin- choice voucher use their vouchers to neighborhoods with less poverty, there- ister ported assistance). live in lower-poverty areas. by enhancing their chances of long-

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H.R. 1122 will allow more fam- of my time. families and communities. ilies to thrive by increasing their ac- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Mr. Speaker, I urge passage of H.R. cess to higher performing schools, em- question is on the motion offered by 1122, and I reserve the balance of my ployment opportunities, fresh and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. time. affordably priced foods, and safe play- WATERS) that the House suspend the Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 grounds. rules and pass the bill, H.R. 1122. minutes to the gentleman from Mis- There is something about homeown- The question was taken. The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the souri (Mr. CLEAVER), the chair of the ership or living in a nice neighborhood. opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being Subcommittee on National Security, Our family was able to move out. My in the affirmative, the ayes have it. International Development and Mone- father bought a house in a White neigh- Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, on that I tary Policy. borhood where we could not live and demand the yeas and nays. Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, this had it moved at night from the Mid- The yeas and nays were ordered. piece of legislation is particularly sig- western Parkway to Gerald Street, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- nificant to me. I lived in public housing where my father lives today. And, my ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- for 5 years. I saw what the possibilities goodness, I wish the world could see ceedings on this motion will be post- were there. I saw people who did not what transpired. poned. make it, and I saw people who did made My father’s yard is in contention f it. with any yard in town for the yard of The one thing that I found difficult the summer. We had a water shortage FEDERAL RESERVE SUPERVISION to accept was the fact that if you lived in Texas—we had a drought, a serious TESTIMONY CLARIFICATION ACT in public housing, almost every rule drought 38 years ago—and my father Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I move to made was designed, unintentionally, to would get up at 3 a.m. in the morning suspend the rules and pass the bill keep you in public housing. to trick the city people who would (H.R. 974) to amend the Federal Re- My father didn’t tell the truth about come out checking to see if anybody serve Act to require the Vice Chairman the fact that he was cleaning up at an was violating the water ordinance by for Supervision of the Board of Gov- office building on Saturday earning watering his lawn at 2, 3, or 4 a.m. in ernors of the Federal Reserve System some additional money and then serv- the morning. to provide a written report, and for ing at parties on the weekends. He had While I am confessing my father other purposes, as amended. to pretend that that didn’t happen be- broke the law, the truth of the matter The Clerk read the title of the bill. cause he was saving money trying to is that it pleased me because we had The text of the bill is as follows: get our family in our own home. And it never had a yard in my life until we H.R. 974 worked. He is watching C–SPAN right were able to get out of public housing. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- now, hearing his son talk about what resentatives of the United States of America in So not only does it give the children an Congress assembled, could have happened. opportunity for a higher achievement The essence of this bill was passed as SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. educationally, but it also does some- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Re- a part of the appropriations package thing for the homeowner. serve Supervision Testimony Clarification that was signed into law earlier this This bill removes barriers, and I am Act’’. year. It promotes housing mobility for supportive of that. SEC. 2. VICE CHAIRMAN FOR SUPERVISION RE- individuals who rely on housing vouch- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The PORT REQUIREMENT. ers. time of the gentleman has expired. Paragraph (12) of section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 247b) is amended— Under this bill, the Department of Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield an Housing and Urban Development would (1) by redesignating such paragraph as additional 1 minute to the gentleman paragraph (11); and establish a demonstration program to from Missouri. (2) in such paragraph— allow interested public housing agen- Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, I thank (A) by striking ‘‘shall appear’’ and insert- cies to form consortia to enhance mo- my colleague, friend, and former neigh- ing ‘‘shall provide written testimony and ap- bility and provide residents with in- bor, SEAN DUFFY, who worked with me pear’’; and creased opportunity to move to higher- on this bill. And I also thank the chair (B) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘If, income communities. and the ranking member of the com- at the time of any appearance described in There is something contagious about this paragraph, the position of Vice Chair- mittee for their continued support. man for Supervision is vacant, the Chairman working around only poor people. If With this, I am hopeful that we can you live in a neighborhood and all you or their designee shall appear instead and continue working across the aisle to provide the required written testimony.’’. see are people who are struggling, it is promote housing opportunity for all of SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EF- easy to come to the conclusion that our constituents. FECTS. that is the way life is: that you are just Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I The budgetary effects of this Act, for the supposed to struggle and that you are reiterate my support for the bill. purpose of complying with the Statutory just supposed to barely make it. If you Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be deter- I thank Mr. CLEAVER for his personal mined by reference to the latest statement don’t see the signs of people who are testimony today. It was very compel- making progress—people who are titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legisla- ling. It is a tremendous story of suc- tion’’ for this Act, submitted for printing in achieving—you might come to the con- cess in the use of these things and how the Congressional Record by the Chairman of clusion that achievement is beyond changing our neighborhoods can really the House Budget Committee, provided that one’s reach. be helpful. such statement has been submitted prior to This was demonstrated with a re- Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance the vote on passage. search project from Harvard econo- of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- mists Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, ant to the rule, the gentlewoman from b 1615 and Lawrence Katz which indicates California (Ms. WATERS) and the gen- that children who move to higher-op- Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I am tleman from Missouri (Mr. LUETKE- portunity neighborhoods increase their pleased that we were able to work in a MEYER) each will control 20 minutes. chances of success. More specifically, bipartisan manner on this initiative. The Chair recognizes the gentle- the study found that children who were This bill shows that we can foster new woman from California. able to use housing vouchers to move ideas and help improve services and GENERAL LEAVE to lower-poverty areas were 32 percent flexibility for our citizens who are re- Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I ask more likely to attend college and ceiving housing assistance. unanimous consent that all Members

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:31 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K11MR7.007 H11MRPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2621 may have 5 legislative days within The issues overseen by this position port the efforts of the sponsors to in- which to revise and extend their re- are of high importance to the Amer- crease accountability and trans- marks on this legislation and to insert ican people and our financial system. It parency. extraneous material thereon. is crucial that we have the ability to I want to thank the gentleman from The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there hear testimony and ask questions of Missouri (Mr. LUETKEMEYER) for his en- objection to the request of the gentle- the Federal Reserve on these com- gagement on the bill and, again, urge woman from California? plicated issues. my colleagues to join me in supporting There was no objection. I would like to thank Congressman this important legislation, H.R. 974. Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield GOTTHEIMER for sponsoring and Con- Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance myself such time as I may consume. gressman LUCAS for cosponsoring this of my time. Mr. Speaker, this is a very straight- much-needed legislation. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The forward piece of legislation. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to question is on the motion offered by It clarifies that the Vice Chairman support this legislation. the gentlewoman from California (Ms. for Supervision is required to provide Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the WATERS) that the House suspend the testimony along with his appearance gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. rules and pass the bill, H.R. 974, as before the committee. LUCAS). amended. Additionally, if the position is va- Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I am here The question was taken; and (two- cant, the bill makes clear that the today to tell my colleagues about H.R. thirds being in the affirmative) the Chair of the Board shall appear and 974 and urge they pass it. rules were suspended and the bill, as provide testimony on supervision and This is a bill about congressional amended, was passed. regulation efforts. oversight, pure and simple. As this A motion to reconsider was laid on I think it makes good sense to codify body knows, Dodd-Frank gave the Fed- the table. who at the Board will testify before eral Reserve greater regulatory author- f Congress on the status of the Fed’s su- ity and established the Vice Chairman pervisory efforts regardless of whether for Supervision position to oversee FINCEN IMPROVEMENT ACT OF there is a person confirmed for the Vice those efforts; but the first confirmed 2019 Chairman for Supervision or not. appointee to that position took office Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I move to When Congress passed the Dodd- in 2017, a full 7 years after Dodd-Frank. suspend the rules and pass the bill Frank Wall Street Reform and Con- During that time, Congress received (H.R. 1414) to amend the duties of the sumer Protection Act, it created the minimal testimony on regulatory Financial Crimes Enforcement Net- position of Vice Chairman for Super- issues from the Fed. Typically, other work (FinCEN) to ensure FinCEN vision so that there was one Fed Board officials who didn’t oversee the regu- works with Tribal law enforcement Governor who was responsible for en- latory efforts gave testimony in this agencies, protects against all forms of suring robust rules for the Nation’s regard. But the key point is, Dodd- terrorism, and focuses on virtual cur- largest financial institutions. Frank requires only the Vice Chairman rencies. We now have a Vice Chairman for Su- for Supervision to give that testimony. The Clerk read the title of the bill. pervision at the Fed, but the position While we are grateful that other Fed- The text of the bill is as follows: had previously been vacant since its eral officials decided to speak to Con- H.R. 1414 creation in 2010, so it is helpful to clar- gress on regulatory issues, they didn’t Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- ify how Congress will continue to be in- have to, under the law. resentatives of the United States of America in formed about developments at the Fed. I introduced this bill last Congress as Congress assembled, This bill already passed the House a way to prevent that situation from SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. last year on a voice vote. arising ever again. Under the bill, if This Act may be cited as the ‘‘FinCEN Im- I thank the gentleman from New Jer- there is no Vice Chairman for Super- provement Act of 2019’’. sey (Mr. GOTTHEIMER) and the gen- vision, either the Fed Chair or their SEC. 2. FINDINGS. tleman from Oklahoma (Mr. LUCAS) for designee will be required to give an- The Congress finds the following: introducing this legislation. nual testimony on regulatory matters. (1) The mission of the Financial Crimes I urge all Members to vote ‘‘yes’’ on It is that simple. As a result, this bill Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is to safe- H.R. 974. guard the financial system from illicit use passed unanimously out of the Finan- and combat money laundering and promote Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of cial Services Committee last Congress. national security through the collection, my time. As I said, this bill is about the over- analysis, and dissemination of financial in- Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I sight authority of Congress and the telligence and strategic use of financial au- yield myself such time as I may con- other constituents we represent. thorities. sume. It remains vitally important that we (2) In its mission to safeguard the financial Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. and our Senate friends hear from system from the abuses of financial crime, 974, the Federal Reserve Supervision knowledgeable regulatory officials at including terrorist financing, money laun- Testimony Clarification Act, an impor- these agencies, particularly when these dering and other illicit activity, the United States should prioritize working with part- tant bipartisan bill that will provide regulations have a large effect on the ners in Federal, State, local, Tribal, and for- Congress greater oversight of regula- capital money markets; otherwise, our eign law enforcement authorities. tion and supervision at the Federal Re- constituents will become even more (3) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has serve. distrustful of government. stated that since the terror attacks on Sep- The Vice Chairman for Supervision of Transparency is key. In fact, it is one tember 11, 2001, ‘‘The threat landscape has the Federal Reserve exercises and over- of the largest responsibilities of the expanded considerably, though it is impor- sees the Board’s supervisory and regu- Members of Congress. This promotes tant to note that the more traditional threat latory authority over a variety of fi- that responsibility and, thus, deserves posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates is still nancial institutions and activities. present and active. The threat of domestic to be passed. terrorism also remains persistent overall, This role is imperative to promote a Mr. Speaker, I appreciate Mr. with actors crossing the line from First safe, sound, and stable financial system GOTTHEIMER’s willingness to bring this Amendment protected rights to committing that supports the growth and stability bill to the floor. I thank the chair- crimes to further their political agenda.’’. of the U.S. economy. woman and the ranking member for (4) Although the use and trading of virtual This bill before us today will ensure supporting this bill. I hope my col- currencies are legal practices, some terror- that the Federal Reserve will come leagues will follow this example and ists and criminals, including international forth and testify before Congress on vote in favor. criminal organizations, seek to exploit issues relating to the supervision of fi- Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I vulnerabilities in the global financial system and are increasingly using emerging pay- nancial institutions, giving added yield back the balance of my time. ment methods such as virtual currencies to transparency to the American people, Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I am move illicit funds. as well as increasing the Fed’s account- pleased with the bipartisan cooperation (5) In carrying out its mission, FinCEN ability. shown by this legislation and fully sup- should prioritize all forms of terrorism and

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Federal, State, local, and foreign law en- ists are equally as dangerous as inter- H.R. 1414 also strengthens FinCEN by forcement agencies’’ and inserting ‘‘appro- national terrorist organizations, if not ensuring cooperation with Tribal law priate Federal, State, local, Tribal, and for- more. enforcement agencies and the eign law enforcement agencies’’; and In fact, a survey of 382 law enforce- prioritization of virtual currencies. (B) in clause (vi), by striking ‘‘to protect ment agencies, conducted with the Po- against international terrorism’’ and insert- lice Executive Research Forum with b 1630 ing ‘‘to protect against terrorism’’; funding from the National Institute of Illicit actors have been found to be (2) in paragraph (E), by striking ‘‘appro- Justice, found that 74 percent of the using virtual currencies because of priate Federal, State, local, and foreign law their ability to provide anonymity. enforcement authorities’’ and inserting ‘‘ap- law enforcement agencies reported propriate Federal, State, local, Tribal, and antigovernment extremism, such as Some virtual currencies have been foreign law enforcement authorities’’; sovereign citizen extremism, as one of shown to frustrate law enforcement’s (3) in paragraph (F), by striking ‘‘Federal, the top terrorist threats in their juris- efforts to link transactions to people or State, local, and foreign law enforcement’’ dictions. This part of the bill will en- IP addresses. and inserting ‘‘Federal, State, local, Tribal, sure that a proper focus be paid to all It is for this exact reason that and foreign law enforcement’’; and forms of terrorism. FinCEN needs to be able to allocate re- (4) in paragraph (H), by striking ‘‘anti-ter- Additionally, this bill will require sources and manpower to investigate rorism and anti-money laundering initia- FinCEN to work with foreign financial and thwart instances of terrorism that tives, and similar efforts’’ and inserting intelligence units on anti-money laun- ‘‘anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering involve all forms of virtual currencies. initiatives, including matters involving dering and counter terror financing ini- Mr. Speaker, it is our sworn duty to emerging technologies or value that sub- tiatives with respect to emerging tech- protect the American people, and H.R. stitutes for currency, and similar efforts’’. nologies such as cryptocurrencies, 1414 allows FinCEN to adapt its inves- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- which are increasingly used by terror- tigative abilities to prevent terrorism ant to the rule, the gentlewoman from ists and transnational criminals. in our digital age. California (Ms. WATERS) and the gen- As the threat environment has Again, I thank Ms. WEXTON and Mr. tleman from Missouri (Mr. LUETKE- changed with the birth and prominence RIGGLEMAN for their leadership, and I MEYER) each will control 20 minutes. of cryptocurrencies, online market- urge my colleagues to support this bi- The Chair recognizes the gentle- places, and the dark web, FinCEN partisan legislation. woman from California. needs to coordinate with and support I reserve the balance of my time. GENERAL LEAVE our international partners that share Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I ask our common anti-money laundering/ minutes to the gentlewoman from Vir- unanimous consent that all Members counter terror financing goals. ginia (Ms. WEXTON). may have 5 legislative days within For these reasons, I am proud to sup- Ms. WEXTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank which to revise and extend their re- port this legislation, and I congratu- the chairwoman for yielding me the marks on this legislation and to insert late Congresswoman WEXTON and Con- time. extraneous material thereon. gressman RIGGLEMAN for introducing Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there this bill. 1414, the FinCEN Improvement Act, bi- Mr. Speaker, I urge all Members to objection to the request of the gentle- partisan legislation I introduced with vote ‘‘yes’’ on this important legisla- woman from California? my Financial Services Committee col- tion, and I reserve the balance of my There was no objection. league and fellow Virginian, Congress- Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield time. Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I man DENVER RIGGLEMAN. myself such time as I may consume. This is a practical bill that will help Mr. Speaker, the FinCEN Improve- yield myself such time as I may con- modernize the duties of the Financial ment Act is a bill that will strengthen sume. Crimes Enforcement Network, other- the Financial Crimes Enforcement Net- Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support wise known as FinCEN. The mission of work, FinCEN, our national security, of H.R. 1414, the FinCEN Improvement FinCEN is to safeguard the financial and our financial system. A form of Act. system from crimes or illicit use, such this bipartisan bill was introduced last This bipartisan piece of legislation as terrorist financing; combat money year with the exact same language, and passed the House by a voice vote last laundering; and promote national secu- it unanimously passed the House on Congress. I am happy to see that my rity through the collection, analysis, suspension by voice vote. colleague, Congressman RIGGLEMAN of Currently, FinCEN works with Fed- Virginia, has joined Congresswoman and dissemination of financial informa- eral, State, local, and foreign law en- WEXTON in reintroducing it this Con- tion and intelligence. forcement authorities in its anti- gress. H.R. 1414 would do three things to money laundering/counter terror fi- This is the first piece of cosponsored further their important mission. nancing objectives. Although Tribal legislation Congressman RIGGLEMAN First is in the area of investigation law enforcement is a strong partner in had on the floor, and the fact that it into terror financing. FinCEN is cur- fighting crime and safeguarding our focuses on terrorism speaks directly to rently authorized to combat inter- country’s national security, they are his past service in the Air Force and national terrorism but fails to mention not yet listed in the FinCEN statute his continued effort to protect the domestic terror activities. While inter- alongside their law enforcement part- American people from bad actors. Mr. national terror threats remain present ners. Speaker, I thank him and Congress- and relevant, the threat landscape has Though FinCEN voluntarily works woman WEXTON for leading this fight expanded considerably and also in- with Tribal law enforcement in these to protect the American people. cludes domestic terror groups that objectives, this legislation will make H.R. 1414 outlines how the terror commit crimes to further their agen- FinCEN’s assistance to Tribal law en- landscape in our post-9/11 world has ex- das. forcement mandatory. This bill will panded. H.R. 1414 will amend the FinCEN au- also amend FinCEN’s statute to pro- Now, we are tasked with protecting thorizing legislation to clarify its role tect against all forms of terrorism. As the American people not only from tra- in investigating and combating terror written, the underlying statute only ditional threats posed by groups like threats, be they foreign or domestic. requires the protection against inter- al-Qaida abroad, but also domestic ter- FinCEN is already doing important national terrorism. rorism, where crimes are committed on work to combat domestic terrorism, While the United States faces a seri- U.S. soil by both foreign and U.S. per- but the bill will clarify its role and cor- ous threat from foreign terrorist orga- sons. rect this oversight in the statute.

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H.R. 1414 will help FinCEN tantly, this bill clearly incorporates liable under this subchapter for maintaining combat emerging methods of financing cryptocurrencies and other emerging such account or transaction consistent with illicit activity, including the use of technologies that substitute for cur- the parameters of the request; and cryptocurrency. rency. ‘‘(2) no Federal or State department or Finally, the FinCEN Improvement As financial technology, or fintech, agency may take any adverse supervisory ac- Act builds on existing relationships evolves, so do the opportunities for tion under this subchapter with respect to with law enforcement partners by en- criminals to take advantage of the fi- the financial institution for maintaining suring that FinCEN has the authority nancial system. We must ensure that such account or transaction consistent with our law enforcement agencies have a the parameters of the request. to work not only with Federal, State, ‘‘(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in and local law enforcement, but also clear directive from Congress to take this section may be construed— with Tribal law enforcement across the on all challenges and risks facing our ‘‘(1) from preventing a Federal or State de- country. financial system. partment or agency from verifying the valid- I am proud to cosponsor this bill, Mr. Mr. Speaker, today, I ask all my col- ity of a written request described under sub- Speaker, and I urge our colleagues to leagues in the people’s House to join section (a) with the Federal, State, Tribal, or support it. me and Ms. WEXTON by voting in favor local law enforcement agency making the Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I of this legislation. written request; or ‘‘(2) to relieve a financial institution from yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to complying with any reporting requirements, Virginia (Mr. RIGGLEMAN), one of our including the reporting of suspicious trans- outstanding freshmen from the fresh- close. I reserve the balance of my time. actions under section 5318(g). man class of this past fall. Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I ‘‘(c) LETTER TERMINATION DATE.—For pur- Mr. RIGGLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, reiterate my support for H.R. 1414, the poses of this section, any written request de- today, I am proud to rise in support as FinCEN Improvement Act, and I yield scribed under subsection (a) shall include a the lead Republican sponsor of H.R. back the balance of my time. termination date after which such request Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I am shall no longer apply.’’. 1414, the FinCEN Improvement Act of (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of pleased that Ms. WEXTON and Mr. 2019. contents for chapter 53 of title 31, United I thank my colleague and fellow RIGGLEMAN have brought this issue to States Code, is amended by inserting after Member from the Commonwealth of the full House. It addresses key gaps in the item relating to section 5332 the fol- Virginia, Representative JENNIFER our efforts to fight financial crime, lowing: WEXTON, for her work on this legisla- something we all should support. ‘‘5333. Safe harbor with respect to keep open tion. This bill is a tangible example of I urge my colleagues to join me in letters.’’. what Congress can accomplish when we supporting this important piece of leg- SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EF- islation, and I yield back the balance of FECTS. put aside our differences and work to- The budgetary effects of this Act, for the gether. my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The purpose of complying with the Statutory FinCEN, or the Financial Crimes En- Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be deter- forcement Network, is a critical com- question is on the motion offered by mined by reference to the latest statement ponent of law enforcement, as the the gentlewoman from California (Ms. titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legisla- agency is charged with promoting na- WATERS) that the House suspend the tion’’ for this Act, submitted for printing in tional security by safeguarding our fi- rules and pass the bill, H.R. 1414. the Congressional Record by the Chairman of The question was taken; and (two- the House Budget Committee, provided that nancial system. thirds being in the affirmative) the such statement has been submitted prior to Terrorists, drug smugglers, human the vote on passage. traffickers, and other criminal actors rules were suspended and the bill was The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- are constantly innovating and creating passed. A motion to reconsider was laid on ant to the rule, the gentlewoman from new ways to exploit the system. Bad the table. California (Ms. WATERS) and the gen- actors know the current limitations of f tleman from Arkansas (Mr. HILL) each law enforcement and how to profit im- will control 20 minutes. mensely from our weaknesses as they COOPERATE WITH LAW ENFORCE- The Chair recognizes the gentle- are constantly developing their tactics, MENT AGENCIES AND WATCH woman from California. techniques, and procedures, or TTPs, ACT OF 2019 GENERAL LEAVE based on our security posture. Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I move to Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I ask It is FinCEN’s mission to cut the suspend the rules and pass the bill unanimous consent that all Members head off the snake and combat illicit (H.R. 758) to provide a safe harbor for have 5 legislative days within which to financing of these activities. This bill financial institutions that maintain a revise and extend their remarks on this will strengthen FinCEN in three key customer account or customer trans- legislation and to insert extraneous areas. action at the request of a Federal or material thereon. First, it strengthens FinCEN by codi- State law enforcement agency, as The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there fying the domestic responsibilities of amended. objection to the request of the gentle- combating illicit finance. We know all The Clerk read the title of the bill. woman from California? too well the danger international ter- The text of the bill is as follows: There was no objection. rorists pose, but it is equally impor- H.R. 758 Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield tant that we police criminal financial Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- myself such time as I may consume. activity domestically as well. By rein- resentatives of the United States of America in Mr. Speaker, H.R. 758 would strength- forcing FinCEN’s domestic mandate, Congress assembled, en cooperation between financial insti- we are sending a message to all Ameri- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. tutions and law enforcement agencies cans that we will not tolerate criminal This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cooperate to better detect, deter, and combat ter- activity either at home or abroad. with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch rorism and financial crimes. Second, this bill adds Tribal law en- Act of 2019’’. With respect to the Bank Secrecy forcement to the list of FinCEN part- SEC. 2. SAFE HARBOR WITH RESPECT TO KEEP Act anti-money laundering, referred to ners. By ensuring robust and com- OPEN LETTERS. as BSA/AML, supervisory actions, this (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter prehensive law enforcement partners, 53 of title 31, United States Code, is amended bill would carve out a narrow safe har- we are equipping the agencies charged by adding at the end the following: bor for financial institutions to keep a with safeguarding our financial system ‘‘§ 5333. Safe harbor with respect to keep customer’s account open at the written with the necessary tools and informa- open letters request of a law enforcement agency, tion to execute their mission. ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—With respect to a cus- including those at the Federal, State, Partnering with Tribal law enforce- tomer account or customer transaction of a local, and Tribal levels.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:31 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K11MR7.014 H11MRPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE H2624 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE March 11, 2019 This cooperation will enable law en- cial institutions. Under the Bank Se- port in the last Congress, a 55–0 vote in forcement agencies to follow the crecy Act and anti-money laundering the Financial Services Committee, a money in the bank accounts of terror- regulations, banks face strict rules for 379–4 vote on the House floor. ists, human traffickers, corrupt offi- managing accounts so that they cannot This bill creates a commonsense safe cials, and those involved with orga- facilitate money laundering, terrorism harbor from Bank Secrecy Act liability nized crime. financing, drug running, and other ille- for a bank that keeps an account open Of equal importance, the legislation gal activities. at the request of law enforcement. For provides an assurance to financial in- Sometimes, banks receive notices background, law enforcement agencies stitutions, clarifying that they will not from law enforcement agencies known sometimes send what are called keep be held liable for their cooperation and as keep open letters to encourage them open letters to financial institutions so collaboration with law enforcement in to keep an account open so that law that they can obtain critical evidence helping to thwart illicit finance. enforcement can monitor what they in investigations by following the I will note that law enforcement think to be and suspect to be criminal money. agencies are currently expected to pro- activity and track the payments for While following these law enforce- vide a written notice to financial insti- better monitoring. ment requests is optional, agreeing to tutions, requesting that the accounts I have heard recently from banks them does, in fact, create a technical of bad actors remain open to monitor that they are seeing an increase in the violation of the Bank Secrecy Act. transactions and build stronger crimi- number of keep open letters, many of This complicates the decision for a fi- nal cases. However, this practice does which can be attributable to new nancial institution that should be sim- not always happen and exposes finan- human trafficking investigations. Al- ple. This could, in fact, undermine our cial institutions to enforcement ac- lowing banks to keep these accounts efforts to prevent illicit finance or tions from their banking regulators. open will help stop these terrible money laundering. Banks should not be put in a position criminal actions. This bill will enhance the ability of to choose whether or not to help law Currently, if banks help law enforce- the law enforcement community to enforcement out of concern about regu- ment and comply with the keep open track funds in a criminal investigation, latory consequences. letter request, they face the risk of leading to better evidence and, hope- We simply cannot allow bad actors to being penalized by someone from the fully, conviction of criminals higher up launder money and finance terror same regulatory agency. This common- in the hierarchy. To be clear, nothing through our banks. H.R. 758 will en- sense bill supports those efforts by law in this bill takes away from financial courage financial institutions to main- enforcement by allowing financial in- regulators’ safety and soundness pow- tain a strong partnership with law en- stitutions to comply with such re- ers, and financial institutions still forcement. quests to maintain a suspicious ac- have to file SARs when they have a In the 115th Congress, this bill was count without being penalized in the keep open letter. unanimously approved by the Finan- middle of a bank exam. Under this bill, In addition, this bill requires that cial Services Committee. The House no Federal department or agency may the keep open letters have a definite passed the bill by a vote of 379–4. take an adverse supervisory action duration but does not preclude law en- I thank the gentleman from Arkan- with respect to the financial institu- forcement from sending subsequent let- ILL) and the gentleman from sas (Mr. H tion that is keeping the account open. ters to extend the period, should the Illinois (Mr. FOSTER) for introducing As the chairwoman said, last Con- investigation continue. this bipartisan piece of legislation. gress, this legislation unanimously This bill is a great example of how This bill is one example of our commit- passed out of our House Financial Democrats and Republicans can come tee’s efforts to fight terrorism, corrup- Services Committee and passed under together on a number of issues of com- tion, and financial crime. I urge all the suspension of the rules. The legisla- mon interest. Members to vote ‘‘yes’’ on H.R. 758. I tion was also included as a provision reserve the balance of my time. In a world in which criminals and last Congress in the JOBS 3.0 package. criminal organizations have access to Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I Chairman WATERS and former Chair- yield myself such time as I may con- increasingly sophisticated tools and man Hensarling made fighting illicit fi- technologies to carry out their crimi- sume. nance a priority for our committee. Mr. Speaker, first, let me thank nal activities, we should help financial Given the strong bipartisanship, I urge institutions in leveling the playing Chairwoman WATERS for her work on my colleagues on both sides of the aisle this bill. I am delighted the House is field to bring these criminals to jus- to support this measure. It will give tice. considering this important bill, H.R. law enforcement the tools it needs to This bill follows other commonsense, 758, which I have had the pleasure to prosecute bad actors who are exploit- bipartisan efforts that I have supported work on over the past year with my ing our financial system. to modernize our Nation’s ability to good friend from Illinois, Congressman I reserve the balance of my time. confront dangerous criminals and FOSTER. Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 criminal organizations. I recently in- As a former community banker, I minutes to the gentleman from Illinois troduced with Congressman KUSTOFF have dealt with the conflict of wanting (Mr. FOSTER). to help law enforcement agencies when the CONFRONT Act, which would re- receiving a keep open letter, but not b 1645 quire the Treasury Department to de- being able to because of the need to Mr. FOSTER. Mr. Speaker, I thank velop a national strategy to combat comply with the requirements set forth Chairwoman WATERS for yielding. the financial crimes of transnational by a regulator, frequently and often in Mr. Speaker, I would like to start by criminal organizations and individuals. the middle of a bank exam. thanking the chairwoman for bringing I am hopeful that this bill can also be Today, the overall purpose of this bill up this bipartisan bill today and for passed in the near future with simi- is to support law enforcement and re- maintaining bipartisan momentum in larly strong bipartisan support. duce money laundering and terrorist fi- the areas where bipartisan agreement This bill today is an important meas- nancing through our banking system. is achievable. Chairwoman WATERS and ure that allows financial institutions That is why, along with my friend Mr. her staff were instrumental in passing to effectively assist with combating FOSTER, I was pleased to introduce this bill in the last Congress and in- crimes such as money laundering and this, as the chairwoman said, narrow, cluding it in JOBS 3.0. illicit financing, and I urge my col- commonsense bill, which enables part- I would also like to thank my friend, leagues to support this bill. nerships without repercussions be- Congressman HILL, for working on the Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I tween law enforcement and our local fi- Cooperate with Law Enforcement have no further speakers on this side of nancial institutions. Agencies and Watch Act, the CLAW the aisle. This legislation allows law enforce- Act, with me. Mr. Speaker, in closing, I would just ment to monitor cash flows associated I am proud to support this bill, which simply urge, with the work done by Mr. with criminal investigations at finan- passed with very strong bipartisan sup- FOSTER and myself, and with thanks to

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To that end, my provide law enforcement more access ment. We have added nearly 200 new Budget requests $750 billion for na- to the critical information it needs and violent crime prosecutors across the tional defense, an increase of $34 bil- in a timely manner. United States. And last year, the De- lion, or 5 percent, from the 2019 enacted Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to partment of Justice prosecuted more level. The Budget funds the National join me in supporting this important violent crimes than ever before. As a Security Strategy and National De- piece of legislation, and I yield back result, violent crime is falling. fense Strategy, building on the major the balance of my time. My Administration is confronting gains we have already made through- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The the national security and humani- out the world. question is on the motion offered by tarian crisis on our southern border, Protecting our Veterans. Our Na- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. and we are accepting the moral duty to tion’s brave warriors and defenders de- create an immigration system that WATERS) that the House suspend the serve the best care America has to protects the lives and jobs of our citi- rules and pass the bill, H.R. 758, as offer—both during and after their ac- zens. This includes our obligation to amended. tive service. Last year, I signed into the millions of immigrants living in The question was taken. law the historic VA MISSION Act of the United States today who followed The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the 2018 to reform and transform the De- the rules and respected our laws. partment of Veterans Affairs opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being In the 20th century, America saved healthcare system into an integrated in the affirmative, the ayes have it. freedom, transformed science, and de- system for the 21st century. My Budget Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, on that I fined the middle class standard of liv- demand the yeas and nays. ing. Now we must write the next chap- fully funds all requirements for vet- The yeas and nays were ordered. ter of the great American adventure, erans’ healthcare services and provides The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- turbo-charging the industries of the fu- additional funding to implement the ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- ture and establishing a new standard of VA MISSION Act of 2018. Investing in America’s Students and ceedings on this motion will be post- living for the 21st century. An amazing Workers. To help protect taxpayer dol- poned. quality of life for all of our citizens is lars, my Budget continues my request f within reach. We can make our com- munities safer, our families stronger, to create an educational finance sys- THE BUDGET MESSAGE OF THE our culture richer, our faith deeper, tem that requires postsecondary insti- PRESIDENT—MESSAGE FROM and our middle class bigger and more tutions that accept taxpayer funds to THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED prosperous than ever before. have skin in the game through a stu- STATES (H. DOC. NO. 116–3) We are now addressing our challenges dent loan risk-sharing program. My The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- from a position of strength. My 2020 Administration will also continue to fore the House the following message Budget builds on the tremendous seek expanded Pell Grant eligibility for from the President of the United progress we have made and provides a high-quality, short-term programs in States; which was read and, together clear roadmap for the Congress to high-demand fields, so that students with the accompanying papers, referred bring Federal spending and debt under and workers can quickly gain valuable to the Committee on Appropriations control. We must protect future gen- skills at a more affordable cost and ob- and ordered to be printed: erations from Washington’s habitual tain family-sustaining jobs. We must deficit spending. create and invest in better opportuni- To the Congress of the United States: This year, I asked most executive de- ties for our Nation’s students and job In just over 2 years, together with partments and agencies to cut their seekers, while ensuring that we do so the American people, we have launched budgets by at least 5 percent. In addi- in a more efficient and effective man- an unprecedented economic boom. tion to reflecting those reductions, my ner. Since I was elected, we have created Budget invests in the following prior- Research for Childhood Cancers. more than 5 million new jobs, including ities: Many childhood cancers have not seen half a million manufacturing jobs. Securing our Borders and Protecting new therapies in decades. My Budget Nearly 5 million Americans have been our Sovereignty. As President, my initiates a new effort that invests $500 lifted off food stamps. Unemployment highest duty is the defense of our Na- million over the next 10 years to sup- is the lowest in nearly half a century. tion—which is why finishing the border port this critical life-saving research. African American unemployment, His- wall is an urgent national priority. All Defeating HIV/AIDS in America. The panic American unemployment, and who are privileged to hold elected of- HIV epidemic still plagues our Nation, Asian American unemployment rates fice must work together to create an with more than 38,000 Americans in- have all reached historic lows. Our Na- immigration system that promotes fected every year. In response, my tion is experiencing an economic mir- wage growth and economic oppor- Budget provides $291 million to the De- acle—and it is improving the lives of tunity, while preventing drugs, ter- partment of Health and Human Serv- all our citizens. rorism, and crime from entering the ices to defeat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We have achieved these extraor- United States. Immigration policy, The goal is to eliminate most new in- dinary gains thanks to historic tax like all policy, must serve the interests fections within 5 years (75 percent) and cuts and an unprecedented regulatory of Americans living here today—in- nearly all within 10 years (90 percent). reduction campaign, through cluding the millions of new Americans This initiative will focus efforts on di- unleashing American energy produc- who came here legally to join our na- agnosis, prevention, and treatment ef- tion, systematically fixing bad trade tional family. The American people are forts in the locations where intense deals, and remaining absolutely com- entitled to a strong border that stops transmissions of the virus are driving mitted to putting the needs of the illegal immigration, and a responsible the epidemic. American worker first. visa policy that protects our security Confronting the Opioid Epidemic. My My Administration worked with the and our workforce. My Budget con- Budget continues historic levels of Congress to pass unprecedented legisla- tinues to reflect these priorities, and I funding for our law enforcement, pre- tion to confront the opioid crisis, a look forward to working with the Con- vention, and treatment efforts to com- sweeping new farm bill, gress to finish the border wall and bat the opioid and drug addiction epi- groundbreaking criminal justice re- build a safe, just, and lawful immigra- demic. form, major investments to rebuild the tion system that will benefit genera- Supporting Working Families. Amer- military, and historic Department of tions of Americans to come. ica must also lead in supporting the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:51 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K11MR7.017 H11MRPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE H2626 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE March 11, 2019 families of our workforce so that they REPORT ON RESOLUTION PRO- Barraga´ n Ferguson Lipinski Bass Finkenauer Loebsack can balance the competing demands of VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF Beatty Fitzpatrick Lofgren work and family. My Budget includes a H. CON. RES. 24, EXPRESSING Bera Fleischmann Long one-time, mandatory investment of $1 THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT Bergman Fletcher Loudermilk billion for a competitive fund aimed at THE REPORT OF SPECIAL COUN- Beyer Fortenberry Lowenthal Bilirakis Foster Lowey supporting under-served populations SEL MUELLER SHOULD BE MADE Bishop (GA) Foxx (NC) Lucas and stimulating employer investments AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AND Bishop (UT) Frankel Luetkemeyer in child care for working families. My TO CONGRESS, AND PROVIDING Blumenauer Fudge Luja´ n Administration has also pledged to pro- FOR PROCEEDINGS DURING THE Blunt Rochester Fulcher Luria Bonamici Gallagher Lynch vide paid parental leave to help work- PERIOD FROM MARCH 15, 2019, Bost Garamendi Malinowski ing parents, and we are committed to THROUGH MARCH 22, 2019 Boyle, Brendan Garcı´a (IL) Maloney, F. Garcia (TX) Carolyn B. partnering with the Congress to enact Mr. DESAULNIER, from the Com- this important policy. Brady Gianforte Maloney, Sean mittee on Rules, submitted a privi- Brindisi Gibbs Marchant We must always strive to uphold our leged report (Rept. No. 116–17) on the Brooks (IN) Golden Marshall oaths to promote and protect the per- resolution (H. Res. 208) providing for Brown (MD) Gomez Mast sonal and economic freedoms the Con- Brownley (CA) Gonzalez (OH) Matsui consideration of the concurrent resolu- Buchanan Gonzalez (TX) McAdams stitution guarantees to us all. tion (H. Con. Res. 24) expressing the Bucshon Gooden McBath We must work together to renew the sense of Congress that the report of Budd Gottheimer McCarthy bonds of love and loyalty that link us Special Counsel Mueller should be Burchett Granger McCaul to one another—as friends, as citizens, Burgess Graves (GA) McCollum made available to the public and to Bustos Graves (LA) McEachin as neighbors, as patriots, and as Ameri- Congress, and providing for proceedings Butterfield Graves (MO) McGovern cans. during the period from March 15, 2019, Calvert Green (TX) McHenry My Budget reflects my Administra- through March 22, 2019, which was re- Carbajal Griffith McKinley tion’s commitment to these worthy Ca´ rdenas Guest McNerney ferred to the House Calendar and or- Carson (IN) Guthrie Meadows goals as it seeks to make the United dered to be printed. Carter (GA) Haaland Meng States of America wealthier, stronger, Carter (TX) Hagedorn Meuser safer, and greater for every American f Cartwright Harder (CA) Miller family and neighborhood. Case Hastings Mitchell ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Casten (IL) Heck Moolenaar DONALD J. TRUMP. PRO TEMPORE Castor (FL) Hern, Kevin Mooney (WV) THE WHITE HOUSE, March 11, 2019. Castro (TX) Herrera Beutler Morelle The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pro- Chabot Higgins (NY) Moulton f ceedings will resume on questions pre- Cheney Hill (AR) Mucarsel-Powell viously postponed. Chu, Judy Hill (CA) Mullin Cicilline Himes Murphy COMMUNICATION FROM THE Votes will be taken in the following Cisneros Holding Nadler CLERK OF THE HOUSE order: Clark (MA) Hollingsworth Napolitano Motions to suspend the rules and Clarke (NY) Horn, Kendra S. Neal The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- pass: Clay Horsford Neguse fore the House the following commu- Cleaver Houlahan Newhouse H.R. 1122, by the yeas and nays; and Clyburn Hoyer Norcross nication from the Clerk of the House of H.R. 758, by the yeas and nays. Cohen Hudson Norman Representatives: The first electronic vote will be con- Cole Huffman Nunes OFFICE OF THE CLERK, Collins (GA) Huizenga O’Halleran ducted as a 15-minute vote. Pursuant Collins (NY) Hunter Ocasio-Cortez HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, to clause 9 of rule XX, the second elec- Comer Hurd (TX) Olson Washington, DC, March 11, 2019. tronic vote will be conducted as a 5- Conaway Jackson Lee Omar Hon. NANCY PELOSI, minute vote. Connolly Jayapal Palazzo The Speaker, House of Representatives, Cook Jeffries Pallone Washington, DC. f Cooper Johnson (GA) Palmer DEAR MADAM SPEAKER: Pursuant to the Correa Johnson (OH) Panetta permission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER MOBIL- Costa Johnson (SD) Pappas of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa- Courtney Johnson (TX) Pascrell ITY DEMONSTRATION ACT OF Cox (CA) Jordan Payne tives, the Clerk received the following mes- 2019 Craig Joyce (OH) Pence sage from the Secretary of the Senate on Crawford Joyce (PA) Perlmutter March 11, 2019, at 2:14 p.m.: The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Crenshaw Kaptur Peters That the Senate passed S. 725. ant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfin- Crist Katko Peterson Appointment: ished business is the vote on the mo- Crow Keating Phillips Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excel- tion to suspend the rules and pass the Cuellar Kelly (IL) Pingree lence in Education Foundation Cummings Kelly (MS) Porter bill (H.R. 1122) to authorize the Sec- Cunningham Kelly (PA) Posey With best wishes, I am retary of Housing and Urban Develop- Curtis Kennedy Pressley Sincerely, ment to carry out a housing choice Davids (KS) Khanna Quigley CHERYL L. JOHNSON Davidson (OH) Kildee Raskin voucher mobility demonstration to en- Davis (CA) Kilmer Ratcliffe f courage families receiving such vouch- Davis, Danny K. Kim Reed er assistance to move to lower-poverty Davis, Rodney Kind Reschenthaler areas and expand access to opportunity Dean King (IA) Rice (NY) RECESS DeFazio King (NY) Rice (SC) areas, on which the yeas and nays were DeGette Kinzinger Richmond The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- ordered. DeLauro Kirkpatrick Riggleman ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair The Clerk read the title of the bill. DelBene Krishnamoorthi Roby declares the House in recess until ap- Delgado Kuster (NH) Rodgers (WA) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Demings Kustoff (TN) Roe, David P. proximately 6:30 today. question is on the motion offered by DeSaulnier LaHood Rogers (AL) Accordingly (at 4 o’clock and 58 min- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. DesJarlais LaMalfa Rogers (KY) utes p.m.), the House stood in recess. Deutch Lamb Rooney (FL) WATERS) that the House suspend the Diaz-Balart Lamborn Rose (NY) rules and pass the bill. Dingell Langevin Rose, John W. f The vote was taken by electronic de- Doggett Larsen (WA) Rouda vice, and there were—yeas 387, nays 22, Doyle, Michael Larson (CT) Rouzer F. Latta Roybal-Allard b 1830 not voting 22, as follows: Duffy Lawrence Ruiz [Roll No. 119] Duncan Lawson (FL) Ruppersberger AFTER RECESS Dunn Lee (CA) Rutherford YEAS—387 Emmer Lee (NV) Sarbanes The recess having expired, the House Adams Amodei Bacon Escobar Lesko Scalise was called to order by the Speaker pro Aderholt Armstrong Baird Eshoo Levin (CA) Scanlon Aguilar Arrington Balderson Espaillat Levin (MI) Schakowsky tempore (Mr. ESPAILLAT) at 6 o’clock Allen Axne Banks Estes Lewis Schiff and 30 minutes p.m. Allred Babin Barr Evans Lieu, Ted Schneider

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:51 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A11MR7.007 H11MRPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2627 Schrader Stefanik Vela´ zquez [Roll No. 120] Peters Scott, Austin Torres (CA) Schrier Steil Visclosky Peterson Scott, David Torres Small Schweikert Stevens Wagner YEAS—404 Phillips Sensenbrenner (NM) Scott (VA) Stewart Pingree Serrano Trahan Walberg Adams DeGette Kelly (MS) Scott, Austin Stivers Porter Sewell (AL) Trone Walden Aderholt DeLauro Kelly (PA) Scott, David Suozzi Posey Shalala Turner Walorski Aguilar DelBene Kennedy Sensenbrenner Takano Pressley Sherman Underwood Waltz Allen Delgado Khanna Serrano Taylor Quigley Sherrill Van Drew Waters Allred Demings Kildee Sewell (AL) Thompson (CA) Raskin Shimkus Vargas Watkins Shalala Thompson (MS) Amodei DeSaulnier Kilmer Ratcliffe Simpson Veasey Watson Coleman Sherman Thompson (PA) Armstrong DesJarlais Kim Reed Sires Vela Webster (FL) Sherrill Thornberry Arrington Deutch Kind Reschenthaler Slotkin Vela´ zquez Shimkus Timmons Welch Axne Diaz-Balart King (IA) Rice (NY) Smith (MO) Visclosky Simpson Tipton Wenstrup Babin Dingell King (NY) Rice (SC) Smith (NE) Wagner Sires Titus Westerman Bacon Doggett Kinzinger Richmond Smith (NJ) Walberg Slotkin Tonko Wexton Baird Doyle, Michael Kirkpatrick Riggleman Smith (WA) Walden Smith (MO) Torres (CA) Wild Balderson F. Krishnamoorthi Roby Smucker Walker Smith (NE) Torres Small Williams Banks Duffy Kuster (NH) Rodgers (WA) Soto Walorski Smith (NJ) (NM) Wilson (FL) Barr Duncan Kustoff (TN) Roe, David P. Spanberger Waltz Smith (WA) Trahan Wilson (SC) Barraga´ n Dunn LaHood Rogers (AL) Spano Waters Smucker Trone Wittman Bass Emmer LaMalfa Rogers (KY) Speier Watkins Beatty Soto Turner Womack Escobar Lamb Rooney (FL) Stanton Watson Coleman Bera Eshoo Lamborn Spanberger Underwood Woodall Rose (NY) Stauber Weber (TX) Bergman Espaillat Langevin Spano Van Drew Wright Rose, John W. Stefanik Webster (FL) Speier Vargas Beyer Estes Larsen (WA) Rouda Steil Welch Yarmuth Biggs Evans Larson (CT) Stanton Veasey Zeldin Rouzer Steube Wenstrup Stauber Vela Bilirakis Ferguson Latta Roybal-Allard Stevens Westerman Bishop (GA) Finkenauer Lawrence Ruiz Stewart Wexton NAYS—22 Bishop (UT) Fitzpatrick Lawson (FL) Ruppersberger Stivers Wild Amash Gosar Perry Blumenauer Fleischmann Lee (CA) Rutherford Suozzi Williams Biggs Green (TN) Roy Blunt Rochester Fletcher Lesko Sarbanes Takano Wilson (FL) Bonamici Fortenberry Levin (CA) Brooks (AL) Grothman Steube Scalise Taylor Wilson (SC) Bost Foster Levin (MI) Buck Harris Weber (TX) Scanlon Thompson (CA) Wittman Boyle, Brendan Foxx (NC) Lewis Cline Hice (GA) Yoho Schakowsky Thompson (MS) Womack F. Frankel Lieu, Ted Cloud Higgins (LA) Young Schiff Thompson (PA) Woodall Gaetz Massie Brady Fudge Lipinski Schneider Thornberry Wright Gohmert McClintock Brindisi Fulcher Loebsack Schrader Timmons Yarmuth Brooks (AL) Gaetz Lofgren Schrier Tipton Yoho NOT VOTING—22 Brooks (IN) Gallagher Long Schweikert Titus Young Abraham Hayes Sa´ nchez Brown (MD) Garamendi Loudermilk Scott (VA) Tonko Zeldin Brownley (CA) Garcı´a (IL) Lowenthal Byrne Johnson (LA) Swalwell (CA) Buchanan Garcia (TX) Lowey NAYS—7 Engel Meeks Tlaib Buck Gianforte Lucas Flores Moore Upton Amash Gosar Roy Gabbard Pocan Bucshon Gibbs Luetkemeyer Burgess Griffith Walker ´ Gallego Price (NC) Budd Gohmert Lujan Cline Massie Wasserman Burchett Golden Luria Grijalva Rush Schultz Hartzler Ryan Bustos Gomez Lynch NOT VOTING—20 Butterfield Gonzalez (OH) Malinowski Abraham Johnson (LA) Ryan b 1856 Byrne Gonzalez (TX) Maloney, Engel Lee (NV) Sa´ nchez Calvert Gooden Carolyn B. Messrs. HICE of Georgia, YOHO, and Flores Meeks Swalwell (CA) Carbajal Gottheimer Maloney, Sean Gabbard Moore Tlaib ´ WEBER of Texas changed their vote Cardenas Granger Marchant Gallego Pocan Upton from ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ Carson (IN) Graves (GA) Marshall Grijalva Price (NC) Wasserman Carter (GA) Graves (LA) Mast Hayes Rush Schultz So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Carter (TX) Graves (MO) Matsui tive) the rules were suspended and the Cartwright Green (TN) McAdams b 1906 bill was passed. Case Green (TX) McBath The result of the vote was announced Casten (IL) Grothman McCarthy So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Castor (FL) Guest McCaul tive) the rules were suspended and the as above recorded. Castro (TX) Guthrie McClintock A motion to reconsider was laid on bill, as amended, was passed. Chabot Haaland McCollum The result of the vote was announced the table. Cheney Hagedorn McEachin Stated for: Chu, Judy Harder (CA) McGovern as above recorded. Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Speaker, I missed the Cicilline Harris McHenry A motion to reconsider was laid on Cisneros Hartzler McKinley the table. vote on Roll Call No. 119. Had I been present, Clark (MA) Hastings McNerney I would have voted ‘‘Yea’’. Clarke (NY) Heck Meadows PERSONAL EXPLANATION Clay Hern, Kevin Meng f Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, had I been Cleaver Herrera Beutler Meuser present, I would have voted ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall COOPERATE WITH LAW ENFORCE- Cloud Hice (GA) Miller Clyburn Higgins (LA) Mitchell No. 119 and ‘‘nay’’ on rollcall No. 120. MENT AGENCIES AND WATCH Cohen Higgins (NY) Moolenaar f ACT OF 2019 Cole Hill (AR) Mooney (WV) REQUEST TO CONSIDER H.R. 962, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Collins (GA) Hill (CA) Morelle Collins (NY) Himes Moulton BORN-ALIVE ABORTION SUR- ant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfin- Comer Holding Mucarsel-Powell VIVORS PROTECTION ACT ished business is the vote on the mo- Conaway Hollingsworth Mullin tion to suspend the rules and pass the Connolly Horn, Kendra S. Murphy Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- Cook Horsford Nadler mous consent that the Committee on bill (H.R. 758) to provide a safe harbor Cooper Houlahan Napolitano for financial institutions that maintain Correa Hoyer Neal the Judiciary be discharged from fur- a customer account or customer trans- Costa Hudson Neguse ther consideration of H.R. 962, the action at the request of a Federal or Courtney Huffman Newhouse Born-Alive Abortion Survivor Protec- Cox (CA) Huizenga Norcross tion Act, and ask for its immediate State law enforcement agency, as Craig Hunter Norman amended, on which the yeas and nays Crawford Hurd (TX) Nunes consideration in the House. were ordered. Crenshaw Jackson Lee O’Halleran The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Crist Jayapal Ocasio-Cortez guidelines consistently issued by suc- The Clerk read the title of the bill. Crow Jeffries Olson The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Cuellar Johnson (GA) Omar cessive Speakers, and recorded in sec- question is on the motion offered by Cummings Johnson (OH) Palazzo tion 956 of the House Rules and Man- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Cunningham Johnson (SD) Pallone ual, the Chair is constrained not to en- Curtis Johnson (TX) Palmer tertain the request unless it has been WATERS) that the House suspend the Davids (KS) Jordan Panetta rules and pass the bill, as amended. Davidson (OH) Joyce (OH) Pappas cleared by the bipartisan floor and This is a 5-minute vote. Davis (CA) Joyce (PA) Pascrell committee leadership. The vote was taken by electronic de- Davis, Danny K. Kaptur Payne PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRIES Davis, Rodney Katko Pence vice, and there were—yeas 404, nays 7, Dean Keating Perlmutter Mr. BOST. Parliamentary inquiry, not voting 20, as follows: DeFazio Kelly (IL) Perry Mr. Speaker.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:51 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A11MR7.008 H11MRPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE H2628 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE March 11, 2019 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Congressman Hall was the first to first man on the Moon, who famously tleman will state his parliamentary in- reach out and offer his assistance when took a giant leap for mankind, said it quiry. I was first elected to the House of Rep- was because Ralph Hall was a giant to Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, is it not true resentatives. He helped me learn the our space program. Ralph Hall, he said, that under the Born-Alive Abortion ins and outs of Washington. No matter was a giant among men. Protection Act that infant survivors of the party affiliation or political lean- Mr. Speaker, to those on the floor abortion would receive lifesaving med- ing, Congressman Hall was a man who who knew Ralph Hall, thank you for al- ical care? could always be counted on and one lowing me to remember him for the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- who enjoyed a good joke. Representative that he truly was. And tleman has not stated a proper par- Congressman Hall was preceded in for those of you who did not have the liamentary inquiry. death by his wife, Mary Ellen Murphy privilege of serving with Ralph Hall, Mr. BOST. Parliamentary inquiry, Hall; sister, Rosemary Hall Scott; and thank you for letting me remember the Mr. Speaker. brother, Hugh Hall. He is survived by man who was the kind of Representa- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- his three sons—Hamp, Brett, and tive that we should all hope to be. tleman will state his parliamentary in- Blakeley Hall—and many wonderful When Ralph Hall passed away last quiry. grandchildren. Thursday at the age of 95, he left this Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, does an in- Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the entire Earth, went right past the Moon—and fant survivor of an abortion not de- Texas congressional delegation, I our loss became Heaven’s gain. serve the same care as other living would like to pay respects to Congress- Godspeed, Ralph Hall. human beings? man Hall for a life dedicated to his Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask all The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- family, his country, and his constitu- Members to rise and observe a moment tleman has not stated a proper par- ents. The Texas community will miss of silence to honor the extraordinary liamentary inquiry. him dearly, and we will be presenting life of Congressman Ralph Hall. Mr. BOST. One more parliamentary Congressman Hall’s family with a flag inquiry, Mr. Speaker. f that was flown over the Capitol today. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- b 1915 f tleman will state his parliamentary in- TRANSPARENCY IS CRITICAL quiry. PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE Mr. BOST. Will the Chair entertain a AND LEGACY OF THE HONOR- (Mr. GOTTHEIMER asked and was unanimous consent request to enter ABLE RALPH HALL given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) into the RECORD comments from Vir- (Mr. RATCLIFFE asked and was ginia Governor Ralph Northam about Mr. GOTTHEIMER. Mr. Speaker, I given permission to address the House first want to thank Chairwoman infanticide? for 1 minute.) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The WATERS and Congressman LUCAS for Mr. RATCLIFFE. Mr. Speaker, at age Chair will not provide an advisory working together on the Federal Re- 19, Ralph Hall jumped at the chance to opinion. serve Supervision Testimony Clarifica- join the Navy, to fly Hellcat fighters Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, if this unani- tion Act, which the House passed ear- during World War II in defense of this mous consent request cannot be enter- lier today. Nation. Seventy years later, at the age tained on H.R. 962, I urge the Speaker Transparency is critical, and my bi- of 89, he jumped again out of an air- and the majority leader to imme- partisan bill requires that Congress re- plane to honor America’s veterans on diately schedule the Born-Alive bill so ceives regular testimony regarding su- Memorial Day. we can stand up and protect the sanc- pervisory matters at the Federal Re- At age 11, Ralph Hall was working at tity of human life. serve Board. Congress has a clear re- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- the Rockwall, Texas, drugstore when sponsibility to ensure that the Federal tleman has not been recognized for de- he served two Coca-Colas, two packs of Reserve is operating in the best inter- bate. Old Gold cigarettes, and a stack of ests of the American taxpayer, and this newspapers to two customers known f bill will do just that. simply to the rest of the world as New Jerseyans deserve to know how PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE Bonnie and Clyde. Eighty years later, the Fed is regulating our financial in- AND LEGACY OF THE HONOR- at the age of 91, Ralph was still work- stitutions, and Congress needs to know ABLE RALPH HALL ing and serving the folks in Rockwall, how it can cut red tape and grow our (Ms. JOHNSON of Texas asked and in north Texas, as the oldest Member economy. But we can’t do that if the was given permission to address the ever to cast a vote in the history of the Fed doesn’t come to testify on its su- House for 1 minute.) House of Representatives. pervisory work. Ms. JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, From beginning to end, Ralph Hall My bill will help boost government I would like all members of the Texas lived one of the most extraordinary transparency and accountability for delegation to join me. and remarkable lives of anyone ever to the benefit of north Jersey and the rest Mr. Speaker, today I would like to serve in Congress. of the country. In his 34 years in this Chamber, recognize and pay tribute to the life f and legacy of former Congressman, fel- Ralph spent some of his time sitting low Texan, and a dear friend, Ralph over here as a Blue Dog Democrat. For HONORING BRYSON WATKINS Hall. some of his time he spent it sitting (Mr. BURCHETT asked and was given Congressman Hall served the people over there as a conservative Repub- permission to address the House for 1 of the great State of Texas for nearly a lican. Ralph liked to joke that was be- minute and to revise and extend his re- half century: 10 years as a Texas State cause ‘‘the Republicans never much marks.) Senator from the Ninth District, and 34 wanted me, and the Democrats never Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise years as a Member of the U.S. House of much liked me.’’ Neither of those was today to commend Bryson Watkins, a Representatives from Texas’ Fourth true, but it was that self-deprecating 13-year-old from Lenoir City in the District. He genuinely enjoyed public humor that made Ralph Hall beloved to Second Congressional District of Ten- service, and he was good at it as well. everyone who knew him. nessee, for his selflessness and quick Known throughout the Halls of Con- In the Science, Space, and Tech- thinking. gress as an effective legislator, Con- nology Committee room, Ralph Hall’s On February 13, Bryson saved an- gressman Hall made great legislative picture hangs alongside other past other young man’s life after receiving a strides in the science field and was a chairmen. But Ralph was the only message through social media. Bryson top advocate for the country’s space chairman to have Neil Armstrong, Buzz sprinted to inform a sheriff’s deputy, program during his time as both chair- Aldrin, Gene Cernan, and every then- and together, they initiated a response man and ranking member of the House living Apollo-era astronaut come to his by law enforcement. Science, Space, and Technology Com- home to celebrate one of his birthdays. In the aftermath of the event, mittee. When asked why, Neil Armstrong, the Loudon County Sheriff Tim Guider

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:51 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K11MR7.025 H11MRPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2629 honored Bryson with the Sheriff’s Cit- ratify the newly negotiated United Others, though, will remember his izen Lifesaving Award. States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. imposing stature and the respect he On behalf of the Second District, I USMCA is clearly better than commanded when entering the room. extend my appreciation for Bryson’s NAFTA was. Let’s be clear: That But he never wavered in his ability to actions. We should recognize Bryson doesn’t mean that it is perfect, but it be fair and honest, and to treat every- for his integrity, compassion, and ma- does mean that it is clearly better for one with that same level of respect. A turity. Not many 13-year-olds, Mr. our country. great leader of his community, Mr. Gill Speaker, have the wherewithal to en- President Trump and his administra- will be missed. counter a crisis situation and act so re- tion have made a number of much- His family and friends are in my sponsibly. He acted quickly and appro- needed improvements to that trading thoughts and prayers during this dif- priately. agreement. Let’s send a clear message ficult time. Bryson’s leadership in this situation that the United States and South Da- f speaks volumes of the values that his kota are open for business. parents had instilled in him and the Mr. Speaker, let’s get to work. VISION OF NATION CRAFTED IN community in which he was raised. f BUDGET His ability to work with local law en- SUPPORTING NATIONAL WOMEN (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was forcement is also a tribute to the dedi- VETERANS RECOGNITION WEEK given permission to address the House cation of the Loudon County Sheriff’s for 1 minute.) Department, Mr. Speaker, and I thank (Mr. LAWSON of Florida asked and Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, them all for their commitment to the was given permission to address the every year, the vision of this Nation is community. House for 1 minute.) crafted in the budget that is offered ei- Mr. LAWSON of Florida. Mr. Speak- f ther by the President or the United er, I rise to express support for a reso- States Congress. HONORING BARD HIGH SCHOOL lution I filed to honor the heroic As a member of the Budget Com- SCIENCE PROGRAM women who have dedicated themselves mittee, I am delighted that our theme (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given to serving our country with devotion will be ‘‘For the People.’’ But today, permission to address the House for 1 and distinction by designating March sadly, I think it is important to note minute and to revise and extend his re- 10 through March 16 as National that the President offered a budget marks.) Women Veterans Recognition Week. that disregarded the American people: Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise This observance would celebrate the $2.7 trillion in spending cuts coming today to congratulate the Bard High achievement of our female veterans from the very bases that make Amer- School Early College science faculty and raise awareness to the unique chal- ica the greatest country in the world; for their work to advance science, tech- lenges they face. 12 percent cutting in education, your Women are now the fastest growing nology, engineering, and math pro- children’s education; 12 percent cutting segment of the veteran community. grams for their students. healthcare from the Department of Approximately 2 million women in the Earlier this year, one of their teach- Health and Human Services; 11 percent ers, Maria Agapito, was only 1 of 35 United States are veterans. Florida hosts the Nation’s largest cutting from Interior, your parks and science teachers in the country who museums and monuments; 23 percent was selected by the Society for Science segment of population of women vet- erans, especially in Duval County, in cutting from diplomacy, from the and the Public to receive a $1,000 grant. State Department and international Ms. Agapito and other science teach- my district, which has the largest health; 32 percent from the Environ- ers will be using this grant to create a number of female veterans in the mental Protection Agency, the quality multiyear science program for student State. of water and air; and 22 percent to de- research. They will be able to use the I want to take this time to recognize crease mobility in this Nation, all funds to help buy equipment and mate- one of my distinguished staffers, Sher- these dollars coming from what we call rials, and for student projects. ry Barfield, who was recently recog- domestic spending, with increased Science teachers at Bard and public nized as one of the Northeast Florida spending in other areas where individ- schools across the country are doing Women Veterans Center’s 2019 Women uals are not protected. great things to help their students pre- Who Rock. We will protect the people. The For pare for an increasingly technological f the People budget will be designed by future. HONORING CARLTON GILL I am proud to represent such bright Democrats. students and passionate educators. (Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and f Mr. Speaker, I thank all of America’s was given permission to address the RECOGNIZING MAJOR GENERAL teachers in this country and wish them House for 1 minute and to revise and MICHAEL A. CALHOUN continued success. extend his remarks.) Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speak- (Mr. RUTHERFORD asked and was f er, I rise today to remember the life of given permission to address the House RATIFY NEWLY NEGOTIATED Mr. Carlton Gill, who passed away on for 1 minute and to revise and extend USMCA February 18 at the age of 78. his remarks.) (Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota His friends remember Mr. Gill as a Mr. RUTHERFORD. Mr. Speaker, I asked and was given permission to ad- man of many talents and an institution rise today to recognize the accomplish- dress the House for 1 minute and to re- in his hometown of Richmond Hill. ments and the retirement of Major vise and extend his remarks.) Both of these statements help to sum General Michael A. Calhoun, who has Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. Mr. up Mr. Gill but only serve to remind us faithfully served America for over 40 Speaker, since it is National Agri- of a portion of his character. years in numerous capacities, but most culture Week, I thought I would high- A formidable figure who played bas- recently as Florida’s Adjutant General light how important market access is ketball at both Georgia Southern Uni- for the last 4 years. to South Dakota. versity and the University of Georgia, General Calhoun began his service as Now, the numbers don’t lie. South his many talents included working as a a private in 1977, and then he secured Dakota is our Nation’s 10th largest ag procurement forester at S.A. Allen for his commission in the Medical Service exporting State. In fact, we send out $4 nearly 40 years, serving as a Bryan Corps. Throughout his distinguished billion of ag products every single year. County commissioner for five terms, career, he has served at every level of NAFTA deserves a lot of credit for worshipping at Compassion Christian command in the State and was de- that. In fact, our Nation at large ex- Church as a deacon, and much more. ployed overseas in support of Operation ports more than $38 billion every year For his work in guiding Richmond Iraqi Freedom, earning the respect and to Canada and Mexico. Hill through periods of significant confidence of all under his command. We need to keep that momentum growth, a nearby section of I–95 is During his time as Adjutant General, going, which is why this body needs to named in his honor. he responded to five named storms that

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She has served our tensively with General Calhoun, and I France, Ms. Johnson became the first Nation’s veterans well, and it is an can personally attest to his commit- woman to attend Winston-Salem State honor to recognize her today. ment to excellence and to the people of University on the GI Bill and dedicated f the State of Florida. over 30 years to teaching in Virginia VENEZUELA Despite the rapid pace of operations and North Carolina. over the past 4 years, General Calhoun Mr. Speaker, I commend and thank (Mr. GAETZ asked and was given per- never lost sight of his mission. Ms. Johnson for her legacy of lifelong mission to address the House for 1 Mr. Speaker, I thank him for his self- service to fellow Americans. minute and to revise and extend his re- marks.) less leadership and service, and I wish f him and his wife, Sophia, the best in Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Speaker, as I deliver their retirement. A grateful State and NATIONAL AGRICULTURE WEEK these remarks, the people of Venezuela Nation say thank you. (Mr. HAGEDORN asked and was are without food, water, medicine, and now even electricity. f given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend The organizing principle of American b 1930 his remarks.) policy seems to be the need to drive JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WORK Mr. HAGEDORN. Mr. Speaker, today, Maduro from power. What if Maduro is I rise to recognize National Agriculture not really in power right now? What if (Mr. COHEN asked and was given per- the people who are really calling the Week. mission to address the House for 1 shots in Venezuela are a group of I grew up on a grain and livestock minute.) transnational criminal organizations farm just outside of Truman, Min- Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I am proud that merely maintain Maduro as a fig- nesota, and have a deep appreciation to serve on the Judiciary Committee in urehead? And what if their entire pur- for agriculture and all it does for our the House and be the chairman of the pose is to draw the United States into rural communities. Our ag-based econ- Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil an ill-advised war to create a massive omy is so critically important to our Liberties Subcommittee. migration of people throughout Latin Nation and, of course, the State of I want to report to the American peo- America, eroding borders, jeopardizing Minnesota and southern Minnesota, ple that we passed out H.R. 1 that helps nation-states, and ultimately leading which is our First District. clean up corruption in our government, to a permissive environment for more The people in southern Minnesota makes our government more trans- illicit activity to occur? parent, makes voting easier and open really appreciate our ag producers, our These are important questions we to more people, and does other im- ag processors, our ag equipment deal- have to ask. My constituents have to provements the American people want. ers, and all the rest. I can tell you that go to Central and South America and We also passed out H.R. 8, the first in Minnesota’s First District, one of fight these wars. And certainly, as a gun reform bill in over 20 years that the top crop and livestock districts in Congress, we need to be very critical in says you have to have background all the country, we actually were num- our thinking to not get our Nation in checks on all sales. ber two for hogs in the entire Nation. another ill-advised war. This week, we will be marking up the Our First District is home to nearly f Violence Against Women Act. Hope- 20,000 farmers. Considering that each fully, we will have bipartisan support farm produces enough food to feed MOURNING THE TRAGIC LOSS OF for that. about 165 people, the reach of our farm- LIFE OF ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES We will also have a hearing on renew- ers goes throughout the United States CRASH ing the Voting Rights Act that never and all around the world. (Mr. LAMALFA asked and was given should have been discarded by the Su- Mr. Speaker, I look forward to com- permission to address the House for 1 preme Court. We will be having hear- memorating and talking about the minute and to revise and extend his re- ings to get the Voting Rights Act back value of agriculture and our farmers marks.) on the law books in the United States. during this week and throughout this Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, it is And our subcommittee had a hearing Congress. with great sadness I rise today to last week on the President’s powers on f mourn the tragic loss of life on Sunday morning as an Ethiopian Airlines jet emergency actions. We have bipartisan RECOGNIZING PATRICIA carrying 157 people crashed only 6 min- agreement that we need to reform that SINCAVAGE bill and will work together in a bipar- utes after takeoff. On board that flight tisan fashion. (Mr. SMUCKER asked and was given were people from 35 different countries, f permission to address the House for 1 including 8 U.S. citizens, with no sur- minute and to revise and extend his re- vivors. HONORING PRIVATE FIRST-CLASS marks.) This tragedy hits close to home for ELIZABETH JOHNSON Mr. SMUCKER. Mr. Speaker, Friday those of us from northern California. (Ms. FOXX of North Carolina asked was International Women’s Day and, Two of the eight Americans were from and was given permission to address today, I rise to recognize the service of my own district in Shasta County. the House for 1 minute.) a remarkable woman in my district: Melvin and Bennett Riffel, two broth- Ms. FOXX of North Carolina. Mr. Ms. Patricia Sincavage of Lititz, Penn- ers from Redding, California, were em- Speaker, during Women’s History sylvania. barking upon an adventure that had al- Month, we honor American women Ms. Sincavage has served as an occu- ready taken them through Australia whose exemplary lives have shaped the pational therapist at the Lebanon Vet- and Mogadishu before they arrived in country we love. erans Affairs Medical Center since 1978. Ethiopia. It has been said that this was In 1945, Private First-Class Elizabeth She joined the VA after graduating their last trip together before Melvin Johnson of Elkin, North Carolina, an- from Elizabethtown College. The Leb- was set to become a father, together swered the call to serve our country, anon VA serves about 80 percent of the with his wife Brittney, who had only becoming one of 855 women to form the veterans who reside in my district. recently returned home. 6888th battalion, the first and only all- She has spent the entirety of her pro- Our friends and neighbors in north- female and all-Black battalion in fessional career giving back to our vet- ern California share in the sadness and World War II. erans. Occupational therapy can assist grief that we all feel for their families, They were given the task of deliv- veterans in continuing to take care of and for all of the families who lost ering, in 1 year, a backlog of 1 year’s their health needs while still doing the loved ones that day on that plane.

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So I boarded that fateful flight that day. ars, 76 Medal of Honor winners, and am going to turn things upside down f countless numbers of the Fortune 500 here on the floor and go by seniority, CEO’s list, Cabinet secretaries, Gov- which means one of our newly elected 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF WEST ernors, Senators, and, for those who Members of Congress will get a chance POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRAD- didn’t do very well, Members of Con- to speak first. UATES gress. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under These men and women are connected from Tennessee (Mr. GREEN). the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- by ‘‘The Long Grey Line,’’ the affec- Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speak- uary 3, 2019, the gentleman from Illi- tionate reference to the unique ties er, in 1781, General George Washington nois (Mr. SHIMKUS) is recognized for 60 that bind all graduates. They are called the fortifications at West Point minutes as the designee of the minor- linked by their commitment to living the most important post in America. ity leader. and, at times, even dying in service of Holding West Point meant preventing Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I am the motto ‘‘Duty, Honor, Country.’’ the British from dividing the Nation happy to be joined by my colleagues But they are also connected through along the Hudson River Valley. who graduated from West Point, our the tireless work of an exemplary Following the war, President Wash- alma mater, and our colleague, who alumni association. For 150 years, the ington made numerous efforts to create represents the West Point community West Point Association of Graduates a military academy. His actual first ef- and the area. has fostered these connections by al- fort was within a year of becoming the Why are we talking about the acad- lowing generations of graduates to grip Commander in Chief. However, it fell emy today? Well, we are close to what hands with one another. to Thomas Jefferson to get it done and, we call our Founders Day, which is In some ways, the association is like in 1802, the United States Military March 17, but this is also a special other alumni associations, but like all Academy at West Point was founded as year. It is the 150th anniversary of the things West Point, it is much more. Association of Graduates, which keeps the Nation’s school to teach the art The association provides mentorship the alumni informed and connected and science of warfare. and fellowship for younger alums, but with our alma mater. Since its inception, West Point grad- The 150th anniversary will be May 22, often these alums are also returning uates have served to preserve our Na- 2019, so we thought we would come veterans who need a hand when they tion’s freedom in battle. From the down to the floor to talk about the ex- come back. Mexican wars to the war on terror, perience and the importance of the It supports local chapters across the West Point graduates have sacrificed military academies—of course, West country and around the world. But for their lives and their youth to win our Point being the oldest and the best—to a group as far-flung as West Point Nation’s wars. our Nation and its security. grads, these connections give graduates Off the battlefield, West Point grad- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman a sense of community when they are uates have served at the very highest from New York (Mr. SEAN PATRICK far from home. levels of the U.S. military as legisla- MALONEY), from Hudson Valley, who It also helps graduates who have been tors, Cabinet secretaries, Governors, represents West Point and the sur- hurt by hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, Presidents, and CEOs leading the devel- rounding communities. and other natural disasters. opment of our Nation’s infrastructure Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of And it even offers a professional me- and the establishment of the world’s New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to morial services coordinator to help greatest economy. grieving families navigate the funeral commemorate the 150th anniversary of b 1945 the West Point Association of Grad- process at West Point when that dif- uates. ficult time arrives. For young people who choose West Mr. Speaker, I am proud to represent These are the kind of people who Point over a traditional education, it is the cadets, faculty, Active Duty sol- make up The Long Grey Line in the truly a different path. diers, and the many alumni of the West Point Association of Graduates. From the moment you start in Beast United States military academy at They are fiercely committed to our Barracks, a cadet lives by the code of West Point in New York’s Hudson Val- country and to each other. conduct of the military officer, recog- ley. In fact, I live right across the During times of division, West Point nizing that their life becomes second to river, and I hear the cannon every graduates still rally around their the safety of Americans. morning and every night. It is a won- shared values and experiences to build Almost 100 West Point graduates derful way to wake up and go to bed. bridges and remind all of us what it is have given their lives in this most re- Just take a few steps on the grounds to be an American. cent war. It is that commitment to the at West Point and it will be clear to Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the West Nation made at such a young age that you that West Point is much more Point Association of Graduates for 150 makes the place so special. than a school. It is a community of de- years of connecting distinguished What sets West Point as an institu- votion made up of the best and bright- alumni and providing a helping hand to tion apart is just about everything est of our Nation’s past, our Nation’s folks in need. I thank them for their that happens there: the grueling aca- present, and our Nation’s future. service, and here is to another 150 demics; the compulsory participation Think of the legends and heroes who years. in sports; the military drill; the mili- have graduated from West Point. Such Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I thank tary training; and perhaps most note- a pantheon clearly deserves more than my colleague for doing that great sum- worthy, the leadership and character a run-of-the-mill alumni association. mation, because I brought my col- development. West Point even uses our Accordingly, the West Point Associa- leagues down here and they are prob- math classes to teach cadets how to tion of Graduates has fulfilled that ably going to talk a little bit more present themselves and to hone their need. It goes above and beyond, and it about the micro aspects of classes, military bearing. deserves the recognition we are giving friends, and experiences over the years. But for me, what took my experience it tonight. But I do appreciate the gentleman’s at West Point to the next level were I want to thank my friend, the gen- work for and support of West Point and the men and women who made up my tleman from Illinois (Mr. SHIMKUS), a the community. And I know he will al- class, the class of 1986. member of the association himself, for ways be a good steward of the campus, Our motto is ‘‘Courage Never Quits, leading this Special Order to honor the the cadets, the staff, and the faculty, ’86.’’ organization for the services and fel- so I thank him for coming down. We came to West Point from all over lowship opportunities it provides to Mr. Speaker, usually, we manage the country, men and women from graduates of all ages. things here in the House by seniority every State, nearly every religion,

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What are you doing here in 1983, so I got my appointment in where in government and business. But in Connecticut? February of ’83. In March of ’83, Ronald each of us has tried to live by that I said: Well, I am up here in graduate Reagan gave his speech in Orlando, motto, ‘‘Courage Never Quits,’’ and school, and we just went to Franklin Florida, about the evil empire, and boy, have we. Roosevelt’s home. I just love the Hud- then during my time in the 101st, the Our class has produced 18 general of- son River. The Hudson Valley is just Berlin Wall came down. So I literally ficers: four 3-star generals; we have no stunningly beautiful. served from the evil empire to the fall 4-stars yet because we haven’t been out The guy looked at me. He didn’t of the Berlin Wall. of the Academy long enough; in addi- know my background, didn’t know who A lot of my classmates—me being tion, we have nine 2-stars and six 1-star I was. So he said: Well, if you love the one of them, and this shows what a generals. Hudson River, let me suggest you great prognosticator I am—and all of Our class produced a Secretary of ought to spend a weekend at West us thought the Army was going to be State, a Secretary of the Army. Two of Point. Let me suggest you go on Satur- boring for the next 20 years. And, man, us have served in Congress, one of day, on a football Saturday, because my prayers that that was absolutely— whom went on to be the Director of the you are not going to believe this, but would have come true, but it wasn’t. CIA and, of course, Secretary of State. they actually go to class on Saturday. So my commemoration today is a lot We have had at least two State legis- I said: Are you kidding me? I mean, of my classmates did leave the Army in lators. Three judges come from our people actually go to a school that goes the early nineties. Those who spent ranks, as well as at least four deans to class on Saturday? time in a career—whether 20 years, 30 and chancellors of universities. And he said: Yeah. And then they years, some still serving—they really We have served at senior levels have a parade, and all the cadets are have sacrificed for this country more throughout the government, from the standing—and I didn’t have the heart than I could ever imagine. My one experience with it as a Mem- Department of State to the FBI, to the to tell them, tell him we were telling ber of Congress—not as a combat sol- leadership of the Defense Logistics jokes to each other, and said—look dier, but a Member of Congress—I took Agency, to consultants to Presidents of pristine, you know, from 100 yards my first trip into a combat zone to the United States. away. Iraq. I remember sitting in the head- Twenty-two-plus members of my But he went through the day at West quarters waiting for General Barbero class are presidents and CEOs of major Point, and he walked through it. And to come give us a briefing, and an ’06 corporations, from 7–Eleven to Mer- he said a picnic and tailgating and colonel comes walking in. Some of us cedes-Benz USA. football, and all the great stuff and the may know because he did congressional And, yes, we, too, have had those in fun times you have here. But you do affairs after this. our ranks make the ultimate sacrifice have good times even though you have It was Joe Simonelli, who was a big, for our freedom. Be thou at peace. very difficult times. blustery, great guy who served, just More than anything, more than just And when he finally finished, I didn’t kind of a leader of our class. And he the amazing location on the Hudson have the heart to tell him the truth comes walking in, and it just struck River, more than the unparalleled his- and tell him the story. So as soon as he me that he has been doing this for the tory of the place, more than the gruel- finished, I just looked at him and said: last—then it would have been the last ing academics, more than its unbeliev- I have always heard about West Point, almost 20 years, spending half of his able place in our Nation’s great story, and I have always heard this: ‘‘It is a life going overseas to serve our coun- what pushes me to serve is the knowl- great place to visit, but you wouldn’t try. I was just there for a day and a edge of what my peers have accom- want to live there.’’ half and was ready to get home, and he plished. Their hard work reminds me to And the reason that you wouldn’t was there for a year. It just struck me. never stop reading, learning, growing, want to live there is because it is So my hat is off to my classmates— and serving. They are my motivation, tough. It is hard. It is not something and not to just people who graduated and they are why I will never quit. you can do just simply. It is something from West Point, but every man and Rangers Lead The Way. you sacrifice for and you move to- woman who has the courage and the Night Stalkers Don’t Quit. wards. conviction and the strength and every- Courage Never Quits, ’86. One of my great thrills is you get to thing about them to put on our uni- Go Army. Beat Navy. nominate people who attend our acad- form. And every single one of them, Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I thank emies—all of our academies—and to every single person serving in our uni- my colleague, and I appreciate his call them and tell them when they form volunteered to do so. It is just service in uniform and, of course, here have received an appointment. amazing that we have young men and on the floor. We are happy to have him I just talked to a young man this women like that. here. week, he is going to West Point, and a So my hat is off for my classmates Next, I yield to the gentleman from couple, unfortunately, to the Navy— because we are talking about our time Kentucky (Mr. GUTHRIE), almost my but a couple at West Point and a cou- at West Point, those who served 20 and neighbor on the North American con- ple at the Air Force Academy. They 30 years, who have made a difference tinent. are deciding to do something big and for this country and have sacrificed Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I thank different with their lives than their like no other has over the course of the gentleman for yielding. classmates. time. Mr. Speaker, my motto as the class But I want to talk about, just real We have, certainly, people in more of ’87: Our Country We Strengthen, ’87. briefly, you do run across some great combat-type style conflicts, but I It is great to be here, and I want to people. would dare say, in the history of our start with a story. I always say the reason that H. R. country, a group of people who grad- After I went through the Academy, McMaster was probably, I think, the uated the time that we have have not graduated from West Point, spent time greatest soldier of our generation is his spent more time in active combat back in the 101st Airborne Division, I de- very first challenge was teaching me and forth. cided to do something different with how to march correctly. He was my Mr. Speaker, my hat is off to them. my life and went into business. I went squad leader at Beast Barracks, and I They are my brothers and sisters. I to business school. I was in New Eng- was a challenge to him, I am sure, so love them dearly, and I appreciate land in business school. his first leadership challenge. their service.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:42 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K11MR7.033 H11MRPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2633 Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I thank recognized some of my classmates who Two-Percent Club, and I met my wife. my colleague for his comments. had been on that path, and I recognized The Two-Percent Club, for those who I think what Congressman GUTHRIE that that is not the path that I had don’t know, are those who start with a has said, article II of the Association of been on. No one in my family on my girlfriend and graduate with the same Graduates Constitution, states the ob- dad’s side had gone to college. girlfriend and end up marrying that ject of this association shall be to cher- So she told me: You should work on girl. I am thankful today that I am ish the memories of our alma mater some other plans. married to my Lisa. People would talk and to promote the social intercourse So I did them. I enlisted in the Army. about Lisa this, and Lisa that, but I and fraternal fellowship of its grad- And when I got to the Army, thank- would always refer to my Lisa, the girl uates, and I think we are seeing that fully, some of BRETT GUTHRIE’s class- who chose to marry me. tonight. mates, 1987 graduates Larry Bradley We experienced cadet life in a dif- You see some snickering and some and Terry Finley, were platoon leaders. ferent way. We have all these memories guffawing, and I think we all get trans- Larry Bradley ended up being my of things like the cadet in the red sash ported back in time. In fact, in pre- platoon leader for a composite platoon stepping up to the line, but not on the paring for this, I did like Congressman that got training by the 10th Special line or over the line. We remember GREEN and got a list of my classmates Forces Group down in Bad Tolz, Ger- things like Beast Barracks in Buckner, and then started working on notes on many. And it was there, during that Boodlers runs, spinning the spurs. We Friday night and Saturday. I am tell- platoon, that I learned that the Berlin remember the honor code and the char- ing you, I had nightmares on Saturday Wall had come down, that it wasn’t acter that was so prominently featured night; I had nightmares on Sunday be- part of the training, it wasn’t just a there, that, ‘‘A cadet will not lie, cause that experience was brought jazzy intro to a speech. cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who back to life for me, which I cherished. Some noncommissioned officers do.’’ I am now happy to yield to the gen- stepped up and said: Write this day We remember how hard it was to live tleman from Ohio, Congressman DAVID- down. It is going to be one of the most with the consequences for people who SON. famous days in history, 9 November made those bad decisions, who you Before I turn it all over to him, one 1989. knew to be good people, who came to of the benefits that the academies do, We thought: Bold intro. be separated because it was taken very and West Point does, is just doesn’t get But from that, I had a chance to do seriously there. what they consider the brightest and something unbelievable that was the We saw in the cadet parades that we the best in our secondary education culmination not just of graduates of talked about on the parade fields The system, but they make sure that they the United States Military Academy, Long Gray Line for the ceremonies reach into our active military forces but the culmination of people who had where they would lay a wreath for and find those young men and women fought to win that war. So many of Founders Day at the statue of Colonel who are showing to their chain of com- them West Point graduates, like Eisen- Sylvanus Thayer. You would see men mand exceptional opportunity with a hower, like Bradley, like Patton, who and women in uniform, but you would chance to promote and become an offi- helped liberate a people in that con- see senior citizens at the front of the cer. Congressman DAVIDSON is one of tinent. line. those, and that is why I yield to him, But I got to see the culmination of The oldest graduate would lay the the class of ’95. that as the wall came down not be- wreath—often in a wheelchair, feebly Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Speaker, I cause Mr. Gorbachev tore it down or mustering every ounce of strength nec- thank the gentleman for yielding, and Mr. Reagan tore it down, but because essary sometimes to move from that I thank this body for the opportunity the East German people found out chair to lay that wreath with pride at to recognize our alma mater and our what was on the other side of it, and the statue in front of the sup’s house. Association of Graduates at the United they tore their own wall down. And We remember the million-dollar view States Military Academy at West they found out that the fruits of our at Trophy Point, and we remember the Point. ideology had produced shockingly dif- quarter-million-dollar education one As Mr. SHIMKUS was highlighting, I ferent results than what their ideology nickel at a time as we studied. didn’t come the easy way. As a friend had produced. We remember friends and classmates of mine likes to say, sometimes God who helped us through the hard times. b 2000 will bring you the easiest way you will We remember the knowledge like duty, go. It is shocking today to think that we honor, country, or Schofield’s Defini- For me, my journey to West Point might relive some of those bad choices tion of Discipline. started in my high school guidance that led to poverty and scarcity on the We remember the seriousness with counselor’s classroom in September of other side of the wall while our ideas which nearly every one of us took the senior year. Most people realize that is led to abundance and flourishing, not opportunity to be prepared, should the kind of a late start for the path that it perfectly, but far superior. case arise that we would lead our Na- takes to go to one of our Nation’s serv- From there, I went to the prep tion’s young men and women in com- ice academies. school, and I met classmates like bat, that we would be ready to face the And then she asked me what I wanted Ranger Bill Lynn. His first unit deploy- challenge. Many of my classmates did to do, And I said: Well, I want to be an ment led him to jump into Panama, that. Army ranger. and he had a combat jump there. I met I served 5 years in great units, the She said: Well, you know, you are classmates at the prep school who Old Guard, the 101st Airborne Division, pretty smart. You should go to college. didn’t make it to West Point. Indeed, and the 75th Ranger Regiment. I left You should consider college, at least. one of my 1995 classmates is currently Active Duty, which shocked many of I said: Well, you know, I thought the commandant of the United States my classmates, and I found a great about going to West Point. Then I Military Academy Preparatory School. sense of purpose, that to give a lifetime could be in the Army and go to college. It is a great path, but I also met peo- of service to the Nation didn’t always She looked at me like she felt sorry ple who had not been in the Army. I mean in uniform. But you still look in for me. She said: Well, baby, that is not met people who had come there to in- awe at the sacrifice that so many have going to happen. crease the diversity objectives of the made who continued on in Active Duty, That wasn’t mean; it was realistic. I Military Academy, who needed a little especially those who gave the last full had not done the work that it would more strength on their academics or measure to keep our Nation free and to take to get there. maybe who needed to balance the aca- bring honor to The Long Gray Line. She walked me through who nor- demics with the athletics that they Today, as I look at young men and mally gets in: The salutatorians, the were going to be able to participate in. women and have the privilege of call- valedictorians, the people with the That was about half the class. ing them and congratulating them on high GPAs while being captain of I learned about a special club at West all of the work that it takes to do it— sports, Eagle Scouts, and what not. I Point shortly after I came called the generally, the right way—the advanced

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These are teer force committed to serve our How on Earth could that be encap- the pioneers. This is the first class of country. sulated? The best I could hope for is to women who graduated from West I look at The Long Gray Line today, call on General MacArthur, who in Point. They are very close. I talk with a line that is a very tight-knit alumni 1962, to the United States Corps of Ca- many of them frequently, and we are organization where friends could be dets, said: ‘‘Duty, honor, country: all very proud of them. It was not easy distant for years, even decades, and, in Those three hallowed words reverently for these women, as you can imagine, a moment, connect as if you just fin- dictate what you ought to be, what you in an all-male institution, and they are ished playing spades with one another can be, what you will be. They are your a tribute to our class. after hours, ditching the late-lights rallying point to build courage when We have four four-star generals or of- penalties. courage seems to fail, to regain faith ficers. Two recently retired, Brooks I look forward to those times. I cher- when there seems to be little cause for and Perkins. We still have Thomas, ish those memories. And I am so faith, to create hope when hope be- who is the commander of Special Oper- thankful to the West Point Association comes forlorn.’’ ations Command, and Votel, who is of Graduates, which has set a great ex- The United States Military Academy commander at CENTCOM. They are ample of how to bond classmates to- has a sacred place in my heart, to the both retiring soon. gether to serve the cause and interest class of 1999, with duty in mind. I want We had six lieutenant generals, of our great alma mater so that this to thank God for West Point. I want to Donohue, Cheek, Hodges, Lanza, Long Gray Line may continue to flour- thank The Long Gray Line. And God Chipman, and Linnington, and they are ish always. bless you USMA, my rockbound high- retired. Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I thank land home. We had eight major generals and nine my colleague for joining us tonight. He Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I thank brigadier generals, the one stars. I makes me think of a lot of things. my colleague for joining us tonight. want to note Brigadier General Retired I want to make sure that we don’t We have people who watch and par- forget the staff and faculty, the De- Anne MacDonald who, for our women ticipate in the Army-Navy games. partment of Army civilians, and the classmates, rose to the highest ranks There is now a new kind of challenge spouses and the families who make up of military service. the whole West Point experience. for either the midshipmen or the Corps We have religious leaders in our A lot of times, staff and faculty will of Cadets, and it is a fight to see who class, pastors, chaplains, deacons. One adopt a cadet to be their family while sings second. If you watch the Army- that I like to always catch up with and they are away. I am from Illinois, and Navy game, at the end, after a tremen- follow is Nancy Gucwa, who is a Bene- New York was a pretty long distance. I dous battle on the field of friendly dictine Sister, Nancy Rose Gucwa, who was fortunate to be, in essence, adopt- strife, both sides will join together on retired as lieutenant colonel and then ed by Colonel Woodard and Mary Ellen each side, and they will listen as the became a nun. Woodard. They were my pseudo family alma maters are sung. The goal is to be b 2015 there, and, boy, did I need it. That was the one who gets to sing second, be- We have medical doctors, and we kind of joked about. cause that means that you have won have university professors. I would also I also remember going and visiting the football game. many times instructors after hours on I would like to read the alma mater like to highlight Jeff Williams, our as- a program we called additional instruc- of West Point. tronaut who has spent more time in tion. I thought I was smart in high Hail, Alma Mater dear, space as a guide of the United States school. I found out in college-level en- To us be ever near. NASA program. Now there is a female gineering school, I wasn’t as smart as I Help us thy motto bear astronaut who just surpassed him, but thought I was. I needed a lot of assist- Through all the years. he has been in space quite a bit, and we Let Duty be well performed. ance to get through the academic pro- are very, very proud of him. Honor be e’er untarned I think what is also interesting is gram there, so I appreciated it. Country be ever armed. Many of those staff and faculty that people talk about the military West Point, by thee. academies and these institutions as the teachers were West Point graduates, so Guide us, thine own, aright they not only had the book learning, Teach us by day, by night, proverbial return on investment. I but they knew the experience we were To keep thine honor bright, think my colleagues have talked about all going through. For thee to fight. the selfless service of their classmates I brought down my yearbook and When we depart from thee, and the people they have met. I think paged through it. General Omar Brad- Serving on land or sea, the interesting thing that I came upon ley attended our graduation, which May we stand loyal be, in just going over some data from my West Point, to thee shows you the length, depth, and width class is we know that every graduate, And when our work is done, for the most part, goes to serve in Ac- of The Long Gray Line. It was a special Our course on earth is run, time to be able to see that connection. May it be said, ‘‘Well done’’ tive Duty, and the desire is for a 20- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman Be thou at peace.’’ year service at a minimum. But a lot of from Kansas (Mr. WATKINS), our most E’er may that line of gray people choose not to do that. I think junior graduate—maybe we would call Increase from day to day what surprised me was how many peo- him a plebe in our lexicon—but a fresh- Live, serve, and die, we pray, ple picked up the mantle in other man Member of Congress. West Point, for thee. branches of service or in the Reserve Mr. WATKINS. Mr. Speaker, I thank I want to talk about my class, the program. So out of the 902, I think the gentleman for yielding. class of 1980, a little bit. They are now about 422 retired from military service, Duty, honor, country. The United mostly part of that Long Gray Line. that is getting close to 50 percent. States possesses the greatest military We have some still on Active Duty, but What are those? in the history of mankind, and it isn’t they are leaving soon, and they have That is, obviously, the United States even close. How is that possible since, served faithfully over the years. Army, the United States Army Re- through the ages, warfare changes, our Folks will recognize some of these serve, and the United States Army Na- enemies change, the geography names. Our motto was ‘‘Pride and Ex- tional Guard. We had a couple retired changes, the ideology that we are up cellence.’’ These are the statistics I got from the Air Force, and we had one re- against changes. from AOG. We all know that there is tire, I think from the Coast Guard. So

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Mr. Speaker, in honor of and nine grandchildren with her hus- lege professors, master level, world- Women’s History Month, I want to rec- band, Lemuel Geathers, former mayor class athletes, and even an artist. ognize Melinda Jones Williams. of Winter Haven. She has spent 34 Some of our classmates now have their Melinda Jones Williams, a civil years as an educator in Polk County children who are already graduates, rights activist, was born March 14, 1950, schools, retiring as an assistant prin- who already served their time and are in Americus, Georgia. She is currently cipal in 2004. She graduated from already out of the service, so genera- a resident of Haines City, Florida, with Jewett High School as valedictorian in tion after generation of families. That one child, Jeffrey Jones. 1959, went on to receive her bachelor of is just an example of one of our classes. In July, 1963, Melinda Jones Williams The Association of Graduates does a science degree from Rollins College and was one of 15 young Black girls with a a master’s in education from the Uni- good job, as was noted here, trying to passion to change the bigotry and divi- keep us connected to our alma mater. versity of South Florida. siveness in Americus, Georgia, by pro- Juanita served as Secretary for the We have folks that come, not only from testing a strong force of generational every one of the 50 States based on the Florida Democratic Party State Execu- racism. During a peaceful protest, she tive Committee and was the highest way the nomination process goes, but was arrested along with 14 other young we also have folks from foreign coun- ranking African American woman dur- girls. These girls were all stolen, hid- ing her tenure as Secretary. She also tries who are invited to serve and go den from their parents, and locked in through the program, and that is the served as a Democratic National Con- an abandoned building for over a vention delegate from Florida for three unity the association of graduates at- month. There were no windows, toilets, tempts to do. conventions. and no source of water. As an active member of her commu- So this night was spent to really ac- This was their punishment for pro- nity, she is a recipient of the Out- complish two things: one, to com- testing a segregated movie theater. standing Community Service Award. memorate the 150th anniversary of the Melinda Jones Williams is one of the She has served on the Polk Education Association of Graduates whose goal few remaining survivors of the Stolen Association, Polk County Opportunity was to keep these bonds of friendship Girls of Americus, Georgia. and keep reminding us of the goal of For that and her heroism in the civil Council, Polk County Voters League, duty, honor, country. rights movement, we thank you, Ms. Girls and Boys Club, and Girls, Inc. She Another part was to thank our class- Jones Williams. is also a lifetime member of the mates who have served with us, who NAACP and a member of the Hurst RECOGNIZING CHARLIE REED help get us through the 4 years of Chapel AME Church. Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of training in the program, thanks to For that, Ms. Juanita Geathers, we Women’s History Month, I want to rec- staff and faculty, thanks to the Depart- honor you. ognize Charlie Reed. ment of Army Civilians, thanks to She was born and raised in Kis- RECOGNIZING MONICA READUS maintainers to allow us—really we simmee, Florida, my hometown. She Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of should thank the national government was the first in her family to graduate Women’s History Month, I want to rec- for continuing to support the great in- from college with a degree in jour- ognize Monica Readus. stitutions of higher military learning nalism from the University of Florida Monica Readus is a wife, mother, and training like West Point, Annap- in 1997. She has worked at the Orlando business owner, and real estate profes- olis, the Air Force Academy, the Mer- Sentinel, Osceola News-Gazette, and sional. She was born in Detroit, Michi- chant Marine Academy, and the Coast Treasure Coast Newspapers. While gan. Guard Academy. After moving to Texas, Monica be- I am going to end with the end of the working for the Stars and Stripes came aware of a shift in the political Douglas MacArthur speech. Congress- newspaper, she has covered inter- climate. After the 2004 Presidential man WATKINS read the first part. I was national defense, geopolitics, and the race, Democrats were discouraged and going to read that too because it is one U.S. military community. Dallas Republicans were running unop- of my favorites. After a reporting trip to Vietnam, I will end on this, Mr. Speaker. This Charlie moved there to do volunteer posed. It was at that time that Monica is the end of the speech General Doug- work and write about Vietnam vet- took time away from the company’s las MacArthur gave to the Corps of Ca- erans living in the place where they day-to-day operations to become a full- dets: ‘‘But in the evening of my mem- fought a war so many years before. time volunteer for the Collin County ory, always I come back to West Point. While living in Vietnam, she was Democratic Party office in Plano, Always there echoes and re-echoes: named editor for an English-language Texas. Duty, Honor, Country. Today marks Vietnamese magazine and worked Since then, Monica has worked with my final roll call with you, but I want closely with several NGOs helping candidates and campaign managers, co- you to know that when I cross the river Agent Orange victims and impover- ordinated grassroots efforts for local my last conscious thoughts will be of ished children. and Federal elections, and fundraised The Corps, and The Corps, and The Charlie came back to Kissimmee in for candidates and more. In 2011 Corps. I bid you farewell.’’ 2014 to reconnect with her Florida Monica moved to Florida where she im- Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance roots. It was a homecoming that led mediately began coordinating grass- of my time. her back to the staff at the Osceola roots efforts for Organizing for Amer- News-Gazette. As a seasoned journalist ica by spearheading daily phone banks. f who has lived around the world, Char- She then joined the Democratic Wom- HONORING WOMEN’S HISTORY lie knows no stranger. Her ability to en’s Club of Florida of West Orange MONTH connect with people and understand County, serving as its first president. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under their problems is perhaps her greatest She now happily serves as the Demo- the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- strength. Charlie’s life work is about cratic Women’s Club of Florida Region uary 3, 2019, the gentleman from Flor- more than chasing a story. It is about 9 chair, serving nearly 600 members and ida (Mr. SOTO) is recognized for 60 min- serving the community, being an advo- the chair of the Annual PerSisters utes as the designee of the majority cate for the public, a voice for the Rally in celebration of Democratic leader. voiceless and shining light on corrup- Women’s Month. Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, I thank the tion. The pleasure she experiences For that, Monica Readus, we honor Speaker for the opportunity. We cer- while helping others is truly all hers. you.

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She was Dr. Green currently serves as the she is a current facilitator for the born in 1962 to Puerto Rican parents, CEO of the Liberty and Justice for All Trust Orlando Coalition, helping make Trina and Jose Santoni. Her early ca- Community Foundation and is the pri- history by passing the first TRUST reer was in corporate IT. At age 30, she mary partner at Blue Fields Consult- Act, not only in Florida but in the divorced her first husband and went to ants International. Southeastern region of the United work for the domestic violence agency Passion for service and a strong sense States. that helped her leave. After meeting of dedication to critical social issues is Rasha also serves as a vice president her husband, Scott, he had a friend clearly a key motivating force for Dr. for the Muslim Women’s Organization. running for Congress, which presented Green. She is the president of the Young an opportunity to transition to polit- She merits these values to her Chris- Democrats of Orange County, a media ical consulting and issue advocacy. She tian beliefs and cultural experiences as political strategist, is the president of has served as voting chair and co-chair, a Jamaican-born immigrant. Orlando’s Palestine Children’s Relief and is now an executive board member She quotes Marcus Mosiah Garvey Fund. of the Women’s March of Florida. himself, a Jamaican native and noted While working in the Arab American In 2003, the longtime consequences of civil rights leader, with: ‘‘A people community, she helped launch her Meniere’s disease became unbear- without the knowledge of their past impactful programs such as Welcoming able, resulting in severe hearing loss. history, culture, and origin is like a Immigrants Now Group and its domes- In 2016, Lisa moved to Longwood, Flor- tree without roots.’’ tic violence program. ida. Like everyone else in her new com- And for that, Ms. Karen Green, we A sought-after speaker about topics munity, she was horrified by the Pulse honor you. including Palestinian rights, Islamophobia, and women’s representa- nightclub shooting. The lack of family b 2030 support for some of the victims com- tion in Islam, Rasha has been a grass- bined with memories of post-9/11 days, RECOGNIZING KIM PORTEOUS roots organizer and speaker for state- prompted Lisa to reach out to the af- Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of wide demonstrations and campaigns for fected communities offering a safe Women’s History Month, I want to rec- interfaith work, Palestinian rights, place and a safe space for frightened ognize Kim Porteous. and #NoMuslimBanEver, immigrant neighbors as well as visiting victims’ Kim Porteous is one of many activ- rights, and Black and Brown libera- families. ists ignited by the modern women’s tion. When Hurricanes Irma and Maria movement at the March on Wash- Rasha leads educational panel discus- worsened Puerto Rico’s already deli- ington, D.C., on January 24, 2017. sions dispelling stereotypes about Mus- cate situation, Lisa refocused her advo- She is a community organizer who is lim women. cacy efforts on achieving a just recov- supported by a community of women. In 2015, she cofounded Floridians Re- ery for her islands. Lisa is currently Although she has been involved in ad- sponding to Refugees, spearheading ef- vice president of Diaspora en vocacy throughout her life, she knew, forts to welcome and transition refu- Resistencia, an international coalition as a former survivor of rape, workplace gees. of human rights organizations working sexual assaults, and domestic abuse, She was previously a mental health for a better future for Puerto Rico. She that she needed to make it her life’s counseling volunteer with the Pal- also sits on the steering committee for work to stand for women, sexual as- estine Medical Relief Society in Vamos4PR. sault victims, the disabled, the LGBTQ Ramallah, aiding women and children For that, Lisa Santoni Cromar, we community, immigrants, Dreamers, suffering from PTSD. honor you. against climate change, for religious And for that, Ms. Rasha Mubarak, we RECOGNIZING KAREN GREEN minorities, and to promote healthcare. honor you. Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of She is committed to amplifying the RECOGNIZING NICOLETTE FARIELLO SPRINGER Women’s History Month, I want to rec- voices of marginalized communities Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of ognize Karen Green. through intersectional feminism and Women’s History Month, I want to rec- Reverend Dr. Karen R. Green, a proud uniting communities regardless of ognize Nicolette Fariello Springer. Jamaican-born Caribbean American, is their privilege. Nicolette is the sort of woman who a former U.N. Humanitarian Religious The 2016 election led Kim to amplify does not fit conveniently into a mold. Ambassador At Large. She is a tireless her message of equality beyond her cir- She is a criminologist, college educa- community advocate and social justice cle of friends and get out in the com- tor, and a doting mother to her two crusader fighting to enhance the rights munity to engage. daughters, Emmerson and Avery. of women, defend religious freedoms, She has had the privilege of sup- With a master’s degree in criminal and secure the civil liberties of immi- porting organizations and community justice from the University of Central grants. partners, including the National Orga- Florida, Nicolette specializes in mental As a resident of Florida for over 20 nization for Women, Organize Florida, health and substance abuse. She was years, Dr. Green has leveraged her tal- Planned Parenthood, For Our Future, the assistant director of the Criminal ents as a respected political strategist, ADAPT, Rubio Tuesdays, Hope House, Justice Mental Health Substance campaign manager, and expert medi- Moms Demand Action, March for Abuse Technical Assistance Center, ator. She has served as the Democratic Women, and Fight for $15 an Hour. where she focused on program evalua- Party’s former Caribbean Coalition Di- Kim is currently the vice president of tion and policy analysis across the rector for the State of Florida and its the Greater Orlando chapter of the Na- State of Florida. territories. Her vast political and voter tional Organization for Women and is Nicolette’s research areas include advocacy record includes service as focused on sustained action to achieve mental health court, drug court, and field officer for President Barack the ratification of the Equal Rights corrections. It is her work in criminal Obama’s Presidential election cam- Amendment. justice that informs her work as a com- paign, Coalition Director for Hillary And for that, Ms. Kim Porteous, we munity activist, championing issues Clinton’s Presidential primary and honor you. around adverse childhood experiences, general election campaigns, and polit- RECOGNIZING RASHA MUBARAK social justice, and access to education ical advance to U.S. territories. Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of and healthcare. Dr. Green has led on issues of uni- Women’s History Month, I want to rec- Nicolette serves as the champion versal healthcare, a woman’s right to ognize Rasha Mubarak. leader for central and north Florida for

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U.S. Thomas; two stepdaughters, Mariah Nicolette’s activism led her to run She also served as our press secretary and Amber; and her four grandchildren. for office during the historic Pink from 2017 to 2018 and did an absolutely She has long believed women are the Wave of 2018. She parlayed her own fantastic job. backbone to any successful, prosperous campaign experience into a full-time And for that, Ms. Iza Montalvo, we society. She has earned both a bach- position on a Democratic gubernatorial honor you. elor’s and master’s degree in business campaign and continues to advocate RECOGNIZING DR. CATHERINE ‘‘ELIZABETH’’ administration and has worked for the for progressive values. MCCARTHY past 20 years in multiple professional She is currently one of the co-chairs Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of capacities, including owning a dental of the Juvenile Justice Committee for Women’s History Month, I want to rec- supply company; working in risk man- the Central Florida League of Women ognize Dr. Catherine ‘‘Elizabeth’’ agement, internet security, insurance Voters and serves on the Victory Coun- McCarthy. claims, as an adjunct university pro- cil for Ruth’s List Florida. She is the Dr. Elizabeth McCarthy currently fessor; and has dedicated hundreds of legislative analyst for the League of serves as the legislative director for hours to various charities. Women Voters of Florida, empowering the Florida LGBT Democratic Caucus She believes in promoting a philos- voters and helping improve the lives of and as federal chair of the Democratic ophy of integrity and honor through all Floridians. Women’s Club of Florida. giving back to those who have given For that, Nicolette Fariello Springer, Born in Richmond, Virginia, she her so much. She believes there is no we honor you. moved to Florida in 1981. After attend- greater honor than participating in and RECOGNIZING IZA MONTALVO ing high school in Pasco County, she promoting philanthropic activities. Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of attended the University of Florida and In January 2018, after leaving her Women’s History Month, I want to rec- Florida State University on basketball role in corporate America, she was ap- ognize Iza Montalvo. scholarships and graduated from Flor- pointed as the VA representative for Iza Montalvo lives in Orlando with ida State in 1992 with a degree in crimi- Soldiers’ Angels. As the wife of an Air her husband and two sons. She is an nology. Force veteran, sister to a Navy vet- award-winning journalist, former news She then went back to school to be- eran, and mother-in-law to an Active- executive, radio anchor, television pro- come a nurse. After spending 25 years Duty Army soldier, Christina was ducer, and congressional staffer recog- working as a cardio operating room thrilled to volunteer for one of the nized by the United States Congress for registered nurse for the Florida Heart highest ranked 501(c)3 organizations, her contributions to the Hispanic com- Group, she decided to attend medical which is dedicated to supporting our munity. In 2015, Vision magazine school at the University of Central military veterans. named her as one of central Florida’s Florida and soon became a cardiolo- Christina oversees a diverse group of most influential Hispanics. gist. volunteers in the Orlando area who Under her leadership as the former Elizabeth was working at Orlando visit veterans who are patients at the editor-in-chief of La Prensa, the oldest Regional Medical Center the night of VA Hospital at Lake Nona; help with running publication in central Florida the horrific Pulse nightclub shooting veteran support events, including dis- and also founded by a relative of mine, in Orlando, Florida. As a doctor, her tributing gifts and blankets from the readership almost doubled in 1 year work was vital in saving the lives of community; and oversee the monthly alone. As a reporter for the largest Spanish- many victims and members of our com- mobile food distribution, which pro- language media outlet in the country, munity. She was able to remove 77 bul- vides 200 low-income veterans 50 some of her stories gained national at- lets out of 32 victims. pounds of food each month. If she is not at the VA supporting our tention during her almost 20-year jour- As a member of the LGBT commu- nalism career. nity and an LGBT activist, she now veterans, she is reaching deep into the While working as a reporter, she cov- serves on the One Pulse Foundation community to find other groups and ered news events like the protests at Memorial Task Force, established to business and community leaders to the United Nations against the U.S. create a sanctuary of hope and to grant help our military veterans. Navy military practices in the island of care for the families of victims and Her love of the military is her pri- Vieques, protests in Times Square survivors. mary focus in all she does and is per- against the war in Iraq, the aftermath And for that, Dr. Elizabeth McCar- manently ingrained in her. of 9/11, the World Economic Forum, and thy, we honor you. And for that, Ms. Christina Whitfield the New York blackout. RECOGNIZING ANN MARIE SIEFKER Atkinson, we honor you. She has had the opportunity to inter- Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of RECOGNIZING CHLOE C. BATTLE view high-profile politicians and celeb- Women’s History Month, I want to rec- Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, in honor of rities of worldwide recognition as well ognize Ann Marie Siefker. Women’s History Month, I want to rec- as holding an exclusive interview with Ann Marie Siefker was born on May ognize Chloe C. Battle. the Federal agent who stopped the 20th 8, 1957. She attended Cardinal Gibbons Chloe Battle works in Orlando, Flor- hijacker from catching a flight during High School and graduated from Flor- ida, as the executive director for the the terrorist attacks on 9/11. ida Atlantic University with a degree local food pantry called Servant’s Her reporting with the Puerto Rican in education. Heart Ministry. The faith-based organi- diaspora, neglected communities of Ann was a special education teacher zation feeds children, seniors, and color, Latinx and migrant communities at West Orange High School, a long- other vulnerable individuals through earned her recognitions and awards time member of the Classroom Teach- community partnerships by providing from the prestigious National Associa- ers Association, and taught children basic needs, empowering people to grow tion of Hispanic Publications. for over 30 years. and thrive in their own neighborhoods, She served as the press secretary of Ann joined God on November 18, 2018, and offering opportunities for people to two U.S. Representatives before taking and we are recognizing her post- serve. her vast experience into a new business humously. She is survived by her Ms. Battle’s mission is to feed the venture. She currently is the founder mother, Mary; her brothers, Joseph hungry, and she also advocates for and president of the Olan Group, a pur- and James; and her sister, Joan. building relationships, which she says pose-led communications, research, Ms. Ann Marie Siefker, for that, we is the most important part of serving and consultancy firm in Orlando. honor you. and is the cornerstone for community

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Ms. Battle acquired her bachelor of (b) ‘‘Complaint’’ means a written allega- (d) In general, the Committee shall provide science in psychology from Indiana tion of improper conduct against a Member, a written opinion to an individual only in re- sponse to a written request, and the written University, working out of a pres- officer, or employee of the House of Rep- opinion shall address the conduct only of the tigious child development lab. She de- resentatives filed with the Committee with inquiring individual, or of persons for whom veloped a keen interest in health psy- the intent to initiate an inquiry. (c) ‘‘Inquiry’’ means an investigation by an the inquiring individual is responsible as em- chology and social work and, from ploying authority. investigative subcommittee into allegations there, maintained a personal commit- (e) A written request for an opinion shall against a Member, officer, or employee of ment to caregiving, family, advocacy, be addressed to the Chair of the Committee the House of Representatives. and shall include a complete and accurate and community casework. (d) ‘‘Investigate,’’ ‘‘Investigating,’’ and/or statement of the relevant facts. A request Ms. Battle cites that her strength ‘‘Investigation’’ mean review of the conduct shall be signed by the requester or the re- comes from God and personal experi- of a Member, officer, or employee of the quester’s authorized representative or em- ence, and her growth as a leader and House of Representatives that is conducted ploying authority. A representative shall community partner drives her forward or authorized by the Committee, an inves- disclose to the Committee the identity of the to show others how everyone can do tigative subcommittee, or the Chair and principal on whose behalf advice is being something and that education and nur- Ranking Minority Member of the Com- sought. mittee. turing is the key to the success of all (f) Requests for privately-sponsored travel (e) ‘‘Board’’ means the Board of the Office shall be treated like any other request for a families. of Congressional Ethics. written opinion for purposes of paragraphs And for that, Ms. Chloe C. Battle, we (f) ‘‘Referral’’ means a report sent to the (g) through (1). honor you. Committee from the Board pursuant to (1) The Committee’s Travel Guidelines and Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance House Rules and all applicable House Resolu- Regulations shall govern the request submis- of my time. tions regarding the conduct of a House Mem- sion and Committee approval process for pri- ber, officer, or employee, including any ac- vately-sponsored travel consistent with f companying findings or other supporting House Rules. PUBLICATION OF COMMITTEE documentation. (2) A request for privately-sponsored travel RULES (g) ‘‘Investigative Subcommittee’’ means a of a Member, officer, or employee shall in- subcommittee designated pursuant to Rule clude a completed and signed Traveler Form RULES OF THE COMMITTEE ON ETHICS FOR THE 19(a) to conduct an inquiry to determine if a that attaches the Private Sponsor Certifi- 116TH CONGRESS Statement of Alleged Violation should be cation Form and includes all information re- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, issued. quired by the Committee’s Travel Guidelines COMMITTEE ON ETHICS (h) ‘‘Statement of Alleged Violation’’ and Regulations. A private sponsor offering Washington, DC, March 7, 2019. means a formal charging document filed by officially-connected travel to a Member, offi- Hon. NANCY PELOSI, an investigative subcommittee with the cer, or employee must complete and sign a House of Representatives, Committee containing specific allegations Private Sponsor Certification Form, and pro- Washington, DC. against a Member, officer, or employee of vide a copy of that form to the invitee(s). MADAM SPEAKER: Pursuant to clause 2 of the House of Representatives of a violation (3) Any individual who knowingly and will- Rule XI, I submit to the House the Rules of of the Code of Official Conduct, or of a law, fully falsifies, or who knowingly and will- the Committee on Ethics for the 116th Con- rule, regulation, or other standard of con- fully fails to file, any form required by the gress for publication in the Congressional duct applicable to the performance of official Committee’s Travel Guidelines and Regula- Record. duties or the discharge of official respon- tions may be subject to civil penalties and Sincerely, sibilities. criminal sanctions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1001. (g) The Office of Advice and Education THEODORE E. DEUTCH, (i) ‘‘Adjudicatory Subcommittee’’ means a shall prepare for the Committee a response Chairman. subcommittee designated pursuant to Rule Enclosure. 23(a) that holds an adjudicatory hearing and to each written request for an opinion from a Member, officer, or employee. Each re- FOREWORD determines whether the counts in a State- ment of Alleged Violation are proved by sponse shall discuss all applicable laws, The Committee on Ethics is unique in the rules, regulations, or other standards. House of Representatives. Consistent with clear and convincing evidence. (j) ‘‘Sanction Hearing’’ means a Committee (h) Where a request is unclear or incom- the duty to carry out its advisory and en- plete, the Office of Advice and Education hearing to determine what sanction, if any, forcement responsibilities in an impartial may seek additional information from the to adopt or to recommend to the House of manner, the Committee is the only standing requester. Representatives. (i) The Chair and Ranking Minority Mem- committee of the House of Representatives (k) ‘‘Respondent’’ means a Member, officer, ber are authorized to take action on behalf the membership of which is divided evenly or employee of the House of Representatives by party. These rules are intended to provide of the Committee on any proposed written who is the subject of an investigation. opinion that they determine does not require a fair procedural framework for the conduct (1) ‘‘Office of Advice and Education’’ refers consideration by the Committee. If the Chair of the Committee’s activities and to help en- to the Office established by section 803(i) of or Ranking Minority Member requests a sure that the Committee serves well the peo- the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The Office written opinion, or seeks a waiver, exten- ple of the United States, the House of Rep- handles inquiries; prepares written opinions sion, or approval pursuant to Rules 3(m), resentatives, and the Members, officers, and in response to specific requests; develops employees of the House of Representatives. 4(c), 4(e), or 4(h), the next ranking member of general guidance; and organizes seminars, the requester’s party is authorized to act in PART I—GENERAL COMMITTEE RULES workshops, and briefings for the benefit of lieu of the requester. RULE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS the House of Representatives. (j) The Committee shall keep confidential (a) So far as applicable, these rules and the (m) ‘‘Member’’ means a Representative in, any request for advice from a Member, offi- Rules of the House of Representatives shall or a Delegate to, or the Resident Commis- cer, or employee, as well as any response be the rules of the Committee and any sub- sioner to, the U.S. House of Representatives. thereto. Upon request of any Member, offi- committee. The Committee adopts these RULE 3. ADVISORY OPINIONS AND WAIVERS cer, or employee who has submitted a writ- rules under the authority of clause 2(a)(1) of (a) The Office of Advice and Education ten request for an opinion or submitted a re- Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Rep- shall handle inquiries; prepare written opin- quest for privately-sponsored travel, the resentatives, 116th Congress. ions providing specific advice, including re- Committee may release to the requesting in- (b) The rules of the Committee may be views of requests for privately-sponsored dividual a copy of their own written request modified, amended, or repealed by a vote of travel pursuant to the Committee’s Travel for advice or submitted travel forms, any a majority of the Committee. Guidelines and Regulations; develop general subsequent written communications between (c) When the interests of justice so require, guidance; and organize seminars, workshops, such individual and Committee staff regard- the Committee, by a majority vote of its and briefings for the benefit of the House of ing the request, and any Committee advisory members, may adopt any special procedures, Representatives. opinion or travel letter issued to that indi- not inconsistent with these rules, deemed (b) Any Member, officer, or employee of vidual in response. The Committee shall not necessary to resolve a particular matter be- the House of Representatives may request a release any internal Committee staff work fore it. Copies of such special procedures written opinion with respect to the propriety product, communications, or notes in re- shall be furnished to all parties in the mat- of any current or proposed conduct of such sponse to such a request, except as author- ter. Member, officer, or employee. ized by the Committee.

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(f) Any individual who files a report re- that other action is required, shall be pro- (1) Information provided to the Committee quired to be filed under Title I of the Ethics vided an opportunity to respond orally or in by a Member, officer, or employee seeking in Government Act more than 30 days after writing. If the explanation is accepted, a advice regarding prospective conduct may the later of— copy of the response, if written, or a note not be used as the basis for initiating an in- (1) the date such report is required to be summarizing an oral response, shall be re- vestigation under clause 3(a)(2) or clause 3(b) filed, or tained in Committee files with the original of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Rep- (2) if a filing extension is granted to such report. resentatives, if such Member, officer, or em- individual, the last day of the filing exten- (p) The Committee shall be the final arbi- ployee acts in good faith in accordance with sion period, is required by such Act to pay a ter of whether any report required to be filed the written advice of the Committee. late filing fee of $200. The Chair and Ranking under Title I of the Ethics in Government (m) A written request for a waiver of Minority Member are authorized to approve Act requires clarification or amendment. clause 5 of House Rule XXV (the House gift requests that the fee be waived based on ex- (q) If the Committee determines, by vote of rule), or for any other waiver or approval, traordinary circumstances. a majority of its members, that there is rea- (g) Any late report that is submitted with- shall be treated in all respects like any other son to believe that an individual has will- out a required filing fee shall be deemed pro- request for a written opinion. fully failed to file a report required to be cedurally deficient and not properly filed. (n) A written request for a waiver of clause (h) The Chair and Ranking Minority Mem- filed under Title I of the Ethics in Govern- 5 of House Rule XXV (the House gift rule) ber are authorized to approve requests for ment Act or has willfully falsified or will- shall specify the nature of the waiver being waivers of the aggregation and reporting of fully failed to file information required to be sought and the specific circumstances justi- gifts as provided by section 102(a)(2)(C) of the reported, then the Committee shall refer the fying the waiver. Ethics in Government Act. If such a request name of the individual, together with the (o) An employee seeking a waiver of time is approved, both the incoming request and evidence supporting its finding, to the Attor- limits applicable to travel paid for by a pri- the Committee response shall be forwarded ney General pursuant to section 104(b) of the vate source shall include with the request to the Legislative Resource Center for place- Ethics in Government Act. Such referral evidence that the employing authority is ment on the public record. shall not preclude the Committee from initi- aware of the request. In any other instance (i) The Chair and Ranking Minority Mem- ating such other action as may be authorized where proposed employee conduct may re- ber are authorized to approve blind trusts as by other provisions of law or the Rules of the flect on the performance of official duties, qualifying under section 102(f)(3) of the Eth- House of Representatives. the Committee may require that the re- ics in Government Act. The correspondence RULE 5. MEETINGS quester submit evidence that the employing relating to formal approval of a blind trust, (a) The regular meeting day of the Com- authority knows of the conduct. the trust document, the list of assets trans- mittee shall be the second Tuesday of each RULE 4. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE ferred to the trust, and any other documents month, except when the House of Represent- (a) In matters relating to Title I of the required by law to be made public, shall be atives is not meeting on that day. When the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Com- forwarded to the Legislative Resource Center Committee Chair determines that there is mittee shall coordinate with the Clerk of the for such purpose. sufficient reason, meetings may be called on (j) The Committee shall designate staff House of Representatives, Legislative Re- additional days. A regularly scheduled meet- who shall review reports required to be filed source Center, to assure that appropriate in- ing need not be held when the Chair deter- under Title I of the Ethics in Government dividuals are notified of their obligation to mines there is no business to be considered. Act and, based upon information contained file reports required to be filed under Title I (b) The Chair shall establish the agenda for therein, indicate in a form and manner pre- of the Ethics in Government Act and that meetings of the Committee, and the Ranking scribed by the Committee whether the State- such individuals are provided in a timely Minority Member may place additional ment appears substantially accurate and fashion with filing instructions and forms items on the agenda. complete and the filer appears to be in com- developed by the Committee. (c) All meetings of the Committee or any pliance with applicable laws and rules. subcommittee shall occur in executive ses- (b) The Committee shall coordinate with (k) Each report required to be filed under sion unless the Committee or subcommittee, the Legislative Resource Center to assure Title I of the Ethics in Government Act shall by an affirmative vote of a majority of its that information that the Ethics in Govern- be reviewed within 60 days after the date of members, opens the meeting to the public. ment Act requires to be placed on the public filing. record is made public. (1) If the reviewing staff believes that addi- (d) Any hearing held by an adjudicatory (c) Any reports required to be filed under tional infoimation is required because (1) the subcommittee, or any sanction hearing held Title I of the Ethics in Government Act filed report required to be filed under Title I of by the Committee, shall be open to the pub- by Members of the Board of the Office of the Ethics in Government Act appears not lic unless the Committee or subcommittee, Congressional Ethics that are forwarded to substantially accurate or complete, or (2) the by an affirmative vote of a majority of its the Committee by the Clerk shall not be sub- filer may not be in compliance with applica- members, closes the hearing to the public. (e) A subcommittee shall meet at the dis- ject to paragraphs (d) through (q) of this ble laws or rules, then the reporting indi- cretion of its Chair. Rule. The Office of Congressional Ethics re- vidual shall be notified in writing of the ad- (f) Insofar as practicable, notice for any tains jurisdiction over review of the timeli- ditional information believed to be required, Committee or subcommittee meeting shall ness and completeness of filings by Members or of the law or rule with which the report- be provided at least seven days in advance of of the Board as the Board’s supervising eth- ing individual does not appear to be in com- the meeting. The Chair of the Committee or ics office. pliance. Such notice shall also state the time subcommittee may waive such time period (d) The Chair and Ranking Minority Mem- within which a response is to be submitted. for good cause. ber are authorized to grant on behalf of the Any such notice shall remain confidential. Committee requests for reasonable exten- (m) Within the time specified, including RULE 6. COMMITTEE STAFF sions of time for the filing of Financial Dis- any extension granted in accordance with (a) The staff is to be assembled and re- closure Statements. Any such request must clause (d), a reporting individual who con- tained as a professional, nonpartisan staff. be received by the Committee no later than curs with the Committee’s notification that (b) Each member of the staff shall be pro- the date on which the Statement in question the report required to be filed under Title I fessional and demonstrably qualified for the is due. A request received after such date of the Ethics in Government Act is not com- position for which the individual is hired. may be granted by the Committee only in plete, or that other action is required, shall (c) The staff as a whole and each individual extraordinary circumstances. Such exten- submit the necessary information or take member of the staff shall perform all official sions for one individual in a calendar year appropriate action. Any amendment may be duties in a nonpartisan manner. shall not exceed a total of 90 days per State- in the form of a revised report required to be (d) No member of the staff shall engage in ment, including any amendment required by filed under Title I of the Ethics in Govern- any partisan political activity directly af- the Committee in accordance with clause ment Act or an explanatory letter addressed fecting any congressional or presidential (m). No extension shall be granted author- to the Clerk of the House of Representatives. election. izing a nonincumbent candidate to file a (n) Any amendment shall be placed on the (e) No member of the staff or outside coun- statement later than 30 days prior to a pri- public record in the same manner as other sel may accept public speaking engagements mary or general election in which the can- reports required to be filed under Title I of or write for publication on any subject that didate is participating. the Ethics in Government Act. The indi- is in any way related to the employment or (e) An individual who takes legally suffi- vidual designated by the Committee to re- duties with the Committee of such individual cient action to withdraw as a candidate be- view the original report required to be filed without specific prior approval from the fore the date on which that individual’s Fi- under Title I of the Ethics in Government Chair and Ranking Minority Member. nancial Disclosure Statement is due under Act shall review any amendment thereto. (f) All staff members shall be appointed by the Ethics in Government Act shall not be (o) Within the time specified, including an affirmative vote of a majority of the required to file a Statement. An individual any extension granted in accordance with members of the Committee. Such vote shall

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If the Com- mittee on House Administration, the Com- regarding such statement may be made pub- mittee approves and accepts such affidavit of mittee may retain counsel not employed by lic as authorized by the Committee to the disqualification, the Chair shall so notify the the House of Representatives whenever the extent consistent with the Rules of the Speaker and ask the Speaker to designate a Committee determines, by an affirmative House of Representatives. If no public hear- Member of the House of Representatives vote of a majority of the members of the ing is held on the matter, the Statement of from the same political party as the dis- Committee, that the retention of outside Alleged Violation and any written response qualified member of the Committee to act as counsel is necessary and appropriate. thereto shall be included in the Committee’s a member of the Committee in any Com- (h) If the Committee determines that it is final report on the matter to the House of mittee proceeding relating to such investiga- necessary to retain staff members for the Representatives. tion. purpose of a particular investigation or (f) Unless otherwise determined by a vote RULE 10. VOTE REQUIREMENTS other proceeding, then such staff shall be re- of the Committee, only the Chair or Ranking (a) The following actions shall be taken tained only for the duration of that par- Minority Member of the Committee, after only upon an affirmative vote of a majority ticular investigation or proceeding. consultation with each other, may make of the members of the Committee or sub- (i) Outside counsel may be dismissed prior public statements regarding matters before committee, as appropriate: to the end of a contract between the Com- the Committee or any subcommittee. mittee and such counsel only by a majority (g) The Committee may establish proce- (1) Issuing a subpoena. vote of the members of the Committee. dures necessary to prevent the unauthorized (2) Adopting a full Committee motion to (j) In addition to any other staff provided disclosure of any testimony or other infor- create an investigative subcommittee. for by law, rule, or other authority, with re- mation received by the Committee or its (3) Adopting or amending of a Statement of spect to the Committee, the Chair and Rank- staff. Alleged Violation. (4) Finding that a count in a Statement of ing Minority Member each may appoint one RULE 8. SUBCOMMITTEES—GENERAL POLICY AND individual as a shared staff member from the Alleged Violation has been proved by clear STRUCTURE and convincing evidence. respective personal staff of the Chair or (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of Ranking Minority Member to perform serv- (5) Sending a letter of reproval. these Rules, the Chair and Ranking Minority (6) Adopting a recommendation to the ice for the Committee. Such shared staff Member of the Committee may consult with may assist the Chair or Ranking Minority House of Representatives that a sanction be an investigative subcommittee either on imposed. Member on any subcommittee on which the their own initiative or on the initiative of Chair or Ranking Minority Member serves. (7) Adopting a report relating to the con- the subcommittee, shall have access to evi- duct of a Member, officer, or employee. Only paragraphs (c) and (e) of this Rule and dence and information before a sub- Rule 7(b) shall apply to shared staff (8) Issuing an advisory opinion of general committee with whom they so consult, and applicability establishing new policy. RULE 7. CONFIDENTIALITY shall not thereby be precluded from serving (b) Except as stated in clause (a), action (a) Before any Member or employee of the as full, voting members of any adjudicatory may be taken by the Committee or any sub- Committee, including members of an inves- subcommittee. Except for the Chair and committee thereof by a simple majority, a tigative subcommittee selected under clause Ranking Minority Member of the Committee quorum being present. 5(a)(4) of Rule X of the House of Representa- pursuant to this paragraph, evidence in the (c) No motion made to take any of the ac- tives and shared staff designated pursuant to possession of an investigative subcommittee tions enumerated in clause (a) of this Rule Committee Rule 6(j), may have access to in- shall not be disclosed to other Committee may be entertained by the Chair unless a formation that is confidential under the members except by a vote of the sub- quorum of the Committee is present when rules of the Committee, the following oath committee. such motion is made. (or affiimation) shall be executed in writing: (b) The Committee may establish other RULE 11. COMMITTEE RECORDS ‘‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will noninvestigative and nonadjudicatory sub- not disclose, to any person or entity outside committees and may assign to them such (a) All communications and all pleadings the Committee on Ethics, any information functions as it may deem appropriate. The pursuant to these rules shall be filed with received in the course of my service with the membership of each subcommittee shall pro- the Committee at the Committee’s office or Committee, except as authorized by the vide equal representation for the majority such other place as designated by the Com- Committee or in accordance with its rules.’’ and minority parties. mittee. Copies of the executed oath shall be pro- (c) The Chair may refer any bill, resolu- (b) All records of the Committee which vided to the Clerk of the House as part of the tion, or other matter before the Committee have been delivered to the Archivist of the records of the House. Breaches of confiden- to an appropriate subcommittee for consid- United States shall be made available to the tiality shall be investigated by the Com- eration. Any such bill, resolution, or other public in accordance with Rule VII of the mittee and appropriate action shall be matter may be discharged from the sub- Rules of the House of Representatives. taken. committee to which it was referred by a ma- RULE 12. BROADCASTS OF COMMITTEE AND (b) No member of the staff or outside coun- jority vote of the Committee. SUBCOMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS (d) Any member of the Committee may sit sel may make public, unless approved by an (a) Television or radio coverage of a Com- with any noninvestigative or nonadjudica- affirmative vote of a majority of the mem- mittee or subcommittee hearing or meeting tory subcommittee, but only regular mem- bers of the Committee, any information, doc- shall be without commercial sponsorship. bers of such subcommittee may vote on any ument, or other material that is confiden- (b) Not more than four television cameras, matter before that subcommittee. tial, derived from executive session, or clas- operating from fixed positions, shall be per- sified and that is obtained during the course RULE 9. QUORUMS AND MEMBER mitted in a hearing or meeting room. The of employment with the Committee. DISQUALIFICATION Committee may allocate the positions of (c) Committee members and staff shall not (a) The quorum for the Committee or an permitted television cameras among the tel- disclose any evidence or information relat- investigative subcommittee to take testi- evision media in consultation with the Exec- ing to any investigation or proceeding of the mony and to receive evidence shall be two utive Committee of the Radio and Television Committee or a subcommittee to any person members, unless otherwise authorized by the Correspondents’ Galleries. or organization outside the Committee, un- House of Representatives. (c) Television cameras shall be placed so as less authorized by the Committee. (b) The quorum for an adjudicatory sub- not to obstruct in any way the space between (d) This rule shall not prohibit the Chair or committee to take testimony, receive evi- any witness giving evidence or testimony Ranking Minority Member from disclosing dence, or conduct business shall consist of a and any member of the Committee, or the to the Board of the Office of Congressional majority plus one of the members of the ad- visibility of that witness and that member to Ethics the existence of a Committee inves- judicatory subcommittee. each other. tigation, the name of the Member, officer, or (c) Except as stated in clauses (a) and (b) of (d) Television cameras shall not be placed employee of the House who is the subject of this rule, a quorum for the purpose of con- in positions that unnecessarily obstruct the that investigation, and a brief statement of ducting business consists of a majority of coverage of the hearing or meeting by the the scope of that investigation in a written the members of the Committee or sub- other media. request for referral pursuant to Rule 17A(k). committee. PART II—INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITY Such disclosures will only be made subject to (d) A member of the Committee shall be in- written confirmation from the Board that eligible to participate in any Committee or RULE 13. HOUSE RESOLUTION the information provided by the Chair or subcommittee proceeding in which such Whenever the House of Representatives, by Ranking Minority Member will be kept con- Member is a respondent. resolution, authorizes or directs the Com- fidential by the Board. (e) A member of the Committee may seek mittee to undertake an inquiry or investiga- (e) A Statement of Alleged Violation and disqualification from participating in any in- tion, the provisions of the resolution, in con- any written response thereto shall be made vestigation of the conduct of a Member, offi- junction with these Rules, shall govern. To public at the first meeting or hearing on the cer, or employee of the House of Representa- the extent the provisions of the resolution

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If at any time during the complaint alleges conduct that the Com- the Rules of the House of Representatives, the time period either the Chair or Ranking mittee has reason to believe is being re- the Committee may exercise its investiga- Minority Member places on the agenda the viewed by appropriate law enforcement or tive authority when: issue of whether to establish an investigative (1) information offered as a complaint, in regulatory authorities, or when the Com- subcommittee, then an investigative sub- writing and under oath, by a Member of the mittee determines that it is appropriate for committee may be established only by an af- House of Representatives is transmitted di- the conduct alleged in the complaint to be firmative vote of a majority of the members rectly to the Committee; reviewed initially by law enforcement or reg- of the Committee. (2) information offered as a complaint, in ulatory authorities. (e) Whenever the Chair and Ranking Mi- writing and under oath, by an individual not (g) A complaint may not be amended with- nority Member jointly determine that infor- a Member of the House is transmitted to the out leave of the Committee. Otherwise, any mation submitted to the Committee does not Committee, provided that a Member of the new allegations of improper conduct must be meet the requirements for what constitutes House certifies in writing that such Member submitted in a new complaint that independ- a complaint set forth in the Committee believes the information is submitted in ently meets the procedural requirements of rules, they may (1) return the information to good faith and warrants the review and con- the Rules of the House of Representatives the complainant with a statement that it sideration of the Committee; and the Committee’s Rules. fails to meet the requirements for what con- (3) the Committee, on its own initiative, (h) The Committee shall not accept, and stitutes a complaint set forth in the Com- undertakes an investigation; shall return to the complainant, any com- mittee’s rules; or (2) recommend to the Com- (4) a Member, officer, or employee is in- plaint submitted within the 60 days before a mittee that it authorize the establishment of dicted or otherwise formally charged with Federal, State, or local election in which the an investigative subcommittee. criminal conduct or is convicted of a felony subject of the complaint is a candidate. RULE 17. PROCESSING OF COMPLAINTS in a Federal, State, or local court; (i) The Committee shall not consider a (a) If a complaint is in compliance with (5) the House of Representatives, by resolu- complaint, nor shall any investigation be un- House and Committee Rules, a copy of the tion, authorizes or directs the Committee to dertaken by the Committee, of any alleged complaint and the Committee Rules shall be undertake an inquiry or investigation; or violation which occurred before the third forwarded to the respondent(s) within 5 days (6) a referral from the Board is transmitted previous Congress unless the Committee de- with notice that the complaint conforms to to the Committee. termines that the alleged violation is di- the applicable rules. (b) The Committee also has investigatory rectly related to an alleged violation which (b) A respondent may, within 30 days of the authority over: occurred in a more recent Congress. Committee’s notification in clause (a), pro- (1) certain unauthorized disclosures of in- RULE 16. DUTIES OF COMMITTEE CHAIR AND vide to the Committee any information rel- telligence-related information, pursuant to RANKING MINORITY MEMBER evant to a complaint filed with the Com- House Rule X, clauses 11(g)(4) and (g)(5); (a) Whenever information offered as a com- mittee. The respondent may submit a writ- (2) reports received from the Office of the plaint is submitted to the Committee, the ten statement in response to the complaint. Inspector General pursuant to House Rule II, Chair and Ranking Minority Member shall Such a statement shall be signed by the re- clause 6(c)(5); have 14 calendar days or 5 legislative days, spondent. If the statement is prepared by (3) determinations regarding appeals from whichever occurs first, to determine whether counsel for the respondent, the respondent fines imposed by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the information meets the requirements of shall sign a representation that the respond- the use of electronic devices in contraven- the Committee’s rules for what constitutes a ent has reviewed the response and agrees tion of applicable House rules or policies, complaint. with the factual assertions contained there- pursuant to House Rule II, clause 3(g); and (b) Whenever the Chair and Ranking Mi- in. (4) information received from the Office of nority Member jointly determine that infor- (c) The Committee staff may request infor- Congressional Workplace Rights, pursuant to mation submitted to the Committee meets mation from a respondent or obtain addi- the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. the requirements of the Committee’s rules tional information relevant to the case from RULE 15. COMPLAINTS for what constitutes a complaint, they shall other sources prior to the establishment of (a) A complaint submitted to the Com- have 45 calendar days or 5 legislative days, an investigative subcommittee only when so mittee shall be in writing, dated, and prop- whichever is later, after the date that the directed by the Chair and Ranking Minority erly verified (a document will be considered Chair and Ranking Minority Member deter- Member. properly verified where a notary executes it mine that infoiniation filed meets the re- (d) The respondent(s) shall be notified in with the language, ‘‘Signed and sworn to (or quirements of the Committee’s rules for writing regarding the Chair and Ranking Mi- affirmed) before me on (date) by (the name of what constitutes a complaint, unless the nority Member’s determination under Rule the person)’’) setting forth in simple, con- Committee by an affirmative vote of a ma- 16(e) or the Committee’s decision either to cise, and direct statements— jority of its members votes otherwise, to— dismiss the complaint or to create an inves- (1) the name and legal address of the party (1) recommend to the Committee that it tigative subcommittee. filing the complaint (hereinafter referred to dispose of the complaint, or any portion RULE 17A. REFERRALS FROM THE BOARD OF THE as the ‘‘complainant’’); thereof, in any manner that does not require OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS (2) the name and position or title of the re- action by the House, which may include dis- (a) The Committee has exclusive jurisdic- spondent(s); missal of the complaint or resolution of the tion over the interpretation, administration, (3) the nature of the alleged violation of complaint by a letter to the Member, officer, and enforcement of the Code of Official Con- the Code of Official Conduct or of other law, or employee of the House against whom the duct pursuant to clause 1(g)of House Rule X. rule, regulation, or other standard of con- complaint is made; Receipt of referrals from the Board under duct applicable to the performance of duties (2) establish an investigative sub- this rule does not limit the Committee’s dis- or discharge of responsibilities; and committee; or cretion to address referrals in any way (4) the facts alleged to give rise to the vio- (3) request that the Committee extend the through the appropriate procedures author- lation. The complaint shall not contain in- applicable 45-calendar day period when they ized by Committee Rules. The Committee nuendo, speculative assertions, or conclusory determine more time is necessary in order to shall review the report and findings trans- statements. make a recommendation under paragraph (1) mitted by the Board without prejudice or (b) Any documents in the possession of the or (2) of Rule 16(b). presumptions as to the merit of the allega- complainant that relate to the allegations (c) The Chair and Ranking Minority Mem- tions. may be submitted with the complaint. ber may jointly gather additional informa- (b)(1) Whenever the Committee receives ei- (c) Information offered as a complaint by a tion concerning alleged conduct which is the ther (A) a referral containing a written re- Member of the House of Representatives may basis of a complaint or of information of- port and any findings and supporting docu- be transmitted directly to the Committee. fered as a complaint until they have estab- mentation from the Board; or (B) a referral (d) Information offered as a complaint by lished an investigative subcommittee or the from the Board pursuant to a request under an individual not a Member of the House Chair or Ranking Minority Member has Rule 17A(k), the Chair shall have 45 calendar may be transmitted to the Committee, pro- placed on the agenda the issue of whether to days or 5 legislative days after the date the vided that a Member of the House certifies in establish an investigative subcommittee. referral is received, whichever is later, to writing that such Member believes the infor- (d) If the Chair and Ranking Minority make public the report and findings of the mation is submitted in good faith and war- Member jointly determine that information Board unless the Chair and Ranking Minor- rants the review and consideration of the submitted to the Committee meets the re- ity Member jointly decide, or the Committee Committee. quirements of the Committee rules for what votes, to withhold such information for not (e) A complaint must be accompanied by a constitutes a complaint, and the complaint more than one additional 45-day period. certification, which may be unsworn, that is not disposed of within 45 calendar days or (2) At least one calendar day before the the complainant has provided an exact copy 5 legislative days, whichever is later, and no Committee makes public any report and

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Chair shall transmit a copy of any public matter within one year of the date the public (e)(1) An inquiry shall be undertaken by an statement on the Committee’s disposition of statement described in paragraph (h)(1)(B) is investigative subcommittee with regard to the matter and any accompanying Com- released, the Committee shall make a public any felony conviction of a Member, officer, mittee report to the individual who is the statement that it continues to defer taking or employee of the House of Representatives subject of the referral. action on the matter. The Committee shall in a Federal, State, or local court who has (3) All public statements and reports and make a new statement upon the expiration been sentenced. Notwithstanding this provi- findings of the Board that are required to be of each succeeding one-year period during sion, the Chair and Ranking Minority Mem- made public under this Rule shall be posted which the Committee has not acted on the ber have the discretion to gather informa- on the Committee’s website. matter. tion pursuant to subsection (a) of this Rule, (c) If the OCE report and findings are with- (i) The Committee shall not accept, and and the Committee has the discretion to ini- held for an additional 45-day period pursuant shall return to the Board, any referral from tiate an inquiry upon an affirmative vote of to paragraph (b)(1), the Chair shall— the Board within 60 days before a Federal, a majority of the members of the Com- (1) make a public statement on the day of State, or local election in which the subject mittee, at any time prior to conviction or such decision or vote that the matter re- of the referral is a candidate. sentencing. ferred from the Board has been extended; and (j) The Committee may postpone any re- (2) Not later than 30 days after a Member (2) make public the written report and porting requirement under this rule that of the House is indicted or otherwise for- falls within that 60–day period until after the findings pursuant to paragraph (b) upon the mally charged with criminal conduct in any date of the election in which the subject of termination of such additional period. Federal, State, or local court, the Com- the referral is a candidate. For purposes of (d) If the Board transmits a report with a mittee shall either initiate an inquiry upon calculating any applicable period under this recommendation to dismiss or noting a mat- a majority vote of the members of the Com- Rule, any days within the 60–day period be- ter as unresolved due to a tie vote, and the mittee or submit a report to the House de- fore such an election and the date of the matter is extended for an additional period scribing its reasons for not initiating an in- as provided in paragraph (b), the Committee election shall not be counted. (k)(1) At any time after the Committee re- quiry and describing the actions, if any, that is not required to make a public statement the Committee has taken in response to the that the matter has been extended pursuant ceives written notification from the Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics that the allegations. to paragraph (b)(1). (3) In addition to any other evidence which Board is undertaking a review of alleged con- (e) If the Committee votes to dismiss a the Committee or investigative sub- duct of any Member, officer, or employee of matter referred from the Board, the Com- committee may consider, the Committee or the House at a time when the Committee is mittee is not required to make public the investigative subcommittee may take into investigating, or has completed an investiga- written report and findings of the Board pur- evidence any information related to the sub- tion of the same matter, the Committee may suant to paragraph (c) unless the Commit- ject of an investigation contained in trial so notify the Board in writing and request tee’s vote is inconsistent with the rec- transcripts and all exhibits admitted into that the Board cease its review and refer the ommendation of the Board. A vote by the evidence at trial. Committee to dismiss a matter is not consid- matter to the Committee for its consider- RULE 19. INVESTIGATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE ered inconsistent with a report from the ation immediately. The Committee shall Board that the matter is unresolved by the also notify the Board in writing if the Com- (a)(1) Upon the establishment of an inves- Board due to a tie vote. mittee has not reached a final resolution of tigative subcommittee, the Chair and Rank- (f) Except as provided by paragraph (g): the matter or has not referred the matter to ing Minority Member of the Committee shall (1) If the Committee establishes an inves- the appropriate Federal or State authorities designate four members (with equal rep- tigative subcommittee respecting any mat- by the end of any applicable time period resentation from the majority and minority ter referred by the Board, then the report specified in Rule 17A (including any permis- parties) to serve as an investigative sub- and findings of the Board shall not be made sible extension). committee to undertake an inquiry. Mem- public until the conclusion of the investiga- (2) The Committee may not request a sec- bers of the Committee and Members of the tive subcommittee process. The Committee ond referral of the matter from the Board if House selected pursuant to clause 5(a)(4)(A) shall issue a public statement noting the es- the Committee has notified the Board that it of Rule X of the House of Representatives tablishment of an investigative sub- is unable to resolve the matter previously re- are eligible for appointment to an investiga- committee, which shall include the name of quested pursuant to this section. The Board tive subcommittee, as determined by the the Member, officer, or employee who is the may subsequently send a referral regarding a Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the subject of the inquiry, and shall set forth the matter previously requested and returned by Committee. At the time of appointment, the alleged violation. the Committee after the conclusion of the Chair shall designate one member of the sub- (2) If any such investigative subcommittee Board’s review process. committee to serve as the Chair and the does not conclude its review within one year RULE 18. COMMITTEE-INITIATED INQUIRY OR Ranking Minority Member shall designate after the Board’s referral, then the Com- INVESTIGATION one member of the subcommittee to serve as mittee shall make public the report of the (a) Notwithstanding the absence of a filed the ranking minority member of the inves- Board no later than one year after the refer- complaint, the Committee may consider any tigative subcommittee. The Chair and Rank- ral. If the investigative subcommittee does information in its possession indicating that ing Minority Member of the Committee may not conclude its review before the end of the a Member, officer, or employee may have serve as members of an investigative sub- Congress in which the report of the Board is committed a violation of the Code of Official committee, but may not serve as non-voting, made public, the Committee shall make pub- Conduct or any law, rule, regulation, or ex-officio members. lic any findings of the Board on the last day other standard of conduct applicable to the (2) A respondent shall be notified of the of that Congress. conduct of such Member, officer, or em- membership of the investigative sub- (g) If the vote of the Committee is a tie or ployee in the performance of the duties or committee and shall have 10 days after such the Committee fails to act by the close of the discharge of the responsibilities of such notice is transmitted to object to the par- any applicable period(s) under this rule, the individual. The Chair and Ranking Minority ticipation of any subcommittee member. report and the findings of the Board shall be Member may jointly gather additional infor- Such objection shall be in writing and must made public by the Committee, along with a mation concerning such an alleged violation be on the grounds that the subcommittee public statement by the Chair explaining the by a Member, officer, or employee unless and member cannot render an impartial and un- status of the matter. until an investigative subcommittee has biased decision. The members of the Com- (h)(1) If the Committee agrees to a request been established. The Chair and Ranking Mi- mittee shall engage in a collegial discussion from an appropriate law enforcement or reg- nority Member may also jointly take appro- regarding such objection. The subcommittee ulatory authority to defer taking action on a priate action consistent with Committee member against whom the objection is made matter referred by the Board under para- Rules to resolve the matter. shall be the sole judge of any disqualifica- graph (b)— (b) If the Committee votes to establish an tion and may choose to seek disqualification (A) The Committee is not required to make investigative subcommittee, the Committee from participating in the inquiry pursuant public the written report and findings of the shall proceed in accordance with Rule 19. to Rule 9(e). Board pursuant to paragraph (c), except that (c) Any written request by a Member, offi- (b) In an inquiry undertaken by an inves- if the recommendation of the Board is that cer, or employee of the House of Representa- tigative subcommittee— the matter requires further review, the Com- tives that the Committee conduct an inves- (1) All proceedings, including the taking of mittee shall make public the written report tigation into such person’s own conduct testimony, shall be conducted in executive of the Board but not the findings; and shall be considered in accordance with sub- session and all evidence or testimony pro- (B) The Committee shall make a public section (a) of this Rule. duced pursuant to subpoena or otherwise statement that it is deferring taking action (d) An investigation shall not be under- shall be deemed to have been taken or pro- on the matter at the request of such law en- taken regarding any alleged violation that duced in executive session.

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A respondent official duties or the discharge of official re- of Representatives, together with the re- or witness who is represented by counsel sponsibilities by a Member, officer, or em- spondent’s views previously submitted pur- shall not be questioned in the absence of ployee of the House of Representatives has suant to subparagraph (2) and any additional counsel unless an explicit waiver is obtained. occurred. If more than one violation is al- views respondent may submit for attach- (3) The subcommittee shall provide the re- leged, such Statement shall be divided into ment to the final report; and spondent(s) an opportunity to present, orally separate counts. Each count shall relate to a (d) Members of the Committee shall have or in writing, a statement, which must be separate violation, shall contain a plain and not less than 72 hours to review any report under oath or affirmation, regarding the al- concise statement of the alleged facts of transmitted to the Committee by an inves- legations and any other relevant questions such violation, and shall include a reference tigative subcommittee before both the com- arising out of the inquiry. to the provision of the Code of Official Con- mencement of a sanction hearing and the (4) The staff may interview witnesses, ex- duct or law, rule, regulation, or other appli- Committee vote on whether to adopt the re- amine documents and other evidence, and re- cable standard of conduct governing the per- port. quest that submitted statements be under formance of duties or discharge of respon- RULE 22. RESPONDENT’S ANSWER oath or affirmation and that documents be sibilities alleged to have been violated. A (a)(1) Within 30 days from the date of certified as to their authenticity and accu- copy of such Statement shall be transmitted transmittal of a Statement of Alleged Viola- racy. to the respondent and the respondent’s coun- tion, the respondent shall file with the inves- (5) The subcommittee, by a majority vote sel. tigative subcommittee an answer, in writing of its members, may require, by subpoena or (g) If the investigative subcommittee does and under oath, signed by respondent and re- otherwise, the attendance and testimony of not adopt a Statement of Alleged Violation, spondent’s counsel. Failure to file an answer witnesses and the production of such books, it shall transmit to the Committee a report within the time prescribed shall be consid- records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, containing a summary of the information re- ered by the Committee as a denial of each documents, and other items as it deems nec- ceived in the inquiry, its conclusions and count. essary to the conduct of the inquiry. Unless reasons therefore, and any appropriate rec- (2) The answer shall contain an admission the Committee otherwise provides, the sub- ommendation. to or denial of each count set forth in the poena power shall rest in the Chair and (h) An investigative subcommittee may Statement of Alleged Violation and may in- Ranking Minority Member of the Committee transmit a single report regarding multiple clude negative, affirmative, or alternative and a subpoena shall be issued upon the re- respondents, but shall adopt a separate defenses and any supporting evidence or quest of the investigative subcommittee. Statement of Alleged Violation for each re- other relevant information. (6) Required testimony shall be given spondent where applicable. (b) The respondent may file a Motion for a under oath or affirmation. The form of the RULE 20. AMENDMENTS TO STATEMENTS OF Bill of Particulars within 10 days of the date oath or affirmation shall be: ‘‘Do you sol- ALLEGED VIOLATION of transmittal of the Statement of Alleged emnly swear (or affirm) that the testimony Violation. If a Motion for a Bill of Particu- (a) An investigative subcommittee may, you will give before this subcommittee in lars is filed, the respondent shall not be re- upon an affirmative vote of a majority of its the matter now under consideration will be quired to file an answer until 20 days after members, amend its Statement of Alleged the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the subcommittee has replied to such mo- Violation anytime before the Statement of the truth (so help you God)?’’ The oath or af- tion. Alleged Violation is transmitted to the Com- firmation shall be administered by the Chair (c)(1) The respondent may file a Motion to mittee; and Dismiss within 10 days of the date of trans- or any individual designated by the Chair to (b) If an investigative subcommittee mittal of the Statement of Alleged Violation administer oaths. amends its Statement of Alleged Violation, (c) During the inquiry, the procedure re- or, if a Motion for a Bill of Particulars has the respondent shall be notified in writing specting the admissibility of evidence and been filed, within 10 days of the date of the and shall have 30 calendar days from the rulings shall be as follows: subcommittee’s reply to the Motion for a date of that notification to file an answer to (1) Any relevant evidence shall be admis- Bill of Particulars. If a Motion to Dismiss is the amended Statement of Alleged Viola- sible unless the evidence is privileged under filed, the respondent shall not be required to tion. the precedents of the House of Representa- file an answer until 20 days after the sub- tives. RULE 21. COMMITTEE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS committee has replied to the Motion to Dis- (2) The Chair of the subcommittee or other (a) Whenever an investigative sub- miss, unless the respondent previously filed presiding member at any investigative sub- committee does not adopt a Statement of Al- a Motion for a Bill of Particulars, in which committee proceeding shall rule upon any leged Violation and transmits a report to case the respondent shall not be required to question of admissibility or relevance of evi- that effect to the Committee, the Committee file an answer until 10 days after the sub- dence, motion, procedure, or any other mat- may by an affirmative vote of a majority of committee has replied to the Motion to Dis- ter, and may direct any witness to answer its members transmit such report to the miss. The investigative subcommittee shall any question under penalty of contempt. A House of Representatives; rule upon any motion to dismiss filed during witness, witness counsel, or a member of the (b) Whenever an investigative sub- the period between the establishment of the subcommittee may appeal any rulings to the committee adopts a Statement of Alleged subcommittee and the subcommittee’s trans- members present at that proceeding. A ma- Violation but recommends that no further mittal of a report or Statement of Alleged jority vote of the members present at such action be taken, it shall transmit a report to Violation to the Committee or to the Chair proceeding on such appeal shall govern the the Committee regarding the Statement of and Ranking Minority Member at the con- question of admissibility, and no appeal shall Alleged Violation; and clusion of an inquiry, and no appeal of the lie to the Committee. (c) Whenever an investigative sub- subcommittee’s ruling shall lie to the Com- (3) Whenever a person is determined by a committee adopts a Statement of Alleged mittee. majority vote to be in contempt of the sub- Violation, the respondent admits to the vio- (2) A Motion to Dismiss may be made on committee, the matter may be referred to lations set forth in such Statement, the re- the grounds that the Statement of Alleged the Committee to determine whether to refer spondent waives the right to an adjudicatory Violation fails to state facts that constitute the matter to the House of Representatives hearing, and the respondent’s waiver is ap- a violation of the Code of Official Conduct or for consideration. proved by the Committee— other applicable law, rule, regulation, or (4) Committee counsel may, subject to sub- (1) the subcommittee shall prepare a report standard of conduct, or on the grounds that committee approval, enter into stipulations for transmittal to the Committee, a final the Committee lacks jurisdiction to consider with a respondent and/or the respondent’s draft of which shall be provided to the re- the allegations contained in the Statement. counsel as to facts that are not in dispute. spondent not less than 15 calendar days be- (d) Any motion filed with the sub- (d) Upon an affi !native vote of a majority fore the subcommittee votes on whether to committee pursuant to this rule shall be ac- of the subcommittee members, and an af- adopt the report; companied by a Memorandum of Points and firmative vote of a majority of the full Com- (2) the respondent may submit views in Authorities. mittee, an investigative subcommittee may writing regarding the final draft to the sub- (e)(1) The Chair of the investigative sub- expand the scope of its inquiry. committee within 7 calendar days of receipt committee, for good cause shown, may per- (e) Upon completion of the inquiry, the of that draft; mit the respondent to file an answer or mo- staff shall draft for the investigative sub- (3) the subcommittee shall transmit a re- tion after the day prescribed above. committee a report that shall contain a com- port to the Committee regarding the State- (2) If the ability of the respondent to prehensive summary of the information re- ment of Alleged Violation together with any present an adequate defense is not adversely ceived regarding the alleged violations. views submitted by the respondent pursuant affected and special circumstances so re- (f) Upon completion of the inquiry, an in- to subparagraph (2), and the Committee shall quire, the Chair of the investigative sub- vestigative subcommittee, by a majority make the report, together with the respond- committee may direct the respondent to file

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(2) After a witness has testified on direct statements. (g) As soon as practicable after an answer examination at an adjudicatory hearing, the (3) Testimony from witnesses and other has been filed or the time for such filing has Committee, at the request of the respondent, relevant evidence shall be received in the fol- expired, the Statement of Alleged Violation shall make available to the respondent any lowing order whenever possible: and any answer, motion, reply, or other statement of the witness in the possession of (i) witnesses (deposition transcripts and af- pleading connected therewith shall be trans- the Committee which relates to the subject fidavits obtained during the inquiry may be used in lieu of live witnesses) and other evi- mitted by the Chair of the investigative sub- matter as to which the witness has testified. (3) Any other testimony, statement, or dence offered by Committee counsel, committee to the Chair and Ranking Minor- (ii) witnesses and other evidence offered by documentary evidence in the possession of ity Member of the Committee. the respondent, RULE 23. ADJUDICATORY HEARINGS the Committee which is material to the re- (iii) rebuttal witnesses, as permitted by spondent’s defense shall, upon request, be (a) If a Statement of Alleged Violation is the Chair. made available to the respondent. transmitted to the Chair and Ranking Mi- (4) Witnesses at a hearing shall be exam- (g) No less than 5 days prior to the hearing, nority Member pursuant to Rule 22, and no ined first by counsel calling such witness. the respondent or counsel shall provide the waiver pursuant to Rule 26(b) has occurred, The opposing counsel may then cross-exam- adjudicatory subcommittee with the names the Chair shall designate the members of the ine the witness. Redirect examination and of witnesses expected to be called, sum- Committee who did not serve on the inves- recross examination by counsel may be per- maries of their expected testimony, and cop- tigative subcommittee to serve on an adju- mitted at the Chair’s discretion. Sub- ies of any documents or other evidence pro- dicatory subcommittee. The Chair and Rank- committee members may then question wit- posed to be introduced. nesses. Unless otherwise directed by the ing Minority Member of the Committee shall (h) The respondent or counsel may apply to Chair, questions by Subcommittee members be the Chair and Ranking Minority Member the subcommittee for the issuance of sub- shall be conducted under the five-minute of the adjudicatory subcommittee unless poenas for the appearance of witnesses or the rule. they served on the investigative sub- production of evidence. The application shall (5) The Chair shall then recognize Com- committee. The respondent shall be notified be granted upon a showing by the respondent mittee counsel and respondent’s counsel, in of the designation of the adjudicatory sub- that the proposed testimony or evidence is turn, for the purpose of giving closing argu- committee and shall have 10 days after such relevant and not otherwise available to re- ments. Committee counsel may reserve time notice is transmitted to object to the par- spondent. The application may be denied if for rebuttal argument, as permitted by the ticipation of any subcommittee member. not made at a reasonable time or if the testi- Chair. Such objection shall be in writing and shall mony or evidence would be merely cumu- (1) A subpoena to a witness to appear at a be on the grounds that the member cannot lative. hearing shall be served sufficiently in ad- render an impartial and unbiased decision. (i) No later than two weeks or 5 legislative vance of that witness’ scheduled appearance The members of the Committee shall engage days after the Chair of the Committee des- to allow the witness a reasonable period of in a collegial discussion regarding such ob- ignates members to serve on an adjudicatory time, as determined by the Chair of the adju- jection. The member against whom the ob- subcommittee, whichever is later, the Chair dicatory subcommittee, to prepare for the jection is made shall be the sole judge of any of the adjudicatory subcommittee shall es- hearing and to employ counsel. disqualification and may choose to seek dis- tablish a schedule and procedure for the (m) Each witness appearing before the sub- qualification from serving on the sub- hearing and for prehearing matters. The pro- committee shall be furnished a printed or electronic copy of the Committee rules, the committee pursuant to Rule 9(e). cedures may be changed either by the Chair relevant provisions of the Rules of the House (b) A majority of the adjudicatory sub- of the adjudicatory subcommittee or a by a of Representatives applicable to the rights of committee membership plus one must be majority vote of the members of the sub- witnesses, and a copy of the Statement of Al- present at all times for the conduct of any committee. If the Chair makes prehearing business pursuant to this rule. leged Violation. rulings upon any question of admissibility or (n) Testimony of all witnesses shall be (c) The adjudicatory subcommittee shall relevance of evidence, motion, procedure, or hold a hearing to determine whether any taken under oath or affirmation. The form of any other matter, the Chair shall make the oath or affirmation shall be: ‘‘Do you counts in the Statement of Alleged Violation available those rulings to all subcommittee have been proved by clear and convincing solemnly swear (or affirm) that the testi- members at the time of the ruling. mony you will give before this subcommittee evidence and shall make findings of fact, ex- (j) The procedures regarding the admissi- cept where such violations have been admit- in the matter now under consideration will bility of evidence and rulings shall be as fol- be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing ted by respondent. lows: but the truth (so help you God)?’’ The oath (d) The subcommittee may require, by sub- (1) Any relevant evidence shall be admis- or affirmation shall be administered by the poena or otherwise, the attendance and testi- sible unless the evidence is privileged under Chair or Committee member designated by mony of such witnesses and production of the precedents of the House of Representa- the Chair to administer oaths. such books, records, correspondence, memo- tives. (o) At an adjudicatory hearing, the burden randa, papers, documents, and other items as (2) The Chair of the subcommittee or other of proof rests on Committee counsel to es- it deems necessary. A subpoena for docu- presiding member at an adjudicatory sub- tablish the facts alleged in the Statement of ments may specify terms of return other committee hearing shall rule upon any ques- Alleged Violation by clear and convincing than at a meeting or hearing of the sub- tion of admissibility or relevance of evi- evidence. However, Committee counsel need committee. Depositions, interrogatories, and dence, motion, procedure, or any other mat- not present any evidence regarding any sworn statements taken under any investiga- ter, and may direct any witness to answer count that is admitted by the respondent or tive subcommittee direction may be accept- any question under penalty of contempt. A any fact stipulated. Committee counsel or ed into the hearing record. witness, witness counsel, or a member of the respondent’s counsel may move the adjudica- (e) The procedures set forth in clause subcommittee may appeal any ruling to the tory subcommittee to make a finding that 2(g)(1)–(4), (6)–(7) and (k) of Rule XI of the members present at that proceeding. A ma- there is no material fact at issue. If the adju- Rules of the House of Representatives shall jority vote of the members present at such dicatory subcommittee finds that there is no apply to adjudicatory hearings. All such proceeding on such an appeal shall govern material fact at issue, the burden of proof hearings shall be open to the public unless the question of admissibility and no appeal will be deemed satisfied. the adjudicatory subcommittee, pursuant to shall lie to the Committee. (p) As soon as practicable after all testi- such clause; determines that the hearings or (3) Whenever a witness is deemed by a mony and evidence have been presented, the any part thereof should be closed. Chair or other presiding member to be in subcommittee shall consider each count con- (f)(1) The adjudicatory subcommittee shall, contempt of the subcommittee, the matter tained in the Statement of Alleged Violation in writing, notify the respondent that the re- may be referred to the Committee to deter- and shall determine by a majority vote of its spondent and respondent’s counsel have the mine whether to refer the matter to the members whether each count has been right to inspect, review, copy, or photograph House of Representatives for consideration. proved. If a majority of the subcommittee books, papers, documents, photographs, or (4) Committee counsel may, subject to sub- does not vote that a count has been proved, other tangible objects that committee coun- committee approval, enter into stipulations a motion to reconsider that vote may be sel intends to use as evidence against the re- with the respondent and/or the respondent’s made only by a member who voted that the spondent in an adjudicatory hearing. The re- counsel as to facts that are not in dispute. count was not proved. A count that is not spondent shall be given access to such evi- (k) Unless otherwise provided, the order of proved shall be considered as dismissed by dence, and shall be provided the names of an adjudicatory hearing shall be as follows: the subcommittee. witnesses committee counsel intends to call, (1) The Chair and Ranking Minority Mem- (q) The findings of the adjudicatory sub- and a summary of their expected testimony, ber of the subcommittee shall open the hear- committee shall be reported to the Com- no less than 15 calendar days prior to any ing with equal time and during which time, mittee.

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RULE 24. SANCTION HEARING AND CONSIDER- statement of the Committee’s reasons for (2) the commencement of an adjudicatory ATION OF SANCTIONS OR OTHER RECOMMENDA- the recommended sanction. hearing if the respondent has not waived an TIONS RULE 25. DISCLOSURE OF EXCULPATORY adjudicatory hearing; but the failure of re- (a) If no count in a Statement of Alleged INFORMATION TO RESPONDENT spondent and respondent’s counsel to so Violation is proved, the Committee shall If the Committee, or any investigative or agree in writing, and therefore not receive prepare a report to the House of Representa- adjudicatory subcommittee at any time re- the evidence, shall not preclude the issuance tives, based upon the report of the adjudica- ceives any exculpatory information respect- of a Statement of Alleged Violation at the tory subcommittee. ing a Complaint or Statement of Alleged end of the period referenced to in (c). (b) If an adjudicatory subcommittee com- Violation concerning a respondent, it shall (g) If the Committee issues a report with pletes an adjudicatory hearing pursuant to make such information known and available respect to a claim referred to the Committee Rule 23 and reports that any count of the to the respondent as soon as practicable, but by the Office of Congressional Workplace Statement of Alleged Violation has been in no event later than the transmittal of evi- Rights pursuant to Section 416(e) of the Con- proved, a hearing before the Committee shall dence supporting a proposed Statement of gressional Accountability Act of 1995, the be held to receive oral and/or written sub- Alleged Violation pursuant to Rule 26(c). If Committee shall ensure that the report does missions by counsel for the Committee and an investigative subcommittee does not not directly disclose the identity or position counsel for the respondent as to the sanction adopt a Statement of Alleged Violation, it of the individual who filed the claim. the Committee should recommend to the shall identify any exculpatory information (h) A respondent shall receive written no- House of Representatives with respect to in its possession at the conclusion of its in- tice whenever— such violations. Testimony by witnesses quiry and shall include such information, if (1) the Chair and Ranking Minority Mem- shall not be heard except by written request any, in the subcommittee’s final report to ber determine that information the Com- and vote of a majority of the Committee. the Committee regarding its inquiry. For mittee has received constitutes a complaint; (c) Upon completion of any proceeding held purposes of this rule, exculpatory evidence (2) a complaint or allegation is trans- pursuant to clause (b), the Committee shall shall be any evidence or information that is mitted to an investigative subcommittee; consider and vote on a motion to recommend substantially favorable to the respondent (3) that subcommittee votes to authorize to the House of Representatives that the with respect to the allegations or charges be- its first subpoena or to take testimony under House take disciplinary action. If a majority fore an investigative or adjudicatory sub- oath, whichever occurs first; of the Committee does not vote in favor of committee. (4) the Committee votes to expand the the recommendation that the House of Rep- RULE 26. RIGHTS OF RESPONDENTS AND scope of the inquiry of an investigative sub- resentatives take action, a motion to recon- WITNESSES committee; and sider that vote may be made only by a mem- (a) A respondent shall be informed of the (5) the Committee or an investigative sub- ber who voted against the recommendation. right to be represented by counsel, to be pro- committee determines to take into evidence The Committee may also, by majority vote, vided at the respondent’s own expense. the trial transcript or exhibits admitted into adopt a motion to issue a Letter of Reproval (b) A respondent may seek to waive any evidence at a criminal trial pursuant to Rule or take other appropriate Committee action. procedural rights or steps in the disciplinary 18(e)(3). (d) If the Committee determines a Letter process. A request for waiver must be in (i) Whenever an investigative sub- of Reproval constitutes sufficient action, the writing, signed by the respondent, and must committee adopts a Statement of Alleged Committee shall include any such letter as a detail what procedural steps the respondent Violation and a respondent enters into an part of its report to the House of Representa- seeks to waive. Any such request shall be agreement with that subcommittee to settle tives. subject to the acceptance of the Committee an investigation, in whole or in part, on (e) With respect to any proved counts or subcommittee, as appropriate. which the Statement is based, that agree- against a Member of the House of Represent- (c) Not less than 10 calendar days before a ment, unless the respondent requests other- atives, the Committee may recommend to scheduled vote by an investigative sub- wise, shall be in writing and signed by the the House one or more of the following sanc- committee on a Statement of Alleged Viola- respondent and the respondent’s counsel, the tions: tion, the subcommittee shall provide the re- Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the (1) Expulsion from the House of Represent- spondent with a copy of the Statement of Al- subcommittee, and outside counsel, if any. atives. leged Violation it intends to adopt together (j) Statements or information derived sole- (2) Censure. with all evidence it intends to use to prove ly from a respondent or respondent’s counsel (3) Reprimand. those charges which it intends to adopt, in- during any settlement discussions between (4) Fine. cluding documentary evidence, witness testi- the Committee or a subcommittee thereof (5) Denial or limitation of any right, mony, memoranda of witness interviews, and and the respondent shall not be included in power, privilege, or immunity of the Member physical evidence, unless the subcommittee any report of the subcommittee or the Com- if under the Constitution the House of Rep- by an affirmative vote of a majority of its mittee or otherwise publicly disclosed with- resentatives may impose such denial or limi- members decides to withhold certain evi- out the consent of the respondent. tation. dence in order to protect a witness, but if (k) Whenever a motion to establish an in- (6) Any other sanction determined by the such evidence is withheld, the subcommittee vestigative subcommittee does not prevail, shall inform the respondent that evidence is Committee to be appropriate. the Committee shall promptly send a letter being withheld and of the count to which (f) With respect to any proved counts to the respondent(s) informing the respond- such evidence relates. ent(s) of such vote. against an officer or employee of the House (d) Neither the respondent nor respond- (1) Witnesses shall be afforded a reasonable of Representatives, the Committee may rec- ent’s counsel shall, directly or indirectly, period of time, as determined by the Com- ommend to the House one or more of the fol- contact the subcommittee or any member lowing sanctions: thereof during the period of time set forth in mittee or subcommittee, to prepare for an (1) Dismissal from employment. paragraph (c) except for the sole purpose of appearance before an investigative sub- (2) Reprimand. settlement discussions where counsels for committee or for an adjudicatory hearing (3) Fine. the respondent and the subcommittee are and to obtain counsel. (4) Any other sanction determined by the present. (m) Prior to their testimony, witnesses Committee to be appropriate. (e) If, at any time after the issuance of a shall be furnished a printed or electronic (g) With respect to the sanctions that the Statement of Alleged Violation, the Com- copy of the Committee’s Rules and the provi- Committee may recommend, reprimand is mittee or any subcommittee thereof deter- sions of the Rules of the House of Represent- appropriate for serious violations, censure is mines that it intends to use evidence not atives applicable to the rights of witnesses. appropriate for more serious violations, and provided to a respondent under paragraph (c) (n) Witnesses may be accompanied by their expulsion of a Member or dismissal of an of- to prove the charges contained in the State- own counsel for the purpose of advising them ficer or employee is appropriate for the most ment of Alleged Violation (or any amend- concerning their constitutional rights. The serious violations. A recommendation of a ment thereof), such evidence shall be made Chair may punish breaches of order and de- fine is appropriate in a case in which it is immediately available to the respondent, corum, and of professional responsibility on likely that the violation was committed to and it may be used in any further proceeding the part of counsel, by censure and exclusion secure a personal financial benefit; and a under the Committee’s rules. from the hearings; and the Committee may recommendation of a denial or limitation of (f) Evidence provided pursuant to para- cite the offender to the House of Representa- a right, power, privilege, or immunity of a graph (c) or (e) shall be made available to tives for contempt. Member is appropriate when the violation the respondent and respondent’s counsel (o) Each witness subpoenaed to provide tes- bears upon the exercise or holding of such only after each agrees, in writing, that no timony or other evidence shall be provided right, power, privilege, or immunity. This document, information, or other materials the same per diem rate as established, au- clause sets forth general guidelines and does obtained pursuant to that paragraph shall be thorized, and regulated by the Committee on not limit the authority of the Committee to made public until— House Administration for Members, officers, recommend other sanctions. (1) such time as a Statement of Alleged and employees of the House, and, as the (h) The Committee report shall contain an Violation is made public by the Committee if Chair considers appropriate, actual expenses appropriate statement of the evidence sup- the respondent has waived the adjudicatory of travel to or from the place of examina- porting the Committee’s findings and a hearing; or tion. No compensation shall be authorized

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A bill to leverage Federal Gov- witness, upon request, may be provided with mony Clarification Act, would have no ernment procurement power to encourage in- a transcript of the witness’ own deposition significant effect on direct spending or creased cybersecurity for Internet of Things or other testimony taken in executive ses- revenues, and therefore, the budgetary devices, and for other purposes; to the Com- sion, or, with the approval of the Chair and effects of such bill are estimated as mittee on Oversight and Reform, and in addi- Ranking Minority Member, may be per- zero. tion to the Committee on Science, Space, mitted to examine such transcript in the of- and Technology, for a period to be subse- f fice of the Committee. Any such request quently determined by the Speaker, in each shall be in writing and shall include a state- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON case for consideration of such provisions as ment that the witness, and counsel, agree to PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS fall within the jurisdiction of the committee maintain the confidentiality of all executive concerned. session proceedings covered by such tran- Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of By Mr. KING of New York (for himself, script. committees were delivered to the Clerk Miss RICE of New York, and Mr. RULE 27. FRIVOLOUS FILINGS for printing and reference to the proper SUOZZI): H.R. 1669. A bill to direct the Secretary of If a complaint or information offered as a calendar, as follows: the department in which the Coast Guard is complaint is deemed frivolous by an affirma- Mr. DESAULNIER: Committee on Rules. operating to study and report to the Con- tive vote of a majority of the members of the House Resolution 208. Resolution providing gress regarding recreational vessel operator Committee, the Committee may take such for consideration of the concurrent resolu- training; to the Committee on Transpor- action as it, by an affirmative vote of a ma- tion (H. Con. Res. 24) expressing the sense of tation and Infrastructure. jority deems appropriate in the cir- Congress that the report of Special Counsel By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of cumstances. Mueller should be made available to the pub- New York (for herself and Mr. KING of lic and to Congress, and providing for pro- RULE 28. REFERRALS TO FEDERAL OR STATE New York): ceedings during the period from March 15, AUTHORITIES H.R. 1670. A bill to prevent gun trafficking; 2019, through March 22, 2019 (Rept. 116–17). Referrals made under clause 3(a)(3) of Rule to the Committee on the Judiciary. Referred to the House Calendar. XI of the Rules of the House of Representa- By Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself, Mr. tives may be made by an affirmative vote of f FITZPATRICK, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. two-thirds of the members of the Committee. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS SWALWELL of California, Mr. KING of f New York, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. GON- Under clause 2 of rule XII, public ZALEZ of Ohio, Miss RICE of New SENATE BILL REFERRED bills and resolutions of the following York, Mr. ROSE of New York, Mr. A bill of the Senate of the following titles were introduced and severally re- UPTON, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. title was taken from the Speaker’s ferred, as follows: NORTON, Mr. LAMB, Mr. STIVERS, Ms. DEAN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. table and, under the rule, referred as By Mr. MARCHANT (for himself and KATKO, and Mr. BACON): follows: Ms. SEWELL of Alabama): H.R. 1671. A bill to provide for the report- S. 725. An act to change the address of the H.R. 1662. A bill to direct the Secretary of ing to State and local law enforcement au- postal facility designated in honor of Cap- Education to establish a pilot program to thorities of cases in which the national in- tain Humayun Khan; to the Committee on provide grants to secondary schools for as- stant criminal background check system in- Oversight and Reform. sistive technology devices and assistive tech- dicates that a firearm has been sought to be nology services and to create programs to f acquired by a prohibited person, so that au- benefit students with autism or apraxia, and thorities may pursue criminal charges under SENATE ENROLLED BILL SIGNED for other purposes; to the Committee on State law, and to ensure that the Depart- Education and Labor. The Speaker on Friday, March 8, ment of Justice reports to Congress on pros- By Mr. CHABOT (for himself and Mr. ecutions secured against prohibited persons 2019, announced her signature to an en- RASKIN): rolled bill of the Senate of the fol- who attempt to acquire a firearm; to the H.R. 1663. A bill to amend title 36, United Committee on the Judiciary. lowing title: States Code, to revise the Federal charter for By Mr. ROONEY of Florida: S. 49—An act to designate the outstation of the Foundation of the Federal Bar Associa- H.R. 1672. A bill to amend the Higher Edu- the Department of Veterans Affairs in North tion; to the Committee on the Judiciary. cation Act of 1965 to ensure that public insti- Ogden, Utah, as the Major Brent Taylor Vet By Mr. BISHOP of Utah (for himself, tutions of higher education protect expres- Center Outstation. Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. STEWART, Mr. sive activities in the outdoor areas on cam- GOSAR, Mr. WESTERMAN, and Mr. CUR- f pus; to the Committee on Education and TIS): Labor. ADJOURNMENT H.R. 1664. A bill to amend title 54, United By Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia (for Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, I move that States Code, to reform the Antiquities Act of himself, Mr. DUNN, Mr. LAWSON of 1906, and for other purposes; to the Com- Florida, and Mr. SCHRADER): the House do now adjourn. mittee on Natural Resources. The motion was agreed to; accord- H.R. 1673. A bill to amend the Motor Car- By Ms. STEVENS (for herself and Mr. rier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 with re- ingly (at 8 o’clock and 45 minutes BAIRD): spect to the definition of agricultural com- p.m.), under its previous order, the H.R. 1665. A bill to direct the National modities, and for other purposes; to the Com- House adjourned until tomorrow, Tues- Science Foundation to support STEM edu- mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- day, March 12, 2019, at 10 a.m. for morn- cation research focused on early childhood; ture. ing-hour debate. to the Committee on Science, Space, and By Mr. TIPTON (for himself and Mr. Technology. f CROW): By Ms. CASTOR of Florida (for herself H.R. 1674. A bill to require the Secretary of BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF PAYGO and Mr. LUETKEMEYER): Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot pro- LEGISLATION H.R. 1666. A bill to amend the National gram to expedite the onboarding process for Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to allow for the new medical providers of the Department of Pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As- consideration of private flood insurance for Veterans Affairs, to reduce the duration of You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO), Mr. YAR- the purposes of applying continuous cov- the hiring process for such medical pro- MUTH hereby submits, prior to the vote erage requirements, and for other purposes; viders, and for other purposes; to the Com- on passage, for printing in the CON- to the Committee on Financial Services. mittee on Veterans’ Affairs. GRESSIONAL RECORD, that H.R. 758, the By Mr. GOTTHEIMER (for himself and By Ms. TLAIB (for herself and Ms. Cooperate with Law Enforcement Mr. KING of New York): KELLY of Illinois): Agencies and Watch Act of 2019, would H.R. 1667. A bill to require a report on the H.R. 1675. A bill to require a study on the contingency plan of the Department of public health and environmental impacts of have no significant effect on direct Transportation in the event of the failure of the production, transportation, storage, and spending or revenues, and therefore, a rail track in the North River Tunnel, and use of petroleum coke, and for other pur- the budgetary effects of such bill are for other purposes; to the Committee on poses; to the Committee on Energy and Com- estimated as zero. Transportation and Infrastructure. merce. By Ms. KELLY of Illinois (for herself, By Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ (for herself, Mr. Pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As- Mr. HURD of Texas, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO), Mr. YAR- BUDD, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. MAR- THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. POCAN,

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Mr. KILMER, Ms. TITUS, Mr. ENGEL, By Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ (for herself and Congress has the power to enact this legis- Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CRIST, Ms. NORTON): lation pursuant to the following: Mr. MEEKS, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. MATSUI, H. Res. 216. A resolution expressing support Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New for designation of March 2019 as Music in Our Constitution York, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. TONKO, Mr. Schools Month; to the Committee on Edu- By Mr. ROONEY of Florida: VELA, Mr. COHEN, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. cation and Labor. H.R. 1672. PETERS, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. SCHA- f Congress has the power to enact this legis- KOWSKY, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. WILSON of lation pursuant to the following: Florida, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. KUSTER of CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY Article 1, Section 8 New Hampshire, Ms. JUDY CHU of STATEMENT By Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia: California, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of H.R. 1673. HASTINGS, Mr. SUOZZI, Ms. WILD, Mrs. Congress has the power to enact this legis- the Rules of the House of Representa- LOWEY, Ms. MOORE, Mrs. CAROLYN B. lation pursuant to the following: MALONEY of New York, Mr. RYAN, Mr. tives, the following statements are sub- Article I, Section 8 of the United States RASKIN, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. GARCI´A of mitted regarding the specific powers Constitution. Illinois, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. granted to Congress in the Constitu- By Mr. TIPTON: CLARKE of New York, Mr. KENNEDY, tion to enact the accompanying bill or H.R. 1674. Mr. NADLER, Mr. CORREA, Mr. PAL- joint resolution. Congress has the power to enact this legis- LONE, and Ms. MCCOLLUM): lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. MARCHANT: H.R. 1676. A bill to amend the Elementary H.R. 1662. section 8 of Article I of Constitution and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ex- Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Ms. TLAIB: pand access to school-wide arts and music lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1675. programs, and for other purposes; to the Article I, Section 8, clause 1: To lay and Congress has the power to enact this legis- Committee on Education and Labor. collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. YOHO (for himself, Mr. CON- to pay the Debts and provide for the common Article I, Section 8, clause 3 provides Con- NOLLY, and Mr. MCCAUL): gress with the power to ‘‘regulate commerce H.R. 1677. A bill to repeal certain foreign Defence and general Welfare of the United States with foreign nations, and among the several affairs reporting requirements; to the Com- states, and with the Indian tribes mittee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. CHABOT: ´ H.R. 1663. By Ms. VELAZQUEZ: By Mr. CUMMINGS: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1676. H. Res. 207. A resolution providing Congress has the power to enact this legis- amounts for the expenses of the Committee lation pursuant to the following: Article 1, section 8, clause 18, that the Con- lation pursuant to the following: on Oversight and Reform in the One Hundred Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 Sixteenth Congress; to the Committee on gress shall have Power To . . . make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for The Congress shall have Power to . . . pro- House Administration. vide for the . . . general Welfare of the By Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself and carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow- ers and all other Powers vested by this Con- United States; . . . Mrs. RODGERS of Washington): stitution in the Government of the United By Mr. YOHO: H. Res. 209. A resolution declaring support H.R. 1677. for Brain Awareness Week; to the Committee States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. Congress has the power to enact this legis- on Energy and Commerce. lation pursuant to the following: ´ By Mr. BISHOP of Utah: By Mr. CARDENAS (for himself and Article 1, section 8 Mr. WALKER): H.R. 1664. H. Res. 210. A resolution expressing support Congress has the power to enact this legis- f for the designation of the month of April 2019 lation pursuant to the following: as Second Chance Month; to the Committee Article IV, Section 3, clause 2 ADDITIONAL SPONSORS on the Judiciary. By Ms. STEVENS: Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors By Mr. DEFAZIO (for himself and Mr. H.R. 1665. Congress has the power to enact this legis- were added to public bills and resolu- GRAVES of Missouri): tions, as follows: H. Res. 211. A resolution providing lation pursuant to the following: amounts for the expenses of the Committee Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of H.R. 20: Mr. ADERHOLT. on Transportation and Infrastructure in the the United States. H.R. 33: Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. One Hundred Sixteenth Congress; to the By Ms. CASTOR of Florida: LOWENTHAL, and Ms. DEAN. Committee on House Administration. H.R. 1666. H.R. 35: Ms. DEAN, Mr. ROSE of New York, By Mr. DEUTCH: Congress has the power to enact this legis- Ms. WATERS, Mr. RASKIN, and Mr. VISCLOSKY. H. Res. 212. A resolution providing lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 36: Ms. DEAN, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. NEGUSE, amounts for the expenses of the Committee The constitutional authority on which this Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, and Mr. PALLONE. on Ethics in the One Hundred Sixteenth Con- bill rests is the explicit power of Congress to H.R. 51: Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas. gress; to the Committee on House Adminis- regulate commerce in and among the states, H.R. 55: Ms. CLARKE of New York. tration. as enumerate in Article 1, Section 8, Clause H.R. 125: Mr. SMITH of Washington. By Mr. LAWSON of Florida (for him- 3, the Commerce Clause, of the United States H.R. 155: Mr. BACON. self, Mr. POSEY, Ms. WASSERMAN Constitution. H.R. 194: Mr. RESCHENTHALER. SCHULTZ, Mr. WALTZ, Mr. MAST, Mr. By Mr. GOTTHEIMER: H.R. 230: Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois and Mr. GAETZ, Mr. DUNN, Mr. RUTHERFORD, H.R. 1667. THOMPSON of California. Mr. SPANO, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mrs. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 273: Mr. THOMPSON of California. MURPHY, Mr. DEUTCH, and Mr. SOTO): lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 275: Mr. PAPPAS, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. H. Res. 213. A resolution supporting the Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Con- CARBAJAL, and Ms. CLARKE of New York. goals and ideals of National Women Veterans stitution of the United States H.R. 303: Mr. KATKO, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. Recognition Week; to the Committee on By Ms. KELLY of Illinois: SCHRADER, and Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Oversight and Reform. H.R. 1668. H.R. 330: Miss RICE of New York and Mr. By Mr. PANETTA (for himself and Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- TAKANO. MAST): lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 402: Mr. BIGGS and Mr. STANTON. H. Res. 214. A resolution supporting the clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the H.R. 435: Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Ms. UNDER- goals to protect United States military per- Constitution WOOD, and Mrs. DINGELL. sonnel from malaria; to the Committee on By Mr. KING of New York: H.R. 490: Mr. RICE of South Carolina. Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Com- H.R. 1669. H.R. 510: Mr. WALDEN, Ms. DAVIDS of Kan- mittees on Armed Services, and Energy and Congress has the power to enact this legis- sas, and Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexico. Commerce, for a period to be subsequently lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 511: Ms. DEAN. determined by the Speaker, in each case for Article I, Section 8 of the United States H.R. 530: Mr. ENGEL. consideration of such provisions as fall with- Constitution H.R. 535: Mr. NEGUSE. in the jurisdiction of the committee con- By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of H.R. 553: Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. SMITH of New cerned. New York: Jersey, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. CROW, By Mr. SCHIFF (for himself and Mr. H.R. 1670. Ms. WEXTON, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. PALLONE, NUNES): Congress has the power to enact this legis- Mr. ARMSTRONG, and Mr. BRINDISI. H. Res. 215. A resolution providing lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 568: Mr. TRONE. amounts for the expenses of the Permanent Article 1, Section 8 of the United States H.R. 582: Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Select Committee on Intelligence in the One Constitution H.R. 596: Mr. TAYLOR. Hundred Sixteenth Congress; to the Com- By Mr. QUIGLEY: H.R. 613: Mr. MCADAMS, Mr. RUTHERFORD, mittee on House Administration. H.R. 1671. and Mr. CURTIS.

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H.R. 651: Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire H.R. 1137: Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL. H.R. 1528: Mr. TONKO and Mr. TURNER. and Mr. RESCHENTHALER. H.R. 1139: Mr. CLEAVER and Ms. JUDY CHU H.R. 1534: Mr. COHEN and Mr. TRONE. H.R. 663: Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of of California. H.R. 1536: Mr. COLE. New York. H.R. 1142: Mr. PHILLIPS. H.R. 1545: Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana, Mr. H.R. 665: Mr. NEGUSE and Ms. JAYAPAL. H.R. 1153: Ms. JUDY CHU of California. BYRNE, and Mr. NORMAN. H.R. 692: Mr. HUDSON. H.R. 1163: Mr. TURNER. H.R. 1560: Mr. SCHIFF. H.R. 693: Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. O’HALLERAN, H.R. 1169: Mr. SMITH of Washington. H.R. 1569: Mr. STANTON. Mr. TONKO, and Mr. KIND. H.R. 1185: Mr. VISCLOSKY and Ms. KELLY of H.R. 1570: Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. RUIZ, Ms. H.R. 728: Mr. TONKO. Illinois. PINGREE, Mr. RUTHERFORD, and Mr. COLE. H.R. 736: Mr. TAYLOR. H.R. 1225: Mrs. MCBATH, Mrs. TORRES of H.R. 1572: Mr. GROTHMAN. H.R. 737: Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. California, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Mr. CUELLAR, H.R. 1576: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. CASE, Mr. CORREA, Mr. COX of California, Ms. and Mr. TAKANO. H.R. 1582: Mr. TAYLOR. LOFGREN, Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mr. OLSON, H.R. 1226: Ms. PINGREE, Mr. RUTHERFORD, H.R. 1595: Mr. AMODEI, Mr. BALDERSON, Mr. Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. TONKO, and Mr. WRIGHT. and Mr. CROW. POCAN, Mr. CONNOLLY, and Mr. MCCLINTOCK. H.R. 738: Ms. WATERS. H.R. 1233: Ms. NORTON. H.R. 1603: Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI. H.R. 748: Mrs. HAYES, Mr. THOMPSON of H.R. 1234: Mr. GONZALEZ of Texas and Ms. H.R. 1605: Mr. NORMAN and Mr. HOLDING. Pennsylvania, Mr. BAIRD, and Mr. SOTO. NORTON. H.R. 1617: Mr. TAYLOR. H.R. 757: Mrs. LEE of Nevada. H.R. 1266: Mr. KHANNA and Ms. SCHA- H.R. 1620: Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. H.R. 758: Mr. TAYLOR. KOWSKY. RIGGLEMAN, Mr. BROWN of Maryland, and Mr. H.R. 761: Mr. QUIGLEY. H.R. 1279: Mr. CUMMINGS. TRONE. H.R. 803: Mr. MARSHALL. H.R. 1292: Mr. GONZALEZ of Texas. H.R. 1622: Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. BRENDAN H.R. 808: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ and Mr. H.R. 1297: Ms. NORTON. F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. COHEN, Mr. LYNCH. H.R. 1300: Mr. BEYER, Ms. MOORE, Ms. HASTINGS, Mr. KILMER, Ms. KUSTER of New H.R. 856: Mr. GIANFORTE. DELBENE, Ms. NORTON, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mrs. Hampshire, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. TED H.R. 864: Mr. BUCHANAN. NAPOLITANO, and Ms. WILD. LIEU of California, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALO- H.R. 874: Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. SMITH of H.R. 1309: Mrs. HAYES, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Ms. NEY of New York, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. NORTON, Washington, and Ms. BROWNLEY of Cali- MOORE, and Mr. RYAN. Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. fornia. H.R. 1327: Mr. CROW, Mr. POCAN, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. SOTO, Mr. SUOZZI, Ms. TITUS, Ms. H.R. 878: Mr. HURD of Texas. SCHNEIDER, and Mr. RUTHERFORD. VELA´ ZQUEZ, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. FOSTER, Ms. H.R. 890: Mr. WENSTRUP. H.R. 1339: Mr. GUTHRIE. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. CISNEROS, H.R. 919: Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois. H.R. 1342: Mr. PAYNE, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. Ms. HAALAND, and Ms. HILL of California. H.R. 925: Mr. KIND. MATSUI, Miss RICE of New York, Ms. SPEIER, H.R. 1629: Mr. LOWENTHAL and Ms. H.R. 943: Mr. ZELDIN, Ms. MENG, Mr. Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. GABBARD. KATKO, and Mr. RASKIN. POCAN, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. ESPAILLAT, H.R. 1643: Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia and Mr. H.R. 945: Mr. MOULTON and Mr. Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. SEAN POCAN. FITZPATRICK. PATRICK MALONEY of New York, and Mr. H.J. Res. 2: Mr. DELGADO. H.R. 959: Mr. GOSAR, Mr. BIGGS, Mr. BRADY, HECK. H.J. Res. 38: Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. Mr. MEADOWS, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. KING of H.R. 1346: Ms. SCANLON. SAN NICOLAS, Mr. LUJA´ N, Mr. VELA, Mr. Iowa, Ms. NORTON, Mr. MOONEY of West Vir- H.R. 1366: Mr. BIGGS, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. TRONE, and Mr. DEUTCH. ginia, and Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana. KATKO, and Ms. PINGREE. H. Con. Res. 20: Mr. KATKO and Mr. HARDER H.R. 960: Mr. GOSAR, Mr. BIGGS, Mr. BRADY, H.R. 1368: Ms. SCANLON. of California. Mr. MEADOWS, Ms. STEFANIK, Mrs. BROOKS of H.R. 1379: Mr. PHILLIPS and Mr. TONKO. H. Con. Res. 24: Ms. LOFGREN and Mr. DOG- Indiana, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. MOONEY of H.R. 1380: Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. GETT. West Virginia. TONKO, Mr. KIND, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, H. Res. 23: Mr. SMITH of Missouri, Mr. ROD- H.R. 965: Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. COLE, Mr. GAL- and Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. NEY DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. RUSH, and Mr. LAGHER, and Mr. LIPINSKI. H.R. 1396: Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. COHEN, Mr. LAHOOD. H.R. 973: Mr. CISNEROS and Ms. NORTON. KILMER, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. BUSTOS, and Mrs. H. Res. 39: Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana. H.R. 974: Mr. TAYLOR. WATSON COLEMAN. H. Res. 60: Mr. VISCLOSKY and Mr. CROW. H.R. 983: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ and Ms. H.R. 1404: Mr. TAYLOR. H. Res. 72: Mr. FITZPATRICK. WILD. H.R. 1407: Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, H. Res. 88: Mr. KENNEDY and Mr. LYNCH. H.R. 985: Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. CARBAJAL, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, H. Res. 107: Mr. O’HALLERAN, Mr. CHABOT, H.R. 997: Mr. NORMAN. Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, and and Mr. TAYLOR. H.R. 1002: Ms. HAALAND, Mr. KIND, and Ms. Mr. CROW. H. Res. 116: Mr. HIMES, Mr. HUDSON, and JUDY CHU of California. H.R. 1411: Mr. RUTHERFORD. Mrs. HARTZLER. H.R. 1019: Mr. BERGMAN. H.R. 1412: Mrs. LESKO. H. Res. 129: Mr. LEVIN of Michigan and Mr. H.R. 1049: Mr. CUMMINGS. H.R. 1414: Mr. TAYLOR. SUOZZI. H.R. 1058: Mr. MEEKS, Mr. KIM, and Mr. H.R. 1418: Ms. JUDY CHU of California. H. Res. 133: Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN and Ms. WELCH. H.R. 1420: Mr. MCKINLEY. OCASIO-CORTEZ. H.R. 1074: Mrs. HAYES. H.R. 1423: Mr. CROW. H. Res. 154: Ms. WEXTON. H.R. 1080: Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. H.R. 1425: Mr. HECK. H. Res. 156: Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. DESAULNIER, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. H.R. 1433: Miss RICE of New York and Ms. TAYLOR, and Ms. NORTON. CA´ RDENAS, and Mr. CORREA. NORTON. H. Res. 171: Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. MATSUI, H.R. 1108: Mr. BACON, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. H.R. 1435: Mr. BERA. and Mr. CUMMINGS. ESTES, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. GONZALEZ of H.R. 1479: Mr. GOLDEN. H. Res. 173: Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. Ohio, Mr. MAST, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. ROSE of H.R. 1497: Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. COHEN, Mr. CRIST, and Mr. CARBAJAL. New York, Mr. SUOZZI, and Mr. YOUNG. LIPINSKI, Mr. LYNCH, and Mr. SEAN PATRICK H. Res. 177: Mr. ALLRED. H.R. 1126: Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. MALONEY of New York. H. Res. 190: Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Ms. H.R. 1134: Ms. NORTON. H.R. 1512: Ms. NORTON. LOFGREN, and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY.

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Vol. 165 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2019 No. 43 Senate The Senate met at 3 p.m. and was ceed to executive session to resume our rights, and we sometimes tell them called to order by the President pro consideration of the following nomina- if we need someone to object on our be- tempore (Mr. GRASSLEY). tion, which the clerk will report. half to moving a bill or a nominee. f The legislative clerk read the nomi- That happens to be called a hold. A nation of Paul B. Matey, of New Jer- hold should not be secret, I want every- PRAYER sey, to be United States Circuit Judge body to know that sometimes I put The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- for the Third Circuit. holds on nominations or bills. fered the following prayer: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Whoever heard of shouting ‘‘I object’’ Let us pray. ator from Iowa. in secret? A hold, in other words, ought Spirit of God, who brought creation Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President I ask to be public, as the standing order re- out of the void, light from darkness, unanimous consent to speak for 1 quires. The Senate affirmed that in the and order from chaos, everything under minute. year 2011 by adopting a permanent Heaven belongs to You. Lord, use our The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without standing order that Senator WYDEN lawmakers for Your glory. May their objection, it is so ordered. and I wrote. I remind my colleagues, daily experiences of joy and sorrow, SECRET HOLDS that standing order is still in place. pleasure and pain, victory and defeat, Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, it is I yield the floor. bring honor to Your Name. Remind our Sunshine Week, and I support trans- I suggest the absence of a quorum. Senators that no evil can stop the un- parency throughout government. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The folding of Your purposes and provi- public’s business ought to be public. clerk will call the roll. dence. Lead them this day with Your That includes right here in the U.S. The legislative clerk proceeded to merciful hands, providing for their Senate. call the roll. needs. Bless all who labor for liberty, My newer colleagues might be un- Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask protecting them with the shield of aware that the Senate has banned what unanimous consent that the order for Your love. the quorum call be rescinded. We pray in Your holy Name. Amen. are referred to as secret holds. Since January 2011, a standing order has been The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without f in effect, requiring that Senators make objection, it is so ordered. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE public any hold they place on bills or THE GREEN NEW DEAL The President pro tempore led the nominations. Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, in Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: A Senator, of course, has a right to the last couple of weeks, I have come I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the withhold consent when unanimous con- to the floor for a few short comments United States of America, and to the Repub- sent is needed to move to a measure. on the Green New Deal. I have com- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, However, there is absolutely no right pared it to the New Deal of the Frank- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. to do so in secret. The public’s business lin Delano Roosevelt administration f ought to be done in public. and its attempt to get us out of the De- That is why Senator WYDEN and I pression with the New Deal then. RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME sent a letter to all Senators reminding In his 1932 campaign for President, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. ROM- them of this standing order that we au- Franklin Delano Roosevelt called for NEY). Under the previous order, the thored requiring disclosure of holds. what he called a ‘‘bold persistent ex- leadership time is reserved. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- perimentation.’’ That is a pretty good f sent for 1 more minute. description of the New Deal. It wasn’t CONCLUSION OF MORNING The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without a very cohesive plan, but it was a col- BUSINESS objection, it is so ordered. lection of disconnected policies. In that Mr. GRASSLEY. When Senators sense, the Green New Deal emulates its The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning spend most of their time on the Senate namesake. It, too, is kind of a collec- business is closed. floor, as they used to before the Senate tion of disconnected policies. f was on television, it was easy for any The New Deal of the 1930s failed to EXECUTIVE SESSION Senator to stand up and say ‘‘I object,’’ pull the economy out of the Depression if consent were asked for any motion that actually ended at the beginning of or any nomination. Now we spend most World War II. It is not surprising, how- EXECUTIVE CALENDAR of our time in committee hearings and ever, that it didn’t pull us out of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under meeting with those we represent. We Depression because it didn’t create eco- the previous order, the Senate will pro- rely on our party leadership to protect nomic growth. Economic growth needs

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By cut- Green Deal, kill the goose that laid the facement of our constitutional order ting healthcare coverage and increas- golden egg. and one of the largest power grabs for ing healthcare costs for millions of The Green New Deal is both breath- the executive branch in the more than Americans, this budget belies those taking in its professed ambitions and, 200 years this Nation has been in exist- promises. President Trump’s budget quite frankly, laughably weak. It is ence. would repeal the entire Affordable Care just a resolution calling on the govern- My colleagues must contemplate the Act, taking away insurance from 32 ment to enact a whole range of poli- possibility that if President Trump million Americans and eliminating cies. were to succeed with his phony emer- protections for Americans with pre- Then, why not introduce a bill that gency declaration, future Presidents existing conditions. How many Repub- actually does something rather than a would have a precedent to claim emer- licans are for that? resolution calling for future implau- gencies whenever Congress failed to en- How about this: $1.5 trillion in cuts sible actions? dorse their policies. In effect, Congress to Medicaid, $845 billion in cuts to It is supposed to be about protecting would no longer be a coequal branch of Medicare, $506 billion in cuts to tax the environment. As someone with a government. It would change the bal- credits that help lower income Ameri- track record of real bipartisan achieve- ance of power rather dramatically in cans afford insurance. Not only is this ments that have resulted in a cleaner ways the Founding Fathers would cruel, it is hypocritical. It is against environment, I don’t get it. If you want never have contemplated. In fact, it everything our Republican friends talk to know my credentials there, I am the would horrify many of the Founding about. It is against what the President father of the wind energy tax credit, Fathers, who were so worried about an says. He is going to preserve Medicare just as an example. We get 38 percent overweening Executive in the person- and Medicaid, and then he slashes of our electricity from wind in Iowa. age of King George. them. It still befuddles me how he can What do universal healthcare—an- I know many of my Republican get away with this even in these times. other item of the Green New Deal—or friends are afraid to cross the Presi- Second, the budget slashes domestic free college tuition or a Federal jobs dent. We know he can be vindictive. I programs, including investments in in- guarantee program have to do with the know that several support the idea of frastructure, housing, education, and environment anyway? All of those building a wall but want to oppose the the environment—a third of the EPA things are in the Green New Deal. emergency declaration. I would say to budget and one-fifth of the Department I yield the floor. my colleagues respectfully: You have of Transportation budget. I suggest the absence of a quorum. been able to express your support for a My Republican friends, when your The clerk will call the roll. border wall numerous times in the past commissioners and Governors come to The legislative clerk proceeded to Congress and in this one. Another you and say they need more highway call the roll. amendment vote will accomplishment funds, are you going to support a budg- Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask nothing new; it will only poison et that cuts them by 20 percent? unanimous consent that the order for Congress’s ability to pass this resolu- On top of all this, it gives more tax the quorum call be rescinded. tion. breaks to the wealthiest few. It would The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. This is not about policy at our south- permanently extend the Trump tax SCOTT of Florida). Without objection, ern border; this is about one thing and cuts, costing $1.9 trillion over 10 years. it is so ordered. one thing alone—Presidential over- Seventy percent of the benefits go to RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER reach. the top one-fifth of America. The stag- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mi- Later this week, the Senate ought to gering costs of these tax cuts are the nority leader is recognized. vote a clean resolution to terminate reason for all the proposed cuts to DECLARATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY the emergency. The bottom line is very healthcare and infrastructure. The Mr. SCHUMER. By the end of this simple: If we were upholding the Con- Trump budget proposes the blind theft week, the Senate will vote on a resolu- stitution, it would be 100 to nothing of the middle class to line America’s tion to terminate the President’s emer- against the emergency. If there were deepest pockets. gency declaration. I have laid out the no politics, no fear, no worry about It is really a disgraceful budget. My number of reasons why the Senate crossing a President, the vote would be guess is that Mr. Mulvaney at OMB put must vote to terminate. The President 100 to nothing. If people read the Fed- it together. He was one of the five most has not demonstrated that an emer- eralist Papers and the Constitution and rightwing people in the Congress. He gency exists. During the announcement what the Founding Fathers intended, wanted to slash everything. The Presi- of the declaration, the President said the vote would be 100 to nothing. I hope dent just green-stamped it so he can he ‘‘didn’t need to do this.’’ A few it is as close to that as is possible. tip his hat to those on the very far weeks later, 58 former national secu- BUDGET PROPOSAL right. rity officials, including former Secre- Mr. President, earlier today, the The vast majority of the President’s taries of State and Defense, said there Trump administration released its an- supporters—they are a dwindling num- was ‘‘no factual basis’’ for an emer- nual request. In recent years, these ber; they are now less than a third of gency declaration. For the sake of the budget requests have become state- America—don’t support this. They facts, the Senate must vote to termi- ments of principles and priorities rath- don’t support this at all. How many nate. er than working documents. Purely as people who count themselves as sup- We also have no idea which military a statement of principle, the latest porters of President Trump support construction projects might be on the budget proposal from the Trump ad- cutting Medicare by close to $1 tril- chopping block. Republican Senators ministration is not only extremely dis- lion? How many of those who consider who vote against this declaration do so turbing, but it is totally against what themselves supporters of Trump sup- at their own peril. They may be voting the President talks about when he port cutting Medicaid by $1.5 trillion? to deprive necessary funds from mili- talks to his supporters. How many of the President’s closest tary installations in their States. For The budget request we received today supporters think we should eliminate the sake of the brave men and women would be a gut punch to the middle protections for preexisting conditions of our Armed Forces, the Senate must class and a handout to powerful special when people have them? How many of vote to terminate. interests and the wealthiest few. It the President’s supporters want to cut Of course, the constitutional ques- would dismantle America’s healthcare infrastructure by one-fifth or cut the tions loom largest. The President system as we know it, and it would dra- clean water and clean air budget by failed to convince Congress, the Amer- matically widen the gap in income and one-third? Hardly any. This budget is ican people, and, perhaps most glar- wealth between our Nation’s richest just sort of an ‘‘Alice in Wonderland’’ ingly, Mexico to pay for his border citizens and the rest. document.

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Perhaps worst of all, and now the President, with his tariffs, been debunked, although that is what she has implied that sexual assault vic- has them where we would want them. the President ran on, but it is still tims are to blame for the despicable They need to come to an agreement. amazing that the Trump administra- crimes committed against them. But they are hanging tough, and the tion proposes year after year that the Honestly, where do my Republican President’s inclinations seem to be, American taxpayer pay billions of dol- colleagues find these people? The ma- from press reports, to back off so he lars for a border wall that President jority party always nominates judges can get any deal, so the stock market Trump said would be completely free. that have a particular bent, but the will go up temporarily. Make no mis- It is difficult to overstate the cal- Trump administration’s nominees, by take about it—in the long run, this will lousness of President Trump’s budget. and large, are not mainstream conserv- hurt America dramatically. The best The cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and atives; they are rightwing ideologues, paying jobs will be created in China, numerous middle-class programs are many of whom lack the experience, not here. The ability of the best Amer- devastating but maybe not surprising. candor, and moderation that we would ican companies to compete worldwide This budget will be on the backs of the expect in a public servant, let alone a Republicans. They support President will be dramatically curtailed. lifetime judge. For a few of these It is abundantly clear that China is Trump. judges, the sole qualification is not The Republican Party’s systematic playing us. They want to give up as lit- their judicial experience, not their efforts to rip away Americans’ tle as possible while getting out from knowledge or erudition, but they are healthcare, its continued embrace of under the sting of tariffs. active members of the Federalist Soci- the tax cuts for the rich, its refusal to So I say to President Trump, whom I ety. have praised on his China policies thus accept science, facts, and the urgent I know this is what my friend the far—a lot tougher, a lot better than need to address climate change have majority leader cares about: a hard- made cruel and unthinkable budget President Obama or President Bush. I right bench. He doesn’t care about proposals like this one par for the say to President Trump: Do not get their qualifications; he doesn’t care course with our fellow Republicans. It played. If you don’t achieve what you about moderation; he doesn’t care is sad; it is a shame; and it basically is set out to achieve, namely, the perma- about representing middle-class people total hypocrisy because not one single nent reform of China’s most abusive when he nominates these judges. He is Republican would campaign on these trade practices, then walk away, just running a conveyor belt of political proposals. as you walked away from North Korea partisans, many with extremely thin JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS when Chairman Kim would not make legal resumes, onto the courts. He gets Mr. President, this week the Senate real commitments. a talking point for his base, but the will vote on three controversial nomi- quality of these nominees degrades the President Trump, you must walk nees, including two circuit court Federal bench and cheapens the cause away from China if President Xi re- judges: Paul Matey for the Third Cir- of justice in America. fuses meaningful and enduring eco- cuit and Neomi Rao for the DC Circuit, I will vote no on both Mr. Matey and nomic reforms. To do otherwise would the second most powerful court in the Ms. Rao, and I strongly urge my col- be to squander maybe the last best country. leagues to do the same. chance of putting American workers Mr. Matey’s nomination, in keeping CHINA TRADE NEGOTIATIONS and businesses on a level playing field with Leader MCCONNELL just ripping Mr. President, finally, on China—the with our No. 1 economic competitor. apart whatever bipartisanship we have I yield the floor. left, has advanced without a blue slip ongoing negotiations with China have I suggest the absence of a quorum. from either home State Senator, Mr. been something I have been following The PRESIDING OFFICER. The BOOKER or Mr. MENENDEZ. In case it closely. Over the past few weeks, there wasn’t clear how little Republicans has been a drumbeat of reporting that clerk will call the roll. care about this once-vaunted tradition, the Trump administration is poised to The legislative clerk proceeded to Mr. Matey has skipped even the cour- accept a weak trade agreement with call the roll. tesy of meeting with Senator MENEN- China. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask Last week, the New York Times re- DEZ. unanimous consent that the order for Mr. Matey has never made an oral ar- ported that China’s draft new foreign the quorum call be rescinded. gument before a Federal Court of Ap- investment law, meant to pacify the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. peals—never. He barely has any litiga- United States, would not include a HAWLEY). Without objection, it is so or- tion experience either. He has spent complete end to the forced technology dered. transfers. The most recent published most of his career as a political aide to SOCIALISM Governor Christie. Yet he is nominated draft made no mention of preventing Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, in for a lifetime appointment to a circuit national government regulators from thinking about some of the debates court of appeals, not even a district demanding technology transfers. This swirling about here in Washington, DC, court, where his qualifications would morning, the Times reported that still be questionable, but to a circuit China has agreed to few, if any, major as to whether capitalism or socialism court. restrictions on how it manages its cur- should be a preferred economic model, Ms. Neomi Rao, despite her experi- rency. I recall a story that involves Boris ence, might even be worse. As the For years, China manipulated its cur- Yeltsin, who went on to become the Trump administration’s regulatory rency to suit its purposes, typically de- Russian President, who happened to be czar, she has been in charge of rolling valuing the renminbi to prop up its in Houston, TX, in 1989, visiting the back consumer protections, environ- manufacturers. I was the first, with Johnson Space Center—a very impor- mental protections, and healthcare Senator GRAHAM of South Carolina, tant part of NASA in Houston—when protections. So as a nominee for the back in the early 2000s, to point out he decided to visit a grocery store in DC Circuit, which hears cases on Fed- China’s currency manipulation, and it Clear Lake, TX. Though it sounds like eral regulation, Ms. Rao is hopelessly has continued unabated. In recent days it could be, this isn’t the beginning of compromised. Yet she refused to com- the renminbi has been allowed to rise, a Wes Anderson film. mit to recusing herself from regulatory but, curiously, it fell 10 percent against It was nearly 20 years ago, in 1989, matters on which she has worked when the dollar after President Trump’s an- when the Soviet Union had not yet im- pressed by Senator FEINSTEIN during nouncement on tariffs. ploded and when the Berlin Wall was the Judiciary hearing. According to the Times, that move still standing. It would be 2 years be- That is to say nothing of Ms. Rao’s alone negated, at least temporarily, fore Yeltsin would be forced to take alarming views. In past writings, Ms. the impact of President Trump’s latest steps to begin to transform the Soviet

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Over the weekend, one Democratic more you tax, the more there are gov- The Houston Chronicle reported at Member of the House who was speaking ernment controls and that the more the time that Yeltsin gawked at the at South by Southwest in Austin, my you regulate, the greater the burden is abundant produce, the selection of hometown, referred to capitalism as on new ideas, investment, and oppor- fresh fish, the checkout aisle, and espe- ‘‘irredeemable’’ and tried to blame cap- tunity. cially the frozen pudding pops. He italism for every problem that exists in The socialist policies being espoused roamed the aisles, according to the our society. I admit that we are not by some members of the Democratic story, stared at the frozen food section, perfect, but capitalism isn’t the cause Party are not going to make our busi- and took advantage of the free samples of every problem that exists in our so- nesses and our economy stronger or of cheese. He actually talked to some ciety. Of all places to complain about more competitive. Indeed, history has of the customers there and asked ques- the perils of capitalism, there is more shown that these are failed policies tions about what they were buying and than a little irony in her having chosen that will stifle innovation, discourage how much it cost them. He was Texas—the most successful, free-enter- hard work, and make us look more like stunned—absolutely stunned—as this prise economy in our Nation. that 1980s Soviet grocery store. was a far cry from the grocery stores in Instead of talking about this social- Instead of our grocery stores being the Soviet Union. Yeltsin said: ‘‘Even ist, Big Government approach that we filled with a selection of beautiful the Politburo doesn’t have this kind of all know will fail, let’s look at how the produce, fresh meat, your favorite choice, not even Mr. Gorbachev.’’ Texas model has led my State to be- snack foods, they will be stocked with That day, Boris Yeltsin learned come an economic powerhouse and the whatever the government says it wants something that the overwhelming ma- envy of the Nation. you to have. Instead of making an ap- jority of people in our country already We keep taxes low, government pointment with your doctor when you know—that socialism cannot provide spending restrained, and regulations at are sick, you will wait for Lord knows the bounty, the prosperity, or the a rational minimum to give people and how long to get an appointment with a choices that capitalism can. the small businesses that provide jobs government-run clinic and have few, if Leon Aron, who wrote Yeltsin’s biog- the freedom to pursue their dreams and any, options. Instead of forcing our- raphy, quoted one of his associates. to prosper. I must say that it is obvious selves out of bed in the morning to go He said: that it is working. The unemployment to work, people who are able but who For a long time, on the plane to Miami, he rate in Texas is 4 percent, which is don’t want to work will stay in bed, sat motionless, his head in his hands. ‘‘What among the lowest in the Nation. In knowing they can receive food and have they done to our poor people?’’ he said, Midland—in the Permian Basin, the medical care that will be subsidized by after a long silence. heart of the energy boom in my State— your labor and your hard-earned tax He told his fellow countrymen who unemployment is 2.1 percent. You are dollars. were traveling with him that if their hard-pressed to find anybody to take That is what these old—but now, people were to see the conditions in the jobs that do exist because, essen- somehow, dressed up as something American supermarkets, ‘‘there would tially, everybody who is willing to new—failed ideas that have been pro- be a revolution.’’ work is fully employed. The biggest posed by our Democratic colleagues would do. Forget government ‘‘of the Make no mistake about it. If the problem that job creators have is get- people, by the people, and for the peo- most radical Democrats in our country ting the workers they need. Yet there ple.’’ They want a country by the gov- today get their way on the outlandish is a silver lining for the workers. This ernment, for the government—the peo- socialist policies they are pushing, the pushes wages higher as businesses com- American people will be calling for a ple be damned. pete for their labor. In his autobiography, Yeltsin wrote: revolution. Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau ‘‘When I saw those shelves crammed The Green New Deal, Medicare for and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Anal- with hundreds, thousands of cans, car- All, and economic security for those ysis released international trade data tons and goods of every possible sort, who are able-bodied yet who are un- that showed Texas, for the 17th year in for the first time I felt quite frankly willing to work are policies that are a row, as the top State for exports. We sick with despair for the Soviet people not going to raise up the most eco- make stuff, and we sell stuff. We grow . . . that such a potentially super-rich nomically disadvantaged people in our things. We raise cattle and agricultural country as ours has been brought to a country. They are going to pull every- products, and we sell them. We are the state of such poverty.’’ one else down. Socialism promises not top State for exports. In fact, our ex- I pray that our country never sees prosperity for all but what Winston ports account for nearly 20 percent of that day when it is brought to ruin be- Churchill called the equal sharing of the exports of the entire Nation. In cause of these 21st century socialists. miseries. 2018, that totaled more than $315 bil- I yield the floor. Though these self-proclaimed demo- lion of exports—more than double that I suggest the absence of a quorum. cratic socialists make big promises on of California’s, which is the second The PRESIDING OFFICER. The how their policies will deliver fairness highest exporter. These earnings not clerk will call the roll. and equality for all Americans, that only fuel the economy of our State, but The bill clerk proceeded to call the could not be further from the truth. they boost the entire Nation. roll. The first thing these policies would do Our export dominance is only part of Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask is to bankrupt our country. These un- the reason Texas is thriving. Together, unanimous consent that the order for workable economic policies will kill with lower taxes and less burdensome the quorum call be rescinded. jobs and outlaw our most reliable, af- regulation, businesses and dream seek- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without fordable energy sources. ‘‘Medicare for ers are drawn to our State, which cre- objection, it is so ordered. All’’ will turn into ‘‘Medicare for none’’ ates opportunities for everyone who is S. 659 when the entire system crashes and willing to work. Instead of growing Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I rise when those who are unwilling to work government and increasing the tax bur- today to discuss Senate bill, S. 659, the will lose any incentive to even try. It den, we allow businesses—small, me- Biologic Patent Transparency Act. would subsidize a nation of slackers. dium, and large—to invest in their This bill would help encourage com- This threat of the seductive embrace workforces, in our communities, and in petition in the prescription drug mar- of socialism isn’t an exaggeration. our way of life. ketplace and begin to put an end to the Some of our friends across the aisle are In Texas, we believe that less govern- harmful patent strategies that block actually critical of the equal oppor- ment is more. We don’t try to cen- new drugs from coming to market. I tunity, ‘‘pulling yourself up by your tralize power in the statehouse. We am pleased to be sponsoring this legis- bootstraps,’’ hard-working economic give businesses, entrepreneurs, and lation with my friend and colleague

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Officer is a member of, held a hearing Second, our bill would tackle the pat- Prescription drugs are vital to the to examine the price increases for one ent strategies that are intentionally health and well-being of Americans, es- of these groundbreaking treatments. designed to block competition by lim- pecially our Nation’s seniors, 90 per- HUMIRA, the world’s best-selling pre- iting the enforceability of late-filed cent of whom take at least one pre- scription drug, is a biologic that was patents against biosimilar manufactur- scription drug in any given month. De- first approved for the treatment of ers that have already filed applications veloping these medicines is a lengthy, rheumatoid arthritis by the Food and with the FDA. expensive, and uncertain process. It Drug Administration, the FDA, in 2002. According to one estimate, over 70 of often takes more than a decade and can In 2017, U.S. sales of this product gen- the patents covering HUMIRA were ap- cost billions of dollars to bring a new erated an astonishing $12.3 billion in plied for and granted within three drug from the laboratory to the pa- revenue for the drug’s manufacturer. years prior to the expiration of the ini- tient. Most drugs fail during the clin- Now, HUMIRA is truly a miracle tial patents. ical trials. If we want new medicines to drug for many patients. It is used to So here’s what is happening. A manu- reach consumers who need them, the treat a variety of conditions, ranging facturer of a wildly successful drug companies that invest in this research from rheumatoid arthritis to Crohn’s sees that its patents are about to ex- and development and take the risks disease to ulcerative colitis and plaque pire and that a competitor—a bio- necessary must see a fair return on psoriasis. So a wide range of diseases similar manufacturer—is on the way to their investment. and conditions are responsive to getting approval by the FDA for its To encourage such investments, Con- HUMIRA. According to various reports, product. So what that original brand gress grants inventors limited periods more than 200 patent applications have manufacturer does is make small alter- of patent protection during which their been filed for HUMIRA, with nearly 90 ations, frequently, in the product. It products are legally shielded from com- percent of those filed after HUMIRA doesn’t change the product in a dra- petition. Rewarding these investments was first approved by the FDA in 2002. matic way. It doesn’t come up with a has proven to be beneficial to many According to the manufacturer’s brand new medicine, but it changes it Americans. The past century could be CEO, more than 130 patents are in- ever so slightly or decides to patent an termed the ‘‘Age of Miracle Drugs,’’ cluded in HUMIRA’s patent portfolio aspect of it that was not previously with discoveries such as insulin and today. Protections provided by these patented. The whole purpose is to pre- penicillin, and treatments for cancer, patents can block competition and ex- vent that biosimilar manufacturer heart disease, HIV, and other serious tend the drug’s market monopoly until from bringing to market a more afford- medical conditions. Today, however, the year 2034. Keep in mind that this is able product that consumers could ac- we might well define a ‘‘miracle drug’’ for a drug that was first approved in cess. That is just wrong. That is not as one that has not doubled in price 2002. We’re talking about extending the what patents are intended for. And as I since the last refill. patents until 2034. made clear earlier in my statement, I Although our country leads the world HUMIRA has increased in price yet support a limited period of exclusivity in prescription drug innovation, we again this year, and although for the innovator manufacturer. I also lead the world in drug spending. biosimilars have been approved by the think we should reward that invest- According to one estimate, U.S. spend- FDA, patent litigation is blamed for ment in research and development and ing on prescription drugs will reach be- keeping these lower cost alternatives clinical trials, which is often very ex- tween $580 billion and $610 billion by from reaching the market. And pensive. But it is not right for the pat- the year 2021. In 2017, Americans spent HUMIRA is not the only biologic to be ent system to be gamed this way, for it more than $330 billion on retail pre- protected by such an extensive port- to be exploited and for last-minute pat- scription drugs, and nearly one-quarter folio of patents—what we call a ‘‘pat- ents to be filed for the sole purpose of of individuals surveyed reported dif- ent thicket.’’ precluding a competitor from coming ficulties paying for the cost of their Enabling the creation, approval, and to market with a less expensive, equiv- prescription medications. marketing of competitive biological alent drug. How well I remember standing in the products must be among our top prior- Restricting the enforcement of these pharmacy line several months ago be- ities when we consider ways to reduce late-filed patents that are filed after hind a couple who were informed by the healthcare costs of Americans. the application by the biosimilar man- the pharmacist that their copay would The Biologic Patent Transparency ufacturer has been filed with the FDA be $111. The husband turned to his wife Act is an important step Congress can will still protect the important invest- and said: ‘‘Honey, we just can’t afford take to shine light on the patent thick- ments made by the manufacturers, that.’’ They then turned around, left ets that protect these biologics and to while encouraging the biosimilar man- their prescription on the counter, and stop some of the gaming that has pre- ufacturers to bring important innova- left the pharmacy. I asked the phar- vented consumers from accessing lower tions to consumers sooner and at a macist how often that happens, and he cost, FDA-approved products. lower cost. told me, ‘‘Every day.’’ That is the kind So what will our bill do? It has three Finally, the third part of our bill of onerous burden too many Americans major components. First, our bill would require the FDA to regularly are facing, and it’s causing them to would require manufacturers to dis- publish specific information related to forgo fulfilling a prescription, to close to the FDA the web of patents approved biologic products, making it stretch out doses, or simply to choose that protect their approved biologics easier for prospective competitors to to buy the medicine and short them- from competition by biosimilar manu- evaluate and plan for the development selves on food or be late in paying their facturers—a process that we already and introduction of biosimilars. rent or mortgage. know works. It has worked remarkably In addition to the name and patent Among the most expensive drugs on well for the small molecule drugs that information for all approved biological the market today are biologics. These are governed by the Hatch-Waxman products, our bill would require the are incredibly promising drugs for the Act of 1984. Although generics ac- FDA to publish information including health and well-being of many Ameri- counted for only 13 percent of U.S. pre- the drug’s marketing status, applicable cans. They have revolutionized treat- scriptions immediately before the reference products, periods of exclu- ment for many serious and life-threat- Hatch-Waxman Act was passed, today sivity, biosimilar or interchangeable ening conditions, from diabetes and they make up 90 percent. These products, and approved indications for rheumatoid arthritis to cancer and generics often cost 70 to 90 percent less usage. The FDA will be required to reg- multiple sclerosis. than the branded product. They have ularly update this information as well, Today, fewer than 2 percent of Amer- significantly reduced costs and ex- so that it is readily available and up- icans use biologics, yet biologics ac- panded access to necessary treatments to-date. So what this will do is allow

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He accordingly. ington (Mrs. MURRAY), and the Senator plays it straight down the middle un- America’s system of protecting inno- from Vermont (Mr. SANDERS) are nec- less it has to do with basketball—and vation has provided our citizens with essarily absent. he loves basketball. He has been chosen tremendous benefits, especially in the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there to referee in the conference champion- area of pharmaceuticals. Of that there any other Senators in the Chamber de- ship for the State’s high schools and can be no doubt. We must provide phar- siring to vote? has been a great sportsman for George- maceutical manufacturers with the The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 50, town University, for which he recruits ability to recoup their investments, nays 44, as follows: athletes. He himself went to George- but at the same time, we cannot be [Rollcall Vote No. 41 Ex.] town. Rebecca, his wife, was in the Georgia blind to the costs of these drugs, nor to YEAS—50 cases where patent laws are manipu- House as a reporter when I was in the Alexander Ernst Portman Georgia House years ago. She is a tal- lated to preserve monopolies and pre- Barrasso Fischer Risch vent lower cost, equivalent drugs from Blackburn Gardner Roberts ented house person who went on to coming to market. Passing the Bio- Blunt Grassley Romney ABC. She and Dick got married, and Boozman Hawley logic Patent Transparency Act is a Rounds they have two children. They live in Braun Hoeven Rubio major step we can take to put a stop to Burr Hyde-Smith Brookhaven, GA, which is a new city Sasse that was created by the Georgia Legis- the patent-gaming that blocks con- Capito Inhofe Scott (FL) Cassidy Isakson Scott (SC) lature to allow independence for a lot sumers from accessing lower cost Collins Johnson Shelby of our cities that had been trapped in- drugs. I encourage my colleagues to Cornyn Kennedy Sullivan support this crucial legislation. Cotton Lankford side the metro area. Thune His wife has been a reporter of jour- Thank you. Cramer Lee Crapo McConnell Tillis I yield the floor. nalism, and Dick has been a reporter of Cruz McSally Toomey journalism. Then Dick bought the Seeing no one seeking recognition, I Daines Moran Wicker suggest the absence of a quorum. Enzi Paul Young Dunwoody Crier. The Dunwoody Crier The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. is one of those weekly publications— NAYS—44 neighborhood newspapers—that every- BOOZMAN). The clerk will call the roll. Baldwin Harris Rosen The legislative clerk proceeded to body loves because it has their kids’ Bennet Hassan Schatz pictures in it, because you can get a call the roll. Blumenthal Heinrich Schumer Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask Booker Hirono Shaheen story about your wedding in there, and Brown Jones unanimous consent that the order for Sinema because Dick also writes in there some Cantwell Kaine Smith poignant columns that one would never the quorum call be rescinded. Cardin King Stabenow read anywhere else. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Carper Klobuchar Tester Casey Leahy When he wrote for the Atlanta Jour- objection, it is so ordered. Udall Coons Markey Van Hollen nal-Constitution, he wrote for a news- CLOTURE MOTION Cortez Masto Menendez Warner paper that was owned by Eugene Pat- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant Duckworth Merkley Durbin Murphy Warren terson, by Ralph McGill, and by many to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Feinstein Peters Whitehouse talented writers. He was in the same Senate the pending cloture motion, Gillibrand Reed Wyden category of spokesman and writer as which the clerk will state. NOT VOTING—6 those two gentlemen, who were giants, The bill clerk read as follows: Graham Murkowski Perdue with McGill’s having won a Pulitzer CLOTURE MOTION Manchin Murray Sanders Prize. We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this Dick is one of the most favorite peo- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the ple I have ever known who reported on vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 44. Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby politics because he was always doing it move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Georgia is recog- for the right reasons. There are nation of Paul B. Matey, of New Jersey, to be projects that have happened in our United States Circuit Judge for the Third nized. Circuit. Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I ask State today because Dick Williams Mitch McConnell, David Perdue, Roy unanimous consent to speak as in took the power of the press not to trash something but to build up the Blunt, John Cornyn, Joni Ernst, morning business. Lindsey Graham, John Boozman, Mike The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without facts that allowed it to pass. A lot of Rounds, Thom Tillis, Steve Daines, times, that doesn’t happen, but when objection, it is so ordered. James E. Risch, John Hoeven, Mike Dick saw a good deal, he would go for Crapo, Shelley Moore Capito, John TRIBUTE TO DICK WILLIAMS it, and when he saw a bad deal, he Thune, Pat Roberts, Jerry Moran. Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I will would go for it. Either way, you could The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- be very brief for the Senator from take his word for it all the time be- imous consent, the mandatory quorum Delaware so I am not taking up too cause he was what is known in the pro- call has been waived. much time. fession as a straight shooter. The question is, Is it the sense of the I am here to do something very spe- Dick Williams is a very special indi- Senate that debate on the nomination cial. One of the great things we get to vidual to me and my family. He did of Paul B. Matey, of New Jersey, to be do is to pay tribute to people who do 1,700 shows called ‘‘The Georgia Gang.’’ United States Circuit Judge for the great things in our State. We don’t Every Sunday, at 8:30 in the morning, Third Circuit, shall be brought to a brag about journalists as much as we for 30 minutes, every politician in close? should. They think we are saying bad Georgia watches channel 5 in Atlanta The yeas and nays are mandatory things about them, but they are great. because that is ‘‘The Georgia Gang.’’ If under the rule. They make the country better. The you make it by that, your week is The clerk will call the roll. fact that we have an accountable going to be pretty good because they The legislative clerk called the roll. media makes us all great. There are su- haven’t skewered you for something Mr. THUNE. The following Senators perstars within the media who deserve stupid that you did, but if you don’t are necessarily absent: the Senator acknowledgment, particularly when make it by that, you are going to have from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), the they retire from the job. In Georgia, a tough week. Senator from Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI), that has been the case. Dick Williams is the kind of jour- and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Dick Williams, in Atlanta, GA, an- nalist all of us love—accurate, articu- PERDUE). nounced on Sunday that after 53 years late, smart, and caring about what he

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Thank you for marrying Rebecca, who former chairman of the Judiciary Com- During his time as the senior vice is a wonderful woman. Thank you for mittee—once called ‘‘the last remain- president of University Hospital in welcoming Lori Geary as your replace- ing check on the President’s judicial Newark, a nationwide investigation ment every Sunday morning at 8:30. I appointment power.’’ gave the hospital an F—F, failure—for now know, when I get up on Sundays, I President Trump’s nominees are now patient safety standards. Mr. Matey will be going to church not with Dick being confirmed at record speed, de- has acknowledged that while these Williams but with Lori Geary. spite objections from home State Sen- issues were medical in nature, he did God bless you, Dick. Thanks for your ators. have some personal responsibility to contribution to Georgia. My Republican friends claim to be mitigate risks to patients. I yield the floor. the party of conservatism. Yet there is Likewise, some of Mr. Matey’s The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- nothing conservative about sweeping writings suggest a hostility toward ator from New Jersey. aside century-old norms for political plaintiff attorneys who help everyday NOMINATION OF PAUL B. MATEY gain. They have put their party before Americans take on powerful corporate Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, I country and show no fidelity to the in- interests in class action lawsuits. rise today having just voted no on the stitutions that have made this country In 2005, he authored an article with motion invoking cloture on Paul Mat- great. now-Supreme Court Justice Neil ey’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Aside from the degradation of Senate Gorsuch that lamented how the Su- Appeals for the Third Circuit. norms surrounding Mr. Matey’s nomi- preme Court’s ruling in Dura Pharma- Now, I know speeches on procedure nation, I have real concerns with his ceuticals was a missed opportunity to rarely make headlines, but I cannot be record. The people of New Jersey have ‘‘curb frivolous fraud claims’’ and dis- silent as the majority shreds long-held no appetite for a judge who served in missed plaintiff attorneys as seeking norms for political gain. Once again, Gov. Chris Christie’s administration ‘‘free rides to fast riches.’’ In other the Republican majority has ignored and was once even called a protege of words, Paul Matey saw a very narrow the blue-slip process that allows Sen- our esteemed former Governor. question in the Dura Pharmaceuticals case as an opening for the Court to ators to either green light or prevent As deputy chief counsel for Governor make a sweeping ruling on all securi- hearings on judicial nominees from Christie, Mr. Matey said he tried to en- ties class actions. Now, that is what their home States. sure that that administration followed Some Americans may wonder, why ‘‘the highest standards of propriety, you call an activist judge. Matey then goes on to decry the does this matter? Well, the blue-slip ethics, and legality.’’ ‘‘enormous toll on the economy’’ secu- process gives the people a voice Somehow I question that. Consider rities fraud litigation takes on corpora- through their elected representatives what the people of New Jersey had to tions but with little concern for the ac- on who ultimately renders justice in go through during Governor Christie’s tual victims of security fraud. their State. Neither Senator BOOKER tenure: the Bridgegate scandal, the Most troubling to me is how Mr. nor I have returned blue slips for Mr. defunding of a Rutgers institute that Matey has done zero—I repeat, zero— Matey. In fact, Mr. Matey’s confirma- was run by a Federal nominee, the pro bono work throughout his legal ca- tion hearing took place before Senator spiteful removal of a security detail reer. His Senate Judiciary question- BOOKER—our State’s voice on the Judi- from former Governor Codey, and the naire lacks any record of pro bono rep- ciary Committee—was even extended rampant mismanagement of resentation. When he was asked about the common courtesy of meeting with Superstorm Sandy relief contracts, it, Mr. Matey claimed his work on be- Mr. Matey. It wasn’t for lack of trying. which forced too many families to live half of the State of New Jersey satis- Senator BOOKER requested time with in trailers for years on end. That is fied the requirement. I couldn’t dis- Mr. Matey, but when he didn’t receive quite a list—quite a list. agree more. That is not pro bono work. it, the Judiciary Committee proceeded I struggle to believe that Mr. Matey, You were paid for it. anyway. the second most senior attorney in the Cannon 2 of the American Bar Asso- To add insult to injury, committee Christie administration, had no knowl- ciation’s Code of Professional Respon- Republicans falsely claimed the White edge of this behavior. sibility explicitly emphasizes the im- House had meaningfully consulted with During his confirmation hearing, Mr. portance of pro bono work. For many myself and Senator BOOKER, the home Matey could not detail any of the steps corporate lawyers, representing the un- State Senators, and that is simply not he took to ensure ethics rules were fol- derserved is the only way to witness the case. There never was meaningful lowed and declined to offer any descrip- firsthand how the scales of justice in consultation between the White House tion of his supposed ‘‘rigorous system’’ this country are too often tipped in and Senator BOOKER or me to identify of monitoring and oversight at his con- favor of the wealthy and well con- a highly qualified consensus nominee— firmation hearing. nected. Pro bono work helps lawyers rather, we were informed about the de- Apparently, Mr. Matey’s system cultivate sound judgment and is espe- cision to nominate Mr. Matey—nor did wasn’t so rigorous, considering that cially important to those seeking to I receive any offer to meet with Mr. Bridgegate—for those of my colleagues become Federal judges. Matey, not before his nomination, not who may not know, although I think Mr. Matey has done nothing to serve after his nomination, not even to date everybody knows, is when the the disadvantaged, and that does not as we are voting on the Senate floor. operatives of the Christie administra- bode well for the fair administration of Look, I have come to expect this be- tion closed access to the George Wash- justice, nor does the Republican major- havior from the Trump White House, ington Bridge from the New Jersey ity’s disregard for procedures like blue but in the Senate, Democrats always— side, which caused massive—massive— slips bode well for the Senate’s con- always—respected the blue-slip process tieups on the New Jersey side, all to stitutional role to provide advice and during our time in the majority. That politically punish the mayor of the consent or our responsibility to help is undeniable. community where the George Wash- build a judiciary that is responsive to Before President Trump took office, ington Bridge leads from on the New the needs of the American people in the only five judges in the past century Jersey side. courtroom. were confirmed with only one blue slip, Bridgegate amounted to one of the For all of these reasons, I urge my much less no blue slips. Never has a most egregious abuses of political colleagues to oppose confirmation of Democratic-led Senate ever held a power against everyday New Jersey Paul Matey to the Third Circuit Court hearing or confirmed a judicial nomi- families in our history. He was sup- of Appeals. We are better than this.

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If you just put them out there lot of folks who come up, including passed bipartisan legislation to fully by themselves, they are not going to do from Guatemala, and work in poultry fund our Federal Government, I was much good, but if you put highly so- processing plants. They are good work- privileged to join with Senator JEFF phisticated equipment on each of those ers. They work hard. MERKLEY of Oregon and four Members platforms, they give us the ability to We have a nonprofit in southern of the House of Representatives, in- see from our border into Mexico as far Delaware, in Georgetown, DE, called cluding our at-large Congresswoman as 20, 25 miles in all kinds of weather— La Esperanza, which means ‘‘hope.’’ from Delaware, LISA BLUNT ROCH- people as small as children who are ap- They work with indigenous popu- lations, illegal and legal migrants, who ESTER, to lead a congressional delega- proaching our border—and then we tion to Honduras, Guatemala, and El know where to deploy our Border Pa- have come to southern Delaware. A Salvador—three countries that are of- trol to meet them and intercept them. couple years ago, I was visiting La tentimes collectively referred to as the We can put the same kind of sophisti- Esperanza, and they told me the story about a young boy and his younger sis- Northern Triangle. cated surveillance equipment on diri- Our delegation was on a factfinding gibles that go up 5,000 feet, 10,000 feet ter who fled Guatemala. They came to mission. We wanted to drill down on into the air. We can put them on tow- the United States and, ultimately, to Delaware. the root causes of illegal immigration ers that are mobile, towers that are stationary along the border as well. This is why they came. The 15-year- from Central America and assess the old boy in Guatemala was approached effectiveness of a new approach in re- We can put people on horseback. We can put, believe it or not, some of our by gangs in his community. They said: cent years to help improve conditions Border Patrol officers on horseback. We want you to join our gang. on the ground in those three countries. The reason we do that is, in areas with He said: Let me talk to my parents On our flight to Guatemala, several first before I do that. of us watched as President Trump—in high vegetation, the Border Patrol offi- cer on a horse—a big horse—can see He knew his parents wouldn’t be too order to build his long-promised wall— excited with that. He talked to his par- declared a national emergency, even over the vegetation and pick up people trying to come across the border ille- ents, who said: You are not going to though while illegal immigration gally. join a gang. We don’t want you to do spiked in the last couple of months In some places, boats make sense, that. Just tell them no. across our southern border, if you go high-speed boats. In other places, boat He avoided the gang members for a back to 2001 through the end of 2018, it ramps make sense. If you don’t have while, but they finally caught him and has actually dropped by, believe it or boat ramps, you can’t put the boat in, said: Are you going to join our gang? He said: I talked to my parents, and not, 80 percent. and you don’t have much mobility. As former chairman of the Homeland Those are some of the things we have they don’t want me to do that, so not Security and Governmental Affairs done in terms of providing better bor- now. I am not going to do it now. They said: We have a message for you Committee, I understand the need for der security. secure borders, and I have supported ef- The encouraging news is, a lot of it and your parents. If you don’t join our forts to enhance border security over has worked. A lot of it has worked, but gang, somebody in your family is going to die. the last two decades that I have served we could build a wall from the Gulf of He went home and told his parents, in this body. Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, and if and their message to him was: Join the I have been down to Central America that is all we do, people are still going any number of times with people like gang. Just don’t do anything stupid. to come to this country—not so much So he joined the gang. They have to Gen. John Kelly, when he was the from Mexico. People used to come in SOUTHCOM commander, with Jeh go through an initiation ritual, and as huge numbers from Mexico. part of that ritual, he was called on to Johnson, with RON JOHNSON, both of If you look back in the history of the rape his 13-year-old sister. He reported whom served as chairman of the Home- last especially 15 years, most of the land Security and Governmental Af- what was expected of him to his par- folks who were coming here illegally ents, and within a week he and his sis- fairs Committee, and John McCain. We were coming from Mexico across our ter were on their way out of that coun- went into that part of the world and borders. Today, it is quite different. try. along our border with Mexico to better There are more Mexicans going back The gangs in these countries, espe- understand what our needs are for bor- into Mexico than there are Mexicans cially in Guatemala, are entrepre- der security. coming into the United States. Most of neurial. They may be involved in traf- Since 2003, the United States has the illegal immigration is not coming ficking people. They may be involved spent, believe it or not, $263 billion— from Mexico. It is coming from Guate- in trafficking drugs. They are really that is almost one-quarter of a trillion mala. It is coming from Honduras. It is good at extortion—extorting money dollars—on border security. coming from El Salvador. from small businesses and going to a We have doubled the number of bor- The trek from the Northern Tri- business and saying: I want you to pay der agents. We have deployed hundreds angle—these countries right here—up me protection money. If you provide of miles of barriers and roads in places through Mexico to our border is over protection money, I will see that you where they are most effective. We have 1,000 miles, probably closer to 1,500 are not harmed. funded highly sophisticated surveil- miles, depending on how you want to The merchant says: Who are you pro- lance aircraft, equipment on drones get there. tecting me from? and airplanes, helicopters, mile-high The spike in immigration we have You are actually being protected dirigibles, along with motion detectors, seen in the last several months is from the guy who is trying to extort high-speed boats, tunnel detectors, and mostly from Guatemala’s mountainous money from you, and if you don’t pay a lot more. highlands. They have a lot of indige- the money, they will kill you. It is just The approach on border security at nous people, and they don’t have a very like that. As for the rate of extortion our border with Mexico needs to be good lifestyle. They have a lot of in these three countries from gangs multilayered, and it is. There are some malnourishment, a lot of stunted who do multiple kinds of crimes, that places barriers do make sense—a lot of growth, and not a lot in terms of en- is one of their favorites. places, in fact. There are some places couragement and economic oppor- The reason why people live lives of that actually walls—the kind President tunity. Let me tell you a quick story of misery has a lot to do with us—because Trump has envisioned, think San Diego the reason why these people are trying we are addicted to drugs. The drugs are and maybe Juarez—make sense, but to get out of there. trafficked through these three coun- there are a lot of other places where In the southern part of our State, tries, and we are complicit in their different kinds of barriers make sense. Sussex County is our biggest county. misery.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:10 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G11MR6.014 S11MRPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1757 A Catholic priest testified before the The Presiding Officer has heard me and in the capital of Guatemala, cre- Homeland Security Committee a cou- say many times in the Environment ating almost like tech centers where ple of years ago. He described a situa- and Public Works Committee: Find out young entrepreneurs can start their tion where our drug addiction makes what works, and do more of that. own businesses. They get some help life miserable in these three countries. Plan Colombia worked. It took a long from us and some coaching from us, Then, when they try to get out, we time. I am an old Navy guy. It reminds and they are starting to lead an eco- make it difficult to impossible to get me of trying to change the course of an nomic recovery. into our country. aircraft carrier. You stick with it, and These are beautiful countries—lush The priest who was our witness that you can make sure to change the and with beautiful beaches in some day said: It is a little bit like the fire course of an aircraft carrier. It doesn’t places. So they are attractive for tour- department visiting a house down here. happen fast. Plan Colombia has taken ism. They have, for the most part, very The fire department goes into the years to work, but it has worked. fertile soil, and with the right kind of house. There is no fire. The fire depart- About 3 or 4 years ago, when we were help, coaching, and mentoring, they ment goes into the house, and they starting to see a real surge—again, not can do a much better job feeding them- start a fire. When the people try to run from Mexican immigration illegally selves and exporting a lot of what they out of the house, the fire department into our country but from these three raise. leaves the house, locks the door, and countries—President Obama called on Things are starting to happen. Again, drives away. Joe Biden to take off-the-shelf Plan it is like that aircraft carrier I talked That is really a pretty good example Colombia, and see if it might be pos- about. It is slow at first and, then, of what we have done in Central Amer- sible to develop a Central American more perceptible as time goes by. ica. We have lit the fire. We have left version of Plan Colombia. The idea In San Salvador, the capital of El the family in the house. We have would be to focus on three or four Salvador, we used Federal—American— locked the door and driven away. I areas. We would provide some of the money in order to leverage the Howard think that is morally wrong, and we money, but these countries would pro- G. Buffett Foundation to go—literally, can do better than that. vide a lot more because it is their in the middle of the city—into 17 acres As it turns out, aside from spending country. It is not our country, but we of what used to be a beautiful park and $263 billion along the border for secu- are complicit in their misery. So we was later riddled with crime, and to rity in the last 18 years or so, someone have an obligation to help them—a clean it up and make it beautiful again has come up with a better idea. It is moral obligation. for the people of that city. not a new idea. It is an idea based on These are the three areas of focus of One multinational company has something called Plan Colombia. Plan the Alliance for Prosperity—the mod- come down into one of these countries Colombia was developed 20 years ago, ern-day, Central American version of and put millions of dollars into cre- when in Bogota, the capital of Colom- Plan Colombia. One is economic hope ating a DNA facility to help in solving bia, you had the FARC, the leftist gue- and economic opportunity. That is one. crimes. rillas trying to take down the govern- That is one of the major drivers of peo- Little by little, things are getting ment, and drug lords and drug gangs ple getting out of there—lack of eco- better. There are still problems in Gua- trying to take down the government of nomic opportunity. Two is violence and temala and among the highlands indig- Colombia. One day, a bunch of gunmen the lack of rule of law. Three is just enous people who are still trying to get rounded up the supreme court justices corruption. Corruption is endemic in out of there. Ninety percent of the im- of Colombia, took them into a room, their Federal government—the na- migration right now is out of that part and shot them to death. tional government—in State and local of Guatemala. Colombia was teetering, and there governments, and in business. It is just The last thing I will say is this. They were questions: Are they going to be endemic. Those are the three buckets just had an election in El Salvador 4 able to make it? Some very brave Co- that the Alliance for Prosperity was weeks ago. The current President is a lombian leaders stood up and said: We designed to address. We put up some of 75-year-old guerilla leader who was a are not going to let this happen. We are the money. The other countries put up close friend of Venezuela’s leader and not going to let these guys take down a good deal more. was at Maduro’s inauguration a month our country. Our President then, Bill One example is El Salvador. For or so ago. He is friendly with the Chi- Clinton, and a fellow who was chair- every dollar we put up, they put up $7. nese and friendly with the Cubans. He man of the Foreign Relations Com- We used that money in El Salvador to, is leaving. He is stepping down as the mittee, Joe Biden, found common among other things, target the cities President of that country in a couple of cause with the leaders of Colombia. Ba- with the most crime. We used some of months. sically, the Colombians developed a our resources but a lot more of their Who is going to succeed him? It is plan that would help to stabilize their resources. The crime in those 50 cities the 38-year-old mayor of San Salvador, government and enable them to restore is down dramatically in the last couple who gets economic development. He is order, rule of law, and economic pros- of years. free of corruption. He is someone who perity, and we helped them. I will give In Honduras the murder rate is down has a good relationship with our em- one example of what we did. by about 35 percent. These three coun- bassy there, and he is highly regarded The Presiding Officer spent a lot of tries vie for murder capital of the by our folks. He is an honest guy, full time in the military. One of the things world and have for some time. The of energy. In his campaign, he was the we did is that we provided helicopters murder rate in Honduras is down by 35 first candidate for President in the his- so that the military of Colombia and percent or 40 percent. The murder rates tory of the country who has gotten the police of Colombia had mobility. in Guatemala and El Salvador over the over 50 percent. It didn’t have to go to They could go over the mountainous last 3 years are down by half. Would we a runoff. It is an amazing development. rivers and country and track down the still feel comfortable in those neigh- He harnessed social media to get elect- bad guys. That is what they did with borhoods? Probably not, but it is better ed. our help. than what it was. Meanwhile, there is going to be a We helped them to figure out how to In Honduras, one of the things they Presidential election in Guatemala in collect revenues. They didn’t collect did is basically that they fired one- June. Jimmy Morales is the President many revenues, and the wealthy people third of their police officers and re- there. He is somebody whom Vice of that country didn’t pay much taxes placed them with vetted units. With President Biden and I tried to mentor. at all. We taught them how to do a bet- that in mind, they did a much better Initially, it started out very promising. ter job in revenues and to use that to job on extortion. They did a much bet- Then, more recently, there are real help to develop their government insti- ter job on kidnapping and actually concerns about corruption involving tutions. The people in Colombia did the bringing to trial and sentencing the his family. His time as President will heavy lifting. We helped. It is like they folks who are committing the crimes. expire about the middle of this year, say in Home Depot: You can do it; we USAID is working down there in San but in Guatemala the three can help. Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, frontrunners to run for president are

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They are The Legion continues its strong ad- portunity to talk with Vice President grateful for the help we are providing. vocacy for improving these and other Biden to get some encouragement from I know a bunch of them. I met a lot of benefits. Its efforts were vital in the him. them down there. Some of them live in passage of the Post-9/11 GI bill and the Joe Biden is beloved in Delaware and my State. For the most part, they are enhancement measure passed in 2017, in some other places around the coun- good and decent people. They deserve which bears the name of a former try, but they really love him there be- our help. I am proud of the support this American Legion commander, the cause he has been interested in root Congress has provided for the last 4 Harry W. Colmery Veterans Edu- causes—not just in treating the symp- years for their lives and prosperity. My cational Assistance Act. toms of the problems and challenges on hope is that we will continue to do that After a century of service, Legion- the border but actually helping to ad- and continue to use that money to le- naires remain just as committed to ad- dress the root causes. verage a lot of good work not only for vocating on behalf of our veterans The fellow who has just been elected those countries but for nonprofits, today. President of El Salvador is a 38-year- NGOs, foundations, and private compa- Last month, I met with members of old millennial. His social media people nies, and that together we will get the the American Legion Department of have now started to help the former job done. I am encouraged. Arkansas who were visiting the Na- Attorney General who is running for Thank you, Mr. President. tion’s Capital to voice their support for President of Guatemala. I really want to say to my friend, the organization’s 2019 priorities. This As the Presiding Officer and my col- Senator JEFF MERKLEY, who went down includes supporting the VA’s efforts to leagues know, the most important in- to this part of the world any number of reduce veteran suicides, improving gredient in the success of any organiza- times as a young man and went back healthcare for women veterans, fight- tion I have ever seen is leadership. It is again last month still as a young man, ing veteran homelessness, ensuring GI leadership. that he has provided a lot of great in- bill benefits, and ensuring benefits to We are seeing a changing of the sight. It has been a joy going with him veterans who were exposed to Agent guard not only in terms of age but also and now working with him on this as Orange. I am optimistic about the in terms of just where they come from, we go forward. progress we will make on these impor- on a scale of 1 to 100. I yield the floor. tant issues because of the excellent and The last thing I want to mention—if Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President. active work of the American Legion I could find my spot here in my notes— The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. SUL- Department of Arkansas, which has is that none of this is easy, but it basi- LIVAN). The Senator from Arkansas. more than 10,000 members in nearly 150 cally says that we have a moral obliga- THE AMERICAN LEGION’S CENTENNIAL posts throughout the State. tion to the folks down here. We make Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, the The Arkansas Department of the their lives miserable because of our American Legion, the Nation’s largest American Legion was incorporated on drug addiction, and we ought to help wartime veterans service organization, May 12, 1919. National headquarters them. They have to do most of the is celebrating its centennial this year. records show it was the first incorpora- work, but we have to help them. We I rise today to recognize this mile- tion of the organization in the United can’t just help them for a couple of stone. States. There is a proud history of in- weeks or a couple of months or a cou- For the past 100 years, the American volvement in all corners of the State, ple of years, as we found out in Colom- Legion has been a leading advocate for ranging from the annual fallen heroes bia; we have to stick with this a good veterans and their families. The Legion ceremony to the Law Enforcement Of- deal longer to help change the culture has played a role in crafting legisla- ficer of the Year program. of these countries. tion, shaping policies, expanding serv- I have had the privilege of partici- I am encouraged to say that change ices, and creating generations of civic- pating in Legion events around the is happening, and we should keep it minded Americans. State, including honoring the Arkan- going. There is a sense of optimism Founded in Paris following World sans who paid the ultimate sacrifice, that is beginning to emerge in these War I, the American Legion was offi- celebrating the milestones of the posts, countries. I think there are some rea- cially chartered by Congress on Sep- and recognizing young Arkansans who sons to be encouraged that a plan mod- tember 16, 1919. Since its founding, Le- have been distinguished by Legion- eled after Plan Colombia and tailored gionnaires have proudly worked to naires. The Legion rightfully prides especially for this part of the world can strengthen our country and our com- itself as being actively involved in the actually succeed. If we don’t give up munities, while upholding the promise community and teaching Arkansas and especially if they don’t give up, it our country made to those who have youth how to be good citizens. Through very well will. worn our Nation’s uniform. a variety of programs and activities— P.S. The cost of actually capturing The list of achievements that the Le- Boys and Girls State Programs, sup- somebody on our border who is starting gion has helped fight for is long and in- port of the Boy Scouts of America, and to come in illegally, detaining them, cludes the creation of the U.S. Vet- the American Legion Baseball Pro- putting them in a holding camp or a erans’ Bureau in 1924, the forerunner of gram, to name a few—it encourages detention center, feeding them, pro- the Veterans’ Administration. Decades fostering a dedication to civic responsi- viding healthcare, and eventually de- later, the Legion was active in ele- bility, promoting American values, and porting them and sending them back vating to Cabinet-level status the U.S. serving others. down to wherever they came from, I Department of Veterans Affairs. For 100 years, the American Legion am told is $27,000 a person—$27,000 a Following the American Legion’s has worked tirelessly to improve the person. lead, Congress adopted a flag code to lives of veterans and their families. In These people love their countries, formally lay out the protocol for car- honor of their centennial, Congress ap- and given a chance, they would much rying and displaying our Nation’s ban- proved minting a coin to recognize its rather stay down there. They would ner. The Legion continues to actively milestone. I was a proud cosponsor of much rather stay down there. They support the constitutional amendment the bill and support its passage to com- might like to come up to visit and to protect the American flag from memorate the legacy of the American maybe do some work sometime and go desecration. Legion and the thousands of men and back home. But they want to have a During World War II, the American women who have supported its mission decent life. Frankly, if we will help Legion drafted legislation that would and upheld the four pillars of its found- them realize that, they will stay down become the GI bill. Legionnaires were ing: veterans affairs and rehabilitation,

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Their homes Auxiliary’s dedication and the results anticipated lifting of the ban on women were demolished; they were barred their efforts have produced in Arkansas driving, one of the very causes for from entering other monasteries, and and across our entire country. I am which many of the detained activists faced detention, harassment, and proud to recognize the American Le- had campaigned. While some were abuse. gion on its 100 years of advocacy and quickly released, others remain impris- In Eritrea, Aster Fissehatsion has celebrate this century of service with oned. They include Loujain al- been held incommunicado without the 2 million members who are making Hathloul, Aziza al-Yousef, Eman al- charge or trial since September 2001. a difference each day as Legionnaires. Nafjan, Nouf Abdelaziz, Mayaa al- Her whereabouts, 17 years later, are Zahrani, Samar Badawi, Nassima al- f still not known. Aster Fissehatsion Saada, Hatoon al-Fassi, Shadan al- was arrested together with 10 other ORDER OF BUSINESS Onezi, and Amal al-Harbi. Credible re- members of a group of political dis- Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I ask ports indicate that Saudi interrogators sidents known as the Group of 15, or G– unanimous consent that all postcloture tortured at least four of the women, in- 15, including her former husband, time on the Matey nomination expire cluding with electric shocks and former Vice President and foreign min- at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12; fur- whippings and sexual harassment and ister of Eritrea, Mahmoud Ahmed ther, that if confirmed, the motion to assault. Sheriffo. In the Philippines, Senator Leila de reconsider be considered made and laid Perhaps, most tragically, this is just Lima, a brave champion of human upon the table and the President be im- a snapshot of some of the brave women rights, launched an investigation into mediately notified of the Senate’s ac- who dare to speak up for fundamental extrajudicial executions that began tion. rights and values. shortly after President Duterte took The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without So on this International Women’s office in 2016. As one of the only leaders objection, it is so ordered. Day, as we reflect on the achievements bold enough to oppose President of women and reflect on the work that f Duterte’s ‘‘war on drugs,’’ she has faced remains to be done, I call on all of us LEGISLATIVE SESSION prolonged arbitrary detention, accord- to redouble our efforts to free women ing to Human Rights Watch and Am- political prisoners. Governments have nesty International. President Duterte the responsibility to promote the safe- MORNING BUSINESS has sought to silence her courageous ty, well-being, and fundamental rights voice as she spoke out against wide- Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I ask of their citizens. I call on governments spread human rights violations, includ- who are unjustly detaining, harassing, unanimous consent that the Senate ing thousands of extrajudicial execu- proceed to legislative session for a pe- and torturing women for exercising tions of mostly poor and marginalized their fundamental rights to imme- riod of morning business, with Sen- people. ators permitted to speak for up to 10 diately release these politically moti- In Egypt, Hanan Badr el-Din, a vated detentions. As they continue to minutes each. human rights defender and cofounder The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without struggle, let us all take up the mantle of the Families of the Forcibly Dis- of their cause. objection, it is so ordered. appeared Association, was detained on f f May 6, 2017, at Qanatar prison while visiting an individual who had been ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY forcibly disappeared. She started her Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, on activism following the forced dis- International Women’s Day, we reflect appearance of her husband in 2013. She RECOGNIZING MIAMI TOUR on the enormous contributions women suffers from a serious genetic disorder, COMPANY make worldwide to their communities and her health is rapidly deteriorating. ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, as chair- and their countries across every aspect China is responsible for some of the man of the Committee on Small Busi- of society including justice, politics, most grave human rights abuses, in- ness and Entrepreneurship, each week I culture, peacebuilding, the economy, cluding of women. China has impris- recognize a small business that exem- and national security. On this day, we oned hundreds of thousands of Uighur plifies the unique American entrepre- also recognize and recommit to fight- women in detention camps across its neurial spirit. Today, it is my distinct ing on behalf of the many women northwest region. These women are pleasure to name Miami Tour Company whose voices governments seek to si- forced to renounce their Muslim reli- as the Senate Small Business of the lence. Around the world, women take gion and Uighur language and memo- Week. enormous risks to advance the rights rize Chinese propaganda. Forced labor, Founded in 2002, Miami Tour Com- of their fellow citizens and to promote torture, and death are common. Thou- pany has quickly become a premier the principles of freedom of expression, sands of children have been separated provider of tours and activities in religion, and assembly. They fight for from their mothers and fathers and south Florida. Husband and wife, Gus rights to access education and placed in a separate network of orphan- and Michelle Moore, founded the com- healthcare, and they fight discrimina- ages. One husband of a Uighur woman pany based on the principle of pro- tion, corruption, and violence. For told Human Rights Watch: ‘‘My wife viding the best customer experience their words and for their actions, all was about to go back overseas but they possible. Gus and Michelle met while too often, governments turn these took her passport. And when she went working at a restaurant and bonded women into political prisoners. to ask to get her passport back, they over a shared passion for making sure Today, I want to highlight just a tiny told her she needs to be subjected to that visitors to their home State have fraction of the countless number of political education for 10 days, and a great experience. After serving thou- women and girls held behind bars un- then they would let her go. That was sands of hungry patrons and learning justly. Similarly, unfortunately, the on July 20, 2017. Since then, she’s been how to make visitors to Miami as repressive governments detaining these in a political education camp.’’ The happy as possible, Gus and Michelle de- women are just a small fraction of the family of Guligeina Tashimaimaiti, a cided to start a business. With their governments around the world that Uighur PhD student who was last seen combined knowledge of the area and a lock up women for exercising their fun- in December 2017 when she returned knack for anticipating their cus- damental freedoms. from studying in Malaysia, for exam- tomer’s needs, a tour company was the Just last week, the government of ple, fears she is in detention and at perfect fit. With their savings from Saudi Arabia announced that it would risk of torture and other ill treatment. working at the restaurant, the couple

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The company’s local guides from the President of the United We are now addressing our challenges run day tours through Key West, Or- States, together with an accompanying from a position of strength. My 2020 lando, the Everglades, and Miami report; which was referred jointly, pur- Budget builds on the tremendous Beach. They have also instituted a suant to the order of January 30, 1975, progress we have made and provides a GPS-guided system in their tour buses as modified by the order of April 11, clear roadmap for the Congress to bring Federal spending and debt under that triggers high-quality digital voice 1986; to the Committees on the Budget; control. We must protect future gen- recordings at locations of interest, and Appropriations: making them the only tour company in erations from Washington’s habitual Florida to offer this technology. To ex- To the Congress of the United States: deficit spending. This year, I asked most executive de- pand their customer base, the company In just over 2 years, together with partments and agencies to cut their has begun offering the recordings in the American people, we have launched budgets by at least 5 percent. In addi- Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, an unprecedented economic boom. tion to reflecting those reductions, my French, Italian, German, and Russian, Since I was elected, we have created Budget invests in the following prior- allowing visitors from around the more than 5 million new jobs, including ities: world to enjoy the attractions that half a million manufacturing jobs. Nearly 5 million Americans have been Securing our Borders and Protecting Florida has to offer. our Sovereignty. As President, my On top of providing enjoyable and in- lifted off food stamps. Unemployment is the lowest in nearly half a century. highest duty is the defense of our Na- formative tours, Miami Tour Company tion—which is why finishing the border gives back to their community. They African American unemployment, His- panic American unemployment, and wall is an urgent national priority. All guide local elementary students on free who are privileged to hold elected of- historical bus tours throughout Miami Asian American unemployment rates have all reached historic lows. Our Na- fice must work together to create an and offer students free eco-tourism immigration system that promotes trips to the Everglades. They also give tion is experiencing an economic mir- acle—and it is improving the lives of wage growth and economic oppor- back to their community by providing tunity, while preventing drugs, ter- complimentary travel charters for ac- all our citizens. We have achieved these extraor- rorism, and crime from entering the tivities for the children and families of United States. Immigration policy, Sophia’s Hope. In addition, they donate dinary gains thanks to historic tax cuts and an unprecedented regulatory like all policy, must serve the interests portions of their proceeds to the Miami of Americans living here today—in- Beach Holocaust Memorial and the reduction campaign, through unleashing American energy produc- cluding the millions of new Americans Miami Beach Botanical Gardens. who came here legally to join our na- Miami Tour Company has been a true tion, systematically fixing bad trade deals, and remaining absolutely com- tional family. The American people are small business success story. Their entitled to a strong border that stops dedication to hospitality has been rec- mitted to putting the needs of the American worker first. illegal immigration, and a responsible ognized with an A-plus rating from the visa policy that protects our security My Administration worked with the Better Business Bureau and a Certifi- and our workforce. My Budget con- Congress to pass unprecedented legisla- cate of Excellence from online review- tinues to reflect these priorities, and I tion to confront the opioid crisis, a ers. look forward to working with the Con- sweeping new farm bill, Gus and Michelle’s commitment to gress to finish the border wall and groundbreaking criminal justice re- an exceptional customer experience build a safe, just, and lawful immigra- form, major investments to rebuild the represents the standard of hospitality tion system that will benefit genera- military, and historic Department of with which Florida small businesses tions of Americans to come. are known for. Companies like Miami Veterans Affairs reforms to ensure that Preserving Peace through Strength. Tour Company are one of the many our great veterans have access to high A strong military, fully integrated reasons that visitors enjoy south Flor- quality healthcare. with our allies and all our instruments ida and keep coming back. I would like We are also making our communities of power, enables our Nation to deter to congratulate Gus, Michelle, and all safer. To target violent crime, my Ad- war, preserve peace, and, if necessary, of the employees at Miami Tour Com- ministration has increased support for defeat aggression against United pany for being named the Senate Small Federal, State, and local law enforce- States interests. To that end, my Business of the Week. I wish them good ment We have added nearly 200 new Budget requests $750 billion for na- luck and look forward to watching violent crime prosecutors across the tional defense, an increase of $34 bil- their continued growth and success.∑ United States. And last year, the De- lion, or 5 percent, from the 2019 enacted partment of Justice prosecuted more f level. The Budget funds the National violent crimes than ever before. As a Security Strategy and National De- MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT result, violent crime is falling. fense Strategy, building on the major Messages from the President of the My Administration is confronting gains we have already made through- United States were communicated to the national security and humani- out the world. the Senate by Ms. Ridgway, one of his tarian crisis on our southern border, Protecting our Veterans. Our Na- secretaries. and we are accepting the moral duty to tion’s brave warriors and defenders de- f create an immigration system that serve the best care America has to protects the lives and jobs of our citi- offer—both during and after their ac- EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED zens. This includes our obligation to tive service. Last year, I signed into In executive session the Presiding Of- the millions of immigrants living in law the historic VA MISSION Act of ficer laid before the Senate messages the United States today who followed 2018 to reform and transform the De- from the President of the United the rules and respected our laws. partment of Veterans Affairs States submitting sundry nominations In the 20th century, America saved healthcare system into an integrated which were referred to the appropriate freedom, transformed science, and de- system for the 21st century. My Budget committees. fined the middle class standard of liv- fully funds all requirements for vet- (The messages received today are ing. Now we must write the next chap- erans’ healthcare services and provides printed at the end of the Senate pro- ter of the great American adventure, additional funding to implement the ceedings.) turbo-charging the industries of the fu- VA MISSION Act of 2018.

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A communication from the Alter- House of Representatives, delivered by tem that requires postsecondary insti- nate Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, tutions that accept taxpayer funds to of the Secretary, Department of Defense, announced that the Speaker has signed transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of have skin in the game through a stu- the following enrolled bill: a rule entitled ‘‘Retired Serviceman’s Fam- dent loan risk-sharing program. My ily Protection Plan (RSFPP)’’ (RIN0790– S. 49. An act to designate the outstation of Administration will also continue to AK31) received in the Office of the President the Department of Veterans Affairs in North seek expanded Pell Grant eligibility for of the Senate on March 6, 2019; to the Com- Ogden, Utah, as the Major Brent Taylor Vet mittee on Armed Services. high-quality, short-term programs in Center Outstation. high-demand fields, so that students EC–535. A communication from the Presi- and workers can quickly gain valuable The enrolled bill was subsequently dent of the United States, transmitting, pur- skills at a more affordable cost and ob- signed by the President pro tempore suant to law, a report relative to the con- tain family-sustaining jobs. We must (Mr. GRASSLEY). tinuation of the national emergency origi- create and invest in better opportuni- f nally declared in Executive Order 13660 on March 6, 2014, with respect to Ukraine; to the ties for our Nation’s students and job MEASURES PLACED ON THE Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban seekers, while ensuring that we do so CALENDAR Affairs. in a more efficient and effective man- EC–536. A communication from the Presi- ner. The following bill was read the sec- dent of the United States, transmitting, pur- Research for Childhood Cancers. ond time, and placed on the calendar: suant to law, the continuation of the na- Many childhood cancers have not seen S. 729. A bill to prohibit the use of funds to tional emergency originally declared in exec- new therapies in decades. My Budget Federal agencies to establish a panel, task utive order 13288 on March 6, 2003, with re- initiates a new effort that invests $500 force, advisory committee, or other effort to spect to the actions and policies of certain million over the next 10 years to sup- challenge the scientific consensus on climate members of the Government of Zimbabwe port this critical life-saving research. change, and for other purposes. and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic processes or institutions; to the Defeating HIV/AIDS in America. The f Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban HIV epidemic still plagues our Nation, ENROLLED BILL PRESENTED Affairs. with more than 38,000 Americans in- The Secretary of the Senate reported EC–537. A communication from the Direc- fected every year. In response, my tor of the Regulatory Management Division, Budget provides $291 million to the De- that on today, March 11, 2019, she had Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- partment of Health and Human Serv- presented to the President of the ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ices to defeat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. United States the following enrolled titled ‘‘Air Plan Approval; Michigan; Infra- The goal is to eliminate most new in- bill: structure SIP Requirements for the 2012 fections within 5 years (75 percent) and S. 49. An act to designate the outstation of PM2.5 NAAQS; Multistate Transport’’ (FRL nearly all within 10 years (90 percent). the Department of Veterans Affairs in North No. 9990–41–Region 5) received in the Office of This initiative will focus efforts on di- Ogden, Utah, as the Major Brent Taylor Vet the President of the Senate on March 7, 2019; Center Outstation. to the Committee on Environment and Pub- agnosis, prevention, and treatment ef- lic Works. forts in the locations where intense f EC–538. A communication from the Direc- transmissions of the virus are driving tor of the Regulatory Management Division, the epidemic. EXECUTIVE AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- Confronting the Opioid Epidemic. My ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Budget continues historic levels of The following communications were titled ‘‘Air Plan Approval; Michigan; Revi- funding for our law enforcement, pre- laid before the Senate, together with sions to Part 1 General Provisions Rules’’ vention, and treatment efforts to com- accompanying papers, reports, and doc- (FRL No. 9990–42–Region 5) received in the bat the opioid and drug addiction epi- uments, and were referred as indicated: Office of the President of the Senate on March 7, 2019; to the Committee on Environ- demic. EC–530. A communication from the Direc- ment and Public Works. Supporting Working Families. Amer- tor of the Regulatory Management Division, ica must also lead in supporting the Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- EC–539. A communication from the Direc- families of our workforce so that they ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- tor of the Regulatory Management Division, titled ‘‘Methoxyfenozide; Pesticide Toler- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- can balance the competing demands of ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- work and family. My Budget includes a ances’’ (FRL No. 9985–06–OCSPP) received in the Office of the President of the Senate on titled ‘‘Air Plan Approval; South Carolina; one-time, mandatory investment of $1 Update to Materials Incorporated by Ref- billion for a competitive fund aimed at March 7, 2019; to the Committee on Agri- culture, Nutrition, and Forestry. erence’’ (FRL No. 9990–38–Region 4) received supporting under-served populations EC–531. A communication from the Direc- in the Office of the President of the Senate and stimulating employer investments tor of the Regulatory Management Division, on March 7, 2019; to the Committee on Envi- in child care for working families. My Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- ronment and Public Works. Administration has also pledged to pro- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- EC–540. A communication from the Direc- vide paid parental leave to help work- titled ‘‘S–Metolachlor; Pesticide Tolerances’’ tor of the Regulatory Management Division, ing parents, and we are committed to (FRL No. 9983–79–OCSPP) received in the Of- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- fice of the President of the Senate on March ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- partnering with the Congress to enact titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Air this important policy. 7, 2019; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nu- trition, and Forestry. Quality Implementation Plans; Arizona; We must always strive to uphold our Nonattainment Plan for the Miami SO2 Non- oaths to promote and protect the per- EC–532. A communication from the Assist- ant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Re- attainment Area’’ (FRL No. 9990–40–Region 4) sonal and economic freedoms the Con- serve Affairs) performing the duties of the received in the Office of the President of the stitution guarantees to us all. Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Senate on March 7, 2019; to the Committee We must work together to renew the Readiness), transmitting, pursuant to law, a on Environment and Public Works. bonds of love and loyalty that link us notice of additional time required to com- EC–541. A communication from the Direc- to one another—as friends, as citizens, plete a report on the development of an Inte- tor of the Regulatory Management Division, as neighbors, as patriots, and as Ameri- grated Lodging Pilot Program (ILPP); to the Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- cans. Committees on Armed Services; Appropria- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- My Budget reflects my Administra- tions; and Homeland Security and Govern- titled ‘‘Approval of State Plans for Des- tion’s commitment to these worthy mental Affairs. ignated Facilities and Pollutants; Kansas; Sewage Sludge Incineration Units’’ (FRL No. goals as it seeks to make the United EC–533. A communication from the Alter- nate Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office 9989–73–Region 7) received in the Office of the States of America wealthier, stronger, of the Secretary, Department of Defense, President of the Senate on March 7, 2019; to safer, and greater for every American transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of the Committee on Environment and Public family and neighborhood. a rule entitled ‘‘Availability of DoD Direc- Works. DONALD J. TRUMP. tives, DoD Instructions, DoD Publications, EC–542. A communication from the Direc- THE WHITE HOUSE, March 11, 2019. and Changes’’ (RIN0790–AK48) received in the tor of the Regulatory Management Division,

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Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- Authority, received in the Office of the By Ms. ROSEN (for herself, Mrs. CAP- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- President of the Senate on March 6, 2019; to ITO, Mr. SCHATZ, Mrs. BLACKBURN, titled ‘‘National Oil and Hazardous Sub- the Committee on Homeland Security and Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, and Mrs. FISCH- stances Pollution Contingency Plan; Na- Governmental Affairs. ER): tional Priorities List: Partial Deletion of the EC–550. A communication from the Sec- S. 737. A bill to direct the National Science Robintech, Inc./National Pipe Co. Superfund retary of Transportation, transmitting, pur- Foundation to support STEM education re- Site’’ (FRL No. 9990–15–Region 2) received in suant to law, an annual report relative to ac- search focused on early childhood; to the the Office of the President of the Senate on complishments made under the Airport Im- Committee on Commerce, Science, and March 7, 2019; to the Committee on Environ- provement Program for fiscal year 2017; to Transportation. ment and Public Works. the Committee on Commerce, Science, and EC–543. A communication from the Direc- Transportation. f tor of the Regulations and Disclosure Law EC–551. A communication from the Deputy Division, Customs and Border Protection, Chief, Mobility Division, Federal Commu- Department of Homeland Security, transmit- nications Commission, transmitting, pursu- SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘In SENATE RESOLUTIONS titled ‘‘Extension of Import Restrictions on the Matter of Service Rules for the 698–746, Archaeological and Ecclesiastical Ethno- 747–762, and 777–792 Bands’’ ((WT Docket No. The following concurrent resolutions logical Materials from Honduras’’ (RIN1515– 06–150) (DA 19–77)) received in the Office of and Senate resolutions were read, and AE45) received in the Office of the President the President of the Senate on March 6, 2019; referred (or acted upon), as indicated: of the Senate on March 7, 2019; to the Com- to the Committee on Commerce, Science, By Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Ms. mittee on Finance. and Transportation. KLOBUCHAR): EC–544. A communication from the Assist- f S. Res. 102. A resolution designating April ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- 2019 as ‘‘Second Chance Month’’; to the Com- ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF COMMITTEE mittee on the Judiciary. section 36(d) of the Arms Export Control Act, By Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. the certification of a proposed license for the The following executive reports of CRAMER): export of defense articles, including tech- nominations were submitted: S. Res. 103. A resolution designating March nical data and defense services, to Japan, to By Mr. JOHNSON for the Committee on 27, 2019, as ‘‘National Assistive Technology support the manufacture, integration, as- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Awareness Day’’; considered and agreed to. sembly, operation, training, testing, and fairs. maintenance of AN/ARC–164 (RT–1145 and * Ronald D. Vitiello, of Illinois, to be an RT–1504) UHF Receiver/Transmitters and re- f Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security. lated radio equipment (Transmittal No. DDTC 18–094); to the Committee on Foreign * Joseph V. Cuffari, of Arizona, to be In- ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS Relations. spector General, Department of Homeland EC–545. A communication from the Assist- Security. S. 25 ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- * Nomination was reported with rec- At the request of Mr. CRUZ, the name ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to ommendation that it be confirmed sub- of the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. section 36(c) and (d) of the Arms Export Con- ject to the nominee’s commitment to FISCHER) was added as a cosponsor of S. trol Act, the certification of a proposed li- respond to requests to appear and tes- 25, a bill to reserve any amounts for- cense for the manufacture of significant military equipment and the export of defense tify before any duly constituted com- feited to the United States Govern- articles, including technical data and de- mittee of the Senate. ment as a result of the criminal pros- fense services, abroad to Turkey to support (Nominations without an asterisk ecution of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman the manufacture, sales, and maintenance were reported with the recommenda- Loera (commonly known as ‘‘El training of all variants of Armored Combat tion that they be confirmed.) Chapo’’), or of other felony convictions Vehicle (ACV) Family of Vehicles, Sharp- f involving the transportation of con- shooter and 40/50 Turrets, the remotely fired INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND trolled substances into the United .50 caliber Cupola, and modernization kits States, for security measures along the and materials in the amount of $50,000,000 or JOINT RESOLUTIONS more (Transmittal No. DDTC 17–141); to the Southern border, including the comple- The following bills and joint resolu- tion of a border wall. Committee on Foreign Relations. tions were introduced, read the first EC–546. A communication from the Assist- S. 91 ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- and second times by unanimous con- ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to sent, and referred as indicated: At the request of Mr. GARDNER, the section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act, By Mr. TOOMEY (for himself, Mr. name of the Senator from North Da- the certification of a proposed license for the MENENDEZ, Mr. ROUNDS, and Mr. kota (Mr. CRAMER) was added as a co- export of firearms abroad controlled under PETERS): sponsor of S. 91, a bill to amend title Category I of the U.S. Munitions Lists of S. 733. A bill to protect the investment 38, United States Code, to authorize per Colt M16A4 5.56mm fully-automatic rifles to choices of investors in the United States, diem payments under comprehensive Oman in the amount of $1,000,000 or more and for other purposes; to the Committee on service programs for homeless veterans (Transmittal No. DDTC 18–006); to the Com- Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. to furnish care to dependents of home- mittee on Foreign Relations. By Mr. WARNER (for himself, Mr. EC–547. A communication from the Assist- GARDNER, Ms. HASSAN, and Mr. less veterans, and for other purposes. ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- DAINES): S. 92 ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to S. 734. A bill to leverage Federal Govern- At the request of Mr. PAUL, the name section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act, ment procurement power to encourage in- of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. the certification of a proposed license for the creased cybersecurity for Internet of Things export of defense articles, including tech- devices, and for other purposes; to the Com- WICKER) was added as a cosponsor of S. nical data and defense services, to Norway to mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- 92, a bill to amend chapter 8 of title 5, support the manufacture, development, inte- mental Affairs. United States Code, to provide that gration, and support for Air-to-Air Pylons By Mr. TESTER (for himself, Mr. major rules of the executive branch for the F–35 Lightning II Aircraft for end-use UDALL, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. KING, shall have no force or effect unless a by the United States in the amount of and Ms. WARREN): joint resolution of approval is enacted $100,000,000 or more (Transmittal No. DDTC S. 735. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- into law. 18–088); to the Committee on Foreign Rela- enue Code of 1986 to require that return in- tions. formation from tax-exempt organizations be S. 94 EC–548. A communication from the Sec- made available in a searchable format and to At the request of Mrs. CAPITO, the retary of Health and Human Services, trans- provide the disclosure of the identity of con- name of the Senator from Missouri mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a pe- tributors to certain tax-exempt organiza- (Mr. BLUNT) was added as a cosponsor tition to add workers who were employed at tions; to the Committee on Finance. the Y–12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to By Mr. TESTER: of S. 94, a bill to amend the Pittman- the Special Exposure Cohort; to the Com- S. 736. A bill proposing an amendment to Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and the Constitution of the United States to facilitate the establishment of addi- Pensions. clarify the authority of Congress and the tional or expanded public target ranges EC–549. A communication from the Acting States to regulate corporations, limited li- in certain States. Deputy Solicitor, Federal Labor Relations ability companies, and other corporate enti- S. 114 Authority, transmitting, pursuant to law, a ties established by the laws of any State, the report relative to a vacancy in the position United States, or any foreign state; to the At the request of Mr. HOEVEN, the of General Counsel, Federal Labor Relations Committee on the Judiciary. name of the Senator from Alabama

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:21 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A11MR6.007 S11MRPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1763 (Mr. JONES) was added as a cosponsor (Mr. WYDEN) was added as a cosponsor S. 662 of S. 114, a bill to amend title 31, of S. 546, a bill to extend authorization At the request of Ms. HIRONO, the United States Code, to provide that ac- for the September 11th Victim Com- name of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. tivities relating to the training and pensation Fund of 2001 through fiscal ROSEN) was added as a cosponsor of S. readiness of the reserve components of year 2090, and for other purposes. 662, a bill to provide access to counsel the Armed Forces during a lapse in ap- S. 554 for unaccompanied alien children. propriations shall constitute voluntary At the request of Mr. UDALL, the S. 663 services that may be accepted by the name of the Senator from Montana At the request of Ms. HIRONO, the United States. (Mr. DAINES) was added as a cosponsor name of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. S. 211 of S. 554, a bill to direct the Secretary ROSEN) was added as a cosponsor of S. At the request of Mr. HOEVEN, the of Veterans Affairs to take actions nec- 663, a bill to clarify the status and en- name of the Senator from North Da- essary to ensure that certain individ- hance the effectiveness of immigration kota (Mr. CRAMER) was added as a co- uals may update the burn pit registry courts, and for other purposes. sponsor of S. 211, a bill to amend the with the cause of death of a registered S. 665 Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to secure individual, and for other purposes. At the request of Mrs. GILLIBRAND, urgent resources vital to Indian vic- S. 559 the name of the Senator from New Jer- OOKER tims of crime, and for other purposes. At the request of Mr. TESTER, the sey (Mr. B ) was added as a co- S. 237 name of the Senator from New York sponsor of S. 665, a bill to reduce the number of preventable deaths and inju- At the request of Mr. BROWN, the (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- name of the Senator from Mississippi sponsor of S. 559, a bill to amend the ries caused by underride crashes, to im- (Mr. WICKER) was added as a cosponsor Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 prove motor carrier and passenger of S. 237, a bill to amend title XVIII of to provide leave because of the death of motor vehicle safety, and for other pur- the Social Security Act to permit a son or daughter. poses. nurse practitioners and physician as- S. 690 S. 580 sistants to satisfy the documentation At the request of Mr. BENNET, the At the request of Ms. ERNST, the requirement under the Medicare pro- name of the Senator from New Mexico name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. gram for coverage of certain shoes for (Mr. UDALL) was added as a cosponsor BRAUN) was added as a cosponsor of S. individuals with diabetes. of S. 690, a bill to amend the Internal 580, a bill to amend the Act of August S 272 Revenue Code of 1986 to make the child . 25, 1958, commonly known as the At the request of Ms. WARREN, the tax credit fully refundable, establish an ‘‘Former Presidents Act of 1958’’ , with name of the Senator from Vermont increased child tax credit for young respect to the monetary allowance pay- (Mr. LEAHY) was added as a cosponsor children, and for other purposes. able to a former President, and for of S. 272, a bill to establish the policy S. 692 other purposes. of the United States regarding the no- At the request of Mr. TOOMEY, the first-use of nuclear weapons. S. 590 name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. At the request of Mr. COONS, the S. 296 ROMNEY) was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the 692, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- name of the Senator from Rhode Island BROWN) was added as a cosponsor of S. enue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise 590, a bill to award Congressional Gold (Mr. WHITEHOUSE) was added as a co- tax on medical devices. Medals to Katherine Johnson and Dr. sponsor of S. 296, a bill to amend XVIII S. 706 Christine Darden, to posthumously of the Social Security Act to ensure At the request of Ms. KLOBUCHAR, the more timely access to home health award Congressional Gold Medals to name of the Senator from Louisiana Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, services for Medicare beneficiaries (Mr. CASSIDY) was added as a cosponsor under the Medicare program. and to award a Congressional Gold of S. 706, a bill to amend the Higher Medal to honor all of the women who S. 317 Education Act of 1965 to require insti- contributed to the success of the Na- At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the tutions of higher education to disclose name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis- hazing incidents, and for other pur- tration during the Space Race. MORAN) was added as a cosponsor of S. poses. S. 634 317, a bill to amend title XIX of the So- S. 717 cial Security Act to provide States At the request of Mr. CRUZ, the name At the request of Mr. MERKLEY, the with the option of providing coordi- of the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. name of the Senator from New York nated care for children with complex LANKFORD) was added as a cosponsor of (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- medical conditions through a health S. 634, a bill to amend the Internal sponsor of S. 717, a bill to amend the home. Revenue Code of 1986 to establish tax Toxic Substances Control Act to pro- S. 506 credits to encourage individual and hibit the manufacture, processing, and At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the corporate taxpayers to contribute to distribution in commerce of asbestos name of the Senator from Minnesota scholarships for students through eligi- and asbestos-containing mixtures and (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a co- ble scholarship-granting organizations articles, and for other purposes. sponsor of S. 506, a bill to support and eligible workforce training organi- S. 720 State, Tribal, and local efforts to re- zations, and for other purposes. At the request of Mr. UDALL, the move access to firearms from individ- S. 642 name of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. uals who are a danger to themselves or At the request of Mr. ALEXANDER, the CORTEZ MASTO) was added as a cospon- others pursuant to court orders for this names of the Senator from West Vir- sor of S. 720, a bill to require the stu- purpose. ginia (Mrs. CAPITO) and the Senator dent loan ombudsman of the Depart- S. 518 from Georgia (Mr. ISAKSON) were added ment of Education to provide student At the request of Ms. CANTWELL, the as cosponsors of S. 642, a bill to award loan data to the Bureau of Consumer names of the Senator from Arizona a Congressional Gold Medal to Master Financial Protection, and for other (Ms. MCSALLY) and the Senator from Sergeant Rodrick ‘‘Roddie’’ Edmonds purposes. New Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) were in recognition of his heroic actions S. 726 added as cosponsors of S. 518, a bill to during World War II. At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the amend title XVIII of the Social Secu- S. 661 name of the Senator from Minnesota rity Act to provide for Medicare cov- At the request of Ms. HIRONO, the (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a co- erage of certain lymphedema compres- names of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. sponsor of S. 726, a bill to amend the sion treatment items as items of dura- ROSEN) and the Senator from Massa- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ble medical equipment. chusetts (Ms. WARREN) were added as to ensure the safety of cosmetics. S. 546 cosponsors of S. 661, a bill to provide S. 728 At the request of Mrs. GILLIBRAND, for enhanced protections for vulnerable At the request of Ms. HARRIS, the the name of the Senator from Oregon alien children, and for other purposes. name of the Senator from Michigan

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RES. 102 prison to participate in meaningful recidi- nology in the workplace promotes economic Whereas every individual is endowed with vism reduction programs and prepare for a self-sufficiency, enhances work participa- human dignity and value; second chance; tion, and is critical to the employment of Whereas redemption and second chances Whereas the Second Chance Act of 2007 people with disabilities and older adults; and are values of the United States; (Public Law 110–199; 122 Stat. 657), which has Whereas State assistive technology pro- Whereas millions of individuals in the resulted in the provision of reentry services grams support a continuum of services that United States have a criminal record; to more than 164,000 individuals in 49 States include— Whereas hundreds of thousands of individ- and the District of Columbia since its enact- (1) the exchange, repair, recycling, and uals return to their communities from Fed- ment, was reauthorized through the First other reutilization of assistive technology eral and State prisons every year; Step Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–391); devices; (2) device loan programs that provide short Whereas neighbors returning to their com- Whereas April 21 marks the anniversary of term loans of assistive technology devices to munities have paid their debt to society the death of Charles Colson, who used his individuals, employers, public agencies, and after committing a crime but still face sig- second chance following his incarceration for a Watergate-related crime to found Prison others; nificant legal and societal barriers (referred (3) the demonstration of devices to inform to in this preamble as ‘‘collateral con- Fellowship, the largest outreach program to prisoners, former prisoners, and their fami- decision making; and sequences’’); (4) providing State financing activities to lies in the United States; and Whereas returning individuals face collat- help individuals purchase or obtain assistive Whereas the designation of April as ‘‘Sec- eral consequences automatically, regardless technology through a variety of initiatives, ond Chance Month’’ can contribute to in- of— such as financial loan programs, leasing pro- creased public awareness about the impact of (1) a nexus between the legal or societal grams, and other financing alternatives, that collateral consequences, the need for closure barrier and public safety; give individuals affordable, flexible options for those who have paid their debt to society, (2) the seriousness of the offense com- to purchase or obtain assistive technology: and opportunities for individuals, employers, mitted; Now, therefore, be it (3) the time passed since the offense; or congregations, and communities to extend Resolved, That the Senate— (4) the efforts of the individual to make second chances: Now, therefore, be it (1) designates March 27, 2019, as ‘‘National Resolved, That the Senate— amends or earn back the trust of the public; Assistive Technology Awareness Day’’; and (1) designates April 2019 as ‘‘Second Chance Whereas gaining meaningful employment (2) commends— Month’’; is one of the most significant predictors of (A) assistive technology specialists and (2) honors the work of communities, gov- successful reentry into society and reducing program coordinators for their hard work ernmental institutions, nonprofit organiza- future criminal activity; and dedication to serving people with dis- tions, congregations, employers, and individ- Whereas many individuals who have pre- abilities who are in need of finding the prop- uals to remove unnecessary legal and soci- viously been incarcerated struggle to find er assistive technology to meet their indi- etal barriers that prevent an individual with employment because of collateral con- vidual needs; and a criminal record from becoming a produc- sequences, which are often not directly re- (B) professional organizations and re- tive member of society; and lated to the offense committed or any proven searchers who are dedicated to facilitating (3) calls upon the people of the United public safety benefit; the access and acquisition of assistive tech- States to observe Second Chance Month Whereas many States have laws that pro- nology for people with disabilities and older through actions and programs that promote hibit an individual with a criminal record adults in need of assistive technology de- awareness of those unnecessary legal and so- from working in certain industries or obtain- vices. ing professional licenses; cial barriers and provide closure for individ- f Whereas education has also been shown to uals with a criminal record who have paid be a significant predictor of successful re- their debt to society. AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO entry into society; f MEET Whereas an individual with a criminal SENATE RESOLUTION 103—DESIG- record often has a lower level of educational Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I have attainment than the general population and NATING MARCH 27, 2019, AS ‘‘NA- a request for one committee to meet has significant difficulty acquiring admis- TIONAL ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY during today’s session of the Senate. It sion to and funding for educational pro- AWARENESS DAY’’ has the approval of the Majority and grams; Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. Minority leaders. Whereas an individual convicted of certain CRAMER) submitted the following reso- Pursuant to Rule XXVI, paragraph crimes is often barred from receiving the fi- lution; which was considered and 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Sen- nancial aid necessary to acquire additional agreed to: ate, the following committee is author- skills and knowledge; ized to meet during today’s session of Whereas an individual with a criminal S. RES. 103 record also often faces collateral con- Whereas assistive technology is any item, the Senate: sequences in securing a place to live; piece of equipment, or product system that COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND Whereas an individual with a criminal is used to increase, maintain, or improve the GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS record is often barred from seeking access to functional capabilities of people with disabil- The Committee on Homeland Secu- public housing; ities and older adults; rity and Governmental Affairs is au- Whereas an individual with a criminal Whereas the term ‘‘assistive technology thorized to meet during the session of record also often faces other collateral con- service’’ means any service that directly as- the Senate on Monday, March 11, 2019, sequences, such as an inability to regain vot- sists a person with a disability or an older at 5:30 p.m., to conduct a hearing on ing rights, volunteer in the community, and adult in the selection, acquisition, or use of the nomination of Ronald D. Vitiello, secure identification documentation; an assistive technology device; Whereas an individual who has been con- Whereas, in 2018, the Centers for Disease of Illinois, to be an Assistant Sec- victed and incarcerated may incur signifi- Control and Prevention reported that 1 in 4 retary, and Joseph V. Cuffari, of Ari- cant debt as a result of the conviction and people in the United States, or almost zona, to be Inspector General, both of incarceration; 61,000,000 individuals, has a disability; the Department of Homeland Security.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:10 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A11MR6.015 S11MRPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1765 NATIONAL ASSISTIVE The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without answer on our recent trip, and I appre- TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS DAY objection, it is so ordered. ciate so much that he went through the Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I ask f great work of organizing it. We went first to Guatemala, then to unanimous consent that the Senate ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT proceed to the immediate consider- Honduras, then to El Salvador. We met Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, if ation of S. Res. 103, submitted earlier with the President. We met with the there is no further business to come be- today. incoming President of El Salvador. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. The fore the Senate, I ask unanimous con- met with the civil society organiza- clerk will report the resolution by sent that it stand adjourned under the tions—those who understand the roots title. previous order, following the remarks of what is going on within the soci- The bill clerk read as follows: of our Democratic colleagues. ety—and here is what we learned. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without A resolution (S. Res. 103) designating learned there were three powerful March 27, 2019, as ‘‘National Assistive Tech- objection, it is so ordered. forces driving families to leave those nology Awareness Day.’’ The Senator from Oregon. countries: security, economics, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there f corruption. objection to proceeding to the meas- CENTRAL AMERICA Let’s talk a little bit about those ure? three things. Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, it was Security. I had the chance to meet a There being no objection, the Senate a powerful opportunity to join my col- proceeded to consider the resolution. woman and her daughter, Gabriella and league from Delaware, Senator CAR- Mr. BOOZMAN. I further ask that the her baby Andrea. Gabriella told me PER, in traveling to the Northern Tri- about her journey. She said that her resolution be agreed to, the preamble angle of Central America—Guatemala, be agreed to, and the motions to recon- family took a loan from a private Honduras, and El Salvador—to try to bank, which probably meant a finan- sider be considered made and laid upon understand more about the dynamics the table with no intervening action or cial loan from the local drug cartel or in that region, which are driving so financial group associated with a drug debate. many families to come north, to take The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without cartel. The family wasn’t able to repay the difficult journey through Central objection, it is so ordered. the loan. They were given a deadline. America, through Mexico, to come to The resolution (S. Res. 103) was They were told: If you don’t repay the our border and to ask for asylum. agreed to. loan, one of your family members dies, This has been a significant flow, The preamble was agreed to. and that will be you, Gabriella. which has expanded greatly. We have (The resolution, with its preamble, is Gabriella was pregnant. She figured seen in the past that most of those ar- printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- that as long as she was pregnant, they riving on our border were men from mitted Resolutions.’’) would not kill her. So when she was 8 Mexico who were seeking work but not months pregnant—1 month ago—she f so much now. Now we have this flow of fled the country to save herself and to MEASURE PLACED ON THE families from Central America. These save her baby. CALENDAR—S. 729 families are traveling to find some- I met her and her baby on the border. Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I un- thing better for their lives and for They had just crossed the bridge into derstand that there is a bill at the desk their children’s lives. It is not an easy the United States of America. I asked that is due for a second reading. journey, and it is a journey that has her: How did you get past the Amer- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- created quite a conversation here in ican border guards, who wouldn’t allow ator is correct. the United States of America. anyone across the bridge if they didn’t The clerk will read the title of the The conversation coming from our have a passport or visa? Her face lit up bill for the second time. President has been this: How do we for a moment. She said: Well, I was The bill clerk read as follows: stop them from asserting asylum at rebuffed time and again at the center A bill (S. 729) to prohibit the use of funds the border? of the bridge, not allowed to come to Federal agencies to establish a panel, task President Trump has a number of across and assert asylum, and I was force, advisory committee, or other effort to strategies to deter families from com- desperate, blocked on the Mexican side. challenge the scientific consensus on climate ing. His strategy was to separate chil- Then I saw there was a pedestrian change, and for other purposes. dren from their parents, treat those bridge and a car bridge, and on the car Mr. BOOZMAN. In order to place the fleeing as criminals, create great trau- bridge were folks who were washing bill on the calendar under the provi- ma for the children, and use this as a windows for tips. So I asked to use an sions of rule XIV, I object to further strategy of deterrence. This was first extra squeegee from one of the window proceedings. laid out very clearly by John Kelly just washers, who gave it to me, and I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ob- months into the administration. In washed windows on the car bridge to jection having been heard, the bill will March of 2017, he said: Yes, this is ex- get into the United States of America. be placed on the calendar. actly what we are considering. And there she was at the foot of the f The administration then proceeded bridge with her baby. to implement it first as a pilot project She told me that because she fled ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 12, and later as an all-out strategy to with her baby, those who were enforc- 2019 treat those migrating as criminals, ing that private loan from that private Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I ask lock up the parents, separate the chil- bank killed her uncle. That is the secu- unanimous consent that when the Sen- dren, inflict trauma, and deter people rity issue that comes with all of the ate completes its business today, it ad- from coming. I can state that any various versions of that story. journ until 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 12; strategy that involves mistreating I met another woman, Patricia. Pa- further, that following the prayer and children as a political tactic—a polit- tricia had a 14-year-old daughter. Pa- pledge, the morning hour be deemed ical message of deterrence—is simply tricia had to pay extortion money. The expired, the Journal of proceedings be evil. It comes from a very, very dark President of Guatemala told me that approved to date, the time for the two place in the heart of this administra- every business has to pay extortion leaders be reserved for their use later tion to deliberately injure children in money. In this case, though, Patricia in the day, morning business be closed, this fashion. had no money left to pay the extortion. and the Senate proceed to executive Why doesn’t the President look to So the drug gang—or the gang that session and resume consideration of Central America and ask: What is mo- controls the streets and runs the extor- the Matey nomination under the pre- tivating these families to come? How tion—came to her house and assaulted vious order; finally, that the Senate re- can we change that motivation? What her 14-year-old daughter. So she fled. cess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. to are the forces at work in that region? She fled to protect her daughter from allow for the weekly conference meet- Those were the questions that Sen- any other such horrific circumstances. ings. ator CARPER and I were undertaking to She came to the United States.

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So those three things— our economy, our education system, Then there is the economic issue. In security, the economy, and corrup- our healthcare system, our court sys- Guatemala, the median age is 18. I be- tion—are the factors driving people to tem, our opportunities for our children. lieve they said it is the youngest me- flee north. We can do far better, for sure, but dian age on the planet. A huge number A few years ago, then-Vice President every piece of what we have that works of young people are coming into work- Biden went to Central America to un- so much better than those parallel sys- ing age, and while they are working to derstand those issues better. Out of tems in Central America calls out to create jobs, they are not possibly cre- that came the Alliance for Prosperity— those there to come and participate in ating enough jobs. So you have this the Alliance for Prosperity—a strategy our society. If we want families to stay huge number of people without jobs. based on Plan Colombia, as my col- where they are, they are going to have What are they going to do? league from Delaware laid out, that to have an opportunity where they are, I will state that one thing they do is would strengthen the programs to take which means we have to take on the se- go hungry. Malnutrition is a horren- on the security issues, to take on the curity issues, including the street-level dous demon haunting the country of corruption issues, to take on the eco- extortion. We have to help them take Guatemala. One individual showed us a nomic challenges that are draining those on. We have to help them im- picture of Guatemalan children against those countries so that people didn’t prove their economy and their edu- a wall and their average heights; they feel that to survive, they had to flee cation system. We have to help them had lines across the wall for their north. take on the systemic, high-level, mas- heights. They had a similar picture of We funded this at a modest level in sive corruption that drives resources Guatemalan children being raised in fiscal year 2016. It was $754 million. into the hands of the very few at the the United States. It was to dramatize Think of that as it compares to money expense of the very many. the fact that the children growing up we have been spending on the border— That is the mission we should be in Guatemala at age 9 are 6 inches billions and billions and billions of dol- talking about here on the floor—wres- shorter than the Guatemalan children lars for physical infrastructure, for tling with here on the floor. Maybe we growing up in the United States at the border security, for high-tech sensors, shouldn’t return to the levels that same age. It is stunting—stunting from for a system of courts to adjudicate Obama had that we had passed in a bi- persistent malnutrition. So joblessness asylum, all of that. We spent only partisan way here. Maybe we should do and malnutrition, an insufficient net- about three-quarters of a billion dol- double what was done in 2016—or tri- work of schools and trained school- lars to strengthen those three coun- ple—if we really want to help anchor teachers—all of these things are eco- tries. those societies’ rudders that have peo- nomic challenges. Along comes the Trump administra- ple fleeing for their lives to come here. Let me tell you, it is not just the fact tion, which says that it is concerned— f that you don’t have a job. It is that in very concerned—about this flow of peo- your small village across the country— ple coming from Central America to THE EQUALITY ACT across all three countries—you may see our border, and they propose a 34-per- Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I on a street, as was described to us, a cent cut in this program. They propose speak now to a bill we will introduce shack, a second shack, a third shack, a cutting it from $754 million to a pro- this Wednesday, the Equality Act. The fourth shack, and then a beautiful posal of $460 million. Well, the Demo- Equality Act will be introduced by a house. That beautiful house was there crats and Republicans restored fund- group of us in the Senate and by an- because somebody in that village made ing, put it back, not quite to the $750 other group led by Congressman it to the United States of America, and million number but to $627 million. CICILLINE in the House. they have been sending back money The Trump budget came out the next It is an appropriate moment for us to year after year in sufficient quantities year and cut it again; they proposed a ponder in this Chamber why this piece that the family is now prosperous. 30-percent cut. Again, here in Congress, of legislation is part of our American They can build that beautiful house. we worked to restore those programs, journey toward the vision of oppor- That beautiful house stands as a bill- not where they were before but, basi- tunity for all and why we all should be board. It is an advertisement for what cally, $100 million more than the supporting this beautiful legislative might happen if you can make it to the Trump administration asked for. proposal. United States and get a job. So on the So to my colleagues on both sides of My involvement in the Equality Act one hand, there are no jobs, and on the the aisle: Doesn’t it make sense for us began in my home State of Oregon, other hand, this beacon of hope is say- to support the Alliance for Prosperity? when I was serving in the legislature ing to you: If you can make it across For each dollar we send, they provide there, and we had the question of how the border, you might be able to be between $4 and $7; that is $4 to $7 in can we change the systematic discrimi- prosperous yourself and, basically, en- very poor countries. nation against our LGBTQ brothers able your entire family to be pros- Doesn’t it make sense to support the and sisters. How can we give them the perous. commissions against impunity, the same opportunity everyone else has? Then we have corruption. This isn’t commissions against corruption? In the So we came together and said we garden variety corruption. For genera- last 2 years, the Trump administration should do an Oregon Equality Act, an tions—for hundreds of years—there has has been undermining these commis- Oregon Equality Act that would create been a class in these countries that is sions against corruption. Well, that is the same basic protections the Civil beyond the law. They call their efforts just wrong. Rights Act has for race and gender and to change this a campaign against im- The result, as you saw in El Sal- ethnicity. punity. That is not a word we use a lot vador, was the election of the mayor of We went about doing that. I was the in America—‘‘impunity’’—but it means San Salvador, Nayib Bukele, a very speaker. I worked very hard to make individuals who are never touched by young fellow in his thirties. What did that happen, and we succeeded. We the legal system. They can do whatever he run on? Taking on corruption, tak- ended discrimination in Oregon based they want. They pay no fines. They ing on impunity. Shouldn’t we be a on who you are or whom you love. Dis- never go to prison. They suck money partner with them in this? crimination should be ended across the out of the country. They suck money If we don’t want families to flee whole country. out of all of those layers of the econ- north, then we shouldn’t want the elite I arrived here in January 2009, and I omy below them. They have become to operate with impunity and suck all was assigned to the Health, Education,

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I will never forget having We know it was imperfect, and we opposite of freedom. his voicemail on my phone saying: Yes, have worked now for almost two and a Let freedom ring in this Chamber as you are a member of the committee. half centuries to perfect that vision of we introduce the Equality Act later A few months later came the real opportunity. Senator Ted Kennedy this week. Let freedom ring down the surprise. Senator Kennedy was strug- once said: ‘‘The promise of America hall as the House of Representatives gling with the brain cancer that killed will never be fulfilled as long as justice holds a debate in committee and on the him later that year, and through his is denied to even one among us.’’ The floor in the months to come, and when team, he asked me to take on one of promise of America—that promise of that freedom bell rings so loudly that his civil rights bills, the Employment America that Thomas Jefferson so elo- they pass that bill, the Equality Act in Non-Discrimination Act. quently put, in 1776—is a vision where that Chamber, let them bring it down That was to end discrimination for we are all created equal, with this hallway right into the Senate; LGBTQ Americans in employment, ‘‘unalienable Rights . . . Life, Liberty that we might debate the same and put and the pursuit of Happiness.’’ give them a fair chance to get a job an end to the extraordinary, disgrace- How can that vision be propelled, here. Well, this is something that had ful discrimination that still marks the been part of our Equality Act in Or- sustained, and promoted if, in fact, as you pursue your life, the door is lives and slams the doors shut on mil- egon. We had gotten that done, and be- lions and millions of Americans every cause I helped lead that fight, he asked slammed shut on you, saying, ‘‘No. There is opportunity for that indi- single day. me to take over and lead the fight to I yield the floor. end employment nondiscrimination. vidual but not you,’’ and the door is That was 2009. It took 4 years of slammed shut—liberty for that person f work—work with the community and but not you, and the door is slammed work with our legislators inside this shut. building. Then, finally, in 2013, the We have come to understand that is ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. time was ripe to put it on the floor and just wrong. It is completely incompat- TOMORROW have this debate. This Chamber, with ible with the vision that was laid out, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the supermajority, bipartisan vote, the vision of our Declaration and the the previous order, the Senate stands said, yes, let’s end discrimination in vision of our Constitution. adjourned until 10 a.m. tomorrow. In fact, in this Chamber, we start employment, and we passed the Em- Thereupon, the Senate, at 7:27 p.m., with a pledge, and we talk about one ployment Non-Discrimination Act. adjourned until Tuesday, March 12, Nation under God with liberty and jus- Then I went over to the House, and it 2019, at 10 a.m. tice for all. Classrooms across the died without consideration. I got to- country start their day with a pledge gether with the advocates and asked, f of liberty and justice for all, but what where do we go from here with the is liberty if the door is slammed shut? House not acting? Do we simply con- That is the denial of liberty. That is NOMINATIONS tinue to reintroduce the Employment the opposite of freedom. That is the Executive nominations received by Non-Discrimination Act—which had crushing of opportunity. the Senate: been first introduced in 1996, first con- So the story of America goes for- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR sidered on this floor and almost passed ward. The fight goes forward. We had just one vote short in 1998. Do we con- DAVID BERNHARDT, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE SECRETARY the 1964 Civil Rights Act that was a OF THE INTERIOR, VICE RYAN ZINKE. tinue to do that? culmination itself of decades of work. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Out of that conversation, we devel- We had the voting rights struggle dur- oped a different vision. Let’s do a full JOHN LINDER, OF GEORGIA, TO BE REPRESENTATIVE ing the same time period, and the Vot- OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE ASSOCIA- Equality Act like Oregon has done, like ing Rights Act in 1965. We fought a TION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS, WITH THE RANK a number of other States have done AND STATUS OF AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND number of battles—battles of discrimi- PLENIPOTENTIARY. and end discrimination not just in one nation against those with disabilities. INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION sector or another, not just in places of We fought for workers’ rights, but our AND DEVELOPMENT accommodation, not just in financial LGBTQ brothers and sisters still face JENNIFER D. NORDQUIST, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE UNITED transactions, not just in serving on a discrimination all across this country. STATES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL jury, not just in terms of housing, not BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR A We are still in a situation where so TERM OF TWO YEARS, VICE MATTHEW T. MCGUIRE, just in terms of employment, let’s base many doors are slammed shut. TERM EXPIRED. the Equality Act on providing the full We have had a lot of progress in the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE spectrum, the full measure of protec- last 10 years. Ten years ago, we had the JOHN MCLEOD BARGER, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE A GOV- tion for opportunity. Defense of Marriage Act, and now we ERNOR OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE FOR A I thought that was a pretty good don’t. We had don’t ask, don’t tell in TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 8, 2021, VICE LOUIS J. idea. Later that year, I introduced the GIULIANO, TERM EXPIRED. the military, and now we don’t. We had THE JUDICIARY Equality Act in partnership with many only three States that recognized others. We laid out that first Equality RAINEY R. BRANDT, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, same-sex marriage, and now it is the TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Act in the Johnson Room—the Johnson law of the land as the Supreme Court OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE TERM OF FIF- Room, which looks out at the Supreme TEEN YEARS, VICE JUDITH NAN MACALUSO, RETIRED. weighed in and said it is required by SHANA FROST MATINI, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Court and reminds us of 1964. In 1964, the vision of our Constitution. TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT when the Civil Rights Act was passed, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE TERM OF FIF- Discrimination in all kinds of ways is TEEN YEARS, VICE ZOE BUSH, RETIRED. driven forward by President Johnson, still legal in 29 States—more than half MICHAEL S. BOGREN, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE UNITED who came from Texas, who came from STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT the country. In more than half the OF MICHIGAN, VICE ROBERT HOLMES BELL, RETIRED. the South, and said: It is time to end country, you can be married in the JEFFREY VINCENT BROWN, OF TEXAS, TO BE UNITED discrimination in the United States of STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT morning, denied service at a restaurant OF TEXAS, VICE MELINDA HARMON, RETIRED. America based on race and gender and for lunch, fired from your job in the STEPHANIE DAWKINS DAVIS, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE ethnicity. He drove that legislation UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN afternoon, and kicked out of your DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN, VICE GERALD E. ROSEN, RE- through, and it has been a foundation apartment that night because discrimi- TIRED. we haven’t questioned since because we BRANTLEY STARR, OF TEXAS, TO BE UNITED STATES nation is still legal against LGBTQ DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF know it is right. We know it is part of Americans in 29 States. TEXAS, VICE SIDNEY A. FITZWATER, RETIRED.

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TRIBUTE TO RABBI JOHN L. bamian who won the 2018 Southeastern Lit- RECOGNIZING ARMY NATIONAL ROSOVE erary Tourism Initiative writing contest with her GUARD MASTER SGT. JOHN short story, ‘‘Tunnel Vision,’’ that focuses on PAUL KARPOVICH OF LUZERNE HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF the American Civil Rights Movement in my COUNTY OF CALIFORNIA hometown Montgomery, Alabama. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Born and raised in Montgomery, Jeanie re- HON. DANIEL MEUSER ceived her undergraduate degree from Auburn OF PENNSYLVANIA Monday, March 11, 2019 University. Following her graduation from Au- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SCHIFF. Madam Speaker, I rise today burn, Jeanie received post-graduate degrees Monday, March 11, 2019 to honor Rabbi John L. Rosove, a man of in English and Teaching Writing from Auburn great integrity and an outstanding leader in the University Montgomery. Mr. MEUSER. Madam Speaker, it is with great respect that I rise today to recognize the greater Jewish community, who is retiring from Jeanie is a stay-at-home mother of three dedicated service of Army National Guard his duties as Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel of currently living in Montgomery. She has writ- Master Sgt. John Paul Karpovich of Luzerne Hollywood, a position he has held since 1988. ten several successful novels, including County. Master Sgt. Karpovich was recently Born and raised in Los Angeles, Rabbi ‘‘Fairhope,’’ a second-prize winner of the 2013 presented with the Pennsylvania Veterans Rosove earned a Bachelor’s in Art History Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Her most Service Medal and is the first recipient of this from the University of California, Berkeley, a recent short story, ‘‘Tunnel Vision,’’ captures distinguished award. Master’s in Hebrew letters from Hebrew Union the spirit of social change through the eyes of The Pennsylvania Veterans Service Medal College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los An- a 1954 Montgomery woman who is magically is reserved for those within our great Com- geles, Rabbinic Ordination from Hebrew Union transported to modern-day Alabama. College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New monwealth who go above and beyond to sup- York, and a Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Literature like Jeanie’s story can encourage port Pennsylvania’s veterans. A member of Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in tourism and promote economic growth in com- the National Guard, Master Sgt. Karpovich has Los Angeles. munities throughout the United States. The transcended his call to serve. He has become Rabbi Rosove has worked tirelessly and Southeastern Literary Tourism Initiative chal- an instrumental member of the veterans com- selflessly to build a robust Jewish community lenges writers to create stories that attract visi- munity in Pennsylvania, giving selflessly to in the greater Hollywood area, and to bring tors to areas like Alabama’s Second District. many men and women who served before Jewish people closer together, viewing social Jeanie has truly captured the spirit of Mont- him. justice work and ethical principles as core gomery, and I encourage others to visit our For nearly 20 years, Master Sgt. Karpovich Jewish religious values. He oversaw the beautiful city so that they may see firsthand has served on the Wyoming Valley Veterans founding of the Temple’s Day School and the rich history of our area. Day Parade Committee, he is also a life mem- helped spearhead Big Sunday Weekend of Madam Speaker, it is my privilege to honor ber of AMVETS Post 59, a member of Amer- Service in 1998, which today is a year-round Ms. Parnell’s literary success and to acknowl- ican Legion Post 395, serves on the board of organization where 50,000 Good Samaritans edge her impact on the Montgomery commu- directors for the Northeastern Pennsylvania in Los Angeles volunteer annually to help the nity. I am proud to call her a lifelong friend Veterans Multi-care Alliance, and is a member community at over 2,000 events. and fellow Alabamian. of the Honorary First Defenders. Rabbi Rosove has admirably served in nu- Nearly 800,000 veterans call Pennsylvania merous leadership positions, including as na- f home. We are fortunate to have dedicated in- tional chairperson of the Association of Re- dividuals like Master Sgt. Karpovich who work form Zionists of America, where he rep- RECOGNIZING AAYUSH KARAN OF to support our heroes. Madam Speaker, I ask resented more than 1.5 million American Re- MUSKEGO that my colleagues join me in congratulating form Jews. He also served in leadership roles Army National Guard Master Sgt. John Paul at the Jewish Agency for Israel, the World Zi- Karpovich on this well-deserved recognition onist Organization, and the Conference of HON. BRYAN STEIL and thanking him for the many contributions Presidents of Major American Jewish Organi- OF WISCONSIN he has made and continues to make, to our zations, and from 2012 to 2016, he was a na- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES veterans. tional co-chair of the Executive Rabbinic Cabi- f net of J Street. Monday, March 11, 2019 For his work benefitting the Jewish Commu- CONDEMNING ANTI-SEMITISM AND Mr. STEIL. Madam Speaker, I rise today to ANTI-MUSLIM DISCRIMINATION nity, Rabbi Rosove has received the World honor a young, bright, and talented student Union for Progressive Judaism International from Wisconsin’s First Congressional District, SPEECH OF Humanitarian Award and honored by J Street. Aayush Karan of Muskego. A student at the Rabbi Rosove and his wife Barbara, have University School of Milwaukee, Aayush is in HON. SHEILA JACKSON LEE two sons, Daniel and David. Washington this week as one of the top 40 fi- OF TEXAS I ask all Members of Congress to join me nalists—and the only finalist from Wisconsin— IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES today in honoring Rabbi John L. Rosove for in the nation for the most prestigious science Thursday, March 7, 2019 his decades of outstanding service to the Jew- competition for high school seniors, the Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, as a sen- ish community and his unwavering commit- Regeneron Science Talent Search. ment to peace and justice. ior member of the Committees on the Judici- His Regeneron Science Talent Search f ary and Homeland Security, the Tom Lantos mathematics project untangled a mystery in Human Rights Commission, the bipartisan HONORING MS. JEANIE PARNELL knot theory. Knot theory has puzzled mathe- Congressional International Religious Freedom maticians for years and advancements in the Caucus, and the Helsinki Commission, I rise in HON. MARTHA ROBY theory could help our understanding of DNA. strong support of H. Res. 183, a resolution In addition to his studies, Aayush runs cross OF ALABAMA that puts the House on record in its con- country and plays the piano. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES demnation of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, On behalf of Wisconsin’s First Congres- racism, and other forms of bigotry as hateful Monday, March 11, 2019 sional District, I congratulate Aayush for his in- expressions of intolerance that are inimical to Mrs. ROBY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to credible achievement and wish him all the the values and aspirations that define the peo- honor Ms. Jeanie Parnell, an exceptional Ala- best in the future. ple of the United States.

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:05 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K11MR8.001 E11MRPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS E280 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks March 11, 2019 I support the resolution also because it also There is an urgent need to ensure the safe- tudes towards Muslims and people who are forcefully expresses the condemnation by this ty and security of Jewish communities, includ- perceived to be Muslim, including the irrational House of anti-Muslim discrimination and big- ing synagogues, schools, cemeteries, and belief that Muslims are inherently violent, dis- otry against racial, ethnic, religious, and other other institutions. loyal, and foreign; or sympathize with individ- marginalized communities. Outside of the United States, Jews are the uals who engage in violence or terror or sup- Mr. Speaker, nearly thirty years ago, as a targets of anti-Semitic violence at even higher port the oppression of women, Jews, and young mother, I first visited Israel and the Holy rates in many other countries. other vulnerable communities. Land, and I have returned many times since Anti-Semitism includes scapegoating or It is very important and significant that the then to the region that gave birth to three of blaming Jews as Jews when things go wrong; resolution before us also condemns White su- the world’s great religions, civilizations, and calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or premacists in the United States who have and cultures. harming of Jews in the name of a radical ide- continue to exploit bigotry and weaponize hate I have been a passionate supporter of the ology or extremist view of religion; or making for political gain, targeting traditionally per- Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship program, mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or secuted peoples, including African Americans, which for nearly thirty years has enabled stereotyped allegations about Jews. Native Americans, and other people of color, inner-city high school students who live or Another way that anti-Semitism manifests Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, immigrants, study in the 18th Congressional District the itself is when Jewish people are subject in the and others with verbal attacks, incitement, and opportunity to spend a summer in Israel. media and political campaigns to numerous violence. As a member of the Commission on Secu- other dangerous myths, including the canard Let us be very clear: these purveyors of rity and Cooperation in Europe, better known that Jews control the United States Govern- hate will not win because as the Reverend as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, I have trav- ment or seek global, political, and financial Martin Luther King, Jr., taught, persecution of eled abroad on numerous occasions to partici- domination, or that Jews are obsessed with any American is an assault on the rights and pate in parliamentary diplomacy in support of money. freedoms of all Americans. OSCE and other European efforts to combat Mr. Speaker, we need to denounce and re- anti-Semitism, including legislation calling for Mr. Speaker, anti-Semitism is wrong and ject forcefully and continuously the based on a lie—as are racism, Islamophobia, increased security for the Jewish community, scapegoating and targeting of Jews in the funds for civil society coalitions to combat sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia—but re- United States that has persisted for many member the words of William Cullen Bryant, hate, and a U.S.-EU Joint Action Plan to com- years, including by the Ku Klux Klan, the bat prejudice and discrimination that would in- who said: America First Committee, and by modern neo- clude a specific focus on anti-Semitism. Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; Nazis, whose membership decidedly is not As a member of the Commission I sup- The eternal years of God are hers; comprised of ‘‘very fine people.’’ ported the successful effort to include anti-Se- But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, We also must have zero-tolerance for any And dies among his worshippers. mitic incidents in the annual State Department suggestion or accusation that Jews are more International Religious Freedom Reports and Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to loyal to Israel or to the Jewish community than Country Reports on Human Rights, and to cre- vote for H. Res. 183 and I encourage every to the United States. ate the position of the U.S. Special Envoy on person in the United States to confront and re- Such accusations of dual allegiance con- Anti-Semitism within the State Department. ject anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and stitutes anti-Semitism because they suggest Mr. Speaker, nearly 74 years have passed other forms of bigotry and do all they can to that Jewish citizens cannot be patriotic Ameri- since the end of World War II but for those ensure that the United States lives up to the cans and trusted neighbors, when Jews have who survived, and the descendants and rel- transcendent principles of tolerance, religious atives of those who perished, the Holocaust is loyally served our Nation every day since its freedom, and equal protection as embodied in not ancient history but a reminder of the evil founding, whether in public or community life the Declaration of Independence and the first that can be unleashed when humans give into or military service. and 14th amendments to the Constitution that their worst instincts and appetites. Accusations of dual loyalty have an insid- have made it the envy and the hope of the The Holocaust is the worst example of ious and pernicious history and led, inter alia, world. to the discriminatory incarceration of Ameri- man’s inhumanity to man in human history f and the magnitude of its destruction numbered cans of Japanese descent during World War II more than 12 million deaths, including 6 mil- on their basis of race and alleged dual loyalty; IAN STEWART EARNS THE RANK lion Jews and 1.5 million children. the Dreyfus affair, when Alfred Dreyfus, a OF EAGLE SCOUT A haunting quote in the United States Holo- Jewish French artillery captain, was falsely caust Memorial Museum refers to the story of convicted of passing secrets to Germany HON. PETE OLSON Cain and Abel: ‘‘The Lord said, ‘What have based on his Jewish background; and the you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries questioning of John F. Kennedy’s fitness to OF TEXAS out to me from the ground’ ’’ (Genesis 4:11). serve as President of the United States be- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Holocaust is a testament to the fragility cause of his Catholic faith. Monday, March 11, 2019 of democracy and it forces us to confront un- Following the terrorist attack of September comfortable questions such as the responsibil- 11, we saw a noticeable increase in suspicion Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today ities of citizenship and the consequences of of, and hostility to, Muslim-Americans in the to congratulate Ian Stewart of Pearland, TX for indifference and inaction, and the importance United States, including Islamophobia, based earning the rank of Eagle Scout. Eagle Scout of education and awareness. on false accusations that they were supportive is the highest honor a Boy Scout can earn. That is why we, all of us, must reject and of, or associated with, terrorism. Only a small percentage of Boy Scouts resist prejudice and intolerance in any form. Mr. Speaker, in 2017, mosques were reach the rank of Eagle Scout. This honor re- Mr. Speaker, anti-Semitism is the name for bombed in Bloomington, Minnesota, and quires years of effort to develop the necessary the bigotry and form of racism endured for burned in Austin, Texas, Victoria, Texas, leadership, service and outdoor skills. To earn centuries by Jewish people for no other rea- Bellevue, Washington, and Thonotosassa, it, Ian developed and provided leadership to son that simply because they are Jews. Florida, and mass attacks on Muslim commu- others in a service project. For his project, Ian In 2017 the Federal Bureau of Investigation nities were planned against communities in refurbished soccer goals on fields throughout reported a 37 percent increase in hate crimes Islamberg, New York, in 2019, Jacksonville, the Shadow Creek Ranch Planned Community against Jews or Jewish institutions and found Florida, in 2017, and Garden City, Kansas, in in Pearland, TX. His dedication to our commu- that attacks against Jews or Jewish institutions 2016. nity has prepared him to be a leader in his fu- made up 58.1 percent of all religious-based The Federal Bureau of Investigation has re- ture endeavors and benefit all those around hate crimes. ported that hate crimes against Muslims or him. And it was just last year, on October 27, Muslim institutions in the United States in- On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- 2018, the perpetrator of the deadliest attack creased by over 99 percent between 2014 and sional District of Texas, congratulations again on Jewish people in the history of the United 2016. to Ian for becoming an Eagle Scout. We are States killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life That is why I am so pleased that the resolu- proud of his continued success and thank him Synagogue building in Pittsburgh and report- tion before us also strongly denounces anti- for his dedication to making our community a edly stated that he ‘‘wanted all Jews to die.’’ Muslim bigotry, which entails prejudicial atti- better place.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:05 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A11MR8.002 E11MRPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E281 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF VICTOR Dale will be sincerely missed by his family, graduates present, including Anderson, VALLEY HONORED BY THE the veteran community, and all those who had passed seven resolutions, the last pertaining APPLE VALLEY OPTIMIST CLUB the great pleasure of knowing him. He will be to the ‘‘fundamental principle that the char- acteristic of this Association shall be.’’ Ac- remembered for his service to and love for his cording to the ‘‘Preliminary Meeting’’ min- HON. PAUL COOK country. utes, Reverend Dr. Francis Vinton, Class of OF CALIFORNIA f 1830, Assistant Minister of Trinity Church in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES New York City, introduced a resolution that HAPPY SESQUICENTENNIAL—CELE- the Association be ‘‘formed purely for the Monday, March 11, 2019 BRATING 150 YEARS OF THE promotion of social and fraternal inter- Mr. COOK. Madam Speaker, I rise today to WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF course.’’ Vinton’s resolution became Article recognize the incredible service of the Assist- GRADUATES PART I (1969–1990) II of the new Association’s Constitution: ance League of Victor Valley, who was hon- ‘‘The objects of this Association shall be to ored by the Apple Valley Optimist Club on cherish the memories of our Alma Mater, HON. JOHN SHIMKUS and to promote the social intercourse and Saturday, March 8. OF ILLINOIS fraternal fellowship of its graduates.’’ Founded in 1979 and achieving Full Chapter IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Does this end the debate regarding the pur- Status in 1982, the Assistance League of Vic- pose of the Association of Graduates’ found- tor Valley is a nonprofit organization focused Monday, March 11, 2019 ing? Not quite. Article IV of the Associa- on identifying and funding ongoing, community Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, I rise to in- tion’s original Constitution complicates based philanthropic programs in the Victor clude in the RECORD an article by Keith J. matters. It states, ‘‘Political, or any other Valley. Their signature program is Operation Hamel honoring the 150th Anniversary of the discussions foreign to the purposes of the As- sociation, as set forth in this Constitution, School Bell, which provides new school West Point Association of Graduates. or any proceedings of such a tendency, are clothes to children in need living in the Victor ‘‘On May 22, 2019, the West Point Associa- declared inimical to the purposes of this or- Valley. Since the Operation began, 27,244 tion of Graduates will turn 150 years old. ganization, and are prohibited.’’ Such an ar- local children have received clothing, with Think about it—one hundred and fifty years! ticle calls attention to itself and seems to 1,357 students receiving clothing during the When ‘‘the Association,’’ as it used to be support the notion that the recent U.S. Civil 2017–2018 school year. The Assistance known, held its first organizational meeting War and its political aftermath might im- in the office of Dr. Horace Webster, Class of League has also logged 28,000 volunteer pede the formation of an Association of West 1818, President of the College of the City of Point Graduates. Furthermore, Article III, 2, hours during that same period and gave 1,620 New York, the light bulb had yet to be in- states, ‘‘The oldest graduate belonging to bears to children in local hospitals. vented; the telephone had not been patented; the Association shall be President; and in his The Assistance League of Victor Valley is the U.S. flag had only 37 stars; and the ma- absence the senior graduate present shall one of the most effective nonprofit organiza- chine gun, dynamite, and the torpedo were preside at the meeting of the Association.’’ tions in the High Desert, and I am proud to less than a decade old. This made Thayer the ‘‘official’’ first presi- see them receiving some very well-deserved The year was 1869, an important year in dent. Although Thayer never attended a recognition. I wish them nothing but success the history of West Point graduates. On meeting of the Association of Graduates March 4 of that year, Ulysses S. Grant, Class as they continue to help the less fortunate in (and, interestingly, his name does not appear of 1843, became the 18th President of the on the roll of members until 1872), this pas- our community. United States. Grant, of course, received na- sage marries Thayer’s legacy with the cre- f tional acclaim for commanding the Union ation of the Association, including his desire Army to victory during the U.S. Civil War, IN REMEMBRANCE OF DALE COOK to form such an organization for the benefit accepting the surrender of Confederate of West Point. Going forward, both implicit forces from another West Point graduate, political matters and the promotion of West HON. MARK DeSAULNIER Robert E. Lee, Class of 1829. That recent con- Point routinely enter into the dialogue re- OF CALIFORNIA flict, roughly four years over by the time a garding the Association’s early history and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES handful of graduates met in Webster’s office business. one Saturday afternoon for that first meet- Take the Association’s first public act Monday, March 11, 2019 ing, is often cited as the reason the ‘‘Asso- after a committee of 13 graduates, chaired by Mr. DESAULNIER. Madam Speaker, I rise ciation’’ was formed; that is, to heal the di- Webster, met on June 16, 1869 and drafted the today with Congressman JERRY MCNERNEY to vide between West Point graduates who constitution and bylaws for the new Associa- pay tribute to Dale Cook and recognize his fought on opposing sides of the U.S. Civil tion. Soon after, the committee mailed the War. While it may be romanticized, such a service to our country. proposed constitution and bylaws to all grad- theory is plausible. After all, bridging uates; 128 joined (of more than 1,350 living Dale was born in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. chasms seemed to be the spirit of the age in graduates), including three former Confed- After enlisting in the Marine Corps as a high 1869. On May 2 of that year the ‘‘golden erate officers: Richard S. Ewell, Class of 1840; school senior in 1944, Dale was assigned to spike’’ of the First Transcontinental Rail- James Longstreet, Class of 1842; and Nathan- the 4th Marine Division on Maui. road was driven into the ground at Prom- iel R. Chambliss, Class of May 1861. In fact, Seventy-four years ago, Dale was one of ontory Summit of Utah Territory, linking Ewell sent a letter back with his dues stat- the few surviving Marines who invaded Iwo America’s East Coast with its West Coast. ing, ‘‘I cannot think that any graduate of the Jima on February 19, 1945. He was wounded Later that year, on November 17, the Suez Academy would, unless blinded by preju- by an enemy grenade and evacuated to Guam Canal officially opened, finally completing a dices, decline to aid the work of reuniting where he joined the first of his many Veterans centuries-old idea to create a waterway be- . . . a bond broken asunder by civil discord tween the Mediterranean and the Indian and war.’’ Conversely, Simon Bolivar organizations, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ocean. Buckner, Class of 1844, the first Confederate (VFW). Yet when Robert Anderson, Class of 1825, general to surrender an Army to Union After returning to the United States, Dale wrote to Sylvanus Thayer, Class of 1808, on forces, perhaps stinging from so-called ‘‘Rad- was recruited by the Atomic Energy Commis- January 28, 1869 to propose the formation of ical Republicans’’ attempts to strip ex-rebels sion as a regional public information officer ‘‘an association of the graduates of the Mili- of their right to vote and hold office in the and later moved to the San Francisco Bay tary Academy,’’ he never mentioned the First Reconstruction Act (1867), wrote back Area, where he spent the rest of his career Civil War as a raison d’eˆtre for this endeavor to the committee saying, ‘‘Fraternal fellow- and retirement. He joined the Army Reserve (and Anderson was the officer in charge of ship can exist only in the light of an ac- Fort Sumter when it was fired upon by as the Chief Public Information Officer of the knowledged equality, [which] is denounced P.G.T. Beauregard, Class of 1838, to start by the legislation of the central government 6th Army command at the Presidio of San that war!) Instead, Anderson plainly told which extends its fostering care to our class Francisco, while continuing his involvement in Thayer he wanted to form an association ‘‘to of graduates of our Alma Mater and at the veterans organizations. see what should be done to perfect and per- same time prescribes the other . . . an ac- Dale continued to serve his community by petuate this truly national Institution,’’ knowledgement of the inequality which ren- leading an annual commemoration of the Bat- [West Point] and, in his February 12, 1869 ders agreeable social intercourse impos- tle of Iwo Jima for many years, first at the reply to Anderson, Thayer agreed. sible.’’ Buckner’s sentiment becomes an im- Golden Gate National Cemetery and later at Three months later, 15 graduates gathered portant theme taken up by committee mem- in Webster’s office for the purposes of offi- the Marines Memorial Club in San Francisco. ber Charles Davies, Class of 1815, in his ad- cially forming an ‘‘Association of the Grad- dress to graduates at the Association’s first He also volunteered as a Boy Scout troop uates of the U.S. Military Academy.’’ Nei- reunion on June 17, 1870. leader and mentored many Eagle Scouts. A ther the Civil War nor the ‘‘perpetuation’’ of Forty-three graduates sat in the pews of proud Marine, he started raising English Bull- West Point was explicitly mentioned in the the West Point Chapel (now known as the dogs, the military branch’s mascot. minutes from that meeting. Instead, the Old Cadet Chapel) to hear Davies’ address.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:05 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A11MR8.004 E11MRPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS E282 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks March 11, 2019 Although no Southern graduates attended lauded the accomplishments of West Point Cullum had been Chairman of the Thayer that first open meeting (more likely due to itself through its graduates. ‘‘We behold, Monument Committee, which was estab- the prohibitive cost of travel than to ideo- also, a great Institution,’’ he said in his 1875 lished at the June 12, 1873 annual meeting, logical allegiances), Davies used poetic lan- address, ‘‘. . . scattering science and knowl- and was instrumental in bringing Thayer’s guage in his speech to delicately and dip- edge over the nation,’’ which seems to pay remains from his hometown of South Brain- lomatically address the issue raised by homage to Thayer and Anderson’s original tree, Massachusetts to West Point. This ac- Buckner, that is the seeming rift between aim for the Association, ‘‘to see what should complishment could be viewed as the Asso- graduates who fought on opposite sides of be done to perfect and perpetuate this truly ciation’s first official act of external busi- the U.S. Civil War. ‘‘We come together as the national Institution.’’ Davies died in 1876, ness (a year earlier the Executive Committee scattered members of a household after a and, according to David Pinder ’86, in his resolved to have the body of Joseph Swift, long separation—some full of years, some paper ‘‘The Association of Graduates of the Class of 1802, exhumed and re-interred at the full of honors,’’ said Davies, recalling the U.S. Military Academy, 1869–1902: The Heal- West Point Cemetery, but this ambition metaphor of a ‘‘divided house’’ used by Presi- ing Years,’’ the leadership of the AOG passed never materialized). Thayer’s remains were dent Abraham Lincoln in a famous 1858 to George Cullum, Class of 1833. One of the re-interred at West Point on November 8, speech. Why would Davies use such lan- original 15 members of the Association, 1877, but the monument intended to honor guage? The answer is reunification. But, Cullum became a member of AOG’s Execu- his memory remained unfinished, as only digging deeper, it is not just a reunification tive Committee in 1871 and chaired this com- $1,225 of an anticipated $3,100 had been raised of graduates from the North and the South; mittee until his death in 1892. A year before from graduates. At the 10th Annual Reunion it is a reunification between West Point those 15 grads met in Webster’s office to on June 12, 1879, feeling that the plans to ob- graduates and the United States of America. form the Association, Cullum published the tain funds to build a stone memorial of Just one sentence prior, Davies said, ‘‘We first edition of his three-volume Biographi- Thayer for placement on the Plain were ‘‘im- come together under the old flag, dear to cal Register of the Officers of the United practical,’’ Cullum proposed that a smaller every American heart, to recall and con- States Military Academy, which he de- monument be built over Thayer’s grave. template that springtime of life . . . .’’ In scribed in its preface as a record of West However, in his address at that reunion, this and his future reunion addresses, Davies Point graduates’ service to the nation so as Cullum’s classmate Francis H. Smith, Class continually uses a ‘‘reunification with the to give ‘‘world-renown to their Alma Mater.’’ of 1833, the first Southern graduate to speak country’’ theme to tacitly unite graduates In the preface to his third edition of the Reg- before AOG members, implored graduates from the North and from the South behind a ister, published in 1891, Cullum’s intent be- not to forget the original monument plan, single purpose. came more explicit. There he wrote that he saying, ‘‘He was a noble specimen of West ‘‘We meet to revive cherished memories hoped ‘‘this last legacy to Alma Mater and Point character, and I trust the scheme will . . . and to renew, together, vows of per- her numerous sons may further prove the not be abandoned of putting, in enduring petual allegiance to our country,’’ Davies usefulness of that noble national institu- marble or bronze, a colossal statue of Brvt. said in the opening to his 1870 address. As tion,’’ nearly echoing Thayer and Anderson’s Brig. Gen. Sylvanus Thayer, the father of noted by George Pappas in his book To the original aim for the Association. While re- the U.S. Military Academy.’’ Point: The United States Military Academy unification seemed to be Davies’ primary A year later, at the 11th Annual Reunion, 1802–1902, ‘‘The defection of southern cadets ambition, championing the accomplishments George Andrews, Class of 1851, Treasurer of and graduates, termed treason by many an- of graduates for the glory of West Point was the Thayer Monument Fund, reported that tagonists, was used as a stepping-stone for clearly the achievement for which Cullum all but $160 of the funds needed for the monu- criticizing West Point in general and its was known. In fact, at that first meeting in ment remained uncollected. The project was graduates in particular.’’ The Civil War 1870, the first order of business after approv- further delayed when the committee hired thrust West Point and its graduates, particu- ing the constitution and by-laws was adopt- the New England Granite Company ‘‘to exe- larly those who defected to fight for the Con- ing a resolution that gave thanks to Cullum cute a statue eight feet three inches high, federate cause, into the national spotlight, ‘‘for his truthful and admirable annals of the standing upon a well-proportioned pedestal and, as noted by Harry Williams in his arti- Military Academy and its Graduates.’’ of eight feet, both of pure white granite,’’ cle ‘‘The Attack Upon West Point During the Cullum demonstrated his philosophy for and the cost jumped to $4,000. To raise Civil War,’’ ‘‘. . . the [Academy] faced and West Point and its graduates in the biog- money to cover the escalating cost, Cullum weathered a series of dangerous attacks de- raphies he wrote for ‘‘Necrology,’’ that sec- reportedly addressed ‘‘personal letters to signed to destroy its existence.’’ tion of the Association’s published annual each living graduate who has a diploma Those who gathered in those early re- report identifying the graduates who had signed by General Thayer.’’ In his June 10, unions must have been aware that West died since the last meeting. In the 1871 An- 1882 Thayer Monument Committee report to Point stood on precarious footing in the nual Reunion, the first to acknowledge the AOG’s Executive Committee, Cullum noted years immediately following the Civil War, author of each graduate’s biography, Cullum that the statue would be ready by winter, as well as the distrust felt for Southern grad- is cited as having written five of them, the ‘‘in ample time to be erected before the Re- uates. In his address at the Second Annual first being for Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Class union of this Association in June 1883’’ (it Reunion on June 17, 1871, Davies’ concluding of 1817. And while other authors devoted was completed on June. 9, 1883, which would words seem to be as much for the graduates paragraphs to the deceased, Cullum wrote have been Thayer’s 98th birthday). At the as for a public he felt may still be wary of pages (Hitchcock’s biography is 10 pages 14th Annual Reunion on June 12, 1883, the future political intentions of West Point long). Cullum continued writing ‘‘Necrol- Cullum furnished a final report on the alumni. ‘‘But above all, fellow graduates,’’ ogy’’ biographies right up until his own Thayer Monument to the Association, saying Davies said, ‘‘let us remember that the na- death, the last one for Montgomery C. Meigs, the statue ‘‘is worthy of the great Super- tion which sustains and has spread its man- Class of 1836, who died January 2, 1892. intendent, whose majestic port [sic] and in- tle over this institution, expects from every Cullum himself died February 28 of that tellectual visage [it] so faithfully represents; graduate, at all times, and wheresoever he year, and his own ‘‘Necrology’’ biography ap- and it is worthy of this Association which may be, the full measure of his duty.’’ Then pears just six pages after Meigs’. has preserved, amid so many difficulties, to in his last (and longest) address to grad- Cullum had started writing an extended bi- raise such a memorial to the ‘Father of the uates, commemorating the centennial of the ography of Thayer for the 1873 Annual Re- Military Academy.’ ’’ Showing its apprecia- Battle of Bunker Hill (1875), Davies made his union, but, according to a Secretary note in tion for Cullum’s efforts to bring the Thayer most overt gesture to reunification between that record, Cullum’s absence in Europe pre- Monument to fruition, the Executive Com- graduates from the North and South via re- vented the completion of it in time for publi- mittee unanimously passed a resolution that newed allegiance to the nation. He began by cation. Ten years later, Cullum likely incor- thanked him for admirably performing his reminding graduates of the resolution passed porated portions of that biography into the duties. at the annual meeting a year earlier to in- momentous address he delivered at the un- A year after erecting Thayer Monument, vite graduates from ‘‘all sections of the veiling of the Thayer Statue on June 11, 1883, AOG moved on to its next order of major country’’ to the 1875 reunion. Seven of the touting Thayer’s impact on West Point and business, another project that took years to Association’s 12 former Confederate officer the nation. Consider this passage: ‘‘With materialize and one that ultimately de- members attended this reunion, the most each evolving year of Colonel Thayer’s pended greatly on Cullum. At the 15th An- ever up to that point. ‘‘[W]e have come here Superintendency, class after class was grad- nual Reunion in 1884, John S. McCalmont, today, to bury within the circuit of these uated, adding to our army 570 officers, of Class of 1842, proposed that Congress should mountains all recollections which can sepa- whom the nation may be justly proud, for in be petitioned to make an appropriation for rate us from each other, or from our common that galaxy are many bright particular stars the purposes of furnishing a hall for AOG use country,’’ Davies said, ‘‘ . . . and to say to which have given lustre to our arms, illumi- at West Point, given that the Association all, for each, and to each for all, that from nated the paths of science, brightened halls had received so many gifts of manuscripts, this auspicious day, all the graduates of this of learning, and adorned various vocations of portraits, books, letters, and more and had Institution will recognize each other as usefulness.’’ Cullum was perpetuating the no room to safely keep them or exhibit friends. Henceforth, and forever, we have one national institution of West Point by dem- them. The matter was tabled and reintro- flag—one country—one destiny.’’ onstrating the perfections of its honorific fa- duced three years later at the 1887 meeting, Interestingly, before championing the pa- ther. But this is not all that Cullum did as but members felt that the USMA Board of triotism of West Point graduates, Davies the Association’s de facto leader. Visitors would have better luck securing the

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Then, Executive Committee voted to amend the OF TEXAS given the lack of reference to it in meeting Bylaws so that initiation fees were reduced IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES notes, the Executive Committee seems to from a one-time $10 payment to an initial $2 Monday, March 11, 2019 forget about this idea for a memorial hall for fee with an additional $1 paid each subse- half a decade, but Cullum did not forget. quent year for the next decade. The prorated Mr. FLORES. Madam Speaker, I rise today Upon his death, Cullum bequeathed $250,000 fee cycle spurred growth in new membership. to recognize John Anderson of College Sta- to the U.S. government for the purposes of In 1898, only three graduates elected to pay tion, Texas, for his leadership and service to erecting such a hall at West Point. the prescribed $10 initiation fee; in 1902, our Brazos Valley community. According to a March 7, 1892 New York more than 70 paid the new $2 fee. New mem- Times article reporting on his will, Cullum’s John grew up in a military family and lived bership also fostered more graduate partici- all across the United States before settling in gift, ‘‘Follow[ed] an idea which he had for pation. In 1899, only seven members attended some years entertained.’’ Part of that idea the 3Oth annual reunion, but in 1902 report- El Paso, Texas where he attended the Univer- likely involved Cullum’s 1891 proposal that edly some 350 graduates returned to West sity of Texas-El Paso. He went on to serve in Executive Committee incorporate the Asso- Point for the annual alumni reunion. the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1973 and in the ciation under the laws ofNew York state. During the dedication of Cullum Hall, Army Reserve from 1973 to 1986. In 1986, he The committee unanimously adopted moved with his wife, Ann, to the Brazos Val- Cullum’s proposal and filed a certificate of Alexander S. Webb, Class of 1855, who was incorporation in November of that year. As present in Webster’s office at the original ley. some have hypothesized, Cullum proposed May 22, 1869 meeting, looked back on that John came to the Brazos Valley to work at this idea because he had already made his es- historic day and gave a brief account of the Merrill Lynch, where he recently retired as a tate plans, and, rather than gift his consider- organization of the Association. No records vice president and senior consultant. Since able fortune to what might be characterized exist of his remarks, but it is easy to imag- moving to our area, he has been involved with as an informal fraternal club, he wanted to ine he would have said that the 15 graduates many community organizations. leave it to an organization with legitimacy who gathered to form an ‘‘Association of the Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy’’ John has served on the boards of the Bryan and longevity. Furthermore, showing his Rotary Club, the Bryan-College Station Cham- prescience, Cullum explicitly stated in his would be proud that, 31 years later, their will for the memorial hall to be built ‘‘at far- idea had figuratively and literally found a ber of Commerce, MSC OPAS, Brazos Valley thest within five years after my death’’ (per- home, that more and more graduates were Veterans Memorial, Boys and Girls Club of the haps because he witnessed no movement on coming back to that home each year, and Brazos Valley, College Station Medical Center, an idea that originated in 1884!). Cullum’s be- that the Association was continuing to pro- Habitat for Humanity, Military Heritage Center, quest was formally accepted by an act of mote the social intercourse and fraternal fel- and the Brazos Valley Economic Development Congress, and the architectural firm McKim, lowship of USMA graduates.’’ Corporation. Mead & White was appointed in 1894 to de- John is credited with building a house for sign the building. Construction began in 1896, f with the cornerstone being ceremoniously Habitat for Humanity, the installing of statues of Veterans Park, fundraising for the Bryan laid on April 15, and construction was com- 175TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SAUK Rotary Field of Valor, and building a museum pleted on December 21, 1898. After it was fur- COUNTY GOVERNMENT nished (Cullum also left $20,000 in his will for that honors veterans of our nation’s wars. He this purpose), the hall was dedicated on June assisted with building the Bryan-College Sta- 12, 1900, the date of the 31st Annual Reunion. tion Chamber of Commerce’s federal and According to a July 1900 article by Charles HON. MARK POCAN state legislative plans. His dedication to the Lamed, Class of 1870, in Junior Munsey Mag- OF WISCONSIN greater community earned him their title of Cit- azine, ‘‘This hall is distinctly a monument to West Point and all that it stands for, given IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES izen of the Year in 2016. by a son of the Academy to his brother alum- John has also gone above and beyond to ni and their well beloved mother; designed to Monday, March 11, 2019 positively impact younger generations. He has commemorate their deeds, to preserve their mentored students at Texas A&M’s Mays names, and to bear witness to the enduring Mr. POCAN. Madam Speaker, Business School, the Bush School of Govern- work of the foremost military school of the Whereas, the Sauk County Government is ment and Public Service, and the McFerrin age.’’ celebrating its 175th anniversary and has Center for Entrepreneurship’s Entrepreneur- Thirty-one years after its founding, the As- made a distinct impact in the state of Wis- ship Bootcamp, which serves disabled vet- sociation of the Graduates of the U.S. Mili- tary Academy had 473 members on its rolls, consin; and erans. and those members now had a home at West Whereas, Sauk County was first established I am also blessed to have John serve as a Point. In his will, Cullum indicated that it in 1844 when Wisconsin’s Territorial Legisla- member of the Military Academy Review was his desire that the gifted memorial hall ture passed an act organizing Sauk County; Board which assists me in the nomination of be used for ‘‘the Assemblage and Dinners of and young Texans to attend our nation’s service the Association of Graduates of the United academies. States Military Academy, and, if prac- Whereas, Sauk County, from its humble be- John and Ann have sponsored international ticable, I wish that lodging accommodations ginnings of only a few hundred residents, has exchange students and served as host par- should be provided in some part of it for the grown along with the state of Wisconsin; and members of that Association while attending ents. John ensures that the students have a its annual reunions.’’ Furthermore, they now Whereas, Sauk County is now one of the rich experience in the United States, bringing had funds. Cullum’s will also provided $10,000 top ten fastest growing counties in Wisconsin them to Texas A&M football games, showing for ‘‘the current and necessary expenses’’ of with a population greater than 60,000; and them around campus, and bringing them to the Association. This is the genesis of what Whereas, Sauk County continues to gen- Washington, D.C. to learn about our nation’s is now known as the West Point Association erate some of the most significant numbers of history, all at his own expense. of Graduates’ ‘‘Long Gray Line Endow- In retirement, John is working to further his ment.’’ While Cullum was Chairman of tourism in the Second Congressional District of Wisconsin; and education. He is currently enrolled at the Bush AOG’s Executive Committee, AOG’s balance School’s certificate in nonprofit management. sheet consistently ran between $1,000–$1,500, Whereas, both the pioneers that helped Once that is complete, he will work towards but, thanks to his gift, it grew by 3 00 per- build Sauk County and the residents still living cent in one year. the advanced international affairs certificate. At the turn of the 20th century the Asso- there today deserve recognition; now, there- Madam Speaker, I am honored to speak on ciation, now with a home and with funds, fore, I, U.S. Representative MARK POCAN, do behalf of all Brazos Valley Residents to thank started to focus on growth and account- hereby proclaim the Sauk County Government John Anderson for his selfless service to our ability. This began with two notable changes on this special 175th anniversary, a keystone nation and to our communities. We also wish to the Association’s Constitution and By- to the ongoing growth and development of him the best in his future endeavors. laws. First, in 1897, the Executive Committee Wisconsin. decided that an elected graduate, rather that As I close today, I urge all Americans to the oldest graduate, would serve as the Asso- On behalf of the Second Congressional Dis- continue praying for our country, for our vet- ciation’s President, and voted accordingly to trict of Wisconsin, I wish the Sauk County erans, for our military men and women who change Article III of the Constitution. They Government continued growth and success in protect us, and for our first responders who nominated George Greene, Class of 1823, to the years ahead. keep us safe at home.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:05 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A11MR8.007 E11MRPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS E284 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks March 11, 2019 INTRODUCTION OF THE HIDDEN rean Community Church and a food pantry for live and raise a family. I congratulate him on FIGURES CONGRESSIONAL GOLD the local community. being honored by the Apple Valley Optimist MEDAL ACT On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- Club, and I wish him years of happiness and sional District of Texas, congratulations to success. HON. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON New Hope Presbyterian Church on their new f facilities and 40th anniversary. Thank them OF TEXAS IN REMEMBRANCE OF REP- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES again for bringing faith, fellowship and service to our community; we look forward to another RESENTATIVE JOHN MARSH, JR. Monday, March 11, 2019 40 years. Ms. JOHNSON of Texas. Madam Speaker, f HON. ROBERT J. WITTMAN today I am joined by my good friend from OF VIRGINIA COMMEMORATING THE 125TH ANNI- Oklahoma, Ranking Member LUCAS, in intro- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VERSARY OF THE CARTHAGE ducing the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Monday, March 11, 2019 Medal Act. PUBLIC LIBRARY Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden, Mr. WITTMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson were HON. DARIN LaHOOD today in recognition of John Otho ‘‘Jack’’ pioneers. At a time of male dominance and ra- OF ILLINOIS Marsh, Jr., who passed away on February 4, cial segregation at NASA, women and their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2019. John was 92 years old. talents were often overlooked. When women Jack was known for his love for the commu- Monday, March 11, 2019 were permitted to contribute, they were rou- nity and his years of public service. At the age tinely not given credit for their work. Women of Mr. LAHOOD. Madam Speaker, I would like of eighteen, Jack enlisted in the United States color faced additional daily indignities. In spite to recognize the Carthage Public Library of Army during World War II in Germany. From of these challenges, these women chose to Carthage, Illinois, for celebrating their 125th 1954 to 1976, Jack served in the Army Re- apply their considerable talents to help land anniversary. serves and the Virginia National Guard 29th the first man on the moon. Their stories, por- In 1894, the Carthage Public Library was of- Division. Not long after his service, Jack trayed in the Hidden Figures book and film, ficially opened as a circulating library for the earned a law degree and began a career in represent the stories of hundreds of women residents of the city. Since then, the library politics. From 1963 to 1971, he served four computers, mathematicians, and engineers has grown immensely; it now provides the terms for what was then the 7th District of Vir- working at NASA and its precursor organiza- community with far more than great reads. ginia. Choosing not to seek a fifth term, he tion, the National Advisory Committee for Aer- The library has taken on its own role in the continued his career as a Counselor in Presi- onautics (NACA), from the 1930s to the area. This is where the residents of Carthage dent Gerald Ford’s cabinet and eventually as 1970s. go to stay current on local affairs, and where the Secretary of the Army for the longest time The success of the NASA space program is the youth go to learn life skills that strengthen in our nation’s history. From 1989–1994, Jack due in large part to their brilliance, hard work, both their mind and body. served as Chairman of the Reserve Forces and perseverance in the face of adversity. The Carthage Public Library is known Policy Board, a position he was appointed to What better example can we hope to give our throughout west-central Illinois for the services by former Secretary of Defense Cheney. sons and daughters? that it has provided for the community over the Congressman Marsh served for over two This bill will bestow Congress’s highest civil- last 125 years. Today, we celebrate the library decades on the Advisory Council of the Vir- ian honor in appreciation of the achievements and staff for their dedication to serving ginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) and of Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden, Carthage. I extend my sincere congratulations received the VIMS Pathfinder Award. Much of Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, and all to the Carthage Public Library for a successful their amazing work impacts my very own dis- the women computers, mathematicians, and 125 years, and I wish them even more suc- trict, as they work to meet the issues facing engineers at NACA and NASA during this im- cess going forward. the Chesapeake Bay and the coastal ocean. portant time in our history. f Jack also served on the Board of Visitors at I am pleased to be joined by Ranking Mem- Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and is one of BOBBY TARANGO HONORED BY ber LUCAS and our colleagues in the Senate in the few honorary alumni of VMI. Jack was THE APPLE VALLEY OPTIMIST introducing the Hidden Figures Congressional honored with the prestigious VMI New Market CLUB Gold Medal Act. I commend Senator COONS Medal, for his public service and role in the for his leadership in championing this bill. Fifty preservation and interpretation of the Hall of years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, it is HON. PAUL COOK Valor. The Commonwealth not only lost a pub- high time we recognize the contributions the OF CALIFORNIA lic servant and community leader, but also a women of NASA have made in service to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES patriot who has dedicated his entire life to nation. Monday, March 11, 2019 serving our great nation. I urge my colleagues to join us and help us Madam Speaker, I ask you to join me in re- move this legislation forward into law. Mr. COOK. Madam Speaker, I rise today to membrance of John Otho ‘‘Jack’’ Marsh, Jr. recognize the service and commitment of f Words cannot express our gratitude. May God Bobby Tarango, who was honored by the bless Jack and his family as his legacy lives NEW HOPE PRESBYTERIAN Apple Valley Optimist Club on Saturday, on through his service. CHURCH REOPENS AND CELE- March 8. f BRATES 40 YEARS Bobby Tarango has worked as a sales rep- resentative for Chicago Title Company for the COMMEMORATING BRAIN HON. PETE OLSON past 22 years, where he has worked to make AWARENESS WEEK OF TEXAS Chicago Title one of the premier players in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES High Desert real estate industry. He has twice HON. EARL BLUMENAUER served as the Affiliate Director for the Victor Monday, March 11, 2019 OF OREGON Valley Association of Realtors, previously IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today served as Chairman of the Board for St. Timo- to celebrate the reopening of New Hope Pres- thy’s Preparatory School in Apple Valley, and Monday, March 11, 2019 byterian Church in Katy, Texas. currently serves on the board of directors for Mr. BLUMENAUER. Madam Speaker, this During Hurricane Harvey, the New Hope the Victor Valley Chamber of Commerce and week commemorates Brain Awareness Week Presbyterian Church sustained over $1.5 mil- the St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation Board. In which presents an important opportunity to lion in flood damage. The reopening of the his spare time, Bobby enjoys coaching his educate lawmakers, students, and the broader church coincided with its 40 year anniversary. son’s and daughter’s soccer teams, and public about brain science, and its many im- Pastor Long and the 100 person congregation serves as Vice President of Storm Soccer pacts and benefits. This is critical when you have dedicated their church’s outreach efforts Club and President of Storm Recreational consider that brain disorders and diseases af- on ways they can help and serve their com- Soccer. fect the lives of nearly 100 million Ameri- munity while growing in their faith. The church Bobby Tarango is consistently doing all he cans—from Alzheimer’s to ALS to mental ill- also serves as the home to the Houston Ko- can to make the High Desert a great place to ness.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:05 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A11MR8.010 E11MRPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS March 11, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E285 Neurological and neurodegenerative dis- CELEBRATING GINNY TAYLOR’S month the Post sends 10 to 15 care boxes to orders are among the leading causes of dis- 100TH BIRTHDAY active duty service members who are over- ability in the United States and around the seas. They provide emergency financial as- world—greater than heart disease and cancer HON. VIRGINIA FOXX sistance to veterans in need, sponsor a vet- put together. As society ages, this number will OF NORTH CAROLINA eran’s resource fair, and host a weekly coffee increase exponentially as will the cost to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for our community’s veterans. Post 159’s healthcare system and to the economy. Yet, Honor Guard also provides services including the underlying causes of most neurological Monday, March 11, 2019 a rifle salute and the playing of TAPS for over diseases remain unknown. Ms. FOXX of North Carolina. Madam 70 veteran funerals each year. Neuroscience is the next great frontier. Re- Speaker, I rise to wish Mrs. Ginny Taylor a Additionally, Post 159, and its Auxiliary, search and work being done in this field needs happy 100th birthday. It has been a delight sponsor at least 20 high school seniors yearly to be front and center in both the private world getting to know Mrs. Taylor and her family to the American Legion’s Boys and Girls State and Congress. since they began splitting their time between conference. They also sponsor Boy Scout The bipartisan Congressional Neuroscience homes in Greensboro and Land Harbor in Troop 159 and the Junior Shooting Sports Caucus’ mission is to build awareness of the North Carolina’s Fifth District. Program. intrinsic role brain research plays in under- Mrs. Taylor is a mother of two, grandmother Madam Speaker, American Legion Earl Gra- standing ourselves and our society. As the co- of three, great-grandmother of six, and be- ham Post 159 has had a deep impact in the founder and co-chair, I am committed to work- loved by all of them. Shortly after moving to Brazos Valley since their organization in 1919. ing on these important issues and hope my North Carolina, her husband, Delmer, started Their service to current members of the armed colleagues will join our efforts as members of Delta Plating, and she went back to school to forces, veterans, and youth of the community the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus. learn how to keep books and even helped in cannot be overstated. the plant and driving trucks for the company. I have requested that a United States flag f Mrs. Taylor remains an engaged citizen to be flown over our Nation’s Capitol to honor the this day, especially in bridge circles and First work and legacy of Earl Graham Post 159 and CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF Baptist Church, where everyone enjoys her its members. STEPHEN ROBERT SULENTIC pies. As I close today, I urge all Americans to At 100, I hope to be as full of life as Mrs. continue praying for our country, for our vet- Taylor, and I wish her a wonderful birthday erans, for our military men and women who HON. PETE OLSON and many, many more to come. protect us, and for our first responders who OF TEXAS f keep us safe at home. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECOGNIZING AMERICAN LEGION f POST 159 Monday, March 11, 2019 WARREN PHILLIPS NAMED SUGAR Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today LAND EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR to celebrate the life of Stephen Robert HON. BILL FLORES Sulentic, of Houston, who lost his twenty- OF TEXAS HON. PETE OLSON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES month long battle with Amyotrophic Lateral OF TEXAS Sclerosis (ALS) on December 18, 2018. Monday, March 11, 2019 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Stephen was born in Omaha, NE on May 3, Mr. FLORES. Madam Speaker, I rise today Monday, March 11, 2019 1958 to Phyllis Ann Sulentic and Stephen to recognize American Legion Earl Graham John Sulentic. As a member of the Society of Post 159 for the 100th anniversary of their or- Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today Jesus, he strengthened his faith and devotion ganization. to recognize Warren Phillips for being named to God. Stephen graduated summa cum laude The American Legion was founded on the 2018 Sugar Land Employee of the Year. with a Bachelor of Arts from St. Louis Univer- March 15, 1919 at the American Club in Paris Warren is a firefighter and paramedic with sity and later acquired a Master of Arts from by members of the American Expeditionary the Sugar Land Fire-EMS Department and the University of Michigan and a Juris Doc- Forces. The organization was chartered by also serves on the West Fort Bend Regional torate degree from Harvard Law School. He Congress on September 16, 1919 as a patri- SWAT Team. He was nominated and awarded held many positions in his life ranging from at- otic veteran organization. this high honor by his peers for his unwaver- torney and teacher, to school bus driver and American Legion Post 159 was also first or- ing commitment to our Sugar Land community door-to-door salesman. Stephen served as a ganized in Brazos County in 1919 and invita- and its citizens. Working with the Sugar member of the Mount Lebanon Volunteer Fire tions to join were published in the Bryan Eagle Land—Ironman Sports Medicine Institute, Department from 1998 to 2007, where he re- newspaper beginning on February 6, 1920. Warren implemented a ‘‘Tactical Athlete Pro- ceived the Medal of Valor, the highest honor The post was formally chartered in Bryan, gram’’ for the SWAT team and teaches a com- given by the Mount Lebanon Volunteer Fire Texas on February 13, 1920. bat casualty care class for local police depart- Department, for going above and beyond the Post 159 is named in honor of 1st Lieuten- ments. Warren is also a U.S. Army veteran. call of duty. Stephen left a legacy behind in ant Cyrus Earl Graham, a member of the His service and dedication to both the United his service to community and commitment to Texas A&M Class of 1916 who served in the States and Texas help keep us safe and free. family. Army Air Corps during World War I. On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- Lieutenant Graham was born in Brazos sional District of Texas, congratulations to sional District of Texas, we mourn the loss of County and attended Texas A&M where he Warren Phillips on being named the 2018 Stephen Robert Sulentic. We wish him fair was a member of the Ross Volunteers, and Sugar Land Employee of the Year. I thank him winds and following seas in heaven. graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. for his service to our Sugar Land community. He volunteered for service in the Army Air f f Corps and died in a plane crash in France in 1918, two days before the Armistice ending REMEMBERING MORGAN NELSON PERSONAL EXPLANATION the war. Several years later, his remains were returned to the United States and he was bur- HON. XOCHITL TORRES SMALL HON. ERIC A. ‘‘RICK’’ CRAWFORD ied in the Bryan City Cemetery. Every Novem- OF NEW MEXICO ber 9th, the Post 159 Honor Guard pays their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF ARKANSAS respect to his memory at a ceremony at his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gravesite. Monday, March 11, 2019 Since its inception, American Legion Post Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexcio. Monday, March 11, 2019 159 has been a service and community mind- Madam Speaker, I rise today to remember Mr. CRAWFORD. Madam Speaker, on Fri- ed organization. Post 159 committed 10,000 and honor the life of an important and re- day, I had a family commitment that caused dollars to the Brazos Valley Veterans Memo- spected member of the southern New Mexico me to miss votes. Had I been able to vote, I rial to assist with the creation of a permanent community, Morgan Nelson, who on March 1, would have opposed H.R. 1. World War I memorial in Veterans Park. Every 2019 passed away at the age of 99. Morgan

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Later in life, Morgan and grees and proven true their old adage of ‘‘a mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- his wife Joyce established two endowed schol- mind is a terrible thing to waste—but a won- tees, and committees of conference. arships, one with the New Mexico State Uni- derful thing to invest in.’’ This title requires all such committees versity (NMSU) Foundation and one with the Happy anniversary UNCF Here’s to another to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Eastern New Mexico University—Roswell 75 years of proven, effective advocacy. Digest—designated by the Rules Com- (ENMU–R) Foundation. Morgan served on the f mittee—of the time, place and purpose Chaves County Community Corrections Advi- of the meetings, when scheduled and EXPLANATION REGARDING sory Panel and strongly advocated for commu- any cancellations or changes in the COSPONSORING A BILL nity based mental health services. He also meetings as they occur. served as Flood Commissioner for Chaves As an additional procedure along County for the past 10 years, up until the day HON. BRAD SHERMAN with the computerization of this infor- he died. OF CALIFORNIA mation, the Office of the Senate Daily After graduating from New Mexico College IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Digest will prepare this information for of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now New Monday, March 11, 2019 printing in the Extensions of Remarks Mexico State University), Morgan served in section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD World War II for 5 years in the Middle East Mr. SHERMAN. Madam Speaker, on on Monday and Wednesday of each and Europe. He later served in Korea, ulti- Wednesday, September 29, 2010 I stated for week. mately leaving the service with the rank of the RECORD: Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Colonel after 20 years with the U.S. Air Force ‘‘Madam Speaker, I wish to clarify that March 12, 2019 may be found in the when I cosponsor a bill, it does not nec- Reserve. Daily Digest of today’s RECORD. Upon returning to New Mexico after World essarily mean that I agree with every part of War II, Morgan joined his family’s farms in it. At a minimum, my cosponsorship indi- MEETINGS SCHEDULED Cottonwood and East Grand Plains, and he cates that I support moving the bill forward MARCH 13 through the legislative process, including farmed the rest of his life. He was particularly Time to be announced being marked up in committee, and if sent to Committee on Veterans’ Affairs active in promoting cotton, serving over 20 the floor by the relevant committee(s), then years on the Cotton Incorporated (CI) Board of Business meeting to consider the nomi- subject to consideration and amendment on nation of John Lowry III, of Illinois, to Directors, becoming president of the 1517 the floor.’’ be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Cotton Association, working as a member of Let me reiterate that 2010 statement and Veterans’ Employment and Training. the Board of Directors of the Southwestern Ir- provide additional background. TBA rigated Cotton Growers (SWIG), and staying I believe in the legislative process. I believe 10 a.m. active in the NMSU College of Agriculture’s bills are improved during committee mark-ups Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and cotton research and promotion. Morgan and by consideration of amendments on the Forestry To hold hearings to examine the nomina- earned the nickname ‘‘Mr. Cotton’’ and was floor. among the first five inductees into the Cotton’s tions of Heath P. Tarbert, of Maryland, The effect of cosponsoring a bill is to signal to be Chairman, and to be a Commis- Hall of Fame in 2014. to the relevant committee chair(s) that I be- sioner of the Commodity Futures Trad- Morgan’s family included his wife, Joyce lieve the bill should be marked-up in com- ing Commission. LaSuer Walsh Nelson, who passed away in mittee, a process that may well improve the SR–328A 2008 after 58 years of marriage. They have bill (and in some cases may make the bill Committee on Appropriations three daughters, Margo Eichwald, Ann worse). When I decide to cosponsor a bill after Subcommittee on Department of Defense Houghtaling, and Jane McLaughlin, seven it has completed the committee process, I do To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for grandchildren and numerous great and great- signal to the Speaker and Rules Committee great-grandchildren. fiscal year 2020 for the Department of that I believe the bill should be considered on the Air Force. Madam Speaker, Morgan Nelson’s impact the floor, and almost always under an open on southern New Mexico and our region can- SD–192 rule. Committee on Commerce, Science, and not be overstated. I ask that my colleagues f Transportation join me in remembering him for his tireless To hold hearings to examine the new service and dedication. I join his family, friends CONGRATULATING JOHN HEALEY space race, focusing on ensuring United and all of New Mexico to honor his legacy and ON HIS RETIREMENT States global leadership on the final celebrate his life. frontier. f SD–G50 HON. PETE OLSON Committee on Environment and Public UNCF 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF TEXAS Works IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES To hold hearings to examine an original HON. ALMA S. ADAMS Monday, March 11, 2019 bill entitled, ‘‘Diesel Emissions Reduc- tion Act of 2019’’. OF NORTH CAROLINA Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today SD–406 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to congratulate Fort Bend District Attorney Committee on the Judiciary Monday, March 11, 2019 John Healey on his retirement. To hold hearings to examine the nomina- Ms. ADAMS. Madam Speaker, I rise today John Healey spent his 37 year long career tions of Daniel P. Collins, and Kenneth serving the folks of Fort Bend County in the Kiyul Lee, both of California, both to in honor of the 75th anniversary of the United be a United States Circuit Judge for Negro College Fund. office of the District Attorney, including 26 the Ninth Circuit. UNCF was founded in 1944 by Frederick years as the county’s top prosecutor. Since SD–226 Douglass Patterson to help increase the num- beginning in the District Attorney’s Office in 10:15 a.m. ber of black Americans enrolled in college. January of 1982, John successfully handled Committee on Foreign Relations In honor of UNCF’s remarkable achieve- thousands of cases with dignity and compas- To hold hearings to examine a new ap- ments, last week I joined with my colleague sion. John’s commitment to our community proach for an era of United States- and Bipartisan HBCU Caucus Co-Chair Rep- and his dedication to those he has served de- China competition. SD–419 resentative BRADLEY BYRNE to introduce a res- serves our utmost respect and gratitude. 10:30 a.m. olution honoring UNCF as a strong organiza- On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- Committee on Armed Services tion that has a profound mission to build a ro- sional District of Texas, congratulations again Subcommittee on SeaPower bust and nationally recognized pipeline of stu- to John Healey on his retirement. May he To receive a closed briefing on the most dents that will become leaders in our 21st have fair winds and following seas in his re- significant threats to United States century workforce. tirement. Naval Forces and how Naval Forces

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:05 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\M11MR8.000 E11MRPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS Monday, March 11, 2019 Daily Digest Senate Southeast Asian Nations, with the rank and status of Chamber Action Ambassador. Routine Proceedings, pages S1749–S1767 Jennifer D. Nordquist, of Virginia, to be United Measures Introduced: Five bills and two resolu- States Executive Director of the International Bank tions were introduced, as follows: S. 733–737, and for Reconstruction and Development for a term of S. Res. 102–103. Page S1762 two years. Measures Passed: John McLeod Barger, of California, to be a Gov- ernor of the United States Postal Service for a term National Assistive Technology Awareness Day: expiring December 8, 2021. Senate agreed to S. Res. 103, designating March 27, Rainey R. Brandt, of the District of Columbia, to 2019, as ‘‘National Assistive Technology Awareness be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the Day’’. Page S1765 District of Columbia for the term of fifteen years. Message from the President: Senate received the Shana Frost Matini, of the District of Columbia, following message from the President of the United to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of States: the District of Columbia for the term of fifteen Transmitting, pursuant to law, the Budget of the years. United States Government for Fiscal Year 2020; re- Michael S. Bogren, of Michigan, to be United ferred jointly, pursuant to the order of January 30, States District Judge for the Western District of 1975, as modified by the order of April 11, 1986; Michigan. which was referred to the Committees on the Budg- Jeffrey Vincent Brown, of Texas, to be United et; and Appropriations. (PM–5) Pages S1760–61 States District Judge for the Southern District of Matey Nomination—Agreement: Senate resumed Texas. consideration of the nomination of Paul B. Matey, of Stephanie Dawkins Davis, of Michigan, to be New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for United States District Judge for the Eastern District the Third Circuit. Pages S1749–59 of Michigan. During consideration of this nomination today, Brantley Starr, of Texas, to be United States Dis- Senate also took the following action: trict Judge for the Northern District of Texas. By 50 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. EX. 41), Senate Page S1767 agreed to the motion to close further debate on the Messages from the House: Page S1761 nomination. Page S1754 A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- Measures Placed on the Calendar: viding that all post-cloture time on the nomination Pages S1761, S1765 expire at 2:30 p.m., on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Enrolled Bills Presented: Page S1761 Page S1759 Executive Communications: Pages S1761–62 A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- viding for further consideration of the nomination, Executive Reports of Committees: Page S1762 post-cloture, at approximately 10 a.m., on Tuesday, Additional Cosponsors: Pages S1762–64 March 12, 2019. Page S1765 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- Page S1764 lowing nominations: Additional Statements: Pages S1759–60 David Bernhardt, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Interior. Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S1764 John Linder, of Georgia, to be Representative of Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. the United States of America to the Association of (Total—41) Page S1754 D243

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cess to opportunity areas, by a 2⁄3 yea-and-nay vote Chamber Action of 387 yeas to 22 nays, Roll No. 119; Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 16 pub- Pages H2618–20, H2626–27 lic bills, H.R. 1662–1677; and 9 resolutions, H. Federal Reserve Supervision Testimony Clari- Res. 207 and 209–216, were introduced. fication Act: H.R. 974, amended, to amend the Fed- Pages H2646–47 eral Reserve Act to require the Vice Chairman for Additional Cosponsors: Pages H2647–48 Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows: Reserve System to provide a written report; H. Res. 208, providing for consideration of the Pages H2620–21 concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 24) expressing FinCEN Improvement Act of 2019: H.R. 1414, the sense of Congress that the report of Special to amend the duties of the Financial Crimes Enforce- Counsel Mueller should be made available to the ment Network (FinCEN) to ensure FinCEN works public and to Congress, and providing for pro- with Tribal law enforcement agencies, protects ceedings during the period from March 15, 2019, against all forms of terrorism, and focuses on virtual through March 22, 2019 (H. Rept. 116–17). currencies; and Pages H2621–23 Page H2646 Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she Watch Act of 2019: H.R. 758, amended, to provide appointed Representative Kildee to act as Speaker a safe harbor for financial institutions that maintain pro tempore for today. Page H2617 a customer account or customer transaction at the re- quest of a Federal or State law enforcement agency, Recess: The House recessed at 12:02 p.m. and re- by a 2⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 404 yeas to 7 nays, Roll convened at 2 p.m. Page H2617 No. 120. Pages H2623–25, H2627 Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Recess: The House recessed at 4:58 p.m. and recon- Guest Chaplain, Rev. Meg Peery McLaughlin, Burke vened at 6:30 p.m. Page H2626 Presbyterian Church, Burke, VA. Page H2617 Presidential Message: Read a message from the Recess: The House recessed at 2:07 p.m. and recon- President wherein he transmitted to Congress his vened at 4:01 p.m. Page H2618 Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules Year 2020—referred to the Committee on Appro- and pass the following measures: priations and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 116–3). Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstra- Pages H2625–26 tion Act of 2019: H.R. 1122, to authorize the Sec- Senate Referral: S. 725 was referred to the Com- retary of Housing and Urban Development to carry mittee on Oversight and Reform. Page H2626 out a housing choice voucher mobility demonstration Senate Message: Message received from the Senate to encourage families receiving such voucher assist- by the Clerk and subsequently presented to the ance to move to lower-poverty areas and expand ac- House today appears on page H2626.

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Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: busi- EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF CONGRESS ness meeting to consider the nominations of Jeffrey THAT THE REPORT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL Nadaner, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of MUELLER SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE Commerce, Claudia Slacik, of New York, to be a Member TO THE PUBLIC AND TO CONGRESS of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and Thelma Drake, of Virginia, to be Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on Federal Transit Administrator; to be immediately fol- H. Con. Res. 24, expressing the sense of Congress lowed by a hearing to examine the Consumer Financial that the report of Special Counsel Mueller should be Protection Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress, 10 made available to the public and to Congress. The a.m., SD–538. Committee granted, by nonrecord vote, a closed rule Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Sub- providing for consideration of H. Con. Res. 24, Ex- committee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, pressing the sense of Congress that the report of Spe- and the Internet, to hold hearings to examine the impact cial Counsel Mueller should be made available to the of broadband investments in rural America, 2:30 p.m., public and to Congress. The rule provides one hour SH–216. of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the and ranking minority member of the Committee on road ahead for the World Trade Organization, 10:15 the Judiciary. The rule waives all points of order a.m., SD–215. against consideration of the concurrent resolution. Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to exam- ine the nominations of Michael J. Fitzpatrick, of Virginia, The rule provides that the amendments to the con- to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, and Ron- current resolution and the preamble printed in the ald Douglas Johnson, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Rules Committee report shall be considered as Republic of El Salvador, both of the Department of State, adopted and the concurrent resolution, as amended, 10 a.m., SD–419. shall be considered as read. The rule waives all Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to points of order against provisions in the concurrent hold hearings to examine reauthorizing the Higher Edu- resolution, as amended. Section 2 of the rule pro- cation Act, focusing on simplifying the Free Application vides that on any legislative day during the period for Federal Student Aid and reducing the burden of from March 15, 2019, through March 22, 2019: the verification, 10 a.m., SD–430. Journal of the proceedings of the previous day shall Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: be considered as approved; and the Chair may at any to hold hearings to examine recommendations from the time declare the House adjourned to meet at a date President’s task force on the United States Postal Service, focusing on a path to sustainability, 2:30 p.m., SD–342. and time to be announced by the Chair in declaring Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hear- the adjournment. Section 3 of the rule provides that ing to examine Indian programs on the Government Ac- the Speaker may appoint Members to perform the countability Office High Risk List, 2:30 p.m., SD–628. duties of the Chair for the duration of the period ad- Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine dressed by section 2. Testimony was heard from GDPR and CCPA, focusing on opt-ins, consumer control, Representatives Cohen and Collins of Georgia. and the impact on competition and innovation, 10 a.m., SD–226. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: to hold a joint hearing Joint Meetings with the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to exam- No joint committee meetings were held. ine the legislative presentation of multiple veterans serv- ice organizations, 10 a.m., SD–G50. f Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to NEW PUBLIC LAWS examine certain intelligence matters, 2:45 p.m., SH–219. (For last listing of Public Laws, see DAILY DIGEST, p. D178) House S. 483, to enact into law a bill by reference. Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Signed on March 8, 2019. (Public Law 116–8) Services and General Government, hearing entitled

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‘‘Treasury’s Role in Combatting Financial Crimes’’, 10 hearing entitled ‘‘Committee Funding for the 116th Con- a.m., 2362–A Rayburn. gress’’, 2 p.m., 1310 Longworth. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, budget hearing Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Con- on the House of Representatives, 10 a.m., HT–2 Capitol. stitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, hearing enti- Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Re- tled ‘‘History and Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act lated Programs, hearing entitled ‘‘Public Witness Testi- of 1965’’, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn. mony’’, 10 a.m., 2008 Rayburn. Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, busi- Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Re- ness meeting on adoption of the Subcommittee’s Rules of lated Agencies, oversight hearing on the Department of Procedure and Statement of Policy for Private Immigra- Justice, Civil Rights Division, 10:30 a.m., H–309, Cap- tion Bills; and Request for DHS Departmental Reports itol. on the Beneficiaries of H.R. 1548, 11 a.m., 2237 Ray- Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Af- burn. fairs, and Related Agencies, budget hearing on Related Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Admin- Agencies, 10:30 a.m., 2362–B Rayburn. istrative Law, hearing entitled ‘‘The State of Competition Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, budget hearing in the Wireless Market: Examining the Impact of the on the United States Capitol Police, 11 a.m., HT–2 Cap- Proposed Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint on Consumers, itol. Workers, and the Internet’’, 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn. Subcommittee on the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy Agencies, hearing entitled ‘‘Stakeholder Perspectives: Pas- and Mineral Resources, hearing entitled ‘‘Examining the senger Rail Development’’, 11 a.m., 2358–A Rayburn. Policies and Priorities of the Bureau of Land Manage- Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health ment, the United States Forest Service, and the Power and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Marketing Administrations’’, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth. hearing entitled ‘‘Oversight of For-Profit Colleges: Pro- Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, hear- tecting Students and Taxpayer Dollars from Predatory ing entitled ‘‘WOW 101: The State of Wildlife’’, 2 p.m., Practices’’, 2 p.m., 2358–C Rayburn. 1324 Longworth. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Economic and Consumer Policy, hearing entitled ‘‘Exam- oversight hearing on the Department of Agriculture, Of- ining the Public Health Risks of Carcinogens in Con- fice of the Inspector General, 2:30 p.m., 2362–A Ray- sumer Products’’, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn. burn. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee Subcommittee on the Department of Homeland Secu- on Research and Technology, hearing entitled ‘‘Engineer- rity, hearing entitled ‘‘Update on Recovery Efforts for ing Our Way to a Sustainable Bioeconomy’’, 10 a.m., 2017 and 2018 Disasters’’, 2:30 p.m., 2008 Rayburn. 2318 Rayburn. Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Military Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Rural Personnel, hearing entitled ‘‘Outside Perspectives on Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship, Military Personnel Policy’’, 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn. hearing entitled ‘‘Challenges in SBA’s State Trade Expan- Committee on the Budget, Full Committee, hearing enti- sion Program’’, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn. tled ‘‘The President’s 2020 Budget’’, 10 a.m., 210 Can- Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Sub- non. committee on Aviation, hearing entitled ‘‘Looking For- Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on ward: Aviation 2050’’, 10 a.m., HVC–210. Civil Rights and Human Services, hearing entitled Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social ‘‘Growing a Healthy Next Generation: Examining Federal Security, hearing entitled ‘‘Protecting and Improving So- Child Nutrition Programs’’, 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn. cial Security: Enhancing Social Security to Strengthen the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Middle Class’’, 10 a.m., 2020 Rayburn. Communications and Technology, hearing entitled ‘‘Leg- islating to Safeguard the Free and Open Internet’’, 11 Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, hearing en- a.m., 2322 Rayburn. titled ‘‘Temporary Policy in the Internal Revenue Code’’, Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ‘‘The Fiscal 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth. Year 2020 HHS Budget’’, 12 p.m., 2123 Rayburn. Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, Full Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing Committee, organizational meeting, 9 a.m., H–313 Cap- entitled ‘‘Holding Megabanks Accountable: An Examina- itol. tion of Wells Fargo’s Pattern of Consumer Abuses’’, 10 Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘Member Day’’, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn. a.m., H–313 Capitol. Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cy- bersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation, Joint Meetings hearing entitled ‘‘Securing Our Nation’s Chemical Facili- Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, ties: Stakeholder Perspectives on Improving the CFATS to hold a joint hearing with the House Committee on Program’’, 10 a.m., 310 Cannon. Veterans’ Affairs to examine the legislative presentation of Committee on House Administration, Full Committee, multiple veterans service organizations, 10 a.m., SD–G50. business meeting on Committee Resolution 116–08, and

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Matey, of New Jersey, to 12, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, In- be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, novation, and the Internet, to hold hearings to examine post-cloture, and vote on confirmation of the nomi- the impact of broadband investments in rural America, nation at 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m., SH–216. Following disposition of the nomination of Paul March 13, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- B. Matey, Senate will vote on the motion to invoke ine the new space race, focusing on ensuring United cloture on the nomination of Neomi J. Rao, of the States global leadership on the final frontier, 10 a.m., SD–G50. District of Columbia, to be United States Circuit Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: March 14, to Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit. hold hearings to examine opportunities to improve access, During the balance of the week, Senate may con- infrastructure, and permitting for outdoor recreation, 10 sider any cleared legislative and executive business. a.m., SD–366. Committee on Environment and Public Works: March 13, Senate Committees to hold hearings to examine an original bill entitled, (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) ‘‘Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2019’’, 10 a.m., SD–406. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: March Committee on Finance: March 12, to hold hearings to ex- 13, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of amine the road ahead for the World Trade Organization, Heath P. Tarbert, of Maryland, to be Chairman, and to 10:15 a.m., SD–215. be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading March 14, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- Commission, 10 a.m., SR–328A. ine the President’s proposed budget request for fiscal year Committee on Appropriations: March 13, Subcommittee 2020 for the Department of Health and Human Services, on Department of Defense, to hold hearings to examine 10:15 a.m., SD–215. proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year March 14, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- 2020 for the Department of the Air Force, 10 a.m., ine the President’s proposed budget request for fiscal year SD–192. 2020 for the Department of the Treasury, 1:30 p.m., March 14, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, SD–215. Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Committee on Foreign Relations: March 12, to hold hear- Agencies, to hold hearings to examine the Ebola outbreak ings to examine the nominations of Michael J. in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other Fitzpatrick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Repub- emerging health threats, 10 a.m., SD–124. lic of Ecuador, and Ronald Douglas Johnson, of Florida, Committee on Armed Services: March 12, Subcommittee to be Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, both on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, to hold hearings of the Department of State, 10 a.m., SD–419. to examine artificial intelligence initiatives within the March 13, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- Department of Defense, 2:30 p.m., SR–232A. ine a new approach for an era of United States-China March 13, Subcommittee on SeaPower, to receive a competition, 10:15 a.m., SD–419. closed briefing on the most significant threats to United Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: States Naval Forces and how Naval Forces plan to operate March 12, to hold hearings to examine reauthorizing the in a contested environment, 10:30 a.m., SVC–217. Higher Education Act, focusing on simplifying the Free March 14, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- Application for Federal Student Aid and reducing the ine the Department of Defense budget posture in review burden of verification, 10 a.m., SD–430. of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2020 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: and the Future Years Defense Program, 9:30 a.m., March 12, to hold hearings to examine recommendations SD–G50. from the President’s task force on the United States Post- Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: al Service, focusing on a path to sustainability, 2:30 p.m., March 12, business meeting to consider the nominations SD–342. of Jeffrey Nadaner, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Sec- Committee on Indian Affairs: March 12, to hold an over- retary of Commerce, Claudia Slacik, of New York, to be sight hearing to examine Indian programs on the Govern- a Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import ment Accountability Office High Risk List, 2:30 p.m., Bank of the United States, and Thelma Drake, of Vir- SD–628. ginia, to be Federal Transit Administrator; to be imme- Committee on the Judiciary: March 12, to hold hearings diately followed by a hearing to examine the Consumer to examine GDPR and CCPA, focusing on opt-ins, con- Financial Protection Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to sumer control, and the impact on competition and inno- Congress, 10 a.m., SD–538. vation, 10 a.m., SD–226.

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March 13, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- Year 2020 Budget Request for U.S. Cyber Command and ine the nominations of Daniel P. Collins, and Kenneth Operations in Cyberspace’’, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn. Kiyul Lee, both of California, both to be a United States March 14, Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, 10 a.m., SD–226. Forces, hearing entitled ‘‘Department of the Air Force March 13, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, to Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Request for Seapower and Pro- hold an oversight hearing to examine the United States jection Forces’’, 10 a.m., 2212 Rayburn. Patent and Trademark Office, 2:30 p.m., SD–226. Committee on Education and Labor, March 13, Full Com- Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: March mittee, hearing entitled ‘‘The Cost of College: Student 13, to hold hearings to examine cyber crime, focusing on Centered Reforms to Bring Higher Education Within the threat to small businesses, 2:30 p.m., SR–428A. Reach’’, 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: March 12, to hold a joint March 14, Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘Members hearing with the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Day Hearing: Committee on Education and Labor’’, to examine the legislative presentation of multiple vet- 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn. erans service organizations, 10 a.m., SD–G50. Committee on Energy and Commerce, March 13, Sub- March 13, Full Committee, business meeting to con- committee on Health, hearing entitled ‘‘Lowering the sider the nomination of John Lowry III, of Illinois, to be Cost of Prescription Drugs: Reducing Barriers to Market Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’ Employment Competition’’, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn. and Training, Time to be announced, Room to be an- March 13, Subcommittee on Environment and Climate nounced. Change, hearing entitled ‘‘Mismanaging Chemical Risks: Select Committee on Intelligence: March 12, to hold closed EPA’s Failure to Protect Workers’’, 10:30 a.m., 2322 hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:45 Rayburn. p.m., SH–219. March 14, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and March 14, Full Committee, closed business meeting to Commerce, hearing entitled ‘‘Enhancing Vehicle Tech- consider pending intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH–219. nology to Prevent Drunk Driving’’, 10 a.m., 2123 Ray- burn. House Committees Committee on Financial Services, March 13, Full Com- mittee, hearing entitled ‘‘Preparing for the Storm: Reau- Committee on Appropriations, March 13, Subcommittee thorization of the National Flood Insurance Program,’’ 10 on Financial Services and General Government, oversight a.m., 2128 Rayburn. hearing on the General Services Administration, 10 a.m., March 13, Subcommittee on National Security, Inter- 2362–A Rayburn. national Development, and Monetary Policy, hearing enti- March 13, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, tled ‘‘Promoting Corporate Transparency: Examining Leg- Science, and Related Agencies, hearing entitled ‘‘Gun Vi- islative Proposals to Detect and Deter Financial Crime’’ olence Prevention and Enforcement’’, 10:30 a.m., H–309 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn. Capitol. March 14, Subcommittee on Investor Protection, En- March 13, Subcommittee on the Departments of trepreneurship, and Capital Markets, hearing entitled Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, ‘‘Putting Investors First? Examining the SEC’s Best Inter- and Related Agencies, hearing entitled ‘‘Stakeholder Per- est Rule’’, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn. spectives: Building Resilient Communities’’, 10 a.m., Committee on Foreign Affairs, March 13, Full Committee, 2358–A Rayburn. hearing entitled ‘‘NATO at 70: An Indispensable Alli- March 13, Subcommittee on Military Construction, ance’’, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn. Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, budget hearing March 13, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 1004, the on the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspec- ‘‘Prohibiting Unauthorized Military Action in Venezuela tor General, 11 a.m., HT–2 Capitol. Act’’, 4 p.m., 2172 Rayburn. March 13, Subcommittee on the Department of Home- March 14, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 920, the land Security, hearing entitled ‘‘Securing Federal Net- ‘‘Venezuela Arms Restriction Act’’; H.R. 854, the ‘‘Hu- works and State Election Systems’’, 2 p.m., 2008 Ray- manitarian Assistance to the Venezuelan People Act of burn. 2019’’; and H.R. 1477, to assess and mitigate threats March 13, Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, posed by Russian-Venezuelan security cooperation and for Health and Human Services, Education, and Related other purposes, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn. Agencies, budget hearing on the Department of Health Committee on Homeland Security, March 13, Full Com- and Human Services, 2 p.m., 2358–C Rayburn. mittee, markup on H.R. 1232, the ‘‘Rescinding DHS’ Committee on Armed Services, March 13, Full Committee, Waiver Authority for Border Wall Act’’; H.R.1433, the hearing entitled ‘‘National Security Challenges and U.S. ‘‘DHS MORALE Act’’; H.R. 1589, the ‘‘CBRN Intel- Military Activity in Europe’’, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn. ligence and Information Sharing Act of 2019’’; H.R. March 13, Subcommittee on Readiness, hearing enti- 1590, the ‘‘Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel Exercise tled ‘‘Ensuring Resiliency of Military Installations and Act of 2019’’; H.R. 1593, the ‘‘CLASS Act of 2019’’; Operations in Response to Climate Changes’’, 2 p.m., H.R. 1598, the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection 2212 Rayburn. Rural and Remote Hiring and Retention Strategy Act of March 13, Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerg- 2019’’; and H.R. 1639, the ‘‘CBP Workload Staffing ing Threats and Capabilities, hearing entitled ‘‘Fiscal Model Act’’, 10 a.m., 310 Cannon.

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March 13, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, March 13, Response and Recovery, hearing entitled ‘‘Improving the Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘America in Space: Fu- Federal Response: Perspectives on the State of Emergency ture Visions, Current Issues’’, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn. Management’’, 2 p.m., 310 Cannon. Committee on Small Business, March 13, Full Committee, Committee on the Judiciary, March 13, Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘Flipping the Switch on Rural Digital markup on H.R. 1585, the ‘‘Violence Against Women Entrepreneurship’’, 11:30 a.m., 2360 Rayburn. Reauthorization Act of 2019’’, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, March 13, Committee on Natural Resources, March 13, Full Com- Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing entitled mittee, hearing entitled ‘‘Forgotten Voices: The Inad- ‘‘Aligning Federal Surface Transportation Policy to Meet equate Review and Improper Alteration of Our National 21st Century Needs’’, 10 a.m., HVC–210. Monuments’’, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth. Committee on Ways and Means, March 13, Subcommittee March 14, Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States, hearing entitled ‘‘Unmasking the Hidden on Social Security, hearing entitled ‘‘Protecting and Im- Crisis of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women proving Social Security: Benefit Enhancements’’, 2 p.m., (MMIW): Exploring Solutions to End the Cycle of Vio- 2020 Rayburn. lence’’, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth. March 14, Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘The Committee on Oversight and Reform, March 13, Full Com- President’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Proposal with U.S. mittee, hearing entitled ‘‘FOIA: Examining Transparency Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin’’, 9 a.m., 1100 Under the Trump Administration’’, 9:30 a.m., 2154 Ray- Longworth. burn. March 13, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Joint Meetings Liberties; and Subcommittee on Government Operations, Joint Hearing: March 12, Senate Committee on Vet- joint hearing on H.R. 1076, the ‘‘Fair Chance to Com- erans’ Affairs, to hold a joint hearing with the House pete for Jobs Act’’, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to examine the legislative March 14, Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘Hearing presentation of multiple veterans service organizations, 10 with Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.’’, 10 a.m., a.m., SD–G50. 2154 Rayburn.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Tuesday, March 12 10 a.m., Tuesday, March 12

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Tuesday: Senate will continue consider- Program for Tuesday: Consideration of H. Con. Res. ation of the nomination of Paul B. Matey, of New Jersey, 24—Expressing the sense of Congress that the report of to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Special Counsel Mueller should be made available to the post-cloture, and vote on confirmation of the nomination public and to Congress (Subject to a Rule). at 2:30 p.m. Following disposition of the nomination of Paul B. Matey, Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Neomi J. Rao, of the District of Columbia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Dis- trict of Columbia Circuit. (Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for their respective party conferences.)

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Foxx, Virginia, N.C., E285 Schiff, Adam B., Calif., E279 Jackson Lee, Sheila, Tex., E279 Sherman, Brad, Calif., E286 Adams, Alma S., N.C., E286 Johnson, Eddie Bernice, Tex., E284 Shimkus, John, Ill., E281 Blumenauer, Earl, Ore., E285 LaHood, Darin, Ill., E284 Steil, Bryan, Wisc., E279 Cook, Paul, Calif., E281, E284 Meuser, Daniel, Pa., E279 Torres Small, Xochitl, N.M., E286 Crawford, Eric A. ‘‘Rick’’, Ark., E285 Olson, Pete, Tex., E280, E284, E285, E285, E286 Wittman, Robert J., Va., E284 DeSaulnier, Mark, Calif., E281 Pocan, Mark, Wisc., E283 Flores, Bill, Tex., E283, E285 Roby, Martha, Ala., E279

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