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Vol. 162 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2016 No. 51 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Monday, April 11, 2016, at 3:30 p.m. Senate TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2016

The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was FAA REAUTHORIZATION BILL This legislation is the product of a called to order by the President pro Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, we lot of hard work and reaching across tempore (Mr. HATCH). will soon begin consideration of bipar- the aisle. At this time I wish to recog- nize Senator THUNE for leading the ef- f tisan legislation that can support American jobs, improve airline safety, fort. He knows what is possible in a PRAYER and help passengers—all without rais- Senate that is back to work for the ing taxes or fees on travelers. The FAA American people. He worked hard with The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- the top Democrat on his committee, fered the following prayer: Reauthorization Act before us is the Senator NELSON result of a collaborative committee , to get us to this point Let us pray. today. But these two Senators cer- process. It shows what is possible with Eternal God, though we cannot see tainly didn’t do it all by themselves. a Senate that is back to work and back You with our eyes or touch You with Senator AYOTTE was one of the key to regular order. In this case, the Com- our hands, we daily experience the re- players in this bipartisan effort. As merce Committee held a series of seven ality of Your presence and power. chair of the Subcommittee on Avia- hearings to guide and inform its delib- Abide with our lawmakers through- tion, Senator AYOTTE held numerous erations throughout this process. Re- out this day, providing them with wis- briefings and hearings on the issue publicans on the Commerce Committee dom, courage, and strength for the liv- with her colleague Senator CANTWELL. ing of these days. Give them grace to had their say, Democrats on the Com- While many in this Chamber are fo- understand the world we cannot see or merce Committee offered their input, cusing on the issue now, the bill before touch, comprehending that eternal and at the end of the day, Members of us is the product of many months of issues are at stake. As You care for both parties were able to agree on bi- work by members of the Commerce their physical needs, provide also for partisan legislation that passed com- Committee and their staff. Let’s con- their soul needs. Help us all to remem- mittee on a voice vote. tinue to work together in a similar ber that You are the source of our We know the bipartisan FAA Reau- spirit. While the Commerce Committee strength. thorization Act will promote American has produced a product that merits We pray in Your great Name. Amen. manufacturing, preserve rural access in this Chamber’s consideration, I am States such as Kentucky, and advance sure they would acknowledge that they f new consumer protections for the fly- don’t have a monopoly on good ideas. I PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ing public. We also know it will help hope we can have an efficient amend- improve safety and security both in the ment process where Members bring The President pro tempore led the skies and in our airports. Here are a their best ideas to the floor. Let’s pass Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: few ways this bipartisan bill can help: another significant piece of legislation I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the by allowing us to better prepare for the for the American people. United States of America, and to the Repub- outbreak of communicable diseases f lic for which it stands, one nation under God, like Ebola, by improving the quality of indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FAA’s safety workforce, by encour- IMMIGRATION f aging the FAA to harmonize inter- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, a national safety standards, by bringing few years ago President Obama gave a RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY the government and stakeholders to- speech in Miami where he said the fol- LEADER gether in the development of safety lowing about immigration: ‘‘I know The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COT- standards for unmanned aerial vehi- [that] some . . . wish that I could just TON). The majority leader is recog- cles, and by taking aim at human traf- bypass Congress and change the law by nized. ficking. myself. But that’s not how democracy

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He issued the order that overreach he once described as ‘‘ignor- there to carry on Al Qaeda’s mission. was so important to boys and girls, ing the law’’ and ‘‘unwise and unfair.’’ This is precisely the wrong time to called a deferred action, which allowed It didn’t keep him from doing that any- send experienced, hardened fighters DREAMers to stay in the country, and way. Maybe he didn’t anticipate that a back into the conflict. that was the right thing to do. He also Federal district court would issue a We must use the remaining months prioritized deportations by going after preliminary injunction to prevent him of the Obama administration as a year criminals, not families, and enforcing from moving forward. Maybe he didn’t of transition to better posture our the law. He has done a very good job. expect that a Federal appeals court military to meet the threats we face, I think it is also very important to would uphold that ruling. not make it more challenging for the note that the administrative actions But now the Supreme Court will hear next President, regardless of political the President has taken are nothing arguments in this case later this party. Actually, there have been en- unique. We can go back to the days of month on core constitutional prin- couraging changes within the adminis- Theodore Roosevelt, a good Republican ciples like the separation of powers and tration recently, such as programs pre- President who did a lot of stuff admin- the duty to take care that the laws are sented in the budget request by the istratively. On his remarks about getting in- faithfully executed. That is why I led a Secretary of Defense to address Chi- volved in the fight again—I am para- group of 43 Republican Senators yester- nese and Russian aggression, a public phrasing what he said—that we have to day in filing an amicus brief in support recognition by the Chairman of the get back to the interrogation we did of the challenge to this overreach—a Joint Chiefs of the threat posed by before, we know that torture was challenge brought by a majority of ISIL in Libya, more focus on the need quickly eliminated. That effort was led America’s Governors and attorneys to rebuild a nuclear triad, General by a lot of people, not the least of general from across our country. As we Campbell’s statement that a larger whom was someone who has been tor- highlighted in the brief, the adminis- force must be left in Afghanistan, and tured, a Member of the U.S. Senate, tration’s Executive action ‘‘stands in the deployment of the expeditionary JOHN MCCAIN. He has spoken out very stark contravention to Federal law and targeting force to Iraq. This is the admirably, and as only he can, about to the constitutional principle of the wrong time for the administration to how bad torture is. And the facts indi- separation of powers.’’ It is also an release terrorists who are likely to re- cate that torture doesn’t get any new ‘‘explicit effort to circumvent the leg- turn to the fight. information anyway; there are other islative process.’’ f ways to get that information. So, look, whether Republicans or Democrats, this kind of partisan over- RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY f reach should worry all of us no matter LEADER FILLING THE SUPREME COURT who is in the White House because not The PRESIDING OFFICER. The VACANCY only is the President’s blatant refusal Democratic leader is recognized. Mr. REID. Mr. President, the senior to follow the law an extraordinary f Senator from Iowa, who is chairman of power grab, it is a direct challenge to the Judiciary Committee, came to the Congress’s constitutional authority FAA REAUTHORIZATION BILL floor yesterday afternoon in an at- and a direct attack on our constitu- Mr. REID. Mr. President, this side of tempt to divert attention away from tional order. the aisle also hopes that we can move that committee and his failure to do f through the FAA bill, which is impor- his job. He is not doing his job as chair- WAR ON TERROR tant to get done. We just have to make man of that committee. He hoped to do that by focusing on me for objecting to Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, ear- sure we do it right. There are lots of things we need to do. I think that the a bill that would expand the subpoena lier this year I noted that the next powers of certain government ap- Commander in Chief will assume office bill coming from the committee, led by Senators THUNE and NELSON, is a good, pointees called inspectors general, but confronting a complex and varied array his efforts failed. People weren’t look- of threats. I observed that after 7 years basic outline for us to proceed on this matter. ing at me; they were looking at the of the Obama administration delaying work not done by the Judiciary Com- action in the War on Terror, the next f mittee. administration would need to return to I objected to that bill because that the fight and restore our role in the IMMIGRATION AND INTERROGA- TION OF GITMO DETAINEES legislation was really a legislative world. Among many other things, that overreach, just as my friend the senior means we must return to capturing, in- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I wish to Senator from Iowa continues his over- terrogating, and targeting the enemy follow up on a couple of statements reach by turning the Senate Judiciary in a way that allows us to defeat ter- that were made by my friend the Re- Committee into, for example, a rorist networks because let’s remember publican leader. Senator MCCONNELL Benghazi committee—a narrowly par- that during his first week in office, the mentioned immigration. In the last tisan committee masquerading as an President issued a series of Executive Congress we worked very hard together independent party. It is the same the- orders that collectively undermined in a bipartisan fashion to form a good, ory that had Secretary Clinton spend- the capability of our intelligence com- comprehensive immigration reform ing 11 or 12 hours before the committee munity and military to combat ter- bill. We passed it, but due to the power during the course of 1 day. That hear- rorism. of the tea partiers—or, as Speaker ing was a flop because of her assertive- Yesterday the Defense Department Boehner referred to them, ‘‘the ness, her direct answering of questions, confirmed that two of Al Qaeda’s crazies’’—they didn’t have a vote in the and her physical and emotional former explosives experts were trans- House. If they had voted on that legis- strength, standing and sitting during ferred from the secure detention facil- lation, it would have passed. Demo- that time. ity at Guantanamo Bay to Senegal. crats would have voted for it, and there My friend’s tenure as Judiciary Com- Both detainees had long records of sup- were enough Republicans who would mittee chair has been reduced to one porting Al Qaeda. According to records have voted for it. That would have been stunt after another. One of his stunts that have been made public, one of a big vote out of there, but it didn’t included demanding maternity leave those detainees, a former associate of happen, so the President had to do records of one of Secretary Clinton’s Osama bin Laden, is likely to reengage something on immigration, and he laid staffers. Another political stunt was in hostilities. The other detainee was the groundwork. He spoke at the State blocking the confirmation of State De- previously assessed as likely to return of the Union Address and basically partment Legal Adviser Brian Egan,

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So even though the senior Sen- which, of course, eventually, he was sight into two brothers who are trying ator from Iowa hopes to divert atten- given the death penalty. to buy America. Charles and David tion away from this disappointment, This is a good man. Judge Garland is Koch used their fortune and their tre- that is his Republican Judiciary Com- a good man. In every court he goes to, mendous clout to force Senator MORAN mittee, the people aren’t easily fooled. Democrats and Republicans speak to back down from his position. Pub- The people of Iowa and the rest of the highly of him—Chief Justice Roberts, lically, I can’t imagine how one of us, country certainly aren’t buying Sen- among others. So I was disappointed a Senator, could be forced to do that in ator GRASSLEY’s political charades. last week when some Republican Sen- the manner that he was. All of this is This morning the Des Moines Register, ators, such as MURKOWSKI and MORAN, because the junior Senator from Kan- the largest newspaper in Iowa, pub- abandoned their previous support for sas dared to meet with the Supreme lished another scathing editorial re- agreeing to consider Judge Garland’s Court nominee. He dared to suggest garding Senator GRASSLEY’s unprece- nomination. Senator MORAN’s back- that Garland deserved a hearing. He dented obstruction of the Supreme tracking is especially alarming because dared to do his job. Court nominee. The editorial high- it appears to be the result of a multi- lights the fact that because of the Su- So is this now what the Republican million dollar campaign urging the Party has become—a party dictated by preme Court vacancy, the highest Senator to reverse his support for a Court in the land is now stuck in a rut menace and intimidation? All you have hearing for Judge Garland. As has been to do is look at what is going on with of 4-to-4 decisions—a stalemate. This is reported by the Topeka Capital-Jour- what the Des Moines Register editorial the Republican Presidential nomina- nal, Senator MORAN’s about-face came tion. That answers the question itself. said, and I quote: in response to a backlash from the Americans might need to get used to dead- Koch brothers. I quote directly from Some 30 years ago, though, Senator locks, thanks to Senator Chuck Grassley. GRASSLEY said the Judiciary Com- The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee the article: On March 21, Moran told a small crowd in mittee ‘‘has the obligation to build a seems just fine with stalemate. record and to conduct the most in- Now the senior Senator from Iowa Cimarron, ‘‘I have my job to do,’’ and ‘‘I think the process ought to go forward.’’ depth inquiry that we can’’ on Supreme may be content with gridlock in the Though he made it clear that Garland likely Court nominees. Now the Republican Supreme Court, but the American peo- wouldn’t be worthy of his vote, the com- leader, CHARLES GRASSLEY, have twist- ple simply aren’t. They are not content ments indicated hearings should be held for ed the arms of the Republican Judici- with the way the chairman continues the judge. ary Committee members, compelling to use one of the most prestigious, But they went on to say more. them to sign a loyalty pledge and forc- independent, and powerful committees Within a few days, Moran’s comments ing them to refuse to consider the to carry out political warfare. So sparked backlash from conservative groups. President’s Supreme Court nominee. maybe he should spend less time com- The Judicial Crisis Network announced it Regrettably, Senator MORAN is just the plaining about me and more time sim- was putting the finishing touches on an ad- latest Republican Senator who has al- vertising campaign bashing Moran, and the ply doing his job. lowed himself to be pushed around, to Every day, more and more Senators Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund said it was be intimidated by money. are meeting with President Obama’s considering backing a primary challenger. Supreme Court nominee, Chief Judge U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo, a fellow Instead of caving to the Republican Kansas Republican, publicly called on Moran leader and the Koch brothers, it is time Merrick Garland, as well they should. to reconsider, a rare criticism of Moran from According to the senior Senator from a fellow member of the Kansas congressional for the Republican Senators to take a Utah, ‘‘fulfilling that role [of advice delegation. The criticisms eventually stand and do their job. I hope the re- and consent] requires us to evaluate a reached bizarre heights when the Traditional maining Republican Senators who said nominee’s qualifications for the par- Values Coalition compared Moran to Judas they will meet with him will go ahead ticular position for which she has been Iscariot. and do so and will stand firm. I hope nominated.’’ We know that was when [The] chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis they will meet with Judge Garland and they were looking at Sotomayor and Network said Friday she was pleased to see take the next step in the process—to Moran changed his mind. Kagan, who are on the Court. That is hold confirmation hearings. As it was why every Senator, using the same Well, I guess you could say he reported by the nonpartisan Congres- logic as my friend from Utah—Repub- changed his mind. MORAN was meeting sional Research Service, the average lican, Democratic—should meet with with Garland and holding confirmation wait for the Supreme Court nominees, Judge Garland. hearings until the Judicial Crisis Net- from nomination to hearing, has been This week he has a full slate of meet- work and the tea party and the Koch 42 days. According to that timeline, ings scheduled with Senate Democrats. brothers threatened him. It will sur- Chairman GRASSLEY and his committee By the end of the week, every Demo- prise no one to learn that the Koch should begin confirmation hearings for cratic member of the Judiciary Com- brothers and their dark money helped Judge Garland April 27. fund these radical organizations more mittee will have met with President Last week, Democrats on the Senate Obama’s nominee. To date, 16 Repub- than anybody else in the world. The Judiciary Committee sent a letter to licans have either met with Judge Gar- Kochs are notorious for bullying any- the Republican leader and Chairman land or indicated they are willing to do one who stands in their way. GRASSLEY calling on them to abide by so in the future. Some even have meet- There is, without any question, this traditional timeline and hold a ings scheduled: Senators AYOTTE, oligarchs in the land, the first ones I hearing by the 27th. I am very proud of BOOZMAN, CASSIDY, COCHRAN, COLLINS, have known in America. They are the the Democrats on the Judiciary Com- FLAKE, GRASSLEY, INHOFE, JOHNSON, Koch brothers. If they are successful in mittee for doing this. That is what the KIRK, LANKFORD, MURKOWSKI, the splurging of their vast wealth and American people want. They want Re- PORTMAN, RISCH, ROUNDS, and TOOMEY. accomplishing what they set out doing publicans to stop counting on the most These are all Republican Senators who in this campaign, I feel very, very bad have said publically that they are for our country. They will be talking extreme forces within their party and going to meet with him. I think that is about us the way they talk about Rus- just do their job. That is all we are a step in the right direction, and I sia—the oligarchy that is there. We are asking—as simple as that. think it really speaks volumes. going to have one and the same. Mr. President, will the Chair an- Take for example Senator INHOFE and Now, we must not forget how the nounce what the Senate is scheduled to Senator LANKFORD. I am sure they Koch brothers’ minions tried to intimi- do the rest of the day.

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Why won’t you even give a hearing I listened to some of the comments that are being made on the Republican The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under to this man who was sent by the Presi- side about this man, and it is a long the previous order, the Senate will re- dent for consideration by the Senate to way from fairness. What they are say- sume consideration of the motion to fill this important vacancy? ing to him is we don’t care about where proceed to H.R. 636, which the clerk It is a hard question to answer if you you came from. We don’t care about will report. take the position of Senator MCCON- your education. We don’t care about The bill clerk read as follows: NELL, the Republican leader, because the answer is that, basically, he is ar- your professional qualifications. We Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 55, H.R. don’t care about your career on the 636, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of guing that this President has no au- 1986 to permanently extend increased expens- thority—no authority to fill this va- bench. We care that you have been ing limitations, and for other purposes. cancy. Senator MCCONNELL argues that nominated by President Barack Obama, and as far as Senator MCCON- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as- we should hold this vacancy open for NELL is concerned, enough said. sistant Democratic leader. the rest of this calendar year into next year so that a new President—whoever If Barack Obama nominates this NOMINATION OF MERRICK GARLAND that might be—would have the power man, Senator MCCONNELL has made it Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, there is to fill this vacancy. He argues that the clear he will deny to him something an old verse that reads, if I remember American people will speak through that has never ever been denied to a correctly, as follows: While I was going this next election as to a new President Supreme Court nominee in the history up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t and that person should have the au- of the United States of America: a fair there. He wasn’t there again today. I thority. hearing. wish that man would go away. Well, what we discovered over the That is why it is painful for a lot of That man in the U.S. Senate is course of the last several weeks is this Republican Senators to go back and Merrick Garland, a person whom I am isn’t about giving the American people face audiences. The partisans in the au- sure the Republican leadership wishes a voice in choosing to fill that vacancy; dience come in, in a predictable state, would just go away. But he is not going it is about giving two individuals, the with Republicans saying: Hold the line. to go away. Koch brothers, the decision to fill that Don’t let Obama act like a President of Merrick Garland is the nominee vacancy. These brothers have decided the United States. We want him to go whom President Obama has sent for- it is in their best interests—their polit- away. Democrats come in and ask: ward to fill the vacancy on the Su- ical interests, their economic interests, Can’t you at least give this man a preme Court occasioned by the un- whatever it may be—to keep this spot hearing? I would say to my Republican timely death of Antonin Scalia. In vacant on the U.S. Supreme Court in colleagues: Listen to the people who sending that name forward, President the hopes that a Republican Presi- view themselves as Independents in Obama was meeting his constitutional dential candidate will win the election this country, folks who don’t carry a responsibility. Article II, section 2 of and fill the Court vacancy with the party label. They are saying over- the U.S. Constitution states clearly blessing of the Koch brothers. So Re- whelmingly that Merrick Garland is that the President shall—shall—nomi- publican Senators are going back to entitled to a hearing before the U.S. nate a person to fill a vacancy on the their home districts and States, basi- Senate. He is an extraordinarily well- U.S. Supreme Court. It goes on to say cally facing the electorate in their qualified man. There is no credible jus- that the responsibility of the Senate is home States, and finding it impossible tification to refuse to give him a hear- to provide advice and consent to Su- to justify avoiding any consideration of ing. preme Court nominations. It is very this nominee. Merrick Garland was born in Chi- clear. The men who wrote the Con- It got more difficult this morning. cago. His father ran a small business. stitution understood the importance of I ask unanimous consent that this ar- His mother volunteered in the Rogers filling a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme ticle from the Washington Post be Park neighborhood. He was the grand- Court, and they understood it to be so printed in the RECORD in its entirety. son of immigrants who fled anti-Semi- important that they mandated that the The Washington Post has reported that tism in the Pale of Settlement in Rus- President send the nominee forward to U.S. Appeals Court Judge Merrick Gar- sia. They came to America in the early fill that vacancy. land is getting a boost for his Supreme 1900s. Judge Garland grew up in You can read that Constitution from Court nomination from some of the Lincolnwood, IL. He graduated at the start to finish and never find the ra- lawyers who know him best—his top of his class at Niles West High tionale being used by Senator MCCON- former law clerks. It goes on to say School in Skokie. He earned an under- NELL, the majority leader of the Sen- that 68 former law clerks for this judge graduate and law degree from Harvard. ate, to stop that nomination from have written to Members of Congress He was a law clerk to Judge Henry being considered in the Senate. There recommending him based on their per- Friendly on the Second Circuit and to is no argument made in the Constitu- sonal experience of working profes- Supreme Court Justice William Bren- tion—nor has there ever been an argu- sionally with him. nan. ment made—that because the Presi- Let me read this passage from their He had a distinguished career at the dent is in the last year of his 4-year letter: Justice Department. They sent term, he no longer has a constitutional There are not many bosses who so uni- Merrick Garland down after the Okla- responsibility to fill a vacancy on the formly inspire the loyalty that we all feel to- homa City tragedy, when there was a Supreme Court. In fact, never—under- ward Chief Judge Garland. Our enthusiasm is terrible incident—a domestic terrorist line never—has the Senate refused a both a testament to his character and a re- bombing—that killed and maimed so hearing to a nominee who has been flection of his commitment to mentoring many people. The prosecution of that sent forward by a President of the and encouraging us long after we left his accused terrorist was the highest pri- United States to fill this important va- chambers. He has stood by our side during ority for the Department of Justice. cancy. It speaks volumes that Senator the happiest moments of our lives—quite lit- They had to get it right, not just for erally, having officiated the weddings of MCCONNELL, the Republican leader, has seven of his former clerks. He has welcomed the cause of justice but for the victims decided—has taken it on himself—to us and our growing families into his home. and their families. They had to get it stop the Senate from considering the He is a constant source of career advice and right on this prosecution. So they sent President’s nominee. guidance. And he has offered love and sup- their very best prosecutor, Merrick

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So a Republican President and names of those who died in that Okla- spect from the U.S. Senate. a Republican Attorney General agreed homa City terrorist incident as a re- It would be terrible and beneath the with the ruling of Judge Garland. minder of the solemn responsibility dignity of the Senate Republicans to In the other case in which Judge Gar- which he carried in this undertaking. close the doors of the Senate to such land is accused of having overstepped That is the kind of person he is. an accomplished American and deny the bounds on the Second Amendment, He successfully prosecuted those who him a fair hearing and a vote. The he never even addressed any sub- were engaged in the terrorism that President has met his responsibility. stantive Second Amendment issue. caused that terrible event. The Depart- The Senate should do no less. If the Judicial Crisis Network was so ment of Justice thought that highly of I know Merrick Garland is in for a outraged by these decisions in the year him, and his performance in Oklahoma rough ride. The senior Senator from 2000 and the year 2007, why didn’t they City was so stellar that he achieved his Texas said as much a few weeks ago. bring it up in 2010 when Merrick Gar- goal—a fair and effective prosecution. He said President Obama’s Supreme land was in the running to fill a va- The Senate considered Merrick Gar- Court nominee would ‘‘bear some re- cancy on the Supreme Court? In that land for the second highest court of the semblance to a pinata.’’ year, Carrie Severino, the head of that land, the D.C. Circuit Court in 1997. He Do we know what that means? Re- organization—the Judicial Crisis Net- received a majority vote on both sides member, if you will, that Mexican cus- work—told the Washington Post: of the aisle, Republicans and Demo- tom of filling a paper mache animal Of those the President could nominate, we crats. The total final vote was 76 to 23. with candy, then blindfolding a child can do a lot worse than Merrick Garland. Thirty-two Senate Republicans voted and giving him a stick or a bat to try He’s the best scenario we could hope for to to confirm Judge Garland. He has been to swing wildly and beat on that pinata bring the tension and the politics in the city on that court—the D.C. Circuit—for 19 until it is broken open and the candy down a notch for the summer. years and he has been the chief judge hits the floor. That was the analogy I just quoted the person who was in for the last 3 years. used by the senior Senator from Texas charge of the Judicial Crisis Network Throughout his lengthy judicial ca- as to how Merrick Garland should ex- when Merrick Garland was under con- reer, Chief Judge Garland has been pect to be treated if his nomination sideration for the Supreme Court six praised for his intelligence, knowledge comes before the Senate. It is a sad years ago. Now that same network has of the law, adherence to precedent, and commentary, but it may reflect the re- decided to spend millions of dollars to his ability to forge a consensus. Listen ality of the bitter political environ- stop this nominee. to what Chief Justice John Roberts of ment we live in. It is troubling to hear If Judge Garland’s views on the Sec- the U.S. Supreme Court said during his our nomination process in the Senate ond Amendment were so objectionable, own confirmation hearing: ‘‘Any time characterized this way. why has he been praised by Charles Judge Garland disagrees, you know There is a way to avoid pinata poli- Cooper, the gun lobby’s top outside at- you’re in a difficult area.’’ tics. Let’s give Merrick Garland a fair torney? On March 28 of this year, Coo- I have my differences with Chief Jus- hearing. per told the Washington Post about his tice Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Right now, conservative groups and ‘‘high opinion’’ of Garland as a judge. Court, but I will be the first to say his some Senate Republicans are taking So here is the reality. Rightwing ad- presentation to the Senate Judiciary their swings blindly at Merrick Gar- vocacy groups like the Judicial Crisis Committee was one I will never forget. land. They are flailing around, hoping Network are swinging wildly at Judge He sat there for 2 days, without a note to find some argument to justify the Garland. They mischaracterize his in front of him, and answered every mistreatment which they are offering. record and they attack his judgment in question effectively and eloquently. I For example, there is a rightwing advo- an effort to discredit him. If the Senate left there with the distinct impression cacy group calling itself the Judicial holds a public hearing for Garland, he he was one of the brightest individuals Crisis Network, whatever that is, that would at least have his day to state his who had ever been nominated to the recently announced a multi-State ad position clearly on the Second Amend- Supreme Court. campaign against Judge Garland. How ment, but they are so afraid of what he So this man, Chief Justice Roberts, about that. They will not give him a is going to say, the Republican leader- whether we agree with his politics or hearing. They will not even let him sit ship in the Senate has denied Merrick his decisions, should be listened to down in a chair under oath and face Garland an opportunity for a hearing when he says of Merrick Garland, questions and give answers, but they at this point in time. President Obama’s nominee, that if have started a multi-State ad cam- At a hearing, the American people you disagreed with Judge Garland, you paign against him. The campaign said could judge for themselves. How about know you are in a difficult area. That that with Garland on the bench, the that for a novel idea; that we would put is high praise from Chief Justice John Second Amendment would be ‘‘gutted’’ Merrick Garland under oath, sit him at Roberts. It is high praise for a man because ‘‘in two separate cases, Gar- a table, ask whatever questions we con- who has been denied a hearing before land has demonstrated his strong hos- sider to be important for his nomina- the Senate Judiciary Committee for tility to gun owner rights.’’ Several tion, and then let the American people the first time in the history of the Sen- Senate Republicans have echoed this decide. The Republicans will have ate. attack. They have heard this so-called nothing to do with that. Senator I commend Judge Garland for his Judicial Crisis Network ad and they MCCONNELL has said from the start he many decades of public service and have decided to amplify it. is never going to allow that to occur. congratulate him and his wife Lynn However, there is no argument that The Senate is doing Judge Garland and their daughters for the great honor can be made seriously or fairly for the and our Nation a grave disservice if we they have been given to be nominated proposition that Judge Garland op- don’t move forward with a public hear- to the U.S. Supreme Court. I offer as poses the Second Amendment in his ing on this nomination, as we have well a word of apology to them for the rulings. with every other Supreme Court nomi- way they are being treated by the U.S. There are two cases mentioned by nee that has been sent by a President. Senate. This is not right. this rightwing organization on the sub- Just for the record, go back to 1987, I hope that in the quiet and the soli- ject. They date back many years to when a vacancy occurred on the Su- tude of their own Republican caucus 2000 and 2007. The first was a case in- preme Court, and in 1988, the last year lunch, they will close the door and turn volving the auditing of background of Ronald Reagan’s Republican Presi- to one another and say: This is not fair. check records. When that case was ap- dency, he sent a nominee to the U.S. It is not right. We owe this man a hear- pealed to the Supreme Court, the Jus- Senate to be considered. Anthony Ken- ing. I am not saying he should be tice Department of President George nedy was a Reagan nominee, and the rubberstamped. I am not saying the W. Bush, led by conservative Attorney Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate not Senate Republican majority should ap- General John Ashcroft, agreed with only gave Anthony Kennedy a hearing,

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It is an obliga- The three-page tribute is both professional dency—the Senate at that time re- and personal. tion that comes from the Constitution, spected the Office of the Presidency ‘‘There are not many bosses who so uni- which says that we shall exercise this and respected the Constitution enough formly inspire the loyalty that we all feel to- duty of advising and consenting. to give Anthony Kennedy his day be- ward Chief Judge Garland,’’ the ex-clerks For all the reasons my colleague has fore the Senate Judiciary Committee, write. ‘‘Our enthusiasm is both a testament expressed so eloquently, the American his day before the U.S. Senate. If it was to his character and a reflection of his com- people feel that it is our job, and they fair enough for a Republican President mitment to mentoring and encouraging us are right. Nothing so epitomizes the in a Democratic Senate, why isn’t the long after we left his chambers. He has stood feeling of the American people that by our side during the happiest moments of Washington is failing to work, that same standard to be used when it our lives—quite literally, having officiated comes to President Obama’s nominee the weddings of seven of his former clerks. this body is failing to do its job, that being sent to the Senate on this day? It He has welcomed us and our growing families the Congress and the Federal Govern- cannot be explained away. into his home. He is a constant source of ca- ment are failing the American people, What does this vacancy on the Su- reer advice and guidance. And he has offered than the failure to deal with this nomi- preme Court mean? There are only love and support in the dark times, too, nee. The refusal to even meet with him eight members of a nine-member when we have suffered setbacks, losses, and mocks the American system of justice. Court. Already the Supreme Court has uncertainty.’’ For all who care about the quality of deadlocked twice on 4-to-4 tie votes Clerkships on the D.C. Circuit are among our judicial nominee, this intran- the nation’s most prestigious, second only to since Justice Scalia’s passing. Almost the Supreme Court itself. The signers have sigence is both an insult and an injury, 50 cases still need to be decided in this gone on to high-level positions in federal and and it will do lasting damage to the term. Major legal questions may go un- state government, private practices and aca- Court if it drags this third branch of resolved because the Senate is not demia. Several have spent time in the office government into the mire of partisan doing its job and not filling this va- of the White House counsel; one of those law- bickering. cancy. yers, Danielle Gray, served as Cabinet sec- The judicial branch depends, for the Judge Garland does not deserve to be retary to President Obama. enforceability of its decisions, on the used as a pinata—a word used by a Sen- The letter paints a familiar portrait of trust and credibility of the American Garland as a careful judge, a hard-working people that it is above politics and that ate Republican describing what he public servant and a devoted family man. would face in the Senate. Let’s give But it also offers a couple of glimpses behind decisions made by the judicial branch him an opportunity to rebut any at- the curtain. are on the merits without regard to the tacks made against him. Let him ex- In one notable passage, the clerks write special interests and the money that so plain himself on the record in full view that Garland ‘‘taught us the value of diver- infects this branch, and they are enti- of the American public. Let the Amer- sity, in all its forms.’’ tled to our support for the credibility ican people decide if the ads and at- ‘‘We observed how Chief Judge Garland and trust of the judicial branch, and tacks against him are valid or baseless. forged meaningful connections with others nothing epitomizes the need for that I urge my Republican colleagues: Do from a wide array of backgrounds and ideo- credibility and trust more than the logical perspectives—from the law clerks he not follow the lead of rightwing advo- hires to the personal and professional rela- U.S. Supreme Court. It is the highest cacy groups and attack Judge Gar- tionships he maintains. He finds camaraderie Court in the land, and it is the most land’s character or record when you with his fellow judges without regard to who powerful. It is an anomaly in a demo- refuse to give the man a chance to re- nominated them to the bench. Chief Judge cratic government because it is spond at a public hearing. That is fun- Garland deeply believes that our system of unelected, appointed for life, at the top damentally unfair. justice works best when those who see things of the judicial pyramid, exercising vast This is a real moment of truth for differently are able to work together, in a powers, with only the trust and credi- the Senate. No Supreme Court nominee collegial manner, to arrive at a just result. bility of the American people as its has ever been denied a hearing before, And when he must disagree with his col- leagues, he always does so respectfully.’’ means of enforcement. It has no army and Merrick Garland should not be the And they describe how his private response or police of its own. Its decisions and first. The message of the American to the Sept 11, 2001, attacks had a profound enforceability depend for their effect people to the Senate Republican major- impression on the four clerks who were on it being above politics. The con- ity is very simple, three words: Do working for him at the time: ‘‘From his troversy and the intransigence and re- your job. Do your job under the Con- chambers, we watched with horror the news fusal to even consider this nominee is a stitution. Have a hearing. Be fair to about the attacks on the World Trade Center great threat to that institution. and the Pentagon. In the days after, we re- this man. Don’t dream up excuses. LYME AND TICK-BORNE DISEASE PREVENTION, member the explicit importance Chief Judge Don’t argue with this President who EDUCATION, AND RESEARCH ACT Garland placed on coming to the office ev- won by 5 million votes over Mitt Rom- eryday and continuing to prepare for upcom- Mr. President, on the issue of getting ney. Don’t disrespect the Office of the ing cases. In the aftermath of that terrible the job done, I want to go to a separate Presidency or the Constitution, which tragedy, he believed it was more important topic very much on our minds at this in its clarity establishes our responsi- than ever for the American people to see time of year, very distinct and dif- bility to give a hearing to this nomi- that their system of government was func- ferent, but I want to join it in these re- nee. My Republican colleagues need to tioning without interruption—that the rule marks because it is timely as we begin do their job and to schedule a hearing of law endured!’’ the next phase of our bipartisan efforts for Merrick Garland without delay. Mr. DURBIN. I suggest the absence of to combat Lyme and tick-borne dis- Mr. President, I yield the floor. a quorum. eases. There being no objection, the mate- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The We will be building support this week rial was ordered to be printed in the clerk will call the roll. for a bill that has been introduced by RECORD, as follows: The bill clerk proceeded to call the Senator AYOTTE and me, with the GARLAND’S EX-CLERKS: CONFIRM OUR OLD roll. strong involvement and leadership of BOSS Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I Senator GILLIBRAND, S. 1503, the Lyme (By Mike DeBonis) ask unanimous consent that the order and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland for the quorum call be rescinded. Education, and Research Act, with 13 is getting a boost for his Supreme Court The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without cosponsors. It is a bipartisan bill that nomination from some of the lawyers who objection, it is so ordered. is critically important to public know him best: his former law clerks. Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I Sixty-eight former Garland clerks signed a health. letter delivered Monday to Senate leaders of want to join in the remarks just made Today we will be welcoming a num- both parties, urging them to confirm his by the senior Senator from Illinois ber of my friends and constituents nomination. The signers comprise all but that we have an obligation to do our from Connecticut and around the coun- three of the ex-clerks Garland has employed job and to provide a hearing and a vote try who are experts to provide briefings

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Within this Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Dr. on the Northeast or any part of the territory, ISIS has established a self- Brian Fallon, a good friend and leading country or profession—to take action. proclaimed capital city and effective expert in this area and a professor at That action must include provisions in sovereignty over other populated urban the Columbia College of Physicians and this bill to strengthen Lyme disease centers. It collects taxes, operates and Surgeons; Ally Hilfiger, who has been a surveillance and reporting, an edu- profits from oil well operations, con- survivor and strong supporter and ad- cation program, establishing epidemio- trols banking, and rules over substan- vocate; Rebecca Tibball, a fourth grade logical research objectives for tick- tial agricultural acreage. teacher from my home State of Con- borne diseases, and the preparation of a These operations help fund and sus- necticut who has been battling Lyme regular report to Congress on the tain not only ISIS armed fighters but disease since August of 2014; and David progress of efforts to combat these dev- also the group’s attempt to build ac- Roth, also a leader and a longstanding astating tick-borne diseases. The ef- tual institutions that spread its mes- patient advocate from New York who fects are devastating, pernicious, and sage of hate. Unfortunately, ISIS has in his day job is a managing director at insidious, creeping into every aspect of enjoyed considerable success commu- the private sector group Blackstone. a victim’s life. nicating and spreading its distorted vi- These individuals are here to call at- Our bill has earned the support of 13 sion of a grand Islamic caliphate tention to and build support for curing Senators from both parties, including claiming authority over all Muslims. a disease that is literally exploding ex- five members of the HELP Committee. Branches of ISIS, trying to replicate ponentially in this country and now When it comes to fighting Lyme dis- what has happened in Syria and Iraq, constitutes an epidemic that literally ease, there is no partisanship. The have taken root elsewhere and carried impinges and cripples the lives of mil- ticks that carry this disease don’t out operations in destabilized areas, in- lions of Americans. know a red State from a blue one. They cluding Libya, the Sinai Peninsula of The Centers for Disease Control and don’t make any discrimination be- Egypt, and Yemen. Prevention indicates that more than tween the boundaries of different A recent report estimated that as 36,000 Americans suffered from Lyme States. The devastating diseases that many as 31,000 ISIS adherents have disease in 2013. It says that the number can spring from these ticks are com- traveled from 86 countries to join the who actually contracted this disease is mon to our entire country and there- organization in Iraq and Syria. More probably 10 times higher because it is fore demand a national response and a than 5,000 of these recruits have come undetected and undiagnosed in so Federal program that we have outlined from Western Europe and 150 from the many people and it is underreported in this bill. United States. In addition to those even when it is discovered in individ- I am proud to join with Senator Americans who have actually traveled uals. Most of the cases of Lyme disease AYOTTE and Senator GILLIBRAND in this abroad, researchers at George Wash- occur in a limited number of States. effort. I urge my colleagues to support ington University estimated in Decem- Ninety-eight percent of them occur in this bill, to send your staffs to the ber that there are 900 active investiga- Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Mary- briefing we have today. tions of ISIS sympathizers here in the land, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New I thank others from Connecticut— United States. Let me repeat that—900 Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, such as Alexandra Cohen—who are investigations of ISIS sympathizers Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and going to be coming today, and I look here in the United States. This doesn’t Wisconsin. I name those States because forward to continuing this fight, which included those who have been the Senators in those States ought to has to be one of a nationwide commit- radicalized without noticeable warn- be behind this bill, every single one of ment. ing, such as a couple in San Bernardino them. But those cases are only the Mr. President, I yield the floor. ones reported. In many States there is The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. who weren’t known to authorities be- no systematic reporting of Lyme dis- FLAKE). The Senator from South Da- fore they killed 14 in a shooting attack ease, so the full extent, breadth, and kota. last December. Over the past few years, ISIS’s reach depth of this epidemic is truly un- ISIS has expanded dramatically, and claims known. Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I rise to We know in this body how to respond address last month’s tragic terror at- that our current policies have con- and recognize a public health threat. It tacks in Brussels and Istanbul by ISIS. tained the organizations and its dan- was done for Ebola. It is done for influ- It is critical for the Senate to consider gerous message are both false and reck- enza. It hopefully will be done for Zika. these significant events as we get back less. We have had some successes in What is needed is the same kind of bi- to work on bills enhancing security targeting senior ISIS officials, but as partisan awareness and support for leg- and setting policies for air transpor- we saw in Brussels, in San Bernardino, islation to help people who suffer from tation. and elsewhere, those efforts have not Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. In Brussels, 35 innocent people, in- lessened the threat posed by a terrorist Sometimes this Senator is asked: cluding four Americans, lost their lives state that is successfully propagating Why has the Congress failed to recog- in barbaric attacks by ISIS at a sub- its ideology all over the world. nize and respond to this severe public way station and airport terminal. In So what can we do to protect against health threat? Istanbul, an ISIS suicide bombing the threat posed by ISIS? Here are a There is no good explanation except killed four on Central Street and left few things: for the underreporting and the dozens more injured. My thoughts and First, we need a President who is unawareness, and that is no excuse. In prayers are with those injured, the committed to forming a robust coali- the meantime, the cases of Lyme dis- families of the victims, and the citi- tion to destroy ISIS abroad. Real ease are exploding in number, and the zens of Belgium and Turkey. American leadership against ISIS must severity impacts our economy as well In the past 2 years, ISIS has orches- be manifested in sustained engagement as the quality of life for Americans. It trated 29 attacks on Western targets against the enemy. We need an admin- affects people’s ability to perform their around the world, killing more than 650 istration intent on eliminating the jobs, children’s ability to go to school, innocent people. A decade ago, the group’s sources of income and its con- and families’ ability to function nor- group of violent jihadists behind ISIS trol of territory which facilitates an il- mally. The disease, if undetected and fit a fairly conventional definition of a lusion of legitimacy for its followers. untreated, can cause the most severe terrorist group. Operating in Iraq, they Incremental progress is not enough. In- kinds of pain and disability. endeavored to kill Americans, Iraqis, deed, the Washington Post reported Lyme disease is named after a town and others working to build a free and last week that some terrorism experts in my State. I have always felt it was democratic nation. believe pressure on the group’s finances

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In the 1990s, our Nation not in and out of our country and why. tendant abandoned a suitcase with 68 only fell behind on intelligence and air- This includes screening travelers for pounds of cocaine after she was con- port security, but we did not act with ties to ISIS and to its sympathizers. fronted by airport security officials in force against Al Qaeda’s enclaves in Af- One of the greatest threats facing Eu- California. In Florida, on March 26, an ghanistan. This was true even after we rope is citizens who leave their homes airline gate agent was arrested with a recognized a significant threat fol- to fight for ISIS and then return to re- backpack containing $282,400 in cash lowing attacks on our embassies in cruit or conduct operations in their that he intended to hand off to an asso- East Africa and on the USS Cole in communities. We also face this threat ciate. According to press reports, the Yemen. from European ISIS fighters, the re- agent told authorities the money was Only after the attacks on the World turn of American citizens who have connected to illegal activity, but he Trade Center and Pentagon did our Na- fought for ISIS, and agents of ISIS pos- knew few other details. Some of the tion pursue a strong military response ing as war refugees. Although we have perpetrators in the deadly attacks in and adopt significant reforms to en- passed bipartisan legislation to tighten Brussels were previously known to au- hance our Homeland Security. Like Al some screening requirements, we need thorities as criminals—but not terror- Qaeda, ISIS is now a significant dan- the administration to enforce the law ists. ger. While we are doing more to push rather than attempt to undermine and As we work to address concerns our Homeland Security and intel- work around it. about an insider threat scenario, where ligence agencies to meet current and Third, as a final line of defense, we an aviation worker helps terrorists, future threats, we are unwise to allow need to better secure the homeland. We criminals who have broken laws for this enemy time and multiple chances must make sure the intelligence com- their own financial gain and those with munity, law enforcement, and Home- to inflict mass casualties. histories of violence are a good place to As a legislative body, we have al- land Security officials have the tools start. Ensuring that airport workers ready passed legislation closing a bor- they need to deter attacks and to stop with security credentials are trust- der security vulnerability in our Visa plots before they are launched. This in- worthy is especially important, consid- Waiver Program and have an oppor- cludes the need for constant reassess- ering that ISIS in October killed 224 on ment of our vulnerabilities so we stay tunity in the bill that Senator NELSON a Russian flight leaving Egypt. Many and I have offered to guard against an ahead of threats. experts believe this attack had help Tomorrow I will chair a hearing at insider threat at airports. As law- from an aviation employee. makers, we are going in the right di- the Commerce Committee with Trans- In S. 2361, the Airport Security En- portation Security Administration Ad- rection. However, our responsibility to hancement and Oversight Act, Senator the people we represent does not end ministrator Peter Neffenger, who hap- ELSON and I propose not only tight- N there. Until this administration or its pened to be in Brussels during the ening vetting procedures for workers successor changes the facts on the March 22 attacks. While we mainly see who need a security credential, but we ground, we also have an obligation to and know the Transportation Security also expand the list of criminal convic- speak about the continued threat of Administration or TSA as the agency tions that disqualifies an applicant behind airport screening of passengers from holding one. At present, even ap- ISIS, especially when the administra- and baggage, the organization actually plicants convicted for embezzlement, tion downplays the need for a more ag- has a much broader charge. TSA is the racketeering, perjury, robbery, sabo- gressive response. We have an obliga- designated Federal agency for all tage, immigration law violations, and tion to continue discussing the geno- transportation security matters. As we assault with a deadly weapon can still cide of Christians and other religious know from independent covert testing obtain an airport security badge grant- groups in areas under ISIS control, and that exposed TSA failures a year ago, ing access to restricted areas. Our bill we have an obligation to scrutinize Ex- TSA still has work to do to improve closes this loophole while updating air- ecutive actions and conduct rigorous screening at airports, but TSA also port security rules, expanding random oversight of administration initiatives needs to focus on securing transpor- inspections of airport workers, and re- that pose risks to our homeland. If we tation by train, bus, pipelines, and quiring the review of airport perimeter can’t do this, we have learned very lit- through our ports. security. tle. The diversity of the targets ISIS se- The Commerce Committee has also I yield the floor. lected in its most recent attacks—a approved another TSA-related bill, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- subway station, an unsecured airport H.R. 2843, the TSA PreCheck Expansion ator from Pennsylvania. terminal, and a busy street, under- Act. This bill would expand participa- Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, I ask scores the challenge of protecting our tion in the TSA precheck application unanimous consent to speak as in citizens from an enemy seeking the program by developing private sector morning business. path of least resistance to maximize its partnerships and capabilities to vet The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without carnage. To stay ahead of this danger, and enroll more individuals. As a re- objection, it is so ordered. security officials at TSA and other sult, more passengers would be vetted CONGRATULATING THE VILLANOVA WILDCATS ON agencies need to be looking at poten- before they even arrived at the airport WINNING THE 2016 NCAA MEN’S COLLEGE BAS- tial threats before ISIS does. and received expedited screening. This KETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Congress has a role in helping secu- would get passengers through security Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, I wish to rity officials stay ahead of ISIS. Aided checkpoints more quickly to ensure speak for a few minutes on the floor to by congressional oversight and con- they don’t pose the kind of easy target send congratulations on my own behalf gressional watchdogs, the Commerce that ISIS suicide bombers found at the and also on behalf of the people of Committee has already approved bipar- Brussels Airport. Pennsylvania to the Villanova Wild- tisan legislation that Senator BILL Historically, this body has passed cats for a great win last night in the NELSON and I have offered to address aviation security enhancements sepa- NCAA final. airport security vulnerabilities. Our rate from a reauthorization of the Fed- It was a remarkable game for a lot of bill is cosponsored by the Homeland eral Aviation Administration. While I reasons. My wife and I watched every Security Committee’s chair and rank- still prefer this separate approach and minute of it, as I know so many did. It ing member, Senator JOHNSON and Sen- believe the Senate should pass our con- was a remarkable game even before the ator CARPER. Among other provisions, sensus security legislation without last-second shot, but even more so our legislation improves the vetting delay, I will pursue every option to after the shot made by Kris Jenkins. process for airport workers seeking or enact these improvements and will vig- We are grateful, on behalf of the peo- holding a security credential that orously oppose any effort to water ple of Pennsylvania, to commend and grants access to restricted sections of down any security efforts that passed salute Villanova University and, of an airport. the Commerce Committee. course, the team itself.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Apr 06, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G05AP6.010 S05APPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE April 5, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1653 In particular, I commend the players, us can even begin to imagine. In Penn- basically without—it was unanimous, not only Kris Jenkins but the entire sylvania alone, more than 2,700 people to the best of my knowledge. All the team. At the same time, we commend died in 2014 as a result of some kind of Senators here in the Chamber voted for the work done by Jay Wright. He is a drug overdose. So this is a major chal- it without going through the official great coach. He was awarded the lenge. procedural hoops that are required in Naismith Award as Coach of the Year We made tremendous progress when order to process legislation here in the this year, but we also commend him for we passed our bipartisan bill here, the Senate. leading Villanova this year and for the so-called CARA bill. That was a good Previously we passed legislation—re- way he conducted himself, even in the move and an important step for the cently the Comprehensive Addiction aftermath of a win. Senate. I hope we can follow up on that and Recovery Act—to deal with the cri- We learn a lot about people in vic- with the $600 million in funding that sis involving opioid or prescription tory and defeat, whether that is in the local law enforcement and treatment drug painkillers that are being abused athletic contest or even in politics or experts and others have asked us for. around the country, and people are un- life itself. I thought Jay Wright showed We need to finish the job in terms of fortunately falling into that trap, and a lot of class in the way he conducted making sure the Senate is taking the then the cheap heroin that sometimes himself after winning, which is some- right steps on this challenge. is used as a substitute if people can’t times not the case in sports today. The second issue—which I will men- find the opioid prescription drugs. I want to commend them as well for tion just briefly because we don’t have So Congress actually has been doing their great teamwork that obviously time today to develop it further—is the people’s business here. Of course, has to play out not just on the court in lead poisoning in children. We know we are in the type of profession where one game but over the length of a sea- what happened in Flint, the horror and people will sometimes say: Well, we son—the practice and the hard work the tragedy of Flint, but in a State think you are doing a great job. And and the working together and the way such as mine, the biggest challenge we others will say: Well, we don’t think they built each other up. There are so have is not necessarily lead from water you are doing quite so great a job. But many instances where this team really or in the water systems that would ad- that is the nature of the beast. Either was a team in reality, not just in terms versely affect children. In our case, be- way, it is always good to be back home. of people talking about them as a cause we have a lot of old homes, it is As I was talking to my constituents team. lead paint and the exposure to lead back home, I was glad to hear one I am not sure they could have shot paint and the high lead levels that put thing. No matter what part of the better. I am told—and I hope I have children in a precarious situation in State I was traveling in, there was ap- this right—they had a 58-percent shoot- the short run but even long term be- preciation for the decision we made to ing field goal percentage throughout cause some of these impacts, if the lev- give the voters a voice on who makes the tournament. That is a remarkable els are very high, can be irreversible. the next lifetime appointment to the achievement. Again, that doesn’t just We have to make sure we are doing Supreme Court. Texans want to have a happen; it happens because of hard more to protect our children not only say in who replaces Justice Scalia on work and because of a great coach. in Pennsylvania but across the country our Nation’s highest Court, and I be- I want to commend and salute the in terms of making sure that fewer and lieve their voice should be heard. team and congratulate them on win- fewer children are exposed to high lead We are already engaged in the Presi- ning a very difficult tournament. This levels. I know we will talk more about dential primaries process. Today is the is a tournament that had a lot of up- that. Wisconsin primary. It will not be that sets and a lot of twists and turns before Those are two major challenges that long before we have a new President the team came out No. 1. That is a I know confront Pennsylvania and also who will make that appointment. I great achievement. confront our country. simply believe it is important—par- Finally, I commend and salute the With that, Mr. President, I yield the ticularly in something that could ex- university and Father Peter Donahue, floor. tend for the next 25 or 30 years and the president. We know him as Father I suggest the absence of a quorum. really affect the balance of power on Peter. I want to thank him. He sent me The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. the Supreme Court—that this be left to a Villanova hat, which I wore during FLAKE). The clerk will call the roll. the voters. the semifinal game or part of the game. The legislative clerk proceeded to We all know we did not end up in this I made sure I wore it at least for a few call the roll. position overnight. In fact, there is a minutes during the final game. I was Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask lot of history. I remember that back grateful he sent me that reminder of unanimous consent that the order for when I came to the Senate, I was frus- team spirit. the quorum call be rescinded. trated by the fact that there was so In addition to Father Peter in the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without much politics at play in the judicial larger Villanova community, we want objection, it is so ordered. confirmation process. Having served as to salute the students, who were so FILLING THE SUPREME COURT VACANCY AND a State court judge for 13 years, I had loyal, and the fans, who may not have WORKING TOGETHER IN THE SENATE some pretty strong views about that. been students but who were either Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, as you But the problem is, there has been a lot graduates of Villanova or just sup- know, we have been back home in our that has transpired in the interim. Ev- porters. And of course the alumni made States for the last couple of weeks or erything from the Biden rule to the it possible for the team to have the traveling, listening to our constitu- Reid statement in 2005 was really a kind of support they have had over ents. It was great to be back home and threat saying that if President George many years. to spend some time talking to the peo- W. Bush were to appoint a judge to the OPIOID EPIDEMIC AND CHILDREN’S EXPOSURE TO ple who I work for about the challenges Supreme Court, it was within the au- LEAD POISONING facing our country and what we have thority of the U.S. Senate not to hold Mr. President, in my recent travels been doing in the U.S. Senate to try to a vote on that appointment. That was across Pennsylvania, two issues arose address those challenges. While it is al- in 2005. That was the Democratic lead- that I know the Presiding Officer and ways true that people wish there would er. And then in 2007 when George W. others may have heard about in the be more consensus building and more Bush was still President, 18 months be- time they were away from Washington, solutions offered, I would say that, by fore he left office, Senator SCHUMER, and I know there are many others, but and large, people feel we had a pretty the next Democratic leader, said there I will just mention two that the people productive 2015 and are hoping we can should be a presumption against con- of our State are thinking a lot about continue that sort of productivity here firmation. This is something that is and are worried about and expect us to in the Senate in 2016, even though this nearly unprecedented. Then we know take action concerning. is a Presidential election year. that in the interim there has been this No. 1 is the opioid epidemic across Yesterday was a good example of development of filibusters or the re- the country, which has caused the kind that productivity. We passed a trade- quirement of 60 votes in order to get of death and devastation that none of mark enforcement piece of legislation judges confirmed brought to us by our

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The administration ness who are going untreated and obvi- firm judges mainly to the DC Circuit and their liberal allies are now trying ously the homeless who are living on Court of Appeals—what some call the to basically throw everything but the our streets, many of whom are suf- second most powerful court in the Na- kitchen sink at stopping the American fering from mental illness. tion—in order to pack that court with people from getting a voice in this I hope we can continue to work to- judges who are more likely to affirm matter. In other words, they are trying gether on these other consensus mat- President Obama’s constitutional over- to force Congress’s hand or the Sen- ters even though we disagree about reach. ate’s hand to confirm the Presidential this one very important matter. I am So, as I said, much to my chagrin and nominee at this time. They are spend- confident that we can and we will. I bet to a lot of people’s chagrin, we ing millions of dollars on TV adver- Mr. President, I yield the floor. have seen the playbook torn up by our tising. They have hired consultants, I suggest the absence of a quorum. Democratic colleagues and rewritten. and they found some sympathetic al- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. The question is, Are we going to be op- lies in the media to criticize us. RUBIO). The clerk will call the roll. erating under a different set of rules I don’t begrudge anybody who has a The legislative clerk proceeded to than they would if the roles were re- different point of view than I do about call the roll. versed? Frankly, my constituents back this, but I simply cannot in good con- Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask home think the rules ought to be the science vote to confirm another Obama unanimous consent that the order for same no matter who happens to be in nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court in the quorum call be rescinded. the majority and who happens to be in the waning days of this President’s The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the White House. term in office. I happen to believe we objection, it is so ordered. Even more significantly, the Su- should not process this nomination. We Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask preme Court is the final authority for should exercise the power we have unanimous consent to speak as in many of the most pressing issues that under the Constitution to grant or morning business. face our country. The Court often acts withhold consent, and in this case to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without as a constitutional counterweight to withhold consent. objection, it is so ordered. the passions of both the legislative and But here we are, several weeks after NOMINATION OF MERRICK GARLAND executive branches. We have seen the the President announced his nominee, Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, during and nothing has really changed. All the Supreme Court operate time and time the recess last week, I had the oppor- money and the consultants in the again as a check on the Obama admin- tunity to meet with Judge Merrick world are not going to change the fact istration’s lawless actions. We saw this Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals that the American people are going to in the recess-appointment case. We for the District of Columbia Circuit, have their say. We don’t know exactly have seen it in a number of different President Obama’s nominee to fill the how that will turn out, but that is be- cases where the Court has said to the existing vacancy of an Associate Jus- cause this is based not on the person- Obama administration: You have sim- tice of the U.S. Supreme Court. During ality of the nominee but on the prin- ply overextended your reach beyond le- our meeting, we discussed the role of ciple that the American people should gitimate boundaries. the Supreme Court and protecting the have their voice heard. I am thankful for that important civil rights of Americans. We discussed As I said, the President has the au- a number of national security chal- counterbalance in our government and thority to nominate anybody he choos- lenges, including those relating to the the give-and-take that the Founding es, but that doesn’t change our respon- detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Fathers intended for us to have with sibility or our authority under that We discussed the Citizens United case three coequal branches of government. same Constitution. We remain com- and campaign finance law. We talked But, as I said, the next Supreme Court mitted to the idea that this vacancy about the respect for each branch of Justice could well change the ideolog- should be filled by the next President. ical direction of the Court for a genera- I want to be clear that the American government and our constitutional sys- tion. people do deserve a voice here, and we tem of checks and balances. We spoke Rightly or wrongly, the Supreme will make sure they are heard. In the about the important role of precedent Court has the final word on issues as meantime, as I started out saying, in our judicial decisions and the need varied as the scope of the President’s there are a lot of things we can do to build consensus on decisions. We dis- power, the ability of the States to working together. Just because we dis- cussed the value of promoting pro bono make their own decisions about self- agree about this one item doesn’t mean work in the legal profession and the government, and questions of personal we have to disagree about everything need to address the growing access-to- liberty and the like. The Court can and or that Congress needs to lapse into justice gap. I was pleased to hear that has made all the difference in the dysfunction. as an attorney at the Justice Depart- world, and one Justice can affect that We currently have a bill pending be- ment, Chief Justice Garland worked to for a long time. fore us involving the Federal Aviation clarify ethics rules to allow govern- We recall Justice Scalia as somebody Administration and the very important ment lawyers to engage in additional who believed that the words of the Con- topic of safe and secure air travel. We pro bono work. stitution mattered greatly, and he can disagree about how to proceed with What I was doing is what I hope served on the Court for 30 years. Jus- the President’s nominee to the Su- every Member in the Senate will do, tice Scalia was what was sometimes preme Court and still work together to and that is finding out more about called an originalist. In other words, he pass other good consensus legislation. Judge Garland, his judicial philosophy, believed the Court had an obligation to So I hope all of us, our colleagues the way he has conducted his life, his apply the Constitution and the law as across the aisle and on this side of the respect for the Constitution and the written, not based on some substituted aisle, will continue to work together to precedents of the judicial branch of value judgment for what perhaps the do things I think would help the coun- government, looking at current issues unelected, lifetime-tenured judges try a lot, things such as criminal jus- and seeing how Judge Garland views would have preferred in terms of pol- tice reform—a bill that has been voted those current issues. That is all part of icy. That is not their role. They don’t out of the Judiciary Committee, that a confirmation process. stand for election. It is our role as the enjoys broad bipartisan support, and The President, under the Constitu- policymakers in the political branches that the President of the United States tion, has done his job; that is, he has who do stand for election—and thus has said he supports. made the nomination of who he be- give the American people a chance to There is also other important legisla- lieves should fill Justice Scalia’s va- voice their pleasure or displeasure, as tion that I am very concerned about cancy. It is now up to the Senate to do

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While I what he has done as a lawyer, what he clusion. The President did his job, and might have picked different judges, as has done as a prosecutor, and what he it is now time for the Senate to do its a Senator, I voted to confirm the vast has done as a judge on the circuit job. majority of President Bush’s judicial court. We also should have a confirma- The American people want to see nominations in his final year in office. tion hearing in the Judiciary Com- nine Justices on the Supreme Court I will continue to carry out my con- mittee, which will give us more infor- when it convenes its new term in Octo- stitutional responsibilities that I un- mation. ber. We have a new term beginning in dertook when I became a Senator and Under the Constitution, the responsi- October of this year. We expect to see swore to support the Constitution. bility of the President is to make the nine Justices on the Court to make de- Let me remind my colleagues that a nomination. It is now up to the Senate cisions. You don’t resolve issues on a 4- democratically controlled Senate con- to do our job, and our job is to consider to-4 vote. We hopefully will have great- firmed Justice Kennedy to the Su- that nominee, for each Senator to er consensus. We shouldn’t have a di- preme Court during the last year of learn as much as they possibly can— vided Court. We should be able to get President Ronald Reagan’s final term this is a critically important position, more collegiality on the Supreme in 1988. Senators also confirmed Jus- obviously, the Supreme Court of the Court, but we also should be able to tice Murphy in 1940, Justice Cardozo in United States—and for the institution make a decision. The Supreme Court 1932, and Justice Brandeis in 1916. The to hold hearings and to vote. Each Sen- needs to be able to make a decision. precedent of the Senate indicates that ator will have to make his or her own With eight Justices, in too many cases we need to take up this nominee. judgment on whether we should vote they are not going to be able to make What the Republicans are effectively for or against confirmation, but we a decision. trying to do is temporarily shrink the have a responsibility to consider that Article II, section 2, of the Constitu- Supreme Court from nine to eight Jus- nomination and a responsibility to tion states that the President ‘‘shall tices and shorten the term of the Presi- vote. nominate, and by and with the Advice dent from 4 years to 3 years. Why? Be- I must say that I was very impressed and Consent of the Senate, shall ap- cause the President is of a different by the nominee during the course of point . . . Judges of the supreme party than the Senate. This is dis- our meeting. He has impeccable quali- Court.’’ The President has no alter- graceful and indefensible. fications as a prosecutor, judge, and native under the Constitution but to Let me quote Justice Sandra Day now chief judge of what many call the make a nomination when there is a va- O’Connor, who was appointed by Presi- second highest court in the land. The cancy. There is a vacancy on the Su- dent Ronald Reagan in 1981 as the first Senate confirmed Judge Garland on a preme Court due to Justice Scalia’s un- female Justice of the Supreme Court. bipartisan basis for his current judge- timely death. The President did his When asked about the vacancy on the ship, which he has held for nearly two job. The Constitution says very clearly Court created by the death of Justice decades. Chief Judge Garland strikes that we—the Senate—have to advise Scalia, Justice O’Connor said, ‘‘We me as a thoughtful and deliberate per- and consent. That is our requirement. need somebody there now to do the job, son who has dedicated his life to public That is not optional; we have that as a and let’s get on with it.’’ I agree with service. And I am proud to say that the requirement. Never have we denied an Justice O’Connor. Let’s do our job and nominee is a Marylander and lives in opportunity to consider a Supreme fulfill the Senate’s constitutional re- Bethesda in Montgomery County, MD. Court nominee. It is now up to us to sponsibilities and vote up or down on Chief Judge Garland is the nominee consider that nominee, and we should Judge Garland’s nomination. for the Supreme Court and should be consider that nominee by doing our Mr. President, I suggest the absence dealt with in this term of Congress. It job—interviewing Judge Garland, of a quorum. is not a matter for the next President scheduling a committee hearing, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and the next Congress; it is a matter voting on that nominee. clerk will call the roll. for this President and this Congress. The American people twice elected The bill clerk proceeded to call the There are 9 months left in this year, President Obama to a 4-year term in roll. Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask and to suggest that we don’t have the office. Their voice has been heard very unanimous consent that the order for time and the President doesn’t have clearly. Elections have consequences, and President Obama has carried out the quorum call be rescinded. the authority to appoint a nominee is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the constitutional responsibilities and outrageous, and it is an affront to the objection, it is so ordered. Constitution. duties of his office by nominating This nomination is not about popu- Judge Garland as the successor to Jus- f larity or politics; it is about finding tice Scalia. The President is simply RECESS the next Justice who will advance the doing the job the American people Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask rule of law in this country, who will elected him to do. The President unanimous consent that the Senate recognize the responsibility of the Su- doesn’t stop working simply because it stand in recess as under the previous preme Court to be the final arbiter on is an election year. He has more than 9 order. constitutional issues, and having a per- months left in office, as do Senators There being no objection, the Senate, son who can bring about greater con- who will face the voters in November. at 12:25 p.m., recessed until 2:15 p.m. sensus among his colleagues. As more Congress should not stop working, ei- and reassembled when called to order of my colleagues meet Judge Garland, ther, in this election year. by the Presiding Officer (Mr. they will see that this is one of his Of course, every Senator has the PORTMAN). right to make his or her own judgment many strengths. We need to go through f the process and give Chief Judge Gar- on whether they will vote for or land a chance. against confirmation. Senators were AMERICA’S SMALL BUSINESS TAX I think it is hard to understand how elected for 6-year terms by the citizens RELIEF ACT OF 2015—MOTION TO you are excused from doing your job of their States and have the right and PROCEED—Continued for 9 months by not having a confirma- obligation to vote as they see fit. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tion hearing or vote. I don’t think the President Obama was elected by the ator from Rhode Island. American people understand that. people of the United States for two Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I Quite frankly, I don’t understand that. 4-year terms and has the right and ob- ask unanimous consent to speak for up I don’t understand why we are not ligation to nominate judges. to 20 minutes as in morning business.

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Of course, CO2 levels continue to Now, someone’s favorable fat cat tax tle thing and three really big things exceed 400 parts per million against a rate, that is important. Jerking around happened. The little thing has to do human history where they were always a perfectly qualified Supreme Court with the so-called war on coal which between 170 and 300 until the industrial nominee, that is definitely important, we have heard so much nonsense about era drove it up. but the greatest crisis facing the nat- in this Chamber. There was this arti- So that is not great news, but here is ural world as we know it, no. And we cle, which I am showing on this chart, what is sickening about it. We don’t go along. We go along with that warped saying: ‘‘Natural gas has been waging a seem to care here. It has all been in the value system. It is a lie. It is a moral war on coal for more than a decade, news. Senators read the news. It is not lie so big it envelopes us, and we accli- and this is the year it plants the flag.’’ like we are being deprived of informa- mate to it. All that money around us Natural gas has been waging a war on tion. We just as an institution do not slowly anesthetizes our moral and nat- coal. Not Obama. Not liberals. Natural care. That is a defect. That makes us a ural senses, and that is how this place gas. defective institution, not to be able to becomes Mammon Hall. The article predicts a resulting receive and process information like It is actually even worse than that. It ‘‘wave’’ of coal plant retirements. Who this. This is institutional failure, and is not just that if you can’t cash it in, wrote this? Some green, lefty publica- we don’t even care about that because it doesn’t matter around here. It is tion? Actually, it was the Wall Street one might say: You know, I don’t real- that big, greedy special interests come Journal news department. ly care myself about all of this damage, here to plunder, and we let them. We So as coal companies go bankrupt but as a Member of this body, I get let them, and we even help them be- left and right, there is the coal story. that the U.S. Senate ought to care in- cause we become dependent on their Natural gas has been waging war on stitutionally. It is like secondary car- money. coal for more than a decade. Spinning ing. I will do my duty. Even if I person- Well, I have a proposition. Years ago, this against the President has been ally don’t care about oceans or reefs or one of the Koch brothers, America’s easy politics, but false, and that false coasts or storms, I am in. I am in, even biggest polluters, ran for Vice Presi- political strategy has left coal country though it is not my thing, because I dent as a Libertarian Party candidate. with what? Nothing. A carbon fee could know it is important. But we don’t When he ran, he learned something. He produce revenues that could power even do that. So we really don’t care. learned the perverse math of third par- wealth into coal country, but, no, what Why? Why would we be so blind? We ties in a two-party system. The per- they got instead was someone to are not all terrible people. Some of us verse math of third parties in a two- blame—someone to blame wrongly. actually spend time outdoors and pro- party system is that you only hurt the Great job. fess to care about nature. So why does ones you love. You hurt the party you Now to the three big things that hap- the Senate, as a body collectively, not are closest to by your third party tak- pened during our recess. First, a group give a hoot? It is a deadly combination ing votes away from the party closest of very distinguished scientists, led by of politics and money. That is what in- to your politics. Well, the Kochs may legendary climate scientist Dr. James vestigation and history will show, and be a lot of things, but they aren’t stu- Hansen, warned us that this climate the investigations are underway. The pid, and I think they learned. They change thing is likely to be a lot worse history will not be pretty. learned that a creepy far-right third than we thought. Their sweeping syn- We are surrounded by money. Sen- party that could be put in tow to big thesis, which underwent an involved ators exist in a world of money the way polluters was not the right method to and public peer-review process, sug- fish exist in a world of water. We are so achieve their purposes. gests the possibility of greater sea accustomed to it, we barely even notice There was a smarter method. Invade level rise in this century than forecast. it. Hundreds of millions of dollars the Republican Party, that Grand Old It suggests, worse, even epic storms, every year in lobbying money surround Party of Theodore Roosevelt, capture and it posits ‘‘losing functionality of us. Hundreds of millions of dollars in it, turn it into the far-right party of all coastal cities.’’ How about that for campaign money every election have their dreams. That was the smart play. a phrase? They go on to conclude, obvi- to be raised. Hundreds of millions in Money and secrecy could make it hap- ously, that ‘‘the economic and social PAC money pours in and exerts its in- pen, and they are pretty close to hav- cost of losing functionality of all fluence, and we don’t even know how ing done it. The Republican Party in coastal cities is practically incalcu- much dark money there is flowing Congress is as dependent on fossil fuel lable.’’ around through loopholes the size of and polluter money now as a deep sea That was one. the Holland Tunnel. Just one—one— diver is on his air hose. Cut the airhose Second is the Great Barrier Reef, a dark money group is spending $750 mil- or pinch the flow, and we have a diver wonder of the world, hit by the worst lion in the 2016 elections. It is a dis- in real distress. When you control a coral bleaching ever measured. For grace, but it has an effect. deep sea diver’s airhose, he becomes a those of my colleagues who don’t The interests that spend hundreds of pretty obedient diver. It is a form of know, uplanders who may not under- millions of dollars lobbying us want the Golden Rule: He who wields the stand what coral bleaching is, it is like things. The interests who give hun- gold makes the rules. cardiac arrest for coral. You are not dreds of millions of dollars in campaign The political press, by the way, does necessarily dead yet, but there is a money want things. The PACs and the little to help. It is a game to them. very good chance you will be, and for super PACs pointing $750 million in po- Who will say something appalling we sure you are in serious trouble and you litical artillery at us, they want can chatter about on the talk shows? will need time to recover. That is what things. Some want ideological things, Who is up? Who is down? Who said is happening in the Great Barrier Reef. but most want money. More exactly, what about whom? It is akin to a soc- The third thing is a new study out of they want things we can do that can be cer team of 7-year-olds. Most every- UMass and Penn State which found turned into money: licenses, tax body runs to the ball or whatever the that the expected loss of Antarctic ice breaks, trade advantages, regulations, shiny object of the moment is, and in ‘‘nearly doubles’’ prior estimates of sea relief from regulations. You name it, the midst of them are outfits that mas- level rise. they want it because they can turn it querade as the political press, but they I am from an ocean State. I am from into money. are really polluter PR fronts in dis- Rhode Island, the Ocean State. This is All of that has a desensitizing effect guise. They, too, are in tow to the fos- consequential. How consequential? on our values here. If something can’t sil fuel industry. Money and secrecy Here is what one of the authors of the be monetized, we get trained not to have their way.

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American democratic experiment. $1 trillion in new taxes on American Well, when companies can’t get Well, folks, people are going to no- families, 2 million jobs’ worth of hours enough extra money, they just stop of- tice. This climate mess we have cre- lost, and skyrocketing premiums and fering policies. Under ObamaCare that ated is only going in one direction. deductibles. It is no surprise that the may happen. Then more people will When everybody has noticed, when it is health care law continues to be very lose their insurance coverage. Maybe way past denying, elected officials who unpopular. some companies will just go out of refused to even look at the problem are Americans know that under the business. We are familiar with that going to look pretty foolish, and they health care law they have less freedom process because we have seen it. We are going to have to explain. to keep their doctor, to keep the insur- have seen that under the ObamaCare Well, you see, I thought there was ance that was right for them and their health care law, a majority of the this big hoax. families, because the President says he ObamaCare health insurance co-ops Really. gets to decide what somebody needs for have actually gone bankrupt. The Yes, I thought NASA’s scientists and themselves and their families—not the health care law created 23 co-ops, and NOAA’s scientists were all in on it, families getting to decide for them- 12 have already gone out of business. along with the U.S. Navy and every Na- selves. Premiums were already out of con- tional Lab we fund. We know that—again, it came out trol, and it is getting worse. The aver- Hum. That is a big hoax. during the break—people’s personal age premium for what is called the Oh, did I forget to mention my home data is not secure at healthcare.gov, as benchmark silver plan in the State university must have been in on they thought it was. We know insur- ObamaCare exchange is more than 7 the hoax too? They were all studying ance companies are continuing to give percent higher this year than last year. climate change effects actually hap- patients fewer choices by limiting the For people who can only afford the pening in my home State, but I knew networks of doctors that people can cheaper bronze plan, premiums are up better. see. The health care law has added over 13 percent compared to last year. Over Great. $1 trillion in new taxes onto hard- the next couple of months, insurance And every major legitimate Amer- working American families. Premiums companies are going to start setting ican scientific society and most of my and deductibles are up, and according their rates for 2017. They are going to home State corporate leaders—I fig- to the Congressional Budget Office, take into account what has happened ured they were all wrong. ObamaCare is cutting the hours Ameri- in the previous year. So this new study Oh, OK, and where did you get that cans can work by about 2 million jobs by Blue Cross Blue Shield is just laying idea? over the next decade. So it seems that the groundwork for even more price in- Oh, from a bunch of guys with finan- every day there is more news coming creases to come next year. I think this cial ties to the polluters. out on how the health care law is is one of the things that explains why Come on—seriously? Didn’t you unaffordable, unpopular, and unwork- so many people dislike ObamaCare. think that was a pretty obvious con- able. A new poll came out that found that flict of interest? Last week there was a new study 47 percent of Americans have an unfa- Wow, is that something I should have that explains one of the reasons why vorable view of the health care law. thought of? But listen. Now I want you the President’s health care law is col- The Kaiser Family Foundation report to reelect me because I am such a good, lapsing. There was a study that came shows Americans’ opinion of prudent, and responsible decision- out from Blue Cross Blue Shield. It ObamaCare is tilting negative—47 per- maker. compared people buying new health in- cent marked it unpopular in March of Folks, good luck with that. If you surance coverage in the ObamaCare ex- 2016. A year ago this poll said that 42 think the Republican Party is in trou- changes to people who already had percent of the people had an unfavor- ble now, wait until the day of reck- health insurance through their jobs. able view. There we were a year ago. oning comes on climate change. Ex- The study found that the new Here we are now. The number keeps plain the money. Explain the money. ObamaCare customers went to the doc- climbing. Now only 41 percent of the You don’t think people are going to fig- tor 26 percent more often than other people have a favorable view of the ure out how it works? Explain the talk people did, that they were admitted to health care law. It wasn’t supposed to show science you believe instead of the the hospital almost twice as often, that be this way. peer-reviewed stuff. Explain the qual- ObamaCare customers have higher Mr. President, 6 years ago Democrats ity of your due diligence into the costs, and that the average medical in Washington were very confident science. Good luck with that. spending is about $1,200 a year higher that the law would be extremely pop- Explain why you thought NASA, for people on ObamaCare than people ular today. As a matter of fact, Sen- which is driving a rover around on the who get their insurance through work. ator CHUCK SCHUMER of New York went surface of Mars that they flew there So why is it that hospital admissions on ‘‘Meet the Press’’ back in 2010 and and safely landed—that is probably the are up so much for people who are on said: ‘‘It is going to become more pop- greatest scientific and mechanical ObamaCare, and why is it that doctors’ ular.’’ He said: ‘‘I predict that by No- achievement of our time. They did visits are up 26 percent? Because the vember those who voted for the health that, but you say they were part of a new ObamaCare enrollees are sicker care law will find it an asset.’’ hoax on climate change. Really? and costlier. So insurance companies of Well, we all remember what hap- By the way, I think people here actu- course have to raise their premiums. pened in the 2010 elections. We know ally owe NASA an apology for saying People are sicker who are signing up. that Democrats who voted for the such nonsense about them, but that is They go to the doctor more. The insur- health care law did not find it an asset. for another day. ance company turns around, and it Democrats lost six seats in the Senate I yield the floor. raises premiums on everyone else. That that year, and they lost control of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- is why so many people are opposed to House of Representatives. NANCY ator from Wyoming. the health care law—because the im- PELOSI was out as Speaker of the OBAMACARE pact it has had on them personally. House, and the Republicans took the Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, a When insurance companies have to majority. couple of weeks ago was the sixth anni- raise their rates on ObamaCare plans, a Then in 2013, Senator HARRY REID versary of President Obama’s unpopu- lot of money is paid by taxpayers be- was making this same prediction about lar health care law. Every year at this cause it is the taxpayers who are pay- how popular the health care law was time, that birthday is not one people ing for the subsidies for all the folks going to be. He told the newspaper The

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Some people collected these in the Senate. Why? I think in big part that for every dollar spent on Med- subsidies; these fraudulent subsidies because of the health care law and the icaid, people only get about 20 to 40 went somewhere. These were just fact that it ignored the needs of the cents on every dollar spent. How is made-up names. When we look at 11 American people. that for an inefficient government sys- out of 12, we have to say something is The longer people have to live with tem? Almost every day we get more in- wrong with the system. And if we ex- this offensive and expensive law, the formation on the damage the health trapolated that out, there could be a less popular it gets. care law is doing to Americans across stunning number of fraudulent applica- It was never popular to begin with, the country. tions certified and subsidies sent to but today, even more than before, the Republicans have offered solutions people that don’t exist. opinion is, as this poster says, ‘‘tilting that would actually keep the promises Today I want to discuss even more negative.’’ the Democrats made for ObamaCare, ObamaCare problems. This one totals The same poll also found something I such as letting people keep their doc- up to $1.16 billion worth of problems. found amazing. I have practiced medi- tors and keep their insurance, giving We all know that the Affordable Care cine for 25 years, and I have been in- more people options for how they can Act—which I call the Unaffordable volved here in the Senate for a number reduce their costs of medical care. Care Act, based on its operations so of years. I have never seen anything Americans have now been forced to try far—directed States to either develop like this. This new poll found that 28 this ObamaCare experiment—what the their own State-based exchange to op- percent of Americans say that this Democrats wanted—and forced to do it erate ObamaCare or to use the Federal health care law has directly hurt them for the last 6 years. ObamaCare isn’t exchange accessible at healthcare.gov. and their families. getting any better. It is just getting States had a choice about the action to The President says: Defend and be older, and it is still making things take. But in order to try to get States proud of this law. worse for American families. That is to set up their own exchanges, the How can you defend and be proud of why it is so unpopular. Obama Administration awarded bil- something that 28 percent of the Amer- Thank you, Mr. President. lions of dollars in Federal grants to ican public tells you has hurt them and I yield the floor. States if they agreed to plan and de- their family personally? Only 18 per- I suggest the absence of a quorum. velop a State exchange. cent in the poll said the law had di- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. In 6 of the 14 States that chose to de- rectly helped them. It is incredible and LANKFORD). The clerk will call the roll. velop their own exchanges and receive it is disturbing. ObamaCare is hurting The legislative clerk proceeded to these Federal grants—Maryland, Ha- far more people than it is helping. call the roll. waii, Massachusetts, Oregon, New Mex- Costs are going up much faster than Mr. COATS. Mr. President, I ask ico, and Nevada—the end results were Democrats promised, as are copays and unanimous consent that the order for disastrous. In fact, the GAO found that deductibles. It is no wonder the law is the quorum call be rescinded. these State exchanges were given the unpopular. We know the health care The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without green light without the systems ever law makes it more expensive for tax- objection, it is so ordered. being fully tested. For example, Mary- payers—but how much more expensive? WASTEFUL SPENDING land’s exchange Web site had more The Congressional Budget Office Mr. COATS. Mr. President, today than 600 unresolved defects, and Massa- came out with a report last week. It marks my 38th edition of ‘‘Waste of the chusetts had over 1100 unresolved de- said that over the next 10 years the Week.’’ With our Nation $19 trillion in fects. health care law is going to cost $136 debt, I am going to continue coming to And yet the exchanges were given the billion more than they thought it the Senate floor every week the Senate go-ahead by the Obama Administration would cost just a year ago. When they is in session to highlight verified and even though these unresolved defects compared what they thought it was documented examples of waste, fraud, were not realized and not addressed. going to cost a year ago and what they and abuse. In Oregon, a State exchange was set think it is going to cost now, it is $136 I turn to reports from nonpartisan up by political operatives. Months billion more. That is despite there organizations such as the Government after the enrollment period began, the being fewer people in the insurance ex- Accountability Office which indicate online Oregon exchange couldn’t enroll changes than they expected. They pre- that, thankfully, somebody is looking a single person, and applicants had to dicted there would be 21 million people into how we run this government, com- fax in their handwritten materials. buying ObamaCare health insurance ing up with examples of how we can Talk about a dysfunctional rollout. On this year. In fact, they say it is going run it better. They let the American this Senate floor we have talked about to be no more than 12 million. people know that we are not wisely and how, in the rush to prove that People are doing everything they can carefully spending their taxpayer dol- ObamaCare was what this country to avoid these insurance policies—espe- lars, and, hopefully, we can take reme- needed and that the government could cially young, healthy people. So why is dial action. efficiently and effectively run a health it going to cost an extra $136 billion? Last year, I detailed an investigation care system and in a rush to prove and One of the reasons is higher premiums, by the nonpartisan Government Ac- get the thing up and going according to sicker patients, and because the law countability Office, the GAO, which what the promises were, all kinds of has dumped so many more people into discovered that fraudulent applications mistakes were made. Medicaid. About 23 percent of the peo- are being accepted by healthcare.gov. Oregon’s abysmal failure cost tax- ple in the country under the age of 65 That is the government’s health care payers $305 million plus an additional are now on Medicaid. That is what the Web site for choosing ObamaCare plans $41 million that had to be spent to Congressional Budget Office says—one on the Federal exchange. bring Oregon onto the Federal ex- out of every four. Just last month, I discussed a new re- change. In other words, they failed to Is that a success—putting all these port from the GAO that outlined how set up their State exchange and cost additional people on Medicaid? The healthcare.gov allowed people to sign taxpayers $305 million. Then they had President says it is. up for and receive ObamaCare benefits to spend another $41 million to transfer As a doctor who has practiced medi- without proper verification. They did a the system over to the Federal ex- cine and taken care of patients for over test. They made up some names, they change. All totaled, the Federal gov- 25 years, putting additional people on filled out the application, they sent it ernment gave these six States $1.16 bil- Medicaid is not a success. It is not in to healthcare.gov, and 11 out of the lion, and today none of these six States

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He came up with an option to ob- words, the warning went out, saying: Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- tain a loan from the Governor and the You are not getting your act together. mous consent that the order for the legislature. Without it, there would This was a year before the process quorum call be rescinded. have been severe cuts, furloughs, and started. We went through that whole The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without much more. He received a great recep- year and they still didn’t have their objection, it is so ordered. tion when he shared the details of the act together, and it ended up costing TRIBUTE TO J. THOMAS MCGRADY problem with those who would be most taxpayers $1.16 billion. Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, my wife affected—the judges and their staff. It is no secret that the Obama Ad- Diana and I wish we could have been They appreciated his blunt assessment ministration was in a rush to get this with Tom McGrady to mark the retire- of how bad things were, as Tom put it, system up and going, and in the proc- ment of a good friend and a great legal ‘‘not because of what I had to say, but ess, who knows how much money has warrior, Pinellas-Pasco Chief Judge J. because I would even come and tell been wasted? Who knows the trauma Thomas McGrady. I am proud of Tom them.’’ that people have gone through trying and his commitment to the law. Over Tom is a straight shooter, and he to sign up for these exchanges? the years he has compiled a tremen- knew that the best antidote for the im- I think we all remember the classic dous record of success. Simply put, he pact of bad news was not to sugar coat debacle that occurred in the whole has made a difference. it but to tell ‘‘the truth, the whole software system and in the whole ex- It is probably unusual for a Senator truth, and nothing but the truth.’’ It change system. People were calling in, from Wyoming to speak so highly of a also helped that Tom had established a they couldn’t get anybody to answer retiring judge from Florida. Over the reputation over the years for being a the phone, and they couldn’t get their years, I have had a chance to come to gentle man and a gentleman, and his applications fulfilled. All those prom- know Tom. I feel honored to call him honesty, sincerity, good humor, and ises, you know: Your premiums will my friend, and, as often has been said, concern for his colleagues and staffers not go up a penny. Count on that, the his departure from the bench will leave earned him a lot of good will. President said, period. Done deal. Take some large shoes to fill. Now that Tom has decided to retire it to the bank. If you want your doctor, Looking back, the script for Tom’s and sit back, he will have more time to you can keep your doctor. Take it to life would have made a great movie. share with his family and friends. I the bank. I guarantee you that is what For starters, he was born on Christmas know they will enjoy being with him is going to happen. Costs will not go Eve. He turned out to be his parents’ and having more time to share with up. favorite Christmas gift. As he grew up him, especially his grandchildren, who We have all seen deductibles shoot and began to explore the world around will love having ‘‘Papa’’ around a little up. We have all seen premiums in- him and develop his talents and abili- more often. crease. People weren’t able to keep the ties, his educational pursuits led him In the end, that is what it is all doctor they wanted. On and on it goes, to another highlight of his life—high about—time. Time for faith, family, and on and on it continues, and it is at school—where he met and went on to and friends. Time is the most valuable the expense of the American taxpayer. marry his high school sweetheart, and precious asset we have, and how we Well, maybe it is not surprising. I am Mary Choquette. choose to spend it and the quality of here every week, and I probably could His interest in the law must have those activities that consume most of come up here every day and maybe started around then because after grad- our time say a lot about the quality of every hour and detail some waste of uating from the University of Florida our lives. the taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars. with his bachelor’s degree, he then got I once heard about a guy who trav- So today we are going to add more his juris doctorate degree there, and eled around the world doing research money to our growing list of waste, then joined a law firm and started on what people were thinking as they fraud, and abuse, taking us to practicing civil litigation. Before long grew older. There were a lot of inter- $158,777,908,417. It just keeps adding up, he opened his own law firm. esting thoughts they shared, but one of and our colleagues have not taken the He practiced law for 25 years. He was the most frequent comments was about necessary action to try to tie the deal so good that Governor Bush appointed spending more time with family. No to these problems. him county judge. He was then ap- one said: I wish I had spent more time Maybe government has become so pointed a circuit judge, again by Gov- at work. overwhelmingly bureaucratic and dys- ernor Bush. Whenever Tom ran for re- So, as the old film title says so well, functional that we are not able to run election, he won—without opposition. Tom has already had a wonderful life, this country anymore in an efficient People admired him and greatly appre- with so much more to come. He has and effective manner. The problem is ciated his efforts on the bench so much made the most of every moment and that we are asking people to go to that no one ran against him. every day. Mary, his sweetheart from work every day to put in a hard-earned Perhaps the best indication of his his high school days, is still by his side, number of hours earning pay and send- ability as a judge and the affection of retired from her days as a school- ing money to Washington, DC, only to those with whom he served was his teacher. Now they will spend time en- find that it is wasted over and over and unanimous election by 68 of his judge joying all that life has to offer. Tom over. It is a relentless plunge into ever colleagues to chief judge 3 times. and Mary both truly earned it. more debt because we don’t have the During Tom’s service as chief judge, Congratulations, Tom McGrady. You money to pay for what we spend. Then he discovered that with his election have been a great judge, and you made we have to issue bonds in order to col- came a number of problems—Tom a difference in more lives than you will lect money, in order to pay for that. probably called them challenges—that ever know. We can all learn a lot from All of this falls to the taxpayer, and came packaged together with his new you and the way you have lived your most of it is going to fall to future gen- duties. He had to deal with cuts to the life. God bless you and Mary. erations. They are going to have a court budget. He had to deal with a REMEMBERING JOSEPH MEDICINE CROW limit on their ability to have the op- mortgage foreclosure crisis. He had to Mr. President, I rise to share the portunity to make a viable living for deal with a number of other issues. He news with the Senate that Joseph Med- themselves and for their children, and was also working with a system that icine Crow, a Crow war chief and Amer- we wonder why the American people relied on old and outdated tech- ican hero, has passed away. If you look have lost faith in Washington’s ability nologies, to name just a few of the in today’s Washington Post you will

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My mother would then chap- last night I think we witnessed one of he has received, as numerous publica- erone the winner to events during the the greatest college basketball games tions have written about him and his year. ever. life and his countless contributions to Joe Medicine Crow had a great affec- I know that is saying an awful lot. the Crow people and to our Nation. tion for Wyoming and a love of our There have been a lot of college bas- If you have a chance to read the trib- land that was never surpassed. In addi- ketball games, but the game was unbe- utes to Joe Medicine Crow—and I hope tion to the Crow, Joe Medicine Crow lievable. We had two fantastic teams, you do—you will fully understand what was well known to the Wyoming extremely well matched, extremely an amazing individual he was. A histo- Arapahos and Shoshones. In so many talented, very well coached on both rian for his people and an important ways, Joe Medicine Crow was an am- teams, and they just played phenome- part of American life, he accomplished bassador for his tribe and his way of nally. I don’t know how many times more in his life than I could ever de- life. He was an inspiration to us all. the lead changed. I don’t think it ever scribe in these remarks. Joe Medicine Crow referred to his life got more than 10 points away from ei- As I read the articles that were so as living in two worlds. In one, he ther team. It was just so much fun to well researched, they reminded me of worked with the Bureau of Indian Af- watch, all the way through. meeting and getting to know him when fairs for 32 years. Then he returned and I think Jay Wright has proven once he was on the board of All American fit right back into the other and the again what a magnificent coach he is. Indian Days. That was a gathering that culture that surrounded him. It didn’t The kids who played demonstrated just would draw tribal members from all bother him that his life was divided amazing teamwork and talent, and all over the United States to Sheridan, into two worlds. In fact, he said he en- of the attributes we want to see in col- WY. They would come to share their joyed them both. lege athletics we saw on display last history, their culture, their traditions, The tributes to him and the way he night. their sports, their dances, and their lived his life have already started com- I can’t say enough about the Univer- arts and crafts. I know that gathering ing in from those who knew him, his sity of North Carolina. What a great meant a lot to him because one of his family, and his friends. He was a mili- team they are. They played with so top priorities in his life was to ensure tary hero, having served in the Army much heart and they played so well. I that the legacy of the Crow and all in World War II. He was not only a stu- think we are going to watch the end of tribes would never be forgotten and dent of history, he was a historian who that game—the final 5 seconds of that that their way of life would be passed helped to preserve the stories and the game—for a long time to come. down from generation to generation. culture of the Crow. He also had a I will say when Marcus Paige took In an effort to bring us all together great respect for all the traditions of that shot, it looked to me like he was as one and overcome the racial divides his people. 20 feet behind the three-point line. He that separate us, a man named F.H. I will always find a sense of pride and had almost been knocked over. He was Sinclair—a columnist for the Sheridan inspiration in the words he used to de- airborne in a very odd and awkward po- Press who was known by his nickname scribe Wyoming. He said that although sition because he had just dodged an- of ‘‘Neckyoke Jones’’—came up with sage can be found in so many places in other player. He got the shot off, and the idea of gathering all the tribes to- the West, the most sacred sage had to somehow it dropped. They tied the gether in Sheridan, WY, to dem- be collected on the tribal lands in Wyo- game, and there were 4.7 seconds left. onstrate these talents and abilities. I ming. At that point, I thought: Well, I am in grew up there, and I was fascinated by Joe Medicine Crow was given 102 for a late night because this is going to the event. As you can imagine, it took years of life, and he made the most of be the first of overtimes since it is tied a substantial amount of money to or- every day. He has a record of which we with only 4.7 seconds left, but that was ganize and plan the event each year, can be very proud. That is why I hope not the way it ended, as we know. The but it paid big dividends for those who you will seek out the stories about him Wildcats had a plan and they executed were able to attend and all those who that made him such an important part it brilliantly with a great play to move heard about it. It was a source of great of our history. the ball up the court quickly, to get it pride for us all to have this time when In 2009 President Barack Obama pre- to Kris Jenkins, who put up a long we would come together and celebrate sented him with the highest honor three-point shot, and released it just the culture of the tribes and the indi- awarded to a civilian, the Presidential before the buzzer went off. The buzzer viduals who were so near to us. It pro- Medal of Freedom. I know it must have went off while the ball was sailing vided the kind of exposure and inter- meant a great deal to him to be so rec- through the air, sunk the basket, and action that is so necessary to bring ognized—not for himself but for what won the game with no time left. It was people together and overcome preju- he knew it would mean to current and the most dramatic and exciting finish dice and bias. I could see the difference future generations. to a basketball game that I can recall. the gathering made and the impact it Now he has passed on from this life I want to take this moment to con- had on those who attended. and left behind more accomplishments gratulate the Villanova Wildcats on an Events like that and the opportunity and achievements than we could pos- outstanding season, tournament, and they provide help us to get to know sibly imagine. His life was like that— game last night. Congratulations to people who come from different cul- 102 years of making a difference every our new national champions. tures and backgrounds and help us to day, a difference that will always be re- Mr. President, now let me turn my understand and appreciate each other. membered and never be forgotten. attention to the amendment I alluded They remove the boundaries that are Mr. President, I yield the floor. to; that is, an amendment to the FAA created by fear and a lack of under- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- reauthorization bill. Senator CASEY standing. They foster and increase the ator from Pennsylvania. and I are going to offer as an amend- feeling of community that makes our CONGRATULATING THE VILLANOVA WILDCATS ON ment the legislation we have intro- cities and towns better places to live. WINNING THE 2016 NCAA MEN’S COLLEGE BAS- duced as a freestanding bill, and that is I remember how Joe served on that KETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP the Saracini Aviation Safety Act of board and helped with the Miss Indian Mr. TOOMEY. Mr. President, I intend 2016. I thank Senator CASEY for the American Pageant that was part of All to address an amendment to the FAA very good work he has done on this American Indian Days. It was a com- authorization bill that Senator CASEY issue for some time. petition of young women who were cho- and I are offering. But before I do that, Let me give a little bit of background sen by their tribes based on their I wish to take a quick moment to cele- on the amendment, which is based on

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He was the captain of serve whether the captain went to the lava- times with the conservatives and some- United Flight 175 which, as my col- tory during the flight and to note whether times with the liberals. leagues will recall, was one of the the flight attendants brought food into the All of the liberals were appointed by planes that was captured by terrorists cockpit. Democrats, the conservatives and on 9/11. The fact is, Captain Saracini I continue to quote: swing Justices were appointed by a Re- was murdered by the terrorists when The best time to storm the cockpit would publican President, but in a speech they stormed the cockpit, took control be about 10 to 15 minutes after takeoff when shortly before Justice Scalia’s death, of the plane, killed Victor Saracini, the cockpit doors typically were opened for Chief Justice Roberts maintained that the first time. and then flew the plane into the World Furthermore— the public wrongly thinks Justices Trade Center. view themselves as Republicans or as States the 9/11 Commission report— Victor Saracini left behind his wife Democrats. Of course, it is irrelevant Ellen, who is with us today in the Sen- they had no firm contingency plans— to the public how the Justices view ate. She has been a very forceful and ‘‘They’’ being the terrorists— themselves. What is troubling is that a effective advocate for greater safety on in case the cockpit door was locked. They large segment of the population views board our commercial planes. Victor were confident the cockpit doors would be the Justices as political. also left behind two daughters, Kirsten opened and did not consider breaking them It is appropriate and instructive, down a viable idea. and Brielle. then, to ask why the public takes this The amendment does something very Since then, we have made the doors view and whether that view is war- simple. It requires a secondary barrier even more durable. It would be even ranted. I believe the public’s percep- to the cockpit on commercial aircraft. more difficult to actually break down tion is at least sometimes very war- That is all. That will prevent unau- the door or otherwise open a closed ranted. thorized individuals from getting into door. The problem is when the door is The Chief Justice ruled out that this the cockpit. It is as simple as that. It open. perception has anything to do with This is not just a theoretical risk. is a simple, lightweight, inexpensive what the Justices themselves have Since 9/11, there have been at least 51 technology, readily available. It is ac- done. Instead, he attributes it to the attempts at cockpit breaches world- tually made from a wire mesh, and it Senate confirmation process. As he wide. Five attempts have been success- provides a barrier between the pas- sees it, Senators ‘‘frequently ask us ful. One successful attempt occurred in senger cabin and the cockpit door. It questions they know it would be inap- 2006 on Turkish Airlines Flight 1476. would only be engaged when the cock- propriate for us to answer. Thankfully, Terrorists were successful in entering pit door is open. we don’t answer the questions.’’ the cockpit after a flight attendant So why is this necessary? It is nec- The Chief Justice also stated: essary because it is still entirely pos- opened the door to ask the pilots if sible for terrorists to hijack commer- they needed anything. When you have a sharply divided political So it seems to me unacceptable, divisive hearing process, it increases the cial aircraft. danger that whoever comes out of it will be Back in 2001, after 9/11, Congress took when we have a readily available solu- viewed in those terms. You know, if the a step to make commercial aircraft tion, to continue to take this risk. It is Democrats and Republicans have been fight- cockpits more secure. They mandated just common sense to install secondary ing so fiercely about whether you’re going to the installation of reinforced doors, barriers on commercial planes. These be confirmed, it’s natural for some members and these reinforced doors are much are inexpensive, several thousand dol- of the public to think, well, you must be stronger than the doors that used to lars to install. They are lightweight identified in a particular way as a result of exist. It is very difficult—almost im- and easy to use and very compact when that process. possible—to breach those doors when they are not engaged. The only people On the one hand, the Chief Justice they are closed, but the threat remains who would be inconvenienced by these identified precisely why it would be because on every long flight and on secondary barriers would be terrorists. bad for the Court and the nominee to many short flights the doors are open. Had the secondary barriers, these kinds move forward in the middle of a hotly At some point during the course of the of barriers, been installed on 9/11, it contested Presidential election cam- flight, pilots often get up and they get would have made the job very difficult paign. out of the cockpit. They have to go to for the terrorists to ever get into the As you have heard this Senator say, the restroom or they go to get some cockpit. it would be all politics and no Con- food or a flight attendant goes in to I urge my colleagues to support this stitution. Of course, that was the check on the pilots or to bring them amendment. I think this is a sensible thrust of another Senator a few years something they want. That moment amendment. The substance of this has back—Chairman BIDEN’s argument in when that door is opened, that door is been approved in the House. We ought 1992. But in another respect, the Chief no longer a barrier. Therein lies the to pass it on the Senate floor and pass Justice has it exactly backwards. The danger. There is the moment of oppor- this FAA reauthorization underlying confirmation process doesn’t make the tunity for terrorists. bill. If we do that, in time, our skies Justices appear political. The con- The FAA fully acknowledges the seri- will be that much safer. firmation process has gotten political ous nature of this risk. In April of 2015, I yield the floor. precisely because the Court itself has an FAA advisory said the following: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- drifted from the constitutional text On long flights, as a matter of necessity, ator from Iowa and rendered decisions based instead on crewmembers must open the flight deck door PROPER ROLE OF A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE policy preferences. In short, the Jus- to access lavatory facilities, to transfer Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, a sig- tices themselves have gotten political, meals to flightcrew members, or to switch nificant number of Americans believe and because the Justices’ decisions are crew positions for crew rest purposes. The the Supreme Court is highly politi- often political and transgress their opening and closing of the flight deck door (referred to as ‘‘door transition’’), reduces cized. Its approval rating has fallen constitutional role, the process be- the protective anti-intrusion/anti-penetra- over the years, not surprisingly. Its ap- comes more political. tion benefits of the reinforced door. . . . Dur- proval rating has dropped most dras- In fact, many of my constituents be- ing this door transition, the flight deck is tically in recent years following the lieve, with all due respect, that the vulnerable. President’s appointment of Justices Chief Justice is part of this problem. Of course, it is not only the FAA that Sotomayor and Kagan. They believe that a number of his votes was able to figure this out. The terror- There are four Justices who vote in a have reflected political considerations, ists understand this as well. liberal way in effectively every case not legal ones. Certainly, there are The 9/11 Commission report said this: the public follows. There are two Jus- academics who agree.

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He would be well- sions are based on the Constitution and shall moment for Chief Justice Rob- served to address the reality—not the the law and not on political preferences erts. That is a political temptation perception—that too often there is lit- or what comes from the heart or be- that the Chief Justice should resist. tle difference between the actions of cause of some empathy. I can’t think of anything any current the Court and the actions of the polit- So here is where we are about the Justice could do to further damage re- ical branches. So, Physician, heal thy- public perception of the Court being spect for the Court at this moment self. In case after 5-to-4 case, the Jus- political. When the Justices return to than to interject themselves into what tices who the Democrats appointed their appropriate role of deciding cases Chairman BIDEN called the political vote for liberal policy results. based on the facts and the law, public ‘‘cauldron’’ of an election year Su- This can’t be a coincidence. Demo- perception of the Court will take care preme Court vacancy. cratic Presidents know what they want of itself. In a recent speech, the Chief Justice when they nominate Justices—Justices I yield the floor. said: ‘‘We’re interpreting the law, not who will reach politically liberal re- Madam President, I suggest the ab- imposing our views.’’ sults regardless of what the law re- sence of a quorum. He further stated: ‘‘If people don’t quires. This, of course, is what our cur- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. like the explanation, or don’t think it rent President means when he says AYOTTE). The clerk will call the roll. holds together, you know, then they’re that he wants Justices to look to their The legislative clerk proceeded to justified, I think, in viewing us as hav- ‘‘heart’’ to decide the really hard cases. call the roll. ing transgressed the limits of our That is an unambiguous invitation for Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, role.’’ Justices to decide the hot button cases I ask unanimous consent that the order Again, with all due respect to the based on personal policy preferences. for the quorum call be rescinded. Chief Justice, tens of millions of Amer- That, of course, isn’t the law, and it is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without icans believe, correctly, that the Su- not the appropriate role for the Court. objection, it is so ordered. preme Court has transgressed the lim- It is no wonder, then, that the public f its of its role. Tens of millions of believes the Court is political. Americans believe, correctly, that too What Democratic Presidents want in MORNING BUSINESS many of the Justices are imposing this regard is what they get—even be- Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, their views and not interpreting the fore Justice Scalia’s death. Leading I ask unanimous consent that the Sen- law. scholars found this Supreme Court to ate be in a period of morning business, That is the major reason why we be the most liberal since the 1960s. Jus- with Senators permitted to speak should have a debate about the proper tices appointed by Republicans are gen- therein for up to 10 minutes each. role of a Supreme Court Justice. We erally committed to following the law. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without need to debate whether our current There are Justices who frequently vote objection, it is so ordered. Justices are adhering to their constitu- in a conservative way. But some of the f tional role. Justices appointed even by Republicans As the Chief Justice remarked, al- often don’t vote in a way that advances ARMS SALES NOTIFICATION though many of the Supreme Court’s conservative policy. Mr. CORKER. Madam President, sec- decisions are unanimous or nearly so, Contrary to what the Chief Justice tion 36(b) of the Arms Export Control the Justices tend to disagree on what suggested, a major reason the con- Act requires that Congress receive the Chief Justice called, in his words, firmation process has become more di- prior notification of certain proposed the ‘‘hot button issues.’’ We all know visive is that some of the Justices are arms sales as defined by that statute. what kinds of cases he has in mind voting too often based on politics and Upon such notification, the Congress when he talks about ‘‘hot button not on law. If they are going to be po- has 30 calendar days during which the issues’’—freedom of religion, abortion, litical actors after they are confirmed, sale may be reviewed. The provision affirmative action, gun control, free then the confirmation process nec- stipulates that, in the Senate, the noti- speech, and the death penalty. One can essarily is going to reflect that dy- fication of proposed sales shall be sent probably name a lot of others. The namic. to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Chief Justice was very revealing when For instance, just last week, after Relations Committee. he acknowledged that the lesser known one of my Democratic colleagues met In keeping with the committee’s in- cases are often unanimous, and the hot with Judge Garland, the Senator said tention to see that relevant informa- button cases are frequently 5 to 4. after discussing issues like reproduc- tion is available to the full Senate, I But why is that? tive rights: ‘‘I actually feel quite con- ask unanimous consent to have printed The law is no more or less likely to fident that he is deserving of my sup- in the RECORD the notifications which be clear in a hot button case than an- port.’’ have been received. If the cover letter other case. For those Justices com- Obviously, I don’t know what they references a classified annex, then such mitted to the rule of law, it shouldn’t discussed during that meeting or what annex is available to all Senators in be any harder to keep personal pref- Judge Garland said about reproductive the office of the Foreign Relations erences out of a politically charged rights, and, to be clear, I am not sug- Committee, room SD–423. case than any other case. gesting anything inappropriate was There being no objection, the mate- In some cases, the Justices are all discussed. My point is this: If Justices rial was ordered to be printed in the willing to follow the law, but in others stuck to the constitutional text and RECORD, as follows: where they are deeply invested in the didn’t base decisions on their own pol- DEFENSE SECURITY policy implications of the ruling, those icy preferences or what the President COOPERATION AGENCY, cases tend to turn out 5 to 4. The expla- asked, based on what is in their heart Arlington, VA. nation of these 5-to-4 rulings must be or on empathy for a particular litigant, Hon. BOB CORKER, that in hot button cases some of the then Senators wouldn’t deem it nec- Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, Justices are deciding based on their po- essary to understand whether the U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. litical preferences and not—as they nominee supports reproductive rights DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Pursuant to the re- should be—on the law. But if hot but- porting requirements of Section 36(b)(1) of or not. With this in mind, is it any the Arms Export Control Act, as amended, ton cases are being decided by politi- wonder that the public believes the we are forwarding herewith Transmittal No. cians in robes, then the Supreme Court Court is political? 16–23, concerning the Department of the Air has no more of a right than the voters If we want the confirmation process Force’s proposed Letter(s) of Offer and Ac- to be the final word. to be less divisive, if we want the pub- ceptance to the Government of Australia for

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defense articles and services estimated to Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). This ca- DEFENSE SECURITY cost $386 million. After this letter is deliv- pability will strengthen combined operations COOPERATION AGENCY, ered to your office, we plan to issue a news and increase interoperability between the Arlington, VA. release to notify the public of this proposed U.S. Air Force and the RAAF. Australia will Hon. BOB CORKER, sale. have no difficulty absorbing this equipment Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, Sincerely, into its armed forces. U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. JENNIFER ZAKRISKI, DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Pursuant to the re- The proposed sale of this equipment will (for J.W. Rixey, Vice Admiral, porting requirements of Section 36(b)(5)(A) of not alter the basic military balance in the USN, Director). the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), as region. Enclosures. amended, we are forwarding Transmittal No. TRANSMITTAL NO. 16–23 The principal contractor for production is 0J–16. This notification relates to enhance- Boeing in St. Louis, Missouri. The principal Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of ments or upgrades from the level of sensi- Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the contractor for integration is unknown and tivity of technology or capability described Arms Export Control Act, as amended will be determined during contract negotia- in the Section 36(b)(1) AECA certification 15– tions. There are no known offset agreements 62 of 19 November 2015. (i) Prospective Purchaser: Government of proposed in connection with this potential Sincerely, Australia. sale. JENNIFER ZAKRISKI, (ii) Total Estimated Value: (for J.W. Rixey, Vice Admiral, USN, Major Defense Equipment * $172 million. Implementation of this proposed sale will Director). Other $214 million. not require the assignment of any additional Enclosures. Total $386 million. U.S. or contractor representatives to Aus- (iii) Description and Quaulity or Quan- tralia. TRANSMITTAL NO. 0J–16 tities of Articles or Services under Consider- Report of Enhancement or Upgrade of Sensi- There will be no adverse impact on U.S. de- ation for Purchase: tivity of Technology or Capability (Sec. fense readiness as a result of this proposed Major Defense Equipment (MDE): 36(b)(5)(A), AECA) sale. Up to 2,950 GBU–39/B Small Diameter i. Purchaser: Government of Japan. Bomb I (SDB I). TRANSMITTAL NO. 16–23 ii. Sec. 36(b)(1), AECA Transmittal No.: 15– Up to 50 Guided Test Vehicles (GTV) with 62; Date: 19 November 2015; Military Depart- GBU–39 (T–1)/B (Inert Fuze). Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of ment: Air Force. Non-MDE: This request also includes the Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the iii. Description: On 19 November 2015, Con- following Non-MDE: containers, weapons Arms Export Control Act gress was notified by Congressional certifi- system support equipment, support and test Annex Item No. vii cation transmittal number 15–62, of the pos- equipment, site survey, transportation, re- sible sale under Section 36(b)(1) of the Arms pair and return warranties, spare and repair (vii) Sensitivity of Technology: Export Control Act of three (3) RQ–4 Block 30 parts, publications and technical data, main- (I) Global Hawk Remotely Piloted Aircraft tenance, personnel training, and training 1. Sensitive and/or classified (up to SE- CRET) elements of the proposed acquisition (RPA), each with Enhanced Integrated Sen- equipment, U.S. Government and contractor sor Suite (EISS), eight (8) Kearfott Inertial include hardware, accessories, components, representative engineering, logistics, and Navigation System/Global Positioning Sys- and associated software: GBU–39/B Small Di- technical support services, and other related tem (INS/GPS) units (2 per aircraft with 2 ameter Bomb Increment I (SDB I). Addi- elements of logistics support. spares), and eight (8) LN–251 INS/GPS units tional sensitive areas include operating (iv) Military Department: Air Force (YAF). (2 per aircraft with 2 spares). Also included manuals and maintenance technical orders (v) Prior Related Cases, if any: None. with this request are operational-level sen- containing performance information, oper- (vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, Of- sor and aircraft test equipment, ground sup- ating and test procedures, and other infor- fered, or Agreed to be Paid: None. port equipment, operational flight test sup- (vii) Sensitivity of Technology Contained mation related to the support operations and port, communications equipment, spare and in the Defense Article or Defense Services repair. The hardware, software, and data repair parts, personnel training, publications Proposed to be Sold: See Annex attached. identified are classified to protect and technical data, U.S. Government and (viii) Date Report Delivered to Congress: vulnerabilities, design and performance pa- contractor technical and logistics support April 4, 2016. rameters, and other similar critical informa- services, and other related elements of logis- * As defined in Section 47(6) of the Arms tion. tics support. The total value of this sale is Export Control Act. 2. The GBU–39/B Small Diameter Bomb In- $1.2 billion. Major Defense Equipment (MDE) POLICY JUSTIFICATION crement T (SDB I) is a 250-pound class weap- constitutes $689 million of this sale. Australia—GBU–39 (Small Diameter Bomb on designed as a small, all-weather, autono- This transmittal reports the inclusion of Increment I) mous, conventional, air-to-ground, precision two Ground Control Elements (GCE). The The Government of Australia has re- glide weapon able to strike fixed and sta- GCEs were not enumerated as MDE in the quested a possible sale of: tionary re-locatable targets from standoff original notification of the Global Hawk Major Defense Equipment (MDE): range. The SDB I weapon system consists of RPA system. Inclusion of this equipment as Up to 2,950 GBU–39/B Small Diameter the weapons, the BRU–61/A (4-place pneu- MDE will increase the MDE cost by $31 mil- Bomb I (SDB I). matic carriage system), shipping and han- lion, resulting in a revised MDE cost of $720 Up to 50 Guided Test Vehicles (GTV) with dling containers for a single weapon and the million. The total case value will remain $1.2 GBU–39 (T–1 )/B (Inert Fuze). BRU–61/A either empty or loaded, and a billion. This request also includes the following weapon planning module. It has integrated iv. Significance: This notification is being Non-MDE: containers, weapons system sup- diamond-back type wings that deploy after provided as the GCEs were not enumerated port equipment, support and test equipment, releases, which increases the glide time and as MDE in the original notification. Their site survey, transportation, repair and re- therefore maximum range. The SDB I Anti- inclusion does not necessarily represent an turn warranties, spare and repair parts, pub- Jam Global Positioning System aided Iner- increase in capability over what was noti- lications and technical data, maintenance, tial Navigation System (AJGPS/INS) pro- fied, but properly identifies the equipment personnel training, and training equipment, vides guidance to the coordinates of a sta- required for Global Hawk operations. This U.S. Government and contractor representa- tionary target. The payload/warhead is a equipment provides the Japan Air Self-De- tive engineering, logistics, and technical very effective multipurpose penetrating and fense Force (JASDF) a ground control sta- support services, and other related elements blast fragmentation warhead coupled with a tion from which to fly and execute Global of logistics support. cockpit selectable electronic fuze. Its size Hawk surveillance missions. Overall, these The total estimated value of MDE is $172 and accuracy allow for an effective munition systems meet the requirements of providing million. The total overall estimated value is with less collateral damage. A proximity the JASDF with the ability to conduct high- $386 million. sensor provides height of burst capability. altitude surveillance and reconnaissance Australia is one of our most important al- without exposing JASDF personnel to the 3. A determination has been made that the lies in the Western Pacific. The strategic lo- dangers inherent to high-altitude ISR oper- recipient country can provide substantially cation of this political and economic power ations. the same degree of protection for the sen- contributes significantly to ensuring peace v. Justification: This proposed sale will sitive technology associated with this sys- and economic stability in the region. This contribute to the foreign policy goals and tem as the U.S. Government. This sale is proposed sale will contribute to the foreign national security objectives of the United necessary in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security of the United States by meeting the security and defense policy and national security objectives out- States by helping to improve the security of needs of an ally and partner nation. Japan lined in the Policy Justification. a major contributor to political stability, se- continues to be an important force for peace, curity, and economic development in the Pa- 4. All defense articles and services listed in political stability, and economic progress in cific region and globally. this transmittal have been authorized for re- East Asia and the Western Pacific. The pro- The sale of SDB I supports and com- lease and export to the Government of Aus- posed sale of the RQ–4 will significantly en- plements the on-going sale of the F–35 to the tralia. hance Japan’s intelligence, surveillance, and

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Gary sat on the board of directors for Gilbert Horn was born May 23, 1923, JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICER the Paralyzed Veterans of America, on the Fort Belknap Indian reservation TRAINING CORPS PVA. He was also a member of the Dis- in Montana. He was an Assiniboine abled American Veterans, DAV. chief, decorated war hero, WWII com- Mr. GARDNER. Madam President, I Gary was an Erie, PA, native, born bat veteran, and code talker. In 1940 he rise today to honor the 100th anniver- on November 8, 1951. He served with the entered the U.S. Army at the young sary of the Junior Reserve Officer U.S. Army during the Vietnam war as age of 17. He was a member of the 163rd Training Corps, JROTC. On June 3, a door gunner on a helicopter. While Infantry Battalion. Chief Horn received 1916, Congress passed the National De- serving in Vietnam, he survived being training in communication and fense Act, establishing the JROTC. shot down and was awarded the Army encryption. He then volunteered to be This program teaches students the val- Commendation Medal, two Good Con- a code talker using his native Assini- ues of our Armed Forces through train- duct Medals, and the National Defense boine Tribe language to disguise U.S. ing and classroom instruction with Service Medal. military communications against the military personnel. Following his service with the Army, Japanese. This influential program encourages Gary worked for the U.S. Postal Serv- He volunteered for the Merrill’s Ma- leadership, fortitude, and personal re- ice in Erie. In his free time, he enjoyed rauders, a deep penetration unit com- sponsibility. The JROTC has experi- hunting, volunteering, and partici- manded by MG Frank Merrill. They enced a long history of success, and pating in the Wheelchair Games. He spent 5 months of field operations in millions of high school students have was also an avid fan of the Erie Otters Burma and western China and com- completed the program since its incep- Hockey Club. Gary was a relentless ad- pleted an 800-mile journey across the tion. Not only do these students learn vocate for our veterans, a friendly face, Himalaya Mountains in order to cut military history and customs, but par- and a supporter for countless veterans Japanese communications and supply ticipants gain a deeper understanding in the Erie area. lines. Chief Horn survived the journey of civic engagement, community serv- Gary is survived by two sons, two with chest, back, and jaw wounds. He ice, and the importance of character grandchildren, one great-grand- was honorably discharged, having re- building. daughter, one brother, one brother-in- ceived the Purple Heart and the Bronze Out of the many high school students law, and several nieces and nephews. Star. who participate in JROTC each year, 30 He was laid to rest in Arlington Na- After returning to the Fort Belknap to 50 percent go on to serve in the U.S. tional Cemetery, an honor he richly de- Indian reservation he served as chair- military later in life. The program also served. man and council member of the Fort connects high school students with On behalf of the U.S. Senate, I wish Belknap Community Council. He was universities that offer the Reserve Offi- to express my thanks for Mr. Orlando’s awarded an honorary doctorate in hu- cer Training Corps program and helps steadfast service to our Nation and his manitarian services from MSU North- many students who may have not oth- commitment to our veterans. ern in 2013. Then in 2014 he had the erwise earned a college degree. f honor of being named the honorary I would also like to recognize the 35 ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS chief of the Fort Belknap Assiniboine schools in Colorado that offer the Tribe, a title that had not been award- JROTC program. In Colorado, there are ed since the 1890s. 2 Marine Corps JROTC units, 8 Air TRIBUTE TO WALTER EVANS I extend my condolences to his fam- Force JROTC units, 4 Navy units, and ∑ Mr. DAINES. Madam President, ily and to the entire Fort Belknap In- 21 Army units. I am proud of the ac- today I wish to recognize Walter dian community. We have lost a true ∑ complishments of the JROTC students, Evans, a 14-year-old native Montanan American and a great Montanan. and I know they have a bright future and member of the Boy Scouts of f ahead of them. America, troop 214, for his service to Please join me in honoring Adams his community. Walter’s Court of RECOGNIZING ARKANSAS POST City High School, Northridge High Honor is scheduled for April 12, 2016, NATIONAL MEMORIAL AND PARK School, Aurora Central High School, where he will earn the Eagle Scout ∑ Mr. COTTON. Madam President, in Westminster High School, Harrison Award. His Eagle Scout project was a honor of the National Parks Service’s High School, William Mitchell High trail building project for the Prickly 100th birthday year, I want to recog- School, Air Academy High School, Pear Land Trust in the South Hills of nize Arkansas Post National Memorial Skyview Academy, Glenwood Springs Helena. Walter’s project alone involved and Park. Arkansas Post was estab- High School, Doherty High School, 230 volunteer hours and provided for lished as a trading post by Henri De Montrose High School, Mesa Ridge the creation of a beautiful new trail Tonti in 1686 and was the first perma- High School, Widefield High School, used by mountain bikers, hikers, and nent European settlement in the lower Pueblo County High School, Pueblo dog walkers. Mississippi River valley. While the East High School, North High School, Walter is an excellent leader and al- exact location moved several times, Abraham Lincoln High School, Denver ways keeps a great attitude. Doug the area remained a vital trade center South High School, Manual High Wheeler, scoutmaster to Troop 214 for much of the 17th and 18th centuries. School, Loveland High School, Thomas stated, ‘‘Walter is a great example of a The land was eventually ceded to Jefferson High School, Pueblo West Boy Scout in his character attributes. Spain, who controlled the post for over High School, Centennial High School, Of particular note are his compassion, 40 years. While under Spanish control, Central High School, Pueblo South enthusiasm to serve others, and polite Arkansas Post was home to the Battle High School, Delta High School, Cen- manner. These attributes, as well as of Arkansas Post, a Revolutionary War tral High School—Pueblo, Montebello his other traits, will help him do great battle between Spanish and British Senior High School, West High School, things in his life.’’ forces fought on April 17, 1783. Also George Washington High School, John Walter, thank you for your service to known as the Colbert Raid, this battle F. Kennedy High School, Fountain Montana at such an early age. We look was the only Revolutionary War battle Fort Carson High School, East High forward to seeing your future suc- to take place in what is today the School, and Canon City High School. cesses.∑ State of Arkansas. Arkansas Post was

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He Landmark in 1960 and was listed on the the area. also remembers how, as a young child, National Register of Historic Places in The city of Tuscaloosa and the State he gave a beggar a penny, though he 1966. The National Park Service man- of Alabama were fortunate to have a wished he had been able to give more. ages over 650 acres of park land at the leader and a great man like Hilliard That giving nature has continued site, and there is a State-managed visi- Fletcher, and he will be sorely missed. throughout his life, with Mr. Karim tors center and museum featuring dis- I offer my deepest condolences to his having given more than $2 million to play of Arkansas Post’s rich history. wife, Betty; his daughter, Beth Lubin; charities throughout South Dakota, Arkansas Post is a must-visit for any and his sons, Douglas and Curtis, as with a focus on education and chil- Arkansan looking to get out and enjoy they celebrate his many life accom- dren’s needs. He created the Mansour the rich history of our State—espe- plishments and mourn this great loss.∑ and Ruth Karim Scholarship Endow- cially those interested in the Revolu- f ment in 2004 at South Dakota State tionary War. I would like to thank the University. Due to these charitable National Park Service for its commit- TRIBUTE TO MANSOUR KARIM contributions Mr. Karim has been the ment to maintaining this important ∑ Mr. THUNE. Madam President, today recipient of many awards, including part of Arkansas history.∑ I recognize Mansour Karim of Pierre, being named Pierre’s Outstanding Phi- f SD. Mr. Karim’s life story is inspiring, lanthropist of the Year in 2011. and his contributions to his commu- I, like the residents of Pierre and REMEMBERING HILLIARD others across South Dakota, have had FLETCHER nity and the State of South Dakota are worthy of commendation. the pleasure of knowing Mr. Karim. His ∑ Mr. SHELBY. Madam President, Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, to a passion for the United States and the today I wish to honor the life of my poor family, Mr. Karim dreamed of freedoms it affords and his genuine friend Hilliard Fletcher of Tuscaloosa, moving to the United States to pursue care for his community is contagious. AL, who passed away on March 13, 2016. his higher education. That dream be- In conversations, Mr. Karim will often He will be remembered as a skilled came a reality in November of 1950, say that his experience could only be businessman, a devoted public servant, when Mr. Karim arrived at the Port of possible in the United States. His story and a man who deeply cared about the New York and New Jersey with a lim- is another real-life example of the city of Tuscaloosa. ited English vocabulary and only $27 in American dream as reality and what A native of Mobile, Hilliard grad- his pocket. He had originally planned makes our Nation great, to succeed and uated from the University of Alabama to attend the University of Michigan, to give back, so that others may suc- in 1957. He went on to serve our coun- but was worried that the growing Ira- ceed. try as an officer in the U.S. Marine nian immigrant population there would It is for these reasons that I would Corps and served for 14 years in the Re- keep him from being immersed in the like to extend my sincere gratitude to serves, retiring with the rank of major. Mr. Karim for his generous philan- Hilliard was the president of culture of the United States. He de- cided to study at Huron College in thropic work and thank him for mak- Duckworth-Morris Insurance Company ing South Dakota his home.∑ and also served with distinction four Huron, SD. Mr. Karim’s journey to South Dakota f terms as finance and waterworks com- missioner on the Tuscaloosa City Com- was challenged by the barriers of an TRIBUTE TO SHUKRI JAMA mission. During those 16 years, he unfamiliar nation, but he had his faith ∑ Mr. THUNE. Madam President, today played an instrumental role in the cre- and was often helped by strangers I recognize Shukri Jama, an intern in ation of the mayor-council model of along the way. He studied at Huron my Washington, DC, office for all of municipal government that we know College for a year before transferring the hard work she has done for me, my today. He was also influential in the ef- to South Dakota State College, now staff, and the State of South Dakota. forts that led to Congress passing the known as South Dakota State Univer- Shukri is a graduate of South Sioux Lake Tuscaloosa Protection Act, which sity, from which he graduated in 1955 City High School in South Sioux City, prevented the Federal Government with a degree in civil engineering. He NE. Currently, Shukri is attending the from installing a hydroelectric power- would later receive his master’s degree University of South Dakota, where she plant on Lake Tuscaloosa’s dam in in engineering from the same school. is majoring in political science and his- 1970. Mr. Karim served 35 years with the tory. Shukri is a dedicated worker who In addition to his many years of serv- South Dakota Department of Transpor- has been committed to getting the ice to the city of Tuscaloosa, Hilliard tation in South Dakota’s capital city most out of her experience. was a true leader in his community— of Pierre. Though a dedicated civil I extend my sincere thanks and ap- serving on numerous boards and work- servant, he found his passion doing preciation to Shukri Jama for all of ing with various charitable and busi- something he never could have done in the fine work she has done and wish ness organizations. He served on the his home country of Iran. her continued success in the years to board of directors of First Alabama He invested in rental properties, come.∑ starting modestly. Eventually, through Bank, was the president of the United f Way of West Alabama, and was presi- hard work, wise investment, and trust- dent and director of the Exchange Club ed relationships, he achieved great suc- TRIBUTE TO ADAM KOST of Tuscaloosa. He also served as a cess in providing affordable, quality ∑ Mr. THUNE. Madam President, today board member and officer of the Cham- rentals for residents in the Pierre area. I recognize Adam Kost, an intern in my ber of Commerce of West Alabama, was Mr. Karim did not do this alone. His Washington, DC, office for all of the a member of the board of directors and wife, Ruth, provided support to the en- hard work he has done for me, my membership chairman of the YMCA of terprise as the two of them raised their staff, and the State of South Dakota. Tuscaloosa, and was the Chairman of seven children. Adam is a graduate of Roosevelt High the Heart Fund Drive. Hilliard was on Ruth Karim cofounded South Dakota School in Sioux Falls, SD. Currently, the DCH Foundation Board, was direc- Right to Life and served as its execu- Adam is attending Augustana Univer- tor of the Alabama League of Munici- tive director for 19 years. Prior to Ruth sity, where he is majoring in govern- palities, and was a deacon of First passing away in 2013, Mr. Karim ment and international affairs. Adam Presbyterian Church of Tuscaloosa. worked with the Saint Mary’s Founda- is a dedicated worker who has been Hilliard’s many accomplishments, as tion in Pierre to set up the Ruth Karim committed to getting the most out of well as his contributions to the city of Endowment that would help nursing his experience.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Apr 06, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G05AP6.028 S05APPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1666 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 5, 2016 I extend my sincere thanks and ap- suddenly developed a chronic illness, In the next several months, countless preciation to Adam Kost for all of the hindering him from working, Kathleen businesses like Delta Interiors will put fine work he has done and wish him took the reins of the day-to-day oper- the pieces of their businesses back to- continued success in the years to ations of running the business, keeping gether again with the help of family, come.∑ up the principles and quality for which friends, and neighbors. As the Peters the company has become so well f family and their team at Delta Inte- known. riors rebuild after these disastrous TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL SNYDER Today, Kathleen’s and Bart’s daugh- storms, I am honored to name Delta In- ∑ Mr. THUNE. Madam President, today ters—Ashley, Courtney, Kasie, and teriors as small business of the week, I recognize Michael Snyder, an intern Alexie—have joined the family busi- and I wish them a quick recovery and in my Washington, DC, office for all of ness and expanded the furniture repair many more years of growth and suc- the hard work he has done for me, my shop to include a full-service office cess.∑ moving and office furniture installa- staff, and the State of South Dakota. f Michael is a graduate of Sturgis tion company. Congratulations again to the MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Brown High School in Sturgis, SD. Cur- Thibodeaux family and Bart’s Office rently, Michael is attending South Da- Messages from the President of the Moving for being selected small busi- kota State University, where he is ma- United States were communicated to ness of the week. We look forward to the Senate by Mr. Pate, one of his sec- joring in political science and history. your continued growth and success Michael is a dedicated worker who has retaries. under the leadership of the Thibodeaux f been committed to getting the most women entrepreneurs.∑ out of his experience. EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED I extend my sincere thanks and ap- f As in executive session the Presiding preciation to Michael Snyder for all of RECOGNIZING DELTA INTERIORS Officer laid before the Senate messages the fine work he has done and wish him AND GIFTS from the President of the United continued success in the years to ∑ Mr. VITTER. Madam President, in States submitting sundry nominations come.∑ recent weeks our State has faced disas- which were referred to the appropriate f trous storms and flooding, but with committees. true Louisiana strength, families and TRIBUTE TO SARAH WEDEL (The messages received today are communities are already banding to- printed at the end of the Senate pro- ∑ Mr. THUNE. Madam President, today gether for the recovery. In that spirit, ceedings.) I recognize Sarah Wedel, an intern in I would like to recognize Delta Inte- f my Washington, DC, office for all of riors and Gifts as small business of the the hard work she has done for me, my week whose community has rallied to- EXECUTIVE AND OTHER staff, and the State of South Dakota. gether to respond to and recover from COMMUNICATIONS Sarah is a graduate of James Valley the recent storms. The following communications were Christian School in Huron, SD. Cur- In 1976, John and Martha Peters laid before the Senate, together with rently, Sarah is currently attending founded Delta Interiors and Gifts in accompanying papers, reports, and doc- Northwestern College, where she is ma- their hometown of Homer in northwest uments, and were referred as indicated: joring in journalism and history. Sarah Louisiana with the goal of providing EC–4752. A communication from the Direc- is a dedicated worker who has been quality interior design services and tor of the Regulatory Management Division, committed to getting the most out of unique gifts to clients in their commu- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- her experience. nity. Offering additional services in ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- I extend my sincere thanks and ap- custom drapery and design in their fac- titled ‘‘Mandipropamid; Pesticide Toler- preciation to Sarah Wedel for all of the tory in Homer, they produce draperies, ances’’ (FRL No. 9943–00) received during ad- hospital curtains, blinds, and other journment of the Senate in the Office of the fine work she has done and wish her President of the Senate on March 25, 2016; to continued success in the years to items for hotels and hospitals nation- wide, from Massachusetts to Wash- the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, come.∑ and Forestry. ington to California to Florida. One of f EC–4753. A communication from the Direc- their most well-known projects was tor of the Regulatory Management Division, RECOGNIZING BART’S OFFICE providing the interior designs for the Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- MOVING, INC. historic Waldorf Astoria hotel in New ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- titled ‘‘Salicylaldehyde; Exemption from the ∑ Orleans. Mr. VITTER. Madam President, with Today, the company boasts a state- Requirement of a Tolerance’’ (FRL No. 9944– the recent celebration of International wide and nationwide clientele, largely 12) received during adjournment of the Sen- Women’s Day, it is fitting that we rec- due to their commitment to personally ate in the Office of the President of the Sen- ognize hard-working women all around measuring, producing, and installing ate on March 25, 2016; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. our country and in our local commu- each order that many large corpora- nities. There are inspiring women run- EC–4754. A communication from the Ad- tions sometimes cannot provide. The ministrator, Rural Housing Service, Depart- ning small businesses all over our great company has earned a reputation ment of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant State, from right out of the swamps of among large hotel brands, enabling to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Single south Louisiana to the big cities. This Delta Interiors to grow and employ Family Housing Guarantee Loan Program’’ week I would like to recognize Bart’s more and more local workers in their ((7 CFR part 3555) (RIN0575–AD00)) received Office Moving Company, Inc., of New manufacturing factory. during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- Orleans, LA, as small business of the In the aftermath of a strong upper fice of the President of the Senate on March week for their commitment to sup- level storm system that brought dan- 28, 2016; to the Committee on Agriculture, porting the local economy and serving Nutrition, and Forestry. gerous thunderstorms and flooding EC–4755. A communication from the Ad- as a shining example for women entre- across Louisiana this month, the ministrator of the National Organic Pro- preneurs across the State. Peters found themselves in a seemingly gram, Agricultural Marketing Service, De- In 1978, with the dream of owning and impossible situation: their life’s busi- partment of Agriculture, transmitting, pur- running their own successful business, ness was literally underwater. The suant to law, the report of a rule entitled Bart and Kathleen Thibodeaux opened Homer community came together to ‘‘National Organic Program (NOP); Sunset Bart’s Office Furniture Repairs in New help the Peters recover all undamaged 2016 Amendments to the National List’’ Orleans, LA. Quickly establishing a products and remove what had been de- ((RIN0581–AD39) (Docket No. AMS–NOP–15– reputation for reliability and depend- stroyed by the rising water. With 0052)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the ability with a can-do attitude, the friends, family, and neighbors coming Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Committee Thibodeaux’s business flourished, just to their aid, the Peters have been in- on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. as the couple began having children spired to pick up the pieces and rebuild EC–4756. A communication from the Sec- and building their family. When Bart their small business. retary of the Commodity Futures Trading

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A communication from the Direc- Entries on the Entity List; and Removal of of the Senate in the Office of the President tor of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Certain Persons from the Entity List’’ of the Senate on March 24, 2016; to the Com- Policy, Department of Defense, transmit- (RIN0694–AG87) received during adjournment mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- of the Senate in the Office of the President estry. titled ‘‘Defense Federal Acquisition Regula- of the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- EC–4757. A communication from the Acting tion Supplement: Clauses with Alternates- mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- Associate Administrator of the Country of Small Business Programs’’ ((RIN0750–AI68) fairs. Origin Labeling Division, Agricultural Mar- (DFARS Case 2015–D017)) received during ad- EC–4775. A communication from the Presi- keting Service, Department of Agriculture, journment of the Senate in the Office of the dent of the United States, transmitting, pur- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of President of the Senate on March 22, 2016; to suant to law, a report of the continuation of a rule entitled ‘‘Removal of Mandatory the Committee on Armed Services. the national emergency with respect to sig- Country of Origin Labeling Requirements for EC–4767. A communication from the Direc- nificant malicious cyber-enabled activities Beef and Pork Muscle Cuts, Ground Beef, and tor of Defense Procurement and Acquisition that was declared in Executive Order 13694 Ground Pork’’ ((RIN0581–AD29) (Docket No. Policy, Department of Defense, transmit- on April 1, 2015, received during adjournment AMS–LPS–16–0002)) received in the Office of ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- of the Senate in the Office of the President the President of the Senate on March 15, titled ‘‘Defense Federal Acquisition Regula- of the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- 2016; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nu- tion Supplement: Buy American and Balance mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- trition, and Forestry. of Payments Program-Clause Prescription’’ fairs. EC–4758. A communication from the Acting ((RIN0750–AI77) (DFARS Case 2015–D037)) re- EC–4776. A communication from the Sec- Administrator of the Specialty Crops Pro- ceived during adjournment of the Senate in retary of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant gram, Agricultural Marketing Service, De- the Office of the President of the Senate on to law, a report relative to the export to the partment of Agriculture, transmitting, pur- March 22, 2016; to the Committee on Armed People’s Republic of China of items not det- suant to law, the report of a rule entitled Services. rimental to the U.S. space launch industry; ‘‘Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines, and Tan- EC–4768. A communication from the Direc- to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and gelos Grown in Florida; Order Amending tor of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Urban Affairs. Marketing Order No. 905’’ (Docket No. AMS– Policy, Department of Defense, transmit- EC–4777. A communication from the Asso- FV–12–0069) received in the Office of the ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ciate General Counsel for Legislation and President of the Senate on March 15, 2016; to titled ‘‘Defense Federal Acquisition Regula- Regulations, Office of Public and Indian the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, tion Supplement: Extension and Modifica- Housing, Department of Housing and Urban and Forestry. tion of Contract Authority for Advanced Development, transmitting, pursuant to law, EC–4759. A communication from the Direc- Component Development and Prototype the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Streamlining tor of the Regulatory Review Group, Com- Units’’ ((RIN0750–AI62) (DFARS Case 2015– Administrative Regulations for Public Hous- modity Credit Corporation, Department of D008)) received during adjournment of the ing, Housing Choice Voucher, Multifamily Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, Senate in the Office of the President of the Housing, and Community Planning and De- the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Direct Farm Senate on March 22, 2016; to the Committee velopment Programs’’ (RIN2577–AC92) re- Ownership Microloan; Correction’’ (RIN0560– on Armed Services. ceived in the Office of the President of the AI33) received during adjournment of the EC–4769. A communication from the Direc- Senate on March 16, 2016; to the Committee Senate in the Office of the President of the tor of Defense Procurement and Acquisition on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senate on March 16, 2016; to the Committee Policy, Department of Defense, transmit- EC–4778. A communication from the Dep- on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- uty Assistant Director for Legislative Af- EC–4760. A communication from the Under titled ‘‘Defense Federal Acquisition Regula- fairs, Consumer Financial Protection Bu- Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Tech- tion Supplement: Prohibition on Requiring reau, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report nology, and Logistics), transmitting, pursu- the Use of Fire-resistant Rayon Fiber’’ entitled ‘‘Fair Debt Collection Practices ant to law, the Uniform Resource Locator ((RIN0750–AI85) (DFARS Case 2016–D012)) re- Act’’; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- (URL) for the Department of Defense 2016 ceived during adjournment of the Senate in ing, and Urban Affairs. Major Automated Information System the Office of the President of the Senate on EC–4779. A communication from the Assist- (MAIS) Annual Reports (MARs) and an index March 22, 2016; to the Committee on Armed ant General Counsel for Legislation and Reg- of the 34 MARs; to the Committee on Armed Services. ulations, Office of the Secretary, Depart- Services. EC–4770. A communication from the Direc- ment of Housing and Urban Development, EC–4761. A communication from the Presi- tor of Defense Procurement and Acquisition transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of dent of the United States of America, trans- Policy, Department of Defense, transmit- a rule entitled ‘‘Amendments to the HUD Ac- mitting, pursuant to law, the fiscal year 2015 ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- quisition Regulation (HUDAR)’’ (RIN2501– Annual Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Assess- titled ‘‘Defense Federal Acquisition Regula- AD73) received during adjournment of the ments from the Secretaries of Defense and tion Supplement: Warranty Tracking of Se- Senate in the Office of the President of the Energy, the three national security labora- rialized Items’’ ((RIN0750–AI39) (DFARS Case Senate on March 23, 2016; to the Committee tory directors, and the Commander, United 2014–D026)) received during adjournment of on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. States Strategic Command (OSS–2016–0396); the Senate in the Office of the President of EC–4780. A communication from the Assist- to the Committee on Armed Services. the Senate on March 22, 2016; to the Com- ant Director for Regulatory Affairs, Office of EC–4762. A communication from the Assist- mittee on Armed Services. Foreign Assets Control, Department of the ant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Af- EC–4771. A communication from the Assist- Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the fairs), transmitting legislative proposals rel- ant Secretary of Defense (Logistics and Ma- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Cuban Assets Con- ative to the ‘‘National Defense Authoriza- teriel Readiness), transmitting, pursuant to trol Regulations’’ (31 CFR Part 515) received tion Act for Fiscal Year 2017’’; to the Com- law, a report relative to core depot-level during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- mittee on Armed Services. maintenance and repair capability require- fice of the President of the Senate on March EC–4763. A communication from the Senior ments and sustaining workloads; to the Com- 23, 2016; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense mittee on Armed Services. ing, and Urban Affairs. (Personnel and Readiness), transmitting, EC–4772. A communication from the Sec- EC–4781. A communication from the Assist- pursuant to law, a report describing activi- retary of Defense, transmitting a report on ant Secretary for Export Administration, ties under the Secretary of Defense per- the approved retirement of Lieutenant Gen- Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- sonnel management demonstration project eral Gregory A. Biscone, United States Air ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant authorities for Department of Defense Force, and his advancement to the grade of to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Cuba: Science and Technology Reinvention Lab- lieutenant general on the retired list; to the Revisions to License Exceptions and Licens- oratories (STRLs) for calendar year 2015; to Committee on Armed Services. ing Policy’’ (RIN0694–AG86) received during the Committee on Armed Services. EC–4773. A communication from the Sec- adjournment of the Senate in the Office of EC–4764. A communication from the Sec- retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- the President of the Senate on March 23, retary of Defense, transmitting a report on ant to law, a six-month periodic report on 2016; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, the approved retirement of Admiral Mark E. the national emergency declared in Execu- and Urban Affairs. Ferguson III, United States Navy, and his ad- tive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, with EC–4782. A communication from the Chief vancement to the grade of admiral on the re- respect to persons who commit, threaten to Counsel, Federal Emergency Management tired list; to the Committee on Armed Serv- commit, or support terrorism; to the Com- Agency, Department of Homeland Security, ices. mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of EC–4765. A communication from the Senior fairs. a rule entitled ‘‘Suspension of Community Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense EC–4774. A communication from the Assist- Eligibility’’ ((44 CFR Part 64) (Docket No. (Personnel and Readiness), transmitting, ant Secretary for Export Administration, FEMA–2016–0002)) received during adjourn- pursuant to law, the annual report of the Na- Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- tional Security Education Program for fiscal ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant dent of the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the

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A communication from the Direc- retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- tor of Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regu- ant to law, a six-month periodic report on titled ‘‘Findings of Failure to Submit State latory Research, Nuclear Regulatory Com- the national emergency with respect to So- Implementation Plans Required for Attain- mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the malia that was declared in Executive Order ment of the 2010 1-Hour Primary Sulfur Diox- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Criteria and Design 13536 on April 12, 2010; to the Committee on ide National Ambient Air Quality Standard Features for Inspection of Water Control Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (NAAQS)’’ (FRL No. 9942–91–OAR) received in Structures Associated With Nuclear Power EC–4784. A communication from the Chief the Office of the President of the Senate on Plants’’ (RG 1.127, Revision 2) received in the Counsel, Federal Emergency Management March 17, 2016; to the Committee on Environ- Office of the President of the Senate on Agency, Department of Homeland Security, ment and Public Works. March 16, 2016; to the Committee on Environ- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of EC–4793. A communication from the Direc- ment and Public Works. a rule entitled ‘‘Suspension of Community tor of the Regulatory Management Division, EC–4800. A communication from the Direc- Eligibility’’ ((44 CFR Part 64) (Docket No. Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- tor of the Regulatory Management Division, FEMA–2016–0002)) received during adjourn- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- titled ‘‘Approval of Iowa Air Quality Imple- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- dent of the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the mentation Plans; Withdrawal of Direct Final titled ‘‘Announcement of the Delegation of Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Rule; Polk County Board of Health Rules Partial Administrative Authority for Imple- Affairs. and Regulations, Chapter V, Revisions’’ mentation of Federal Implementation Plan EC–4785. A communication from the Sec- (FRL No. 9943–89–Region 7) received in the for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville retary of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to Office of the President of the Senate on Reservation’’ (FRL No. 9943–54–Region 10) re- law, a report entitled ‘‘Fiscal Year 2014 March 17, 2016; to the Committee on Environ- ceived during adjournment of the Senate in Methane Hydrate Program’’; to the Com- ment and Public Works. the Office of the President of the Senate on mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC–4794. A communication from the Direc- March 11, 2016; to the Committee on Environ- EC–4786. A communication from the Sec- tor of the Regulatory Management Division, ment and Public Works. retary of the Interior, transmitting, pursu- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- EC–4801. A joint communication from the ant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Outer Conti- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil nental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Pro- titled ‘‘Nevada: Final Authorization of State Works) and the Principal Deputy Assistant posed Program 2017–2022’’; to the Committee Hazardous Waste Management Program Re- Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, on Energy and Natural Resources. visions’’ (FRL No. 9943–99–Region 9) received Department of the Interior, transmitting, EC–4787. A communication from the Direc- during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- pursuant to law, a five-year report relative tor of the Regulatory Management Division, fice of the President of the Senate on March to the Comprehensive Everglades Restora- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- 23, 2016; to the Committee on Environment tion Plan for 2015; to the Committee on Envi- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- and Public Works. ronment and Public Works. titled ‘‘Partial Exemption of Certain Chem- EC–4795. A communication from the Direc- EC–4802. A communication from the Assist- ical Substances from Reporting Additional tor of the Regulatory Management Division, ant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Chemical Data’’ (FRL No. 9941–19–OCSPP) Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- transmitting, pursuant to law, a report rel- received during adjournment of the Senate ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ative to the Mill Creek Flood Risk Manage- in the Office of the President of the Senate titled ‘‘National Emission Standards for Haz- ment project in Davidson County and the on March 25, 2016; to the Committee on Envi- ardous Air Pollutants from Coal- and Oil- City of Nashville, Tennessee, for the purpose ronment and Public Works. Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating of flood risk management; to the Committee EC–4788. A communication from the Direc- Units and Standards of Performance for Fos- on Environment and Public Works. EC–4803. A communication from the Regu- tor of the Regulatory Management Division, sil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial- lations Coordinator, Centers for Medicare Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- Commercial-Institutional, and Small Indus- and Medicaid Services, Department of ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- trial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Gen- Health and Human Services, transmitting, titled ‘‘Approval of California Air Plan Revi- erating Units; Technical Correction’’ pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled sions, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollu- ((RIN2060–AS41) (FRL No. 9942–28–OAR)) re- ‘‘Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance tion Control District and South Coast Air ceived during adjournment of the Senate in Programs; Mental Health Parity and Addic- Quality Management District’’ (FRL No. the Office of the President of the Senate on tion Equity Act of 2008; the Application of 9943–40–Region 9) received during adjourn- March 23, 2016; to the Committee on Environ- Mental Health Parity Requirements to Cov- ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- ment and Public Works. erage Offered by Medicaid Managed Care Or- EC–4796. A communication from the Direc- dent of the Senate on March 25, 2016; to the ganizations, the Children’s Health Insurance tor of the Regulatory Management Division, Committee on Environment and Public Program (CHIP), and alternative Benefit Works. Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- Plans’’ ((RIN0938–AS24) (CMS–2333-F)) re- EC–4789. A communication from the Direc- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ceived during adjournment of the Senate in tor of the Regulatory Management Division, titled ‘‘Approval of Air Quality State Imple- the Office of the President of the Senate on Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- mentation Plans (SIP); State of Iowa; Infra- March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Finance. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- structure SIP Requirements for the 2008 EC–4804. A communication from the Assist- titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Air Lead National Ambient Air Quality Stand- ant General Counsel, General Law, Ethics, Quality Implementation Plans; Washington; ard (NAAQS); Correction’’ (FRL No. 9944–19– and Regulation, Department of the Treasury, Update to Materials Incorporated by Ref- Region 7) received during adjournment of the transmitting, pursuant to law, a report rel- erence’’ (FRL No. 9943–19–Region 10) received Senate in the Office of the President of the ative to a vacancy in the position of Assist- during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- Senate on March 23, 2016; to the Committee ant Secretary (Financial Markets), Depart- fice of the President of the Senate on March on Environment and Public Works. ment of the Treasury, received during ad- 25, 2016; to the Committee on Environment EC–4797. A communication from the Direc- journment of the Senate in the Office of the and Public Works. tor of Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regu- President of the Senate on March 23, 2016; to EC–4790. A communication from the Direc- latory Research, Nuclear Regulatory Com- the Committee on Finance. tor of the Regulatory Management Division, mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the EC–4805. A communication from the Assist- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Safety Evaluation ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- for ‘BWRVIP–18, Revision 2: Boiling Water Health and Human Services, transmitting, titled ‘‘Revisions to Ambient Monitoring Reactor Vessel and Internals Project, Boil- pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Tribal Quality Assurance and Other Requirements’’ ing Water Reactor Vessel Core Spray Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home (FRL No. 9942–91–OAR) received in the Office Internals Inspection and Flaw Evaluation Visiting’’ ; to the Committee on Finance. of the President of the Senate on March 17, Guidelines’ ’’ (BWRVIP–18, Revision 2) re- EC–4806. A communication from the Chair 2016; to the Committee on Environment and ceived in the Office of the President of the of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Ac- Public Works. Senate on March 15, 2016; to the Committee cess Commission, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4791. A communication from the Direc- on Environment and Public Works. law, a report entitled ‘‘Report to Congress on tor of the Regulatory Management Division, EC–4798. A communication from the Dep- Medicaid and CHIP’’ ; to the Committee on Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- uty Assistant Administrator, National Ma- Finance. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- rine Fisheries Service, Department of Com- EC–4807. A communication from the Chair- titled ‘‘Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: merce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- man, Medicare Payment Advisory Commis- The 2016 Critical Use Exemption from the port of a rule entitled ‘‘Interagency Coopera- sion, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report Phaseout of Methyl Bromide; Correction’’ tion—Endangered Species Act of 1973, as entitled ‘‘Report to the Congress: Medicare (FRL No. 9943–91–OAR) received in the Office Amended; Definition of Destruction or Ad- Payment Policy’’ ; to the Committee on Fi- of the President of the Senate on March 17, verse Modification of Critical Habitat’’ nance. 2016; to the Committee on Environment and (RIN0648–BB80) received in the Office of the EC–4808. A communication from the Chief Public Works. President of the Senate on March 16, 2016; to of the Trade and Commercial Regulations

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Apr 06, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A05AP6.008 S05APPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE April 5, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1669 Branch, Bureau of Customs and Border Pro- March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Health, ployee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation tection, Department of Homeland Security, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act); to the Committee transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of EC–4817. A communication from the Gen- on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- a rule entitled ‘‘Extension of Import Restric- eral Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Cor- fairs. tions Imposed on Certain Archaeological and poration, transmitting, pursuant to law, the EC–4827. A communication from the Chair- Ethnological Materials from the Republic of report of a rule entitled ‘‘Allocation of As- man of the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor- Colombia’’ (RIN1515–AE08) received in the sets in Single-Employer Plans; Benefits Pay- poration, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Office of the President of the Senate on able in Terminated Single-Employer Plans; Corporation’s fiscal year 2015 report relative March 17, 2016; to the Committee on Finance. Interest Assumptions for Valuing and Pay- to the Notification and Federal Employee EC–4809. A communication from the Assist- ing Benefits’’ (29 CFR Part 4022 and 29 CFR Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Part 4044) received during adjournment of 2002 (No FEAR Act); to the Committee on Health and Human Services, transmitting, the Senate in the Office of the President of Homeland Security and Governmental Af- pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Annual the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- fairs. Report to Congress on the Open Payments mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and EC–4828. A communication from the Assist- Program’’ ; to the Committee on Finance. Pensions. ant Director for Legislative Affairs, Con- EC–4810. A communication from the Assist- EC–4818. A communication from the Direc- sumer Financial Protection Bureau, trans- ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- tor, Office of Labor-Management Standards, mitting, pursuant to law, the Bureau’s fiscal ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to Department of Labor, transmitting, pursu- year 2015 report relative to the Notification law, a report relative to the extending and ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘In- and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination amending the Memorandum of Under- terpretation of the ‘Advice’ Exemption in and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act); standing between the Government of the Section 203(c) of the Labor-Management Re- to the Committee on Homeland Security and United States of America and the Govern- porting and Disclosure Act’’ (RIN1215–AB79 Governmental Affairs. ment of the Italian Republic Concerning the and RIN1245–AA03) received during adjourn- EC–4829. A communication from the Direc- Imposition of Import Restrictions on Cat- ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- tor, Government Publishing Office, transmit- egories of Archaeological Material Rep- dent of the Senate on March 24, 2016; to the ting, pursuant to law, the Office’s Annual resenting the Pre-Classical, Classical and Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Report for fiscal year 2015; to the Committee Imperial Roman Periods of Italy; to the Pensions. on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Committee on Foreign Relations. EC–4819. A communication from the Board fairs. EC–4811. A communication from the Assist- of Trustees, National Railroad Retirement EC–4830. A communication from the Gen- ant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, Depart- Investment Trust, transmitting, pursuant to eral Counsel, Government Accountability Of- ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to the law, the annual management report relative fice, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Of- Case-Zablocki Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b, as amended, to its operations and financial condition for fice’s fiscal year 2015 annual report relative the report of the texts and background state- fiscal year 2015; to the Committee on Health, to the Notification and Federal Employee ments of international agreements, other Education, Labor, and Pensions. Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of than treaties (List 2016–0026 - 2016–0031); to EC–4820. A communication from the Assist- 2002 (No FEAR Act); to the Committee on the Committee on Foreign Relations. ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Homeland Security and Governmental Af- EC–4812. A communication from the Sec- Health and Human Services, transmitting, fairs. retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Fiscal EC–4831. A communication from the Chief ant to Executive Order 13313 of July 31, 2003, Year 2015 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program of the Border Security Regulations Branch, a semiannual report detailing telecommuni- Parts A and B Supplemental Awards Report Customs and Border Protection, Department cations-related payments made to Cuba pur- to Congress’’ ; to the Committee on Health, of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- suant to Department of the Treasury li- Education, Labor, and Pensions. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled censes; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- EC–4821. A communication from the Assist- ‘‘Flights to and From Cuba’’ ((RIN1651–AB10) tions. ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of (CBP Dec. 16–06)) received in the Office of the EC–4813. A communication from the Assist- Health and Human Services, transmitting, President of the Senate on March 17, 2016; to ant General Counsel, General Law, Ethics, pursuant to law, a performance report rel- the Committee on Homeland Security and and Regulation, Department of the Treasury, ative to the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Governmental Affairs. transmitting, pursuant to law, a report rel- Act for fiscal year 2015; to the Committee on EC–4832. A communication from the Asso- ative to a vacancy in the position of Assist- Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. ciate Administrator, Office of Congressional ant Secretary (Financial Markets), Depart- EC–4822. A communication from the Assist- and Intergovernmental Affairs, General ment of the Treasury, received during ad- ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Services Administration, transmitting, pur- journment of the Senate in the Office of the Health and Human Services, transmitting, suant to law, a report to Congress identi- President of the Senate on March 23, 2016; to pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Fiscal fying the 9–1–1 capabilities of the multi-line the Committee on Finance. Year 2015 Annual Report on FDA Advisory telephone system in use by all federal agen- EC–4814. A communication from the Direc- Committee Vacancies and Public Disclo- cies in all federal buildings and properties; tor of Regulations and Policy Management sures’’ ; to the Committee on Health, Edu- to the Committee on Homeland Security and Staff, Food and Drug Administration, De- cation, Labor, and Pensions. Governmental Affairs. partment of Health and Human Services, EC–4823. A communication from the Assist- EC–4833. A communication from the Dis- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- a rule entitled ‘‘Patient Engagement Advi- Health and Human Services, transmitting, suant to law, a report entitled ‘‘District of sory Committee’’ (Docket No. FDA–2016–N– pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Fiscal Columbia Agencies’ Compliance with Fiscal 0001) received during adjournment of the Year 2014 Report to Congress: Older Ameri- Year 2016 Small Business Enterprise Expend- Senate in the Office of the President of the cans Act’’ ; to the Committee on Health, iture Goals through the First Quarter of Fis- Senate on March 21, 2016; to the Committee Education, Labor, and Pensions. cal Year 2016’’ ; to the Committee on Home- on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. EC–4824. A communication from the Assist- land Security and Governmental Affairs. EC–4815. A communication from the Direc- ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of EC–4834. A communication from the Dis- tor of Regulations and Policy Management Health and Human Services, transmitting, trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- Staff, Food and Drug Administration, De- pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Fiscal suant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Department partment of Health and Human Services, Year 2013 Report to Congress on Community of Youth Rehabilitation Services Can transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of Services Block Grant Discretionary Activi- Strengthen the Management of DC a rule entitled ‘‘Use of Materials Derived ties - Community Economic Development YouthLink, Community-Based Residential From Cattle in Human Food and Cosmetics’’ and Rural Community Development Pro- Facilities, and Performance Reporting’’ ; to ((RIN0910–AF47) (Docket No. FDA–2004–N– grams’’ ; to the Committee on Health, Edu- the Committee on Homeland Security and 0188)) received during adjournment of the cation, Labor, and Pensions. Governmental Affairs. Senate in the Office of the President of the EC–4825. A communication from the Officer EC–4835. A communication from the Dis- Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Committee for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Depart- trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. ment of Homeland Security, transmitting, suant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Real Prop- EC–4816. A communication from the Direc- pursuant to law, the Department’s fiscal erty Tax Appeals Commission Has Improved tor of Regulations and Policy Management year 2015 report relative to the Notification the Appeal Assessment Process’’ ; to the Staff, Food and Drug Administration, De- and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- partment of Health and Human Services, and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act); ernmental Affairs. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of to the Committee on Homeland Security and EC–4836. A communication from the Assist- a rule entitled ‘‘Investigational New Drug Governmental Affairs. ant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, De- Applications for Biological Products; Bio- EC–4826. A communication from the Chair- partment of State, transmitting, pursuant to equivalence Regulations; Technical Amend- man, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review law, the Department’s fiscal year 2015 report ment’’ (Docket No. FDA–2016–N–0011) re- Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, relative to the Notification and Federal Em- ceived during adjournment of the Senate in the Commission’s fiscal year 2015 report rel- ployee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation the Office of the President of the Senate on ative to the Notification and Federal Em- Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act); to the Committee

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A communication from the Assist- annual report relative to the Notification law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- ant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, De- and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- partment of State, transmitting, pursuant to and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act); planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– law, the Department’s fiscal year 2014 report to the Committee on Homeland Security and 2015–3146)) received during adjournment of relative to the Notification and Federal Em- Governmental Affairs. the Senate in the Office of the President of ployee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation EC–4847. A communication from the Senior the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act); to the Committee Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- for Personnel and Readiness, transmitting, tation. fairs. pursuant to law, the Federal Voting Assist- EC–4856. A communication from the Man- EC–4838. A communication from the Sec- ance Program’s 2015 Annual Report to Con- agement and Program Analyst, Federal retary to the Board, Railroad Retirement gress; to the Committee on Rules and Ad- Aviation Administration, Department of Board, transmitting, pursuant to law, the ministration. Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Board’s fiscal year 2015 annual report rel- EC–4848. A communication from the Co- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- ative to the Notification and Federal Em- Chief Privacy Officers, Federal Election ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- ployee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act); to the Committee the Commission’s Privacy Report for fiscal 2016–3981)) received during adjournment of on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- year 2015; to the Committee on Rules and the Senate in the Office of the President of fairs. Administration. the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- EC–4839. A communication from the Dis- EC–4849. A communication from the Man- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- agement and Program Analyst, Federal tation. suant to law, a report entitled ‘‘The Dis- Aviation Administration, Department of EC–4857. A communication from the Man- trict’s Management Contract with The Com- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to agement and Program Analyst, Federal munity Partnership for the Prevention of law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- Aviation Administration, Department of Homelessness was not Properly Managed in ness Directives; Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Fiscal Year 2014 to Ensure Performance Con- AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2014–0529)) received law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- sistent with Contract Terms’’; to the Com- during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- fice of the President of the Senate on March planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– mental Affairs. 29, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, 2016–4222)) received during adjournment of EC–4840. A communication from the Dep- Science, and Transportation. the Senate in the Office of the President of uty Archivist of the United States, National EC–4850. A communication from the Man- the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- Archives and Records Administration, trans- agement and Program Analyst, Federal mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Aviation Administration, Department of tation. entitled ‘‘Nixon Administration Presidential Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4858. A communication from the Man- Historical Materials’’ (RIN3095–AB86) re- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- agement and Program Analyst, Federal ceived during adjournment of the Senate in ness Directives; Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– Aviation Administration, Department of the Office of the President of the Senate on AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–0243)) received Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to March 21, 2016; to the Committee on Home- during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- land Security and Governmental Affairs. fice of the President of the Senate on March ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- EC–4841. A communication from the Regu- 29, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– lations Coordinator, Indian Health Service, Science, and Transportation. 2015–0248)) received during adjournment of Department of Health and Human Services, EC–4851. A communication from the Man- the Senate in the Office of the President of transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of agement and Program Analyst, Federal the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- a rule entitled ‘‘Payment for Physician and Aviation Administration, Department of mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Other Health Care Professional Services Pur- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to tation. chased by Indian Health Programs and Med- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- EC–4859. A communication from the Man- ical Charges Associated with Non-Hospital- ness Directives; Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– agement and Program Analyst, Federal Based Care’’ (RIN0917–AA12) received during AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–3149)) received Aviation Administration, Department of adjournment of the Senate in the Office of during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the President of the Senate on March 18, fice of the President of the Senate on March law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- 2016; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. 29, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- EC–4842. A communication from the Direc- Science, and Transportation. planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– tor, Administrative Office of the United EC–4852. A communication from the Man- 2015–1270)) received during adjournment of States Courts, transmitting, pursuant to agement and Program Analyst, Federal the Senate in the Office of the President of law, reports entitled ‘‘Executive Summary of Aviation Administration, Department of the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- the 2015 Annual Report of the Director of the Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Administrative Office of the United States law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- tation. Courts’’ and ‘‘Judicial Business of the United ness Directives; Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– EC–4860. A communication from the Man- States Courts’’ and the Uniform Resource AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–1417)) received agement and Program Analyst, Federal Locators (URLs) for the two reports; to the during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- Aviation Administration, Department of Committee on the Judiciary. fice of the President of the Senate on March Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4843. A communication from the Assist- 18, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- ant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Science, and Transportation. ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- Affairs, Department of Justice, transmit- EC–4853. A communication from the Man- planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– ting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘The agement and Program Analyst, Federal 2014–0755)) received during adjournment of Department of Justice 2015 Freedom of Infor- Aviation Administration, Department of the Senate in the Office of the President of mation Act Litigation and Compliance Re- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- port’’ and the Uniform Resource Locator law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- (URL) for the report; to the Committee on ness Directives; Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– tation. the Judiciary. AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2016–0467)) received EC–4861. A communication from the Man- EC–4844. A communication from the Assist- during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- agement and Program Analyst, Federal ant Attorney General, Office of Legislative fice of the President of the Senate on March Aviation Administration, Department of Affairs, Department of Justice, transmit- 18, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to ting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘2015 Science, and Transportation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- OVC Report to the Nation: Building Capacity EC–4854. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- Through Research, Innovation, Technology, agement and Program Analyst, Federal planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– and Training’’ and the Uniform Resource Lo- Aviation Administration, Department of 2016–3699)) received during adjournment of cator (URL) for the report; to the Committee Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of on the Judiciary. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- EC–4845. A communication from the Assist- ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- ant Attorney General, Office of Legislative planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– tation. Affairs, Department of Justice, transmit- 2015–0681)) received during adjournment of EC–4862. A communication from the Man- ting, pursuant to law, an annual report on the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal the Department’s activities during calendar the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of year 2014 relative to prison rape abatement; mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to to the Committee on the Judiciary. tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- EC–4846. A communication from the Direc- EC–4855. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- tor of Equal Employment Opportunity, Secu- agement and Program Analyst, Federal planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Apr 06, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A05AP6.010 S05APPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE April 5, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1671 2015–0249)) received during adjournment of EC–4870. A communication from the Man- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal ness Directives; M7 Aerospace LLC Air- the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to 2015–3607)) received during adjournment of tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate in the Office of the President of EC–4863. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; B–N Group Ltd. Airplanes’’ the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- agement and Program Analyst, Federal ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–4803)) mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Aviation Administration, Department of received during adjournment of the Senate tation. Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to in the Office of the President of the Senate EC–4878. A communication from the Man- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- on March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Com- agement and Program Analyst, Federal ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- merce, Science, and Transportation. Aviation Administration, Department of planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– EC–4871. A communication from the Man- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to 2015–1423)) received during adjournment of agement and Program Analyst, Federal law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate in the Office of the President of Aviation Administration, Department of ness Directives; Sikorsky Aircraft Corpora- the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to tion’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- 2016–4280)) received during adjournment of tation. ness Directives; Airbus Defense and Space the Senate in the Office of the President of EC–4864. A communication from the Man- S.A. (Formerly Known as Construcciones the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- agement and Program Analyst, Federal Aeronauticas, S.A.) Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Aviation Administration, Department of AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2016–3704)) received tation. Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- EC–4879. A communication from the Man- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- fice of the President of the Senate on March agement and Program Analyst, Federal ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- 18, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, Aviation Administration, Department of planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– Science, and Transportation. Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to 2015–2460)) received during adjournment of EC–4872. A communication from the Man- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal ness Directives; Piper Aircraft, Inc. Air- the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to 2015–7205)) received during adjournment of tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate in the Office of the President of EC–4865. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; Turbomeca S.A. Turboshaft the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- agement and Program Analyst, Federal Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Aviation Administration, Department of 2006–25970)) received during adjournment of tation. EC–4880. A communication from the Man- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– tation. 2015–1983)) received during adjournment of EC–4873. A communication from the Man- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal ness Directives; Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to 2014–0561)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- EC–4866. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; Turbomeca S.A. Turboshaft mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- agement and Program Analyst, Federal Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– Aviation Administration, Department of tation. 2015–3753)) received during adjournment of EC–4881. A communication from the Man- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- 2015–3630)) received during adjournment of EC–4874. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of 2012–1331)) received during adjournment of mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- EC–4867. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; Turbomeca S.A. Turboshaft mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- agement and Program Analyst, Federal Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– tation. Aviation Administration, Department of 2015–4070)) received during adjournment of EC–4882. A communication from the Man- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of ness Directives; The Boeing Company Air- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- 2015–2456)) received during adjournment of EC–4875. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of 2015–3778)) received during adjournment of mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- EC–4868. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; Turbomeca S.A. Turboshaft mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- agement and Program Analyst, Federal Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– tation. Aviation Administration, Department of 2015–3805)) received during adjournment of EC–4883. A communication from the Man- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of agement and Program Analyst, Federal law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of ness Directives; ATR–GIE Avions de Trans- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to port Regional Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- (Docket No. FAA–2015–1280)) received during EC–4876. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; Dassault Aviation Air- adjournment of the Senate in the Office of agement and Program Analyst, Federal planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– the President of the Senate on March 18, Aviation Administration, Department of 2015–3144)) received during adjournment of 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of Science, and Transportation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- EC–4869. A communication from the Man- ness Directives; Engine Alliance Turbofan mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- agement and Program Analyst, Federal Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– tation. Aviation Administration, Department of 2015–3713)) received during adjournment of EC–4884. A communication from the Para- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate in the Office of the President of legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Com- tration, Department of Transportation, ness Directives; B–N Group Ltd. Airplanes’’ mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–7777)) tation. a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; received during adjournment of the Senate EC–4877. A communication from the Man- Fokker Services B.V. Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– in the Office of the President of the Senate agement and Program Analyst, Federal AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–3633)) received on March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Com- Aviation Administration, Department of during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- merce, Science, and Transportation. Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to fice of the President of the Senate on March

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A communication from the Man- ment of Class E Airspace; Wilmington, OH’’ law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Establish- agement and Program Analyst, Federal ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–7486)) ment of Class E Airspace; Clinton, AR’’ Aviation Administration, Department of received during adjournment of the Senate ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–3967)) Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to in the Office of the President of the Senate received during adjournment of the Senate law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- on March 18, 2016; to the Committee on Com- in the Office of the President of the Senate ness Directives; MD Helicopters, Inc.’’ merce, Science, and Transportation. on March 18, 2016; to the Committee on Com- ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–3658)) EC–4893. A communication from the Man- merce, Science, and Transportation. received during adjournment of the Senate agement and Program Analyst, Federal EC–4901. A communication from the Man- in the Office of the President of the Senate Aviation Administration, Department of agement and Program Analyst, Federal on March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Com- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Aviation Administration, Department of merce, Science, and Transportation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Establish- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4886. A communication from the Man- ment of Class E Airspace, South Naknek, law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- agement and Program Analyst, Federal AK’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015– ment of Class E Airspace for the following Aviation Administration, Department of 3108)) received during adjournment of the Michigan Towns; Alpena, MI; and Muskegon, Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Senate in the Office of the President of the MI’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015– law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Committee 7483)) received during adjournment of the ness Directives; Airbus Helicopters (Pre- on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Senate in the Office of the President of the viously Eurocopter France) Helicopters’’ EC–4894. A communication from the Man- Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Committee ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–2568)) agement and Program Analyst, Federal on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. received during adjournment of the Senate Aviation Administration, Department of EC–4902. A communication from the Man- in the Office of the President of the Senate Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to agement and Program Analyst, Federal on March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Com- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- Aviation Administration, Department of merce, Science, and Transportation. ment of Class E Airspace for the following Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4887. A communication from the Man- North Dakota Towns; Harvey, ND, and Rolla, law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Establish- agement and Program Analyst, Federal ND’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2016– ment of Class D and Class E Airspace; Salem, Aviation Administration, Department of 3695)) received during adjournment of the OR’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015– Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Senate in the Office of the President of the 3751)) received during adjournment of the law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Committee Senate in the Office of the President of the ness Directives; Airbus Helicopters’’ on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Committee ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2015–4381)) EC–4895. A communication from the Man- on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. received during adjournment of the Senate agement and Program Analyst, Federal EC–4903. A communication from the Man- in the Office of the President of the Senate Aviation Administration, Department of agement and Program Analyst, Federal on March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Com- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Aviation Administration, Department of merce, Science, and Transportation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Establish- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4888. A communication from the Man- ment of Class E Airspace, Southbend, WA’’ law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- agement and Program Analyst, Federal ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–3771)) ment of Class D and Class E Airspace; Minot, Aviation Administration, Department of received during adjournment of the Senate ND’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015– Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to in the Office of the President of the Senate 7485)) received during adjournment of the law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- on March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Com- Senate in the Office of the President of the ness Directives; Airbus Helicopters Deutsch- merce, Science, and Transportation. Senate on March 29, 2016; to the Committee EC–4896. A communication from the Man- land GmbH Helicopters’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. agement and Program Analyst, Federal (Docket No. FAA–2016–2843)) received during EC–4904. A communication from the Man- Aviation Administration, Department of adjournment of the Senate in the Office of agement and Program Analyst, Federal Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to the President of the Senate on March 18, Aviation Administration, Department of law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to ment of Class E Airspace; Rapid City, SD’’ Science, and Transportation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–7492)) EC–4889. A communication from the Man- ment of Class D and Class E Airspace; Enid received during adjournment of the Senate agement and Program Analyst, Federal Vance AFB, OK; Enid Woodring Municipal in the Office of the President of the Senate Aviation Administration, Department of Airport, Enid OK; and Enid, OK’’ ((RIN2120– on March 18, 2016; to the Committee on Com- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–7489)) received merce, Science, and Transportation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthi- EC–4897. A communication from the Man- during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- ness Directives; General Electric Company agement and Program Analyst, Federal fice of the President of the Senate on March Turbofan Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket Aviation Administration, Department of 29, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, No. FAA–2015–2984)) received during adjourn- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Science, and Transportation. ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- EC–4905. A communication from the Man- dent of the Senate on March 29, 2016; to the ment of Class E Airspace; Minot, ND’’ agement and Program Analyst, Federal Committee on Commerce, Science, and ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–7485)) Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation. received during adjournment of the Senate Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4890. A communication from the Man- in the Office of the President of the Senate law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- agement and Program Analyst, Federal on March 18, 2016; to the Committee on Com- ment of Class D and Class E Airspace; Enid Aviation Administration, Department of merce, Science, and Transportation. Vance AFB, OK; Enid Woodring Municipal Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4898. A communication from the Man- Airport, Enid OK; and Enid, OK’’ ((RIN2120– law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- agement and Program Analyst, Federal AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–7489)) received ment of Class E Airspace for the following Aviation Administration, Department of during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- New York Towns; Ithaca, NY; Poughkeepsie, Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to fice of the President of the Senate on March NY’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015– law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- 18, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, 4532)) received during adjournment of the ment of Class E Airspace; Lynchburg, VA’’ Science, and Transportation. Senate in the Office of the President of the ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–4532)) EC–4906. A communication from the Man- Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Committee received during adjournment of the Senate agement and Program Analyst, Federal on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. in the Office of the President of the Senate Aviation Administration, Department of EC–4891. A communication from the Man- on March 18, 2016; to the Committee on Com- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to agement and Program Analyst, Federal merce, Science, and Transportation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Change of Aviation Administration, Department of EC–4899. A communication from the Man- Controlling Agency for Selected Restricted Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to agement and Program Analyst, Federal Areas; North Carolina’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- Aviation Administration, Department of (Docket No. FAA–2016–0151)) received during ment of Class E Airspace for the following Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to adjournment of the Senate in the Office of Minnesota Towns; Rochester, MN; and St. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Establish- the President of the Senate on March 18, Cloud, MN’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. ment of Class E Airspace; International 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, FAA–2015–7484)) received during adjournment Falls, MN’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. Science, and Transportation. of the Senate in the Office of the President FAA–2015–3084)) received during adjournment EC–4907. A communication from the Man- of the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- of the Senate in the Office of the President agement and Program Analyst, Federal mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- of the Senate on March 18, 2016; to the Com- Aviation Administration, Department of tation. mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to EC–4892. A communication from the Man- tation. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- agement and Program Analyst, Federal EC–4900. A communication from the Man- ment of United States Area Navigation Aviation Administration, Department of agement and Program Analyst, Federal (RNAV) Route Q–35; Western United States’’

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Apr 06, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A05AP6.012 S05APPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE April 5, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1673 ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–6001)) norities in clinical research, and for other XVIII of the Social Security Act to received during adjournment of the Senate purposes; to the Committee on Health, Edu- provide for the coverage of home as a in the Office of the President of the Senate cation, Labor, and Pensions. site of care for infusion therapy under on March 29, 2016; to the Committee on Com- By Ms. AYOTTE (for herself, Mr. BURR, the Medicare program. merce, Science, and Transportation. Mr. INHOFE, Mr. WICKER, Mr. MORAN, EC–4908. A communication from the Man- Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. SCOTT, Mrs. CAP- S. 405 agement and Program Analyst, Federal ITO, and Mr. DAINES): At the request of Ms. MURKOWSKI, the Aviation Administration, Department of S. 2746. A bill to establish various prohibi- name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to tions regarding the transfer or release of in- PORTMAN) was added as a cosponsor of law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Establish- dividuals detained at United States Naval S. 405, a bill to protect and enhance op- ment of Multiple Air Traffic Services (ATS) Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and with portunities for recreational hunting, Routes; Western United States’’ ((RIN2120– respect to United States Naval Station, fishing, and shooting, and for other AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2015–1345)) received Guantanamo Bay, and for other purposes; to during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- the Committee on Armed Services. purposes. fice of the President of the Senate on March By Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, S. 510 18, 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, Mr. CASEY, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, and Mr. At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the Science, and Transportation. FRANKEN): name of the Senator from Wyoming EC–4909. A communication from the Man- S. 2747. A bill to amend the Older Ameri- (Mr. ENZI) was added as a cosponsor of agement and Program Analyst, Federal cans Act of 1965 to authorize Federal assist- S. 510, a bill to require Senate con- Aviation Administration, Department of ance to State adult protective services pro- firmation of Inspector General of the Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to grams, and for other purposes; to the Com- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Bureau of Consumer Financial Protec- ment of Air Traffic Service (ATS) Routes; Pensions. tion, and for other purposes. Northeast United States’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) By Ms. BALDWIN: S. 578 (Docket No. FAA–2015–3361)) received during S. 2748. A bill to amend the Public Health At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the adjournment of the Senate in the Office of Service Act to increase the number of per- name of the Senator from Connecticut the President of the Senate on March 18, manent faculty in palliative care at accred- (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) was added as a co- 2016; to the Committee on Commerce, ited allopathic and osteopathic medical sponsor of S. 578, a bill to amend title Science, and Transportation. schools, nursing schools, social work schools, XVIII of the Social Security Act to en- f and other programs, including physician as- sistant education programs, to promote edu- sure more timely access to home REPORTS OF COMMITTEES cation and research in palliative care and health services for Medicare bene- The following reports of committees hospice, and to support the development of ficiaries under the Medicare program. were submitted: faculty careers in academic palliative medi- At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the cine; to the Committee on Health, Edu- name of the Senator from Montana By Mr. ALEXANDER, from the Committee cation, Labor, and Pensions. on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, (Mr. TESTER) was added as a cosponsor By Ms. AYOTTE (for herself, Ms. COL- with an amendment in the nature of a sub- of S. 578, supra. LINS, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. KAINE, Ms. stitute: S. 804 CANTWELL, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. SCHATZ, S. 1077. A bill to provide for expedited de- Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. WARNER, Mr. At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the velopment of and priority review for break- KING, and Mr. ROUNDS): names of the Senator from Arkansas through devices. S. 2749. A bill to provide an exception from (Mr. COTTON), the Senator from Ne- S. 1597. A bill to enhance patient engage- the reduced flat rate per diem for long term ment in the medical product development braska (Mrs. FISCHER) and the Senator temporary duty under Joint Travel Regula- process, and for other purposes. from Oregon (Mr. MERKLEY) were added tions for civilian employees of naval ship- S. 1767. A bill to amend the Federal Food, as cosponsors of S. 804, a bill to amend yards traveling for direct labor in support of Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to com- title XVIII of the Social Security Act off-yard work, and for other purposes; to the bination products, and for other purposes. Committee on Armed Services. to specify coverage of continuous glu- S. 1878. A bill to extend the pediatric pri- cose monitoring devices, and for other f ority review voucher program. purposes. S. 2030. A bill to allow the sponsor of an ap- SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND plication for the approval of a targeted drug S. 857 to rely upon data and information with re- SENATE RESOLUTIONS At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the spect to such sponsor’s previously approved The following concurrent resolutions name of the Senator from Nebraska targeted drugs. and Senate resolutions were read, and (Mrs. FISCHER) was added as a cospon- S. 2503. A bill to establish requirements for referred (or acted upon), as indicated: sor of S. 857, a bill to amend title XVIII reusable medical devices relating to cleaning By Mr. BURR (for himself, Mrs. BOXER, of the Social Security Act to provide instructions and validation data, and for for coverage under the Medicare pro- other purposes. and Mr. HELLER): S. 2511. A bill to improve Federal require- S. Res. 413. A resolution designating April gram of an initial comprehensive care ments relating to the development and use of 5, 2016, as ‘‘Gold Star Wives Day’’; considered plan for Medicare beneficiaries newly electronic health records technology. and agreed to. diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and f f related dementias, and for other pur- ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS poses. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND At the request of Ms. STABENOW, the JOINT RESOLUTIONS S. 134 name of the Senator from New Jersey The following bills and joint resolu- At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the (Mr. BOOKER) was added as a cosponsor tions were introduced, read the first name of the Senator from New York of S. 857, supra. and second times by unanimous con- (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- S. 901 sent, and referred as indicated: sponsor of S. 134, a bill to amend the At the request of Mr. MORAN, the By Mr. GRASSLEY: Controlled Substances Act to exclude name of the Senator from Rhode Island S. 2743. A bill to amend the Agricultural industrial hemp from the definition of (Mr. WHITEHOUSE) was added as a co- Act of 2014 to repeal a loophole for payment marihuana, and for other purposes. sponsor of S. 901, a bill to establish in limitations; to the Committee on Agri- S. 198 the Department of Veterans Affairs a culture, Nutrition, and Forestry. At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the By Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mr. national center for research on the di- name of the Senator from Michigan ENZI): agnosis and treatment of health condi- S. 2744. A bill to amend the Public Health (Mr. PETERS) was added as a cosponsor tions of the descendants of veterans ex- Service Act to protect the privacy of individ- of S. 198, a bill to amend the Internal posed to toxic substances during serv- uals who are research subjects, and for other Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the ice in the Armed Forces that are re- purposes; to the Committee on Health, Edu- rules relating to inverted corporations. lated to that exposure, to establish an cation, Labor, and Pensions. S. 275 advisory board on such health condi- By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Ms. WAR- At the request of Mr. ISAKSON, the tions, and for other purposes. REN, Mr. KIRK, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. ALEXANDER, and Mrs. MURRAY): name of the Senator from Pennsyl- S. 1252 S. 2745. A bill to amend the Public Health vania (Mr. CASEY) was added as a co- At the request of Mr. CASEY, the Service Act to promote the inclusion of mi- sponsor of S. 275, a bill to amend title name of the Senator from Minnesota

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Apr 06, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A05AP6.013 S05APPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1674 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 5, 2016 (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a co- (Mrs. BOXER) and the Senator from (Mr. ALEXANDER), the Senator from sponsor of S. 1252, a bill to authorize a Missouri (Mrs. MCCASKILL) were added California (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) and the comprehensive strategic approach for as cosponsors of S. 2377, a bill to defeat Senator from Washington (Mrs. MUR- United States foreign assistance to de- the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria RAY) were added as cosponsors of S. veloping countries to reduce global (ISIS) and protect and secure the 2595, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- poverty and hunger, achieve food and United States, and for other purposes. enue Code of 1986 to permanently ex- nutrition security, promote inclusive, S. 2424 tend the railroad track maintenance sustainable, agricultural-led economic At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the credit. growth, improve nutritional outcomes, names of the Senator from Mississippi S. 2614 especially for women and children, (Mr. WICKER) and the Senator from At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the build resilience among vulnerable pop- Minnesota (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) were added name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. ulations, and for other purposes. as cosponsors of S. 2424, a bill to amend DURBIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 1503 the Public Health Service Act to reau- 2614, a bill to amend the Violent Crime At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, thorize a program for early detection, Control and Law Enforcement Act of the name of the Senator from New Jer- diagnosis, and treatment regarding 1994, to reauthorize the Missing Alz- sey (Mr. BOOKER) was added as a co- deaf and hard-of-hearing newborns, in- heimer’s Disease Patient Alert Pro- sponsor of S. 1503, a bill to provide for fants, and young children. gram, and to promote initiatives that enhanced Federal efforts concerning S. 2437 will reduce the risk of injury and death the prevention, education, treatment, At the request of Ms. MIKULSKI, the relating to the wandering characteris- and research activities related to Lyme name of the Senator from Rhode Island tics of some children with autism. disease and other tick-borne diseases, (Mr. WHITEHOUSE) was added as a co- S. 2646 including the establishment of a Tick- sponsor of S. 2437, a bill to amend title At the request of Mr. BURR, the name Borne Diseases Advisory Committee. 38, United States Code, to provide for of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. RISCH) S. 1555 the burial of the cremated remains of was added as a cosponsor of S. 2646, a At the request of Ms. HIRONO, the persons who served as Women’s Air bill to amend title 38, United States names of the Senator from Missouri Forces Service Pilots in Arlington Na- Code, to establish the Veterans Choice (Mrs. MCCASKILL), the Senator from tional Cemetery, and for other pur- Program of the Department of Vet- Vermont (Mr. LEAHY), the Senator poses. erans Affairs to improve health care from Delaware (Mr. CARPER), the Sen- S. 2457 provided to veterans by the Depart- ator from Connecticut (Mr. At the request of Mr. WARNER, the ment, and for other purposes. BLUMENTHAL), the Senator from name of the Senator from Montana S. 2676 Vermont (Mr. SANDERS) and the Sen- (Mr. TESTER) was added as a cosponsor At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the ator from Michigan (Mr. PETERS) were of S. 2457, a bill to amend the Internal name of the Senator from California added as cosponsors of S. 1555, a bill to Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the ex- (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- award a Congressional Gold Medal, col- clusion for employer-provided edu- sponsor of S. 2676, a bill to provide for lectively, to the Filipino veterans of cation assistance to employer pay- the adjustment of the debts of the World War II, in recognition of the ments of student loans. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and for dedicated service of the veterans dur- S. 2473 other purposes. ing World War II. At the request of Mr. SULLIVAN, the S. 2693 S. 1659 name of the Senator from Wisconsin At the request of Mr. ALEXANDER, the (Ms. BALDWIN) was added as a cospon- name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. sor of S. 2473, a bill to direct the Sec- ISAKSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. retary of Veterans Affairs to carry out 2693, a bill to ensure the Equal Employ- DONNELLY) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1659, a bill to amend the Voting a pilot program to provide veterans the ment Opportunity Commission allo- Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria option of using an alternative appeals cates its resources appropriately by for determining which States and polit- process to more quickly determine prioritizing complaints of discrimina- ical subdivisions are subject to section claims for disability compensation, and tion before implementing the proposed 4 of the Act, and for other purposes. for other purposes. revision of the employer information S. 2548 report EEO–1, and for other purposes. S. 1715 At the request of Mr. KAINE, the S. 2722 At the request of Mr. HOEVEN, the names of the Senator from Pennsyl- At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the name of the Senator from Missouri vania (Mr. CASEY) and the Senator name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. (Mr. BLUNT) was added as a cosponsor from Delaware (Mr. COONS) were added CRAPO) was added as a cosponsor of S. of S. 1715, a bill to require the Sec- as cosponsors of S. 2548, a bill to estab- 2722, a bill to amend the Home Owners’ retary of the Treasury to mint coins in lish the 400 Years of African-American Loan Act to allow Federal savings as- commemoration of the 400th anniver- History Commission, and for other pur- sociations to elect to operate as na- sary of the arrival of the Pilgrims. poses. tional banks, and for other purposes. S. 1776 S. 2592 S. RES. 349 At the request of Mr. ROUNDS, his At the request of Mr. MERKLEY, the At the request of Mr. ROBERTS, the name was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from California names of the Senator from Maryland 1776, a bill to enhance tribal road safe- (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- (Ms. MIKULSKI), the Senator from Vir- ty, and for other purposes. sponsor of S. 2592, a bill to amend the ginia (Mr. WARNER) and the Senator S. 2311 Fair Credit Reporting Act by insti- from Delaware (Mr. COONS) were added At the request of Mrs. GILLIBRAND, tuting a 180-day waiting period before as cosponsors of S. Res. 349, a resolu- the name of the Senator from Montana medical debt will be reported on a con- tion congratulating the Farm Credit (Mr. TESTER) was added as a cosponsor sumer’s credit report and removing System on the celebration of its 100th of S. 2311, a bill to amend the Public paid-off and settled medical debts from anniversary. Health Service Act to authorize the credit reports that have been fully paid S. RES. 394 Secretary of Health and Human Serv- or settled, to amend the Fair Debt Col- At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the ices, acting through the Administrator lection Practices Act by providing for a names of the Senator from Florida (Mr. of the Health Resources and Services timetable for verification of medical NELSON) and the Senator from Con- Administration, to make grants to debt and to increase the efficiency of necticut (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) were added States for screening and treatment for credit markets with more perfect infor- as cosponsors of S. Res. 394, a resolu- maternal depression. mation, and for other purposes. tion recognizing the 195th anniversary S. 2377 S. 2595 of the independence of Greece and cele- At the request of Mr. REID, the At the request of Mr. CRAPO, the brating democracy in Greece and the names of the Senator from California names of the Senator from Tennessee United States.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Apr 06, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A05AP6.017 S05APPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE April 5, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1675 S. RES. 406 AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND (3) with a maximum gross takeoff weight that exceeds 75,000 pounds. At the request of Ms. MIKULSKI, the PROPOSED name of the Senator from Wyoming SA 3458. Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. f (Mr. ENZI) was added as a cosponsor of TOOMEY) submitted an amendment intended AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO S. Res. 406, a resolution recognizing the to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 636, to MEET amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to Girl Scouts of the United States of COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES America on the 100th Anniversary of permanently extend increased expensing lim- itations, and for other purposes; which was Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest ordered to lie on the table. unanimous consent that the Com- award in the Girl Scouts, which has SA 3459. Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. mittee on Armed Services be author- stood for excellence and leadership for TOOMEY) submitted an amendment intended ized to meet during the session of the girls everywhere since 1916. to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 636, Senate on April 5, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without f f objection, it is so ordered. TEXT OF AMENDMENTS COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS SA 3458. Mr. CASEY (for himself and AFFAIRS Mr. TOOMEY) submitted an amendment Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask intended to be proposed by him to the unanimous consent that the Com- bill H.R. 636, to amend the Internal mittee on Banking, Housing, and SENATE RESOLUTION 413—DESIG- Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently Urban Affairs be authorized to meet NATING APRIL 5, 2016, AS ‘‘GOLD extend increased expensing limita- during the session of the Senate on STAR WIVES DAY’’ tions, and for other purposes; which April 5, 2016, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing entitled ‘‘Assessing the Effects Mr. BURR (for himself, Mrs. BOXER, was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- of Consumer Finance Regulations.’’ and Mr. HELLER) submitted the fol- lows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without lowing resolution; which was consid- Strike section 5010 and insert the fol- objection, it is so ordered. ered and agreed to: lowing: SEC. 5010. SECONDARY COCKPIT BARRIERS. COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL S. RES. 413 RESOURCES (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be Whereas the Senate honors the sacrifices cited as the ‘‘Saracini Aviation Safety Act of Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask made by the spouses and families of the fall- 2016’’. unanimous consent that the Com- en members of the Armed Forces of the (b) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than one year mittee on Energy and Natural Re- United States; after the date of the enactment of this Act, sources be authorized to meet during Whereas Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. the Administrator of the Federal Aviation the session of the Senate on April 5, represents the spouses and families of the Administration shall issue an order requir- 2016, at 10 a.m., in room SD–366 of the members and veterans of the Armed Forces ing installation of a secondary cockpit bar- of the United States who have died on active rier on each aircraft that is manufactured Dirksen Senate Office Building. duty or as a result of a service-connected dis- for delivery to a passenger air carrier in the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ability; United States operating under the provisions objection, it is so ordered. Whereas the primary mission of Gold Star of part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regu- COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Wives of America, Inc. is to provide services, lations. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask support, and friendship to the spouses of the unanimous consent that the Com- fallen members and veterans of the Armed Mr. CASEY (for himself and SA 3459. mittee on Foreign Relations be author- Forces of the United States; Mr. TOOMEY) submitted an amendment ized to meet during the session of the Whereas in 1945, Gold Star Wives of Amer- intended to be proposed by him to the Senate on April 5, 2016, at 10 a.m., to ica, Inc. was organized with the help of Elea- bill H.R. 636, to amend the Internal nor Roosevelt to assist the families left be- conduct a hearing entitled ‘‘Recent Ira- Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently hind by the fallen members and veterans of nian Actions and Implementation of extend increased expensing limita- the Armed Forces of the United States; the Nuclear Deal.’’ Whereas the first meeting of Gold Star tions, and for other purposes; which The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Wives of America, Inc. was held on April 5, was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- objection, it is so ordered. 1945; lows: COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND Whereas April 5, 2016, marks the 71st anni- Strike section 5010 and insert the fol- GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS versary of the first meeting of Gold Star lowing: Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask Wives of America, Inc.; SEC. 5010. SECONDARY COCKPIT BARRIERS. Whereas the members and veterans of the unanimous consent that the Com- (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be Armed Forces of the United States bear the cited as the ‘‘Saracini Aviation Safety Act of mittee on Homeland Security and Gov- burden of protecting the freedom of the peo- 2016’’. ernmental Affairs be authorized to ple of the United States; and (b) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days meet during the session of the Senate Whereas the sacrifices of the families of after the date of the enactment of this Act, on April 5, 2016, at 10 a.m., to conduct the fallen members and veterans of the the Administrator of the Federal Aviation a hearing entitled ‘‘Terror in Europe: Armed Forces of the United States should Administration shall issue an order that re- never be forgotten: Now, therefore, be it Safeguarding U.S. Citizens at Home quires— and Abroad.’’ Resolved, That the Senate— (1) on each covered aircraft the installa- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (1) designates April 5, 2016, as ‘‘Gold Star tion of a barrier, other than the cockpit Wives Day’’; door, that prevents access to the flight deck objection, it is so ordered. (2) honors and recognizes— of the aircraft; and SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE (A) the contributions of the members of (2) for a covered aircraft— Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask Gold Star Wives of America, Inc.; and (A) that is equipped with a cockpit door, unanimous consent that the Select (B) the dedication of the members of Gold that the barrier required under paragraph (1) Committee on Intelligence be author- Star Wives of America, Inc. to the members remain locked while— ized to meet during the session of the and veterans of the Armed Forces of the (i) the aircraft is in flight; and Senate on April 5, 2016, at 2:30 p.m., in United States; and (ii) the cockpit door separating the flight (3) encourages the people of the United deck and the passenger area is open; and room SH–219 of the Hart Senate Office States to observe Gold Star Wives Day to (B) that is not equipped with a cockpit Building. promote awareness of— door, that the barrier required under para- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (A) the contributions and dedication of the graph (1) remain locked as determined appro- objection, it is so ordered. members of Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. priate by the pilot in command. SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIRLAND to the members and veterans of the Armed (c) COVERED AIRCRAFT DEFINED.—In this Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask Forces of the United States; and section, the term ‘‘covered aircraft’’ means a unanimous consent that the Sub- (B) the important role that Gold Star commercial aircraft— Wives of America, Inc. plays in the lives of (1) operating under part 121 of title 14, Code committee on Airland of the Com- the spouses and families of the fallen mem- of Federal Regulations; mittee on Armed Services be author- bers and veterans of the Armed Forces of the (2) equipped with more than 75 passenger ized to meet during the session of the United States. seats; and Senate on April 5, 2016, at 2:30 p.m.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:04 Apr 06, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A05AP6.018 S05APPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1676 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 5, 2016 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without RECOGNIZING THE GIRL SCOUTS 6; that following the prayer and pledge, objection, it is so ordered. OF THE UNITED STATES OF the morning hour be deemed expired, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ANTITRUST, COMPETITION AMERICA ON THE 100TH ANNI- the Journal of proceedings be approved POLICY, AND CONSUMER RIGHTS VERSARY OF THE GIRL SCOUT to date, and the time for the two lead- Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask GOLD AWARD ers be reserved for their use later in unanimous consent that the Com- Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, the day; further, that following leader mittee on the Judiciary, Sub- I ask unanimous consent that the Judi- remarks, the Senate resume consider- committee on Antitrust, Competition ciary Committee be discharged from ation of the motion to proceed to H.R. Policy, and Consumer Rights be au- further consideration of S. Res. 406 and 636. thorized to meet during the session of the Senate proceed to its immediate The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Senate on April 5, 2016, at 2:15 p.m., consideration. objection, it is so ordered. in room SD–226 of the Dirksen Senate The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without f Office Building, to conduct a hearing objection, it is so ordered. ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. entitled ‘‘Section 5 and ‘Unfair Meth- The clerk will report the resolution TOMORROW ods of Competition’: Protecting Com- by title. petition or Increasing Uncertainty?’’ The legislative clerk read as follows: Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without if there is no further business to come A resolution (S. Res. 406) recognizing the before the Senate, I ask unanimous objection, it is so ordered. Girl Scouts of the United States of America SUBCOMMITTEE ON READINESS AND on the 100th Anniversary of the Girl Scout consent that it stand adjourned under MANAGEMENT SUPPORT Gold Award, the highest award in the Girl the previous order. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask Scouts, which has stood for excellence and There being no objection, the Senate, unanimous consent that the Sub- leadership for girls everywhere since 1916. at 5:08 p.m., adjourned until Wednes- committee on Readiness and Manage- There being no objection, the Senate day, April 6, 2016, at 10 a.m. ment Support of the Committee on proceeded to consider the resolution. f Armed Services be authorized to meet Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, NOMINATIONS during the session of the Senate on I further ask unanimous consent that April 5, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. the resolution be agreed to, the pre- Executive nominations received by The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without amble be agreed to, and the motions to the Senate: objection, it is so ordered. reconsider be considered made and laid THE JUDICIARY upon the table with no intervening ac- DAVID C. NYE, OF IDAHO, TO BE UNITED STATES DIS- f TRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO, VICE ED- tion or debate. WARD J. LODGE, RETIRED. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without EXECUTIVE SESSION IN THE ARMY objection, it is so ordered. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT The resolution (S. Res. 406) was TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY agreed to. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: EXECUTIVE CALENDAR The preamble was agreed to. To be colonel Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, (The resolution, with its preamble, is TODD E. SCHROEDER I ask unanimous consent that the Sen- printed in the RECORD of March 17, 2016, THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ate proceed to executive session to con- TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY under ‘‘Submitted Resolutions.’’) UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: sider the following nomination: Cal- f To be colonel endar No. 434 only, with no other exec- utive business in order. GOLD STAR WIVES DAY DEVON D. NUDELMAN THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY objection? I ask unanimous consent that the Sen- UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: Without objection, it is so ordered. ate proceed to the consideration of S. To be colonel The clerk will report the nomination. Res. 413, submitted earlier today. CALVIN C. THOMAS The legislative clerk read the nomi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE nation of John E. Sparks, of Virginia, clerk will report the resolution by ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: to be a Judge of the United States title. To be colonel Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces The legislative clerk read as follows: STEPHEN G. CRUYS for the term of fifteen years to expire A resolution (S. Res. 413) designating April GREGORY J. LONG on the date prescribed by law. 5, 2016, as ‘‘Gold Star Wives Day.’’ THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE There being no objection, the Senate ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: consider the nomination. proceeded to consider the resolution. To be colonel Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, I know of no further debate on the EDWARD S. BARNETT I ask unanimous consent that the reso- LYNN J. WILSON nomination. lution be agreed to, the preamble be THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE agreed to, and the motions to recon- ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: further debate? sider be considered made and laid upon If not, the question is, Will the Sen- To be colonel the table with no intervening action or ate advise and consent to the Sparks TIMOTHY G. BONNER debate. MICHAEL L. LOZANO nomination? BRIAN D. RAY The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The nomination was confirmed. OLIVER G. WASHINGTON, JR. objection, it is so ordered. JAMES S. WELCH, JR. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, The resolution (S. Res. 413) was THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT I ask unanimous consent that the mo- TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY agreed to. tion to reconsider be considered made VETERINARY CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS The preamble was agreed to. 624 AND 3064: and laid upon the table, the President (The resolution, with its preamble, is To be lieutenant colonel be immediately notified of the Senate’s printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- KRYSTAL D. BEAN action, and the Senate then resume mitted Resolutions.’’) MARLA K. BRUNELL legislative session. TROY D. CREASON f CRAIG A. KOELLER The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without LUIS A. LUGOROMAN objection, it is so ordered. MICHAEL E. MCCOWN ORDERS FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL JUSTIN R. SCHLANSER f 6, 2016 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, MEDICAL SPECIALIST CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., LEGISLATIVE SESSION I ask unanimous consent that when the SECTIONS 624 AND 3064: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Senate completes its business today, it To be lieutenant colonel ate will now resume legislative session. adjourn until 10 a.m., Wednesday, April GEORGE A. BARBEE

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MARNI B. BARNES WYLIE K. SIMMONS DARRYL M. METCALF DAVID W. BROUSSARD JONATHAN A. SINNOTT JOHN T. NUCKOLS JAMES P. BURNS PAUL J. SINQUEFIELD CHRISTOPHER G. PETERSON RYAN A. CURTIS RICHARD A. SONNIER NAOMI S. PHAYNE ANGELA R. DIEBAL JACK A. STRONG JOHN M. PITUS, JR. JOSEPH A. DOMINGUEZ III CATHERINE C. TO CORY J. A. PLOWDEN MATTHEW S. DOUGLAS CHRISTOPHER A. VANFOSSON STEPHAN C. PORTER AMELIA M. DURANSTANTON SANDRA K. VARGAS JONATHAN R. RAMSEY MICHAEL P. GARRISON MELODY A. VOSKUIL WILLIAM R. RITTER RANDOLPH S. HARRISON LATONYA R. WALKER MARY I. RIVERACOLON MICHAEL S. KIM MICHAEL T. WARNOCK, JR. AMANDA P. ROBBINS LISA N. KONITZER JESSICA J. WHALEY CHRISTOPHER M. RUTZ SCOTT J. KUSHNER LORI L. WHITNEY ALAN G. SCHILANSKY II CHRISTOPHER C. PASE SAUNDETH A. WILLIAMS KARA E. SCHMID MONTALVO I. ROSELLO JAMES H. WILSON DONALD W. SEXTON MICHAEL P. WAY NATALIE M. WILSON ANNE M. STERLING D011324 MARK H. WIMMER MICHAEL C. STORY D013078 DENISE A. YARDE GARRETT G. STOTZ THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT YOUNG J. YAUGER STEVEN A. STOVALL TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JAMA D. VANHORNESEALY NURSE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY MICHAEL L. VANZILE 3064: MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SEC- APRIL R. VERLO To be lieutenant colonel TIONS 624 AND 3064: JASON C. WILLIAMS To be lieutenant colonel D010908 GABRIELLE M. ANDREANIFABRONI IN THE NAVY CHRISTOPHER P. BAGLIO TERRYL L. AITKEN LISA M. BREECE JOSEPH C. ALEXANDER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT CAROLINE C. BRODEN BRUCE ARGUETA IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR NAVY SAVANNAH L. BROOKHART BRYAN R. BAILEY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: LAMBERT B. CABALES DONALD B. BENTLEY, JR. JON L. CAMP RYAN S. BIBLE To be lieutenant commander RHONDA L. CENTUOLO FRANK C. BLAKE JOVITTA CHANDLER AARON J. BRAXTON II DANIELLE M. BARNES SCOTT J. CHRISTIE JEFFREY K. BROWN JONATHAN W. BRUGGER JEAN COXTURNER ROBERT E. BRUTCHER PATRICK L. DALY KENNETH E. DAVIS, JR. JACOB A. BUSTOZ JAMES I. DUPREE NANCY L. DAVIS PAUL B. CARBY RACHEL M. ELLIS DAVID C. DEE ALEKSEY V. CASCOFIGUEROA RICHARD P. GOODRICH, JR. PAMELA A. DIPATRIZIO JASON M. CATES DANIEL S. IKEDA GEOFFREY W. DUNCKLEE YOUYKHAM CHANTHAVILAY MATTHEW W. KOHAN MICHAEL S. FISHER KATHLEEN M. CHUNG CHRISTOPHER D. MAROULES YVONNE J. FLEISCHMAN JEFFREY CLARK PETER P. STUHLDREHER ROBBY R. FRONDOZO JILLYEN E. CURRYMATHIS MARK R. THOMAS TAMI R. GAZERRO DENNIS J. CURTIS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT KATHLEEN M. M. GERRIE ROBERT J. CYBULSKI, JR. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY JAYNE A. GIBSON VICTOR M. DE ARMAS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: KEVIN A. GOKE JOHNNY R. DENNIS LATONA M. HARRIS CHARLES L. DOUGLAS To be commander LORI A. JOHNSON CHRISTOPHER N. DUNCAN WILLIAM A, HLAVIN PAUL D. JONES CHRISTOPHER W. ELLISON ORIN J. KENDALL NORJIM C. ESTRELLADO THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT JOHN S. KERNS SCOTT M. FARLEY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY JAMES C. KESLER JASON B. FAULKENBERRY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: ROBIN L. KLINGENSMITH ERIC R. FLEMING To be captain LORI A. LAWHORN RICHARD K. FLOYD CHERI A. LAY SAMUEL L. FRICKS MARC D. BORAN ARLENE B. LEDOUX TYRA D. FRUGE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT YETTA F. C. LEWIS MATTHEW C. GEIMAN TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY CATHARINA R. LINDSEY ELIZABETH R. GUM UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JAMES W. LING III TERESA S. HINNERICHS LESTER E. MACK JOSEPH J. HOUT To be captain CLINT R. MAGANA MICHELE E. HUDAK MARY M. MARAN PETER K. HUGGINS SCOTT P. SMITH PATRICK R. MARLOW ALISHA F. HUTSON THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT PAUL B. MASTERS DOUGLAS R. JACKSON IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE NAVY RESERVE KIMBERLI J. MATTHEWS SHONNEL A. JACKSON UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: NATACHA L. MILLER KURT H. JERKE JULIET N. MORAH TANYA M. JUAREZ To be captain XAVIER MUNOZ, JR. JOHNPAUL KELLY PHILLIP G. CYR HEATHER M. OWENS JAMES K. KENISKY BRIANNA M. PERATA INDIA B. KINES SCOTT A. PHILLIPS ALBERT E. KINKEAD f JANELL L. PULIDO MARA KREISHMANDEITRICK RUTH A. RACINE PAUL D. LANG VICTORIA P. RAGAN SHARRON D. LANKFORD CONFIRMATION STEPHANIE M. RIGBYTOMASKO ATHENA C. LOCK KATIE A. RIVERA KAREN P. LUISI Executive nomination confirmed by MARIO A. RIVERABARBOSA KENNETH C. LUTZ JERRY RIVERASANTIAGO GLEN MANGLAPUS the Senate April 5, 2016: VILMA ROJAS ANTHONY J. MARINOS THE JUDICIARY SOSA O. RUIZ JASON R. MATHRE DEBORAH G. SAVAGE DEON D. MAXWELL JOHN E. SPARKS, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE JENNIFER M. SCHENCK DAVID L. MCCASKILL, JR. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED WILLIAM T. SELLERS JAY A. MCFARLAND FORCES FOR THE TERM OF FIFTEEN YEARS TO EXPIRE GERRY P. SHARP JAMES R. MCKNIGHT ON THE DATE PRESCRIBED BY LAW.

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