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

Vol. 160 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014 No. 2 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, at 2 p.m. Senate MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014

The Senate met at 2 p.m. and was and look forward to our continuing The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objec- called to order by the President pro work together over the next 2 weeks tion is heard, and the bill will be placed tempore (Mr. LEAHY). and to see what happens after that. on the calendar. Following my remarks and those of PRAYER the Republican leader, the Senate will f The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- resume the motion to proceed to Cal- CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM fered the following prayer: endar No. 265, S. 1845, the unemploy- Let us pray. ment insurance extension. Mr. REID. I am optimistic, cau- Eternal God, our fortress, stronghold, At 3 p.m. the Senate will proceed to tiously optimistic, that the new year deliverer, shield, and refuge, we have executive session to consider the nomi- will bring a renewed spirit of coopera- entered a new year that promises op- nation of Janet Yellen to be Chairman tion to this Chamber. It is very badly portunities and challenges. Inspire our of the Board of Governors of the Fed- needed. lawmakers to seize this season of op- eral Reserve System, postcloture. The Last year the Senate passed a num- portunity, committing themselves to time until 5:30 p.m. will be equally di- ber of momentous pieces of legislation, the fulfillment of Your purposes, even vided and controlled. including comprehensive immigration, in the face of challenges. Keep them in There will be two rollcall votes at a budget agreement, and a bill to pre- the center of Your will, aligning them 5:30 p.m., first on confirmation of the vent workplace discrimination based with Your providential wisdom and Yellen nomination and second on the on sexual orientation. guiding them with Your words. Lord, motion to invoke cloture on the mo- There is so much more that needs to shield them from discouragement as tion to proceed to the unemployment be done and there is so much left un- they persevere with integrity. Finish insurance legislation. done. There has been never-ending ob- the good work You have begun, for You There could be a series of votes after struction during the entire 5 years that are both alpha and omega. that dealing with other nominations. President Obama has been President of We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen. We will keep everyone advised as to the United States. f what is going on. Setting that aside for a brief mo- f ment, today we will address two press- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ing matters held over from last year: The President pro tempore led the MEASURES PLACED ON THE CALENDAR—H.R. 2019 the nomination of Janet Yellen to be Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: head of the Federal Reserve, and exten- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Mr. REID. I am told that H.R. 2019 is sion of unemployment benefits for 1.3 United States of America, and to the Repub- at the desk and due for a second read- million Americans still struggling to lic for which it stands, one nation under God, ing. find work. Instead of celebrating the indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The beginning of the New Year on January f clerk will read the bill by title for the 1, more than 1 million Americans, in- second time. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY cluding 20,000 veterans and about 20,000 The legislative clerk read as follows: LEADER Nevadans, were left wondering how A bill (H.R. 2019) to eliminate taxpayer fi- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The nancing of political party conventions and they would feed their families and majority leader is recognized. reprogram savings to provide for a 10-year make their mortgage payments while they continue to look for jobs. Frank- f pediatric research initiative through the Common Fund administered by the National ly, most of these people aren’t making SCHEDULE Institutes of Health, and for other purposes. mortgage payments; they are renting. Mr. REID. I welcome back the Presi- Mr. REID. I object to any further They are trying to make ends meet dent pro tempore and the entire staff proceedings at this time. from month to month.

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It will be cata- We have to do more to help people They cannot get off the tune they strophic for this to happen for men and who are willing to work. We want them have been singing for such a long time: women, boys and girls. to make a living wage. The reason that ObamaCare, ObamaCare, ObamaCare. What is more, failing to extend un- is so very important is that it is be- As we speak, the American people are employment insurance won’t only be a lieved—it is not believed, polling will so much better off because of hardship for hard-working Americans, indicate this—that two-thirds of small ObamaCare. If they have a disability, it will be a drag on our economy. Al- businesses want the minimum wage to they cannot be denied health insurance lowing this important lifeline to lapse be increased. Why? Because it helps coverage. Children stay on their par- will cost 240,000 jobs. them grow their businesses. ents’ insurance until they are 26. Sen- These people who are drawing unem- When a mother or a father working iors get wellness checks, Pap smears, ployment benefits are just getting by. two or three jobs still can’t afford gro- mammograms. Many people could They have to buy groceries, maybe at ceries and rent the same month, it is a never afford that. The doughnut hole 7-Eleven. Sometimes they go to a reg- sign that something is wrong in this for prescription drugs is being closed. ular store. They have to buy gas for country. Your insurance can’t be terminated be- their vehicles. They have to buy bus Last year the top 1 percent, the very cause someone is hurt and the bill is tickets to get across town to look for a rich, took home so much money that it big. They can’t do that anymore. But job. A multitude of other things they broke a 1928 record percentagewise. In Republicans can’t get off trying to re- need are going to be eliminated. That the last 30 years the income of the top peal ObamaCare. will cost almost a quarter of a million 1 percent has increased by 300 percent 3 ObamaCare is here to stay. As we jobs. times. But what has happened in that speak, there are 9 million people who By contrast, helping Americans while same 30 years to middle-income Ameri- have insurance who didn’t have it be- they search for full-time unemploy- cans and the middle class? Their in- fore. We have about 2.5 million people ment is one of the most efficient ways come has dropped by 10 percent—300 who have gotten insurance on the Web, to support economic growth. Each dol- percent minus 10 percent. That is not including the 14 exchanges of various lar we spend on unemployment insur- good. States, including Nevada. ance benefits increases the gross do- Wages for middle-class families have We have 3 million people who have mestic product by $1.50. According to actually fallen, as I have indicated. insurance now because they are on leading economists—including Mark They have fallen by almost 10 percent their parents’ insurance and can stay Zandi, JOHN MCCAIN’s chief economic while the cost of housing, food, and gas there until they are 26. Three million adviser when he ran for President— has gone up. The rich keep getting Americans have that because of they agree that every dollar we spend richer, the poor keep getting poorer, ObamaCare, and there are about 3 mil- brings back $1.50 to our gross domestic and the middle class is under siege. lion Americans who are so poor they product. This country can’t afford to allow now qualify for Medicaid. That is 9 mil- In 2012 alone, 500,000 children were the gap between the fabulously lion people who didn’t have insurance kept out of poverty by unemployment wealthy and those who are barely get- before. benefits. That is one reason it is out- ting by—to keep their incomes going But what is the first thing the House rageous that Congress allowed this pro- up, the middle class going down, and of Representatives is doing? They are gram—which helps tens of millions of the poor getting poorer. That is why going to vote on ObamaCare. They American families with millions of Democrats this year will renew our ef- voted to repeal it at least 45 times, children get by each year—to lapse in forts to address poverty and economic which didn’t work. We now have one December is unconscionable. Today the disparities. Senator from Wisconsin who is filing a Senate has a chance to correct this ter- I congratulate wealthy Americans on lawsuit today, and he is boasting about rible omission. their good fortune. I think it is tre- this lawsuit: It is a great deal. It would Just before Christmas my colleague mendous that we are a country of op- take away the health insurance of the from Nevada, a Republican, DEAN portunity where people could make people working in this body—all of HELLER, joined with the senior Senator money. But we also believe it is time these people, plus all of our staffs who from Rhode Island, JACK REED, a Dem- for the middle class to share in the suc- aren’t here in this building. ocrat, to propose an extension of unem- cess of economic recovery. Here is what longtime Republican ployment insurance for 1.3 million (Mr. MURPHY assumed the Chair.) House Member JIM SENSENBRENNER Americans who lost benefits this past The Presiding Officer has spent a from Wisconsin—with whom I and the week. I commend these two Senators great deal of time on the Senate floor Presiding Officer had the good fortune for their compassionate stance on this trying to bring to the attention of the to serve in the House of Representa- issue. The Senate will vote on moving American people what is going on in tives—said: forward on this Reed-Heller bill this the Republican-dominated Congress. ‘‘Senator Johnson’s lawsuit is an unfortu- evening. I hope a few reasonable and The Presiding Officer hasn’t come to nate political stunt. I am committed to re- empathetic Republicans will join my the floor and berated Republicans pealing ObamaCare, but the employer con- colleague from Nevada Mr. HELLER and about the fact that 90 percent of the tribution he’s attacking is nothing more help us advance this bill today. American people believe that if a per- than a standard benefit that most private Passing this measure is one of the son has mental disabilities, severe and all federal employees receive—including the President, Sensenbrenner said. best things we can do for our economy, mental problems or is a criminal, that ‘‘uccess in the suit will mean that Con- and it is cost-effective. It is cost-effec- they shouldn’t be able to buy a gun gress will lose some of its best staff and will tive in so many different ways, but it is without a background check. Ninety be staffed primarily by recent college grad- cost-effective to immediately address percent of the American people agree uates who are still on their parents’ insur- the worst consequences of growing in- with the Presiding Officer. ance.’’ come inequality in this Nation. Members of Congress, or Republicans, Sensenbrenner is a longtime House Mem- Another way to raise millions of disagree, but it is the same on the ber and former chairman of the Judiciary Americans out of poverty is to increase other two issues I have talked about— Committee. He is expressing concerns that were shared publicly and privately by many the minimum wage and make it a liv- minimum wage. The vast majority of lawmakers and senior aides about the pos- ing wage. People can work two jobs, Americans agree with this, Democrats, sible ‘‘brain drain’’ from taking away the work so hard—80 hours a week, and Independents, and even Republicans. employer contribution. Several Republicans, some are working over 100 hours a Unemployment insurance is the same. led by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, have

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It is one of those rare around since the 1930s, and it has his- legislating rather than litigating as our cases where the AFL–CIO and the U.S. torically received bipartisan support. country is facing big problems that must be Chamber of Commerce came together Indeed, I am pleased that Senator addressed by Congress—not the courts. All because it would dramatically improve HELLER has joined me. So this is a bi- Republicans want to repeal ObamaCare, but the economy, dramatically improve partisan bill, also. This is something this politically motivated lawsuit only takes we have to deal with today. It is a huge public attention away from how bad all of the wages of people, and it would lower ObamaCare really is and focuses it on a triv- the deficit. It is a no-brainer. That is crisis. As I said, 1.3 million Americans ial issue. Fortunately, Senator Johnson’s why we came together in the Senate. have lost their benefits as of December suit is likely frivolous and will not achieve With the leadership of the distin- 28. But we can expect through this next the result he’s seeking.’’ guished Senator from Nevada and oth- year approximately 3 million more to As I stated in my remarks today, we ers, Republicans and Democrats, we exhaust their State benefits—typically have been able to get a few things came together and we passed it. 26 weeks—and not have this Federal done, but we have been unable to get so They should take it up. If they want long-term benefit available to them. This has always received support on many important things done because to make some changes, do so. I am a bipartisan basis because it is not a the goal for the last 5 years by the Re- ready to go to conference on it at a mo- red State and blue State issue. It is publicans in the Congress—not Repub- ment’s notice so we can get this bill something which impacts this entire licans in the country but Republicans passed and on the President’s desk. country. It impacts people who work. in the Congress—has been to do every- We have shown we could do it before. You cannot get this program unless thing they could to make President We did it with the Violence Against you have a job and, through no fault of Obama look bad. Remember, my coun- Women Act, which they at first refused your own, you have lost that job. In terpart said his No. 1 goal in the last to take up in the House. Even the this economy, people who lose jobs are Congress was to do everything he could White House was backing off some of competing with many others for very to defeat Obama from being reelected. the parts we added to it here because few jobs. Well, he was elected overwhelmingly, they were afraid it might not go These 1.3 million Americans were so that was a futile effort. through. But Senator CRAPO and I pushed off an economic cliff just 9 days We need to get back to working to- stuck together. A bipartisan group in ago. This vital lifeline would help them gether, as we have always done—until the House stuck together, and they cope. They were not let go from their this effort which has been made to dis- passed it in the House. We passed it, jobs because of something they did. It parage and damage in any way they and it went into law. We added sexual was through no fault of their own, and can the President of the United States trafficking. It is a good bill. they are searching for work in an econ- and, in the process, our country. We can do it, if people want to. But omy which has nearly three job seekers The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- if we take the position that we cannot for every one job opening. ator from Vermont. do anything, that we just want to be Illustrative of this is a front-page Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, if I may naysayers and nihilistic about govern- story in the Washington Post today. In take one moment while the distin- ment, then, of course, we don’t do any- Maryland, they are opening up a new guished leader is here. thing. But here is a way to get the dairy operation, and what this story I wish to commend Senator REID for economy going. Here is a way to im- speaks to is something that is hap- his cooperation. He has worked very prove our Nation. pening across this country in so many hard to bring this together. We had a Frankly, I just wanted to stand and places: very complex and very extensive immi- compliment the distinguished majority When the Good Humor ice cream plant gration bill, with 300 amendments filed leader for speaking of what we can do, closed here two summers ago, more than 400 in the Judiciary Committee. After it and I hope we do. jobs and a stable, punch-the-clock way of life went through the committee, Senator melted away, another in a string of plant f closings that have battered this once-proud REID worked hard to get time on the manufacturing town. floor and then we passed it with an RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME I would add parenthetically that in overwhelming bipartisan majority. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Connecticut, Rhode Island, west coast, Mr. REID. Would my friend yield for the previous order, the leadership time east coast, north and south, we have a question? is reserved. seen this happen. Manufacturing plants Mr. LEAHY. Of course. f close, move overseas, and shut down Mr. REID. Through the Chair to my entirely. friend, the President pro tempore of EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT the Senate, chairman of the Judiciary COMPENSATION EXTENSION The hulking plant sat vacant until a co-op ACT—MOTION TO PROCEED of Virginia dairy farmers purchased it in Committee, we hear the Republicans summer 2013 to process milk and ice cream, talking that they want to do every- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under though on a far smaller scale than the 60,000 thing they can to reduce the debt. I ask the previous order, the Senate will re- cases of ice cream that global food giant my friend, twofold: No. 1, the bible for sume consideration of the motion to Unilever churned out every day. how to reduce the debt was Bowles- proceed to S. 1845, which the clerk will Randy Inman, the board president for report. Shenandoah Family Farms, said he expected Simpson. They set a goal of $4 trillion. the plant’s revival to trigger plenty of inter- Right now we are almost at $3 trillion. The legislative clerk read as follows: est in its three dozen or so initial jobs. What We have cut spending to reduce the Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 265, S. he did not expect: 1,600 applicants and count- debt by almost $3 trillion. 1846, a bill to provide for the extension of ing—a deluge. Does my friend acknowledge that, by certain unemployment benefits, and for That is what this economy is about. passing the bill reported out of the Ju- other purposes. Skilled people lose jobs through plant diciary Committee, it would reduce the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under closures, many of them working for debt by another $1 trillion; we would the previous order, Senators are per- decades, and suddenly they see a possi- basically reach the goal of Bowles- mitted to speak for up to 10 minutes bility. But it is not one job for one ap- Simpson if they would just pass immi- each. plicant. It is 1,600 applicants for about gration reform? The Senator from Rhode Island. 36 jobs. They are trying—they are try- Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, address- Mr. REED. Mr. President, I rise ing awfully hard. But unless we pass ing the majority leader through the today to urge my colleagues to vote in this legislation this evening and begin Chair, I would note that even Grover favor of the Reed-Heller bill, which the process, we are not trying. Norquist, who is sort of the guru of would extend unemployment insurance On the economic side of the ledger, many of the Republicans, testified be- for 1.3 million Americans—very crit- moving away from the human dy- fore the Judiciary Committee that ical—for 3 months, because it is the namic, the nonpartisan Congressional

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It have taken up this unemployment in- would give up good jobs or allow them- is about $300, maybe $350 a week. They surance program and we have passed it selves to be displaced from those jobs need it to pay rent, to buy groceries, to on an emergency basis without offsets, just to collect the benefit. I believe keep the boiler running in subzero tem- so this is not a new, novel approach. In Americans really want to work and peratures, to keep their families to- fact, what is somewhat new is actually they want to get back to work as gether as they look for work. By the providing offsets for this emergency quickly as they can. They want to do way, in order to collect, you have to spending. the work for which they have been keep looking for work. I wouldn’t hesitate to say I venture trained. They want to do the work in So this program is not just fair to that if we brought up a bill that had which some of them have spent decades people who have worked hard. It is huge tax cuts, particularly for the investing not just their time but their smart for our economy. This is one of wealthiest corporations and individ- whole selves. the best fiscal tools we have available uals, there would be very little discus- One of the interesting things about to ensure that we are creating demand, sion on the other side that it should be work is that it is not only a form of creating additional jobs. As I indicated, offset, but when we are talking about a economic remuneration, it is a way we if we do not pass this, if these benefits program that helps working people, we define ourselves. Within a few minutes lapse and go away, 200,000 jobs will be have to have offsets? Traditionally, we of meeting any stranger, I bet one lost—at a time when every Member of have not done it, and we can have that question pops up: What do you do for a this body would say one of the most conversation, but in order to have it living? It is awfully difficult today for important jobs is to create more jobs appropriately and help these people, we millions of Americans to say: I am just in America. We can do that, but we have to move this legislation forward looking desperately for a job. But mil- have to start today on this procedural to give us the time to work construc- lions are. vote. tively, collaboratively, and thought- I discussed earlier that there is aca- Our bill is designed to help families fully on the program and also on pos- demic research out there that has been who have weathered the toughest part sible offsets. bandied about suggesting that, no, this of the great recession—2008, 2009, 2010— We should not be filibustering this is a ruse, an abuse. But research actu- and many were laid off about 1 year measure. We should be passing it and ally supports the notion that individ- ago. The maximum extended unem- then working collegially and coopera- uals would rather work than collect ployment benefits is 72 weeks, which tively to improve the program if we unemployment insurance. Unemploy- includes, in most cases, 26 weeks of can and, if we deem it appropriate, to ment insurance benefits, as I have indi- State benefits. So they got through the pay for the program. cated, are a fraction of what an indi- hardest part of this recession, which I have heard some of my colleagues vidual would earn in the job he had suggests to me these are good workers. say we need offsets. They are very previously. These are benefits that These are people who were struggling vague about what types of offsets. keep people whole while they are and working when unemployment was There are some suggestions about searching for work. Medicare, Social Security, or discre- much higher, and now they need help. There was a very eloquent editorial tionary spending. I do not think Amer- I believe we have to give them that by Charles Blow in the New York icans, our constituents, would want to help. Times that addressed some of these We should be working together to see those types of cuts. I think they issues. I think his words are very create an expanded economy so the are relieved, in fact, that through the thoughtful because they strike the jobs are there, so that when there is a good work of Senator MURRAY and Con- right tone. He wrote: new plant opening it is not just 36 jobs gressman RYAN, we have a budget for 2 and 1,600 applicants, so it is a lot more years and we are doing appropriations Whereas I am sure that some people will jobs. In fact, we would like to see it the bills and we are beginning to provide abuse any form of help, I’m by no means con- vinced that this is the exclusive domain of other way. We would like to see 1,600 certainty and support for the economy. the poor and put-upon. Businesses and the jobs and 1,600 applicants. We have to do I do sense, though, that my constitu- wealthy regularly take advantage of sub- that. ents know there are many people out sidies and tax loopholes without blinking an I have heard from a lot of my col- there who are struggling to find a job, eye. But somehow, when some poor people, leagues who said they cannot do this who want to work and need a little or those who unexpectedly fall on hard because they need an offset. help just to get by. That is what we times, take advantage of benefits for which This has traditionally been emer- would be doing if we pass these meas- they are eligible, it’s an indictment of the gency spending. It is emergency spend- ures this afternoon or begin the process morality and character of the poor as a whole. ing up until December 28 because we of passing them this afternoon. extended it last year on an emergency Again, I think if we are going to seri- I don’t think that is the case. I agree basis, probably creating on the order of ously talk about offsets or pro- with Mr. Blow. These are people who 200,000 jobs—just as we will lose 200,000 grammatic changes or responding to want to work, but they need some help. jobs if we do not extend it—and helping different dynamics in the economy, it We have given them help in the past, our economy overall. We have to do should not be done here on the floor and we should continue to do so. this. with dueling amendments or dueling This program has been a critical, cru- We have tailored this—Senator HELL- proposals, it should be done through cial safety net for families, helping ER and I—so that it is just 3 months, so regular order in the committee. them avoid poverty, helping them get it provides immediate assistance to un- I offered a 1-year extension that was back on their feet, helping them get employed workers. It is retroactive, so not offset, and my Republican col- back into the workforce. It has been we will pick up the people who lost leagues objected, and I completely un- with us since the Great Depression. It their benefits on December 28. But it derstand the privilege of doing that affects a whole spectrum of individ- also gives the Senate, the appropriate and the right to do that. One of the ar- uals. Indeed, if we look at 2012 data, committees, and the House the ability guments was that it should go through about 40 percent of the households that to think through this program in an or- committee. This 3-month bill does receive these benefits had an income derly way, to make changes if nec- both. It helps people immediately, and prior to job loss of between $30,000 and essary, and to look for appropriate off- it gives us the time to do our job. $75,000. These are middle-income Amer- sets if it is deemed that those offsets A few weeks ago I also came to the icans who would much rather be work- are necessary. But it will in these 3 floor to address an argument that has ing and making close to what they months ensure that people have some- been percolating throughout this dis- made before they were laid off than

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They I yield the floor and suggest the ab- mayor of New Haven on New Year’s are supporting elderly parents. They sence of a quorum. Day. Toni Harp is the first female have children. They have mortgages. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mayor of New Haven, the 50th mayor of They had a professional career—ac- clerk will call the roll. New Haven, and she will inherit a city countant, paralegal, bookkeeper. They The legislative clerk proceeded to being absolutely ravaged by gun vio- are now looking desperately for work. call the roll. lence—20 gun homicides in the last They are people who used to work in Mr. MURPHY. Madam President, I year and 67 shootings. Each one of dairy processing plants or people who ask unanimous consent that the order them hurts, but the last one was par- used to work as vice presidents for for the quorum call be rescinded. ticularly devastating. sales who are so desperate—I assume The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Javier Martinez died on December 28, some of these people, if we looked at HIRONO). Without objection, it is so or- 2013. Javier attended a local high their resumes, would be qualified to do dered. school focused on learning about and protecting the environment, Common many things other than work at a f plant, but they are looking because Ground High School. He was described EXECUTIVE SESSION they desperately need work. as one of the most outstanding partici- We hear this argument, though: Oh, pants in the 20-year history of a pro- it is a program that doesn’t work and gram put on through the school where- NOMINATION OF JANET L. YELLEN by kids spent part of their summer on the people are undeserving and we are TO BE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD not even doing them a favor by letting Block Island, a little island in between OF GOVERNORS OF THE FED- Connecticut and Rhode Island, where them have this benefit. I disagree. I ERAL RESERVE SYSTEM think we have to pass this measure. We they work to eliminate invasive spe- have to do it because it is the right The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under cies and spread the environmental gos- thing for these families, it is the right the previous order, the Senate will pro- pel to visitors to that small island. thing for our constituents, and it is the ceed to executive session to consider He was beloved by his family and by right thing for the economy. It would the following nomination, which the his friends. He was thinking of becom- be foolish, frankly, to take a program clerk will report. ing an arborist or environmental sci- that we are confident can save 200,000 The bill clerk read the nomination of entist. His community—in particular, his pretty, sleepy neighborhood in jobs, can increase GDP by .2 percent, Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be which this shooting happened—has that is one of the best forms of fiscal Chairman of the Board of Governors of been absolutely torn apart through the policy to stimulate demand and eco- the Federal Reserve System. loss of Javier—Bebo, as he was called nomic growth, and say we are not Ms. HIRONO. Under the previous by his grandparents. going to do it. I think we say we have order, the time until 5:30 p.m. will be equally divided and controlled in the He is one of 20 people in New Haven, to do it. CT, who were lost. Twelve of the 20 There is another aspect of this, too, usual form. were under 30 years old. Eleven of them particularly appropriate to the issue of The Senator from Connecticut. were men; 17 of them were African long-term unemployment. We are see- GUN LEGISLATION American. That is the story in New ing a remarkable number of long-term Mr. MURPHY. Madam President, I hope we will confirm Janet Yellen later Haven. It is young African American unemployed individuals in this reces- males who are dying almost every sion. Typically, Congress has only today. I come to the floor for a few minutes week as part of the 12,041. ended these benefits when the long- Just a couple of months earlier, John to do what I have done most weeks term unemployment rate was 1.3 per- Allen Read died in Texas due to a gun- since the failure of this Senate to pass cent. Today it’s double that at 2.6 per- shot wound. What makes John Allen commonsense gun legislation in the cent. Again, this program is a program Reed exceptional is that he was 5 years spring of 2013, to talk about the num- that takes care of the long-term unem- old. He is one of dozens of accidental ber of Americans who have lost their ployed. gun deaths happening all across this lives due to gun violence. That number The standard program in the States country. is one of 26 weeks. If you have a brief stands today at 12,041. Over 12,000 peo- He and his 6-month-old sibling were episode of unemployment, if you lose a ple have died at the hands of gun vio- in the care of a regular baby sitter, but job and then 5 weeks later you get a lence since December 14, which of a baby sitter who feared for her safety job, you are in that first tranche of course is the day in which 20 6-year- so she carried a gun with her. But she State benefits. The long-term unem- olds and 7-year-olds and 6 teachers and left the gun on a table and fell asleep. ployed are those who have been with- professionals who were protecting The 5-year-old got the gun. When she out work for at least 26 weeks. We have them lost their lives in Newtown, CT. woke up to try to find the kids, she seen the number of long-term unem- This is probably the last time we will found John dead with a fatal gunshot ployed double since previous reces- have the chance to display this par- wound. sions—from 1.3 percent to 2.6 percent. ticular number because the Web site We heard the stories all throughout So this program is more important now which has been totalling this is going 2013. I don’t know whether statistically than in any previous economic down- to stop doing so. It is probably a good there were more in 2013 than in pre- turn we have had based upon looking thing in this respect: Once that 1 be- vious years. But because we don’t re- at these numbers. This is another rea- came a crooked number, we weren’t quire much if any training before buy- son we have to extend these benefits. going to have room on this poster any ing a gun, we have young baby sitters I urge my colleagues to support this longer; and at some point in the middle leaving guns unattended with these ab- procedural vote so that the full Senate of next year, the 1 would click up to a solutely devastating results. can consider the measure and move to- 2 and we would be over 20,000 people How about 4 months before that in ward passage. We need to move swiftly killed due to guns. Frankly, this Seattle, where Molly Conley, a 15-year- to pass this bipartisan bill to provide doesn’t even count the suicides. This is old, a great goalie on her high school some certainty, some stability, and just the people who have died as a re- team, a straight-A student, was killed some support for families who are sult of gun homicides, and the number while she was walking back with struggling in a very difficult market. just goes up and up at a rate which is friends after celebrating her recent The answer I suggest to those who hard to comprehend. birthday at a sleepover. Detectives be- are considering voting against cloture So I wish to speak for a few minutes lieve a shooter opened fire on Molly this evening is, fine, you can come about a few of the representative vic- Conley and her group of friends.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S8 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 6, 2014 Her nickname was ‘‘4.0’’ because she UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION are still hurting, including a lot of Ne- was such a good student. ‘‘She always Mr. HELLER. Madam President, I vadans. smiled. She gave people smiles, and she rise today to discuss an issue that has My State is struggling. I have re- was joyful and kind. She had a gen- been in the forefront of the minds of peated often on this floor that Nevada erous spirit,’’ said Molly’s mother. many Americans ringing in the new consistently tops the chart in unem- Molly, John, and Javier are just year; that is, extending benefits for the ployment, bankruptcies, and fore- three of the voices of victims we need unemployed—something that is impor- closures. The statistics are surely re- to start talking about on the floor, be- tant, of course, for a lot of Americans. vealing. But more startling is the obvi- cause if the statistics don’t seem to be Before I begin, I wish to thank my ous increase in impoverished Nevadans moving people to action, maybe the colleague, my friend from Rhode Is- whom I meet when I go home. I would stories will. land, Senator JACK REED, for his hard like to share an example. As I hope we will this year, let’s be work and effort on this behalf as we Every Thanksgiving one or two of my realistic about what we can and can’t and our staffs worked together to get children join me in serving Thanks- do. I have come here every week to this proposal moved forward for to- giving dinner to folks in Reno who are talk about the stories of the people day’s vote. in need and cannot cook a Thanks- who have died at the hands of guns. I I hope that my friends and colleagues giving meal for themselves. This year understand there is no law that is in the Senate enjoyed their holidays my daughter Emmy, who is in her going to completely eradicate gun vio- and that everyone returned refreshed freshman year in college, joined me in lence, and I understand that there is no and ready to tackle some of the tough this experience. Every year that dinner one solution at hand which will have a issues we have here in 2014. sees more and more attendees. Every radical transformation overnight. Unfortunately, while Congress was in year the number of individuals and I believe this is about gun laws. But recess, approximately 17,000 Nevadans families who need help increases. This I also understand it is about better greeted the new year not with opti- year the venue was absolutely packed. mental health treatment. I also under- mistic expectations of a fresh start but When my daughter and I arrived, the stand it is about a culture of violence. with the anxiety of how they are going line outside the venue was four blocks I also understand it is about a sense of to feed their families and perhaps even long. It is such an obvious example of hopelessness felt by a lot of kids in pay their utility bills. When Congress how so many Nevadans are unable to poor neighborhoods which leads them left Washington, DC, in December, a to violence as a way of solving com- provide for their basic needs, and this lot of important matters were left un- mon, everyday disputes. cannot be ignored. So I am ready on the floor of the Sen- done and expired. As a result, millions I know many economists point to a ate to have a real, sober, dispassionate of Americans were left with no idea national unemployment rate that is argument about what we can do to- whether their unemployment benefits improving, but at home we do not feel gether this year to try to make sure were going to be fixed retroactively— it. The unemployment rate in Nevada this number in 2014 is just a little bit something that has become, of course, has consistently far exceeded the na- lower than it was in 2013. all too common for this Congress to do. tional average. In fact, the Silver State With that in mind, I will leave us Helping those in need should not be a has led the Nation for the past 3 years with this one last story, and that is the partisan issue. Providing a limited so- in unemployment. The result is, of story of Zina Daniel. cial safety net is one of the responsibil- course, that people in Nevada are real- Zina Daniel took out a restraining ities of the Federal Government. Un- ly hurting. order on her husband after years of vio- fortunately, instead of planning ahead It is difficult to stand here in the Na- lence and abuse. Police were reportedly and figuring out the best way to do tion’s Capital—an area that has largely called to this home dozens of times. that, we are now forced to decide felt little negative impact of the reces- Her husband was upset about that re- whether to reinstate these benefits sion—and describe just how tough straining order, and knowing that he after they have expired. times are for so many of my constitu- couldn’t get a gun at a retailer because We should provide some relief to the ents. At these Thanksgiving dinners, I he wouldn’t pass a background check, millions of Americans who were left hear about the choices individuals are he went online to Armslist. Within hanging when Congress went home in forced to make—whether to buy gas for hours he found a seller who would sup- December and temporarily extend un- their car or pay for heat in the frigid ply to him a .40 caliber Glock handgun, employment benefits for the next 3 northern Nevada winters or buy school which he picked up in a McDonald’s months. It is the right thing to do. supplies for their children or perhaps parking lot for $500 cash. The next day, That short period will help these fami- save for the future. he went into Zina’s workplace, and he lies whose benefits expired abruptly These are hard-working individuals murdered her and two other women. He while Congress works out a long-term who rely on these benefits. They are injured four others. solution that provides Americans with trying to find jobs. They want to pro- Zina’s brother said this: some certainty and is fiscally respon- vide for their children. But for these I’m a gun owner, a hunter and a member of sible. benefits to simply vanish without giv- the National Rifle Association. I believe in I understand my colleagues’ concerns ing families the time to plan or figure the Second Amendment, but I also believe in about the cost and their desire to pay out alternatives to help them get by is sensible gun laws. I’ve seen how devastating for this extension. I too want to see our just not right. gun violence can be. And I know that Rad- Federal debt brought under control. I I too understand the concerns about cliffe never should have been able to buy a gun online without a background check. A think my voting record is proof of that the cost of these benefits. I would pre- background check would have saved my sis- concern. fer to see them paid for in a manner ter’s life. I too believe Congress should be more that does not burden our Nation with I don’t know what we will be able to focused on passing laws that actually more debt. I have previously intro- get done this year. I don’t know if help create jobs. Growing our economy duced legislation that would do just there are 60 votes in the Senate for the should be the primary focus and con- that, legislation that would extend un- kind of expansion of background cern of this body. As a Senator of the employment benefits while still paying checks that many of us, including State that leads the Nation in unem- for them. At the time I introduced my Zina’s brother, would like to see. But ployment, believe me, I understand the legislation as an alternative to a more let’s not let the whole year go by with- importance of refocusing on jobs. I costly bill because I think it is impor- out at least some attempt among Sen- would rather be down here today dis- tant to bring down our Nation’s debt. ators of good will on both sides of the cussing innovative ways to create jobs I am ready to work with my col- aisle, so that when this number does instead of the need to extend unem- leagues to introduce similar legislation come back up at the end of 2014, it is ployment benefits yet again. But be- again this year, but in the meantime I just a little bit lower. cause of this administration and even propose that we pass this short-term I yield the floor. some of the choices of this body, unfor- extension now. That would allow Con- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tunately, our economy is not growing gress the opportunity to spend the next ator from Nevada. quickly enough and many Americans 3 months debating how to pay for these

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Paying for these benefits would be City, I remember that it was one of the One thing that is not on the list, the best approach. Congress could have coldest days in New York City in its which should be on this list, is what taken the harder road to figure out the history. In March of 2007, a Capitol Hill happened in Copenhagen in 2009, and way to do that before departing for the media briefing on the Senate climate that was the annual party of the holiday break and leaving millions of bill was canceled due to a snowstorm. United Nations. I remember it so well Americans hanging, but it did not. So In April of 2007, global warming rallies because people were trying to go over let’s pass this short-term extension and were greeted by unseasonable snow, there and say that the United States of focus on a more fiscally responsible so- and as a result several of them were America was going to pass cap and lution for the longer term. canceled. In October of 2007, Gore’s trade, and that we would encourage all I yield the floor. I suggest the ab- global warming speech at Harvard Uni- of them to do it. I am going from mem- sence of a quorum. versity coincided with temperatures ory now, but I am quite sure that Sec- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The that nearly broke a 125-year tempera- retary of State Hillary Clinton, NANCY clerk will call the roll. ture record. In October of 2007, the PELOSI, Barack Obama, and John Kerry The bill clerk proceeded to call the British House of Commons held a mar- were all there. At that time, John roll. athon debate on global warming during Kerry was a Member of the Senate. All Mr. INHOFE. Madam President, I ask London’s first October snowfall since of them assured these people—these 191 unanimous consent that the order for 1932. countries—that we were going to pass the quorum call be rescinded. In December 2008, Al Gore spoke to cap and trade. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without an audience in Milan, Italy—by the I went all the way over and all the objection, it is so ordered. way, I attended that meeting—about way back to spend 3 hours on the The Senator from Oklahoma. global warming, and outside it was ground—and I have to say it was prob- GLOBAL WARMING snowing, which is a rare event for that ably the most enjoyable 3 hours I ever Mr. INHOFE. Madam President, I area. Snow and freezing rain also spent—to tell them that under no cir- think we are going to have a lot of dis- struck Rome, Naples, Palermo, and cumstance was the United States going cussions on the floor concerning a Sicily. to pass the largest tax increase in his- number of things that happened in the A lot of people are not aware that tory based on trying to stop—some- last couple of weeks, not the least of among those who were responsible for thing they were calling at that time— which is what is going on in Antarctica the whole global warming movement global warming. The 191 countries right now, and the fact that some peo- was the United Nations. It was an ef- which attended that meeting had one ple had to be lifted out of there. fort—I will not go into it now unless it thing in common, and that was that It is kind of interesting, and I don’t becomes appropriate and I have more they all hated me. want anyone to misunderstand me and time to talk about it. But the United Nonetheless, I was telling them the think that I am reviving a lot of the Nations has one big party every year— truth, and they tried to pass it again previous interest concerning the issue usually in December—and it is what we and again. There probably aren’t 35 of global warming for any reason other call the global warming party. It is votes in the Senate right now that than the fact that right now, after it where all the countries come to attend, would vote for a cap-and-trade bill has been determined, without any and they have all-you-can-eat and all- which would constitute the largest tax you-can-drink. It is the biggest party doubt, that the House and Senate increase in the history of this country. of the year. All of that had taken place over a would never pass anything like cap and I can remember going to one of these long period of time, and now we are up trade, the President is attempting to annual parties when there was someone to 2013 and 2014. In November, Presi- do through regulation what he could from Benin, which is a Sub-Saharan Af- dent Obama issued an executive order not do through legislation. What I am rican country. I went up to this person on climate change stating ‘‘excessively concerned about is the expense, and in and said: You can’t tell me you believe high temperatures’’ are ‘‘already’’ a minute I will talk about the cost of all this stuff. The whole idea was to harming natural resources, economies, these issues. have the 192 countries that go to this and public health nationwide. We have a real serious problem in party every year believe global warm- I guess if you say something long this country. People are concerned ing is taking place, and we are all enough, sooner or later people are about the spending and about what is going to have to stop doing things to going to believe it because they assume happening with our military. They are try to preclude it from happening, and if the President says it, it must be concerned about a lot of issues, but the that would destroy our economies. His true. cost of the overregulation that has response was: Oh, no, but this is the On January 6, AccuWeather issued a taken place in our society is over- biggest party of the year. warning that a ‘‘blast of arctic air will looked quite often. That took place, as I said, in Milan, deliver some of the coldest weather in If you ask anyone associated with Italy in 2008. I always remember that 20 years’’ to the midsection of the the farm bureau or anyone in the agri- one because they had my picture on United States. cultural community what their major telephone poles saying ‘‘Wanted.’’ I Meteorologist Ryan Maue of Florida problem is, they will tell you it is the saved several of those and brought said about the historic cold outbreak: overregulation by the Environmental them back to the United States so I ‘‘If you’re under 40 [years old], you’ve Protection Agency that is really mak- could distribute it to the people who not seen this stuff before.’’ ing it difficult for them to survive. It is were enjoying it quite a bit. Anyway, The National Weather Service re- the same thing with manufacturers, the meeting in Milan was about global ported that the temperature at Chi- producers, and others. When we look at warming. Yet there were records set on cago’s O’Hare International Airport hit the crown jewel of all regulations, it is snowfall and freezing rain. 16 degrees below zero on January 6, cap and trade. Cap and trade would In March of 2009, NANCY PELOSI—at breaking the negative 14-degree record constitute the largest tax increase in that time she was the Speaker of the in 1884. This makes Chicago colder the history of this country. House—had a big global warming rally than the South Pole where it was 11 de- I think it is kind of interesting that that was supposed to be the largest one grees below zero. The average tempera- what is happening right now up in the that had ever taken place in this coun- ture in the United States on January 6 Antarctic is something that has been try, and it was snowed out. was 12.8 degrees. happening for quite a long period of In February of 2010, the Senate EPW, I say all of this because this is kind time. While there has been a concerted Environment and Public Works Com- of a predicate to what is happening

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S10 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 6, 2014 now. On November 27, the research ex- warming is taking place and all of said, it would not reduce overall tem- pedition to gauge the effect of climate these extreme things are going to hap- peratures, even if one believes that is a change on Antarctica began. This was pen. I asked her the question: In the problem, which I don’t. in the news today. event that we did the action—at that Anyway, the cost—Charles River On December 24, the day before time, there were two or three cap-and- came along with a very similar cost— Christmas, a Russian ship carrying cli- trade bills offered in the House and in $350 billion a year. So with all of those mate scientists, journalists, tourists, the Senate. So I said: Let’s assume one costs, we wanted to look at it and see and crew members for the expedition of these bills passes. Would this reduce if, in fact, the science was there, and became trapped in deep ice up to 10- CO2 worldwide? Her reaction was: No, we determined it was not. feet thick. An Australian icebreaker because this is just in the United If we look at the regulations at the was sent to rescue the ship, but on De- States. This is not where the problem EPA right now—the National Associa- cember 30 efforts were suspended due to is. tion of Manufacturers has a cumulative bad weather. So by their own admission, even if we impact study, not including ozone or On January 2, a Chinese icebreaker— were to sustain the economic disaster the greenhouse gases, of $630 billion an- and here come the Chinese now—called we would have to have in the event we nually and some 9 million jobs lost. As the Xue Long, sent a helicopter that passed one of these bills, it would not per the regulations for ozone, 77 coun- airlifted 52 passengers from the Rus- impact or reduce the levels of CO2. ties would be out of attainment in my sian ship to safety to the Australian The other recent study—15 year State of Oklahoma and 7 million jobs icebreaker. The Chinese vessel is now pause—from Nature magazine, said: lost. That is all of our counties. That also stuck in ice along with the Rus- For this period, [1998–2012], the observed means we would have job losses in all sian vessel. There are 22 Russian crew trend of [temperatures] is . . . not signifi- of those. Utility MACT, that cost is members who are still on board the cantly different from zero [and] suggests a $100 billion, and that has already been Russian ship, and an unreported num- temporary ‘hiatus’ in global warming. implemented. That affected all the coal ber of crew members remain on the This is a publication that was kind of States in a major way. The Boiler Chinese ship. leading the charge at one time. MACT cost would be $63 billion. I men- On January 5, the U.S. Coast Guard So we see these things that are hap- tioned the BLM. The hydraulic was called to assist the ships which pening and we see that even though, fracking regulations would cost about were stuck in the Antarctic. time and time again, just the reverse is $100,000 per well. That is an increase That is what is happening today. true, that we are going through this everyone else would have to pay in Let’s go back and relive a little bit of thing—I always have to go from mem- terms of producing right now. Green- history when I was under a lot of criti- ory when I go back. I remember the house gas costs would be between $300 cism because I was opposed to asser- earlier years of this, some 12 years ago billion and $400 billion, as I mentioned tions by Al Gore which the New York when they were looking at the Kyoto before. Times said might arguably be the first treaty. We remember the Kyoto treaty, If we just take these regulations—the environmental billionaire. I say to the Presiding Officer, which list is a lot longer than that, but this In December 2008, Gore said, ‘‘The en- was an agreement we would sign on is a huge issue. This is the major prob- tire North Polarized cap will disappear to—an international treaty, the Kyoto lem we are having with the economy in five years.’’ It is 5 years later, and it treaty—and we would agree to reduce right now. Nobody seems to understand hasn’t disappeared yet. In fact, we have all the CO2 in this country and all of it. No one seems to care. I think that a been reading about it. that. Of course, that didn’t happen, but time to bring this up as an issue is On December 13, the BBC reported the cost was discussed at that time. I right now because of what is hap- that the Arctic ice cap coverage is remember back when Republicans were pening, what has been publicized re- ‘‘close to 50% more than in the cor- in the majority, I chaired the com- cently, so it is our intention to con- responding period of 2012,’’ which mittee called the Environment and tinue to do that. means it has increased by 50 percent Public Works Committee, and some 12 This has been a relentless 41⁄2-, 5-year over this period of time. That means it years ago, about the time of Kyoto, I war the President has on fossil fuels. It is increasing by 50 percent over this pe- believed it was true—everybody said is not just coal, but it is coal, oil, gas, riod of time. This is the same icecap Al global warming was coming and we and other fossil fuels. The sad part of Gore said was going to disappear 5 were all going to die. So I assumed it this is we could be completely inde- years ago. was true until I started exploring a lit- pendent from all other countries—cer- President Obama, in May of this last tle bit and hearing quietly from some tainly from the Middle East—from any year: ‘‘The climate is warming faster of the scientists who said: Look. The other country in terms of supplying than anybody anticipated five or 10 whole thing is rigged and the science is our own energy in this country. All we years ago.’’ not the same as the United Nations would have to do is do the same thing— To contrast with The Economist, would have us believe. So one by one allow drilling exploration on Federal they said: ‘‘Over the past 15 years, air they started coming forth. I stood at public lands as we are doing through- temperatures on the Earth’s surface this podium for about a 3-year period out the country. Right now, we have have been flat. . . . ’’ and started naming all of the scientists had a 40-percent surge, increase, in ex- Gina McCarthy, recently sworn in as who said the U.N. scientists, the IPCC, ploration and in production in this the Administrator of the Environ- were not being honest and that they country, and at the same time we have mental Protection Agency, said: ‘‘Ex- had their own agenda they were trying had a 40-percent increase overall. That treme weather events are proof enough to support. At that time, a group of is on State land and on private land. for me to show why action is nec- several universities—MIT was one of We have had a reduction on Federal essary.’’ them, the Wharton School—a lot of land. So we have an exclusion to the We are talking about action on CO2. their scientists said what the cost problem there, and I think one of the According to preliminary reports, would be if we were to pass global things we can do to help people under- 2013 turned out to be one of the least warming legislation that had been pro- stand is to let them know that what extreme weather years on record, posed. It would be between $300 billion they have been listening to—what the which is right after she made that and $400 billion a year. EPA has been telling our people, what statement. But the one I enjoyed so Now, $300 billion to $400 billion a our kids are learning in school on glob- much was—I have a lot of respect for year, yes, that would constitute the al warming—people are now realizing Gina’s predecessor, Lisa Jackson. Lisa largest tax increase. I took this to my this is something that is not factual. Jackson came in as Administrator of State of Oklahoma. I did my calcula- We are so inundated right now with the Environmental Protection Agency, tion as I always do. I get the number of problems. We have problems in Afghan- and I remember her very well because I people who file Federal tax returns and istan. We have problems with our for- asked her the question—keep in mind have them pay taxes and it would be eign policy in the Middle East. We are she was appointed by President Obama. about $3,000 a year per family. Yet, by all concerned about the problems Her job is to make people think global their own admission, as Lisa Jackson around the world. The area people

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They have dragged RECORD that some things are hap- We just had a big dispute over cut- their feet in every shape, form, and pening today that I think the Amer- ting retirement pay that our military fashion, whether it is moratoriums in ican people need to look at. I think people have earned, and it was a dis- the gulf or blocking in Alaska, block- those statements made, which I will pute over $4 billion. That was over 10 ing the pipeline for our neighbors in come to the floor and talk about later years—$4 billion over 10 years. This is Canada, or blocking production on pub- on, from 10 years ago are now becoming $6 billion over 3 months. So this is a lot lic lands. This is not the way to create a reality. of money, and effort should have been an economy. With that, I yield the floor and sug- made to try to find offsetting reduc- We need a tax system that is not al- gest the absence of a quorum. tions in wasteful spending that occur ways going up but is more growth-ori- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The throughout here before we go again to ented, simpler, more focused on cre- clerk will call the roll. treat a symptom of a disease. ating growth. We need to eliminate The legislative clerk proceeded to But the tragedy is—the tragedy is— every unnecessary regulation that bur- call the roll. that the policies of this administration dens the American competitive mar- Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, I are driving this poor growth record. It ketplace and makes us less competitive ask unanimous consent that the order just is. First and foremost, the pro- globally instead of adding to them, and for the quorum call be rescinded. posals have been to tax, tax, tax—tax we have never seen anything like the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without more. Taxing the private sector will plethora of new regulations being objection, it is so ordered. not create growth, no matter whom issued day after day, week after week, Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, I you tax. It will not be a growth-pro- month after month, many of them ask unanimous consent to speak for up ducing idea to tax the economy. Ex- challengeable constitutionally as being to 10 minutes. perts tell us that. The Congressional beyond the power of bureaucrats to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Budget Office tells us that. issue because Congress did not pass the objection, it is so ordered. So this is what we have been seeing law to justify it. It is driving up the UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION every year. The budget that passed out cost of energy, and it is driving up the Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, of this Senate, the budget that was cost of production in widgets in Amer- there is no doubt our employment situ- proposed by the President of the ica, making us less able to compete ation in America is not good. Unem- United States—the budget that passed with foreign competitors. We need to stand up for American ployment remains consistently high the Senate with I think virtually every workers and American manufacturing long after the administration has told single Democratic Senator voting for it on the world stage. It is time to tell us the recession is over. The growth and all Republicans opposing it would our trading partners: We are willing to that has been projected year after year have increased taxes $1 trillion and in- trade with you, big boy, but you have has not been at the level the experts creased spending $1 trillion. The taxes to play by the rules. This idea that you were not used to reduce our deficit, as had projected. CBO has missed the can violate the rules and we are still the balanced approach seems to sug- growth levels. The Federal Reserve has going to treat you as a great trading gest. ‘‘We have a balanced approach to missed the growth levels. We have partner has to be over. We need to reduce our deficits. We are going to tax come in below that consistently. stand up for the American worker on Growth is not where we need it to be; some and cut spending some.’’ Oh, no, the world stage. It has to be done. there is no doubt about it. So we have they did not cut spending at all. Their Finally, at a time of high unemploy- a serious unemployment situation. 10-year budget plan called for raising ment, should we not ask ourselves why Perhaps the most grim concept we taxes $1 trillion and raising spending $1 the President of the United States and need to be well aware of is that work- trillion. Tax and spend—that is what it virtually every Democrat and a num- force participation; that is, the per- was. It was on the floor of the Senate. ber of Republicans voted to double the centage of Americans in the working There is no dispute about that. No one number of workers who were coming to age group who are actually working is argues about it. But we have agreed to America under this comprehensive im- lower today than at any time since the a certain level of spending here to try migration bill? We admit a million a 1970s. That is a stunning statistic. Not to bring our economy under control— year legally. We believe in immigra- since women entered the workforce in the Budget Control Act—and we have tion, we support immigration, but at large numbers have we seen such low acknowledged on both sides of the some point you are bringing in workers workforce participation numbers. aisle, as have independent experts, that to take jobs from unemployed Ameri- I believe, first and foremost, that an we need to reduce spending and we cans. So now we are here trying to ex- unemployment extension bill is treat- need to contain the growth of spending tend unemployment benefits to help ing the symptoms of the problem. It is and we need to reduce the deficits that unemployed Americans. Is there no an aspirin for a fever, but the fever has are adding to the weakness of our econ- common sense in this body? How can been raging for weeks now. Something omy and the uncertainty in our econ- this possibly be? But that is the deal. is causing it, and we need to deal with omy and creating risks in our econ- I know Senator REID and Senator the cause of it rather than continuing omy. LEAHY were on the floor earlier today, to treat the symptoms. I think that is So this bill borrows every penny of and they said we have to pass this com- so important for us to remember. it—just a total violation of promised prehensive immigration bill. It would Also, this Nation is struggling eco- fiscal responsibility. It just is. I wish it not end the illegality. It would reduce nomically for a number of reasons. were not so. I wish we could just do it only by about 40 percent, according One of them clearly is the size of our this and it would not cost anything. to the Congressional Budget Office, but debt. Our debt is so large—$17-plus tril- But it will cost, and it will hamper it would double the number of guest lion—now that it is causing uncer- growth in our country. workers coming in. Guest workers, by tainty in the economic markets. We There are other problems. We need definition, are people coming to take have to get our spending under control. more American energy. Energy pro- jobs. We have to do that. Every time we duced in America creates jobs in Amer- Why are wages down? One reason is— have a desire to do something good, we ica. It creates wealth in America. It Professor Borjas at Harvard, who has cannot continue to borrow the money keeps us from exporting large studied this extensively; the Federal to pay for it. amounts—billions and billions of dol- Reserve in Atlanta, which has exam- The unemployment bill that is before lars—to Venezuela and the Middle East ined this extensively; the U.S. Commis- us today makes no attempt whatsoever and other places around the globe. We sion on Civil Rights, which has exam- to find spending reductions in other could be producing that energy here, ined it—what do they find? They find

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Fed’s December meeting that they in- to have a job. I understand that. But The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tend to reduce the monthly purchases, any nation has to ask itself: What is objection, it is so ordered. I fear they may already be in too deep. the right amount? How many people Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, It remains unclear how the Fed will be can you absorb without causing mil- over the past 5 years the Federal Re- able to go about unwinding its nearly lions of Americans to lose their jobs? serve has pursued unconventional and $4 trillion balance sheet without spook- And we now have to come to the floor unprecedented monetary policy. As ing investors. of the Senate to ask what we can do to Vice chair of the Fed, Janet Yellen has The stock market has become ad- help them in this period of pain they been a strong proponent of these poli- dicted to the Fed’s easy-money poli- are going through. cies. As chair, she is likely to continue cies. This has led one notable invest- So I just want to say a couple things. these same easy-money policies with ment advisor to question whether the We can do something now for the un- the same, if not more, vigor as her Fed will ever be able to end the quan- employed, but we need to be paying for predecessor. titative easing program. it. We need to be staying within the I have deep concerns about the long- While the stock market has become spending limits we have agreed to. We term effects of pursuing these policies. addicted to easy money, the benefit to do not need to pass any more laws that Historical evidence suggests that fail- Main Street has been questionable at increases the amount of money we bor- ing to rein in easy-money policies on a best. Unemployment remains high, row. We borrow enough. For heaven’s timely basis risks fueling an economic bank lending remains tight, and savers sake, we borrow too much right now, bubble or even hyperinflation. discouraged. and it threatens our financial future, It is true that one of the lessons While the benefits to Main Street re- as expert after expert has told us. They learned from the Great Depression was main unnoticeable, they most cer- tainly will feel the pain should the Fed have told us we are running a high that an overly tight monetary policy carry on their easy-money policy for risk, and nothing could be worse— in a recession risks economic debili- tating deflation. Thus, understandably, too long. nothing could be worse—for working For an example of what Main Street Americans than that we have some when the recession hit in 2008 the Fed sought to avoid the mistakes of the could be in store for one need look no other new financial crisis to spring up further than the late 1970s and early past by lowering interest rates to en- in the months or years to come because 1980s. The easy-money policies of the courage investment. However, this ex- we were irresponsible today. Wouldn’t 1970s intended to spur employment re- pansionary monetary policy cannot that be a disaster? It certainly would. sulted in stagflation, a period of hyper- So I will urge our colleagues to begin continue into perpetuity without caus- inflation and high unemployment. Dur- to focus on the underlying disease here; ing real and lasting damage to our ing this period unemployment topped economy. that is, the policies of an administra- 10 percent while inflation exceeded 14 Just as we should not repeat the mis- tion that has produced the slowest percent. postrecession recovery maybe the Na- takes of the Great Depression, we need The experience of the late 1970s and tion has ever had, except for the Great to be careful not to repeat the mis- early 1980s made it clear that once you Depression, because it is tax more, reg- takes that fueled our recent recession. let the inflation genie out of the bottle ulate more, borrow more. That is all it Let us not forget that our current eco- it is very difficult to stamp it out. is, and it will not work systemically to nomic stagnation began with the burst- After suffering years of stagflation, put us on the right path. ing of the housing bubble in late 2007— Americans were then subject to the I know this is a tough challenge for a housing bubble fueled by rampant pain of unprecedented interest rates as us, but I am convinced that if this Con- speculation that was driven, in part by high as 20 percent just to get hyper- gress puts its mind to it, there are historically low interest rates main- inflation back under control. more than a few places we can find tained by the Fed between 2001 and Statements by Ms. Yellen indicate waste, fraud, and abuse to help pay for 2004. she would be open to inflation exceed- and to assist those who have been un- Yet once again we see the Fed em- ing the Fed target of 2 percent as a employed for a long time. I believe we barking on a policy of sustained his- means to achieve full employment. can absolutely do better than we are torically low interest rates. The Fed While achieving full employment may today about that, and I hope we will do has now maintained the Federal funds be a noble goal, the Fed has a dismal so. It is not right to just say the only rate essentially at zero for over 5 record at being able to produce sustain- people who care about American work- years. What may be the future con- able job creation through expansionary ers and care about those who are unem- sequences of this policy? What new monetary policy. ployed are those of us who are willing bubble will arise? At this point, I do While inflation may aid employment to forget our budget limitations, to for- not think anyone can answer these in the very short term, our experience get our financial responsibilities, and questions definitively. But no one can with stagflation in the 1970’s shows this just borrow more and spend more, and deny that the risks are real and could tradeoff falls apart quickly as people’s somehow this is going to fix the prob- be devastating. expectations change. Sustainable job lem we are facing. It will not. It will The Fed, though, has not just sought growth comes not from inflation, but not fix the problem. In fact, it is cre- to maintain record-low interest rates. price stability that promotes long-run ating the very disease that is causing With its traditional monetary tool economic growth. We need a chairman workers to be suffering today. tapped out, the Fed has turned to a less focused on a strong dollar and low in- Madam President, I appreciate the conventional and more aggressive pro- flation. opportunity to share these remarks. I gram in an attempt to jump-start our My concerns about the Fed’s easy- will repeat again, we are seeing very economy and lower unemployment. money policies and inflation led me to tough times for the American worker. The Fed is now engaged in an open- vote against Chairman Bernanke for Particularly, the lower income workers ended policy it has termed quantitative his second term at the Fed. Because it are having a difficult time, and there easing. Essentially, this is a fancy way appears that Ms. Yellen will continue are many causes for that. But just tax- to say the Fed is flooding the economy to pursue these misguided policies, I ing more, spending more, and bor- with trillions of dollars through large cannot in good conscience vote in favor rowing more is one of the big causes of purchases of mortgage-backed securi- of her confirmation. the problems we have today, and we ties and longer-term Treasury securi- Mr. CRAPO. Madam President, Dr. are not going to fix that problem by ties. As a result of this program, the Yellen’s nomination is an opportunity

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Madam President, I ask at zero percent. the policies that led me to vote against unanimous consent that the order for The Fed now has a balance sheet of $4 her initially. the quorum call be rescinded. trillion, a level roughly equal to one- My position remains unchanged, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without quarter of annual U.S. economic out- I will not vote in support of her nomi- objection, it is so ordered. Mr. BROWN. Madam President, for put. nation. The Fed has accumulated this bal- In addition to unprecedented mone- those who do not remember or those ance sheet by buying Treasuries and tary policy, the next Fed Chair will fi- who do not choose to remember, 5 years ago our economy was at the mortgage-backed securities at a pace nalize several key financial regulatory brink of collapse after being rocked by of up to $85 billion each month. reform rules. I have been a long-time critic of the These rules must balance the finan- a financial crisis because of incom- petence, Wall Street greed, overreach Fed’s quantitative easing purchases. cial stability with the inherent need Several noted economists have called for markets to take on and accurately in the financial sector, and more. Washington had let the financial sys- into question the benefits of these pur- price risk. tem run wild through deregulation. chases, suggesting they may be out- They must be done without putting Banks had overloaded on toxic mort- weighed by risks. the U.S. markets at an undue competi- gage securities that they used massive These policies, specifically pur- tive disadvantage or harming con- amounts of leverage to purchase. In chasing billions in long-term bonds, sumers with unintended consequences. The Chair of the Federal Reserve many cases these Wall Street banks can distort pricing in markets and lead must understand how different rules were so large, so complex, so opaque, so to excessive risk taking, creating ‘‘bub- interact with each other, what impact overleveraged, they were too big to ble-like’’ conditions according to ex- they have on the affected entities and fail. perts like Larry Fink at BlackRock. Increasingly, these banks are too big Bill Gross of PIMCO stated that ‘‘all the economy at large. For example, a number of community to manage and too big to regulate. I re- asset prices, whether it be bonds, banks were surprised by certain provi- member that time well. I was in Zanes- stocks, or alternative assets are basi- sions in the recently adopted Volcker ville, OH, when I first got a call to dis- cally mispriced, artificially elevated’’ rule pertaining to their ownership of cuss what we needed to do from Chair- as a result of the Fed’s actions. certain securitized products, including man Bernanke and President Bush’s I am concerned that the markets trust-preferred securities. Secretary of the Treasury Paulson. have become exceedingly reliant on Notwithstanding assurances by regu- Five years since the collapse of the quantitative easing, circumventing lators that the final Volcker rule markets, 3 years after the passage of pure economic fundamentals in favor would not disrupt their business model, the Wall Street reform law, we still of government-stimulated economy. community banks may now potentially cannot say that the Dodd-Frank legis- Although a reduction in the pace of have to divest hundreds of millions of lation ended this problem. asset purchases will finally begin this dollars in assets to comply with the In July of last year, Chairman month, in her nomination hearing Dr. rule. Bernanke said: Yellen would not commit to a firm I am concerned that the rush to fi- I wouldn’t be saying the truth if I said that deadline for cutting off purchases. nalize the Volcker rule before year’s the problem is gone. It is not gone. Even after the Fed stops adding to its end—for purely political reasons—was That is the Chairman of the Federal balance sheet, the question of a cause of this carelessness by regu- Reserve. unwinding the balance sheet remains. lators with respect to community At her nomination hearing before the Chairman Bernanke and others have banks. Senate Banking Committee, Governor suggested that the Fed might maintain It remains to be seen what other un- Yellen, then the Vice Chair—still the the size of the balance sheet for some intended consequences will result from Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve—said time, rather than reducing it to a nor- the Volcker rule’s adoption. that ending ‘‘too Big to Fail’’ is mal level. Just as some worried that we did not ‘‘among the most important goals of This would mean that the money cre- have enough regulations on the books the post-crisis period.’’ ated to purchase those assets would re- to prevent the economic crisis, some of That is one of the many reasons I main in place. us worry that the post-crisis response rise today to support and argue for The President of the Richmond Fed- will result in a regulatory regime that Janet Yellen’s confirmation as the eral Reserve Bank has called this ‘‘tin- stifles growth and job creation. Chair of the Federal Reserve. In to- der on the books of the banking sys- The Chair of the Federal Reserve day’s complex financial system, it is tem.’’ must understand the need for that bal- more important than ever that we have He describes a process where banks ance and how to carefully manage com- strong regulators such as Governor begin to rapidly lend out those re- peting demands without harming the Yellen who can recognize emerging serves, creating an increase in deposit economy. threats to economic stability and who growth that would put inflationary I appreciate Dr. Yellen’s comments are not afraid to act when they find pressure on the economy. about the need to monitor the risks to abuses that put American consumers All of this unconventional monetary financial stability that current mone- and workers at risk. policy has failed to produce the bene- tary policy creates. Throughout her distinguished career fits that were promised. I also share her stated concerns at the Fed of more than a decade, Gov- A noted economist recently observed about the need to avoid ‘‘one-size-fits- ernor Yellen has shown she under- that over the last 4 years, the share of all’’ regulations on different kinds of stands how risky financial practices adults who are working has not in- financial institutions, especially ensur- deep inside the largest Wall Street creased and ‘‘GDP has fallen further ing that community banks are subject banks can have a terrible and terri- behind potential as we would have de- to ‘‘less onerous’’ supervision and regu- fying impact on American families. fined it in the fall of 2009.’’ lation. She was, 8 or 9 years ago, among the All that is to say that despite un- However, given my concerns about first to recognize the housing bubble precedented amounts of monetary the Fed’s monetary policy and Dr. that wiped out trillions in wealth and intervention, the economy has barely Yellen’s support of quantitative easing led to the biggest recession since the responded. and excessively low interest rates, I Great Depression. I voted against a second term for will not vote in favor of her nomina- In the years since the crash, Gov- Chairman Bernanke due to my con- tion. ernor Yellen has been a voice on the

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While there are many failures whether it is raising the minimum The result was announced—yeas 56, that led the economy to the brink of wage, it means engaging in the lives nays 26, as follows: collapse, one of the biggest mistakes and helping people in this country who [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Ex.] on the Federal level was not keeping may not be as privileged as those of us YEAS—56 the average American’s financial inter- who have the opportunity to serve in Alexander Donnelly Mikulski est in mind. There is far too much bias the Senate. Ayotte Feinstein Murkowski in this institution toward Wall Street Janet Yellen is qualified to take the Baucus Flake Murphy instead of Main Street. helm of the Fed and make history in Bennet Franken Murray Blumenthal Gillibrand Most people in my home State of becoming the first woman to run the Nelson Booker Hagan Pryor Ohio, in the Presiding Officer’s home Central Bank. Boxer Heinrich Reed State of Hawaii, are not millionaires. In confirming Ms. Yellen, we can Brown Hirono Reid Burr Johnson (SD) Rockefeller They are automakers in Lordstown, look forward to a new era of recovery Cantwell Kaine Schatz steelworkers in Cleveland, they are and growth. I look forward to working Cardin Kirk Schumer farmers in Darke County, they are with Janet Yellen and her staff. Carper Klobuchar Stabenow hairdressers in Toledo, they are police I urge my colleagues to confirm Casey Landrieu Chambliss Leahy Tester officers in Columbus. They are the peo- Janet Yellen to be Chair of the Federal Coats Levin Udall (CO) ple who make the products we depend Reserve. Coburn Manchin Udall (NM) on every day. I yield the floor. Collins McCaskill Warner My State produces more than any The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time Coons Menendez Whitehouse Corker Merkley Wyden but two States in the United States. has expired. They are the people who make these The question is, Will the Senate ad- NAYS—26 products, who teach our children, who vise and consent to the nomination of Barrasso Grassley Roberts protect our communities. They are the Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be Blunt Heller Rubio Boozman Hoeven Chairman of the Board of Governors of Scott average hard-working Americans try- Cochran Inhofe Sessions ing to create a better life for their chil- the Federal Reserve System? Cornyn Isakson Shelby dren. And they, along with millions of Mr. COBURN. I ask for the ayes and Crapo Johanns Toomey other Americans, deserve better than nays. Cruz Johnson (WI) Vitter Enzi Lee Wicker the crisis that we allowed to happen. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a Fischer Risch Over the years, Washington, the Fed sufficient second? NOT VOTING—18 in particular, has too often lacked an There appears to be a sufficient sec- ond. Baldwin Heitkamp Paul important connection to Americans Begich King Portman whose lives are so affected by the deci- The clerk will call the roll. Durbin Markey Sanders sions it makes. Few have been able to The assistant legislative clerk called Graham McCain Shaheen keep a perspective where they under- the roll. Harkin McConnell Thune Hatch Moran Warren stand what is happening in middle Mr. REID. I announce that the Sen- America, among working-class Ameri- ator from Wisconsin (Ms. BALDWIN), the The nomination was confirmed. cans, among middle-class Americans. Senator from Alaska (Mr. BEGICH), the ∑ Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, ex- When President Lincoln was in office, Senator from Illinois (Mr. DURBIN), the treme weather throughout the Midwest he would go out and meet regularly Senator from Iowa (Mr. HARKIN), the created travel delays that prevented with ordinary Americans either in the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. me from being in Washington today for White House or outside the White HEITKAMP), the Senator from Maine the vote to confirm Janet Yellen as House. While his staff implored him to (Mr. KING), the Senator from Massa- Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve. stay in the White House and win the chusetts (Mr. MARKEY), the Senator She is an excellent candidate, given war and free the slaves and save the from Vermont (Mr. SANDERS), the Sen- her long history of service at the Fed Union, President Lincoln said: I need ator from New Hampshire (Mrs. SHA- and her vast amount of expertise, and to go out and get my public opinion HEEN) and the Senator from Massachu- had I been here, I would have cast an bath. setts (Ms. WARREN) are necessarily ab- aye vote in support of her nomination, We have also seen the new pope, sent. just as I did on the vote to invoke clo- Francis I, exhort his parish priests to I further announce that, if present ture on her nomination. ‘‘smell like the flock’’—to get among and voting, the Senator from Wis- Dr. Yellen most currently serves as them, to understand their lives as consin (Ms. BALDWIN), the Senator vice chair of the Board of Governors of much as possible, to drink the water from Alaska (Mr. BEGICH), the Senator the Federal Reserve. Over the span of they drink, to be among them, to learn from Illinois (Mr. DURBIN), the Senator the last nearly four decades, she has from them and to listen to them. We from Iowa (Mr. HARKIN), the Senator served as a member of the Board of must know those whom we serve. from North Dakota (Ms. HEITKAMP), Governors, the chair of President Clin- In a speech last year before the AFL– the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. ton’s Council of Economic Advisors, CIO, Janet Yellen described the real- MARKEY), the Senator from Vermont and as the president and CEO of the world implications of unemployment (Mr. SANDERS), the Senator from New 12th District Federal Reserve Bank in and noted that the unemployed are not Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) and the San Francisco. She’s also spent a good just statistics. She took stock of the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. WAR- part of her career in the academic work ahead for the Fed, notably ensur- REN) would each vote ‘‘yea.’’ world, currently as a professor at ing that Dodd-Frank is fully imple- Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. mented in ending ‘‘too big to fail.’’ I are necessarily absent: the Senator The worst financial crisis since the think she will break out of the beltway from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), the Great Depression sent our economy bubble. I think she will get out in the Senator from Utah (Mr. HATCH), the into a hole that it is still climbing out country far more than any of her pred- Senator from Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN), of today. The good news is that it is ecessors have done and consider the the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. emerging from that dark place, thanks lives and work to understand the lives MCCONNELL), the Senator from Kansas in part to the role of the Federal Re- of those people affected by these Fed- (Mr. MORAN), the Senator from Ohio serve, led by current Chairman Ben eral Central Bank decisions. (Mr. PORTMAN), the Senator from Bernanke. Since the depths of the cri- As Chair of the Fed Subcommittee on South Dakota (Mr. THUNE), and the sis, the Fed has taken on a more cre- Communications, she has played a Senator from Kentucky (Mr. PAUL). ative role in restoring our economy strong role in monetary policy and its Further, if present and voting, the and stabilizing our financial system, efforts to put people back to work, de- Senator from Utah (Mr. HATCH) would using unconventional tools and setting spite Congress’s unwillingness—this have voted ‘‘yea.’’ specific goals for growth.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 6, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S15 What makes Dr. Yellen a particularly extended unemployment benefits. They I yield the floor. strong nominee is the attention she are the first wave of what will be more The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- has paid to connecting the labor mar- than 3 million other Americans. These ator from Massachusetts. ket to monetary policy. Much of her people have worked, they have quali- Ms. WARREN. Mr. President, I was career has been devoted to these sub- fied for unemployment insurance, they on the same flight with Senator SHA- jects. In October 2009, our unemploy- need help, and we have to help them. If HEEN. I was looking forward to having ment rate reached 10 percent. Today, we don’t do that, not only will these the opportunity to vote for Janet with the help of the Fed’s actions, it families suffer, the economy will suf- Yellen to be Chair of the Federal Re- stands at 7 percent. In my home State fer. The CBO estimated we will lose serve. I am very disappointed I didn’t of Illinois, unemployment stood at 10.7 200,000 jobs if we don’t extend unem- get to formally vote for her, but I want percent in 2009, and is down to 8.7 per- ployment benefits, and 0.2 percent of to make sure that the RECORD reflects cent today. Though this is far from growth. my strong support. good enough, it shows real progress. If we want to help working families— I suggest the absence of a quorum. Our next Fed chair should be able to people who qualify because they The PRESIDING OFFICER. The take on the challenges our economy worked and have to continue to look clerk will call the roll. still faces—lowering the unemploy- for work to be qualified—and our econ- The bill clerk proceeded to call the ment rate even further and meeting in- omy, then vote to at least let us go for- roll. flationary goals. The focus that Dr. ward. Give us 3 months to work on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Yellen brings to the labor market gives issues, funding, and anything else, but ator from Kentucky. me confidence that she can help our don’t throw these people off a cliff and Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unan- Nation reach new highs when it comes leave them without anything. imous consent that the order for the to creating jobs and getting Americans The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- quorum call be rescinded. back to work. ator from Texas. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The Wall Street Journal recently Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, this is a objection, it is so ordered. prepared an interesting analysis exam- serious issue, but if this was anything YELLEN NOMINATION ining more than 700 predictions made other than a political exercise, the ma- Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I rise by 14 Fed policymakers. That analysis jority leader would have rescheduled today in opposition to secrecy, in oppo- found Dr. Yellen to be the most accu- this vote when we did not have 17 Mem- sition to the veil of secrecy that cloaks rate of the 14. That did not surprise bers of the Senate unable to be here the money changing hands that takes me. Dr. Yellen could not be more de- and vote on this. place in the temple of the Federal Re- I have no doubt as to what the out- serving of this nomination given her serve. While the money changes hands, come will be on this cloture vote, but I experience and precise economic judg- the monied class gets richer and the believe it is purely a scheduling mat- ment. She has the know-how to make middle class gets shortchanged. ter. It ought to be postponed to a later the decisions that a Fed chair needs to It is more than time to part the cur- time when we can have a real debate so make about how to move our economy tain that hides the trillions of dollars we can look for a way to pay for this further forward successfully and trans- that changes hands. There is a revolv- extension of unemployment benefits parently. ing door from Wall Street to the Treas- and how to get the economy growing I support Dr. Yellen’s nomination ury to the Fed and back again. We have again so people can find jobs. That is and look forward to working with her former Secretaries of the Treasury who what people want; they want to work. as she becomes our Nation’s first go from government to Wall Street They don’t want unemployment com- Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve.∑ pocketing hundreds of millions of dol- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- pensation; they want jobs so they can lars. jority leader. provide for their families. I have called repeatedly for trans- Unfortunately, because of the timing Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- parency at the Federal Reserve so of this vote, we know what the out- imous consent the motion to recon- Americans can see what is being done come is, and it is transparent that this sider be considered made and laid upon with their money supply. Every time I is a political exercise and not a real ef- the table and that the President be im- call for transparency, people from both fort to try to fix the problem. sides have said transparency would un- mediately notified of the Senate’s ac- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- dermine Fed independence. The prob- tion. jority leader. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent lem is that Congress created the Fed objection, it is so ordered. that the vote be scheduled tomorrow at and Congress was intended to have f 10 a.m. oversight over the Fed, and as time has gone on we have lost that oversight, so LEGISLATIVE SESSION The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so independence has really led to abuse. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under ordered. Some say: Well, the Fed is audited the previous order, the Senate will re- The Senator from Arkansas. each year. sume legislative session. Mr. PRYOR. I suggest the absence of The investigator general who is re- f a quorum. sponsible for auditing the Fed came to Congress in 2009, and here is what she EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT The PRESIDING OFFICER. The had to say during a question-and-an- COMPENSATION EXTENSION clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the swer session in a House committee. A ACT—MOTION TO PROCEED—Con- roll. Congressman asked: tinued Mrs. SHAHEEN. Mr. President, I ask What have you done to investigate the off- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- unanimous consent that the order for balance sheet transactions conducted by the imous consent the next vote be 10 min- the quorum call be rescinded. Federal Reserve which, according to utes in duration, the mandatory The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Bloomberg, now total $9 trillion in 8 months? quorum under rule XXII be waived, and objection, it is so ordered. She fumbled, she repeated herself, there be 2 minutes equally divided VOTE EXPLANATIONS she looked silly, and then she said: prior to the vote on the motion to pro- Mrs. SHAHEEN. Unfortunately, I was You know, I think it may be important at ceed to S. 1845. not here to vote for Janet Yellen, the this point to— The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there head of the Federal Reserve. Had I been Yadda, yadda, yadda, and then sev- objection? Without objection, it is so here to vote, I would have voted to sup- eral yaddas later, this bombshell from ordered. port her in that position. the auditor: There will be 2 minutes equally di- My flight was delayed, and so I did We do not have jurisdiction to directly go vided prior to the cloture vote. not get back in time for the vote. I out and audit Reserve Bank activities spe- The Senator from Rhode Island. want to make sure that the RECORD cifically. So, really, there is no audit of the Mr. REED. Mr. President, on Decem- shows that I support her as the new Federal Reserve, so don’t let anybody say ber 28, 1.3 million Americans lost their chairman of the Fed. that we have an audit. No meaningful audit

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But derived from the historic trust engen- Asia, the world’s central banks are flooding when trillions of dollars change hands, dered by convertibility of paper to markets with liquidity and pushing deeper into unknown monetary policy territory and wouldn’t one want to know who got the gold. money and whether anyone enriched I feel this journey will not end well. For decades the full faith and credit Nassim Taleb, author of the ‘‘Black themselves in the process? promise allowed the Fed to continue to We know $9 trillion is over half of our Swan,’’ writes: inflate, and still the people remained Someone made a mistake lending and entire national debt. This is money relatively passive in their acceptance that ultimately becomes debt for all of someone made a mistake borrowing . . . and of an unbacked, completely discre- it is a mistake to transform private prob- us. It is being doled out, in secret, by tionary paper currency—but not with- lems into public debt. We are facing an envi- our central bank. This is, in a sense, out hiccups. Inflation nearly got the ronment with a huge amount of debt. The laundering money from the American better of us in the 1970s, and now debt next mistake is going to be to overprint, people to bail out big banks and Wall threatens to do the same. which is going to be the way out for them, Street. which is why I fear hyperinflation. Something profound, though, oc- This month we learned that the Fed’s Yale University housing expert and curred in the past few years beginning official balance sheet has reached an recent Nobel Prize winner Robert with the panic of 2008. The Fed began astounding $4 trillion. To put that in Schiller: to back the dollar with not just prom- perspective, the balance sheet of the This financial crisis that we’ve been going ises but perhaps really bad promises. Fed is now larger than the fourth larg- through in the last 5 years has been one that est economy in the world—Germany. Since early 2008 the Fed has added seems to reveal the failure to understand Transparency at the Fed would not nearly $3 trillion to its asset sheet, and price movement . . . hurt the Fed, but a complete lack of included among these ‘‘assets’’ is stuff Not shying away from his concerns transparency continues to hurt and that nobody else seems to want, such that the Fed is simply inflating the cheat the rest of us. At the very least as bad car loans and nonperforming housing bubble in America’s largest the American middle class deserves to mortgages. According to Mauldin and cities, he argues: know what goes on behind the curtain, Tepper’s book ‘‘Code Red,’’ at $4 tril- [Housing prices] are up 12 percent in the what decisions are made, and how they lion, and roughly $55 billion in equity, last year. That is a very rapid rise in prices, the Fed is leveraged at about 77 to 1. and I believe it is accelerated somewhat by benefit Wall Street and the monied Fed policies . . . the housing market, it has class. Think about that. That is an insane amount of leverage for any bank. The its own momentum right now as people see it Being secret and reckless with tril- coming back. We’re sort of in the beginnings lions of dollars is only the tip of the Fed is more leveraged than the balance of another housing bubble. iceberg when it comes to the problems sheets of Lehman Brothers, Bear Since we abandoned the sequester associated with the Fed. The history of Stearns, Freddie or Fannie, before budgetary caps, any pretense of fiscal the Federal Reserve has also been the those institutions essentially failed. discipline is gone. Politicians can at- history of the devaluation of the dol- Jim Rickards, author of ‘‘Currency tempt to obfuscate the truth with lar. There was a time when the dollar Wars,’’ notes: The Fed is insolvent on a promises of spending restraint in the was as good as gold. When the people mark-to-market basis. . . . The Fed outyears, but everybody knows that grew restless or concerned that the has wiped out its capital on a mark-to- the promise to cut in the outyears is a government was debasing the currency, market basis. Of course, the Fed car- pipe dream and that all that really the people would simply express their ries those notes on its balance sheet counts is the first 2 years of the Ryan- displeasure by exchanging their paper ‘‘at cost’’ and does not mark them Murray plan that will add over $60 bil- for gold. Convertibility was a check down to market, but if they did, they lion in new spending. and balance against Kings and Queens would be broke. The insolvency of the What really causes China concern is and any form of government that chose Fed will become a major issue in the not the new spending we are incurring to spend money it did not have. When years ahead and may necessitate a fi- but that the total new debt added over the government ‘‘borrowed’’ from the nancial bailout of the Fed by the tax- 10 years will be $7 trillion. China’s re- currency by diluting its value, the peo- payers. sponse to our fiscal lack of discipline ple had recourse to protect themselves. So the once-proud dollar that was was to downgrade our debt. Our $17 Now, the great American dollar that once backed by gold, then backed by trillion debt is manageable only with was once backed by gold is backed by the full faith and credit of the world’s the Fed buying it and only with low in- promises. greatest economy, is now backed by terest rates. For many decades the dollar was said used car loans and underwater mort- China’s Dagong Global Credit Rating to be backed by the full faith and cred- gages. said in their statement on the down- grade: it of the Federal Government. Trust But those who trust in paper say: lingered from the historical evolution, Look. For 50 years now we have had no The deal means only an escape from a debt convertibility, and amazing improve- default for the time being, but hasn’t from barter to a medium that people changed the fact that the growth of govern- valued such as gold or silver. The trust ments in productivity and wealth have ment borrowing has largely outpaced overall that still exists today lingers from the occurred. economic growth and fiscal revenues. thousand-year history when currency Perhaps. But one might also argue These are facts, and both sides—Re- had inherent value and that if paper that we are living on the borrowed publicans and Democrats—are ignoring substitutes were used, they could al- plumage of the past, that our current the facts. China, when they down- ways be exchanged for something of acceptance of a paper currency rests on graded us, said it, and we cannot es- real value. the glory of our industrial and mone- cape this fact: The growth of govern- After World War II we instituted a tary past. No one can tell for sure what ment borrowing has largely outpaced partial gold standard that allowed for- the future holds, but I for one am con- economic growth and fiscal revenues. eign countries to exchange their paper cerned that the panic of 2008 may not It is sad when the Chinese Government for gold—and exchange they did. Dur- have been an anomaly but a harbinger can see major economic problems for ing the 1960s, as the United States in- of something far worse. I am concerned us that Washington continues to ig- flated and borrowed to pay for the war we have papered over our problems in a nore. on poverty and the war in Vietnam, sea of new currency. That quantitative At current rates, we pay about $237 foreign countries became skittish and easing has created an illusion of safety billion in interest payments. If interest turned in their dollars by the millions. and security, but beneath the surface rates rise by 1 percent, interest spend- Nearly half of the gold reserves were lurks a bigger and more malevolent fu- ing will increase by $1.2 trillion. If in- removed by foreign countries in the ture. terest rates return to the norms of the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 6, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S17 1980s, the taxpayer will be on the hook pose a government that would balance rue the day that we endorsed quan- for an additional $6.17 trillion. If inter- its budgets annually. Without fiscal re- titative easing. est rates go to 10 percent, ‘‘Katy, bar straint you cannot ever have monetary I believe the Federal Reserve is the door.’’ The panic will be upon us. restraint. The opposite is where we are structurally flawed. I believe we need Most conservatives would be aghast now. With fiscal irresponsibility, bor- to be able to prevent or restrict any if we talked about price controls. Con- rowing over $1 million a minute, you Chairman today or in the future from servatives realize, as most economists need a compliant monetary policy, and aiding and abetting the allies of banks now do, that price controls lead to a that is exactly what we have. and big government. As monetary his- glut if the price is too high and to bare But there are consequences to mas- torian Peter Bernholz wrote in his fa- shelves if the price is too low. The So- sive debts and corresponding massive mous book ‘‘Monetary Regimes and In- viet Union was brought low for that purchases by the Fed. The con- flation’’: ‘‘ . . . we draw the conclusion very reason. No one, no matter how sequences can be gradual or abrupt. that the creation of money to finance a wise, can determine the correct price The gradual bankrupting of America is public budget deficit has been the rea- of bread without a marketplace. proceeding apace. We pay for it with son for hyperinflations.’’ Anytime a government tries to set new money created by the Fed. I see nothing in Yellen’s past per- prices, the consequence is disastrous. The result is a gradual loss of pur- formance at the Fed that would indi- But many leaders who are quite aware chasing power. Over the past 100 years, cate that her policies will be any dif- of the destructive nature of price con- the dollar has lost 96 percent of its ferent than what we see today. In fact, trols nevertheless advocate for allow- value. A nation can survive this grad- I see evidence that things may well get ing the Fed to set the price of money, ual loss we have, but some would argue worse. for that is what interest rates are— that the people hurt most are those I have introduced a bipartisan bill simply the price of money. Like any who are least able to absorb rising called Federal Reserve Transparency other price, though, setting interest prices—the poor and the elderly on Act, known also as Audit the Fed. The rates lower than the market rate of in- fixed incomes. purpose of my bill is to eliminate the terest encourages more use of the The other possible outcome is an ab- current restrictions on GAO audits of money and more economic activity. rupt loss of confidence in the currency. the Fed, along with mandating that But if the rates are kept below the The panic of 2008 approached mass fear the Federal Reserve’s credit facilities, market rate, we interrupt the feedback that the system was unsound. Reports securities purchases, and quantitative loop that informs producers that they that the emperor had no clothes were easing activities become subject to are overproducing, and the bubble ex- taken seriously, as even the soundness congressional oversight. pands until overproduction has reached of money market funds was questioned. Looking into what the Federal Re- such a point that the correction is a Our system of paper currency now serve does with our money has signifi- catastrophe. That is what happened backed by the promises of politicians, cant support from both parties, many with the housing bubble. We kept in- a $17 trillion debt, and used car loans Members of which have heard the same and bad home mortgages is always one terest rates too low for too long and concerns back home in their States and panic away from dissolution. When the bubble grew and grew and grew and districts. that day comes is uncertain. Can the we are still suffering from that. And Audit the Fed passed overwhelmingly Fed continue the legerdemain; can the what are we doing now? Exactly the in the House with 350 votes. Every Re- Fed continue the illusion of wealth same thing. publican and 100 Democrats voted for that comes with freshly inked money? Jim Rickards explains this phe- it. Time will tell. But I, for one, want to nomenon: The Federal Reserve is one of the know what the Fed is doing. Are indi- Market participants and policymakers rely most secretive institutions in our his- viduals enriching themselves at the ex- on market prices to make decisions about tory. For decades, the people in charge pense of the public? Does Fed policy economic policy. What happens when the at the Fed, politicians, and various enrich one group of individuals at the price signals upon which policymakers rely ‘‘experts’’ have insisted that such se- expense of another? What assets does are themselves distorted by prior policy ma- crecy was integral to its independence nipulation? First you distort the price signal the Fed hold? What informs their deci- and effectiveness. by market manipulation, but then you rely sion-making process? on the ‘‘price’’ to guide your policy going I, for one, want answers. I, for one, But the results of complete secrecy forward. This is the blind leading the blind. want transparency. have been Fed policies that are ques- Politicians have been complacent in President Obama’s choice of Janet tionable at the least. This idea that the letting the Fed manipulate interest Yellen as the new head of the Federal Federal Reserve is at the root of some rates for many reasons. Many politi- Reserve is concerning due to the poli- of our economic problems is brandnew cians are reticent to get involved in cies Ms. Yellen has promoted in her to many Americans precisely because monetary policy. They are worried of history at the Fed. we are not allowed to know what this being blamed if the economy sours The Federal Reserve’s answer to eco- powerful institution does behind closed with monetary reforms. Many politi- nomic crisis has long been simply to doors—despite the fact that it has a di- cians believe the economy is better off print more money, or what they call rect impact on our lives. with the Fed than with the panics that ‘‘quantitative easing.’’ It does not take I can see no reason why the Amer- occurred before the Fed. But perhaps a rocket scientist to figure out that ican public should not be allowed to see the variations in the economy of late printing money out of thin air is not behind the veil of secrecy at the Fed. I indicate just as much instability with sound long-term economic policy. But will continue to do what I can to part the Fed as before the Fed. Ms. Yellen has been a major cheer- that veil. I will continue to fight for a There is some truth to the fact that leader for it. The Washington Post’s full and persistent audit of the Fed. big debt and deficit financing in all Neil Irwin wrote that ‘‘Yellen has been Audit the Fed passed the House over- likelihood require a central bank to not merely an engineer of the Fed’s whelmingly, but we have been unable pay the debt with inflated dollars, and policies of ‘quantitative easing’ and to get a vote in the Senate. I will con- there is some truth to this. ‘forward guidance,’ but a consistent tinue to fight for that vote. John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper’s voice within the central bank to go fur- Although I was delayed by the weath- new book, ‘‘Code Red,’’ highlights this ther.’’ Quantitative easing is not er, I am here today to oppose Janet very point: enough. She wants more. Yellen’s nomination for two reasons. I In 2011, the Federal Reserve financed about Will she go further? Will the same believe she will continue the gradual three-quarters of the U.S. deficit; in 2012, it policies continue unabated? Those of us destruction of the dollar’s value and financed over half of it; and in 2013, it will fi- who think quantitative easing has got- because I believe the time is now for a nance most of it. ten out of hand are now being asked to full audit of the Fed. We are on course to finance the en- confirm a nominee who thinks the Fed Thank you, Mr. President. tire U.S. debt in 2014. has not done enough along these lines. I suggest the absence of a quorum. Now, for anyone imagining a day The vote was overwhelming to con- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The without a Fed, they would have to pro- firm Janet Yellen, but I think we will clerk will call the roll.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S18 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 6, 2014 The legislative clerk proceeded to do the right thing but who are victims work and those who have given up ac- call the roll. of circumstance is simply wrong. tively looking for work, the rate is ac- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- Jobseekers are not sitting around tually 13.2 percent. imous consent that the order for the watching TV and collecting compensa- Long-term unemployment has been quorum call be rescinded. tion they don’t deserve. In fact, par- at record highs for years. Currently 37 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ticipation in the unemployment insur- percent of unemployed workers have objection, it is so ordered. ance program requires that workers been looking for new work for at least f have a significant work history—which 6 months. Congress has never allowed means they have paid into the system Federal unemployment insurance to MORNING BUSINESS and earned this insurance. Collecting expire when more than 23 percent of Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- on the insurance also requires workers unemployed workers were long-term imous consent that the Senate proceed to have lost their job through no fault unemployed. to a period of morning business, with of their own, and to be actively looking Our economy is recovering, but we Senators allowed to speak therein for for work. Participants in the program are not there yet. American jobseekers up to 10 minutes each. are playing by the rules. It is now our and their families still need Federal The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without responsibility to make sure that work- unemployment insurance. Our econ- objection, it is so ordered. ers who are out of luck in this economy omy needs these families to have some f have some basic income to make ends basic means of survival. There is no UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION meet. justification for not restoring the cur- The fact is times are still tough and rent program. This is a modest, short- Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, we have jobs are hard to come by. For every job term extension of 3 months. I would the opportunity today to take care of opening there are three job seekers. prefer to see us approve a year-long ex- some very important unfinished busi- That is why so many millions of work- tension, so that families who rely on ness. We left town last year without ers have been searching for new work the program have peace of mind that ensuring that millions of American for such a long time. The American they will not be cut off from this life- jobseekers could retain access to vital people know this, too. In last week’s line again. But I am pleased that Sen- unemployment insurance. I hope we poll, 57 percent of voters said that the ator HELLER has joined with Senator correct this and restore the Federal un- unemployed ‘‘would rather work, but REED, myself, and others to put for- employment program, the Emergency cannot find a job in today’s economy.’’ ward this proposal. Unemployment Compensation pro- Although the payments under the Congress has an obligation to restore gram, which was allowed to expire on Federal program were modest—after and continue the Federal unemploy- December 28. cuts due to sequestration, payments ment insurance program to ensure that Unemployment insurance has helped averaged just $269 per week—these Americans and their families can sur- tens of millions of Americans weather funds were crucial for keeping house- vive while trying to get back on their the storm of the difficult economy over holds afloat. For many, this is their feet and find new work. They are de- the last several years. It has helped last lifeline. If Congress fails to restore pending on us. I urge the Senate to act workers put food on the table, kept a the Federal program, millions of people to restore the Federal unemployment roof over their heads, and kept millions will face real economic devastation. insurance program. out of poverty. Also, we have to remember that un- f But because Congress has so far employment insurance is not just a failed to extend it, 1.3 million Ameri- lifeline for families, but for our econ- ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS cans were abruptly cut off from their omy as a whole. After all, one of the vital unemployment insurance the best ways to grow our economy and to week after Christmas. And over the create jobs is to support spending JACKSON, MISSOURI course of this year, another 3.6 million power. And that is exactly what unem- ∑ Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, today I Americans will be cut off from unem- ployment insurance does. When unem- wish to recognize Jackson, MO, as it ployment insurance as they exhaust ployed workers can continue to pay celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2014. their State benefits and have nowhere their bills, businesses can continue to Jackson is a proud community with a else to turn. That is a total of 4.9 mil- make sales and provide services, and long history of hard work and an un- lion Americans—including 35,500 the economy grows. The Congressional mistakable spirit of community. Iowans. They have spent 6 months or Budget Office has found that unem- Founded in 1814, Jackson is the coun- more trying to find new work, going ployment insurance is one of the most ty seat of Cape Girardeau County in out and pounding the pavement day efficient policy tools we have to im- southeast Missouri. With only 300 resi- after day, but must now worry about prove economic growth. If the Federal dents at its founding, the town still how they and their families and chil- unemployment insurance program is supported five stores, two shoemakers, dren are going to survive. How will restored and extended through 2014, it and a tannery—a thriving hub for the they keep up with their heating bill, will increase GDP by 0.2 percent and time. Jackson’s growth has been slow their rent, their car payment, or their create 200,000 jobs. Those jobs will be and steady, but stable. Today, nearly mortgage? lost if we do not act. 14,000 people live and work in Jackson. We used to all agree here in Wash- Congress has a long history of acting As it embarks on its 200th year, ington that if you lose your job to ensure basic security for working Jackson is one of the fastest growing through no fault of your own, espe- people during tough economic times. In communities in Missouri. Its city slo- cially at a time of chronic unemploy- the past, when the job market was this gan, ‘The City of Beautiful Homes, ment, you should have some support challenging, politicians on both sides Churches, and Schools,’ aptly rep- while you’re looking for new work. The of the aisle agreed that the Federal resents a community committed to American people certainly agree. A Government had an obligation to step progress and improvement. In 2009, poll released last week shows that 55 in and help the long-term unemployed Money Magazine named Jackson 59th percent of voters say that Congress while they are struggling to find a on its list of best small towns in the should act to maintain the program. work. Indeed, the current program of United States. With the many thou- Unfortunately, some people in this extended unemployment benefits was sands of small towns across our coun- chamber seem to think that the mis- put in place in 2008 by President try, this is a considerable distinction— fortune of losing a job means that George W. Bush when the unemploy- although, to be sure, Jackson is worthy these hardworking folks are to blame, ment rate was 5.6 percent. While unem- of a spot much higher. or that they don’t deserve this basic ployment is falling, it is still at a high Jackson’s small town feel makes it a lifeline. Some here in the Senate have rate, 7.0 percent. And that’s just the of- great place to call home. The citizens even called it a ‘‘disservice’’ to con- ficial rate. Unofficially, when we in- come together for events ranging from tinue this program. That kind of harsh- clude those folks who want to work the annual Independence Day celebra- ness toward people who are trying to full-time but can only find part-time tion in the city park, to its

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 6, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S19 Homecomers event in historic uptown, on the basis of a schedule of penalties estab- EC–4153. A communication from the Para- to cheering for their hometown teams lished and published by the Commission, to legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- under the Friday night lights of foot- expand such authority to certain other viola- tration, Department of Transportation, tions, and for other purposes. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ball games. There are numerous other a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; activities to keep Jackson residents Under the authority of the order of the Senate of January 3, 2013, the en- ExtremeAir GmbH Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– busy; building families and friendships AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0998)) received is at the core of each. rolled bills were subsequently signed in the Office of the President of the Senate The city of Jackson’s officials and on December 23, 2013 by the Acting on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on citizens should take pride in the core President pro tempore (Mr. LEVIN). Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Under the authority of the order of values of the community they call EC–4154. A communication from the Para- the Senate of January 3, 2013, the Sec- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- home on its 200th anniversary. Please retary of the Senate, on December 27, tration, Department of Transportation, join me in saluting Jackson, MO, as it 2013, during the adjournment of the transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of celebrates this milestone.∑ Senate, received a message from the a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; f Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd and Co KG House of Representatives, delivered by Turbofan Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT one of its reading clerks, announcing No. FAA–2013–0397)) received in the Office of that the House has agreed to the fol- the President of the Senate on December 16, Messages from the President of the lowing concurrent resolution, without 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, United States were communicated to amendment: Science, and Transportation. the Senate by Mr. Pate, one of his sec- S. Con. Res. 30. Concurrent resolution pro- EC–4155. A communication from the Para- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- retaries. viding for a conditional adjournment or re- tration, Department of Transportation, cess of the Senate and an adjournment of the f transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of House of Representatives. EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; f Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket As in executive session the Presiding MEASURES PLACED ON THE No. FAA–2013–0096)) received in the Office of Officer laid before the Senate messages CALENDAR the President of the Senate on December 16, from the President of the United 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, States submitting sundry nominations The following bill was read the sec- Science, and Transportation. which were referred to the appropriate ond time, and placed on the calendar: EC–4156. A communication from the Para- H.R. 2019. An act to eliminate taxpayer fi- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- committees. (The messages received tration, Department of Transportation, today are printed at the end of the Sen- nancing of political party conventions and reprogram savings to provide for a 10-year transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ate proceedings.) pediatric research initiative through the a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; f Common Fund administered by the National Thielert Aircraft Engines GmbH Recipro- Institutes of Health, and for other purposes. cating Engines’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE FAA–2013–0561)) received in the Office of the RECEIVED DURING ADJOURNMENT f President of the Senate on December 16, 2013; EXECUTIVE AND OTHER to the Committee on Commerce, Science, Under the authority of the order of COMMUNICATIONS and Transportation. the Senate of January 3, 2013, the Sec- EC–4157. A communication from the Para- retary of the Senate, on December 23, The following communications were legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- 2013, during the adjournment of the laid before the Senate, together with tration, Department of Transportation, Senate, received a message from the accompanying papers, reports, and doc- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of uments, and were referred as indicated: a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; House of Representatives, delivered by Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan Engines’’ EC–4149. A communication from the Para- one of its reading clerks, announcing ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0750)) legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- that the House has passed the fol- received in the Office of the President of the tration, Department of Transportation, lowing bill, without amendment: Senate on December 16, 2013; to the Com- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- S. 1614. An act to require Certificates of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; tation. Citizenship and other Federal documents to Eurocopter France Helicopters’’ ((RIN2120– reflect name and date of birth determina- EC–4158. A communication from the Para- AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0354)) received legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- tions made by a State court and for other in the Office of the President of the Senate purposes. tration, Department of Transportation, on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED Commerce, Science, and Transportation. a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; The message also announced that the EC–4150. A communication from the Para- Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan Engines’’ Speaker had signed the following en- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0880)) tration, Department of Transportation, rolled bills: received in the Office of the President of the transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of Senate on December 16, 2013; to the Com- HR. 623. An act to provide for the convey- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- ance of certain property located in Anchor- Bombardier, Inc. Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) tation. age, Alaska, from the United States to the (Docket No. FAA–2013–0700)) received in the EC–4159. A communication from the Para- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Office of the President of the Senate on De- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- H.R. 767. An act to amend the Energy Pol- cember 16, 2013; to the Committee on Com- tration, Department of Transportation, icy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot Project merce, Science, and Transportation. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of offices of the Federal Permit Streamlining EC–4151. A communication from the Para- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; Pilot Project. legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan Engines’’ H.R. 2319. An act to clarify certain provi- tration, Department of Transportation, ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0029)) sions of the Native American Veterans’ Me- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of received in the Office of the President of the morial Establishment Act of 1994. a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; Senate on December 16, 2013; to the Com- H.R. 3304. An act to authorize appropria- Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- tions for fiscal year 2014 for military activi- No. FAA–2013–0698)) received in the Office of tation. ties of the Department of Defense, for mili- the President of the Senate on December 16, EC–4160. A communication from the Para- tary construction, and for defense activities 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- of the Department of Energy, to prescribe Science, and Transportation. tration, Department of Transportation, military personnel strengths for such fiscal EC–4152. A communication from the Para- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of year, and for other purposes. legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; H.R. 3343. An act to amend the District of tration, Department of Transportation, DASSAULT AVIATION Airplanes’’ Columbia Home Rule Act to clarify the rules transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013– regarding the determination of the com- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; 00626)) received in the Office of the President pensation of the Chief Financial Officer of AQUILA—Aviation by Excellence AG Air- of the Senate on December 16, 2013; to the the District of Columbia. planes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA– Committee on Commerce, Science, and H.R. 3487. An act to amend the Federal 2013–0963)) received in the Office of the Presi- Transportation. Election Campaign Act to extend through dent of the Senate on December 16, 2013; to EC–4161. A communication from the Para- 2018 the authority of the Federal Election the Committee on Commerce, Science, and legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- Commission to impose civil money penalties Transportation. tration, Department of Transportation,

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A communication from the Para- fice of the President of the Senate on Decem- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- ber 16, 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, Transportation. tration, Department of Transportation, Science, and Transportation. EC–4162. A communication from the Para- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of EC–4179. A communication from the Para- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- tration, Department of Transportation, Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket tration, Department of Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of No. FAA–2013–0329)) received in the Office of transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; the President of the Senate on December 16, a rule entitled ‘‘Standard Instrument Ap- EADS CASA (Type Certificate Previously 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, proach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums Held by Construcciones Aeronauticas, S.A.) Science, and Transportation. and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Mis- Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. EC–4171. A communication from the Para- cellaneous Amendments (12); Amdt. No. 3563’’ FAA–2013–0870)) received in the Office of the legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- (RIN2120–AA65) received in the Office of the President of the Senate on December 16, 2013; tration, Department of Transportation, President of the Senate on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; and Transportation. EC–4163. A communication from the Para- The Boeing Company Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– EC–4180. A communication from the Para- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0871)) received legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- tration, Department of Transportation, in the Office of the President of the Senate tration, Department of Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; Commerce, Science, and Transportation. a rule entitled ‘‘Standard Instrument Ap- Fokker Services B.V. Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– EC–4172. A communication from the Para- proach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0630)) received legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Mis- in the Office of the President of the Senate tration, Department of Transportation, cellaneous Amendments (43); Amdt. No. 3565’’ on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of (RIN2120–AA65) received in the Office of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation. a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; President of the Senate on December 16, 2013; EC–4164. A communication from the Para- The Boeing Company Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– to the Committee on Commerce, Science, legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2012–0426)) received and Transportation. tration, Department of Transportation, in the Office of the President of the Senate EC–4181. A communication from the Para- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; Commerce, Science, and Transportation. tration, Department of Transportation, AERMACCHI S.p.A. Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– EC–4173. A communication from the Para- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0939)) received legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- a rule entitled ‘‘Standard Instrument Ap- in the Office of the President of the Senate tration, Department of Transportation, proach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Mis- cellaneous Amendments (61); Amdt. No. 3562’’ Commerce, Science, and Transportation. a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; EC–4165. A communication from the Para- The Boeing Company Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– (RIN2120–AA65) received in the Office of the legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2012–1069)) received President of the Senate on December 16, 2013; tration, Department of Transportation, in the Office of the President of the Senate to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on EC–4182. A communication from the Para- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; Commerce, Science, and Transportation. legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- Eurocopter France Helicopters’’ ((RIN2120– EC–4174. A communication from the Para- tration, Department of Transportation, AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0523)) received legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of in the Office of the President of the Senate tration, Department of Transportation, a rule entitled ‘‘Standard Instrument Ap- on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of proach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; Commerce, Science, and Transportation. and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Mis- EC–4166. A communication from the Para- The Boeing Company Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120– cellaneous Amendments (101); Amdt. No. legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0673)) received 3564’’ (RIN2120–AA65) received in the Office of tration, Department of Transportation, in the Office of the President of the Senate the President of the Senate on December 16, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Science, and Transportation. Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated Helicopters EC–4175. A communication from the Dep- EC–4183. A communication from the Para- (Type Certificate previously held by Sikor- uty Assistant Chief Counsel for Safety, Fed- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- sky Aircraft Corporation)’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) eral Railroad Administration, Department of tration, Department of Transportation, (Docket No. FAA–2013–0556)) received in the Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of Office of the President of the Senate on De- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Passenger a rule entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class E cember 16, 2013; to the Committee on Com- Train Emergency Systems II’’ (RIN2130– Airspace; Magee, MS’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) merce, Science, and Transportation. AC22) received in the Office of the President (Docket No. FAA–2013–0430)) received in the EC–4167. A communication from the Para- of the Senate on December 16, 2013; to the Office of the President of the Senate on De- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- Committee on Commerce, Science, and cember 16, 2013; to the Committee on Com- tration, Department of Transportation, Transportation. merce, Science, and Transportation. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of EC–4176. A communication from the Para- EC–4184. A communication from the Para- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- Turbomeca S.A. Turboshaft Engines’’ tration, Department of Transportation, tration, Department of Transportation, ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket No. FAA–2012–0940)) transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of received in the Office of the President of the a rule entitled ‘‘Amendment of VOR Federal a rule entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class E Senate on December 16, 2013; to the Com- Airway V–45, North Carolina’’ ((RIN2120– Airspace; Star, NC’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0991)) received No. FAA–2013–0440)) received in the Office of tation. in the Office of the President of the Senate the President of the Senate on December 16, EC–4168. A communication from the Para- on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Science, and Transportation. tration, Department of Transportation, EC–4177. A communication from the Para- EC–4185. A communication from the Para- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; tration, Department of Transportation, tration, Department of Transportation, Airbus Airplanes’’ ((RIN2120–AA64) (Docket transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of No. FAA–2013–0212)) received in the Office of a rule entitled ‘‘Amendment of VOR Federal a rule entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class E the President of the Senate on December 16, Airway V–374, Northeastern United States’’ Airspace; Umatilla, FL’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0989)) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0002)) received in the Science, and Transportation. received in the Office of the President of the Office of the President of the Senate on De- EC–4169. A communication from the Para- Senate on December 16, 2013; to the Com- cember 16, 2013; to the Committee on Com- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- merce, Science, and Transportation. tration, Department of Transportation, tation. EC–4186. A communication from the Para- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of EC–4178. A communication from the Para- legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- a rule entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives; legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- tration, Department of Transportation,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 6, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S21 transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of tion of scenic, historic, entertainment, and Michigan urging the Congress of the United a rule entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class E transportation venues, including movie stu- States to adopt House Concurrent Resolu- Airspace; Aliceville, AL’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) dios, movie stars’ homes, outdoor entertain- tion 50, regarding the National Railroad (Docket No. FAA–2013–0431)) received in the ment facilities, the coastline, Griffith Park, Monument in Durand, Michigan; to the Com- Office of the President of the Senate on De- the Hollywood sign, and many others, that mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. cember 16, 2013; to the Committee on Com- generate extensive helicopter tours engaged HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 227 merce, Science, and Transportation. in sightseeing activity; and Whereas, Railroads are an integral part of EC–4187. A communication from the Para- Whereas, The County of Los Angeles has a our nation’s past, present, and future. The legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- high concentration of media helicopters en- tration, Department of Transportation, gaged in monitoring traffic conditions. fol- railroad industry played a vital role in build- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of lowing car chases, and filming celebrity ing and developing the United States. This a rule entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class E events, which often involve hovering for ex- role should not be forgotten; and Whereas, Durand, Michigan, is at the his- Airspace; Battle Mountain, NV’’ ((RIN2120– tended periods of time; and toric crossroads of three major railroads and AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2013–0530)) received Whereas, The County of Los Angeles is in the Office of the President of the Senate home to the world’s leading civil helicopter is home to one of the largest surviving train on December 16, 2013; to the Committee on manufacturer, which conducts extensive hel- stations in the United States. The existing Commerce, Science, and Transportation. icopter flight testing in the region; and statuary, structures, and historic railroad EC–4188. A communication from the Para- Whereas, The unique terrain of canyons equipment at Diamond District Park in legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- and valleys in the County of Los Angeles Durand make it an ideal location for a Na- tration, Department of Transportation, often amplifies noise from helicopters in oth- tional Railroad Memorial; and transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of erwise quiet residential areas; and Whereas, Congressional House Concurrent a rule entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class D Whereas, Helicopter noise in the County of Resolution 50 would designate a National Airspace and Class E Airspace; Laguna AAF, Los Angeles interrupts daily life for many Railroad Monument located in Diamond Dis- AZ’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket No. FAA–2013– residents by interfering with the ability to trict Park in historic downtown Durand, 0659)) received in the Office of the President hear conversations, the television, the radio, Michigan, as the ‘‘National Railroad Memo- or the telephone, and disrupting sleep cycles; of the Senate on December 16, 2013; to the rial’’. This recognition would help draw visi- and Committee on Commerce, Science, and tors from around the world to the edu- Whereas, Despite multiple efforts from sev- cational programming and exhibits in Transportation. eral community and homeowner organiza- EC–4189. A communication from the Para- Durand, Michigan. It would help ensure that tions in the County of Los Angeles to address legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- current and future generations do not forget these disturbances, helicopter traffic in the tration, Department of Transportation, the historical importance of the railroad in- County of Los Angeles is not currently regu- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of dustry to our nation: Now, therefore, be it lated by the Federal Aviation Administra- a rule entitled ‘‘Amendment of Class E Air- Resolved by the House of Representatives, tion (FAA) or any other agency; and That we urge the Congress of the United space; Danville, VA’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Dock- Whereas, The FAA requires a specific min- States to adopt House Concurrent Resolu- et No. FAA–2013–0469)) received in the Office imum flying altitude for fixed-wing aircraft, tion 50, regarding the National Railroad of the President of the Senate on December but it does not require a specific minimum 16, 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, flying altitude for helicopters; and Monument in Durand; and be it further Science, and Transportation. Whereas, The lack of effective regulations Resolved, That copies of this resolution be EC–4190. A communication from the Para- for commercial helicopter operations in the transmitted to the President of the United legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- County of Los Angeles negatively impacts States Senate, the Speaker of the United tration, Department of Transportation, the safety and quality of life of the county’s States House of Representatives, and the transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of residents; and members of the Michigan congressional dele- a rule entitled ‘‘Amendment of Class E Air- Whereas, The State of California is pre- gation. space; Olean, NY’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Docket empted by federal law from adopting alti- No. FAA–2013–0681)) received in the Office of tude, flight path, and other necessary regula- POM–168. A joint resolution adopted by the the President of the Senate on December 16, tions to mitigate the impacts of commercial Legislature of the State of California rel- 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, helicopters; and ative to forest protection and restoration; to Science, and Transportation. Whereas, There is a lack of clarity as to the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- EC–4191. A communication from the Para- the rulemaking authority of the FAA; and sources. legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- Whereas, Two companion measures in Con- ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 24 tration, Department of Transportation, gress, Senate Bill No. 208 and House Bill No. Whereas, One of the greatest ongoing chal- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of 456, known as the Los Angeles Residential lenges for California is to ensure an adequate a rule entitled ‘‘Amendment of Class E Air- Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2013, would re- supply of water for myriad human uses and space; Tazewell, TN’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) (Dock- quire the Administrator of the FAA to pre- other environmental needs while also ad- et No. FAA–2013–0513)) received in the Office scribe regulations for helicopter operations dressing the increasing and negative impacts of the President of the Senate on December in the County of Los Angeles that are needed of climate change on our watersheds; and 16, 2013; to the Committee on Commerce, to address residents’ concerns over safety, Whereas, The large majority of the water Science, and Transportation. noise, and other associated impacts; and used by California originates in the 10 mil- EC–4192. A communication from the Para- Whereas, The following local government lion-acre forested area of northern California legal Specialist, Federal Aviation Adminis- entities in the County of Los Angeles have feeding the Sacramento River, with the Sac- tration, Department of Transportation, recently voted to support the proposed fed- ramento River providing 60 percent of the transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of eral legislation or its predecessor, the Los water for the Central Valley and state water a rule entitled ‘‘Amendment of Class D and E Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief projects, drinking water for 25 million Cali- Airspace, and Establishment of Class E Air- Act of 2011: the County of Los Angeles, the fornians, and over 80 percent of the fresh- space; Salisbury, MD’’ ((RIN2120–AA66) City of Los Angeles, the City of Hermosa water to San Francisco Bay; and (Docket No. FAA–2013–0449)) received in the Beach, the City of Lomita, the City of Palos Whereas, California’s forests represent our Office of the President of the Senate on De- Verdes Estates, the City of Rancho Palos largest, safest, and most expandable oppor- cember 16, 2013; to the Committee on Com- Verdes, the City of Redondo Beach, the City tunity to actively, remove carbon dioxide merce, Science, and Transportation. of Rolling. Hills Estates, and the City of West Hollywood: Now, therefore, be it from the atmosphere; and f Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of Whereas, The forests and watersheds of PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- California face multiple challenges and pres- The following petitions and memo- lature supports the Los Angeles Residential sures, including the loss and degradation of rials were laid before the Senate and Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2013 (S. 208 and forests by the subdivision, fragmentation, were referred or ordered to lie on the H.R. 456) and respectfully memorializes the and development of lands, the planting of un- Congress of the United States to promptly naturally dense forests as a result of fire table as indicated: suppression, and stresses from a changing POM–166. A joint resolution adopted by the pass and President Barack Obama to sign that legislation; and be it further climate; and Senate of the State of California relative to Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate Whereas, California’s forests provide an es- the Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise transmit copies of this resolution to the sential natural infrastructure that collects, Relief Act of 2013; to the Committee on Com- President and Vice President of the United stores, filters, and transports water in a ma- merce, Science, and Transportation. States, to the Majority Leader of the Senate, terially more cost-effective manner than any SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 7 to the Speaker of the House of Representa- built infrastructure; and Whereas, Residents across the County of tives, and to each Senator and Representa- Whereas, Managing these forested water- Los Angeles suffer intrusive and disruptive tive from California in the Congress of the sheds to restore and enhance their sustained low-flying helicopter traffic above their United States. water provision services will also create neighborhoods; and rural jobs and enhance the state’s ability to Whereas, The County of Los Angeles is POM–167. A resolution adopted by the address climate change, including by reduc- home to a unique and very large concentra- House of Representatives of the State of ing firefighting costs; and

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S22 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 6, 2014 Whereas, In addition to supplying the ma- Whereas, This can be obtained by two Whereas, Agriculture is a vital component jority of the state’s water and sequestering forms. First, by means of moving or relo- of California’s economic livelihood with live- vast amounts of carbon, forests clean our air cating to any of the fifty (50) states of the stock, poultry and related products, account- and provide habitat for wildlife, all while great American Nation; or second, by grant- ing for approximately 26 percent, or $12.4 bil- supporting rural economies through outdoor ing the Territory of Puerto Rico the oppor- lion of California’s gross agricultural cash recreation such as hunting, fishing, hiking, tunity to become the 51st State of the Union. income in 2011; and and camping, as well as through the forest In this way, we will be able to reach the full Whereas, California leads the nation in products industry; and rights held by American citizens who reside milk production with over 1.75 million dairy Whereas, Preventing further loss of Cali- in the fifty (50) states. cows that primarily depend on feed corn; and fornia’s forests, restoring degraded forest Whereas, Puerto Ricans through the vote Whereas, The loss of alternative feedstock areas, and improving management are crit- in the plebiscite of November 6, 2012, rejected acreage to biofuel crop production combined ical parts of ensuring that our watersheds by an ample majority the current territorial with the unprecedented rise in corn prices continue to store carbon and produce high- status known as Commonwealth and favored due to the requirements of the Renewable quality clean water in the future: Now, statehood by an overwhelming majority of Fuel Standard program have significantly therefore, be it the voters among the status options pre- contributed to the loss of dairy production Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of sented in the ballot: Now, therefore, be it Re- capacity in California, as represented by the the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- solved by the Municipal Legislature of Moca, 387 California dairies that have gone out of lature of California recognizes the value of Puerto Rico, the following: business since 2007, with over 100 dairy farms forests in providing critical ecosystem serv- Section 1: Request President Barack lost in 2012 alone: Now, therefore, be it ices, including water supply and climate sta- Obama and the Congress of the United Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of bilization services; and be it further States, initiate the process of admission of the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- Resolved, That the state and federal gov- Puerto Rico as the 51st State of the United lature recognize and support the benefits ernmental agencies with jurisdiction over States of America. from a robust and thriving agricultural sec- forest resource management are encouraged Section 2: This Resolution will be approved tor, and join a diverse group of businesses, to collaborate across jurisdictions with re- in both official languages of Puerto Rico, industry representatives, and beef, dairy, gard to landscape-scald efforts to maintain Spanish and English. and poultry producers across California in and restore California’s forests to protect Section 3: This Resolution will take effect urging Congress to reform the Renewable the state’s natural resources and water sup- immediately upon passage by the Municipal Fuel Standard program, or the United States ply for future generations; and be it further Legislature and signed by the Mayor. Environmental Protection Agency to use all Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As- Section 4: Copies of this Resolution shall available authority, to expeditiously transi- sembly transmit copies of this resolution to be sent to the President of the United tion away from biofuel sources that compete the President and Vice President of the States, the Vice-President of the United with food production, as well as implement United States, to the Speaker of the House States, the Secretary of State of the United aggressive mechanisms to promote the de- of Representatives, to the Minority Leader States, and to all the Members of the United velopment of advanced, sustainable noncrop- of the House of Representatives, to the Ma- States Congress. based fuels, including, but not limited to, jority Leader of the Senate, to the Minority cellulosic ethanol; and be it further Leader of the Senate, and to each Senator POM–170. A joint resolution adopted by the Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As- and Representative from California in the Legislature of the State of California rel- sembly transmit copies of this resolution to Congress of the United States. ative to the federal Renewable Fuel Stand- the President and Vice President of the ard program; to the Committee on Environ- United States, to the Speaker of the House POM–169. A resolution adopted by the Mu- ment and Public Works. of Representatives, to the Minority Leader nicipal Legislature of Moca, Puerto Rico rel- ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 21 of the House of Representatives, to the Ma- ative to urging the President and the Con- Whereas, The Renewable Fuel Standard jority Leader of the Senate, to the Minority gress of the United States of America to ini- program was created under the Energy Pol- Leader of the Senate, and to each Senator tiate the process of admission of Puerto Rico icy Act of 2005, and established the first re- and Representative from California in the as the 51st state of the United States of newable fuel volume mandate in the United Congress of the United States. America; to the Committee on Energy and States; and Natural Resources. Whereas, The Energy Policy Act of 2005 re- POM–171. A joint resolution adopted by the RESOLUTION NO. 27 quired 7.5 billion gallons of renewable fuel to Legislature of the State of California rel- Whereas, Since the discovery of Puerto be blended into gasoline by 2012 and, under ative to Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Rico in 1493 to the year 1898, the Island was the Energy Independence and Security Act of Month; to the Committee on Health, Edu- a colony of Spain and from 1898 to the 2007, the Renewable Fuel Standard program cation, Labor, and Pensions. present, it has been a colony of the United was expanded to include diesel, in addition ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 28 States, making Puerto Rico the oldest col- to gasoline; and ony of the Western Hemisphere. Whereas, The Energy Independence and Se- Whereas, Sickle cell anemia and sickle cell Whereas, According to the Unites States curity Act of 2007 increased the volume of re- disease, used interchangeably, refer to a Census Bureau, Puerto Ricans who reside in newable fuel required to be blended into group of inherited disorders that affect the the Island are approximately 3.7 million in- transportation fuel from 9 billion gallons in red blood cells; and habitants, whereas 4.3 million Puerto Ricans 2008 to 36 billion gallons by 2022; and Whereas, Sickle cell anemia is a disease in reside in the fifty (50) states of the Union. Whereas, The 2013 requirement of corn- which a person’s body produces abnormally Although those that live in Puerto Rico and starch-derived ethanol of 13.8 billion gallons shaped red blood cells that resemble a cres- in the U.S. mainland are American citizens represents approximately 84 percent of the cent or sickle, and which do not last as long by birth, those that reside in Puerto Rico do total renewable fuel mandated in the Energy as normal round red blood cells, which leads not have all the privileges, rights and obliga- Independence and Security Act of 2007; and to anemia. The sickle cells also get stuck in tions of U.S. citizenship. Whereas, At the time that the Renewable blood vessels and block blood flow, which can Whereas, The American citizens who reside Fuel Standard program became law, the cause pain and organ damage; and in the fifty states of the Union enjoy all the daily price of a metric ton of corn used in Whereas, Sickle cell anemia is a genetic economic, social and political benefits, since biofuel ethanol production was $99, and at disorder where individuals with the disease they reside in one of the states of the Nation. the time the Energy Independence and Secu- are born with two sickle cell genes, each in- Whereas, Many of the 4.3 million American rity Act of 2007 became law, the daily price herited from one parent. An individual with citizens of Puerto Rican origin who reside in of a metric ton of corn used in biofuel eth- only one sickle cell gene has a ‘‘sickle cell the states, are professionals in the fields of anol production had risen to nearly $180, trait,’’ which occurs in one out of every 12 health, the sciences, security, education and with the latest price of a metric ton of corn African Americans and in one out of every politic that have moved from the Island currently reported by the United States De- 100 Latinos in the United States; and looking for better quality of life and the to- partment of Agriculture as approximately Whereas, Unlike most people with sickle tality of the rights and privileges that being $310, representing an increase of over 300 per- cell anemia, most people who have a sickle a citizen of the great American Nation of- cent since the inception of the Renewable cell trait never know they have it and can fers. In addition, they are part of the His- Fuel Standard program; and live their entire lives without any complica- panic labor force that moves the economy of Whereas, The Environmental Protection tions from it; and the Federation of the States. Agency has determined that as a result of Whereas, Serious problems associated with Whereas, The question that we should ask the Renewable Fuel Standard program, the a sickle cell trait are rare. However, exer- ourselves is: how can the 3.7 million Amer- increase in overall commodity prices ex- cise-related sudden death in individuals who ican citizens who live in Puerto Rico reach pected as a result of the demand for agricul- have a sickle cell trait most commonly oc- the fullness of our U.S. citizenship, that is, tural products used in biofuel production curs in those undergoing intense physical ex- to be American citizens one hundred percent will result in an annual increase of food ertion, such as military recruits in basic (100%) with all the rights, privileges and ob- costs to consumers of over $3 billion by 2022; training and athletes during conditioning ligations. and workouts; and

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Instead, dent pro Tempore of the United States Sen- Whereas, On July 1, 2013, unless actions are people should be educated about precautions ate, each Senator and Representative from taken, the interest rate for Federal Direct that should be taken, including drinking California in the Congress of the United Stafford Loans will double from 3.4 percent adequate amounts of fluids, pacing training States, and to the author for appropriate dis- to 6.8 percent; and with longer periods of rest and recovery, tribution. Whereas, This higher interest rate level is avoiding participation in performance tests the same level that graduate students and such as sprints and mile runs, and, most im- POM–172. A joint resolution adopted by the unsubsidized loan borrowers pay, which portantly, being familiar with the symptoms Legislature of the State of California rel- could limit access to California’s public post- of overexertion; and ative to the dischargeability of private stu- secondary educational institutions by dis- Whereas, It is estimated that more than dent loan debt; to the Committee on Health, suading students from using loans to help 90,000 Americans have sickle cell anemia. Education, Labor, and Pensions. pay for their postsecondary education; and Sickle cell anemia occurs in one out of every ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 11 Whereas, The average student loan bor- 500 African American births and in one out Whereas, This resolution shall be known as rower graduates with a debt of $27,000, and of every 36,000 Latino births; and the Financial Fresh Start Resolution of 2013; the scheduled interest rate increase for Fed- Whereas, Sickle cell anemia can be a life- and eral Direct Stafford Loans would cost almost threatening condition, and access to com- Whereas, Existing federal law exempts 10 million borrowers approximately $1,000 prehensive care can be limited by social, eco- from discharge in a bankruptcy case filed more per year of education over the life of a nomic, cultural, and geographic barriers; and under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 of the Bank- loan; and Whereas, The average cost of hospitaliza- ruptcy Code specified educational loans Whereas, Raising the interest rate for Fed- tion for sickle cell anemia in 2004 was $6,223, made; or secured, by a lender other than the eral Direct Stafford Loans will make it even for more than 84,000 hospital admissions that federal government, also known as private harder for college graduates facing an al- year. Total hospitalization costs for individ- student loans, unless the debtor convinces a ready difficult postgraduation job market to uals with sickle cell anemia equaled bankruptcy court that repayment would be repay their loans; and $488,000,000, of which 65 percent were covered an undue hardship on the debtor and the Whereas, Student loan debt affects Ameri- by Medicaid funds; and cans of all ages, as 45 percent of all American Whereas, Individuals living with sickle cell debtor’s dependents, a sometimes difficult and expensive process not required to dis- families hold outstanding student loan debt, anemia encounter barriers to obtaining qual- including 36 percent of families in house- ity care and improving their quality of life. charge other unsecured nonpriority debt; and Whereas, Californians should have the holds headed by a person 45 to 54 years of These barriers include limitations in geo- same ability to discharge their private stu- age, inclusive, 29 percent of families in graphic access to comprehensive care, the dent loan debt as they do to discharge their households headed by a person 55 to 64 years varied use of effective treatments, the high of age, inclusive, and 13.3 percent of families reliance on emergency departments and on unsecured nonpriority debt; and Whereas, Californians who are not given in households headed by a person 65 to 73 public health programs, and the limited relief from their burden of private student years of age, inclusive; and number of health care providers with knowl- loan debt, even after a successful completion Whereas, Student loan debt has a ripple ef- edge and experience to manage and treat of a bankruptcy case, are seriously hindered fect on the economy, as two million more sickle cell anemia; and adults 18 to 34 years of age, inclusive, live in Whereas, The Sickle Cell Anemia Control from establishing personal economic sta- Act was signed into law in 1972 by President bility and contributing to the economic a household headed by their parents; and Whereas, Each new household leads to an Richard Nixon after pledging that his admin- growth of the state; and, Whereas, United States Senator Dick Dur- estimated $145,000 of economic growth, sug- istration would ‘‘reverse the record of ne- gesting that a delay in household formation glect on the dreaded disease’’ by increasing bin and Representative Steve Cohen have re- could be slowing broader economic growth; funding for and expanding sickle cell ane- cently introduced the following legislation mia-related programs, including the develop- in their respective congressional houses that and Whereas, The Bipartisan Policy Center es- ment of comprehensive sickle cell anemia would permit private student loan debt to be timates that Echo Boomers—those born be- centers; and discharged in bankruptcy and are substan- Whereas, In 1975, the Sickle Cell Disease tially similar to legislation they each intro- tween 1981 and 1995—will account for 75 per- Association of America, Inc. and its member duced in 2010 and 2011: cent to 80 percent of owner-occupied home organizations began conducting monthlong (a) The Fairness for Struggling Students acquisitions by 2020, yet the current home- events in September to call attention to Act of 2013. ownership rate for young people is among sickle cell anemia and the need to address (b) The Private Student Loan Bankruptcy the lowest in decades while mortgage inter- the problem at national and local levels, and Fairness Act of 2013; and est rates are at historically low levels; and Whereas, The inability of Californians to chose September as National Sickle Cell Whereas, Student loan debt also has a sig- more easily discharge private student loan Awareness Month in order for the public to nificant impact on retirement, as 62 percent debt prevents them from gaining the ‘‘fresh reflect on the children and adults whose of workers 30 to 39 years of age, inclusive, 20 start’’ that a successful bankruptcy case is lives, education, and careers have been af- percent of whom hold more than $50,000 in intended to provide: Now, therefore, be it fected by this disease; and student loan debt, are projected to have in- Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of Whereas, In 2003, the Sickle Cell Treat- sufficient resources for retirement; and the State of California, jointly That the Legis- ment Act was signed into law; and Whereas, According to the Congressional Whereas, The effort to officially recognize lature urges the President and the Congress Budget Office, the federal government makes Sickle Cell AnemiaAwareness Month suc- of the United States to support and pass leg- 36 cents in profit for every dollar it lends to ceeded at the federal level in 1983 when the islation that would allow private student all student borrowers, and student loans are United States House of Representatives loan debt to be dischargeable in a bank- estimated to bring in $34 billion next year unanimously passed, and President Ronald ruptcy case filed under Chapter 7 or Chapter alone; and Reagan signed, the first resolution intro- 13 of the Bankruptcy Code similar to the Whereas, Higher education loans should be duced by the Congressional Black Caucus dischargeability of unsecured nonpriority used to subsidize the cost of higher edu- that recognized September as National Sick- debt; and be it further cation, not to be used as a source of profit Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As- le Cell AnemiaAwareness Month: Now, there- for the federal government; and sembly transmit copies of this resolution to fore, be it Whereas, Federal Direct Stafford Loans Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the President and Vice President of the have been a critical component, in addition the State of California, jointly,That the Legis- United States, the Speaker of the House of to other forms of financial aid, for low- and lature recognizes September 2013, and each Representatives, the Minority Leader of the middle-income students working towards a September thereafter, as Sickle Cell Anemia House of Representatives, the Majority postsecondary degree, and over two-thirds of Awareness Month; and be it further Leader of the United States Senate, the Mi- student loan borrowers are from families Resolved, That the Legislature urges the nority Leader of the United States Senate, with annual incomes under $50,000: Now, Congress of the United States to support the and to each Senator and Representative from therefore, be it President’s continuation of funding for the California in the Congress of the United Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstra- States. the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- tion Program, the Registry and Surveillance lature respectfully requests that the Con- System for Hemoglobinopathy Program Ini- POM–173. A joint resolution adopted by the gress and the President of the United States tiative, and the Public Health Legislature of the State of California rel- enact legislation that prevents the doubling ApproachDisorders program, and to make ative to student loan interest rates; to the of interest rates for Federal Direct Stafford sickle cell anemia and other genetic hemo- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Loans and creates a long-term legislative so- globin disorders a public health priority; and Pensions. lution to maintain affordable and reliable be it further ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 20 federal student loan rates while preserving Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As- Whereas, Just last year, Congress passed, funding for other federal educational pro- sembly transmit copies of this resolution to and President Obama signed, an extension to grams and benefits; and be it further

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A resolution adopted by the sembly transmit copies of this resolution to grams; and be it further House of Representatives of the State of the President and Vice President of the Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As- Michigan urging Congress to raise perma- United States, to the Speaker of the United sembly transmit copies of this resolution to nently the cap on new H1–B temporary work States House of Representatives, to the Ma- the President and Vice President of the visas available to immigrant professionals jority Leader of the United States Senate, United States, to the Speaker of the House and to eliminate the cap for those holding a and to each Senator and Representative from of Representatives, to the Majority Leader of U.S. master’s degree or higher; to the Com- California in the Congress of the United the Senate, and to each Senator and Rep- mittee on the Judiciary. States. resentative from California in the Congress HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 108 of the United States. Whereas, The United States has risen to POM–174. A joint resolution adopted by the preeminence in the world by cultivating the Legislature of the State of California rel- POM–175. A memorial adopted by the Leg- talents of its own residents while, at the ative to preschool for all in California; to the islature of the State of New Mexico request- same time, welcoming the most talented Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ing the New Mexico Congressional Delega- people from around the world. Many of our Pensions. tion in Washington, D.C. to vote to support nation’s leading companies, such as Dow legislation that would remove the deadline ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 16 Chemical and Masco, were founded by immi- for ratification of the Equal Rights Amend- grants. In Michigan, one-third of high-tech Whereas, To be competitive in the 21st cen- ment; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tury global economy; California must have a businesses over the last decade were started A MEMORIAL dynamic and educated workforce; and by immigrants; and Whereas, To strengthen and grow the mid- Whereas, equal rights for women are not Whereas, Our nation remains a leader in dle class, California must broaden invest- specifically included in the United States developing foreign talent. U.S. universities and colleges educate hundreds of thousands ments proven to prepare students for college constitution; and of international students each year. In and careers, and proven to create economic Whereas, the rights of women in the Michigan, more than 25,000 international opportunity; and United States to receive equal pay for equal students attend Michigan’s higher education Whereas, Research by a Nobel Laureate work, be protected against domestic violence institutions, ninth most in the nation. Over economist shows that every dollar invested and have fair work-leave policies and access 37 percent of individuals receiving doctorate in high-quality early education can save to the reproductive health care services of degrees in science, technology, engineering, more than $7 later on, by boosting grade their choice, among others, are daily being and mathematics nationwide are inter- level proficiency and graduation rates, in- questioned and restricted; and Whereas, protection of women’s rights at national students; and creasing earned income and job stability, re- present is through a patchwork of existing Whereas, We are failing as a nation to re- ducing teen pregnancy, and reducing violent laws, executive actions and judicial decisions tain foreigners educated in the United States crime; and that address individual cases of discrimina- and to welcome talented professionals from Whereas, Study after study, over 100 in the tion one by one as they arise; and other nations. Under the H–1B temporary United States alone, shows that preschool Whereas, each or all of these individual ex- work visa program, highly educated sci- significantly benefits children’s school suc- isting laws, executive actions and judicial entists, engineers, computer programmers, cess; and decisions may be ignored, eroded or over- and other technical experts may immigrate Whereas, Research has shown that the turned; and to the United States for employment. How- early years in a child’s life, when the human Whereas, an amendment that would guar- ever, the federal government severely limits brain is forming, represent a critically im- antee rights for women that are equal to the number of visas available. Only 65,000 portant window of opportunity to develop a those of men would provide a fundamental new H–1B visas are available each year to in- child’s full potential and shape key aca- legal remedy against all cases of discrimina- dividuals with a bachelor’s degree or higher, demic, social, and cognitive skills that de- tion based on gender; and with an additional 20,000 visas available to termine a child’s success in school and in Whereas, resolutions to pass an amend- individuals with a U.S. master’s degree or life; and, ment to the United States constitution that higher; and Whereas, During the preschool years, chil- would guarantee equal rights for women and Whereas, The federal cap on H–1B visas is dren not only develop core academic knowl- men have been introduced into congress each not meeting the demand of U.S. businesses. edge in preliteracy and early math, but they year since 1923; and The 2013 caps were reached in just over two develop critically important learning skills, Whereas, thirty-five of the thirty-eight months. These arbitrary caps are holding such as paying attention, managing emo- states required for the amendment to be- back economic growth in Michigan and the tions, and completing tasks; and come part of the constitution ratified the rest of the United States. These caps should Whereas, Research has shown that Califor- equal rights amendment by the deadline of be based on a data-driven approach that, nia’s academic achievement gap exists before 1982; and along with the availability of qualified children start school; and Whereas, the deadline for ratification is American workers, factors in the positive Whereas, Research shows that students not in the binding text of the document impact of immigrant professionals to jobs who start out behind too often also stay be- itself and, in fact, was later extended by an- and entrepreneurialism in our economy. In a hind, and those who are not reading pro- other congress for an additional three years, highly competitive global environment, the ficiently in third grade are four times more thus establishing the precedent that con- United States cannot afford to turn back the likely to not graduate from high school; and gress has the power to do so; and brightest and most talented people. Our na- Whereas, In 2012, 52 percent of California Whereas, in the one hundred twelfth con- tion’s loss will inevitably be another na- third graders tested below proficient in gress, Senate Joint Resolution 39, introduced tion’s gain: Now, therefore, be it English-Language Arts and more than 30 per- by Senator Ben Cardin, and House Joint Res- Resolved by the House of Representatives, cent are not proficient in Mathematics; and olution 47, introduced by Representative That we urge Congress to raise permanently Whereas, Since 2008, over 110,000 children Tammy Baldwin, would remove the deadline the cap on new H–1B temporary work visas have lost access to preschool and child care for ratification of the amendment so that an available to immigrant professionals and to programs due to $1 billion in state budget additional three states may ratify it; and eliminate the cap for those holding a mas- cuts; and Whereas, New Mexicans feel justly proud ter’s degree or higher from U.S. universities; Whereas, Over 220,000 low-income three- that New Mexico was one of the first states and be it further and four-year-old children who are eligible in the union to ratify the equal rights Resolved, That copies of this resolution be for the California State Preschool Program amendment in 1973, and it passed its own transmitted to the President of the United or the federal Head Start program do not re- equal rights amendment to the constitution States Senate, the Speaker of the United ceive services; and of New Mexico in 1972: Now, therefore, be it States House of Representatives, and the Whereas, President Barack Obama in his Resolved by the House of Representatives of members of the Michigan congressional dele- 2013 State of the Union speech called on the State of New Mexico, That it call upon the gation. states to partner with the federal govern- New Mexico congressional delegation in ment to make sure every child, regardless of Washington, D.C., to vote in favor of legisla- POM–177. A joint resolution adopted by the their parents ability to pay, has access to tion that would remove the deadline for rati- Legislature of the State of California rel- high quality preschool: Now, therefore, be it fication of the equal rights amendment so ative to the federal Afghan Allies Protection Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of that efforts can proceed to get ratification Act of 2009; to the Committee on the Judici- the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- by the necessary additional three states so ary. lature respectfully urges the Congress to that, finally, the guarantee of equal rights ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 22 enact President Barack Obama’s budget pro- for women and men in the United States will Whereas, Thousands of Californians served posal to increase funding for preschool and become the law of the land; and be it further in uniform in the war in Afghanistan; and early learning; and be it further Resolved, That copies of this memorial be Whereas, Countless local Afghan nationals Resolved, That the Legislature respectfully transmitted to each member of the New Mex- provided trusted and life-saving support to urges the Superintendent of Public Instruc- ico congressional delegation and to the chief Americans and their allies in Afghanistan as tion to prepare a plan for making California clerks of the house of representatives and interpreters, advisers, liaisons, and other competitive for future increases in federal the senate of the United States congress. functionaries; and

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Whereas, More than 8,000 Afghani inter- ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3 establish an earned citizenship process that preters worked for the United States during Whereas, The United States of America is requires immigrants to pay back taxes and the conflict, risking the lives of their fami- a nation of values, founded on the principles learn English; (2) enhance security in our lies and themselves to assist American that all men and women are created equal, ports of entry to secure our nation; (3) re- troops and the United States government; and the promise of freedom for all; and form immigration enforcement programs and Whereas, We are a nation of immigrants, that separate families to ensure that family Whereas, It was recently pointed out in the who believe in the promise of freedom and unification systems are strengthened; (4) up- New York Times that with United States opportunity; and grade the current visa programs, including Armed Forces currently withdrawing from Whereas. The current immigration system the creation of a guest worker program for Afghanistan, many of the local nationals is broken, antiquated, and not meeting the agricultural workers, in order to have a legal who provided support to American forces are challenges of the 21st century. It separates workforce and a system that better enforces now the target of Taliban and other insur- families, including same-sex couple families, labor protections; and (5) uphold due process gent attacks. In February 2013, two inter- creates long backlogs for families seeking re- as well as the inherent rights of all immi- preters were gunned down in Logar Province, unification, and neglects the hard work and grants: Now, therefore, be it south of Kabul, Afghanistan. In December financial contributions immigrants make to Resolved, by the Assembly and the Senate of 2012, an interpreter working in Jalalabad was our country; and the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- singled out while heading home on leave, and Whereas, Since 2008, more than 1.6 million lature urges the President and the Congress Taliban assailants killed his two brothers in immigrants have been deported, and one in of the United States to take a humane and the attack; and every 10 American children faces the threat just approach to solving our nation’s broken Whereas, The United Nations has reported of the deportation of a parent; and immigration system; and be it further that casualties resulting from targeted Whereas, It is estimated that about 11 mil- Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As- killings of civilians by antigovernment ele- lion undocumented immigrants are in the sembly transmit copies of this resolution to ments increased by 53 percent in the first six United States, and California has the largest the President and the Vice President of the months of 2012, in comparison to the cor- population of immigrants, both legal and un- United States, to the Speaker of the House responding period in 2011; and documented; and of Representatives, to the Majority Leader of Whereas, The federal Afghan Allies Protec- Whereas, Immigrants and their children the Senate, and to each Senator and Rep- tion Act of 2009 authorizes the issuance of up constitute nearly one-half of California’s resentative from California in the Congress to 1,500 special immigrant visas (SIVs) annu- population and live and work in all 58 coun- of the United States, to the Governor of Cali- ally through the 2013 fiscal year to Afghan ties, most notably in the San Diego, Central fornia, and to the author of this resolution. nationals who have worked for or on behalf Valley, Los Angeles, Ventura, and greater of the United States Government in Afghani- San Francisco areas; and POM–179. A joint resolution adopted by the stan and who find their lives in danger as a Whereas, Approximately 77 percent of un- Senate of the State of California relative to consequence of their employment; and documented immigrants who reside in Cali- the Startup Act 3.0; to the Committee on the Whereas, Although 7,500 SIVs were in- fornia live with family members who are Judiciary. tended to be issued by the federal Afghan Al- legal United States residents and citizens; SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 9 lies Protection Act of 2009, only about 1,000 and Whereas, The United States is a nation of have been issued to date, and as of last fall, Whereas, One in 10 workers in California is immigrants, with a long history of wel- there was a backlog of more than 5,000 appli- an undocumented immigrant, and immi- coming indigents from other nations and giv- cants waiting to begin the process. This grants are vibrant, productive, and vital part ing them a chance at achieving the Amer- delay further risks the lives of important, of the state’s growing economy; and ican Dream; and dedicated allies who have already risked Whereas, Immigrants are essential in keep- Whereas, immigrants have formed the their lives in the call of duty to our soldiers ing the American economy strong; from backbone of the nation’s economy; and and our country; and technology programmers in the Silicon Val- Whereas, Open economies grow faster than Whereas, There are significant differences ley to restaurant owners and workers, immi- closed ones, and as a beacon of hope, Amer- between the visa programs created for Iraq grants are filling an intrinsic need in the ica has historically had an unbeatable ad- and Afghanistan. While the Iraq program al- labor force; and vantage over societies that shut immigrants lowed for up to 25,000 visas, the Afghan Allies Whereas, Agricultural workers have been out, or stifled their creative and innovative Protection Act of 2009 only makes 7,500 visas performing very important and difficult spirit; and available. Additionally, the Afghan visa pro- work to maintain America’s food supply, and Whereas, The United States economy has gram limits family members to only a have a role of ensuring that Americans have been enriched by the innovative and entre- spouse and dependent children under 21 years safe and secure agricultural products to sell preneurial spirit of immigrants from around of age, while the Iraq program allowed for and consume; and the world; and parents, siblings, and all children; and Whereas, Students should not be punished Whereas, According to the Kauffman Foun- Whereas, The Afghan Allies Protection Act for their immigration status. Instead, they dation on Entrepreneurship, of the current of 2009 presents the opportunity to save the should be given recognition for their sac- Fortune 500 companies, including Apple, lives of Afghans who saved the lives of Amer- rifice, hard work, and determination; and Google, and eBay, more than 40 percent were icans and to maintain our commitment to Whereas, The United States can do a better founded by first- or second-generation Amer- these important allies who are in harm’s job of attracting and keeping the world’s icans, and these companies employ more way: Now, therefore, be it best and brightest. A comprehensive immi- than 10 million people; and Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of gration reform should also grant immigrants Whereas, Foreign nationals residing in the the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- who have received a Ph.D. or master’s degree United States were named as inventors or lature calls upon the United States Congress in science, technology, engineering, or math- coinventors in one-quarter of all patent ap- and the President’s administration to expe- ematics from an American university the op- plications filed in 2006; and dite actions at the United States Depart- portunity to invest in and contribute to this Whereas, Fifty-two percent of Silicon Val- ment of State to process the visa applica- great nation. For the future of our economy, ley startups between 1995 and 2005 were tions of our Afghan allies who have been it makes no sense to educate the world’s fu- founded or cofounded by immigrants, gener- identified and vetted by the United States ture innovators and entrepreneurs only to ating $52 billion in revenues and employing military or other agencies as having risked ultimately force them to leave our country 450,000 workers; and their lives by supporting and working for at the moment they are most able to con- Whereas, In the past seven years, the na- United States troops overseas, and to expand tribute to our economy; and tional rate of startups by immigrants has the number of visas offered to our Afghan al- Whereas, Modernizing our antiquated and dropped to 42 percent according to scholars lies; and be it further dysfunctional immigration system will up- at Harvard and Duke Universities; and Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As- hold our nation’s basic values of fairness and Whereas, The number of foreign nationals sembly transmit copies of this resolution to equality, as well as access to health care; with advanced degrees awaiting permanent- the President and Vice President of the and resident status in the United States has United States, the Speaker of the House of Whereas, A comprehensive, as well as com- grown to over one million in the past several Representatives, the Leader of the United passionate, approach to solve our broken im- years; and States House of Representatives, the Major- migration system should be one that works Whereas, Under current law, only around ity Leader of the Senate, the Minority Lead- for all communities and families in America; 120,000 visas are available annually for er of the Senate, and each Senator and Rep- and skilled workers hi key employment cat- resentative from California in the Congress Whereas, A just immigration reform must egories and only 7 percent of these visas can of the United States. ensure that it reflects one of our basic val- be allocated to immigrants from any one ues—that we all are created equal—thus im- country. So immigrants from countries with POM–178. A joint resolution adopted by the migration reform must recognize each immi- large populations, like India and China, Legislature of the State of California rel- grant’s full humanity; and which are the source of the vast majority of ative to immigration; to the Committee on Whereas; A proposal must be comprised of startups in the United States, have access to the Judiciary. tenets that achieve all of the following: (1) only 8,400 visas per year; and

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S26 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 6, 2014 Whereas, The result of this policy is that rapid fire of potentially large numbers of Criminal Background Check System; and be many of these highly skilled immigrants bullets, and are distinguishable from stand- it further must wait more than a decade for visas; and ard sporting firearms by features such as the Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate Whereas, Many of these highly skilled ability to accept a detachable magazine, pis- transmit copies of this resolution to the innovators are deciding instead to return tol grips, and folding or telescoping stocks; President and Vice President of the United home, or immigrate to other countries that and States, to the Speaker of the House of Rep- welcome them with open arms, such as Whereas, Semiautomatic assault weapons resentatives, to the Majority Leader of the Singapore, Canada, Dubai, Australia, the are frequently used in mass shootings, in- Senate to each Senator and Representative United Kingdom, and Chile. As a result, cluding the 1993 101 California Street shoot- from California in the Congress of the United these innovators are founding companies in ing in San Francisco that involved two TEC– States, and to the author for appropriate dis- these other countries and competing with 9 semiautomatic handguns, and the recent tribution. American companies for market share; and Aurora, Colorado, shooting that involved an Whereas, The issue of illegal immigration AR–15 style semiautomatic assault rifle with POM–181. A joint resolution adopted by the has taken on national prominence in recent a 100-round ammunition drum; and Senate of the State of California relative to years and the resolution of the broader issue Whereas, The United States Supreme immigration; to the Committee on the Judi- should be the result of bipartisan efforts; and Court has affirmed once and for all that ciary. Whereas, United States Senators Jerry Americans have a right to keep and bear SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8 Moran (R–Kansas), Mark Warner (D–Vir- arms. However, as conservative justice Whereas, This country was built by immi- ginia), Chris Coons (D–Delaware), and Roy Antonin Scalia outlined, the District of Co- grants seeking a better life; and Blunt (R–Missouri) have introduced S. 310, lumbia v. Heller decision does not prohibit Whereas, Estimates suggest there are 11 and United States House Representatives Mi- laws forbidding firearms in places such as million undocumented immigrants living in chael Grimm (R–New York), Loretta Sanchez schools or regulation of unusually dangerous the shadows in the United States, including (D–California), and others have introduced weapons, nor does it restrict laws prohib- millions of children brought to this country H.R. 714 in the 113th Congress of the United iting felons and the mentally ill from car- undocumented who have grown up here and States, and this legislation is known as the rying guns; and call the United States home, suffering from Startup Act 3.0; and Whereas, The National Firearms Act of the dysfunctional immigration policy; and Whereas, Entrepreneurs and highly skilled 1934 regulates the possession and transfer of Whereas, A logical and streamlined path to workers can contribute to the continued suc- fully automatic machine guns through back- citizenship for individuals after they gain cess of the nation and further the develop- ground checks, registration, and excise legal status would stimulate the economy by ment of an innovation-based economy that taxes, but individual states are able to enact allowing them to get college degrees and will help future generations compete in the their own stronger gun legislation and regu- driver’s licenses, buy homes, start new com- global marketplace; and lations which may or may not be similar to panies, and create legal, tax-paying jobs, af- Whereas, There has been bipartisan sup- other states; and fording them a chance at the American port in Congress for proposed changes to im- Whereas, Seven states, including Cali- Dream; and Whereas, The United States Congress last migration law seeking to create new jobs and fornia, have enacted laws strictly regulating enacted major immigration legislation more drive economic growth; such as: the possession, manufacture, and transfer of assault weapons; and than 25 years ago; and (1) Creation of an Entrepreneur’s Visa for Whereas, Since that time, fragmented at- Whereas, Because our borders are porous up to 75,000 legal immigrants who start up tempts at immigration reform have failed to and only a small number of states regulate new businesses to create jobs in the United create rational and effective systems needed assault weapons and high-capacity assault States with a path to permanent residency if to maintain international competitiveness. magazines, states, like California, that take their businesses continue to hire more work- Whether in an industry like agriculture, steps to protect their communities from ers. which requires large numbers of workers these weapons are vulnerable to criminals (2) Authorization to adjust the status of able to perform physically demanding tasks, who use those weapons without a com- not more than 50,000 aliens who have earned or in technology or health care, where the prehensive federal approach to curb gun vio- a master’s degree or a doctorate degree at an demand for employees with advanced degrees American institution of higher education in lence; and is projected to exceed supply within the next Whereas, It is estimated that 40 percent of a STEM field (science, technology, engineer- five years, immigration policy must be de- firearm transfers are completed without a ing, or mathematics) to that of aliens condi- signed to ‘respond to emerging labor needs. federal background check, including the tionally admitted for permanent residence to in all sectors of the United States economy; transfer of semiautomatic firearms from a remain in this country. and (3) Elimination of per-country caps for em- private collection; and Whereas, Our national interests and secu- ployment-based immigrant visas: Now, Whereas, California requires background rity are not served by our outdated, ineffi- therefore, be it checks for all firearms sales and transfers cient, and slow-moving immigration system. Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of through various means; and Patchwork attempts to mend its deficiencies the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- Whereas, Nine categories of individuals are undermine our potential for prosperity and lature urge the United States Congress and prohibited from purchasing and possessing leave us vulnerable and unable to meet the the President to establish new entrepreneur firearms, including the dangerously men- needs of the modern world; and and STEM-related visa categories for legal tally ill; and Whereas, To help our country recover from immigrants as part of comprehensive federal Whereas, Mental health records are re- the financial crisis, labor mobility is crucial immigration reform; and be it further ported by the state and imported into the to our economic prosperity. Yet our rigid, Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate National Instant Criminal Background outdated immigration policies are making it transmit copies of this resolution to the Check System, but currently many state and difficult for our companies and our nation to President and Vice President of the United federal agencies are not fully participating compete. Information released in a study by States, to the Speaker of the House of Rep- in this system: now, therefore, be it the University of California, Los Angeles, resentatives, to the Majority Leader of the Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of stated that legalizing the status of undocu- Senate, and to each Senator and Representa- the State of California, jointly, That a com- mented immigrants working and living in tive from California in the Congress of the prehensive federal approach to reducing and the United States would create around $1.5 United States. preventing gun violence is needed to protect trillion in additional gross domestic product the Second Amendment rights of law abiding growth over the next 10 years and increase POM–180. A joint resolution adopted by the citizens while ensuring that our commu- wages for all workers. A study done by the Senate of the State of California relative to nities are safe from future mass shootings; University of California, Davis, indicates firearms; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and be it further that the last large wave of immigrants, from Resolved, That the Legislature urges the 1990 to 2007, raised the income of the native- SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1 President and the Congress of the United born American worker by an average of Whereas, The Sandy Hook Elementary States to promptly place under the scope of $5,000; and School mass shooting in Newtown, Con- the National Firearms Act generically de- Whereas, California has the largest share necticut, which resulted in the death of 20 fined assault weapons, as now is the case of immigrants in the country. They are a children and 6 adults, demonstrated the need with California, and high-capacity assault vital and productive part of our state’s econ- for stronger laws to prevent gun violence; magazines; and be it further omy and are active in a variety of industries, and Resolved, That a universal background including technology, biotech, hospitality, Whereas, Numerous factors contribute to check through the National Instant Criminal agriculture, construction, services, transpor- the occurrence of mass shootings, including Background Check System should be re- tation, and textiles. They also represent a unregulated access to assault weapons and quired for the transfer of all firearms; and be large share of our new small business owners assault magazines, insufficient background it further and create economic prosperity and needed checks, and needed improvements to our Resolved, That the President of the United jobs for everyone; and mental health system, among others; and States should take steps to ensure all states Whereas, Keeping these families, business Whereas, Semiautomatic assault weapons and applicable federal agencies are reporting owners, and hard workers in the shadows of designed with military features allow for the all necessary records to the National Instant society serves no one; and

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 6, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S27 Whereas, Our state, for economic, social, ipal jurisdiction, pursuant to this Act or any printed materials regarding, or created by, health, security, and prosperity reasons, other law, must be submitted for consider- veterans’ legal services organizations that must support policies that allow individuals ation or approval. specialize in military discharge upgrades, or to become legal and enfranchised partici- Whereas, Oscar Lopez Rivera has been links to Internet resources that provide in- pants in our society and economy; and jailed for more than 32 years in the United formation and printed resources provided by Whereas, Comprehensive immigration re- States, serving a sentence for reasons related veterans’ legal services organizations. It also form should include a reasonable and timely to the struggle for the independence of Puer- provides that if the federal government acts path to citizenship for undocumented immi- to Rico. Other political prisoners serving to provide benefits to discharged veterans grants living and working in the United sentences equally disproportionate have who were denied those benefits solely on the States already. It should include comprehen- since been released, first under President basis of sexual orientation pursuant to any sive background checks, and require dem- Jimmy Carter and then, in 1999, being presi- federal policy prohibiting homosexual per- onstrated proficiency in English and pay- dent, William J. Clinton, Oscar is the polit- sonnel from serving in the Armed Forces of ment of all current and back taxes, and ical prisoner serving the longest prison sen- the United States, the state shall provide to should have the flexibility to respond to tence, surpassing the Nobel Peace Prize and those veterans any state-offered benefits; emerging business trends; and former South African President Nelson and Whereas, The Migration Policy Institute, a Mandela. Whereas, We must work to ensure that nonpartisan research group in Washington, Whereas, A cause for the release of Oscar California veterans who were discriminated D.C., estimated that in 2012 the federal gov- Lopez has joined Puerto Ricans of all faiths. against solely on the basis of their sexual ernment spent $18 billion on immigration en- Political, religious and civic organizations orientation can access benefits regardless of forcement and that the number of United have called for Oscar back home. His pro- the classification of their discharge: Now, States Border Patrol agents has doubled longed confinement, far from serving any therefore, be it since 2004; and purpose, it has become a sign of inhumanity Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of Whereas, Increased enforcement has given and injustice. The consensus forged in Puer- the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- the federal government the ability to to Rico for the freedom of Oscar, also have lature urges Congress and the President to prioritize the deportation of lawbreakers and joined international entities. provide benefits, including applicable spous- dangerous individuals and to ensure our bor- Whereas, The Municipal Legislature joins al benefits, to those veterans discriminated der’s security. Nevertheless, this enforce- Aguada, in turn, in a gesture of solidarity, to against solely on the basis of their sexual ment should not be done in an inhumane request the President of the United States, orientation; and be it further way; and Barack Hussein Obama, making use of its Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As- Whereas, Immigration enforcement should prerogatives, available for immediate and sembly transmit copies of this resolution to continue to focus on criminals, not on hard- unconditional release of Oscar Lopez Rivera: the President and Vice President of the working immigrant families, and not at the Now, therefore, be it United States, to the Speaker of the House expense of efficient trade with two of our top Resolved by the Municipal Legislature of of Representatives, to the Majority Leader of three economic partners; and Aguada, Puerto Rico, the following: the Senate, and to each Senator and Rep- Whereas, The United States loses large Section 1st: Aguada Municipal Legislature resentative from California in the Congress numbers of necessary, highly skilled workers requests the President of the United States of the United States. due to the lengthy and complicated processes of America, Barack Hussein Obama, who in currently in place to get or keep a legal resi- the exercise of its powers granted immediate POM–184. A resolution from town of Rich- dency option; and and unconditional freedom of Oscar Lopez mond, Wisconsin relative to amending cam- Whereas, Reform should also include an ex- Rivera. paign contribution rules; to the Committee pedited process for those residing abroad and Section 2nd: Copies of this Resolution, on the Judiciary. applying for legal visas. Additionally, reform translated into English, will be sent to the POM–185. A resolution adopted by the Leg- should offer permanent residency opportuni- President and the Presidents of both legisla- islature of Rockland County, New York, sup- ties to international students in American tive bodies of the Congress of the United porting United States Senate Bill S. 744— universities who are highly trained and in States. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, high demand, and in so doing avoid an intel- Section 3rd: This Resolution shall take ef- and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, lectual vacuum after their graduation; and fect immediately after its approval. and urging the United States House of Rep- Whereas, This reform should recognize the resentatives to pass similar legislation; to societal and cultural benefits of keeping the POM–183. A joint resolution adopted by the the Committee on the Judiciary. family unit intact. The system should take Legislature of the State of California rel- POM–186. A resolution adopted by the into account special circumstances sur- ative to veterans; to the Committee on Vet- Board of Selectmen, Town of Seymour, Con- rounding candidates for probationary legal erans’ Affairs. necticut, urging the Congress of the United status, such as those of minors brought to ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 19 States to restore the presumption of a serv- the country as children or workers whose Whereas, In 1993, congress adopted a policy ice connection for Agent Orange exposure to labor is essential to maintain our country’s known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), pro- United States Veterans who served on the in- competitiveness: Now, therefore, be it hibiting service personnel from inquiring, or land waterways, in the territorial waters, Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of volunteering information, about their sexual and in the airspace over the combat zone; to the State of California, jointly, That the Legis- orientation. Prior to 1993, federal law and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. lature urges the President and the Congress military regulations prohibited homosex- of the United States to take a comprehensive f uality in the Armed Forces of the United and workable approach to solving our na- States; and REPORTS OF COMMITTEES tion’s historically broken immigration sys- Whereas, From 1980 until the repeal of tem, using the principles described in this The following reports of committees DADT in 2011, over 32,000 service personnel resolution; and be it further were submitted: were separated from the Armed Forces of the Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate United States under DADT and its prede- By Mr. HARKIN, from the Committee on transmit copies of this resolution to the cessor policies; and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, President and the Vice President of the Whereas, More than 13,000 service per- with an amendment in the nature of a sub- United States, to the Speaker of the House sonnel were separated from the Armed stitute: of Representatives, to the Majority Leader of Forces of the United States after the adop- S. 1562. A bill to reauthorize the Older the Senate, and to each Senator and Rep- tion of DADT. Approximately one-quarter of Americans Act of 1965, and for other pur- resentative from California in the Congress these discharges occurred during the service poses. of the United States. member’s first four months of service; and f Whereas, California law prohibits discrimi- POM–182. A resolution adopted by the Mu- nation on the basis of race, national origin, INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND nicipal Legislature of Aguada, Puerto Rico ethnic group identification, religion, age, JOINT RESOLUTIONS relative to urging the President of the sex, sexual orientation, color, genetic infor- United States of America to immediately The following bills and joint resolu- mation, or disability; and and unconditionally release a political pris- tions were introduced, read the first Whereas, Generally, veterans separated oner; to the Committee on the Judiciary. from the military with a discharge that is and second times by unanimous con- RESOLUTION NO. 19 characterized as ‘‘dishonorable’’ or ‘‘other sent, and referred as indicated: Whereas, Section 5005 of Act No. 81 of Au- than honorable’’ are ineligible to receive fed- By Mr. CORNYN: gust 30, 1991, as amended, known as ‘‘Autono- eral or state veterans’ benefits, including ap- S. 1895. A bill to establish a commission to mous Municipalities Act of the Common- plicable spousal benefits; and examine the United States monetary policy, wealth of Puerto Rico’’, provides that the Whereas, Section 711.1 of the Military and evaluate alternative monetary regimes, and Municipal Legislature may approve those or- Veterans Code assists veterans by requiring recommend a course for monetary policy dinances, resolutions and regulations on the Department of Veterans Affairs to pro- going forward; to the Committee on Bank- issues and matters of competition or munic- vide Internet resources, Internet links, and ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:21 Jan 27, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JAN 2014\S06JA4.REC S06JA4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S28 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 6, 2014 SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) was added as a co- S. 1845 SENATE RESOLUTIONS sponsor of S. 1708, a bill to amend title At the request of Ms. HIRONO, her The following concurrent resolutions 23, United States Code, with respect to name was added as a cosponsor of S. and Senate resolutions were read, and the establishment of performance 1845, a bill to provide for the extension referred (or acted upon), as indicated: measures for the highway safety im- of certain unemployment benefits, and By Mr. CRUZ (for himself and Mr. provement program, and for other pur- for other purposes. INHOFE): poses. At the request of Mr. REED, the S. Res. 328. A resolution expressing the S. 1733 names of the Senator from Maryland sense of the Senate on steps the Government At the request of Ms. KLOBUCHAR, the (Ms. MIKULSKI), the Senator from New of Iran must take before further bilateral ne- name of the Senator from New Jersey York (Mrs. GILLIBRAND), the Senator gotiations between the Government of Iran from New Jersey (Mr. MENENDEZ) and and the United States Government occur; to (Mr. BOOKER) was added as a cosponsor the Committee on Foreign Relations. of S. 1733, a bill to stop exploitation the Senator from New York (Mr. SCHU- through trafficking. MER) were added as cosponsors of S. f S. 1737 1845, supra. ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS At the request of Mr. HARKIN, the S. 1881 S. 273 names of the Senator from Washington At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the At the request of Ms. AYOTTE, the (Mrs. MURRAY), the Senator from Alas- names of the Senator from Nebraska name of the Senator from Kentucky ka (Mr. BEGICH), the Senator from (Mrs. FISCHER), the Senator from Utah (Mr. PAUL) was added as a cosponsor of Vermont (Mr. LEAHY), the Senator (Mr. HATCH), the Senator from South S. 273, a bill to modify the definition of from Massachusetts (Mr. MARKEY), the Dakota (Mr. THUNE), the Senator from fiduciary under the Employee Retire- Senator from Illinois (Mr. DURBIN), the Oklahoma (Mr. COBURN), the Senator ment Income Security Act of 1974 to Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. WHITE- from Georgia (Mr. CHAMBLISS), the Sen- exclude appraisers of employee stock HOUSE), the Senator from Michigan ator from Pennsylvania (Mr. TOOMEY), ownership plans. (Ms. STABENOW), the Senator from Con- the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. S. 666 necticut (Mr. BLUMENTHAL), the Sen- WICKER), the Senator from Wyoming At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, ator from New York (Mrs. GILLIBRAND), (Mr. ENZI), the Senator from Oklahoma the name of the Senator from Hawaii the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. KLO- (Mr. INHOFE), the Senator from Utah (Ms. HIRONO) was added as a cosponsor BUCHAR), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. (Mr. LEE), the Senator from South of S. 666, a bill to prohibit attendance BROWN), the Senator from Minnesota Carolina (Mr. SCOTT), the Senator from of an animal fighting venture, and for (Mr. FRANKEN), the Senator from Con- Ohio (Mr. PORTMAN), the Senator from other purposes. necticut (Mr. MURPHY), the Senator Tennessee (Mr. ALEXANDER) and the S. 740 from California (Mrs. BOXER), the Sen- Senator from Iowa (Mr. GRASSLEY) At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, ator from Maryland (Ms. MIKULSKI), were added as cosponsors of S. 1881, a the name of the Senator from Hawaii the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. BALD- bill to expand sanctions imposed with (Ms. HIRONO) was added as a cosponsor WIN), the Senator from Pennsylvania respect to Iran and to impose addi- of S. 740, a bill to amend title XVIII of (Mr. CASEY), the Senator from Rhode tional sanctions with respect to Iran, the Social Security Act to require drug Island (Mr. REED) and the Senator from and for other purposes. manufacturers to provide drug rebates Hawaii (Mr. SCHATZ) were added as co- S. 1894 for drugs dispensed to low-income indi- sponsors of S. 1737, a bill to provide for At the request of Mr. COCHRAN, the viduals under the Medicare prescrip- an increase in the Federal minimum tion drug benefit program. name of the Senator from Arkansas wage and to amend the Internal Rev- (Mr. BOOZMAN) was added as a cospon- S. 888 enue Code of 1986 to extend increased sor of S. 1894, a bill to provide for the At the request of Mr. INHOFE, his expensing limitations and the treat- name was added as a cosponsor of S. repeal of the Patient Protection and ment of certain real property as sec- Affordable Care Act if it is determined 888, a bill to provide end user exemp- tion 179 property. tions from certain provisions of the that the Act has resulted in increasing S. 1738 Commodity Exchange Act and the Se- the number of uninsured individuals. curities Exchange Act of 1934. At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the f name of the Senator from New York S. 1091 (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED At the request of Ms. MIKULSKI, the sponsor of S. 1738, a bill to provide jus- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS name of the Senator from Massachu- tice for the victims of trafficking. By Mr. CORNYN: setts (Mr. MARKEY) was added as a co- S. 1895. A bill to establish a commis- sponsor of S. 1091, a bill to provide for S. 1754 the issuance of an Alzheimer’s Disease At the request of Mrs. MURRAY, the sion to examine the United States Research Semipostal Stamp. name of the Senator from Minnesota monetary policy, evaluate alternative monetary regimes, and recommend a S. 1249 (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a co- course for monetary policy going for- At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, sponsor of S. 1754, a bill to amend the the name of the Senator from New Higher Education Act of 1965 to im- ward; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. York (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a prove the financial aid process for cosponsor of S. 1249, a bill to rename homeless children and youths and fos- Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask the Office to Monitor and Combat Traf- ter children and youth. unanimous consent that the text of the ficking of the Department of State the S. 1761 bill be printed in the RECORD. Bureau to Monitor and Combat Traf- At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, There being no objection, the text of ficking in Persons and to provide for an the name of the Senator from Hawaii the bill was ordered to be printed in Assistant Secretary to head such Bu- (Mr. SCHATZ) was added as a cosponsor the RECORD, as follows: reau, and for other purposes. of S. 1761, a bill to permanently extend S. 1895 S. 1577 the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- At the request of Mr. MANCHIN, the Act of 2009 and establish a private right resentatives of the United States of America in name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. of action to enforce compliance with Congress assembled, PORTMAN) was added as a cosponsor of such Act. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. S. 1577, a bill to amend the Truth in S. 1808 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Centennial Monetary Commission Act of 2013’’. Lending Act to improve upon the defi- At the request of Mr. LEE, the names nitions provided for points and fees in of the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: connection with a mortgage trans- ENZI) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. (1) The Constitution endows Congress with action. CRUZ) were added as cosponsors of S. the power ‘‘to coin money, regulate the S. 1708 1808, a bill to prevent adverse treat- value thereof’’. At the request of Mr. MERKLEY, the ment of any person on the basis of (2) Following the financial crisis known as name of the Senator from New Hamp- views held with respect to marriage. the Panic of 1907, Congress established the

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As currently orga- policy without an operational regime; (2) FURTHER MEETINGS.—The Commission nized, the Federal Reserve System consists (B) price level targeting; shall meet upon the call of the Chair or a of the Board of Governors in Washington, (C) inflation rate targeting; majority of its members. District of Columbia, and the Federal Re- (D) nominal gross domestic product tar- (f) QUORUM.—Seven voting members of the serve Banks organized into 12 districts geting (both level and growth rate); Commission shall constitute a quorum but a around the United States. The stockholders (E) the use of monetary policy rules; and lesser number may hold hearings. of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks include na- (F) the gold standard; and (g) MEMBER OF CONGRESS DEFINED.—In this tional and certain state-chartered commer- (3) recommend a course for United States section, the term ‘‘Member of Congress’’ cial banks, which operate on a fractional re- monetary policy going forward, including— means a Senator or a Representative in, or serve basis. (A) the legislative mandate; Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the (4) Originally, Congress gave the Federal (B) the operational regime; Congress. Reserve a monetary mandate to provide an (C) the securities used in open market op- SEC. 6. POWERS. elastic currency, within the context of a gold erations; and (a) HEARINGS AND SESSIONS.—The Commis- standard, in response to seasonal fluctua- (D) transparency issues. sion or, on the authority of the Commission, tions in the demand for currency. (b) REPORT ON MONETARY POLICY.—Not any subcommittee or member thereof, may, (5) Congress also gave the Federal Reserve later than June 30, 2014, the Commission for the purpose of carrying out this Act, hold a financial stability mandate to serve as the shall submit to Congress and make publicly hearings, sit and act at times and places, lender of last resort to solvent but illiquid available a report containing a statement of take testimony, receive evidence, or admin- banks during a financial crisis. the findings and conclusions of the Commis- ister oaths as the Commission or such sub- (6) In 1977, Congress changed the monetary sion in carrying out the study under sub- committee or member thereof considers ap- mandate of the Federal Reserve to a dual section (a), together with the recommenda- propriate. (b) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—To the extent or mandate for maximum employment and sta- tions the Commission considers appropriate. in the amounts provided in advance in appro- ble prices. SEC. 5. MEMBERSHIP. priation Acts, the Commission may contract (7) Empirical studies and historical evi- (a) NUMBER AND APPOINTMENT.— with and compensate government and pri- dence, both within the United States and in (1) VOTING MEMBERS BY POSITION.—The vate agencies or persons to enable the Com- other countries, demonstrate that price sta- Commission shall contain 6 voting members mission to discharge its duties under this bility is desirable because both inflation and as follows: Act, without regard to section 3709 of the Re- deflation damage the economy. (A) The Chair of the Joint Economic Com- vised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5). (8) The economic challenge of recent mittee, who shall serve as Chair of the Com- (c) OBTAINING OFFICIAL DATA.— years—most notably the bursting of the mission. (B) The ranking minority member of the (1) IN GENERAL.—The Commission is au- housing bubble, the financial crisis of 2008, thorized to secure directly from any execu- and the ensuing anemic recovery—have oc- Joint Economic Committee, who shall serve as Vice Chair of the Commission. tive department, bureau, agency, board, curred at great cost in terms of lost jobs and commission, office, independent establish- output. (C) The Chair of the Committee on Finan- cial Services of the House of Representatives ment, or instrumentality of the Government, (9) Policymakers are reexamining the any information, including suggestions, esti- structure and functioning of financial insti- or another majority member of such Com- mittee designated by the Chair. mates, or statistics, for the purposes of this tutions and markets to determine what, if Act. any, changes need to be made to place the fi- (D) The ranking minority member of the Committee on Financial Services of the (2) REQUESTING OFFICIAL DATA.—The head nancial system on a stronger, more sustain- of such department, bureau, agency, board, able path going forward. House of Representatives or another minor- ity member of such Committee designated commission, office, independent establish- (10) The Federal Reserve has taken ex- ment, or instrumentality of the government traordinary actions in response to the recent by the ranking minority member. (E) The Chair of the Committee on Bank- shall, to the extent authorized by law, fur- economic challenges. nish such information upon request made (11) The Federal Open Market Committee ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Sen- ate or another majority member of such by— has engaged in multiple rounds of quan- (A) the Chair; titative easing, providing unprecedented li- Committee designated by the Chair. (F) The ranking minority member of the (B) the Chair of any subcommittee created quidity to financial markets, while commit- by a majority of the Commission; or ting to holding short-term interest rates low Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate or another minority (C) any member of the Commission des- for a seemingly indefinite period, and pur- ignated by a majority of the commission to suing a policy of credit allocation by pur- member of such Committee designated by the ranking minority member. request such information. chasing Federal agency debt and mortgage- (d) ASSISTANCE FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES.— (2) APPOINTED VOTING MEMBERS.—The Com- backed securities. (1) GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.— (12) In the wake of the recent extraor- mission shall contain 6 voting members, who may not be Members of Congress, as follows: The Administrator of General Services shall dinary actions of the Federal Reserve, Con- provide to the Commission on a reimburs- gress—consistent with its constitutional re- (A) Two members appointed by the Speak- er of the House of Representatives. able basis administrative support and other sponsibilities and as it has done periodically services for the performance of the functions throughout the history of the United (B) One member appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives. of the Commission. States—has once again renewed its examina- (2) OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES.—In tion of monetary policy. (C) Two members appointed by the major- ity leader of the Senate. addition to the assistance prescribed in para- (13) Central in such examination has been graph (1), at the request of the Commission, a renewed look at what is the most proper (D) One member appointed by the minority leader of the Senate. departments and agencies of the United mandate for the Federal Reserve to conduct States shall provide such services, funds, fa- (3) NON-VOTING MEMBERS.—The Commission monetary policy in the 21st century. cilities, staff, and other support services as SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT. shall contain 2 non-voting members as fol- lows: may be authorized by law. There is established a commission to be (e) POSTAL SERVICE.—The Commission may (A) One member appointed by the Sec- known as the ‘‘Centennial Monetary Com- use the United States mails in the same retary of the Treasury. mission’’ (in this Act referred to as the manner and under the same conditions as (B) One member who is the president of a ‘‘Commission’’). other departments and agencies of the district Federal reserve bank appointed by SEC. 4. DUTIES. United States. the Chair of the Board of Governors of the (a) STUDY OF MONETARY POLICY.—The Com- SEC. 7. COMMISSION PERSONNEL. Federal Reserve System. mission shall— (a) APPOINTMENT AND COMPENSATION OF (b) PERIOD OF APPOINTMENT.—Each member (1) examine how United States monetary shall be appointed for the life of the Commis- STAFF.— policy since the creation of the Board of sion. (1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to rules pre- Governors of the Federal Reserve System in (c) TIMING OF APPOINTMENT.—All members scribed by the Commission, the Chair may 1913 has affected the performance of the of the Commission shall be appointed not be- appoint and fix the pay of the executive di- United States economy in terms of output, fore January 5, 2013, and not later than 30 rector and other personnel as the Chair con- employment, prices, and financial stability days after the date of the enactment of this siders appropriate. over time; Act. (2) APPLICABILITY OF CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.— (2) evaluate various operational regimes (d) VACANCIES.—A vacancy in the Commis- The staff of the Commission may be ap- under which the Board of Governors of the sion shall not affect its powers, and shall be pointed without regard to the provisions of

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Now, therefore, be it vote on the motion to proceed to the (c) STAFF OF FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Upon re- Resolved, That is it the sense of the Senate bill; that the Senate recess from 12:30 quest of the Commission, the head of any that, before further bilateral negotiations to 2:15 to allow for our weekly caucus Federal department or agency may detail, on between the Government of Iran and the meetings. a reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of United States Government occur, the Gov- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without such department or agency to the Commis- ernment of Iran must— objection, it is so ordered. sion to assist it in carrying out its duties (1) immediately and without conditions re- under this Act. lease all United States citizens unjustly de- f SEC. 8. TERMINATION. tained in Iran; and (a) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall (2) publicly affirm the right of Israel to PROGRAM terminate on February 28, 2015. exist as a Jewish state. Mr. REID. The first vote will be at (b) ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES BEFORE f 10:30 a.m. TERMINATION.—The Commission may use the period between the submission of its report PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR f and its termination for the purpose of con- cluding its activities, including providing Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. testimony to committees of Congress con- imous consent that Krishna Patel, a TOMORROW cerning its report. detailee on Senator TIM JOHNSON’s Mr. REID. Mr. President, if there is SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. banking committee staff, be granted no further business to come before the There are authorized to be appropriated floor privileges for the duration of to- Senate, I ask unanimous consent that such sums as may be necessary to carry out day’s session. it adjourn under the previous order. this Act and such sums shall remain avail- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With- There being no objection, the Senate, able until the date on which the Commission out objection. terminates. at 6:53 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unan- January 7, 2014, at 10 a.m. f imous consent that Dr. Jeff Fine and SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS Lawrence Meehan, fellows in my office, f be granted privileges of the floor for NOMINATIONS this session of the 113th Congress. SENATE RESOLUTION 328—EX- Executive nominations received by The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Senate: PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE objection, it is so ordered. SENATE ON STEPS THE GOVERN- COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION f MENT OF IRAN MUST TAKE BE- TIMOTHY G. MASSAD, OF CONNECTICUT, TO BE A COM- MISSIONER OF THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COM- FORE FURTHER BILATERAL NE- JOINT REFERRAL—EXECUTIVE MISSION FOR A TERM EXPIRING APRIL 13, 2017, VICE GOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE GOV- NOMINATIONS GARY GENSLER, TERM EXPIRED. ERNMENT OF IRAN AND THE TIMOTHY G. MASSAD, OF CONNECTICUT, TO BE CHAIR- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- MAN OF THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMIS- UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT imous consent that, as in executive SION, VICE GARY GENSLER. OCCUR J. CHRISTOPHER GIANCARLO, OF NEW JERSEY, TO BE A session, the nomination of Rhea Sun COMMISSIONER OF THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM EXPIR- Mr. CRUZ (for himself and Mr. Suh, of Colorado, to be Assistant Sec- ING APRIL 13, 2014, VICE JILL SOMMERS, RESIGNED. INHOFE) submitted the following reso- retary of Fish and Wildlife, sent to the DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE lution; which was referred to the Com- Senate by the President, be referred JESSICA GARFOLA WRIGHT, OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO BE mittee on Foreign Relations: jointly to the Committee on Energy UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR PERSONNEL AND S. RES. 328 and Natural Resources and the Com- READINESS, VICE ERIN C. CONATON, RESIGNED. JO ANN ROONEY, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE UNDER Whereas, on September 27, 2013, the Presi- mittee on Environment and Public SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, VICE ROBERT O. WORK, RE- dent of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, and President Works. SIGNED. JAMIE MICHAEL MORIN, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE DIREC- Barack Obama engaged in the first direct The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without TOR OF COST ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION, contact between Iranian and United States objection, it is so ordered. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, VICE CHRISTINE H. FOX, RE- leaders since 1979; SIGNED. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- WILLIAM A. LAPLANTE, JR., OF MARYLAND, TO BE AN Whereas the Government of Iran has yet to imous consent that, as in executive ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE, VICE SUE C. take any practical steps towards halting PAYTON. session, the nomination of Arun Iran’s nuclear programs and remains a com- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY mitted state-sponsor of terrorist groups that MadhaAn Kumar, of California, to be FRANK G. KLOTZ, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE UNDER SEC- have been responsible for American deaths in Assistant Secretary of Commerce and RETARY FOR NUCLEAR SECURITY, VICE THOMAS P. Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Afghani- Director General of the United States D’AGOSTINO, RESIGNED. stan; MADELYN R. CREEDON, OF INDIANA, TO BE PRINCIPAL and Foreign Commercial Service, sent DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECU- Whereas, since the election of President to the Senate by the President, be re- RITY ADMINISTRATION, VICE NEILE L. MILLER, RE- Rouhani, the persecution by the Government ferred jointly to the Committee on SIGNED. of Iran of religious minorities, notably Chris- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE tians, has increased not decreased; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Commerce, BRAD R. CARSON, OF OKLAHOMA, TO BE UNDER SEC- Whereas United States citizens remain im- RETARY OF THE ARMY, VICE JOSEPH W. WESTPHAL. prisoned in Iran, including Pastor Saeed Science, and Transportation. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Abedini, Amir Hekmati, and Robert The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Levinson; objection, it is so ordered. ARUN MADHAVAN KUMAR, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE AS- Whereas President Rouhani has called SISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND DIRECTOR f GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COM- Israel the ‘‘Zionist state’’ that has been ‘‘a MERCIAL SERVICE, VICE SURESH KUMAR, RESIGNED. wound that has sat on the body of the Mus- ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN lim world for years and needs to be re- 7, 2014 DEVELOPMENT moved’’, and Iran’s Supreme Leader Aya- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- KATHERINE M. O’REGAN, OF NEW YORK, TO BE AN AS- tollah Khamenei has called Israel a ‘‘rabid SISTANT SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVEL- dog’’ facing ‘‘annihilation’’; imous consent that when the Senate OPMENT, VICE RAPHAEL WILLIAM BOSTIC.

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EXPORT–IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES STEVEN CROLEY, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE GENERAL COUN- PEACE CORPS SEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, VICE GREGORY WANDA FELTON, OF NEW YORK, TO BE FIRST VICE HOWARD WOODS. CAROLYN HESSLER RADELET, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE DI- PRESIDENT OF THE EXPORT–IMPORT BANK OF THE RECTOR OF THE PEACE CORPS, VICE AARON S. WIL- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 20, 2017. LIAMS, RESIGNED. (REAPPOINTMENT) MICHAEL L. CONNOR, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE DEPUTY DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECURITIES INVESTOR PROTECTION SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, VICE DAVID J. HAYES, RESIGNED. TOMASZ P. MALINOWSKI, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- CORPORATION TOMMY PORT BEAUDREAU, OF ALASKA, TO BE AN AS- BIA, TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DE- LESLIE E. BAINS, OF NEW YORK, TO BE A DIRECTOR OF SISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, VICE RHEA S. MOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR, VICE MICHAEL THE SECURITIES INVESTOR PROTECTION CORPORATION SUH. H. POSNER, RESIGNED. FOR A TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 31, 2015, VICE WILLIAM DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION S. JASIEN, TERM EXPIRED. ROY K. J. WILLIAMS, OF OHIO, TO BE ASSISTANT SEC- DANA J. HYDE, OF MARYLAND, TO BE CHIEF EXECU- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE RETARY OF COMMERCE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TIVE OFFICER, MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION, VICE JOHN R. FERNANDEZ, RESIGNED. VICE DANIEL W. YOHANNES. KELLY R. WELSH, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE GENERAL COUN- SEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, VICE CAM- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF STATE ERON F. KERRY. VICTORIA MARIE BAECHER WASSMER, OF ILLINOIS, TO DANIEL W. YOHANNES, OF COLORADO, TO BE REP- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION BE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, ENVIRONMENTAL PRO- RESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO TECTION AGENCY, VICE BARBARA J. BENNETT, RE- THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND KATHRYN B. THOMSON, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE GENERAL SIGNED. DEVELOPMENT, WITH THE RANK OF AMBASSADOR. COUNSEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, ROSE EILENE GOTTEMOELLER, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE VICE ROBERT S. RIVKIN, RESIGNED. CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ARMS CONTROL AND DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BOARD INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, VICE ELLEN O. TAUSCHER, RESIGNED. RICHARD J. ENGLER, OF NEW JERSEY, TO BE A MEM- KATHRYN D. SULLIVAN, OF OHIO, TO BE UNDER SEC- BATHSHEBA NELL CROCKER, OF THE DISTRICT OF CO- BER OF THE CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVES- RETARY OF COMMERCE FOR OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERE, LUMBIA, TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE TIGATION BOARD FOR A TERM OF FIVE YEARS, VICE WIL- VICE JANE LUBCHENCO, RESIGNED. (INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS), VICE ES- LIAM E. WRIGHT, TERM EXPIRED. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT THER BRIMMER, RESIGNED. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY KEITH M. HARPER, OF MARYLAND, FOR THE RANK OF ROBERT MICHAEL SIMON, OF MARYLAND, TO BE AN AS- AMBASSADOR DURING HIS TENURE OF SERVICE AS SOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND THOMAS A. BURKE, OF MARYLAND, TO BE AN ASSIST- UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UN HUMAN TECHNOLOGY POLICY, VICE SHERBURNE B. ABBOTT. ANT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEC- RIGHTS COUNCIL. TION AGENCY, VICE PAUL T. ANASTAS, RESIGNED. PETER A. SELFRIDGE, OF MINNESOTA, TO BE CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION KENNETH J. KOPOCIS, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE AN ASSIST- PROTOCOL, AND TO HAVE THE RANK OF AMBASSADOR ANT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEC- DURING HIS TENURE OF SERVICE, VICE CAPRICIA DEBRA L. MILLER, OF KANSAS, TO BE A MEMBER OF TION AGENCY, VICE PETER SILVA SILVA, RESIGNED. PENAVIC MARSHALL, RESIGNED. THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD FOR A TERM ANTHONY LUZZATTO GARDNER, OF NEW YORK, TO BE EXPIRING DECEMBER 31, 2017, VICE FRANCIS MULVEY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TERM EXPIRED. RICHARD G. FRANK, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE AN AS- TO THE EUROPEAN UNION, WITH THE RANK AND STATUS FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION SISTANT SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERV- OF AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENI- ICES, VICE SHERRY GLIED, RESIGNED. POTENTIARY. TERRELL MCSWEENY, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES TAX COURT CRYSTAL NIX–HINES, OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE RANK TO BE A FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONER FOR THE UN- OF AMBASSADOR DURING HER TENURE OF SERVICE AS EXPIRED TERM OF SEVEN YEARS FROM SEPTEMBER 26, TAMARA WENDA ASHFORD, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A THE UNITED STATES PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO 2010, VICE JON D. LEIBOWITZ, RESIGNED. JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES TAX COURT FOR A TERM THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION OF FIFTEEN YEARS, VICE MARY ANN COHEN, RETIRED. CULTURAL ORGANIZATION. ADAM M. SCHEINMAN, OF VIRGINIA, A CAREER MEM- JOSEPH P. MOHOROVIC, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE A COMMIS- DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BER OF THE SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE, TO BE SPE- SIONER OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMIS- KAREN DYNAN, OF MARYLAND, TO BE AN ASSISTANT CIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PRESIDENT FOR NU- SION FOR A TERM OF SEVEN YEARS FROM OCTOBER 27, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, VICE JANICE EBERLY. CLEAR NONPROLIFERATION, WITH THE RANK OF AMBAS- 2012, VICE NANCY ANN NORD, TERM EXPIRED. SADOR. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ROBERT A. WOOD, OF NEW YORK, A CAREER MEMBER DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER– R. GIL KERLIKOWSKE, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, COUNSELOR, FOR THE RANK OF AMBASSADOR DURING PAUL NATHAN JAENICHEN, SR., OF KENTUCKY, TO BE TO BE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, DEPARTMENT OF HIS TENURE OF SERVICE AS U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO ADMINISTRATOR OF THE MARITIME ADMINISTRATION, HOMELAND SECURITY, VICE ALAN D. BERSIN, RESIGNED. VICE DAVID T. MATSUDA, RESIGNED. THE CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT. UNITED STATES TAX COURT TINA S. KAIDANOW, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, A EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT CAREER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, L. PAIGE MARVEL, OF MARYLAND, TO BE A JUDGE OF CLASS OF MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE COORDINATOR JO EMILY HANDELSMAN, OF CONNECTICUT, TO BE AN THE UNITED STATES TAX COURT FOR A TERM OF FIF- FOR COUNTERTERRORISM, WITH THE RANK AND STATUS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TEEN YEARS. (REAPPOINTMENT) OF AMBASSADOR AT LARGE, VICE DANIEL BENJAMIN, TECHNOLOGY POLICY, VICE CARL WIEMAN, RESIGNED. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY RESIGNED. CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING PAMELA K. HAMAMOTO, OF HAWAII, TO BE REP- SARAH BLOOM RASKIN, OF MARYLAND, TO BE DEPUTY RESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO DAVID J. ARROYO, OF NEW YORK, TO BE A MEMBER OF SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, VICE NEAL S. WOLIN. THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER INTER- THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN GENEVA, WITH THE RANK UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANU- OF AMBASSADOR. ARY 31, 2016, VICE ELIZABETH COURTNEY, TERM EX- COMMISSION PIRED. UNITED NATIONS RHONDA K. SCHMIDTLEIN, OF MISSOURI, TO BE A MEM- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BER OF THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE LESLIE BERGER KIERNAN, OF MARYLAND, TO BE REP- COMMISSION FOR A TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 16, 2021, RESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO RHEA SUN SUH, OF COLORADO, TO BE ASSISTANT SEC- VICE SHARA L. ARANOFF, TERM EXPIRED. THE UNITED NATIONS FOR U.N. MANAGEMENT AND RE- RETARY FOR FISH AND WILDLIFE, VICE THOMAS L. FORM, WITH THE RANK OF AMBASSADOR. STRICKLAND, RESIGNED. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE LESLIE BERGER KIERNAN, OF MARYLAND, TO BE AL- TERNATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF STEFAN M. SELIG, OF NEW YORK, TO BE UNDER SEC- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AMERICA TO THE SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RETARY OF COMMERCE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE, OF THE UNITED NATIONS, DURING HER TENURE OF ELLEN DUDLEY WILLIAMS, OF MARYLAND, TO BE DI- VICE FRANCISCO J. SANCHEZ, RESIGNED. RECTOR OF THE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGEN- SERVICE AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES CY–ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, VICE ARUN UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL OF AMERICA TO THE UNITED NATIONS FOR U.N. MANAGE- MAJUMDAR, RESIGNED. DEVELOPMENT MENT AND REFORM. CHRISTOPHER SMITH, OF TEXAS, TO BE AN ASSISTANT DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECRETARY OF ENERGY (FOSSIL ENERGY), VICE MICHAEL G. CARROLL, OF NEW YORK, TO BE INSPEC- CHARLES DEWITT MCCONNELL, RESIGNED. TOR GENERAL, UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTER- MICHAEL ANDERSON LAWSON, OF CALIFORNIA, FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, VICE DONALD A. THE RANK OF AMBASSADOR DURING HIS TENURE OF DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GAMBATESA, RESIGNED. SERVICE AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES JANICE MARION SCHNEIDER, OF NEW YORK, TO BE AN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND OF AMERICA ON THE COUNCIL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, VICE WILMA CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. A. LEWIS, RESIGNED. JANET L. YELLEN, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE UNITED INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION STATES ALTERNATE GOVERNOR OF THE INTER- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL MONETARY FUND FOR A TERM OF FIVE AND DEVELOPMENT YEARS, VICE BEN S. BERNANKE, TERM EXPIRED. ELIZABETH M. ROBINSON, OF WASHINGTON, TO BE CATHERINE ANN NOVELLI, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE UNITED UNDER SECRETARY OF ENERGY, VICE KRISTINA M. DEPARTMENT OF STATE STATES ALTERNATE GOVERNOR OF THE INTER- JOHNSON, RESIGNED. NATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOP- FRANKLIN M. ORR, JR., OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE UNDER RICHARD STENGEL, OF NEW YORK, TO BE UNDER SEC- MENT FOR A TERM OF FIVE YEARS; UNITED STATES AL- SECRETARY FOR SCIENCE, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, RETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, VICE TARA TERNATE GOVERNOR OF THE INTER–AMERICAN DEVEL- VICE STEVEN ELLIOT KOONIN. D. SONENSHINE. OPMENT BANK FOR A TERM OF FIVE YEARS, VICE ROB- SARAH SEWALL, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE AN ERT D. HORMATS, RESIGNED. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (CIVILIAN SECURITY, DE- MOCRACY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS), VICE MARIA OTERO, RE- EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND NEIL GREGORY KORNZE, OF NEVADA, TO BE DIRECTOR SIGNED. DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, VICE ROBERT PUNEET TALWAR, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO V. ABBEY, RESIGNED. BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE (POLITICAL– CATHERINE ANN NOVELLI, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE UNITED ESTHER PUAKELA KIA’AINA, OF HAWAII, TO BE AN AS- MILITARY AFFAIRS), VICE ANDREW J. SHAPIRO. STATES ALTERNATE GOVERNOR OF THE EUROPEAN SISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, VICE ANTHONY FRANK A. ROSE, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE AN AS- BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT, VICE MARION BABAUTA. SISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE (VERIFICATION AND ROBERT D. HORMATS, RESIGNED. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY COMPLIANCE), VICE ROSE EILENE GOTTEMOELLER. DEPARTMENT OF STATE CHARLES HAMMERMAN RIVKIN, OF THE DISTRICT OF MARC A. KASTNER, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE DIREC- COLUMBIA, TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CATHERINE ANN NOVELLI, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE AN TOR OF THE OFFICE OF SCIENCE, DEPARTMENT OF EN- (ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS), VICE JOSE W. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (ECONOMIC GROWTH, EN- ERGY, VICE WILLIAM F. BRINKMAN. FERNANDEZ, RESIGNED. ERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT), VICE ROBERT D. JONATHAN ELKIND, OF MARYLAND, TO BE AN ASSIST- CARLOS PASCUAL, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO HORMATS, RESIGNED. ANT SECRETARY OF ENERGY (INTERNATIONAL AF- BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE (ENERGY RE- KEVIN WHITAKER, OF VIRGINIA, A CAREER MEMBER OF FAIRS), VICE DAVID B. SANDALOW, RESIGNED. SOURCES), VICE JOHN STERN WOLF. THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER–

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COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND MARK BRADLEY CHILDRESS, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE AM- WILLIAM WARD NOOTER, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF BIA, TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE UNITED RE- COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE TERM JOSEPH WILLIAM WESTPHAL, OF NEW YORK, TO BE AM- PUBLIC OF TANZANIA. OF FIFTEEN YEARS, VICE A. FRANKLIN BURGESS, RE- BASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF ARNOLD A. CHACON, OF VIRGINIA, A CAREER MEMBER TIRED. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE KINGDOM OF OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER– SAUDI ARABIA. COUNSELOR, TO BE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOR- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY GEORGE JAMES TSUNIS, OF NEW YORK, TO BE AMBAS- EIGN SERVICE, VICE LINDA THOMAS–GREENFIELD, RE- SUZANNE ELEANOR SPAULDING, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE SADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF SIGNED. UNDER SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECU- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE KINGDOM OF DWIGHT L. BUSH, SR., OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, RITY, VICE RAND BEERS. NORWAY. TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENI- KAREN CLARK STANTON, OF MICHIGAN, A CAREER POTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF THE KINGDOM OF MOROCCO. MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAOR- TIMOTHY M. BROAS, OF MARYLAND, TO BE AMBAS- JAMES C. MILLER, III, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A GOVERNOR DINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES SADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE FOR THE OF AMERICA TO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF TIMOR– THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE KINGDOM OF TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 8, 2017. (REAPPOINTMENT) LESTE. THE NETHERLANDS. POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION DOUGLAS ALAN SILLIMAN, OF TEXAS, A CAREER MEM- COLLEEN BRADLEY BELL, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE AM- BER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MIN- BASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF TONY HAMMOND, OF MISSOURI, TO BE A COMMIS- ISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAOR- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO HUNGARY. SIONER OF THE POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION FOR DINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES ROBERT C. BARBER, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE AM- A TERM EXPIRING OCTOBER 14, 2018. (REAPPOINTMENT) OF AMERICA TO THE STATE OF KUWAIT. BASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE ROBERT A. SHERMAN, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE AM- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF BASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF ICELAND. STEPHEN CRAWFORD, OF MARYLAND, TO BE A GOV- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE PORTUGUESE LARRY EDWARD ANDRE, JR., OF VIRGINIA, A CAREER REPUBLIC. ERNOR OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE FOR MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF ERIC T. SCHULTZ, OF VIRGINIA, A CAREER MEMBER OF THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 8, COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER– 2015, VICE ALAN C. KESSLER, RESIGNED. PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND DAVID MICHAEL BENNETT, OF NORTH CAROLINA, TO BE TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF MAURITANIA. PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A GOVERNOR OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE CYNTHIA H. AKUETTEH, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- TO THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA. FOR A TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 8, 2018, VICE BIA, A CAREER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERV- EUNICE S. REDDICK, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, A THURGOOD MARSHALL, JR., TERM EXPIRED. ICE, CLASS OF MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBAS- CAREER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, SADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION CLASS OF MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE GABONESE RE- EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE NANCI E. LANGLEY, OF HAWAII, TO BE A COMMIS- PUBLIC, AND TO SERVE CONCURRENTLY AND WITHOUT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF SIONER OF THE POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION FOR ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION AS AMBASSADOR EX- NIGER. A TERM EXPIRING NOVEMBER 22, 2018. (REAPPOINTMENT) BRIAN A. NICHOLS, OF RHODE ISLAND, A CAREER MEM- TRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED BER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MIN- STATES OF AMERICA TO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAOR- SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE. JOHN ROTH, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE INSPECTOR GEN- DINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ERAL, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, VICE OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF PERU. RICHARD L. SKINNER, RESIGNED. LUIS G. MORENO, OF TEXAS, A CAREER MEMBER OF MICHAEL KEITH YUDIN, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER– BIA, TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SPECIAL EDU- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND CATION AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OF EDUCATION, VICE ALEXA E. POSNY. YVETTE ROUBIDEAUX, OF MARYLAND, TO BE DIREC- TO JAMAICA. TOR OF THE INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF CARLOS ROBERTO MORENO, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE AM- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. (REAPPOINTMENT) BASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF PORTIA Y. WU, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO BE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO BELIZE. AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR, VICE JANE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NOAH BRYSON MAMET, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE AMBAS- OATES. SADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF DAVID WEIL, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE ADMINIS- VINCENT G. LOGAN, OF NEW YORK, TO BE SPECIAL THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE ARGENTINE TRATOR OF THE WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPART- TRUSTEE, OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN REPUBLIC. MENT OF LABOR, VICE PAUL DECAMP. INDIANS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, VICE ROSS DONALD LU, OF CALIFORNIA, A CAREER MEMBER OF OWEN SWIMMER, RESIGNED. THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER– DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND DEPARTMENT OF STATE JAMES H. SHELTON III, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BIA, TO BE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF EDUCATION, VICE DANIEL BENNETT SMITH, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE AN AS- TO THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA. ANTHONY W. MILLER, RESIGNED. SISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE (INTELLIGENCE AND RE- HELEN MEAGHER LA LIME, OF THE DISTRICT OF CO- MASSIE RITSCH, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO BE SEARCH), VICE PHILIP S. GOLDBERG. LUMBIA, A CAREER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AM- CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE OUTREACH, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, VICE PETER BASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF CUNNINGHAM. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF CAROLINE DIANE KRASS, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- THEODORE REED MITCHELL, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE ANGOLA. BIA, TO BE GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE CENTRAL INTEL- UNDER SECRETARY OF EDUCATION, VICE MARTHA J. AMY JANE HYATT, OF CALIFORNIA, A CAREER MEMBER LIGENCE AGENCY, VICE STEPHEN WOOLMAN PRESTON, KANTER. OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER– RESIGNED. COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE THE JUDICIARY PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU. VIVEK HALLEGERE MURTHY, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO JILL A. PRYOR, OF GEORGIA, TO BE UNITED STATES MICHAEL STEPHEN HOZA, OF WASHINGTON, A CAREER BE MEDICAL DIRECTOR IN THE REGULAR CORPS OF THE CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VICE MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, SUBJECT TO QUALIFICATIONS STANLEY F. BIRCH, JR., RETIRED. MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAOR- THEREFOR AS PROVIDED BY LAW AND REGULATIONS, CAROLYN B. MCHUGH, OF UTAH, TO BE UNITED STATES DINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TO BE SURGEON GENERAL OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT, VICE MICHAEL OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON. SERVICE FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS, VICE REGINA M. R. MURPHY, RETIRED. JOHN HOOVER, OF MASSACHUSETTS, A CAREER MEM- BENJAMIN, RESIGNED. MICHELLE T. FRIEDLAND, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE BER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF COUN- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE NINTH CIR- SELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND CUIT, VICE RAYMOND C. FISHER, RETIRED. PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ERICKA M. MILLER, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE ASSISTANT NANCY L. MORITZ, OF KANSAS, TO BE UNITED STATES TO THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE. SECRETARY FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPART- CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT, VICE DEANELL BRUCE HEYMAN, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE AMBASSADOR EX- MENT OF EDUCATION, VICE EDUARDO M. OCHOA. REECE TACHA, RETIRED. TRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED JOHN B. OWENS, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO CANADA. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT, VICE MATTHEW T. HARRINGTON, OF VIRGINIA, A CAREER COMMISSION STEPHEN S. TROTT, RETIRED. MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF DAVID JEREMIAH BARRON, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND HEATHER L. MACDOUGALL, OF FLORIDA, TO BE A MEM- UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE FIRST CIR- PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BER OF THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH RE- CUIT, VICE MICHAEL BOUDIN, RETIRED. TO THE KINGDOM OF LESOTHO. VIEW COMMISSION FOR A TERM EXPIRING APRIL 27, 2017, ROBIN S. ROSENBAUM, OF FLORIDA, TO BE UNITED MICHAEL A. HAMMER, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, VICE HORACE A. THOMPSON, TERM EXPIRED. STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, A CAREER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION VICE ROSEMARY BARKETT, RESIGNED. CLASS OF MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR JULIE E. CARNES, OF GEORGIA, TO BE UNITED STATES EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE FRANCE A. CORDOVA, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE DIREC- CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VICE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF TOR OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR A JAMES LARRY EDMONDSON, RETIRED. CHILE. TERM OF SIX YEARS, VICE SUBRA SURESH, RESIGNED. GREGG JEFFREY COSTA, OF TEXAS, TO BE UNITED MARK GILBERT, OF FLORIDA, TO BE AMBASSADOR EX- STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, VICE TRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FORTUNATO P. BENAVIDES, RETIRED. STATES OF AMERICA TO NEW ZEALAND, AND TO SERVE JAMES COLE, JR., OF NEW YORK, TO BE GENERAL ROSEMARY MARQUEZ, OF ARIZONA, TO BE UNITED CONCURRENTLY AND WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COMPENSA- COUNSEL, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, VICE CHARLES STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARI- TION AS AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENI- P. ROSE. ZONA, VICE FRANK R. ZAPATA, RETIRED. POTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO PAMELA L. REEVES, OF TENNESSEE, TO BE UNITED THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA. RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT JOHN L. ESTRADA, OF FLORIDA, TO BE AMBASSADOR OF TENNESSEE, VICE THOMAS W. PHILLIPS, RETIRING. EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE STEVEN JOEL ANTHONY, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEM- TIMOTHY L. BROOKS, OF ARKANSAS, TO BE UNITED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF TRIN- BER OF THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD FOR A STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT IDAD AND TOBAGO. TERM EXPIRING AUGUST 28, 2018, VICE JEROME F. KEVER, OF ARKANSAS, VICE JIMM LARRY HENDREN, RETIRED. THOMAS FREDERICK DAUGHTON, OF ARIZONA, A CA- TERM EXPIRED. JEFFREY ALKER MEYER, OF CONNECTICUT, TO BE REER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF CLASS OF MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR CONNECTICUT, VICE MARK R. KRAVITZ, DECEASED. EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE STEVEN M. WELLNER, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, JAMES DONATO, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE UNITED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF NA- TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT MIBIA. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE TERM OF FIF- OF CALIFORNIA, VICE JAMES WARE, RETIRED. MAUREEN ELIZABETH CORMACK, OF VIRGINIA, A CA- TEEN YEARS, VICE KAYE K. CHRISTIAN, RETIRED. BETH LABSON FREEMAN, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE REER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, SHERRY MOORE TRAFFORD, OF THE DISTRICT OF CO- UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN CLASS OF MINISTER–COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR LUMBIA, TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, VICE AN ADDITIONAL POSI- EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE TERM TION IN ACCORDANCE WITH 28 USC 133(B)(1). UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO BOSNIA AND OF FIFTEEN YEARS, VICE NATALIA COMBS GREENE, RE- JENNIFER PRESCOD MAY–PARKER, OF NORTH CARO- HERZEGOVINA. TIRED. LINA, TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA, VICE MAL- ELEANOR LOUISE ROSS, OF GEORGIA, TO BE UNITED MARK THOMAS NETHERY, OF KENTUCKY, TO BE A MEM- COLM J. HOWARD, RETIRED. STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT BER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MORRIS K. PEDRO A. DELGADO HERNANDEZ, OF PUERTO RICO, TO OF GEORGIA, VICE CHARLES A. PANNELL, JR ., RETIRED. UDALL AND STEWART L. UDALL FOUNDATION FOR A BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT LEO T. SOROKIN, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE UNITED TERM EXPIRING OCTOBER 6, 2018, VICE ERIC D. OF PUERTO RICO, VICE DANIEL R. DOMINGUEZ, RETIRED. STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSA- EBERHARD, TERM EXPIRED. BRUCE HOWE HENDRICKS, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, TO BE CHUSETTS, VICE JOSEPH L. TAURO, RETIRED. ANNE J. UDALL, OF OREGON, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF JAMES ALAN SOTO, OF ARIZONA, TO BE UNITED BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MORRIS K. UDALL AND SOUTH CAROLINA, VICE MARGARET B. SEYMOUR, RE- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARI- STEWART L. UDALL FOUNDATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING TIRED. ZONA, VICE DAVID C. BURY, RETIRED. OCTOBER 6, 2016. (REAPPOINTMENT) CAMILLA C. FEIBELMAN, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE A ALISON RENEE LEE, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, TO BE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MORRIS SOUTH CAROLINA, VICE CAMERON M. CURRIE, RETIRING. ANDREW MARK LUGER, OF MINNESOTA, TO BE UNITED K. UDALL AND STEWART L. UDALL FOUNDATION FOR A VINCE GIRDHARI CHHABRIA, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA TERM EXPIRING APRIL 15, 2017, VICE STEPHEN M. PRES- UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS, VICE B. TODD JONES, COTT, TERM EXPIRED. DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, VICE SUSAN Y. ILLSTON, RE- TERM EXPIRED. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY TIRED. DAMON PAUL MARTINEZ, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE MATTHEW FREDERICK LEITMAN, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW NANI A. COLORETTI, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE CHIEF FI- UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN MEXICO FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS, VICE KENNETH NANCIAL OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN, VICE MARIANNE O. BATTANI, J. GONZALES, RESIGNED. VICE DANIEL M. TANGHERLINI, RESIGNED. KEVIN W. TECHAU, OF IOWA, TO BE UNITED STATES AT- RETIRED. SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD JUDITH ELLEN LEVY, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE UNITED TORNEY FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA FOR STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS, VICE STEPHANIE M. ROSE, ALAN L. COHEN, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE OF MICHIGAN, VICE NANCY G. EDMUNDS, RETIRED. RESIGNED. SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIR- LAURIE J. MICHELSON, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE UNITED GARY BLANKINSHIP, OF TEXAS, TO BE UNITED STATES ING SEPTEMBER 30, 2016, VICE DANA K. BILYEU, TERM EX- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT MARSHAL FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS FOR PIRED. OF MICHIGAN, VICE GEORGE CARAM STEEH III, RETIRED. THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS, VICE RUBEN MONZON, RE- LANHEE J. CHEN, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE A MEMBER OF JAMES MAXWELL MOODY, JR., OF ARKANSAS, TO BE SIGNED. THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD FOR A TERM UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN ROBERT L. HOBBS, OF TEXAS, TO BE UNITED STATES EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30, 2018, VICE MARK J. DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS, VICE SUSAN WEBBER WRIGHT, MARSHAL FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS FOR WARSHAWSKY, TERM EXPIRED. RETIRING. THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS, VICE JOHN LEE MOORE, LINDA VIVIENNE PARKER, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE UNITED TERM EXPIRED. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION AMOS ROJAS, JR., OF FLORIDA, TO BE UNITED STATES STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT HENRY J. AARON, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO MARSHAL FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA OF MICHIGAN, VICE ROBERT H. CLELAND, RETIRED. BE A MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS, VICE CHRISTINA PHARO, CHRISTOPHER REID COOPER, OF THE DISTRICT OF CO- BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30, 2014, VICE TERM EXPIRED. LUMBIA, TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR JEFFREY ROBERT BROWN, TERM EXPIRED. PETER C. TOBIN, OF OHIO, TO BE UNITED STATES MAR- THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, VICE ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, HENRY J. AARON, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO SHAL FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO FOR A RETIRED. BE A MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY TERM OF FOUR YEARS, VICE CATHY JO JONES, RE- DANIEL D. CRABTREE, OF KANSAS, TO BE UNITED BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30, 2020. (RE- SIGNED. STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS, APPOINTMENT) VICE JOHN W. LUNGSTRUM, RETIRED. DEBO P. ADEGBILE, OF NEW YORK, TO BE AN ASSIST- M. DOUGLAS HARPOOL, OF MISSOURI, TO BE UNITED ANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, VICE THOMAS E. PEREZ, RE- INTER–AMERICAN FOUNDATION STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT SIGNED. OF MISSOURI, VICE RICHARD E. DORR, DECEASED. LESLIE RAGON CALDWELL, OF NEW YORK, TO BE AN MARK E. LOPES, OF ARIZONA, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE SHERYL H. LIPMAN, OF TENNESSEE, TO BE UNITED ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, VICE LANNY A. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE INTER–AMERICAN FOUN- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT BREUER, RESIGNED. DATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 20, 2016, VICE OF TENNESSEE, VICE JON P. MCCALLA, RETIRED. JOHN P. CARLIN, OF NEW YORK, TO BE AN ASSISTANT HECTOR E. MORALES, TERM EXPIRED. GERALD AUSTIN MCHUGH, JR., OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO ATTORNEY GENERAL, VICE LISA O. MONACO, RESIGNED. MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN PETER JOSEPH KADZIK, OF NEW YORK, TO BE AN AS- DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, VICE HARVEY BARTLE, III, SISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, VICE RONALD H. WEICH, SUSAN MCCUE, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE RETIRED. RESIGNED. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION FOR A TERM OF THREE YEARS, VICE KEN- EDWARD G. SMITH, OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO BE UNITED PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT NETH FRANCIS HACKETT, TERM EXPIRED. BOARD OF PENNSYLVANIA, VICE BERLE M. SCHILLER, RETIRED. INTER–AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK CYNTHIA ANN BASHANT, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE ELISEBETH COLLINS COOK, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEM- UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE SOUTHERN BER OF THE PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT MARK E. LOPES, OF ARIZONA, TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, VICE IRMA E. GONZALEZ, RE- BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 29, 2020. (RE- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INTER–AMERICAN DEVEL- TIRED. APPOINTMENT) OPMENT BANK FOR A TERM OF THREE YEARS, VICE GUS- STANLEY ALLEN BASTIAN, OF WASHINGTON, TO BE TAVO ARNAVAT, RESIGNED. UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, VICE EDWARD F. SHEA, RE- UNITED STATES ADVISORY COMMISSION ON TIRED. MYRNA PEREZ, OF TEXAS, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY DIANE J. HUMETEWA, OF ARIZONA, TO BE UNITED ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION FOR A TERM EXPIR- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARI- ING DECEMBER 12, 2015, VICE ROSEMARY E. RODRIQUEZ, ALFREDO J. BALSERA, OF FLORIDA, TO BE A MEMBER ZONA, VICE MARY H. MURGUIA, ELEVATED. TERM EXPIRED. OF THE UNITED STATES ADVISORY COMMISSION ON PUB- JON DAVID LEVY, OF MAINE, TO BE UNITED STATES THOMAS HICKS, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE LIC DIPLOMACY FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 1, 2014, VICE DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE, VICE ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION FOR A TERM EXPIR- ELIZABETH F. BAGLEY, TERM EXPIRED. GEORGE Z. SINGAL, RETIRED. ING DECEMBER 12, 2017, VICE GRACIA M. HILLMAN, TERM ALFREDO J. BALSERA, OF FLORIDA, TO BE A MEMBER STEVEN PAUL LOGAN, OF ARIZONA, TO BE UNITED EXPIRED. OF THE UNITED STATES ADVISORY COMMISSION ON PUB- LIC DIPLOMACY FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 1, 2017. (RE- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARI- DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ZONA, VICE JAMES A. TEILBORG, RETIRED. APPOINTMENT) DOUGLAS L. RAYES, OF ARIZONA, TO BE UNITED SLOAN D. GIBSON, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARI- BE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, VICE W. ZONA, VICE FREDERICK J. MARTONE, RETIRED. SCOTT GOULD. LINDA THOMAS–GREENFIELD, AN ASSISTANT SEC- MANISH S. SHAH, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE UNITED STATES LINDA A. SCHWARTZ, OF CONNECTICUT, TO BE AN AS- RETARY OF STATE (AFRICAN AFFAIRS), TO BE A MEM- DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLI- SISTANT SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (POLICY BER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AFRICAN DE- NOIS, VICE JOAN HUMPHREY LEFKOW, RETIRED. AND PLANNING), VICE RAUL PEREA–HENZE, RESIGNED. VELOPMENT FOUNDATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE JOHN JOSEPH TUCHI, OF ARIZONA, TO BE UNITED HELEN TIERNEY, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE CHIEF FINANCIAL TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 27, 2015, VICE JOHNNIE CAR- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARI- OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. SON. CONSTANCE B. TOBIAS, OF MARYLAND, TO BE CHAIR- ZONA, VICE ROSLYN MOORE–SILVER, RETIRED. HARRY S TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION MARK G. MASTROIANNI, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE MAN OF THE BOARD OF VETERANS’ APPEALS FOR A UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF TERM OF SIX YEARS, VICE JAMES PHILIP TERRY, TERM VICKI MILES–LAGRANGE, OF OKLAHOMA, TO BE A MEM- MASSACHUSETTS, VICE MICHAEL A. PONSOR, RETIRED. EXPIRED. BER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE HARRY S TRU- INDIRA TALWANI, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE UNITED DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSA- DECEMBER 10, 2015, VICE ROGER L. HUNT, TERM EXPIRED. CHUSETTS, VICE MARK L. WOLF, RETIRED. JON M. HOLLADAY, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE CHIEF FINAN- THEODORE DAVID CHUANG, OF MARYLAND, TO BE CIAL OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, VICE NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF EVAN J. SEGAL. HUMANITIES MARYLAND, VICE ROGER W. TITUS, RETIRING. GEORGE JARROD HAZEL, OF MARYLAND, TO BE UNITED NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE SHELLY COLLEEN LOWE, OF ARIZONA, TO BE A MEM- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARY- ADMINISTRATION BER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES LAND, VICE ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, JR., RETIRED. FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 26, 2018, VICE JANE M. JAMES D. PETERSON, OF WISCONSIN, TO BE UNITED DAVID RADZANOWSKI, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, DOGGETT, TERM EXPIRED. STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT TO BE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, NATIONAL AERO- PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK, OF COLORADO, TO BE A OF WISCONSIN, VICE JOHN C. SHABAZ, RETIRED. NAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, VICE ELIZABETH MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMAN- NANCY J. ROSENSTENGEL, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE UNITED M. ROBINSON. ITIES FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 26, 2018, VICE ROB- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS ERT S. MARTIN, TERM EXPIRED. OF ILLINOIS, VICE G. PATRICK MURPHY, RETIRING. AUTHORITY LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION RONNIE L. WHITE, OF MISSOURI, TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MIS- RICHARD A. KENNEDY, OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO BE A JOSEPH PIUS PIETRZYK, OF OHIO, TO BE A MEMBER OF SOURI, VICE JEAN C. HAMILTON, RETIRED. MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE METRO- THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL SERVICES MICHAEL P. BOGGS, OF GEORGIA, TO BE UNITED POLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS AUTHORITY FOR A CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, 2014. (RE- STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT TERM EXPIRING MAY 30, 2016, VICE WILLIAM COBEY, APPOINTMENT) OF GEORGIA, VICE JULIE E. CARNES. TERM EXPIRED. MARTHA L. MINOW, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE A TANYA S. CHUTKAN, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DIS- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SERVICES CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, TRICT OF COLUMBIA, VICE AN ADDITIONAL POSITION IN 2014. (REAPPOINTMENT) JOSEPH S. HEZIR, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE CHIEF FINAN- ACCORDANCE WITH 28 U.S.C. 133 (B) (1). MARTHA L. MINOW, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE A CIAL OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, VICE STEVEN MARK HOWARD COHEN, OF GEORGIA, TO BE UNITED MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL JEFFREY ISAKOWITZ, RESIGNED. STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT SERVICES CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, OF GEORGIA, VICE CLARENCE COOPER, RETIRED. MORRIS K. UDALL AND STEWART L. UDALL 2017. (REAPPOINTMENT) M. HANNAH LAUCK, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE UNITED FOUNDATION GLORIA VALENCIA–WEBER, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE A STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL OF VIRGINIA, VICE JAMES R. SPENCER, RETIRING. CHARLES P. ROSE, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE A MEMBER OF SERVICES CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, LEIGH MARTIN MAY, OF GEORGIA, TO BE UNITED THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MORRIS K. UDALL AND 2014. (REAPPOINTMENT) STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT STEWART L. UDALL FOUNDATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING GLORIA VALENCIA–WEBER, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE A OF GEORGIA, VICE BEVERLY B. MARTIN, ELEVATED. MAY 26, 2019, VICE ROBERT BOLDREY, TERM EXPIRED. MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL

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SERVICES CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, OF THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION FOR A TERM EX- CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY 2017. (REAPPOINTMENT) PIRING JULY 13, 2014. (REAPPOINTMENT) LAURIE I. MIKVA, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE A MEMBER OF CHARLES NORMAN WILTSE KECKLER, OF VIRGINIA, TO SERVICE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL SERVICES BE A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MARK D. GEARAN, OF NEW YORK, TO BE A MEMBER OF CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, 2016. (RE- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CORPORATION FOR APPOINTMENT) JULY 13, 2016. (REAPPOINTMENT) NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR A TERM EX- VICTOR B. MADDOX, OF KENTUCKY, TO BE A MEMBER ROBERT JAMES GREY, JR., OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEM- PIRING DECEMBER 1, 2015. (REAPPOINTMENT) OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL SERVICES BER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL SERV- CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, 2016. (RE- ICES CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, 2017. f APPOINTMENT) (REAPPOINTMENT) JOHN GERSON LEVI, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE A MEMBER OF ROBERT JAMES GREY, JR., OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEM- CONFIRMATION THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL SERVICES BER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL SERV- CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, 2014. (RE- ICES CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, 2014. (REAPPOINTMENT) Executive nomination confirmed by APPOINTMENT) JOHN GERSON LEVI, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE A MEMBER OF NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE the Senate January 6, 2014: THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEGAL SERVICES HUMANITIES FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM CORPORATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 13, 2014. (RE- APPOINTMENT) THOMAS EDGAR ROTHMAN, OF MARYLAND, TO BE A JANET L. YELLEN, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE CHAIRMAN HARRY JAMES FRANKLYN KORRELL III, OF WASH- MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS FOR OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RE- INGTON, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 3, 2016. (NEW POSITION) SERVE SYSTEM FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS.

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SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS port on government support for bank 2:30 p.m. Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, holding companies. Select Committee on Intelligence agreed to by the Senate of February 4, SD–538 To hold closed hearings to examine cer- Committee on Homeland Security and tain intelligence matters. 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- Governmental Affairs SH–219 tem for a computerized schedule of all To hold hearings to examine the nomina- meetings and hearings of Senate com- tion of John Roth, of Michigan, to be JANUARY 10 mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- Inspector General, Department of 9:30 a.m. tees, and committees of conference. Homeland Security. Joint Economic Committee This title requires all such committees SD–342 To hold hearings to examine the employ- to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Committee on the Judiciary ment situation for December 2013. Digest—designated by the Rules Com- To hold hearings to examine the nomina- SD–G50 mittee—of the time, place and purpose tions of John P. Carlin, of New York, of the meetings, when scheduled and and Debo P. Adegbile, of New York, JANUARY 14 any cancellations or changes in the both to be an Assistant Attorney Gen- 2:15 p.m. meetings as they occur. eral, Department of Justice, James D. Special Committee on Aging As an additional procedure along Peterson, to be United States District To hold hearings to examine aging in with the computerization of this infor- Judge for the Western District of Wis- comfort, focusing on assessing the spe- mation, the Office of the Senate Daily consin, Nancy J. Rosenstengel, to be cial needs of America’s Holocaust sur- Digest will prepare this information for United States District Judge for the vivors. printing in the Extensions of Remarks Southern District of Illinois, and SD–562 section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Indira Talwani, to be United States 2:30 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday of each District Judge for the District of Mas- Committee on the Judiciary week. sachusetts. To hold hearings to examine the report Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Jan- SD–226 of the President’s Review Group on In- uary 7, 2014 may be found in the Daily telligence and Communications Tech- JANUARY 9 Digest of today’s record. nologies. 9:30 a.m. SD–226 MEETINGS SCHEDULED Committee on the Judiciary Business meeting to consider pending JANUARY 8 calendar business. 10 a.m. SD–226 Committee on Banking, Housing, and 10:15 a.m. Urban Affairs Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Financial Institutions To hold hearings to examine the situa- and Consumer Protection tion in South Sudan. To hold hearings to examine the Govern- SD–419 ment Accountability Office (GAO) re-

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HIGHLIGHTS See Re´sume´ of Congressional Activity. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Com- Chamber Action mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Routine Proceedings, pages S3–34 Page S30 Measures Introduced: One bill and one resolution Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the fol- were introduced, as follows: S. 1895, and S. Res. lowing nomination: By 56 yeas 26 nays (Vote No. 328. Pages S27–28 EX. 1), Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be Chair- Measures Reported: man of the Board of Governors of the Federal Re- S. 1562, to reauthorize the Older Americans Act serve System for a term of four years. of 1965, with an amendment in the nature of a sub- Pages S7–15, S34 stitute. Page S27 Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- Measures Considered: lowing nominations: Timothy G. Massad, of Connecticut, to be a Com- Unemployment Benefits Extension—Agreement: missioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Com- Senate resumed consideration of the motion to pro- mission for a term expiring April 13, 2017. ceed to consideration of S. 1845, to provide for the Timothy G. Massad, of Connecticut, to be Chair- extension of certain unemployment benefits. man of the Commodity Futures Trading Commis- Pages S5–7, S15–18 sion. A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- J. Christopher Giancarlo, of New Jersey, to be a viding for further consideration of the motion to Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading proceed to consideration of the bill at approximately Commission for the remainder of the term expiring 10 a.m., on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, and the time April 13, 2014. until 10:30 a.m. be equally divided and controlled Jessica Garfola Wright, of Pennsylvania, to be in the usual form; and that at 10:30 a.m., Senate Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readi- vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion ness. to proceed to consideration of the bill. Page S30 Jo Ann Rooney, of Massachusetts, to be Under Suh Nomination Referral—Agreement: A unani- Secretary of the Navy. mous-consent agreement was reached providing that Jamie Michael Morin, of Michigan, to be Director the nomination of Rhea Sun Suh, of Colorado, to be of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Depart- Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, sent to the ment of Defense. Senate by the President, be referred jointly to the William A. LaPlante, Jr., of Maryland, to be an Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. Frank G. Klotz, the Committee on Environment and Public Works. of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Nuclear Secu- Page S30 rity. Kumar Nomination Referral—Agreement: A Madelyn R. Creedon, of Indiana, to be Principal unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security that the nomination of Arun Madhavan Kumar, of Administration. California, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce Brad R. Carson, of Oklahoma, to be Under Sec- and Director General of the United States and For- retary of the Army. eign Commercial Service, sent to the Senate by the Arun Madhavan Kumar, of California, to be As- President, be referred jointly to the Committee on sistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General D4

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of the United States and Foreign Commercial Serv- Marc A. Kastner, of Massachusetts, to be Director ice. of the Office of Science, Department of Energy. Katherine M. O’Regan, of New York, to be an Jonathan Elkind, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop- Secretary of Energy (International Affairs). ment. Steven Croley, of Michigan, to be General Counsel Wanda Felton, of New York, to be First Vice of the Department of Energy. President of the Export-Import Bank of the United Michael L. Connor, of New Mexico, to be Deputy States for a term expiring January 20, 2017. Secretary of the Interior. Leslie E. Bains, of New York, to be a Director of Tommy Port Beaudreau, of Alaska, to be an As- the Securities Investor Protection Corporation for a sistant Secretary of the Interior. term expiring December 31, 2015. Roy K. J. Williams, of Ohio, to be Assistant Sec- Kelly R. Welsh, of Illinois, to be General Counsel retary of Commerce for Economic Development. of the Department of Commerce. Victoria Marie Baecher Wassmer, of Illinois, to be Kathryn B. Thomson, of Virginia, to be General Chief Financial Officer, Environmental Protection Counsel of the Department of Transportation. Agency. Kathryn D. Sullivan, of Ohio, to be Under Sec- Richard J. Engler, of New Jersey, to be a Member retary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Robert Michael Simon, of Maryland, to be an As- Board for a term of five years. sociate Director of the Office of Science and Tech- Thomas A. Burke, of Maryland, to be an Assistant nology Policy. Administrator of the Environmental Protection Debra L. Miller, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Agency. Surface Transportation Board for a term expiring De- Kenneth J. Kopocis, of Virginia, to be an Assist- cember 31, 2017. ant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Terrell McSweeny, of the District of Columbia, to Agency. be a Federal Trade Commissioner for the unexpired term of seven years from September 26, 2010. Richard G. Frank, of Massachusetts, to be an As- sistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. Joseph P. Mohorovic, of Illinois, to be a Commis- sioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission Tamara Wenda Ashford, of Virginia, to be a for a term of seven years from October 27, 2012. Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of Paul Nathan Jaenichen, Sr., of Kentucky, to be fifteen years. Administrator of the Maritime Administration. Karen Dynan, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Jo Emily Handelsman, of Connecticut, to be an Secretary of the Treasury. Associate Director of the Office of Science and Tech- R. Gil Kerlikowske, of the District of Columbia, nology Policy. to be Commissioner of Customs, Department of David J. Arroyo, of New York, to be a Member Homeland Security. of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Pub- L. Paige Marvel, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the lic Broadcasting for a term expiring January 31, United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years. 2016. Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, to be Deputy Rhea Sun Suh, of Colorado, to be Assistant Sec- Secretary of the Treasury. retary for Fish and Wildlife. Rhonda K. Schmidtlein, of Missouri, to be a Ellen Dudley Williams, of Maryland, to be Direc- Member of the United States International Trade tor of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-En- Commission for a term expiring December 16, 2021. ergy, Department of Energy. Stefan M. Selig, of New York, to be Under Sec- Christopher Smith, of Texas, to be an Assistant retary of Commerce for International Trade. Secretary of Energy (Fossil Energy). Michael G. Carroll, of New York, to be Inspector Janice Marion Schneider, of New York, to be an General, United States Agency for International De- Assistant Secretary of the Interior. velopment. Elizabeth M. Robinson, of Washington, to be Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be United States Under Secretary of Energy. Alternate Governor of the International Monetary Franklin M. Orr, Jr., of California, to be Under Fund for a term of five years. Secretary for Science, Department of Energy. Richard Stengel, of New York, to be Under Sec- Neil Gregory Kornze, of Nevada, to be Director retary of State for Public Diplomacy. of the Bureau of Land Management. Sarah Sewall, of Massachusetts, to be an Under Esther Puakela Kia’aina, of Hawaii, to be an As- Secretary of State (Civilian Security, Democracy, and sistant Secretary of the Interior. Human Rights).

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Vincent G. Logan, of New York, to be Special Vince Girdhari Chhabria, of California, to be Trustee, Office of Special Trustee for American Indi- United States District Judge for the Northern Dis- ans, Department of the Interior. trict of California. Daniel Bennett Smith, of Virginia, to be an As- Matthew Frederick Leitman, of Michigan, to be sistant Secretary of State (Intelligence and Research). United States District Judge for the Eastern District Caroline Diane Krass, of the District of Columbia, of Michigan. to be General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Judith Ellen Levy, of Michigan, to be United Agency. States District Judge for the Eastern District of Jill A. Pryor, of Georgia, to be United States Cir- Michigan. cuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Laurie J. Michelson, of Michigan, to be United Carolyn B. McHugh, of Utah, to be United States States District Judge for the Eastern District of Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit. Michigan. James Maxwell Moody, Jr., of Arkansas, to be Michelle T. Friedland, of California, to be United United States District Judge for the Eastern District States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. of Arkansas. Nancy L. Moritz, of Kansas, to be United States Linda Vivienne Parker, of Michigan, to be United Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit. States District Judge for the Eastern District of John B. Owens, of California, to be United States Michigan. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. Christopher Reid Cooper, of the District of Co- David Jeremiah Barron, of Massachusetts, to be lumbia, to be United States District Judge for the United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit. District of Columbia. Robin S. Rosenbaum, of Florida, to be United Daniel D. Crabtree, of Kansas, to be United States States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. District Judge for the District of Kansas. Julie E. Carnes, of Georgia, to be United States M. Douglas Harpool, of Missouri, to be United Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. States District Judge for the Western District of Gregg Jeffrey Costa, of Texas, to be United States Missouri. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit. Sheryl H. Lipman, of Tennessee, to be United Rosemary Marquez, of Arizona, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of States District Judge for the District of Arizona. Tennessee. Pamela L. Reeves, of Tennessee, to be United Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to States District Judge for the Eastern District of Ten- be United States District Judge for the Eastern Dis- nessee. trict of Pennsylvania. Timothy L. Brooks, of Arkansas, to be United Edward G. Smith, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Ar- States District Judge for the Eastern District of kansas. Pennsylvania. Jeffrey Alker Meyer, of Connecticut, to be United Cynthia Ann Bashant, of California, to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut. States District Judge for the Southern District of James Donato, of California, to be United States California. District Judge for the Northern District of Cali- Stanley Allen Bastian, of Washington, to be fornia. United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington. Beth Labson Freeman, of California, to be United Diane J. Humetewa, of Arizona, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of States District Judge for the District of Arizona. California. Jon David Levy, of Maine, to be United States Jennifer Prescod May-Parker, of North Carolina, District Judge for the District of Maine. to be United States District Judge for the Eastern Steven Paul Logan, of Arizona, to be United District of North Carolina. States District Judge for the District of Arizona. Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez, of Puerto Rico, to Douglas L. Rayes, of Arizona, to be United States be United States District Judge for the District of District Judge for the District of Arizona. Puerto Rico. Manish S. Shah, of Illinois, to be United States Bruce Howe Hendricks, of South Carolina, to be District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. United States District Judge for the District of John Joseph Tuchi, of Arizona, to be United South Carolina. States District Judge for the District of Arizona. Alison Renee Lee, of South Carolina, to be United Mark G. Mastroianni, of Massachusetts, to be States District Judge for the District of South Caro- United States District Judge for the District of Mas- lina. sachusetts.

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VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:20 Jan 07, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D06JA4.REC D06JAPT1 tjames on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST January 6, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D11 of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on page S30.) Committee Meetings (Committees not listed did not meet) No committee meetings were held. h House of Representatives the use of lead pipes, fittings, fixtures, solder, and Chamber Action flux. Signed on December 20, 2013. (Public Law The House was not in session today. The House 113–64) is scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January S. 1471, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Af- 7, 2014. fairs and the Secretary of the Army to reconsider de- cisions to inter or honor the memory of a person in Committee Meetings a national cemetery. Signed on December 20, 2013. No hearings were held. (Public Law 113–65) Joint Meetings f No joint committee meetings were held. COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 f (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) NEW PUBLIC LAWS Senate (For last listing of Public Laws, see DAILY DIGEST, p. D1177) Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Con- H.R. 185, to designate the United States court- stitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, to hold hear- house located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, ings to examine the Syrian refugee crisis, 2:30 p.m., Texas, as the ‘‘Paul Brown United States Court- SH–216. house’’. Signed on December 20, 2013. (Public Law Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 113–58) examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH–219. H.R. 1402, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring provisions of law. House Signed on December 20, 2013. (Public Law 113–59) Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on H.R. 2251, to designate the United States court- Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs, house and Federal building located at 118 South hearing entitled ‘‘The United States Government Mill Street, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, as the ‘‘Ed- Accountability Office September 2013 Report— ward J. Devitt United States Courthouse and Federal Compact of Free Association Micronesia and the Building’’. Signed on December 20, 2013. (Public Marshall Islands Continue to Face Challenges Law 113–60) Measuring Progress and Ensuring Accountability, 3 H.R. 2871, to amend title 28, United States p.m., 1324 Longworth. Code, to modify the composition of the southern ju- f dicial district of Mississippi to improve judicial effi- ciency. Signed on December 20, 2013. (Public Law CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD 113–61) Week of January 7 through January 10, 2014 H.R. 2922, to extend the authority of the Su- preme Court Police to protect court officials away Senate Chamber from the Supreme Court grounds. Signed on Decem- On Tuesday, at 10 a.m., Senate will continue con- ber 20, 2013. (Public Law 113–62) sideration of the motion to proceed to consideration H.R. 3458, to treat payments by charitable orga- of S. 1845, Unemployment Benefits Extension, and nizations with respect to certain firefighters as ex- vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion empt payments. Signed on December 20, 2013. to proceed to consideration of the bill at approxi- (Public Law 113–63) mately 10:30 a.m. H.R. 3588, to amend the Safe Drinking Water During the balance of the week, Senate may con- Act to exempt fire hydrants from the prohibition on sider any cleared legislative and executive business.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:20 Jan 07, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D06JA4.REC D06JAPT1 tjames on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST D12 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST January 6, 2014 Senate Committees Under a Permanent SGR Repeal Landscape?’’, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn. (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) Committee on Financial Services, January 9, Subcommittee Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Janu- on Monetary Policy and Trade, hearing entitled ‘‘Inter- ary 8, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Con- national Impacts of the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative sumer Protection, to hold hearings to examine the Gov- Easing Program’’, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn. ernment Accountability Office (GAO) report on govern- Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 9, Subcommittee ment support for bank holding companies, 10 a.m., on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and SD–538. International Organizations, hearing entitled ‘‘Will there Committee on Foreign Relations: January 9, to hold hear- be an African Economic Community?’’, 2 p.m., 2172 ings to examine the situation in South Sudan, 10:15 a.m., Rayburn. SD–419. Committee on the Judiciary, January 9, Subcommittee on Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: the Constitution and Civil Justice, hearing on H.R. 7, January 8, to hold hearings to examine the nomination the ‘‘No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act’’, 10 a.m., of John Roth, of Michigan, to be Inspector General, De- 2141 Rayburn. partment of Homeland Security, 10 a.m., SD–342. Committee on Natural Resources, January 9, Full Com- Committee on the Judiciary: January 7, Subcommittee on mittee, hearing entitled ‘‘Obama Administration’s War the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, to on Coal: The Recent Report by the Office of the Inspec- hold hearings to examine the Syrian refugee crisis, 2:30 tor General’’, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth. p.m., SH–216. January 10, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Re- January 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to exam- sources, hearing entitled ‘‘The Science behind Discovery: ine the nominations of John P. Carlin, of New York, and Seismic Exploration and the Future of the Atlantic OCS’’, Debo P. Adegbile, of New York, both to be an Assistant 9:30 a.m., 1324 Longworth. Attorney General, Department of Justice, James D. Peter- Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, January 9, son, to be United States District Judge for the Western Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘Waste in Government: District of Wisconsin, Nancy J. Rosenstengel, to be What’s Being Done?’’, 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn. United States District Judge for the Southern District of Committee on Rules, January 8, Full Committee, hearing Illinois, and Indira Talwani, to be United States District on H.R. 2279, the ‘‘Reducing Excessive Deadline Obliga- Judge for the District of Massachusetts, 10 a.m., SD–226. tions Act of 2013’’; H.R. 3362, the ‘‘Exchange Informa- January 9, Full Committee, business meeting to con- tion Disclosure Act’’; and legislation regarding the sider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD–226. ‘‘Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act of Select Committee on Intelligence: January 7, to hold closed 2014’’, 3 p.m., H–313 Capitol. hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, January 9, p.m., SH–219. Subcommittee on Research and Technology, hearing enti- January 9, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to tled ‘‘Private Sector Programs that Engage Students in examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH–219. STEM’’, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn. House Committees Joint Meetings Committee on Energy and Commerce, January 9, Sub- Joint Economic Committee: January 10, to hold hearings committee on Health, hearing entitled ‘‘The Extenders to examine the employment situation for December 2013, Policies: What Are They and How Should They Continue 9:30 a.m., SD–G50.

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Re´sume´ of Congressional Activity

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

DATA ON LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY DISPOSITION OF EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS January 3, 2013 through January 3, 2014 January 3, 2013 through January 3, 2014 Senate House Total Civilian nominations, totaling 489, disposed of as follows: Days in session ...... 156 160 . . Confirmed ...... 229 ′ ′ Time in session ...... 1,095 hrs., 12 768 hrs., 24 .. Unconfirmed ...... 2 Congressional Record: Withdrawn ...... 9 Pages of proceedings ...... 9,124 8,136 . . Returned to White House ...... 249 Extensions of Remarks ...... 1,911 . . Public bills enacted into law ...... 16 49 65 Other Civilian nominations, totaling 1,737, disposed of as follows: Private bills enacted into law ...... Bills in conference ...... 3 3 . . Confirmed ...... 276 Measures passed, total ...... 356 366 722 Returned to White House ...... 1,461 Senate bills ...... 57 17 . . House bills ...... 57 206 . . Air Force nominations, totaling 5,479, disposed of as follows: Senate joint resolutions ...... Confirmed ...... 5,471 House joint resolutions ...... 2 16 . . Withdrawn ...... 1 Senate concurrent resolutions ...... 16 15 . . Returned to White House ...... 7 House concurrent resolutions ...... 14 16 . . Simple resolutions ...... 210 96 . . Army nominations, totaling 6,726, disposed of as follows: Measures reported, total ...... 221 290 511 Senate bills ...... 146 4 . . Confirmed ...... 6,712 House bills ...... 10 223 . . Returned to White House ...... 14 Senate joint resolutions ...... 2 . . . . House joint resolutions ...... Navy nominations, totaling 3,881, disposed of as follows: Senate concurrent resolutions ...... 1 . . . . Confirmed ...... 3,879 House concurrent resolutions ...... 4 . . Withdrawn ...... 1 Simple resolutions ...... 62 59 . . Returned to White House ...... 1 Special reports ...... 14 22 . . Conference reports ...... Marine Corps nominations, totaling 762, disposed of as follows: Measures pending on calendar ...... 204 82 . . Measures introduced, total ...... 2,280 4,433 6,713 Confirmed ...... 761 Bills ...... 1,894 3,809 .. Returned to White House ...... 1 Joint resolutions ...... 29 104 . . Concurrent resolutions ...... 30 72 . . Summary Simple resolutions ...... 327 448 . . Quorum calls ...... 13 1 . . Total nominations carried over from the First Session ...... 0 Yea-and-nay votes ...... 291 299 . . Total nominations received this Session ...... 19,074 Recorded votes ...... 341 . . Total confirmed ...... 17,328 Bills vetoed ...... Total unconfirmed ...... 2 Vetoes overridden ...... Total withdrawn ...... 11 Total returned to the White House ...... 1,733

These figures include all measures reported, even if there was no accom- panying report. A total of 131 written reports have been filed in the Senate, 319 reports have been filed in the House.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Tuesday, January 7 2 p.m., Tuesday, January 7

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Tuesday: Senate will continue consider- Program for Tuesday: The House is scheduled to meet ation of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January 7, 2014. 1845, Unemployment Benefits Extension, and vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at approximately 10:30 a.m. (Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for their respective party conferences.)

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