E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 112 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

Vol. 158 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012 No. 81 Senate The Senate was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Monday, June 4, 2012, at 2 p.m. House of Representatives FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012

The House met at 9 a.m. and was PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE I understand that times are tough and people called to order by the Speaker. are looking everywhere, but this is just not The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman right. My grandfather was known as a gentle from Connecticut (Mr. COURTNEY) come f giant, but if he were alive today, I think he forward and lead the House in the would oppose this with force. Pledge of Allegiance. PRAYER Mr. Speaker, Bob Stafford knew that Mr. COURTNEY led the Pledge of Al- a higher education was the clearest The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick legiance as follows: path to the middle class in this coun- J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the try—and he was a good Republican. We Eternal God, we give You thanks for United States of America, and to the Repub- should not let the interest rates dou- giving us another day. lic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ble. There is no justification for having We pause now in Your presence, and these interest rates go from 3.4 to 6.8 f acknowledge our dependence on You. percent. We have 30 days to act. We ask Your blessing upon the men ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER and women of this, the people’s House. f The SPEAKER. The Chair will enter- Keep them aware of Your presence as THE FOREST PRODUCTS FAIRNESS tain up to five 1-minute requests on they face the tasks of this day, that no ACT OF 2012 each side of the aisle. burden be too heavy, no duty too dif- (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania f ficult, and no work too wearisome. asked and was given permission to ad- Help them, and indeed, help us all, to STUDENT LOAN DEBT dress the House for 1 minute and to re- obey Your law, to do Your will, and to (Mr. WELCH asked and was given vise and extend his remarks.) walk in Your way. Grant that they permission to address the House for 1 Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. might be good in thought, gracious in minute and to revise and extend his re- Mr. Speaker, the USDA Biobased Mar- word, generous in deed, and great in marks.) kets program was created to provide spirit. Mr. WELCH. Mr. Speaker, the other new markets for farm commodities and Make this a glorious day in which all day, I received a letter from a con- to encourage consumers to purchase are glad to be alive, eager to work, and stituent, Lana Kunkel. Like many environmentally friendly biobased ready to serve You, our great Nation, Vermonters, she is concerned about the products. Unfortunately, under the and all our fellow brothers and sisters. doubling of Stafford student loan inter- current law, most forest products are May all that is done this day be done est rates scheduled for July 1. excluded from both the Federal pro- for Your greater honor and glory. This is very personal for her. She curement preference and the market Amen. used the Stafford loan to get a good label of the USDA Biobased Markets education and start a career as a nurse. program. For instance, bamboo ply- f She is now a contributing member of wood is already eligible for the BioPre- the community. She is also the grand- ferred label and is used as a ‘‘green’’ al- THE JOURNAL daughter of former U.S. Vermont Rep- ternative for hardwood flooring or lum- The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam- resentative and Senator Bob Stafford, ber. ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- for whom the Stafford student loan The Forest Products Fairness Act of ceedings and announces to the House program is named. Here is what she 2012 modifies the definition of his approval thereof. had to say about her grandfather: ‘‘biobased product’’ to clarify that for- Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- I know my grandfather’s intention for est products should be included in the nal stands approved. these loans was accessibility and not profit. Biobased Markets program if they

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It is time to show leadership SUZANNE MCDANIEL: A HERO TO place. in both Houses, to show leadership in VICTIMS Including U.S.-made forest products the Presidency, and to pass this bill. as part of the USDA’s BioPreferred Our brave men and women who have (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was program is a win-win for consumers served so bravely and sacrificed so given permission to address the House and producers. It will promote healthy, much deserve jobs when they get home, for 1 minute.) well-managed forests and the protec- high-paying jobs that will allow them Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, tion of communities that rely on these to get back into our society. today I rise to celebrate the life of a jobs and industries to survive. friend and someone who changed the f lives of victims throughout the Nation. f b 0910 Suzanne McDaniel appeared in my EXPIRATION OF INTEREST RATE court years ago as one of the first pros- PASS THE DISCLOSE ACT FOR STAFFORD STUDENT LOAN ecutor-based victim assistance direc- PROGRAM (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given tors in the State of Texas. She went on (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was permission to address the House for 1 to start the Texas Crime Victims given permission to address the House minute.) Clearinghouse, the first of its kind any- for 1 minute.) Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, Ameri- where in the United States. Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, in 29 cans are growing more and more cyn- In recognition of her incredible work, days, the interest rate for the Stafford ical of politics and politicians with she was tapped as the State’s crime student loan program is going to in- good reason. Citizens United opened victim information officer, educating crease from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. the floodgates to unrestricted special- and influencing the community and the This will add thousands of dollars of interest campaign spending in elec- State legislature with her vast knowl- additional debt costs for middle class tions, and we need to put an end to the edge of victims’ issues. This led to her students all across America. influence of secret money in our elec- role as a legislative liaison for the Yesterday, The Christian Science tions. State coalition of victim organizations Monitor reported that Speaker BOEH- I advocate the DISCLOSE Act. It and her leadership on the board of the NER called this issue a phony issue and would shine the light on secret money National Organization of Victim As- a distraction from the real issues. in political campaigns. The DISCLOSE sistance. There is nothing phony about adding Act requires public reporting by super- Suzanne’s accomplishments are far thousands of dollars of added debt to PACs, corporations, unions, and out- reaching, touching lives in Texas and middle class students. There is nothing side groups within 24 hours of making a throughout our Nation. A crime victim phony about the Federal Reserve Board campaign expenditure or transferring wrote: report that came out yesterday that funds of $10,000 or more to other groups Suzanne feels everyone is important and showed that student loan debt in- for campaign-related activities. needed in the fight to improve assistance for creased by $30 billion in the first quar- Mr. Speaker, I tell you, when I’m on crime victims. I have never heard her say, It’s not my job. In fact, she has never been ter of this year, surpassing credit card the trail and I talk to my constituents, everyone is outraged by the millions, shy about poking her nose into things and of- debt. The only thing, frankly, that is a fering assistance. Her enthusiasm and dedi- pretense around here is the work and possibly billions, of dollars that cation is boundless. are going to be spent on the Presi- schedule: in this week, only 1 full day, Mr. Speaker, her work will continue dential, congressional, and Senate 2 part-time days, and 40 days for the to touch crime victims for many years campaigns. It makes sense to have next 5 months. to come, and victims are safer in Amer- some transparency. We should pass the It is time for us to get to work in this ica because of Suzanne McDaniel and DISCLOSE Act so that at least those Chamber and to fix problems like the her life. who make these contributions have to Stafford student loan interest rate. And that’s just the way it is. say who they are. It’s only fair. f f f VETERANS SKILLS TO JOBS ACT REPORT ON H.R. 5882, LEGISLA- (Mr. DENHAM asked and was given FIGHT AGAINST OBAMACARE TIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS permission to address the House for 1 (Mrs. BLACK asked and was given ACT, 2013 minute and to revise and extend his re- permission to address the House for 1 Mr. CRENSHAW, from the Com- marks.) minute and to revise and extend her re- mittee on Appropriations, submitted a Mr. DENHAM. Members, the recent marks.) privileged report (Rept. No. 112–511) on Memorial Day weekend and now the Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Speaker, as one of the bill (H.R. 5882) making appropria- ever-escalating high unemployment the most outspoken opponents of tions for the Legislative Branch for the numbers remind us of how many vet- ObamaCare, I hope in the upcoming fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, erans are out of work and of how many week that the Supreme Court strikes and for other purposes, which was re- who will be returning home to no jobs. down this disastrous piece of legisla- ferred to the Union Calendar and or- For the last year, I’ve worked on the tion. But the fact is, no matter what dered to be printed. Veterans Skills to Jobs Act. When I the Supreme Court decides about The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. left the active duty military, I realized ObamaCare, it does not change the re- DENHAM). Pursuant to clause 1, rule that it would take me several years to ality that this law is horrible policy. XXI, all points of order are reserved on get the credentialing on the civilian That is why I voted more than two the bill. side that I already had on the military dozen times to either defund or repeal f side. ObamaCare since being elected to Con- We have the best, most sophisticated, gress. ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOP- trained workforce in the military. As Yesterday, in the House Ways and MENT AND RELATED AGENCIES they return home, we need to make Means markup, we successfully passed APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2013 sure that not only do they have jobs out of committee two bills that would GENERAL LEAVE but that they have high-paying skilled repeal the ObamaCare tax hikes: one, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, jobs. By credentialing them through the medical tax device; and, number I ask unanimous consent that all Mem- the Department of Defense before they two, the medicine-cabinet tax. bers may have 5 legislative days in

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For expenses necessary for the construc- of Energy. Rightfully so. They are tion of river and harbor, flood and storm eliminating programs that are unnec- There was no objection. damage reduction, shore protection, aquatic The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- ecosystem restoration, and related projects essary, and yet their salaries still con- ant to House Resolution 667 and rule authorized by law; for conducting detailed tinue to go up. XVIII, the Chair declares the House in studies, and plans and specifications, of such b 0920 the Committee of the Whole House on projects (including those involving participa- You know, we ask people to do more the state of the Union for the further tion by States, local governments, or private with less. In this case, they’re doing consideration of the bill, H.R. 5325. groups) authorized or made eligible for selec- less with more, and so we’re moving Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. tion by law (but such detailed studies, and plans and specifications, shall not constitute money out of a salaries account for POE) kindly take the chair. a commitment of the Government to con- people that are doing less work and b 0916 struction); $1,477,284,000, to remain available moving it into actually doing coastal until expended; of which such sums as are IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE projects, actually doing work that im- necessary to cover the Federal share of con- Accordingly, the House resolved proves our coasts and strengthens the struction costs for facilities under the area, protects the vital infrastructure itself into the Committee of the Whole Dredged Material Disposal Facilities pro- House on the state of the Union for the gram shall be derived from the Harbor Main- for the oil and gas industry that feeds further consideration of the bill (H.R. tenance Trust Fund as authorized by Public this Nation’s energy needs and the sea- 5325) making appropriations for energy Law 104–303; and of which such sums as are food that feeds this Nation’s great and water development and related necessary to cover one-half of the costs of taste for great things like shrimp and agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- construction, replacement, rehabilitation, oysters and crabs. and expansion of inland waterways projects tember 30, 2013, and for other purposes, This is a bipartisan amendment, and shall be derived from the Inland Waterways I want to thank the gentleman from with Mr. POE of Texas (Acting Chair) in Trust Fund: Provided, That the limitation Louisiana (Mr. RICHMOND) for helping the chair. concerning total project costs in section 902 us with this amendment. The Clerk read the title of the bill. of the Water Resources Development Act of I yield to the gentleman from Lou- The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- 1986, as amended (33 U.S.C. 2280), shall not isiana (Mr. RICHMOND). mittee of the Whole rose on Thursday, apply during fiscal year 2013 to any project that receives funds provided in this title. Mr. RICHMOND. Thank you to my May 31, 2012, all time for general de- colleague from Louisiana. We have the AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. SCALISE bate had expired. great honor and awesome responsi- Pursuant to the rule, the bill shall be Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Chairman, I have bility of representing the coast of Lou- considered for amendment under the 5- an amendment at the desk. isiana. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- minute rule. Mr. Chairman, the coast of Lou- port the amendment. During consideration of the bill for isiana, since 1950, has sent to the The Clerk read as follows: amendment, the Chair may accord pri- American Treasury almost $150 billion. ority in recognition to a Member offer- Page 3, line 16, after the dollar amount, in- Up until 2006, we didn’t receive any ing an amendment who has caused it to sert ‘‘(increased by $10,000,000)’’. revenues back from the Federal Gov- be printed in the designated place in Page 28, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by $10,000,000)’’. ernment for drilling off of our Outer the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Those Continental Shelf. amendments will be considered read. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman What we do today is ask for the abil- The Clerk will read. from Louisiana is recognized for 5 min- ity to help ourselves, protect our citi- The Clerk read as follows: utes. zens, and make this country safer. At H.R. 5325 Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Chairman, I appre- the end of the day, I’d like to remind Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- ciate the opportunity to present this the Chair that our State has over 40 resentatives of the United States of America in amendment. percent of the Nation’s wetland losses. Congress assembled, That the following sums What we’re doing is we’re transfer- We have 80 percent of wetland loss, we are appropriated, out of any money in the ring $10 million from the Department Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for en- only have 40 percent of the Nation’s of Energy salary and expenses account wetlands. ergy and water development and related over the Corps of Engineers’ construc- agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- If you look at what we give back to tember 30, 2013, and for other purposes, tion account. The reason this is crit- this country, I think that you will see namely: ical is because it allows us to move for- that a $10 million investment would be TITLE I—CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL ward on infrastructure improvements, a very good investment into our coun- including in Louisiana something that DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY try, into our State, if you look at the we’ve been trying to do to restore our CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL cost-benefit analysis. coast and get moving on the Louisiana Our wetlands produce a third of the The following appropriations shall be ex- coastal area, which is one of many Nation’s seafood supply and much of pended under the direction of the Secretary projects in the Corps’ budget that is of the Army and the supervision of the Chief our domestic energy. Our coast is the of Engineers for authorized civil functions of backlogged and not funded, and yet is home to the port, the country’s largest the Department of the Army pertaining to critical for improving infrastructure, port system. These ports move the river and harbor, flood and storm damage re- for creating jobs, and for doing things overwhelming majority of our imports duction, shore protection, aquatic ecosystem to protect our wetlands. and exports in this country. restoration, and related efforts. Mr. Chairman, I bring this football It’s not just about the oil and gas INVESTIGATIONS because in Louisiana we lose one foot- production, it’s not just about Louisi- For expenses necessary where authorized ball field of land every hour along the ana’s importance in terms of our en- by law for the collection and study of basic gulf coast in Louisiana due to coastal ergy production for this country, but it information pertaining to river and harbor, erosion. We have a plan that we put also makes the residents of Louisiana flood and storm damage reduction, shore forth. Governor Bobby Jindal and his safer. That coastal land and those bar- protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, team have a solid plan in place that rier islands produce the first defense and related needs; for surveys and detailed they’ve moved forward on. Mr. Chair, studies, and plans and specifications of pro- against hurricanes. We also saw during posed river and harbor, flood and storm dam- this is an authorized program. We’re Hurricane Katrina, the devastation age reduction, shore protection, and aquatic just trying to make sure that this pro- that could be caused. ecosystem restoration, projects and related gram can move forward like so many We’re just asking this body to ap- efforts prior to construction; for restudy of others across the country that would prove this amendment, which will help

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Mr. Chairman, today the Washington. Especially when we’re ac- the last time our two teams played on 2012 Atlantic hurricane season offi- tually reducing the workload that they the field. cially begins, and so I come to the floor have to do, let’s actually shift that Having said that, however, both he to speak for increased resources to pre- money over to an area where we can and my colleague on the Democratic vent flood damage, as they have dev- actually increase jobs, protect our Na- side, I join with the chairman in reluc- astated our communities in New Jersey tion, protect our energy and infrastruc- tant opposition to the amendment. The and around the eastern United States. ture that benefits the entire country. chairman has opted for a policy of no In H.R. 5325, Chairman FRELING- With that, I would urge passage of new starts, a policy that I strongly HUYSEN and the committee have pro- this amendment. support and have opted for during vided for the U.S. Corps of Engineers I yield back the balance of my time. these times of budgetary constraints. $1.5 billion for planning, training, and Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- I would point out that while there is other measures to ensure the readiness man, I rise in opposition to the amend- only $10 million in the amendment be- of the Corps to respond to floods, hurri- ment. fore the House today, the fact is this canes, and other natural disasters. I The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman project will cost several billion dollars thank the chairman and the committee from New Jersey is recognized for 5 by the time we are done, and starting for that work. minutes. it now is a cost that we cannot afford This amount is $216.7 million below Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I do appre- to adequately fund because we do not the amount that the Corps received for ciate the passion of both of these gen- have the resources in the bill. flood preparation in 2012. My amend- tlemen for coastal restoration. I know Over the last several years, we have, ment would provide an additional $2 it’s a high priority for his district and in fact, terminated hundreds of ongo- million so the Corps can continue crit- his State. Of course, the focus is Lou- ing projects, to our great dismay and ical lifesaving flood preparation work. isiana, and they have suffered greatly. to the weakening of the infrastructure Although this won’t close the funding The bill before us includes $10 million of our economy in this country. But gap, my amendment would dem- to continue studies, engineering, and until we as an institution, the Con- onstrate the commitment of Congress design work on various components of gress, have the intestinal fortitude to to addressing proactively the variety of their program in Louisiana. That is adequately fund our infrastructure in problems that can result from severe more than 9 percent of the entire inves- these types of very necessary invest- weather events and flooding. tigations account dedicated to con- ment—that is not the argument before Last August and September, many tinuing work on coastal restoration in us—I cannot support adding to the in- central New Jersey residents experi- Louisiana. ventory of projects that we must start enced flood damage due to Hurricane The committee has had to make but cannot. Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Evacu- some tough choices in this bill, though. If the allocation for the bill were dif- ations and property damage can be a While overall funding for the Corps of ferent, I might be able to support the heavy burden to bear for many of our Engineers has increased slightly above gentleman’s amendment. Again, as it constituents. In recent years, there the President’s request, unfortunately, now stands, we are short of cash. The have been deaths in New Jersey from it is reduced by 4 percent from fiscal fact is the amount in the bill today— such flooding. year 2012. The construction account, and the chairman and I and every I was traveling through my district specifically, is also slightly above the member of the subcommittee fought to during and after last year’s hurricane President’s budget request, but that is add $82 million to the President’s re- and saw firsthand the flooding damage still a reduction of almost 13 percent quest. We are $631 million today, in in the Delaware and Raritan River Ba- from fiscal year 2012. this bill, below what we were spending sins and elsewhere. When Hurricane The Corps has numerous projects al- as a Nation on these projects 2 years Irene hit New Jersey last year, it cast ready under construction that were not ago. We don’t have the money, unfortu- more than 10,000 people from their included in the President’s budget and nately, to fund the gentleman’s amend- homes and left more than 190,000 util- so are unlikely to be funded in fiscal ment, and therefore, again, I express ity customers without power; 11 inland year 2013. While construction funding my sincere appreciation for what he rivers and their tributaries crested, is trending downward, I believe it is wants to do but my reluctant opposi- with some at record levels. most prudent to prioritize funding for tion to his amendment. The best time to address flooding is ongoing projects so they can be com- I yield back the balance of my time. before the severe weather occurs. Un- pleted, actually completed, and the The Acting CHAIR. The question is fortunately, it seems that severe Federal Government can realize the on the amendment offered by the gen- weather events like floods and public safety, economic and other ben- tleman from Louisiana (Mr. SCALISE). droughts will become only more com- efits from previous spending rather The question was taken; and the Act- mon as the Earth’s temperature con- than starting new projects. ing Chair announced that the noes ap- tinues to rise. There are a number of Given this particular project as cur- peared to have it. critical infrastructure and public rently authorized approaches $2 million Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Chairman, I de- works projects throughout central New and likely will continue to grow in mand a recorded vote. Jersey that the Corps is at work on, costs, it would not be prudent to begin The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to that the Corps is aware of, that the another new major new project while clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Corps is planning to deal with, and we have so many existing commit- ceedings on the amendment offered by they must continue in order to prepare ments. the gentleman from Louisiana will be for these severe weather events. For these reasons, I must oppose the postponed. Again, I appreciate the foresight and amendment and urge my colleagues to AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. HOLT the wisdom of Chairman FRELING- vote ‘‘no.’’ Mr. HOLT. Mr. Chairman, I have an HUYSEN. This amendment would pro- I yield back the balance of my time. amendment at the desk. vide additional funds and incentives to Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- the Corps to continue with these im- move to strike the last word. port the amendment. portant projects. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman The Clerk read as follows: I urge my colleagues to support this from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- Page 3, line 16, after the dollar amount, in- amendment, and I yield back the bal- utes. sert ‘‘(increased by $2,000,000)’’. ance of my time.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:38 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.007 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3369 Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- Mr. Chairman. My purpose is to make I would advise, respectfully, the gen- man, I move to strike the last word. the statement that we have watched in tleman and any other colleagues think- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman that Missouri River system, the Pick- ing of offering similar amendments— from New Jersey is recognized for 5 Sloan system that has six dams up- and we understand why people do; be- minutes. stream and the longest channel in the cause they have a passion—that under Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- United States going downstream, and the earmark ban, the final bill will not man, I understand the gentleman, my we suffered a flood last summer, the include funding towards specific colleague from New Jersey, is trying to 2011 flood of epic proportions. projects in an amount above the Presi- show support for the Army Corps of En- The system had been designed and dent’s budget request. gineers’ construction program. He’s completed in 1968 based upon the larg- Instead of listing specific projects, been a longtime advocate for projects est runoff ever, which was 1881. Now our bill includes additional funding for important to his district, and I com- it’s 2011. Now the Corps of Engineers categories of ongoing projects, pri- mend him for that. declares that last year’s flood was a marily navigation and flood control. And I agree with him in his desire to 500-year event. USGS says it’s between Final project-specific allocations will invest more in water resources infra- a 70- and a 1,000-year event. The Corps be made by the administration fol- structure. There have been numerous picked the 500-year event, which de- lowing the enactment of our bill. flood control needs, for instance, across fines it as an anomaly for them, and With that clarification in mind, I’m the entire country, including our home they refuse to manage the river in a pleased to support the gentleman’s State of New Jersey. Experience has fashion that protects us from serious amendment, and I yield back the bal- shown us that it’s cheaper to try to downstream flooding. So instead of cre- ance of my time. prevent flood damages than trying to ating a habitat for fish and wildlife, b 0940 recover from them. which is the least tern, the piping plov- Although I believe the underlying er, and the pallid sturgeon, now we Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I bill that we’ve put together—Mr. VIS- have hundreds of miles of camel habi- move to strike the last word. CLOSKY and I—struck a careful balance tat—sand and dead trees—from the The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman among all priorities in the bill, includ- flooding. from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- ing national security and innovation, I I have a bill, H.R. 2942, that needs to utes. do not have any objection to his move through this Congress. This is an Mr. VISCLOSKY. While I regret that amendment, and I yield back the bal- opportunity to speak to the necessity we just received a copy of the gentle- ance of my time. to direct the Corps of Engineers to pro- man’s amendment while he was speak- Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I tect us from serious downstream flood- ing, I have no objection to it, and I move to strike the last word. ing and consider fish and wildlife in the yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman interests upstream. This redirects The Acting CHAIR. The question is from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- some of those funds to that to send a on the amendment offered by the gen- utes. message to the Corps of Engineers to tleman from Iowa (Mr. KING). Mr. VISCLOSKY. I would join the take a little bit out of their Fish and The question was taken; and the Act- chairman in supporting the amend- Wildlife account, which is around $70 ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- ment. million, and put a little bit into their peared to have it. I would mention that the Corps’ in- Maintenance account, which is around Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I vestment in 2010 alone protected infra- $7 million, and start to adjust this pro- demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to structure in this country and pre- portion. vented over $28 billion worth of dam- But it is a token vote, Mr. Chairman, clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- ages. The amendment is a modest one because there’s much more that needs ceedings on the amendment offered by and it is spread across all of the ac- to be done. We need to be able to dis- the gentleman from Iowa will be post- counts for a 0.14 percent increase. As charge 120,000 cubic feet per second out poned. The Clerk will read. the chairman noted, he worked very of Gavins Point Dam and be able to The Clerk read as follows: vigorously to increase the amounts maintain that within the channel. If over the President’s request by $6 mil- we can do that, then the fisheries’ in- MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES lion. We remain $217 million below last terests upstream have a very minimal For expenses necessary for flood damage year’s level. impact when the Corps is finally, under reduction projects and related efforts in the So, again, I would join the chair in H.R. 2942, directed to adjust the levels Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape supporting the amendment, and I yield to protect us from serious downstream Girardeau, Missouri, as authorized by law, back the balance of my time. $224,000,000, to remain available until ex- flooding. pended, of which such sums as are necessary The Acting CHAIR. The question is That is the argument. I urge the to cover the Federal share of eligible oper- on the amendment offered by the gen- adoption of this amendment, the mes- ation and maintenance costs for inland har- tleman from New Jersey (Mr. HOLT). sage that would be sent, and I yield bors shall be derived from the Harbor Main- The amendment was agreed to. back the balance of my time. tenance Trust Fund. AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. KING OF IOWA Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I move to OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I strike the last word, Mr. Chairman. For expenses necessary for the operation, have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman maintenance, and care of existing river and The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- from New Jersey is recognized for 5 harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, port the amendment. minutes. aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related The Clerk read as follows: Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- projects authorized by law; providing secu- rity for infrastructure owned or operated by Page 3, line 16, after the dollar amount, in- man, let me commend the gentleman the Corps, including administrative build- sert ‘‘(reduced by $1,000,000)’’. from Iowa for his strong advocacy and ings and laboratories; maintaining harbor Page 5, line 1, after the dollar amount, in- passion for his district and his State channels provided by a State, municipality, sert ‘‘(increased by $571,429)’’. and his constituents. First and fore- or other public agency that serve essential The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is most, he’s very, very concerned about a navigation needs of general commerce, recognized for 5 minutes. critical issue. where authorized by law; surveying and Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I We all know that there are signifi- charting northern and northwestern lakes offer this amendment, which strikes a cant water resource needs across our and connecting waters; clearing and million dollars out of the Fish and country, and we’re doing our best in straightening channels; and removing ob- Wildlife account and it inserts $571,429 our bill to address them responsibly. structions to navigation, $2,507,409,000, to re- into the Reserve Maintenance account. The clarification I would like to be main available until expended, of which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal So it is a net savings of $428,571, which make is that the amendment simply share of eligible operation and maintenance would go to deficit reduction. adjusts overall account numbers. It costs for coastal harbors and channels, and But my purpose is not to focus on the does not direct funding to any specific for inland harbors shall be derived from the deficit reduction component of this, project. Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund; of which

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:38 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.010 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H3370 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 1, 2012 such sums as become available from the spe- sist in the immediate flood-fighting ef- sequences of forcing regular appropria- cial account for the Corps of Engineers es- forts and the repairs. Historically, Con- tions to the account for these disaster- tablished by the Land and Water Conserva- gress has provided limited funding an- related damages that happen to be in tion Fund Act of 1965 shall be derived from nually for this account, mainly relying the wrong location according to the that account for resource protection, re- search, interpretation, and maintenance ac- on supplemental appropriations as Budget Control Act. tivities related to resource protection in the emergencies arise. That notwithstanding, the gentle- areas at which outdoor recreation is avail- Funding for this account the last 2 man’s amendment would try to address able; and of which such sums as become years has been lower than the 5-year some of these needs, and I’m pleased to available from fees collected under section average appropriation of $55 million. support his amendment. 217 of Public Law 104–303 shall be used to As was the case last year, after an I yield back the balance of my time. cover the cost of operation and maintenance emergency the Corps must wait on sup- Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I of the dredged material disposal facilities for plemental appropriations from Con- move to strike the last word. which such fees have been collected: Pro- gress or they must transfer funds from The Acting Chair. The gentleman vided, That 1 percent of the total amount of from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- funds provided for each of the programs, existing appropriations for temporary projects or activities funded under this head- emergency efforts. The Corps did this utes. ing shall not be allocated to a field operating internal transfer last year during and Mr. VISCLOSKY. I rise in support of activity prior to the beginning of the fourth after the 2011 flood. However, it takes the amendment, and join with the com- quarter of the fiscal year and shall be avail- time to transfer those funds and tem- ments made by the chairman, and I able for use by the Chief of Engineers to fund porarily deprives other worthy projects yield back the balance of my time. such emergency activities as the Chief of En- of funding. This is especially burden- The Acting CHAIR. The question is gineers determines to be necessary and ap- on the amendment offered by the gen- propriate, and that the Chief of Engineers some given the Corps’ long construc- tion backlog of over $62 billion worth tleman from Missouri (Mr. CLEAVER). shall allocate during the fourth quarter any The amendment was agreed to. remaining funds which have not been used of projects. This amendment is a straight trans- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will for emergency activities proportionally in read. accordance with the amounts provided for fer of funds to increase funding for the The Clerk read as follows: the programs, projects or activities. Corps’ Flood Control and Coastal EXPENSES REGULATORY PROGRAM Emergencies account and in turn re- For expenses necessary for the supervision For expenses necessary for administration duce funding for the Corps’ expenses and general administration of the civil of laws pertaining to regulation of navigable account. This transfer would increase works program in the headquarters of the waters and wetlands, $190,000,000, to remain the funding to equal the amount that Corps of Engineers and the offices of the Di- available until September 30, 2014. the Senate Appropriations Committee vision Engineers; and for costs of manage- FORMERLY UTILIZED SITES REMEDIAL ACTION allocated, bringing total funding for ment and operation of the Humphreys Engi- PROGRAM that account to $30 million for fiscal neer Center Support Activity, the Institute For expenses necessary to clean up con- year 2013. for Water Resources, the United States tamination from sites in the United States Mr. Chairman, ensuring adequate an- Army Engineer Research and Development resulting from work performed as part of the nual funding for emergencies will bet- Center, and the United States Army Corps of Nation’s early atomic energy program, ter prepare the Corps to respond and Engineers Finance Center allocable to the $104,000,000, to remain available until ex- civil works program, $177,500,000, to remain pended. save time and effort in trying to re- available until September 30, 2014, of which FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES route funds. And we all know that not to exceed $5,000 may be used for official For expenses necessary to prepare for emergencies will continue to occur as reception and representation purposes and flood, hurricane, and other natural disasters our climate continues changing and de- only during the current fiscal year: Provided, and support emergency operations, repairs, velopment continues in flood-prone That no part of any other appropriation pro- and other activities in response to such dis- areas. It is incumbent upon us to pro- vided in title I of this Act shall be available asters as authorized by law, $27,000,000, to re- vide the people who respond to these to fund the civil works activities of the Of- main available until expended. emergencies with the most resources fice of the Chief of Engineers or the civil works executive direction and management AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. CLEAVER possible. And so on behalf of the fami- activities of the division offices: Provided fur- Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Chairman, I have lies living along the Missouri River ther, That any Flood Control and Coastal an amendment at the desk. who are in desperate need of help from Emergencies appropriation may be used to The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- this body, I ask for your support by fund the supervision and general administra- port the amendment. adopting this amendment. tion of emergency operations, repairs, and The Clerk read as follows: I yield back the balance of my time. other activities in response to any flood, Page 6, line 18, after the dollar amount, in- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- hurricane, or other natural disaster. sert ‘‘(increased by $3,000,000)’’. man, I move to strike the last word. AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. BROUN OF Page 7, line 4, after the dollar amount, in- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman GEORGIA sert ‘‘(reduced by $3,000,000)’’. from New Jersey is recognized for 5 Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Chair- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman minutes. man, I have an amendment at the desk. from Missouri is recognized for 5 min- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- utes. man, I rise in support of this amend- port the amendment. Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Chairman, I rise ment. Let me assure the gentleman The Clerk read as follows: today to offer an amendment to bolster that we are very sympathetic to his Page 7, line 4, after the dollar amount, in- the Army Corps of Engineers’ ability to concern for fixing the infrastructure sert ‘‘(reduced by $5,325,000)’’. fight floods and to quickly begin repair that was damaged in last year’s flood Page 7, line 22, after the dollar amount, in- sert ‘‘(reduced by $150,000)’’. efforts as the floodwaters recede. Last event. In fact, we provided $1.7 billion Page 13, line 16, after the dollar amount, year, my constituents, as well as thou- to the Corps of Engineers for that insert ‘‘(reduced by $45,000)’’. sands of others living along the Mis- exact purpose. Page 16, line 20, after the dollar amount, souri River, experienced a flood of his- The issue the gentleman raises, how- insert ‘‘(reduced by $1,710,000)’’. toric proportions and catastrophic ever, is something that all Members Page 31, line 23, after the dollar amount, damages. Levees were overtopped or need to be aware of: based on the defi- insert ‘‘(reduced by $12,000,000)’’. Page 47, line 22, after the dollar amount, breached, fields were damaged, and nitions in last year’s amendments to insert ‘‘(reduced by $2,259,510)’’. hundreds of farmers, homeowners, and the Budget Control Act, disaster relief Page 48, line 6, after the dollar amount, in- businesses had to evacuate. Over 400,000 funds may only be used in locations de- sert ‘‘(reduced by $882,450)’’. acres of farmland were flooded along clared major disasters under the Staf- Page 48, line 14, after the dollar amount, the river, including approximately ford Act. insert ‘‘(reduced by $350,310)’’. 207,000 in Missouri. Total repair costs For some agencies, like FEMA, that Page 48, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by $320,370)’’. from the flood are estimated to reach may make sense. But for the Corps of Page 49, line 9, after the dollar amount, in- $2 billion. Engineers, there are times when that sert ‘‘(reduced by $42,750)’’. The Flood Control and Coastal Emer- definition is too restrictive. We all Page 49, line 17, after the dollar amount, gencies account provides funding to as- need to be aware of the potential con- insert ‘‘(reduced by $7,500)’’.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:38 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN7.002 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3371 Page 50, line 17, after the dollar amount, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- To amend portions of the bill not yet insert ‘‘(reduced by $3,810,840)’’. man, I rise to oppose the amendment, read pursuant to section 3(j)(1) of Page 51, line 20, after the dollar amount, but certainly understand it and share House Resolution 5, an amendment insert ‘‘(reduced by $102,000)’’. Page 52, line 6, after the dollar amount, in- the passion of the gentleman for reduc- must propose only to transfer appro- sert ‘‘(reduced by $30,000)’’. ing Federal spending, and our bill does priations from an object or objects in Page 56, line 24, after the dollar amount, plenty of that. As we went through the the bill to a spending reduction ac- insert ‘‘(increased by $27,036,730)’’. process, we did exactly that. count. Mr. BROUN of Georgia (during the This amendment would cut adminis- Because the amendment offered by reading). Mr. Chairman, I ask unani- trative expenses across the entire bill. the gentleman from Georgia proposes mous consent to dispense with the Over many months and public hear- to increase the spending reduction ac- reading. ings, our committee, in a bipartisan count by more than the amount being Mr. DICKS. I object to the sus- way, has already considered each ad- transferred out of other accounts, it pending of the reading. ministrative account separately and may not avail itself of section 3(j)(1) of The Acting CHAIR. Objection is has made specific cuts while maintain- House Resolution 5 to address the heard. ing oversight to prevent wasteful spending reduction account. The Clerk will read. spending. We’ve done our job. The gen- The point of order is sustained. The The Clerk continued to read. tleman’s amendment cuts all adminis- amendment is not in order. Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- trative accounts indiscriminately The Clerk will read. man, I reserve a point of order. without regard to where funds are The Clerk read as follows: The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman needed and where cuts are possible. from New Jersey reserves a point of OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE We understand where he is going, but ARMY FOR CIVIL WORKS order. the committee has done its work. For the Office of the Assistant Secretary of The gentleman from Georgia is rec- Therefore, I must strongly oppose his ognized for 5 minutes. the Army for Civil Works as authorized by 10 amendment. U.S.C. 3016(b)(3), $5,000,000, to remain avail- Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Chair- I yield back the balance of my time. able until September 30, 2014. man, this amendment would reduce the I continue to reserve my point of order, ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION administrative and salaries and ex- though. penses accounts in the underlying bill The Revolving Fund, Corps of Engineers, Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I shall be available during the current fiscal by just 3 percent. It is similar to an move to strike the last word. year for purchase (not to exceed 100 for re- amendment that I offered to the Com- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman placement only) and hire of passenger motor merce, Justice, and Science appropria- from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- vehicles for the civil works program. tions bill just a few weeks ago. utes. GENERAL PROVISIONS, CORPS OF My message today is the same as it Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I ENGINEERS—CIVIL was then: we are in a fiscal emergency, move to express my strong opposition (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) and it is imperative that we work to to the amendment. Some would sug- SEC. 101. (a) None of the funds provided in get spending under control here in gest outrage; I will simply say opposi- this title shall be available for obligation or Washington, D.C. tion. expenditure through a reprogramming of Over the last 2 years, the House has The fact is, across-the-board cuts to funds that–– voted to reduce our own administrative administrative accounts when we have (1) creates or initiates a new program, accounts—our Members representa- significant problems as far as the ad- project, or activity; tional allowances—by over 11 percent. (2) eliminates a program, project, or activ- ministration of some of these programs ity; As we all know, this has resulted in in the Department of Energy is a pro- pay freezes, and in some cases pay cuts, (3) increases funds or personnel for any found mistake. program, project, or activity for which funds for a number of our own staff members. What I really want to emphasize at are denied or restricted by this Act; Yet during this same period of time, this point to all of our colleagues in (4) reduces funds that are directed to be many agencies have seen reductions the House is that members of this sub- used for a specific program, project, or activ- which are much lower than those committee and the full Appropriations ity by this Act; which we have taken here in the House. Committee—which approved this bill, (5) increases funds for any program, b 0950 the people of this committee approved project, or activity by more than $2,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or Amazingly, some of these Agencies this bill—have made value judgments (6) reduces funds for any program, project, funded under this bill have seen large account by account. or activity by more than $2,000,000 or 10 per- increases in their administrative ac- The fact is, for renewable energy— cent, whichever is less. counts. For example, under this bill, and we will have amendments on this (b) Subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to any the Appalachian Regional Commission issue—there is a $428,345,000 reduction project or activity authorized under section would receive a 9 percent increase in in this bill. In the Office of Science, 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948, section 14 of the Flood Control Act of 1946, section its administrative account over the there is a $72,203,000 reduction. For en- vironmental clean-up for defense sites, 208 of the Flood Control Act of 1954, section FY11–FY13 period. Likewise, the sala- 107 of the River and Harbor Act of 1960, sec- ries and the expenses account for the for example, there is an $88,872,000 cut. tion 103 of the River and Harbor Act of 1962, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety These were all discrete decisions made section 111 of the River and Harbor Act of Board would see a 21 percent increase. and value judgments. 1968, section 1135 of the Water Resources De- But if you think those increases are So I would emphasize to my col- velopment Act of 1986, section 206 of the big, think again. This legislation would leagues that there are significant cuts Water Resources Development Act of 1996, or provide the Department of Energy’s de- and savings in this bill. I strongly op- section 204 of the Water Resources Develop- partmental administration account pose the gentleman’s amendment, and I ment Act of 1992. yield back the balance of my time. (c) The Corps of Engineers shall submit re- with a 64 percent increase over 2 years. ports on a quarterly basis to the Committees Mr. Chairman, I’m not arguing the POINT OF ORDER on Appropriations of the House of Represent- merits of any of these Agencies. But Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- atives and the Senate detailing all the funds during this fiscal crisis, just 3 percent man, I make the point of order that the reprogrammed between programs, projects, could yield significant savings—nearly amendment proposes to amend por- activities, or categories of funding. The first $30 million in the case of Agencies tions of the bill not yet read. quarterly report shall be submitted not later funded under this bill. The amendment may not be consid- than 60 days after the date of enactment of It’s time to tighten our belts. I urge ered en bloc under clause 2(f) of rule this Act. support on my amendment, and I yield XXI because the amendment proposes SEC. 102. None of the funds made available in this title may be used to award or modify back the balance of my time to increase the level of new budget au- any contract that commits funds beyond the Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- thority in the bill. amounts appropriated for that program, man, I move to strike the last word. I ask for a ruling from the Chair. project, or activity that remain unobligated, The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman The Acting CHAIR. Does any other except that such amounts may include any from New Jersey is recognized for 5 Member wish to be heard on the point funds that have been made available through minutes. of order? If not, the Chair will rule. reprogramming pursuant to section 101.

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The gentleman a Federal floor of pollution control cre- revenues in this Fund sufficient to meet the from Virginia is recognized for 5 min- ates parity between States, and (C) be- cost-sharing authorized in the Water Re- utes. cause States have come to rely on Fed- sources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law Mr. MORAN. Mr. Chairman, as the eral protections and would face serious 99–662) is enacted. Clerk read, this would strike section administrative and financial burdens if SEC. 104. Within 120 days of the date of the 110 of this bill. they were solely responsible for these Chief of Engineers Report on a water re- This is a legislative rider that is bad requirements. source matter, the Assistant Secretary of Finally, even though the rider may the Army (Civil Works) shall submit the re- policy and does not belong in an appro- port to the appropriate authorizing and ap- priations bill. This rider, 110, perma- block the guidance clarifying Federal propriating committees of the Congress. nently blocks the Army Corps of Engi- and State authority, it does not make SEC. 105. During the fiscal year period cov- neers from fixing existing policies that the Clean Water Act requirements for a ered by this Act, the Secretary of the Army are confusing and inconsistent and not permit go away. States are still re- is authorized to implement measures rec- working. It risks great harm to fresh quired to implement and enforce the ommended in the efficacy study authorized sources of drinking water, and it jeop- law, and dischargers still must obey it. under section 3061 of the Water Resources Likewise, third parties may still file Development Act of 2007 (121 Stat. 1121) or in ardizes flood protection and outdoor recreation, specifically because section lawsuits. interim reports, with such modifications or The real consequence of this rider 110 prohibits the Army Corps from emergency measures as the Secretary of the will be to frustrate the Federal Govern- Army determines to be appropriate, to pre- clarifying the limits of Federal and ment’s efforts to explain where State vent aquatic nuisance species from dis- State authority under the Clean Water or Federal authority under the Clean persing into the Great Lakes by way of any Act. Water Act ceases to exist. If this rider hydrologic connection between the Great Mr. Chairman, two Supreme Court prevails, more lawsuits will ensue. Lakes and the Mississippi River Basin. cases over the last decade addressed SEC. 106. The Secretary of the Army may So I urge my colleagues to vote to transfer to the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the scope of the Federal Government’s strike this rider to bring clarity to a the Fish and Wildlife Service may accept and authority under the Clean Water Act. confusing issue. expend, up to $4,300,000 of funds provided in The Court’s rulings did not require less Let me say, Mr. Chairman, that this title under the heading ‘‘Operation and regulation and protections, but urged many of the groups involved have fi- Maintenance’’ to mitigate for fisheries lost the Congress and the executive branch nally come together and realized that due to Corps of Engineers projects. to provide a sound rationale and con- they need clarity on a very difficult SEC. 107. None of the funds appropriated in sistency to clarify the limits of Federal this Act shall be available for use by the Chi- issue. There are times when water goes cago District of the United States Army authority. The Corps and the EPA have underground during the summer and Corps of Engineers to fund any travel that is now issued draft guidance clarifying the surface dries up, but that water is outside of the District’s area of operation Federal authority that adheres to the still present, and much of that water is unless such travel is directly project-related Court’s rules. Congress, by contrast, interstate. You need Federal control. or is specifically requested by a Member of has not. One of the biggest things that I think Congress. With this rider, Congress is about to perhaps the gentleman may not be SEC. 108. Of the funds provided for make matters much worse—worse be- aware of is the fact that this rider, if it ‘‘Olmsted Locks and Dam, Ohio River, IL & cause blocking completion of the guid- KY’’ in the table under the heading ‘‘Corps of is passed in this bill, would eliminate Engineers–Civil—Construction’’ in the report ance and any subsequent regulations the agricultural exclusion for prior of the Committee on Appropriations accom- which the bill’s rider would do would converted cropland. The fact is that panying this Act, not more than 50 percent be bad for the public’s health, bad for this rider invalidates all rules that may be available for obligation until— businesses, and bad for farmers. It’s es- were issued after November 13, 1986, (1) the Corps of Engineers completes a re- pecially bad for 117 million Americans and it wasn’t until 1993 that the Corps view of the project, including method of con- whose drinking water comes from and EPA defined the waters of the U.S. struction; headwaters and non-perennial streams. to exclude prior converted cropland. So (2) the Corps of Engineers develops a plan Shouldn’t we be concerned about what a lot of the farm community is going for the expeditious completion of project construction; toxic material is dumped into these to be very upset if the gentleman’s (3) the findings of the review and the streams? rider is not removed. And the fact that project completion plan have been commu- It’s bad for American businesses who 33 States have joined a brief asking the nicated to the appropriate committees of the need certainty. Without updated guid- Federal Government to do what the Congress. ance, businesses will often not know EPA and the Federal Corps of Engi- SEC. 109. Amounts made available by this when they need a Corps’ permit in neers is doing means that we are going Act for the ‘‘Investigations’’, ‘‘Construc- order to develop land. to cause major problems if this rider is tion’’, and ‘‘Operation and Maintenance’’ ac- b 1000 passed in this bill. counts of the Corps of Engineers may not be With that, I yield back the balance of used as provided under the heading ‘‘Addi- This uncertainty could subject them my time. tional Funding for Ongoing Work’’ in the to civil and criminal liability, and cer- matter relating to each such account in the Mr. REHBERG. I move to strike the report of the Committee on Appropriations tainly will cost them extra money. last word. to accompany this Act until the report re- It’s bad for farmers because this rider The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman quired under such heading is submitted. eliminates the agricultural exclusion from Montana is recognized for 5 min- SEC. 110. None of the funds made available for prior converted cropland that was utes. by this Act or any subsequent Act making added to the waters of the United Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Chairman, you appropriations for Energy and Water Devel- States rule at the farmers’ request. heard it here first. My urban colleague opment may be used by the Corps of Engi- Section 110 invalidates all rules says the Federal Government wants to neers to develop, adopt, implement, admin- issued after the rule dated November control your water on private property ister, or enforce a change or supplement to the rule dated November 13, 1986, or guidance 13, 1986, but not until 1993 did the Corps in rural areas like Montana. documents dated January 15, 2003, and De- and EPA define the waters of the U.S. The life of a Montana farmer is hard, cember 2, 2008, pertaining to the definition of to exclude ‘‘prior converted cropland.’’ up before the sun rises, working all day waters under the jurisdiction of the Federal Claims that Federal guidance and just to make ends meet. Between the Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 regulations are unnecessary because of cycle of plowing, planting, and har- et seq.). State clean water programs are wrong vesting, there are tractors to fix, barns AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. MORAN as well. Thirty-three States joined a to repair, and products to bring to mar- Mr. MORAN. Mr. Chairman, I have brief in the most recent of the Supreme ket. The last thing any Montana farm- an amendment at the desk. Court cases urging the Court to uphold er needs is another Federal mandate to

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So the Framers of the legislative efforts have failed. in terms of seeing to it that people Constitution set up a representative So in December 2010, the Corps of En- may go forward with their planning, government that lets farmers elect gineers crafted a plan to identify water with economic development and every- men and women to fight on their behalf subject to jurisdiction under the Clean thing of that sort. so they can go about their business. Water Act. The goal is to significantly It is not wise to deny citizens this The House of Representatives was expand Federal jurisdiction over water. kind of information. It is extremely meant to be the closest to the people. The Obama administration and his al- unwise to deny business the oppor- It’s not just our privilege to stand up lies are trying to solve a problem that tunity to know what it is they must do for our Constitution; it’s our constitu- does not exist. to comply with the law as enunciated tional duty. Fortunately, the Constitution pro- by the Supreme Court. The amendment The Constitution delegates legisla- vides a check to the Obama adminis- makes great sense. The bill, as written, tive power to the Congress, but lately, tration’s power grab. Montana farmers simply re-fights an issue that is not be- President Obama has, in too many have a safety net—the House of Rep- fore this body at this time. I hate to cases, tried to circumvent the constitu- resentatives. It’s our job to fight this see the kind of confusion that is being tional separation of powers. Congress battle so that they don’t have to. It’s inflicted upon this body by a simple managed to prevent the disastrous cap- our job to act as a check and balance misunderstanding of what the law is, and-trade energy tax from becoming to over-reaching executive actions. what the bill does, and what the law, so President Obama expanded the That’s what this language does. It amendment does. definition of a harmful pollutant in the simply prevents the President from I urge my colleagues to support the Clean Air Act to include carbon diox- carrying out his plans. It ensures that amendment. If you want clarity, if you ide, the stuff that we exhale. when a farmer wakes up before the sun want people to know how to comply Congress blocked the massive legisla- rises, they don’t have to worry about with the law as set forth by the Su- tion landgrabs like the Northern Rock- onerous Federal regulation. They can preme Court, adopt the amendment. If ies Ecosystem Protection Act, so the just go to work on their farm. That’s you want confusion and if you want Obama administration crafts secret what the Founding Fathers would have misfortune to be visited on farmers and plans to designate 13 million acres as wanted, and that’s why I hope you’ll the public and confusion to afflict eco- national monuments using the Antiq- join me in opposing this amendment. nomic development and business, then uities Act. The Antiquities Act, by the I yield back the balance of my time. support the bill as it is and oppose the way, was passed to protect archae- Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Chairman, I move amendment. ological sites. to strike the requisite number of There is a tremendous lack of wis- And now the Obama administration words. dom here in this fight. Let us under- is looking to expand its reach, over the stand the issue that plagues us, which objections of both the Congress and the The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized for 5 min- is simply whether or not the Corps of Supreme Court, to control water, all Engineers is going to be able to tell water everywhere. utes. (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given people what the law is. At issue is not You know, if there’s one resource any change in the law. The amendment that’s more important to dryland farm- permission to revise and extend his re- marks.) accepts the fact that the Supreme ers than time, it’s water. And in arid Court has made a decision. I happen to Mr. DINGELL. I want to begin by ex- States like Montana, where we’ve got strongly disagree with that decision by pressing great respect and affection for plenty of land, there’s lots of dirt be- the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, I my friend from Montana who has just tween light bulbs. The difference be- am going to have to wait until some fu- spoken. It was a fine speech, but it has tween feast and famine can be a little ture time to come down and attack nothing to do with the issues before us. bit of water. And now some folks in the what is clear misbehavior by the Su- What the committee, in this legisla- Federal Government want to get in- preme Court. I was on the floor and had tion, has done has been to simply as- volved. a colloquy with the management of the sure that the Corps of Engineers may It’s been a long fight. Let me show legislation at the time the bill was not put forth guidelines clarifying the you how we got there. passed, and the Supreme Court has law as it was enunciated by the Su- Back in 2001 and 2003, the Supreme clearly disregarded and ignored the preme Court in the case that we are Court limited the authority of the Fed- legislative history and, worse than discussing in connection with the eral Government to regulate water. that, the clear language of the bill. Clean Water Act. Unelected bureaucrats were trying to That issue is not before us today. control water, all water, including It does something more. It fixes it so What is before us today is simply: melted snow, mud puddles and prairie that farmers will lose certain protec- Are the Corps of Engineers and the potholes and irrigation ditches. But tions which have been put in for their U.S. Government going to be able to the Supreme Court said no. benefit by the law. And you’re going to tell the people what the law is as set This makes sense. There is a role for find, as my friend from Maryland has forth by the Supreme Court? the Federal Government. We want so wisely observed, that you are going To say anything else about this legis- clean water and a safe environment. to hurt a bunch of American farming lation is either to be misled or to mis- But living in Montana means you live public by denying them a protection lead. I would beg my colleagues to vote off the land. It means you grew up which has been given them. Citizens, in favor of the intelligent approach of learning how to take care of your envi- under the language of the committee seeing to it that we are going to allow ronment. In fact, Montanans were bill, will have no way of knowing what people to know what the law is and some of the first conservationists. But the law is or how it is interpreted by allow the Corps of Engineers to set out the role of government is not unlim- the committee. what the law is for the benefit of busi- ited. We don’t need the Federal Gov- It is not an issue before us today ness, industry, and people. ernment thinking for us, and we don’t whether or not you agree with the I yield back the balance of my time. need the Federal Government to tell us Clean Water Act. The question is, sim- Mr. Chair, I rise in support of the Moran-Din- how to take care of our irrigation ply: Is the Corps of Engineers going to gell amendment which will protect not only the ditches. be able to tell people what the law is Clean Water Act but also the power and integ- The Clean Water Act gives the Fed- and how it is to be interpreted by the rity of the United States Congress. eral Government authority to regulate Corps and how citizens will then have When the Clean Water Act was passed, I navigable waters of the United States. to behave? stood on the floor of this House as one of its

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It Agencies have ignored calls from State drinking water, as they do in the means all ‘the waters of the United States’ in agencies and environmental groups, Fourth Congressional District of Mary- a geographical sense. It does not mean the among others, to proceed through the land. ‘navigable waters of the United States’ in the normal rulemaking procedures; and The EPA says that 3,990,016 people in technical sense as we sometimes see in some they have avoided consulting with the Maryland receive some of their drink- laws.’’ States, which are supposed to be the ing water from areas containing these In 2006, the Supreme Court significantly re- agencies partnering in and imple- smaller streams. In Montgomery Coun- stricted the original Congressional intent of the menting the Clean Water Act. The ty alone, 1,846,500 residents are at risk Federal government’s authority under the agencies cannot circumvent the Ad- of having their drinking water pol- Clean Water Act. The Supreme Court com- ministrative Procedure Act through luted. These residents use surface pletely ignored Congress’ intent to provide a this guidance or change the scope and water supplied by public drinking broader definition of ‘‘U.S. waters’’ and instead meaning of the Clean Water Act or the water systems that rely on smaller streams that are at risk of losing clean upended 35 years of precedence simply be- statute’s implementing regulations. water protections. Also, many waters cause they refused to properly review the leg- If the administration and the Mem- in Maryland, from small streams to the islative history of laws made on this floor by bers on the other side of the aisle seek Chesapeake Bay, are interstate waters. those managing the bill. statutory changes in the Clean Water Without strong Federal safeguards for Because of the Supreme Court’s misguided Act, then a proposal must be submitted waters of the United States, those decision, the Army Corps of Engineers is here in Congress for legislative action, States that want to or are able to take working on new guidelines that will take into and we should have a healthy debate. State-level steps to protect waters will account the decision of the Court and define Until that time, we must stop this cur- rent process. be unsuccessful. what their new jurisdiction will be under the Even with the Clean Water Act, the Also, I would like to add to the gen- Clean Water Act. This is not a massive expan- Potomac River—I live on the banks of tleman’s earlier comments in that I sion of power by the Corps as some would the Potomac River—is listed as the think the intent of the Clean Water have the House believe. This is simply an most endangered river by the group Act passed constitutional muster be- honest attempt to comply with the Supreme American Rivers as part of their Amer- cause of the word ‘‘navigable’’ in the Court’s decision. ica’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2012. Interstate Commerce Clause. This By preventing the Corps from spending any The river receives this inauspicious guidance put out essentially cir- funds to implement these new guidelines, this award because it’s polluted by agri- House would be casting a dark pall of uncer- cumvents the word ‘‘navigable,’’ so I culture runoff, sewage runoff from tainty over the country. If someone wants to have to raise a question of the con- roadways and from enough pharma- build a home or new business near a wetland stitutionality of this type of amend- ceuticals that male fish have been or other body of water, do they need to con- ment. caught with female characteristics. I urge strong opposition to this sult with the Army Corps of Engineers before The Anacostia River, which also flows doing so? The language in this bill would not amendment, and I yield back the bal- through my district, is polluted by answer that question and would lead to more ance of my time. trash, sewage, and other contaminants. Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Chairman, I costs and confusion to that homeowner or A cleanup of the Anacostia is slowly move to strike the last word. businessperson in legal and court fees. The taking place due in no small part to The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman language in this bill would lead to more court the guidance provided under the Clean from Maryland is recognized for 5 min- battles and create a wonderful mess that Water Act. Urban rivers like the Poto- utes. would lead to lawyers making plenty of mac and Anacostia are affected by run- Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Chairman, I rise money. off from streets and parking struc- in support of my colleague Mr. I ask my colleagues to not let the Supreme tures. Court to blatantly ignore established Congres- MORAN’s amendment to strike this I want to pause here for a minute be- sional intent and to instead allow the Army rider in the fiscal year 2013 Energy and cause all of us here in this Capitol re- Corps of Engineers to do the work we told Water Development Appropriations ceive our water, our tap water and our them to do and to implement new guidelines Act. For 40 years, the Clean Water Act drinking water, from those waters that conforming to the court’s decision. has helped remove pollution from our I am talking about, from the Anacostia Please vote for the Moran-Dingell Amend- drinking water and protect our pre- and the Potomac. So keep that in ment. cious natural resources. mind, Members of Congress, when Mr. GIBBS. I move to strike the last The act regulates the discharge of you’re drinking a glass of water. word. pollution into navigable waters; but It’s one of the many reasons that I The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman put simply, it makes sure that a glass favor public transportation, transit- from Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes. of water you get from the tap or the oriented development, and bike riding. Mr. GIBBS. I rise today in strong op- fish you catch in any fishing hole or Our air and water are protected when position to this amendment. river isn’t contaminated by pollutants. we make smart transportation deci- My friends on the other side of the Now, some of my colleagues on the sions, and I have to say that we haven’t aisle are absolutely right in that, cur- other side of the aisle forget that, be- made a single smart transportation rently, there is an assault going on fore the Clean Water Act was passed, and jobs decision in this Congress since with regard to the Clean Water Act; rivers caught on fire; oil spills in in- the Republicans took over. This is why but it is not by us, rather by this ad- land waters were rampant; and few I support a bipartisan and Senate- ministration. We are not trying to roll communities had modern wastewater passed MAP–21 and hope that the con- back the Clean Water Act but, instead, treatment facilities. ferees agree to a report that reflects allow it to work as it was written. The ill-conceived rider in this bill the priorities in that bill, because This administration is currently try- would have a severe impact on my that’s about protecting our drinking ing to circumvent congressional intent home State of Maryland. In fact, the water. and expand the scope of the law beyond EPA estimates that 55 percent of the So let’s be clear about what’s at its drafted words. This guidance would streams in Maryland either do not flow stake. The Clean Water Act protects substantially change the Agency’s pol- year-round or are ‘‘first order’’ head- almost 60 percent of U.S. streams, and icy on waters subject to the jurisdic- water streams. These are waters most that’s why 33 States joined a brief in tion under the Clean Water Act, under- vulnerable to pollution or destruction the most recent Supreme Court case on mine the regulatory community’s if the Army Corps and EPA are not the issue urging the Court to uphold rights and obligations under the Clean able to adopt policies to restore the Federal protections for wetlands adja- Water Act, and erode the Federal-State longstanding protections for these cent to non-navigable tributaries.

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During multiple on Federal protections and would face knows there’s going to be a mud puddle hearings before the Committee on significant administrative and finan- there, and it’s suddenly going to be- Transportation and Infrastructure, cial burdens if they were solely respon- come a navigable water because you witness after witness spoke of how sible for these requirements. Now the might be able to put somebody with an these cases have blurred the lines on success of the Clean Water Act is being inner tube in there in the puddle in the what the waters subject to Federal pro- threatened by a dirty-water rider at- yard to be able to swim until it dries tection are. tached to the FY 2013 Energy and up. The reason in short is because in nei- Water appropriations bill. Come on. Let’s use sound science. ther case could the majority of Su- I hope you’ll join with me and mil- Let’s use some common sense. Let’s preme Court justices agree on what lions of people across the country to follow proper rulemaking. The last was the appropriate test for deter- stand up for clean water, for safe thing we need to do is to continue to mining the scope of Federal protec- drinking water, for the health of fisher- increase the power of the Federal Gov- tions based on their reading of the men, and for fish and wildlife. Future ernment. And this amendment under term ‘‘navigable.’’ No majority or the generations will not remember the in- consideration—and I love my col- court could agree what navigable dustries we’ve made slightly wealthier leagues who are offering it—would fur- means. In fact, in one of the cases the by rolling back this bipartisan passed ther empower the regulatory agencies, level of confusion on the court is re- bill, but our future generations will and it would endanger more than any- flected in that there are five separate know that we are the reason their thing else our private property rights. opinions filed in the case with no opin- drinking water is making them sick. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to ion having more than four supporters I urge my colleagues to vote for the support private property rights and on the Supreme Court of the United Moran-Dingell amendment and to join me in demanding transparency and States. strike this dangerous and reckless accountability of our regulatory agen- The resulting confusion in inter- rider. cies. I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘no’’ preting the Clean Water Act is appar- With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield to defeat this amendment. ent to both the regulated community back the balance of my time. With that, I yield back the balance of and regulators. The fact is, the indus- Mrs. EMERSON. Mr. Chairman, I my time. try has asked for clarification of this move to strike the last word. Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman confusion through agency rulemaking. move to strike the last word. from Missouri is recognized for 5 min- The gentlewoman mentioned that we The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman need a rule in this. We do need a clari- utes. from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- Mrs. EMERSON. Mr. Chair, I have to fied rule. However, this legislative utes. rise in strong opposition to my friend’s rider that is in the bill proposes the Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I amendment. status quo of confusion and that that is Today, the EPA and the Corps of En- rise in strong support of Mr. MORAN’s acceptable. It will only result in in- gineers are writing guidance in order amendment and would point out that I creased implementation costs to the to dramatically expand the reach of think the gentleman from Michigan in Federal Government, to the States, the Clean Water Act and the Federal his earlier remarks hit the nail on the and to the regulated community. It Water Pollution Control Act. The EPA head. This is an issue of clarity versus will increase delays in the implementa- and Corps’ understanding of waters of confusion. tion of important public works projects the United States would grow to en- The fact is we have become the ‘‘Con- and protracted litigation on the dis- compass—in my rural district and a lot gress of Confusion.’’ We are charged parity of this language. of rural districts all over this coun- with running a Nation of 300 million We need to adopt Mr. MORAN’s try—dry ditches, culverts, and—who people with domestic and international amendment to ensure that we have knows—swimming pools and snow, as responsibilities. We have now confused clarity. We should be taking actions to well. the physician community of the United address the legitimate concerns that This guidance is called ‘‘Identifica- States more than 17 times—sometimes have been expressed. But the fact is tion of Waters Protected by the Clean at a 2-week interval—as to what the re- this is an issue that Congress and the Water Act,’’ and it’s clear that the imbursements are going to be under administration needs to address in the draft guidance, which has already been the Medicare program. We have people authorizing process to clarify it. This published, says it is not a rule and it is who have suffered loss of life, signifi- is not an issue that should be contin- not binding. But let me tell you what’s cant property damage, and dislocation ued in confusion and perpetuity happened in my congressional district. through floods in our Nation. We are through the appropriations process. Number one, this guidance is actually unable as an institution to resolve our Again, I strongly support the gentle- causing already the Corps of Engineers differences on flood insurance and have man’s amendment, and I yield back the to fine a couple of people in my con- continued it—if I am correct—at least balance of my time. gressional district who supposedly have 11 times. The fact is we have an infra- Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Chairman, I dry ditches on their property, and they structure, as far as our highways and move to strike the last word. are about 10 different streams removed bridges, that is crumbling. We have The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from the Mississippi River, perhaps. now eight or nine times continued that from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 Only when it rains does it stay wet for because we cannot make a decision, minutes. a day. These people are being told that and we continue to confuse the States, Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Chairman, I they’re going to have to pay hefty fines contractors, and our communities as to rise in support of the amendment and unless they stop the development of what the policy of the United States urge my colleagues to support a clari- this particular area on their land. This Government is going to be. And de- fication of the Clean Water Act. is absolutely the craziest thing I’ve pending on what year you died, the last Mr. Chairman, Republican adminis- ever heard. Nobody is talking about four years—including 2012—this Nation trators of the EPA—from William impacting your clean water. This is out has had three different estate-tax laws, Reilly to Russell Train—have all ex- in the country. This is in rural areas. and the current one expires at the end pressed support for protecting our This is where there hasn’t been a of this year, leading to confusion and streams, rivers, wetlands, lakes, and stream running in 100 years. Why that the hiring of numerous accountants, other waters of the United States from would be called a navigable water is be- insurance agents, and attorneys, all of pollution and from destruction. The yond me. whom I love. rider in this bill will perpetuate the

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It is the which supports 600,000 jobs. rider and to support the amendment. right thing to do. It is the right thing I yield back the balance of my time. Data from the National Marine Manufactur- to do. From an environmental perspec- ers Association indicates that recreational Mr. DICKS. I move to strike the last boating contributes over $41 billion and tive and from a hunter, fisherman, out- word. 337,000 jobs to the U.S. economy. door recreational perspective, it’s nec- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman The FWS reports duck hunting alone gen- essary to protect our future. from Washington is recognized for 5 erates $2.3 billion for the economy every I yield back the balance of my time. minutes. year and supports 27,000 private sector jobs. Mr. SIMPSON. I move to strike the Mr. DICKS. I received a letter from In order to effectively safeguard key com- last world. the American Fisheries Society, the ponents of our economy, the sports and tra- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman American Fly Fishing Trade Associa- ditions that millions of Americas enjoy, and from Idaho is recognized for 5 minutes. tion, the Sportfishing Association, the health and integrity of some of our most Mr. SIMPSON. I thank the chairman Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. I important fish and wildlife resources, it is for his recognition. I don’t have the think these are very important groups. essential to act now to restore lost Clean letter to read, but listen, the only ar- Water Act protections consistent with exist- gument that’s being made here that As a westerner, I pay attention to ing law and science. makes any sense is we have got to these people. It says: The Army Corps of Engineers and Environ- bring clarity to this issue. We have got MARCH 30, 2012. mental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to bring clarity to the confusion of this DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: As sportsman-con- new guidance last spring for determining servation organizations representing mil- Clean Water Act jurisdiction. The draft guid- issue. lions of hunters, boaters, and anglers nation- ance is science-based and clearly respects Well, I will tell you that a hanging is wide, we ask you to oppose any legislation the Supreme Court’s decisions. Over the clarity, but it’s not necessarily the that would block the administration’s very course of three months last summer, the right option. That’s essentially what deliberate and vital action to clarify and re- agencies conducted an almost unprecedented we’re doing here. We’re giving control store long-standing Clean Water Act protec- public engagement process for a guidance of all these waters that have tradition- tions for streams and wetlands across the document. More than 200,000 Americans com- ally been in the control of the States country. We reaffirm our support for Clean mented and EPA has reported that the clear to the Federal Government. And I will Water Act guidance currently being reviewed majority of those comments support the pro- tell you, we will have an opportunity and finalized in an interagency process co- posed guidance. During this process, more to debate this same issue again on the ordinated by the Office of Management and than 250 hunting, angling, and conservation Budget (OMB). groups from 28 states also weighed in back- Interior bill dealing with the EPA. Sportsmen rely on clean water to ensure ing the guidance and subsequent rulemaking. This deals with the Army Corps of En- the opportunity to enjoy hunting, angling, To complete this process the guidance gineers. and other outdoor-based recreation (and must be finalized as a first step in affirming The fact is is that you don’t need this business) in the great outdoors. When wet- longstanding clean water protections for to clarify this, the policies proposed by lands are drained and filled and streams are many wetlands and streams. This guidance the Army Corps of Engineers. You can polluted, sportsmen are often the first to be importantly maintains existing exemptions clarify it by legislatively defining what directly impacted. Consequently, hunters, for normal agricultural activity. At the ‘‘navigable’’ means. If the Supreme boaters, and anglers have consistently advo- same time, it will provide increased clarity Court has a problem trying to decide cated for conserving our nation’s waters. and consistency that is badly needed by land what ‘‘navigable’’ means, then let’s ad- Since 2001, U.S. Supreme Court decisions in owners, developers, conservationists, and SWANCC (2001) and Rapanos (2006), along state and federal agencies alike. We urge you dress that so we know what we intend with 2003 and 2008 agency guidance that is in- to support—and not oppose—this important by that. consistent with those decisions and the re- first step. The argument is made repeatedly by lated science, have combined to erode long- As a follow-up to final guidance, we also some of those that have supported this standing Clean Water Act safeguards for support agency action to further clarify and amendment, whether you are from Vir- headwater streams and critical wetlands. strengthen the regulatory definition of ginia or Maryland, and I will tell you, Headwater and intermittently flowing ‘‘waters of the United States.’’ There is wide- if you want in Virginia or Maryland or streams comprise 59 percent of all stream spread agreement among groups across the Washington or Michigan, the Army miles in the continental United States, and spectrum about the inherent value of rule- Corps of Engineers and the EPA to con- are particularly vulnerable under the deci- making to address critical aspects of this trol every drop of water that falls on sions and existing agency guidance. At-risk issue. In closing, we urge you to support— wetlands and tributaries provide clean water and not oppose—the important and careful your State, I’ll help you do it. Let’s for iconic systems such as the Mississippi steps being taken by the administration to write legislation to do that so that you River Delta and the Chesapeake Bay. They clarify and affirm long-standing protections guys can have the clarity of the EPA recharge aquifers like the Ogallala, help re- for wetlands and streams across the United and the Army Corps of Engineers. But tain floodwaters in areas such as the Prairie States. in western States, we actually protect Pothole region and Missouri River Basin, Respectfully, those waters by State law. What you and provide important fish and wildlife habi- Gus Rassam, Executive Director, Amer- are trying to do is exempt State law or tat throughout the nation. According to the ican Fisheries Society; Randi Swisher, override State law and have the Fed- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), prairie President, American Fly Fishing Trade eral Government take control of these. Association; Gordon Robertson, Vice pothole wetlands in the northern Great That’s just flat wrong. Plains, together with similar wetlands in President, Government Affairs, Amer- southern Canada, produce 50 to 70 percent of ican Sportfishing Association; Jim If you don’t think Virginia protects all North American ducks. However, in its Akenson, Executive Director, its headwaters enough, then put a bill most recent report on the status of wetlands Backcountry Hunters and Anglers; in to allow the EPA and the Army nationwide, the FWS found the rate of wet- Bruce Akin, Chief Executive Officer, Corps to control every drop of water land loss jumped 140 percent between 2004 BASS, LLC.; Jim Martin, Conservation that falls in the State of Virginia. You and 2009. As these waters are polluted and di- Director, Berkley Conservation Insti- don’t need this to bring clarity to this, minished, their ecological, public health, and tute; Rob Olson, President, Delta Wa- and the States are doing a good job recreational benefits are lost, as well. terfowl; David Hoskins, Executive Di- that do State regulations of head- As we all work to create jobs and support rector, Izaak Walton League of Amer- waters. economic recovery, we should nurture rather ica; Thom Dammrich, President, Na- Mr. MORAN. Will the gentleman than neglect the economic benefits of hunt- tional Marine Manufacturers Associa- ing, angling, and other outdoor recreation. tion; Larry Schweiger, President and yield? Hunting, boating, and angling have a tre- CEO, National Wildlife Federation; Mr. SIMPSON. I yield to the gen- mendously positive impact on the nation’s Paul Krausman, CWD, President, The tleman. economy, including in rural communities, Wildlife Society; Whit Fosburgh, Presi- Mr. MORAN. I would like to ask the and support millions of jobs across the coun- dent and CEO, Theodore Roosevelt gentleman what we do about waters try. Consider the following: Conservation Partnership; Chris Wood, that are interstate, they flow down.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:38 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.029 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3377 Mr. SIMPSON. Well, let me answer Army shall not promulgate or enforce any and 3405(f) of Public Law 102–575, to remain that question for you. regulation that prohibits an individual from available until expended: Provided, That the Mr. MORAN. Yes, please. possessing a firearm, including an assembled Bureau of Reclamation is directed to assess Mr. SIMPSON. If there are waters or functional firearm, at a water resources and collect the full amount of the additional development project covered under section mitigation and restoration payments author- that the State is not regulating and 327.0 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations ized by section 3407(d) of Public Law 102–575: they will eventually flow into navi- (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Provided further, That none of the funds made gable waters, and the only way to con- Act), if— available under this heading may be used for trol the pollution in those navigable (1) the individual is not otherwise prohib- the acquisition or leasing of water for in- waters—the State is going to ulti- ited by law from possessing the firearm; and stream purposes if the water is already com- mately start controlling those head- (2) the possession of the firearm is in com- mitted to in-stream purposes by a court waters if they’re not doing their jobs. pliance with the law of the State in which adopted decree or order. You seem to think that States have the water resources development project is CALIFORNIA BAY-DELTA RESTORATION located. no ability to control the State waters (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF THE that are under State control. They do For carrying out activities authorized by INTERIOR have the ability to control those State the Water Supply, Reliability, and Environ- CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT waters, and they do a good job of it in mental Improvement Act, consistent with most States. I’m not sure about Vir- CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACCOUNT plans to be approved by the Secretary of the ginia. I haven’t followed Virginia. For carrying out activities authorized by Interior, $36,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which such amounts as may be Mr. MORAN. But I suggest to the the Central Utah Project Completion Act, $19,700,000, to remain available until ex- necessary to carry out such activities may gentleman, they use the Federal defini- pended, of which $1,200,000 shall be deposited be transferred to appropriate accounts of tion in order to enforce the quality of into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and other participating Federal agencies to carry the water coming from other States. Conservation Account for use by the Utah out authorized purposes: Provided, That That’s the problem. Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation funds appropriated herein may be used for Mr. SIMPSON. The point is that they Commission. In addition, for necessary ex- the Federal share of the costs of CALFED become navigable waters at some penses incurred in carrying out related re- Program management: Provided further, That point. If they are being polluted by sponsibilities of the Secretary of the Inte- the use of any funds provided to the Cali- rior, $1,300,000. fornia Bay-Delta Authority for program-wide waters that are controlled by the For fiscal year 2013, the Commission may management and oversight activities shall States, eventually the State is going to use an amount not to exceed $1,500,000 for ad- be subject to the approval of the Secretary of have to say, You know what, we have ministrative expenses. the Interior: Provided further, That CALFED got to get control of this; otherwise, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION implementation shall be carried out in a bal- we’re going to have problems down- The following appropriations shall be ex- anced manner with clear performance meas- stream. pended to execute authorized functions of ures demonstrating concurrent progress in Mr. MORAN. How do they control the Bureau of Reclamation: achieving the goals and objectives of the Program. water from another State? WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION Mr. SIMPSON. You seem to think (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) For necessary expenses of policy, adminis- that the only way to address this prob- For management, development, and res- lem is to have a Federal bureaucracy. tration, and related functions in the Office of toration of water and related natural re- the Commissioner, the Denver office, and of- You know what, we could bring clarity sources and for related activities, including to all of our problems by just elimi- fices in the five regions of the Bureau of Rec- the operation, maintenance, and rehabilita- lamation, to remain available until Sep- nating the States. Why have States? tion of reclamation and other facilities, par- tember 30, 2014, $57,000,000, to be derived from Why not have everything under Fed- ticipation in fulfilling related Federal re- the Reclamation Fund and be nonreimburs- eral control? That makes sense, be- sponsibilities to Native Americans, and re- able as provided in 43 U.S.C. 377: Provided, cause everything goes from State to lated grants to, and cooperative and other That no part of any other appropriation in agreements with, State and local govern- this Act shall be available for activities or State eventually. It makes no sense to ments, federally recognized Indian tribes, me. functions budgeted as policy and administra- and others, $833,635,000, to remain available tion expenses. This does not bring clarity to the sit- until expended, of which $29,000 shall be uation and it does not help in the regu- available for transfer to the Upper Colorado ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION lation of our Clean Water Act. This River Basin Fund and $6,985,000 shall be Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclama- does not make the waters of the United available for transfer to the Lower Colorado tion shall be available for purchase of not to States cleaner. All it does is give more River Basin Development Fund; of which exceed five passenger motor vehicles, which authority to the Army Corps of Engi- such amounts as may be necessary may be are for replacement only. advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund: neers and the EPA. GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF Provided, That such transfers may be in- THE INTERIOR creased or decreased within the overall ap- b 1040 SEC. 201. (a) None of the funds provided in propriation under this heading: Provided fur- If you want to bring charity, then this title shall be available for obligation or ther, That of the total appropriated, the expenditure through a reprogramming of bring a bill down here to define what amount for program activities that can be fi- navigable means. And you can do that. funds that— nanced by the Reclamation Fund or the Bu- (1) creates or initiates a new program, As I said, a hanging is clarity—not nec- reau of Reclamation special fee account es- project, or activity; essarily the best outcome. tablished by 16 U.S.C. 6806 shall be derived (2) eliminates a program, project, or activ- I yield back the balance of my time. from that Fund or account: Provided further, ity; The Acting CHAIR. The question is That funds contributed under 43 U.S.C. 395 (3) increases funds for any program, on the amendment offered by the gen- are available until expended for the purposes project, or activity for which funds have for which contributed: Provided further, That been denied or restricted by this Act; tleman from Virginia (Mr. MORAN). funds advanced under 43 U.S.C. 397a shall be The question was taken; and the Act- (4) restarts or resumes any program, credited to this account and are available project or activity for which funds are not ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- until expended for the same purposes as the peared to have it. provided in this Act, unless prior approval is sums appropriated under this heading: Pro- received from the Committees on Appropria- Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Chairman, I de- vided further, That of the amounts provided tions of the House of Representatives and mand a recorded vote. herein, funds may be used for high priority the Senate; The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to projects which shall be carried out by the (5) transfers funds in excess of the fol- clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Youth Conservation Corps, as authorized by lowing limits— 16 U.S.C. 1706. ceedings on the amendment offered by (A) 15 percent for any program, project or the gentleman from Virginia will be CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT RESTORATION FUND activity for which $2,000,000 or more is avail- postponed. For carrying out the programs, projects, able at the beginning of the fiscal year; or The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will plans, habitat restoration, improvement, and (B) $300,000 for any program, project or ac- acquisition provisions of the Central Valley tivity for which less than $2,000,000 is avail- read. Project Improvement Act, $39,883,000, to be able at the beginning of the fiscal year; The Clerk read as follows: derived from such sums as may be collected (6) transfers more than $500,000 from either SEC. 111. As of the date of enactment of in the Central Valley Project Restoration the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and this Act and thereafter, the Secretary of the Fund pursuant to sections 3407(d), 3404(c)(3), Rehabilitation category or the Resources

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KAPTUR world, toward a new energy age. In ated rates of operations, and real estate defi- Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I have fact, this amendment increases funds ciency judgments. an amendment at the desk. for the renewable portion of our energy (b) Subsection (a)(5) shall not apply to any The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- portfolio while maintaining the pro- transfer of funds within the Facilities Oper- port the amendment. posed increases for fossil fuel develop- ation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation cat- The Clerk read as follows: ment. And from a budgetary and ac- egory. (c) For purposes of this section, the term Page 20, line 15, after the dollar amount, counting standpoint, my amendment ‘‘transfer’’ means any movement of funds insert ‘‘(increased by $10,000,000)’’. actually decreases outlays for fiscal Page 28, line 16, after the dollar amount, into or out of a program, project, or activity. year 2013. insert ‘‘(reduced by $10,000,000)’’. (d) The Bureau of Reclamation shall sub- Let me add, this $10 million transfer mit reports on a quarterly basis to the Com- The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman we are proposing represents less than mittees on Appropriations of the House of from Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes. 1/20th of the $230 million administra- Representatives and the Senate detailing all Ms. KAPTUR. I rise today to offer an tive budget of the Department of En- the funds reprogrammed between programs, amendment that takes another step to- ergy. This is a prudent adjustment to projects, activities, or categories of funding. ward restoring energy independence for our energy policy strategy. It is for- The first quarterly report shall be submitted America and new jobs for Americans. not later than 60 days after the date of en- ward looking. It makes sense from a My amendment shifts an additional $10 budgetary standpoint. It will spur new actment of this Act. million for energy efficiency and re- SEC. 202. (a) None of the funds appropriated job creation. And I urge my colleagues’ or otherwise made available by this Act may newable energy development from de- support. be used to determine the final point of dis- partmental administrative accounts. I yield back the balance of my time. charge for the interceptor drain for the San My goal is to better support a diversi- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- Luis Unit until development by the Sec- fied energy portfolio and restore conti- man, I move to strike the last word. retary of the Interior and the State of Cali- nental energy security. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman fornia of a plan, which shall conform to the American security and competitive- from New Jersey is recognized for 5 water quality standards of the State of Cali- ness hinge on affordable energy for our minutes. fornia as approved by the Administrator of businesses and families, and our energy the Environmental Protection Agency, to Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I rise to op- future depends on innovation. Fossil pose the gentlewoman’s amendment. I minimize any detrimental effect of the San fuels continue to provide the bulk of Luis drainage waters. appreciate my colleague’s passion for (b) The costs of the Kesterson Reservoir our energy needs, and those accounts solar energy. She has been a tireless Cleanup Program and the costs of the San are left intact in this bill. But we all supporter of American innovation in Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be should know that a diversified energy this energy and technological area. I classified by the Secretary of the Interior as portfolio protects America from the in- also have the pleasure of serving with reimbursable or nonreimbursable and col- stability of a single source of energy lected until fully repaid pursuant to the her on the Defense Appropriations dependence. Committee, and she’s been an inno- ‘‘Cleanup Program-Alternative Repayment Our future security depends on diver- vator and promoter of responsible en- Plan’’ and the ‘‘SJVDP-Alternative Repay- sified energy research and development ergy policy with the Department of De- ment Plan’’ described in the report entitled that provides significant return on in- ‘‘Repayment Report, Kesterson Reservoir vestment both financially and in tech- fense as well. Cleanup Program and San Joaquin Valley But within tight budgets, we need to nological advancement and the jobs Drainage Program, February 1995’’, prepared focus funding on our highest priorities, that go with it. We must ensure that by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of which is what we’ve done in our Energy American innovators are on a level Reclamation. Any future obligations of funds and Water bill. To make room for our by the United States relating to, or pro- playing field with competitors across viding for, drainage service or drainage stud- the globe, including China, and even national security and infrastructure ies for the San Luis Unit shall be fully reim- Russia, and other nations looking for a responsibility, our bill cuts energy effi- bursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries of competitive edge. ciency and renewable energy by $428 such service or studies pursuant to Federal For years, the United States has been million and reprioritizes funds within reclamation law. the global leader in these technologies, the program to support American man- TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY but we now are losing edge. Investment ufacturing and address rising gas ENERGY PROGRAMS in energy efficiency and renewable en- prices. The focus is on jobs, the econ- ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY ergy technologies are absolutely essen- omy, and American manufacturing. Our bill also preserves $155 million (INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) tial in securing America’s future. for solar energy research that con- For Department of Energy expenses includ- Now, I understand the difficulty in ing the purchase, construction, and acquisi- drafting this bill, given the 302(b) allo- tinues to advance American manufac- tion of plant and capital equipment, and cation and the cuts for energy and turing and helps our companies com- other expenses necessary for energy effi- water that the subcommittee endured. pete globally. While I support activi- ciency and renewable energy activities in And I appreciate Chairman FRELING- ties that help American manufacturers carrying out the purposes of the Department HUYSEN and Ranking Member VIS- compete, we cannot afford to add un- of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et CLOSKY’s dedication to making difficult necessary funds to solar energy by cut- seq.), including the acquisition or condemna- choices in a tight budget climate. Yet ting other important priorities. tion of any real property or any facility or Indeed, the amendment would cut de- for plant or facility acquisition, construc- for fiscal 2013, critical energy research tion, or expansion, $1,450,960,000 to remain accounts have been drastically reduced partmental administration, a cut that available until expended: Provided, That of to $1.38 billion that actually exacted a we all know simply cannot be sus- such amount, $115,000,000 shall be available $428 million cut below fiscal year 2012. tained in the final appropriation with- until September 30, 2014, for program direc- Compared to last year, for example, out jeopardizing the Department of En- tion: Provided further, That for the purposes solar energy was cut nearly in half—to ergy’s ability to run and oversee their of allocating weatherization assistance funds $155 million—and wind energy, the fast- operation. They have enough manage- to States and tribes during fiscal year 2013, est energy sector growing globally, was ment problems now. Reducing that the Secretary of Energy may waive the allo- cut by one-quarter, to $70 million for management amount would make it cation formula established pursuant to sec- tion 414(a) of the Energy Conservation and R&D. Other programs like geothermal, difficult for them to run and oversee Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6864(a)): Provided water power, and building energy tech- the problems that they really need to further, That of the unobligated balances nologies received similar large cuts. oversee. from prior year appropriations available Last year, this body came together in So this amendment uses money we under this heading, $69,667,000 is hereby per- a bipartisan fashion to support a mod- simply do not have. It has perhaps the

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The gentleman nologies program is $25 million above Illinois and South Dakota who have from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- the President’s budget request. EERE’s spoken, and I may say repeatedly spo- utes. vehicle technologies program is $42 ken and advocated to me over the last couple of months on behalf of the high- b 1050 million above where it was just last year. EERE’s solar technology program energy physics program and national Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I receives $155 million, despite billions of laboratories in their congressional dis- rise in strong support of the gentle- dollars of recent loan guarantees to tricts and, in fact, all relevant national woman’s amendment. There is $10 mil- solar companies and several high-pro- laboratories that play a critical role in lion contained in her amendment. That file industry failures. maintaining our Nation’s scientific is a significant sum of money. When This amendment would remove $15 leadership and competitiveness. So I compared, however, to current year million from the EERE account, which recognize their advocacy, I appreciate level spending for the renewable ac- is spent on subsidizing solar power and it, and I certainly will be working with counts of $1.825 billion, and as the wind energy, and move it back to the them to do whatever we can to be of as- chairman rightfully pointed out, a re- Office of Science, where I would hope sistance. duction of $428 million from that ac- report language could specifically tar- We tried our very best in our bill to count, the gentlewoman’s amendment get it for the high-energy physics pro- help those and all of the Department’s is as much a statement of Congress as gram which is critical to our long-term remarkable national laboratories, but it is a monetary initiative. That is, we economic success and scientific leader- our constraints did not afford us the need to make an investment in our en- ship. luxury of bringing more money to the ergy future as well as our economic fu- At this time, I yield to the gentle- table in many cases. Many labs wanted ture. woman from South Dakota (Mrs. money, and these are remarkable labs, Renewable energy must be a part of NOEM). and they are deserving as well. that future, and the vast majority of Mrs. NOEM. Mr. Chairman, I would We did what we could for high-energy industries in our country throughout like to thank the gentleman from Illi- physics by shifting $16 million into our history have received substantial nois for yielding to me, and I appre- project engineering and design for the support from the government to be- ciate working with him on this impor- Long Baseline neutrino experiment. come established and to be part of this tant amendment. This allows the Department to move great Nation. This amendment would increase quickly in choosing a path forward for This amendment offered by the gen- funding for the Office of Science by $15 the program. We also ensured that the Homestake tlewoman from Ohio takes a very million while cutting an additional $15 mine, which is a remarkable mine and small, but very positive, step towards million from the underlying bill. a remarkable structure and a national making that investment, and I do urge Mr. Chair, the field of high-energy asset, has sufficient minimal funding my colleagues to join me in supporting physics is becoming increasingly com- to operate while that path forward is the amendment; and I yield back the petitive; and without critical deep un- yet to be determined. balance of my time. derground research spaces, we will con- The Acting CHAIR. The question is If more funding were available, we tinue to put our historic leadership in certainly would have brought more re- on the amendment offered by the gen- this area at risk, while continuing to sources to bear. Unfortunately, the tlewoman from Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR). send our best and brightest overseas to The question was taken; and the Act- amendment finds resources by cutting conduct their research. a program—and we discussed this ear- ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- But we can compete. Just this week lier—that has already been reduced by peared to have it. in my State of South Dakota, the San- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- $428 million. That’s a 24 percent reduc- ford Underground Research Facility tion from fiscal year 2012 and a 40 per- man, I demand a recorded vote. dedicated the Davis campus—4,850 feet The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to cent reduction below 2010. underground. Later this year, this I recognize—the committee recog- clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- campus is scheduled to hold a dark nizes—the importance of these pro- ceedings on the amendment offered by matter detector that after only 4 days grams, and I promise we’ll work with the gentlewoman from Ohio will be of operation stands to add more to our our colleagues as we move forward in postponed. knowledge than all previous dark mat- the appropriations process to be sup- AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. HULTGREN ter research experiments. We’re not portive and helpful, but I must reluc- Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Chairman, I talking about subsidies and giveaways tantly oppose the amendment. have an amendment at the desk. for ideas that are years or decades I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- down the road. This is cutting-edge Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I port the amendment. science that’s within our grasp. move to strike the last word. The Clerk read as follows: We need to make tough choices in The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman Page 20, line 15, after the dollar amount, our current budget situation, but we from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- insert ‘‘(reduced by $30,000,000)’’. also need to recognize the role that utes. Page 26, line 2, after the dollar amount, in- U.S. research plays in our ability to Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Chairman, I sert ‘‘(increased by $15,000,000)’’. compete and to innovate. So I urge my also would rise in reluctant opposition The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman colleagues to support our ability to to the gentleman’s amendment. As a from Illinois is recognized for 5 min- lead the world in underground science resident of the neighboring State, I re- utes. in a fiscally responsible way, and I urge alize all of the great scientific research Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Chairman, my support of this amendment. that is done in the State of Illinois amendment would transfer $15 million Mr. HULTGREN. Just briefly, Mr. alone at some of our wonderful Federal from the Energy Efficiency and Renew- Chairman, I urge adoption of this facilities. There is no question that we able Energy research program to the amendment. It does make sense. It’s a need to invest in the science account, Office of Science. It would also reduce commitment to basic scientific re- as evidenced by the fact it is in this the EERE account by an additional $15 search and fiscal accountability, and I bill. Again, we had a very difficult allo- million, which could be put towards urge support of the amendment, and I cation. Science is cut by $72,203,000. deficit reduction. yield back the balance of my time. But, unfortunately, I do think the The Obama administration has con- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair- gentleman’s amendment is counter- sistently prioritized industrial policy, man, I move to strike the last word. productive in that he, because of the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:18 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.037 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H3380 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 1, 2012 budget rules, needs a $30 million cut all energy technologies to compete I yield back the balance of my time. from renewable research to gain a $15 equally and on their own merits. Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam million add for scientific research. Most of the money in this program Chairman, I move to strike the last Given the constraints we face, I think goes to wind, solar, and car research word. that’s a bad bargain and we ought to development subsidies. We’re told The Acting CHAIR (Mrs. CAPITO). leave the $30 million right where it is that’s necessary to nurture these new The gentleman from New Jersey is rec- and have that aptly applied. and promising technologies. Well, ognized for 5 minutes. With that, I yield back the balance of these technologies are not new and Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam my time. they are not promising. Photovoltaic Chairman, I rise to oppose this amend- The Acting CHAIR. The question is cells, for example, were invented by ment, which would eliminate the Office on the amendment offered by the gen- French physicist Edmund Becquerel in of Energy Efficiency and Renewable tleman from Illinois (Mr. HULTGREN). 1839, and in more than 170 years of Energy at the Department of Energy. This year, the committee continued The question was taken; and the Act- technological research and innovation fulfilling its responsibility to reduce ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- and billions of dollars of taxpayer sub- government spending by eliminating peared to have it. sidies we have not yet invented a more ineffective and wasteful programs. Our Mr. DICKS. Mr. Chairman, I demand expensive way to produce electricity. bill cuts EERE by $428 million. That’s a recorded vote. So we hide its true costs to consumers a 24 percent cut below fiscal year 2012, The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to through subsidies taken from their nearly 40 percent below 2010, and well clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- taxes. Nor is there any earthly reason why below the 2000 level. Our bill slashes ceedings on the amendment offered by taxpayers should be forced to serve as programs that are ineffective and cuts the gentleman from Illinois will be the research and development depart- activities that improperly intervene in postponed. ment for General Motors or for any private markets. AMENDMENT NO. 6 OFFERED BY MR. MCCLINTOCK other company or technology. We’re The committee will continue its Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I told that, well, someday this research work to reduce spending and to keep have an amendment at the desk. might pay us back many times over. the government out of private enter- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will We’ve been told that for 40 years. Now, prise where private enterprise could designate the amendment. I hope someday that these empty make those substantial investments The text of the amendment is as fol- promises will be redeemed, but that’s themselves. lows: still not a reason for taxpayers to foot I yield back the balance of my time. Page 20, line 15, after the dollar amount, the bill. It’s a reason for the actual re- Mr. VISCLOSKY. Madam Chairman, insert ‘‘(reduced by $1,450,960,000)’’. search and development to be paid for I move to strike the last word. Page 20, line 16, after the dollar amount, by the companies that will profit from The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman insert ‘‘(reduced by $115,000,000)’’. this long-promised breakthrough. And from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- Page 56, line 24, after the dollar amount, if they’re not willing to finance it with utes. insert ‘‘(increased by $1,450,960,000)’’. their own money, we have no business Mr. VISCLOSKY. I appreciate the b 1100 forcing our constituents to finance it recommendation and also rise in oppo- sition to the gentleman’s amendment, The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman with theirs. and will simply state that my objec- from California is recognized for 5 min- All we’ve accomplished with these tion is based on national security con- utes. programs is to take dollars that would cerns. Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, have naturally flowed into the most ef- fective and promising technologies and The fact is, as the senior Senator this amendment saves nearly $1.5 bil- from Indiana, Senator LUGAR has char- lion by ending the failed Energy Effi- divert them instead to those that are politically favored. This misallocation acterized our energy crisis for years, ciency and Renewable Energy program. and I absolutely agree with him. The If we’re serious about an all-of-the- of resources not only destroys jobs and productive ventures, it ends up mini- fact is the importation of petroleum above energy policy, we have got to products in our use of carbon, because stop using taxpayer money to pick win- mizing our energy potential instead of maximizing it and destroying our of where we buy them, has created a ners and losers based on political con- significant national security issue for nections. Instead, we need to require wealth instead of creating it. Madam Chairman, voters entrusted the United States of America. every energy company to compete on Republicans with the House majority One of the accounts in the renewable its own merit as decided by the cus- with the very specific mandate to stop accounts that will be eliminated under tomers it attracts by offering better wasting money. Moreover, the House is the gentleman’s amendment is vehicle products at lower cost. where spending bills must originate. technology. There is no question Amer- For too long we have suffered from The government doesn’t spend a dollar ican citizens are suffering today be- the conceit that politicians can make unless the House says that it will spend cause of high gas prices. I myself—and better energy investments with tax- a dollar. I only speak for myself—can’t do any- payer money than investors can make A day doesn’t go by that we don’t thing about that particular price at the with their own money. It is this con- hear an indictment of Solyndra and its pump today. But if through the vehicle ceit that has produced the continuing multiplying scandals, and yet here we technology program and the wise in- spectacle of collapsing energy scandals have the Republican Energy appropria- vestment of the Federal taxpayers dol- epitomized by the Solyndra fiasco. At tions bill that continues to shovel bil- lars we can get every American an- least Solyndra was funded from a loan lions of dollars on the very same folly other mile per gallon, we have removed program in which the public has a that produced Solyndra. some of their economic discomfort and chance to get some of its money back Politicians love to appear at ribbon burden. We have also helped to begin to when these dubious schemes go bank- cuttings and issue self-congratulatory ensure our national security by reduc- rupt. This program is direct spending press releases at government-supported ing our dependency on foreign oil. that funds commercialization projects ‘‘alternative energy’’ businesses, but Therefore, I do strongly oppose the for ideologically pleasing technologies they fall strangely silent when asked gentleman’s amendment and yield and the politically favored firms that to actually account for the billions of back the balance of my time. make them, money that taxpayers our dollars that they’ve wasted. Well, The Acting CHAIR. The question is have no chance of recovering after it’s that day of reckoning has arrived. on the amendment offered by the gen- spent. These policies are impoverishing our tleman from California (Mr. MCCLIN- This amendment and the two that I country. Our taxpayers are exhausted. TOCK). will offer soon protect taxpayers from Our treasury is empty. It is past time The question was taken; and the Act- being forced into being venture capital- that this House majority proved wor- ing Chair announced that the noes ap- ists by incompetent politicians. It gets thy of the trust the American people peared to have it. government out of the energy business gave it more than a year and a half Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Madam Chair- and requires all energy companies and ago. man, I demand a recorded vote.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:18 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.040 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3381 The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to by April 1 of next year, the beginning The Weatherization Program has clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- of the Weatherization Program year for hundreds of millions of dollars in ceedings on the amendment offered by States. So that means there will be lit- unspent money. Some of it’s been obli- the gentleman from California will be tle to nothing available by the time gated; some of it has not been obli- postponed. that FY13 funds get to these States. gated. But sitting in that program and AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. TONKO The ARRA money and the money in the State programs he referred to is Mr. TONKO. Madam Chairman, I from fiscal year 2011 has been obligated a lot of Federal money from the stim- have an amendment at the desk. in contracts to subgrantees. In addi- ulus and other prior appropriations The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- tion to the cuts in weatherization in that remains unspent. So it’s not a port the amendment. this bill, the other source of Federal question of not having enough money. The Clerk read as follows: funds for this program, 10 percent of They just haven’t spent it down. Page 20, line 15, after the dollar amount in- LIHEAP funds, is also reduced due to Our bill provides enough funding, sert ‘‘(increased by $180,440,000)’’. the reductions in funding for that pro- new funding, that when combined with Page 30, line 5, after the dollar amount in- gram. the unspent funds, our bill will fully sert ‘‘(reduced by $180,440,000)’’. We’re going in the wrong direction. If fund each State at the fiscal year 2010 The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman someone can make the case that we level. That’s enough money for the from New York is recognized for 5 min- have fully exploited all of our opportu- States. More funding is unnecessary. utes. nities in weatherization or can dem- This amendment has unnecessary Mr. TONKO. Madam Chair, first I onstrate that we have done all that we funding, adds unnecessary funding, and want to thank my colleagues, Rep- can to make citizens’ homes and busi- it cuts our security, our national secu- resentative BISHOP, Representative nesses energy efficient, then winding rity, things we need to do for our nu- HIRONO, and Representative WELCH, for down the program would perhaps be clear stockpile, and I strongly oppose offering this amendment with me. reasonable. But we are a long way from it. Madam Chair, the Tonko-Bishop- achieving that goal. I yield back the balance of my time. Hirono-Welch amendment is simple Energy we do not have to use is, in Mr. BISHOP of New York. Madam and straightforward. It increases fund- fact, the cheapest energy available to Chair, I move to strike the last word. ing for two important State energy ef- us. We need to be doing much more in The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is ficiency programs in the Energy Effi- efficiency, not less. Efficiency should recognized for 5 minutes. ciency and Renewable Energy accounts be our fuel of choice. Mr. BISHOP of New York. Madam at the Department of Energy. This bill is skewed to reinforce our Chair, I rise to support the Tonko- The amendment would increase existing energy use patterns. It con- Bishop-Hirono-Welch amendment, and spending for the Weatherization Assist- tinues outsized investments in the es- I commend my good friend and fellow ance Program. Weatherization is the tablished energy industries that have New Yorker on his steadfast commit- largest residential efficiency program received generous Federal support for ment and long-standing leadership on in our Nation. Weatherization reduces nearly a century while renewable en- this issue. energy costs for low-income families ergy technologies are shortchanged. The increase to weatherization fund- and the elderly and disabled. It creates We should be lending Federal assist- ing provided in this amendment brings jobs, invests in local businesses, and ance where it is most needed: to indi- the Weatherization Assistance Pro- advances technology—state-of-the-art vidual citizens and to developing indus- gram funding close to its pre-Recovery technology. Weatherizing homes under tries that are struggling to bring new Act levels, which helped States retrofit this program saves $437 in annual util- energy technologies forward, such as close to 100,000 homes a year. In addi- ity bills for the average homeowner. solar, wind, and geothermal. The petro- tion, nearly 92 percent of the Recovery These energy savings insulate families leum industry has the means to sup- Act funds appropriated to the Weather- from rising energy costs by perma- port its own research. ization Program have been spent, nently lowering household energy de- Madam Chair, we are likely to be re- meaning that the recommended fund- mand for both heating and cooling. liant on fossil fuels for quite some ing level in this bill will result in a ma- Our amendment also restores funding time, and we should use these fuels jority of States receiving reduced Fed- to the State Energy Program, or SEP. wisely. An all-of-the-above strategy eral funding for weatherization. Argu- SEP is the only cost-shared program must include energy efficiency, and we ments to the contrary with respect to administered by the United States De- should support States’ efforts to en- available funds are simply not accu- partment of Energy that provides re- courage the adoption of new energy rate. sources directly to the States to sup- technologies and increase energy effi- New York has spent the entirety of port their efforts in energy efficiency. ciency. its Recovery Act funds on time and This includes 56 State and territory en- Let’s continue our history of bipar- under budget, weatherizing nearly ergy offices. And, according to a study tisan support for programs that save 70,000 units, 20 percent, over its initial by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, money, create jobs, and improve our goal. On Long Island, the Community for every dollar in Federal SEP funds energy security. Weatherization and Development Corporation of Long Is- we have 1.03 million source Btus, along SEP are such programs worthy of our land weatherized 3,000 units, thanks to with the cost savings of $7.22, and a support. I urge adoption of this amend- the Recovery Act, and has continued to leveraging of $10.71 on that same very ment. spend down the regularly appropriated dollar. With that, Madam Chair, I yield back funds it receives to retrofit qualified Madam Chair, these programs tradi- the balance of my time. homes. tionally have received strong bipar- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam Weatherization Assistance continues tisan support. Saving money by saving Chair, I move to strike the last word. to be a successful program, and we energy is good—good for everyone. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman must build on its success. Even after The bill’s deep cuts in weatherization from New Jersey is recognized for 5 the Recovery Act and regular appro- programs from recent years’ alloca- minutes. priations, the CDC of Long Island has a tions is so-called ‘‘justified’’ in the re- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I rise to wait list of 8,000 qualified homes that port by the claim that there are large strongly oppose the gentleman’s could be retrofitted for energy effi- amounts of unspent funds from pre- amendment. His amendment would put ciency. The demand is there. And this vious appropriations, including those at risk our nuclear security activities, is just Long Island. from the American Recovery and Rein- the things we’re doing to modernize Adequately funding the Weatheriza- vestment Act, ARRA. our nuclear stockpile, the type of in- tion Assistance Program to meet this vestments we’re making there that demand will have several positive ef- b 1110 help protect our country. And we would fects on communities and the economy. Well, the majority of these funds be adding money to programs that, It will reduce energy costs for home- have, in fact, been allocated, and I un- quite honestly, don’t need the money. owners, which is absolutely critical as derstand they will be completely spent He referenced some of those programs. these costs continue to climb. Perhaps

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If AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. CHAFFETZ Those are all reasonable things to we all agree that this Congress must do Mr. CHAFFETZ. Madam Chair, I look at in making this determination, more to foster an environment of job have an amendment at the desk. but until we can answer that question, creation, then I urge all of my col- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- I don’t think it’s appropriate to double leagues to support this amendment. port the amendment. the spending. I yield back the balance of my time. The Clerk read as follows: The third point I’d like to make from Ms. HIRONO. Madam Chair, I move the committee report on this par- Page 20, line 15, after the dollar amount in- to strike the last word. sert ‘‘(reduced by $74,000,000)’’. ticular line item reads: The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman Page 56, line 24, after the dollar amount in- The committee is concerned that, histori- from Hawaii is recognized for 5 min- sert ‘‘(increased by $74,000,000)’’. cally, technology innovations developed through the EERE research and development utes. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman Ms. HIRONO. Madam Chair, I rise to programs ultimately lead to the manufac- from Utah is recognized for 5 minutes. turing of new or cheaper products overseas. support the Tonko-Bishop-Hirono- Mr. CHAFFETZ. Madam Chair, I Welch amendment. This amendment So, if the conclusion of the com- have a simple amendment that takes a mittee is that the money we spend ulti- would increase the funding for the line item within the Energy Efficiency State Energy Program and the Weath- mately leads to the development of and Renewable Energy program back products overseas, maybe it’s not time erization Assistance Program. to the fiscal year 2011 level. Now, I The bill before us slices the State En- to double the spending there. think that’s probably a pretty reason- This amendment, Madam Chair, sim- ergy Program in half, from $50 million able approach to it. It’s not too long ply reduces the spending on this back to $25 million. I’m not sure what the ago. If left to my own devices, I’d prob- to 2011 levels. It’s a reasonable thing. justification for this is. This program ably zero it out. We can live within that. Again, if it is effective and we should continue to But if you go back and look within were up to me, I would zero it out, but support it. In fact, each dollar invested energy efficiency and renewable energy I am trying to be reasonable here. Let’s through the State Energy Program and then go back down and look at ad- save the $76 million, answer these ques- translates into $7.23 of savings on en- vanced manufacturing, which is the tions, and reevaluate the program. ergy costs. It also helps to leverage line item that I’m talking about, what That’s why I urge the adoption of this State and local funds for bigger im- this amendment suggests is that we amendment. pacts. would reduce spending on this, what is With that, I yield back the balance of Hawaii has utilized this funding for a proposed, by $74 million, taking it back my time. variety of beneficial activities. It has to the fiscal year 2011 level, which Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam been used to support expanded clean would be $76 million. Chair, I move to strike the last word. vehicle infrastructure, more energy-ef- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman ficient buildings, and other purposes. b 1120 from New Jersey is recognized for 5 This amendment also invests in the Now, that was not just some random minutes. Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I rise to op- Weatherization Assistance Program. number. There was real justification pose the gentleman from Utah’s This program helps the elderly, dis- for this, and I hope my colleagues on amendment. abled, and low-income families benefit both sides of the aisle will find this from energy efficiency upgrades. Our bill works hard to cut Federal reasonable. I’m going back, and I’m spending. We’re on his side. We want to Most folks think of helping weath- looking at the committee report for erize homes against cold weather, and reduce spending. Our committee has Energy and Water appropriations, and gone through the budget for the De- certainly that’s one of the key benefits there are three things that I want to of this program. In warm Hawaii, partment of Energy. We’ve taken a highlight within that committee re- look at it, and we’ve prioritized. In which has the highest energy costs in port, so I will read from that. the country, we also use in program. fact, we’ve already said in other de- The first one I want to highlight bates on other amendments that we’ve We help our families weatherize by in- reads: stalling money-saving things like en- cut this EERE, Energy Efficiency and ergy-efficient water heaters or insu- For example, the Advanced Manufacturing Renewable Energy, by $428 million. Program within Energy Efficiency and Re- lating existing water heaters. Since That’s 40 percent below the fiscal year newable Energy currently funds more than 2011 level. With the remaining funds, 2009, at least 800 homes in Hawaii have 40 centers in a variety of sizes, ages and ef- been able to improve energy efficiency we re-prioritize to invest in our Na- fectiveness levels, only a portion of which tion’s most pressing needs, one of through this program. A modest begin- are mentioned in the budget request. These which is in doing more research to help ning, but more, of course, needs to be centers vary in how well they support the American manufacturers compete and done. This has helped to create jobs program’s new manufacturing mission. Now, I don’t think it’s appropriate to survive. and give families the benefit of in- Let me restate: We do not increase literally double—double—from 2011 lev- creased energy efficiency. this account. We re-prioritize to ad- els the spending that we are going to I recognize the hard decisions that dress our Nation’s most pressing needs. are made in this bill, but these pro- have on these programs when we can’t In this case, the challenge is to keep grams that we just talked about may basically answer the questions about our American manufacturers competi- seem small but represent big savings the effectiveness levels. tive and to keep jobs here. Our bill does for families all across our country, and, In fact, I would go further into the that. Therefore, I must oppose the gen- in fact, it will save our country money committee’s report where it reads: tleman’s amendment. over the long term. Addressing this problem requires a higher I yield back the balance of my time. I urge my colleagues to support this degree of transparency, evaluation and Mr. VISCLOSKY. I move to strike amendment. prioritization to ensure that only highly ef- the last word. I yield back the balance of my time. fective centers closely aligned to program The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman The Acting CHAIR. The question is missions are funded. from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- on the amendment offered by the gen- I would agree with that. Until we can utes. tleman from New York (Mr. TONKO). as a body answer that question, it’s Mr. VISCLOSKY. I would join the The question was taken; and the Act- hardly a time to double the funding for chair in opposition to the amendment. ing Chair announced that the noes ap- this particular program. I would point out one of the fallacies peared to have it. The report further reads: of the gentleman’s argument that he

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In fact, our bill already funds research During general debate yesterday on My amendment would help us begin to in that area at above the fiscal year this floor, in my opening remarks, I make the kind of investments the scale 2012 level as part of our focus on pro- commended the members of the sub- of the opportunity before us requires, grams that address future gas prices. committee and particularly Chairman giving $50 million to the Department of Therefore, I do oppose her amendment. FRELINGHUYSEN for making sure we Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renew- I understand her views and her passion, don’t do that in this bill this year, and able Energy section. but I strongly oppose it. that there is throughout this bill and I drive an electric vehicle back in With that, I yield back the balance of that report language directives to the Los Angeles, and I haven’t been to a my time. Department of Energy to be focused on gas station since last September. Un- Mr. VISCLOSKY. Madam Chair- using this money wisely so that we fortunately, I don’t get to drive as far woman, I move to strike the last word. maintain and begin to grow our indus- as I want to because we haven’t yet The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman trial base and our manufacturing base built the electric vehicle charging in- from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- and keep these jobs here. frastructure that would help electric utes. This would be a mistake, and I am vehicle owners continue to drive as far Mr. VISCLOSKY. Madam Chair- opposed to the gentleman’s amend- as they want. The ‘‘range anxiety’’ of woman, I rise in reluctant opposition ment. not being able to find a charging sta- to the gentlewoman’s amendment for I yield back the balance of my time. tion when the battery goes low means the very reasons that I mentioned ear- The Acting CHAIR. The question is that many EV drivers don’t drive as far lier in debate when the gentleman from on the amendment offered by the gen- as they can and that many prospective Illinois had an amendment to cut tleman from Utah (Mr. CHAFFETZ). electric vehicle owners are scared off. EERE—the renewable accounts—to add The question was taken; and the Act- That’s why we need to get serious $15 million to science. Again, in this ing Chair announced that the noes ap- about addressing the barriers to the case, I don’t think it is wise for us to peared to have it. adoption of electric vehicles. make a choice of cutting fossil energy Mr. CHAFFETZ. Madam Chair, I de- Later this year, Nissan will be mak- research by $100 million to increase the mand a recorded vote. ing the LEAF, their electric vehicle, energy efficiency account by one-half The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to right here in America, in Tennessee. that amount, $50 million. clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Just last month, the Department of The fact is I understand that some ceedings on the amendment offered by Energy announced they were offering people have a significant concern about the gentleman from Utah will be post- $5 million to spur electric vehicle adop- the use of fossil fuels. I certainly do poned. tion, seeking proposals that address myself. But the fact remains that 83 AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MS. HAHN barriers to the adoption of these vehi- percent of all energy consumption in Ms. HAHN. Madam Chair, I have an cles and that drive market develop- the United States today is generated amendment at the desk. ment and transformation to make Al- by fossil fuel, and we need to apply our- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- ternative Fuel Vehicles and fueling in- selves to the wise and efficient use of port the amendment. frastructure widely available. that fuel as well. The Clerk read as follows: We need to be bolder. We ought to Again, I would reluctantly be op- Page 20, line 15, after the dollar amount in- have 100 times that much here, but I posed to the gentlewoman’s amend- sert ‘‘(increased by $50,000,000)’’. know my friends on the other side are ment, and I yield back the balance of Page 22, line 23, after the dollar amount in- a little timid about electric vehicles, my time. sert ‘‘(reduced by $100,000,000)’’. so I am only proposing 10 times as The Acting CHAIR. The question is The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman much. I’ve even reduced the budgetary on the amendment offered by the gen- from California is recognized for 5 min- authority of this bill by $50 million be- tlewoman from California (Ms. HAHN). utes. cause I know how much my Republican The question was taken; and the Act- Ms. HAHN. I think it is time that we friends like to cut spending. With the ing Chair announced that the noes ap- begin to allow Americans to ease off right investments and electric vehicle peared to have it. their dependence of oil and give them a infrastructure, we can clean our skies, Ms. HAHN. Madam Chair, I demand a real alternative. Every day, we see the free our foreign policy, strengthen our recorded vote. damage done by our dependence on oil. hand with regimes like Iran, and put The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to We see high gas prices threatening our money lost at the pump back into the clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- economic recovery and burdening fami- pockets of American consumers. ceedings on the amendment offered by lies already struggling to make ends Madam Chair, I hope my colleagues the gentlewoman from California will meet. We see higher respiratory disease on the other side will meet me halfway be postponed. rates. And we see any number of dis- on this, will meet Americans halfway. I AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. BROUN OF tant regimes holding our foreign policy hope you will support this amendment. GEORGIA hostage, weakening our ability to This is about jobs in America. This is Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Madam stand by our principles and our friends. about giving our American consumers Chairman, I have an amendment at the I think it’s time for us to throw off an alternative to their sole dependence desk. these burdens and step into the future, on oil. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will re- not double down on the dependencies of I yield back the balance of my time. port the amendment. the past. Yet somehow this bill allo- The Clerk read as follows: b 1130 cates almost five times more funding Page 20, line 15, after the dollar amount in- to deepening and extending our rela- Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam sert ‘‘(reduced by $335,000,000)’’. tionship with fossil energy than it does Chairman, I move to strike the last Page 56, line 24, after the dollar amount in- on advancing energy efficiency and word. sert ‘‘(increased by $335,000,000)’’. clean, renewable energy technologies. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is One of the most promising and nec- from New Jersey is recognized for 5 recognized for 5 minutes. essary things we can do to give Ameri- minutes. Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Madam cans an alternative to oil is to speed Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam Chairman, my amendment would re- our transition to electric vehicles. Pas- Chair, I rise to oppose the amendment. duce funding for the Energy Efficiency senger cars alone use more than 40 per- The amendment will reduce fossil and Renewable Energy account by $355 cent of the oil consumed in this coun- fuel energy by $50 million. And let’s million, with the intention of removing try. By 2020, the Natural Resources De- start by noting that fossil fuels all funding for vehicle technologies.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:18 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.049 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H3384 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 1, 2012 This reduction would be transferred to NUCLEAR ENERGY Cole Jackson Lee Posey the spending reduction account. For Department of Energy expenses includ- Conaway (TX) Price (GA) Jenkins ing the purchase, construction, and acquisi- Conyers Quayle Madam Chairman, I’m 100 percent Courtney Johnson (IL) Rahall tion of plant and capital equipment, and supportive of the automobile industry Cravaack Johnson (OH) Rangel producing more fuel-efficient auto- other expenses necessary for nuclear energy Crawford Johnson, E. B. Reed mobiles if they choose to do so; how- activities in carrying out the purposes of the Critz Johnson, Sam Renacci Department of Energy Organization Act (42 ever, there is simply no good reason Cuellar Jones Reyes U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the acquisition Jordan that the Federal Government should be Culberson Richardson or condemnation of any real property or any Cummings Keating Richmond subsidizing billion-dollar companies at facility or for plant or facility acquisition, Davis (IL) Kelly Rigell a time when our Nation is broke. construction, or expansion, and the purchase DeFazio Kildee Roe (TN) Over the past few years, we have seen of not more than 10 buses and 2 ambulances, DeGette King (IA) Rogers (MI) the automobile industry receive an un- all for replacement only, $765,391,000, to re- Denham Kinzinger (IL) Rokita main available until expended, of which Deutch Kissell Rooney precedented amount of government as- Kline sistance. We’ve seen an industry bail- $10,000,000 shall be derived from the Nuclear Dingell Ros-Lehtinen Waste Fund established in section 302(c) of Duncan (SC) Kucinich Ross (FL) out, the market-distorting Cash for the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 Duncan (TN) Lamborn Royce Clunkers, and many more subsidies all Edwards Landry Runyan U.S.C. 10222(c)), to be made available only to Langevin done with little regard for taxpayer support the high-level waste geologic reposi- Ellmers Scalise Farenthold Larson (CT) Schakowsky money. It’s time we begin to reverse tory at Yucca Mountain: Provided, That, of Lee (CA) the amount made available under this head- Fitzpatrick Schmidt this disturbing trend and let the auto- Flake Lewis (GA) Schock ing, $90,015,000 shall be available until Sep- mobile industry succeed or fail on its Fleming Lowey Schweikert own merits. tember 30, 2014, for program direction. Forbes Lucas Scott (SC) I urge support of my amendment, and ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Franks (AZ) Luetkemeyer Scott (VA) ´ Fudge Lujan Scott, Austin I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Lummis Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now Gardner Sensenbrenner Garrett Lungren, Daniel Serrano Chair, I move to strike the last word. E. resume on those amendments on which Gibbs Sessions Manzullo The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman further proceedings were postponed in Gibson Sewell Marchant from New Jersey is recognized for 5 the following order: Gingrey (GA) Sherman Markey minutes. Gohmert Shimkus An amendment by Mr. SCALISE of McCarthy (NY) Gonzalez Smith (TX) Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam Louisiana. McCaul Goodlatte Smith (WA) Chair, briefly I rise to oppose the An amendment by Mr. KING of Iowa. McClintock Gosar Southerland amendment. McCotter An amendment by Mr. MORAN of Vir- Gowdy Stearns I share my colleague’s concerns that McHenry ginia. Graves (GA) Sullivan we should not be funding activities McMorris An amendment by Mr. HULTGREN of Graves (MO) Rodgers Sutton that the private sector should do on its Illinois. Green, Al Meehan Thompson (MS) own. That’s why our bill cuts 24 per- An amendment by Mr. CHAFFETZ of Griffin (AR) Meeks Thornberry cent out of this account, only pre- Utah. Griffith (VA) Mica Tipton serving appropriate Federal activities Grimm Michaud Tonko Amendment No. 6 by Mr. MCCLINTOCK Hall Towns that are too risky for the private sec- Miller (FL) of California. Hanabusa Miller (MI) Turner (NY) tor to take on alone. The amendment An amendment by Ms. KAPTUR of Hanna Mulvaney Upton goes too far, undercuts our ability to Ohio. Harper Nugent Walberg Hastings (FL) Wasserman address gas prices, and therefore I must An amendment by Mr. TONKO of New Nunnelee Hayworth Schultz oppose it. York. Olson With that, I yield back the balance of Heck Pastor (AZ) Watt An amendment by Ms. HAHN of Cali- Hensarling Paulsen Welch my time. fornia. Herrera Beutler Pearce West Mr. VISCLOSKY. Madam Chair, I The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes Hinojosa Pelosi Westmoreland move to strike the last word. the time for any electronic vote after Hochul Pence Whitfield Holden Peters Wilson (FL) The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman the first vote in this series. from Indiana is recognized for 5 min- Huelskamp Petri Wilson (SC) Wittman utes. AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. SCALISE Hultgren Pingree (ME) The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Hurt Pitts Woodall Mr. VISCLOSKY. I simply would add Israel Platts Yarmuth my agreement to the chairman’s oppo- business is the demand for a recorded Jackson (IL) Polis Young (AK) sition to the amendment. vote on the amendment offered by the I had already remarked earlier in the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. SCA- NOES—177 day relative to my support for vehicle LISE) on which further proceedings Ackerman Chandler Gerlach technology and am opposed to the gen- were postponed and on which the noes Aderholt Chu Granger tleman’s amendment. prevailed by voice vote. Andrews Connolly (VA) Green, Gene The Clerk will redesignate the Austria Cooper Grijalva With that, I yield back the balance of Bachus Costello Guthrie my time. amendment. Baldwin Crenshaw Gutierrez The Acting CHAIR. The question is The Clerk redesignated the amend- Bartlett Crowley Hahn on the amendment offered by the gen- ment. Bass (NH) Davis (CA) Harris tleman from Georgia (Mr. BROUN). RECORDED VOTE Berg Davis (KY) Hartzler The amendment was rejected. Berkley DeLauro Hastings (WA) The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Berman Dent Higgins The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will has been demanded. Biggert DesJarlais Himes read. A recorded vote was ordered. Bishop (NY) Diaz-Balart Hinchey The Clerk read as follows: The vote was taken by electronic de- Black Dicks Hirono ELECTRICITY DELIVERY AND ENERGY vice, and there were—ayes 216, noes 177, Blackburn Doggett Holt RELIABILITY Blumenauer Dold Honda not voting 38, as follows: Bonamici Donnelly (IN) Hoyer For Department of Energy expenses includ- [Roll No. 306] Bonner Dreier Huizenga (MI) ing the purchase, construction, and acquisi- AYES—216 Bono Mack Duffy Hunter tion of plant and capital equipment, and Boswell Emerson Issa other expenses necessary for electricity de- Adams Bilbray Canseco Brady (PA) Engel Johnson (GA) livery and energy reliability activities in Akin Bilirakis Cantor Braley (IA) Eshoo Kaptur carrying out the purposes of the Department Alexander Bishop (GA) Carney Brooks Farr King (NY) of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et Altmire Bishop (UT) Carson (IN) Broun (GA) Fattah Kingston seq.), including the acquisition or condemna- Amash Boren Cassidy Bucshon Filner Labrador tion of any real property or any facility or Amodei Boustany Chabot Camp Fincher Lance Bachmann Brady (TX) Chaffetz Capito Fleischmann Lankford for plant or facility acquisition, construc- Barletta Brown (FL) Cicilline tion, or expansion, $123,000,000, to remain Capps Flores Larsen (WA) Barrow Buchanan Clarke (MI) Capuano Foxx Latham available until expended: Provided, That of Barton (TX) Buerkle Clarke (NY) Carnahan Frank (MA) Latta such amount, $27,600,000 shall be available Bass (CA) Burgess Cleaver Carter Frelinghuysen Levin until September 30, 2014, for program direc- Becerra Butterfield Coffman (CO) Castor (FL) Garamendi Lipinski tion. Benishek Campbell Cohen

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:49 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.054 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3385 LoBiondo Pallone Schwartz The Clerk will redesignate the Carson (IN) Hinchey Pingree (ME) Loebsack Perlmutter Shuster amendment. Castor (FL) Hirono Polis Lofgren, Zoe Peterson Simpson Chandler Holden Price (NC) Long Poe (TX) Sires The Clerk redesignated the amend- Cicilline Holt Quigley Lynch Pompeo Smith (NE) ment. Clarke (MI) Honda Rangel Maloney Price (NC) Clarke (NY) Hoyer Reyes Smith (NJ) RECORDED VOTE Marino Quigley Speier Cleaver Israel Richardson Matheson Rehberg Stark The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Cohen Jackson (IL) Richmond Matsui Reichert Connolly (VA) Jackson Lee Stivers has been demanded. Ross (AR) McDermott Ribble Conyers (TX) Stutzman Roybal-Allard McGovern Rivera A recorded vote was ordered. Cooper Johnson (GA) Terry Ruppersberger McIntyre Roby The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Costello Johnson, E. B. Rush McKinley Rogers (AL) Thompson (CA) Courtney Jones Thompson (PA) minute vote. Ryan (OH) McNerney Rogers (KY) Crawford Kaptur Sa´ nchez, Linda Miller (NC) Rohrabacher Tiberi The vote was taken by electronic de- Crenshaw Keating Tierney vice, and there were—ayes 203, noes 185, T. Miller, George Roskam Critz Kildee Sanchez, Loretta Moran Ross (AR) Turner (OH) Crowley Kucinich not voting 43, as follows: Sarbanes Murphy (CT) Roybal-Allard Van Hollen Cuellar Langevin Schakowsky Murphy (PA) Ruppersberger Visclosky [Roll No. 307] Cummings Larsen (WA) Schiff Myrick Rush Walden Davis (CA) Larson (CT) AYES—203 Schrader Nadler Ryan (OH) Waxman Davis (IL) Latta Adams Goodlatte Owens Schwartz Napolitano Ryan (WI) DeFazio Lee (CA) Webster Aderholt Gosar Scott (VA) Neugebauer Sa´ nchez, Linda Palazzo DeGette Levin Wolf Akin Gowdy Noem T. Paulsen DeLauro Lewis (GA) Sensenbrenner Womack Amash Granger Nunes Sanchez, Loretta Pearce Dent LoBiondo Serrano Woolsey Amodei Graves (GA) Olver Sarbanes Pence Deutch Lofgren, Zoe Sewell Yoder Austria Graves (MO) Owens Schiff Peterson Dicks Long Sherman Young (IN) Bachmann Griffith (VA) Palazzo Schrader Petri Dingell Lowey Shuster Bachus Guthrie Pitts Doggett Luja´ n Simpson Barletta Hall NOT VOTING—38 Platts Donnelly (IN) Lynch Sires Bartlett Harper Baca Heinrich Paul Poe (TX) Edwards Maloney Smith (WA) Barton (TX) Harris Burton (IN) Herger Rothman (NJ) Pompeo Engel Markey Speier Benishek Hartzler Calvert Kind Posey Eshoo Matheson Stark Schilling Berg Hayworth Cardoza LaTourette Price (GA) Farr Matsui Stivers Scott, David Bilirakis Heck Clay Lewis (CA) Quayle Fattah McCarthy (NY) Sutton Shuler Bishop (UT) Hensarling Clyburn Mack Rahall Filner McCotter Thompson (CA) Slaughter Black Herrera Beutler Coble McCarthy (CA) Reed Foxx McDermott Thompson (MS) Tsongas Blackburn Higgins Costa McCollum Frank (MA) McGovern Tiberi Vela´ zquez Bonner Hinojosa Rehberg Doyle McKeon Fudge McKinley Tierney Walsh (IL) Boswell Hochul Reichert Ellison Miller, Gary Garamendi McNerney Tipton Walz (MN) Boustany Huelskamp Renacci Fortenberry Moore Gardner Meehan Tonko Waters Brady (TX) Hultgren Ribble Gallegly Neal Gibson Meeks Towns Braley (IA) Hunter Rigell Guinta Pascrell Young (FL) Gonzalez Miller (NC) Upton Brooks Hurt Rivera Green, Al Miller, George Walden Broun (GA) Issa Roby b 1209 Green, Gene Moran Wasserman Buchanan Jenkins Roe (TN) Griffin (AR) Murphy (CT) Schultz Mr. WALDEN, Mrs. ROBY, Mr. Bucshon Johnson (IL) Rogers (AL) Grijalva Murphy (PA) Watt Buerkle Johnson (OH) Rogers (KY) MORAN, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Messrs. Grimm Nadler Waxman Burgess Johnson, Sam Rogers (MI) LATTA, KINGSTON, LABRADOR, Gutierrez Napolitano Welch Camp Jordan Rohrabacher Hahn Olver West BASS of New Hampshire, Ms. Campbell Kelly Rokita Hanabusa Pallone Whitfield BONAMICI, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ Canseco King (IA) Rooney Hanna Pastor (AZ) Wilson (FL) Cantor King (NY) Ros-Lehtinen of California, Messrs. SIMPSON, Hastings (FL) Pelosi Womack Capito Kingston Roskam FINCHER, SMITH of Nebraska, Hastings (WA) Perlmutter Woolsey Carter Kinzinger (IL) Ross (FL) Himes Peters Yarmuth DESJARLAIS, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Cassidy Kissell Royce Messrs. RYAN of Ohio, HONDA, RUSH, Chabot Kline Runyan NOT VOTING—43 Chaffetz Labrador Ryan (WI) and FRANK of Massachusetts changed Alexander Heinrich Paul Chu Lamborn Scalise their vote from ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Baca Herger Rothman (NJ) Coffman (CO) Lance Schmidt Bass (CA) Huizenga (MI) Schilling Messrs. JACKSON of Illinois, SCOTT Cole Lankford Schock of Virginia, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE Conaway Latham Burton (IN) Kind Scott, David Schweikert Calvert Landry JOHNSON of Texas, Ms. LEE of Cali- Cravaack Lipinski Scott (SC) Shuler Culberson Loebsack Cardoza LaTourette Slaughter fornia, Messrs. DAVIS of Illinois, Scott, Austin Clay Lewis (CA) Davis (KY) Lucas Sessions Tsongas THOMPSON of Mississippi, GRIFFITH Denham Luetkemeyer Clyburn Mack Van Hollen Shimkus Coble McCarthy (CA) of Virginia, Ms. WILSON of Florida, DesJarlais Lummis Vela´ zquez Smith (NE) Costa McCollum Messrs. REED, KINZINGER of Illinois, Diaz-Balart Lungren, Daniel Smith (NJ) Walsh (IL) Dold E. Doyle McKeon Smith (TX) Walz (MN) WESTMORELAND, CANTOR, Ms. Dreier Manzullo Ellison Miller, Gary Southerland Waters SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. WHITFIELD, Ms. Duffy Marchant Fortenberry Moore Stearns Young (FL) Duncan (SC) Marino Gallegly Neal CLARKE of New York, Messrs. AL Stutzman Duncan (TN) McCaul Guinta Pascrell GREEN of Texas, ISRAEL, AMODEI, Sullivan Ellmers McClintock ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Mrs. ELLMERS, Mr. CUELLAR, Mrs. Emerson McHenry Terry LOWEY, Messrs. MEEKS, CLEAVER, Farenthold McIntyre Thompson (PA) The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). FORBES, CONYERS, BECERRA, Mrs. Fincher McMorris Thornberry There is 1 minute remaining. Fitzpatrick Rodgers Turner (NY) MILLER of Michigan, Messrs. PASTOR Flake Mica Turner (OH) of Arizona, CICILLINE, GRAVES of Fleischmann Michaud Visclosky b 1212 Missouri, LUJA´ N, POLIS, NUGENT, Fleming Miller (FL) Walberg Flores Miller (MI) Webster So the amendment was agreed to. GONZALEZ, Ms. WASSERMAN Westmoreland SCHULTZ, Messrs. LANGEVIN, Forbes Mulvaney The result of the vote was announced Franks (AZ) Myrick Wilson (SC) as above recorded. DEUTCH, and HASTINGS of Florida Frelinghuysen Neugebauer Wittman changed their vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Garrett Noem Wolf AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. MORAN So the amendment was agreed to. Gerlach Nugent Woodall The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Gibbs Nunes Yoder The result of the vote was announced Gingrey (GA) Nunnelee Young (AK) business is the demand for a recorded as above recorded. Gohmert Olson Young (IN) vote on the amendment offered by the AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. KING OF IOWA gentleman from Virginia (Mr. MORAN) NOES—185 The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished on which further proceedings were Ackerman Berman Boren business is the demand for a recorded Altmire Biggert Brady (PA) postponed and on which the ayes pre- vote on the amendment offered by the Andrews Bilbray Brown (FL) vailed by voice vote. gentleman from Iowa (Mr. KING) on Baldwin Bishop (GA) Butterfield The Clerk will redesignate the which further proceedings were post- Barrow Bishop (NY) Capps amendment. Bass (NH) Blumenauer Capuano poned and on which the ayes prevailed Becerra Bonamici Carnahan The Clerk redesignated the amend- by voice vote. Berkley Bono Mack Carney ment.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:18 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN7.023 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H3386 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 1, 2012 RECORDED VOTE Griffin (AR) Marino Rokita The vote was taken by electronic de- Griffith (VA) Matheson Rooney vice, and there were—ayes 130, noes 256, The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Grimm McCaul Ros-Lehtinen has been demanded. Guthrie McClintock Roskam not voting 45, as follows: A recorded vote was ordered. Hall McCotter Ross (AR) [Roll No. 309] Hanna McHenry Ross (FL) The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Harper McIntyre Royce AYES—130 minute vote. Harris McKinley Runyan Adams Gosar Pence Hartzler McMorris The vote was taken by electronic de- Ryan (WI) Aderholt Gowdy Petri Hastings (WA) Rodgers Scalise Akin Graves (MO) Poe (TX) vice, and there were—ayes 152, noes 237, Heck Meehan Schmidt Amash Griffith (VA) Pompeo not voting 42, as follows: Hensarling Mica Schock Amodei Grimm Posey Herrera Beutler Miller (FL) [Roll No. 308] Schrader Bachmann Hall Price (GA) Hochul Miller (MI) Schweikert Bachus Hartzler Quayle AYES—152 Holden Mulvaney Scott (SC) Benishek Hensarling Huelskamp Murphy (PA) Ribble Ackerman Green, Al Olver Scott, Austin Berg Hinojosa Hultgren Myrick Rigell Andrews Green, Gene Pallone Sensenbrenner Biggert Hochul Hunter Neugebauer Roe (TN) Baldwin Grijalva Pastor (AZ) Sessions Bilirakis Huelskamp Hurt Noem Rogers (MI) Bass (CA) Gutierrez Pelosi Shimkus Black Hultgren Issa Nugent Rohrabacher Bass (NH) Hahn Shuster Blackburn Hunter Perlmutter Jenkins Nunes Rokita Becerra Hanabusa Brady (TX) Hurt Peters Johnson (IL) Nunnelee Simpson Rooney Berkley Hastings (FL) Brooks Jenkins Pingree (ME) Johnson (OH) Olson Smith (NE) Ros-Lehtinen Berman Hayworth Broun (GA) Johnson (IL) Platts Johnson, Sam Owens Smith (NJ) Roskam Bishop (NY) Higgins Buchanan Jordan Polis Jones Palazzo Smith (TX) Ross (FL) Blumenauer Himes Buerkle Kelly Price (NC) Jordan Paulsen Southerland Royce Bonamici Hinchey Burgess Kinzinger (IL) Quigley Kelly Pearce Stearns Ryan (WI) Brady (PA) Hinojosa Campbell Kline Rangel King (IA) Pence Stutzman Scalise Braley (IA) Hirono Canseco Labrador Reyes King (NY) Peterson Sullivan Schmidt Brown (FL) Holt Cantor Lamborn Richardson Kingston Petri Terry Schock Butterfield Honda Cassidy Landry Richmond Kinzinger (IL) Pitts Thompson (PA) Capps Hoyer Chabot Lofgren, Zoe Schweikert Roybal-Allard Kissell Poe (TX) Thornberry Capuano Israel Conaway Luetkemeyer Scott (SC) Ruppersberger Kline Pompeo Tiberi Carnahan Jackson (IL) Costello Lummis Scott, Austin Rush Labrador Posey Tipton Carney Jackson Lee Cravaack Lungren, Daniel Sensenbrenner Ryan (OH) Lamborn Price (GA) Turner (NY) Carson (IN) (TX) Dent E. Sessions Sa´ nchez, Linda Lance Quayle Turner (OH) Chu Johnson (GA) DesJarlais Manzullo Shimkus T. Landry Rahall Upton Cicilline Johnson, E. B. Duffy Marchant Smith (NE) Lankford Reed Walberg Clarke (MI) Kaptur Sanchez, Loretta Duncan (SC) Matheson Smith (TX) Latham Rehberg Walden Clarke (NY) Keating Sarbanes Duncan (TN) McClintock Southerland Latta Reichert Webster Cleaver Kildee Schakowsky Ellmers McCotter Stearns LoBiondo Renacci West Cohen Kucinich Schiff Farenthold McHenry Stutzman Loebsack Ribble Westmoreland Connolly (VA) Langevin Schwartz Fincher McKinley Thornberry Long Rigell Whitfield Conyers Larsen (WA) Scott (VA) Flake Miller (FL) Turner (NY) Lucas Rivera Wilson (SC) Cooper Larson (CT) Serrano Fleming Mulvaney Walberg Luetkemeyer Roby Wolf Courtney Lee (CA) Sewell Flores Myrick Webster Lummis Roe (TN) Womack Crowley Levin Sherman Forbes Neugebauer Westmoreland Lungren, Daniel Rogers (AL) Woodall Cummings Lewis (GA) Sires Franks (AZ) Noem Wilson (SC) E. Rogers (KY) Yoder Davis (CA) Lipinski Smith (WA) Garrett Nugent Wittman Manzullo Rogers (MI) Young (AK) Davis (IL) Lofgren, Zoe Speier Gingrey (GA) Olson Woodall Marchant Rohrabacher Young (IN) DeFazio Lowey Stark Gohmert Paulsen Young (AK) DeGette Luja´ n Sutton NOT VOTING—42 Goodlatte Pearce Young (IN) DeLauro Lynch Thompson (CA) Deutch Maloney Thompson (MS) Alexander Guinta Pascrell NOES—256 Baca Heinrich Paul Dicks Markey Tierney Altmire Cole Granger Dingell Matsui Tonko Burton (IN) Herger Rothman (NJ) Calvert Huizenga (MI) Schilling Andrews Connolly (VA) Green, Al Doggett McCarthy (NY) Towns Austria Conyers Green, Gene Dold McDermott Van Hollen Cardoza Kind Scott, David Clay LaTourette Shuler Baldwin Cooper Griffin (AR) Edwards McGovern Visclosky Barletta Courtney Grijalva Engel McNerney Wasserman Clyburn Lewis (CA) Slaughter Coble Mack Stivers Barrow Crawford Guthrie Eshoo Meeks Schultz Bartlett Crenshaw Gutierrez Farr Michaud Watt Costa McCarthy (CA) Tsongas Doyle McCollum Vela´ zquez Barton (TX) Critz Hahn Fattah Miller (NC) Waxman Bass (CA) Crowley Hanabusa Filner Miller, George Welch Ellison McKeon Walsh (IL) Emerson Miller, Gary Walz (MN) Bass (NH) Cuellar Hanna Fitzpatrick Moran Wilson (FL) Becerra Culberson Harper Frank (MA) Murphy (CT) Wittman Fortenberry Moore Waters Gallegly Neal Young (FL) Berkley Cummings Harris Fudge Nadler Woolsey Berman Davis (CA) Hastings (FL) Gonzalez Napolitano Yarmuth ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Bilbray Davis (IL) Hastings (WA) The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Bishop (GA) Davis (KY) Hayworth NOES—237 Bishop (NY) DeFazio Heck Adams Buchanan Donnelly (IN) There is 1 minute remaining. Bishop (UT) DeGette Herrera Beutler Aderholt Bucshon Dreier b 1216 Blumenauer DeLauro Higgins Akin Buerkle Duffy Bonamici Denham Himes Altmire Burgess Duncan (SC) So the amendment was rejected. Bonner Deutch Hinchey Amash Camp Duncan (TN) The result of the vote was announced Bono Mack Diaz-Balart Hirono Amodei Campbell Ellmers Boren Dicks Holden Austria Canseco Farenthold as above recorded. Boswell Dingell Holt Bachmann Cantor Fincher AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. HULTGREN Boustany Doggett Honda Bachus Capito Flake The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Brady (PA) Dold Hoyer Barletta Carter Fleischmann Braley (IA) Donnelly (IN) Israel Barrow Cassidy Fleming business is the demand for a recorded Brown (FL) Dreier Issa Bartlett Castor (FL) Flores vote on the amendment offered by the Butterfield Edwards Jackson (IL) Barton (TX) Chabot Forbes gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Camp Emerson Jackson Lee Benishek Chaffetz Foxx Capito Engel (TX) ULTGREN Berg Chandler Franks (AZ) H ) on which further pro- Capps Eshoo Johnson (GA) Biggert Coffman (CO) Frelinghuysen ceedings were postponed and on which Capuano Farr Johnson (OH) Bilbray Cole Garamendi the ayes prevailed by voice vote. Carnahan Fattah Johnson, E. B. Bilirakis Conaway Gardner The Clerk will redesignate the Carney Filner Jones Bishop (GA) Costello Garrett Carson (IN) Fitzpatrick Kaptur Bishop (UT) Cravaack Gerlach amendment. Carter Fleischmann Keating Black Crawford Gibbs The Clerk redesignated the amend- Castor (FL) Foxx Kildee Blackburn Crenshaw Gibson ment. Chaffetz Frank (MA) King (IA) Bonner Critz Gingrey (GA) Chandler Frelinghuysen King (NY) RECORDED VOTE Bono Mack Cuellar Gohmert Chu Fudge Kingston Boren Culberson Goodlatte The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Cicilline Garamendi Kissell Boswell Davis (KY) Gosar has been demanded. Clarke (MI) Gardner Kucinich Boustany Denham Gowdy A recorded vote was ordered. Clarke (NY) Gerlach Lance Brady (TX) Dent Granger Cleaver Gibbs Langevin Brooks DesJarlais Graves (GA) The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Coffman (CO) Gibson Lankford Broun (GA) Diaz-Balart Graves (MO) minute vote. Cohen Gonzalez Larsen (WA)

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:18 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.060 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3387 Larson (CT) Palazzo Serrano [Roll No. 310] LoBiondo Peterson Serrano Latham Pallone Sewell Loebsack Pingree (ME) Sewell Latta Pastor (AZ) Sherman AYES—140 Lofgren, Zoe Platts Sherman Lee (CA) Pelosi Shuster Adams Gowdy Paulsen Lowey Polis Shimkus Levin Perlmutter Simpson Akin Graves (GA) Pearce Lucas Price (NC) Shuster ´ Lewis (GA) Peters Sires Amash Graves (MO) Pence Lujan Quigley Simpson Lipinski Peterson Lynch Rahall Smith (NJ) Amodei Guthrie Petri Sires LoBiondo Pingree (ME) Maloney Rangel Smith (WA) Bachmann Hall Pitts Smith (NJ) Loebsack Pitts Marino Reed Speier Bachus Harris Poe (TX) Smith (WA) Long Platts Markey Rehberg Stark Barton (TX) Hayworth Pompeo Speier Lowey Polis Stivers Benishek Hensarling Matsui Reichert Stark Lucas Price (NC) Posey McCarthy (NY) Renacci Sullivan Bilirakis Huelskamp Price (GA) Stivers Luja´ n Quigley Bishop (UT) Hultgren McCotter Reyes Sutton Quayle Sullivan Lynch Rahall Terry Black Hunter McDermott Richardson Sutton Maloney Rangel Ribble McGovern Richmond Thompson (CA) Blackburn Hurt Thompson (CA) Marino Reed Rigell McHenry Rivera Thompson (MS) Bono Mack Issa Thompson (MS) Markey Rehberg Roe (TN) McIntyre Roby Thompson (PA) Boustany Jenkins Thompson (PA) Matsui Reichert Rohrabacher McKinley Rogers (AL) Tiberi Brady (TX) Johnson (IL) Tiberi McCarthy (NY) Renacci Rokita McNerney Rogers (KY) Tierney Brooks Johnson (OH) Tierney McDermott Reyes Rooney Meehan Rogers (MI) Tipton Broun (GA) Jones Tipton McGovern Richardson Ross (FL) Meeks Ros-Lehtinen Tonko Buchanan Jordan Tonko McIntyre Richmond Royce Michaud Roskam Towns Bucshon King (IA) Towns McMorris Rivera Ryan (WI) Miller (NC) Ross (AR) Turner (OH) Buerkle Kline Turner (OH) Rodgers Roby Scalise Miller, George Roybal-Allard Upton Burgess Labrador Van Hollen McNerney Rogers (AL) Camp Lamborn Schmidt Moran Runyan Van Hollen Visclosky Meehan Rogers (KY) Campbell Lance Schock Murphy (PA) Ruppersberger Visclosky Wasserman Meeks Ross (AR) Canseco Landry Schweikert Nadler Rush Walden Schultz Mica Roybal-Allard Cantor Lankford Scott (SC) Napolitano Ryan (OH) Wasserman ´ Watt Michaud Runyan Cassidy Latta Scott, Austin Noem Sanchez, Linda Miller (MI) Ruppersberger Schultz Waxman Chabot Long Sensenbrenner Olver T. Miller (NC) Rush Watt Owens Sanchez, Loretta Welch Chaffetz Luetkemeyer Sessions Miller, George Ryan (OH) Waxman Palazzo Sarbanes Whitfield Conaway Lummis Smith (NE) Moran Sa´ nchez, Linda Welch Pallone Schakowsky Wilson (FL) Cravaack Lungren, Daniel Smith (TX) Murphy (CT) T. West Pastor (AZ) Schiff Wittman DesJarlais E. Southerland Murphy (PA) Sanchez, Loretta Whitfield Duffy Manzullo Pelosi Schrader Womack Nadler Sarbanes Wilson (FL) Stearns Perlmutter Schwartz Woolsey Duncan (SC) Marchant Terry Napolitano Schakowsky Wolf Duncan (TN) Matheson Peters Scott (VA) Yarmuth Thornberry Nunes Schiff Womack Farenthold McCaul Turner (NY) NOT VOTING—46 Nunnelee Schrader Woolsey Fincher McClintock Upton Olver Schwartz Yarmuth Flake McMorris Ackerman Guinta Pascrell Owens Scott (VA) Yoder Fleming Rodgers Walberg Alexander Heinrich Paul Walden Baca Herger NOT VOTING—45 Flores Mica Rothman (NJ) Forbes Miller (FL) Webster Bass (CA) Huizenga (MI) Schilling Ackerman Graves (GA) Moore Foxx Miller (MI) West Burton (IN) Johnson, Sam Scott, David Alexander Guinta Neal Franks (AZ) Mulvaney Westmoreland Calvert Kind Shuler Baca Heinrich Pascrell Garrett Myrick Wilson (SC) Cardoza LaTourette Slaughter Bucshon Herger Paul Gibbs Neugebauer Wolf Clay Lewis (CA) Stutzman Burton (IN) Huizenga (MI) Rothman (NJ) Woodall Clyburn Mack Gingrey (GA) Nugent Tsongas Calvert Johnson, Sam Schilling Yoder Coble McCarthy (CA) Gohmert Nunes Vela´ zquez Cardoza Kind Scott, David Young (AK) Costa McCollum Goodlatte Nunnelee Walsh (IL) Clay LaTourette Shuler Gosar Olson Young (IN) Crowley McKeon Clyburn Lewis (CA) Slaughter Doyle Miller, Gary Walz (MN) Coble Mack Tsongas NOES—245 Ellison Moore Waters Costa McCarthy (CA) Vela´ zquez Fortenberry Murphy (CT) Young (FL) Aderholt Doyle McCaul Walsh (IL) Costello Griffith (VA) Gallegly Neal Altmire Ellison McCollum Walz (MN) Courtney Grijalva Andrews Fortenberry McKeon Waters Crawford Grimm ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Austria Gallegly Miller, Gary Young (FL) Crenshaw Gutierrez Baldwin Critz Hahn The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Barletta Cuellar Hanabusa There is 1 minute remaining. Barrow Culberson Hanna The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Bartlett Cummings Harper b 1223 There is 1 minute remaining. Bass (NH) Davis (CA) Hartzler Becerra Davis (IL) Hastings (FL) So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced b 1219 Berg Davis (KY) Hastings (WA) Berkley DeFazio Heck as above recorded. Mr. PALLONE changed his vote from Berman DeGette Herrera Beutler Biggert DeLauro Higgins AMENDMENT NO. 6 OFFERED BY MR. MCCLINTOCK ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Bilbray Denham Himes The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished So the amendment was rejected. Bishop (GA) Dent Hinchey business is the demand for a recorded The result of the vote was announced Bishop (NY) Deutch Hinojosa vote on the amendment offered by the as above recorded. Blumenauer Diaz-Balart Hirono Bonamici Dicks Hochul gentleman from California (Mr. AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. CHAFFETZ Bonner Dingell Holden MCCLINTOCK) on which further pro- The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Boren Doggett Holt ceedings were postponed and on which Boswell Dold Honda business is the demand for a recorded Brady (PA) Donnelly (IN) Hoyer the noes prevailed by voice vote. vote on the amendment offered by the Braley (IA) Dreier Israel The Clerk will redesignate the gentleman from Utah (Mr. CHAFFETZ) Brown (FL) Edwards Jackson (IL) amendment. on which further proceedings were Butterfield Ellmers Jackson Lee Capito Emerson (TX) The Clerk redesignated the amend- postponed and on which the noes pre- Capps Engel Johnson (GA) ment. vailed by voice vote. Capuano Eshoo Johnson, E. B. RECORDED VOTE The Clerk will redesignate the Carnahan Farr Kaptur Carney Fattah Keating The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote amendment. Carson (IN) Filner Kelly has been demanded. The Clerk redesignated the amend- Carter Fitzpatrick Kildee A recorded vote was ordered. ment. Castor (FL) Fleischmann King (NY) Chandler Frank (MA) Kingston The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- RECORDED VOTE Chu Frelinghuysen Kinzinger (IL) minute vote. The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Cicilline Fudge Kissell The vote was taken by electronic de- has been demanded. Clarke (MI) Garamendi Kucinich vice, and there were—ayes 113, noes 275, Clarke (NY) Gardner Langevin A recorded vote was ordered. Cleaver Gerlach Larsen (WA) not voting 43, as follows: The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Coffman (CO) Gibson Larson (CT) [Roll No. 311] Cohen Gonzalez Latham minute vote. AYES—113 The vote was taken by electronic de- Cole Granger Lee (CA) Connolly (VA) Green, Al Levin Adams Amash Bachus vice, and there were—ayes 140, noes 245, Conyers Green, Gene Lewis (GA) Aderholt Amodei Benishek not voting 46, as follows: Cooper Griffin (AR) Lipinski Akin Bachmann Bilirakis

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:31 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN7.026 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H3388 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 1, 2012 Bishop (UT) Hartzler Poe (TX) Murphy (PA) Rogers (AL) Smith (WA) Clarke (NY) Holt Pingree (ME) Blackburn Hensarling Pompeo Nadler Rogers (KY) Speier Cleaver Honda Platts Boustany Huelskamp Posey Napolitano Rogers (MI) Stark Coffman (CO) Israel Polis Brady (TX) Hultgren Price (GA) Noem Ros-Lehtinen Stivers Cohen Jackson (IL) Price (NC) Brooks Hunter Quayle Olver Roskam Sullivan Conyers Jackson Lee Quigley Broun (GA) Hurt Ribble Owens Ross (AR) Sutton Cooper (TX) Rahall Buerkle Issa Roe (TN) Palazzo Roybal-Allard Terry Costello Johnson (GA) Rangel Burgess Jenkins Rohrabacher Pallone Runyan Thompson (CA) Courtney Johnson, E. B. Reichert Campbell Jones Rokita Pastor (AZ) Ruppersberger Thompson (MS) Critz Jones Reyes Cantor Jordan Rooney Pelosi Rush Thompson (PA) Crowley Kaptur Richardson Cassidy Kline Ross (FL) Perlmutter Ryan (OH) Tiberi Cuellar Keating Richmond Chabot Labrador Royce Peters Sa´ nchez, Linda Tierney Cummings Kildee Ross (AR) Chaffetz Landry Ryan (WI) Peterson T. Tipton Davis (CA) King (IA) Roybal-Allard Conaway Long Scalise Pingree (ME) Sanchez, Loretta Tonko Davis (IL) Kucinich Runyan Culberson Lummis Schmidt Pitts Sarbanes Towns DeGette Lance Ruppersberger DesJarlais Manzullo Schweikert Platts Schakowsky Turner (OH) DeLauro Langevin Rush Duffy Marchant Scott (SC) Polis Schiff Van Hollen Dent Larsen (WA) Ryan (OH) Duncan (SC) McClintock Scott, Austin Price (NC) Schock Visclosky Deutch Larson (CT) Sa´ nchez, Linda Duncan (TN) McHenry Sensenbrenner Quigley Schrader Walden Dicks Latham T. Farenthold McMorris Sessions Rahall Schwartz Wasserman Dingell Lee (CA) Sanchez, Loretta Fincher Rodgers Southerland Rangel Scott (VA) Schultz Doggett Levin Sarbanes Flake Mica Stearns Reed Serrano Watt Dold Lewis (GA) Schakowsky Fleming Miller (FL) Stutzman Rehberg Sewell Waxman Donnelly (IN) Lipinski Schiff Flores Miller (MI) Thornberry Reichert Sherman Webster Edwards LoBiondo Schrader Foxx Mulvaney Turner (NY) Renacci Shimkus Welch Engel Loebsack Schwartz Franks (AZ) Myrick Upton Reyes Shuster Wilson (FL) Farr Lowey Scott (VA) Garrett Neugebauer Walberg Richardson Simpson Wittman Fattah Luja´ n Scott, Austin Gingrey (GA) Nugent West Richmond Sires Wolf Filner Lynch Sensenbrenner Gohmert Nunes Westmoreland Rigell Smith (NE) Womack Fitzpatrick Maloney Serrano Goodlatte Nunnelee Whitfield Rivera Smith (NJ) Woolsey Frank (MA) Markey Sewell Gosar Olson Wilson (SC) Roby Smith (TX) Yarmuth Fudge Matsui Sherman Gowdy Paulsen Woodall Garamendi McCarthy (NY) Sires Graves (GA) Pearce Yoder NOT VOTING—43 Gardner McDermott Smith (NJ) Graves (MO) Pence Young (AK) Ackerman Heinrich Pascrell Gerlach McGovern Smith (WA) Harris Petri Young (IN) Alexander Herger Paul Gibson McIntyre Speier Baca Huizenga (MI) Rothman (NJ) Gingrey (GA) McNerney Stark NOES—275 Burton (IN) Johnson, Sam Schilling Gonzalez Meeks Sutton Calvert Kind Goodlatte Mica Thompson (CA) Altmire Scott, David Davis (CA) Holt Cardoza Lamborn Green, Al Michaud Tierney Andrews Shuler Davis (IL) Honda Clay LaTourette Green, Gene Miller (NC) Tipton Austria Slaughter Davis (KY) Hoyer Clyburn Lewis (CA) Griffith (VA) Miller, George Tonko Baldwin Tsongas DeFazio Israel Coble Mack Grijalva Murphy (CT) Towns Barletta Vela´ zquez DeGette Jackson (IL) Costa McCarthy (CA) Gutierrez Nadler Van Hollen Barrow Walsh (IL) DeLauro Jackson Lee Doyle McCollum Hahn Napolitano Visclosky Bartlett Walz (MN) Denham (TX) Ellison McKeon Hanabusa Olver Wasserman Barton (TX) Dent Johnson (GA) Fortenberry Miller, Gary Waters Hastings (FL) Owens Schultz Bass (CA) Deutch Johnson (IL) Gallegly Moore Young (FL) Higgins Pallone Watt Bass (NH) Diaz-Balart Johnson (OH) Guinta Neal Himes Pastor (AZ) Waxman Becerra Dicks Johnson, E. B. Hinchey Pelosi Welch Berg Dingell Kaptur ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Hinojosa Perlmutter Wilson (FL) Berkley Doggett Keating The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Hirono Peters Woolsey Berman Dold Kelly Hochul Peterson Yarmuth Biggert Donnelly (IN) Kildee There is 1 minute remaining. Bilbray Dreier King (IA) NOES—200 Bishop (GA) Edwards King (NY) b 1227 Bishop (NY) Ellmers Kingston Adams Duffy Johnson (OH) Black Emerson Kinzinger (IL) So the amendment was rejected. Aderholt Duncan (SC) Jordan Blumenauer Engel Kissell The result of the vote was announced Altmire Duncan (TN) Kelly Bonamici Eshoo Kucinich as above recorded. Amash Ellmers King (NY) Bonner Farr Lance Amodei Emerson Kingston Bono Mack Fattah Langevin AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MS. KAPTUR Austria Farenthold Kinzinger (IL) Boren Filner Lankford The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Bachmann Fincher Kissell Boswell Fitzpatrick Larsen (WA) business is the demand for a recorded Bachus Flake Kline Brady (PA) Fleischmann Larson (CT) Barletta Fleischmann Labrador Braley (IA) Forbes Latham vote on the amendment offered by the Barton (TX) Fleming Lamborn Brown (FL) Frank (MA) Latta gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR) Benishek Flores Landry Buchanan Frelinghuysen Lee (CA) on which further proceedings were Berg Forbes Lankford Bucshon Fudge Levin postponed and on which the ayes pre- Biggert Foxx Latta Butterfield Garamendi Lewis (GA) Bilbray Franks (AZ) Lofgren, Zoe Camp Gardner Lipinski vailed by voice vote. Bilirakis Frelinghuysen Long Canseco Gerlach LoBiondo The Clerk will redesignate the Bishop (UT) Garrett Lucas Capito Gibbs Loebsack amendment. Black Gibbs Luetkemeyer Capps Gibson Lofgren, Zoe Blackburn Gohmert Lummis Capuano Gonzalez Lowey The Clerk redesignated the amend- Bonner Gosar Lungren, Daniel Carnahan Granger Lucas ment. Boustany Gowdy E. Carney Green, Al Luetkemeyer RECORDED VOTE Brady (TX) Granger Manzullo Carson (IN) Green, Gene Luja´ n Brooks Graves (GA) Marchant Carter Griffin (AR) Lungren, Daniel The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Broun (GA) Graves (MO) Marino Castor (FL) Griffith (VA) E. has been demanded. Buchanan Griffin (AR) Matheson Chandler Grijalva Lynch A recorded vote was ordered. Bucshon Grimm McCaul Chu Grimm Maloney Buerkle Guthrie McClintock Cicilline Guthrie Marino The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- Camp Hall McCotter Clarke (MI) Gutierrez Markey minute vote. Campbell Hanna McHenry Clarke (NY) Hahn Matheson The vote was taken by electronic de- Canseco Harper McKinley Cleaver Hall Matsui vice, and there were—ayes 183, noes 200, Cantor Harris McMorris Coffman (CO) Hanabusa McCarthy (NY) Capito Hartzler Rodgers Cohen Hanna McCaul not voting 48, as follows: Cassidy Hastings (WA) Meehan Cole Harper McCotter [Roll No. 312] Chabot Hayworth Miller (FL) Connolly (VA) Hastings (FL) McDermott Cole Heck Miller (MI) Conyers Hastings (WA) McGovern AYES—183 Conaway Hensarling Moran Cooper Hayworth McIntyre Andrews Bishop (NY) Capps Connolly (VA) Herrera Beutler Mulvaney Costello Heck McKinley Baldwin Blumenauer Capuano Cravaack Holden Murphy (PA) Courtney Herrera Beutler McNerney Barrow Bonamici Carnahan Crawford Hoyer Myrick Cravaack Higgins Meehan Bartlett Bono Mack Carney Crenshaw Huelskamp Neugebauer Crawford Himes Meeks Bass (CA) Boren Carson (IN) Culberson Hultgren Noem Crenshaw Hinchey Michaud Bass (NH) Boswell Castor (FL) Davis (KY) Hunter Nugent Critz Hinojosa Miller (NC) Becerra Brady (PA) Chandler Denham Hurt Nunes Crowley Hirono Miller, George Berkley Braley (IA) Chu DesJarlais Issa Nunnelee Cuellar Hochul Moran Berman Brown (FL) Cicilline Diaz-Balart Jenkins Olson Cummings Holden Murphy (CT) Bishop (GA) Butterfield Clarke (MI) Dreier Johnson (IL) Palazzo

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:31 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN7.030 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3389 Paulsen Rooney Thompson (MS) Green, Al Lipinski Ruppersberger Roskam Simpson Visclosky Pearce Ros-Lehtinen Thompson (PA) Green, Gene Loebsack Rush Ross (AR) Smith (NE) Walberg Pence Roskam Thornberry Grijalva Lowey Ryan (OH) Ross (FL) Smith (NJ) Walden Petri Ross (FL) Tiberi Gutierrez Lynch Sa´ nchez, Linda Royce Smith (TX) Webster Pitts Royce Turner (NY) Hahn Maloney T. Runyan Smith (WA) West Poe (TX) Ryan (WI) Turner (OH) Hanabusa Markey Sanchez, Loretta Ryan (WI) Southerland Westmoreland Pompeo Scalise Upton Hanna Matsui Sarbanes Scalise Stivers Whitfield Posey Schmidt Walberg Hastings (FL) McCarthy (NY) Schakowsky Schiff Stutzman Wilson (SC) Price (GA) Schock Schmidt Sullivan Walden Higgins McDermott Schrader Wittman Quayle Schweikert Himes McGovern Schock Terry Webster Schwartz Wolf Reed Scott (SC) Hinchey McNerney Schweikert Thompson (CA) West Scott (VA) Womack Rehberg Sessions Hinojosa Meeks Scott (SC) Thompson (PA) Westmoreland Renacci Shimkus Hirono Michaud Serrano Scott, Austin Thornberry Woodall Ribble Shuster Whitfield Hochul Miller (NC) Sewell Sensenbrenner Tiberi Yoder Rigell Simpson Wilson (SC) Holden Miller, George Sherman Sessions Tipton Young (AK) Rivera Smith (NE) Wittman Holt Moran Sires Shimkus Turner (OH) Young (IN) Roby Smith (TX) Wolf Hoyer Murphy (CT) Speier Shuster Upton Roe (TN) Southerland Womack Israel Nadler Stark Rogers (AL) Stearns Woodall Jackson (IL) Napolitano Sutton NOT VOTING—47 Rogers (KY) Stivers Yoder Jackson Lee Olver Thompson (MS) Ackerman Gallegly Neal Rogers (MI) Stutzman Young (AK) (TX) Pallone Tierney Alexander Guinta Pascrell Rohrabacher Sullivan Young (IN) Johnson (GA) Pelosi Tonko Baca Heinrich Paul Rokita Terry Johnson (IL) Perlmutter Towns Burgess Herger Rothman (NJ) Johnson, E. B. Peters Burton (IN) Honda NOT VOTING—48 Turner (NY) Schilling Jones Peterson Van Hollen Calvert Huizenga (MI) Scott, David Ackerman Ellison Miller, Gary Kaptur Pingree (ME) Wasserman Cardoza Johnson, Sam Shuler Keating Polis Akin Eshoo Moore Schultz Carter Kind Slaughter Alexander Fortenberry Neal Kildee Price (NC) Chaffetz LaTourette Watt Stearns Baca Gallegly Pascrell Kucinich Quigley Clay Lewis (CA) Waxman Tsongas Burgess Guinta Paul Langevin Rahall Clyburn Mack Welch Vela´ zquez Burton (IN) Heinrich Rothman (NJ) Larson (CT) Rangel Coble McCarthy (CA) Wilson (FL) Calvert Herger Schilling Lee (CA) Richardson Costa McCollum Walsh (IL) Cardoza Huizenga (MI) Scott, David Levin Richmond Woolsey Doyle McKeon Walz (MN) Carter Johnson, Sam Shuler Lewis (GA) Roybal-Allard Yarmuth Ellison Miller, Gary Waters Chaffetz Kind Slaughter Fortenberry Moore Young (FL) Clay LaTourette Tsongas NOES—236 Clyburn Lewis (CA) Vela´ zquez ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Adams Coble Mack Walsh (IL) Ellmers Long Aderholt The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Costa McCarthy (CA) Walz (MN) Emerson Lucas Akin There is 1 minute remaining. DeFazio McCollum Waters Farenthold Luetkemeyer Altmire ´ Doyle McKeon Young (FL) Fincher Lujan Amash Flake Lummis ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Amodei Fleischmann Lungren, Daniel b 1233 Andrews Fleming E. So the amendment was rejected. The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Austria Flores Manzullo There is 1 minute remaining. Bachmann Forbes Marchant The result of the vote was announced Bachus Foxx Marino as above recorded. b 1230 Barletta Franks (AZ) Matheson Stated against: Barrow Frelinghuysen McCaul So the amendment was rejected. Bartlett Gardner McClintock Mr. STEARNS. Madam Chair, on rollcall No. The result of the vote was announced Barton (TX) Garrett McCotter 313 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been as above recorded. Benishek Gerlach McHenry present, I would have voted ‘‘no.’’ Berg Gibbs McIntyre AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. TONKO Berkley Gingrey (GA) McKinley AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MS. HAHN The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Berman Gohmert McMorris The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded Biggert Gonzalez Rodgers business is the demand for a recorded Bilbray Goodlatte Meehan vote on the amendment offered by the Bilirakis Gosar Mica vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. TONKO) Bishop (UT) Gowdy Miller (FL) gentlewoman from California (Ms. on which further proceedings were Black Granger Miller (MI) HAHN) on which further proceedings postponed and on which the noes pre- Blackburn Graves (GA) Mulvaney were postponed and on which the noes Bonner Graves (MO) Murphy (PA) vailed by voice vote. Bono Mack Griffin (AR) Myrick prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the Boren Griffith (VA) Neugebauer The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. Boustany Grimm Noem amendment. Brady (TX) Guthrie Nugent The Clerk redesignated the amend- Brooks Hall Nunes The Clerk redesignated the amend- ment. Broun (GA) Harper Nunnelee ment. RECORDED VOTE Buchanan Harris Olson RECORDED VOTE Bucshon Hartzler Owens The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Buerkle Hastings (WA) Palazzo The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. Camp Hayworth Pastor (AZ) has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. Campbell Heck Paulsen A recorded vote was ordered. Canseco Hensarling Pearce The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Cantor Herrera Beutler Pence The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2- minute vote. Capito Huelskamp Petri minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic de- Cassidy Hultgren Pitts The vote was taken by electronic de- vice, and there were—ayes 148, noes 236, Chabot Hunter Platts vice, and there were—ayes 139, noes 245, Chandler Hurt Poe (TX) not voting 47, as follows: Coffman (CO) Issa Pompeo not voting 47, as follows: [Roll No. 313] Cole Jenkins Posey [Roll No. 314] Conaway Johnson (OH) Price (GA) AYES—148 Cravaack Jordan Quayle AYES—139 Baldwin Carson (IN) DeFazio Crawford Kelly Reed Amash Butterfield Cummings Bass (CA) Castor (FL) DeGette Crenshaw King (IA) Rehberg Andrews Capps Davis (CA) Bass (NH) Chu DeLauro Critz King (NY) Reichert Baldwin Capuano Davis (IL) Becerra Cicilline Deutch Cuellar Kingston Renacci Bass (CA) Carnahan DeFazio Bishop (GA) Clarke (MI) Dingell Culberson Kinzinger (IL) Reyes Bass (NH) Carney DeGette Bishop (NY) Clarke (NY) Doggett Davis (KY) Kissell Ribble Becerra Carson (IN) Deutch Blumenauer Cleaver Edwards Denham Kline Rigell Berkley Castor (FL) Dicks Bonamici Cohen Engel Dent Labrador Rivera Berman Chu Dingell Boswell Connolly (VA) Eshoo DesJarlais Lamborn Roby Bilbray Cicilline Doggett Brady (PA) Conyers Farr Diaz-Balart Lance Roe (TN) Bishop (GA) Clarke (MI) Edwards Braley (IA) Cooper Fattah Dicks Landry Rogers (AL) Bishop (NY) Clarke (NY) Eshoo Brown (FL) Costello Filner Dold Lankford Rogers (KY) Blumenauer Cleaver Farr Butterfield Courtney Fitzpatrick Donnelly (IN) Larsen (WA) Rogers (MI) Bonamici Cohen Fattah Capps Crowley Frank (MA) Dreier Latham Rohrabacher Boswell Connolly (VA) Filner Capuano Cummings Fudge Duffy Latta Rokita Brady (PA) Conyers Frank (MA) Carnahan Davis (CA) Garamendi Duncan (SC) LoBiondo Rooney Braley (IA) Cooper Garamendi Carney Davis (IL) Gibson Duncan (TN) Lofgren, Zoe Ros-Lehtinen Brown (FL) Crowley Gibson

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:43 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN7.032 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H3390 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 1, 2012 Grijalva Loebsack Roybal-Allard Ryan (OH) Smith (TX) Upton will meet at noon for morning-hour Gutierrez Lofgren, Zoe Ruppersberger Ryan (WI) Southerland Visclosky Hahn Lowey Rush Scalise Stearns Walberg and 2 p.m. for legislative business. Hanabusa Luja´ n Sa´ nchez, Linda Schmidt Stivers Walden Votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. Hastings (FL) Lynch T. Schock Stutzman Webster On Wednesday and Thursday, the Higgins Maloney Sanchez, Loretta Schweikert Sullivan West House will meet at 10 a.m. for morning- Himes Markey Sarbanes Scott (SC) Sutton Westmoreland Hinchey Matsui Schakowsky Scott, Austin Terry Whitfield hour and noon for legislative business. Hinojosa McDermott Schiff Sensenbrenner Thompson (MS) Wilson (SC) On Friday, the House will meet at 9 Hirono McGovern Schrader Sessions Thompson (PA) Wittman a.m. for legislative business. The last Hochul McNerney Schwartz Sewell Thornberry Wolf votes of the week are expected no later Holt Meeks Scott (VA) Shimkus Tiberi Womack Honda Michaud Serrano Shuster Tipton Woodall than 3 p.m. Hoyer Miller (NC) Sherman Simpson Towns Yoder Mr. Speaker, the House will consider Israel Miller, George Sires Smith (NE) Turner (NY) Young (AK) a number of bills under suspension of Jackson (IL) Moran Smith (WA) Smith (NJ) Turner (OH) Young (IN) Johnson (GA) Nadler Speier the rules, a complete list of which will Johnson (IL) Napolitano Stark NOT VOTING—47 be announced by the close of business Johnson, E. B. Olver Thompson (CA) Ackerman Fortenberry Moore today. I expect the majority of these Jones Pallone Tierney Alexander Gallegly Neal bills to come from the Natural Re- Kaptur Pastor (AZ) Tonko Baca Granger Pascrell sources Committee, and I want to Keating Pelosi Van Hollen Burgess Guinta Paul Kildee Perlmutter Wasserman Burton (IN) Heinrich Rothman (NJ) thank Chairman DOC HASTINGS and his Kissell Peters Schultz Calvert Herger Schilling staff for their tireless work in assisting Kucinich Pingree (ME) Watt Cardoza Huizenga (MI) Scott, David Langevin Members on both sides of the aisle with Polis Waxman Carter Johnson, Sam Shuler Lee (CA) Price (NC) Welch Chaffetz Kind their bills to responsibly remove Fed- Slaughter Levin Quigley Wilson (FL) Clay LaTourette Tsongas eral red tape that stands in the way of Lewis (GA) Rangel Woolsey Clyburn Lewis (CA) Vela´ zquez local economic development. Lipinski Reyes Yarmuth Coble Mack Costa McCarthy (CA) Walsh (IL) Members are also advised that the NOES—245 Doyle McCollum Walz (MN) House will resume consideration of Duncan (TN) McKeon Waters H.R. 5325, the Energy and Water Devel- Adams Fleming Lungren, Daniel Ellison Miller, Gary Young (FL) Aderholt Flores E. opment Appropriations Act, on Tues- Akin Forbes Manzullo ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR day, our first day back next week. Altmire Foxx Marchant The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Those wishing to offer amendments to Amodei Franks (AZ) Marino Austria Frelinghuysen Matheson There is 1 minute remaining. the bill should be prepared to do so as Bachmann Fudge McCarthy (NY) b 1237 soon as they return to Washington. Bachus Gardner McCaul The House may also consider two ad- Barletta Garrett McClintock So the amendment was rejected. ditional appropriations bills next week: Barrow McCotter Gerlach The result of the vote was announced H.R. 5855, the Department of Homeland Bartlett Gibbs McHenry as above recorded. Barton (TX) Gingrey (GA) McIntyre Security Appropriations Act, sponsored Benishek Gohmert McKinley PERSONAL EXPLANATION by Representative ROBERT ADERHOLT; Berg Gonzalez McMorris Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Chair, I was un- Biggert Rodgers and H.R. 5882, the Legislative Branch Goodlatte avoidably detained and missed rollcall vote Bilirakis Gosar Meehan Appropriations Act, sponsored by Rep- Bishop (UT) Gowdy Mica Nos. 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313 resentative ANDER CRENSHAW. Chair- Black Graves (GA) Miller (FL) and 314. Had I been present, I would have man HAL ROGERS and the entire Appro- Blackburn Graves (MO) Miller (MI) Bonner Mulvaney voted ‘‘aye’’ on rollcall vote Nos. 308, 312, priations Committee on both sides of Green, Al and 313. Had I been present, I would have Bono Mack Green, Gene Murphy (CT) the aisle should be congratulated for Boren Griffin (AR) Murphy (PA) voted ‘‘no’’ on rollcall vote Nos. 306, 307, 309, helping to restore the open process of Boustany Griffith (VA) Myrick 310, 311 and 314. allocating and prioritizing the Nation’s Brady (TX) Grimm Neugebauer Brooks Noem Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam spending. Guthrie Broun (GA) Nugent Chair, I move that the Committee do Hall Finally, Mr. Speaker, the House will Buchanan Nunes Hanna now rise. consider H.R. 436, the Protect Medical Bucshon Nunnelee Harper The motion was agreed to. Buerkle Olson Innovation Act, a very important bill Harris Camp Owens Accordingly, the Committee rose; for jobs and innovation in the medical Hartzler Campbell Palazzo and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. TUR- Hastings (WA) device industry, that Representative Canseco Paulsen Hayworth NER of New York) having assumed the ERIK PAULSEN is sponsoring. The Paul- Cantor Pearce Heck chair, Mrs. CAPITO, Acting Chair of the Capito Pence sen bill will be combined with H.R. Hensarling Cassidy Peterson Committee of the Whole House on the 5842, the Restoring Access to Medica- Herrera Beutler Chabot Petri state of the Union, reported that that Holden tion Act, sponsored by Representative Chandler Pitts Committee, having had under consider- Coffman (CO) Huelskamp Platts LYNN JENKINS, and H.R. 1004, the Med- Cole Hultgren Poe (TX) ation the bill (H.R. 5325) making appro- ical FSA Improvement Act, sponsored Hunter Conaway Pompeo priations for energy and water develop- by Representative CHARLES BOUSTANY. Costello Hurt Posey Issa ment and related agencies for the fiscal Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman Courtney Price (GA) year ending September 30, 2013, and for Cravaack Jackson Lee Quayle for that information, and I want to Crawford (TX) Rahall other purposes, had come to no resolu- make the comment that the gentleman Crenshaw Jenkins Reed tion thereon. correctly congratulated the appropria- Critz Johnson (OH) Rehberg Cuellar Jordan Reichert f tions leadership on his side of the aisle. Culberson Kelly Renacci b 1240 I also want to observe that on our Davis (KY) King (IA) Ribble side of the aisle there has been co- DeLauro King (NY) Richardson LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM operation, and there’s not been an ef- Denham Kingston Richmond Dent Kinzinger (IL) Rigell (Mr. HOYER asked and was given fort to either delay or dissemble. That DesJarlais Kline Rivera permission to address the House for 1 is why this process works. That’s the Diaz-Balart Labrador Roby minute.) way it should work. It hasn’t always Lamborn Dold Roe (TN) been that way, as the gentleman Donnelly (IN) Lance Rogers (AL) Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Dreier Landry Rogers (KY) the gentleman from Virginia, the ma- knows, but I’m pleased that it is work- Duffy Lankford Rogers (MI) jority leader, for the purposes of in- ing. I think that’s best for our institu- Duncan (SC) Larsen (WA) Rohrabacher quiring about the schedule for the tion, and I think it’s best for the coun- Ellmers Larson (CT) Rokita Emerson Latham Rooney week to come. try. So I’m pleased at that, as well. Engel Latta Ros-Lehtinen Mr. CANTOR. I thank the gentleman I tell my friend—and he knows this— Farenthold LoBiondo Roskam from Maryland, the Democratic whip, according to the schedule I have, the Fincher Long Ross (AR) for yielding. House is scheduled to be in session a Fitzpatrick Lucas Ross (FL) Flake Luetkemeyer Royce Mr. Speaker, on Monday the House is total of 28 days until the August break Fleischmann Lummis Runyan not in session. On Tuesday the House and 41 days from now until November.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:43 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN7.035 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3391 Of the 41 days available, 10 are 6:30 days we approach the date at which this with this says revenues need to be on in which we come in for an abbreviated country will, by operation of law, expe- the table. The same entitlements need evening session which usually takes a rience the largest tax increase in its to be on the table. Neither are easy to half hour to an hour to conclude after history, that sequester will be imposed, deal with, but they must be dealt with afternoon debate on suspension bills. that we perhaps will face another debt if we’re going to be responsible stew- With the limited time we have avail- ceiling vote as well as many of the ards of this Nation’s finances and this able, Mr. Leader, I am very concerned, items the gentleman mentioned. I Nation’s future. as the gentleman knows, of the ex- think all of us understand the gravity Political rhetoric is not going to get traordinarily large number of very big of those issues. us there. We all want to help small fiscal questions that will be coming to Mr. Speaker, I think we have also business, and we believe we have helped roost at the end of this year. My view seen in operation around here, together small business very substantially. is that we need to address those. Hope- with the White House, the difficulties Frankly, if you get into the analysis, fully, we will address them in a bipar- that the two sides have had coming to- small businesses did very well during tisan way. If we do not address them, gether on two very important issues the Clinton administration under poli- we will put the economy at continuing that run throughout all of the matters cies that were in place at that point in risk. that the gentleman mentioned, and time. The Bush tax cuts, as you know, ex- those two issues are health care and That aside, we need to deal with this, pire as of December 31. The payroll tax taxes. and I think a number of members on cut expires December 31. The sustain- As the gentleman knows, we have put your side have, in fact, indicated that able growth rate—which we affection- forward a solution to the health care they understand that everything needs ately refer to as the doc fix—the alter- entitlement issue, which is the dis- to be on the table, and that is what I native minimum tax, and the debt proportionate cause of the unfunded li- think as well. I think both sides have limit all come to bear at the end of the abilities of the Federal budget. The things that they don’t want to deal year. gentleman, the President, and his with, but Americans expect us to deal In addition to that, the sequester— party have rejected our solution that with tough things and make tough de- which I think all of us believe is not has been validated by the Congres- cisions on behalf of them, on behalf of the appropriate way to go, but is the sional Budget Office as an actual fix to their children and on behalf of their way we set up to force us to take ac- the deficit. families. tion on a comprehensive, big, bold, bal- To date we have not seen any coun- On small business and economic anced plan. Unfortunately, the super- terproposal with the gentleman, his growth, this leads me to the highway committee was unable to reach agree- party, or the President coming to the bill. We continue to be very concerned, ment on that. table saying here’s how we would fix it. Mr. Majority Leader, that we have not I wanted to say to my friend, the ma- All we continue to hear, Mr. Speaker, reached agreement on the highway bill. jority leader, I would hope that you is we need to raise taxes, and we need The Senate was able to reach an over- would be urging all of us and I would to raise more taxes on people who have whelmingly bipartisan agreement on join with you in that effort in urging been successful. the highway bill, which is a jobs bill. all of us to be ready to make some The gentleman knows that those are I was disappointed, and I hope the tough decisions, but decisions which the two issues, the taxes and the health gentleman was disappointed at the jobs need to be made in order to stabilize care fix, that we’ve just had real dif- numbers that came out today: 82,000 in our economy and stabilize the fiscal ficulty in trying to come together. I the private sector, lost 13,000 in the posture of the United States. I am would say to the gentleman we remain public sector, net: 69,000 jobs. That hopeful that we can reach a credible ready to work with him and his col- does not get us to where we want to be and sustainable fiscal path for our leagues on that other side of the aisle after losing millions and millions of country. to try and produce a result for the jobs in the previous administration and b 1250 American people so we can re-inject losing a substantial number of jobs in The only way we are going to do that some certainty back into the minds of the administration before. Over the is if we work together in a bipartisan the American people that the economy last 26 months, we have grown 4 mil- fashion. The gentleman and I were very is going to get better. lion jobs, but the hole was very deep, successful in working on the Export- Again, we tried to focus on issues and we’re not out of it. If you don’t Import Bank legislation in a bipartisan having to do with growth in the private have a job, you know we’re not out of fashion in which we got over 300 votes sector. How do we speak to that small it. I would hope that we could at least, for on the House floor. The gentleman businessman or -woman who’s having with certainly our side believing, that was unable to make the signing but it difficulty now assessing what his or her the highway bill is a jobs bill. was signed this week, I think a very taxes are going to be? How do we speak Ray LaHood, as I pointed out in the positive step forward. I appreciated the to that working mother there when she past, a former leader in your party and gentleman’s work on that piece of leg- questions whether her health care will chairman of a subcommittee in the Ap- islation. still be available given the uncertainty propriations Committee, says that it’s I would like to urge the gentleman around the Obama health care bill? a jobs bill but unfortunately concludes that because of the extraordinarily These are the kinds of things we are that bill is not passing, he believes, for short number of days that we have left trying to work together on. So many largely political reasons. I hope that’s to meet, to focus on what I think is other things elude us because the gulf not the case and don’t assert it to be going to be what some people call a fis- is so wide philosophically in dealing the case. cal train wreck, some people call it a with taxes and health care. Do you have any idea what kind of fiscal perfect storm, some people call it Mr. Speaker, we remain ready to progress we’re making on the highway a fiscal perfect cliff. Whatever you call work with the gentleman. We share the bill so that bill can come to the floor it, it clearly will have a great impact concern about what lies ahead. before the June 30 expiration of the on not only the confidence that Ameri- Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman. I highway authorization? cans have in this body and the Senate was not trying to make political points I yield to my friend. to work and to make effective plans for or rhetoric in raising the issues that I Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I would meeting that challenge, but also for did. I frankly think that it doesn’t get say to the gentleman, as he knows, the getting our country on a fiscally sus- us very far, I would suggest to the ma- House has passed its bill, the Senate tainable path. I don’t know whether jority leader, and we need to get some- has passed theirs, conferees have been the gentleman has any comments on place. America expects us to get some- appointed, and obviously we’re very that. place. mindful, as you see, of the expiration I yield to the gentleman. Many of your members have indi- of the current authorizing language Mr. CANTOR. I thank the gentleman. cated that revenues need to be on the and law. We are prepared to make sure I agree with him that all of us should table. The gentleman knows that every that there is no stoppage of transpor- be very focused on the months ahead as bipartisan commission that has dealt tation programming and funding, all

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The gen- the needs for roads and infrastructure I know that there was opposition to tleman is aware that largely, through repair, as well as the needed expansion. that reduction when it was originally my tenure in the Congress, we’ve treat- As the gentleman knows, we all are on the floor in 2007. I know there was ed our civilian employees and our mili- mindful of the limited resources that some opposition to it earlier this year. tary employees with parity. I would are available to address these needs. But I also know that I think both you hope that the gentleman would not Just trying to prioritize, I am hope- and the Speaker have indicated now think of continuing to go to the Fed- ful that the conference committee can that they support that. We passed leg- eral employee, as we go to no other em- come to a solution prior to the expira- islation on this floor which brought ployees, and the gentleman is not in- tion of the authorizing language in that down when there was, obviously, terested in asking anybody else to par- place right now. Again, we are very very substantial disagreement and con- ticipate more in paying for this in mindful. We don’t want to allow for troversy with reference to the funding terms of revenues. But your side has shutdown of any program at the end of source, given the preventive health been continuing to propose reducing this month. fund that was used to fund the student the pay and benefits of the Federal em- Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman. aid. ployees. I appreciate his observation. Clearly Can the gentleman tell me whether My view is, and I have said this pub- we don’t want to have the authority for or not he believes there’s a possibility licly, that if we can reach a big, bold, the highway bill to expire without ac- for us to reach agreement on how to do balanced deal and it’s balanced—but tion, but I will reiterate my offer to this? I know the Speaker said this was just going to one pocket, one group of my friend, the majority leader, and say a ‘‘phony’’ fight, but it is a real fight people, who studies show, depending that given the bipartisan, the over- and it will have real consequences if we upon the level you’re working at, many whelming bipartisan, support of the don’t resolve our differences. Can the are not paid comparably to their pri- bill that came from the other party, gentleman comment on what he be- vate sector, some others are, is not a that if we brought that bill to the lieves to be the possibility of reaching fair, balanced way to proceed. I would hope that that option would be not on floor, I would tell the gentleman that agreement with the Senate on the stu- the table. I know the administration we will have the overwhelming, per- dent loan bill? put it on the table for a larger deal, but haps unanimous support, which would Mr. CANTOR. I would say to the gen- I’m going to urge that that not be an be 190 votes on our side of the aisle for tleman that the Speaker and I, to- gether with the Republican leader and option. that bill because we believe it is a jobs I know that I have talked to some of whip in the Senate, have sent a letter bill. We believe it will grow the econ- your side from your State who believe to the President—perhaps the gen- omy, it will put people back to work. that’s not an option that ought to be tleman has seen it—suggesting a way It will give confidence to the Amer- pursued. As a matter of fact, one of forward on the issue of student loans so ican people, as we did with the Export- them voted against the MilCon bill that there will not be an expiration of Import Bank in my view, give con- yesterday because of a provision deal- fidence to the American people that we the subsidy provided to students. ing with further reducing the net take- We suggested two options to allow can come together and move forward home pay for Federal employees. through reaching agreement. for the continuation of the lower rates So I would hope that would not be an for students to be paid for by provi- b 1300 option, and I would hope that we can sions which the President has sug- reach an option so we can contain the Obviously, the Senate was able to do gested that he would agree to. The two cost of college for young people, be- that. And they did it overwhelmingly, options are to limit the length of in- cause that’s not only good for them, with over half of the Republican caucus school interest subsidy and the other is it’s good for the competitive stature of voting for it in the Senate and three- to revise the Medicaid provider tax the United States of America. quarters of the Senate voting for it. threshold and to phase it down so that With respect to the reconciliation I would say to my friend, I think that we can actually achieve some savings bill that you mentioned, you men- would be a real shot in the arm for the so that we can allow for the continu- tioned the fact that you were dealing economy. And I agree with the gen- ation of the subsidized rates for stu- with the deficit. In fact, as the gen- tleman, certainty is important. Con- dents who are struggling on their tui- tleman knows, in terms of your health fidence building is important. And if tion bills. care provisions, they do not, within the we did that, in my view, and if you These are two options that we sug- next 20 years, get the Federal budget to could bring half of your caucus to that gest. They are bipartisan in nature. balance in the Ryan budget. So al- vote, we would pass that bill over- There shouldn’t be any reason why we though you deal with that in some re- whelmingly. And I think it would be a couldn’t get this done prior to the expi- spects, it doesn’t get us to balance and very positive step for the economy, ration of the current law. therefore does not, in my opinion, give very positive step for the confidence of Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman. the confidence and certainty that the the American people and our economy Just for his information, I would be a American economy needs and that and put people back to work. very strong opponent of your first op- American citizens need. I don’t know whether the gentleman tion, which continues to want to re- I want to ask the gentleman, lastly, wants to comment on that further, but duce the take-home pay of Federal em- if he expects all 12 appropriations if he does, I will yield to him. ployees. Federal employees, under the bills—I know we’re going to do Energy Mr. CANTOR. Thank you. plans that you have passed through and Water; we’ve now already done two Mr. Speaker, I say to the gentleman this House, will have already been of our bills—whether or not he expects I have no further comment. asked to pay $105 billion in reduction all 12 appropriations bills to be on the Mr. HOYER. Lastly, if I might, the in pay and benefits over 10 years. floor, considered, and completed prior student loan interest rate, as you That’s $10 billion per year you’re sug- to the August break. know, will go up at the end of this gesting that our employees have their Mr. CANTOR. If I could, Mr. Speaker, month from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. That will net take-home pay reduced. just point the gentleman’s attention add substantially additional cost to lit- In addition, the additional proposal back to the student loan issue. erally millions of students, some thou- in your reconciliation bill would add I specifically did not offer up the op- sand dollars of additional cost to most another $78 billion to that, $183 billion tion of the Federal employee pay-for students at a time when we want to in total, or $18.3 billion per year reduc- because I do know that we have a dif- make higher education, so necessary tion in pay and benefits for Federal ference on that. So the gentleman ex- for success in our country, available to employees. The gentleman, in his plained the differences. We understand

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But it is a more (Mr. YODER asked and was given in a responsible fashion, allow us to balanced plan that would have reached permission to address the House for 1 continue the lower rates. balance in fact more quickly, I believe, minute and to revise and extend his re- Mr. HOYER. I don’t want to inter- than the Ryan plan. marks.) rupt, other than to clarify. So we do have a plan. We presented Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to As I understand the two options, one that plan. We offered it on the House honor the life of a true public servant was the option of making additional— floor. I voted for that plan. The over- from the great State of Kansas. Kansas in the letter I read. Maybe I’m incor- whelming majority of the party on this State Representative Bob Bethell rep- rect. If you can correct me. side of the aisle voted for that plan. So resented the 113th District in the State Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, there there is a plan, so I think the gen- House and hailed from Alden, Kansas, were two options: One was the Federal tleman is not correct in saying that we not too far from the farm where I grew employee pay-for in and of itself, the haven’t offered a plan. We have; the up. Representative Bethell served the reductions in the size of the Federal plan has not passed, the gentleman is people of Kansas in the State House for Government, would have taken care of absolutely correct on that. The Senate 14 years and was a staunch advocate for the pay-for, if you will, for the student and the House have not agreed on a education, health, and long-term care. loan issue. The other option was com- plan. I’m not sure that they will be His distinguished career includes serv- posed of two different provisions, both able to agree on a plan. I think that’s ing as mayor of Alden, as a pastor in of which are bipartisan in nature and unfortunate, but perhaps we can agree his community, a school principal, and the President says he supports. One of on the appropriations bills. a director of college admissions. Addi- those is to limit the length of in-school We are hopeful that the appropria- tionally, Bob was a private business interest subsidies; the other was to re- tions bills will be agreed upon con- owner, operating long-term health care vise the Medicaid provider tax thresh- sistent with the agreement that we facilities. old. It was those two components that thought we had at the funding levels of I was saddened to learn of the tragic comprise option two. That is my point. $1.047 trillion for discretionary spend- car accident State Representative Bob Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman ing. The bills that have been offered Bethell suffered while driving home for his clarification. are closer to that number than I think from the Kansas legislature recently Mr. CANTOR. I’m not quite sure we will find as later bills come, we on Sunday, May 20. I served with Bob about the note he made about our don’t know that, but that is the specu- for 8 years in the Kansas House, and I budget not balancing within the budget lation. The Senate has agreed that we always remembered him as a kind and window. I would say to the gentleman, ought to mark up to that figure, but we caring man who never took himself too we understand that, but it is a plan haven’t marked up to that figure in the seriously—always wearing his trade- appropriations bills. But if we com- that we could adopt that would provide mark Mickey Mouse ties. plete the appropriations bills, as the a blueprint for getting us back on A true public servant. Bob, we’re gentleman says he wants to do, I think track as far as managing down the debt going to miss you. it would be good to do. and deficit. And my point originally Is it the gentleman’s perspective that f was, Mr. Speaker, there’s been no such we will mark to $1.047 trillion or $1.028 BRINGING FOCUS TO TICK-BORNE plan, there’s been no such proffer from trillion? That’s a $19 billion difference, DISEASES the President or the gentleman’s side a substantial difference, we understand of the aisle. (Mr. GIBSON asked and was given that. In the Senate, the Republicans permission to address the House for 1 b 1310 and Democrats have agreed to mark to minute and to revise and extend his re- So in order for us to move forward, the higher number. Can the gentleman marks.) we need participation from both sides. comment on whether or not at the end Mr. GIBSON. Mr. Speaker, over the We can’t just have one side providing a of the day we’ll be able to get agree- last district work period, my colleague ment on the agreement that we solution without the ability to get that PAUL TONKO and I hosted a conference solution put into place because the thought we had in the Budget Control to bring focus to better prevention, gentleman’s party is in control in the Act? testing, treatment, and insurance cov- Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I would other body and in the White House. So erage for victims of Lyme and associ- just say to the gentleman, he and I how do we go about trying to find com- ated tick-borne diseases. have discussed this before in these col- monality if there is no proffer of solu- This conference was constituent-driv- loquies, and I would suggest turning tion? That was my point, Mr. Speaker. en. Over the past couple of years, I’ve attention to a Senate that hasn’t even And there has been no solution, bal- heard from hundreds of constituents begun considering its appropriations anced or not, provided by the other who were suffering from Lyme or who bills, to suggest that we would come to side. had family members of close friends an agreement with the Senate, I think, And I would say lastly to the gentle- suffering from this disease. Two of you know, the Senate has got to really man’s inquiry about the appropriations these constituents took the lead and start to do its work as far as the appro- process, we certainly maintain the po- organized this conference, Christina priations process is concerned. sition we’d like to see all of our bills I yield back. Fisk and Holly Ahern. They did a ter- brought to the floor through regular Mr. HOYER. I don’t have a rebuttal rific job. order, consistent with the Speaker’s to that, so I will yield back my time. We had a dynamic keynote speaker, policy of an open debate that we have experts on the scope and the economic f seen thus far in the appropriations burden of Lyme, and a very encour- bills. We had a successful completion ADJOURNMENT TO TUESDAY, aging presentation by Dr. Horowitz on yesterday, and we are continuing in JUNE 5, 2012 a new approach for the diagnosis and the Energy and Water appropriations Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask treatment that identifies co-infections measure today and as we come back unanimous consent that when the and other environmental hazards as next week. House adjourns today, it adjourn to the cause for chronic Lyme symptoms. Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman meet at noon on Tuesday next for This approach could potentially for that information, and I want to say morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for leg- unite the medical community, pres- to the gentleman that I disagree that islative business. ently divided over whether chronic there is no plan. Mr. VAN HOLLEN, the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Lyme exists. We also received briefings ranking member of the Budget Com- objection to the request of the gen- on supporting doctors who treat chron- mittee, did in fact have a plan, pre- tleman from Virginia? ic Lyme patients, protecting the blood

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She earned her JD from map for the way ahead. gressman Gibson has taken a leadership role Loyola University and an MBA from USC. in encouraging forward thinking, collabo- She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Last year, I was proud to support an rative problem solving, and the search for LymeDisease.org and is a director and an of- $8.75 million increase for the better new ideas, to improve the lives of patients ficer of the International Lyme and Associ- testing and reporting of Lyme, but and families affected by Lyme and other ated Diseases Society. She sits on the steer- much more needs to be done. I am sub- TBDs. We all hope that this forum will in- ing committee of Consumers United for Evi- mitting for the RECORD our conference spire new initiatives in both the public and dence-Based Healthcare, a nationwide coali- materials, and I look forward to work- private sectors to advance these critical tion of consumer groups associated with the ing with my colleagues on this vital issues. Cochrane Collaboration. She is also a mem- ber of the international Cochrane Consumer public health issue. We are hopeful that LymeNEXT will be only the first of many such events that will Network and serves as a consumer peer re- A FORUM ON TICK-BORNE DISEASES— lead to greater public awareness, better viewer for Cochrane Collaboration evidence- WHAT’S NEXT? diagnostics, and effective treatments for based protocols and reviews. She has spoken (at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, these multifactorial, protean, and debili- before state legislatures, the CDC, at the Ca- May 21, 2012) tating diseases. nadian government consensus hearings on CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Sincerely, Lyme disease, and at the IDSA review panel HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CHRISTINA T. FISK, hearing and before the Cochrane Consumer Washington, DC, May 21, 2012. Co-Chair. Network. Richard I. Horowitz, MD is a Board Cer- DEAR FRIENDS: Welcome to the Forum on HOLLY AHERN, Tick-Borne Diseases—What’s Next here at Co-Chair. tified Internist and Director of the Hudson Skidmore College. I am pleased that you Organizing Committee: Steve Bulger, Dis- Valley Healing Arts Center, in Hyde Park, took the time to attend what I believe will trict Director for Congressman Gibson; Steve New York, USA. He is a founding member of ILADS, and is President of the International be an informative and thought provoking ex- Borgos, Logistics; JoAnn Borgos, Volun- Lyme and Associated Disease Educational change of ideas from a variety of perspec- teers; Mary Beth Bulger, Social Media. Foundation (ILADEF), an organization dedi- tives. KEYNOTE ADDRESS As a Member of Congress representing cated to the education of health profes- (By Pamela Weintraub, Executive Editor, sionals in the diagnosis and treatment of communities in the eastern part of New Discover Magazine) tick-borne disorders. Dr. Horowitz has treat- York State, I have received a number of re- ed over 12,000 chronic Lyme disease patients quests over the past year asking me to look Into the Woods: The Patient Journey through in the last 25 years, and has researched and into the subject of Lyme and other tick- Lyme Disease published extensively on the role of co-infec- borne diseases. Lyme disease and its co-in- Inspired by her own family’s personal tions in patients with persistent symptoms. fections are prevalent throughout the coun- nightmares with Lyme disease, Pamela He was awarded the Humanitarian of the try, with the northeast section of the US suf- Weintraub called upon her professional skills Year award by the Turn the Corner Founda- fering especially high incidence rates. My as an investigative journalist and science tion in 2007, for his ongoing work with chron- studies of the subject have revealed not only writer to undertake a meticulous and de- ic Lyme disease. Dr. Horowitz has presented the unpleasant realities of the diseases and tailed investigation of the elaborate and his work to institutions, organizations, and their impact on victims, but also the confu- complex issues that constitute the medical, government agencies around the world, in- sion and divergence of opinions surrounding political, cultural, and economic components cluding ILADS conferences around the globe; the identification, understanding, and treat- of Lyme disease. Her findings are chronicled UNESCO in Paris and JNI—National Infec- ments of the diseases that are appearing in her powerful book, Cure Unknown, which tious Disease conference France. Dr. Horo- with ever increasing frequency in all our won the American Medical Writers Associa- witz was recently invited to consult with the communities. tion book competition in 2009. Her work has top officials within the government of China New studies, including an important one served to define the varied and contentious (CDC/Ministry of Health) on the difficulties conducted at SUNY Adirondack (State Uni- elements that are part of all conversations of diagnosing and treating Lyme disease and versity of New York), indicate that Lyme concerning Lyme disease, and her investiga- co-infections, and the efficacy of an integra- disease may be far more prevalent than we tory skill and literary precision helped to uncover the real story behind the multi-fac- tive approach to these diseases. had originally suspected. Additionally, other Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH graduated from eted Lyme ‘‘issue’’. Ms. Weintraub is cur- studies place the financial burden of the dis- the University of Minnesota followed by rently the Executive Editor at Discover. She ease at levels much higher than we’d pre- residencies at Beth Israel Medical Center has traveled extensively around the country viously understood. It vs my feeling, and and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New educating people about Lyme disease, among that of a number of my colleagues, that clos- York. Dr. Cameron is widely recognized for other subjects, and has won numerous er examination of the situation is not only conducting epidemiologic research while awards and has been featured on dozens of warranted, but is absolutely necessary to un- practicing medicine. He has been viewed as a major radio shows including Leonard Lopate derstand the state of the science, the needs pioneer in Lyme disease as an author of and Diane Rehm, to discuss biomedicine, of the victims, and the opportunities for new practice guidelines, analytic reviews, and science, and the future. Pam’s work in this initiatives. The goal is to create the forward clinical trials. He has published 9 peer re- arena has earned her the respect and grati- momentum necessary to put efforts to fix viewed articles based on his research in the tude of thousands of Lyme victims who feel these problems on a fast track and get some past 5 years. Dr. Cameron led ILADS, the that they have a voice through her work. help for the victims of these debilitating dis- International Lyme and Associated Diseases eases. SPEAKERS Society, to new heights as its president from Based on input from this Forum and other Holly Ahern, MS is an award winning pro- 2007 to 2009. He has testified as an expert on sources, I intend to make sure that the Fed- fessor of microbiology and a science writer Lyme disease for legislation in Connecticut, eral Government is doing all it can be rea- who has authored textbooks on laboratory Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania for physi- sonably expected to do to move forward on science and published numerous articles in cians’ rights to diagnose Lyme disease using all aspects of this situation. I know there are scientific and trade journals. Ahern has a clinical judgment without state interference. a growing number of my colleagues in Con- B.S. degree and national board certification He has been interviewed as an expert on the gress who are committed to this as well. To- (American Society of Clinical Pathologists— NBC today show, Good Morning America, gether we will do all we can to achieve this ASCP) in medical technology, and an M.S. Fox News, Sirius radio and in newspapers. goal. Thank you and God bless you for your degree in Molecular Biology from the Uni- Dr. Cameron currently sees patients in his personal commitment to this cause. versity at Albany. Named an NSF/ASM Biol- private practice in Mt. Kisco, New York Very sincerely, ogy Scholar in 2008, Ahern has become an while continuing his research and writing. CHRIS GIBSON, outspoken advocate for truth in science and He maintains the website Congressman, medicine particularly as it relates to Lyme www.LymeProject.com. 20th District, New York. disease. As head of a groundbreaking under- David A. Leiby, PhD received a B.S. in Bi- WELCOME graduate research program at SUNY Adiron- ology from Lafayette College, Easton, Penn- On behalf of the organizing committee, we dack in Queensbury NY, Ahern and her group sylvania, an M.S. in Biology from Rutgers would like to welcome you to the Helen are currently researching the complex biol- University, Camden, New Jersey, and an Filene Ladd Concert Hall in the Arthur ogy of the Lyme disease spirochete, the inci- M.S. and Ph.D. in Zoology from the Ohio Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College, dence of bacterial and protozoal pathogens in State University, Columbus, Ohio. He was a for the LymeNEXT forum. Thank you for the Ixodes tick, and investigating enhanced National Research Council, Postdoctoral your participation. ways to destroy the disease-causing orga- Resident Research Associate in the Cellular We wish to extend our gratitude to Con- nisms. Immunology Department at the Walter Reed gressman Chris Gibson, who has recognized Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA is an attorney Army Institute of Research, Washington, the impact that undiagnosed and untreated advocate on issues related to the medico- D.C. For the past 19 years, Dr. Leiby has

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:11 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.082 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3395 been affiliated with the American Red Cross, ‘‘Obama stressed he probably knows about decide, since the President says he’s where he is the Head of the Transmissible Judaism more than any other President be- not even going to comment how he Diseases Department at the Jerome H. Hol- cause he read about it,’’ Haaretz reports. ‘‘He feels about Israel anymore, I think it land Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences wondered how come no one asks Speaker of would be helpful to go through and in Rockville, Maryland. He is the principal the House of Representatives John Boehner investigator for comprehensive, multi-center or Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell look at the evidence and decide wheth- epidemiologic studies of Chagas’ disease, about their support to Israel.’’ er it supports the notion that the tick-borne pathogens and malaria in blood Similarly, he said to the group, ‘‘I am not President is very pro-Israel or that he’s donors. Dr. Leiby has published over 75 ref- going to tell you again how I even feel about not. ereed papers and book chapters and is fre- Israel, but why are we still talking about When the President said that he won- quently invited both nationally and inter- it?’’ dered why no one asked Speaker of the nationally to speak at meetings and institu- He then suggested that he should not be House of Representatives JOHN BOEH- questioned about his commitment to the tions. Dr. Leiby also is an associate professor NER about his support for Israel, well, I of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at the Jewish state because ‘‘all his friends in Chi- know that Speaker BOEHNER and I have George Washington University, Washington, cago were Jewish.’’ had some rather profound disagree- D.C. I think there’s a lot to be learned ments—and that, I’m sure, will con- Ahmed Kilani, PhD is the President and when we read people’s comments or tinue—but when it came to the issue of Laboratory Director of Clongen Laboratory. learn of people’s comments that were The company, founded in 1999 in Mountain Israel, I couldn’t come up with any- not scripted, that were said just off the View, California, is now located in German- thing that indicated any lack of com- top of the head. Nobody put it in the town, MD. Dr. Kilani holds a Bachelor’s de- plete support for the Nation of Israel. teleprompter. It’s not somebody else’s gree in Medical Technology, a Master’s in In fact, 2 years ago, I started pushing words; it’s words directly from the in- Clinical Science (San Francisco State Uni- to get Prime Minister Netanyahu in- versity) and a Ph.D. in Infectious Diseases dividual in question. So I’ve got to say, vited to address a joint session of Con- and Immunity (University of California at you know, the President says all his gress here in this very Hall. I know Berkeley, 1999). He is also board certified na- friends in Chicago were Jewish. I when I approached Speaker PELOSI tionally (American Society of Clinical Pa- learned a lot from that. I didn’t know thologists—ASCP) and in California (Clinical about it—this was June of 2010—she that Jeremiah Wright was Jewish. I Laboratory Scientist—CLS/MT). Dr. Kilani thought it was a nice idea but there mean, I meet people all the time and it has extensive experience in Microbiology, just wasn’t going to be time to get that never crosses my mind, you know, Virology, Molecular and Cell Biology. The done before the end of the year, we just what descent is this person. laboratory facility in Germantown, MD was had so much on our plate. And I think established in 2004. The company consists of So it’s fascinating for me to find out two main divisions: Clinical Diagnostics for from the President that apparently we did have a lot of courthouses we Infectious Diseases and Contract Research. Jeremiah Wright was Jewish; Tony hadn’t named yet, so we got those Clongen Laboratory holds state and national Rezko that got the lot right next to the done. Then, when the Republicans took the licenses in laboratory medicine (CLIA-Cer- President and got them a sweetheart tified). majority in 2011, I redid a letter and deal of some kind, that real estate Kenneth Liegner, MD is a board certified got lots of Republicans to sign on. The deal, even though Rezko’s gone to pris- Internist with additional training in Pathol- Speaker asked Prime Minister on, I didn’t know Tony Rezko was Jew- ogy and Critical Care Medicine, practicing in Netanyahu to come and address the Pawling, New York. He has been actively in- ish. And Bill Ayers who unashamedly House here, and as best I understand it, volved in diagnosis and treatment of Lyme blew up a bomb hoping that he would got the majority leader down the hall, disease and related disorders since 1988. He kill people back in the seventies, the HARRY REID, to go in on it so that it has published articles on Lyme disease in man that gave Barack Obama his first peer-reviewed scientific journals and has pre- would be a joint session. So all the evi- fund-raiser at his home, I didn’t know sented poster abstracts and talks at national dence indicates complete support by what lineage Bill Ayers was, but ac- and international conferences on Lyme dis- Speaker BOEHNER for Israel. I really cording to the President’s comment, ease and other tick-borne diseases. He has haven’t been able to find anything to all his friends in Chicago were Jewish. cared for many persons seriously ill with the contrary. chronic and neurologic Lyme disease. His Apparently Bill Ayers must have been But, again, since the President says work has focused on the serious morbidity Jewish as well. he’s not going to comment anymore and (occasional) mortality that can even- So it’s interesting to find out about about how he feels about Israel, I tuate from this aspect of the illness. He has people’s friends and who they are and thought it would be good—and it sure emphasized the urgent need for widespread what their background really is. clinical availability of improved methods of helps me—to go through and just chart diagnostic testing and for development of b 1320 out evidence and which notion it sup- improved methods of treatment for Lyme My background, having been at one ports. So I went through, and we took disease in all its stages. He holds the first time early on a prosecutor—I’ve been a points from stories—whether on tele- United States patent issued proposing appli- vision, in the news media, on the Inter- cation of ascaricide to deer for area-wide judge, I’ve been a chief justice. It helps control of deer-tick populations as a means me, some of us that are a little slower, net—that appeared to have a good basis of reducing the incidence of Lyme disease. to work through and plod through ma- for being factual and just decided to f terial methodically. It helps me to chart out: Is this evidence that Presi- make a chart. dent Obama is for or against Israel? DOES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION I know, having collected the notes of Does he love Israel or does he love SUPPORT ISRAEL? jurors after they had heard long Israel not? The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under cases—I guess the longest case I tried We know that back in 2011, most of the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- was about 10 weeks long, a murder us heard the comments—apparently uary 5, 2011, the gentleman from Texas case, as a judge. But it was always in- they didn’t know that microphone was (Mr. GOHMERT) is recognized for 60 min- teresting to read notes that jurors had live—when Prime Minister Netanyahu utes as the designee of the majority left. So, often they would take evi- came up in the comments by President leader. dence and they would make notes of Sarkozy of France, when he made a Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, it’s al- evidence and try to decide what cat- comment something about what a ways an honor to speak here on the egory that evidence fit into—did it sup- problem Netanyahu was, and President House floor, and there’s been a lot of port what the prosecution was saying, Obama made comments to the effect interesting attention that’s been given since they had the burden of proof, or that, Oh, yeah, well, I have to deal to an issue of whether or not the did it support a defense contention or with him every day. It was clearly be- Obama administration supports Israel, an affirmative defense, that kind of littling of Prime Minister Netanyahu. I doesn’t support Israel, is more sup- thing? know people that heard the comment portive of its enemies, and apparently, So I found this week, since I read thought, Ooh, if you’re Prime Minister according to an article in the Weekly that article about the President’s de- Netanyahu, that’s got to hurt to hear Standard this week, May 30, 2012, by fensiveness, that it would be inter- the guy that you may talk to quite a Daniel Halper, and I’m quoting from esting to take and just run through bit agreeing with another leader that the article here, it says: some evidence so that we could try to Netanyahu is just a real pain to deal

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Netanyahu was coming, he came by in- Not.’’ Then, the comments in 2011, when vitation, and yet the President created And then also, you have the immense Prime Minister Netanyahu last year an intentional snub, unless his staff, of pressure that was placed by this ad- was on his way, coming to the United course, is so incompetent they didn’t ministration on Israel not to defend States—he was going to speak to an let him know that the leader of our itself without the United States’ per- AIPAC convention here—and it seemed dear ally Israel was waiting in the mission. Does a friend really do that? I to be rather short notice. The Presi- White House to visit. But anyway, he thought we believed in the sovereignty dent hurriedly consulted with people went and dined with his family. Also, it of our friends, our nation friends, so that he trusted. Imam Magid, who is was considered by most who know they could make their own decisions president of the Islamic Society of about internal relations to be quite a about self-defense. I thought that’s the North America. Of course, they are a snub that, although the President’s case. And yet, we keep hearing reports, named coconspirator in the Holy Land been pictured with all kinds of folks in reading reports about pressure by this Foundation prosecution for supporting the Middle East that would just as administration on Israel not to take terrorism. ISNA, Islamic Society of soon Israel be eliminated from the action to defend itself. So that’s really North America, he’s the president of map, to refuse to have a picture with in that category as well, ‘‘Loves Israel that organization. And we heard on the him, which was the norm, really was Not.’’ news that Imam Magid had been con- an indication of loves Israel not. Then also, the Obama administration sulted. In fact, Imam Magid, the presi- has never rejected or condemned the b 1330 dent of this coconspirator supporting racist, hateful teachings about Jewish terrorism, was even invited to the Now, Secretary of State Hillary Clin- people going on in the Palestinian inner sanctum of the State Department ton announced that the Obama admin- schools in the Middle East, and in some to hear the speech that he had appar- istration planned to send $147 million Muslim schools here in the United ently, according to sources, had helped to the West Bank and to the Hamas- States. No condemnation or rejection give advice to President Obama on. run Gaza Strip. at all could be found anywhere. And So, during his comments, President Well, Congress had made very clear, yet, anyone that cares to see the kind Obama says that Israel should return since we have the purse strings under of hateful, biased, nasty things that to its 1967 borders. And people that are the Constitution, that there should not are being said about Jewish and Israeli familiar with Israel and know the his- be money being sent to any organiza- people just need let our office know. tory of that area, including going back tion that is supportive of terrorism. There are people in Israel, there are to 1000 or so B.C. when King David was Hamas is a named organization that Web sites that can provide that infor- mation. They’ve gotten copies of text- the ruler in that land—1,500, 1,600 years supports terrorism. And yet, this ad- books. There are commercials that are or so before a man named Muhammad ministration has decided to send a run. There are great events that Pales- came to Earth. Anyway, he’s sug- group who has made very clear they tinian areas, in fact—that are even gesting that Israel, in those comments, want to see Israel eliminated, wiped off named for Palestinian terrorists, Is- should return to those borders, which the map—sending them $147 million is lamic jihadists that blew themselves military people indicate make Israel not really evidence of a love for Israel, up and killed a lot of Israelis. And yet, indefensible. That’s why they were so so that would go in that category. we have no condemnation from this ad- subject to attack in 1967. So that really Over here, you also have President ministration of any of that type activ- was not a comment suggestive of a love Obama stating that all his friends in Chicago were Jewish, and that he was ity. for Israel. That’s really more of a loves Israel, of course is repeatedly warned Israel not. sometimes accused of being a Jewish puppet. Well, for those people who ac- by this administration to be nicer to Then the Obama administration, the Palestinians, and we can’t find any cused the President, according to the they have wholly failed to condemn evidence that this administration has President only, of being a Jewish pup- any of the Palestinians’ building of il- ever warned the Palestinians, quit in- pet, and that always his friends in Chi- legal settlements. Here the Palestin- citing hatred in your children for Jew- cago were Jewish, well, that is some in- ians keep building and building in ish or Israeli people. areas they’re not authorized, that are dication of a love for the Jewish Nation And the list goes on, helping us as- illegal settlements being built, and we of Israel. sess the evidence of whether President hear not one single word from the The President’s administration Obama is for or really against Israel. Obama administration about the ille- though, earlier this year, leaked to The Since his comment this week, he’s not gal settlements being constructed by Washington Post of the time window in going to tell us any more how he feels Palestinians. That also included his which Israel would take out Iran’s nu- about Israel. We’ll just look at the evi- criticism of Israeli housing plans for clear program. Well, any ally is sup- dence. East Jerusalem. So that’s really a posed to know that if you go leaking Continuing, we remember not long loves Israel not on that one as well. information, putting it out there in after President Obama came into office You’ve got the Obama administra- public, that damages an effort of your he traveled to Turkey, to Iraq, Saudi tion’s decision to eradicate missile de- close ally to defend itself, that’s not a Arabia, Egypt, apologized to them on fense programs that would have helped good thing. It’s not a sign of love and behalf of the United States. Somebody Israel. There are articles and informa- affection for an ally when you leak in- uses really good word choices, a beau- tion about that. Obviously, since it formation that would prevent or harm tiful group of words about the United didn’t help Israel to have eradicated the efforts of that ally in defending States being divisive and dismissive. missile defense programs that would itself. So that was not a good indica- Anyway, really nice words in what have helped Israel, despite some that tion of a love for Israel; more of a many dubbed as the apology tour. That would, that actually is an act that in- ‘‘Loves Israel Not.’’ really was not a strong sign of love and dicates loves Israel not. And then also, the Obama adminis- affection for Israel. Now, I think it was a wonderful thing tration had a leak to the media that And then we have the fact that this that Prime Minister Netanyahu, in Israel was going to use the Azerbaijan President, although he went on an 2010, was invited to the White House. airspace to take out Iran’s nuclear pro- apology tour all around our so-called That was a great thing, very good of gram. Well, if that’s the kind of thing ally, Israel, he never actually went to the President to invite him. But all of you do for friends, America’s not going Israel. I don’t know, you can’t blame the reference to that visit seemed to to have a lot of friends for very long him. Maybe he’d be concerned that make very clear that when the Presi- because our friends will know, wow, Prime Minister Netanyahu would leave dent intentionally snubbed the Prime Israel is said to be one of America’s him sitting around twiddling his Minister who had traveled all this way closest allies, and yet they’re leaking thumbs while Prime Minister to meet with the President, and he was information about private deals that Netanyahu went and had dinner with left waiting for an hour or so while the their so-called ally has made to try to his family.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:43 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.084 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3397 But I’ve met with Prime Minister elections as they go forward, the Mus- pushing to give them money and weap- Netanyahu. I’m not anybody, and yet lim Brotherhood is taking charge, and ons—at the same time Israel is getting he took time and was very punctual in they have no interest in agreeing to that same assistance. his meeting, so I really don’t think the the treaties that have long since been Then there is one other thing that I President should have to worry that made with Israel. Although they have think is worthy of note. I believe it was Prime Minister Netanyahu might try come back and said, Well, we might put 2 years ago—in May 2 years ago, I be- to snub him the same way. I think it up to a vote, the same people who lieve—that the Obama administration President Obama would find Prime are voting the Muslim Brotherhood voted with Israel’s enemies to require Minister Netanyahu to be very conge- into power, because they know the Israel to disclose any and all nuclear nial, as he normally is. Although Muslim Brotherhood wants to see capabilities or weapons. Israel is a tiny again, we go back to the President’s Israel gone, will obviously not be sup- country in the middle of a number of comments when he didn’t know the porting a treaty. countries and of hostile peoples that mic was open indicating he didn’t have So those kinds of comments that put want to see Israel gone, and nobody has a lot of love for having to deal with Israel at such extreme risk on their made that more clear than Prime Minister Netanyahu every day. border just cannot be deemed to be an Ahmadinejad. It is certainly worthy of So as for now, until we actually have indication of a loves Israel. It’s more a note that it was right after this admin- a visit from President Obama to Israel, loves Israel not. istration parted from decades of tradi- that really has to go into the ‘‘Loves Then we have the fact that, though tion of support for Israel—and their Israel Not’’ category. Syrian leader Assad has been ruthless very tenuous situation there in the And then of course, we have the in killing and abusing his people and Middle East—that it sided with all of Obama administration’s support for has not been helpful to Israel to the ex- Israel’s enemies and voted to require the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to tent Egyptian leader Mubarak was, them to disclose all they really had power in Egypt. This administration this administration, the Obama admin- that could protect them. was encouraging Mubarak to step istration, has failed to support the Syr- It brought to mind that story from down, get out of the way, and actually ian rebels the way it did the Egyptian the Old Testament about King made quite interesting quotes about rebels. That has really been interesting Hezekiah and how King Hezekiah was the radical Islamist protesters in to see how that developed. confronted by Isaiah. Those of us who Egypt. For example, in Libya, gosh, the believe what’s printed there believe But anyway, they supported the Mus- President says he didn’t need support that God sent the prophet to confront lim Brotherhood’s rise to power in from Congress because there were peo- Hezekiah, and he basically said, What Egypt and have reached out in numer- ple like NATO and the Muslim Brother- have you done with these people from ous ways to the Muslim Brotherhood, hood. There were folks who wanted us Babylon, with these leaders that came thinking that this may really be a good to help get rid of Qadhafi. Well, Qa- over from Babylon? thing, indicating a great thing for the dhafi was sure no angel, and he cer- This is a Texas paraphrase, but basi- Middle East. Well, it may be a good tainly had blood on his hands, but Qa- cally, King Hezekiah said, Oh, I took thing for the Muslim Brotherhood, but dhafi was not a threat to Israel, and these Babylonian leaders around, and I we have the documentation, the quotes this administration militarily—mili- showed them all our treasure, and I are easily accessible, about what the tarily—supported the people who are a showed them all the defenses we have Muslim Brotherhood truly stands for, threat to Israel, unapologetically. Now, in the armory. and they want to see Israel gone. there were some games, some In essence, Hezekiah was told by Isa- So some would say, well, it’s a good wordsmanship games—wordsmithing iah, You fool. Because you have done thing when any administration reaches went on by this administration—say- this, you’re going to lose your country. out to a people. But if that people, if ing, Look, look, this is really a NATO And he did. Actually, he begged the the leaders of a group are demanding action. Guess who makes up 60 percent Lord to let it not be on his watch, and that a dear, close, friendly ally be or more of the NATO military. Guess it ends up being under his son’s, but wiped off of the map and have to live who gives more to NATO than anybody that’s another story. under a caliphate, not Judaism, which else. It’s the United States. So it was a The point here that came to mind, the President says he knows more little bit of sleight of hand to say, You though, is we were demanding that about than any other President, appar- know, Libya really is more of a NATO Israel do what Hezekiah similarly did, ently—but live under a caliphate, action. It’s not really us. which made their country vulnerable which, of course, as Ahmadinejad be- It is very clear. This administration and caused them to lose their coun- lieves, the 12th imam, the Mahdi, will has not demanded the ouster of a lead- try—and we voted with Israel’s en- be coming back. er with blood on his hands, who con- emies to demand that. This adminis- tinues to abuse and kill Syrians who tration did. Congress would never have b 1340 want some freedom. This administra- voted in the majority to do such a Anyway, that really wasn’t showing tion hasn’t supported those rebels the thing, but this Obama administration a lot of love for Israel. Of course, Israel way they did in Libya and the way the did. expressed a great deal of concern. They administration called for Mubarak to It’s a dangerous time in the world, had concerns about what was going on be gone—forcefully. So that’s also a and it’s time for America not to be stu- in Egypt. Mubarak was a problematic loves Israel not. pid. Some have referred to Israel as man, a problematic leader, but at least Then you’ve got to note that the being the free world’s miner’s canary, he was trying to keep up the agree- Obama administration’s support for because as people know, in the old ment, the treaty with Israel. He at giving Israel’s enemies money and days, before sensitive electronic equip- least made some pretense that he was weapons has been at the same time ment, canaries were taken into mines trying to protect the Egyptian-Israeli Israel has been given assistance. That’s so that if noxious, poisonous gas began border. not showing a lot of love for Israel, but to fill the air, the canary would die be- Now we have the Muslim Brother- the Obama administration has sup- fore the miners would, and if the ca- hood, who has no such intention, and it ported providing Israel financial aid nary keeled over dead, the miners didn’t take an intelligence department that they can use to buy U.S. weapons would know they’ve got to get out or to advise this administration of that. for Israel’s defense. Well, now, there’s a they could be next. It certainly should have been clear. good one to show some love for Israel. Our assistance to Israel is as a de- Yet, in 2011, President Obama was call- So this administration has shown some mocracy in the middle of a hostile ing the radical Islamist protesters in love for Israel by pushing to provide world, a hostile area, with people who Egypt ‘‘an inspiration to people around them with financial aid to buy U.S. want to see our type of freedom and the world,’’ and he stated he supported weapons for their own defense. Unfor- liberty gone, whose very definition of a new regime in Egypt. Well, you had tunately, that comes at the same time the word ‘‘freedom’’ means freedom to radical Islamists; you had the Muslim the administration keeps supporting worship under a joint caliphate under Brotherhood; and as we see in these Israel’s enemies—giving them money, shari’a law. But Israel’s definition of

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For families out that nation’s strongest ally pulling The situation right now is the result there dealing with the cost of college, away from him, that’s when their en- of a measure that was passed in 2007, saying that we’re going to only provide emies move against them. So was it the College Cost Reduction and Access relief for 1 year for interest rates is not any surprise that after the Obama ad- Act, which at that time—again, the a good enough answer. ministration voted with Israel’s en- statute under the Stafford program re- We know that because the Federal emies to make Israel more vulnerable, quired a 6.8 percent interest rate. I was Reserve—which tracks the amount of that all of a sudden here came a flotilla part of a group that passed the College consumer debt that families are accu- to challenge the lawful blockade of the Cost Reduction and Access Act that mulating in this country—just yester- Gaza Strip that Israel had to at least cut that rate down to 3.4 percent. For day reminded us that student loan debt try to ensure their own protection? an average student using the Stafford now exceeds all other forms of con- Of course, that was a disastrous and Student Loan Program, which carries a sumer debt. It exceeds credit card debt. embarrassing time for Israel, but I loan limit up to $23,000 a year for a stu- It exceeds car debt. can’t help but believe it goes back to dent, that cut in interest rate saved This is a trajectory which is just this administration telling Israel’s en- the average student who uses this pro- going up and up and up. And adding to emies we’re standing with you and not gram about $5,000 to $10,000 in added in- that debt level by allowing interest with Israel. Yes, this administration terest cost, obviously a huge number rates to be at a ridiculous level in the has gone back and issued statements to for young people in this country who economy that we’re in right now—you the contrary. But when you look at the are struggling to try to deal with the can go out and get a 30-year fixed rate evidence, look at the unguarded evi- costs of higher education. mortgage on a house for about 3 per- dence, look at the leaks, look at the Again, it was a 5-year bill, and it has cent or 4 percent right now. Certainly support for whom, it still keeps coming a sunset date of July 1. That is not un- in Connecticut those kinds of loans are back that even though this President common in terms of the way legisla- being offered. There are 10-year Treas- says, I’m not going to answer any more tion is designed in Washington. But in ury notes being sold at record lows. questions about whether or not I sup- January, President Obama, while he Yesterday, it was reported that 1.45 port Israel, the evidence is clear. was standing at that podium right be- percent was the yield rate that Treas- I hope in the ensuing months be- hind me, reminded the Congress during ury was selling 10-year notes. tween now and the next inauguration, the State of the Union address that To have 6.8 percent, with this picture that this administration will go out of this doubling of rates was a few months in our economy here today, is just un- its way to assure Israel’s enemies that away. Up to this point, we still have acceptable. The impact it’s having in despite the overwhelming evidence not dealt with this issue. And for terms of the higher education system that Israel is not loved by this admin- young people who are trying to budget is tragic for our country. In the 1980s, istration from past actions and com- in terms of the upcoming school year, we were number one in the world in terms of graduating people with either ments, that it will take action if for no young seniors who got their acceptance 2-year or 4-year degrees. Today we are other reason than to try to help this letters to go to college, the failure of 12th. Think about that. The United administration win some votes that this Congress to address this issue and States of America now is 12th in terms it’s been losing. I don’t really care get it done is, frankly, completely un- of graduating people with 2-year and 4- what the reason is. I care about sup- acceptable. And the schedule that year degrees, and cost is the biggest porting our allies, supporting those we’ve been following in this House—for driving factor that is preventing people who stand for liberty, who will allow example, this week we had only one from going to college and getting de- freedom of worship by Muslims, free- full session day. At a time when so grees. dom of worship by Christians, freedom many issues like this are piling up and of worship by other groups in Israel crying out for action, that is really b 1400 that Jews and Christians are not af- just unacceptable. When we look at the workforce needs forded in other countries that this ad- The good news is that there has been in this country in terms of medical ministration keeps sucking up to. some movement. Since the President professions, in terms of research, in The evidence seems pretty clear. It made his call in January, I introduced terms of engineering and science, the keeps coming back—despite some legislation to lock in the lower rate the fact of the matter is this country is in minor indications to the contrary— following day. We have 152 cosponsors an almost crisis situation right now in that this administration loves Israel to lock in the lower rate at 3.4 percent. terms of being able to refresh and re- not. About 3 weeks ago, the Republican ma- plenish the workforce needs of this With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back jority did move a bill forward. It was country. the balance of my time. paid for, I think, completely inappro- Now, how did we get here? The Staf- f priately by dipping into a fund to pay ford student loan program, which was for preventive health care. In other created in 1965, was an attempt to try STAFFORD STUDENT LOAN words, it took money out of a fund to and reach out to families and give PROGRAM pay for cervical cancer screening, dia- them more affordable interest rates so The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under betes treatment, all the measures that that they could pay for colleges. From the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- are preventible illnesses in this coun- the 1960s to the 1990s it was a variable uary 5, 2011, the gentleman from Con- try. Again, many uninsured individuals rate interest program that went up and necticut (Mr. COURTNEY) is recognized need that fund to operate to get those down with interest rates in the econ- for 60 minutes as the designee of the tests done and avoid higher health care omy. In 2002 the Congress passed a minority leader. costs. budget law which locked in a fixed rate Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, I as- Yesterday, there was again addi- at 6.8 percent. sure you that I will not use the full 60 tional movement where the Republican Why did they do that? Well, that in- minutes, but there is an issue that I leadership in the House and the Senate terest revenue, when people pay back wanted to spend a few minutes dis- acknowledged that that’s not going to their loans, actually goes into the cussing today because it is extremely work in terms of a way to pay for it, Treasury. It goes into the coffers of time sensitive. and two additional ideas have been put this country. It’s almost like a tax, es- As the chart next to me indicates, we forward on the table to deal with the sentially. To cut that rate to a lower are today on June 1, twenty-nine days way to offset the cost of cutting that level requires other places in the gov- away from the increase in interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent. ernment to sort of offset the reduction

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What’s also going to happen, though, with long-term sustainable solutions to We are here today in a situation on July 2 is that we are actually going the issue of higher education costs if where student loan debt now is the to observe an anniversary in this coun- we as a Nation are going to have any largest challenge that faces middle try. It will be the 150th anniversary of viable future and success. We can do class families who are trying to just do when Abraham Lincoln signed the Mor- this, but it’s going to take a lot of bi- the right thing and give their children rill Act. The Morrill Act was a law that partisan concerted effort to come to- the opportunity to get the skills that was passed during the darkest days of gether and solve this critical problem. they are going to need to compete in the Civil War, again a time when we With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back their lives and help our economy, by were literally going through an exis- the balance of my time. the way, perform in a very competitive tential crisis in this country about f global environment. whether or not we were going to sur- COUNTRY ENVISIONED BY Yet we have still not come up with a vive as a republic. sustainable, long-term path in terms of Despite all that challenge, President FOUNDING FATHERS trying to make college affordable. We Lincoln was able to look above and be- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. need to address this. yond the immediate and look in the WALBERG). Under the Speaker’s an- My bill, H.R. 3826, locks in the lower long term and sign into law this meas- nounced policy of January 5, 2011, the rate at 3.4 percent, not just for 1 year, ure which created the land grant col- Chair recognizes the gentleman from but permanently. We also need to look lege program. That is the program Iowa (Mr. KING) for 30 minutes. at the issue of college costs. We need to which basically said that each State Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, as al- start putting incentives out there in must establish an institution of higher ways it’s my privilege and honor to ad- terms of Federal programs to make education for the purposes of propa- dress you here on the floor of the sure that colleges are not running wild gating agricultural sciences and engi- United States House of Representatives with tuition increases. I think it’s im- neering. and take up a series of issues that I portant to note that President Obama, What an amazing act for someone, think you should be considering, and I when he gave the State of the Union again, whose Nation was fighting for would recommend that be the case as address and challenged Congress to its life to see that long term we must long as the broader part of the body of protect this lower interest rate, he cou- continue to look forward, and we must this Congress and the public is listen- pled it with a number of reforms to the invest in our future. Over time, since ing in to this conversation that we are title 4 programs that pay for higher the Morrill Act was signed, we, on a bi- having, Mr. Speaker. education from the Federal Govern- partisan basis, have passed the Stafford I would make a series of points on ment. Act, the Stafford student loan pro- where our Nation needs to focus our That basically tells universities and gram, which I mentioned here. It was energy, where this Congress needs to colleges if your tuition rates go up at sponsored by a Republican Senator, focus its energy, and how we turn this an unacceptable level, you’re going to Robert Stafford, from Vermont. country back into the country that was be basically disqualified from partici- We passed the Pell grant program, envisioned by our Founding Fathers. I pating in these programs. That is the named after Claiborne Pell, a Demo- would make the point, Mr. Speaker, first time that has ever been cited or cratic Senator from Rhode Island. We that we have now, coming on almost 4 suggested as a way of trying to put passed the Perkins Loan Program, years ago, elected a President who rode some carrots and sticks into the sys- which is named after Carl Perkins, a into office with a large majority in his tem right now. Because college costs Democrat from Kentucky. party, in both the House of Representa- are driving, again, that affordability But over time and even the darkest, tives and the Senate. challenge. most challenging, critical days of our I warned then, going into the 2008 To some degree they are driving that Nation’s history, we have had leader- election, that if America elected—and I high loan level, those high debt levels ship in Washington which understood quote it this way—the ruling troika, that families are almost forced to take that we must keep our eye on the real the troika of President Obama, the ma- on to pay for college. It’s almost like crown jewels of our country, which is jority leader of the United States Sen- buying a house now, if you are going to our people. We are a Nation that is ate, HARRY REID, and Speaker of the a 4-year private college, in terms of blessed with great material wealth. We House NANCY PELOSI, that the three of paying the bills. are a Nation that is blessed with the them could go into a phone booth and We need to again not just look at greatest military fighting force in the thereafter make a decision on what this issue in terms of protecting lower world. We are blessed with great finan- they decided to do to America without interest rates, which again it looks cial institutions. accountability that could check them like we may have a glimmer of hope of What really makes this country tick in their very active endeavor to shape a 1-year fix coming up in the Senate is our people, is investing in future America in a way that wasn’t envi- next week, but we also need to frankly generations. That is, at the end of the sioned by the Founding Fathers. have a longer-term strategy for pro- day, what’s at stake with this issue, Lo and behold, Mr. Speaker, that is viding lower interest rates on a longer which has 29 days for Congress to act what happened. The voters in 2008 term basis for middle class families, and fix. made that decision. They expanded the and we need to be looking at what’s the I’m an optimist. I think we can do Democrat majority here in the House driving factor in terms of college costs. this. I think we have seen some move- of Representatives. They also elected We need to start creating incentives ment—took a little external pressure Barack Obama to the Presidency, the within the financing system to make on the political system here, with the most liberal President America has sure that colleges are doing a better President’s visits to college campuses ever seen and, of course, maintained a job of managing their overhead so that in Iowa, North Carolina and Colorado, majority of Democrats in the United they again aren’t just shifting that and the ticking clock that I have been States Senate. cost on students and their families. putting on this floor day in and day What unfolded was an effort here in Again, the stakes could not be higher out, and the 130,000 petition signatures the House that passed cap-and-trade, in terms of success of this country. We from colleges all across the country. and we stood here on the floor, Mr. must as a Nation make sure that we We brought those to the Speaker’s of- Speaker, over and over again and did continue to invest in our education fice on day 110. That external pressure battle with cap-and-trade. We called it system, in our higher education sys- has finally gotten some movement on cap-and-tax. Cap-and-tax was the right tem. this issue. Hopefully next week we are way to describe the bill that would tax

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That’s what’s happened what goes into the atmosphere than we clearly established that from a regu- to the constitutional constructs of this do here in this country. latory perspective it is not just vir- country when you have leftist activists That legislation, which I will always tually, Mr. Speaker, but literally im- in charge of this government and they believe we had the ability to kill—even possible for a new coal-fired generating took the bit in their teeth and they ran in the House Republican minority at plant, no matter how clean burning off the cliff into the left and we ended the time—if we had turned up all of our that coal might be, to be constructed up with ObamaCare, which they call efforts, we had the ability to kill it, in the United States. the Patient Protection and Affordable Mr. Speaker. We didn’t get that done. We tried that in Iowa a year and a Care Act. The Patient Protection and half or so ago, to build a coal-fired Affordable Care Act. You can walk up b 1410 plant in Marshalltown. It had the best and down the streets of America, and We came close. We didn’t get that combination of entities that you could with the exception of right around the done. And the cap-and-tax legislation bring together that could utilize this Capitol here in Washington, D.C., I passed over to the United States Sen- and the longest-term, best vision you would suggest that you wouldn’t find ate, where it was subsequently killed could put together with the engineer- two people in 100 that would know in the Senate. But the sentiment of the ing and the business model. And they what that means. President of the United States; the finally had to, as we say on the chess We know what ObamaCare means. Speaker of the House, then NANCY board, tip over their king and concede That’s the President’s advance of the PELOSI; and the majority leader of the that they couldn’t build a new coal- health care policy that takes away our United States Senate was to impose fired plant. constitutional right to manage our cap-and-trade or cap-and-tax on us. Now it’s become ever increasingly own health care. And I tell people often And they tried. They tried mightily. clear that expanding coal-fired genera- that ObamaCare needs to be repealed And President Obama has since said tion also is regulatorily virtually im- for a lot of reasons. It’s unaffordable, that if he can’t get cap-and-tax possible, perhaps literally impossible it’s unsustainable, and it does set up passed—he would say cap-and-trade, as well. rationing. Sarah Palin was right: it re- Mr. Speaker—that he would implement So the costs of our electricity go up duces research and development. It it by rule and implement it by regula- and the leverage that comes in on cre- means that America will no longer be tion if the Congress will not comply ating subsidized forms of energy that the lead in the innovation and health with his directive. fit within the political wishes of the care systems in the world. Now, we haven’t heard very much President seems to be pushed well out All of those things are bad and wrong about that effort in the media—not of the White House. In any case, Mr. and unsustainable about it, but the very much from the President, not Speaker, that was one of the fights worst thing is that ObamaCare is un- very much from Democrats in this Con- that went on here in this Congress constitutional. It’s a direct assault on gress or Democrats in the United back in those years between 2008 and Americans, on our sovereign right. Mr. States Senate. But it remains that this the election in 2010. Speaker, the most sovereign thing that executive branch is implementing rules Of course, another one was the pas- any of us has in the United States or and regulations to carry out the initia- sage of ObamaCare. ObamaCare some- anyplace in the world is our own soul. tive of cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, times is described as the pejorative We protect that. We decide. That’s which has been so rejected by the way that it should define the health freedom of religion that’s in the First American people and exposed to be at care plan that the President advanced Amendment in the United States Con- least perpetuated by a fraud of dated and that had the full support of then- stitution, take care of your soul. information that went back and forth Speaker PELOSI. I would remind people That’s sovereign. between the United Kingdom and the of that—then-Speaker PELOSI. The second most sovereign thing we United States. That legislation first came to this have is our health: our bodies, our So that’s one piece that has been floor as H.R. 3200. That was the pre- skin, and everything inside it. And coming at us. It’s a result of that deci- cursor to the final package of what is ObamaCare? They went in and sion made by the voters in 2008. And as ObamaCare. In the end, the bill that nationalized Chrysler. They national- they pushed on cap-and-tax from that they define it as—two different bills, ized General Motors. For a time, they election, we saw then also that super- by the way. One, a reconciliation pack- nationalized three large investment majority of the House Democrats, Sen- age that was slid around the filibuster banks, AIG, Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac. ate Democrats, and the most liberal in the Senate. That’s a component of The entire flood insurance program in President America has ever seen. By ObamaCare. The other one was legisla- the United States and the student loan the way, Mr. Speaker, I’m not making tion that passed out of the House and program in the United States, all of that number up. That is the data that Senate with a supermajority in the that taken over by the Federal Govern- shows that when they measured the Senate—a temporary supermajority in ment in the last few years. votes of the United States Senators the Senate, I might add—and that was And then ObamaCare came along. during the entire tenure of Barack only passed because there was a prom- And that is, Mr. Speaker, the national- Obama as a United States Senator, ise made here that the President would ization of your skin and everything in- which I recognize wasn’t long, he voted sign an executive order that in effect side it and a 10 percent tax on the out- to the left of every Senator in the amended legislation that the House side if you go to the tanning salon, just United States Senate, including BERNIE was about to pass. to add a little extra insult to injury. SANDERS, the Independent Senator Now, Mr. Speaker, if there are any That’s what ObamaCare has done. It from Vermont, who I served with in the civics students listening to this discus- has tapped into this vigorous American House of Representatives. I personally sion, I imagine that I have just heard people, the most vigorous people the like the gentleman. He’s a self-pro- their jaws drop across America, to world has ever seen. We’ve skimmed fessed socialist. Yet Barack Obama think that the President of the United the cream of the crop off of every donor voted to the left of the self-professed States, who taught constitutional law civilization on the planet and gotten socialist Senator, BERNIE SANDERS, and at the University of Chicago as an ad- the best that any civilization had to the left of every United States Senator. junct professor, would think that he, offer because they were inspired by the While he was a Senator advancing now as President of the United States, American Dream, inspired by those vi- cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, he said could sign an executive order that sions that are embodied within the that under his proposal of cap-and-tax, could amend legislation under the Statue of Liberty. Those visions alto- cap-and-trade, that the costs of elec- promise that it would amend legisla- gether attracted people to come here to tricity generated by coal would ‘‘nec- tion that was about to be passed on this country so they could live free, be

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They will be over a couple-weeks period of time of down to the States or the people re- deliberate on this, that the Constitu- taking the crossfire that came from spectively. tion defines a limited government, the across this country directed at the All of that is the promise of America. principle of federalism. White House for the audacity to make And when you come to America and The principle of federalism isn’t to that declaration, the President held a you embrace that promise, then you grow the Federal Government, it is to press conference and said—it was at can work to achieve the American limit the size of the Federal Govern- noon on a Friday several weeks ago Dream. But the Federal Government ment and for those powers to be de- now, and he said this: I’m going to taking over the nationalization of our volved down as close to the people as make an accommodation to the reli- bodies takes that away from us. And possible. The Federal Government gious organizations, and, therefore, the 1,300 health insurance companies should be the last resort, not the first rather than requiring Catholic Hill that we had 21⁄2 years ago when the rul- option. If you can take care of things Services, for example, to provide abor- ing troika imposed ObamaCare on this at the family level, take care of it at tion-causing drugs and sterilization country are fewer now. The 100,000 pos- the family level. If you can’t do that, and Cadillac contraceptives, I’m going sible health insurance policies that take care of it at the friend level. If to instead make that accommodation were out there on the marketplace that you can’t do that, do so in your church. and require the insurance companies to one could choose from are fewer now. Do so in your neighborhood. Do so in do that for free. And the government stepped in and your school. Do so in your community. Now, you heard me say a little bit reached more. Do so in your county. And if you can’t ago ‘‘legislation by press conference,’’ And just yesterday, I got the news do that, do so in your State. But as a Mr. Speaker, and I say that because of that Nemschoff Company, which is a last desperate resort, the Federal Gov- this: The rule that was issued by subsidiary of Herman Miller, Inc., and ernment then maybe can step in if the Health and Human Services’ Kathleen provides 111 jobs up in Sioux Center, cause is high enough and there is a Sebelius that imposed this thing on re- Iowa—111 jobs making furniture and constitutionally enumerated power to ligious health care providers espe- other equipment, a lot of it that goes do so. cially, that rule was never changed. into medical clinics and hospitals, a But this enumerated power of the The language is identical to what it specialized type of a production facil- Commerce Clause is where the pro- was. There is not an ‘‘i’’ dotted dif- ity, 111 jobs, will close its doors, and ponents of ObamaCare pointed to argue ferently or a ‘‘t’’ crossed differently. they cited, Mr. Speaker, ObamaCare. that they have the constitutional au- The rule is the same. So the only thing The uncertainty and the cost and the thority to require every American that that changed was the President did a burden of the imposition of ObamaCare fits within their defined category to a press conference and said: Okay, I’m upon a company that’s building prod- buy health insurance policy that’s ap- going to cut you some slack, religious ucts for health care causes them to proved by Barack Obama with the organizations. I’m going to make an shut their doors down. They didn’t give mandates on it that are approved by accommodation to you, and I’m now any other reason. I didn’t talk with Barack Obama which, by way, include going to require the insurance compa- them. I didn’t solicit this. That was by Presidential edict—legislation by nies provide it for free. He repeated what came out in their press release. not Executive order; not legislation himself: For free. And I learned it when I read the paper. from the bench as we sometimes com- The audacity. King George would not plain about with an activist judicial have the audacity to step up and do a b 1420 branch. The President of the United press conference 230 years ago and say ObamaCare forces them into a situa- States legislated by press conference to America: Well, regardless of what tion where they are shutting down a when he directed Kathleen Sebelius to the Parliament thinks, I’m just going company that has been there for years, issue the order that even our faith- to go ahead and require you to, let’s and it has 1,100 jobs. Well, the profit based organizations, and especially our say, buy tea at the rate that the Brit- has been taken out of it for them. Catholic health care providers, but it ish would like us to buy. No, there That’s why the plant has to be closed. also includes many of the Protestant would be a tea party in Boston Harbor We need to remember that this econ- organizations, that they shall provide if that happened. omy doesn’t function to produce jobs. contraceptives, sterilizations, and Well, there’s going to be a tea party This economy and this free enterprise abortifacients, and they shall do so free in this country, too, only it’s going to system we have functions to give a re- of charge, that it should be part of take place in November, and the Amer- turn on capital. When capital is in- every health insurance policy. ican people will reflect on what has vested, it needs to be invested with an So, Mr. Speaker, can you imagine if happened over these 3-plus, going now anticipation that there will be profits. you were someone who had committed on 4 years, the imposition of And that anticipation for profit is what your life to Christ, for example, a cel- ObamaCare on all of America without brings about jobs. And keeping those ibate priest, a celibate nun, you’re re- regard to the Constitution and the re- jobs competitive is what is an incen- quired to provide contraceptives for straint, requiring people to buy a tive to produce the expanses in tech- those who are not, and if it violates health insurance policy that’s approved nology so that America can be the your religious convictions, whether or by the Federal Government that has innovators for the world and the most not you wear a collar? We can’t dis- mandates that are stuck into it by competitive economy in the world. criminate in favor of someone who hap- what? Not by legislative action. Not by But this administration seems to be- pens to be a professional reverend or a rule approved by the United States lieve that you can’t have a business pastor or a bishop or a cardinal. And a Congress. By an executive branch model unless you can have the govern- layperson on the street whose convic- that’s directed out of the White House ment at the table. And the government tions may be as deep needs to have the to write up the rules however they see will decide what kind of health insur- same conscience protections from a re- fit and a President that has the audac- ance policy you can buy and that you ligious perspective. And so for the Fed- ity—and that’s one of his favorite shall buy it, and that there is an indi- eral Government to step in and declare, words, by the way, Mr. Speaker—the vidual mandate in ObamaCare that You’re going to provide health care audacity to seek to legislate by press takes away our constitutional rights, services; you’re going to buy this conference. Edicts by press conference. and that’s the unconstitutional taking health insurance policy, and you will It is breathtaking the extra-constitu- of the second most sovereign thing we guarantee that it’ll cover contracep- tional reach that’s been taken by this have, which is our skin and everything tives, sterilizations, and abortifacients, President and this administration, and inside it. abortion-causing drugs for every one of this country needs to rise up and get

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The administration created this new those yet to be born that will be tax- I want to see this House vote again argument that has never been heard payers—and only about half of them fit this summer after the Supreme Court before, I think, in the history of juris- that category today. decision, no matter what the Supreme prudence that Congress had directed So, Mr. Speaker, that little girl Court decision is, and I’m optimistic the executive branch—this is in their turned 11⁄2 years old, and now her about getting a constitutional decision assertion in the Arizona immigration $44,000 debt that was $48,000 on her first from the Supreme Court. But I want to case—to establish and maintain a birthday, it became $51,000 when she’s see this Congress vote again for a 100 ‘‘careful balance’’ between the various 11⁄2 years old. She’s going to be a tax- percent repeal of ObamaCare so immigration laws because it affects the payer and a producer, and so you have everybody’s on record, everybody un- different interests of the executive to take that times two because only derstands that it must all go. It must branch. half the people have a Federal income all be pulled out by the roots. There Enforcing immigration affects our tax liability. can be no vestige of ObamaCare left be- foreign relations, so the State Depart- So, $102,000 on the head of every hind. It’s an unconstitutional taking of ment has an interest. It affects our American, young and old, that’s our American liberty. In a vigorous Nation, homeland security, so Janet Napoli- national debt. And we’ve watched tril- Mr. Speaker, we cannot reach our des- tano has an interest. It affects, per- lion-dollar deficits roll up over the last tiny if we are tied to the anchor of haps, the educational system, and so 31⁄2 years. The President’s budget came ObamaCare that directs and rules our you have the Secretary of Education to this floor at $1.33 trillion in deficit— lives and consumes about 17 or more with an interest. And it goes on and on $1.33 trillion, Mr. Speaker—and now percent of our gross domestic product. and on. These are not competing inter- we’re approaching $16 trillion in na- And so the difference is this: The ests. Congress has directed that all of tional debt and it’s got to stop. troika of HARRY REID, NANCY PELOSI, these laws be faithfully enforced, and We have to turn this country around. and Barack Obama has been broken. It the administration has refused. That’s The American voters spoke in 2010. was broken in the election of 2010 when a new approach to, let me say, prosecu- They sent 87 freshmen here into this they saw the extra-constitutional torial discretion, Mr. Speaker. It goes House of Representatives who are con- reach of ObamaCare. They saw the ef- on and on. stitutional conservatives, and every fort on cap-and-trade. They saw Dodd- We have to repeal ObamaCare, repeal one of them voted to repeal Frank pass through the House and the Dodd-Frank, pass a balanced-budget ObamaCare. They want a balanced Senate and become law, an overreach. amendment to the United States Con- budget; they want a balanced-budget You had the people involved in the so- stitution. It’s clear this Congress amendment. They are God’s gift to lution for the economic downward spi- doesn’t have the will to balance the America. ral that were contributing to the prob- budget. Maybe a simple majority in the We need another one in November lem. House could be convinced to do so; it 2012, and more fresh faces and more There are a whole series of things would be very tough. You can’t get it vigorous people here that will adhere that we need to put this aright, Mr. done in the United States Senate. Even to repeal of ObamaCare, a balanced- Speaker. One of them is to scrub out if we could balance the budget, we budget amendment, an all-of-the-above the regulations that have been put in can’t keep that happening year after energy plan. We need more of the same place in an effort to try to implement year and pay down and then off this na- kind of people in the United States cap-and-trade around the resistance of tional debt. We need a balanced-budget Senate and a President that will sign this United States Congress, the sepa- amendment to the United States Con- that legislation into law. I look for- ration of powers that’s clear in the stitution. ward to the privilege to work with Constitution itself between the legisla- My advice, Mr. Speaker, to the next those new faces as they arrive here and tive and the executive and the judicial President of the United States would work to make the case before the branches of government. I’m just very clearly be: refuse to sign a debt ceiling American people every day from now confident that Barack Obama taught increase as President unless and until until November, and thereafter. those separations of powers, that the the House of Representatives and the Mr. Speaker, I appreciate your atten- article I component of this that says, Senate of the United States pass an ac- tion, and I yield back the balance of Here, this is how we set up the legisla- ceptable balanced-budget amendment my time. ture. They set the laws. They set the out of each Chamber that’s identical in f policy, and the establishment of the ex- message to the States for ratification. ecutive branch of government whose If we can get that done, then there is a LEAVE OF ABSENCE job it is to carry out the laws and take justification to give a short-term ex- tension to our debt ceiling here in this By unanimous consent, leave of ab- care that the laws are faithfully exe- sence was granted to: cuted. Congress. If not, we need to hold the line until such time as the will is Mr. SCHILLING (at the request of Mr. b 1430 brought into this Congress to bring CANTOR) for today on account of at- We have a President who apparently forth a balanced budget and to pay tending a family funeral. encourages someone like Eric Holder down and then off our national debt. Mr. YOUNG of Florida (at the request to disregard especially immigration My youngest little granddaughter, of Mr. CANTOR) for today on account of laws and only enforce those laws that, Reagan Ann King, was born about 19— a death in the family. let me say, do not make them politi- or maybe now 20 months—ago. Into the Mr. CLYBURN (at the request of Ms. cally vulnerable. They decided they world she came with her share of the PELOSI) for today on account of family had 300,000 people that were in this national debt at $44,000. I looked at function. country illegally that had been already that little girl and I thought, you Ms. MCCOLLUM (at the request of Ms. adjudicated for deportation, and they know, a typical student loan might be PELOSI) for today on account of official said we don’t have the resources to en- $24,000, might be $30,000, but she’s got a business in district. force the law against everybody that’s $44,000 loan and a mortgage on her head f here illegally, and so they committed with interest accumulating every day, their resources to going back through and she has just drawn her first breath. ADJOURNMENT the files, looking through 300,000 forms By the time she turned 1 year old, her Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I of people that had been adjudicated for share of the national debt was $48,000. move that the House do now adjourn. deportation and coming up with a rea- And this little blonde-haired, brightest The motion was agreed to; accord- son or an excuse to try to let them stay blue-eyed little girl with a beautiful ingly (at 2 o’clock and 35 minutes in America, to try to turn another giggle and smile doesn’t know what p.m.), under its previous order, the blind eye. Those resources had already kind of responsibility has been stuck House adjourned until Tuesday, June 5, been used to enforce the law; all they on her by people that are living today 2012, at noon for morning-hour debate.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:43 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K01JN7.095 H01JNPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3403 EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, Report on the National Emergency Caused America v. Sergey Aleynikov, docket no. 11- ETC. by the Lapse of the Export Administration 1126-cr; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Act of 1979 for August 26, 2011 — February 25, 6272. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive 2012; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Department of Homeland Security, transmit- communications were taken from the 6262. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, ting the Department’s final rule — Regu- Speaker’s table and referred as follows: Legislative Affairs, Department of State, lated Navigation Area; Pacific Sound Re- 6250. A letter from the Under Secretary, transmitting the Department’s final rule — sources and Lockheed Shipyard EPA Super- Department of Defense, transmitting a re- Amendment to the International Traffic in fund Cleanup Sites, Elliott Bay, Seattle, WA port of a violation of the Antideficiency Act, Arms Regulations: International Import Cer- [Docket No.: USCG-2010-1145] (RIN: 1625- United States Special Operations Command tificate BIS-645P/ATF-4522/DSP-53 and Ad- AA11) received May 14, 2012, pursuant to 5 case number 09-02; to the Committee on Ap- ministrative Changes (RIN: 1400-AC85) re- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on propriations. ceived May 9, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Transportation and Infrastructure. 6251. A letter from the Acting Under Sec- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Foreign Af- 6273. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, retary, Department of Defense, transmitting fairs. Department of Homeland Security, transmit- the Accreditation Report for the Armed 6263. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, ting the Department’s final rule — MARPOL Force Retirement Home (AFRHS) for Fiscal Legislative Affairs, Department of State, Annex V Special Areas: Wider Caribbean Re- Year 2011; to the Committee on Armed Serv- transmitting the Department’s final rule — gion [Docket No.: USCG-2011-0187] (RIN: 1625- ices. Amendment to the International Traffic in AB76) received May 14, 2012, pursuant to 5 6252. A letter from the Surgeon General, Arms Regulations: Exemption for Temporary U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Army, Department of Defense, transmitting Export of Chemical Agent Protective Gear Transportation and Infrastructure. a report on incentives for recruitment and (RIN: 1400-AC71) received May 11, 2012, pursu- 6274. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, retention of Army healthcare professionals; ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee Department of Homeland Security, transmit- to the Committee on Armed Services. on Foreign Affairs. ting the Department’s final rule — Safety 6253. A letter from the Acting Under Sec- 6264. A letter from the Deputy Secretary, Zones; Annual events requiring safety zones retary, Department of Defense, transmitting Department of the Treasury, transmitting as in the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan a report entitled, ‘‘Future Capability of DoD required by section 401(c) of the National zone [Docket No.: USCG-2012-0045] (RIN: 1625- Maintenance Depots’’; to the Committee on Emergency Act, 50 U.S.C. 1641(c), and section AA00) received May 14, 2012, pursuant to 5 Armed Services. 204(c) of the International Emergency Eco- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 6254. A letter from the Director, Defense nomic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), and pur- Transportation and Infrastructure. Procurement and Acquisition Policy, De- suant to Executive Order 13313 of July 31, 6275. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, partment of Defense, transmitting the De- 2003, a six-month periodic report on the na- Department of Homeland Security, transmit- partment’s final rule — Defense Federal Ac- tional emergency with respect to the situa- ting the Department’s final rule — Safety quisition Regulation Supplement: New Free tion in or in relation to the Democratic Re- Zone; Volvo Ocean Racing Youth Regatta, Trade Agreement with Columbia (DFARS public of the Congo that was declared in Ex- Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL [Docket No.: Case 2012-D032) (RIN: 0750-AH72) received ecutive Order 13413 of October 27, 2006; to the USCG-2012-0178] (RIN: 1625-AA00) received May 10, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Committee on Foreign Affairs. May 14, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Armed 6265. A letter from the Deputy Secretary, 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- Services. Department of the Treasury, transmitting as tation and Infrastructure. 6255. A letter from the Director, Defense required by section 401(c) of the National 6276. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, Procurement and Acquisition Policy, De- Emergency Act, 50 U.S.C. 1641(c), and section Department of Homeland Security, transmit- partment of Defense, transmitting the De- 204(c) of the International Emergency Eco- ting the Department’s final rule — Safety partment’s final rule — Defense Federal Ac- nomic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), and pur- Zone; East River, Brooklyn Bridge Scaf- quisition Regulation Supplement: Contin- suant to Executive Order 13313 of July 31, folding Repair, Brooklyn, NY [Docket No.: gency Contract Closeout (DFARS Case 2012- 2003, a six-month periodic report on the na- USCG-2012-0263] (RIN: 1625-AA00) received D014) (RIN: 0750-AH71) received May 10, 2012, tional emergency with respect to Sudan that May 14, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- was declared in Executive Order 13067 of No- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- mittee on Armed Services. vember 3, 1997; to the Committee on Foreign tation and Infrastructure. 6256. A letter from the Director, Defense Affairs. 6277. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, Procurement and Acquisition Policy, De- 6266. A letter from the Special Inspector Department of Homeland Security, transmit- partment of Defense, transmitting the De- General For Iraq Reconstruction, transmit- ting the Department’s final rule — Safety partment’s final rule — Defense Federal Ac- ting seventh lessons learned report entitled Zone; Sunken Vessel, Puget Sound, Everett, quisition Regulation Supplement; Utiliza- ‘‘Iraq Reconstruction: Lessons in Criminal WA [Docket No.: USCG-2012-0282] (RIN: 1625- tion of Domestic Photovoltaic Devices Investigations of U.S.-funded Stabilization AA00) received May 14, 2012, pursuant to 5 (DFARS Case 2011-D046) (RIN: 0750-AH43) re- and Reconstruction Projects’’; to the Com- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on ceived May 10, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. mittee on Foreign Affairs. Transportation and Infrastructure. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Armed 6267. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- 6278. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, Services. ment of Education, transmitting the Depart- Department of Homeland Security, transmit- 6257. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- ment’s fiscal year 2011 annual report pre- ting the Department’s final rule — Draw- ment of Health and Human Services, trans- pared in accordance with Section 203 of the bridge Operation Regulation; Saginaw River, mitting the Department’s report entitled, Notification and Federal Employee Anti- Bay City, MI [Docket No.: USCG-2011-1013] ‘‘Report to Congress on Head Start Moni- discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (RIN: 1625-AA00) received May 14, 2012, pursu- toring for Fiscal Year 2009’’; to the Com- (No FEAR Act), Public Law 107-174; to the ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee mittee on Education and the Workforce. Committee on Oversight and Government on Transportation and Infrastructure. 6258. A letter from the General Counsel, Reform. 6279. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 6268. A letter from the General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, transmit- transmitting the Commission’s final rule — Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ting the Department’s final rule — Security Enhancement of Electricity Market Surveil- ment, transmitting a report pursuant to the Zones; North Atlantic Treaty Organization lance and Analysis through Ongoing Elec- Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; to the (NATO) Summit, Chicago, Illinois [Docket tronic Delivery of Data from Regional Trans- Committee on Oversight and Government No.: USCG-2012-0052] (RIN: 1625-AA87) re- mission Organizations and Independent Sys- Reform. ceived May 14, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. tem Operators [Docket No.: RM11-17-000; 6269. A letter from the Secretary, Smithso- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- Order No. 760] received May 14, 2012, pursuant nian Institution, transmitting a copy of the tation and Infrastructure. to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Institution’s audited financial statement for 6280. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, Energy and Commerce. fiscal year 2011, pursuant to 20 U.S.C. 57; to Department of Homeland Security, transmit- 6259. A letter from the Director, Defense the Committee on Oversight and Govern- ting the Department’s final rule — Anchor- Security Cooperation Agency, transmitting ment Reform. age Regulations: Subpart A — Special An- Transmittal No. 12-15, pursuant to the re- 6270. A letter from the Attorney General, chorage Regulations, Newport Bay Harbor, porting requirements of Section 36(b)(1) of Department of Justice, transmitting the De- CA [Docket No.: USCG-2010-0929] (RIN: 1625- the Arms Export Control Act, as amended; to partment’s decision not to appeal the deci- AA01) received May 14, 2012, pursuant to 5 the Committee on Foreign Affairs. sion of the district court in the case of the U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 6260. A letter from the Director, Defense United States v. Zhen Zhou Wu, et al., No. Transportation and Infrastructure. Security Cooperation Agency, transmitting 08:10386-PBS, 2011 West Law 31345 (D. Mass. Transmittal No. 12-16, pursuant to the re- Jan 4, 2011); to the Committee on the Judici- f porting requirements of Section 36(b)(1) of ary. REPORTS OF COMMITTEE ON the Arms Export Control Act, as amended; to 6271. A letter from the Clerk of the Court, PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS the Committee on Foreign Affairs. United States Court of Appeals, transmitting 6261. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- an opinion of the United States Court of Ap- Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of ment of Commerce, transmitting Periodic peals for the Second Circuit United States of committees were delivered to the Clerk

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Mr. HASTINGS of Washington: Committee tives, the following statements are sub- H.R. 904: Mr. TERRY. Natural Resources. H.R. 2512. A bill to pro- mitted regarding the specific powers H.R. 1066: Mr. CLARKE of Michigan. vide for the conveyance of certain Federal granted to Congress in the Constitu- H.R. 1112: Mr. MATHESON and Mr. GRIFFIN land in Clark County, Nevada, for the envi- tion to enact the accompanying bill or of Arkansas. H.R. 1116: Ms. WILSON of Florida and Mr. ronmental remediation and reclamation of joint resolution. the Three Kids Mine Project Site, and for DINGELL. other purposes; with an amendment (Rept. By Mr. CRENSHAW: H.R. 1206: Mr. CLAY. 112–512). Referred to the Committee of the H.R. 5882. H.R. 1317: Ms. DELAURO. Whole House on the state of the Union. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1327: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. ISSA: Committee on Oversight and lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1375: Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. COURTNEY, and Government Reform. H.R. 4607. A bill to en- The principal constitutional authority for Mr. CAPUANO. sure economy and efficiency of Federal Gov- this legislation is clause 7 of section 9 of ar- H.R. 1381: Ms. BONAMICI. ernment operations by establishing a mora- ticle I of the Constitution of the United H.R. 1519: Mr. SHULER, Mr. ROSS of Arkan- torium on midnight rules during a Presi- States (the appropriation power), which sas, and Mr. LARSEN of Washington. dent’s final days in office, and for other pur- states: ‘‘No Money shall be drawn from the H.R. 1562: Mr. RAHALL, Ms. MOORE, Mr. poses (Rept. 112–513 Pt. 1). Referred to the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropria- PETERSON, and Mr. BOREN. Committee of the Whole House on the state tions made by Law . . . .’’ In addition, clause H.R. 1596: Mr. PASCRELL. of the Union. 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution H.R. 1639: Mr. PEARCE, Mr. HALL, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. GINGREY of DISCHARGE OF COMMITTEE (the spending power) provides: ‘‘The Con- Georgia, Mrs. SCHMIDT, and Mr. RUPPERS- Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XIII, the gress shall have the Power . . . to pay the BERGER. Committee on the Judiciary discharged Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States H.R. 1672: Mr. CLEAVER. from further consideration. H.R. 4607 . . . .’’ Together, these specific constitu- H.R. 1821: Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. referred to the Committee of the Whole tional provisions establish the congressional H.R. 1867: Mrs. LOWEY and Mr. MILLER of House on the state of the Union, and power of the purse, granting Congress the North Carolina. ordered to be printed. authority to appropriate funds, to determine H.R. 1956: Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mr. BILI- RAKIS, and Mr. WALBERG. f their purpose, amount, and period of avail- ability, and to set forth terms and conditions H.R. 1960: Mr. CONYERS and Mr. MICHAUD. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS governing their use. H.R. 2000: Mr. HUNTER. Under clause 2 of rule XII, public By Mr. COLE: H.R. 2012: Mr. ANDREWS. H.R. 2057: Mr. NUGENT. bills and resolutions of the following H.R. 5883. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2077: Mr. PAULSEN. titles were introduced and severally re- H.R. 2086: Mr. WELCH. lation pursuant to the following: ferred, as follows: H.R. 2139: Mr. LANKFORD. This bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, H.R. 2140: Mr. PLATTS. By Mr. COLE: Section 8, Clause 7 which grants Congress H.R. 2267: Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. PETRI, H.R. 5883. A bill to make a technical cor- the power to establish Post Offices and post Ms. MOORE, and Mr. CARNEY. rection in Public Law 112-108; to the Com- roads. H.R. 2494: Mr. CAPUANO. mittee on Oversight and Government Re- By Ms. BASS of California: H.R. 2528: Mr. LONG. form. H.R. 5884. H.R. 2529: Mr. BRADY of Texas. By Ms. BASS of California (for herself, Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2569: Mr. GIBSON. Mr. DOLD, and Mr. GUTIERREZ): lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5884. A bill to establish a 1-year pilot H.R. 2678: Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas and This bill is enacted pursuant to the power program to reduce up-front premiums on Mr. HINOJOSA. granted to Congress under Article 1, Section FHA mortgage insurance for first-time H.R. 2962: Mr. CRENSHAW and Mr. BROUN of 1. homebuyers who complete a homeownership Georgia. Article I. counseling program and thereby help to re- H.R. 2969: Mr. LOEBSACK. Section 8. duce default rates on residential mortgages; H.R. 3042: Ms. CHU and Ms. HAHN. to the Committee on Financial Services. All legislative Powers herein granted shall H.R. 3067: Mr. POSEY, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of By Mr. BISHOP of New York (for him- be vested in a Congress of the United States, California, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. AUSTRIA, Mr. which shall consist of a Senate and House of self and Mr. ISRAEL): GEORGE MILLER of California, Mrs. DAVIS of H.R. 5885. A bill to amend the Magnuson- Representatives. California, Mrs. CAPPS, and Ms. EDDIE BER- Stevens Fishery Conservation and Manage- By Mr. BISHOP of New York: NICE JOHNSON of Texas. ment Act to add New York to the New Eng- H.R. 5885. H.R. 3086: Mr. CUMMINGS and Mr. land Fishery Management Council, and for Congress has the power to enact this legis- MCDERMOTT. other purposes; to the Committee on Natural lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 3158: Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Resources. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 H.R. 3173: Mr. MCDERMOTT. By Mr. ISRAEL (for himself and Mr. By Mr. ISRAEL: H.R. 3269: Mr. OLVER, Mr. SCHIFF, and Mr. RYAN of Ohio): H.R. 5886. LEWIS of Georgia. H.R. 5886. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 3341: Mrs. NAPOLITANO. enue Code of 1986 to improve the dependent lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 3352: Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York and care credit by repealing the phasedown of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. Ms. CLARKE of New York. the credit percentage and making permanent By Mr. LOBIONDO: H.R. 3395: Mr. KELLY and Mr. CLAY. the increased dollar limitations; to the Com- H.R. 5887. H.R. 3399: Mr. RANGEL. mittee on Ways and Means. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 3423: Ms. BALDWIN. By Mr. LOBIONDO (for himself and Mr. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 3482: Mr. HINCHEY. LARSEN of Washington): Article 1, Section 8 of the United States H.R. 3511: Mr. GINGREY of Georgia, Mr. H.R. 5887. A bill to authorize appropria- Constitution WALBERG, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. FLEMING, Mrs. tions for the Coast Guard for fiscal years 2013 By Mr. SARBANES: BLACKBURN, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. FRANKS of through 2015, and for other purposes; to the H.R. 5888. Arizona, and Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Committee on Transportation and Infra- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 3612: Mr. CALVERT. structure. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 3668: Mr. CARSON of Indiana. By Mr. SARBANES: Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitu- H.R. 3720: Mr. CULBERSON. H.R. 5888. A bill to establish a demonstra- tion. H.R. 3762: Ms. MCCOLLUM. tion program to facilitate physician reentry H.R. 3803: Mr. TURNER of New York. f into clinical practice to provide required pri- H.R. 4066: Mr. BURGESS. mary health services; to the Committee on ADDITIONAL SPONSORS H.R. 4091: Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Energy and Commerce. H.R. 4096: Mr. KING of New York. By Mr. BARROW: Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 4134: Mr. RIGELL. H. Res. 673. A resolution expressing support were added to public bills and resolu- H.R. 4164: Mr. BASS of New Hampshire. for designation of May 2012 as ‘‘National Mo- tions as follows: H.R. 4259: Mrs. BACHMANN.

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H.R. 4269: Mr. LONG. H.R. 5325 with expected Technology Readiness Levels H.R. 4282: Mr. NEAL. OFFERED BY: MR. BURGESS (TRL) of TRL–7, TRL–8, or TRL–9 at the end H.R. 4323: Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. PETERS. of the project, as described by the ARPA–E H.R. 4336: Mr. DUFFY and Mr. GIBSON. AMENDMENT NO. 9: Page 30, line 25, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by eXCHANGE User Guide (updated March 1, H.R. 4367: Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. SMITH of Texas, 2012). Mr. LONG, Ms. MOORE, and Mr. BOREN. $100,000,000)’’. H.R. 4403: Mr. SCHWEIKERT and Mr. Page 56, line 24, after the dollar amount, H.R. 5325 insert ‘‘(increased by $100,000,000)’’. CRAWFORD. OFFERED BY: MR. BROUN OF GEORGIA H.R. 4405: Mr. MARINO. H.R. 5325 AMENDMENT NO. 15: At the end of the bill H.R. 4406: Mr. PETERS and Mr. HUIZENGA of OFFERED BY: MR. BURGESS Michigan. (before the short title) insert the following: AMENDMENT NO. 10: At the end of the bill, H.R. 4454: Mr. NUNNELEE. SEC. ll. None of the funds made available H.R. 4470: Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Ms. MOORE, before the short title, insert the following new section: under this Act for the Advanced Research Mr. NADLER, and Mr. ACKERMAN. Projects Agency—Energy may be used for H.R. 5188: Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York and SEC. l. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used— unallowable expenditures related to adver- Ms. CHU. tising, promoting the sale of products or H.R. 5195: Mr. CARNAHAN, Mr. DEUTCH, and (1) to implement or enforce section 430.32(x) of title 10, Code of Federal Regula- services, and raising capital in contraven- Mr. BURTON of Indiana. tion of the requirements of sections 31.205–1 H.R. 5646: Mr. KELLY. tion; or and 31.205–27 of title 48 of the Code of Federal H.R. 5705: Mr. KIND, Mr. LARSON of Con- (2) to implement or enforce the standards Regulations. necticut, and Ms. MOORE. established by the tables contained in sec- H.R. 5714: Mr. CAPUANO and Mr. SHERMAN. tion 325(i)(1)(B) of the Energy Policy and H.R. 5325 H.R. 5736: Mr. ROHRABACHER. Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6295(i)(1)(B)) H.R. 5745: Ms. LEE of California and Mr. with respect to BPAR incandescent reflector OFFERED BY: MR. BROUN OF GEORGIA CONYERS. lamps, BR incandescent reflector lamps, and AMENDMENT NO. 16: At the end of the bill H.R. 5796: Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. NAD- ER incandescent reflector lamps. (before the short title) insert the following: LER, Mr. YOUNG of Indiana, Mr. TURNER of H.R. 5325 SEC. ll. None of the funds made available New York, Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. WIL- OFFERED BY: MR. GOHMERT by this Act may be used by the Department SON of South Carolina, Mr. JOHNSON of Illi- AMENDMENT NO. 11: At the end of the bill of Energy to subordinate any loan obligation nois, and Mr. MICHAUD. to other financing in violation of section 1702 H.R. 5823: Mr. SCHIFF. (before the short title), insert the following: of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. H.R. 5842: Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. ROSS of SEC. ll. None of the funds made available 16512) or to subordinate any Guaranteed Ob- Florida, Mr. BENISHEK, Mr. HECK, Mrs. by this Act may be used by the Department ligation to any loan or other debt obliga- MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. of Energy for the new construction, pur- tions in violation of section 609.10 of title 10 MILLER of Florida, Mr. BERG, Mr. POMPEO, chase, or lease of any facility, land, or space of the Code of Federal Regulations. Mrs. ELLMERS, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. in the District of Columbia except where a GOSAR, and Mr. POSEY. contract for the construction, purchase, or H.R. 5325 H.R. 5846: Mr. AKIN, Mr. CONAWAY, and Mr. lease was entered into before the date of the OFFERED BY: MR. CRAVAACK BROOKS. enactment of this Act. H.R. 5848: Mrs. DAVIS of California. H.R. 5325 AMENDMENT NO. 17: At the end of the bill H.R. 5864: Mr. DINGELL. OFFERED BY: MR. TIPTON (before the short title) insert the following: H.R. 5873: Mr. WALDEN and Mr. GIBBS. SEC. ll. None of the funds made available H. Res. 187: Ms. SLAUGHTER and Mr. AMENDMENT NO. 12: At the end of the bill by this Act may be used by the Department SABLAN. (before the short title), insert the following: of Energy to require grant recipients to re- H. Res. 397: Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee and SEC. ll. None of the funds made available place any lighting that does not meet or ex- Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. by this Act may be used to conduct a survey ceed the energy efficiency standard set forth H. Res. 484: Ms. HIRONO, Mr. BACA, Mr. in which money is included or provided for in section 325 of the Energy Policy and Con- HONDA, Mr. SCHIFF, and Ms. CHU. the benefit of the responder. servation Act (42 U.S.C. 6295). H. Res. 490: Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. H.R. 5325 H. Res. 506: Mr. SHERMAN. OFFERED BY: MR. BROUN OF GEORGIA H.R. 5325 H. Res. 616: Mrs. HARTZLER. H. Res. 618: Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. BROWN of AMENDMENT NO. 13: Page 20, lines 17 OFFERED BY: MR. HARRIS through 23, strike ‘‘Provided further’’ and all Florida, and Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- AMENDMENT NO. 18: At the end of the bill fornia. that follows through ‘‘6864(a)):’’. (before the short title) insert the following: H. Res. 624: Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas. H.R. 5325 SEC. ll. None of the funds made available H. Res. 646: Mr. KELLY and Mr. PALAZZO. OFFERED BY: MR. BROUN OF GEORGIA under this Act may be used to fund any por- f AMENDMENT NO. 14: At the end of the bill tion of the International program activities AMENDMENTS (before the short title) insert the following: at the Office of the Department of Energy SEC. ll. None of the funds made available with the exception of the activities author- Under clause 8 or rule XVIII, pro- by this Act may be used by the Department ized in section 917 of the Energy Independ- posed amendments were submitted as of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agen- ence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. follows: cy—Energy to provide awards to projects 17337).

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RECOGNIZING THE NORTHERN PRENATAL NONDISCRIMINATION IN RECOGNITION OF EVAN R. HIGH SCHOOL PATRIOTS ACT (PRENDA) OF 2012 CORNS UPON RECEIVING THE HERMAN ‘‘RUSTY’’ SHIPPS LEAD- ERSHIP AWARD HON. STENY H. HOYER SPEECH OF OF MARYLAND HON. BETTY McCOLLUM HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MINNESOTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, June 1, 2012 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, June 1, 2012 Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise in recogni- honor and congratulate an extraordinary team tion of Evan R. Corns upon him receiving the Ms. MCCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today of young women from Maryland’s fifth con- Herman ‘‘Rusty’’ Shipps leadership award. in opposition to the Prenatal Nondiscrimination This prestigious award is named in honor of gressional district. The Northern High School Act, PRENDA, of 2012 (H.R. 3541). Rusty Shipps, Class of 1913. The Award, be- Patriots won the 3A Maryland ‘‘state softball Every Member of the House opposes the stowed by the Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Board of finals on May 26, 2012. This is their fifth con- Directors, recognizes exemplary leadership, secutive softball state championship and ninth abhorrent practice of gender selection, includ- ing me. In Minnesota, prohibiting sex-selective stewardship, dedication, and commitment to softball championship overall. This incredible the advancement of the university. abortions has passed on a bipartisan basis in achievement was made all the more signifi- Mr. Corns’ support of his alma mater is leg- cant given the caliber of their competition. the State House of Representatives in 2007 endary at Ohio Wesleyan University, as is his and 2010. Unfortunately, the bill before us is commitment to private liberal arts education as After an undefeated season, the Patriots not about protecting girls. It is about politics. emerged victorious over Thomas Stone High reflected in his 2010 induction into the Ohio H.R. 3541 is an attempt by House Repub- Foundation of Independent Colleges Hall of School, Chopticon High School, Huntingtown licans to restrict women’s access to legal re- Excellence. High School, and Reservoir High School to ul- productive health care services by threatening Throughout a tremendously successful busi- timately meet Linganore High School in the medical professionals with legal action. ness career, Evan R. Corns has made his state championship game at Robert E. Taylor mark both at Ohio Wesleyan and around the Under this bill, health care providers could Stadium at the University of Maryland. The State of Ohio. An active member of the univer- Patriots prevailed, overcoming the Linganore face civil penalties or even criminal prosecu- sity’s Board of Trustees for more than 20 Lancers with a final score of 10–0. tion for failing to report confidential conversa- years and a supporter of many Ohio Wesleyan tions they have with woman about terminating This victory demonstrates that with deter- initiatives, Mr. Corns has never ceased to find a pregnancy. Ten leading medical associa- mination, willpower, and discipline we can new ways to enhance the campus and mis- tions oppose this bill, arguing that ‘‘H.R. 3541 sion of his beloved school. For example, in an work to overcome any obstacle in the path of would require that medical and mental health effort to make college available to others he achieving success. The Northern High School professionals violate doctor-patient confiden- graciously provided financial support for a Softball team has gone above and beyond ex- tiality and report known or suspected viola- number of campus scholarship programs, in- pectations. The Patriots end their 2012 season tions.’’ Physicians take an oath to be trusted cluding the Woltemade Center’s Corns Busi- not only with a state championship, but also a counselors for their patients, not secret inform- ness and Entrepreneurial Scholars program, perfect record of 25–0. Additionally, Northern all in an effort to support the students, faculty, ers for the government. Many recite the High School has become the first softball pro- and staff at Ohio Wesleyan University. Alumni modem version of the Hippocratic Oath, which gram in state history to win five consecutive like Evan R. Corns represent the finest as- states: ‘‘I will respect the privacy of my pa- state titles. pects of Ohio Wesleyan University and sym- tients, for their problems are not disclosed to bolize the finest traditions of citizenship. Eighteen student-athletes contributed to this me that the world may know.’’ It is wrong for f triumphant season, remaining focused and de- Congress to empower politicians to interfere in termined to continue the streak of Northern the very personal and private relationship be- TRIBUTE TO BARBARA HUNDLEY, JACKSON CITIZEN OF THE YEAR High School softball state championships. tween a woman and her health care provider. Mr. Speaker, I offer my heartiest congratula- Women must have control over their own HON. JO BONNER tions to the members of the championship health care decisions and be able to trust their OF ALABAMA team—Jessie Clemons, Kierstie Schaefer, doctors to provide confidential medical guid- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jess Cummings, Sarah Bennett, Sam Gatton, ance free from ideologically-driven misinforma- Caroline Clarry, Marleigh Smith, Lindsey tion or government interference. H.R. 3541 Friday, June 1, 2012 Schmeiser, Madison Marinaccio, Baylee threatens these basic principles. Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay Hutchinson, Erin Adams, Julie Keleti, Carleigh Congress can and should do more to fight tribute to Barbara Hundley, who has enhanced Ruleman, Kristina Lozupone, Kailin Case, Alli- life in Jackson, Alabama through her civil serv- gender discrimination and improve the lives of son Garzone, Kayla Grantham, and Sabrina ice, dedication to her church and talent with Beil—on their victory. And, I also want to ap- women and girls. I urge my Republican col- gardening, earning her Jackson’s Citizen of plaud Head Coach Robert Earl Radford and leagues to join House Democrats in our efforts the Year award. his coaching staff—Devin Hall, Beth Radford, to increase women’s access to affordable, Mrs. Hundley has served a variety of roles and Qyntia Parks-Lewis—for their dedication comprehensive health care, achieve pay eq- in the Jackson area, working for the city plan- and commitment while guiding these talented uity and ensure all girls can obtain a quality ning commission on projects like a new com- student-athletes. education. Bipartisan support for such policies plex for the Jackson Police Department, re- would be the strongest statement about Amer- modeling the White Smith Memorial Library, Like all Southern Marylanders, I am very ica’s commitment to gender equality. the construction of the Jackson Senior Citizen proud of these young women and I congratu- Center and also a new fire station for the late all of those involved in bringing home a I urge all my colleagues to oppose H.R. downtown Jackson area. state title. I ask that my colleagues join me in 3541. In addition to this, Mrs. Hundley volunteered applauding this great accomplishment. at the library, helped bring the Regional Child

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Mrs. Hundley Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO after earning a scholarship for his skills at also has been a 35-year member and a past Catholic Charities of St. Louis, MO quarterback, George received his Bachelor of president of the Jackson Woman’s Club, and Diocese of Jackson, MS Bioscience from the Florence State Teachers taught drug awareness and other classes at Catholic Charities of Jackson, MS College, which is now the University of North Jackson High School. Vicksburg Catholic School Alabama. Even while doing all of the aforementioned St. Joseph’s Catholic School After college, George enlisted in the U.S. Air activities, Mrs. Hundley has taught Sunday Diocese of Biloxi, MS Force and, while stationed in Puerto Rico, school at the Jackson First United Methodist De I’Epee Deaf Center, Inc., Biloxi, MS married Joyanne Herbert. Upon his discharge Church, provided lunch for senior citizens and Catholic Social and Community Services, Inc., from the Air Force in 1955, he returned to Ala- those with bereaved families, sang in the choir Biloxi, MS bama and began a brief career in education at and researched and authored a history of the Resurrection Catholic School, Pascagoula, MS Hazel Green High School, teaching history church. St. Dominic Health Services, Jackson, MS and coaching baseball and basketball. However, Mrs. Hundley’s greatest passion Diocese of Rockville Centre It was in 1956 that George Lindsey’s acting might be gardening, which has developed Catholic Health Services of Long Island career began with his acceptance to the such a reputation that groups will take tours of Catholic Charities of Rockville Centre American Wing Theater in New York City. the gardens at her home on Golfview Drive. Archdiocese of New York After a stint on Broadway, he portrayed var- As is her nature, Mrs. Hundley also teaches ArchCare ious characters on popular television shows gardening, landscaping and classes on birds Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH such as The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, The Twi- and butterflies for the communities of Jackson, Diocese of Erie, PA light Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Grove Hill and Monroeville. St. Martin Center, Erie, PA Then, in 1964, George began his career-defin- On behalf of the people of Alabama, I want Prince of Peace Center ing role as the lovable, kind-hearted Goober to congratulate Barbara Hundley on her recent Diocese of Pittsburgh, PA Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show. This char- recognition and thank her for her service and Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh, PA acter, known for his ‘‘Goober Dance’’ and example to her fellow citizens in Jackson and Catholic Cemeteries Association of the Dio- Cary Grant impression, followed him through the surrounding communities. We wish her cese of Pittsburgh, PA the shows Mayberry R.F.D and Hee Haw as and her family continued success in the years Diocese of Dallas, TX well. to come. Diocese of Fort Worth, TX Above all his success on the screen, f Religions should not and will not be bullied George was most passionate about giving 43 CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS into violating their beliefs. back to his home state of Alabama. From FORCED TO SUE TO PROTECT A government edict is not a substitute for 1973 to 1988, he raised over $1 million for the THEIR BASIC RIGHTS religious doctrine. Alabama Special Olympics through the It is a sad day in our country when groups George Lindsey Celebrity Golf Weekend, HON. TED POE have to sue the Government in order to pro- which drew countless actors and athletes to tect a basic right guaranteed in our Constitu- Montgomery every year. He also raised OF TEXAS tion. $50,000 for the Alabama Association of Re- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES And that’s just the way it is. tarded Citizens through his participation with Friday, June 1, 2012 f the Minnesota Special Olympics National Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, ‘‘. . . I Competition, and in 1998 he founded the have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hos- PERSONAL EXPLANATION George Lindsey UNA Film Festival at the Uni- tility against every form of tyranny over the versity of North Alabama, which promotes the mind of man.’’ HON. ADAM SMITH talents of local filmmakers. Thomas Jefferson’s words reflect the basis OF WASHINGTON Aside from providing wholesome laughter for religious liberty in our country. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for three decades through his career as an A freedom which is guaranteed in the first Friday, June 1, 2012 actor, it goes without saying that George amendment. Lindsey’s contributions to the state of Alabama The provisions in the first amendment are Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, on are indeed vast and significant. A recipient of listed first because they are the most impor- Tuesday, May 8, 2012, I recorded an erro- the Governor’s Achievement Award and the tant. neous vote on the amendment offered by Mr. Minnie Pearl Lifetime Achievement Award, Yet this essential freedom is being trampled HUIZENGA of Michigan to H.R. 5326. I intended George has left a legacy of passionate gen- on by the administration under the guise of to vote ‘‘no’’ on rollcall vote No. 215, on erosity that will certainly be missed. providing essential health care. agreeing to the Huizenga amendment to H.R. Mr. Speaker, it is on behalf of the people of The administration has demanded religious 5326. Alabama that I would like to extend my condo- groups violate their religious convictions. f lences to the family and many friends of Last week the 43rd Catholic organization George Lindsey during this time of loss. His joined in lawsuits against the administration TRIBUTE TO GEORGE SMITH sense of humor and passion for his home will based on the Government’s blatant disregard LINDSEY, ALABAMA-BORN never be forgotten. for religious freedom. ACTOR, PHILANTHROPIST Organizations throughout the country have f joined in these suits. HON. JO BONNER They are: PRENATAL NONDISCRIMINATION OF ALABAMA ACT (PRENDA) OF 2012 Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Consortium of Catholic Academies SPEECH OF Archbishop Carroll High School Friday, June 1, 2012 Catholic Charities of D.C. Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay HON. YVETTE D. CLARKE The Catholic University of America tribute to—and honor the life of—a great Ala- OF NEW YORK University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL bamian and devoted philanthropist. It is with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Diocese of Joliet, IL sadness that I acknowledge the loss of Catholic Charities of Joliet, IL George Lindsey, one of the finest actors to Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Diocese of Springfield, IL call Alabama home, who passed away on May Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, Catholic Charities of Springfield, IL 6, 2012, at the age of 83. yesterday I voted against H.R. 3541, the The University of Notre Dame Born in 1928, George Lindsey grew up in Prenata Nondiscrimination Act. I am proud Diocese of Fort-Wayne-South Bend, IN Jasper, Alabama, where he attended Walker that as a body we rejected the measure, and Catholic Charities of Fort Wayne-South Bend, County High School. It was there that, while relieved that we exposed the true intent of IN also starring on the football field and playing what would have been a disastrous law. The

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However, the Anyone can embrace freedom of expression active in planning worship services, serving as legislation voted upon yesterday was when their viewpoints go unchallenged. The a substitute teacher for religious education, overbroad and dangerous. It proposed harsh American way means that those who vehe- and singing in the choir. Mrs. Esnault also sentences for doctors and individuals that mently disagree are able to speak their views spends her time volunteering with various or- strive to provide support to a woman as she side by side and that differing faiths can be ganizations, reaching out to help her commu- makes difficult decisions concerning her per- practiced streets apart. We must all ask our- nity in a variety of ways. Mrs. Esnault volun- sonal health. It threatened the sanctity of doc- selves—will we abandon our Constitutional teers at American House in Pontiac where she tor-patient confidentiality, and would have cre- principles when they allow others to voice leads Communion services. She is also on the ated an environment that allowed hearsay to opinions that are contrary to our own or prac- Board of Directors and volunteers at the be used as a weapon to impose Federal regu- tice a faith different than our own? Or will we Matchan Nutrition Center, an organization that lation on a purely personal matter. stand up for the freedom of all Americans to serves nutritious lunches to residents of Oak- Let’s see this bill for what it truly was. It was practice their own beliefs? That is the true test land County in need. She also serves on the yet another attempt to undermine a woman’s of what it means to be American. Board of Directors and volunteers at Fr. Pops’ right to choose. It was an insidious attack on The Murfreesboro Islamic Center has been Clinic, a free clinic with volunteer doctors who personal rights. We have fought hard for our facing down protests since 2010 and is once provide health care services to those without rights as women, and I will never stand by idly again making headlines after a judge ruled insurance. as some in Congress try to destroy something that the local officials did not provide sufficient In addition to her service in the community, women like me hold so dear! If this Congress public notice under local law before approving Mrs. Esnault is a loving wife and mother. She was serious about taking up issues of discrimi- the project. I know that the Muslim American has also been recognized as a Life Member of nation it would have wasted its time on this community would want this project completed the NAACP and a Gold Life Member of the bill. We should be using our precious time in accordance with local ordinances, so I fully Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. here to discuss is our unequal education sys- expect they will work with officials to ensure Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Betty Esnault has made tem, our disproportionate access to capital, or the appropriate process is followed. it her mission to improve the lives of others. the lack of basic medical care that 47 million Once these processes are completed, I She has dedicated countless hours to this pur- Americans deal with daily. Apparently, some hope that opponents will recognize that con- suit both professionally and philanthropically of us believe that discrimination only exists in struction is protected by our Constitution. Ad- over many decades. Her zeal to serve others the womb. This type of hypocrisy and two ditional vandalism and intimidation is counter is both inspiring and moving, as there is no handed policy-making must stop, and I sug- to everything we stand for as Americans and doubt that her work has been felt by so many gest proponents of the bill examine whether or everything that makes our country great. across Southeast Michigan. I am pleased to We are better than this as a Nation. Our not the measure goes along with the ideals of honor Mrs. Esnault as she receives her award proud history and hard-fought principles de- limited government that are supposed to drive from Lambda Rho Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi mand more. their agenda. Beta Sorority, Inc. f I am glad that we defeated the Prenatal f Nondiscrimination Act, and promise that I will CONGRATULATING BETTY fight to strike down any other measure of the ESNAULT AS THE 2012 COMMU- HONORING ROBIN GREGORIUS, same nature in the future. NITY SERVICE HONOREE FOR ALABAMA SMALL BUSINESS f THE LAMBDA RHO ZETA CHAP- PERSON OF THE YEAR MURFREESBORO ISLAMIC CENTER TER OF ZETA PHI BETA SOROR- ITY HON. JO BONNER HON. ANDRE´ CARSON OF ALABAMA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIANA HON. GARY C. PETERS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHIGAN Friday, June 1, 2012 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, June 1, 2012 Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Friday, June 1, 2012 Mr. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I rise Ms. Robin Gregorius, who was recently se- today saddened that yet another community in Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to lected the 2012 Alabama Small Business Per- America is attempting to stop construction of honor Mrs. Betty Esnault of the Lambda Rho son of Year by the U.S. Small Business Ad- an Islamic Center, this time in Murfreesboro, Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. as ministration. Tennessee. she is recognized by the chapter as the 2012 Ms. Gregorius’ personal story is a testament Unlike the controversy that surrounded the Community Service Honoree. to her determination to realize her dream of construction of the Islamic Center near the Whether in a professional setting or during establishing an assisted living center that ad- World Trade Center Memorial, the opponents her countless hours of community service, dresses the needs of her patients for the com- here cannot mask their disdain for Muslim Mrs. Esnault has dedicated herself to the im- forts and of home rather than a care facility. Americans by claiming to act on behalf of the provement of others’ lives. Her commitment to The daughter of immigrant parents from the families of the victims of 9/11. In fact, the op- the health and safety of her co-workers was former nation of Czechoslovakia, Ms. ponents have not even tried, instead letting evident from the beginning of her career at Gregorius grew up on a farm in Robertsdale in their prejudice and paranoia dictate their General Motors, where she worked to improve Baldwin County, Alabama. course. the conditions of the assembly processes Her career as a registered nurse took her It is ironic that these opponents contend, through the introduction of ergonomics. Using across the country, both near and far, includ- without any evidence, that Muslim Americans her knowledge of ergonomics from her studies ing the cities of New Orleans and Los Ange- in Murfreesboro want to replace the Constitu- at the former General Motors Institute and the les. Yet, she returned to the Mobile area to tion, while they hypocritically ignore freedom University of Michigan, Mrs. Esnault worked put her knowledge to work for local patients of worship, a belief so central to our Nation it with industry designers to implement who would benefit from her new approach to is enshrined in the 1st Amendment. ergonomically-sound policies. Through Mrs. assisted living care. What makes America great is our people’s Esnault’s efforts to acquire ergonomically de- In a recent interview with the Mobile Press- unshakeable love of freedom and a monu- signed tools and safer production practices, in- Register, Ms. Gregorius noted that over her mental history that welcomes every viewpoint, novative assembly processes were developed career she had observed that her older pa- faith, and background. As our Nation grows to both improve working conditions and elimi- tients longed for ‘‘homey’’ surroundings in their and its diversity widens, we must not forget nate employees’ risk of injury. Mrs. Esnault re- care facilities with home cooking—important the values on which we were founded. tired from General Motors after a successful touches that were often lacking in assisting liv- We cannot, in one instance, celebrate free- 32 year career as a Technical Integration En- ing quarters. And equally important, the staff dom of expression, and in the next, silence gineer. in many care facilities seldom offered the

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Mr. Speaker, on rollcall with 20 other pediatric advocacy groups who ment—she eventually secured a $1 million No. 302 I was inadvertently recorded as voting provided expert guidance and recommenda- bank loan. The results have been rewarding. ‘‘aye.’’ tions throughout the process. Together we’ve Today, she owns and operates the Country I oppose the Grimm amendment and my improved BPCA and PREA to benefit medical Gables Assisted Living Home in Grand Bay vote should be recorded as ‘‘nay.’’ care for children for generations to come. where she and her staff of 14 care for patients f f in a novel way. As she put it, her care facility HONORING UNIVERSITY OF ALA- ‘‘is pretty much run like a big bed-and-break- FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION BAMA GYMNASTICS COACH fast hotel, except it’s breakfast, lunch and din- REFORM ACT OF 2012 SARAH PATTERSON ner with a 24-hour continuum of care.’’ Ms. Gregorius is joined by her mother, SPEECH OF Lahoma, and her sister, Ramona, in running HON. ANNA G. ESHOO HON. JO BONNER OF ALABAMA their small assisted living facility like a large OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES family home. Their hard work has been re- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES warded with the satisfaction of their patients Friday, June 1, 2012 Wednesday, May 30, 2012 and the knowledge that County Gables is a Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor special place. Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to University of Alabama gymnastics coach Fittingly, in March, Robin Gregorius was speak in support of H.R. 5651, the Food and Sarah Patterson who led the Crimson Tide to named as Alabama’s Small Business Person Drug Administration Reform Act of 2012, to re- its sixth national championship this spring. In of the Year. On May 20, 2012, she officially authorize the Prescription Drug User Fee Act addition to racking up an impressive record of received her award at a Small Business Ad- and the Medical Device User Fee Act. These victories over her 34 seasons in Tuscaloosa, ministration conference honoring the nation’s critically important laws have improved patient Coach Patterson has helped establish Ala- other Small Business awardees here in Wash- access to important therapies and expedited bama as a dominate force in college gym- ington, DC. the FDA’s approval times while upholding the nastics. On behalf of the people of Alabama and my most rigorous standards for patient safety. It is fitting that Coach Patterson was hired colleagues in the Alabama Delegation, I wish The Prescription Drug User Fee Act, by then-Athletic Director Paul ‘‘Bear’’ Bryant, to extend personal congratulations to Ms. PDUFA, was enacted in 1992 when drug re- himself no stranger to bringing home national Gregorius and her family for not only receiving view times were lagging and FDA simply titles to Alabama. Since arriving in Tuscaloosa this wonderful honor, but also for their sub- couldn’t keep up with the flood of new drug after graduating from Slippery Rock State Col- stantial contributions to the lives of many local applications. Through user fees paid by appli- lege in Pennsylvania, Coach Patterson has seniors. cants, PDUFA gave FDA the resources it proven time and again her ability to lead the f needed to hire and support more staff. The Crimson Tide’s gymnastics team and maintain program has been successful at reducing re- REPRESENTATIVE KIND FLOOR its dominance in the college sport. view-time backlogs and expediting safe and AMENDMENT 67 (RULES AMEND- Coach Patterson vaulted the University to effective therapies to patients. MENT 143) TO THE NATIONAL DE- prominence as one of only four teams to cap- Along with faster drug approvals, Congress FENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT ture the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics cham- also recognized the need to study drugs in (H.R. 4310) pionship since Women’s Gymnastics was de- children. As the original author of the Best clared a championship sport in 1982. Her ex- HON. RON KIND Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, BPCA, and cellence in coaching also helped to earn the the Pediatric Research Equity Act, PREA, I’m Crimson Tide gymnastics team spots in 29 OF WISCONSIN proud of how successful these programs have consecutive NCAA championship competi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been in treating children, resulting in new dos- tions. Coach Patterson has also led the Tide Friday, June 1, 2012 ing information, new indications of use, new to 27 years of a top six finish and 20 top three Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in sup- safety information, and new data on effective- finishes. port of the amendment to permit the National ness. Before BPCA and PREA, the vast ma- Fittingly, Coach Patterson was named Guard and Federal agencies performing jority of drugs (more than 80 percent) used in NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Coach of the homeland defense activities to enter into a children were used off-label, without data for Year in 1986, 1988, 1991, and 2002; and military cooperative agreement with facilities their safety and efficacy. Today, that number Southeastern Conference Women’s Gym- capable of providing emergency response has been reduced to 50 percent. nastics Coach of the Year in 1985, 1995, 2000 training. We know that children are not just small and 2010. Providing our National Guard units and pub- adults—they have unique medical needs and Coach Patterson’s distinguished record in- lic service employees with increased opportu- drugs react differently in their bodies. That’s cludes: Six NCAA Women’s Gymnastics nities to train at the state of the art homeland why in this year’s reauthorization, it was im- championships—1988, 1991, 1996, 2002, defense training facilities is just plain common- portant for us to look at areas in need of im- 2011, and 2012; Seven Southeastern Con- sense. It’s a win for the military and service provement. The bipartisan legislation gives ference Championships—1988, 1990, 1995, personnel who will be better prepared to safe- FDA the tools it needs to ensure companies 2000, 2003, 2009, and 2011; 27 NCAA Re- ly work in the field and a win for the local are thinking about pediatric populations as gional Titles—1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, communities, who will see local job creation. early as possible in the drug development 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, My amendment does not call for any in- process, and that they’re able to enforce 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, crease in funding. It is simply a legislative fix timelines that are routinely missed. The lan- 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, to allow the training facilities to competitively guage encourages further study into untested and 2012. bid for training contracts with the National age groups, like neonates, and clarifies any Coach Patterson is assisted by her hus- Guard and Federal agencies. This will allow confusion over what some see as ‘‘loopholes’’ band, David, who helps with coaching the ath- for additional, comprehensive training for to allow companies to access the market ex- letes. Their hard work, along with other volun- those who are on the front lines during a do- clusivity incentive without completing addi- teer coaches and assistant coaches, have led mestic emergency. tional studies. the Alabama gymnastics team to six national I encourage my colleagues to support this The legislation ensures that companies rou- championships and the enviable position of amendment to ensure that our National Guard tinely submit their pediatric plans earlier in the being one of the best in the nation, year in and homeland disaster first responders have process by establishing a clear timeline and and year out, as well as the many well-round- all of the training and tools necessary to carry expectations. I will be closely monitoring the ed athletes who have graduated to go on to out their mission. regulation that will implement the pediatric great success in many fields.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K01JN8.004 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E949 Inducted in the Alabama Sports Hall of IN MEMORY OF TOM GLANCY sands of people. Mr. Chan passed away on Fame in 2003, Coach Patterson has brought May 17th and the Houston Chronicle printed the gymnastics team to the forefront of inter- HON. ELTON GALLEGLY his obituary. In honor of Mr. Chan, I would like collegiate athletics and she has kept them in OF CALIFORNIA to submit the text into the CONGRESSIONAL the forefront. In a recent interview with The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECORD: Huntsville Times, Coach Patterson noted that Chiu Moon Chan, died on Thursday, the she felt ‘‘fortunate’’ to be a component of the Friday, June 1, 2012 17th of May 2012, in Houston, at the age of 59. ‘‘history and tradition’’ at the University of Ala- Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in mem- His life made a lasting impact on his family, bama. ory of Tom Glancy, who passed away earlier on the business community, and on the peo- this month after more than 12 years of excep- ple who knew him. Mr. Chan will be remem- It’s safe to say that Coach Patterson has bered as extremely intelligent, highly ener- tional service to the citizens as an appointed certainly earned her position as a part of the getic, and totally devoted to his family and and elected official for the City of Thousand University’s proud athletic history. to the company which he founded and pre- Oaks, California. sided over for two decades. He was a person On behalf of the people of Alabama and my After serving 6 years on the city’s Planning who visualized and actualized the American colleagues in the Alabama Delegation, I wish Commission, Tom was appointed to the Thou- dream. to extend personal congratulations to Coach sand Oaks City Council in 2005. He was elect- Born in Hong Kong on the 30th of Sep- Sarah Patterson for her remarkable record of ed to a full term in 2008 and served as mayor tember 1952, Mr. Chan graduated from Wah achievement at the University of Alabama and in 2009. He resigned on May 11 due to declin- Yan College in Hong Kong before moving to for her many contributions to the lives of all the United States in 1970 to attend college at ing health. the University of Houston. He worked who have called her coach. A dentist who specialized in implants and through college, earning a Bachelor of reconstructive dentistry, Tom treated his time Science degree in Pharmacy, and became a f in public office as a second full-time job. He registered pharmacist in 1978. was known to bring Planning Commission and Mr. Chan was widely known as an entre- ART DIRECTORS GUILD 75TH later City Council binders with him on vaca- preneur and innovator in the healthcare BIRTHDAY tions or weekend getaways so he could be field. He had been involved in that industry prepared when sitting on the dais. He served since 1971. During the period from May 1978 on 23 separate committees and boards during to July 1988 he was employed by various healthcare service organizations in Houston, HON. HOWARD L. BERMAN his time on the council. Texas including Lifemark Corporation and OF CALIFORNIA Those included turns as vice president, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. president, and immediate past president of the He started his own home infusion therapy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Association of Water Agencies of Ventura business in 1988. From this humble begin- ning, he went on in 1992 to found Dynacq Friday, June 1, 2012 County; chair of the League of California Cit- ies Community Services Policy Committee; International, Inc., now known as Dynacq Healthcare, Inc. Dynacq became a publicly Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to and vice-chair and chair of the League of Cali- fornia Cities Transportation, Communication & traded company, and achieved national rec- honor the Art Directors Guild, IATSE, Local ognition as one of the 200 fastest growing 800, on the occasion of its 75th birthday on Public Works Committee. small businesses in the United States from June 2nd of this year. Many of the movies and Tom’s service was not limited to appointed magazines such as Forbes and FSB. Mr. Chan television shows we all enjoy would not exist and elected office however. After 30 years of served as President, CEO, and Chairman of without the hard work of the ADG and its active and reserve duty, Tom retired from the the Board of Dynacq for 20 years. During members. U.S. Navy as a captain. He was also an active those two decades, his efforts resulted in Rotarian for 25 years and served as president gainful employment for hundreds of families The Art Directors Guild is a trade union of the Rotary Club of Thousand Oaks from and quality healthcare for thousands of pa- comprised of production designers, art direc- 1992–1993. He served on the board of the tients in Houston, Pasadena, and Dallas, tors, illustrators, storyboard artists, scenic, title Texas, and in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Southeast Ventura County YMCA, was gen- and graphic artists, and set designers. Its Dynacq’s hospital facilities in Houston and eral chairman and executive chairman of the members represent 2,000 creative crafts peo- Dallas were nationally recognized as centers Conejo Valley Days Committee, and served as ple who design motion pictures, television of healthcare excellence. Conejo Valley Days Grand Marshal in 2011. Mr. Chan was a member of the Pasadena shows and commercials. These dedicated art- When not serving his community, Tom and Chamber of Commerce, a supporter of the ists bring pleasure to millions across the his wife, Karen—who is an artist and served Rotary Club and the Neighborhood Centers, globe. as his dental assistant—enjoyed local and and an active member of the Wah Yan Alum- In 1924, pioneers of art direction founded a international travel, hiking, fishing, sailing, and ni Chapter in Houston. He was an avid golfer fraternal order called the Cinemagundi Club, and a member of Redstone Country Club and spending time with their four children and four Bay Oaks Country Club. He truly enjoyed which, in 1937, became the Society of Motion grandchildren. Tom was also an accomplished life and loved to travel, having traveled with Picture Art Directors. That assembly has be- cook and pilot. his beloved wife to many places around the come the Art Directors Guild we know today, His was a life well-lived. world. Mr. Chiu Moon Chan is survived by a group that has served the industry proudly Mr. Speaker, I know my colleagues join me his wife Ella; sons, Dr. Eric K. Chan, and wife for 75 years. We are celebrating the Guild’s in celebrating the life of Tom Glancy, in re- Michelle, and Bert K. Chan; three grand- journey this year, honoring their past and sup- membering his many accomplishments, in children; Kailee, Connor, and Emmy; broth- porting and encouraging the many contribu- thanking him for his many years of service to ers, sisters, and numerous nieces and neph- tions they will make to the industry in the fu- his country and community, and in offering our ews. ture. condolences to Karen, their children and It is with great respect, I honor Chiu Moon Chan for lasting impact he had on his family The ADG also provides many cultural op- grandchildren, and all who were touched by and community, and his many wonderful ac- portunities for members of the community to Tom’s friendship and dedication. complishments upon his death. enjoy. The Guild runs an art gallery in North Godspeed, Tom. Hollywood that is open to the public. It pro- f f vides panels, workshops and training for mem- CHIU MOON CHAN TRIBUTE TO BOB HOWELL, LONG- bers as well as others interested in the field to TIME WSFA TV NEWS ANCHOR foster a spirit of innovation in the entertain- ment industry. It also publishes ‘‘Perspective,’’ HON. GENE GREEN a monthly magazine that covers topics of im- OF TEXAS HON. JO BONNER portance to entertainment industry profes- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF ALABAMA sionals. Friday, June 1, 2012 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker and distinguished colleagues, I Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Friday, June 1, 2012 ask you to join me in recognizing the Art Di- I rise today to honor Chiu Moon Chan, a fel- Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay rectors Guild and its members for their years low Texan. From a humble beginning, Mr. tribute to the outstanding contributions of one of hard work and dedication to the entertain- Chan founded Dynacq International, Inc., pro- of South Alabama’s most distinguished and ment industry. viding jobs and quality healthcare for thou- trusted broadcast journalists, Mr. Bob Howell.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K01JN8.005 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 1, 2012 As of today, June 1, 2012, Bob Howell offi- served our country with honor during World over 400 adults a year. Over 3,500 low-in- cially retires from WSFA TV 12 in Montgomery War II, and he worked tirelessly for the people come non-native Americans have gained where he anchored the evening news for more of Southwest Virginia for nearly 20 years in English-language literacy skills over the past than three decades. the United States House of Representatives. two decades. A native of Geneva, Alabama, Bob Howell Mr. Speaker, though Congressman Wam- It is my honor to enter into the CONGRES- first set foot on his lifelong career path in pler is in a better place now, he will surely be SIONAL RECORD the names of volunteers for broadcasting while still a high school student. missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with the BEACON for Adult Literacy Program: After taking the mic at WGEA radio in his Wampler family and I know that my colleagues Brendan Baldwin, Sally Harrison, Richard hometown, he traveled east to Dothan, Ala- join me today as we remember our friend and Corbett, Carole O’ Sullivan, Martisa Brown, bama to deliver the news at WTVY TV 4 for honor his legacy to the Commonwealth of Vir- Corinne DeGrazia, Sasha Haleblian, Donna five years. In 1976, Bob moved to Alabama’s ginia and to our nation. McNeally, David Covin, Robert Lynch, Ed capital city to take the helm of the region’s f Walsh, Brian Bell, Erika Arellano, Gene largest television news operation, WSFA TV, Strausbaugh, Alex Kersis, Ruth Porter, Henry where he anchored the weekday 6 and 10 CONGRESSIONAL PORTUGUESE Hastings, James McPheeters, Star Muir, Ilana p.m. newscasts. CAUCUS MEMORIAL DAY STATE- Naylor, Erica Seymour, James Gillespie, Skip As WSFA’s press release announcing Bob’s MENT Brown, James Porter, David House, Joyce retirement aptly observed, ‘‘He has had the Rozier, James Sowers, Suzanne Morgan, Tina job of delivering the day’s news to thousands HON. DENNIS A. CARDOZA Cox, Jane Arseneault, Satya Khadka, James of viewers with a calm, trusted, steady and OF CALIFORNIA Drummond Jr., Janet Radzimski, Jessica Higham, Jean Gentry, Pat Hodgdon, Jeanne caring approach through difficult, challenging IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and happy times.’’ Endrikat, Richard Flaherty, Anne Walsh, Jim Friday, June 1, 2012 Over the years, he has anchored more than Zech, Carmalla Coley, Yolanda Daniels, Joan 10,000 live newscasts in addition to serving as Mr. CARDOZA. Mr. Speaker, with respect Appleton Costanza, Venkat Viswanathan, the Managing Editor of WSFA’s news depart- and admiration I, along with my colleagues Mr. Kelley Studholme, Armena Springs, Nancy ment. His three decade career at WSFA wit- COSTA, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. McGOVERN, Mr. Schalk, Lianetta Ruettgers, William McGuire, nessed his live reporting of gubernatorial inau- KEATING, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. HONDA, and Mr. Liz Alcauska, David McDermott, Bob Schlipp, gurations, most of the State’s historic events CICILLINE, gather today to both celebrate the LTC Peter Stenner, Sue Kang, Vivek of the last thirty years, as well as foreign as- freedoms we enjoy as Americans, and to Koppikar, Martha Walsh, Jayne Hazen, Me- signments covering stories in Britain, France, honor all the brave service men and women lissa MacIntyre, Nancy Nelson, Katherine Germany, and Kuwait. who have fallen defending those freedoms. DeSilva, Patrick McNeally, Caroline Zong, In addition to his anchoring role, Bob also To all the mothers, fathers, wives, hus- Jeanne Lynch, Rhonda Vanover, Clara Hipp, produced award-winning documentaries, bands, and extended family members of those Robert Brown, Karen Shankles, John Man- hosted WSFA’s ‘‘Newsmakers’’ program, ‘‘Ala- who have served, we offer our deepest grati- ning, Robert Mechler, Ruth Passarge, Joyce bama Illustrated,’’ ‘‘Inside Alabama’s Legisla- tude. The sacrifice of your loved ones is a Andrew, Robert Stinson, Jim Hipp, Roberta ture,’’ and co-hosted the Jerry Lewis MDA debt that can never be repaid. Knussmann, Justin Terry, Rosanne Schubring, Telethon and the Children’s Miracle Network As members and friends of the Congres- Fabiana Parker, Rosie Jones, Aaron Burdick, fundraisers. He also hosted the regular news sional Portuguese American Caucus, we Bob Sowers, Ruth Thomas, Doris Thomas, feature, ‘‘Exploring Alabama with Bob Howell.’’ would also like to pay special tribute to our Sheri McGlothlin, Lyn Hildebrandt, Leslie Despite his busy schedule covering and de- soldiers of Portuguese descent who have Stagg, Sonya Jacob, Martha Muirhead, Tiffany livering breaking news to thousands of South made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our Laseter, Walter Godlewski, William Cratty, and Alabama residents, including Clarke, Monroe country. Portuguese Americans have served Sister Theresa Anderson. and Escambia counties in my congressional with distinction in our military forces from the Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join district, Bob also returned his knowledge and revolutionary war to current conflicts in Iraq me in commending the volunteers of the BEA- expertise to college journalism students as an and Afghanistan, and I have no doubt they will CON for Adult Literacy Program and in thank- instructor at Troy University’s Hall School of continue to answer America’s call into our fu- ing them for their dedication to our community. Journalism for more than 20 years. ture. f As Bob officially begins his retirement from On this Memorial Day, Americans every- FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION WSFA and broadcasting, he has made it clear where join in honoring those we have lost. It REFORM ACT OF 2012 that he will not be giving up work. He is al- is a time to recognize the sacrifices made to ready busy making plans for his next career defend our country, and remember the free- SPEECH OF for which he promises he still has a lot to doms and liberties for which our service mem- bers fought for. HON. LAURA RICHARDSON offer. OF CALIFORNIA We honor you and all soldiers who have an- On behalf of the people of South Alabama, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and as someone who grew up watching Bob swered the call of duty and we send our pro- deliver the evening news, I thank Bob for his found appreciation to the families of our fallen Wednesday, May 30, 2012 dedication and professionalism and wish him heroes. As we reflect on the tragedy of those Ms. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in and his wife and family all the best in their fu- we have lost, we should realize our great for- support of H.R. 5651, The Bipartisan Food ture endeavors. tune to live in a free country, and recognize and Drug Administration Act of 2012, which f the sacrifices required to defend it. modifies the Food and Drug Administration’s f (FDA) policies and procedures to enhance PAYING TRIBUTE TO Americans’ access to effective healthcare. CONGRESSMAN BILL WAMPLER RECOGNIZING THE BEACON FOR This bill improves the safety, development, ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM and distribution of medications and medical HON. ROBERT HURT VOLUNTEERS devices to patients and medical providers. OF VIRGINIA This bill reauthorizes the FDA’s user fee IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY program for prescription drugs and medical devices through fiscal year 2017. Further, it in- Friday, June 1, 2012 OF VIRGINIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES troduces a new user fee program for generic Mr. HURT. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to pay medications. These fees, collected from drug Friday, June 1, 2012 respects to Congressman Bill Wampler, former and medical device companies, will give the representative of Virginia’s ‘‘Fighting 9th Dis- Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I FDA the funding it requires to grant patients trict,’’ who will truly be missed. rise today to recognize the BEACON for Adult rapid access to the treatments they need. This Congressman Wampler served the people Literacy Program Volunteers. will improve the accessibility of vital medicines of Southwest Virginia for nearly two decades, BEACON for Adult Literacy is an award-win- to patients throughout the U.S. and with his passing, the Commonwealth has ning non-profit proudly serving the adult lit- Mr. Speaker, this bill permanently reauthor- lost a great leader and a great man. eracy needs of the Northern Virginia commu- izes two beneficial pediatric drug programs. Congressman Wampler took pride in work- nity for 20 years. In its first year BEACON The first, the Best Pharmaceuticals for Chil- ing in his family’s business in Bristol, he served 30 learners; today BEACON serves dren Act, enhances the safety and availability

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Just a few days ago, Claressa Ogawa Family, Phillippi Family, Protacio Fam- The second pediatric drug program that is learned she had earned her Olympic spot after ily, Reedy Family, Rodriguez Family, Rosario permanently reauthorized is the Pediatric Re- competing in the AIBA women’s world cham- Family, Saul Family, Seagle Family, Simmons search Equity Act. This act increases the safe- pionships in Qinhuangdao, China. Family, Simons Family, Thompson Family, ty of prescription drugs for children by requir- Her success has ignited Flint and her ex- Thompson Family, Thompson Family, Tilden ing pediatric testing of certain medications in- traordinary accomplishments at a young age Family, Verosko Family, Walker Family, Yoon tended for adults in order to fully understand in an incredibly demanding sport have made Family. their effects. This will ensure that physicians her a national star. Claressa’s dedicated and Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join have a clearer grasp of the effects these talented trainer describes her as the complete me in commending the Prince William County medications have before prescribing small fighter, equally talented on defense and of- Department of Public Works Volunteers for dosages to children. fense. Her high school principal, Cheryl their service and in thanking them for their This bill also provides for a vital update of Adkins, praises her student’s academic focus, dedication to our community. the FDA’s global drug supply chain authority, positive image and dedication to her goals. f requiring drug importers to register with the Claressa has been featured in Time magazine FDA, and disallowing the import of medicines and is fielding media interviews, all the while IN RECOGNITION OF THE 50TH from organizations that have limited or denied maintaining her academic focus and training WEDDING ANNIVERSARY OF MR. inspections. daily for the Olympics. She advises others not AND MRS. JAMES H. BREWSTER Most importantly, the bill expands the juris- to rush headlong toward success but to take diction of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos- everything in stride. Her life goals include win- HON. MIKE ROGERS metic Act. This allows for the FDA to pros- ning 10 to 15 professional boxing titles in mul- OF ALABAMA ecute foreign violators of the act, and thus dis- tiple weight classes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES courages such violations in the future. These Mr. Speaker, please join me in congratu- Friday, June 1, 2012 updates will improve the safety of the prescrip- lating Claressa Shields on her historic tion drugs that are provided to American pa- achievement representing the United States Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I tients. and Flint, Michigan in the first women’s boxing ask for the House’s attention today to recog- Finally, Mr. Speaker, this bill will implement competition at the Summer Olympics. She is nize the 50th wedding anniversary of James new FDA requirements that will help to pre- an outstanding individual who is truly a world- and Mary Brewster. vent drug shortages. The bill does this by up- class example for us all. James Harvey Brewster was born on Janu- dating the FDA’s reporting policies for manu- f ary 6, 1939, in Ohatchee, Alabama. Mary facturers, and ensuring that the agency main- Emma Smith was born on March 17, 1943 in tains a drug shortage list that is made avail- RECOGNIZING THE PRINCE WIL- Ohatchee, Alabama. On June 2nd in 1960, able to healthcare providers. Additionally, LIAM DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC James and Mary were united in marriage in should a shortage still occur, this bill outlines WORKS VOLUNTEERS Calhoun County. steps to be taken to mitigate the problem. If James worked for 21 years before retiring enacted, these new policies will help protect HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY with Alagasco Gas Company in Anniston and the country’s prescription drug supply, ensur- OF VIRGINIA Mary stayed at home raising their family. They ing that Americans always have access to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES had six children, three boys and three girls: Gregory Lynn Brewster, Paul Harvey Brew- medication they need. Friday, June 1, 2012 Mr. Speaker, it is for these reasons that I ster, the late James Rossie, Janice Denise support H.R. 5651. Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I Tillman, Connie McKinzie Redwine and f rise today to recognize the Prince William Sharron Redwine. County Department of Public Works Volun- They are also blessed with 11 grandchildren CONGRATULATING FLINT’S teers. and 16 great grand-children. James is an Au- CLARESSA SHIELDS AS SHE Public Works staff works to ensure that ef- burn Tigers fan while Mary cheers for the Ala- PREPARES FOR THE 2012 OLYM- fective, practical, and safe techniques are bama Crimson Tide. PIC GAMES AND THE FIRST used in all employment operations. They pro- Mr. Speaker, I offer my congratulations to WOMEN’S BOXING COMPETITION vide much needed training and support for Mr. and Mrs. Brewster on this milestone and IN OLYMPIC HISTORY employees and hold all practices accountable. wish them many more happy years together. The staff offers guidance and understanding of f HON. DALE E. KILDEE how tasks are accomplished, helping employ- RECOGNIZING THE CHOPTICON OF MICHIGAN ees provide services that are needed in the HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES community. It is my honor to enter into the CONGRES- Friday, June 1, 2012 SIONAL RECORD the names of volunteers for HON. STENY H. HOYER Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, on Jury 28 a Prince William County Department of Public OF MARYLAND skilled, savvy and courageous high school stu- Works: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent from Flint, Michigan will make history as Stonewall Jackson HS Ecology Club, Jes- one of only 36 women in the world competing sica Hruska, Rich Smith, Prince William Trails Friday, June 1, 2012 in the inaugural women’s Olympic boxing com- and Streams Coalition, Friends of the Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to petition in London, England. At the age of 17, Occoquan, Vulcan Materials—Manassas recognize the Chopticon High School March- this Northwestern High School junior’s drive Quarry, Windy Knoll Farm, Eric VanNortwick, ing Band on earning the title of United States and determination has already earned her rec- Ed Dandar, Adams Family, Aleman Family, Scholastic Band Association Group IIIA Mary- ognition as the world’s top ranked women’s Anwar Family, Babar Family, Bassett Family, land State Champions. ‘‘The Showband of fighter. At the Summer Olympics, Claressa will Broadhurst-Bibbee Family, Butkus Family, Southern Maryland’’ from Morganza, Mary- be punching her way toward the gold. Chiodo Family, Couture-Morales Family, land, has earned this title for the past three It was 19 years ago that another teenage Crespo-Galliver Family, Cronin Family, Darcy consecutive years. girl named Dallas Malloy went to federal court Family, Dinga Family, Donovan Family, This momentous victory was made all the and won the right for women to participate in Ehtasham Family, Glass Family, Goodwine more significant given the caliber of their com- amateur boxing. Years later, a father in Flint, Family, Gough Family, Gross Family, Hopkins petition. After competing previously at three hoping to set his daughter on a positive Family, Huang Family, Hunter Family, Hylton regional competitions, the band took first place course, encouraged his 12-year-old to con- Family, James Family, Jampole Family, Kaps at the State Championship, hosted by Towson sider boxing, his own sport. Claressa, wanting Family, Kay Family, Kristy Family, Kromer University on October 15, 2011 with their per- to bond with her father and attracted to the Family, Kronthal Family, Kulakowski Family, formance titled ‘‘The Heart of Madness.’’ The

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band went on to compete and place fourth at It is my honor to enter into the CONGRES- fied the core values of the United States Ma- the National Championship in Allentown, SIONAL RECORD the names of volunteers for rine Corps: honor, courage, and commitment. Pennsylvania. The Greater Prince William Medical Reserve Wade grew up in Leona, a small city near This victory demonstrates that with hard Corps: Centerville, Texas. He was a graduate of work, determination, and discipline, we can Vickie Andrews, Evelyn Ansah-Agyei, Centerville High School, and he was known to reach our goals. The band also received Heather Baldwin, Valerie Bampoe, Hassan have a heart of a champion; whether on the awards for best music, effect, visual, perform- Bangura, Harry Beaver, Charlotte Bediako, football field or in the classroom. ance, and guard. Fifty-three musicians quali- Diondra Blyden, Sarah Boughman, Susan With his faith in God and country, at age 17, fied for the performance, and they remained Brewer, Josh Brown, Eileen Brown, Pamela Wade enlisted in the United States Marine focused and determined to achieve their Brown, David Bruce, Alisa Bruce, Kathryn Corps. He served in the 2nd Battalion, 5th Ma- dream of victory at the statewide competition. Cantoni, Janice Chambers, Gabriella rine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine I want to applaud the band’s staff—Todd Chimenz, Kathy Cobb, Nancy Collins, Debbie Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Cali- Burroughs, Christina Burroughs, Bobby Jones, Constable, Judy Corcoran, Sonia Coughlin, fornia. On his second tour of duty, Wade un- Mark Lortz, Megan Howell, Briscoe Thomp- Marguerite Crozier, Lisa Cullom, Valerie derstood that the nation was at war, yet he son, and Kevin Burroughs for their dedication Cyrus, Theresa Dailey, Estelle Daniels, Tele chose to charge headlong into battle for a sec- and commitment to training these superb mu- Dasilveira, Brian Davis, Annette Davis, Molly ond time. There are not many of us who sicians. I also send my hardiest congratula- Davis, Monique Davis, Faduma Deghill, Patri- tions to the members of the marching band on would be willing to volunteer to leap into the cia Demain, Mary Dessimoz, Joseph lion’s den of Afghanistan where the cowardly their victory—Carrie Barrett, Alexis Badovski, Dibisceglie, Kalima Drga Abreu, Douglas Samantha Lockard, Breanna Thorne, Brendan enemy hides in caves. It says something spe- Dulaney, Blossom Ellicott, Gloria Ephraim, cial about the quality of this American fighting Utt, Bailie Anthony, Elizabeth Barnes, William Bernadette Espy, Adrienne Foose, Sandra Husk, Kacey Roberts, Jennifer Russnogle, man that he would boldly face those who kill Francis, Victoria Gammon, Bianca Garcia, Fil in the name of religion. Paula Wills, Robert Konen, Chris Mitchell, Beth Gatmaitan, Miguel Granillo, Masako Grif- Marlena Krauth, Jennifer Thalman, Sam On Friday, May 11, 2012, Sergeant Wade fith, Brenda Grimes, Margaret Hayes, Shenna Prettyman, Dakota Sparks, Josh Wetherald, Wilson was killed while conducting a combat Hess, Jenny Ho, Joan Howard, Miwa Hwang, Geoffrey Westbrook, Joey Coleman, Kelsie operation in Afghanistan. He was just 22 years Annie Johnson, Kimberly Johnson, Lucinda Gill, Philip Hayden, Garret Ordille, Matt Ordille, of age. As a soldier in Afghanistan fighting the Jones, Jennifer Jones, Fatmata Kamara, Jane Megan Mosier, Nick Nelson, Ryan Nelson, forces of the Taliban, Wade defended free- Keady, Katherine Ketchum, Stephanie Keyes, Kelly Purdy, Jacob Thorne, Kayla Bean, dom. He defended it for his mother, Cindy Elizabeth Koren, Hawa Kun, Cecilia Kusi, Kolleen Dare, Jake Flowers, Jennafer Harris, Lee; his stepfather, Ward; his father, Rusty; Janiece Lacy, Grace Langebeck, Blake Rachel Kaper, Kayla Morris, Taylor his stepmother Tammy, his three brothers, his Leggett, Brunette Lewis, Joyce Lund, Nghi Lu- McQueeney, Nicole Sadecki, Hunter Sparks, sister, his three step-sisters; and all of their Tran, Linda Manley, Iris Matos, Jessica Madison Bateman, Rachel Escolopio, Amber families. He defended freedom for all of us. Maybar, Kamil McClain, Pamela McGrath, Griffith, Sabrina Hill, Danielle Hilton, Carly Sergeant Wade Wilson was a true soldier. We Megan McHugh, Cary McMahon, John Mee- Keating, Hannah Kozlowski, Emily McKoy, Ra- all owe a debt that can never be repaid to chel Nussberger, Darby Powell, Layne Thomp- han, Judy Merring, Ryan Metz, Heather Mi- Sergeant Wilson’s sacrifice, and today and to- son, Melanie Thompson, Kristen Wetzel, randa, Emerita Mogrovejo, Esther Moniba, morrow, we will mourn with his family and Mackenize Wood, Meredith Wood, and Gina Monica Moore, Virginia Morales, Troy Morton, friends for the tragic loss of their son, brother, Zanelotti. Chrystal Morton, Margaret Nee, Ralph Neeper, friend, citizen, soldier and hero. Nancy Neeper, Rachel Nissley, Lawrence I’m very proud of these young men and My friend, Mayor Steve Stephens of Dayton, Ofosuhene, Juanita Oliver, Jose Quinones, women, and I congratulate all those involved Texas, has a farmhouse in Leona, Texas. His Renee Ray, Teresa Rice, Mark Rivera, Me- in bringing home the championship title. I ask long time neighbors are Ward and Cindy Lee lissa Rivera, Donna Robinson, Julie Russell, that my colleagues join me in applauding this Easterling, Sergeant Wade Wilson’s step-fa- JoAnn Saenz, Mary Simon, Shekhar Sharma, significant accomplishment. ther and mother. As a teen, Wade worked for Anne Shaw, Carrie Slavens, Zondra Smith, Mayor Stephens on his farm. Mayor Stephens f Kathleen Smith Peters, Jane Stottlemyer, said on May 18, 2012, hundreds of residents Kamar Sumrall, Raquel Upshur, Susana Vega, RECOGNIZING THE GREATER lined the streets of Leona and Centerville, Karen Villar, Valecia Washington, Margaret PRINCE WILLIAM MEDICAL RE- paying tribute to the family of this patriot. Watkins, Shalanda Weems, Gail West, Mary SERVE CORPS VOLUNTEERS Many of those on the streets carried flags and Weybright, Collis Williams, Siewadaye Wil- yellow ribbons. Others held banners saying, liams, Rhondra Willis, Kathryn Willis, Gladys HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY ‘‘Greater love hath no man than one who Wise, Reeza Woode. OF VIRGINIA gives his life for a friend’’ John 15:13. Patriot- Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ism is alive and well in Texas. And, Sergeant me in commending the volunteers of The Wilson’s commitment to his country is one Friday, June 1, 2012 Greater Prince William Medical Reserve Corps reason why. for their service and in thanking them for their Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I Wade’s funeral on Saturday, May 19, 2012, rise today to recognize the volunteers of The dedication to our community. happened to fall on Armed Services Day. Held Greater Prince William Medical Reserve f in Centerville High School’s auditorium, hun- Corps. dreds of supporters from Leon County came The Greater Prince William Medical Reserve SGT. WADE DANIEL WILSON, out to mourn the loss of America’s son, Wade Corps (GPWMRC) is a cadre of volunteer TEXAS WARRIOR Wilson, and all those who came before him. health care professionals and community We know that freedom is not free, and we members trained to respond to emergencies HON. TED POE thank this fearless Marine for dedicating his and assist with public health events in Prince OF TEXAS life to America. William County and the cities of Manassas IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Manassas Park. This unit is one of ap- Our young people who go to the valley of Friday, June 1, 2012 proximately 800 units that are part of the na- the gun and the desert of the sun are relent- tional Medical Reserve Corps program under Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today less, remarkable characters. They go where the direction of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon to pay tribute to one of Texas’ native sons others fear to tread and where the faint-heart- General and 1 of 31 in the Commonwealth of who served his country honorably in support ed are not found. These warriors represent the Virginia. GPWMRC volunteers frequently pro- of Operation Enduring Freedom. I was deeply best of our nation. They are the sons of liberty vide important services at events such as saddened to learn that Sergeant Wade Daniel and the daughters of democracy. These few, health fairs, vaccination clinics and large pub- Wilson of Leona, Texas was killed by enemy these noble few, are American warriors who lic gatherings. Volunteers also spend a lot of action in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan take care of the rest of us. their time attending trainings and exercises so on May 11, 2012. Sergeant Wade Wilson, your tour of duty that they are prepared to help the community Wade Wilson was one man whose life made has been honorably concluded. during an emergency. a difference at a very young age. He personi- And that’s just the way it is.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ronmental service in Prince William County, The Port of Houston is the largest foreign Friday, June 1, 2012 and this year’s winners exemplify the qualities tonnage port and the largest petrochemical Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, I and work ethic that are required to keep our port in the country. In fact, it moves the sec- rise to honor the accomplishments of Pramila community green. ond largest amount of cargo in the country, as Jayapal, founder of the Hate Free Zone, now I extend my personal congratulations to: 8.5 percent of our nation’s cargo moves called OneAmerica. For more than a decade Stonewall Jackson High School Ecology through the Port of Houston. The commerce she has worked tirelessly to ensure that peo- Club—for raising awareness about environ- that occurs at our port is critical to our Na- ple from immigrant communities have a voice mental issues, inspiring fellow students to get tion’s energy and chemical sectors and to our in America. Her efforts have made Wash- involved, hosting events for younger students country’s ability to trade and move goods ington State and our Nation a better place for and taking the lead on conservation projects in throughout our country. It is a port of national all people who call it home. the field. significance, but has not received the attention In the days immediately following the at- Prince William Trails and Streams Coali- that is necessary to answer the challenges we tacks of September 11, 2001, Pramila began tion—for their ongoing efforts, projects and face in the near future. Despite the national the Hate Free Zone Campaign of Washington programs to create, restore, clean and pre- importance of our port, it is facing a dredging as an entirely volunteer-run organization to serve trails and access to natural areas for the crisis. combat discrimination against immigrants, es- entire community. In 1998, the Federal Government and the pecially from communities of color—primarily Friends of the Occoquan—for their ongoing Port of Houston invested $700 million over the Muslim, Arab American, East African and fall and spring projects to clean up the course of years, to deepen and widen the South Asian—and to work against stereotypes Occoquan River in Prince William County for Ship Channel. An investment we have bene- in a post 9/11 world. At first, the mission was the past 13 years. fitted from tremendously. to advocate for the rights of those who were Vulcan Materials—Manassas Quarry—for As the years have passed silt has settled likely to be victims of hate crimes. their corporate practices to conserve re- and reduced the draft in the channel signifi- Soon after, Pramila began to shift the focus sources and reduce waste, plus their efforts to cantly. Today, only .4 percent of the channel of the Hate Free Zone towards identifying and support schools and organization in their ef- is dredged to its proper depth across the en- addressing violations of the rights and civil lib- forts to protect the environment. tire width of the channel. That is astounding. erties of immigrants. Through these efforts, The Taylor Family of Windy Knoll Farm—for Our Nation’s investment is rapidly deterio- she began working with community leaders their generous offer to allow local conservation rating. groups to host programs and demonstrations and elected officials to address these con- Currently, the Houston Ship Channel is on the farm, as well as their use of sound and cerns on local, State, and Federal levels. dredged to a depth of 43 feet, but it should be environmentally wise management practices. In 2008, the Hate Free Zone became 45 feet. The Panama Canal is expanding and Eric VanNortwick—for his ongoing efforts to OneAmerica: With Justice for All, reflecting the when it is completed, the Port of Houston clean up, maintain and enhance trails along mission of advocating for the fundamental should be at a minimum of 45 feet and we Neabsco Creek in Prince William County. principles of democracy and justice by giving could take advantage of additional depth. Ed Dandar—for his dedication in coordi- voices to all immigrant communities. Today, In the most recent President’s budget re- nating and overseeing logistics for the 26 mile OneAmerica works with allies and community quest, the Administration asked for $700,000 clean up along the Occoquan River. leaders to educate, engage and advocate, and in new dredging money and new start funding Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join has become an active and trusted immigrant of $100,000 toward study on the widening and me in commending the winners of the 2012 advocacy organization in Washington State. deepening of the Houston Ship Channel to the Green Community Awards and in thanking Pramila’s dedication to the protection of civil Turning Basin. The new start funding is par- them for their dedication to our community. rights and civil liberties is important to every ticularly important, once a project gets new single group of Americans, immigrants and f start money it is more likely to be funded in non-immigrants alike. The promotion of civic ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOP- the future. Unfortunately, in the bill we are education, voting rights and civil liberties ben- MENT AND RELATED AGENCIES considering today, the funding for the new efits everyone who calls the United States APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2013 start will be eliminated. home. This increased funding level for dredging Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I SPEECH OF just over $24 million, which is maintained in honor Pramila Jayapal and all of her work at the Energy and Water Appropriations bill, is OneAmerica. Though she is moving on from HON. GENE GREEN welcome and I am pleased that Congress and OneAmerica, I have no doubt she will continue OF TEXAS the Administration are committing more re- to advocate for those in need. Her dedication IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sources to our maintenance dredging needs, to improving the lives of all persons living in Thursday, May 31, 2012 particularly in a budget environment when Washington State has been an inspiration to most programs are cut. However, it’s about a The House in Committee of the Whole us all, and I look forward to her next endeav- third of the total needed to bring our channel ors. House on the state of the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 5325) making ap- back to its authorized depth. The reduced f propriations for energy and water develop- draft costs our region money. ment and related agencies for the fiscal year As we confront the dual challenges of RECOGNIZING THE 2012 GREEN ending September 30, 2013, and for other pur- adopting policies that create jobs and reduce COMMUNITY AWARD WINNERS poses: the debt, funding for dredging projects is an Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Chair, I item that, while costly, will have more of a HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY am concerned about the Energy and Water positive impact on our economy than a nega- OF VIRGINIA Appropriations bill for several reasons. One of tive impact on our deficit. The Texas Trans- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES these reasons is that while this bill increases portation Institute performed a study and de- funding for the Army Corps of Engineers over termined that a direct economic impact of the Friday, June 1, 2012 the President’s request, it is not enough. The loss of 1 foot of draft is $373 million. The ma- Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I Army Corps completes critical flood control jority of this impact is lost business opportuni- rise today to recognize the winners of the projects and also, through dredging at our ties due to light loading of non-containerized 2012 Green Community Awards. port, fuels a major economic engine in Harris vessels. If the dredging crisis at the port con- Every year the Green Guiding Committee of County, Texas and has been underfunded for tinues to worsen, this cost will quickly in- Prince William County awards people or orga- years. crease.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.019 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E954 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 1, 2012 RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANT Habitat for Humanity seeks to eliminate pov- Commissioner or the Michigan public employ- ROLE THAT LOCAL BROAD- erty housing and to make decent shelter a ees he works for every day in his current role. CASTERS PLAY IN ALERTING matter of conscience and action. Habitat in- It is no surprise, given his spirit for serving THE PUBLIC DURING WEATHER vites people from all walks of life and faiths to and protecting others, that prior to his time EMERGENCIES work together in partnership to build and re- with Local 517M, Phil had been planning to go pair houses with families in need through our to law school. Instead, as often happens to HON. ANDRE´ CARSON Neighborhood Revitalization Initiatives: New those with the drive to serve, Phil fulfilled his OF INDIANA Construction, Home Rehabs, Home Repairs passion as a voice protecting the rights of oth- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and the Habitat Restore. Home repairs consist ers. Having arrived at Local 517M in April Friday, June 1, 2012 of A Brush with Kindness, Weatherization, 1981 as a staff representative, Phil quickly as- Critical Home Repairs and Critical Home Re- cended to become the branch’s Executive Di- Mr. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, in re- pairs for Veterans. None of their work is pos- rector in 1986. cent years, unpredictable and sometimes vio- sible without the funding and time that their What was originally supposed to be only a lent weather has struck our Nation. The donors and volunteers give so generously. part-time job quickly became Phil’s central months of May and June are the most likely 490 volunteers donated more than 6,867 work. As a leader for the SEIU in Michigan, times for tornadoes to strike the great Hoosier hours in 2011 and eleven of those volunteers Phil took it upon himself to represent the state. Getting to safety before a tornado individually donated more than 100 hours members of Local 517M at every collective strikes can be the difference between life and each. bargaining session since he became Director death. Success in that effort depends on ac- It is my honor to enter into the CONGRES- in 1986. Phil strongly believes that commu- cess to timely information. For this reason, I SIONAL RECORD the names of volunteers of nication between the unions and their mem- want to thank local broadcasters in the 7th Habitat for Humanity of Prince William County: bers and unions and their communities is es- District of Indiana for providing critical informa- Susan Jacobs, Karen Wilkinson, Rob Major, sential to ensuring that all workers have their tion during weather emergencies. Chris Daffan, Theresa Accoo, Christine Rowe, rights protected. Phil has strived to keep his Last year, a violent storm caused the sud- Kisha Sogunro-Wilson, Anita Duecaster, members connected to their local through den collapse of the concert stage at the Indi- Renee Wolfolk, John McBride, Brian Swanson, strengthening member services. ana State Fair. This tragic incident killed Marci Swanson, Dob McCubbin, Frank Like so many who are thrust into positions seven and severely injured dozens more. It Jacquette, Sandi Stark, Mike Stark, George of leadership by their peers, Phil has never could have been much worse. Timely alerts Braun, Matthew Watkins, Bob Gainer, Al Har- forgotten his brothers and sisters who put him from local broadcasters enabled Fair officials ris, Lynn Ashe, Razan Azzarkani, Betty there. He strongly believes that it has been an to clear the Midway minutes before the storm Reichert, Lynn Eklund, Kristine Reyes, Justin honor to work with so many talented and dedi- struck, potentially saving the lives of hundreds. Marohnic, Darren Fischer, Casey Brewster, cated union and staff members. Radio and television stations are our Na- Gary Wright, Elizabeth Hayde, Ashley Tyler, In recognition of his exceptional leadership tion’s most reliable network for distributing Cheryl Novogradac, Joseph Bolos, Scott skills and his effectiveness, Phil’s peers have emergency information. When electrical lines DeGroat, Kim Morris, Teresa Blacksmith, Jen- consistently given him increased responsibil- are knocked down and Internet and mobile nifer Miller, Rich Feickert, Chris Reilly, Tim- ities that extend beyond Local 517M. He has networks become inoperable, broadcasters othy Grembowski, Andi Pollard, Kenneth been elected to SEIU’s International Executive are the last line of defense—transmitting pub- Morilak, Jeffrey Beathard, Quinton Morris, Board three times between 2000 and 2008, lic safety information over the airwaves. Kudzaishe Mlambo, Pam Hart, Barbara Atwell, where he is finishing up his current term as Local television and radio stations play a David Wurst, Mayumi Ferrin, Matthew Whalen, Vice President. Between 2002 and 2010 he critical role in ensuring public safety. Now is Rita Ayanga, Michael Renfro, Nathanael served as President of Michigan’s SEIU State the time to expand their ability to provide White, Kurt Wall, Shryl Madison, Rodney Council and currently serves as its Treasurer. emergency notifications. Increasingly, the Owens, Richard Revaz, Denise A. Womack, Phil is constantly sought to be a voice for pro- American people have access to mobile Phyllis Hall, Polynice Paul, John Grennek, fessionals in State government, by news phones. By equipping these devices to receive Carmen T. Courchene, Sharon Dangerfield, agencies and was recently awarded the 2012 FM radio signals, millions of Americans could Isalee Jackson, Cortni Robinson, Lauren Michigan Labor Press Award for his contribu- depend on their mobile phones to provide crit- Hughes, Christina Frank, Marletha Dyer, Paul tions which have supported the growth of the ical information in advance of a weather emer- Whalen, Dara Dentham, Patrick Stolte, Maikao labor movement. gency. Mr. Speaker, Phil has spent his life working As a former official with the Department of Yang, James Zhang, Ying Zhang, Connie to strengthen the labor movement, which in Homeland Security, I know first-hand how cell Moser, Mark Luiggi, Jim Floyd, Al Ferguson. Michigan and around the world has secured phone networks can become overloaded and Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join and protected important rights for all workers. inoperable during an emergency. By adopting me in commending the volunteers of Habitat His dedication and passion have benefited so this technology, broadcasters can provide for Humanity of Prince William County for their many and I know that his colleagues and fel- timely information to mobile phones—enabling service and in thanking them for their dedica- low SEIU members will surely miss him, his the American people to take shelter in ad- tion to our community. insights and his experience. I know that as a vance of a weather emergency. I call upon my f voice for fairness, even in retirement, he will colleagues in Congress, the Federal Emer- THE OCCASION OF PHILLIP continue to fight for the rights of workers and gency Management Agency, the Federal Com- THOMPSON’S RETIREMENT AS I wish him many happy and productive years munications Commission and the mobile EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF to come. phone industry to work together to expand the SEIU LOCAL 517M reach of local broadcasters in providing critical f information during a weather emergency. REPRESENTATIVE KIND FLOOR I want to once again thank local broad- HON. GARY C. PETERS OF MICHIGAN AMENDMENT 78 (RULES AMEND- casters in my district for their essential role in MENT 145) TO THE NATIONAL DE- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES promoting public safety. FENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT f Friday, June 1, 2012 (H.R. 4310) RECOGNIZING HABITAT FOR HU- Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to MANITY OF PRINCE WILLIAM honor my friend, Phil Thompson, the Execu- HON. RON KIND COUNTY VOLUNTEERS tive Vice President of the Service Employees OF WISCONSIN International Union (SEIU) Local 517M on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY occasion of his retirement. For over 30 years, Phil has been an important leader in the SEIU, Friday, June 1, 2012 OF VIRGINIA working to ensure that the rights of workers Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in sup- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are respected. port of the amendment to waive the time limi- Friday, June 1, 2012 True to the form of a leader and advocate, tation for awarding Lt. Alonzo Cushing the Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I Phil is passionate about fighting for the rights Medal of Honor. rise today to recognize Habitat for Humanity of of those he represents, whether it was his A Wisconsin native, Lt. Cushing, on the third Prince William County Volunteers. constituents when he was Shiawassee County day of the Battle of Gettysburg, commanded

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.021 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E955 110 men and six cannons positioned on Cem- The dedicated Historic Preservation Volun- The measure provides funding to the Cen- etery Ridge, where they received the full force teers are an essential part of the Historic tral Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Di- of Pickett’s Charge. Despite the death of all of Preservation Division. They are part of an rector of National Intelligence, the National Se- his officers and receiving multiple gunshot endless effort to preserve and enhance the curity Agency and other agencies, for oper- wounds, Lt. Cushing refused to withdraw from historical and natural resources of Prince Wil- ations, personnel and equipment. Though battle and was killed by Confederate fire. In liam County. They bring these resources alive much of the funding is classified, each dollar February 2010, Secretary of the Army John for citizens with special programs events and is intended to address the funding needs of McHugh recommended the approval of the na- daily efforts to maintain and beautify our his- this country’s clandestine services. tion’s highest honor for Lt. Cushing. toric sites. They graciously sacrifice their per- The valiant American men and woman who Lt. Cushing’s actions in the Battle of Gettys- sonal time to volunteer as docents, garden toil anonymously in the shadows of the intel- burg were so inspiring that a book detailing his volunteers, education volunteers, research and ligence world deserve our full support for their life, Cushing of Gettysburg, was written in collection volunteers, restoration volunteers, dedicated service. The funding authorized by 1998. and special event volunteers. this bill will help ensure they have the re- I would like to give special thanks to Mar- It is my honor to enter into the CONGRES- sources they need to do their job. garet Zerwekh and the city of Delafield for SIONAL RECORD the names of volunteers fol- f their tireless advocacy to ensure Lt. Cushing lowing Prince William County Historic Preser- receives the honor he deserves. I encourage vation Volunteers: HONORING VINCE GILL my colleagues to support this amendment and Morgan Breeden, Kay Breeden, Daniel honor a true American hero. Breeden, John F. Wolfe, Belinda Brummel, HON. STEVE STIVERS Jennifer Andreani, Wren Hubbell, Jill Hubbell, f OF OHIO Ed Moore, Susan Moore, Tom Costa, Su- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HONORING THE CITY OF zanne Costa, Carolyn Hartman, Comfort PRINCETON, INDIANA Uanserme, Chris McConnell, Bernie McCon- Friday, June 1, 2012 nell, John Nuzum, Avery A. Born, Rex D. Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to HON. LARRY BUCSHON Born, Sue Born, JoAnn Craft, Jim Craft, recognize the courageous actions of Hilliard Wayne Hutzell, Paul Penrod, James D. OF INDIANA resident and 2011 graduate of Hilliard David- Owens, Paige Gibbons, Emmanuel Dabney, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES son High School, Vince Gill. On May 27, 2012, Christine Jaworski, Lionel Raymond, Curtis Vince rescued a drowning man in New York’s Friday, June 1, 2012 Hoagland, Jay Greevy, Jim Pearson, John Genesee River. Mr. BUCSHON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to DePue, James Ivancic, Tom McGinlay, Mike I ask that all Members of Congress join me honor the City of Princeton, Indiana, located Miller, Jacque Siegel, Kathryn Barrows, Bren- and the people of Ohio’s 15th Congressional within my district. Princeton was recently da Caricofe, Nerine Clemenzi, Elaine Davis, District in thanking Vince Gill for his brave ac- named, one of two, Stellar Communities by George Erhart, Becky Hornyak, Kelly tions. Despite the grave risk to his own life, he the Lt. Governor’s office in Indiana. The Stellar Hunsaker, Phyllis Ingram, Bryan Lewis, Belin- selflessly rose to the occasion when he dove Community award, created in 2011, is specific da Lewis, Jeff Loeffler, Sandy Melson, Janice into the river and swam almost a pool’s length to city revitalization projects. Overman, John Overman, Jacque Rowberry, to save the life of 26-year-old Abdulma Alhari, The program is a partnership between mul- Ginny Sanderson-Brown, Rosemary Schatz, of Rochester, NY. For his heroism, the New tiple state agencies to help fund community Andy Schatz, Linda Walls, Lin Weeks. York State Park Police will nominate Vince for renovation projects, and is the latest example Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join a well-deserved civilian lifesaving award. of a state balancing a budget, without raising me in commending the Prince William County I extend my sincere thanks to Vince Gill for a penny in taxes—all while reaping the bene- Historic Preservation Volunteers for their serv- his heroism. While to some he may be an or- ice and in thanking them for their dedication to fits of a surplus. dinary young man, his extraordinary act is ex- our community. The downtown Courthouse Square in actly what makes me so proud to represent Princeton will be upgraded with new side- f the everyday heroes of the Central Ohio area. walks, curbs, landscaping, and signage. The INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION f housing market will receive a much needed ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 shot in the arm too. New loft condominiums HONORING THE CAREER OF MR. and senior housing cottages are included in SPEECH OF WILLIAM ‘‘BILL’’ SANDERSON the plan. HON. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN Tourism will improve as well with restoration OF MARYLAND HON. JOHN CAMPBELL to old historic Courthouse Square building fa- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA cades, and groundbreaking construction of a Thursday, May 31, 2012 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Bicentennial Plaza will only increase the foot Friday, June 1, 2012 traffic in the downtown area. The House in Committee of the Whole We’ve seen government grants work for House on the state of the Union had under Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to several other Main Street projects across the consideration the bill (H.R. 5743) to authorize honor the career of Bill Sanderson, a con- appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for intel- stituent of California’s 48th Congressional Dis- country, and for the second year in a row, I’m ligence and intelligence-related activities of honored that a city in my district will receive the United States Government, the Commu- trict and a noble servant to our country. Mr. the chance to improve the quality of life for nity Management Account, and the Central Sanderson will retire this month from Big local residents. Lastly, I want to congratulate Intelligence Agency Retirement and Dis- Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County’s Board the Mayor of Princeton, Bob Hurst, for his ex- ability System, and for other purposes: of Directors, where he’s dedicated nearly two cellent work on promoting a friendly economic Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Chair, I commend decades of service to underprivileged youth in environment in Indiana’s 8th Congressional Chairman ROGERS and Ranking Member RUP- local communities. Mr. Sanderson has built a District. PERSBERGER for continuing their tradition for distinguished career in business, most recently f the third straight year of reporting a bipartisan serving as Chief Financial Officer at Golden Intelligence Authorization bill. H.R. 5743, the State Foods, President of the Supply Chain RECOGNIZING THE PRINCE WIL- Intelligence Authorization Act, comes to the Services Group at Golden State Foods, and LIAM COUNTY HISTORIC PRES- floor today after having passed the Intelligence Director of Financial Planning & Analysis at ERVATION VOLUNTEERS Committee by a unanimous 19–0 vote. W.R. Grace Restaurant Group. In addition, he The bill allocates resources to critical na- continues to be an influential and respected HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY tional security programs including those that member of the Business Growth Alliance. OF VIRGINIA detect, prevent, and disrupt potential terrorist While his commitment to growing busi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES attacks against the American people. The bill nesses and creating jobs in our community is enhances counter terrorism efforts against al worthy of praise, I am most proud of Mr. Friday, June 1, 2012 Qaeda and its global affiliates; increases over- Sanderson’s selflessness and eagerness to Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I sight of the spending at intelligence agencies help others in need. As a board member at rise today to recognize the Prince William and supports global initiatives to address Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County, County Historic Preservation Volunteers. emerging threats to our national security. Mr. Sanderson led by example as he devoted

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.023 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 1, 2012 his time to mentor at risk youth. His actions and administration in 2009 and chief finan- ice and in thanking them for their dedication to encouraged countless others to volunteer and cial officer in 2011. our community. make a difference in the lives of thousands of Mr. Sanderson is active in the Young Presidents’ Organization, where he has held f young men and women. His leadership and many leadership roles over the past 17 years. PERSONAL EXPLANATION limitless energy provided a new way forward Mr. Sanderson has been involved in giving for these young lives and offered an alter- back through volunteer and fundraising ef- native to joining gangs, dropping out of school, forts supporting Boys and Girls Club of HON. ROBERT HURT and making avoidable mistakes that would ad- Irvine, Muscular Dystrophy, the March of OF VIRGINIA versely affect their future and the State of Dimes, and the All American Boys’ Chorus. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Sanderson also chairs the Golden State California. Friday, June 1, 2012 Mr. Sanderson’s commitment to education Foods Foundation committee in Irvine. In and his community blossomed as a student at that role, Mr. Sanderson founded and has Mr. HURT. Mr. Speaker, I was not present been instrumental in spearheading the for rollcall vote No. 302 on agreeing to the San Diego State University and at the Univer- ‘‘Good News for Kids’’ fundraising event sity of Southern California. He is a model cit- which holds an annual fundraising event at Grimm of New York Amendment to H.R. 5854. izen, dedicated husband to his wife, Diana, the Grove in Anaheim. The proceeds raised Had I been present, I would have voted ‘‘no.’’ and committed father to his twin sons and from this event have benefited a variety of Mr. Speaker, I was not present for rollcall young daughter. I salute Mr. Sanderson’s work children’s charities throughout Southern vote No. 303 on agreeing to the Franks of Ari- and believe it is worthy of high praise and na- California. Mr. Sanderson has been a member zona Amendment No. 8 to H.R. 5854. Had I tional recognition from the U.S. House of Rep- of the board of directors of Big Brothers/Big been present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Sisters of Orange County for more than 15 resentatives. f years and served as chairman of the board MR. WILLIAM (BILL) SANDERSON’S BIOGRAPHY from 1997 through 2000. IN MEMORY OF PHYLLIS MARIE William (Bill) D. Sanderson is Senior Vice Mr. Sanderson and his wife, Diana, live in MUCCINI President and Chief Financial Officer for Irvine with their twin 17 year old sons and Golden State Foods, a world-wide food proc- their 10 year old daughter. essor and distributor to the quick service f HON. TOM REED restaurant industry. OF NEW YORK Mr. Sanderson began his career as a finan- RECOGNIZING THE INDEPENDENCE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cial analyst with W.R. Grace and Company EMPOWERMENT CENTER VOLUN- after earning his Masters in Business Admin- Friday, June 1, 2012 istration from the University of Southern TEERS California. Mr. Sanderson later became the Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to com- Director of Finance for Far West Services HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY memorate the life of a great citizen of my dis- Restaurants, a wholly owned subsidiary of OF VIRGINIA trict who passed away earlier this month. Phyl- W. R. Grace where he was responsible for all IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lis Marie Muccini of Corning, New York, was financial planning, budgeting and acquisi- a dear friend and family member to many in tion analysis. Mr. Sanderson was instru- Friday, June 1, 2012 the 29th District of New York. mental in negotiating a license agreement with Kasumi Stores of Japan and was di- Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I Phyllis was employed by my hometown’s rectly involved in the opening of the first 3 rise today to recognize the volunteers for the Corning Incorporated for over 35 years. Out- Coco’s restaurants in Japan. Independence Empowerment Center. side of work, she spent her time volunteering In 1982, Mr. Sanderson left Far West Serv- Independence Empowerment Center is a at organizations that included the Girl and Boy ices to start his own chain of retail popcorn community-based advocacy organization oper- Scouts of America, Cinderella Softball, the and confectionary stores. Mr. Sanderson ated by and for people with disabilities in the American Cancer Society, and the Corning Li- grew the company from a single store in 1982 state of Virginia. IEC promotes disability rights, oness Club. She received numerous awards to a chain of 20 stores in Southern Cali- equal access, and full community participation for these activities, but that was never her fornia. He transformed his small business into a mail order gift company and licensed for persons with disabilities. They work with in- goal or intention. Phyllis’ activities allowed her his concept in Japan and Korea. dividuals with disabilities to maintain or take to impact the lives of countless individuals In 1989 as chief executive officer of Cal back charge of their own lives and make their over the years. She will forever be missed. Corn, Inc., Mr. Sanderson acquired the mall own choices and decisions in order to be as However I, like many others, have been based Bob’s Big Boy Restaurants from the self-sufficient as possible. Independence Em- touched by her compassion and generosity Marriott Corporation. Mr. Sanderson and powerment Center is associated with a na- that will provide a legacy of her life for many Bob’s founder, Bob Wyan, worked together to tional movement of almost 500 Centers for generations to come. develop a new restaurant concept called the Big Boy Diner. Independent Living. These Centers are advo- Thus, it is right and proper for Phyllis In 1994, Mr. Sanderson negotiated a joint cacy-based organizations governed and oper- Muccini to forever be enshrined in the records venture agreement with ConAgra to open re- ated by persons with disabilities for persons of the United States Congress as a true Amer- tail popcorn stores throughout the United with disabilities. ican heroine for all of us to pause and pay States. Mr. Sanderson served as managing Volunteers for the Independence Empower- tribute. director of Orville Redenbacher Retail ment Center perform essential tasks in and f Stores where he developed a retail concept outside of the office. They assist the staff on and mail order gift division under the Orville HURRICANE SEASON Redenbacher brand. daily functions and projects, as well as well as From 1998 to 2000 Mr. Sanderson served as manage events that the IEC hosts. Addition- president of a middle market designer and ally, IEC is staffed with volunteers constantly HON. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ manufacturer of arts and crafts products to help with their Annual Americans with Dis- OF FLORIDA where he was brought in to turn around a abilities Act Fair in July. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES struggling entrepreneurial company. During It is my honor to enter into the CONGRES- Friday, June 1, 2012 his tenure, he acquired a complimentary SIONAL RECORD the names of volunteers for crafts products company, established a chil- the Independence Empowerment Center: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, dren’s toy division which included licensed as you know, June 1, marks the official start product such as ‘‘Pokemon’’, and focused the Patricia Johnson company on key account sales. The company Judy Humphrey to the Atlantic hurricane season. Mother Na- regained profitability and grew its revenues Don Rhoades ture decided to start a little earlier, unfortu- by 95% in two years. Stephanie George nately, and over the recent Memorial Day In 2002, Mr. Sanderson joined Golden State Marlene Orf weekend my home state of Florida had an Foods where he was appointed president of David Beverage early scare with Tropical Storm Beryl. Thank- Golden State Service Industries, a wholly Alfredo Foz fully, it turned out not to be as bad a storm as owned subsidiary of Golden State Foods. Joshua Rammelsberg we initially feared. Golden State Foods is a full line manufac- turer and distributor of food products for the Emilia Prokop It was a reminder that we all have to work quick service restaurant industry serving China McEachern together to make sure our families, neighbors McDonald’s and other quick service res- Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join and friends stock up on essential supplies and taurant chains worldwide. Mr. Sanderson me in commending the volunteers at the Inde- develop a plan of action in the event another was named senior vice president of finance pendence Empowerment Center for their serv- storm appears headed our way.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.027 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E957 You cannot wait until a storm is coming. For these reasons, I voted to protect PLAs Leon Richardson on earning the company’s Taking early precautions, as well as having a because we, in Congress, need to stand third consecutive Supplier of the Year Award recovery plan, is very important to minimize strong in our fight for fair labor practices and from GM. ChemicoMays’ commitment to ex- damage to your own property. in protecting policies that prove to be success- cellence in production and service has greatly If enough people take precautions, govern- ful. benefited its customers, employees and the ment agencies are free to help those who f communities it calls home. need it most: the elderly, children, the handi- f capped, and people in shelters. CELEBRATING CHEMICOMAYS LLC So make sure you have a three day supply ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR REP. PETRI FLOOR AMENDMENT 25 of non-perishable food and water; THIRD CONSECUTIVE SELECTION (RULES AMENDMENT 46) TO THE Make sure that you have a change of bat- AS GENERAL MOTORS SUPPLIER NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZA- teries for your flashlights, radios, and other de- OF THE YEAR TION ACT (H.R. 4310) vices; Fill up your car’s gas tank; and keep all your HON. GARY C. PETERS HON. RON KIND important papers in a safe, dry place. OF MICHIGAN OF WISCONSIN Please don’t wait until the last minute to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES prepare. It’s up to all of us to make sure we’re Friday, June 1, 2012 Friday, June 1, 2012 safe. Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to I also want to thank President Obama and Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in sup- recognize ChemicoMays LLC and its CEO his entire administration for working with state port of the amendment to compensate Na- Leon Richardson as the company is honored and local authorities throughout the year to tional Guard troops for miscalculated leave for its third consecutive year as a General Mo- prepare for hurricane season and all types of time. tors Supplier of the Year. Each year, General disasters. I’d also like to thank the President This amendment corrects a government Motors (GM) awards this distinction to less and his Administration for including the State error to pay approximately 575 Army National than one percent of its nearly 20,000 suppliers of Florida Emergency Manager Bryan Koon, Guard troops for leave time they earned but worldwide. Florida Adjutant General Major General Em- were unable to take after their last deploy- ChemicoMays, based in Southfield, Michi- ment. These soldiers have spent time over- mett Titshaw, and Florida Power & Light Presi- gan, was formed as a joint venture between dent Eric Silagy in his hurricane preparedness seas defending our great nation—some in Chemico System and Mays Chemical in 2005. multiple deployments—and have earned their briefing at the White House yesterday. Since that time, it has used its more than 20 Lastly, I’d like to salute the important role leave benefits. years of experience to deliver chemical man- The Army agrees that these Guardsmen that our first responders and local television agement solutions for industry customers. and radio broadcasters play in coordinating should have received PDMRA leave. How- With over 250 employees and a focus on pro- ever, the Army’s only legal remedy is to allow and providing critical information during hurri- viding high quality service to its many cus- canes and times of disaster. them use their PDMRA leave after a future de- tomers, the company’s client base has grown ployment. Since some of these soldiers will It takes a tremendous amount of planning to include great American companies like and coordination, and we are grateful for the not deploy again and others have left the serv- General Motors, Boeing and Eli Lilly. ice entirely, this remedy has no value in many collaboration that the public and private sec- Through its unique proprietary Web inter- tors play in times of emergency. cases. face system, ChemicoMays has labored to I would like to give special thanks to Con- Hopefully we’ll have an uneventful hurricane provide its customers a user-friendly tool that season this year. But we must always be pre- gressman PETRI for working with me to ensure enables them to easily access the more than that this egregious bureaucratic error is rec- pared so that we can weather the storm and 150 million pounds of chemicals it procures come out safe and sound on the other end. tified. I encourage my colleagues to support annually. ChemicoMays also provides to its this amendment and properly support our f clients a specialized array of inventory man- service members who selflessly serve. agement tools that allow companies to effi- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND f VETERANS AFFAIRS AND RE- ciently identify and utilize previously wasted LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIA- supplies. In concert with its policy to provide TRIBUTE TO ELLIOTT DUCHON TIONS ACT, 2013 simple, transparent pricing, ChemicoMays has a proven track record that has resulted in not HON. KEN CALVERT SPEECH OF one of its clients having a work stoppage due OF CALIFORNIA to chemical availability. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. YVETTE D. CLARKE ChemicoMays’ commitment to excellence in Friday, June 1, 2012 OF NEW YORK production and service is a standard that ema- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nates from its CEO Leon Richardson. Prior to Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Thursday, May 31, 2012 the creation of ChemicoMays, Mr. Richardson honor and pay tribute to an individual whose dedication and contributions to the community The House in Committee of the Whole established Chemico Systems, Inc. in 1989 House on the state of the Union had under and served as its president. Throughout his of Jurupa Valley are exceptional. Our area has consideration the bill (H.R. 5854) making ap- career, Mr. Richardson has strived to ensure been fortunate to have dynamic and dedicated propriations for military construction, the that his clients receive the best and most com- community leaders who willingly and unself- Department of Veterans Affairs, and related prehensive customer support. More impor- ishly give their time and talent to make their agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- tantly, Mr. Richardson brings out the best in communities a better place to live and work. tember 30, 2013, and for other purposes: his employees in fulfillment of the company’s Elliott Duchon is one of these individuals. On Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Chair, yes- mission. With his tenacity and experience, he Saturday, May 19, 2012, Duchon was recog- terday, the House of Representatives took a led Chemico Systems from a mere start-up nized as the Citizen of the Year by the Jurupa vote on H. AMDT. 1159 to H.R. 5854, the Mili- company to one of the world’s top suppliers of Valley Chamber of Commerce for his work as tary Construction/VA Appropriations Bill. I chemical products and chemical management the Jurupa Unified School District Super- voted in support of this amendment because it services in the automotive, bio-tech and aca- intendent. strikes the anti-project labor agreement lan- demic sectors. In 1974, Duchon graduated from the Univer- guage within section 517 of this bill. Today, Mr. Richardson’s effective leadership sity of California, Riverside (UCR) with a Mas- This amendment was pro-labor and will continues as CEO of ChemicoMays. His dedi- ter’s Degree in Education and Psychology. keep Project Labor Agreements from being cation and that of ChemicoMays’ employees After graduation, he was an elementary teach- eliminated within the bill. Project Labor Agree- have earned the company numerous industry er for the Jurupa Unified School District where ments (PLAs) have been essential and suc- accolades including three consecutive Supplier he also served on school planning commit- cessful tools used by both governments and of the Year Awards from GM, GM’s 2007 En- tees, including the school site council. After private sector companies for years. They help vironmental Excellence Award and being three years of teaching, Duchon was self em- not only employees, but also employers. PLAs named one of Michigan’s top 50 companies to ployed and served as a consultant to the Riv- have been used since the 1930s in the U.S. watch in 2006. erside County Superintendent of Schools and studies show they not only promote fair Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me where he performed land use studies and de- labor practices, but also are cost-effective. today in congratulating ChemicoMays and Mr. mographic research and analysis to form a

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Friday, June 1, 2012 spending caps agreed to in the Budget Control Act of 2011, which already mandates deep After two years as the Systems Planning Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, today, June 1, 2012, marks the 25th anniversary of the first spending cuts across the Federal budget. As Analyst, Duchon became the Instructional we continue passing appropriations bills under Computing Project Manager for the Inland Em- permanent Department of Veterans Affairs-ad- ministered Montgomery GI Bill. Enacted in the constraints of the Republican Budget Res- pire Teacher Education and Computer Center olution, it is crucial that we protect our vet- within RCOE. In this role, he was responsible 1987, the landmark New GI Bill Continuation Act offered a life changing incentive for vet- erans and military families from any deep and for an array of services related to the instruc- harmful budget cuts. Members of the Com- tional uses of education technology. The serv- erans returning from active duty to the work- force. By offering veterans access to higher mittee were able to do so in this bill by pro- ices were provided to the 58 school districts in viding ample funding for veterans healthcare, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. In education, it both strengthened our national defense and helped revitalize our economy. education, and construction improvements on 1985, Duchon was promoted to Director of the The GI Bill has proved over the years to be our military bases. It also takes much needed Region 13 Teacher Education and Computer a boon for many of our veterans. Veterans are action to improve the VA and Pentagon’s Center where he was responsible for the two- able to return home with a plan for their future. health records sharing program. county staff development program in all areas It is an honor to serve on the subcommittee The education they receive helps many enter of the curriculum. In 1991, he was promoted that ensures that our armed forces, their fami- the workforce and provide for themselves and again to Director of Administrative Services for lies, and our veterans get the critical re- for their families in ways that were not pre- RCOE where he was responsible for adminis- sources they have earned. After listening to viously possible. tration and management for the Department of veterans in my District and meeting with mili- This program has blessed our Nation and tary families on bases across the country, I Administrative Services, which included the continues to do so by benefiting not only vet- worked to further strengthen H.R. 5854 to re- Geographic Information Center, internal and erans, but many sectors of the economy by in- flect their priorities. I am pleased that this bill external support for school facilities develop- jecting highly qualified individuals to the work- contains language that helps women veterans ment, school district elections, staff support to force and the community. Veterans are able to gain access to important medical needs, in- the County Committee on School District Or- combine the skill sets they learn both from cluding prosthetics for women amputees. This ganization and other management services. their schooling and from their military training bill also contains language that fully supports After ten years as the Director, Duchon was and often become excellent leaders and con- the Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments promoted to the Riverside County Assistant tributors to society. As I have said in the in their efforts to increase their use of clean al- Superintendent of Schools, Administrative past—hiring former service members for patri- ternative energy sources. Lastly, it encourages Support Services, Division of Information otic reasons expresses appreciation and re- our military to continue their strong commit- Technology/Governmental Relations. In 2001, spect. Hiring them for business reasons gets ment to providing the best quality child care Duchon became the Deputy Superintendent results. for the Jurupa Unified School District and after and housing on base. Our veterans fought to protect our freedoms Although the Subcommittee reported a three years became the Superintendent of and way of life, and as they serve our Nation Schools for the District. ‘‘clean’’ bill, I was disappointed that a harmful in this time of need, we must remember them and unnecessary amendment restricting As Superintendent, Duchon was responsible in their time of need. Veterans have made tre- project labor agreements was adopted during for all aspects of operating a 20,000 student mendous sacrifices to preserve our way of life, Full Committee markup. I am strongly op- school district with over 2,000 employees and and the American people are indebted to the posed to the inclusion of the provision and it a $160 million budget. His major accomplish- men and women who served our Nation. I am is my hope that members vote to remove it ments include a District Academic Perform- proud of the work Congress has done to im- before final passage of the legislation. ance Index (API) that has risen 100 points prove veterans’ benefits. It is important that America has a debt to pay for the service during his tenure; the District has four Distin- we continue to honor our commitments to our and sacrifices our veterans have made for all guished Schools and two Title I Achieving Nation’s veterans through legislation that ben- of us. The funding provided in this bill is abso- Schools; a 100% rating of Highly Qualified efits them, like the Montgomery GI Bill. lutely essential to provide the services and Teachers; the completion and opening of a So as the former Chairman of the House support to all our veterans, especially those new high school; the establishment of an Early Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Benefits, returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We can College High School Academy with Riverside and as a grateful American, I want to pay trib- and must meet our commitments to the mil- Community College; the District has received ute to the thousands of veterans in Idaho and lions of veterans, service members and their three Golden Bell awards; and the student the United States who have given us so much. families here and across the world. achievement gap has narrowed. During his f Passage of this bill would help accomplish time, Duchon has been recognized by the Re- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND this and I urge my colleagues to support it. gion XIX Association of California School Ad- VETERANS AFFAIRS AND RE- f ministrators as the 2007 Superintendent of the LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIA- Year; recognized as the West Riverside WHO WILL DEFEND THE TIONS ACT, 2013 School Administrators 2006 Superintendent of DEFENDERS? the Year; and recognized by the Riverside SPEECH OF County, California School Bilingual Educators HON. PETER T. KING chapter as the 2006 Superintendent of the HON. BETTY McCOLLUM OF NEW YORK Year. OF MINNESOTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In light of all Elliott Duchon has done for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, June 1, 2012 students, parents and community of Jurupa Thursday, May 31, 2012 Mr. KING of New York. Mr. Speaker, since Valley it is only fitting that he be honored as The House in Committee of the Whole the tragic Islamist terrorist attacks of Sep- the Superintendent of the Year. Elliott House on the state of the Union had under tember 11, 2001 no law enforcement agency Duchon’s tireless passion for education and consideration the bill (H.R. 5854) making ap- has been more effective in preventing another public service has contributed immensely to propriations for military construction, the successful terrorist attack than the New York the betterment of our community and I am Department of Veterans Affairs, and related Police Department. Under Commissioner Ray proud to call him a fellow community member, agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- Kelly’s leadership the NYPD has had 1000 po- American and friend. I know that many com- tember 30, 2013, and for other purposes: lice officers working 24/7, building a counter- munity members are grateful for his service Ms. MCCOLLUM. Madam Chair, I rise in terrorist infrastructure and taking proactive ac- and salute him as he receives this prestigious support of H.R. 5854, the FY13 Military Con- tion to stop at least 14 terrorist plots against award. struction-VA Appropriations Act. This sub- New York City.

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To head a restruc- Press, aided and abetted by such politically gospel—perhaps because the accuracy of the tured Intelligence Division, the department correct apologists as the New York Times and work was beside the point. They were cele- recruited David Cohen, a 35-year veteran of the ACLU. brated precisely for what they alleged, not the CIA who had led both the operational As Chairman of the Homeland Security what they proved. Their purpose was not to and analytical branches of the agency. Committee and a member of the Intelligence foster serious debate about NYPD anti-ter- This was no mere cosmetic relabeling or Committee I am proud to stand with the rorism activities, and there has been no such shuffling of the bureaucratic deck. The de- serious debate in their wake. partment increased its representation on the NYPD. I am also proud to introduce into the The legal and policy questions surrounding FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force from 17 record an article written by Mitchell D. Silber how to safeguard civil liberties while defend- detectives to 120. It reassigned fluent speak- entitled ‘‘Who Will Defend the Defenders’’ from ing society from acts of terrorism are cer- ers of Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, and Urdu to the June issue of Commentary. Mr. Silber, tainly complex. There is, inevitably, a dif- counterterrorism duties. And it posted sen- who retired from his position yesterday, ficult balance we most strike between secu- ior officers in 11 cities around the world to worked directly for the deputy commissioner of rity and liberty, and it demands rigorous and build relationships with local police agencies the NYPD’s Intelligence Division, overseeing ongoing debate about American anti-ter- and visit the scenes of terrorist attacks abroad. all the city’s terrorism investigations. rorist methods. Rather than raising these issues in a thoughtful way to inspire rea- The NYPD also incorporated a crucial ci- I thank Mitchell Silber for his service and soned discussion, however, the series of arti- vilian component to fight terrorism. A corps commend this article to my colleagues. cles made broad allegations and cherry- of expert analysts in foreign affairs, intel- [From the Commentary Magazine, June 2012] picked and misconstrued examples to sup- ligence, and counterterrorism were recruited from top graduate schools as well as from WHO WILL DEFEND THE DEFENDERS? port particularly damaging charges. the intelligence community inside the Belt- (By Mitchell D. Silber) This article is intended to restore the con- text, accuracy, and critical detail left out by way. These well-trained and well-educated In April, the Pulitzer Prize for investiga- the AP and thereby convey the truth of what civilians were tasked with studying evolving tive reporting was awarded to the Associated is an honorable and successful story of sus- methods of attack and terrorist hot spots Press for a series of articles it published tained, life-saving police work in a climate around the world. about the New York Police Department’s of unprecedented threat. It is impossible to Additionally, the department cast a wide ‘‘clandestine spying program that monitored respond to every AP allegation and distor- net for collaboration, working with law-en- daily life in Muslim communities.’’ The AP’s tion even in this generous space. I will there- forcement agencies throughout the north- east and mid-Atlantic and partnering with assertions were so extensive that they filled fore focus on the three subjects that have 11,000 members of the region’s private-secu- more than 50 separate pieces, the first pub- dominated headlines about alleged NYPD rity industry through a program called lished in August of last year. Its reporters misconduct since the articles were pub- alleged that since the attacks of September NYPD Shield. lished: first, a supposed human-mapping pro- Preventing another 9/11 meant studying 11, the New York City Police Department’s gram run by the department; second, Intelligence Division had placed entire Mus- the attacks of 1993 and 2001 and the thwarted counterterrorism efforts outside New York Landmarks Plot. The 1993 attack and the lim communities under scrutiny with ‘‘no City; and third, actions involving univer- evidence of wrongdoing.’’ The department, plot were local affairs, planned by groups of sities. In honing in on these hot-button regionally based conspirators, six of whom they wrote, had infiltrated mosques and issues, twill also refute a number of attend- Muslim student groups with no legal basis to originated from the Palestinian territories, ant accusations about the ethics and efficacy Egypt, and Kuwait. The men lived in New do so. It had operated far outside its geo- of NYPD methods. graphical jurisdiction and had cast too wide York City and New Jersey, and the sites of But first, some background on the evo- their radicalization included the Al Kifah a net when monitoring and analyzing Amer- lution of the Intelligence Division and its ican Muslims. Refugee Center and Al Farouq Mosque, both strategy. on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, and the Al The NYPD had joined the CIA in an ‘‘un- On February 26, 1993, a massive car bomb Salam Mosque in Jersey City. These mosques precedented partnership,’’ blurring the line was detonated below the North Tower of the between foreign and domestic intelligence- were in thrall to the Blind Sheikh. World Trade Center. The 1,336-pound device The 9/11 attack was carried out by men gathering, and had operated in secrecy with was intended to knock the North Tower into ‘‘scant oversight.’’ It had run afoul of legal from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emir- the South Tower, bringing both down and ates, Egypt, and Lebanon. They had been constraints, especially a series of limitations killing thousands. The plot failed but still trained overseas before blending into the on its intelligence-gathering to which the killed six people and injured 1,042 more. population of the United States. At least six NYPD itself had agreed following a court Although the suspects were dismissed as of them chose to live in Paterson, New Jer- case in 1985. It had violated civil-liberties incompetent, their associates were already sey, specifically because there was ‘‘an Ara- rules in a way that would not be permitted plotting another attack. The extremist cler- bic-speaking community there,’’ as the 9/11 of federal institutions. And after all this ic Omar Abdel Rahman, also known as the Commission Report says. Vitally, in the misbehavior, the results were mixed in any Blind Sheikh, was at the heart of this follow- Landmarks Plot (the only one against New case. up plan to attack the United Nations, the York that was derailed during this eight- The articles were quickly and widely dis- Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George year period) a confidential informant who seminated and elicited expressions of deep Washington Bridge, and the FBI’s New York was able to penetrate the conspiracy was the outrage among Muslim Americans and civil- office. That so-called Landmarks Plot was critical factor in detecting and disrupting liberties activists. They created fissures be- thwarted by an informant who had infil- the plan before it became an attack. tween the police and the communities it trated the group. These trends meant that the department sought to protect, undermined confidence in Almost all the participants in both plots had to figure out how to (a) find individuals the NYPD, and attracted national atten- were ultimately arrested, tried, and brought from abroad who had buried themselves in tion—which, according to the AP’s Pulitzer to justice, and that temporarily closed the local communities and (b) utilize human in- citation, ‘‘result[ed] in congressional calls case for most Americans. But on the morn- telligence (confidential informants) to pene- for a federal investigation and a debate over ing of September 11, 2001, Islamist terrorism trate conspiracies before they came to fru- the proper role of domestic intelligence- crashed back into New York City when 19 al- ition. gathering.’’ As well they should have. A free Qaeda members hijacked four commercial If the task wasn’t challenging enough, the citizenry relies on a free press to uncover passenger airliners and rammed two of them NYPD also had to contend with a piece of civil-liberties abuses. into the World Trade Center, killing 2,749 legal architecture known as the Handschu But any serious discussion about the al- people and completing the mission begun in Guidelines, a binding agreement overseen by leged methods and practices of the NYPD In- 1993. a federal judge following the settlement of a telligence Division should have begun with Having been attacked twice successfully in lawsuit in 1985. No other police department one question: Was the AP’s investigation ac- the span of eight years, the city could no in the country is bound by these rules, which curate? The answer is no. longer completely defer the responsibility of at the time stipulated in part that police The articles misrepresent the scope, pur- counterterrorism to the federal government, were not allowed to investigate political ac- pose, and rationale behind many of the determined Police Commissioner Raymond tivity before having specific knowledge of NYPD Intelligence Division’s programs. Kelly. While the NYPD was prepared to work criminal activity. After 9/11, the department They confuse events and policies in ways with the federal agencies, the department was understandably concerned that prohibi- that are misleading and cast the tale they determined it would have to make systemic tions in the guidelines might interfere with are telling in the worst possible light. I know and autonomous changes in how to protect its ability to prevent terrorist attacks. As a all this to be true, because I worked directly the city from further attacks. result, in 2002, the NYPD proposed to a fed- for the deputy commissioner of the Intel- To meet that challenge, in January 2002, eral court that the terms of the guidelines be ligence Division for the last seven years, the NYPD became the first police depart- modified; the court agreed.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.037 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 1, 2012 The modified guidelines begin by stating a A similar risk-based model is exactly what ‘‘watched videos containing images of exer- general principle: ‘‘In its effort to anticipate the Transportation Safety Agency (TSA) re- cises in training camps, as well as images or prevent unlawful activity, including ter- cently adopted in the wake of a different ter- that exalted the value of the jihad,’’ accord- rorist acts, the NYPD must, at times, ini- rorist plot—that of the 2009 Christmas Day ing to court testimony. In the U.K., the tiate investigations in advance of unlawful Bomber, who failed to bring down a plane venues of the radicalization of the 7/7 bomb- conduct’’ Clearly, conducting an investiga- above Detroit only because he couldn’t ig- ers included the Iqra Learning Center book- tion following a successful attack, as was nite the explosive device concealed in his un- store and the ‘‘al-Qaeda gym’’ (the Hamara done in 1993 or 2001, was no longer accept- derwear. The TSA made a list of ‘‘countries Healthy Living Centre), both in Beeston. able. Plots had to be disrupted before they of concern,’’ and now passengers from those The AP articles claimed that the NYPD went operational. 14 states face additional scrutiny, such as ‘‘kept files on individuals’’ gathered by the The new Handschu rules also state: ‘‘The pat-downs and having their carry-on luggage Demographics Unit. This is a significant dis- NYPD is authorized to visit any place and examined under the new rules. (There is a tortion of reality. Yes, to be sure, observa- attend any event that is open to the public’’ great deal of overlap between the countries tion reports were prepared. Naturally, such and ‘‘to conduct online search activity and on the TSA list, developed by the Depart- reports included the names of store owners to access online sites and forums on the ment of Homeland Security and the State and customers and the information gleaned same terms . . . as members of the public.’’ Department, and those states the NYPD has from conversations. However, no flies about The department is further authorized to considered ‘‘countries of concern.’’) particular individuals were created. The ‘‘prepare general reports and assessments Plainclothes officers of the Demographics Word-document reports and area-familiariza- . . . for purposes of strategic or operational Unit were deployed for this mission. They tion summaries about visits to public loca- planning.’’ It is therefore entirely legal for went into neighborhoods that had heavy con- tions were kept on the shelf so that they the Police Department to search online, visit centrations of populations from the ‘‘coun- might be accessed in the event of a fast-mov- public places, or map neighborhoods. tries of interest’’ and walked around, pur- ing plot. It would give the department a head chased a cup of tea or coffee, had lunch and I. THE DEMOGRAPHICS UNIT start on geographically based knowledge, in- observed the individuals in the public estab- The AP Claim: The NYPD has engaged in a cluding data about venues of radicalization lishments they entered. This is an important ‘‘human-mapping’’ program without citing and potential ‘‘flophouses’’ or other loca- point: Only public locations were visited. any evidence of wrongdoing. This program tions where operatives from specific coun- Doing so was perfectly within the purview of has placed entire Muslim communities under tries might seek to conceal themselves. scrutiny. the NYPD, for, as the Handschu Guidelines say: ‘‘The NYPD is authorized to visit any For example, the Demographics Unit was For some, the very act of gathering intel- critical in identifying the Islamic Books and ligence is an illegitimate use of police power. place and attend any event that is open to Tapes bookstore in Brooklyn as a venue for But to find and stop terrorists, the Police the public.’’ radicalization. Information the unit col- Department uses many of the same methods Here’s what they did not do: Plainclothes lected about the store provided a predicate that are used to arrest drug dealers, human officers did not conduct blanket ongoing sur- for an investigation that thwarted a 2004 plot traffickers, and gang leaders. Detectives de- veillance of communities. Not only is that against the Herald Square subway station. velop detailed information about the nature an impossible task, but it also would have The unit also played a role in forming the of the crime and the people involved. While been inefficient and had a low likelihood of initiation of an investigation that led to the tips from the public are useful, the police identifying terrorist plots in their early 2008 identification of Abdel Hameed cannot rely on them exclusively to detect stages. At its largest, during a brief period Shehadeh, a New Yorker who was arrested terrorism conspiracies. after the July 7, 2005, attacks in London, the In 2003, with that in mind, the Intelligence unit had 16 officers—hardly enough to mon- and is currently facing federal charges for al- Division created the Demographics Unit. Its itor a neighborhood, much less whole com- legedly lying about his plans to travel to Af- mission was to identify ‘‘venues of munities. Officers would take a first pass to ghanistan in order to kill U.S. servicemen. radicalization’’ or ‘‘hot spots’’ in order to de- familiarize themselves with luncheonettes, Both operations were conducted in accord- tect and disrupt terrorist plots in their be- dollar stores, and other legitimate busi- ance with the Handschu Guidelines. ginning stages. The unit was also charged nesses and record what they saw. They would Anyone who suggests that the efforts of with identifying the locations in certain be very unlikely to return unless there was this unit (which was renamed the Zone As- communities where foreign operatives might reason to believe that a location might be a sessment Unit in September 2010) did not hope to lie low, just as the 9/11 hijackers did ‘‘venue of radicalization.’’ comport with legal rules either has not read in Paterson, New Jersey. Given the rich di- How did the AP treat this? Its writers the Handschu Guidelines, has misunderstood versity of the ethnic and cultural landscape claimed that ‘‘the department has dis- them, or has willfully overlooked their of New York City, officers in the unit were patched teams of undercover officers, known meaning. The AP’s reporters and editors specifically chosen for their unique language as ‘rakers,’ into minority neighborhoods as were in one of these categories. Anyone who capabilities and cultural knowledge. Individ- part of a human-mapping program, according denies the success of the demographics ini- uals were matched to geographic areas where to officials directly involved in the pro- tiative is fortunate not to carry the burden they would be best able to distinguish the gram.’’ As mentioned above, individuals in- of responsibility should there actually be a benign from the threatening. Proud to be volved were not undercover officers. Under- counterterrorism failure resulting in an at- Americans and members of the NYPD, the cover officers are provided with fake identi- tack. I, for one, would have borne that re- majority of these officers were Muslims. ties and misrepresent who they are. Plain- sponsibility. The AP team would not have. A September 22, 2011, AP article paints a clothes officers of the Demographics Unit II. OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS frightening portrait of the Demographics carried no false identification and did not Unit and the work it did: ‘‘The New York Po- purport to be anyone in particular. This was The AP Claim: The NYPD’s Intelligence lice Department put American citizens under a blatant error on the part of the AP. In ad- Division operates far outside its geo- surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, dition, the AP claimed, ‘‘Police have also graphical jurisdiction without the knowl- prayed, and worked, not because of charges used informants, known as ‘mosque crawl- edge of local agencies. of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, ers,’ to monitor sermons, even when there’s If vast oceans and international borders according to interviews and documents ob- no evidence of wrongdoing.’’ As a matter of cannot hinder terror plots against the tained by the Associated Press,’’ runs the ar- Police Department policy, undercover offi- United States, invisible lines separating ticle’s opening paragraph. ‘‘The documents cers and confidential informants do not states and counties certainly cannot. The describe in extraordinary detail a secret pro- enter a mosque unless they are following up 1993 attack on the World Trade Center was gram intended to catalog life inside Muslim on a lead vetted under the terms of the launched from Jersey City. The 2005 attack neighborhoods as people immigrated, got Handschu Guidelines. The AP’s description on the London Underground was launched jobs, became citizens, and started businesses. of ‘‘mosque crawlers’’ roving from mosque to from Leeds, 180 miles north of the capital. The documents undercut the NYPD’s claim mosque without express legal permission to More recently, Faisal Shahzad’s 2010 plot to that its officers only follow leads when in- enter that location is pure fiction. explode a bomb in an SUV in Times Square vestigating terrorism.’’ Still, there was the collection of informa- on a summer Saturday night on behalf of the But this police-state nightmare bears no tion, and that is really what troubled people. Pakistani Taliban was launched from resemblance to the nuanced work of the De- So why cover social and recreational sites to Bridgeport, Connecticut. mographics Unit. The unit employed what is begin with? The answer: Radicalization fre- It is perfectly legal for the NYPD to travel called a risk-basis model. In the three quently occurs in nontraditional locations, beyond the boundaries of New York City to Islamist plots against New York between not only religious centers. One of the key investigate cases or visit commercial estab- 1993 and 2001, the vast majority of the con- findings of the 2004 attack on a Madrid train lishments where terrorists might be spirators were from a limited group of coun- station (inspired by al-Qaeda) and the 2005 radicalizing. Similarly, it is legal to obtain tries: Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Pales- attack on the London Underground (com- information outside of New York that the In- tinian territories, Saudi Arabia, the United mitted by al-Qaeda) was that the plotters telligence Division may use ‘‘to prepare gen- Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The risk-basis had not radicalized in mosques. In Spain, dif- eral reports and assessments concerning ter- model would therefore indicate that these ferent members of the terrorist cluster were rorism and other unlawful activities or the countries could be deemed ‘‘higher risk’’ or radicalized in a barbershop, an apartment, purposes of strategic or operational plan- ‘‘of concern’’ in relationship to terrorism. and an unidentified store where some ning.’’

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.038 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E961 In order to help its partner agencies better that results have been disappointing. The Britain to which several of the subway understand their own jurisdictions, the De- record of just one aspect of these initiatives bombers were linked. The group actively re- mographics Unit was deployed on select oc- tells a dramatically different story. Read on. cruited at the Muslim Student Associations casions to jurisdictions in New Jersey and III. ON CAMPUS of Brooklyn College, Queens College, and other universities in New York City. More Long Island. This led the AP to determine The AP Claim: The NYPD has investigated recently, the NYPD learned that Adis that ‘‘the NYPD operates far outside its bor- and infiltrated Muslim student groups with- Medunjanin, indicted for his participation in ders and targets ethnic communities in ways out any legal basis to do so. the most serious plot on American soil since that would run afoul of civil-liberties rules if At universities students are expected to 9/11—the 2009 Najibullah Zazi plot to deto- practiced by the federal government.’’ explore new ideas, challenge themselves, and nate explosives in the New York City subway What’s more, according to the August 23 ar- engage in robust debate involving multiple system—was an active member of the Queens ticle, ‘‘it does so with unprecedented help dissenting opinions. The NYPD has been es- College Muslim Student Association. from the CIA in a partnership that has pecially sensitive in any operational work So what did the NYPD do about campus blurred the bright line between foreign and that risks infringing on this protected space. radicalization and recruitment? For a six- domestic spying.’’ Allegations that police have been infil- The notion of the NYPD as a rolling team month period, beginning in November 2006 trating Muslim student groups at colleges in of rogue spies would be comically prepos- and ending in May 2007, Intelligence Division the city and schools beyond city limits, in- terous if it weren’t so damaging. First, the detectives conducted public-information cluding Yale and the University of Pennsyl- NYPD is not the federal government. Sec- Internet searches to determine if vania, are serious and need to be addressed. ond, these operations were not unilateral. radicalization and recruitment to terrorism But in covering this topic, the AP Local agencies were involved. Any reports were occurring on local university campuses conflated two different elements of inves- or assessments were shared with the local and, if so, to what extent. police agencies. What local police chose to tigative work: open-sourced Internet Detectives visited publicly available tell or not to tell the politicians in their searches and undercover officers. ‘‘Investiga- websites of universities and colleges in and areas was beyond the NYPD’s purview. tors have been infiltrating Muslim student around New York City, catalogued what they As the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported on groups at Brooklyn College and other saw, and assembled the information into 23 March 6, 2012: schools in the city, monitoring their Inter- biweekly reports. (Once again, NYPD mem- Although recent disclosures that in 2007 net activity and placing undercover agents bers investigating counterterrorism activi- the New York Police Department spied on in their ranks,’’ reads an October 11 story. ties are authorized by the Handschu Guide- Muslims in New Jersey have unleashed a ‘‘Legal experts say the operation may have lines to search websites open to the public furor, interviews with a dozen former state broken a 19-year-old pact with the colleges for the purpose of developing intelligence in- and federal officials show the department’s and violated U.S. privacy laws, jeopardizing formation to detect or prevent terrorism or presence was widely known among the millions of dollars in federal research money other unlawful activities.) They were look- state’s law enforcement officials. In fact, it and student aid.’’ This is a dramatic mis- ing mostly at speakers, conferences, and seems that after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, interpretation of the nature and scope of the events held at MSAs that might—even if in- almost everyone—including Gov. Chris department’s actions. advertently—support terrorism or provide a Christie, who was U.S. Attorney for New Jer- The first investigative initiative involving recruiting venue for extremist Islamist sey at the time—knew to varying degrees the students began in 2006 and involved the groups. NYPD was scouring the state, where some of NYPD Intelligence Division’s Cyber Unit. Of- Fortunately, the vast majority of speak- the hijackings were planned and one was ficers reviewed Muslim Student Association ers, conferences, and events held at Muslim launched. (MSA) websites, all of which were publicly Student Associations in the tristate area A different initiative included the selective available, for a period of six months—and were nonthreatening in nature, and in May use of undercover officers and confidential with good reason. 2007 the initiative was closed. The informa- informants outside city limits. As with the Consider the following stories from Great tion from the biweekly reports was not en- investigation of the 1993 plot against the Britain: On March 30, 2004, British authori- tered into any database. World Trade Center, which refused to be lim- ties disrupted an al-Qaeda plot to mount a Nevertheless, not everything going on at ited to one side of the Hudson River, a num- bomb attack in the United Kingdom. The in- universities was benign. Detectives learned ber of terrorist investigations that began in- dividuals involved had obtained 1,300 pounds that Jesse Curtis Morton, who has just re- side city limits bled over into adjacent juris- of ammonium nitrate fertilizer for making cently pled guilty to ‘‘using his position as a dictions. Any such investigative activity in- bombs. They considered targeting a shopping leader of Revolution Muslim Internet sites volving human sources had to be conducted mall, a nightclub, the U.K.’s 4,200-mile net- to conspire to solicit murder, make threat- in strict accordance with the Handschu work of underground high-pressure gas pipe- ening communications, and use the Internet Guidelines, just as if those investigations lines, various British synagogues, Par- to place others in fear,’’ according to the were limited to New York City. liament, and a soccer stadium. Four of the Eastern District of Virginia, spoke at Stony NYPD efforts beyond city limits led to the seven conspirators were either current uni- Brook University as a leader of the Islamic arrests of the New Jersey-based Mohamed versity students, dropouts, or graduates of Thinkers Society. In April 2007, detectives Alessa and Carlos Almonte at John F. Ken- London Metropolitan University, the Univer- learned that Morton’s co-founder of Revolu- nedy Airport in June 2010. They were headed sity of Hertfordshire, and Brunel University. tion Muslim, Yousef al-Khattab, spoke at to Somalia to join the terrorist organization One was an active member of the latter’s Is- Brooklyn College’s Islamic Society. al Shabaab. Their apprehension marked the lamic society. Wholly separate from this initiative is the conclusion of a three-and-a-half-year inves- The 2005 London subway plot killed 52 com- use of undercover officers in investigations tigation by the FBI and Joint Terrorism muters, injured 700, and severely disrupted that sometimes involved MSA-related activi- Task Forces in New York and New Jersey. the city’s transport infrastructure. One of ties. Of course, one could be forgiven for Also involved: the New Jersey Office of the suicide bombers was a recent graduate of thinking that an investigation involving stu- Homeland Security and Preparedness and Leeds Metropolitan University, one a recent dents from City University of New York on a the U.S. Attorney’s office in Newark. The dropout from the same university, and one a whitewater-rafting trip was a direct con- case against Alessa and Almonte was devel- university student at Thomas Danby College sequence of these open-source Internet oped through the careful work of an NYPD in Leeds at the time of the attack. searches, given how the AP conflated the undercover officer who made contact with Next summer, on August 9, British au- two. It was not. the men in 2009 and became a trusted con- thorities disrupted an al-Qaeda conspiracy to Here is how the AP managed to conflate fidant in northern New Jersey. detonate liquid explosives on nine trans- the discrete phenomena in a February 18 ar- Similarly, the investigation that led to the atlantic airliners traveling from the United ticle: ‘‘Police talked with local authorities arrest of Jose Pimentel began with an inves- Kingdom to the United States and Canada. about professors 300 miles (480 kilometers) tigation in New York City and moved up- Four of the nine conspirators were either away in Buffalo and even sent an undercover state to the Albany region. In November current university students, dropouts, or agent on a whitewater-rafting trip, where he 2011, Pimentel was one hour away from com- graduates from London Metropolitan Univer- recorded students’ names and noted in police pleting the construction of a pipe bomb in- sity, City University, Brunel University, and intelligence files how many times they tended for detonation in New York City Middlesex University. One had been presi- prayed. Detectives trawled Muslim student when he was nabbed by police. The depart- dent of London Metropolitan University’s Is- websites every day and, although professors ment’s intelligence program was built to fa- lamic Society. and students had not been accused of any cilitate exactly the kind of regional collabo- Most important, the trend is not limited to wrongdoing, their names were recorded in re- ration that made his detention possible. the U.K. Right here in New York, Moham- ports prepared for Police Commissioner Ray- One AP headline blared, ‘‘NYPD’s spying med Junaid Babar and Styled Fahad Hashmi, mond Kelly.’’ programs yielded only mixed results.’’ who were arrested in connection with the The trip fell under a classic investigative Strictly speaking, ‘‘mixed results’’ is accu- previously referenced 2004 plot in the U.K. framework after information obtained by the rate in that for the programs to have yielded and pled guilty to al-Qaeda-related terrorist NYPD raised the possibility that an indi- non-mixed results, they would have been 100 activities, had been radicalized through the vidual or group of individuals were engaged percent successful or 100 percent unsuccess- university-based New York branch of al- in or planning to engage in unlawful activ- ful. But the implication of the headline is Muhajiroun, an Islamist student group in ity.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.038 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E962 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 1, 2012 Much has been made of the benign nature prudent to learn more about what was occur- And it still would be. of this particular event where no discussion ring at Muslim Student Associations in the f of terrorism occurred. A post about the trip region via open sources, and the six-month on New York magazine’s website claims, initiative generated six months’ worth of PERSONAL EXPLANATION ‘‘What has civil-liberties advocates really public-information reports. The NYPD did worried is just how far the NYPD has not send undercover sources to infiltrate stretched the parameters of its domestic es- MSAs throughout the northeast. Both the HON. LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER pionage program—until now, at least, the of- open-source initiative and the few investiga- OF NEW YORK ficial line was that the force only pursued tions where undercover officers examined IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leads about suspected criminal activity. the activities of university students as part Clearly, that’s no longer the case.’’ of an ongoing investigation authorized by Friday, June 1, 2012 Such histrionics are hardly warranted. In Handschu Guidelines have led to a greater Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I was un- the subway-bomb-plot trial of Najibullah understanding of the relationship between Zazi and Adis Medunjanin, it was disclosed terrorism and university organizations and avoidably detained and missed rollcall vote that operational planning for the plot oc- have, as a result, kept New York City safer. Nos. 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304 curred on the basketball courts of Kissena In total, the NYPD has helped to prevent and 305. Had I been present, I would have Park and while hiking on Bear Mountain, 14 terrorist attacks on New York City and its voted ‘‘Aye’’ on rollcall vote Nos. 300, 301, north of New York City. Neither a bucolic surrounding areas and permitted exactly 302, 304 and 305. Had I been present, I setting nor a recreational endeavor guaran- zero deadly plots to materialize in the 11 would have voted ‘‘No’’ on rollcall vote Nos. years since 9/11. Its success, based on the tees peaceful intentions. 297, 298, 299, and 303. The AP also has claimed that these and math alone, is indisputable. But in a free other investigations have occurred with in- country, success is not enough. Civil lib- f sufficient oversight. One article uncritically ertarians are correct in asserting that safety quoted New York Civil Liberties Union law- at the cost of political freedom would betray PERSONAL EXPLANATION yer Christopher Dunn, who declared of the the highest American ideals. And the unlaw- NYPD anti-terrorism program: ‘‘At the end ful targeting of New York City’s minorities HON. DAVID P. ROE of the day, it’s pure and simple a rogue do- would constitute nothing less than a cul- OF TENNESSEE mestic surveillance operation.’’ He contin- tural and spiritual gutting of the greatest, ued: ‘‘One of the hallmarks of the intel- most diverse city history has seen. But nei- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ligence division over the last 10 years is that, ther of those travesties have occurred, Friday, June 1, 2012 not only has it gotten extremely aggressive thanks to the genius of America’s Constitu- and sophisticated, but it’s operating com- tion and the NYPD’s exquisite adherence to Mr. ROE of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, on pletely on its own. There are no checks. it. May 30, 2012 I was recorded as voting ‘‘no’’ There is no oversight.’’ Sadly, the absence of wrongdoing goes only on rollcall No. 303, the Franks amendment to In particular, the AP has asserted that the so far in a media-driven society shaped by H.R. 5854. I intended to vote ‘‘aye’’ and would modified Handschu Guidelines gave the the 24-hour news cycle and explosive head- like that to be noted in the RECORD. NYPD operational carte blanche. ‘‘He lines. The damage the AP inflicted upon the scrapped the old rules and replaced them NYPD’s reputation cannot be mitigated f wholly by this or any other honest airing of with more lenient ones,’’ reads an August 23, H.R. 5186, THE HALT INDEX TRAD- 2011, article describing U.S. District Judge the facts. Indeed, one can argue that inflict- Charles S. Haight Jr.’s decision to modify ing such damage—not debating police meth- ING OF ENERGY COMMODITIES the guidelines in 2002. ‘‘It was a turning odology—was the point of the AP’s series. OR HITEC point for the NYPD.’’ The war on the NYPD’s method of com- But far from providing evidence of this bating terrorism is a war on the war on ter- charge, the whitewater-rafting case reveals ror by proxy—an effort to portray the least HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY it as folly. The Handschu Guidelines require controversial aspect of homeland security as OF MASSACHUSETTS written authorization from the deputy com- instead a matter of great civil-libertarian IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES concern. Long before the AP series, the war missioner of intelligence when utilizing Friday, June 1, 2012 human intelligence. That requirement was on the war began with efforts to discredit met here as it has been in every other case. the federal government’s endeavors to col- Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Moreover, an internal committee reviews lect intelligence from combatants and terror discuss H.R. 5186, the Halt Index Trading of each investigation to ensure compliance, and suspects captured on the battlefields of Af- Energy Commodities, or HITEC, Act. I recently a legal unit based in the Intelligence Divi- ghanistan and Iraq. It zoomed in on the introduced this bill with Representatives FRANK sion evaluates every field intelligence report rights of those detained overseas and at the generated through an investigation. This American base in Guanta´ namo Bay. Now it and DELAURO because I believe urgent action committee meets regularly every month, has come home, to take on a once univer- is needed to protect our nation’s oil and re- and at one meeting at the end of my tenure, sally heralded and supported effort at domes- fined product commodities markets from artifi- no fewer than 10 attorneys and five assistant tic counterterrorism at the epicenter of the cial and excessive levels of volatility caused or deputy commissioners were in attendance. 9/11 attacks, New York City. by the trading practices of certain Wall Street It is important to note that investigations Having impugned military and intelligence traders. Since 1991, Wall Street investment efforts to fight terrorism, these foes are now are discontinued unless they reasonably indi- banks such as Goldman Sachs have created cate that an unlawful act has been, is being, taking aim at the most conventional kind of or will be committed. anti-terror approach—one that works within and marketed a new financial product known As a matter of Police Department policy, the domestic criminal-justice system, is as commodity index funds, which are really undercover officers and confidential inform- overseen by courts, and is being managed by energy speculation funds, gasoline gambles. ants do not enter a mosque unless they are a police department that has rigorously kept These energy speculation funds track the fi- doing so as part of an investigation of a per- to the terms of legal limits to which it nancial performance of one or more commod- son or institution approved under the agreed nearly 30 years ago. By portraying the NYPD efforts as rogue ities. If a speculation fund has an investment Handschu Guidelines. Likewise, when under- in oil and the value of oil goes up, then the cover officers or confidential informants operations, the AP and the Pulitzer com- have attended a private event organized by a mittee are seeking to slacken attempts in- value of the fund goes up; if the value of oil student group, they have done so only on the side the United States to stop terrorist plots goes down, the value of the speculation fund basis of a lead or investigation reviewed and before they happen. Letting these false and goes down. authorized in writing at the highest levels of misleading stories alter local counterter- These investments have been incredibly the department. rorism work would be catastrophic. It has popular with investors but have had an ad- Given my dual role as a former director of taken many hard years to craft the effective verse effect on the operation of the markets intelligence analysis at the NYPD and a vis- anti-terrorism policies that serve us so well iting lecturer at Columbia University, I took today. Now, with al-Qaeda on the ropes, our for the commodities that comprise the funds. a special interest in this issue and personally renewed sense of security can morph easily Hundreds of billions of dollars have been in- reviewed the documents in question to see into complacency—and terrorists will be vested in various energy speculation funds, ar- the number of times that NYPD human sure to exploit any new opportunities to at- tificially inflating the prices of our commodities. sources were present on local campuses in tack. The price of maintaining the safety of While these energy speculation funds may be the last five years. The numbers are very New Yorkers has been kept remarkably low, driving up prices for many different commod- small and almost always involved intel- not only for residents but for the country as ities, they are having an especially pernicious ligence-collection efforts limited to individ- a whole. Preventing another devastating at- uals who were under investigation, not the tack from occurring in the city after 2001 effect on energy commodities. According to broader student body. was much more than a local necessity. Such testimony submitted to the House Natural Re- So, yes, in 2006, given the trends observed an attack would have been devastating to sources Committee, excessive speculation both here and overseas, the NYPD thought it national morale. added nearly $1.00 to the per gallon price of

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.039 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E963 gasoline this spring, and energy speculation MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND Section 517 of H.R. 5854 prohibits agencies funds appear to be largely responsible. Due to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND RE- from being able to use all available methods the activities of these energy speculation LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIA- to ensure that Federal contracts are cost-effi- funds, Wall Street investment banks have TIONS ACT, 2013 cient. Section 517 of this legislation increases profited by introducing new and unprece- the risk of project cost overruns, delays, and dented levels of volatility and speculation into SPEECH OF fails to protect our workers. oil and refined product markets. HON. LAURA RICHARDSON The Grimm amendment ensures that funds Energy speculation funds have changed the for large-scale construction projects utilize the OF CALIFORNIA very nature of our commodities markets. Tra- most cost-effective and efficient process for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ditionally, the commodities market was domi- the awarding of Federal contracts and simply nated by companies who actually used the Thursday, May 31, 2012 saves taxpayers money! commodities to hedge the business risk asso- ciated with oil or refined products prices. The House in Committee of the Whole Madam Chair, however one feels about Large oil, gasoline, diesel or jet fuel con- House on the state of the Union had under Project Labor Agreements, the MilCon/VA bill sumers such as airlines, trucking firms, and consideration the bill (H.R. 5854) making ap- is not the appropriate vehicle to have this de- shipping services were the largest participants propriations for military construction, the bate. The MilCon/VA bill is intended to reflect Department of Veterans Affairs, and related our commitment to our veterans and our serv- in these markets. Indeed, in 1996, companies agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- who actually bought oil on the commodities tember 30, 2013, and for other purposes: ice members in uniform and should be limited market so they could use it owned 93% of the to that purpose. Ms. RICHARDSON. Madam Chair, I rise oil futures or derivatives in that market. Now, The Grimm amendment simply allows Fed- however, these companies only own 37% of today in support of H.R. 5854, the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related eral agencies to use all tools at their disposal the oil futures or derivatives in that market. in awarding large-scale contracts that ensure The bulk of the remaining 63% is owned by Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2013, which supports our military and their taxpayer funds are used efficiently and that speculators who have invested in these en- projects are completed on time and on budget. ergy speculation funds, none of whom will ac- families and provides the benefits and medical tually use any of the oil or natural gas in which care that our veterans have earned for their All of us in Congress are looking at ways to they have invested. service. rein in our deficit. This amendment protects Despite only being twenty-one years old, H.R, 5854 provides the facilities and infra- workers and taxpayer funds. I urge my col- energy speculation funds have already had a structure needed to house, train, and equip leagues to support the Grimm amendment. profound impact on our country. They have in- our military personnel to defend this Nation, Madam Chair, in my remaining time let me creased the size of our commodities market. both in the United States and abroad, provides discuss an additional reason why I support They have increased the volatility of our com- the housing and military community infrastruc- this legislation. This bill includes $169 million modities prices. They have hurt consumers’ ture that supports a good quality of life for for the ongoing effort to create an integrated wallets and small businesses by making them them and their families, and allows the military electronic health record system that transitions pay more at the pump. They have slowed the to maintain an efficient and effective base from an individual’s active service in the mili- growth of our economy by requiring that we structure. The bill also funds programs to en- tary to the VA and requires the VA and De- devote even more money to energy instead of sure that all veterans receive the benefits and fense Department to provide Congress with an creating new jobs. These energy speculation medical care that they have earned as a result execution and spending plan for FY 2013 and funds are a danger to our economy, our finan- of their sacrifices in the service to our Nation. outline a road map for completing the project. cial system, and the average American’s wal- This bill builds on the progress of Democrat- The bill also includes the requested levels of let. ically-led Congresses from 2007 through 2010 $1.4 billion for VA homeless assistance pro- The HITEC Act will restore order to our en- for veterans. Just as our military pledges to grams and $4.8 billion for homeless veterans’ ergy commodity markets and end this experi- leave no one behind on the battlefield, Demo- treatment costs. The bill provides the re- ment. The bill will ban all new investment in crats in Congress have pledged to leave no quested $250 million to improve access and energy commodities like light sweet crude oil, veteran behind when they come home. This quality care for the more than three million natural gas, heating oil, and gasoline by these bill provides $71.7 billion in discretionary veterans residing in rural areas and $6.5 bil- commodity index funds from the date of enact- spending for Fiscal Year 2013, equal to last lion for mental health programs including $443 ment. The day the President signs this bill, en- year’s level. million for post-traumatic stress disorder and ergy speculation funds will not be allowed to For VA programs, the bill provides $60.7 bil- grow any more if they count speculators $76 million for suicide prevention. lion in discretionary funding, $2.2 billion above This is not a perfect bill but this piece of leg- among their investors. Existing energy specu- the FY 2012 enacted level. The bill also as- lation funds that continue to count speculators islation addresses the most critical needs of sumes $74.6 billion in mandatory funding. among their investors will then have two years our service members, military families, and With this funding, the VA will be able to pro- to wind down their investments. As the aver- veterans. The positive provisions outweigh the vide quality medical care to more than 6.3 mil- age length of a ‘‘spot’’ commodity contract is negative ones and I urge my colleagues to lion patients in 2013, including 610,000 vet- one year, this should allow energy speculation support H.R. 5854. funds that continue to house speculators more erans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Madam Chair, let me note my strong oppo- than enough time to wind down their invest- f ments in a fair and orderly fashion. sition to a number of provisions in this bill. This bill does not prohibit energy specula- This bill enacts a pay freeze on federal work- PERSONAL EXPLANATION tion funds from investing in agricultural com- ers and rejects the President’s proposed 0.5 modities like wheat or corn, nor does it pro- percent pay raise. hibit those funds from investing in metals such I also oppose the language banning the im- HON. MARTIN HEINRICH plementation of the executive order encour- as gold. The bill also does not implicate trad- OF NEW MEXICO ing of electricity in any way, shape, or form. aging government agencies to require contrac- Instead, this bill just prohibits energy specula- tors for large-scale Federal construction IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion funds from interfering with our energy projects to negotiate or participate in labor Friday, June 1, 2012 commodities, a market that determines the agreements with unions. Republicans are try- prices for the fuels that power our economy. ing to use this critical measure for our military Mr. HEINRICH. Mr. Speaker, I unfortunately This bill will end an unnecessary and harm- and veterans to advance their controversial missed three votes the afternoon of May 31, ful source of excessive price volatility that has anti-worker agenda of no project labor agree- 2012, which included rollcall votes 294, 295 only served to benefit Wall Street traders and ments in Federal contracting. and 296. If I had been present, I would have has harmed our economy by pumping up oil, I would like to take a moment to express my voted in favor of rollcall vote 294, Representa- gasoline, and other refined product prices. En- strong support for the Grimm amendment. tive UPTON’s (MI–6) bill, H.R. 5651. If I had actment of this legislation will address one Last year, I worked with Congressman LATOU- been present, I would have voted in favor of major source of the pain American consumers RETTE on defeating anti-Project Labor Agree- rollcall vote 295, Representative TURNER’s have recently been feeling at the pump, and I ments (PLAs) language in the MilCon/VA Ap- (OH–3) bill, H.R. 4201. Lastly, I would have urge all of my colleagues to co-sponsor this propriations bill and this year I rise in support voted in favor of rollcall vote 296, Representa- critical legislation. of the Grimm amendment. tive CUELLAR’s (TX–28) bill, H.R. 915.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.042 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 1, 2012 RECOGNIZING THE 90TH ANNIVER- ture hashed-red line below the winning word Mr. Speaker, today I honor this exceptional SARY OF THE KIWANIS CLUB OF indicating that it is either incorrectly spelled or University, and the 2012 graduates who will STOCKTON the computer does not recognize the word; be moving on to provide health care with ex- concluding that even Bill Gates, founder of cellence and compassion. I know that it will be HON. JERRY McNERNEY Microsoft, does not recognize or know how to men and women like them that will transform OF CALIFORNIA spell the word Ms. Nandipati prevailed with. the health of underserved communities. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hope my colleagues will join me along with f many proud San Diegans in recognizing the Friday, June 1, 2012 fine achievement of Ms. Nandipati. Without CONGRATULATING TERESA A. Mr. MCNERNEY. Mr. Speaker, today I rise question, her hard work, initiative and success RODGES AS THE 2012 WOMAN OF to ask my colleagues to join me in honoring are worthy of recognition by the House of THE YEAR FOR THE LAMBDA the Kiwanis Club of Stockton on the occasion Representatives. RHO ZETA CHAPTER OF THE ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY of its 90th anniversary. f The Kiwanis Club of Stockton was first char- tered in 1922. It is a part of Kiwanis Inter- HONORING THE 2012 GRADUATES HON. GARY C. PETERS national, a global organization that is rep- OF CHARLES DREW UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN resented around the world. Kiwanis Inter- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES national works to make a difference in chil- HON. LAURA RICHARDSON Friday, June 1, 2012 dren’s lives by providing grants to local OF CALIFORNIA Kiwanis clubs that benefit community projects, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor an exemplary member of our commu- scholarships to high school students, and Friday, June 1, 2012 youth leadership programs. nity, Mrs. Teresa A. Rodges, for her abundant In my district, the Kiwanis Club of Stockton Ms. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, today I service to the community and her outstanding works tirelessly to support the youth of the rise to honor the 2012 graduates of Charles achievements as recognized by the Lambda Stockton area. One of the chief ways the Drew University in Los Angeles. This unique Rho Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Kiwanis Club assists students is through its school is a true national treasure. Formally es- Inc.’s 29th Finer Womanhood Luncheon. High School Scholarship Program. Each year, tablished in 1966 as a postgraduate medical Mrs. Rodges dedicates both her free time the club awards accomplished high school school, CDU is a private, non-profit, minority- and professional career to community service. seniors with funds to help support their college serving medical and health science institution. She has held top-level executive positions at educations. The Kiwanis Club promotes the But it is much more than that; it is one of only organizations that work to make a difference well-being of children in the community by do- four historically black graduate institutions in in the community, including Matrix Human nating ‘‘wish list’’ items to the St. Mary’s Serv- this country, and the only one located west of Services in Detroit, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital ice Center in Stockton and by hosting an an- the Mississippi. in Pontiac, and her current position as Execu- nual clean up day of Pixie Woods, a local chil- The men and women who graduate from tive Director of the McLaren Oakland Riley dren’s park in Stockton. this institution go on to have remarkable ca- Foundation. I commend the Kiwanis Club of Stockton for reers. Since 1971, when the first student ma- As an outstanding member of her commu- its outstanding service and I have no doubt triculated, CDU has graduated over 550 physi- nity, Mrs. Rodges saw a need to help those that its efforts have made, and will continue to cians, 1,200 physician assistants, 2,800 physi- experiencing economic misfortune and unem- make, a positive impact on the lives of many cian specialists and numerous other ployment in Pontiac and the surrounding area. children and families throughout our commu- healthcare professionals from diverse back- Realizing fewer women could afford health in- nity. I ask my colleagues to join me in hon- grounds, most of whom dedicated their ca- surance, Mrs. Rodges created the Sister & oring the Kiwanis Club of Stockton on the oc- reers working in underserved communities. Sister Free Mammogram Program in 2007. casion of its 90th anniversary. In Los Angeles County nearly one in every She worked relentlessly to raise funds in order to ensure adequate care for economically dis- f three minority doctors were trained at CDU, and graduates of the College of Medicine are advantaged women. The Sister & Sister pro- RECOGNIZING MS. SNIGDHA two to three times more likely to practice in di- gram has provided over 3,000 free mammo- NANDIPATI verse and medically underserved communities gram screenings, detected breast cancer in than physicians trained in other medical several women, and provided follow-up treat- HON. BRIAN P. BILBRAY schools. The school is simply indispensable to ment to women in need. With the leadership OF CALIFORNIA the minority communities in LA County. of Mrs. Rodges, funds were raised to pur- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES African Americans, who account for only 13 chase a digital mammography system. This percent of the U.S. population, account for program and Mrs. Rodges have received rec- Friday, June 1, 2012 more than 50 percent of all new HIV/AIDS di- ognition and support from elected officials Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recog- agnoses. African Americans die from diabetes statewide. nize Ms. Snigdha Nandipati, the 2012 Scripps at twice the rate of white Americans, and die Mrs. Rodges has also dedicated her time to National Spelling Bee champion from Rancho from cancer at a rate 25.4% higher than white helping the Pontiac school system. As a mem- Penasquitos, a community from my district in Americans. ber of the Pontiac Promise Zone Authority San Diego, California. Mr. Speaker, these statistics are grim, and Board, she was instrumental in raising The winning word, guetapens, means to there are many more shocking health dispari- $750,000 in funding for scholarships to Pon- ambush, snare or trap. While not many people ties that exist between racial groups in our tiac students. She also created the Riley know what this word means, even less know country. This is why health research institu- Scholars program to recruit mentors, hire how to spell it. Ms. Nandipati did. The eighth- tions, like CDU, that are focused on eradi- managers, and tutors to ensure that every stu- grader from Francis Parker Middle School, cating these disparities are of vital importance. dent in the Pontiac School District has access armed with her lucky key chain, defeated 277 With so many patients to serve, it is critical to postsecondary education. of the country’s best spelling bee competitors that we have enough trained health care pro- An astonishing number of boards and com- in a three-day competition to win the coveted fessionals to adequately serve all commu- mittees for local non-profits have been the title. nities, especially those that are economically beneficiaries of Mrs. Rodges commitment to As with all things, the achievement does not disadvantaged like the area surrounding CDU. helping others. Some of the boards and com- tell the entire story. In preparation for this The graduates that emerge from this institution mittees she has served on include: the Wom- competition, Ms. Nandipati studied six hours a are fundamental in fulfilling that role. en’s Survival Center, Oakland University day on a computer program created by her fa- As the Member of Congress for the 37th School of Nursing Board of Visitors, Baker ther, designed to generate random words for District of California in which the Charles Drew College Business Advisory Committee, and her to spell. If that was not enough, she University is located, I am personally familiar the United Way Executive Committee. Mrs. showed initiative by founding her school’s own with CDU’s accomplished record of service. Rodges’ service to these and other local orga- spelling bee club so students could hone their Each member of the graduating class has nizations shows her dedication to the commu- competition skills and challenge each other. chosen a career path that will not only be ex- nity and over the years they have recognized Consider this: as this statement is typed on citing and rewarding, but will make a true dif- her with many awards for her leadership and Microsoft Word, spell check displays its signa- ference in the lives of so many people. service.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.045 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS June 1, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E965 Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Teresa A. Rodges has consideration the bill (H.R. 5854) making ap- shaped, or reconsidered with the aim of: 1) in- dedicated her life to helping others in need. propriations for military construction, the creasing the amount of eligible parents willing From organizing post-secondary education Department of Veterans Affairs, and related to adopt; 2) minimizing traumatic changes in a agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- programs to creating affordable mammogram tember 30, 2013, and for other purposes: child’s educational career and developmental screenings for underprivileged women, she is process; 3) curbing the risk of homelessness a role model to the community and the epit- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Chair, I was unavoid- in early adulthood; 4) and addressing the seri- ome of an excellent leader. She has changed ably detained and unable to be present for the ous realities of sexual abuse. and saved the lives of many people through vote on the Grimm Amendment to H.R. 5854, I would be remiss if I did not also mention her service. I am pleased to honor Mrs. the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs the importance of remaining mindful of the im- Rodges as the Lambda Rho Zeta Chapter of and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. I pact foster care policy has on underprivileged Zeta Phi Beta Sorority recognizes her as its want to state for the record that I strongly sup- communities. African-Americans, who make 2012 Woman of the Year. port this amendment, and had I been present, up approximately 60 percent of my constitu- I would have voted yes. f ents in Brooklyn, but approximately 12 percent Mr. GRIMM’s amendment would strike the of the larger U.S. population, make up a stag- HONORING PRESIDENT MA OF TAI- anti-project labor agreement language inserted gering 27 percent of children who enter foster WAN FOR HIS RE-ELECTION VIC- into the bill. This bi-partisan amendment is an care. Unfortunately, African-Americans are TORY important defense against Republican attacks more likely to remain in the foster care system on labor and project labor agreements. longer and in many instances will never be HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. As a Member of Congress, I take the re- permanently placed. OF MICHIGAN sponsibility to protect workers’ rights seriously, Finally, we all know that often quoted prov- and I support economic solutions that protect IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES erb ‘‘it takes a village to raise a child.’’ Similar and lift all Americans—not just the privileged to villages, which comprise of a number of dif- Friday, June 1, 2012 few—in order to create a safe and prosperous ferent community members that serve different Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recog- nation for all. A cornerstone of this economy purposes, the community established to sup- nize and honor President Ma of Taiwan for his are Project Labor Agreements, which are pre- port foster care children should also be a di- re-election victory. I believe that the people of hire agreements that establish the terms and verse one. The success of a child is depend- Taiwan and the United States have a reason conditions of employment to ensure tax payer ent on the influence of a number of persons to celebrate President Ma’s second inaugura- funded projects use local workers to finish on including: those willing to adopt; those willing tion, which occurred on May 20, 2012. time and under budget. to serve as court appointed special advocates; I hope that during his second term, Presi- It is time to rebuild our economy in a way and those willing to serve as tutors and higher dent Ma and the United States can work to- that is consistent with our values. Until all education counselors. Let us all encourage gether to address the concerns that both our Americans are back to work, more must be our community members to get involved re- countries share, such as enhancing our mu- done on behalf America’s middle class and gardless of how minor one may assume their tual security, and exchanging ideas to improve working families. Project Labor Agreements role to be. We can hardly imagine the impact the health care of both of our societies. are a vital part of this process, and I strongly a small deed may have on a child. These efforts, with the countless successes support all attempts to protect them. As National Foster Care Month comes to an in the past and the close relationship we have f end, I urge all of my colleagues to join the maintained with Taiwan, assure a bright and Foster Youth Caucus and support initiatives PERSONAL EXPLANATION peaceful future for both of our countries. and legislation that brings to issue what foster f youth face in the nation to light. HON. LUIS V. GUTIERREZ f PERSONAL EXPLANATION OF ILLINOIS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECOGNIZING THE PRINCE WIL- LIAM COUNTY JUVENILE DETEN- HON. TIM HUELSKAMP Friday, June 1, 2012 OF KANSAS TION CENTER VOLUNTEERS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, on May 30, 2012, I was unavoidably absent for votes in Friday, June 1, 2012 HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY the House chamber. Had I been present, I OF VIRGINIA Mr. HUELSKAMP. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall would have voted ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall Votes 294, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES No. 302, the Grimm Amendment to H.R. 5854, 295 and 296. Friday, June 1, 2012 I inadvertently voted yes when I intended to f vote no. I believe every worker should be able Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I to decide for themselves whether or not they CONGRESSIONAL SHADOW DAY rise today to recognize the Prince William would like to join a union. Project Labor FOR FOSTER YOUTH County Juvenile Detention Center Volunteers. Agreements violate workers’ rights and inhibit JDC Volunteers ensure the efficiency of Ju- business growth. No one should ever face HON. YVETTE D. CLARKE venile Detention Center’s after-school pro- compulsory membership in any group. Given OF NEW YORK gram. They treat the youth with respect, dig- our current fiscal situation, the last thing Con- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nity and worth, becoming role models for gress should be doing is imposing more bur- youth who wish to change their lives. The vol- Friday, June 1, 2012 densome regulations on businesses and work- unteers promote healthy social, educational, ers. I am proud that Kansas is a Right-to-Work Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, I emotional, and physical development. The state, and I am committed to promoting work- rise to support of National Foster Care Month, JDC Volunteers are truly an integral part of ers’ rights at the federal level. which is observed in May to increase aware- the center, as well as these children’s lives. f ness of the challenges faced by children in the It is my honor to enter into the CONGRES- foster care system. Yesterday, I participated in SIONAL RECORD the names of volunteers for MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND Congressional Shadow Day for Foster Youth the Prince William County Juvenile Detention VETERANS AFFAIRS AND RE- and had the pleasure of being shadowed by Center: LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIA- Dontysha Torry of Washington, DC. Dontysha Joshua Ahmadi, Jean Andreas, Antonio TIONS ACT, 2013 shares the experience of over 400,000 chil- Ante, Mileydi Ante, Warren Anthony, Alex dren in America who are a part of our Nation’s Arevalo, Jose Argueta, Melis Argueta, SPEECH OF child foster care system. I would also like to Anthonese Barlow, Beverly Barnes, Tina HON. LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER urge my colleagues to not lose sight of the Barnett, Edwardo Barrow, Paul Bauer, Robin OF NEW YORK challenges facing thousands of children who Bauer, Matt Behnke, Katherine Best-Brown, find themselves in the foster care system. Patricia Black, Renee Blakey, Leah Bogden- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES These 400,000 children are our children, and Collins, Barbara Borthwick, Patrick Bowens, Thursday, May 31, 2012 the responsibility for their successful develop- Diana Bowers, Angela Brown, Michael Brown, The House in Committee of the Whole ment into adulthood remains our responsibility. Renee Brown, Peggy Bruhn, Richard House on the state of the Union had under This is why foster care polices should be Buckholt, Isabella Buckley, William Burrell,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:50 Jun 02, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A01JN8.048 E01JNPT1 jbell on DSK6SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 1, 2012 Brigitte Caboteja, Keisha Cameron, Daniel dedicated to trading for bigger and better MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND Card, Alfred Cardwell, Christopher Cavaluzzi, things before he received the item he wanted VETERANS AFFAIRS AND RE- Elizabeth Charity, Louis Chevalier, Marcia to donate. Brendan then held a raffle with the LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIA- Clark, Triane Clowers, Erin Collins, Carolyn names of families across the country and TIONS ACT, 2013 Craig-Sprow, Elaine Crocker, Vincent Currie, ended up drawing the name Liberty Hope David Danieli, Jacqueline Daugnon, Randy Steele, the daughter of Timothy Steele, a sol- SPEECH OF Davenport, Carolyn Demps, Joel Devallon, Ar- dier from his native Massachusetts who was HON. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN thur Diggs, Paul Dressler, Henry During, Mi- killed in Afghanistan last August. On Memorial OF MARYLAND chael Edwards, Christopher Floyd, Ingrid Day, Brendan presented the Steele family with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Floyd-Casco, Emilio Fogerty, Barbara Forten- a free vacation to Disney World. Thursday, May 31, 2012 berry, Stephanie Fox, Doug Freeman, Michael Brendan’s generosity knows no bounds, as French, Lohrland Gandy, Aria Gee, Keith The House in Committee of the Whole he recently demonstrated a second time. Rec- House on the state of the Union had under Givens, Patsy Gordon, CeCe Greco, Tabatha ognized for his actions during the morning consideration the bill (H.R. 5854) making ap- Guion, Linda Hammon, Darrell Harris, Ruth telecast of ‘‘Good Morning America,’’ Brendan propriations for military construction, the Hellwig, Sherri Hines, Ernest Hines II, Re- was informed that the Walt Disney Company Department of Veterans Affairs, and related becca Hixon, Mary Hoffman, Corey Holeman, was awarding him and his family an all-ex- agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- Gay Howard, Bob James, Vondetta James, pense paid vacation to Disney World for what tember 30, 2013, and for other purposes: Jackie James-Bond, Kimberly Jappell, he had done on behalf of the Steele family. Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chair, I rise Breanna Jones, Matthew Jones, Karen King, Brendan; however, refused to accept the trip today to express my qualified support for H.R. William Lewis, Dudley Ligon, Vickey Logan, for himself; instead, he said it would be raffled 5854, the FY13 Military Construction and Vet- John Louisor, Cora Lynch, Floyd Mangin, away to another military family. erans Affairs Appropriations bill. While I com- Sherman Manley, Leonardo Manning, Bruce This type of selflessness is years beyond mend Chairmen ROGERS and CULBERSON and Marchal, Ardine Marie, Antonio Mason, David what we would expect of a young boy. Ranking Members SMITH and BISHOP for their Masters, John McKie, John McMackin, Liz Me- Brendan has made his community and his efforts to craft bipartisan legislation dedicated dina, Robert Melvin, Dan MenMuir, Charles country very proud. to addressing the needs of current and former Miller, Jeanne Moore, William Moore, Gregory servicemembers and their families, I support Morris, Dona Mosley-Williams, Tyler Newton, Mr. Speaker, please join me in recognizing this bill with strong reservations about how the Dianne Noble, Debbie Page-Maples, Robin Brendan Haas for his remarkable spirit, dedi- measure treats the very civilian employees Paglianite, Sheila Parocia, Caris Penzien, cation and generosity. I know we will see who will be asked to provide the services and Christy Phillips, Bernice Piasare, LaTasha more great things from him in the future. carry out the instructions outlined in the bill. Pless, Daniel Ramirez, Paul Ramos, Carlos H.R. 5854 contains a number of important Recono, Hugo Retana, Rhonda Richardson, f provisions designed to serve our military with Sabeana Roberts, Reina Rodriguez, Suzanne COMMEMORATING AZERBAIJAN’S an eye toward trimming spending, eliminating Rucker, Joy Russom, Brandis Sanchez, Cathy REPUBLIC DAY waste and directing taxpayer dollars more ef- Sanders, Charlene Scott, Pastor Angel fectively. Serrano, Natasha Severe, Cathy Shaffer, Den- The MilCon-VA bill, as it is called, funds nis Smith, Latonya Smith, Odell Smith, Victoria HON. DAN BOREN construction by the Department of Defense for hospitals, clinics, schools, family housing and Soberanis, Jeanne Spears, Martin Steinberg, OF OKLAHOMA Kevin Stewart, Sherry Stone, Anita Sullivan, other facilities in order to deliver timely and Carolyn Taylor, Brenda Todd, Shonietta IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vital medical care to our Nation’s veterans, ac- Travers, Doyoberto Trejo, Aimee Tucker, Friday, June 1, 2012 tive military members and their families. The Ortho Vines, Diane Walden, Andrew Walker, measure also provides funding for disability Kenneth Wallace, Patricia Wallace, Amy Mr. BOREN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to care, educational benefits and other resources Ward, Sandra Watjen, Shirley Watson, honor the people of the Republic of Azerbaijan to help advance U.S. missions abroad. Delores Weikert, Stephen Weikert, Sandy and their celebration of Republic Day on May Specifically, I applaud the committee for Weinger, Elizabeth Williams, Stacy Williams, 28. funding support for medical services and facili- Brianne Wilson, Carol Wilson, Michael Wilson, Azerbaijan first declared independence from ties; for veteran’s compensation, pension and Robert Wilson, Ericca Wright, Reynold Wright, the Russian Empire on May 28, 1918. Though burial benefits for former servicemembers, sur- Laurie Raines, Kelly Jimenez, Tracey Wilkins- the Azerbaijan Republic later succumbed to vivors and their dependents; and for the im- Clark, Tricia Wyman. Soviet forces in 1920, in its 2 years of inde- portant family housing here and abroad that Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join pendence Azerbaijan achieved a number of helps ease some of the financial burden faced me in commending the Prince William County measures on state-building, armed forces, by our men and women in uniform. Juvenile Detention Center Volunteers for their education, economy, and universal suffrage, Despite providing necessary support for service and in thanking them for their dedica- from which it benefits today. Azerbaijan re- these and other important projects and pro- tion to our community. stored its independence in 1991 after the col- grams, this bill also continues a troubling new Republican pattern in the Congress of bal- f lapse of the Soviet Union. ancing our fiscal accounts on the backs of our Azerbaijan is a key global security partner IN RECOGNITION OF BRENDAN Federal employees. It seems like every time for the United States. Azerbaijan was among HAAS the Republicans bring a bill to the floor, they the first nations to offer unconditional support use it as a vehicle to attack public servants by for US and its allies in anti-terrorism efforts, cutting their pensions, or pay, or benefits to HON. WILLIAM R. KEATING providing use of its airspace, airports, and pay for other spending items. Federal employ- OF MASSACHUSETTS troops for operations in Afghanistan. Azer- ees have already given up $60 billion of salary IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES baijani troops were also part of international over 10 years as part of the two-year pay contingent in Kosovo and Iraq. Friday, June 1, 2012 freeze. Starting in January 2013, new Federal Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in Azerbaijan has opened Caspian energy re- employees will contribute more to their pen- recognition of nine-year-old Brendan Haas, a sources to development by U.S. companies sions to offset the $15 billion cost of Unem- resident of Kingston, Massachusetts, who has and has emerged as a key player for global ployment Insurance Extension legislation. And displayed the most profound sense of gen- energy security. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipe- with this MilCon bill, Federal employees are erosity and caring to the family of a fallen sol- line project is the most successful project con- asked to give up the very small .5% partial dier. tributing to the development of the South COLA allotted in the President’s FY13 budget In February, Brendan set up a Facebook Caucasus region and has become the main request. page called ‘‘A Soldier for a Soldier,’’ which in- artery delivering Caspian Sea hydrocarbons to Nurses and rehabilitation specialists, weap- volves ‘‘trading up’’ items for something bigger the U.S. and our partners in Europe. ons systems mechanics and border guards and better. His intention was always to donate As a proud Co-Chair of Congressional Azer- are among the many dedicated Federal em- the best item he received to a military family. baijan Caucus I call my colleagues to join me ployees that serve our country. They some- Through this project, Brendan began with a in congratulating the Republic of Azerbaijan on times serve shoulder-to-shoulder on the battle- single toy soldier and spent three months this important occasion. field with our uniformed servicemembers.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2 p.m., Monday, June 4 12 p.m., Tuesday, June 5

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Monday: The Majority Leader will be rec- Program for Tuesday: Resume consideration of H.R. ognized and intends to resume consideration of the mo- 5325—Energy and Water Development and Related tion to proceed to consideration of S. 3220, Paycheck Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013. Fairness. At 5 p.m., Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of Timothy S. Hillman, of Massachusetts, to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, with a vote on confirmation of the nomi- nation at approximately 5:30 p.m.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Conyers, John, Jr., Mich., E965 McNerney, Jerry, Calif., E964 Eshoo, Anna G., Calif., E948 Markey, Edward J., Mass., E962 Berman, Howard L., Calif., E949 Gallegly, Elton, Calif., E949 Peters, Gary C., Mich., E947, E954, E957, E964 Bilbray, Brian P., Calif., E964 Green, Gene, Tex., E949, E953 Poe, Ted, Tex., E946, E952 Bonner, Jo, Ala., E945, E946, E947, E948, E949 Gutierrez, Luis V., Ill., E965 Reed, Tom, N.Y., E956 Boren, Dan, Okla., E966 Heinrich, Martin, N.M., E963 Richardson, Laura, Calif., E950, E963, E964 Buchanan, Vern, Fla., E948 Hoyer, Steny H., Md., E945, E951 Roe, David P., Tenn., E962 Bucshon, Larry, Ind., E955 Huelskamp, Tim, Kans., E965 Rogers, Mike, Ala., E951 Calvert, Ken, Calif., E957 Hurt, Robert, Va., E950, E956 Simpson, Michael K., Idaho, E958 Campbell, John, Calif., E955 Keating, William R., Mass., E966 Slaughter, Louise McIntosh, N.Y., E962, E965 Cardoza, Dennis A., Calif., E950 Kildee, Dale E., Mich., E951 Smith, Adam, Wash., E946, E953 Carson, Andre´, Ind., E947, E954 Kind, Ron, Wisc., E948, E954, E957 Stivers, Steve, Ohio, E955 Clarke, Yvette D., N.Y., E946, E957, E965 King, Peter T., N.Y., E958 Tiberi, Patrick J., Ohio, E945 Connolly, Gerald E., Va., E950, E951, E952, E953, E954, Loebsack, David, Iowa, E967 Van Hollen, Chris, Md., E955, E966 E955, E956, E965 McCollum, Betty, Minn., E945, E958 Wasserman Schultz, Debbie, Fla., E956

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