Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 114 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 114 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 162 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016 No. 83 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was immigration executive actions is being says, Though you have made no mis- called to order by the Speaker pro tem- deliberated by the Supreme Court, or- take and have zero—I want to repeat— pore (Mr. ROTHFUS). dered the punishment of every single zero—responsibility for the con- f lawyer in the Justice Department in 26 troversy, you, the applicant, before the States. His claim is that some DOJ American government, could have your DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO lawyers misrepresented to him whether name and address published for every TEMPORE they were complying with his injunc- two-bit vigilante and Twitter troll to The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- tion suspending the immigration exec- read. fore the House the following commu- utive actions announced by President I thought Republicans were the ones nication from the Speaker: Obama in November of 2014. who didn’t like activist judges. I WASHINGTON, DC After his injunction, they were only thought they wanted as little govern- May 25, 2016. supposed to issue 2-year work permits ment as possible and to leave the legis- I hereby appoint the Honorable KEITH J. under the old rules to immigrants who lating and, I suppose, the intimidating ROTHFUS to act as Speaker pro tempore on applied for and received, after an ex- to the politicians here in Washington, this day. tensive criminal background check, D.C. PAUL D. RYAN, the ability to be treated as the lowest So when the Republicans up the ante Speaker of the House of Representatives. priority for deportation. But the reme- in one area, they have to up the ante in f dial ethics classes are for every single another. Nowhere is this crass political MORNING-HOUR DEBATE Department of Justice lawyer in 26 opportunism more apparent than right States. here. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- You say you weren’t in any way asso- This morning we are having a little ant to the order of the House of Janu- ciated with the case before the judge? hearing in the Judiciary Committee ary 5, 2016, the Chair will now recog- Too bad. aimed at—get this—shutting down nize Members from lists submitted by Never practiced law that is remotely legal immigration as much as possible. the majority and minority leaders for related to immigrants or immigration? Your son’s fiancee, your mom’s doctor, morning-hour debate. Sorry, the judge is ordering your your neighbor’s nanny, your grocery The Chair will alternate recognition punishment. store’s janitorial crew, if they are com- between the parties, with each party Never been to the State of Texas in ing legally to the United States, Re- limited to 1 hour and each Member your life? publicans want to stop it, slow it down, other than the majority and minority Tough cookies, the Texas judge and make it cost a lot more. leaders and the minority whip limited knows best, and is ordering you around The party obsessed with illegal im- to 5 minutes, but in no event shall de- as if you had argued cases yourself be- migration now has legal immigration bate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. fore his court. firmly in its sight. And if you are from f Overreach much? certain countries or are of a certain re- The newspaper La Opinion called ligion, you must have a special secu- ASSAULT ON LEGAL IMMIGRATION Judge Hanen’s plan ‘‘onerous and ab- rity review. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The surd.’’ I think that is an understate- I thought the campaign promise to Chair recognizes the gentleman from ment. bar Muslims from traveling here to the Illinois (Mr. GUTIE´ RREZ) for 5 minutes. Judge Hanen is also using some good USA was a campaign promise that Mr. GUTIE´ RREZ. Mr. Speaker, as it old-fashioned scare tactics to see if he would never be realized unless your turns out, deporting 11 million undocu- can compete with Sheriff Joe Arpaio leader actually won the campaign. mented immigrants and banning Mus- and the GOP Presidential nominee for Don’t get me wrong. If I thought Re- lims from entering the country might the title of who is so shamelessly anti- publicans were proposing a process to not be the most radical anti-immigra- immigrant. Judge Hanen has called for make things more secure and give the tion ideas that the Republicans have the Department of Justice to turn over U.S. a better immigration system, I come up with. There seems to be a sin- the names of 100,000 people who were would support it. And I think we could ister, anti-immigration arms race possibly granted the 3-year, not the 2- pass something that was on a bipar- breaking out in the Party of Trump. year, work permits. tisan basis in Congress today. Last week, a Federal judge—Judge So if you come forward, pay hundreds But come on, guys. Do you really be- Andrew Hanen of Texas, pictured of dollars, submit your paperwork and lieve that the House of Representatives here—the same one whose judgment on fingerprints, then 2 years later a judge is trying to craft a sensible bill related b This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., b 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. H3099 . VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:41 May 26, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25MY7.000 H25MYPT1 emcdonald on DSK9F6TC42PROD with HOUSE H3100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 25, 2016 to immigration in an election year? Do Raymond is a native of Erie and The river looked very different. It you think the American people are graduated with a degree in accounting was faster-moving and steeper. It pro- that gullible? from Gannon University. He is also a duced salmon in such abundance that No. The Party of Trump has launched veteran and completed a tour of duty it was rumored you could walk across an all-out radical assault on legal im- with the United States Army before their backs as they swam upstream to migration, and hopes everyone is so earning a master’s degree in health spawn. And it provided food, trade, and scared of the ‘‘rapey’’ Mexicans, the service administration from Tulane a cultural identity for Native Amer- sex-crazed Italians, and the Viet- University in New Orleans in 1973. ican tribes for years. These tribes—now namese immigrants with Ebola on the After graduation, Raymond entered known as the Nez Perce, Umatilla, one hand and ‘‘ziki flies’’ on the other. the field of health care and did not Warm Springs, and Yakama Nation— Lock down the whole system, they say. look back. He worked at hospitals in were never fully compensated for the Lady Liberty, lower your lamp, cover Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas before disruption to their native ways of life, up your poem, and take a seat because returning to Pennsylvania in 1979 to despite promises to the contrary. terrorists got in once, which is enough become president of the Corry Memo- We have found that the Army Corps reason to keep everyone out of Amer- rial Hospital in Corry, Pennsylvania, of Engineers now understands that it ica—from the computer programmer to also located in Pennsylvania’s Fifth has the authority to begin the process the ski instructor, to the refugee flee- Congressional District. of building another housing village at ing systematic violence. Ray came to DuBois in 1990 as presi- The Dalles Dam. It is important that If you ask me, maybe it is not the dent of the DuBois Regional Medical we encourage and support this work, hundreds of Justice Department law- Center. He is credited as being part of and continue to expand it through con- yers who have nothing to do with a group which started the Free Medical gressional action. It is the least we can Judge Hanen’s courtroom who need on- Clinic of DuBois in 1998, and has served do to keep faith with Native Ameri- erous remedial ethics training classes; on a number of statewide boards, in- cans, who have had their lives dramati- maybe it is Judge Hanen’s allies here cluding the Hospital Council of West- cally disrupted with that construction. in the House and throughout the Re- ern Pennsylvania, The Hospital & Second, the report also continues an publican Party who could use a manda- Healthsystem Association of Pennsyl- unfortunate rider, which blocks the tory lesson on right and wrong. vania, and the Pennsylvania chapter of Army Corps of Engineers from modern- f the VHA. In 1998, he was named the izing how it develops water resource CONGRESSIONAL YOUTH SHADOW Distinguished Citizen of the Year in projects. This has been an interest of DAY DuBois. mine since I first started serving on In 2011, he was instrumental in the the Water Resources Subcommittee 20 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The creation of Penn Highlands Healthcare, years ago in Congress. Chair recognizes the gentleman from bringing together hospitals across the The Corps operates on an antiquated Pennsylvania (Mr. THOMPSON) for 5 methodology that are known as 1983 minutes. DuBois region, including the DuBois Mr.

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