March 27, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1579 park eight to 10 bicycles where one out sometime around 2014. Well, it’s God, bless the House and Senate that automobile resides. kind of like what many of us, including we will do what’s right in the eyes of It’s good for the economy. Over $6 myself, are guilty of, and that is put- God for His people. I ask God to please billion a year is involved with the cy- ting it down the road, putting it down bless the President of the United cling industry, employing over a mil- the road, we’ll deal with it in some States, that he will do what is right in lion people. They brought very specific time. But the problem is our young the eyes of God for His people. And I’ll examples. A study from Wisconsin, $1.5 men and women are dying, getting close three times by asking, God, billion of economic impact and 13,200 killed and severely wounded by IEDs. I please, God, please, God, please con- jobs in an industry that too often does hope that Congress, when we get into tinue to bless America. not get its attention. In my commu- May of this year and we start debating f nity of Portland, Oregon, a medium- the Department of Defense bill, will END RACIAL PROFILING sized city, it’s $100 million a year in bring up some amendments dealing our economy and well over 1,000 jobs. with Afghanistan. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cycling is also very good for our chil- History has proven time and time CRAVAACK). The Chair recognizes the dren and our families. Being able to again that no one, no nation will ever gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. WIL- walk or bike safely to school helps kids change Afghanistan. And it was kind of SON) for 5 minutes. actually perform better. Parents are ironic that last week I just happened to Ms. WILSON of Florida. Twenty less stressed. It could save some of the be on the floor Thursday when Mr. years ago, while serving as a school 6.5 billion trips a year of over 30 billion HOYER was asking Mr. CANTOR, on our principal, I founded the 5,000 Role Mod- miles just shuttling kids back and side, what is going to be the schedule els of Excellence project in Miami, forth to school. this week, meaning today. And then Florida—a million dollar, nationally People, frankly, were outraged that Mr. HOYER said to Mr. CANTOR, well, recognized and honored foundation my Republican friends had targeted, in why don’t we bring up the Senate that specifically addresses the trials their transportation bill, elimination transportation bill? And I was just and tribulations of young black boys of the Safe Routes to School program. taken aback by Mr. CANTOR’s response. and sends them to college. It serves al- Other than them, I haven’t met any- He said, ‘‘We’re just out of money.’’ most 20,000 boys throughout Florida. body in America who is against this We’re just out of money? And we’re In spite of that, this sign stands out- program, that empowers our children spending $10 billion a month in Afghan- side the door of my congressional of- and helps our families. fice, and I change the number every Now is a golden opportunity as the istan? I don’t understand the mathematics day. It speaks loudly. Trayvon Mar- transportation bill collapsed and we’re tin’s murderer is still at large. Thirty- back at the drawing board to look at around here. We can’t bring up a trans- one days with no arrest. Trayvon died how we leverage that $8 billion that we portation bill, a 2-year bill, because because of racial profiling 31 days ago. have invested in Federal money over we’re just out of money. But, yet, Mr. If you walk into any inner city high the last 20 years that has touched Karzai, you can get your $10 billion a school in the African American com- every State and hundreds of commu- month and you can negotiate with the munity, Mr. Speaker, and ask the stu- nities. Now is the time to celebrate Taliban and take the $10 billion that that progress. Now is the time to com- we’re borrowing from the Chinese to dents, ‘‘Have you ever been racially mit ourselves to a comprehensive give to Karzai so they can buy weapons profiled,’’ trust me, every one of them transportation bill that makes it safer to kill the American soldiers and ma- will raise their hands, boys and girls. to cycle and walk. Now is the time to rines. It just does not make any sense. You might say to me, ‘‘Congress- have a transportation bill that will Mr. Speaker, I have put together a woman, what does that mean? Who is make every one of our communities resolution that I have asked the speak- profiled? And who is doing the more livable and our families safer, er of the North Carolina House of Rep- profiling?’’ I will tell you: healthier, and more economically se- resentatives, Thom Tillis, who is a Boys by police officers. cure. great gentleman, to introduce in the Boys by vigilante wannabe-police of- May session of the North Carolina ficers. f House asking the Congress to bring our Boys who get into an elevator and AFGHANISTAN troops home out of Afghanistan before then everyone else gets off. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The the 2014 deadline. And I’m pleased to Boys who walk down the sidewalk Chair recognizes the gentleman from say that the Tea Party in my district, and everyone crosses the street. North Carolina (Mr. JONES) for 5 min- who doesn’t agree with me on every- Boys who watch people lock their car utes. thing, does agree with me on Afghani- doors when they approach a car. Mr. JONES. Last week, in the Armed stan. They have passed this resolution Boys who see women clutch their Services Committee, we had General at their meeting a month ago. We need purse as they walk towards them. Allen, who oversees our military effort to start bringing our troops home now, Boys who will try to catch a cab but in Afghanistan. I have the utmost re- not later. not one who will stop. spect for General Allen. In fact, Gen- Mr. Speaker, I’ve got beside me Boys who are followed around in eral Allen’s former boss in the Marine today—and I’m going to close in just a stores while they shop. Corps had some very kind words to say minute—a reminder of the cost of Boys who wear hoodies. about General Allen, which I read be- war—all the families who have cried Boys who wear dreads. fore I got into my questions. with pain and all the children who have Boys who wear gold teeth. Boys who sag their pants. b 1020 cried because their moms or their dad- dies are not coming home. So I have And boys who are walking while I would today like to quote the about 14 of these posters when I do black, talking while black, shopping former boss of General Allen, who’s these little 5-minute speeches I bring while black, eating while black, study- been my adviser on Afghanistan for 3 to the floor. This is the latest one. I ing while black, and playing while years, and I actually read these com- saw it in the newspaper. It’s very pro- black, and just being black. ments to General Allen before I got to found. It is time for the American peo- How would you feel if you were treat- my question: ple to say to the United States Con- ed with such disdain and such isola- Attempting to find a true military and po- gress, if you have no money and you tion? How do you think these little litical answer to the problems in Afghani- boys feel? It is a sociological problem stan would take decades, not years, and can’t fix the roads, then you have no drain our Nation of precious resources, with money to send to Afghanistan to waste that dates back to the days of slavery. the most precious being our sons and daugh- on a corrupt leader. These boys begin to see themselves not ters. Simply put, the United States cannot With that, Mr. Speaker, I would like as real men, but as caricatures of real solve the Afghan problem, no matter how to close the way I normally do: men whom people fear and despise. brave and determined our troops are. God, please bless our men and women Racial profiling for black boys is Mr. Speaker, I keep hearing the in uniform; please bless the families of real, Mr. Speaker. It is not perceived. term, well, we’re going to probably be our men and women in uniform; please, It is real, and it is happening as I speak

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That is not un- how the Justice Department has a role have to walk in their shoes to under- usual. What may be considered unusual in these processes from time to time. stand. is that he is involved at a time when he There will be talk about how financial I call upon this Congress today and has lost his mother, and he is acting support can be accorded the local con- upon this Nation today: under some courageous circumstances stabulary under certain circumstances. Don’t profile them. that require courage, I might say, There will be talk about how Federal Don’t fear them. under these circumstances. I admire charges can be promulgated and en- Don’t despise them. what he does, but I especially admire forced under certain circumstances. So Don’t fill our prisons with them. the fact that he is doing it under these I will be honored to have an oppor- And please don’t hunt them down circumstances, and today he is tunity to be at this forum today so like dogs and kill them. funeralizing his mother. that we can talk more about the Fed- Love them and educate them. They So to Reverend Al Sharpton, I want eral role. could be your son. They are all some- to express my gratitude; and I would In the final analysis, here’s what body’s son. And they, too, are God’s like to just take a very short brief mo- we’re dealing with. We’re dealing with children. ment of silence and express my sym- a circumstance wherein there are at Thirty-one days and still no justice. pathies silently to Reverend Sharpton least two people who deserve a fair Shame, shame, shame. And today, I and his family. trial. Trayvon Martin is one of the two again demand justice for Trayvon. I de- Thank you. people, at least, who deserves a fair mand justice for all murdered children. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank all of trial. He deserves a fair hearing on Power to the people and power to the my colleagues who have supported what happened that day. He cannot children. what the Justice Department is doing. speak for himself, but there is evidence f It is exceedingly important that people that speaks volumes about what hap- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL understand that this is a bipartisan ef- pened on this occasion. That evidence DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH fort across the length and breadth of has to be considered such that some this country. This transcends the lines The SPEAKER pro tempore. The impartial body can make a determina- that can divide us. This is not about Chair recognizes the gentleman from tion as to whether or not there should being a conservative. It’s not about West Virginia (Mr. MCKINLEY) for 5 be an arrest. being a liberal. It’s about justice for minutes. If there is an arrest—and I believe Trayvon Martin. I believe that people Mr. MCKINLEY. Mr. Speaker, March that the evidence exists such that of goodwill come in all stripes, they are is National Developmental Disability there is probable cause—if there is an affiliated with all parties, and people of Awareness month. This is a time that arrest, then there can be a trial and goodwill want to see justice done. we can all take a moment to bring at- then there can be the transparency My colleague before me expressed tention and understanding to both the that the United States of America pro- that it has been 31 days and there has needs and the potentials of people with duces whenever we have trials, because not been an arrest. We are now hearing developmental disabilities. there will be an opportunity for all more about what may have happened. I This awareness month was first de- sides to present their evidence in a say ‘‘may have happened’’ because we clared by President Ronald Reagan in court of law before a jury if a jury is have not had an eyewitness to come 1987 to recognize the bright future that desired. This is the way we do things in forward and give statements. It’s im- these American citizens have in front the United States of America. portant to note that what we’re hear- of them. Thanks in part to proclama- Regardless of his color, he deserves a ing is not coming by way of eyewitness tions like this, the perceptions of fair trial. Regardless of what he had testimony. Someone has had someone young people and adults with develop- on, he deserves a fair trial. And to say something that they are repeating. mental disabilities has changed. those who say that hoodies make you a My hope is that there will be a thor- On a personal note, as an individual criminal, I say: Be careful, because ough investigation. There should be an with a significant hearing disability you’re getting dangerously close to investigation. My hope is that we will and a grandfather of a child with spe- saying women can cause themselves to have the opportunity to produce evi- cial needs, I am very familiar with the become victims. You’re dangerously dence by and through the constabulary hardships of overcoming the obstacles close, so be careful. to show what actually happened to the of disabilities. My grandson, Maxwell, f extent that the standard that is com- has CHARGE syndrome and deals every monly used to make an arrest is ap- LETTING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL day with intense developmental and plied to this case. That standard is SPIRIT TAKE HOLD medical challenges. He is a true inspi- probable cause. It is not guilt beyond a The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ration to his mother and our entire reasonable doubt, not clear and con- Chair recognizes the gentleman from family. vincing evidence, but, rather, probable North Carolina (Mr. MCHENRY) for 5 b 1030 cause. It is whether there is probable minutes. During Developmental Disabilities cause to make an arrest. Mr. MCHENRY. Mr. Speaker, today I Awareness Month, I encourage every- We have many laws that are coming want to talk about something that is one to engage with people in our com- into play, and I want to thank Chair- very important, a great opportunity munities who have developmental dis- man JOHN CONYERS. I call him chair- for this Congress to lift the red tape abilities and recognize their talents man. He is now the ranking member of from Washington and allow the entre- and abilities that will make this a bet- the Judiciary Committee. I want to preneurial spirit of America to take ter Nation. thank him because he is taking the hold. We know that, 3 years into an eco- f lead today on a forum that will take place. In fact, he’s making it possible nomic recovery, America’s labor and REVEREND AL SHARPTON AND for us to have this forum today. At this capital markets continue with unprece- TRAYVON MARTIN forum today, there will be some clarity dented challenges. Entrepreneurship is The SPEAKER pro tempore. The brought to how the Federal Govern- at a 17-year low. Deeply troubling, as Chair recognizes the gentleman from ment is involved in these kinds of cir- we know, is that 40 million jobs since Texas (Mr. AL GREEN) for 5 minutes. cumstances. 1980 have been created by small busi- Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speak- In ’09, there was a hate crimes law nesses or start-ups. What is interesting er, I would like to say to all who are that was passed. There will be some about this is that those are the folks

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