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

Vol. 159 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013 No. 8 Senate (Legislative day of Thursday, January 3, 2013)

The Senate met at 9:30 a.m., on the U.S. SENATE, As Governor Adlai Stevenson said: expiration of the recess, and was called PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts to order by the Honorable HEIDI Washington, DC, January 23, 2013. of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedi- To the Senate: HEITKAMP, a Senator from the State of cation of a lifetime. Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, That is true. Patriotism is not short, North Dakota. of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable HEIDI HEITKAMP, a frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the PRAYER Senator from the State of North Dakota, to tranquil and steady dedication of a The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- perform the duties of the Chair. lifetime. If we look at the records, the fered the following prayer: PATRICK J. LEAHY, careers of these new Senators, that is Let us pray. President pro tempore. the way it is. Each person coming here reminds me Eternal Lord God, we shout praises Ms. HEITKAMP thereupon assumed of my first few weeks in the House of to You, for Your love never fails. You the chair as Acting President pro tem- Representatives when Tip O’Neill—we rescue us from trouble with Your lov- pore. had a large incoming class, so he called ing and mighty providence. We com- f us in these groups of maybe 15 or so, mend our Nation to Your compas- RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY and he told us something I have always sionate care, trusting You to guide it LEADER remembered. He said: Each of you are with Your merciful hands. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- successful politicians or you wouldn’t Bless the work of our Senators. Help be here. And that is true. I say that to them to respect and esteem each other pore. The majority leader is recog- nized. each of my new Senators. They are suc- as they struggle together for resolution cessful politicians, and there is nothing of complex issues. f wrong with the word ‘‘politician.’’ I am Lord, we thank You for the many WELCOMING NEW MEMBERS proud I am a politician. I am proud I people working on Capitol Hill who Mr. REID. Madam President, yester- serve in government, and we should support our lawmakers, serving You day I had the opportunity to meet with each be proud. faithfully, without public recognition. my Democratic Senate caucus for the So I am pleased now, and I was May we never take for granted their la- first time this year. It was the first op- pleased yesterday, to be surrounded by bors for liberty. portunity for all of us to sit down to- so many dedicated public servants, new We pray in Your gracious Name. Members and old alike, who have de- gether, to break bread, and to discuss Amen. voted their lives to making their indi- challenges and opportunities we all vidual States and our shared Nation a face. As the majority leader, I was f better place in which to grow up, grow gratified to see so many new faces and a family, and grow old. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE to have such an inclusive caucus. It Each new Democratic Member is ac- The Honorable HEIDI HEITKAMP led was music to my ears to hear the an- complished, I repeat, in his or her own the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: nouncement that the Presiding Officer right. Our new caucus members include today would be HEIDI HEITKAMP. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the a couple of former Governors, a Har- United States of America, and to the Repub- We have nine new Democratic Sen- vard law professor, an engineer, just to lic for which it stands, one nation under God, ators. Four of these new Senators are name a few. While they have each ac- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. women, and so about one-third of our complished so much already, their Democratic caucus is now women. We greatest achievements are still ahead f have, for example, the first Asian of them. I know they will look back woman. We have expanded our major- with satisfaction on the work we do to- APPOINTMENT OF ACTING ity. I am particularly satisfied that gether in the Senate. PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE with each passing election cycle our Our caucus, this Congress, and our The PRESIDING OFFICER. The caucus better reflects the Nation it country face immense challenges. As clerk will please read a communication serves. But despite the diversity of the we approach these tests and trials, this to the Senate from the President pro caucus—and in particular its fresh- diverse group of new Democratic Sen- tempore (Mr. LEAHY). men—there is one quality shared by ators will be united by a single objec- The assistant legislative clerk read each Democratic Senator: deep and tive: to fight for fairness and balance the following letter: abiding patriotism. on behalf of the middle class.

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As I have said before, if we don’t olis just two weekends ago, I couldn’t think should have stayed. agree, then we are going to do some- help but think of the remarkable Frankly, no one could come up with thing as a Democratic caucus alone. I record of achievement and the bold re- an answer that says: We have had dis- remain cautiously optimistic we will forms that our former Governor, Mitch astrous consequences from these deci- be able to move forward on a bipartisan Daniels, delivered to the Hoosier State sions. The vast majority say that basis. I hope we can do that. I will have and the lessons they may offer to things are working pretty well. In fact, more to say about that if, in fact, we Washington. I can get my license renewed through a can do that. In 2005, faced a several-hun- total revamp of our licensing system in We are not going to get everything dred-million-dollar deficit. This pales just a few minutes over the Internet or we want, and the Republicans aren’t by comparison to the deficit we face just a few minutes at the DMV. Gov- going to get everything they want. But here; but, nevertheless, for a State of ernor Daniels’ measure for that was in maybe we can find a sweet spot in the our size it is a significant amount. Al- and out in less than 7 minutes. middle and come up with something though it is constitutionally mandated For those of us who have spent hours that will make the Senate more effi- in Indiana, we had not balanced our and hours committing half a day or cient. However, Democrats reserve the budget for 7 years. Governor Daniels more to getting our license renewed, right of all Senators to propose and his team had a vision and the po- this is a remarkable achievement. The changes to the Senate rules. We will litical courage to make much needed use of technology, privatization, and explicitly not acquiesce in the carrying changes, and the people of Indiana sup- the use of more efficient government over of all the rules from last Congress. ported and responded. While other demands that our civil servants do There must be some agreement reached States increased spending and raised more with less and this has proven to or we will have to use every means to taxes, Indiana reduced spending, cut be effective. While the fiscal situation we faced in make the Congress—especially the taxes, and paid down our debts. Indiana is not totally analogous to Senate—more efficient. Governor Daniels, with the help of the legislature and with the support of what we face here, the principles are Would the Chair announce the busi- the same, and there still are many sim- ness of the day. the people of Indiana, slowed down the rate of spending. The State’s expendi- ilarities. As Washington seeks answers f tures have grown at less than one-quar- at the start of this new session of Con- RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME ter the rate of the previous decade. We gress on how we move forward and ad- also reduced the size of State govern- dress our extremely serious debt situa- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- tion and get our fiscal house back in pore. Under the previous order, the ment. Indiana has the fewest State employ- order so that we too can retain a AAA leadership time is reserved. ees per capita in the country. We paid rating and so we too can provide the f down the previous debt by 43 percent, opportunity for growth and oppor- tunity not just for the middle class but MORNING BUSINESS and we currently sit with a budget sur- plus and a rebate program which will for all Americans in the future, maybe The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- give money collected in taxes back to there are some lessons to be learned pore. Under the previous order, the the taxpayer because of our state’s effi- from Indiana. The spend less, borrow Senate will be in a period of morning ciency and effectiveness in terms of less, and tax less Hoosier model has re- sulted in balanced budgets, job cre- business for debate only until 12 noon, running our government. Indiana, as a ation, and a AAA credit rating. In con- with Senators permitted to speak result of this, has received its first trast, the spend more, borrow more, therein for up to 10 minutes each. AAA credit rating. This means when and tax more approach in Washington Mr. REID. Madam President, I note we do need to borrow or sell bonds to during these last several years has re- the absence of a quorum. do certain infrastructure or meet other sulted in fewer jobs, higher debt, and a The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- needs, we can receive low interest rates threatened downgrade from credit pore. The clerk will call the roll. because of our superb AAA rating. All agencies. The assistant legislative clerk pro- this has transformed Indiana’s balance ceeded to call the roll. So as we reflect back on the last 4 sheet and made our State one of the years of this current administration, it Mr. COATS. Madam President, I ask most attractive places to live, raise a unanimous consent that the order for is clear to me we must take a different family, and do business in the Midwest, course in the second term of this ad- the quorum call be rescinded. if not in the Nation. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ministration. The story of Indiana and how it got Whether lawmakers want to admit it, pore. Without objection, it is so or- hold of its fiscal issues has been writ- dered. the crux of our problem is this: Wash- ten up in national journals and news- ington has promised Americans far too f papers and documentaries and others. much and committed well beyond our It is a remarkable story. It is not FISCAL POLICY means. Federal spending and borrowing unique because we see these things cannot continue at this current pace Mr. COATS. Madam President, ear- happening in other States around the without dire consequences. lier this week, through the eyes of the country led not only by Republican Whether one is reading or listening Nation watched the inauguration cere- Governors but Democrat Governors. to a liberal, conservative or a non- mony here in Washington. A week be- These are the kinds of decisions that partisan economist or an analyst, there fore that, back in Indiana, I was have to be made and are being made to is a consensus that sustaining our cur- present for the celebration of the inau- restore state and local governments. rent rate or continuing our rate of bor- guration of Indiana’s 50th Governor, And it has created a much brighter fu- rowing and spending simply is not fea- former Congressman Mike Pence, who ture for the citizens of those States. sible and the consequences will be dire is taking over after 8 years of leader- Governor Daniels has often said, if we do not address it. ship under our former Governor, Mitch ‘‘You’d be amazed by how much gov- As we seek to address these issues, Daniels. So back-to-back weekends had ernment you’ll never miss.’’ The re- my suggestion for Washington is to two special events. sults of his administration back that take a look at the Hoosier model. It is Inauguration ceremonies are a time up. tested, it is proven, and it is working. for reflection on what has happened in You can go around Indiana, as I have, We need to go big and bold. We need the past and a time for new vision on and talk to people from big cities to to have the political courage to look how we ought to go forward with the small, rural to urban and everything in beyond the short-term political con- future. It is also a time for new oppor- between and ask them how we have sequences, as we perceive them, to the

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Without objection, it is so or- soned debate. policy, no matter how politically dif- dered. The President won the election. I ficult it might seem at the time to Mr. ROBERTS. I ask the Acting congratulate him on his victory. It is achieve, does translate into good poli- President pro tempore if we are in his prerogative to lay out an agenda tics. But much more important than morning business, and I assume we are. and to make an argument—against all the politics, good policy can translate The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- evidence—for the efficacy of big gov- into strengthening our economy, im- pore. The Senator is correct. ernment, more Washington spending, proving the lives of Americans, and Mr. ROBERTS. Thank you, Madam and centralization. It is even his pre- providing opportunity for future gen- President. rogative to argue—mistakenly, in my erations. (The remarks of Mr. ROBERTS per- view—that America’s greatness some- It is time we learn that lesson in taining to the submission of S. Res. 8 how rests not on its communities and Washington that our State of Indiana are printed in today’s RECORD under voluntary associations, its churches and many States across the country, as ‘‘Submitted Resolutions.’’) and charities, on civil society, but in- well as other communities, are learn- Mr. ROBERTS. I yield back the re- stead on the dictates of Washington. ing. It is time we exhibit the political mainder of my time, and I suggest the But to suggest that those of us and our courage to stand and do what I think absence of a quorum. constituents who believe otherwise just about everyone in this body under- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- don’t want the best interest of our par- stands; that is, to get a hold of run- pore. The clerk will call the roll. ents or our children or our country’s away spending and borrowing that is The assistant legislative clerk pro- future is, at best, needlessly provoca- putting us in a very deep fiscal hole ceeded to call the roll. tive; at worst, it suggests a troubling and will have significant, dire con- Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, inability to view those who don’t hap- sequences not only on future genera- I ask unanimous consent that the order pen to share your opinions as beneath tions but even our current generation. for the quorum call be rescinded. you. The time is now. As I said from this The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- To suggest, as one of the President’s spot yesterday, 2013 is the decisive pore. Without objection, it is so or- spokesmen did earlier this week, that year. In 2014, we will be back into an dered. both the American political system election year, and that tired old belief f and those who belong to the party of that we cannot make these kinds of Lincoln aren’t worthy of this White changes with the election looming will RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY House or its agenda isn’t the way to surface again. If we don’t act now, LEADER get things done. It makes it impossible more people will say that we need to The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- to tend to problems we simply have to wait until after the next election. It pore. The Republican leader is recog- face up to and that we will only solve will push us into 2015. Many who have nized. together. Frankly, it calls into ques- looked at our situation fiscally and f tion the President’s own belief in the analyzed it from a nonpartisan, non- wisdom and the efficacy of the con- FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ideological basis have said 2015 is too stitutional system of checks and bal- late. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, ances that the Founders so wisely put This is the time when we need to President Obama may have been vague in place. summon our courage, summon our po- on details in his inaugural speech on The postinaugural period is usually a litical will, and do what is right for the Monday, but I will give him this, he chance to pivot to governing after a American people. We cannot continue couldn’t have been clearer about the long campaign. It is an opportunity for to bump along at less than 2 percent tone and the direction he has in mind Presidents to reach out to the minority growth. We cannot continue to keep for the second term. Gone is the and to forge compromises. But that is more than 8 percent or nearly 8 percent postpartisan rhetoric that propelled not what we are seeing this time of our people unemployed; and, obvi- him onto the national stage and into around. Even before Monday we all ously, that number is much higher the White House. In its place is an un- noted the harsh change in tone, the when we count those who are no longer abashedly leftwing appeal for more bu- reboot of the campaign machine, and looking for work who have given up. reaucratic control and centralized how, instead of offering an olive branch We cannot continue to keep America power here in Washington. on the edge of uncertainty in terms of to those who disagree with him, the On Monday, we saw a President and a what our fiscal future will look like. President had already decided to trans- Let us summon that courage to go party that appeared to have shifted form his campaign operation into a forward. Let us use examples from into reverse and jammed on the gas. weapon to bulldoze anyone who doesn’t those States, the support of those Gov- For Democrats in the Obama age, the share his vision. Well, I would suggest ernors and the support they have re- era of big government being over is of- that one thing the American people ceived from people across those States. ficially over. And anybody who dis- don’t want is a permanent campaign. Let us summon the courage to do what agrees with their approach isn’t just That is the last thing the American we need to do. wrong, they are not just standing in people are looking for—a permanent I want to continue talking about how the way of progress, they are malevo- campaign. They want us to work to- we need to address this with a ‘‘go big, lent, they are the bad guys, they are gether on solutions to our problems. go bold’’ type of approach. Everyone the ones who want to take food away And deficits and debt are right at the says and concludes that if we can put from children, they want the old and top of the list. that package together to address our the infirm to suffer, they want to I wish to suggest this morning the long-term ills over a period of time and choose between caring for the people President rethink the adversarial tone bring us back to balance and stability, who built this country, as the Presi- he has adopted in recent weeks. Our we will see a revival of the economy of dent put it on Monday, and investing problems are simply too urgent and too this country and we will see great hope in those who will build our future. big for the President to give up on for the American people going forward. I don’t know if the President buys all working with us. I appeal to him once Madam President, with that, I yield this stuff; I don’t know if he believes again to work with us on the things we the floor and suggest the absence of a his own caricature—I certainly hope can achieve together, and let us start quorum. not—but one thing I do know is that with the deficit and the debt. Because The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- questioning the intentions of one’s po- the only way we will be able to tackle pore. The clerk will call the roll. litical opponents makes it awfully hard these problems is by doing it together.

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It has been hard enough to seems to believe are squarely on his Look at this line dramatically going find ways to close the President’s tril- side in the push to remake government up to 2040. So as you can see, there is lion-dollar deficits. But as I just point- in his image. not enough revenue we can raise with- ed out, they are nothing next to what The irony in the President’s attacks, out completely shutting down the is going to hit us when tens of millions of course, is that the kind of reforms economy to solve the problem. In fact, of baby boomers reach retirement Republicans are calling for are the only it produces a rather static and totally age—nothing compared to what is conceivable route to saving the pro- insignificant amount of revenue in heading our way. grams the President claims he wants to order to deal with the massive spend- I pointed out the massive slope. That protect. Failing to reform the entitle- ing problem. is what is headed our way. Nothing ment programs of the last century So this constant demand for more short of a bipartisan effort is going to now—right now—is the best way to and more tax increases on, I guess, fix this problem, and there is only one guarantee they no longer exist in their whom people assume is the more suc- way we can do it. We can’t tax our way current form. I mean, one could prac- cessful guy down the street may be a out of this problem. The revenue ques- tically hear the ring of the cash reg- great campaign tactic, but it doesn’t tion is behind us. The law we voted for, ister with every new promise the Presi- do anything to solve the problem. Even as I said, made current tax rates per- dent made. At a time when we can all if the President were able to get every manent. I am pretty confident not a see the failure of such policies by sim- bit of taxes he wants, we still have an single Republican in the House or Sen- ply turning on the news, he seems enormous gap in spending if we don’t ate will vote to raise any more taxes. blissfully—blissfully—unaware of the deal with the real problem, which is But even if we were to do that, all the fact that from Athens to Madrid the spending. We have a spending addic- taxes the President asked for would sad, slow death of the left’s big govern- tion. I didn’t make this up. This is a only put us here in 2040. And look at ment dream is on display for all to see. fact. This is reality. what would be spent. If we want a less prosperous, less dy- So the tax issue is over. Congress has So the reality the President needs to namic, less mobile society, that is the restored permanent tax relief for 99 face—and quickly—is that there is no realistic way to raise taxes high way to go—just ‘‘Europeanize’’ Amer- percent of the American people. Even if enough to even begin to address this ica. the President were to get—and he will The President’s vision of an all-pow- not—any more tax revenue, it is per- problem. That is why Republicans are erful government that rights every fectly obvious that doesn’t do anything saying we need to start controlling wrong and heals every wound may to solve the problem. spending, and we need to do it now. warm the liberal heart, but it is com- So the challenge for us—and looking That is why if the President wants to pletely divorced from experience and at the chart we can see—is revenue do something good right now, he should put us out of the liberal wish from reality. So today I wish to do my today is just about where it has been list and put us out of the character at- part to bring the President and his al- for the past 30 years or so. The Presi- tacks and join us in this great task. It lies in Congress a little down to dent spent nearly his entire first term arguing that we needed to tax the so- is the transcendent issue of our time. Earth. I know it may be hard for them If we don’t fix this problem, we don’t called rich to solve our fiscal woes. He to accept, but the reality is this: We leave behind for our children and harangued Congress about it. He ar- have a spending problem—not a taxing grandchildren the kind of America our gued for it in rallies and debates. He problem, a spending problem. parents left behind for us. There is no Let’s take a look at the chart to my threatened to push us over the cliff if bigger issue, even though it got scant right. The green represents historic he didn’t get his way. mention in the State of the Union. In the end, by operation of law he got and projected tax revenue. And we can Now, I have no animus toward the part of what he asked for. And the rea- see it goes right straight across here President. I just want to see him do out to 2040. The tax increases of 3 son he got it, as I said earlier, is be- something about the problem because weeks ago were delivered by operation cause the tax relief we passed in 2001 the longer we wait, the worse the prob- of law. In other words, the law expired and 2003 carried an expiration date. lem becomes. The more we delay the and all of the Bush tax cuts were over. President Obama got some of the tax inevitable, the less time younger The Congress, 2 hours after everybody’s increases he wanted because the law Americans will have to plan for the re- taxes went up—in other words, after all expired. Then Congress, led by Repub- forms we make today. That is simply the Bush tax cuts expired—restored tax licans, voted to make Bush-era tax not right. relief for 99 percent of the American rates permanent for 99 percent of all So the President has a choice. He can people, and they did it on a permanent Americans. Now, permanency is impor- paint himself as a warrior of the left basis to guarantee we wouldn’t have tant. It has been kind of lost on the and charge into battle with failed ideas another cliff, as we inevitably have. general public, but the importance is we have already tried before; he can de- When a law sunsets, we have a cliff. we don’t have another cliff, another ex- mean and blame the opposition for his So the President was able to get piration date where all of a sudden ev- own failure to lead; he can indulge his some new revenue by operation of law, erything changes. supporters in a bitter, never-ending and that represents this dark blue line Given how much time he devoted to campaign that will only divide our right across here. You can see that is that one topic, one would think his tax country further; or he could take the pretty steady out to 2040. hike would have closed the deficit, responsible road. He can help his own The President, of course, said that eliminated the entire national debt, base come to terms with the mathe- wasn’t nearly enough. He said: We need and left us with extra cash to spare. matical reality. more taxes, and we will be back asking But do you see that tiny little blue line Some people over there are living in for more taxes later. So as nearly as we I pointed to right here? That is how a fantasy world—a world that doesn’t can tell, based on what he has said, the much additional revenue he got. This exist. He could reach out to leaders in taxes he would like to add to the ones blue area is the revenue he says he both parties—and all of the members in he got by operation of law 21⁄2 weeks wants. He will not get it; but if he did, both parties—and negotiate in good ago is this light blue line right across it is pretty apparent it has nothing faith. We would be happy to give him here. whatsoever to do with solving the credit. That is fine by me. If boosting If the President were given all the spending addiction. his legacy is what it takes and it helps tax increases he says at the moment he So if this revenue doesn’t come any- the country, that is all the better. wants, that would provide this amount where close to solving the problem, the If my constituents believe they are of revenue going out to 2040. As you real challenge, obviously, is how we are working to help make their future a

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So I hate to opinion, that on this issue, without way to solve this problem, and that is miss the opportunity presented by a di- Presidential leadership, we cannot get to do something about this spending vided government to tackle the tran- a result and that there are a lot of us addiction that is going to sink this scendent issue of our times. on both sides of the aisle who are ready country and turn us into Greece. The President talked about a lot of to work with the President to fix the Senate Republicans are ready to help things, and that is all interesting, but debt? the President solve this problem. I it had nothing to do with fixing the Mr. MCCONNELL. I say to my friend hope we have an opportunity to do so. country. Until we fix this problem, we from —in many ways it is a Madam President, I yield the floor. will not have the kind of country for statement of the obvious but a lot of The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- our children and our grandchildren people forget it—there is only 1 person pore. The Senator from Tennessee. that our parents left behind for us. in America out of 307 million Ameri- Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam President, Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam President, cans who can sign something into law I wonder if I might pose a question to I wonder if I might pose one more ques- and only 1 person in America who can the Republican leader, if he would re- tion to the Republican leader after deliver the members of his party to take the floor. making a short statement. support an agreement that he makes. Mr. MCCONNELL. I would be happy I came to this body as a young law- The only way to get an outcome on the to respond. yer-legislative aide to Senator Howard biggest issue of our time is with Presi- Mr. ALEXANDER. I want to con- Baker a long time ago, in 1967. I re- dential leadership. So it was dis- gratulate the Republican leader for his member very well Senator Baker’s appointing to see scant reference in the remarks. story about how the civil rights bill of State of the Union. Of course that is Here is my question. We have arrived 1968 was passed. I have discussed this just one speech and I have not given up at a time when we have a newly elected with the Republican leader before. He hoping that this President can make President who has had a fine inaugural knows that era as well or better than I solving the transcendent issue of our day. He has an agenda that he wants to do. time one of his premier accomplish- follow which he announced in his inau- But there was a time when Senator ments. gural address. It is not an agenda that Baker said he was in Everett Dirksen’s The point I think the Senator from most of us on this side agree with, but office—he is the man who had the job Tennessee and I are making this morn- he has an agenda that he wants to fol- that Senator MCCONNELL now has. He ing is there are potential partners on low in his second term, all of which was the Republican leader then. He this side of the aisle to make this hap- would ensure—in his eyes—his legacy said he heard the telephone ring. He pen. I hope we will not lose this oppor- as a President. heard only one end of the conversation, tunity once again to deal with the big- But isn’t there one thing that in but Senator Dirksen was saying: No, gest issue in the country. order to get to that agenda—or any Mr. President, I cannot come down and The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- other thing—he and we have to do, and have a drink with you tonight. I did pore. The Senator from Tennessee. Mr. ALEXANDER. I thank the Sen- that is to address the debt? Isn’t the that last night, and Luella is very un- ator from for extending his very best time—isn’t the very best happy with me. And that was the con- time on the floor. On my own I wish to time to do something difficult, some- versation. continue that line of thinking a little thing nobody wants to talk about, About 30 minutes later there was a bit. something that is hard—the best time rustle out in the outer office of the Re- It is traditional that when we have a to do that is at a time when we have a publican leader’s office—the very office new President, a newly inaugurated divided government, a Democratic that Senator MCCONNELL now holds. President, that he has a pretty good President, a Republican House, and 30 Two beagles, followed by the President opportunity to get what he asks; that or 40 or 50 of us Senators on both sides of the United States, came in. Lyndon it is a time of maximum leverage, it is of the aisle who have been saying for 2 Johnson, the President, said to the Re- a time to do important things, it is a years that we are ready to fix the debt? publican leader: Everett, if you won’t time to do difficult things, it is a time Isn’t this an opportunity now? Not have a drink with me, I am down here to do things that otherwise might not just because it is a divided government, to have one with you. And they dis- get done. but because the House of Representa- appeared in the back room for 45 min- Presidents are defined by their tives today may very well create a 2- utes. skills—their communication skills, month or 3-month window during The point of all that is not their so- their electoral ability—but they are which we can address all of these issues cializing. The point was it was in that also defined by their capacity over a if we had Presidential leadership? very office, the Republican leader’s of- period of years to identify the hard Mr. MCCONNELL. I say to my friend fice, that in 1968, the next year, the issues that are important to our coun- from Tennessee, it is counterintuitive. civil rights bill was written and en- try and cause people, as the President But one could argue that a divided gov- acted. Lyndon Johnson got the credit said in his address day before yester- ernment—which we have had more for that in history but Everett Dirksen day, to work together to solve those often than not since World War II—has made it possible, and there were at problems. Now the problem is whether produced four of the most significant that time many more Democrats in the you want to raise taxes on the guy accomplishments for our country in Senate than Republicans. down the street with the biggest house. modern times. What I want to say to Senator That is not so hard to do. The problem In the Reagan administration, Presi- MCCONNELL, the Republican leader, the is to spend money that you do not dent Reagan and Tip O’Neill, the question I want to ask him, is this. He have—because you can do it; that is Democratic Speaker of the House, has seen the U.S. Senate and Presi- not so hard to do. If the problem is to agreed to raise the age for Social Secu- dency for the last number of years. He address a disaster to help people who rity to save Social Security for another has seen many relationships between are in desperate shape, there might be generation. Reagan and Tip O’Neill did the President and leaders of the oppo- some debate about whether it is really the last comprehensive tax reform. site party. He knows how this place a disaster or not but it is not hard to and a Republican Con- works. My sense of the Republican do because in the end it is going to gress did welfare reform, arguably the leader and of the large majority of us is happen. What Presidents are remem- most important piece of social legisla- that we wish to see a result. We wish to bered for is dealing with important, tion in recent times. And Bill Clinton see a result on this very tough issue of difficult crises. and a Republican Congress actually saving Social Security, saving Medi- President Clinton is remembered for balanced the budgets in the late 1990s. care, saving Medicaid, saving these a number of things but one of the My friend from Tennessee is correct. programs on which seniors depend. I things he did was challenge the conven- Divided government actually is the wonder if the Republican leader would tional thinking in his own party to

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It is because gram we would still be driving on dirt Johnson, is three things: One is to see of Washington’s Medicaid Program re- roads. They were waiting for the Gov- an urgent need, two is to develop a quiring States to make decisions that ernor to do it. That is how our system strategy to meet the need, and the soak up money that otherwise would be works. third is to persuade at least half the used to fund education. I wonder if the President thinks that people he is right. In our State of Tennessee, 30 years the debt is not a problem? I cannot President Nixon in the early 1960s ago the State paid 70 percent of the imagine anybody at the White House went to China. That seems like ancient cost of going to the University of Ten- thinks that. This is a problem. If the history but that was straight against nessee. Today it pays 30. And Medicaid President does not address it during his the core of the Republican Party at is the chief culprit. two terms he will be remembered by that time. That was something that Everyone knows this. The President’s history as failing to do that. His legacy was inconceivable for a Republican own debt commission has told him this may be a failure to address financial President to do, given the history of and suggested a way to deal with it. matters that put this country on a mainland China and Taiwan, as they Forty or fifty of us on both sides of the road to bankruptcy. Or, if he were to were both called. aisle have been working together, do it, if he were to provide the leader- There have been many times in our meeting together, having dinner to- ship, he would be—as the Australian history when Presidents have had to do gether, writing bills together, trying to Foreign Minister has said, ‘‘America is the hard work. President George H.W. come up with plans to do it. Senator one budget agreement away from re- Bush made a budget agreement which CORKER, my colleague from Tennessee, asserting its global preeminence.’’ Why may have caused him to lose the elec- has developed a bill on which I am his wouldn’t President Obama want to be tion in 1992 because it angered a num- prime cosponsor which says we have known as the President who caused ber of Republicans. But it also helped found a way to strengthen Medicare America to reassert its global pre- balance the budget and gave us a pe- and other entitlements by reducing the eminence by dealing with a budget riod of time in the 1990s when that growth in spending. We understand agreement during the first 3 months of budget agreement plus a good economy this. his term and then he can get on with gave us an actual surplus of funding. We passed a Budget Control Act a his agenda, about which we can argue? I sense that there is at the White couple of years ago. People said they That leaves me with only one thought: House a feeling, two things I wish to didn’t like it. It was not so bad because That the President thinks we don’t disabuse the White House of. The first it took 38 percent of the budget, which want to do it. We do want to do it and is that the budget problem is not a real is all of our discretionary spending—in- it is a misunderstanding if he thinks problem. I cannot believe people at the cluding national defense, national that. White House think that. Everybody parks, national labs—and said it will I know the Republican leader would knows it is. Senator MCCONNELL gave a go up at about the rate of inflation. not mind me saying he is a wily, clever very good explanation of what was This is before we get to the so-called tactician who knows the Senate as well going on there. But let me say it this sequester. But what about the rest of as anyone here. But if you look care- way: In 2025, according to the Congres- the budget? That is the automatic stuff fully, when we got down to the last few sional Budget Office, every dollar of we do not even vote on: Medicare, enti- days of the year and needed an agree- taxes we collect will go to pay for tlements, all this? It is going up at ment on taxes, the Republican leader Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, about three to four times the rate of was in the middle of the agreement. and interest on the debt, and there is inflation. It is going to bankrupt these When we needed an agreement to try to nothing left for national defense, Na- programs. Seniors will not be able to avoid default on the debt, the Repub- tional Laboratories, Pell grants for have their medical bills paid and the lican leader was the one who was in the education, highways, or the invest- country will be bankrupt. That is no middle of doing that. ments that we need to make in re- overstatement. The former Comp- I think if the White House thinks search to grow this country. It all goes troller of the Currency says that. that the Republican leader or we on for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Secu- President Clinton says this is an ur- the Republican side do not want to fix rity, and the interest on debt, every gent problem. The former Chairman of the debt, they are badly misunder- single penny we collect. And that is the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the na- standing where we are and who we are. only 12 years away. That is not me tional debt is the single biggest threat I do not know how we can say it more talking. That is the Congressional to our national security. Why are we clearly. We have written bills that do Budget Office saying that. The Medi- not dealing with it? I think we are not it. We have held dinners to talk about care trustees have said that in 2024 the dealing with it, A, because it is hard to it. We have made public statements Medicare Program will not have do; B, because on both sides of the aisle with Democrats, 30 or 40 of us at a enough money to pay all of its bills. we have not been effective in dealing time, saying we support Simpson- Whose bills? Bills of seniors, bills of with it before. Bowles, we support Domenici-Rivlin, or Tennesseans, many of whom are lit- I remember when we had an all-Re- we support this or we support that. erally counting the days until they are publican cast of characters here in What is missing? Two words: Presi- old enough to be eligible for Medicare town—President Bush, a Republican dential leadership. This is not a par- so they can pay their medical bills. It majority—we tried to reduce the tisan comment. It just does not work would be a tragedy if that day arrived growth of Medicare and we could not unless the President lays out his plan. and there were not enough money to get the votes to do that. Some say the President does not pay the bills. But the Medicare trust- This is not easy to do, but Robert want to lay out his plan. He has to lay ees, who by law are supposed to tell us Merry, who wrote a book about Presi- out his plan. He is the President. We these things, say that day will come in dent Polk, had lunch with some of us are just legislators. Senator CORKER 2024. It is just 11 years away and that is yesterday, made this statement: ‘‘In and I have put out our plan. Who pays the day for people already on Medicare America’s history every crisis has been attention to that? Madam President, $1 and people who are going to be on solved by Presidential leadership or trillion in reductions and a $1 trillion Medicare. not at all.’’ increase in the debt ceiling—it is out Medicaid, which is a program for Whether it was Lincoln in the Civil there. That is not going to work. How- lower income Americans, is an impor- War or Reagan and Tip O’Neill or ever, if President Obama, with his tant program. As Governor, I dealt Nixon to China or Clinton on welfare skills, calls together Simpson and with it in my State. But when I was reform—we can all identify the crises. Bowles or his advisers and says: Here is

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We need to sit down, talk, advisers stop, take a look, and say: PAUL RYAN offered a historic budget and come up with a result. I think the Maybe we were wrong. Maybe this is that would change the debt course of Republican leader has shown he is pre- the time to do it. Maybe we are the America and put us on a sound path. pared and willing to do that. He has only ones who can do it, so let’s make They had to make some tough choices. said it and done it on other issues. I a proposal and get started. So they were, of course, attacked in don’t know what else the rest of us can I thank the President. I yield the the election—Oh, these are horrible do to show that. floor and suggest the absence of a people; they want to throw old people What I am trying to respectfully say quorum. off the cliff and that kind of thing and today, as much as anything, to the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- it was irresponsible—while during this President of the United States is con- pore. The clerk will call the roll. entire process, the Senate was in direct gratulations on your inauguration. I The assistant legislative clerk pro- violation of Federal law that required was there. I was proud to participate in ceeded to call the roll. us to bring up a budget. We did not it and have the opportunity to speak Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, I bring it up because it would be foolish, for a minute and a half about why we ask unanimous consent that the order foolish politically, because we have to celebrate for the 57th time the inau- for the quorum call be rescinded. take tough votes. We have to stand and guration of an American President. We The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- be counted. Numbers have to be ana- celebrate it because our country is dis- pore. Without objection, it is so or- lyzed: How much are you truly going to tinguished from most other countries dered. raise taxes? Oh, well, is that going to in the world by the peaceful transition f change the debt course? or reaffirmation of the largest amount Is this latest $600 billion tax increase THE BUDGET of power in the world. We have our po- going to change the debt course of litical contests, and then we have the Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, I America? No; it is not. Our deficit last restraint to respect the results. was pleased to hear a few days ago that year was about $1,080 billion. How After winning the election, it is im- Senator SCHUMER said we would have a much would this tax increase, this $600 portant, first, to get the fiscal house in budget in the Senate. It has been now, billion, have changed that? That is $60 order. The time to do it is while we I think, about 1,370 days, give or take, billion a year. Instead of $1,080 billion have a divided government. The time since we have had a budget in the Sen- or so in deficit, our deficit would have to do it is while the President is at the ate, even though plain statutory law been $1,020 billion. Is that going to fix peak of his popularity. The time to do requires the Congress to have a budget. our problem? No, it will not. it is while the House of Representa- Now Senator MURRAY has followed up These are difficult problems. These tives—the Republican House—has cre- today, I believe, with a quote saying: are very difficult problems, and it is ated a window of 2 or 3 months to deal ‘‘. . . the Senate will once again return not going to be easy. But it was easy to with all the fiscal issues. The time to to regular order and move a budget res- attack the House while not producing a do it is after 2 years of discussion with olution through the Budget Committee budget. It is a pretty flabbergasting Republicans and Democrats in a bipar- and to the Senate floor.’’ thing to me. So I am glad we are now tisan way about the need to fix the So the Budget Committee has not going to have this process. It will not debt and the importance of it for the been meeting. It has not been doing its be easy for Republicans. It will not be country. duty. As the ranking Republican on the easy for Democrats. But what are we My hope is that as the President and Budget Committee, I have been aghast paid to do? What responsibility do we his advisers look at the Senate, they at the process and have talked about it have as the Congress—that has the see a willingness to solve the problem for now for over 1,000 days. So this will power of the purse—if not discussing of fixing the debt in a bipartisan way. be a good step. the great issues of our time? I get the feeling they don’t believe that My colleagues would like to suggest We are on an unsustainable debt about us. I don’t know what else we somehow that they decided to do this path. Last year there was another tril- can do to cause them to believe that. out of the goodness of their hearts be- lion-dollar deficit, and they are pro- There is not the same kind of com- cause it is the right thing to do. But I jecting we will have a trillion-dollar fortable, back-and-forth relationship think the American people have had a deficit this year. That is 5 consecutive there should be. I have heard some peo- belly full of this. years of trillion-dollar deficits. I know ple say: Well, the Johnson-Dirksen The U.S. House of Representatives President Bush was criticized, and cor- days are ancient history. That was a has repeatedly passed budgets, but the rectly sometimes, for spending too long time ago. However, human nature Senate has refused to even bring one up much. The highest deficit he ever had doesn’t change. Human nature doesn’t in committee or on the floor for over 2 in 8 years was $470 billion. The year be- change in 50 years, 100 years, or 500 years now. They have said they are fore he left it was $160 billion. Presi- years. raising the debt limit for about 3 dent Obama has averaged well over There is plenty of good will across months, but they have declared that $1,000 billion a year in an annual deficit the aisle and on this side of the aisle, the Senate does not get paid until we ever since. at the beginning of this term, to work have a budget. Right now there is no This is not sustainable, as every ex- with a newly inaugurated President punishment for not passing a budget. I pert has told us time and time again. and say: Mr. President, we are ready to was a Federal prosecutor for over 15 So I am worried about it. Maybe we fix the debt. Provide us the leadership. years and know how to read a code. It can move out of these secret meetings No great crisis is ever solved without has no penalty for failing to pass a where the Senate just sits around and Presidential leadership in the United budget. It says the Senate should bring we wait for the people to appear, write States. You are the President; you are up a budget. It should complete the us a bill at midnight on December 31— the only one who can lay out the plan. budget process in committee by April 1 actually 1 a.m. on January 1—that is We will then consider it, amend it, and then the full Senate should take it supposed to handle it and nobody has argue about it, change it, and pass it. up and it should be completed by April even read it. After that, we can get onto the Presi- 15. The Senate is given priority: 50 That is what we have been doing for dent’s agenda, about which we will hours of debate, virtually unlimited the last 4 years. It has worked out good have a difference of opinion, but he will amendments—an opportunity to debate politically because it has kept an hon- go down in history as the man who was the financial condition of America. est discussion of the dangerous path we willing to do something hard within his That is why it has not happened. Sen- are on from being part of the public de- own party, which was to fix the debt ator REID, the Democratic leader for bate. We have to have it part of the

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It wasn’t a dramatic stand better the challenges we face, Our budget will get us, over the next sev- budget, it didn’t even balance in 10 how deep they are, how systemic they eral years, to the point where we can look years, but it changed us and put us on are. the American people in the eye and say we’re a sound path. They would attack him In 2011, after Republicans won a vic- not adding to the debt anymore; we’re spend- as not caring about people, and for 2 tory in the midterm elections, there ing money that we have each year— years that is what has happened. was hope we would have a new budget Money that we have each year— Once we bring a budget to the floor of from the President, that he would and then we can work on bringing down our this Senate, Republicans and Demo- reach out to the House that had gotten national debt. crats are going to find out this is a a Republican majority for a change— That was on CNN. very difficult situation we are in. The they took back the majority, and there So he appeared before the Budget challenge is going to be very difficult, were more Republicans in the Senate— Committee and I asked him if that was and we are going to have a hard time and that the President was going to an accurate statement; did he stand by dealing with it. produce a budget that would put us on that. He said: Yes, sir, and he never Mr. Lew didn’t just make that com- the right path and maybe a historic wavered from that. ment to CNN, in case you think I am path that would help make Social Se- I will just say that as part of the exaggerating here. He also said this in curity and Medicare sustainable, pre- budget process we get a stack of docu- an NPR, National Public Radio, inter- serve those programs so people can go ments—this much—from Mr. Lew’s of- view on February 15, 2011, the day, I be- to bed at night and feel confident these fice. The Office of Management and lieve, of a Budget Committee hearing: programs not going to go bankrupt and Budget submits them—supporting doc- If we’re able to reduce the deficit to the there are not going to be dramatic uments—as part of their process. They point where we can pay for our spending and cuts. We can do that. It would take are easily ascertainable. The numbers invest in the future, that is an enormous ac- some belt-tightening, but we could do are not in dispute. complishment. This budget has specific pro- that. Yet the administration refused: The lowest single deficit over 10 posals that would do that. You are just partisan, SESSIONS. years that Mr. Lew projected was more He looked the American people in the I am saying, without fear of con- than $600 billion. In other words, there eye, or, I guess, talked to their ears on tradiction by anybody who knows what was never a balanced budget, never NPR, and said his ‘‘budget has specific has happened, that this administration paying down the debt, never a single proposals’’ that would put us in a posi- basically has not wanted to talk about year we were not borrowing at least tion to pay for our spending and invest those deep spending issues that amount $600 billion. in the future and reduce our deficit. to more than half the money we spend. None of what he said is accurate. It is He went on to say on February 15, That was a challenge. Maybe that breathtaking. I called it the greatest 2011, at the Budget Committee hear- logjam has broken and this budget financial misrepresentation in history. ing—and I think this was my question, process will give us an opportunity to It would have added $13 trillion to the Was this an accurate statement that move forward. debt of the United States over 10 years, you made, Mr. OMB Director? I do not like to be critical of nomi- by his own estimate, not stuff I made He said: nees or anyone. I try to be as courteous up. Yet he said we are not going to be It’s an accurate statement that our cur- and respectful as we can to people adding to the debt anymore. rent spending will not be increasing the debt. whom we deal with on a regular basis So I thought, if a businessman re- We’ve stopped spending money that we don’t in the Congress. But I have to share ported to potential stock purchasers, have. with my colleagues a deep feeling that our company is on the right track, we I mean, I almost can’t read those we have a serious credibility problem are not adding to our debt anymore— words without the hair standing up on with credibility on debt and financing. we are going to look the American peo- the back of my neck. The Director of We have to end that credibility prob- ple in the eye and say we’re not adding the Office of Management and Budget lem. We have to be honest and deal to the debt anymore, we are spending appeared before the U.S. Senate Budget with real numbers. only money we have—you are bor- Committee, and he said, ‘‘it’s an accu- In January of 2011, Mr. Jack Lew, the rowing—the least amount of money rate statement,’’ this baloney, ‘‘it’s an then-Director of the Office of Manage- you have borrowed in a single year is accurate statement that our current ment and Budget, with a substantial $600 billion, larger than President Bush spending will not be increasing the staff—one of their primary duties is to ever had in 8 years as President. debt . . . We’ve stopped spending produce a budget every year—sub- When I asked him about it, he in- money that we don’t have.’’ mitted the President’s Budget to Con- sisted that it was true. So we have got Nothing could be further from the gress. The President always submits a a problem here, and that is why I am truth—the lowest single deficit was budget—it has been late, but they have not going to support Mr. Lew for the $600 billion. always sent them over. The Senate has Secretary of the Treasury. I am not What about on a different CNN inter- not moved budgets like it is required going to vote for him. I believe he view on February 14, 2011: to, but every President has always sent knew exactly what he was saying. He It [the budget] takes real actions now so over a budget. There was great hope produced a budget that was panned by that between now and 5 years from now we that the budget would be the kind of virtually every editorial board in can get our deficit under control so that we breakthrough—with a Republican America. They hammered it as failing can stabilize things so that we’re not adding House and a Democratic President and to meet the challenge of our time, and to the debt anymore. a Democratic Senate—that somehow he knew it was that way. He is not a He promised, and looked the Amer- this would be an opportunity for his- person who doesn’t understand these ican people in the eye and said, in 5 toric agreement to put America on a issues. He knew what it was all about. years, we are not going to be adding to sound path and get us off these trillion- But they decided they would go out the debt anymore. He knew exactly dollar deficits, put us on a path to a and spin it this way. They would say it what he was saying. He knew exactly balanced budget and do the kind of did what the American people wanted. what he wanted the American people to things that are necessary for the wel- I hate to be this harsh, but there is hear. There is no ambiguity about it, fare of our country. only one conclusion. They decided to and it was utterly false. Mr. Lew produced the budget, and he produce a budget that did not change February 13, 2011, on ABC, he said: went on television immediately and the debt course of America and left us This budget has a lot of pain, [but] it does talked about it. On Wednesday of that on an unsustainable path. Even their the job, it cuts the deficit in half by the end

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It was by In the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth tisan, open way in the committee, on having the people in this country pay years of the budget that Jack Lew pre- the floor of the Senate, the American their fair share of taxes, to make sure sented, when you look at his real num- people will be able to digest the dif- that corporations, to make sure that bers, the deficit was going up each ficulty of some of our challenges, and those who enjoy the benefits of living year. So it was not a fix to our debt so will our Members in Congress. In the in this free and productive society, pay problem. end, that, I think, leaves us in the best their fair share. This is for all of us to Then he says this on the White House position to reach the kind of agree- raise the revenues necessary to meet blog, February 13, 2011: ment, compromise, solution, that can our obligations in education, health, Like every family, we have to tighten our put us on the right path, because ev- infrastructure building, the security of belts and live within our means while we’re erybody is going to have to swallow a our Nation, and also to raise enough investing in the things that we need to have little bit. revenues so we can reduce the deficit. a strong and secure future . . . We know that I yield the floor. But it can only be done with fairness you have to stabilize where we’re going be- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- and with fair sharing by all, and that is fore you can move on and solve the rest of pore. The Senator from . the problem. This budget does that. what President Obama has spoken f about. He spoke about that in his inau- So it is going to stabilize us and gural address. That is what we have THE BUDGET AND THE DEFICIT move us forward. been talking about here for a long Well, as I say, that was not well re- Mr. HARKIN. Madam President, I time; that is, shared sacrifice on behalf ceived. The New York Times wrote this couldn’t help but listen to the words of of all, and to make sure that all pay on February 5, 2011. That was his op-ed. my friend from regarding the their fair share of taxes in this country I won’t go into the editorials, but a debt and deficit, and then to be re- so we can once again do what we did in whole list of those were critical of Mr. minded that we did balance the budget 1993. We can do it again if only my Lew. not too long ago. In fact, in 1993, we friends on the Republican side will join I would just say this, we are in a dif- passed a tax bill here in the Senate and with us in making sure we raise the ficult financial position. We need hon- in the House—it was signed into law by necessary revenues to get us out of this esty, we need a budget that is truthful, President Clinton—which set us on a hole. we need the regular order so the Budg- course to reduce the deficit. In fact, by I yield the floor. et Committee does its work, and then the years 1999 and 2000, we balanced the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. it comes to the floor of the U.S. Sen- budget. We had a surplus. Can you BALDWIN). The Senator from . ate—this will be first time in over a imagine that? We had a surplus for 3 f thousand days—it guarantees 50 hours years in a row. The Congressional of debate, it can’t be filibustered, it Budget Office and OMB said that if we EXTENSION OF MORNING can be passed with a simple majority, had continued on that pathway, we BUSINESS we will know what is in it, and people would have fully paid off the national Mrs. MCCASKILL. Madam President, can offer amendments. That is what debt by 2010. I ask unanimous consent that the pe- should have been happening for a long When I hear my friends on the Re- riod of morning business be extended time that has not been happening. publican side talk about reducing the until 2 p.m. today, and that all provi- That is what the law requires, and that deficit and the debt, we did that. When sions of the previous order remain in should be completed by April 15 of this the Democrats were in charge of the effect. year. Senate and the House and we had the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without As we go forward, I am confident Presidency, I would also point out that objection, it is so ordered. that we will be better served by public not one Republican on that side of the The Senator from Missouri. discussion of our debt, not secret meet- aisle voted for that bill in 1993. I can f ings. I have been critical of them. I had remember standing here and debating hoped that some of them would ripen with my friend from Texas at that time REMEMBERING STAN MUSIAL into some good solutions, but all we on this bill, and there were all kinds of Mr. BLUNT. Madam President, first have had is temporary ‘‘kick the can dire warnings that if this bill passed, of all, this is the first time I have spo- down the road’’ maneuvers, and noth- we were going to have depressions and ken on the floor when you were in the ing substantial has been done to recessions; the business community chair. Welcome to the Senate and wel- change the debt course of America. would stop, and it would be the worst come to the presiding chair. By the way, when Mr. Erskine thing that ever happened to this coun- I want to talk for a few minutes Bowles, whom President Obama ap- try if we passed the Clinton tax pro- today about a baseball great, a Mis- pointed to head his fiscal commission, posal. Well, we passed it, but without souri great, Stan Musial, who passed saw this budget in 2011, he said it goes one Republican vote. away on Saturday at the age of 92. nowhere near where they will have to And what happened? We had the larg- Stan Musial was born in November 1920 go to resolve our fiscal nightmare. Ev- est spurt of economic growth this in Denora, PA. His title was Stan ‘‘The erybody knew this budget wouldn’t do country had seen almost since the 1950s Man.’’ He was the youngest of six chil- the job, and that is why it was never and 1960s. This was to the point to dren. When he wasn’t called Stan ‘‘The brought through the process, and that where, as I said, by the end of the 1990s Man,’’ he was just a guy who worked at is why it wasn’t brought to the floor we had a balanced budget and we had a a company as a young man, whose dad for a full budget analysis in committee surplus. was a Polish immigrant, whose mother and in debate on the floor. Then President Bush comes into of- was of Czechoslovakian ancestry, and So as we go forward, I will be meet- fice, and we had surpluses, enough to whose dreams were probably not to be- ing with our new chairman, Senator retire the entire national debt by the come a professional baseball player but MURRAY. She is a great, tough advo- year 2010. So what did President Bush who was, indeed, a great athlete from cate for her values, but she is a good say? Well, now we are going to give tax the very start. person to work with. I have told her we cuts. They pushed through this big tax In his remarks, when he presented will try to work with her, but we are cut bill for which this Senator did not Stan Musial the Medal of Freedom in going to talk about the great issues of vote. 2011, President Obama said the fol- our time, the difficulties we face, and That tax cut bill gave a lot away to lowing: see if we can’t make this system work corporations and to the wealthy of this Stan matched his hustle with humility. He better and try to put this country on a country, so that they didn’t have to retired with 17 records—even as he missed a sound financial footing. pay their fair share. Also, there were season in his prime to serve his country in

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One seri- up to his own expectations. became America’s team at that time. ously injured soldier looked up at I don’t think that August Busch gave I can remember growing up in south- Musial from his hospital bed and said: him the pay cut—again, a quote—but I west Missouri on a dairy farm, and par- ‘‘You’re the best.’’ And Musial’s re- have read the story where Stan Musial ticularly late at night when we were sponse was: ‘‘No, you are.’’ was holding out for a pay package hauling hay—and I can remember this Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Joe Black, somewhere in the mid-90s and August when I was 10 or 12 years old—and who- an African American, told a story Busch, Jr., who not long before that ever was in the truck must have been about being racially taunted by players had bought the Cardinals, called him almost deaf because the driver would in the St. Louis dugout during a game. into the office and said: I’m never have the radio turned as loud as you Musial, who was batting at the time, going to pay you 90—whatever thou- could turn the radio up, and the St. and facing Joe Black, stepped out and sand dollars he was asking for. He said: Louis Cardinals game would be coming angrily kicked the dirt to display his I’m going to pay you $100,000, and you out of both windows as we were out disapproval of his own teammates. He are going to be the first baseball player there working in the fields or, if we waited after the game to tell Black: to make $100,000. weren’t working in the field, we would I’m sorry that happened. But don’t you Stan Musial played for the Cardinals be sitting on the porch somewhere lis- worry about it. You’re a great pitcher. You from 1941 to 1963, the only Major tening to the Cardinals play, and there will win a lot of games. League team he played for. He entered was no greater Cardinal than Stan Black said Musial’s support helped the majors in 1941 as the fifth youngest Musial. him gain the confidence he needed to player. He ended his career in 1963 as Bob Gibson, another great Cardinal become a top pitcher. the third oldest player. He had a record and Stan’s teammate and fellow Hall of The fourth and last story Bernie told of 24 times being named to the Major Famer, said: was of legendary center fielder Willie League Baseball All-Star team. He won Stan Musial is the nicest man I ever met in Mays, who frequently talked about seven batting titles, baseball. Musial befriending African-American three National League Most Valuable And Bob Gibson went on to say he players, relating that at an All-Star Player awards, and he led the Cardinals didn’t particularly associate nice with game black players were being ignored to three championships in baseball, but he associated nice with by the other players. Mays said: the 1940s. Stan Musial. We were in the back of the clubhouse play- Stan Musial—No. 6—had a batting Bob Costas had this to say about ing poker and none of the white guys had average of at least .300 in every 1 of his Stan Musial: come back or said, ‘‘Hi’’ or ‘‘How’s it going?’’ 17 seasons—a .300 hitter for every 1 of Stan Musial didn’t hit in 56 straight or ‘‘How you guys doing?’’ or ‘‘Welcome to his 17 seasons. His lifetime batting av- games. He didn’t hit .400 for a season. He the All Star Game.’’ Nothing. We’re playing erage was .331. He batted .330 in the didn’t get 4,000 hits. He didn’t get 500 home poker and all of a sudden I look up and here year before he decided to retire. He had runs. He didn’t hit a home run in his last at comes Stan towards us. He grabs a chair, sits bat, just a single. He didn’t marry Marilyn 3,630 career hits, hitting 1,815 hits in down and starts playing cards with us. And Monroe; he married his high school sweet- Stan didn’t know how to play poker! But St. Louis at Sportsman Park and heart. His excellence was a quiet excellence. that was his way of welcoming us, of making , and he hit another ESPN titled Musial the most under- us feel a part of it. I never forgot that. We 1,815 on the road. He played as well at rated athlete ever. Only Hank Aaron— never forgot that. home as he did away from home. He thinking about the things Stan Musial Musial didn’t make a lot of fiery missed the entire 1945 season while he didn’t do—had more runs than Stan speeches. He didn’t ‘‘lead’’ a movement was serving in the Navy. Musial and extra base hits. Only Tris or try to promote himself as an angelic It was a fan at Ebbet’s Field—with Speaker and had more hits. humanitarian. He just did good things. the Dodgers playing at Ebbet’s Field— And only Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds There is one last story, a love story, who groaned as he came to the plate created more runs. But Stan Musial between Stan and his wife Lil. This one time in a game—he was always was at the highest levels in all of those may be the best Musial statistic of all. particularly good against the Dodgers. areas. They were married for 71 years, 4 The fan said: Here comes the man. And Writing in the St. Louis Post Dis- months, and 2 days until Lil’s death on from that point on, his nickname was patch this week, Bernie Miklasz wrote: May 3, with Stan following her in Jan- Stan ‘‘The Man.’’ Let’s celebrate Musial’s extraordinary life uary. I had a chance to sit by Tommy and be thankful for his enduring presence I listened to KMOX from the hay Lasorda at a luncheon a few years ago through the decades. Let’s keep it simple in truck I talked about earlier, like lots after I had read a biography of Stan honor of this remarkably uncomplicated of other Cardinals and Musial fans, but Musial. Tommy was sort of the long- man. There has never been a more perfect union, a better relationship between an ath- I remember the first time I saw Stan time Dodgers manager who was a play- Musial play at Sportsman Park. I re- er when Stan Musial was playing, and lete and a town, than Stan Musial and St. Louis. From the time Stan took his first at- member the first time, 30 years later, I he said he thought Stan Musial was the bat as a Cardinal, until his death Saturday actually met him, when I was the Sec- best ballplayer he ever saw play, and at his home in Ladue, he was part of the retary of State in Missouri. Getting to he was death on the Dodgers. The community’s soul for 71 years, 4 months, and meet Stan Musial was about as good as Dodgers fans liked him, but it was a 2 days. it got even then. I remember hearing real rivalry. Many stories about Stan Musial have him play ‘‘Take Me Out to the Ball Stan was elected to the Baseball Hall been told, but I want to mention three Game’’ on his harmonica. of Fame the first year he was eligible, that Bernie mentioned in that same ar- Baseball was lucky to have him, Mis- in 1969, and he would be one of the ticle. He talked about when Musial was souri was lucky to have him, and the great ambassadors to baseball for the first inducted into the Baseball Hall of Cardinals and St. Louis were lucky to rest of his life. When he retired in 1963, Fame—as I said earlier, as soon as you have him, and I am pleased to be here Commissioner Ford Frick said: could possibly be inducted. It was an today to say how much we appreciate Here stands baseball’s perfect warrior. overcast day in Cooperstown. The Stan Musial. Here stands baseball’s perfect knight. crowd was quiet, subdued, and a little I am also pleased to be joined by my Stan Musial became an American bit put off by the day. Moments before colleague from Missouri, Senator icon throughout ballparks and over the Musial’s official ceremony, the clouds MCCASKILL. radio in the 1940s and 1950s. KMOX, in got out of the way and the sunshine The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the 1960s, had a booming signal that emerged, and ’s widow said: ator from Missouri. went almost all the way to the west ‘‘Stan brought the sun. He always Mrs. MCCASKILL. Madam President, coast and covered a lot of the South, does.’’ I want to thank my colleague. He and and the St. Louis Cardinals were the In the 1960s, a second story emerged I disagree on many things, but we furthest south of any baseball team of Musial and other Major League stars agree on many things also, and one of

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His oppo- Stan Musial. of Stan Musial. nents, the opposing teams—can you There are so many memories about Chuck Connors, ‘‘The Rifleman,’’ imagine this happening today? Believe Stan Musial that I want to try to en- used to tell this story. He was a strug- it or not, the New York Mets had a capsulate today, but the interesting gling hitter for the Cubs. Stan Musial Day at their park. And in thing about the memories I have about I may need to explain to you, Madam Chicago, the home of the Cubs, he once Stan Musial is that I don’t have these President, but I certainly don’t need to finished first in a favorite player sur- memories because I am a Senator. explain to anybody in Cardinal Nation vey, edging out the legendary Ernie They do not belong uniquely to me be- that the are an opponent. Banks, who was also a very nice guy cause I am an elected official. I have Now, we don’t like the Chicago Cubs in who was beloved by the fans of baseball these memories that I share with hun- Cardinal Nation. in the Midwest. dreds of thousands of people who were Chuck Connors asked a teammate I could go on and on with stories that lucky enough to encounter Stan Musial what he should do about his swing. He reflect this man’s character. Yes, he during his time on Earth. was struggling with being able to hit in has amazing statistics. Yes, him hit- You know, when you meet somebody, the majors, and they all told him the ting a baseball was a thing of beauty to and you can tell they are kind of look- same thing: The only guy who can help all baseball fans in America. But, real- ing over you to try to find the person you is Stan Musial. So even though he ly, what this man was about was that who is more important behind you or was reluctant to approach a hitter on phrase we love to throw around in poli- maybe they are impatient because they the opposing team, he went to Musial tics way too often; that is, American do not think you are a big enough deal and asked for help, and, of course, Stan values. This was a man who didn’t have to be taking their time? If you look at responded as all of us would expect he to talk about his values because he our sports icons today who travel with would; he spent 30 minutes in the cage lived them—his love for his family and posses and have entourages and certain with an opposing player trying to help how close they are. rules about who can come near them him with his swing. Connors recounted I am very fortunate to be friends and who can’t and when, that was not that he really wasn’t ever that good of with the Musial family and have vis- Stan Musial. Not one day of his career a hitter, but he said he never forgot ited with them in the days since his or one day after his career did he con- Stan Musial’s kindness. death. They received messages from sider himself untouchable. He saw it as And when he finished watching me cut every star in the constellation of American baseball, but one stood out. his duty and obligation to be there for away at the ball, Stan slapped me on the Joe Torre, upon hearing of Stan’s all fans. Whether it was somebody who back and told me to keep swinging. death just a few days ago, sent a mes- worked at the ballpark sweeping after After the 1946 season, the promoters sage to the Musial family, and it sim- the game was over or whether it was a from the Mexican League decided it ply said this: very talented ballplayer from another was time for them to up the ante on team, everyone was equal in Stan baseball. At the time, Stan Musial was Stan Musial was a Hall of Famer in the game of life. We will miss you, Stan Musial. Musial’s eyes. What a wonderful Amer- making the enormous sum of $13,500 I yield the floor, and I suggest the ab- ican value. playing for the St. Louis Cardinals. I could stand here today, Madam The Mexican League came to Stan sence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The President, and talk about his amazing Musial and said: We are going to offer you—a king’s ransom at the time— clerk will call the roll. record as a baseball player, his unique The bill clerk proceeded to call the $125,000 for 5 years. That was a lot of swing, and the beauty of his accom- roll. plishments in America’s favorite pas- money for Stan Musial and his family, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. but he turned down the Mexican time, but what we need to focus on as HEINRICH). The Senator from Virginia. we mourn the loss of this living legend League. When asked about it later, he Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask is his character because it was his said: unanimous consent that the order for character that brought universal love, Back in my day, we didn’t think about the quorum call be rescinded. respect, and devotion to the man, our money as much. We just enjoyed playing the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without man, Stan ‘‘The Man.’’ game. We loved baseball. I didn’t think about objection, it is so ordered. anybody else but the Cardinals. I know Senator BLUNT talked about f this story, but I want to elaborate a knew Stan Musial for little bit. over 50 years. He would often tell the TRIBUTE TO FEDERAL It is 1952. Joe Black has just been story of Stan Musial wandering out of EMPLOYEES called up to the majors after spending the ballpark after a steaming double- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, as we 1 year in the minors with the Brooklyn header—and trust me, we can have get started on this next Congress—and organization. He is facing Stan Musial. steaming doubleheaders in Missouri— I wish to congratulate the Presiding Now, keep in mind that this is an ac- looking as if he had been through 15 Officer for joining this Chamber. As complished baseball player who had rounds in a prize fight and every single someone who has had the opportunity won two championships in the Negro thing in his body language signifying to preside during my first 2 years in Baseball Leagues, and it had only been that he was exhausted and just wanted the Senate, I commend the Presiding a few years since had, to go home and lie down. Instead, when Officer for those actions and look for- in fact, broken the color barrier for he got to his car, he found fans waiting ward to working with you on a variety . He is facing for him. ‘‘Watch this,’’ Harry Caray of projects. Stan Musial, who already was the most told a friend. And sure enough, What I want to do today is continue feared hitter in baseball. He is standing Musial’s whole body straightened—like a tradition that I actually inherited there as a Black man on the mound in Popeye had just eaten a can of spin- from one of our former colleagues, Sen- this baseball game, and out of the Car- ach—and he started shouting, ator Ted Kaufman of . Sen- dinal dugout come jeers and taunts. In ‘‘Whaddya Say! Whaddya Say!’’ And he ator Kaufman, who had been a long- fact, one of the things said was, hey, signed every single autograph of all the time employee of the Senate, came to Stan, you are not going to have any fans surrounding his car. Harry Caray this floor on a fairly regular basis dur- trouble hitting that ball against that loved telling that story not because it ing his time here to basically celebrate dark background. was unusual—that is who Stan Musial and acknowledge—in most cases—the When the game was over, Stan was—but for the opposite reason: be- tireless, unsung work of so many of our Musial decided not to stay in the Car- cause it was ordinary. Even in his Federal employees. As we debate budg- dinal dugout. Joe Black told the story time, when baseball players weren’t ets, debt, and deficit, we oftentimes

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As I conclude my remarks, I see my But if she was a great figure at the agency, friend the distinguished majority whip. markable work in keeping us safe, pro- Ms. Vertefeuille was also a tenacious and ef- viding services, and helping our coun- fective one, and in October of 1986 was asked We have spent a lot of time over the try grow. to lead a task force to investigate the dis- last 21⁄2 years grappling with the chal- Ted Kaufman used to come down here appearance of Russians whom the CIA had lenges around the debt and deficit and on a regular basis and celebrate some hired to spy against their own country. trying to make some of the very hard of those unsung heroes. I was proud to Together, with colleagues at the CIA choices we are going to need to make continue his tradition during the last she invested years in the methodical as a Nation. Congress and look forward to carrying and painstaking hunt for a mole. It was While it appears that we may be it on through another session. through her efforts, and the good work avoiding some of the immediate con- I start this next Congress actually of many others, that we ultimately un- sequences of the so-called debt ceiling celebrating two great Federal employ- masked the notorious traitor Aldrich debate, which I am glad to see, never ees, I might add, who both happen to be Ames in 1984. Remember, this is a should the full faith and credit of the Virginians who serve as excellent role woman who joined the CIA in 1954 as a United States be used as a political models. They represent the thousands typist. hostage. Again, I want to compliment of professionals who work quietly Aldrich Ames turned out to be one of my friend the Senator from every day across our intelligence com- the most dangerous traitors in the Na- who has been as stalwart as anyone in munity to keep our Nation safe. tion’s history. Thanks in large measure this Chamber at stepping up and who Very often these professionals work to Ms. Vertefeuille, he was convicted of has been willing to speak truth to even in anonymity and many risk their lives espionage and is now serving a life those who are the most supportive in troubled spots far away from the term without parole. about some of the challenges and choices we have to make. limelight, and that is how it should be. SANDY GRIMES We are going to have to proceed at a Recently we have seen certain inci- Jeanne Vertefeuille’s story does not dents abroad, and sometimes they pay level of spending that is less than what end there. The Washington Post re- we have had in the past. As we think with the highest sign of sacrifice in cently described how one of her col- terms of their lives. about cutting back budgets, I think it leagues, Sandy Grimes—another Vir- is important to remember that behind For their service, their late nights ginian who worked with her on the and early mornings away from their many of these budgets, there are not Ames task force—stepped up over the just numbers but there are incredible families, the risks they take, and the past year to care for Jeanne as she was sacrifices they make every day—and professionals who give their life’s serv- battling cancer. ice to making this a stronger Nation. because they do not hear this nearly Sandy Grimes, a career CIA employee enough—allow me to say thank you to So with this tribute to Jeanne and whose parents worked on the Manhat- Sandy, I commend these two great Fed- those members of the intelligence com- tan Project, ultimately served as munity. eral employees. Jeanne’s primary caregiver. She sat I will be back on a regular basis to JEANNE VERTEFEUILLE with her each day during the final 3 celebrate Federal employees through- Today I wish to briefly tell the re- months of her remarkable life. She out this Congress because too often in markable stories of two extraordinary monitored Jeanne’s care and tried to today’s day and life, government serv- women who built their careers at the make sure she remained comfortable. ice is disparaged. But for Jeanne Central Intelligence Agency. Jeanne She often brought personal messages of Vertefeuille and Sandy Grimes we Vertefeuille, who is pictured here, support and appreciation from their might not have as safe a Nation as we passed away on December 29 at the age former colleagues. Ms. Grimes said: do today. of 80 after a brief illness. I felt an obligation to be there with her. I With that, I yield the floor. In announcing her death to the CIA can’t imagine not doing it. I was the one The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- family, Acting Director Michael Morell Jeanne would accept. I owed it to her as a ator from Illinois. friend. appropriately described Ms. Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I will Vertefeuille as an icon within the agen- By all accounts Jeanne Vertefeuille accept my colleague from Virginia’s cy. If her story were not true, it would was an intensely private woman, and kind words with at least an indirect read like a spy novel. she doubtless would recoil at the atten- apology for the defamation which he Jeanne joined the CIA when she grad- tion she is now receiving. One cannot included in his speech suggesting that I uated from college in 1954. It was the help but be inspired by this true-life was somehow an Ancient Mariner here year I was born and a year DICK DURBIN story of service, patriotism, and friend- in the Senate. I wear my trousers was also young. This was a time when ship demonstrated by these two great rolled but not quite as rolled as my the American intelligence community employees, Sandy Grimes and the late friend suggested. could be best described as an old boys’ Jeanne Vertefeuille. Their service re- I thank the Senator for his leader- club. She was hired at the CIA as a GS– flects well on the thousands of other ship on this deficit and debt issue. We 4 typist. This is a woman coming out of intelligence professionals whose names have a lot to do and we have to do it college in 1954 hired as a typist. can never be revealed. Both of them de- thoughtfully. I am glad my colleague Over her career, which stretched over serve our recognition and thanks. highlighted the two employees. nearly a half century, Jeanne During the last Congress I joined 14 I read the obituary of the one the Vertefeuille blazed a trail for women in Senators in a Joint Resolution to mark Senator from Virginia highlighted. It the national clandestine service. She the U.S. Intelligence Professionals was an extraordinary story of a woman methodically worked her way up to Day. At some point during this Con- who persevered in an agency which leadership positions. There were over- gress, I hope we can gather more sup- didn’t have much use for women be- seas postings in Ethiopia, Finland, and porters so we can have a day des- yond the secretarial staff. I am glad The Hague. She became an expert in ignated on a more formalized basis to the Senator continues this tradition of Soviet intelligence and spycraft. She recognize the enormous contributions acknowledging these important Fed- retired as a member of the Senior In- made by intelligence professionals. eral employees. telligence Service in 1992. Again, this is an effort to bring re- I thank my friend from Virginia. Even after her retirement, she con- spectful attention to these quiet pro- f tinued her work for the agency as a fessionals who literally—as a member contractor, making still more valuable of the intelligence committee, I can TRIBUTE TO STAN MUSIAL contributions and working without a testify to this—keep our Nation safe Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, it has day’s break in service until she became every day without any thought of rec- been said in St. Louis, MO, baseball is ill last summer. As her obituary reads: ognition. not a sport, it is a religion. If that is

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Stan Musial was the first Stan Musial was my childhood hero our country in the U.S. Navy during player to receive 300 votes on a Hall of when I was a boy and he remains a hero World War II. His 3,026 games with the Fame ballot. in my life to this day. When a person same club are second only to the 3,308 When he retired, the St. Louis Car- reaches my age, and maybe my station games over 23 years by Carl Yas- dinals retired his number, No. 6. Car- in life, they are supposed to be beyond trzemski. dinals manager Mike Matheny has said the stage of swooning adolescence. But When Stan Musial retired from base- that when the entire Cardinals team when it comes to Stan Musial, I am a ball after the 1963 season, he held 29 takes the field this year, they will be 10-year-old kid all over again in East National League records and 17 Major wearing a No. 6 patch on their uni- St. Louis, IL, buying more bubble gum League records. Here are just some of forms. But then he said: than I can possibly afford in the hope his career numbers: a batting average It will be a call for us to do our very best that I would open one of those pack- of .331, an on-base percentage of .417, to live up to that high standard of excel- ages and find, covered in pink powder, 3,630 hits, 725 doubles, 177 triples, 475 lence. a card that had Stan Musial’s picture. homers—and the first homer I can ever Then he added: It was the treasure of my youth, and it remember seeing on television was the You don’t come across names like warrior, still would be today if my mom had not All-Star game in St. Louis, and darned prince and knight by just having Hall of thrown those cards away. if Stan Musial didn’t get up in the 12th Fame statistics. It comes from making an Stan Musial’s death has hit the Car- inning, parking a home run into the impact in people’s lives. I was in that group. Mr. Musial, I say thank you. He’s a perfect dinals Nation like a death in the fam- outfield stands, winning it for the Na- tional League. I couldn’t have been example of what it means to wear this jer- ily. One Cardinal fan spoke for many of sey. more thrilled, my first exposure to us when she said losing Stan Musial ‘‘is I want to give credit to my colleague, like losing a grandparent. It’s hard not baseball on television. He had 1,951 RBIs and 1,949 runs. He is the only Senator CLAIRE MCCASKILL. She to tear up.’’ worked with me—in fact, she led the I grew up in East St. Louis across the baseball player to finish his career in the top 25 in all of these categories. way in terms of the Presidential Medal river, and my most prized possession of Freedom, along with Senator Bond, when I was a kid was my very first Where did he get that nickname? It was coined not by a Cardinals fan but for Stan Musial. And she came up with Stan Musial Rawlings baseball glove. a great idea. I don’t know if it is going As a kid I rubbed that glove with some- by a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in May 1946, after Musial’s four hits helped lead the to go anywhere, but I am going to try thing called Gloveoleum until I was the to help her make it a reality. She has only one who could still see Stan Cardinals to a 13-to-4 drubbing of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Every time Stan suggested we can honor this American Musial’s name burned in the leather. hero, this regional hero and the values One of the highlights in my life came 2 Musial came to the plate, the fans in Ebbets Field said, ‘‘Here comes the he stood for by naming the new bridge years ago when I got to meet Stan being built across the River Musial in person for the very first time man.’’ And the name stuck. The legendary baseball writer Red at St. Louis in honor of Stan Musial. I in my life. It was at the White House, Barber once described the 1947 season grew up on the Illinois side, and we February 11, 2011. Stan Musial was as ‘‘the year all hell broke loose in kind of looked over at Missouri a little there to receive from President Obama baseball.’’ It was the year Jackie Rob- differently than most, and they looked the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He inson integrated Major League Base- at us a little differently too. But if is one of only eight other baseball play- ball. Jackie Robinson would later re- there was one thing that ever united us ers in the history of America to receive call when asked about his baseball ca- it was baseball loyalty and Stan that prestigious honor. Listen to the reer that it was Stan Musial and Hank Musial. It is a perfect name for a bridge company he joined: Joe DiMaggio, Greenberg, two players who went out of that spans between Illinois and Mis- Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Ro- their way to be friendly and encour- souri in that region of the country. berto Clemente, Hank Aaron, Frank aging in that historic and difficult I am proud to join Senator CLAIRE Robinson, and the famous Buck year. MCCASKILL, and we will be introducing O’Neill. Maybe Stan Musial’s greatest base- a bill to name the bridge the Stan At the White House I stood patiently ball day came on May 2, 1954. It was a Musial Memorial Bridge. Other legisla- waiting for the moment to ask Stan double header in St. Louis against the tion is being considered in the Illinois Musial to sign that old baseball glove, New York Giants. He hit three homers and Missouri General Assemblies at which I still have and have had since I in the first game and two in the sec- this time. I wish them the best in hon- was a kid. He agreed to do so. What a ond. oring this great man. It was my great thrill. I was 10 years old all over again. In 1957, Stan Musial became the first honor to join him on that historic date Outside Busch Stadium in St. Louis Major League Baseball player to earn when he was given the Presidential is a statue of Stan ‘‘The Man’’ in his the amazing salary of $100,000 a year. Medal of Freedom. playing prime. He is coiled up in his Two years later, when his batting aver- (The remarks of Senator DURBIN per- batting style. Every coach said don’t age dipped to .255, it was Musial who taining to the introduction of S. 113 bat like Stan ‘‘The Man,’’ even though went to the Cardinals’ owners and and S. 114 are printed in today’s he has great numbers. If you do that, asked them to cut his salary back to RECORD under ‘‘Statements on Intro- you will never hit the ball. We all $80,000. He wasn’t playing up to what duced Bills and Joint Resolutions.’’) tried; the coaches were right. Etched in he thought he had the potential to play Mr. DURBIN. I yield the floor. the base of that statue are words that up to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Major League Baseball Commissioner Late in his final season, he stayed up COONS). The Senator from Louisiana. Ford Frick said when Stan retired in all night waiting for the birth of his f 1963: ‘‘Here stands baseball’s perfect first grandchild, and the next day he warrior. Here stands baseball’s perfect became the first grandfather to ever GOOD GOVERNMENT REFORM knight.’’ homer in the Major Leagues. Umpires— Mr. VITTER. Mr. President, more On the field and off Stan Musial was and this says something about what a and more Americans from all walks of always a gentleman, always a cham- gentleman he always was—umpires life, of both political parties, feel there pion. He exemplified the values of never once ejected Stan Musial from a is not just a pond or a sea but an ocean sportsmanship, discipline, hard work, baseball game in more than 3,000 of difference between the real world grace, consistency, and a love of fam- games. where they live and Washington, DC. ily. Baseball broadcaster Vince Scully, On January 21, 1969, Stan Musial was They view—I think correctly—Wash- a Hall of Famer himself, once said: elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on ington, DC, as a different planet where

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:16 Sep 20, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\JAN2013\S23JA3.REC S23JA3 bjneal on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S202 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 23, 2013 normal rules do not seem to apply. The second bill I have introduced is a and this institution. They would be im- That is why on the first day I could in- bill to do away with automatic pay in- portant, nonpartisan, nonideological troduce new legislation in this new creases for Members of Congress. That reform efforts that we can gather Congress, I chose to introduce a pack- is present law, that we get regular in- around, Republicans and Democrats age of reform measures—measures creases of pay with no proposal, no bill alike, to do something positive, to do aimed at bridging that gap, bringing put in the hopper, no debate, no need something productive, and to recon- those two worlds together, returning for an inconvenient vote. I think that nect with the American people. us—returning Washington to the real is just outright wrong. I think it helps I urge my colleagues from both par- world and reconnecting with the Amer- build that distrust on the part of the ties to support these measures, to come ican people. American people. I am joined by a bi- on as cosponsors. Many of you already The American people are also con- partisan cosponsor, Senator MCCASKILL have, and I thank you for that. cerned—rightly—about the bitter par- of Missouri. I thank her for her leader- Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I tisanship, the overly ideological tone ship and her support of this measure. suggest the absence of a quorum. of almost all of the debate we have Again, the measure is very simple: Just The PRESIDING OFFICER. The here in Washington now, here in Con- repeal, do away with any automatic clerk will call the roll. gress. pay increases for Members of Congress. The assistant legislative clerk pro- I believe these sorts of reform meas- If there is to be a pay increase, there ceeded to call the roll. ures—the four bills I have introduced should be a bill proposing it and open Mr. MANCHIN. Mr. President, I ask in particular—can also help bridge that debate and a public vote. unanimous consent the order for the divide because they are not ideological, The third measure is also fully bipar- quorum call be rescinded. they are not partisan, they are good- tisan. I am introducing it with Senator The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. government reform, things that can BILL NELSON of Florida. It is reform of BROWN). Without objection, it is so or- and should and, hopefully, will bring us the Corps of Engineers—something dered. together and bring us together and re- very important for our two States but f connect us with the American people. also for, indeed, the whole country. In EXTENSION OF MORNING Again, it is another reason I chose to Louisiana, in Florida, and elsewhere, BUSINESS introduce this package of four reform unfortunately, the Corps of Engineers measures, four good-government bills has become a poster child for a dys- Mr. MANCHIN. Mr. President, I ask on the first day I could introduce legis- functional Federal Government, a Fed- unanimous consent the period of morn- lation this Congress. eral bureaucracy, a Federal system ing business be extended until 5 p.m. The first is a very simple and basic that is just bogged down, does not today and that all provisions of the but fundamental idea: term limits for work. It takes 10 and 20 years to study previous order remain in effect. Members of Congress. I am honored to something, never ever getting to con- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without be joined by six other Senators right struction. We need to streamline and objection, it is so ordered. out of the gate, right out of the box in reform that process, and the Vitter- f terms of cosponsoring this important Nelson bill does just that by greatly legislation: Senators PAUL, AYOTTE, TRIBUTE TO JOHN ‘‘JACK’’ streamlining the process by which EDWARD BRESCH COBURN, LEE, RUBIO, CRUZ, and JOHN- Corps projects can come to fruition, SON. I thank them for their cosponsor- putting State and local leaders more in Mr. MANCHIN. Mr. President, I rise ship and their support. This measure charge of that effort, at first on a pilot today to honor the life, legacy and would limit Members of Congress in basis. Hopefully, we will expand that in service of a dear friend—John Edward the House to three consecutive terms, the future for important Corps of Engi- Bresch. Jack lead a life filled with a total of 6 years, and the Senate to neers projects. Again, that is particu- compassion. He worked tirelessly for two consecutive terms, a total of 12 larly important for our States of Lou- everyone to have access to affordable, years. It is a consensus measure sup- isiana and Florida, but it is important quality health care, especially needy ported by citizens groups very active for so many States and for the country children and families. His heart was as and supportive of the concept of term as a whole. big as heaven. limits. The idea, again, is simple: to re- Fourth and finally, I am introducing But Jack’s life was also a life of great connect Congress with the American a measure that I have had before to re- humor. Anybody who knew him also people, to do away with the notion of form Federal campaign finance law to knew his warm and infectious laugh. It legislating as a career, and to get back prohibit PACs and campaign funds was a sure sign that Jack was some- to the Founders’ vision of citizen legis- from employing Members’ spouses or where nearby because you could almost lators. family members. hear his laughter before you saw his When I was in the State legislature, That is just a way, quite frankly, in face. And everybody was glad to see I authored and passed term limits for some circumstances for Members of Jack coming their way. He truly never the State legislature. That required a Congress, politicians, to pad their fam- met a stranger. State constitutional amendment—a big ily income. I think that is wrong, and Sadly, we won’t be able to hear that deal—a two-thirds vote in each body, that leads directly to the real suspicion distinct laughter again. Jack passed and then a vote of the people. But be- and low regard in which so many away on September 1, 2012, surrounded cause of the people’s voices rising and Americans hold this institution. by his family after a brief and coura- being heard, we achieved that. With Again, this bill is simple, straight- geous battle with pancreatic cancer. that reform, which was voted over- forward, but important. It would pro- From the moment of his fateful diag- whelmingly into the State constitution hibit spouses and immediate family nosis until the day he left us, we saw in by the people of Louisiana, we have a members of Members of Congress from him grace and courage, dignity and hu- regular influx now of new, fresh blood, receiving payments from that Mem- mility, joy and, yes, laughter—and so real experience from the real world ber’s campaign accounts or leadership much love and gratitude lived out on a that reconnects in a very healthy way PACs. That is a loophole and an area of daily basis that, even in our sorrow, his the State legislature and all of us, the abuse we must close. We must prohibit memory will never be lost. citizens, whom it is supposed to rep- that abuse in the future. Tomorrow, Jack will be laid to rest resent. That was needed for the State These four bills won’t solve every in our Nation’s most hallowed ground— legislature, and if it was—and it was— problem out there. They won’t be the Arlington National Cemetery—with it is needed a thousand times more for be-all and end-all of important reform full military honors as a decorated Congress because that divide, that sea, and good-government efforts, but they Naval Lieutenant who served as a that ocean, that difference between dif- would be an important start. They Chaplain during the Vietnam war. ferent planets in the eyes of so many would help us truly reconnect with the In his life, Jack Bresch was many Americans is even greater between American people and narrow this di- things but above all, a family man, de- Congress and the real world, Congress vide, which is so vast right now, be- voted to his wife, JoAnn; his children, and the American people. tween the real world, real Americans, Mary Elizabeth, James Richard, and

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But when a loved one is gone, of it, making us laugh—and hearing and on the back of the penny match- it is often the little things you remem- him laugh—and making us care—the box, between Memphis and Nashville, ber most. Some of us will remember way he cared. in 1946, Pee Wee King and Redd Stew- how much Jack loved neckties. Some There is a wonderful anonymous art wrote the ‘‘Tennessee Waltz.’’ They of us will remember sharing Jack’s fa- quote which may well describe how we sang it around a few places. Pee Wee vorite drink—a Manhattan, made with should think of Jack’s passing, espe- King sang it at the Grand Ole Opry. No- Maker’s Mark, up, no bitters, with a cially since he served so courageously body paid much attention to it. Cow- twist of orange. Some of us will re- in the Navy. It offers great comfort to boy Copas sang it. They sang it on Red member how often Jack quoted the those who grieve. And it goes some- Foley’s show in Missouri. Nothing 19th century German politician Otto thing like this: much happened to the ‘‘Tennessee von Bismark—‘‘Politics is the art of I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at Waltz’’ until 1950, and this is the story the possible.’’ And some of us will re- my side spreads her white sails to the morn- Patti Page told me. Mercury Records member how proud Jack was to be at ing breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She in New York had a new song they were the White House when President is an object of beauty and strength, and I sure was going to be a big hit. It was Obama signed the Affordable Care Act stand and watch her until, at length, she called ‘‘Boogie Woogie Santa Claus.’’ I for which he worked so tirelessly. A hangs like a speck of white cloud just where don’t know whether it was a follow up friend saw Jack on TV and sent him a the sea and sky come down to mingle with to ‘‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’’ text to let him know, and Jack texted each other. Then someone at my side says, ‘‘There! She’s gone.’’ but the executives in New York were back, ‘‘Just a pleasure to be here.’’ sure it was going to be a big hit so they It was a pleasure for Jack to be any- Gone where? Gone from my sight—that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and wanted the hottest young female sing- where. Simply put, Jack enjoyed being er in America to record ‘‘Boogie with people, and people enjoyed being spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight Woogie Santa Claus’’ so they hired with Jack. He was a great person to to the place of destination. Her diminished Patti Page. She flew to New York, re- talk to—probably because he began his size is in me, not in her, and just at the mo- corded it for Mercury Records, and adult life as a Roman Catholic priest. ment when someone at my side says, ‘‘There, then in those days you always had to Jack was a priest in the Diocese of she’s gone,’’—there are other eyes watching put a record on the back of the main Pittsburgh, his native city, from 1966 her coming, and other voices ready to take to 1974. In 1968, at the height of the up the glad shout, ‘‘There she comes!’’ record. You had to pick a song. It would be the ‘‘B’’ side. Just as a throw- Vietnam war, he entered the U.S. Navy Jack Bresch was a man whose opti- away they put on the back of it the and served as a Navy and Marine Corps mism could overwhelm any doubter song by Pee Wee King and Redd Stew- Chaplain in posts around the world. and whose joy for life was wonderfully art, the ‘‘Tennessee Waltz.’’ During his time in the service, he su- contagious and completely irresistible. pervised drug and alcohol rehabilita- We know the rest of the story. The The ancient poets tell us that ‘‘one ‘‘Tennessee Waltz’’ sold about a million tion programs and worked as a liaison must wait until the evening to see how with the American Red Cross. After the copies. Nobody ever heard of the splendid the day has been.’’ Our day ‘‘Boogie Woogie Santa Claus’’ except war, Jack left the priesthood. But in with Jack Bresch was splendid indeed. some ways, he never stopped being a those who bought the ‘‘Tennessee As we prepare to honor Jack with the Waltz.’’ Mike Curb, who runs Curb chaplain, in the sense that he never military honors due a decorated Navy wavered from his steadfast belief in so- Records in Nashville, told me it was Chaplain, I would like to end my trib- the best selling record ever by a female cial justice. He carried that belief for- ute to Jack’s life with a traditional ward in career that made the world a artist. Patti Page eventually sold 100 nautical blessing and wish my dear million records. She was the top selling better place—working for Congress, the friend ‘‘fair winds and following seas.’’ Federal Government, the Illinois Hos- female artist in record sales in history. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sen- Growing up I heard her songs, pital Association, the Catholic Health ior Senator from Tennessee is recog- ‘‘Mockingbird Hill,’’ ‘‘I Went To Your Association, and the American Dental nized. Wedding,’’ ‘‘Old Cape Cod.’’ In 1952 she Education Association. Many members had a song called ‘‘Doggie in the Win- of Congress got to know Jack through f dow.’’ It sounds like a silly little song, his work as the lead lobbyist for the TRIBUTE TO PATTI PAGE but it sold a lot of records and a great Catholic Health Association. They also Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, many Americans remember it. When I learned quickly just how hard it was to Patti Page died on New Year’s Day this was Governor of Tennessee I would say ‘‘no’’ to Jack. year. She was 85 years old. The Senate While at the Catholic Health Associa- travel to Japan, recruiting industry. In has not been in session for most of the tion, Jack worked closely with then the evenings I would go to a restaurant First Lady Hillary Clinton and the time since then. I wanted to come to bar with friends, and to my astonish- White House to develop a plan for re- the floor to pay a Tennessean’s tribute ment all of my Japanese friends, many forming the Nation’s health care sys- to Patti Page. Patti Page is best of whom did not know much English, tem. While at the American Dental known for our State song, the ‘‘Ten- could sing every word of the ‘‘Ten- Education Association, he was instru- nessee Waltz.’’ A few years ago, in 2007, nessee Waltz.’’ When I inquired about mental in improving access to dental when I met her for the first time, she it, it was because it was introduced care for needy children. For more than told me the story of the ‘‘Tennessee during the time of the American occu- a decade, he worked diligently to en- Waltz.’’ I knew some of it, but she com- pation of Japan in 1950 or so, and ac- sure that policymakers understood the pleted the rest of it. cording to them, the Asian music value of oral health to overall health— In 1946, a couple of Tennesseans, Pee doesn’t have the same kind of standard the reason why he was invited to the Wee King and Redd Stewart, were driv- that American music has. We get a White House for the signing of the Af- ing from Memphis to Nashville. That phrase or a theme in our minds and we fordable Care Act. Jack lived long was before the interstate highways. It never forget it, such as the ‘‘Tennessee enough to see the Supreme Court up- took a pretty good amount of time to Waltz.’’ So the ‘‘Tennessee Waltz’’ be- hold key portions of the Affordable drive that distance. I don’t know came a song that most Japanese men Care Act. He knew the law wasn’t per- whether or not they were drinking a of that age knew, remembered, and fect, but he was happy to see it move beer on the way from Memphis to could sing from memory. forward. Remember, he believed that Nashville but they were relaxed, and I met Patti Page for the first time 6 ‘‘politics is the art of the possible.’’ one of them said to the other, Why is it years ago. It was 2007. She was about 79 To JoAnn and Jack’s entire family, Kentucky and Missouri have a waltz or 80 years of age at the time. She told my wife Gayle and I extend our deepest and Tennessee doesn’t have a waltz? So me the story of the recording of the

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If I have, to come to Nashville and record an true crossover hit; it spent months on the I didn’t mean to.’’ album, ‘‘Best of Patti Page.’’ He had pop, country and rhythm-and-blues charts. invited me to come play the piano Ms. Page was believed to be the first singer Mr. ALEXANDER. I yield the floor. while she sang the ‘‘Tennessee Waltz,’’ to overdub herself, long before technology The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- which I did. It was a real thrill and she made that method common. Mitch Miller, a ator from Delaware. producer for Mercury Records, had her do it (The remarks of Mr. COONS per- was very patient to put up with an first on ‘‘Confess,’’ in 1948, when there were amateur piano player for her very spe- no backup singers because of a strike. taining to the introduction of S. 85 are cial song. She told me then it wasn’t The height of her career predated the printed in today’s RECORD under the first time she had performed with a Grammy Awards, which were created in 1959, ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and Tennessee Governor. In 1950 she had but she finally won her first and only Joint Resolutions.’’) performed with Tennessee Governor Grammy in 1999 for ‘‘Live at Carnegie Hall,’’ Mr. COONS. I yield the floor and sug- Gordon Browning at a Memphis the- a recording of a 1997 concert celebrating her gest the absence of a quorum. 50th anniversary as a performer. Her career ater. This was when she was all the was also the basis of recent, short-lived Off The PRESIDING OFFICER. The rage, the ‘‘Tennessee Waltz’’ was all Broadway musical, ‘‘Flipside: The Patti Page clerk will call the roll. the rage, and the Governor wanted to Story.’’ The legislative clerk proceeded to sing it with her. In the early days of television Ms. Page call the roll. I asked how it went. She said, ‘‘Well, was the host of several short-lived network series, including ‘‘Scott Music Hall’’ (1952), a Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, I ask to tell you the truth, the Governor unanimous consent that the order for wasn’t a very good singer.’’ 15-minute NBC show that followed the evening news two nights a week, and ‘‘The the quorum call be rescinded. I don’t know what she said to others Big Record,’’ which ran one season, 1957–58, about my piano playing, but I think The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without on CBS. ‘‘The Patti Page Show’’ was an NBC objection, it is so ordered. that was probably about as harsh a ver- summer fill-in series in 1956. dict as Patti Page ever rendered of any Ms. Page defended her demure, unpre- other person. tentious style as appropriate for its time. ‘‘It f According to the New York Times was right after the war,’’ she told The Advo- obituary, Patti Page once said: cate of Baton Rouge, La., in 2002, ‘‘and peo- STARTUP ACT 2.0 ple were waiting to just settle down and take But I don’t think I’ve stepped on anyone a deep breath and relax.’’ Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, I have along the way. If I have, I didn’t mean to. She was born Clara Ann Fowler on Nov. 8, only been a Member of the Senate for 2 Well, Patti Page is gone now, but her 1927, in Claremore, Okla., a small town near years, but in that short period of time music is not. Whenever we Tennesseans Tulsa that was also the birthplace of Will at least seven other countries have hear our State song, the ‘‘Tennessee Rogers. She was one of 11 children of a rail- road laborer. taken actions that we have not taken Waltz,’’ played, or whenever we sing it, Having shown talent as an artist, Clara to better support and attract entre- we will remember the voice of Patti took a job in the art department of the Tulsa preneurs to their countries’ economies. Page. radio station KTUL, but an executive there The map beside me shows those coun- Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- had heard her sing and soon asked her to tries: the United Kingdom, Russia, sent that following my remarks that take over a short country-music show called Singapore, , Brazil, Chile, and ‘‘Meet Patti Page’’ (Time magazine called it the obituary about Patti Page from the Canada. Those countries have changed New York Times be printed in the ‘‘a hillbilly affair’’), sponsored by Page Milk. She adopted the fictional character’s name their rules, regulations, passed laws, RECORD. and kept it. changed their policies to make their There being no objection, the mate- The newly named Ms. Page broke away country more friendly to startup busi- rial was ordered to be printed in the from her radio career to tour with Jimmy nesses and to entrepreneurship. RECORD, as follows: Joy’s band and was shortly signed by Mer- I wish to focus on and visit with my [From the New York Times—Obituary] cury Records. She had her first hit record, ‘‘With My Eyes Wide Open, I’m Dreaming,’’ colleagues about what is happening in PATTI PAGE, HONEY-VOICED ’50S POP in 1950. Other notable recordings were ‘‘Cross one of those countries—our neighbor to SENSATION, DIES AT 85 Over the Bridge,’’ ‘‘Mockin’ Bird Hill,’’ ‘‘Al- the north, Canada—and explain why it (By Anita Gates) legheny Moon’’ and her last hit, ‘‘Hush . . . is in the interests of our own country Patti Page, the apple-cheeked, honey- Hush, Sweet Charlotte,’’ which she recorded to act quickly to retain highly skilled voiced alto whose sentimental, soothing, as the theme for the Bette Davis movie of and entrepreneurial immigrants. sometimes silly hits like ‘‘Tennessee Waltz,’’ the same name. That song was nominated for ‘‘Old Cape Cod’’ and ‘‘How Much Is That an Oscar, and Ms. Page sang it on the 1965 In 2002, Canada announced plans to Doggie in the Window?’’ made her one of the Academy Awards telecast. create a new visa to attract foreign en- most successful pop singers of the 1950s, died Ms. Page briefly pursued a movie career in trepreneurs to their country. Canada is on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif. She was 85. her early ’30s, playing an evangelical singer developing a plan to admit foreign en- Her death was confirmed by Seacrest Vil- alongside Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons trepreneurs who have received capital lage Retirement Communities, where she in ‘‘Elmer Gantry’’ (1960), David Janssen’s from venture funds to start businesses lived. love interest in the comic-strip-inspired in Canada and to admit them to Can- Ms. Page had briefly been a singer with ‘‘Dondi’’ (1961) and a suburban wife in the Benny Goodman when she emerged at the comedy ‘‘Boys’ Night Out’’ (1962), with Kim ada within weeks. A spokesman for the end of the big band era, just after World War Novak and James Garner. She had one of her Canadian immigration agency was II, into a cultural atmosphere in which pop earliest acting roles in 1957 on an episode of quoted in September as saying: ‘‘Can- music was not expected to be challenging. ‘‘The United States Steel Hour.’’ ada seeks young, ambitious innovative Critics assailed her style as plastic, placid, In later decades her star faded, but she immigrants who will contribute to bland and antiseptic, but those opinions were continued to sing professionally throughout Canada’s job growth and further drive not shared by millions of record buyers. As her 70s. Early in the 21st century she was our economy.’’ Jon Pareles wrote in The New York Times in performing in about 40 to 50 concerts a year. 1997, ‘‘For her fans, beauty and comfort were In 2002 and 2003 she released an album of But Canada is not just changing its one and the same.’’ children’s songs, a new ‘‘best of’’ collection laws to attract entrepreneurs; it is ad- ‘‘Doggie in the Window,’’ a perky 1952 nov- and a Christmas album. vertising and trying to lure talent elty number written by Bob Merrill and In- Ms. Page married Charles O’Curran, a Hol- there. The ad we are now showing—this grid Reuterskio¨ ld, featured repeated barking lywood choreographer, in 1956. They divorced is a full-page ad that appeared in a pub- sounds and could claim no more sophisti- in 1972. In 1990 she married Jerry Filiciotto, lication called Fast Company. It is an cated a lyric than ‘‘I must take a trip to a retired aerospace engineer, with whom she American magazine dedicated to California.’’ It is often cited as an example of founded a New Hampshire company mar- what was wrong with pop music in the early keting maple syrup products. He died in 2009. startups, to technology and innova- ’50s, a perceived weakness that opened the Survivors include her son, Danny O’Curran; tion. The advertisement for Ontario door for rock ’n’ roll. But if that is true, and her daughter, Kathleen Ginn; and a number highlights R&D incentives and innova- if the silky voice of ‘‘the singing rage, Miss of grandchildren. tive and dynamic business environment

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Other coun- countries, including our friends to the and, most importantly, provides new tries are aggressively seeking the best north, are aggressively courting entre- opportunities for highly educated and and brightest, those with entrepre- preneurs and talented individuals and entrepreneurial immigrants to stay in neurial talent, as a way to grow their they are luring them from here; they the United States where their talent economy. are trying to get them from the United and new ideas can fuel economic I believe most—in fact, I would say States. Canadian Citizenship and Im- growth and, most importantly, create at least 80 percent—of my colleagues in migration Minister Jason Kenney said: jobs for Americans. Congress agree with the visa provisions ‘‘We need to proactively target a new Startup Act 2.0 creates an entrepre- in Startup Act 2.0. They understand type of immigrant entrepreneur who neurial visa for foreign-born entre- that retaining highly skilled entrepre- has the potential to build innovative preneurs currently in the United neurial immigrants will lead to eco- companies that can compete on a glob- States—legally in the United States. nomic growth and new jobs for Ameri- al scale and create jobs for Canadians.’’ Those with good ideas, with capital, cans. Unfortunately, there is an ap- While we work in the United States and the willingness to hire Americans proach in Congress that has been here to continue educating our children would be able to stay in the United for the last several years that says if with the skills for a 21st century econ- States and grow their businesses. In we can’t do everything, we will not do omy and training the next generation many instances, foreign-born entre- anything. I urge my colleagues let’s of great American entrepreneurs, we preneurs, here legally, have an idea and pass what we can agree on now and also need to be welcoming to those who want to begin a company that will em- keep working to find common ground want to create a business in the United ploy Americans but are told their visa on issues that still divide us. States and employ Americans now. does not allow them to remain in the Canada and other countries are cre- With respect to Canada, America is the United States. ating new opportunities for entre- country of entrepreneurs, a place Take the story of Asaf Darash. Asaf preneurs, for startup companies, but where those with good ideas who are was born in and came to the the United States is still the home of willing to work hard can come and United States in 2007 after being the American dream. We need to pass make something for themselves. awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Startup 2.0 so individuals can pursue There is a global battle for entrepre- study at the University of California. their ambitions in America. neurial talent and the United States is After completing his doctoral thesis, Millions of our citizens remain out of falling behind. A story I heard while he founded a software company called work. Our economy is barely growing. visiting California, the Silicon Valley, Regpack. Asaf raised $1.5 million in fi- One would think, common sense would last year, illustrates this point pretty nancing for the company and hired suggest we would work hard together well. A large company that just a few more than a dozen Americans. His com- to deal with the issues we have agree- years ago was a small startup told me pany has the potential to grow quickly ment on that would help jump-start they had plans to hire 68 highly skilled and to further create additional jobs. the economy. Let’s do that. Let’s jump-start the immigrants but could not get a visa for But Asaf, the founder of this dynamic American economy through entrepre- them to work in the United States. company, is no longer in the United neurship and allow those with talents Rather than letting this talent go, the States. My staff contacted him this and skills we need to pursue the Amer- company hired them but hired them at morning and he said that because of ican dream in the United States of their location in Canada. It is certainly the difficulty in obtaining a visa and America and thereby strengthen our troubling that 68 jobs went outside the the amount of time and effort it was economy. United States. They were lost in our taking, he decided it was easier to country because the United States does I suggest the absence of a quorum. move to Israel and take the core of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The not have a visa program that works. company, including its jobs, with him. clerk will call the roll. What troubles me even more is that As Regpack grows, new jobs are going The legislative clerk proceeded to some of those 68 people hired in Canada to be created in Israel—jobs that could call the roll. will go on to start a business that may have been in the United States if we Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I result in significant job creation in had a visa dedicated to foreign entre- ask unanimous consent that the order Canada. Those jobs that could have preneurs such as Asaf. for the quorum call be rescinded. been in the United States are now in Sadly, his story is far from uncom- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. another country and those individuals mon. Immigrants legally living in the BLUMENTHAL). Without objection, it is who may start a company are no United States who have a good idea so ordered. longer in the United States but are and want to start a business have few f now in Canada. When we lose entre- options available to them. With very preneurs and highly skilled immi- few ways to stay, these entrepreneurs, DYSFUNCTIONAL LEGISLATING grants, we lose the jobs they create. just like Asaf, are forced to move and Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, we The good news is there are steps we take their businesses with them and all know in the Senate and in the can take to attract and retain foreign take the jobs they have created and House of Representatives about the low entrepreneurs and highly skilled immi- will create to other countries. grades Congress receives in public grants. In a bipartisan effort, Senator I wish to make certain America is opinion polling. Everybody knows what WARNER, Senator COONS, Senator the best place for entrepreneurs who the public reports: Congress is par- RUBIO, and I introduced Startup Act 2.0 want to build America and hire Ameri- tisan. Congress is divided. Congress is last year. Senators BLUNT and Scott cans. Passing Startup Act 2.0 will help dysfunctional. Brown of Massachusetts joined as co- make this happen. One recent survey that got a lot of sponsors, and an identical bill was in- Entrepreneurial immigrants have media attention reported that Congress troduced in the House of Representa- long contributed to the strength of our is less popular than a root canal. tives with an even number of Repub- country by starting companies and cre- Across the country, people are fed up lican and Democratic supporters. ating jobs. Of the current Fortune 500 with Congress. Indeed, Members of Again, this year, I am working with companies, more than 40 percent were Congress are fed up with Congress. those colleagues to reintroduce a bill founded by first- or second-generation Americans want a Congress that can very similar to that in very short Americans. Today, 1 in every 10 Ameri- take on the tough challenges of today. order. cans employed at a privately owned But another recent poll by USA Today Startup Act 2.0 makes changes to the U.S. company works at an immigrant- and Gallup showed that 77 percent of Federal regulatory process to lessen owned firm. Americans feel ‘‘the way politics works government burdens on job creators, In our mobile world, entrepreneurs in Washington these days is causing se- modifies the Tax Code to encourage in- have a choice as to where they start a rious harm to the United States.’’

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In 11 days aid was scared of the tea party and scared of engineer wouldn’t try to fix a system on its way. This time, with this House what might happen to them if they get without a precise understanding of the of Representatives, the House balked a tea party primary challenger. So get- system’s problem. A mechanic at the bipartisan Senate disaster bill ting a majority of his party together wouldn’t try to fix your car without a and, finally, it took them 78 days after for anything reasonable is a challenge precise understanding of your car’s the landfall of Hurricane Sandy to send for Speaker BOEHNER. problem. So if we are going to fix what help to the half million homes and House Republicans could not get a is wrong with Congress, we better have businesses damaged or destroyed by majority of their conference to support a precise understanding of what Con- that storm. a highway bill. So the Hastert rule gress’ problem is. The condemnation of the House of kicked in and there was no House high- Let’s start with the Senate. We do Republicans was bipartisan. The Re- way bill, none—they couldn’t do one at have our share of dysfunction in the publican Governor of New Jersey all because they couldn’t get it Senate, I will confess. Undoubtedly, blamed, and I quote, ‘‘the toxic inter- through their conference under the the filibuster is being abused. Cer- nal politics,’’ the toxic internal poli- Hastert rule. That is why there was no tainly, nominees awaiting confirma- tics, of the House Republicans for this highway bill. tion are unjustifiably delayed. Indeed, fiasco. ‘‘This,’’ he said, and I will quote The House Republicans could not get they are held hostage. So everything is again, ‘‘is why the American people a majority of their conference to sup- not all roses in the Senate. hate Congress.’’ port a farm bill, so under the Hastert But we did pass a highway bill, a bi- Is there a problem over in the House? rule there is no House farm bill. The partisan highway bill, that passed the You bet there is, to the point where Speaker won’t bring up the stalled bi- Senate with 74 votes. We did pass a one departing House Republican Mem- partisan Senate farm bill, because farm bill, a bipartisan farm bill. Al- ber compared the Speaker of the House under the Hastert rule he can’t get a though I did not support that par- to the manager of an asylum and the majority of his party to support even ticular measure, it was a bipartisan Speaker’s House Republican colleagues the bipartisan Senate farm bill. measure that passed the Senate with 64 to the asylum inmates. That is pretty We were headed for the exact same votes. strong criticism from within the Re- result on the fiscal cliff—we were head- We passed the Hurricane Sandy emer- publican Party. ed for the exact same result on the fis- gency relief bill, also in bipartisan The reason I give this speech is to try cal cliff. Speaker BOEHNER could not fashion, with 62 votes. We had open de- to be precise about what the problem is get his party to support protecting bate, we had discussions, we had that has driven Congress’s approval America from the fiscal cliff. So, with amendments, and we passed legisla- into the cellar, and what exactly is literally minutes left to spare, and tion. that problem? Well, I think the House with the House Republican Conference Particularly, we passed, by a power- votes on the so-called fiscal cliff bill ready, willing, and about to pitch the ful bipartisan vote of 89 to 8, a bill that and on the emergency Hurricane Sandy country off the fiscal cliff, Speaker avoided tax increases for 99 percent of aid illustrate what the problem is. BOEHNER did what? He ignored the Americans and extended emergency un- Those bills passed the House for one Hastert rule. He ignored the Hastert employment benefits for another year reason and one reason only: The Speak- rule, and he let the fiscal cliff bill come and protected us from the fiscal cliff. er of the House of Representatives to the floor of the House without hav- When it comes to legislating, the Sen- waived what is called the Hastert rule. ing the votes on ‘‘our side first,’’ to use ate actually has a pretty strong bipar- What is the Hastert rule? The the Speaker’s language. Two-thirds of tisan record. Hastert rule is probably the most sig- House Republicans actually voted to How did those Senate bills do on the nificant contributor to dysfunction in roll America off the fiscal cliff. Here is House side? Well, the House couldn’t Washington right now. It is not even the vote count. Republican ‘‘yes’’ votes pass its own highway bill. Congress has really a rule, it is a policy, a political on the fiscal cliff legislation were only been doing highway bills since the Ei- policy of Republican Speakers. It 85. Republican ‘‘no’’ votes on the fiscal senhower years. This isn’t rocket began under former Republican Speak- cliff legislation were 151. He wasn’t science. The House couldn’t do one. er Hastert, hence its common name as even close to making the Hastert rule. The best the House of Representatives the Hastert rule. The rule is that the That fiscal cliff bill passed the House could do was to pass a short-term ex- Speaker will bring no bill to the floor 257 to 167 because the Democrats came tension that allowed some of their of the House of Representatives with- out and voted for it, 172 to 16; 172 Members to get to conference on the out a majority of his own party sup- Democratic ‘‘yes’’ votes, 16 Democratic Senate bill, but they took no bill into porting the bill. It doesn’t matter ‘‘no’’ votes. Two-thirds of the ‘‘yes’’ conference because they couldn’t pass about a majority of Congress; Demo- votes that put the fiscal cliff bill across one. Even then, they delayed the con- cratic votes don’t count. It is only and saved America from a 100-percent ference negotiations, putting thou- when the Speaker has a majority of Re- tax increase and protected our econ- sands of jobs in jeopardy before they fi- publican votes supporting it that the omy from the fiscal cliff—two-thirds of nally came around and passed an Speaker will allow legislation to come those votes came from Democrats. If amended version of the Senate bipar- to the floor. the Speaker had enforced the Hastert tisan highway bill. So their record on It has actually gotten a little bit rule, we would be over the fiscal cliff the highway bill is nothing to be proud harder under Speaker BOEHNER, who today. of. has said, I don’t feel comfortable What happened on Sandy? After near- The House also couldn’t pass a farm scheduling any controversial legisla- ly 3 months of stalling, while my bill. Farm bills are pretty ordinary leg- tion unless I know we have the votes State, while the Presiding Officer’s islative business too. We do them all on our side first, which sounds like he State of New York, while the States of the time, but the House has passed no is saying he has to be able to produce New York and New Jersey, struck by farm bill. We passed a strong bipar- a majority of the House out of just the Sandy, were waiting urgently for the tisan Senate farm bill. They can’t even Republican caucus before bringing a relief that we got to the coast within 11 agree to call up the bipartisan Senate bill. But whether it is the original days, they stalled and they stalled be- farm bill and pass it. With 80 percent of Hastert rule requiring a majority of cause they could not get a majority of the agricultural land of the country in the majority before they will even the Republican caucus to support Fed- drought, there is no farm bill. It is bring a bill to the floor or what appears eral relief for our hurricane-ravaged trapped in the sinkhole of the House. to be the Boehner rule, that they have States. Under the Hastert rule, they

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That bill was dead on arrival leads you straight to the House Repub- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without under the Hastert rule. The Republican lican conference, and there it leads you objection, it is so ordered. caucus couldn’t support it, wouldn’t to that toxic combination of the tea f support it, and we would be without party and the Hastert rule. SANDY DISASTER RELIEF any help now if they had followed the When you understand the problem, the cure is obvious: The House should Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, I Hastert rule. rise to encourage the Senate to seek On the Democratic side, what was ditch the Hastert rule. Call things up quick action on the Sandy relief pack- the vote on the Hurricane Sandy bill— for a vote. Let everybody’s vote count. age that has been long overdue. I know 192 ‘‘yes’’ votes to 1 ‘‘no’’ vote. The Don’t refuse to proceed unless only the majority leader is committed to final count was 241 ayes, 180 nays. The your own party will let you. It is the bringing it to the floor as soon as we bill passed, but about three-quarters of obvious and only solution. The fiscal can get some type of agreement with the support came from Democratic cliff bill and the Sandy bill and the votes on those bills prove it. the other side of the aisle, and I hope votes. that agreement can come quickly be- If the Speaker had imposed the With those tea party extremists cause a recovery that is delayed—as Hastert rule, not only would we be off dominating the House Republican con- this has already been significantly de- the fiscal cliff, but we would have ference and ready to pitch the country layed—is a recovery that very likely failed at providing disaster relief for over the fiscal cliff and leave hurricane can fail. Hurricane Sandy. The only reason victims high and dry, the Speaker had to ditch the Hastert rule. The only way We cannot afford for one of the big- these critical pieces of legislation gest engines of the national economy, avoided the fate of the highway bill the House can do bipartisan business on major issues is to ditch the Hastert which is the Northeast, to fail in its re- and of the farm bill is that the Speaker covery. This is not only for the sake of didn’t follow the Hastert rule. He rule. As we saw, the Senate has its prob- the Northeast but for the entire coun- couldn’t follow the Hastert rule be- lems, but we are actually doing OK, try. cause he wouldn’t have been able to just as our legislative record shows. I appreciate the majority leader’s pass legislation. If his tea party caucus Over and over, we pass real, signifi- steadfast commitment to provide that had forced America off the fiscal cliff, cant, bipartisan legislation after a real relief as quickly as possible here in the he knew there would have been hell to process on the floor of argument and Senate, but time is a-wasting. It is al- pay, so he waived the Hastert rule. ready Wednesday, and I am concerned Now, of course, House Republicans amendment. As the House’s legislative record shows, the problem is over we will lose another week before we, in are all in a fuss about having waived fact, seek passage and then go to the the Hastert rule. One tea party law- there. More precisely, the problem is within the House Republican con- President. From there, it would move maker admitted that the New Year’s on so the resources could begin to flow Day tax vote left a lot of his fellow Re- ference. Still more precisely, again, the problem is that toxic combination of to communities across the Northeast publicans with a very bad taste in their that have languished since Sandy took mouth. So it is probably back to the tea party and the Hastert rule. If we want Congress to function effec- its toll. Hastert rule business as usual on the tively, if we want to succeed at doing There is no excuse for delay. We al- House side, with death by tea party to ready had the delay in the House. They the work of the American people, such any major bipartisan Senate legisla- could have passed the package the Sen- as the fiscal cliff bill and the hurricane tion. ate passed in a transparent process relief bill, and if we don’t want to see The tea party over on the House side that had the Appropriations Com- more important legislation, such as wanted to vote for extreme things, mittee—on both sides—scrubbing the highway bills and farm bills, fail in the such as voting to repeal or defund bill. It was brought before the Senate House, unable to pass in the House, ObamaCare over 30 times—over 30 in a fashion in which we like to see the blocked in the House, the solution for times—or voting to turn Medicare into Senate work. I believe there were 25- the problem is clear: We have to ditch a voucher program. If it is extreme some-odd amendments that were con- the Hastert rule and let the House as a enough, then they will vote for it. But sidered, a full vetting of the legisla- those are actions which are not sup- body work its will, just as the Amer- tion, and there was a strong bipartisan ported by the American people, and ican people elected it to do. vote at the end of that process. It was they can’t pass the Senate. f then sent to the House, and unfortu- For the regular business of govern- EXTENSION OF MORNING nately it languished and died at the ment, for the regular business of pass- BUSINESS end of the last Congress. ing Senate bipartisan legislation, the Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I Now the House has acted in a dif- tea party-Hastert rule combination is ask unanimous consent that the period ferent fashion. So I am happy at this deadly. for morning business be extended until point to accept the House’s version— So back to where I began. If you are 6:30 p.m. today and that all provisions even though I do believe the Senate concerned about dysfunction in Con- of the previous order remain in effect. version is superior in a variety of gress, if you are wondering why we are The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ways—so it can be sent to the Presi- less popular than a root canal, if you objection, it is so ordered. dent. Getting relief to the citizens in are wondering why 77 percent of Ameri- Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I yield the floor. the Northeast is critically important. cans look at Congress and think we are The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- I look at the package the House has, actually doing more harm than good, ator from Georgia. and I say to myself that $50.7 billion in and if you want an explanation of the (The remarks of Mr. CHAMBLISS per- resources, in addition to the flood in- dysfunction, take a look at the Hastert taining to the introduction of S. 122 are surance package that has already rule. If you look at this problem the printed in today’s RECORD under passed, will allow our residents and way a doctor would look at a patient, ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and small businesses that have been wait- the way an engineer would look at a Joint Resolutions.’’) ing so long to recover and begin to re- system, the way a car mechanic would Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, I build. Finally, it will show them that look at an automobile, and you look yield the floor, and I suggest the ab- they have a strong partner in the Fed- for what is broken, be specific; it is the sence of a quorum. eral Government and that someone is application by the Speaker of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The there for them, as we have been when- Hastert rule that prevents strong, bi- clerk will call the roll. ever and wherever disaster has struck

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:16 Sep 20, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\JAN2013\S23JA3.REC S23JA3 bjneal on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S208 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 23, 2013 our fellow Americans throughout this Part of that is the Army Corps of En- the worst disaster on the east coast in Nation. gineers’ ability to reengineer our terms of a natural disaster that has Obviously, I would have preferred the beaches in a way that ultimately pro- taken place. Senate bill, which was stronger, but we vides not only for the potential of tour- The people of the Northeast, the peo- cannot let the perfect be the enemy of ism, which is a $37 billion industry in ple of my State of New Jersey and our the good. We need to get assistance to our State, but even more importantly neighbors in New York desperately the victims of Sandy as quickly as pos- for the protection of lives, property, need this funding, and it is time to help sible. This is a vehicle that gets us to and protection against repetitive these fellow Americans. It is time to do that goal. losses. That is what is going to happen it now. It is time to do it this week. It While the House bill significantly re- when we get this money to the Army is going to take time for this recovery duces assistance in a couple of areas— Corps of Engineers so they can rebuild to take place. The longer we delay, the including fishery disasters and commu- our coastal defenses. This package greater the chance of failure we, in nity development funding, which I would give Jersey Shore residents and fact, create. I think we want success, think in that respect may stump the businesses the comfort of knowing they not failure. I think we want to under- recovery of an important industry would be better protected in the future stand, as an institution, as I have said along our coast and could potentially than they have been in the past. many times, that this is the United siphon off billions in CDBG funding It also includes $13 billion in critical States of America. That means we re- that is badly needed right now in New funding I sought to help to restore our spond to the challenges and the disas- York and New Jersey by amplifying transportation systems. For example, ters that take place in other parts of what disasters are eligible for it—I am it would allow New Jersey Transit to pleased to say we protected the overall the country. We do it, hopefully, more repair extensive damage from the expeditiously than this, and at the amendment of the CDBG funding from storm and allow the agency to build fa- the Senate bill, which is about $16 bil- same time we stand by our fellow cilities on higher ground to prevent fu- lion. Americans so they can reclaim their While it is not everything we needed ture flood damage, which is a common- lives, reclaim their commitments to since it will now be spread even thinner sense option. When we think about fis- their communities, reclaim the oppor- across even more disasters, we can cer- cal responsibility, why would we re- tunity to reopen their businesses, to tainly help as many communities re- build only to the very same status that contribute to those communities, to build and recover as we can because was allowed to be flooded in the first our State, to this Nation, to our soci- time is of the essence. There is a fierce place and caused all of the damage the ety. urgency right now. There are many government would pay for? The pas- So I strongly urge our colleagues who business owners whom I have spoken to sage of this potential package from the have some reticence to agree to mov- who said to me: Senator, I am at a crit- House would allow the port authority ing forward on a Sandy bill to come to ical juncture. I don’t know whether I to finish repairing the PATH station common ground with us, to come to can reopen. If the government is not and harden electrical equipment to agreement to move this relief package. going to give me assistance, then I prevent future damages. No American should have to languish likely won’t open because adding more If we could get an agreement, the months after a disaster to get help. debt, even in terms of a long-term, low- package that would come to the floor That should not be the standard. The interest loan, is still debt. They say: I would include necessary policy reforms hallmark of our response should be an took out debt to start this business or: that I have supported that will stream- intelligent but expeditious response to I took out debt to get through the line recovery efforts and improve the consequences of a disaster that any great recession, but I don’t really have FEMA’s public assistance programs, American faces. That is our tradition. the option to take out more debt with- which is critical to a successful recov- It is a tradition we should maintain. It out some direct assistance, such as a ery. These reforms would allow us to is a tradition that, unfortunately, in grant. A grant would give the help I rebuild what is in place even stronger this particular instance has not been a need to jump-start my business so I and better before there is another reality. It is a tradition that I hope we can get those individuals I had em- storm. Again, this is important in can ultimately embrace once again ployed reemployed once again and cre- terms of the end results. It is impor- this week in finally pushing through a ate an opportunity for our community. tant in terms of the fiscal responsi- Sandy package that can move to the That decision right now for those bility to ensure we rebuild in such a President for signature and bring relief businesses, which are life-and-death de- way that we don’t end up with repet- to our communities. cisions, is pending and hanging by the itive damage, which would be more With that, I yield the floor. costly to the government. will of the Senate to act. f I am also pleased that the package It would allow a third-party dispute the House passed recognizes what I resolution process for major projects. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS have been saying all along—that fund- Some of the history we have, particu- ing the Army Corps of Engineers’ ef- larly with Katrina from Senator LAN- TRIBUTE TO KEN SQUIER forts is critical to rebuilding coastal DRIEU’s experience, is the reality of not communities, particularly New Jer- having a dispute resolution process, ∑ Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, I rise sey’s weakened coastal defenses. We which ultimately forestalled recoveries today to celebrate Ken Squier, of are at the lowest of our immune sys- and critical projects to that State and Stowe, VT, for his historic contribu- tem as a coastal State, and we already in those communities. Also, coverage tion to motor sports and to broad- see the biting cold. It is cold through- for childcare costs related to disaster casting, and for his deep and abiding out the Capitol today, which shows recovery through FEMA individual as- commitment to the people of . how cold it is outside. Think about sistance is a critical element. On November 29, 2012, NASCAR pre- those residents who are fellow Ameri- Without going through all of the pro- sented Ken with the prestigious Buddy cans and don’t have a place to call visions of the House bill, let me just Shuman Award, given to ‘‘an indi- home because they don’t have the say we need to pass this relief package. vidual who has played a key role in the wherewithal to get their home back in People are suffering. They are des- continued growth and success of Cup a way in which they can once again be perately waiting for certainty so they racing.’’ able to live there, raise their families can start rebuilding their lives, their Most Americans know Ken Squier as there, and meet their challenges as a businesses and communities. They are the ‘‘Voice of the .’’ In 1979, family in a warm nurturing environ- trying to get back on their feet. They Squier convinced CBS Sports to broad- ment. That does not exist for many of need this aid even if it is late and even cast the Daytona 500 in its entirety. our fellow Americans because they if it is ultimately longer than other This event was a seminal moment for don’t have the wherewithal to decide disasters have had to wait. As I pointed stock car racing in the United States, whether they are going to get the type out in the past, I think it was 10 days later described by ESPN as ‘‘NASCAR’s of assistance to help them rebuild their or so when $50 billion flowed to Katrina most revolutionary event,’’ the one homes. All of that is pending. victims. We are nearly 3 months since that convinced the national networks

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:16 Sep 20, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\JAN2013\S23JA3.REC S23JA3 bjneal on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 23, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S209 that NASCAR had a very wide fol- oring Catherine O’Neill, the great ad- and later moving to the Health Care lowing around the country. vocate for refugee women and children Financing Administration, both in Bal- When he was 14 years old, Ken Squier who died in Los Angeles last month at timore. When he retired in January announced his first race at a small dirt age 70. Cathy was my friend and neigh- 1993, Frank left government service track in northern Vermont—from the bor, and I will miss her. with far more than his Federal pension. back of a logging truck. Catherine was born in 1942 in Queens, For at SSA and HCFA, he had honed In 1960, he opened Thunder Road NY, the daughter of Irish immigrants expertise that would for many years SpeedBowl, a quarter-mile racetrack in Patrick and Bridget Vesey. After grad- guide him to continue, as a volunteer, Barre, VT. In summer, the track has uating from St. Joseph’s College in to improve the lives of retirees, persons hosted stock car races every Thursday Brooklyn and teaching as a Catholic with disabilities, and others. night for the last 50 years. These missionary in Texas, she earned mas- A man of boundless energy, Frank events have become fixtures in the cul- ter’s degrees in social work from How- was a valued confidant and a member ture of northern Vermont. ard University and in international af- of my health advisory group for the As NASCAR developed a national fol- fairs from Columbia. past 20 years. With nearly perfect at- lowing, Ken Squier became one of its Cathy had an extraordinary career as tendance at meetings and conference most celebrated personalities. He pio- a social worker, writer, editorial direc- calls, he could always be counted on for neered the use of in-car cameras during tor, businesswoman, and director of the a warm greeting, sage advice, and wis- broadcasts, putting viewers right next UN Information Center in Washington, dom born of compassion and clear- to the driver during the race. Ken’s DC. She was also active in political sightedness. voice became inseparable from the life, twice running for office in Cali- A graduate of Dartmouth College, sport, providing turn-by-turn coverage fornia and serving as finance director Frank maintained strong ties with his of all CBS-broadcast races for almost for Governor Jerry Brown’s 1976 presi- alma mater, serving terms as president two decades. This included the sport’s dential campaign, but she is best of the Dartmouth Alumni Association most prestigious event, the Daytona known for her groundbreaking and he- and president of the Dartmouth Club of 500. roic efforts to help refugee women and Ken Squier is not at all defined solely Maryland. He also served his commu- children. by his importance to racing. He has nity through volunteer work at Com- In 1989, after visiting refugee camps deep roots in northern Vermont. In mon Cause of Maryland, United Seniors around the world as a board member of 1969, he became president of Radio of Maryland, and the National Associa- the humanitarian International Rescue Vermont, Inc., a family business that tion of Retired Federal Employees. Committee, Cathy became a founder of is one of the only independent, family- Through his involvement in Mary- the Women’s Commission for Refugee run radio companies left in the United land politics, Frank fought tirelessly Women and Children, now Women’s States. Radio Vermont’s stations pro- for fair election practices, propelled by Refugee Commission. vide a variety of music, sports, and the belief that, regardless of their As the Commission’s board chair, news; in particular, they focus on local views, all Marylanders deserved to Cathy traveled the world to listen to events, the happenings that bind com- have their voices heard. Through my refugee women and children and learn munities together and give them iden- many conversations with him over the about their most pressing needs. She tity. Over the years, Ken has staunchly years, I discovered a man who loved de- opposed corporate consolidation of the attracted prominent women journal- mocracy and justice, and who felt com- media because he believes, strongly, ists, academics, and philanthropists to pelled to live his life in service to these that radio stations should serve the the Commission and became a leading causes. community and provide vital conduits advocate for refugee issues on Capitol In closing, when I think of Frank, I for local information. He has practiced Hill, at the UN, and in the media. am reminded of the words of Robert what he preaches. Under her leadership, the Women’s Ref- Frost in ‘‘Stopping by Woods on a Radio Vermont’s immense value to ugee Commission has shaped policies Snowy Evening’’: the communities it served was proven and practices in the U.S. and around The woods are lovely, dark and deep. during the aftermath of Tropical the world to address the needs of But I have promises to keep, Storm Irene in August 2011. Irene was women and children displaced by war, And miles to go before I sleep, the most destructive storm to hit persecution, and natural disasters. And miles to go before I sleep. Vermont in decades. Torrential rains On behalf of the people of California, Frank could have led a comfortable, and Vermont’s mountainous terrain I send my gratitude and condolences to quiet life after retirement, but he brought flooding on a vast scale, wip- Cathy’s husband, Richard Reeves, her chose instead to keep going for many ing out houses, businesses, and historic daughter Fiona Reeves, sons Colin and more miles, working for the causes he downtowns. Roads and bridges were Conor O’Neill, Jeffrey Reeves, her believed in deeply and the Nation he washed away, cutting dozens of towns grandchildren, and her sister Mary Ann loved. Like all who were privileged to around Vermont off from the outside Garvey. Catherine O’Neill was an know him, I will miss my dear friend world. Ken and his staff, Eric Michaels, amazing person who made our world a Frank Chase, and I ask you to join me Lee Kittell, Tom Beardsley, meteorolo- better and more compassionate place, in celebrating his life.∑ gist Roger Hill, and others kept the and we will miss her dearly.∑ station on the air 24 hours a day in the f f weeks after the storm to ensure vital REMEMBERING FRANCIS JOSEPH MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT emergency information reached CHASE Vermonters in towns that had been cut Messages from the President of the ∑ off. With the State of Vermont’s emer- Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I wish to United States were communicated to gency communications equipment pay tribute to a proud veteran, a com- the Senate by Mr. Pate, one of his sec- washed away, Radio Vermont proved mitted Marylander, a great American, retaries. that local radio stations are fundamen- and my good friend, Francis Joseph tally important to their communities. ‘‘Frank’’ Chase. Frank passed away on f Ken Squier has helped change sports December 11, 2012 in his Columbia, MD EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED in America, but even more signifi- home after a brief illness. He leaves be- cantly, he has been a true exemplar of hind his beloved family: his wife of 50 As in executive session the Presiding a good citizen. Vermont is, and will re- years, Carole, a daughter Amy, and a Officer laid before the Senate messages main, deeply in his debt.∑ granddaughter Grace. from the President of the United f Frank loved his country dearly, and States submitting sundry nominations he showed it through years of public which were referred to the Committee REMEMBERING CATHERINE service, which began in 1955, when he on Armed Services. O’NEILL entered the Army for 3 years. Frank (The messages received today are ∑ Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, today I then joined the civil service, beginning printed at the end of the Senate pro- ask my colleagues to join me in hon- at the Social Security Administration ceedings.)

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A communication from the Director titled ‘‘Finding of Substantial Inadequacy of of the Regulatory Management Division, En- Implementation Plan; Call for California At 11:43 a.m., a message from the vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- State Implementation Plan Revision; South House of Representatives, delivered by ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Coast’’ (FRL No. 9767–3) received in the Of- Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, titled ‘‘Determination of Attainment for the fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- announced that the House has passed San Francisco Bay Area Nonattainment ary 3, 2013; to the Committee on Environ- the following bill, in which it requests Area for the 2006 Fine Particle Standard; ment and Public Works. the concurrence of the Senate: California; Determination Regarding Appli- EC–79. A communication from the Director cability of Clean Air Act Requirements’’ of the Regulatory Management Division, En- H.R. 307. An act to reauthorize certain pro- (FRL No. 9766–7) received in the Office of the vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- grams under the Public Health Service Act President of the Senate on January 3, 2013; ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic to the Committee on Environment and Pub- titled ‘‘Commercial and Industrial Solid Act with respect to public health security lic Works. Waste Incineration Units: Reconsideration and all-hazards preparedness and response, EC–72. A communication from the Director and Final Amendments; Non-Hazardous Sec- and for other purposes. of the Regulatory Management Division, En- ondary Materials That Are Solid Waste: vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- Final Rule’’ (FRL No. 9764–1) received in the At 4:20 p.m., a message from the ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Office of the President of the Senate on Jan- House of Representatives, delivered by titled ‘‘Determination of Attainment for the uary 3, 2013; to the Committee on Environ- Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, an- Nogales Nonattainment Area for the 2006 ment and Public Works. EC–80. A communication from the Director Fine Particle Standard; Arizona; Determina- nounced that pursuant to sections 5580 of the Regulatory Management Division, En- tion Regarding Applicability of Clean Air and 5581 of the revised statutes (20 vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- Act Requirements’’ (FRL No. 9766–8) received U.S.C. 42–43), and the order of the ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- House of January 3, 2013, the Speaker in the Office of the President of the Senate titled ‘‘National Emission Standards for Haz- on January 3, 2013; to the Committee on En- appoints the following Members of the ardous Air Pollutants for the Portland Ce- vironment and Public Works. ment Manufacturing Industry and Standards House of Representatives to the Board EC–73. A communication from the Director of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- of Performance for Portland Cement Plants’’ of the Regulatory Management Division, En- (FRL No. 9758–6) received in the Office of the tion: Mr. JOHNSON of Texas and Mr. vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- President of the Senate on January 3, 2013; COLE of . ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- to the Committee on Environment and Pub- titled ‘‘Revisions to the California State Im- f lic Works. plementation Plan, San Diego APCD, North- EC–81. A communication from the Director MEASURES REFERRED ern Sierra AQMD, and Sacramento Metro- of the Regulatory Management Division, En- politan AQMD’’ (FRL No. 9732–9) received in vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- The following bill was read the first the Office of the President of the Senate on ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- and the second times by unanimous January 3, 2013; to the Committee on Envi- titled ‘‘National Emission Standards for Haz- consent, and referred as indicated: ronment and Public Works. ardous Air Pollutants for Area Sources: In- H.R. 307. An act to reauthorize certain pro- EC–74. A communication from the Director dustrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boil- grams under the Public Health Service Act of the Regulatory Management Division, En- ers’’ (FRL No. 9698–5) received in the Office and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- of the President of the Senate on January 3, Act with respect to public health security ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- 2013; to the Committee on Environment and and all-hazards preparedness and response, titled ‘‘Approval of the Clean Air Act, Sec- Public Works. and for other purposes; to the Committee on tion 112(I), Authority for Hazardous Air Pol- EC–82. A communication from the Director Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. lutants: Asbestos Management and Control; of the Regulatory Management Division, En- State of New Hampshire Department of En- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- f vironmental Services’’ (FRL No. 9697–2) re- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME ceived in the Office of the President of the titled ‘‘Revisions to the California State Im- Senate on January 3, 2013; to the Committee plementation Plan, Placer County Air Pollu- The following bills were read the first on Environment and Public Works. tion Control District’’ (FRL No. 9760–4) re- time: EC–75. A communication from the Director ceived during recess of the Senate in the Of- fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- S. 81. A bill to provide guidance and prior- of the Regulatory Management Division, En- ary 18, 2013; to the Committee on Environ- ities for Federal Government obligations in vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ment and Public Works. the event that the debt limit is reached. EC–83. A communication from the Director S. 82. A bill to provide that any executive titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- mentation Plans and Designation of Areas of the Regulatory Management Division, En- action infringing on the Second Amendment vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- has no force or effect, and to prohibit the use for Air Quality Planning Purposes; State of Nevada; Redesignation of Clark County to ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- of funds for certain purposes. titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- S. 83. A bill to provide for continuing oper- Attainment for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone Stand- ard’’ (FRL No. 9766–9) received in the Office mentation Plans; State of Missouri; Control ations of Government in a fiscally respon- of Sulfur Emissions from Stationary Boil- sible manner. of the President of the Senate on January 3, 2013; to the Committee on Environment and ers’’ (FRL No. 9772–6) received during recess S. 124. A bill to provide that Members of of the Senate in the Office of the President Congress may not receive pay after October Public Works. EC–76. A communication from the Director of the Senate on January 18, 2013; to the 1 of any fiscal year in which Congress has of the Regulatory Management Division, En- Committee on Environment and Public not approved a concurrent resolution on the vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- Works. budget and passed the regular appropriations EC–84. A communication from the Director ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- bills. of the Regulatory Management Division, En- titled ‘‘Determination of Attainment for the vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- f Yuba City-Marysville Nonattainment Area ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- for the 2006 Fine Particle Standard; Cali- titled ‘‘Revisions to the California State Im- EXECUTIVE AND OTHER fornia; Determination Regarding Applica- COMMUNICATIONS plementation Plan, South Coast Air Quality bility of Clean Air Act Requirements’’ (FRL Management District’’ (FRL No. 9755–9) re- The following communications were No. 9768–2) received in the Office of the Presi- ceived during recess of the Senate in the Of- laid before the Senate, together with dent of the Senate on January 3, 2013; to the fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- accompanying papers, reports, and doc- Committee on Environment and Public ary 18, 2013; to the Committee on Environ- Works. uments, and were referred as indicated: ment and Public Works. EC–77. A communication from the Director EC–85. A communication from the Director EC–70. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, En- of the Regulatory Management Division, En- of the Regulatory Management Division, En- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- titled ‘‘Interim Final Determination to Stay titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- titled ‘‘Approval, Disapproval and Promulga- Sanctions, Imperial County Air Pollution mentation Plans and Designation of Areas tion of State Implementation Plans; State of Control District’’ (FRL No. 9766–4) received for Air Quality Purposes; Alabama; Redesig- Utah; Regional Haze Rule Requirements for in the Office of the President of the Senate nation of the Birmingham 2006 24-Hour Fine Mandatory Class I Areas Under 40 CFR 51.309; on January 3, 2013; to the Committee on En- Particulate Matter Nonattainment Area to Correction’’ (FRL No. 9771–9) received during vironment and Public Works. Attainment’’ (FRL No. 9771–2) received dur- recess of the Senate in the Office of the EC–78. A communication from the Director ing recess of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on January 18, 2013; of the Regulatory Management Division, En- President of the Senate on January 18, 2013; to the Committee on Environment and Pub- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- to the Committee on Environment and Pub- lic Works. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- lic Works.

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A communication from the Admin- of the Regulatory Management Division, En- of the Regulatory Management Division, En- istrator of the Environmental Protection vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- port entitled ‘‘Fiscal Year 2011 Superfund titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Air titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Air Five-Year Review Report to Congress’’; to Quality Implementation Plans; Massachu- Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; the Committee on Environment and Public setts and New Hampshire; Enhanced Motor Reasonably Available Control Technology Works. Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Pro- Requirements for Volatile Organic Com- EC–101. A communication from the Con- gram’’ (FRL No. 9754–6) received during re- pounds’’ (FRL No. 9770–6) received during re- gressional Review Coordinator, Animal and cess of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- cess of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- Plant Health Inspection Service, Department dent of the Senate on January 18, 2013; to the dent of the Senate on January 10, 2013; to the of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to Committee on Environment and Public Committee on Environment and Public law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Golden Works. Works. Nematode; Removal of Regulated Areas in EC–87. A communication from the Director EC–94. A communication from the Director Livingston and Steuben Counties, NY’’ of the Regulatory Management Division, En- of the Regulatory Management Division, En- (Docket No. APHIS–2012–0079) received dur- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- ing recess of the Senate in the Office of the ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- President of the Senate on January 18, 2013; titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- titled ‘‘Findings of Failure to Submit a Com- to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, mentation Plans and Designation of Areas plete State Implementation Plan for Section and Forestry. for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Alabama; 110(a) Pertaining to the 2008 Ozone National EC–102. A communication from the Con- Redesignation of the Birmingham 1997 An- Ambient Air Quality Standard’’ (FRL No. gressional Review Coordinator, Animal and nual Fine Particulate Matter Nonattainment 9769–4) received during recess of the Senate Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to Area to Attainment’’ (FRL No. 9771–1) re- in the Office of the President of the Senate law, the report of a rule entitled ceived during recess of the Senate in the Of- on January 10, 2013; to the Committee on En- ‘‘Traceability for Livestock Moving Inter- fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- vironment and Public Works. state’’ ((RIN0579–AD24) (Docket No. APHIS– ary 18, 2013; to the Committee on Environ- EC–95. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, En- 2009–0091)) received during recess of the Sen- ment and Public Works. ate in the Office of the President of the Sen- EC–88. A communication from the Director vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- ate on January 18, 2013; to the Committee on of the Regulatory Management Division, En- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- EC–103. A communication from the Direc- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- mentation Plans; New Mexico; Revisions to the New Source Review (NSR) State Imple- tor of the Regulatory Review Group, Farm titled ‘‘Labeling of Pesticide Products and Service Agency, Department of Agriculture, Devices for Export; Clarification of Require- mentation Plan (SIP); Prevention of Signifi- cant Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattain- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ments’’ (FRL No. 9360–8) received during re- a rule entitled ‘‘Microloan Operating Loans’’ cess of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- ment New Source Review (NNSR) Permit- ting’’ (FRL No. 9770–8) received during recess (RIN0560–AI17) received during recess of the dent of the Senate on January 18, 2013; to the Senate in the Office of the President of the Committee on Environment and Public of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on January 10, 2013; to the Senate on January 17, 2013; to the Com- Works. mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For- EC–89. A communication from the Director Committee on Environment and Public Works. estry. of the Regulatory Management Division, En- EC–104. A communication from the Direc- vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- EC–96. A communication from the Director of Congressional Affairs, Office of Enforce- tor of the Regulatory Management Division, ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ment, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- titled ‘‘National Emission Standards for Haz- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating In- titled ‘‘Epoxy Polymer; Exemption from the a rule entitled ‘‘Dispositioning Boiling ternal Combustion Engines; New Source Per- Requirement of a Tolerance’’ (FRL No. 9369– Water Reactor Licensee Noncompliance with formance Standards for Stationary Internal 7) received during recess of the Senate in the Technical Specification Containment Re- Combustion Engines’’ (RIN2060–AQ58) re- Office of the President of the Senate on Jan- quirements During Operations with a Poten- ceived during recess of the Senate in the Of- uary 18, 2013; to the Committee on Agri- tial for Draining the Reactor Vessel’’ (EGM fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- culture, Nutrition, and Forestry. 11–003, Rev 1) received during recess of the ary 18, 2013; to the Committee on Environ- EC–105. A communication from the Direc- Senate in the Office of the President of the tor of the Regulatory Management Division, ment and Public Works. Senate on January 17, 2013; to the Com- EC–90. A communication from the Director Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- mittee on Environment and Public Works. of the Regulatory Management Division, En- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- EC–97. A communication from the Director titled ‘‘Spiromesifen; Pesticide Tolerances’’ vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- of Congressional Affairs, Office of Enforce- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- (FRL No. 9374–3) received during recess of ment, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Senate in the Office of the President of titled ‘‘National Oil and Hazardous Sub- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of stances Pollution Contingency Plan; Revi- the Senate on January 10, 2013; to the Com- a rule entitled ‘‘Dispositioning Violations of mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For- sion to Increase Public Availability of the NRC Requirements Implementing the Administrative Record File’’ (FRL No. 9772– estry. Decommisioning Planning Rule’’ (EGM 12– EC–106. A communication from the Direc- 9) received during recess of the Senate in the 002) received during recess of the Senate in Office of the President of the Senate on Jan- tor of Defense Procurement and Acquisition the Office of the President of the Senate on Policy, Department of Defense, transmit- uary 18, 2013; to the Committee on Environ- January 17, 2013; to the Committee on Envi- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ment and Public Works. ronment and Public Works. titled ‘‘Defense Federal Acquisition Regula- EC–91. A communication from the Director EC–98. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, En- tion Supplement; New Qualifying Country— of Congressional Affairs, Office of Enforce- Poland’’ ((RIN0750–AH82) (DFARS Case 2011– vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- ment, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, D049)) received during recess of the Senate in ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of the Office of the President of the Senate on titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Air a rule entitled ‘‘Determining the Technical January 15, 2013; to the Committee on Armed Quality Implementation Plans; New Mexico; Adequacy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Services. Infrastructure and Interstate Transport Re- for RISK–INFORMED LICENSE Amendment EC–107. A communication from the Sec- quirements for 2006 PM2.5NAAQS’’ (FRL No. Requests After Initial Fuel Load (ADAMS) retary of the Army, transmitting, pursuant 9770–9) received during recess of the Senate Accession No. ML12193A107’’ (Updating SRP to law, a report relative to the U.S. Army in the Office of the President of the Senate NUREG–0800 Guidance to Chapter 19.1 Rev. 3) Audit Agency’s review of an audit of the on January 10, 2013; to the Committee on En- received during recess of the Senate in the American National Red Cross’s Annual vironment and Public Works. Office of the President of the Senate on Jan- Statement; to the Committee on Armed EC–92. A communication from the Director uary 14, 2013; to the Committee on Environ- Services. of the Regulatory Management Division, En- ment and Public Works. EC–108. A communication from the Acting vironmental Protection Agency, transmit- EC–99. A communication from the Director Principal Deputy, Office of the Assistant ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- of Congressional Affairs, Office of Enforce- Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs), titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Air ment, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report rel- Quality Implementation Plans; West Vir- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ative to a proposed change by the Air Force ginia; Requirements for Determining Gen- a rule entitled ‘‘Guidance for Performing a Reserve to the Fiscal Year 2011 National eral Conformity of Federal Actions to Appli- Tsunami, Surge, or Seiche Hazard Assess- Guard and Reserve Equipment Appropriation cable State Implementation Plans’’ (FRL ment’’ (JLD–ISG–2012006) received during re- (NGREA) procurement; to the Committee on No. 9770–4) received during recess of the Sen- cess of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- Armed Services. ate in the Office of the President of the Sen- dent of the Senate on January 17, 2013; to the EC–109. A communication from the Presi- ate on January 10, 2013; to the Committee on Committee on Environment and Public dent of the United States of America, trans- Environment and Public Works. Works. mitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to

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A communication from the Senior Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the People’s Republic of China of an item not Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, Department the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Revisions to detrimental to the U.S. space launch indus- of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to Electric Reliability Organization Definition try; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Deter- of Bulk Electric System and Rules of Proce- EC–129. A communication from the Acting mination of Foreign Exchange Swaps and dure’’ (RIN1902–AD51) received during recess Secretary of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- Foreign Exchange Forwards Under the Com- of the Senate in the Office of the President ant to law, a report relative to the export to modity Exchange Act’’ received during re- of the Senate on January 10, 2013; to the the People’s Republic of China of an item not cess of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- Committee on Energy and Natural Re- detrimental to the U.S. space launch indus- dent of the Senate on January 7, 2013; to the sources. try; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban EC–120. A communication from the Acting EC–130. A communication from the Assist- Affairs. General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- EC–111. A communication from the Chief Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, ment of State, transmitting, certification of Counsel, Federal Emergency Management the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Regional Reli- proposed issuance of an export license pursu- Agency, Department of Homeland Security, ability Standard PRC–006–SERC–01—Auto- ant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Con- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of matic Underfrequency Load Shedding Re- trol Act (Transmittal No. DDTC 12–188); to a rule entitled ‘‘Final Flood Elevation Deter- quirements’’ (RIN1902–AE53) received during the Committee on Foreign Relations. minations’’ ((44 CFR Part 67) (Docket No. recess of the Senate in the Office of the EC–131. A communication from the Assist- FEMA–2012–0003)) received in the Office of President of the Senate on January 17, 2013; ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- the President of the Senate on January 3, to the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- ment of State, transmitting, certification of 2013; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, sources. proposed issuance of an export license pursu- and Urban Affairs. EC–121. A communication from the Inspec- ant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Con- EC–112. A communication from the Sec- tor General, Department of Health and trol Act (Transmittal No. DDTC 12–089); to retary of the Securities and Exchange Com- Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to the Committee on Foreign Relations. mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the law, a report entitled ‘‘Review of Medicare EC–132. A communication from the Assist- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Lost Security Contractor Information Security Program ant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, Depart- Holders and Unresponsive Payees’’ (RIN3235– Evaluations for Fiscal Year 2010’’; to the ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to the AL11) received during recess of the Senate in Committee on Finance. Case-Zablocki Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b, as amended, the Office of the President of the Senate on EC–122. A communication from the Inspec- the report of the texts and background state- January 17, 2013; to the Committee on Bank- tor General, Department of Health and ments of international agreements, other ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to than treaties (List 2013–0000—2013–0006); to EC–113. A communication from the Assist- law, a report entitled ‘‘Limited Supplier So- the Committee on Foreign Relations. ant Secretary for Export Administration, licitation of Prescribing Physicians Under EC–133. A communication from the Man- Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Pro- agement and Program Analyst, Citizenship ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant gram’’; to the Committee on Finance. and Immigration Services, Department of EC–123. A communication from the Chief of to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Re- Homeland Security, transmitting, pursuant the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- moval of Persons From the Entity List to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Provi- ternal Revenue Service, Department of the Based on Removal Request; Implementation sional Unlawful Presence Waivers of Inad- Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the of Entity List Annual Review Changes; and missibility for Certain Immediate Relatives’’ report of a rule entitled ‘‘Announcement of Implementation of Modifications and Correc- (RIN1615–AB99) received in the Office of the the Results of the 2011–2012 Allocation Round tions to the Entity List’’ (RIN0694–AF82) re- President of the Senate on January 4, 2013; of the Qualifying Advance Coal Project Pro- ceived during recess of the Senate in the Of- to the Committee on the Judiciary. gram’’ (Announcement 2013–2) received dur- fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- EC–134. A communication from the Clerk ing recess of the Senate in the Office of the ary 10, 2013; to the Committee on Banking, of Court, United States Court of Federal President of the Senate on January 10, 2013; Housing, and Urban Affairs. Claims, transmitting, pursuant to law, the EC–114. A communication from the Assist- to the Committee on Finance. Court’s annual report for the year ended Sep- ant Secretary for Export Administration, EC–124. A communication from the Chief of tember 30, 2012; to the Committee on the Ju- Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- diciary. ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant ternal Revenue Service, Department of the EC–135. A communication from the Federal to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Liaison Officer, Patent and Trademark Of- ments to Existing Validated End User Au- report of a rule entitled ‘‘2013 Cost-of-Living fice, Department of Commerce, transmit- thorizations: Advanced Micro Devices China, Adjustments to Certain Tax Items’’ (Rev. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Inc., Lam Research Corporation, SK hynix Proc. 2013–15) received during recess of the titled ‘‘Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees’’ Semiconductor (China) Ltd., and SK hynix Senate in the Office of the President of the (RIN0651–AC54) received during recess of the Semiconductor (Wuxi) Ltd. in the People’s Senate on January 15, 2013; to the Com- Senate in the Office of the President of the Republic of China; Clarification of Scope of mittee on Finance. Senate on January 15, 2013; to the Com- Entries in Supplement No. 7 to Part 748 of EC–125. A communication from the Chief of mittee on the Judiciary. the EAR’’ (RIN0694–AF84) received during re- the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- cess of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- ternal Revenue Service, Department of the f Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the dent of the Senate on January 10, 2013; to the INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban report of a rule entitled ‘‘Patel v. Commis- Affairs. sioner’’ (AOD 2012–05) received during recess JOINT RESOLUTIONS EC–115. A communication from the Chair- of the Senate in the Office of the President The following bills and joint resolu- man and President of the Export-Import of the Senate on January 16, 2013; to the tions were introduced, read the first Bank, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- Committee on Finance. EC–126. A communication from the Chief of and second times by unanimous con- port relative to a transaction involving U.S. sent, and referred as indicated: exports to Chile; to the Committee on Bank- the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. ternal Revenue Service, Department of the By Mr. VITTER: EC–116. A communication from the Chair- Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the S. 64. A bill to prohibit authorized commit- man and President of the Export-Import report of a rule entitled ‘‘Update of Weighted tees and leadership PAC’s from employing Bank, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- Average Interest Rates, Yield Curves, and the spouse or immediate family members of port relative to a transaction involving U.S. Segment Rates’’ (Notice 2013–2) received dur- any candidate or Federal office holder con- exports to South Korea; to the Committee on ing recess of the Senate in the Office of the nected to the committee; to the Committee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. President of the Senate on January 16, 2013; on Rules and Administration. EC–117. A communication from the Acting to the Committee on Finance. By Mr. VITTER (for himself and Mrs. Secretary of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- EC–127. A communication from the Execu- MCCASKILL): ant to law, the Annual Report for fiscal year tive Secretary, U. S. Agency for Inter- S. 65. A bill to repeal the provision of law 2012 of the Commerce Department’s Bureau national Development (USAID), transmit- that provides automatic pay adjustments for of Industry and Security (BIS); to the Com- ting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a Members of Congress; to the Committee on mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- vacancy in the position of Assistant Admin- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- fairs. istrator, Bureau for Legislative and Public fairs. EC–118. A communication from the Acting Affairs, U.S. Agency for International Devel- By Mr. VITTER (for himself and Mr. Secretary of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- opment (USAID), received during recess of NELSON):

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A bill to authorize the use of certain neers; to the Committee on Environment and DURBIN, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mrs. offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Public Works. HAGAN, Mr. HARKIN, Ms. HIRONO, Ms. Mexico for artificial reefs, and for other pur- By Mr. LAUTENBERG: KLOBUCHAR, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. poses; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- S. 67. A bill to amend the Safe Drinking LEAHY, Mr. LEVIN, Mrs. MCCASKILL, ural Resources. Water Act and the Federal Water Pollution Mr. MERKLEY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. By Mr. VITTER: Control Act to authorize the Administrator REED, Mr. SANDERS, Mrs. SHAHEEN, S. 97. A bill to amend title 44 of the United of the Environmental Protection Agency to Ms. STABENOW, Mr. UDALL of New States Code, to provide for the suspension of reduce or eliminate the risk of releases of Mexico, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. HEIN- fines under certain circumstances for first- hazardous chemicals from public water sys- RICH, Mr. UDALL of , Mr. time paperwork violations by small business tems and wastewater treatment works, and WYDEN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. FRANKEN, concerns; to the Committee on Homeland Se- for other purposes; to the Committee on En- and Mr. BEGICH): curity and Governmental Affairs. vironment and Public Works. S. 84. A bill to amend the Fair Labor By Mr. VITTER: By Mr. LAUTENBERG: Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effec- S. 98. A bill to ensure efficiency and fair- S. 68. A bill to enhance the security of tive remedies to victims of discrimination in ness in the awarding of Federal contracts in chemical facilities and for other purposes; to the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and connection with natural disaster reconstruc- the Committee on Homeland Security and for other purposes; to the Committee on tion efforts; to the Committee on Homeland Governmental Affairs. Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Security and Governmental Affairs. By Mr. VITTER: By Mr. LEVIN: By Mr. COONS (for himself, Mr. WAR- S. 99. A bill to provide for full and open S. 69. A bill for the relief of Anton Dodaj, NER, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. competition for Federal contracts related to Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, Kristjan Dodaj, BLUMENTHAL, and Mrs. GILLIBRAND): and Kanto Macotaj; to the Committee on the S. 85. A bill to provide incentives for natural disaster reconstruction efforts; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Judiciary. States to invest in practices and technology Governmental Affairs. By Mr. LEVIN: that are designed to expedite voting at the By Mr. VITTER: S. 70. A bill for the relief of Marcos Anto- polls and to simplify voter registration; to S. 100. A bill to amend the Financial Sta- nio Sanchez-Diaz; to the Committee on the the Committee on Rules and Administration. Judiciary. bility Act of 2010 to repeal certain designa- By Mr. VITTER: tion authority of the Financial Stability By Mr. LEVIN: S. 86. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Oversight Council, to repeal the Payment, S. 71. A bill for the relief of Josephina Code of 1986 to expand the Coverdell edu- Clearing, and Settlement Supervision Act of Valera Lopez; to the Committee on the Judi- cation savings accounts to allow home ciary. 2010, and for other purposes; to the Com- school education expenses, and for other pur- mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- By Mr. LEVIN: poses; to the Committee on Finance. S. 72. A bill for the relief of Luay Hadad; to fairs. By Mr. VITTER: the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. VITTER: S. 87. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue S. 101. A bill to prohibit the provision of By Mr. LEVIN: Code of 1986 to provide a tax deduction for S. 73. A bill for the relief of Miguel Federal funds to State and local govern- itemizers and nonitemizers for expenses re- Santillan; to the Committee on the Judici- ments for payment of obligations, to pro- lating to home schooling; to the Committee ary. hibit the Board of Governors of the Federal on Finance. By Mr. LEVIN: Reserve System from financially assisting S. 74. A bill for the relief of Momo Krcic; to By Mr. VITTER: State and local governments, and for other the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 88. A bill to amend the public charter purposes; to the Committee on Banking, By Mr. LEVIN: school provisions of the Elementary and Sec- Housing, and Urban Affairs. S. 75. A bill for the relief of Ibrahim ondary Education Act of 1965, and for other By Mr. VITTER: Parlak; to the Committee on the Judiciary. purposes; to the Committee on Health, Edu- S. 102. A bill to reduce the amount of fi- By Mr. LEVIN: cation, Labor, and Pensions. nancial assistance provided to the Govern- S. 76. A bill for the relief of Guy Yang, By Mr. VITTER: ment of Mexico in response to the illegal Genevieve Chong Foung, Caroline Yang, and S. 89. A bill to amend the Migratory Bird border crossings from Mexico into the United Melanie Vang; to the Committee on the Ju- Treaty Act to authorize hunting under cer- States, which serve to dissipate the political diciary. tain circumstances; to the Committee on En- discontent with the higher unemployment By Mr. FRANKEN (for himself and Ms. vironment and Public Works. rate within Mexico; to the Committee on KLOBUCHAR): By Mr. VITTER: Foreign Relations. S. 77. A bill to amend part D of title XVIII S. 90. A bill to amend title II of the Social By Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Ms. of the Social Security Act to authorize the Security Act to allow workers who attain MIKULSKI): Secretary of Health and Human Services to age 65 after 1981 and before 1992 to choose ei- S. 103. A bill to authorize the Secretary of negotiate for lower prices for Medicare pre- ther lump sum payments over four years to- the Interior to conduct a special resource scription drugs; to the Committee on Fi- taling $5,000 or an improved benefit computa- study of P.S. 103 in West Baltimore, Mary- nance. tion formula under a new 10-year rule gov- land, and for other purposes; to the Com- By Mr. LEVIN: erning the transition to the changes in ben- mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. S. 78. A bill for the relief of Hussein Bazzi; efit computation rules enacted in the Social By Mr. VITTER: to the Committee on the Judiciary. Security Amendments of 1977, and for other S. 104. A bill to provide for congressional By Mr. LEVIN: purposes; to the Committee on Finance. approval of national monuments and re- S. 79. A bill for the relief of Al-Housseynou By Mr. VITTER: stricts on the use of national monuments; to Ba; to the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 91. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. BEN- Code of 1986 to clarify eligibility for the sources. NET, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. BURR, and child tax credit; to the Committee on Fi- By Mr. VITTER: Mr. KIRK): nance. S. 105. A bill to direct the General Ac- S. 80. A bill to amend the DNA Analysis By Mr. VITTER: countability Office to conduct a full audit of Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide S. 92. A bill to require that the Govern- hurricane protection funding and cost esti- for Debbie Smith grants for auditing sexual ment give priority to payment of all obliga- mates associated with post-Katrina hurri- assault evidence backlogs and to establish a tions on the debt held by the public and pay- cane protection; to the Committee on Home- Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting ment of Social Security benefits in the event land Security and Governmental Affairs. System, and for other purposes; to the Com- that the debt limit is reached; to the Com- By Mr. VITTER: mittee on the Judiciary. mittee on Finance. S. 106. A bill to provide for the establish- By Mr. PAUL: By Mr. VITTER: ment, on-going validation, and use of an offi- S. 81. A bill to provide guidance and prior- S. 93. A bill to provide tax relief with re- cial set of data on the historical temperature ities for Federal Government obligations in spect to the Hurricane Isaac disaster area; to record, and for other purposes; to the Com- the event that the debt limit is reached; read the Committee on Finance. mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- the first time. By Mr. VITTER: tation. By Mr. PAUL: S. 94. A bill to terminate the $1 presi- By Mr. VITTER: S. 82. A bill to provide that any executive dential coin program; to the Committee on S. 107. A bill to prohibit the regulation of action infringing on the Second Amendment Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. carbon dioxide emissions in the United has no force or effect, and to prohibit the use By Mr. VITTER: States until China, India, and Russia imple- of funds for certain purposes; read the first S. 95. A bill to withhold United States con- ment similar reductions; to the Committee time. tributions to the United Nations until the on Environment and Public Works.

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AYOTTE, Mr. BURR, Mr. COBURN, Ms. ship Program; to the Committee on Foreign By Mr. VITTER: COLLINS, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. ROBERTS, Relations. S. Res. 10. A resolution expressing the and Mr. WICKER): By Mrs. BOXER: sense of the Senate regarding the Govern- S. 109. A bill to preserve open competition S. 121. A bill to establish the United States ment of Antigua and Barbuda and its actions and Federal Government neutrality towards Advisory Council on Human Trafficking to relating to the Stanford Financial Group the labor relations of Federal Government review Federal Government policy on human fraud; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- contractors on Federal and federally funded trafficking; to the Committee on the Judici- tions. construction projects; to the Committee on ary. By Mr. VITTER: Homeland Security and Governmental Af- By Mr. CHAMBLISS (for himself, Mr. S. Res. 11. A resolution expressing support fairs. BURR, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. COBURN, Mr. for prayer at school board meetings; to the By Mr. VITTER: CORNYN, Mr. MORAN, and Mr. CRUZ): Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and S. 110. A bill to establish a procedure to S. 122. A bill to promote freedom, fairness, Pensions. safeguard the Social Security Trust Funds; and economic opportunity by repealing the to the Committee on the Budget. income tax and other taxes, abolishing the f By Mr. VITTER: Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a na- ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 111. A bill to require all public school tional sales tax to be administered primarily employees and those employed in connection by the States; to the Committee on Finance. S. 4 with a public school to receive FBI back- By Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself, Mrs. At the request of Mr. REID, the name ground checks prior to being hired, and for BOXER, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. of the Senator from Washington (Ms. other purposes; to the Committee on Health, BEGICH, and Mr. COONS): CANTWELL) was added as a cosponsor of Education, Labor, and Pensions. S. 123. A bill to modernize voter registra- By Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Ms. tion, promote access to voting for individ- S. 4, a bill to create jobs and strength- CANTWELL): uals with disabilities, protect the ability of en our economy by rebuilding our Na- S. 112. A bill to expand the Alpine Lakes individuals to exercise the right to vote in tion’s infrastructure. Wilderness in the State of Washington, to elections for Federal office, and for other S. 5 designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River purposes; to the Committee on Rules and Ad- and Pratt River as wild and scenic rivers, At the request of Mr. UDALL of Colo- ministration. rado, his name was added as a cospon- and for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. HELLER (for himself, Mr. Energy and Natural Resources. MANCHIN, Mr. ALEXANDER, Ms. sor of S. 5, a bill to reauthorize the Vi- By Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. HAR- AYOTTE, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BURR, olence Against Women Act of 1994. KIN, and Mr. FRANKEN): Mr. COBURN, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. COR- At the request of Mr. REID, the S. 113. A bill to amend the Truth in Lend- NYN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. names of the Senator from Washington ing Act and the Higher Education Act of 1965 CORKER, Mr. FLAKE, and Mr. VITTER): (Ms. CANTWELL), the Senator from Iowa to require certain creditors to obtain certifi- S. 124. A bill to provide that Members of (Mr. HARKIN) and the Senator from Or- cations from institutions of higher edu- Congress may not receive pay after October cation, and for other purposes; to the Com- egon (Mr. WYDEN) were added as co- 1 of any fiscal year in which Congress has sponsors of S. 5, supra. mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- not approved a concurrent resolution on the fairs. budget and passed the regular appropriations S. 6 By Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. bills; read the first time. At the request of Mr. REID, the WHITEHOUSE, Mr. FRANKEN, Mr. HAR- By Mr. VITTER (for himself, Mr. PAUL, names of the Senator from New Jersey KIN, Mr. REED, and Ms. WARREN): Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. COBURN, Mr. LEE, S. 114. A bill to amend title 11, United (Mr. LAUTENBERG) and the Senator Mr. RUBIO, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. TOOMEY, States Code, with respect to certain excep- from West Virginia (Mr. ROCKEFELLER) and Mr. JOHNSON of Wisconsin): were added as cosponsors of S. 6, a bill tions to discharge in bankruptcy; to the S.J. Res. 2. A joint resolution proposing an Committee on the Judiciary. amendment to the Constitution of the to reauthorize the VOW to Hire Heroes By Mr. CASEY: United States relative to limiting the num- Act of 2011, to provide assistance to S. 115. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- ber of terms that a Member of Congress may small businesses owned by veterans, to enue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for in- serve; to the Committee on the Judiciary. improve enforcement of employment creasing payroll; to the Committee on Fi- By Mr. PAUL (for himself and Mr. VIT- nance. and reemployment rights of members TER): By Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. MUR- of the uniformed services, and for other S.J. Res. 3. A joint resolution proposing an KOWSKI, Mr. DURBIN, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. purposes. amendment to the Constitution of the UDALL of New Mexico, Mrs. MURRAY, United States relative to limiting the num- S. 8 Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, ber of terms that a Member of Congress may At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. COONS, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Ms. STA- serve to 3 in the House of Representatives his name was added as a cosponsor of BENOW, and Mr. BEGICH): S. 116. A bill to revise and extend provi- and 2 in the Senate; to the Committee on the S. 8, a bill expressing the sense of the sions under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Judiciary. Senate on the need to enact legislation Act; to the Committee on Health, Education, By Mr. VITTER (for himself and Mr. to eliminate wasteful tax loopholes. AUL): Labor, and Pensions. P S.J. Res. 4. A joint resolution proposing an S. 10 By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. amendment to the Constitution of the At the request of Mr. REID, the name BEGICH, Mr. FRANKEN, Mr. JOHNSON of United States relating to United States citi- of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. South Dakota, Mr. SANDERS, and zenship; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mrs. SHAHEEN): CARPER) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 117. A bill to amend part D of title XVIII f 10, a bill to reauthorize agricultural of the Social Security Act to require the programs through 2018. SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND Secretary of Health and Human Services to S. 21 negotiate covered part D drug prices on be- SENATE RESOLUTIONS At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, his half of Medicare beneficiaries; to the Com- The following concurrent resolutions name was added as a cosponsor of S. 21, mittee on Finance. and Senate resolutions were read, and By Mr. COBURN (for himself and Mr. a bill to secure the United States UDALL of Colorado): referred (or acted upon), as indicated: against cyber attack, to improve com- S. 118. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- By Mr. ROBERTS (for himself, Mr. munication and collaboration between enue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of pub- MORAN, Mr. JOHANNS, Mr. JOHNSON of the private sector and the Federal Gov- lic funds for political party conventions; to Wisconsin, and Mr. CORNYN): ernment, to enhance American com- the Committee on Rules and Administration. S. Res. 8. A resolution expressing the sense petitiveness and create jobs in the in- By Mrs. BOXER: of the Senate that Congress holds the sole S. 119. A bill to prohibit the application of authority to borrow money on the credit of formation technology industry, and to certain restrictive eligibility requirements the United States and shall not cede this protect the identities and sensitive in- to foreign nongovernmental organizations power to the President; to the Committee on formation of American citizens and with respect to the provision of assistance Finance. businesses.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:16 Sep 20, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\JAN2013\S23JA3.REC S23JA3 bjneal on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 23, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S215 S. 29 limit certain uses of the filibuster in be distributed under this paragraph shall de- At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the the Senate to improve the legislative crease or otherwise limit the availability of name of the Senator from Pennsyl- process. funds required to be awarded to States or units of local government under paragraph vania (Mr. TOOMEY) was added as a co- S. RES. 5 (3).’’; and sponsor of S. 29, a bill to amend title At the request of Mr. HARKIN, the (3) by adding at the end the following new 31, United States Code, to provide for name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. subsections: automatic continuing resolutions. SCHATZ) was added as a cosponsor of S. ‘‘(n) USE OF FUNDS FOR AUDITING SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE BACKLOGS.— S. 32 Res. 5, a resolution amending the ‘‘(1) ELIGIBILITY.—The Attorney General At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the Standing Rules of the Senate to pro- may award a grant under this section to a names of the Senator from Kentucky vide for cloture to be invoked with less State or unit of local government for the (Mr. MCCONNELL), the Senator from than a three-fifths majority after addi- purpose described in subsection (a)(7) only if Georgia (Mr. CHAMBLISS), the Senator tional debate. the State or unit of local government— from Mississippi (Mr. COCHRAN) and the S. RES. 7 ‘‘(A) submits a plan for performing the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. audit of samples described in such sub- At the request of Mr. LAUTENBERG, section; and BURR) were added as cosponsors of S. the name of the Senator from Hawaii ‘‘(B) includes in such plan a good-faith es- 32, a bill to amend title 18, United (Mr. SCHATZ) was added as a cosponsor timate of the number of such samples. States Code, to prohibit taking minors of S. Res. 7, a resolution to permit the ‘‘(2) GRANT CONDITIONS.—A State or unit of across State lines in circumvention of Senate to avoid unnecessary delay and local government receiving a grant for the laws requiring the involvement of par- vote on matters for which floor debate purpose described in subsection (a)(7)— ents in abortion decisions. has ceased. ‘‘(A) may not enter into any contract or agreement with any non-governmental ven- S. 40 f dor laboratory to conduct an audit described At the request of Mr. HATCH, the in subsection (a)(7); and names of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS ‘‘(B) shall— MURKOWSKI), the Senator from Mis- ‘‘(i) not later than 1 year after receiving sissippi (Mr. COCHRAN), the Senator By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. the grant, complete the audit referred to in from Wyoming (Mr. ENZI) and the Sen- BENNET, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. paragraph (1)(A) in accordance with the plan ator from Missouri (Mr. BLUNT) were BURR, AND MR. KIRK): submitted under such paragraph; added as cosponsors of S. 40, a bill to S. 80. A bill to amend the DNA Anal- ‘‘(ii) not later than 60 days after receiving ysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to possession of a sample of sexual assault evi- restore Americans’ individual liberty dence that was not in the possession of the by striking the Federal mandate to provide for Debbie Smith grants for au- State or unit of local government at the purchase insurance. diting sexual assault evidence backlogs time of the initiation of an audit under para- S. 41 and to establish a Sexual Assault Fo- graph (1)(A), subject to paragraph (4)(F), in- clude in any required reports under clause At the request of Ms. CANTWELL, the rensic Evidence Reporting System, and for other purposes; to the Committee (v), the information listed under paragraph name of the Senator from South Da- (4)(B); kota (Mr. JOHNSON) was added as a co- on the Judiciary. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask ‘‘(iii) for each sample of sexual assault evi- sponsor of S. 41, a bill to provide a per- dence that is identified as awaiting testing manent deduction for State and local unanimous consent that the text of the as part of the audit referred to in paragraph general sales taxes. bill be printed in the RECORD. (1)(A)— There being no objection, the text of ‘‘(I) assign a unique numeric or alpha- S. 43 the bill was ordered to be printed in numeric identifier to each sample of sexual At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the the RECORD as follows: assault evidence that is in the possession of name of the Senator from Pennsyl- S. 80 the State or unit of local government and is vania (Mr. TOOMEY) was added as a co- awaiting testing; and sponsor of S. 43, a bill to require that Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- ‘‘(II) identify the date or dates after which any debt limit increase be balanced by resentatives of the United States of America in the State or unit of local government would Congress assembled, equal spending cuts of the next decade. be barred by any applicable statutes of limi- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. tations from prosecuting a perpetrator of the S. 47 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sexual As- sexual assault to which the sample relates; At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the sault Forensic Evidence Reporting Act of ‘‘(iv) provide that— names of the Senator from North Caro- 2013’’ or the ‘‘SAFER Act of 2013’’. ‘‘(I) the chief law enforcement officer of lina (Mrs. HAGAN), the Senator from SEC. 2. DEBBIE SMITH GRANTS FOR AUDITING the State or unit of local government, re- Rhode Island (Mr. WHITEHOUSE), the SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE BACK- spectively, is the individual responsible for LOGS. Senator from Montana (Mr. TESTER), the compliance of the State or unit of local Section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog government, respectively, with the reporting the Senator from California (Mrs. FEIN- Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135) is requirements described in clause (v); or STEIN), the Senator from Rhode Island amended— ‘‘(II) the designee of such officer may ful- (Mr. REED), the Senator from Min- (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end fill the responsibility described in subclause nesota (Mr. FRANKEN), the Senator the following new paragraphs: (I) so long as such designee is an employee of from New Mexico (Mr. UDALL), the Sen- ‘‘(7) To conduct an audit consistent with the State or unit of local government, re- ator from Maryland (Mr. CARDIN), the subsection (n) of the samples of sexual as- spectively, and is not an employee of any Senator from Alaska (Mr. BEGICH), the sault evidence that are in the possession of governmental laboratory or non-govern- Senator from Maine (Mr. KING), the the State or unit of local government and mental vendor laboratory; and are awaiting testing. ‘‘(v) comply with all grantee reporting re- Senator from Oregon (Mr. WYDEN) and ‘‘(8) To ensure that the collection and proc- quirements described in paragraph (4). the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. essing of DNA evidence by law enforcement ‘‘(3) EXTENSION OF INITIAL DEADLINE.—The WARREN) were added as cosponsors of agencies from crimes, including sexual as- Attorney General may grant an extension of S. 47, a bill to reauthorize the Violence sault and other violent crimes against per- the deadline under paragraph (2)(B)(i) to a Against Women Act of 1994. sons, is carried out in an appropriate and State or unit of local government that dem- S. 51 timely manner and in accordance with the onstrates that more time is required for protocols and practices developed under sub- compliance with such paragraph. At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the section (o)(1).’’; ‘‘(4) SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EVIDENCE name of the Senator from Mississippi (2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end REPORTS.— (Mr. COCHRAN) was added as a cospon- the following new paragraph: ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For not less than 12 sor of S. 51, a bill to reauthorize and ‘‘(4) ALLOCATION OF GRANT AWARDS FOR AU- months after the completion of an initial amend the National Fish and Wildlife DITS.—For each of fiscal years 2014 through count of sexual assault evidence that is Foundation Establishment Act. 2017, not less than 5 percent, but not more awaiting testing during an audit referred to than 7 percent, of the grant amounts distrib- in paragraph (1)(A), a State or unit of local S. RES. 4 uted under paragraph (1) shall, if sufficient government that receives a grant award At the request of Mr. UDALL of New applications to justify such amounts are re- under subsection (a)(7) shall, not less than Mexico, the name of the Senator from ceived by the Attorney General, be awarded every 60 days, submit a report to the Depart- Hawaii (Mr. SCHATZ) was added as a co- for purposes described in subsection (a)(7), ment of Justice, on a form prescribed by the sponsor of S. Res. 4, a resolution to provided that none of the funds required to Attorney General, which shall contain the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:16 Sep 20, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\JAN2013\S23JA3.REC S23JA3 bjneal on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S216 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 23, 2013 information required under subparagraph scribed in paragraph (2) shall not apply to a and crime victims regarding the status of (B). sample of sexual assault evidence that— crime scene evidence to be tested; and ‘‘(B) CONTENTS OF REPORTS.—A report ‘‘(i) is not considered criminal evidence ‘‘(E) standards for conducting the audit of under this paragraph shall contain the fol- (such as a sample collected anonymously the backlog for DNA case work in sexual as- lowing information— from a victim who is unwilling to make a sault cases required under subsection (n). ‘‘(i) the name of the State or unit of local criminal complaint); or ‘‘(2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.— government filing the report; ‘‘(ii) relates to a sexual assault for which The Director shall make available technical ‘‘(ii) the period of dates covered by the re- the prosecution of each perpetrator is barred assistance and training to support States port; by a statute of limitations. and units of local government in adopting ‘‘(iii) the cumulative total number of sam- ‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: and implementing the protocols and prac- ples of sexual assault evidence that, at the ‘‘(A) AWAITING TESTING.—The term ‘await- tices developed under paragraph (1) on and end of the reporting period— ing testing’ means, with respect to a sample after the date on which the protocols and ‘‘(I) are in the possession of the State or of sexual assault evidence, that— practices are published. unit of local government at the reporting pe- ‘‘(i) the sample has been collected and is in ‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the riod; the possession of a State or unit of local gov- terms ‘awaiting testing’ and ‘possession’ ‘‘(II) are awaiting testing; and ernment; have the meanings given those terms in sub- ‘‘(III) the State or unit of local government ‘‘(ii) DNA and other appropriate forensic section (n).’’. has determined should undergo DNA or other analyses have not been performed on such SEC. 3. REPORTS TO CONGRESS. appropriate forensic analyses; sample; and Not later than 90 days after the end of each ‘‘(iv) the cumulative total number of sam- ‘‘(iii) the sample is related to a criminal fiscal year for which a grant is made for the ples of sexual assault evidence in the posses- case or investigation in which final disposi- purpose described in section 2(a)(7) of the sion of the State or unit of local government tion has not yet been reached. DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of that, at the end of the reporting period, the ‘‘(B) FINAL DISPOSITION.—The term ‘final 2000, as amended by section 2, the Attorney State or unit of local government has deter- disposition’ means, with respect to a crimi- General shall submit to Congress a report mined should not undergo DNA or other ap- nal case or investigation to which a sample that— propriate forensic analyses, provided that of sexual assault evidence relates— (1) lists the States and units of local gov- the reporting form shall allow for the State ‘‘(i) the conviction or acquittal of all sus- ernment that have been awarded such grants or unit of local government, at its sole dis- pected perpetrators of the crime involved; and the amount of the grant received by cretion, to explain the reasoning for this de- ‘‘(ii) a determination by the State or unit each such State or unit of local government; termination in some or all cases; of local government in possession of the sam- (2) states the number of extensions granted ‘‘(v) the cumulative total number of sam- ple that the case is unfounded; or by the Attorney General under section ples of sexual assault evidence in a total ‘‘(iii) a declaration by the victim of the 2(n)(3) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimi- under clause (iii) that have been submitted crime involved that the act constituting the nation Act of 2000, as added by section 2; and to a laboratory for DNA or other appropriate basis of the crime was not committed. (3) summarizes the processing status of the forensic analyses; ‘‘(C) POSSESSION.— samples of sexual assault evidence identified ‘‘(vi) the cumulative total number of sam- ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘possession’, in Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reports ples of sexual assault evidence identified by used with respect to possession of a sample established under section 2(n)(4) of the DNA an audit referred to in paragraph (1)(A) or of sexual assault evidence by a State or unit Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, in- under paragraph (2)(B)(ii) for which DNA or of local government, includes possession by cluding the number of samples that have not other appropriate forensic analysis has been an individual who is acting as an agent of been tested. completed at the end of the reporting period; the State or unit of local government for the SEC. 4. REDUCING THE RAPE KIT BACKLOG. ‘‘(vii) the total number of samples of sex- collection of the sample. Section 2(c)(3) of the DNA Analysis Back- ual assault evidence identified by the State ‘‘(ii) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in log Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. or unit of local government under paragraph clause (i) shall be construed to create or 14135(c)(3)) is amended— (2)(B)(ii), since the previous reporting period; amend any Federal rights or privileges for (a) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘2014’’ and non-governmental vendor laboratories de- and inserting ‘‘2018’’; and ‘‘(viii) the cumulative total number of scribed in regulations promulgated under (b) by adding at the end the following: samples of sexual assault evidence described section 210303 of the DNA Identification Act ‘‘(C) For each of fiscal years 2014 through under clause (iii) for which the State or unit of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14131). 2018, not less than 75 percent of the total of local government will be barred within 12 ‘‘(o) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTOCOLS, TECH- grant amounts shall be awarded for a com- months by any applicable statute of limita- NICAL ASSISTANCE, AND DEFINITIONS.— bination of purposes under paragraphs (1), tions from prosecuting a perpetrator of the ‘‘(1) PROTOCOLS AND PRACTICES.—Not later (2), and (3) of subsection (a).’’. sexual assault to which the sample relates. than 18 months after the date of enactment SEC. 5. OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. ‘‘(C) PUBLICATION OF REPORTS.—Not later of the SAFER Act of 2013, the Director, in All grants awarded by the Department of than 7 days after the submission of a report consultation with Federal, State, and local Justice that are authorized under the under this paragraph by a State or unit of law enforcement agencies and government SAFER Act of 2013 shall be subject to the local government, the Attorney General laboratories, shall develop and publish a de- following: shall, subject to subparagraph (D), publish scription of protocols and practices the Di- (1) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.—Beginning in fis- and disseminate a facsimile of the full con- rector considers appropriate for the accu- cal year 2013, and each fiscal year thereafter, tents of such report on an appropriate inter- rate, timely, and effective collection and the Inspector General of the Department of net website. processing of DNA evidence, including proto- Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of ‘‘(D) PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMA- cols and practices specific to sexual assault grants under this Act to prevent waste, TION.—The Attorney General shall ensure cases, which shall address appropriate steps fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. The that any information published and dissemi- in the investigation of cases that might in- Inspector General shall determine the appro- nated as part of a report under this para- volve DNA evidence, including— priate number of grantees to be audited each graph, which reports information under this ‘‘(A) how to determine— year. subsection, does not include personally iden- ‘‘(i) which evidence is to be collected by (2) MANDATORY EXCLUSION.—A recipient of tifiable information or details about a sexual law enforcement personnel and forwarded for grant funds under this Act that is found to assault that might lead to the identification testing; have an unresolved audit finding shall not be of the individuals involved. ‘‘(ii) the preferred order in which evidence eligible to receive grant funds under this Act ‘‘(E) OPTIONAL REPORTING.—The Attorney from the same case is to be tested; and during the 2 fiscal years beginning after the General shall— ‘‘(iii) what information to take into ac- 12-month period described in paragraph (5). ‘‘(i) at the discretion of a State or unit of count when establishing the order in which (3) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under local government required to file a report evidence from different cases is to be tested; this Act, the Attorney General shall give pri- under subparagraph (A), allow such State or ‘‘(B) the establishment of a reasonable pe- ority to eligible entities that, during the 3 unit of local government, at their sole dis- riod of time in which evidence is to be for- fiscal years before submitting an application cretion, to submit such reports on a more warded by emergency response providers, law for a grant under this Act, did not have an frequent basis; and enforcement personnel, and prosecutors to a unresolved audit finding showing a violation ‘‘(ii) make available to all States and units laboratory for testing; in the terms or conditions of a Department of local government the reporting form cre- ‘‘(C) the establishment of reasonable peri- of Justice grant program. ated pursuant to subparagraph (A), whether ods of time in which each stage of analytical (4) REIMBURSEMENT.—If an entity is award- or not they are required to submit such re- laboratory testing is to be completed; ed grant funds under this Act during the 2- ports, and allow such States or units of local ‘‘(D) systems to encourage communication fiscal-year period in which the entity is government, at their sole discretion, to sub- within a State or unit of local government barred from receiving grants under para- mit such reports for publication. among emergency response providers, law graph (2), the Attorney General shall— ‘‘(F) SAMPLES EXEMPT FROM REPORTING RE- enforcement personnel, prosecutors, courts, (A) deposit an amount equal to the grant QUIREMENT.—The reporting requirements de- defense counsel, crime laboratory personnel, funds that were improperly awarded to the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:16 Sep 20, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\JAN2013\S23JA3.REC S23JA3 bjneal on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 23, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S217 grantee into the General Fund of the Treas- (i) lobby any representative of the Depart- eroded by exceptionally long lines, con- ury; and ment of Justice regarding the award of grant fusing rules, and widespread voting ma- (B) seek to recoup the costs of the repay- funding; or chine malfunctions. There were prob- ment to the fund from the grant recipient (ii) lobby any representative of a Federal, lems in more than a dozen States docu- that was erroneously awarded grant funds. state, local, or tribal government regarding (5) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the the award of grant funding. mented in the media. term ‘‘unresolved audit finding’’ means an (B) PENALTY.—If the Attorney General de- There were voting machine irregular- audit report finding in the final audit report termines that any recipient of a grant under ities in and Colorado; of the Inspector General of the Department this Act has violated subparagraph (A), the error-ridden voter rolls in Ohio; delays of Justice that the grantee has utilized grant Attorney General shall— counting ballots in Arizona; voters funds for an unauthorized expenditure or (i) require the grant recipient to repay the waiting in lines 5 hours long in Vir- otherwise unallowable cost that is not closed grant in full; and ginia and 8 hours long in Florida. We or resolved within a 12-month period begin- (ii) prohibit the grant recipient from re- ning on the date when the final audit report have to do better than this. ceiving another grant under this Act for not As Americans, the right to vote is in is issued. less than 5 years. (6) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION REQUIRE- our DNA. So just days after these 2012 SEC. 6. SUNSET. elections, which had such widespread MENTS.— Effective on December 31, 2018, subsections (A) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this sec- (a)(7) and (n) of section 2 of the DNA Anal- problems, I introduced the FAST Vot- tion and the grant programs described in ysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 ing Act, the Fair, Accurate, Secure, this Act, the term ‘‘ ‘nonprofit organiza- U.S.C. 14135(a)(7) and (n)) are repealed. and Timely Voting Act, along with tion’ ’’ means an organization that is de- Senator WARNER and colleagues in the scribed in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal By Mr. COONS (for himself, Mr. Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from tax- House, Congressman CONNOLLY and ation under section 501(a) of such Code. WARNER, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. Congressman LANGEVIN. (B) PROHIBITION.—The Attorney General BLUMENTHAL, and Mrs. GILLI- Our bill challenges States to imple- shall not award a grant under any grant pro- BRAND): ment commonsense changes well before gram described in this Act to a nonprofit or- S. 85. A bill to provide incentives for the next election. It would provide in- ganization that holds money in offshore ac- States to invest in practices and tech- centives and competitive grants to counts for the purpose of avoiding paying the nology that are designed to expedite those States that can turn around their tax described in section 511(a) of the Internal voting at the polls and to simplify poorest performing polling places, im- Revenue Code of 1986. (C) DISCLOSURE.—Each nonprofit organiza- voter registration; to the Committee prove the administration of their elec- tion that is awarded a grant under a grant on Rules and Administration. tions, and make voting faster and more program described in this Act and uses the Mr. COONS. Mr. President, we are no accessible to all voters. procedures prescribed in regulations to cre- longer in an election year, which As a former county executive myself, ate a rebuttable presumption of reasonable- makes this the perfect time for this I know States and local governments ness for the compensation of its officers, di- Congress to take action on real and are laboratories of democracy. When it rectors, trustees and key employees, shall meaningful election reform. Regardless comes to administering elections, disclose to the Attorney General, in the ap- plication for the grant, the process for deter- of which candidates we voted for last many States and counties are getting mining such compensation, including the November, we can all agree that in the it right. We can learn from them and independent persons involved in reviewing world’s greatest democracy, in the year replicate their successes elsewhere in and approving such compensation, the com- 2013 we should put in place systems the country to ensure these same prob- parability data used, and contemporaneous which ensure every voter will be able lems do not plague the next national substantiation of the deliberation and deci- to cast their ballot without unneces- elections. sion. Upon request, the Attorney General sary delays, redtape, or restriction in For example, Florida was one of shall make the information disclosed under many States with rampant election this subsection available for public inspec- our next elections. That is why I am tion. looking forward to working with my problems in 2012. There were long lines, (7) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Unless oth- colleagues in the Senate, with leaders limited early voting, and other issues erwise explicitly provided in authorizing leg- in State and local governments across that may have disenfranchised as many islation, not more than 7.5 percent of the the country, and with folks in the U.S. as 49,000 Floridians, according to a amounts authorized to be appropriated under Department of Justice to discuss ways study by Professor Theodore Allen of this Act may be used by the Attorney Gen- we can reform our election process to Ohio State University. eral for salaries and administrative expenses make voting more accessible for more Floridians such as Richard Jordan of the Department of Justice. waited more than 3 hours in a line that (8) CONFERENCE EXPENDITURES.— Americans. (A) LIMITATION.—No amounts authorized to In his second inaugural address deliv- just was not moving to try and cast his be appropriated to the Department of Justice ered just this Monday, President ballot on election day 2012. He had al- under this Act may be used by the Attorney Obama made a point to tie voting ready worked a 10-hour shift that day. General or by any individual or organization rights to civil rights. President Obama He was exhausted, his back hurt, he awarded discretionary funds through a coop- spoke of the long American march to- was hungry, and ultimately in anger erative agreement under this Act, to host or ward justice. He said: decided he could not wait anymore. He support any expenditure for conferences that simply gave up and walked away. He uses more than $20,000 in Department funds, And the first steps of that march—of the unless the Deputy Attorney General or the journey toward a better, fairer, more equal was denied the opportunity to cast his appropriate Assistant Attorney General, Di- society, one where every American, regard- ballot by an unprepared, rector, or principal deputy as the Deputy At- less of their race, gender, sexual orientation underresourced, or just incompetent torney General may designate, provides prior or economic status, has the same shot at election system. written authorization that the funds may be success—has always started at the ballot On behalf of voters across the State expended to host a conference. box. such as Richard, earlier this month (B) WRITTEN APPROVAL.—Written approval President Obama mentioned Seneca Florida’s elections administrators pre- under subparagraph (A) shall include a writ- Falls, a central moment in the move- sented Florida’s Governor Rick Scott ten estimate of all costs associated with the ment for women’s suffrage, and Selma, with a list of reforms they would like conference, including the cost of all food and the emotional heart of the fight for beverages, audio/visual equipment, honoraria to see implemented to prevent these for speakers, and any entertainment. equal access to voting rights for Afri- problems from happening again. Gov- (C) REPORT.—The Deputy Attorney General can Americans. He said: ernor Scott admitted that his own shall submit an annual report to the Com- Our journey is not complete until no cit- State’s election process was clearly in mittee on the Judiciary of the Senate and izen is forced to wait for hours to exercise need of improvement. He said he the Committee on the Judiciary of the House the right to vote. agreed with some of the election super- of Representatives on all conference expendi- He is right. visors’ proposals. In my view, this is a tures approved by operation of this para- The 2012 elections were a wake-up very positive step forward, and one graph. (9) PROHIBITION ON LOBBYING ACTIVITY.— call to those of us who treasure the which should be undertaken in every (A) IN GENERAL.—Amounts authorized to be right to vote. All over our country—in State where there is documented need appropriated under this Act may not be uti- blue States and red States—Americans for stronger, fairer, faster, and freer lized by any grant recipient to— saw their fundamental right to vote elections.

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Our democracy needs to be a record, as applicable— States do a better job of enforcing laws model to the rest of the world for how (i) in providing various voter registration that are already on the books. to ensure that every citizen gets to ex- opportunities; For example, the National Voter ercise the right to vote. (ii) in providing early voting; Registration Act, commonly known as Let’s find a way to come together to (iii) in providing absentee voting; the motor voter law, requires States to put meaningful election reforms in (iv) in providing assistance to voters who allow voters to register when they place now before we deny one more do not speak English as a primary language; renew their driver’s license at the DMV American their fundamental right to (v) in providing assistance to voters with or at other governmental agencies. Yet vote for the candidate of their choice. disabilities; there are substantial and credible alle- Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- (vi) in providing effective access to voting gations that some States all across sent that the text of the bill be printed for members of the armed services; in the RECORD. (vii) in providing formal training of elec- this country—whether blue, red, or tion officials; purple—are not fulfilling their obliga- There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in (viii) in auditing or otherwise documenting tions under this act. waiting times at polling stations; In talking with elections administra- the RECORD, as follows: (ix) in allocating polling locations, equip- tors from around the country, it is S. 85 ment, and staff to match population dis- clear to me that compliance with exist- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- tribution; ing law is not complete. We have to do resentatives of the United States of America in (x) in responding to voting irregularities more to ensure voters are afforded the Congress assembled, and concerns raised at polling stations; rights given to them under current law SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. (xi) in creating and adhering to contin- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Louis L. and that State agencies are doing what gency voting plans in the event of a natural Redding Fair, Accurate, Secure, and Timely or other disaster; and is required to simplify the registration Voting Act of 2013’’ or the ‘‘FAST Voting Act (xii) with respect to any other performance process to maintain uniform and non- of 2013’’. measure described in subsection (e) that is discriminatory voter rolls and provide SEC. 2. INCENTIVES FOR STATES TO INVEST IN not included in clauses (i) through (xi); widespread registration opportunities. PRACTICES AND TECHNOLOGY THAT (B) evidence of conditions of innovation Enforcing existing law is just part of ARE DESIGNED TO EXPEDITE VOT- and reform that the applicant has estab- ING AT THE POLLS AND SIMPLIFY the solution to the voting problems we VOTER REGISTRATION. lished and the applicant’s proposed plan for implementing additional conditions for inno- saw across our country in 2012. (a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section We also have to look forward at ways are to— vation and reform, including— to deliver the best and most efficient (1) provide incentives for States to invest (i) a description of how the applicant has voting process to all Americans. There in practices and technology that are de- identified and eliminated ineffective prac- tices in the past and the applicant’s plan for is still much more we can do to meet signed to expedite voting at the polls; and (2) provide incentives for States to sim- doing so in the future; that goal, and I think part of the solu- (ii) a description of how the applicant has tion is the mechanism of the FAST plify voter registration. (b) RESERVATION OF FUNDS.—From the identified and promoted effective practices Voting Act. amount made available to carry out this sec- in the past and the applicant’s plan for doing Our legislation focuses on cost-effec- tion for a fiscal year, the Attorney General so in the future; and tive reforms, such as making it easier may reserve not more than 10 percent of (iii) steps the applicant has taken and will to register online and ensuring citizens such amount to carry out activities related take to eliminate statutory, regulatory, pro- who move to a new jurisdiction can to— cedural, or other barriers and to facilitate easily transfer their voter registration. (1) technical assistance; and the full implementation of the proposed plan under this subparagraph; If we use modern technology that we (2) outreach and dissemination. (c) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.— (C) a comprehensive and coherent plan for already have at our disposal, we can (1) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts made using funds under this section, and other make it easier for all eligible American available under subsection (h) for a fiscal Federal, State, and local funds, to improve citizens to cast their ballot and ensure year and not reserved under subsection (b), the applicant’s performance on the measures every vote is counted. the Attorney General shall award grants, on described in subsection (e), consistent with President Obama was right to men- a competitive basis, to States in accordance criteria set forth by the Attorney General, tion election reform alongside the with subsection (d)(2), to enable the States including how the applicant will, if applica- most essential civil rights struggles in to carry out the purposes of this section. ble— our country’s history in his inaugural (2) NUMBER OF GRANTS.—A State may not (i) provide flexible registration opportuni- address on Monday. Making it harder receive more than 1 grant under this section ties, including online and same-day registra- tion and registration updating; for citizens to vote is a violation of per grant period. (3) DURATION OF GRANTS.— (ii) provide early voting, at a minimum of their civil rights. Long lines are just (A) IN GENERAL.—A grant under this sec- 9 of the 10 calendar days preceding an elec- another form of voter disenfranchise- tion shall be awarded for a period of not tion, at sufficient and flexible hours; ment. Running out of ballots can be more than 4 years. (iii) provide absentee voting, including no- just another form of voter suppression. (B) CONTINUATION OF GRANTS.—A State that excuse absentee voting; The fact is access to vote is denied is awarded a grant under this section shall (iv) provide assistance to voters who do not when registration is cumbersome or in- not receive grant funds under this section for speak English as a primary language; accessible and when early voter vote- the second or any subsequent year of the (v) provide assistance to voters with dis- by-mail options are just not available. grant unless the State demonstrates to the abilities, including visual impairment; Let’s do something now when we are Attorney General, at such time and in such (vi) provide effective access to voting for members of the armed services; no longer hamstrung by election year manner as determined by the Attorney Gen- eral, that the State is— (vii) provide formal training of election of- politics in the Senate so that changes (i) making progress in implementing the ficials, including State and county adminis- that last and make a difference can be plan under subsection (d)(1)(C) at a rate that trators and volunteers; implemented well before the next elec- the Attorney General determines will result (viii) audit and reduce waiting times at tion. in the State fully implementing such plan polling stations; As someone who serves on the For- during the remainder of the grant period; or (ix) allocate polling locations, equipment, eign Relations Committee and who (ii) making progress against the perform- and staff to match population distribution; often speaks with foreign heads of ance measures set forth in subsection (e) at (x) respond to any reports of voting irreg- State, civil society leaders, and voting a rate that the Attorney General determines ularities or concerns raised at the polling station; advocates from around the world, it is will result in the State reaching its targets and achieving the objectives of the grant (xi) create contingency voting plans in the an embarrassment that in 2012 our Na- during the remainder of the grant period. event of a natural or other disaster; and tion could not overcome the simple (d) APPLICATIONS.— (xii) improve the wait times at the persist- challenges to ensuring fair and accu- (1) APPLICATIONS.—Each State that desires ently poorest performing polling stations rate elections all across our country. to receive a grant under this section shall within the jurisdiction of the applicant;

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The elementary is a unique opportunity for the Na- stakeholders, in developing the plan de- school that Justice Marshall attended, tional Park Service to work in Balti- scribed in subparagraph (C), including evi- dence of the commitment and capacity to known as PS 103, located in my home- more’s inner-city and to reach out and implement the plan; town of Baltimore, is a place of na- engage people about African American (E) the applicant’s annual performance tional significance because it marks history. measures and targets, consistent with the re- the site where one of our Nation’s Needless to say, Thurgood Marshall’s quirements of subsection (e); and greatest legal minds began his edu- legacy is one that should be preserved. (F) a description of the applicant’s plan to cation. He was one of our country’s greatest conduct a rigorous evaluation of the effec- Thurgood Marshall is well known as legal minds and a prominent historical tiveness of activities carried out with funds one of the most significant historical figure of one chapter of our country’s under this section. figures of the American civil rights (2) CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING APPLICA- great history—the civil rights move- TIONS.— movement. By the time he was 32, he ment. This bill authorizes the Sec- (A) AWARD BASIS.—The Attorney General was appointed the chief legal counsel retary of the Interior to conduct a spe- shall award grants under this section on a for the National Association for the cial resource study of PS 103 to evalu- competitive basis, based on the quality of Advancement of Colored People, ate the suitability and feasibility of es- the applications submitted under paragraph NAACP. He served at the NAACP a tablishing the building as a unit of the (1), including— total of 25 years and was a key strate- National Park Service. Preserving the (i) each applicant’s record in the areas de- scribed in paragraph (1)(A); gist to end racial segregation through- building that was Justice Marshall’s el- (ii) each applicant’s record of, and commit- out the United States. ementary school will give Americans ment to, establishing conditions for innova- Perhaps the greatest illustration of insight into Justice Marshall’s child- tion and reform, as described in paragraph this effort was his victory before the hood. (1)(B); Supreme Court overturning the Plessy Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- (iii) the quality and likelihood of success doctrine effectively ending school seg- sent that the text of the bill be printed of each applicant’s plan described in para- regation with the landmark decision in in the RECORD. graph (1)(C) in showing improvement in the Brown v. Board of Education of To- There being no objection, the text of areas described in paragraph (1)(A), includ- ing each applicant’s capacity to implement peka, KS, in 1954. Not only did this the bill was ordered to be printed in the plan and evidence of collaboration as de- case open up educational opportunity the RECORD as follows: scribed in paragraph (1)(D); and and sparked the civil rights movement S. 103 (iv) each applicant’s evaluation plan as de- in this Nation, it also marked the be- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- scribed in paragraph (1)(F). ginning of Thurgood Marshall’s career, resentatives of the United States of America in (B) EXPLANATION.—The Attorney General still a young attorney from Baltimore, Congress assembled, shall publish an explanation of how the ap- as one of the greatest legal minds in all SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. plication review process under this para- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Thurgood graph will ensure an equitable and objective the land. This case was just one of the Marshall’s Elementary School Study Act’’. evaluation based on the criteria described in 29 cases he won before the U.S. Su- subparagraph (A). preme Court. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. (e) PERFORMANCE MEASURES.—Each State Fittingly, Marshall was the first Af- In this Act: receiving a grant under this section shall es- rican American confirmed to the Su- (1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ tablish performance measures and targets, preme Court. He was nominated by means the Secretary of the Interior. (2) STUDY AREA.—The term ‘‘study area’’ approved by the Attorney General, for the President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 programs and activities carried out under means P.S. 103, the public school located in this section. These measures shall, at a min- and served 24 years, until 1991. On the West Baltimore, Maryland, which Thurgood imum, track the State’s progress— high court, Marshall continued his Marshall attended as a youth. (1) in implementing its plan described in fight for the Constitutional protection SEC. 3. SPECIAL RESOURCE STUDY. subsection (d)(1)(C); of individual human rights. (a) STUDY.—The Secretary shall conduct a (2) in expediting voting at the polls or sim- But Thurgood Marshall was not al- special resource study of the study area. plifying voter registration, as applicable; ways a legal giant. He was once a (b) CONTENTS.—In conducting the study and young boy growing up in West Balti- under subsection (a), the Secretary shall— (3) on any other measures identified by the more. He received the first 6 years of (1) evaluate the national significance of Attorney General. his public education at PS 103. An the study area; (f) USES OF FUNDS.—Each State that re- (2) determine the suitability and feasi- ceives a grant under this section shall use apocryphal story goes that a young bility of designating the study area as a unit the grant funds for any purpose included in Thurgood Marshall studied the U.S. of the National Park System; the State’s plan under subsection (d)(1)(C). Constitution in the basement of the (3) consider other alternatives for preserva- (g) REPORTING.—A State that receives a building while serving detention. Re- tion, protection, and interpretation of the grant under this section shall submit to the study area by the Federal Government, Attorney General, at such time and in such gardless of whether or not this is true, State or local government entities, or pri- manner as the Attorney General may re- the building powerfully tells the story vate and nonprofit organizations; quire, an annual report including— of racial segregation in America, PS (4) consult with interested Federal agen- (1) data on the State’s progress in achiev- 103 was a ‘‘blacks only’’ school when cies, State or local governmental entities, ing the targets for the performance measures Justice Marshall was a student, and private and nonprofit organizations, or any established under subsection (e); marks the academic beginning of one other interested individuals; (2) a description of the challenges the of the country’s most brilliant legal State has faced in implementing its program (5) identify cost estimates for any Federal and how it has addressed or plans to address thinkers and a pioneer of the civil acquisition, development, interpretation, op- those challenges; and rights movement. eration, and maintenance associated with (3) findings from the evaluation plan as de- The building is located at 1315 Divi- the alternatives; and scribed in subsection (d)(1)(F). sion Street in the Upton Neighborhood (6) identify any authorities that would (h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— of Old West Baltimore. The building is compel or permit the Secretary to influence There are authorized to be appropriated such part of the Old West Baltimore Na- local land use decisions under the alter- natives. sums as may be necessary to carry out this tional Register Historic District, and is section. (c) APPLICABLE LAW.—The study required listed as a contributing historic re- under subsection (a) shall be conducted in By Mr. CARDIN (for himself and source for the neighborhood. The Old accordance with section 8 of the National Ms. MIKULSKI): West Baltimore historic district is one Park System General Authorities Act (16 S. 103. A bill to authorize the Sec- of the largest predominately African U.S.C. 1a–5). retary of the Interior to conduct a spe- American historic districts in the (d) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after country, and its significance is cen- the date on which funds are first made avail- cial resource study of P.S. 103 in West able to carry out the study under subsection Baltimore, Maryland, and for other tered on the African American experi- (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Com- purposes; to the Committee on Energy ence in the area. mittee on Natural Resources of the House of and Natural Resources. In Baltimore, we are fortunate to Representatives and the Committee on En- Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, today I have the National Park Service operate ergy and Natural Resources of the Senate a am proud to introduce the Justice two historical sites, Fort McHenry and report that describes—

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Act of 1965 to require certain creditors In 2012 the amount of outstanding Anna is very blunt and despondent. to obtain certifications from institu- private student loans exceeded $150 bil- She said she made a big mistake going tions of higher education, and for other lion. Students are being steered into to the school. It was a waste. She purposes; to the Committee on Bank- these private loans while they are still thought she would get a better life by ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. eligible for the better government going to college. She didn’t realize Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I rise loans. Why? Because somebody is mak- these for-profit schools by and large today to reintroduce two pieces of leg- ing more money when they sign up for are a waste of money and cause debt islation: the Know Before You Owe Act private student loans. As a result, that most students can never pay back. and the Fairness for Struggling Stu- many students are being saddled with She has bad credit now and a mountain dents Act. These bills will take critical debt they don’t have to be saddled with of debt to show for it. steps toward addressing the student and sometimes debt they can never So what are we going to do about it? debt crisis facing America. repay. Are we going to say: Well, Anna, you Every week my office is contacted by The Consumer Financial Protection should have been a little bit smarter young people and their families who Bureau last year reported that at least when you were 19 years old and sat share with me their horror stories 850,000 individual private student loans across the desk from somebody who about student debt. Many of them are were in default amounting to more said: We want you as a college student. college students or graduates who are than $8 billion. You made your mistake, girl. That is getting crushed by student loans the Let me tell my colleagues about one the way it works in America, and now size of mortgages. All too often, these of those students. I have opened on my you have to pay the price. Is that the young people were lured into attending official Web site a place where those answer? Is that the answer when these worthless, for-profit colleges that left who have student loans and want to for-profit schools depend on the Fed- them with worthless diplomas and share their stories can come. Anna eral Government and taxpayers for 85 mountains of debt. It is disgraceful. Wilcox, who is 31 years old, did. She at- to 95 percent of all of the revenue they But it is not only young people facing tended the Brooks Institute of Photog- take in? this debt crisis, it is their parents, raphy, a for-profit college owned by the These for-profit schools, if we took their siblings, even their grandparents Career Education Corporation. the Federal money we send their way— who did them a favor by cosigning on Anna Wilcox saw a TV ad one day if these for-profit schools were a Fed- these loans. They, too, are being held about this so-called Brooks Institute of eral agency, it would be the ninth larg- responsible when the loans go into de- Photography and decided she would est Federal agency in America. That is fault. call and inquire. The school called her how much money we are pouring into Many of these people contact my of- twice a day until she finally enrolled. these for-profit schools. fice because they don’t know where to The recruiter at the school—this Ca- Let me just put three numbers out turn. Their debt loan leaves them feel- reer Education Corporation School— for people to reflect on: 12 percent of ing helpless. They are putting off told her that a Brooks degree would the students out of high school go to major life decisions such as buying a help her make $85,000 a year as a pho- for-profit schools. We know their home or even starting a family because tographer. So Anna enrolled, and when names. They are students who gather of crushing student debt. We can’t she graduated in 2006, she had a debt of in Washington and come to the gal- stand idly by any longer and ignore about $170,000, almost all of it in pri- leries. They know what I am talking this reality. We have to step up and vate student loans. about. Go on the Internet and try to es- recognize that this student debt bomb Anna was 24 years old with $170,000 in cape an ad for a for-profit school: Uni- is ticking away. student debt from this for-profit versity of Phoenix, DeVry, Kaplan. Student loan debt among college stu- school. With a variable interest rate Ring a bell? Well, I can tell my col- dents surpassed $1 trillion last year. that went as high as 18 percent, her leagues these are the biggies, but there The New York Fed reports that bal- balance just kept growing. Her month- are hundreds of them. Twelve percent ances of student loans have now ex- ly payments on her private student of the students after high school go to ceeded the balances on automobile loan now exceed $1,000 a month. Her for-profit schools. loans and credit card debt in America— Federal loans she took out as well had For-profit schools, though, account student loans. That makes student low interest rates. She said those pay- for 25 percent of all of the Federal aid loans the largest form of consumer ments are reasonable, and she can han- to education. They just soak it up. Stu- debt outside of home mortgages. dle them. Her parents decided to help dents borrow and turn it over to the Last year, 37 million borrowers held her out and cosigned on the loans. Now for-profit schools. The student is stuck student loan debt. That is more than 10 her parents, in their sixties, are on the with the debt. The for-profit school percent of the population of this coun- hook as well. They have to change may never graduate you, but they have try. The average balance is $24,300. But, their life plans because they wanted to their money. remember, that is an average. This is a help their daughter, and now they are There is a third number to remem- massive amount of debt, and it is hav- stuck with a debt of $170,000 for a ber. The first is 12, the second is 25. The ing a profound impact on the lives of worthless diploma from a for-profit third number is 47. Forty-seven percent students and their families across school. of the student loan defaults in America America. Well, Anna did find a job, but the job are students from for-profit schools, The overall growth in student debt is doesn’t pay anywhere near $85,000 a students being dragged into these troubling. The most pressing concern is year. She just can’t keep up with these schools that charge way too much for what is known as private student staggering monthly loan payments. tuition and then the student either loans. If a student goes to college, they She said she would like to file for can’t finish the school or gets out of could qualify for a government-guaran- bankruptcy, clean the slate, and start school and can’t find a job and they are teed loan with dramatically lower in- over. She can’t borrow money to go to stuck. terest rates with accommodations a real school. She has wasted her bor- I tell my students back home, if you based on their employment and even rowing power on these for-profit are not sure, start at a community col- some loan forgiveness. Not so when it schools. lege. It is affordable. It has a wide comes to private student loans in most It doesn’t do her any good to want to array of courses to be offered to you. cases. Students who take out Federal file for bankruptcy. Private student You will learn a lot about yourself, you loans receive affordable interest rates, loans are not dischargeable for bank- will learn a lot about what you want to

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For students who decide student debt. like her. to take out private student loans, the Let me be clear: When used appro- I wish to commend especially one bill would require lenders to provide priately, student loans are valuable community college in my State, the them with quarterly up-to-date infor- and important. I would not be standing Elgin Community College. I have been mation about their balance and inter- here today if I had not borrowed money visiting that school regularly and al- est accrued. It is not one of these deals from the Federal Government to go to ways come home thinking: This college where you just keep borrowing and bor- college and law school. I never could gets it. They have implemented a fi- rowing and borrowing, and finally have afforded it otherwise. It was nancial counseling program that goes when you are about to finish school—or called the National Defense Education above and beyond anything I would put years later—they give you the total, Act. If I told you the numbers that I into law. All of the students at Elgin and you look at it and say: My good- borrowed, you would realize how old I Community College in Elgin, IL, must ness, I did not realize I had signed up am. But at the time, it was scary to submit a monthly budget detailing all for all of that debt. have that much debt coming fresh out their costs when they are seeking fi- This legislation is supported by a of law school. I paid it back just like I nancial aid. The student then has a large coalition of educational, student, was supposed to so the next generation mandatory, one-on-one meeting with a and consumer organizations and has could take over. But what I faced, the counselor to review the loan balance, been recommended by the Consumer debt I incurred to go to school and law the repayment options, and what hap- Financial Protection Bureau. school, does not even come close to pens if they default. This community The other bill I am reintroducing matching what many students have to college has implemented a workshop today is the Fairness for Struggling borrow in the first semester, and that, for students who will be graduating Students Act. This bill, cosponsored by unfortunately, leads to a debt that during the upcoming semester to dis- Senators WHITEHOUSE, FRANKEN, HAR- some will be crushed with for a life- cuss repayment options and give them KIN, and JACK REED, would restore the time. In many instances, student loans a complete summary of every loan they Bankruptcy Code’s pre-2005 treatment help Americans get a quality higher have taken out. of private student loans. education and the job skills they need These students are facing debt the As I said earlier, since 2005 private to repay their loans and have a reward- likes of which they have never seen in student loans have enjoyed a privileged ing life and career. But, unfortunately, their lives. They are motivated by all status under the Bankruptcy Code. there are far too many Americans who of the preaching they have heard from They cannot be discharged in bank- have been steered into high-cost pri- their parents, like me, saying: Go to ruptcy except under the most extreme vate loans that will burden them for school. Get a degree. They are ready to circumstances. Only a few other types life and prevent them from fully con- sign up because they want to do what of debt cannot be discharged in bank- tributing to our economy. they think is the right thing. They do ruptcy—criminal fines, child support, It is about time we woke up to the not know that the for-profit school is taxes, and alimony. In contrast, nearly reality of what students—millions of worthless, they do not know that the all types of private, unsecured debt— students—across America are facing, thousands and thousands of dollars of and their families. We have a responsi- debt will never be able to be repaid, credit card debt, doctor bills—are dis- chargeable in bankruptcy, but not stu- bility to them over and above the prof- and they do not know that debt will be its that are being earned by for-profit with them for a lifetime. So here are dent loans. There was no good reason for Con- schools and the financial institutions some bills I am introducing to address gress to give such preferred treatment peddling these private student loans it. to these financial institutions that are with these outrageous interest rates I believe students will benefit more if and terms. It is time for this Congress they have the kind of loan counseling peddling these private student loans. It was a provision—a sweetheart provi- to listen to working families and their we see at the Elgin Community Col- kids all across America to restore lege. I am joining Senator TOM HARKIN sion—tucked into a massive bank- ruptcy reform bill with very little de- transparency, fairness, and common of Iowa, chairman of the HELP Com- sense to private student loans. I urge mittee, in reintroducing the Know Be- bate and even less justification. There is no evidence that private student my colleagues to support these bills. fore You Owe Private Student Loan Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- loan borrowers were abusing the bank- Act of 2013. sent that the text of the bills be print- ruptcy system before this law was The legislation requires colleges to ed in the RECORD. confirm a student’s enrollment status, changed. In fact, the private student There being no objection, the text of cost of attendance, and estimated Fed- loan market has been growing—even the bills was ordered to be printed in eral financial aid assistance before any before this measure was enacted into the RECORD as follows: private student loan can be approved law. But the private student loan in- S. 113 for that student. In other words, if you dustry got a sweetheart deal out of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- are eligible for the government loan, Congress, and now we are in a situation resentatives of the United States of America in for goodness’ sakes, take that first. where many students have over- Congress assembled, The private student loan is much more whelming private student loan debt, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. expensive, and it is tougher to pay it and they cannot repay, and they can- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Know Before back. So we want to make sure stu- not escape. This is devastating for You Owe Private Student Loan Act of 2013’’. dents who are eligible for government those students and a drag on our over- SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE TRUTH IN LEND- loans know that before they sign up for all economy. ING ACT. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 128(e) of the the private student loans. Often, stu- There was an article a few months Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. 1638(e)) is dents have not even applied for Federal ago in the New York Times, and it amended— aid before they are encouraged by some talked about a grandmother who was (1) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting of these schools to apply for private having her Social Security check gar- the following: student loans, or students have not ex- nished because she had signed on as a ‘‘(3) INSTITUTIONAL CERTIFICATION RE- hausted their eligibility for Federal cosigner of her granddaughter’s stu- QUIRED.— aid. Requiring school certification dent loan. Her granddaughter dropped ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in would give the school the opportunity out of college and could not pay back subparagraph (B), before a creditor may issue any funds with respect to an extension to make students aware of Federal stu- the loan, and now we are going after of credit described in this subsection, the dent aid options and the most afford- grandma’s Social Security check. That creditor shall obtain from the relevant insti- able options. is how serious this can be. tution of higher education where such loan is The bill would also require schools to A large coalition of student, edu- to be used for a student, such institution’s counsel the students about their loan cational, civil rights, and consumer or- certification of—

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Such regulations scribed in section 2(c). the institution, as applicable. shall become effective not later than 6 SEC. 4. REPORT. ‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding sub- months after their date of issuance. Not later than 24 months after the issuance paragraph (A), a creditor may issue funds SEC. 3. AMENDMENT TO THE HIGHER EDU- of regulations under section 2(c), the Direc- with respect to an extension of credit de- CATION ACT OF 1965. tor of the Consumer Financial Protection scribed in this subsection without obtaining (a) AMENDMENT TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION Bureau and the Secretary of Education shall from the relevant institution of higher edu- ACT OF 1965.—Section 487(a) of the Higher jointly submit to Congress a report on the cation such institution’s certification if such Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094(a)) is compliance of institutions of higher edu- institution fails to provide within 15 business amended by striking paragraph (28) and in- cation and private educational lenders with days of the creditor’s request for such cer- serting the following: section 128(e)(3) of the Truth in Lending Act tification— ‘‘(28)(A) The institution shall— (15 U.S.C. 1638(e)), as amended by section 2, ‘‘(i) the requested certification; or ‘‘(i) upon the request of a private edu- and section 487(a)(28) of the Higher Edu- ‘‘(ii) notification that the institution has cational lender, acting in connection with an cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094(a)), as received the request for certification and application initiated by a borrower for a pri- amended by section 3. Such report shall in- will need additional time to comply with the vate education loan in accordance with sec- clude information about the degree to which certification request. tion 128(e)(3) of the Truth in Lending Act, specific institutions utilize certifications in ‘‘(C) LOANS DISBURSED WITHOUT CERTIFI- provide certification to such private edu- effectively encouraging the exhaustion of CATION.—If a creditor issues funds without obtaining a certification, as described in sub- cational lender— Federal student loan eligibility and lowering paragraph (B), such creditor shall report the ‘‘(I) that the student who initiated the ap- student private education loan debt. issuance of such funds in a manner deter- plication for the private education loan, or S. 114 on whose behalf the application was initi- mined by the Director of the Consumer Fi- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- ated, is enrolled or is scheduled to enroll at nancial Protection Bureau.’’; resentatives of the United States of America in the institution; (2) by redesignating paragraphs (9), (10), Congress assembled, ‘‘(II) of such student’s cost of attendance and (11) as paragraphs (10), (11), and (12), re- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. spectively; and at the institution as determined under part F of this title; and This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fairness for (3) by inserting after paragraph (8) the fol- Struggling Students Act of 2013’’. lowing: ‘‘(III) of the difference between— SEC. 2. EXCEPTIONS TO DISCHARGE. ‘‘(9) PROVISION OF INFORMATION.— ‘‘(aa) the cost of attendance at the institu- ‘‘(A) PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO STU- tion; and Section 523(a)(8) of title 11, United States DENTS.— ‘‘(bb) the student’s estimated financial as- Code, is amended by striking ‘‘dependents, ‘‘(i) LOAN STATEMENT.—A creditor that sistance received under this title and other for’’ and all that follows through the end of issues any funds with respect to an extension assistance known to the institution, as ap- subparagraph (B) and inserting ‘‘dependents, of credit described in this subsection shall plicable; and for an educational benefit overpayment or send loan statements, where such loan is to ‘‘(ii) provide the certification described in loan made, insured, or guaranteed by a gov- be used for a student, to borrowers of such clause (i), or notify the creditor that the in- ernmental unit or made under any program funds not less than once every 3 months dur- stitution has received the request for certifi- funded in whole or in part by a governmental ing the time that such student is enrolled at cation and will need additional time to com- unit or an obligation to repay funds received an institution of higher education. ply with the certification request— from a governmental unit as an educational ‘‘(ii) CONTENTS OF LOAN STATEMENT.—Each ‘‘(I) within 15 business days of receipt of benefit, scholarship, or stipend;’’. statement described in clause (i) shall— such certification request; and ‘‘(I) report the borrower’s total remaining ‘‘(II) only after the institution has com- By Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. debt to the creditor, including accrued but pleted the activities described in subpara- MURKOWSKI, Mr. DURBIN, Ms. unpaid interest and capitalized interest; graph (B). COLLINS, Mr. UDALL of New ‘‘(II) report any debt increases since the ‘‘(B) The institution shall, upon receipt of Mexico, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. LAU- a certification request described in subpara- last statement; and TENBERG, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. ‘‘(III) list the current interest rate for each graph (A)(i), and prior to providing such cer- COONS, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Ms. loan. tification— STABENOW, and Mr. BEGICH): ‘‘(B) NOTIFICATION OF LOANS DISBURSED ‘‘(i) determine whether the student who WITHOUT CERTIFICATION.—On or before the initiated the application for the private edu- S. 116. A bill to revise and extend pro- date a creditor issues any funds with respect cation loan, or on whose behalf the applica- visions under the Garrett Lee Smith to an extension of credit described in this tion was initiated, has applied for and ex- Memorial Act; to the Committee on subsection, the creditor shall notify the rel- hausted the Federal financial assistance Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- evant institution of higher education, in available to such student under this title and sions. writing, of the amount of the extension of inform the student accordingly; and Mr. REED. Mr. President, I am credit and the student on whose behalf credit ‘‘(ii) provide the borrower whose loan ap- pleased to be joined by Senators MUR- is extended. The form of such written notifi- plication has prompted the certification re- cation shall be subject to the regulations of quest by a private education lender, as de- KOWSKI, DURBIN, COLLINS, TOM UDALL, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. scribed in subparagraph (A)(i), with the fol- MURRAY, LAUTENBERG, BLUMENTHAL, ‘‘(C) ANNUAL REPORT.—A creditor that lowing information and disclosures: COONS, KLOBUCHAR, and STABENOW in issues funds with respect to an extension of ‘‘(I) The availability of, and the borrower’s the introduction of the Garrett Lee credit described in this subsection shall pre- potential eligibility for, Federal financial as- Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization. pare and submit an annual report to the Con- sistance under this title, including disclosing This legislation is named for the son sumer Financial Protection Bureau con- the terms, conditions, interest rates, and re- of Senator Gordon Smith, our former payment options and programs of Federal taining the required information about pri- colleague, who took his own life at the vate student loans to be determined by the student loans. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in ‘‘(II) The borrower’s ability to select a pri- young age of 22. After this tragedy, consultation with the Secretary of Edu- vate educational lender of the borrower’s Senator Smith rallied support from cation.’’. choice. members across the aisle and in both (b) DEFINITION OF PRIVATE EDUCATION ‘‘(III) The impact of a proposed private chambers to prevent other children LOAN.—Section 140(a)(7)(A) of the Truth in education loan on the borrower’s potential from doing the same with passage of Lending Act (15 U.S.C. 1650(a)(7)(A)) is eligibility for other financial assistance, in- the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act in amended— cluding Federal financial assistance under 2004. Since then, it has retained its bi- (1) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause this title. (iii); ‘‘(IV) The borrower’s right to accept or re- partisan support among Members of (2) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘and’’ after the ject a private education loan within the 30- Congress and over 40 member organiza- semicolon; and day period following a private educational tions of the Mental Health Liaison (3) by adding after clause (i) the following: lender’s approval of a borrower’s application Group.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:16 Sep 20, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\JAN2013\S23JA3.REC S23JA3 bjneal on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE January 23, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S223 However, the recent horrific mass By Mr. CHAMBLISS (for himself, ficient taxing mechanisms will not shooting in Newtown, CT shows that Mr. BURR, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. only bring about equality within our more work must be done to address the COBURN, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. tax system, it will also bring about mental and behavioral health of chil- MORAN, and Mr. CRUZ): simplicity. It will provide tax relief for dren and young adults before they hurt S. 122. A bill to promote freedom, business-to-business transactions. themselves and others. Indeed, what is fairness, and economic opportunity by These transactions, including those for so clear now from this terrible tragedy repealing the income tax and other used goods that have already been is that we have young people who des- taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue taxed, are not subject to the sales tax, perately need help. Parents also need Service, and enacting a national sales so there would be no double taxation. help in identifying early warning signs tax to be administered primarily by Some of my colleagues have asked of mental illness and accessing the ap- the States; to the Committee on Fi- how the fair tax would affect our rev- propriate treatment before it is too nance. enue on our entitlement programs. So- late. Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, I cial Security and Medicare benefits The Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act rise to speak today about our Tax Code would remain untouched under the authorizes critical resources for as well as our economic future. There Fair Tax Act. There would be no finan- schools, elementary schools through is a problem with our Tax Code, one cial reductions to either of these vital college where children and young that hits home with nearly all Ameri- programs. Instead, the source of the adults spend most of their time, to be cans; that is, its complexity. In the trust fund revenue for these two pro- able to reach at risk youth. Currently, past few years I have met with hun- grams would be replaced simply by the this law supports 40 States, 38 tribes dreds of constituents who are worried sales tax revenue instead of by payroll and tribal organizations, and 85 col- about this issue. Individuals, small tax revenue. leges and universities in their efforts businesses, farms, and large corpora- Another question I get is how the fair to address mental health and prevent tions alike struggle with meeting their tax would affect impoverished Ameri- suicides among their youth. obligations to the IRS because of the cans. Under the Fair Tax Act, every The bill my colleagues and I are in- complexity of our current Tax Code. American would receive a monthly re- troducing today would increase the au- Earlier this month the IRS Taxpayer bate check equal to the spending up to thorized grant level to States, tribes, Advocate revealed some startling fig- the Federal poverty level, according to and college campuses for the imple- ures in the Agency’s annual report to Department of Health and Human mentation of proven programs and ini- Congress. It estimates that individuals Services guidelines. This rebate would tiatives designed to address mental ill- and businesses spend 6.1 billion hours ensure that no American pays taxes on ness and reduce youth suicide. It will each year complying with the IRS tax the purchase of necessities. enable more schools to offer critical filing requirements. The complexity of We have made nearly 5,000 changes to services to students and provide great- the Tax Code is so burdensome that 9 the Tax Code since 2001—I have sup- er flexibility in the use of funds, par- out of 10 taxpayers now pay a profes- ported some of them, and I have not ticularly on college campuses. sional preparer or use often costly supported others—all in the name of Suicide is now the second leading commercial software to assist in tax improvement and economic benefit. I cause of death for adolescents and preparation. believe we can do better than simply young adults age 10 to 24, up from the Then there is the problem with our lowering our taxes. I know we can third leading cause of death in this corporate taxes. The United States has make a bigger impact on our economic population just a few years ago, and re- the highest marginal effective tax rate future by ridding ourselves of a tax sults in 4,800 lives lost each year, ac- among the largest developed nations in structure that is holding us back. cording to the Centers for Disease Con- the Organization for Economic Co- Ronald Reagan once said: trol and Prevention. Additionally, the operation and Development. According I believe we really can, however, say that CDC reports that 157,000 young adults to recent studies by the Cato Institute, God did give mankind virtually unlimited in this age group are treated for self-in- that rate for U.S. corporations is al- gifts to invent, produce and create. And for most 36 percent. In fact, only Argen- that reason alone, it would be wrong for gov- flicted injuries annually, often as the ernments to devise a tax structure or eco- result of a failed suicide attempt. tina, Chad, and Uzbekistan have higher nomic system that suppresses and denies We can play a role in helping these tax rates than does the United States. those gifts. children and their families. I am While the U.S. corporate rates have re- With that statement, I could not pleased that President Obama and Vice mained high, other countries are low- agree more. President BIDEN recognized this and in- ering their rates. Sweden, for example, f cluded in their Plan to Protect Our has become the latest country to an- Children and Our Communities by Re- nounce that it will lower corporate tax SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS ducing Gun Violence a recommenda- rates, in part to help attract more for- tion to increase support for young eign investment. Our corporate tax SENATE RESOLUTION 8—EXPRESS- adults ages 16 to 25, a population with rates continue to be higher than they ING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE high rates of mental illness, substance should, and we lose our competitive ad- THAT CONGRESS HOLDS THE abuse, and suicide that is unlikely to vantage to other nations in part be- SOLE AUTHORITY TO BORROW seek help. Indeed, passing the Garrett cause of that high tax rate. MONEY ON THE CREDIT OF THE Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthoriza- I want to talk about a way to fix UNITED STATES AND SHALL NOT tion is one way we can better address both these problems. Since joining the CEDE THIS POWER TO THE the mental health needs of this popu- Senate, I have introduced in each new PRESIDENT lation. Congress the Fair Tax Act. Today I am My colleague, Chairman HARKIN, will reintroducing this legislation because Mr. ROBERTS (for himself, Mr. be holding a hearing on the status of of my belief that the Fair Tax Act can MORAN, Mr. JOHANNS, Mr. JOHNSON of the mental health system in our coun- fix the problems built into our current Wisconsin, and Mr. CORNYN) submitted try tomorrow. I look forward to con- Tax Code. The fair tax will promote the following resolution; which was re- tinuing to work with him and others to freedom and economic opportunity by ferred to the Committee on Finance: act on the President’s recommenda- eliminating our current archaic and in- S. RES. 8 tions to improve mental and behavioral efficient Tax Code and replacing it Whereas it is Congress’ prerogative and health care services, particularly for with a simpler, fairer means of col- duty to decide how much the Nation will children and young people. This should lecting tax revenue. It will repeal the borrow and for what purposes; be something that we do automatically individual income tax, the corporate Whereas Congress has the responsibility when it comes to the welfare of our income tax, capital gains taxes, all under the Constitution to regulate the terms and conditions under which the Nation bor- children but is even more urgently re- payroll taxes, self-employment taxes, rows funds; quired in the wake of the terrible re- and the estate and gift tax in lieu of a Whereas Congress has the power and the cent tragedies in Connecticut and else- 23-percent tax on the final sale of goods obligation to ensure that payments are made where. and services. Elimination of these inef- on the national debt;

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The total public debt out- 100 times since the first modern debt debt; standing at the end of the third quarter limit was set way back in 1939, and we Whereas on November 29, 2012, the Sec- just passed was $16.07 trillion. That is will do so again shortly. We have to. retary of the Treasury, on behalf of the up from $15.86 trillion reported in June So preserving this role and estab- President, proposed that Congress should 2012. We are on the wrong path. lishing the debt limit is vital to en- surrender its authority to establish the debt The Federal debt is now equivalent courage deficit reduction and to uphold limit of the United States to the executive to at least 73 percent of the Nation’s our constitutional tradition of legisla- branch; and gross domestic product—nearly double tive control over borrowing. Not only Whereas for 6 decades Congress and the the level as a percentage of GDP that does the debt limit provide an essential President have routinely used the necessity check on executive borrowing, it pro- of increasing the debt limit as a vehicle for we had back in 1990. That is not too debate and broader reforms on the path of long ago. vides public accountability—everybody spending and future deficits: Now, therefore, According to some measures, there is talking about transparency—for be it has been a 60-percent increase in the Congress’s borrowing and debt manage- Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate debt limit since 2009. At the rate we are ment practices. We cannot duck that that Congress— going, in a few short years we will be responsibility. We cannot pass this (1) should not relinquish its long utilized spending more to pay interest on the debt limit simply to the Executive and authority vested in article 1, section 8 of the duck our responsibility and the public Constitution to ‘‘borrow money on the credit debt than we will on all discretionary programs outside of defense. Even de- accountability. of the United States’’ by refusing to debate, In other words, debates over the debt amend, and vote on a bill to address the debt fense now is going through a very dif- limit; and ficult time with the sequester and has limit, as difficult and as contentious as (2) should not provide the executive branch already been cut about one-half trillion they are—and they are; I know that— with exclusive power to issue debt on behalf dollars. shed the light of day on the overall fi- of the United States Government. Let me just say that means no nancial condition of the Federal Gov- Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. President, I am money for education. That means no ernment. Precluding these discussions rising to submit a resolution making it money for agriculture. That means no by removing Congress’s authority over absolutely clear that Congress, and money for the environment. That the debt limit would lead to a less well- only Congress, has the authority and means no money for health care. It all informed decisionmaking over fiscal responsibility to set the Federal debt goes to pay off interest on the debt. policy. That is probably the under- limit. I should not even have to submit The Federal debt is the accumulation statement of my remarks. It is a nice a resolution such as this, but I feel it is of this borrowing, including all bills, way to put it. We can do this. In the past, legisla- absolutely necessary. notes, and bonds issued by the Depart- tion to raise the debt limit has fre- Raising the Federal debt limit—the ment of the Treasury. quently been coupled with legislation limit we place on government bor- The current statutory debt limit is to reduce the overall Federal debt and rowing—as everybody knows, has been $16.394 trillion, which was established deficit. That is the way we should do a hot topic around Washington. It is a on January 28 of last year, 2012—about it. These extensions, often approved on key issue for the start of the 113th Con- 1 year ago—under the procedures of the a bipartisan basis, have been important gress. It is another case where if we Budget Control Act of 2011. catalysts for fiscal reform. In this re- could just maintain regular order, reg- According to the Department of the spect, the debt limit is a strong mecha- ular authority to address our problems, Treasury, as of December 31—just last nism, a strong tool, a way for Congress that is the best way for us to approach month—total debt outstanding subject to evaluate fiscal policy and to main- the task of getting our fiscal house in to the limit was only $25 million—mil- tain control over such policy. order. lion; it used to be a lot of money— Abdicating this role would fundamen- I know there is a lot of dispute over below the current limit. tally alter the checks and balances em- what breaching the limit means. There Once the amount of outstanding debt bedded in the Constitution. This is a is a lot of talk about that. It is clear a reaches the debt limit, the government power that should not be bargained great deal of the public and our finan- can no longer issue additional debt to away. cial markets are extremely concerned cover the cash shortfalls needed to The necessary and critical battle to about the Federal Government’s abil- fund government operations and meet control spending is far from over. I ity to meet its financial obligations legal obligations. view the debt ceiling debate as a crit- once we do hit the limit. Similar to the power of the purse, ical means in what has to be an ongo- The President has asked for a very Congress’s powers over borrowing are ing effort to tighten the government’s large increase in the debt ceiling, and firmly rooted in our constitutional tra- fiscal belt—if we can just do that. But some in the administration have called ditions. The Founders understood the we cannot settle our national finances for no limit at all. Others of the admin- potential danger of permitting the ex- by fundamentally altering the con- istration and in the House are calling ecutive branch to unilaterally incur stitutional structure and processes for Congress to give up its authority to new public debt. Article I of the Con- governing those finances. We cannot set the debt limit—rather amazing— stitution empowers only—only—Con- cavalierly give up one of our most im- thus giving the executive branch uni- gress ‘‘to borrow money on the credit portant tools in evaluating and reining lateral authority to borrow. This is not of the United States.’’ in the Federal Government’s runaway a good idea. The debt limit is the means by which spending. If the Federal Government does not Congress—Congress—exercises this Equally clear, we cannot keep spend- collect enough revenue to pay for all critical legislative responsibility. ing what we do not have. We must con- its spending obligations, it must bor- I can remember well that lesson, that tinue to fight for spending cuts, for row to make up the shortfall. Every- lecture, if you will, from Robert C. debt reduction, and against tax in- body knows that. We are borrowing Byrd of West Virginia, the institu- creases and, I might add, the tidal now about 42 cents of every $1 we are tional flame of the Senate, who would wave of regulations that continue to obligated to spend. have repeated that Congress cannot pour out of Washington. This is clearly—I think everybody give debt limit authority to the execu- In response to calls to give up this would agree on either side of the aisle tive, should not, cannot. It is not con- vital congressional authority over debt and the public—an unsustainable situa- stitutional. issuance, I am submitting today a sim- tion which will only get worse if we do To implement this congressional pre- ple resolution. Let’s put the Senate on not begin meaningful discussions over rogative, the amount of money the record. The Congress holds the sole au- our spending priorities, including—in- Federal Government is allowed to bor- thority to borrow money on the credit

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ERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND have identified those loans as having been f BARBUDA AND ITS ACTIONS RE- made from Stanford International Bank cer- SENATE RESOLUTION 9—DESIG- LATING TO THE STANFORD FI- tificate of deposit funds; Whereas, in June 2010, the Securities and NATING JANUARY 2013 AS ‘‘NA- NANCIAL GROUP FRAUD Exchange Commission alleged that Allen TIONAL MENTORING MONTH’’ Mr. VITTER submitted the following Stanford bribed Leroy King, the chief execu- Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself, Mr. resolution; which was referred to the tive officer of the Financial Services Regu- ISAKSON, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. CARPER, Mr. Committee on Foreign Relations: latory Commission of Antigua and Barbuda, to persuade Leroy King to— LAUTENBERG, Mrs. MURRAY, Mrs. GILLI- S. RES. 10 (1) not investigate Stanford International BRAND, and Mr. WYDEN) submitted the Whereas the Government of Antigua and Bank; following resolution; which was re- Barbuda has committed numerous acts (2) provide Allen Stanford with access to ferred to the Committee on the Judici- against the interests of United States citi- the confidential files of the Financial Serv- ary: zens and operated the financial sector and ices Regulatory Commission; S. RES. 9 judicial system of Antigua and Barbuda in a (3) allow Allen Stanford to dictate the re- manner that is manifestly contrary to the Whereas mentoring is a longstanding tradi- sponse of the Financial Services Regulatory public policy of the United States; tion in which a dependable, caring adult pro- Commission to inquiries by the Securities vides guidance, support, and encouragement Whereas 20,000 investors, including many and Exchange Commission about Stanford to facilitate the social, emotional, and cog- United States citizens, lost $7,200,000,000 in International Bank; and nitive development of a young person; an alleged Ponzi scheme involving fictitious (4) withhold information from the Securi- Whereas continued research on mentoring certificates of deposit from Stanford Inter- ties and Exchange Commission; shows that formal, high-quality mentoring national Bank, an offshore bank chartered in Whereas, in June 2010, the United States focused on developing the competence and Antigua and Barbuda; Department of Justice indicted Leroy King character of the mentee promotes positive Whereas the Government of Antigua and on criminal charges and ordered Leroy King outcomes, such as improved academic Barbuda violated the order of the United to be extradited to the United States; achievement, self-esteem, social skills, and States District Court for the Northern Dis- Whereas the Government of Antigua and career development; trict of Texas regarding the receivership pro- Barbuda has failed to complete the process of Whereas further research on mentoring ceeding initiated at the request of the United extraditing Leroy King to the United States provides strong evidence that mentoring suc- States Securities and Exchange Commission to stand trial; cessfully reduces substance use and abuse, (referred to in this preamble as the ‘‘Securi- Whereas Dr. Errol Cort, who served as the academic failure, and delinquency; ties and Exchange Commission’’), in which Minister of Finance of Antigua and Barbuda Whereas mentoring, in addition to pre- the court took exclusive control of all the from 2004 to 2009, allegedly received more paring young people for school, work, and assets owned by Allen Stanford and Stan- than $1,000,000 of fraudulently transferred life, is extremely rewarding for the people ford-affiliated entities around the world and Stanford investor funds either directly or in- who serve as mentors; documents relating to those assets; directly through his law firm, Cort & Cort; Whereas more than 5,000 mentoring pro- Whereas the Government of Antigua and Whereas Cort & Cort, the law firm of Dr. grams in communities of all sizes across the Barbuda challenged the authority of the Errol Cort, served as the official registered United States focus on building strong, effec- United States District Court for the North- agent for Stanford International Bank until tive relationships between mentors and ern District of Texas by— June 2009; mentees; (1) initiating a separate and competing liq- Whereas the Government of Antigua and Whereas approximately 3,000,000 young uidation proceeding for Stanford Inter- Barbuda, along with the Eastern Caribbean people in the United States are in formal national Bank; and Central Bank— mentoring relationships due to the remark- (2) appointing liquidators who have defied (1) seized control and possession of the able vigor, creativity, and resourcefulness of the orders of the court in multiple jurisdic- Allen Stanford-owned Bank of Antigua with- the thousands of mentoring programs in tions around the world by litigating for con- out compensation to the United States dis- communities throughout the United States; trol of hundreds of millions of dollars in trict court-appointed receiver; Whereas, in spite of the progress made in bank accounts in the United Kingdom, Swit- (2) renamed that bank the ‘‘Eastern Carib- increasing mentoring, the United States has zerland, and Canada; bean Amalgamated Bank’’; and a serious ‘‘mentoring gap’’, with nearly Whereas the Government of Antigua and (3) allocated a 40 percent ownership posi- 15,000,000 young people in need of mentors; Barbuda challenged the authority of the tion to the Government of Antigua and Bar- Whereas mentoring partnerships between United States Department of Justice by buda and 60 percent ownership to 5 Eastern the public and private sectors bring State seeking to obtain control of hundreds of mil- Caribbean Central Bank member banks; and local leaders together to support men- lions of dollars in bank accounts in the Whereas, after the fraud that the Stanford toring programs by preventing duplication of United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Canada Financial Group allegedly perpetrated was efforts, offering training in industry best that had been frozen at the request of the made public, the Government of Antigua and practices, and making the most of limited Department of Justice in accordance with Barbuda expropriated numerous Allen Stan- resources to benefit young people in the multilateral criminal asset forfeiture trea- ford-owned properties in Antigua and Bar- United States; ties; buda worth up to several hundred million Whereas the designation of January 2013 as Whereas the courts of Antigua and Bar- dollars, and the government has not turned ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’ will help call buda have denied recognition of the United over those properties to the United States attention to the critical role mentors play in States district court-appointed receiver for district court-appointed receiver; helping young people realize their potential; all assets of Allen Stanford and Stanford-af- Whereas the Government of Antigua and Whereas a month-long celebration of men- filiated entities; Barbuda expropriated without compensation toring will encourage more individuals and Whereas the Stanford International Bank the property known as the Half Moon Bay organizations, including schools, businesses, liquidators appointed by the Eastern Carib- Resort, which is owned by a group of 12 nonprofit organizations, faith institutions, bean Court of Appeals now seek recognition United States citizens; and and foundations, to become engaged in men- of the Antigua and Barbuda liquidation pro- Whereas the Government of Antigua and toring across the United States; and ceeding as a foreign insolvency proceeding Barbuda— Whereas, most significantly, National under chapter 15 of title 11, United States (1) has sought and obtained loans from the Mentoring Month— Code, in the United States District Court for International Bank for Reconstruction and (1) will build awareness of mentoring; and the Northern District of Texas; Development and the International Develop- (2) will encourage more people to become Whereas the Government of Antigua and ment Association (commonly known as the mentors and help close the mentoring gap in Barbuda acknowledged in a statement in ‘‘World Bank’’) and the International Mone- the United States: Now, therefore, be it March 2010 that— tary Fund; and Resolved, That the Senate— (1) Stanford International Bank ‘‘was oper- (2) is the recipient of other direct and indi- (1) designates the month of January 2013 as ating in Antigua as a transit point and for rect aid from the United States: Now, there- ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’; purposes of registration and regulation’’; and fore, be it (2) recognizes with gratitude the contribu- (2) ‘‘[t]he business of Stanford Inter- Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate tions of the millions of caring adults and national Bank, Ltd. was run from Houston, that— students who are already volunteering as Texas, and its books maintained in Memphis, (1) provision of all further direct or indi- mentors; and Tennessee’’; rect aid or assistance, including assistance

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Mr. President, I and to express religious thought is acknowl- ask unanimous consent that Jac- until the Government of Antigua and Bar- edged to be a fundamental and unalienable buda provides complete redress of the issues right belonging to all individuals; queline Emanuel, who is a fellow in described in the preamble, including Whereas the United States was founded on Senator MARK UDALL’s office, be grant- through— the principle of freedom of religion and not ed floor privileges for the Senate’s ses- (A) the full cooperation of the Government freedom from religion; sions of the 113th Congress for the re- of Antigua and Barbuda and any appointee of Whereas the framers of the Constitution of mainder of the month of January 2013. that government, including the joint liquida- the United States intended that the First tors of Stanford International Bank, with The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Amendment to the Constitution would pro- objection, it is so ordered. the United States Securities and Exchange hibit the Federal Government from enacting Commission, the United States Department any law that favors one religious denomina- f of Justice, the United States district court- tion over another, not that the First Amend- appointed receiver, and the United States ment to the Constitution would prohibit any SIGNING AUTHORITY district court-appointed Stanford Investors mention of religion or reference to God in Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- Committee, in investigating the Stanford Fi- civic dialogue; nancial Group fraud and marshaling the as- imous consent that from Wednesday, Whereas, in 1983, the Supreme Court held sets of Allen Stanford and all Stanford-affili- January 23, through Monday, January in Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783, that the ated entities; 28, the majority leader be authorized to practice of opening legislative sessions with (B) an agreement by the Government of prayer has become part of the fabric of our sign duly enrolled bills or joint resolu- Antigua and Barbuda to be subject to the ju- society and invoking divine guidance on a tions. risdiction and bound by the judgment of any public body entrusted with making the laws The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without United States court that adjudicates the is not a violation of the Establishment objection, it is so ordered. claims relating to the Stanford Financial Clause of the First Amendment to the Con- Group fraud; Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest (C) the transfer of the assets seized by the stitution, but rather is simply a tolerable ac- the absence of a quorum. Government of Antigua and Barbuda, or ob- knowledgment of beliefs widely held among The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tained by the joint liquidators of Stanford the people of the United States; clerk will call the roll. Whereas voluntary prayer by elected bod- International Bank, to the United States dis- The legislative clerk proceeded to trict court-appointed receiver for the benefit ies should not be limited to prayer in State legislatures and Congress; call the roll. of victims of the Stanford Financial Group Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- fraud; Whereas school boards are deliberative (D) a contribution by the Government of bodies of adults, similar to a legislature in imous consent that the order for the Antigua and Barbuda to the United States that they are elected by the people, act in quorum call be rescinded. receivership estate for the benefit of victims the public interest, and hold sessions that The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without of the Stanford Financial Group fraud, in an are open to the public for voluntary attend- objection, it is so ordered. amount equal to the amount of any funds ance; and f that Allen Stanford or any Stanford-affili- Whereas voluntary prayer by an elected ated entity provided to the Government or body should be protected under law and en- MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME couraged in society because voluntary pray- government officials of Antigua and Bar- EN BLOC—S. 81, S. 82, S. 83, AND buda; er has become a part of the fabric of our soci- (E) a contribution by the Government of ety, voluntary prayer acknowledges beliefs S. 124 Antigua and Barbuda to the United States widely held among the people of the United Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am told receivership estate for the benefit of victims States, and the Supreme Court has held that there are four bills at the desk, and I of the Stanford Financial Group fraud, in an it is not a violation of the Establishment ask for their first reading en bloc. Clause of the First Amendment to the Con- amount equal to any payments that Allen The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Stanford or the Stanford Financial Group stitution for a public body to invoke divine made to Leroy King or any other official of guidance: Now, therefore, be it clerk will read the titles of the bills en the Government of Antigua and Barbuda for Resolved, That the Senate— bloc. the purpose of subverting regulatory over- (1) recognizes that prayer before school The legislative clerk read as follows: sight of Stanford International Bank; board meetings is a protected act in accord- A bill (S. 81) to provide guidance and prior- (F) the fulfillment by the Government of ance with the fundamental principles upon ities for Federal Government obligations in Antigua and Barbuda of its obligations relat- which the United States was founded; and the event that the debt limit is reached. ing to the expropriation of the Half Moon (2) expresses support for the practice of A bill (S. 82) to provide that any executive Bay Resort; and prayer at the beginning of school board action infringing on the Second Amendment (G) an agreement by the Government of meetings. has no force or effect, and to prohibit the use Antigua and Barbuda to not— of funds for certain purposes. (i) interfere with the receivership com- f A bill (S. 83) to provide for continuing op- menced by the United States Government; erations of Government in a fiscally respon- and sible manner. (ii) seek control of assets claimed by the AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO A bill (S. 124) to provide that Members of United States Government; and MEET Congress may not receive pay after October (2) the Secretary of the Treasury should di- 1 of any fiscal year in which Congress has COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS rect the United States Executive Directors not approved a concurrent resolution on the of the International Bank for Reconstruction Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I budget and passed the regular appropriations and Development and the International De- ask unanimous consent that the Com- bills. velopment Association (commonly known as mittee on Foreign Relations be author- the ‘‘World Bank’’) and the International Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now ask ized to meet during the session of the for a second reading en bloc, and I ob- Monetary Fund to use the voice and vote of Senate on January 23, 2013, at 9 a.m., to the United States to ensure that any future ject to my own request on all four of loan made by the World Bank or the Inter- hold a hearing entitled, ‘‘Benghazi: The these measures. national Monetary Fund to the Government Attacks and the Lessons Learned.’’ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- of Antigua and Barbuda is conditioned on The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tion is heard. providing complete redress of the matters, objection, it is so ordered. The bills will be read for the second and satisfaction of the requirements, de- COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY time on the next legislative day. scribed under paragraph (1). Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I f f ask unanimous consent that the Com- SENATE RESOLUTION 11—EX- mittee on the Judiciary be authorized ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, PRESSING SUPPORT FOR PRAY- to meet during the session of the Sen- JANUARY 24, 2013 ER AT SCHOOL BOARD MEET- ate, on January 23, 2013, at 10 a.m., in Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- INGS room SD–226 of the Dirksen Senate Of- imous consent that when the Senate Mr. VITTER submitted the following fice Building, to conduct a hearing en- completes its business today, it recess resolution; which was referred to the titled ‘‘Judicial Nominations.’’ until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, January Committee on Health, Education, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 24, 2013; that following the prayer and Labor, and Pensions: objection, it is so ordered. pledge, the Journal of proceedings be

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DIANE DIFRANCESCO MELANI S. HOWARD approved to date and the time for the MARY C. GOETTER PAUL B. HOWARD two leaders be reserved for their use THOMAS M. HANSEN GERALD L. HROMOWYK JO ANNE HOWARD WILLIAM T. HUBBARD later in the day; that following any LIESELOTTE J. KENNEDY THOMAS WILSON HUDNALL leader remarks, the Senate be in a pe- DOROTHY ANNE KLEINERT MARTY A. HUGHES riod of morning business for debate JANET L. SETNOR BRYAN D. HUNTLEY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT ERIC P. JENKINS only until 12 noon, with Senators per- TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR ERIC R. JENKINS FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: BARRY K. JONES mitted to speak for up to 10 minutes FRANCEEN KAKAVOULISPERERA each during that time, with the major- To be colonel CATHERINE J. KASSUBE JAMES W. KELLOGG, JR. DINA L. BERNSTEIN ity controlling the first half-hour and JOSEPH W. KING CHRISTOPHER DAVID CAREY JOHN L. KITCHELL III the Republicans controlling the second MICHELLE S. CRAMER DETLEF KLANN GEORGE A. KIRKPATRICK half-hour. ANN P. KNABE LORRAINE M. MINK STEPHEN R. KOENIG The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without JULIA D. RIVERA ROBERT BRYAN KOWNACKY DANIEL L. ROUSE objection, it is so ordered. TANYA R. KUBINEC CHRISTOPHER A. SANTORO NEAL J. LANDEEN f RANDALL G. SNOW MICHAEL J. LATTANZI CORNELIA P. WEISS ANDREW J. LEONE RECESS UNTIL 9:30 A.M. WILLIAM R. YOUNGBLOOD HAROLD W. LINNEAN III THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JEFFRY S. LONG TOMORROW TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR KAREN L. MAGNUS Mr. REID. Mr. President, if there is FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: JAMES D. MARSHALL To be colonel DOUGLAS S. MARTIN no further business to come before the JACQUELYN L. MARTY Senate, I ask unanimous consent that TIMOTHY LEE BRININGER THOMAS C. MATSCHEK, JR. JEANINE M. CZECH KURT A. MATTHEWS it recess under the previous order. DAVID L. DAWSON JEANINE M. MCANANEY There being no objection, the Senate, KARL J. EDELMANN TERRY W. MCCLAIN ERIC S. JOHNSON SCOTT T. MCLEAN at 6:39 p.m., recessed until Thursday, COLLEEN ELIZABETH KELLEY THOMAS CHRIS MCNURLIN January 24, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. JOHN T. LANGELL RUTH MEYER DAVID J. LUTHER JOEL M. MILTON MARY E. NEWMAN THOMAS O. MOFFATT, JR. f MARTHA M. MONROE BRIAN S. PINKSTON LEON H. MORRIS THOMAS E. QUINN, JR. CHARLES E. MORTON NOMINATIONS CHRISTOPHER J. RYAN BRIAN J. MUELLER Executive nominations received by THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT NICHOLAS W. MYERS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR MARK A. NEVILLE the Senate: FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: CHRISTOPHER D. OGREN IN THE ARMY To be colonel SHANNON OHARREN ERIC J. OISTAD THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT FRANCIS XAVIER ALTIERI MICHAEL J. OTT IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED MICHAEL EDWARD AMIRAULT RAYMOND C. OTTO WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND BRYAN G. ANDERS DAVID A. OWENS, JR. RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: BRADFORD T. ANDERSON EDWARD G. PAYLOR ANTHONY P. ANGELLO JAMES M. PAYNE II To be general DAVID SCOTT ARGYLE REX EUGENE PELTO GENERAL LLOYD J. AUSTIN III CHARLES D. ASSUMMA LINDA N. PEPIN KEVIN J. AUNAPU ROBERT L. PERCY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ROBERT E. BALSERAK ROBERT E. PEREZ IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED PAUL NATHAN BARNES ANTHONY M. PERKINS WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND BRIAN CHRISTOPHER BATAILLE DEAN E. PETERS RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: DAVID B. BAYSINGER KURT M. PETERS To be lieutenant general LESLIE A. BEAVERS MICHAEL H. PHAN PAMELA ANNE BERGESON DAVID A. PIFFARERIO LIEUTENANT GENERAL ROBERT L. CASLEN, JR. RICARDO J. BERUVIDES PAUL RICHARD PINKSTAFF ROBERT M. BLAKE RAYMOND M. PLATT IN THE AIR FORCE BRETT A. BOLAN DAVID C. POLACHECK THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUAL FOR APPOINT- BRIAN S. BOWMAN ANTHONY G. POLASHEK MENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR AIR ANN L. BROWN RICHARD C. POSTON FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: STEPHEN M. BROWNING SCOTT M. REED PAMELA JUNE BRUNER JOSEPH MATTHEW REVIT To be major ROBERT OTIS BUCHANAN DAVID WAYNE ROBERTSON MICHAEL ALPHONS BUONICONTI STANLEY ROGERS KORY D. BINGHAM GREGORY P. BUTLER KATHRYN A. RUSSEL THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT ERIC MARTIN BUTTER PAUL A. SAINSBURY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR DEAN C. CALDWELL SCOTT D. SANDBERG FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: LEE WILLIAM CAREY GREGORY R. SAUNDERS BARBARA ELISABETH CARSON JOHN L. SCHMIDT III To be colonel JOHN YOUNG CHOL CARTER DAVID E. SCHOBEL MICHAEL A. COOPER ELIZABETH J. CHAMBERLAIN TODD MICHAEL SEGER LOREN J. JANKE TODD WILLIAM CHAVANNE LORENZA H. SHAW III SUSAN MICHELLE MILLER MICHAEL A. CHRISTOPH JAMES M. SHEALY II MELISSA ANN COBURN CRAIG B. SHENKENBERG THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT CHRISTINA M. COLLINS DORNEEN W. SHIPP TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR GLENN COLLINS JEFFREY B. SHORES FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: JOSEPH A. COLLINS LENNIE J. SIMPSON To be colonel DAVID J. CONDIT MARK V. SLOMINSKI MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER CONRAD DAVID L. SMITH VICTOR DOUGLAS BROWN ARTHUR T. COPPAGE GEORGE HUMPHREY SMITH III DAVID P. DOROFF STANLEY D. CROW, JR. MICHAEL J. SMITH DAVID L. MOYER PETER V. CULLINAN SCOTT A. SNYDER RODNEY M. WAITE CHRISTOPHER C. CUNNINGHAM ADAM J. SPEARS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT RAYMOND J. DANOWSKI RANDY P. SPEARS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR LISA D. DAY ROBERT J. STANTON FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: MICHAEL P. DAY CLIFTON D. STARGARDT JOSEPH LOUIS DELLARCIPRETE STEPHEN J. STASO To be colonel LAWRENCE R. DISALVI ROBERT J. STEFANOWICZ TIMOTHY SEAN DONNELLY CHRISTOPHER L. STEGNER WALTER S. ADAMS VANESSA J. DORNHOEFER ANDREW H. STEPHAN RANDY A. MARSHALL BARNABAS DUDAS PAUL K. STERNAL DAVID L. SUMRALL ROBERT GREEN DUNHAM CAROLYN ANN STICKELL CARL E. SUPPLEE SAM T. DUPRE MICHAEL A. STOLT THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT ALAN M. EDMIASTON MICHAEL LEROY TAYLOR TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR BRIAN M. FARRAR SHERRY L. TEAGUE FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: TERRY J. FRADY KIMBERLY G. TEBRUGGE KENNETH T. FRANKENBERY KEVIN B. THOMAS To be colonel RALPH L. FREED STUART A. TOFT JOHN J. BARTRUM CHESTER V. FROST III MIGUEL F. TORREALDAY WILLIAM H. CRAIG DARRIN L. GAMBLIN STEVEN G. TREE KRISTIN A. HILLERY SEAN ALAN GARRETT CHARLES D. TUCK GREGORY C. STAUDENMAIER ROBERT P. GRAHAM LUTHER L. UPTON, JR. ANTHONY A. TREZZA MARK M. GRUENEWALD ANTHONY DOMINIC VALLERA GEORGE L. VALENTINE ROBERT A. HADDIX CAROL ANN MARIE VELDHUIZEN GREGORY D. HALEN SAMUELL R. VENEY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JEROME S. HAYES NICHOLAS A. VOLPE TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR LYNNETTE J. HEBERT ANNE M. VONLUHRTE FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: WILLIAM M. HEISER JEFFREY S. WALLACE To be colonel DIANE L. HIGGINBOTHEM CLIFFORD W. WALLER JEFFREY FRANK HILL ROBERT J. WALTZ KIMBERLY L. BARBER MARK D. HOLTEN JAMES F. WARD

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JOHN K. WELCH DALE B. RIVERS JASON D. WRIGHT CRAIG R. WELLS PAUL R. ROSEWITZ MATTHEW E. WRIGHT ADRIAN K. WHITE MICHAEL C. ROWELLS MARC W. ZELNICK MARIA EARNHARDT WHITE GLENN W. SANDERS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT CHRISTOPHER T. WHITEHEAD EDUARDO C. SANNICOLAS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE ROBERT D. WHITEHOUSE EASTER K. SHARPE ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: STEPHANIE W. WILLIAMS RICHARD T. SHEVLIN ADAM B. WILLIS DUSTIN A. SHULTZ To be colonel GARY A. WOLF ROBERT F. SINGLER, JR. TIMOTHY G. ABRELL GREGORY W. SMITH SHANNON L. YENCHESKY SCOTT E. ADAMS PAUL M. SOEHNLEIN KEVIN M. ZELLER ROBERT C. ALLISON, JR. MICHAEL P. SPEARS JOHN C. ANDONIE IN THE ARMY MARK A. TOWNE RAMON M. ANGELUCCI MICHAEL J. TROMBLEY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT GARY P. APPEL MICHAEL J. VARGAS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY NICHOLAS R. ARANDA FRANCISCO S. VELEZ III UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: BRUCE C. BALZANO JOHN B. VINZANT THOMAS C. BARNETT, JR. THERESA J. WALSH To be lieutenant colonel MARTIN J. BASHAM FLETCHER V. WASHINGTON JEFFREY K. BECKER JONATHAN A. FOSKEY KURT H. L. WEINAND MATTHEW J. BEDWELL THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT BRADLEY P. WELCH MAUREEN E. BELLAMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE MATTHEW Z. WEST JANEEN L. BIRCKHEAD ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: PAMELA L. WRIGHT ROBYN J. BLADER TWANDA E. YOUNG RONALD L. BRAZELL II To be colonel MICHAEL J. ZINNO THERESA L. BROWN MARION J. PARKS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JONATHAN D. BUONAMICI THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY JOHN E. BURICK TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL’S CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, TODD R. BURTON ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND 3064: JAMES J. CARUOLO To be major DAVID G. CHACON To be colonel PAUL B. CHAUNCEY III LESLIE E. AKINS KENNETH D. CHAVEZ KAREN A. PIKE RONALD ALCALA PHILIP W. CLAYTON THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR REGULAR ADRIAN T. ALLISON DENNIS S. CLEAVELAND APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE NATHANIEL H. BABB CHRISTOPHER J. COLE UNITED STATES ARMY NURSE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, JASON S. BALLARD SCOTT E. COLLINS U.S.C., SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: SEAMUS K. BARRY MARGARET L. COMPTON To be major KRISTA L. BARTOLOMUCCI DAVID M. COOLEY CHRISTOPHER B. BERHOW JEFFREY L. COPELAND DEREK S. REYNOLDS TRICIA L. BIRDSELL ROBERT C. COVERT BRIAN D. VOGT KENNETH W. D. BORGNINO HOLLIE A. CRISSEY CARL J. BROMLEY LISA CRUM THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR REGULAR AP- JAY S. BURNS DAVID M. DAHLE POINTMENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED JOHN W. CAULWELL DARRELL W. DANIELS STATES ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: CINNAMON J. CHIELENS JONATHAN T. DAVENPORT To be major JOHN CIULLA, JR. MATTHEW L. DAVIS GILBERT J. COMLEY BARRY A. DEATON EDWARD A. FIGUEROA BRENDAN R. CRONIN DARRELL W. DEMENT MICHAEL C. VANHOVEN CHRISTOPHER J. CURRAN JODY L. DEW THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT MELISSA DASGUPTASMITH MICHAEL P. DIETZ TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE NICHOLES D. DEMBINSKI AMANDA E. DIGRE ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: JOHN G. DOYLE MARTIN C. DINAN BRADLEY ENDICOTT TONY D. DIVISH To be colonel CHAD M. FISHER JONATHAN R. DOLS JACK C. MASON CHRISTOFER T. FRANCA ROBERT A. DWAN, SR. TODD B. WAYTASHEK JEFFREY A. GILBERG ANITA R. EASLEY MEGHAN D.B. GLUSHENKO ROBERT D. EDGERLY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT BRENT A. GOODWIN FRANK D. EMANUEL TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE CLYDE B. GORE DAVID H. ESTES ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: TERRY J. GRIDER GREGORY L. ESTES To be colonel JOHN R. GUENARD MICHAEL V. ETCHEVERRY RAUDEL GUERRA CURTIS W. FAULK RUTH E. APONTE BRAD T. GWILLIM RICHARD B. FENNELL EDWARD R. ARMSTRONG JEREMY A. HAUGH KYLE G. FERLEMANN WARREN F. BACOTE JENNIFER M. HEALY JOHN W. FINDLEY TIMOTHY O. BANE THOMAS S. HONG MICHAEL S. FINER MARSHALL D. BANKS LARRIS HUTTON GEORGE L. FISHER CRAIG A. BARKLEY STEWART HYDERKHAN THOMAS C. FISHER ROSBELL BARRERA MATTHEW W. JEPPSON ADAM R. FLASCH THOMAS E. BARTOW DURWARD JOHNSON CHRISTOPHER M. FLEMING HARRY C. BLANCO JOSHUA W. JOHNSON DANIEL M. FRICKENSCHMIDT ROBERT I. BLAND ASHLEY A. JOLISSAINT MARTIN S. FRIES CURTIS T. BOTH JOSEPH E. JORGENSEN MARK S. FRITZ NORMA J. BRADFORD CAOILTE K. JOY DOUGLAS C. GAGNON MIGUEL A. CASTELLANOS TAKASHI KAGAWA ELIZABETH K. GAYTON DOUGLAS A. CHERRY BRIAN J. KARGUS FREDERICK P. GILSON TYRONE D. CLIFTON SAMUEL K. KIM NEIL C. GLAD ELIZABETH A. COBLE MICHAEL KORTE NORBERT L. GLADNICK, JR. MARK W. COLVIS JOSHUA W. KRUPA MICHAEL J. GLISSON ROSANNA L. DOLPHIN CHRISTOPHER A. LACOUR SETH M. GOLDBERG MICHAEL J. FAGNANT BRETT A. LAMBORN CHRISTOPHER M. GOLNICK JON M. GOFORTH MICHAEL H. LAMPHIER ESTEBAN L. GONZALES NIKKI L. GRIFFINOLIVE SANDRA N. LEEBER SAMUEL W. GOULD WILLIAM I. GRYMES SHAUN B. LISTER DOUGLAS T. GRAGERT KENNETH M. HAMMOND MARK W. MALCOLM RODNEY M. GRAHAM MICHAEL T. HARVEY ROBERTO C. MARTENS ANDREW L. GRANTHAM CURTIS R. HENRY DANIEL D. MAURER JON R. GREENHAW SEAN P. HIGGINS ALLISON D. MCFEATTERS WARREN R. GRIFFIS DEBRA A. HOWER JENNIFER A. MCKEEL STEVEN T. GRIGSBY DAVID R. JAMES MARCUS L. MISINEC FORREST M. GRIMES, JR. RICARDO A. JAVIER JODEAN MORROW DAVID A. GUIDO CHARLES M. JENKS DUSTIN P. J. MURPHY JEFFREY J. HAFNER LINDA C. JOHNSON ALAN J. NEF WILLIAM M. HALL PATRICK N. JOYNER WILLIAM A. OBRINGER JOHN P. HARDY MICHAEL L. KASNIC GREGORY T. OMALLEY TODD R. HARLESS DANIEL A. KELLER MEGHAN OSULLIVAN TERRY B. HARPER ROBERT J. KENNEDY BENJAMIN M. OWENSFILICE GEORGE J. HARRINGTON ERIC A. LAWSON JOY L. PREMO CYRO D. HARRISON SAMUEL E. LICORISH, JR. ARMANDO RANCANO JOHN F. HARRISON TERRY D. LINDON JESS R. RANKIN JET M. HAYS RONALD L. LUNDY THEODORE B. REITER ROBERT F. HEPNER, JR. JOSE M. MADERA JAMAL RHINEHARDT BARBARA A. HERRINGTONCLEMENS GASPARE MAGADDINO STEPHEN J. RUETER STEVEN L. HIBLER JOHN D. MANNING ANDREW W. SCOTT GARY M. HOFFMANN EDWARD B. MCEACHERN BRETT C. SHEPARD DEDRICK W. HOSKINS THOMAS P. MCLEARY JOSHUA J. SMITH ANDREW F. HUTCHINSON GREGORY S. MCMILLAN NATHANIEL G. SMITH ENIS A. JAMES ELIZABETH A. MEDINA SHAHARA T. TIMBROOK ROGER L. JENNINGS, JR. DONNA M. MIKULIC VIRGINIA H. TINSLEY DANIEL M. JOHNSON WILLIAM N. NUTTER BRUCE TYLER ANDREA J. JOHNSONHARVEY JAMES R. ORBOCK KYLE C. VANDEWATER JOHN D. JOHNSON THOMAS B. PENTECOST STEVEN VARGO LYNDON C. JOHNSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS CHRISTOPHER C. WAITE ANGELA B. JONES LUIS POMALES RYAN T. WARDLE DAVID V. JORDAN DEREK W. PRUITT JOSEPH H. WHEELER PETER D. JORDAN DEREK J. REMINGTON MELVIN L. WILLIAMS TROY D. JOSLIN

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JOHN E. KAJANDER THOMAS B. ADAMS STANLEY J. KORYTA, JR. RAYMOND M. KENT DAVID F. ALBANESE FRANK A. KUCZYNSKI THOMAS J. KILMARTIN RANDELL ALICEAORTIZ KELLY E. KYBURZ CECIL W. KING DERRIC H. ANDERSON STEVE J. LANCASTER DANIEL J. KNIGHT JON T. ANDERSON RUBY R. LARDENT JOHN D. KOVAC TRAVIS J. ANGLIN RICHARD E. LAUBER GARY D. LADD TROY J. ANHALT KENNETH J. LAVOY GENE K. LAMBRECHT MICHAEL T. ANSAY TODD M. LAZAROSKI RICHARD J. LEBEL DANIEL E. ARZONICO SCOTT R. LEATHERMAN JOHN J. LEE EDGARDO AVILES PETER H. LEE DAVID A. LEGER LISA D. A. BACA BRUCE R. LEMOINE DAVID C. LEONARD MICHELLE M. BAILEY BETHANY I. LENDERMAN THOMAS R. LEONARD GREGORY L. BAISCH EVAN K. LITTMAN TODD W. LEWIS HARLAN E. BALLARD WILLIAM S. LONGINO JAMES D. LORD DANIEL J. BASIK JOHN C. LOOMIS SONJA M. LUCAS MILLER L. BELMONT DOUGLAS A. LUEHE CLYDE A. LYNN III CURTIS A. BENNETT MARK J. MAIER AMY S. LYONS JAMES M. BERRY GAYNA C. MALCOLMPACKNETT MICHAEL A. LYONS KARL J. BERSCHEID RODNEY C. MANOR MICHAEL D. LYTLE ANDREW P. BESSMER PABLO MANZO THOMAS M. MALEE II HERALD E. BIRCHFIELD, JR. DANIEL J. MAROUN BARRY W. MANLEY BARRY N. BIRDWELL DANIEL F. V. MCCARTHY TERRY L. MAST, JR. GARY A. BISSELL JULIANA K. MCCAUSLIN JUDY M. MAVROLEON MICHAEL L. BLAND REX E. MCCULLOUGH SCOTT C. MAYLATH JON T. BLATT JAMES A. MCDONALD DANIEL C. MCCARROLL RICHARD J. BOEHNING FRANCESCA M. MCFADDEN GARY L. MCGINNIS GLENN A. BOGDANSKI MOLLY S. MCGLAUGHLIN EDWARD M. MCINNIS JIMMY D. BOWIE ERIC J. MCGRAW LES A. MELNYK MICHAEL W. BRANER KEVIN W. MCKELVY MICHAEL K. MESSICK STEPHEN J. BROADFOOT JEFFERY W. MCKONE STEVEN E. METZE BUDDY B. BROOK WILLIAM J. MCLAEN MARK K. MIERA MICHAEL E. BROWNE WILLIAM H. MILLARD MILO W. MOODY JAMES C. BULKOWSKI CAROL S. MOMOHARA RENE MORENO JOHN W. BUSTERUD THOMAS O. MONAHAN ALBERT C. MORRIS CLARENCE D. BUTLER JOHN C. MOORE, JR. ROBERT E. MOSCARELLO WINDSOR S. BUZZA DION B. MOTEN MAX E. MOSS, JR. KENNETH W. CARLSON DAVID C. MUNDFROM ERIC T. MULLAI ANGELO J. CARMELLO KARL E. NELL DONALD E. CARTER, JR. GARY L. NICHOL RALPH R. MYERS, JR. WILLIAM E. CARTER MILFORD C. NICHOLS MARTY R. NICHOLS WALTER C. CATLETT LUIS F. NIEVES LEE G. NORDIN SHAWN R. CHENEY MICHAEL D. NYENHUIS DANIEL A. NORMAN WALTER J. CHWASTYK MICHAEL A. OHEARN NATALIE D. NORTHERN RICHARD E. CIOCHON CLARE P. OKEEFFE JEFFREY A. OLIVE ELIZABETH L. COFFMAN MICHAEL G. OLIVERI KEVIN A. OLSON ROYELLE D. COMER TERI L. OMAN JOHN E. PARKER GEORGE W. COOK, JR. ANDREW PARKER MICHAEL E. PATTERSON TIMOTHY P. COON MICHAEL D. PARRISH LISA A. PEAKE THOMAS M. COONEY RICHARD A. PEMBER WILLIAM H. POPPLER MICHAEL D. CRADER ELDON D. PENCE III DAVID C. POULTON GEORGE C. CRESSMAN, JR. GEORGE C. PENROD ROGER A. PRESLEY, JR. KENNETH R. DASILVA JOHN H. PHILLIPS RICKY C. PRESSNELL GLENN M. DAVIS JOHN S. PHILLIPS MIGUEL A. RAMOSNIEVES STEVEN A. DAVIS LAURENCE K. PIKE JASON J. RECKARD DONALD L. DEAS JAMES O. POSEY, JR. RAFAEL A. RIBAS STEVEN J. DEBRUIN JONATHAN M. PULEO MARK T. RICCARDI GENE J. DELBIANCO RONALD QUIETT RYON A. RICHMOND STEVEN E. DEVORE PETER J. RAYNA TIMOTHY R. RICKERT TERRY L. DEWITT GEORGE W. REAGAN TIMOTHY L. RIEGER BRIAN T. DIEFFENBACHER ANNA L. REGO GARY A. ROBINSON II GEORGE K. DIXON DAVID A. ROSCOE ROBERT D. ROBINSON II RONALD D. DIZ RONALD A. SALAS JEFFREY L. RYAN ROY J. DOWNEY DAVID W. SCHEIDELER MARK J. SCHINDLER JOHN M. DRESKA KARL R. SCHELLY RONALD J. SCHWICKERATH TIMOTHY D. DYE MARTIN C. SCHULZ LAWRENCE P. SEABERG JOSEPH F. DZIEZYNSKI WILLIAM P. SCHWAB JAMES S. SELCHERT KIMBERLY G. SELL MATTHEW P. EASLEY JOHN A. SEPRODI CHARLES S. SENTELL III VALERIE D. ECHOLS DAVID P. SHAFER MITCHELL R. SHAFFER HOWARD W. ECKSTEIN DAVID R. SHAUL DARYL N. SHRYOCK ANNE D. EDGECOMB TODD C. SHEALY JOHN W. SIMMA, JR. JOSEPH A. EDWARDS II JAMES T. SHUTO DOUGLAS S. SMITH GREGORY T. ELPERS JAMES B. SLAGOWSKI JAMES E. SMITH JOHN T. FARNSWORTH ELIZABETH B. SMART GEOFFREY M. SMYTH RICHARD A. FAULKNER, JR. RONALD J. SPENCER SUSAN M. SOISSON MICHAEL A. FITZGERALD DEAN T. SPENZOS JOHN C. SPEAR KENNETH W. FORMELLA CHRISTOPHER S. STANGER GREGORY W. SPEARS LOVOYD L. FOUNTAIN JEFFREY S. STEVENS ROBERT W. SPINELLI MITCHELL H. FRIDLEY JOHN A. STEVENS JOHN E. STEFULA SAMUEL A. FRYER LORI A. STRODE DONALD P. STEWART JAMES W. FULKS ANTHONY K. SUTTER KEITH F. STUBBS GERALD J. GAFFORD GERALD A. TAKASE PETER T. SULLIVAN DANIEL A. GAJEWSKI WILLIAM H. TAYLOR BRIAN TACKETT WILLIAM H. GALBREATH STUART J. TOMASA AMY M. TAITANO THOMAS M. GANTT KENNETH S. TOUSSAINT AMY L. TALBERT THOMAS C. GEORGES DANIEL L. TOWNSEND CARL D. TAYLOR DARREL A. GERMAN THEODORE F. TRACY JEANETTE L. THOMPSON SCOTT A. GIACOBBI TRYGVE B. TROSPER DAVID G. TORGERSEN TONI A. GLOVER HERMAN P. VALENTINE ANDREW J. TROSKE SCOTT J. GORDON VINCENT L. VANNOORBEECK LAWRENCE L. TUBBS PETER GORKY LARRY B. VAUGHN DARRYL L. UNDERWOOD SUZANNE M. GOULETTE KEVIN A. VEDDER ALOK K. UPADHYAYA ELIZABETH L. GROSSI ADAM C. VOLANT PETER A. VANDERLAND, JR. MICHAEL W. GROSZ MICHELE R. VOORHEES ALEXANDER J. VERRET, JR. ROBERT A. GRUMBERG DAVID L. WARD EDWARD D. WAGNER MICHELE M. HABERLACH LOREN A. WEEKS HOWARD G. WENGER TYRA A. HARDING JOHN M. WELLS RICHARD P. WHITAKER JEROME R. HEATH ROBERT M. WHITE ROBERT M. WILKINSON RALPH D. HENNING MICHAEL D. WICKMAN JOHN D. WILLIAMSON JON A. HEWITT DAVID L. WILLIAMS CHRISTOPHER J. WILSON ROBERT HILDEBRANDT MICHAEL W. WILLIAMS GARY W. WINCH, JR. JOHN A. HILL WARREN R. WINTRODE TERESA B. WOLFGANG EDWARD HRICZOV, JR. STEVEN F. WOLF MICHAEL J. WORTH TEDDY R. HUGHART ANDREW M. WOOD HARRY G. YOUNGER RONALD S. HUNTER RUSSELL W. WOODLIEF JAMIE D. ZUCKER GARTHA INGRAM III JOHN J. WRANEK III R010075 LAWRENCE M. IWANSKI RICHARD M. WRIGHT BRYDON D. JACKSON IN THE MARINE CORPS WILLIAM R. YOUNG JAY S. JACKSON JAMES A. ZOLLAR THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICER FOR MATTHEW A. JENKINS JOHN A. ZULFER APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE SHAWN M. JIRIK UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT GARRETT P. JOHNSON SECTION 624: TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE KIT D. JONES ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: REX W. JONES To be major To be colonel WOLFGANG E. JUNGE TIMOTHY W. KELLEY DARREN M. GALLAGHER RAFAEL E. ABREU PHILIP E. KEYES THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICER FOR LESLIE L. ACHTERBERG GOTTFRIED H. KOBLITZ APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE

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UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., IAN R. CLARK SECTION 624: SECTION 624: WILLIAM P. CLARK JAIME O. COLLAZO To be major To be lieutenant colonel SAMUEL C. COOK DUSTY C. EDWARDS JASON B. DAVIS ROBERT D. COOPER PAUL D. CUCINOTTA THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICER FOR JOHN DIGIOVANNI JOHN F. REYNOLDS, JR. DREW E. CUKOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE MATTHEW C. CULBERTSON UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR ROMIN DASMALCHI SECTION 624: APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE CHARLES M. DUNNE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., To be major THOMAS C. EULER III SECTION 624: THOMAS M. FAHY, JR. JACKIE W. MORGAN, JR. To be lieutenant colonel TODD W. FERRY CHRISTOPHER A. FEYEDELEM THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICER FOR TRAVIS M. FULTON JAMES W. FREY APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE MARK L. HOBIN ROBERT C. FULFORD UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., GARY S. LIDDELL JAMES R. FULLWOOD, JR. SECTION 624: PETER S. GADD THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR DOUGLAS V. GLASGOW To be lieutenant colonel APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE DAVID P. GRANT UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., DANA R. FIKE DANIEL Q. GREENWOOD SECTION 624: THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICER FOR JAMES F. HARP APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE To be lieutenant colonel CLARENCE T. HARPER III UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., MARK D. HOROWITZ BRYAN DELGADO SECTION 624: LAWRENCE E. HUGGINS, JR. MARK R. DOEHRMANN PETER D. HUNTLEY To be lieutenant colonel KELLY M. JONES JAN M. JANUARY RODOLFO D. QUISPE JEFFREY L. JAROSZ SAMUEL W. SPENCER III THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR DAVID E. JONES THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE SEKOU S. KAREGA APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., DANIEL R. KAZMIER UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: PATRICK J. KEANE III SECTION 624: JEFFREY J. KENNEY To be major To be lieutenant colonel SCOTT S. LACY DAVID B. BLANN FRANK N. LATT LARRY MIYAMOTO KEVIN J. GOODWIN WENDELL B. LEIMBACH, JR. JOSEPH P. LEVREAULT THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICER FOR WILLIAM W. INNS III JOSEPH A. LORE APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE ALLEN L. LEWIS LORNA M. MAHLOCK UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR GEORGE G. MALKASIAN SECTION 624: APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE THOMAS G. MCCANN II To be lieutenant colonel UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., WILLIAM P. MCCLANE SECTION 624: DONALD B. MCDANIEL SAL L. LEBLANC To be major JOHN E. MCDONOUGH THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICER FOR ELDON E. METZGER APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE MICHAEL GASPERINI MICHAEL J. MOONEY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., THESOLINA D. HUBERT JASON L. MORRIS SECTION 624: ERIC S. KIRCHNER PAUL J. NUGENT DAVID P. KRAKLOW DAVID S. OWEN To be lieutenant colonel TIMOTHY W. WILLIAMS PATRICK R. OWENS LOUIS J. PALAZZO MAURO MORALES THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE CHRISTOPHER D. PATTON THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., THOMAS A. PECINA APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE SECTION 624: SCOTT W. PIERCE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., ROBERT J. PLEVELL SECTION 624: To be major MARVIN REED BRENDAN REILLY To be lieutenant colonel STEPHEN R. BYRNES GEORGE B. ROWELL IV LUKE A. CROUSON GEORGE L. ROBERTS JOSEPH J. RUSSO CRAIG A. ELLIOTT PAUL A. SHIRLEY JOHN M. SCHAAR JASON C. FLORES FREDERICK G. SCHENK THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR MICHAEL J. MALONE WILLIAM H. SWAN APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE JAMES N. TIMMER, JR. MICHAEL J. TARGOS III UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR TODD S. TOMKO SECTION 624: APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE CASEY C. TRAVERS To be lieutenant colonel UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., HENRY E. VANDERBORGHT SECTION 624: WILLIAM H. VIVIAN RICHARD D. KOHLER GAINES L. WARD GARY J. SPINELLI To be major MICHAEL R. WATERMAN THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR PETER K. BASABE, JR. PAUL R. WEAVER APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE JAMES R. BURNS, JR. JAMES B. WELLONS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., KENNETH E. CUPP STEVEN M. WOLF SECTION 624: KURT D. GARRIOTT CRAIG R. WONSON BRIAN KOVAL KEVIN S. WOODARD To be major SEAN M. MELANPHY MICHAEL P. WYLIE DANIEL L. YAROSLASKI JAMES B. THOMPSON MICHAEL A. YOUNG JOSEPH J. ZARBA, JR. JASON A. WOODWORTH THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MA- TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MA- APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RINE CORPS RESERVE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION RINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., 12203: SECTION 624: To be colonel To be lieutenant colonel To be major MICHAEL A. BROWN JESSICA L. ACOSTA DAVID W. EDSON BRIAN S. ALBON ERIC T. CLINE MICHAEL F. ARNONE ROBERT S. SCHMIDT, JR. STEVEN G. GODINHO DERRICK R. HEYL ERIC M. ASCHENBRENNER THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR BART L. PESTER RICHARD B. ASHFORD APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE FRANCIS P. PICCOLI SHERIF A. AZIZ UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., MICHAEL E. SAMPLES, JR. MICHAEL J. BABILOT SECTION 624: MATTHEW A. BALDWIN THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT DAX C. BATTAGLIA To be lieutenant colonel TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MA- GINGER E. BEALS RINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JOSE L. SADA BRADLEY P. BEAN BRIAN J. SPOONER To be colonel JAMES M. BECHTEL DAVID A. BECKER THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR CHRISTOPHER C. ABRAMS ERIC M. BECKMANN APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE GEOFFREY M. ANTHONY EDWARD Y. BLAKISTON UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., STEPHEN P. ARMES DAVID A. BOGLE SECTION 624: JOHN B. ATKINSON JONATHAN A. BOSSIE To be major STEPHEN C. AUGUSTIN KEVIN H. BRIGHT PAUL D. BAKER CHRISTIAN J. BROADSTON FREDERICK L. HUNT SCOTT A. BALDWIN KAREN B. BROCKMEIER PARIMA IN JOHN M. BARNETT BRANDON C. BROOKS CHAD E. TIDWELL TIMOTHY E. BARRICK JEFFREY T. BROOKS THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR WILLIAM C. BERRIS MICHAEL L. BROOKS APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE CHAD A. BLAIR JOSEPH D. BROOME UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., BRET A. BOLDING MAURICE A. BROWN SECTION 624: ROBERT J. BRAATZ DESMOND F. BROWNE, JR. DAVID P. BRADNEY CHRISTOPHER A. BROWNING To be major RONALD C. BRANEY SAMUEL G. BRYCE ROLLIN D. BREWSTER III BENEDICT G. BUERKE TODD E. LOTSPEICH VICTOR J. BUNCH ASHLEY K. BURCH DAVID L. OGDEN, JR. RUSSELL C. BURTON DOUGLAS R. BURKE, JR. DONALD E. WILLIAMS MICHAEL J. CALLANAN GREGORY K. BUTCHER THE FOLLOWING NAMED LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS FOR JENNIFER E. CARTER TAMARA L. CAMPBELL APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE MELVIN G. CARTER TROY H. CAMPBELL

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CHRISTOPHER K. CANNON PETER J. MUNSON JONATHAN H. BRANDT EDWARD M. CARICATO, JR. GERALD E. MURPHY AMANDA M. BRANNON FOSTER T. CARLILE CHRISTOPHER M. MURRAY MATTHEW D. BRONSON BRADFORD R. CARR KATHRYN M. NAVIN STEVEN R. BROUSSARD ROBERT E. CATO II ANDREW J. NELSON JASON P. BROWN JOSHUA B. CHARTIER LAWRENCE D. NICHOLS ANDREW M. BUDENZ JOHN R. CHERRY EDWIN NORRIS SCOTT S. BUERSTATTE DARREL L. CHOAT CHARLES M. NUNALLY III JOSEPH T. BUFFAMANTE ANDREW CHRISTIAN NICHOLAS C. NUZZO AARON D. BURCIAGA LEE K. CLARE DEREK S. OST KIMBERLY R. BYRD CHRISTOPHER J. COLLINS ANDREW M. OTERO JOHN A. CACIOPPO JAMES A. COOPER MICHAEL C. PALMER JEFFREY J. CAHILL LEE K. COOPER VASILIOS E. PAPPAS MOLLY S. CAHILL MARK E. COVER ANDREW J. PETRUCCI BRENT J. CANTRELL ROBERTO CUEVAS STEPHANIE M. POLESNAK JAMES W. CARLSON GREGORY R. CURTIS CASEY J. POLKINGHORNE JUSTIN E. CARLSON ROBERT B. DAVIS JAMES P. POPPY ERIC A. CATTO TIMOTHY A. DAVIS MONTE S. POWELL RYAN M. CAULDER JOSE M. DELEON, JR. EDWARD W. POWERS ARTHUR CHAPMAN III ANDREW M. DELGAUDIO CARL C. PRIECHENFRIED JOSEPH E. CLEMMEY, JR. BRIAN P. DENNIS CHRISTOPHER D. PRITCHETT MATTHEW P. COOK SAMUEL N. DEPUTY RONALD J. REGA, JR. BRANDON A. CORDILL KEVIN B. DEWITT JACOB L. REYNOLDS TRAVIS J. COVEY PATRIZIA M. DIENHARTSTABILE PATRICK J. REYNOLDS, JR. ERIC P. CRECELIUS JEFFREY S. DINSMORE JAMES E. RICHARDSON, JR. JOSEPH C. DADIOMOFF JOHN F. DOBRYDNEY DUANE T. RIVERA ANDREW D. DAMBROGI KEVIN M. DOHERTY CHRISTOPHER D. ROBERSON BRAD A. DANKS HENRY DOLBERRY, JR. NATHANIEL K. ROBINSON RAMIRO DEANDA, JR. LINA M. DOWNING GREGORY S. ROOKER ANTHONY C. DELLACOSTA III CHARLES E. DUDIK COLLEEN J. SABAT THOMAS J. DENEVAN DAVID D. FAIRLEIGH MARK D. SADOWSKY ANDREW P. DIMITRUK JENNIFER M. FARINA ANDRE P. SALVANERA NATHAN P. DMOCHOWSKI RORY M. FEELY AARON C. SAMSEL THOMAS R. DOLAN WILLIAM B. FENWICK BRIAN K. SANCHEZ CASEY C. DORAN FRANK E. FILLER KURT M. SANGER, JR. BRYAN A. DUDLEY RYAN M. FINN TODD R. SCHIRO IAN J. DUNCAN MARY K. FLATLEY KARL T. SCHMIDT WESLEY J. EARHART DUANE C. FORSBERG BARRY L. EDWARDS TIMOTHY W. SCHNELLE JOHN M. FRASER DUSTIN B. ELLIOTT WILLIAM J. SCHRANTZ JASON A. GADDY JASON M. ELLIS ANTONIO SCOFFIELD ROBERT B. GARRISON PATRICK J. FAHEY ROBERTO C. SCOTT WILLIAM J. GIBBONS JOSEPH I. FARINA GEORGE J. SEEGEL CARL D. GIDEON STEPHEN R. FELTS MARISA P. SERANO BRIAN J. GILBERTSON TIMOTHY J. FENTON JACK A. SILE MAXX GODSEY JOHN L. FERRITER DAVID B. SLAY MATTHEW J. GORBATY DEREK A. FILIPE TIMOTHY M. SLINGER BRANDON W. GRAHAM CAMERON A. FITZSIMMONS LISA M. SOUDERS MICHAEL A. GRAZIANI DANIEL L. FLATLEY DAVID W. SPANGLER CHRISTOPHER D. HAFER RAYMOND A. FORBES ROBERT A. STEELE DENNIS L. HAGER II ROBERT A. FOULKES DAVID R. STENGRIM JASON M. HAMILTON MAX D. FRANK JONATHAN M. STOFKA AMEDE I. HANSON RYAN J. FRANZEN ERIC A. STRONG DANE HANSON JAMES R. FRIEDLEIN JOSEPH C. TAMMINEN GREGORY A. HANWECK ANTHONY L. FRIEL BRIAN R. TAYLOR DAVID J. HART PETER K. FUKUSHIMA THOMAS N. TAYLOR CRAIG L. HARVEY DONALD L. GALLOWAY ROGER N. THOMAS BRYAN C. HATFIELD CLAYTON D. GARD III ROBERT A. TOMLINSON TREVOR A. HEIDENREICH JEFFREY A. GARZA RENE TORRES MONROE H. HENDERSON LYLE L. GILBERT JONATHAN E. TOWLE PHILIP R. HERSCHELMAN MARC H. GINEZ RENE TREVINO JASON W. HEUER DANIEL E. GOOD RANDALL G. TURNER BRENT E. HEYL EVAN R. GORDON JOSHUA B. TUTTLE JIMMY S. HICKS NATHANIEL D. GREEN QUENTIN R. VAUGHN BRADLEY D. HITCHCOCK JOSHUA A. GREGORY ROMAN P. VITKOVITSKY SEAN P. HOEWING MATTHEW E. GREY JARED C. VONEIDA MARK D. HOWARD WILLIAM H. GRIMBALL MATTHEW L. WALKER HENRY E. HURT III GIDEON P. GRISSETT MELVILLE J. WALTERS IV DAVID C. HYMAN JEREMY H. GROEFSEMA MICHAEL P. WARD TIMOTHY W. IRWIN MATTHEW S. GUNESCH LARRY R. WARFIELD II JOHN J. JAESKI JOHN D. HAFEMANN THOMAS M. WARREN CHARLES D. JENNINGS RHETT A. HANSEN ALTON A. WARTHEN FERNANDO V. JIMENEZ JOHN P. HARLEY LISA M. WEBB GRANT M. JOHNSON EDWARD B. HART MICHAEL E. WEBB JASON JOHNSON TYLER J. HART PATRICK WEINERT KIMBERLY A. JOHNSON KIRBY C. HARWELL JAMES W. WEIRICK PAUL K. JOHNSON III JEREMY C. HAWKINS JODY E. WHITE GREGORY L. JONES JASON P. HAYES JOHNNY J. WIDENER KEMPER A. JONES JEREMY L. HENDERSON ANDRE L. WILLIAMS DAVID C. JOSEFORSKY JOSE R. HERNANDEZ HILARY H. WILLIAMS GREGORY K. JOSEPH ROBERT J. HILLERY WADE L. WORKMAN JAY J. KAJS ALDEN E. HINGLE III MATTHEW S. YOUNGBLOOD ANDREW M. KELLEY BRIAN E. HOLLIER MARK A. KIEHLE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JOHN A. HOOKS, JR. JOHN P. KIRBY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MA- JOSEPH L. HORNACKY JONATHAN D. KNOTTS RINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: DOUGLAS H. HOWARD NOAH J. KOMNICK To be major ETHAN M. HOWELL PAUL B. KOPACZ MICHAEL S. HRITZ SPEROS C. KOUMPARAKIS RICO ACOSTA JASON A. HVIZDAK PETER J. LANG II MICAH L. ADKISON LEIGH G. IRWIN LANCE J. LANGFELDT KYLE J. ANDREWS MARVIN L. JACKSON JEFFREY J. LARSON MATTHEW A. ANKER KIRK A. JOHNSON GOTTFRIED H. LAUBE, JR. PETER E. ANKNEY CHARLES R. JOHNSTON ISAAC G. LEE ANDREW R. APETZ MICHAEL L. JONES SAMUEL K. LEE ROBIN J. ARANT SEAN D. JONES ADAM V. LEFRINGHOUSE RICHARD M. ARBOGAST CHRISTOPHER M. KAPRIELIAN LEONARD J. LEVINE JAMES G. ARGENTINA, JR. ANDRE A. KARPOWICH CARL A. LEWANDOWSKI KELLY R. ATTWOOD KEVIN M. KEENE JON B. LIVINGSTON MICHAEL J. AUBRY ERIK A. KEIM ROBERT J. LIVINGSTON, JR. DOUGLAS P. BAHRNS TRAVIS B. KEMPF DAVID S. LOWERY LUCAS A. BALKE JUSTIN O. KENNEDY JOHN P. MAHER DAVID S. BARBER SUNG G. KIM MICHAEL J. MANIFOR BRANDON W. BARNETT RYAN T. KING RHONDA C. MARTIN NEWEL R. BARTLETT MICHAEL T. KINGEN DAVID M. MARTINEZ MATTHEW J. BAUMANN PATRICK E. KINSER IRVIN MARTINEZ GARY R. BECHTOLD ADAM W. KINTOP JAMES K. MCBRIDE JOSEPH C. BEGLEY BRET J. KNICKERBOCKER JOHN S. MCCALMONT BRIDGET N. BEMIS ZACHARY M. KNIGHT MATTHEW N. MCCONNELL CASEY BENEFIELD TOPHER S. KOREIS JEFFREY S. MCCORMACK STEVEN G. BERCH ROMAN Y. KOSHKIN FREDERICK J. MCELMAN PAUL R. BERTOLONE CHIP D. KOSKINIEMI AMY M. MCGRATH DAVID C. BJERKE KEVIN H. KOYAMA JAMES R. MCGRATH JUSTIN L. BLACKMON MICHAEL P. KUSNERAK GREGORY A. MCGUIRE CASEY R. BLASINGAME MARK A. LAQUIHON ELVINO M. MENDONCA, JR. MATTHEW D. BOHMAN PATRICK V. LAVOIE JASON B. MITCHELL WYATT J. BORSHEIM BENJAMIN D. LAWLESS JAMES D. MULLIN STEVEN M. BOST JARED W. LEDBETTER BRIAN T. MULVIHILL OWEN M. BOYCE BOBBY W. LEE, JR.

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DOUGLAS G. LEE GIANOULIS ROUSSOS ESTEBAN ZAMORA TIMOTHY J. LEONARD DUSTIN R. ROWLAND ANDREW J. ZETTS GARY A. LINGEN GREGG SAFINSKI GARRETT G. LITFIN DANIEL M. SCHIERLING IN THE NAVY THOMAS R. MACKESY KARL W. SCHLEGEL ROGELIO MAESE SCOTT M. SCHMITZ THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT MATTHEW J. MAHONEY AARON P. SCHNETZLER TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY JASON J. MARAFFI RYAN D. SCHRAMEL UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: DANIEL C. MARTIN DANIEL H. SCHWARTZ QUINCI D. MARTIN GREGORY R. SCOTT To be commander TRISTAN G. MARTINEZ MATTHEW A. SEAVITTE HARRY E. HAYES JESSICA G. MARTZ DAVID C. SEGRAVES ROHIT Y. MASIH MORRIS M. SHARBER, JR. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT SETH W. MCCOLLOUGH CHRISTOPHER R. SHERWOOD TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY MICHAEL J. MCDONALD NATHAN B. SHIVELY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: BLAISE T. MCFADDEN DOUGLAS B. SHORES SCOTT J. MCGUIGAN CURTIS I. SHREVE To be lieutenant commander GREGORY S. MCSWEEN ROBERT E. SHUFORD SHEMEYA L. GRANT MATTHEW T. MELLOTT MICHAEL J. SHULL MELINA MESTA CHRISTOPHER M. SIEKMAN THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR REGULAR JOHN R. MILLSAP MICHAEL D. SIMON APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADES INDICATED IN THE DIEGO A. MIRANDA JENNIFER A. SIMPSON UNITED STATES NAVY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION JOSEPH F. MONAHAN DANIEL M. SINGER 531: PETER S. MOON COREY J. SMITH JASON C. MOORE JAMES N. SNYDER To be commander NATHAN M. MOORE GREGORY S. SORELLE CHRISTOPHER J. KANE SAMUEL C. MOORE MICHAEL J. SOUZA MATTHEW S. MORENO REBECCA G. SPAHR To be lieutenant commander JASON L. MORRIS ROBERT E. SPALLA BRET W. MORRISS RICHARD B. STANDARD LUKE C. SUBER CHRISTOPHER J. MYETTE JEFFERY L. STARR THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR TEMPORARY JAMES R. NEAGLE ROLLIN A. STEELE APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE CHRISTOPHER M. NELSON JEFF M. STEINKAMP UNITED STATES NAVY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION DENNIS R. NICHOLS CHRISTOPHER A. STEPHENSON 5721: JOSHUA N. NUNN JILL L. STEPHENSON STEVEN D. NYLAND THOMAS J. STONA To be lieutenant commander BRANDON J. OATES JOSHUA T. SUMMERS DANA R. OGLE BRETT R. SWAIM JEANINE F. BENJAMIN DOUGLAS R. ORR MARK C. SYKES TIMOTHY S. BREWER BYRON J. OWEN PAULA D. TAIBI JUSTIN M. BUMMARA JUSTIN D. OWENS RYAN E. THOMPSON LLOYD R. EDWARDS ROBERT E. PATMORE KURT R. THORMAHLEN BRIAN J. EHRHARDT JEFFREY J. PATTERSON II MARC R. TILNEY PAUL K. EVANS NICHOLAS R. PERGAR RALPH B. TOMPKINS BALTAZAR FERNANDEZ III MICHELLE L. PETERS JOHN W. TORRESALA ALEXANDER J. FRANZ JONATHAN L. PETERSON CHRISTOPHER A. TRENT DAEHYUN J. GILLESPIE TROY M. PETERSON JULIAN M. TSUKANO NICHOLAS E. GURLEY JONATHAN J. PFUNTNER JUAN O. TURNER FREDERICK G. HETTLING MICHAEL A. PIGFORD DAVID W. VANDYNE NICHOLAS G. HOFFMAN CHRISTOPHER F. POLIDORA MICHAEL J. VANWYK MICHAEL JACKSON LOTTIE A. PORTELLI SABRINA M. VILLARREAL DEREK C. JASKOWIAK JASON W. POTTER MICHAEL E. VINCENT JADA E. JOHNSON MICHAEL J. PRUDEN SAMUEL F. WATTS RYAN D. JOHNSON MICHAEL A. REEL MICHAEL A. WEATHERS DAVID W. KING KELLY J. REPAIR MATTHEW J. WEAVER LUCIAN D. KINS LAWRENCE G. RIBBLE, JR. JUSTIN M. WELAN DONALD E. LEE II CHRISTOPHER R. RICHARDELLA NATHAN E. WERVE GREGORY E. LEVEQUE CATHERINE E. RICHARDSON ROBERT A. WILHELMSEN TYLER B. MCDONALD JAMES A. RICHARDSON ERIC M. WILLIAMS ERNEST L. MILLER III ANDREW S. ROBERSON SEAN M. WILLIAMS JOHNNY L. MINCEY PHILLIP G. ROBERTS, JR. GREGORY A. WILSON DANIEL C. PATRICK JOSHUA J. ROBINSON SCOTT A. WILSON ANDREW D. PYLE ERIC R. RODRIGUEZ WILLIAM C. WOODWARD, JR. JOSEPH R. SHERMAN ROBERT A. ROGERS JUSTIN M. WORTENDYKE MARK D. STANLEY DOUGLAS M. ROSENSTOCK GREGORY J. YOUNGBERG JAMIE E. VANDYKE PETER B. ROTTKAMP JOHN A. ZAAL BENJAMIN F. VISGER

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