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

Vol. 158 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012 No. 158 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at 12 p.m. Senate MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012

The Senate met at 2 p.m. and was to the Senate from the President pro longest serving Senator from Vermont, called to order by the Honorable PAT- tempore (Mr. INOUYE). a man of such quality. Those of us who RICK J. LEAHY, a Senator from the The legislative clerk read the fol- work with the chairman of the Judici- State of Vermont. lowing letter: ary Committee, Senator LEAHY of U.S. SENATE, Vermont, consider it an honor to be PRAYER PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, Washington, DC, December 10, 2012. able to talk to him—speaking for my- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- self, but I am sure we all feel this fered the following prayer: To the Senate: Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, way—and to learn from him. I am the Let us pray. of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby Almighty and everlasting God, who majority leader in the Senate, but I appoint the Honorable PATRICK J. LEAHY, a talk to my friend from Vermont often forgives the sins of the penitent, create Senator from the State of Vermont, to per- in us contrite hearts and renew a right form the duties of the Chair. to get ideas as to how we handle the spirit within us. Give our Senators this DANIEL K. INOUYE, difficult issues of the day. day, O God, peace with You that ban- President pro tempore. For me, as a person, I will always re- ishes fear. Help them to believe in Your Mr. LEAHY thereupon assumed the member, as long as I am on this Earth, power so they may be certain You are chair as Acting President pro tempore. the kindness Senator LEAHY and his able to do for them more than they can f lovely wife Marcelle extended to my ask or imagine. When the tasks are be- RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY wife. As most of my colleagues know, yond their powers and duty calls for LEADER more than they have to give, may they she was in a violent car accident. Her find their strength in You. Make them The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- neck was broken in a couple places and willing to do what is painful in the pore. The majority leader is recog- her back was broken and so she had a short term to avoid even greater pain nized. lot of surgery. When that was over, she in the long term. Lord, give them con- f learned she had breast cancer, and so fidence that You will protect them in LONGEST SERVING SENATOR she has been fighting that. Marcelle, the future even as You have sustained FROM VERMONT who is a nurse, has been so thoughtful them in the past. Mr. REID. Mr. President, first of all, and kind to my wife, calling her often We pray in your great Name. Amen. it is very unusual to have one of the to help her work through the sickness f most senior Members of the Senate that comes with breast cancer. So this PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE presiding and especially at this time of is an opportunity for me to say some- The Honorable PATRICK J. LEAHY led the day. I would say to my friend, this thing about my friend from Vermont. the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: is how the Senator has conducted him- I can still remember the first day we I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the self all the time he has been in the Sen- met, the first night we met in Florida. United States of America, and to the Repub- ate. We had a little emergency here He was running for reelection and I was today. The Senator who was expected lic for which it stands, one nation under God, running for the Senate. I want the indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. to be here was unable to make it due to RECORD spread with the fact that I f the fog we have around the eastern part of the United States, and so the have so much confidence and apprecia- APPOINTMENT OF ACTING Senator from Vermont agreed to pre- tion for this good man who, on a min- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE side. ute’s notice, came over to make the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The I say to everyone, the people of Senate work again. I thank our Acting clerk will please read a communication Vermont are so fortunate to have the President pro tempore very much.

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But his life in public Chair—is airports in parts of the coun- the price? Middle-class families. service dates back to his youth. He try are closed because of the fog, espe- Republicans face a real difficult spent his college days serving his Ne- cially in Washington, DC. As a result, choice in Congress. Will they cooperate braska community in another way—as even people coming from the West with Democrats and put the country on a lay minister. But eventually he chose weren’t able to leave. The Sun might a path to provide certainty for families law over ministry and went to law have been shining brightly there, but and investors? As my friend the senior school. He attended law school at the airplanes scheduled to come here Senator from Missouri said, the Speak- University of Nebraska, where he got couldn’t be given a time to land. So we er has a chance to do some good things, his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He spent many years practicing in- will have people who will not be here but he also has a problem because he surance law. He served as director of for our scheduled vote this evening, so has to decide whether he is going to the Nebraska Department of Insurance we will reschedule that vote for tomor- work to save his speakership or the and as president of the Central Na- row. country. Will they cooperate with Democrats tional Insurance Group. Then, in 1990, ORDER OF PROCEDURE he was elected Governor of Nebraska. I ask unanimous consent that the or will they force us to lurch from one crisis to the next in 2013 as they did in Four years later, he was reelected— cloture vote on the motion to proceed with almost 75 percent of the vote—to to S. 3637 be postponed to occur at 2:15 2011 and 2012? We need long-term solu- tions, not temporary fixes to problems become the first Nebraska Governor in p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, December 11; 20 years to win a second term. So it further, that if cloture is invoked on that dragged down the economic recov- ery over the past 2 years. was not a surprise when he ran for the the motion to proceed, the motion to Senate in 2000. He won, even though proceed be agreed to and the majority The House should take up the Sen- ate-passed middle-class tax cut which President Bush took Nebraska handily. leader be recognized. It is easy to see BEN NELSON truly The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- provides lasting security for families and businesses making less than possesses the same independent spirit pore. Without objection, it is so or- as his Nebraska constituents. He dered. $250,000 a year. The number of Repub- licans calling on the Speaker to allow served his constituents with distinc- f tion in the Senate and, of course, when a vote to give middle-class families he was Governor and as insurance com- MEASURE PLACED ON THE confidence their taxes will not go up missioner. He has always provided a CALENDAR—S. 3664 has grown. Speaker BOEHNER could end strong voice for fiscal responsibility, this suspense with just one vote. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask for a and he has been terrific for the State’s Over the weekend, the junior Senator second reading of S. 3664. energy industry, agricultural sector, from Tennessee, Mr. CORKER, joined a The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- and even tourism. pore. The clerk will report the bill by number of Senate Republicans and Similar to many of his Nebraska con- title for the second time. more than one dozen House Repub- stituents, Ben is an avid hunter, fisher, The legislative clerk read as follows: licans in calling for that vote. Senator and outdoorsman. A bill (S. 3664) to provide for debt limit ex- CORKER, admitting Republicans have As a sidelight, one of the things we tensions. little leverage in this faceoff, said: ‘‘I learn as kids—and as we get older it is Mr. REID. I object to any further actually am beginning to believe that something we must adhere to—is that proceedings with respect to this legis- is the best route for us to take.’’ one should not be envious. Envy isn’t lation at this time. Democrats agree sending the Senate- something that is very becoming of The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- passed tax cut to President Obama’s human beings, especially in an adult. pore. Objection having been heard, the desk is the quickest and most sensible But I think if the truth were known, bill will be placed on the calendar way out of this crisis. But avoiding the many Senators would be very envious, under rule XIV. fiscal cliff is no excuse for Republicans as I am—and I would even think the f to replace this artificial crisis with an- Acting President pro tempore would other one. THE ECONOMY be—about that hair of BEN NELSON’s. I Congress should also pass Senator mean that is a mop of real hair. Mr. REID. Mr. President, last week MCCONNELL’s proposal to end periodic It is often people call his office and the country received more good eco- standoffs over the debt ceiling. His they believe he has a toupee, but it is nomic news. The private sector created plan would give President Obama the his hair. He will pull it for you anytime 150,000 jobs—these are new jobs—and authority to avoid default on the Na- just to show you it is real. I mean he once again the unemployment rate fell. tion’s bills without a protracted fight. has hair like a 15-year-old. So I have to Unemployment is now at its lowest Senate Democrats are ready to vote on acknowledge I am a little envious of rate since December 2008. While too the minority leader’s sensible sugges- his hair, and I think, if the truth were many families across the Nation are tion at any time, but first Senator known, maybe others are as well. still struggling, especially in Nevada, MCCONNELL needs to stop filibustering My wife has said on many occa- there is no doubt our economy is head- his own legislation. sions—and she tells me this all the ed in the right direction. Right now, Speaker BOEHNER and Mi- time—how handsome PAT LEAHY is and America is poised for a rebound this nority Leader MCCONNELL are the only she is so glad he doesn’t do a comb- year if a few good things happen. The ones standing between Congress and over. last thing we can afford is yet another compromise. It is time for them to Anyway, BEN NELSON is an avid hun- crisis manufactured by Republicans in prove to American families they are ter, fisher, and outdoorsman. He has Congress just as the economy finally more interested in protecting the mid- bagged pheasants and turkey, and one gains some momentum. If Republicans dle class than pleasing the tea party. time, to the consternation of all of us, force a $2,200 tax increase on 98 percent f he decided he was going to take Sen- of American families and 97 percent of ator SCHUMER from New York hunting small businesses to protect the richest TRIBUTE TO DEPARTING for pheasants. He did that. Everybody SENATORS of the rich, the economy will suffer survived it alive, and BEN NELSON still greatly. BEN NELSON boasts about that; that he was able to If Republicans again threaten default Mr. REID. Mr. President, I rise to bring SCHUMER back all in one piece. on the full faith and credit of the honor our colleague the senior Senator More important, the people who went

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He has service in the Senate, and wish him the may grant her family the peace to deal bagged all kinds of game birds—dove, very best in his retirement. with this difficult circumstance. quail, pheasants, turkey—but he has f f also had the opportunity to hunt all HUMAN RIGHTS DAY over the world and has bagged some of RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME the most exotic game that is possible The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, I come for a hunter to hunt. He is the epitome pore. Under the previous order, the here on December 10, Human Rights of a sportsman. leadership time is reserved. Day. I want to briefly discuss human BEN isn’t just a great hunter, though. rights because, I would just say, while He is also an accomplished practical f we have made great advances around joker and a wonderful singer. That may MORNING BUSINESS the world in the cause of human rights, there are still a lot of roads to travel. surprise some people. In our caucus, I The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Today is a good opportunity to take proved to everyone that he could sing, pore. Under the previous order, the note of some of the struggles and chal- and sing quite well. He recorded a few Senate shall be in a period of morning lenges around the world with regard to years ago a song called ‘‘Western business until 5 p.m., with Senators Town’’ to raise money for visually im- human rights. permitted to speak therein for up to 10 The first issue I want to talk about paired children. He was one of a dozen minutes each. Nebraskan celebrities to record songs with regard to human rights is modern- for this charity. I obtained a copy of f day slavery. When people think about this and played it at a Democratic cau- ORDER OF BUSINESS slavery they think about the historic cus a few years ago. It was a hit. He nature of slavery in this country or The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- was singing—it is his voice—and it was around the world. It is hard to imagine pore. Under the unanimous consent very good. Here is how it goes: that today, in the 21st century, that order, the vote that had been scheduled there are slaves in the world. It is even I’m from a western town in Nebraska. will be delayed until tomorrow. Don’t know why I left so long ago. All I harder to believe there are slaves in know is this western town in Nebraska lives Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest the United States, but the fact is there in my heart and in my soul. the absence of a quorum. are. It has been well documented that He did a great job of that song, as he The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. human trafficking around the world has done everything since I have COONS). The clerk will call the roll. numbers in the millions. known him. Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, I ask Of course, sex trafficking is a big I am sure BEN is looking forward to unanimous consent the order for the part of that, a grotesque part of that, going home to the western town— quorum call be rescinded. and we are all aware that it is a very Omaha—where he lives with his wife The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without serious problem. So too is forced labor- Diane. She is wonderful. She was a objection, it is so ordered. type slavery, which we find around the great first lady and a wonderful Sen- Mr. RUBIO. We are in morning busi- world and even in the United States. In ator’s spouse. I like her for lots of rea- ness; is that correct? fact, there is no major city in the sons, the smile she has, but also she The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- United States that does not have an makes some of the best chocolate chip ator is correct. element of human trafficking and cookies I have ever eaten. They have f human slavery within its confines. I four children and five grandchildren. think it is important to understand TRIBUTE TO JENNI RIVERA As he departs for Omaha, he will be that exists, it is real, and it is hap- sorely missed here in the Senate. Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, before I pening. He has always been a loyal and dedi- begin today, I know there are millions To that extent, remember there are cated member of this caucus, even of people around the world and in this things we are trying to do in this legis- when he was showing loyalty by ques- country who are mourning the loss of a lative body, in the Senate, in Wash- tioning the wisdom of the party some- singer by the name of Jenni Rivera, ington, to deal with this issue. One of times. He is arguably the most con- who was a huge star, particularly in the issues we are going to have a servative member of the caucus. And Latin America but also in the United chance to deal with soon, I hope, is re- while there are a few things BEN and I States. She died yesterday evening in a authorizing the Trafficking Victims disagree on, we agree on most every- plane crash in northern Mexico. Protection Act, which was sponsored thing. Through the last 12 years he has Jenni was a real American success last year by Senator BROWN and Sen- been a valued member of the team. He story. She was born in California to ator LEAHY. Hopefully, we can finish has made many of our accomplish- immigrants from Mexico. She started that before the end of this year, but if ments possible through his dedication working at her father’s small record we cannot, I hope early in the next to country first and State second. That label in Long Beach, CA, and she re- Congress we will address it. is how it should be. corded from there. She made a number As you know, there are also reports Edwin Chapin, a North American of top hits that made all the charts that the State Department does rank preacher and poet, said: around the world. She was recently in countries around the world on the ef- No more duty can be urged upon those who Florida to receive a Billboard Music forts they are making to deal with are entering the great theater of life than Award and performed at the Billboard human trafficking, and they actually simple loyalty to their best convictions. Music Awards. We saw that on TV. My rank them in three tiers, the third BEN NELSON lives by his convictions, mom was a huge fan of hers—and also being the worst, those nations not even though it may put him at odds kind of the equivalent of ‘‘The Voice’’ doing enough. I hope we look at how we with his party or his constituents. His in Mexico on the Telemundo network. reform the process of giving some of highest duty is to country and his con- She passed away last night. these countries waivers. There are science. Her calling card was she was a singer countries that are perpetually on the We had a retirement party a week in a genre of music that is largely list of the worst possible places with ago tomorrow, and when it was over, I dominated by males. Yet she brought a regard to government policy toward grabbed BEN and we embraced. I care a powerful voice to that genre where she human trafficking. Yet they are get- great deal about him. He has made sang frankly about her struggles to ting waivers from the implications and some extremely difficult votes, but he give her children a better life in this the consequences of being a tier 3 coun- did it because it was the right thing to country. Her death at a young age is a try. There are countries getting that do. His duty is to country and his con- real tragedy. I know there are millions waiver every single year.

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We see the self-immolation marily or entirely upon the religion of on human slavery and trafficking. of folks who are willing to burn alive the accused. All religious minorities in Another aspect we should take some because of the effort of that govern- Iran are at risk, but even the recog- time to look at is some transparency ment to wipe out their identity. What nized non-Muslim religious minorities from the business community, particu- they are going through is intolerable. that are supposedly protected under larly large international companies It goes much deeper than that. Pros- their so-called Constitution, including that do business around the world. We elytizing Christians and the orthodox, Jews, Armenian, and Assyrian Chris- should look for ways to encourage and ‘‘nonpatriotic’’ Catholic Church, face tians, face increasing discrimination, incentivize companies to report volun- significant oppression. The Chinese arrests, and imprisonment, according tarily on their supply chains to ensure Government actually authorizes who to the report. So too are dissenting the products we use in the United the leadership of the Catholic Church Muslims. They are basically Muslims States are not the product of human can be. It is truly unique that in all the who are not following the Shia line. slavery, modern slavery around the world there is a government that will They are being intimidated, harassed, world. We can do that as well. tell them who their bishops are and Obviously, we do not want to put any and detained. That is the record of who will run their church. If they wor- Iran, which has a terrible human rights more onerous costs on our businesses, ship outside of that setting, they are and we will be careful how we approach record, but in particular with the persecuted. issues of religious liberty. it, but I think it is important that we There are others, of course, such as know the products sold in the United Saudi Arabia bans any non-Muslim the Tibetan Buddhists whom I men- worship. Even private religious activi- States are not directly or indirectly tioned before. Here is a report that benefiting from slavery around the ties are suppressed if they are discov- talks about that. It is not just the reli- ered. I think it is important to point world. That is something I hope we will gious believers who are facing persecu- remember; that human trafficking and that out as well. tion in China. This is from the report: Closer to home is the island of Cuba, human slavery is real, it exists all The Chinese government also continues to around the world, and exists in our own which is a place, of course, because of harass, detain, intimidate, disbar, and forc- my heritage which is close and near to country. I hope we will continue mak- ibly disappear attorneys who defend vulner- ing strides dealing with this issue. able religious groups. our heart so we keep a close eye on One last point on that is a few Again, we need to understand that we what is happening there as well. The report finds: months ago several of my colleagues are not talking about the people of and I sent a letter to the Village Voice, China; we are talking about the gov- Serious religious freedom violations con- which is a newspaper in the United tinue in Cuba . . . Violations by the Cuban ernment of China which is aiding, abet- government include: detention, sporadic ar- States, which actively—and unfortu- ting, and allowing this religious perse- nately—advertises in its back pages, rests, and harassment of clergy and religious cution to go on. We hope with the leaders, as well as interference in church af- including in a site called change in leadership in China that has fairs. The Cuban government also controls backpage.com. It advertises the serv- taken place there will be a change in and monitors religious belief and practices ices of people being held against their attitude. through surveillance and legal restrictions. will in those circumstances. It is out- The truth is that China has much to In Russia the report finds: rageous to believe a major American offer the world. We hope for a peaceful, The government increasingly used its anti- publication continues to advertise the prosperous rise for the people of China. extremist law against peaceful religious services of young girls and young boys, We look forward to working together groups and individuals, particularly Jeho- some of whom are minors, and is doing with them to make the world a better vah’s Witnesses and Muslim readers of the so shamelessly. I hope they will heed place. But China cannot assume that works of Turkish theologian Said Nursi. our call to stop that from happening. It role as long as there is no respect for Russia is a country that is beginning is a massive source of revenue for that religious liberties as far as these prac- to backslide on religious liberty as company. It is outrageous, it is dis- tices that are happening in that coun- well. gusting, it is grotesque, and I hope try with the direction of its govern- Finally, here in this hemisphere, just more of our colleagues will join us in ment. as in Cuba, Venezuela. The report finds writing a new letter to them in con- Of course Egypt has been in the head- that violations of religious liberty in- tinuing to call attention to this be- lines lately. I think it has been well clude: cause it is simply unacceptable. documented that violence particularly The government’s failure to investigate Secondly, I want to turn to the issue against orthodox Christians has been and hold accountable perpetrators of attacks of religious freedom, which is another high. This is from the report: on religious leaders and houses of worship, human rights cause around the world. In 2011, violent sectarian attacks, tar- and virulent rhetoric president Hugo Chavez, Sadly there is not enough advancement geting primarily Coptic Orthodox Christians, government officials, state media, and pro- being made in that regard. We are see- have resulted in nearly 100 deaths, sur- Chavez media directed at the Venezuelan ing a step backward with regard to re- passing the death toll of the previous 10 Jewish and Christian communities. ligious liberty and religious freedom years combined. I think sometimes we take for grant- around the world. I think the Arab spring has a lot of ed the religious liberties we have in In April of this year the U.S. Com- promise, but I think it also brings with this country, and we should never do mission on International Religious it some warning flags. One of those so. The fact is we may have some cul- Freedom released its latest report with warning flags is the persecution of reli- tural divisions in America when it some very grim news. I want to go gious minorities in places such as comes to religion, and that is not toler- through some of it, but it is important Egypt. So as Egypt works its way for- able either. But one of the great things to understand we are not talking about ward—and we know it has problems it we have had in this country since its the countries, we are talking about the is facing in its own society with regard inception is the belief in religious lib- governments. There are some govern- to what kind of government and powers erty and religious freedom enshrined in ments that are aiding and abetting the it needs and should have—we should our governing Constitution. It is some- persecution of unprotected religious keep an eye on how the new constitu- thing that is the exception rather than minorities. I want to highlight some of tion, the new laws, and the new govern- the rule around the world. I think our those countries and governments. The ment treat religious minorities, par- example should inspire the world in list is long, but these are a few I want- ticularly Coptic Orthodox Christians that regard, but I think we should al- ed to point to today that are truly un- who suffered the death of 100 of their ways use our voice, our power, and our acceptable. members. example to lead the way around the

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When I time and any place where human rights lowest amount in over a decade, cre- talk about human trafficking and are violated. ating an administrative and compli- human slavery, a disproportionate I want to congratulate the leading ance burden for nearly 1 million es- number of those held in bondage role this government has played in tates. around the world are young women and calling attention to those abuses Allowing death tax policy to expire is young girls. around the world and in being honest another example of the President put- On the issue of human rights with re- with ourselves when these things are ting ideology and sentiment ahead of gard to women, there are a couple of happening here at home. Of course, like economic reality. While the death tax parts of the world that are very trou- anything else, we have to first set the targets the transfer of wealth from one bling. Afghanistan comes to mind be- example before we can lead, and that is individual to an infinite amount of cause just today we got the report that why I think it is so important that on other individuals, the repercussions are a senior advocate for women in Afghan- the issue of human trafficking and felt throughout all income levels. istan was shot down by unknown gun- modern-day slavery that the United From a person working in the corn- men on Monday. It is the latest assas- States have cutting-edge legislation fields, to a cashier at a mom-and-pop sination against women’s rights activ- which deals with an emerging problem store, to a gas station attendant, the ists in the country. Najia Seddiqi was that keeps changing and so the laws long arm of the death tax affects more headed to her office in the eastern have to adapt to it. I hope we will take than the so-called wealthy. It is called Laghman province when she was shot the first step in doing that by author- the death tax not only because it is a and killed. She was the head of the izing the Trafficking Victims Protec- tax imposed at a time when family Women’s Affairs Department for the tion Act as soon as possible. members are grieving over the loss of a Laghman province. Her predecessor in I suggest the absence a quorum. loved one but also because it can be a that post was killed just 4 months ago. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The death sentence for the family busi- The Taliban, which many hold respon- clerk will call the roll. nesses and farms that American work- sible for the attack, has not yet had a The legislative clerk proceeded to ers depend on for their livelihoods. comment, but it comes just a week call the roll. I know a lot of my friends on the after a teenage girl who was volun- Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask other side of the aisle understand this. teering at an anti-polio drive was fa- unanimous consent that the order for Some have spoken on the floor of the tally shot northeast of Kabul. The the quorum call be rescinded. Senate in favor of extending the death Taliban has targeted senior female offi- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. tax rate. Some have introduced legisla- tion to do so. cials in the past for working in the BLUMENTHAL). Without objection, it is My friend, the chairman of the Fi- U.S.-backed Afghan Government. That so ordered. nance Committee, where I serve as the is just one issue of a coordinated at- f ranking member, has indicated he tack to go after women who dare to DEATH TAX would like to see the current death tax participate in the political life of the Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, we are in regime extended. So what is the prob- country. It goes beyond that. lem? Unfortunately, bare-knuckle poli- There is this very troubling law in the midst of an intense debate about tics is getting in the way of good pol- Afghanistan which the government how to deal with the expiration of bi- icy. And the President’s insistence on a claims to have tried to clear up. It is partisan tax relief at the end of this $2 trillion tax increase is undermining called running away. Basically some year. The President and the Democratic progress on resolving the death tax. judges have interpreted running away I have been a longtime proponent of Party campaigned primarily on raising as a crime. It has been used against repealing the whole death tax. Not the top marginal rates. Yet income tax young girls and women who run away only is it double taxation and a deter- rates are not the only tax policy set to from home because it is a home where rent to savings, but it also sucks up they are being abused or a home where expire at the end of this month. If Con- capital in the marketplace. The death they are being forced to marry some- gress does not act, the currently low tax adds inefficiency to our economy. body. death tax rates which have previously It is what economists refer to as dead- There are some sad stories I want to been supported on a bipartisan basis weight loss. In other words, it creates share. A 17-year-old leapt from her roof will skyrocket. They will go from an another burden on our free market sys- to the streets of Kabul in an effort to exemption amount of $5 million and a tem that prevents the full potential of avoid marriage ordained by her grand- tax rate of 35 percent to an astonish- economic growth. father when she was only 9 years old. ingly low exemption amount of $1 mil- For instance, many family farms The judge who heard the case men- lion and a 55-percent tax rate. have to purchase insurance in order to tioned that Farima ruined her life. The The question is clear: Where are the prepare for paying the death tax so judge stated in a court that the court Senate Democrats on this issue? Again, they do not end up having to literally is a place where a woman can plead for a low death tax has previously been a sell the farm just to pay the death tax. divorce or custody of her children only rare point of bipartisan agreement. Yet This added cost is embedded into the if and when she has five male witnesses this past July, my friends on the other cost of goods when sold. In other words, and a husband or a fiance who con- side of the aisle proposed and passed a American consumers, American work- dones the separation. bill that included a tax cut extension ers, or Americans looking for work are This is the 21st century we are talk- for individuals making under $200,000 those who will ultimately pay the ing about. We are not reading some- or families making under $250,000. death tax. thing from history. This is happening Conversely, the bill would have des- This past July, the Joint Economic right now. Of course we all know the ignated the millions of families in New Committee analyzed the costs and con- story of the brave little girl in Paki- York, New Jersey, Florida, Virginia, sequences of the death tax. In a report stan who was shot. We hear these cases and elsewhere who make in excess of the committee found that, as of 2008, every single day. It goes on and on. I $250,000 as rich and subject to higher the death tax has cumulatively reduced could be here for 3 hours highlighting taxes. Still, when it came to the death the amount of capital stock in the U.S. abuses against women, against reli- tax, this bill, which was supported by economy by roughly $1.1 trillion since gious liberty, the abuses of human traf- all but one Democrat in this Chamber, its introduction as a permanent tax in ficking and human slavery around the was silent. 1916, equivalent to 3.2 percent of the world. I think what is important today In other words, that bill assumed total capital stock. on December 10, Human Rights Day, is that current death tax rates would ex- Coincidentally, since its inception to take a moment and understand that pire—a crushing blow to America’s nearly 100 years ago, the death tax has

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:44 Dec 11, 2012 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10DE6.012 S10DEPT1 PWALKER on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with S7696 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 10, 2012 raised just under $1.3 trillion in total tates, more than 13 times the number Resolving the death tax is a good revenue. By comparison, that is equiv- of small business taxable estates, and a place to start, and should he decide to alent to the U.S. Federal deficit for fis- whopping 24 times the number of farm- lead, he will find partners on both sides cal year 2011 alone. But that was over ing taxable estates. And to add fuel to of the aisle to join him. all those years—100 years. And keep in the fire, farmers already have to re- As you can see from those charts, mind, the loss is $1.1 trillion, and yet coup the economic losses incurred from these are serious matters. To have to all it has raised is $1.3 trillion. So the recession. sell the family farm in order to pay the think it through. This is kicking farmers and ranchers death tax is not a good thing or to have I have some news for those seeking to while they are down. The recent to borrow to keep it alive is not a good engage in class warfare. The death tax droughts—and that is what this other thing. To have to pay heavy insurance does not reduce income and wealth in- chart shows—have caused an unprece- rates through the years to be able to equality. Perversely, the estate tax dented economic hardship. If we de- pay at least something of the death creates a barrier to income and wealth crease the exemption amount for the tax—it may be a better way of trying mobility. death tax from $5 million to $1 million, to help, but it puts these farmers and In an interview this past year with just look at how many more farms will their families in a real bind. the Associated Press, Deputy Secretary possibly be exposed to the death tax in We should get rid of the whole death of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan de- certain drought-stricken areas. tax, but I do not believe our friends on scribed an epidemic of sorts that is hit- As you can see on the chart, that the other side are willing to do that. So ting our farmlands across the United central part, shown in the real dark then the least we should do is keep the States. She did not talk about rising purple or black—whatever that is— tax rate at 35 percent, with an exemp- fuel prices or droughts. Instead, Sec- that is the big drought area. The tion of $5 million, doubled to $10 mil- retary Merrigan discussed how our States shown in red are not as bad, but lion for the family. That would help a country’s farmers and ranchers are get- they still have very severe drought. lot of these farmers keep their farms, ting older and fewer young people are The States shown in the darkened area it would help our country to still be an taking their place. I have heard time basically are in extreme drought. They agriculture-related country, and it and time again that the death tax is have been going through that. would stop voracious people from hov- According to the information com- the No. 1 reason family farms and busi- ering over those farms, swooping them piled from the U.S. Department of Ag- nesses fail to pass down to the next up at low rates. riculture, as you can see on that chart, generation. I suggest the absence of a quorum. 15 percent of the farms in South Da- Consider also that heirs are often The PRESIDING OFFICER. The kota are valued over $5 million. But forced to sell an asset of the farm in clerk will call the roll. look at the number of farms valued order to meet this arbitrary tax. These The assistant legislative clerk pro- over $1 million—an astonishing 49 per- assets are likely generating revenue ceeded to call the roll. cent. and could be a vital part of the family Look at California: 11 percent of the Mr. COONS. Mr. President, I ask farm. But because of the death tax, farms are valued at over $5 million, but unanimous consent that the order for family farms and ranches are instead 42 percent of the farms are valued at the quorum call be rescinded. forced to sell these assets or sell the over $1 million. Then there is Montana The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without farm to pay the death tax. where 7 percent of the farms are valued objection, it is so ordered. This chart shows just in a few States over $5 million but 30 percent are val- f the drought-stricken farmers who are ued over $1 million. Not all of these FAST VOTING ACT at risk for the death tax in 2013. I have farms will necessarily be impacted by Mr. COONS. Mr. President, like mil- chosen to show South Dakota, Ne- the death tax next year, but I can guar- lions of Americans, on November 6, braska, Iowa, California, Wyoming, and antee you that most of them will down just over a month ago, on election day, Montana. You can see the percentages. the road. As you can see from the chart, in The fiscal cliff presents us with a piv- I stood at the polls and I cast my vote, South Dakota, farms over $5 million, 15 otal moment. How we tax our citizens and then when I got home I stayed up percent, farms over $1 million, 49 per- is ultimately a question of what we late to see the results come in. I was cent; in Nebraska, farms over $5 mil- stand for. With respect to the death still awake when President Obama de- lion, 16 percent, farms over $1 million, tax, the question is whether we stand livered his acceptance speech. In those 49 percent; Iowa, farms over $5 million, for families and jobs or whether we remarks, he said: 15 percent, farms over $1 million, 47 stand for redistribution regardless of I want to thank every American who par- percent; California, farms over $5 mil- the consequences. ticipated in this election, whether you voted lion, 11 percent, farms over $1 million, We need to resolve death tax policy. for the very first time or waited in line for 42 percent; Wyoming—just so I do not We can no longer afford to put small a very long time. By the way, we have to fix that. leave out the Intermountain West— businesses, family farms, and individ- farms over $5 million are 8 percent of uals in a position where each year un- There is so much we have to fix. It the farms, farms over $1 million are 33 certainty about the death tax rate and was 11:38 p.m. on the east coast when percent. Or take Montana: Farms over exemption amount causes them to di- the Associated Press called the elec- $5 million are 7 percent of the farms, vert income away from creating jobs tion for President Obama, but Andre and farms over $1 million, 30 percent. and toward unnecessary death tax Murias, an 18-year-old first-time voter We ought to repeal the death tax. I planning. This is important stuff, and in Miami Dade County, FL, was still in do not want these farmers to have to it is not something we can just blindly line waiting to cast his ballot. Andre sell the farm to pay the death tax. It or blithely wipe out. had been in line at South Kendall Com- might make sense in a college social It is time for the President to lead on munity Church for nearly 5 hours by justice seminar, but it has no place in this issue. The President, tellingly, the time he cast his ballot just before serious discussions about fiscal policy; said when he was running for President midnight, and that is nothing com- that is, the death tax. in 2008 that his experience running for pared to the 7 and 8 hours many other Recently, the Joint Committee on President was one of the critical bul- Floridians waited to cast their ballots Taxation released an estimate on how lets on his resume qualifying him for during the State’s condensed early vot- many more taxable estates, farming the job. Other than writing and part- ing period. ‘‘This is a mess,’’ one voter taxable estates, and small business tax- time teaching, President Obama has said. ‘‘It is chaos.’’ able estates would be affected by the made a career running for office. Well, Rashell Hobbs, another first-time increase in the death tax over the next he will never run for office again, as far voter, waited 5 hours in Chesapeake, 10 years. This chart I have in the as he is concerned. It is time to put VA. ‘‘This is just horrible,’’ Rashell Chamber shows that. aside the campaign and take up the said. ‘‘There is no reason it should take The numbers are astonishing. If Con- mantle of leadership. It is time to this long.’’ gress does not act, we will see more make the tough decisions necessary to Voters across the country had other than 15 times the number of taxable es- get our economy moving again. challenges or problems voting. Voters

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Voters in Pennsylvania reported a forming polling stations; and, as we The United States is often cited as similar problem, although in that case learned given that Sandy, Superstorm their role model. We need to act like it it was the President for whom they Sandy, occurred close to the election, and we need to earn it. were seemingly unable to vote. contingency plans for voting in the What kind of message are we sending Poll watchers in Davidson County, event of a natural or other disaster to electoral commissions, to heads of TN, could only stand by as would-be that compels a delay of an election. State, to members of civil society, and voters saw the very, very long line of These are the big areas mentioned in advocates of free, fair, and open elec- people waiting to cast their ballots and this FAST Voting Act, making it easi- tions in the rest of the world when we drove away, pressed, I am sure, by com- er to register, making it easier to vote so visibly and publicly fail to deliver mitments of family or work to choose early, making it easier to vote absen- on that promise here in our own coun- not to spend hours standing in line to tee, shortening lines, better preparing try? What kind of message are we send- exercise that most fundamental of for catastrophes, making it easier for ing to Andre Murias, a first-time American rights—the right to vote. Americans to exercise their right to voter? What kind of message are we In Philadelphia, longtime registered vote. sending to Rashell Hobbs? What kind of This is a good one, and I am working voters who showed up to cast their bal- message are we sending to first-time with a host of civil rights and voter lots discovered their names simply voters about the value of their right to protection groups who work, day in and weren’t on the rolls anymore. vote, for which so many fought, day out, on strengthening our electoral In Ohio, Wisconsin, South Carolina, worked, struggled, sacrificed, even died process. It encourages States and local- New York, Montana—more than a in the course of our history? What mes- dozen States experienced some kind of ities to find new and creative and local solutions that other States can learn sage do we send to them when we allow basic breakdown in the administration modern-day barriers to be put in their of their elections in 2012. from. Mr. President, as you know, in my place? This is the United States. The right service prior to coming to this body I Voting is a fundamental civil right, to vote is fundamental to who we are. was a county executive and long active and when States prevent their citizens It is basic to our democracy. It is in with NACO, the Nation Association of from exercising that right, whether de- our DNA. We have to get this right. Counties. Counties have different roles liberately through law or through reg- That is why I introduced the Fair, in different States. There are more ulations or accidentally through lack Accurate, Secure, and Timely—or than 3,000 counties spread across our 50 of preparation or mere incompetence, FAST—Voting Act of 2012, along with States but in most States they are re- it is a violation of voters’ civil rights. Senators WARNER and WHITEHOUSE. sponsible in part for administering The Fair, Accurate, Secure and Timely And I am grateful that Congressmen elections. Many election officials are Voting Act is one critical way we can CONNOLLY and LANGEVIN in the House county-elected officials and many try to fix our elections and make sure have introduced it and are cosponsors voter boards are parts of county gov- what happened across our country in there. ernment. One of the things I think is 2012 never happens again. In my view, long lines are simply an- best about this bill, this FAST Voting f other form of disenfranchising voters. Act of 2012, is that rather than man- Running out of ballots is simply an- TRIBUTES TO DEPARTING dating some specific response it en- other form of voter suppression. Incom- SENATORS courages and incentivizes State and plete and inaccurate voter rolls, dis- local officials to put together plans for Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, last regarded voter registrations, mis- how to learn from the lessons of 2012, week I came to the floor and was hon- leading phone calls and mailing how to learn from the long lines and ored to give tributes to some of our de- pieces—things that make it harder for the barriers that were put in front of parting colleagues. Tonight I am going citizens to vote are simply a violation those who came out to vote, and find- to take advantage of this time to pay of voters’ civil rights. ing the best solutions; rather than im- tribute to two other outstanding Sen- We can and must do better. As wide- posing or compelling, incentivizing and ators, colleagues and friends of mine spread as the problem was in 2012, leading in a way that I think State and whom I will miss greatly. They are there are also many States that are local officials will respond to well and Senator KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON and getting it right, and these States, in will accept and celebrate. Senator SCOTT BROWN. my view, continue to be laboratories of There is strong momentum. Al- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- democracy from which we should learn. though the election is now more than a ator from Maine is recognized. The FAST Voting Act creates a new month behind us, my hope is that we KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON competitive Federal grant program will continue to focus on the chal- Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, in her roughly modeled on Race to the Top, lenges of this last election and fix them marvelous book entitled ‘‘American which encourages States to pursue re- before the next. The Pew Conference, Heroines: The Spirited Women Who forms in a different field, in education. today and tomorrow, on voting in Shaped Our Country,’’ Senator KAY States that demonstrate the most com- America is bringing together some of BAILEY HUTCHISON wrote the following: prehensive and promising reform plans our Nation’s foremost experts and ‘‘No history can be written appro- win a greater portion of the grant fund- scholars. For that we are grateful to priately without acknowledging the ing in that model. Instead, the FAST the Pew Charitable Foundation. part women have played in building the Voting Act would inspire election re- The Judiciary Committee on which greatness of our country.’’ form. This bill authorizes a Federal we serve has a hearing announced this As my valued colleague and good program that would award grants coming week and I applaud Chairman friend begins a new chapter in her life, based on how well States improve ac- LEAHY and Senator DURBIN for high- I hope she finds the time to add a new cess to the ballot in at least 9 different lighting the need to get to the bottom chapter to her own book, one that will ways: through flexible registration op- of what happened in 2012 and cham- be fascinating, inspiring—and auto- portunities, including same-day reg- pioning the need to get reform. Other biographical. istration; through early voting at a Members, Senators GILLIBRAND and Like the women KAY celebrates as an minimum of 9 of the 10 calendar days BOXER, have introduced bills as well author, from Amelia Earhart to Sally preceding an election; through what is and I look forward to working closely Ride, from Clara Barton to Condoleeza called no-excuse absentee voting; as- with them to harmonize our bills and Rice, KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON is a pio- sistance to voters who do not speak making sure we have the best approach neer, a breaker of barriers. In the spe- English or have disabilities or visual moving forward. cial election in 1993, the people of

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In each and every case he continue our leadership around the brought an informed, thoughtful, and systems that are efficient, safe, and se- world as a country that holds itself ac- open-minded approach to every issue. cure. In my own work on the Homeland countable and leads others toward As the ranking member of the Senate Security Committee, I am well aware being accountable for a world in which of the major role she played in drafting Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, I have gotten to human rights have meaning and sub- the airline security bill that Congress stance. There are two things we can do passed after the attacks on 9/11/01. She know SCOTT very well and I appreciate his service on our committee. He between now and the end of this cal- has also worked successfully to include endar year that will make a significant more effective air cargo screening. placed his top priority on helping to keep our Nation safe from the con- contribution to human rights and to From the America COMPETES Act the U.S. global leadership. to her steadfast support for NASA, KAY tinuing threat of terrorism. He also worked hard to make our Federal Gov- First, the House of Representatives is determined our country will not cede can take up and pass VAWA, the Vio- its position as the world’s leader in ernment more efficient and trans- parent. lence Against Women Act reauthoriza- science, technology, and space explo- tion bill passed months ago by this ration. When the NASA rover Curiosity With SCOTT’S leadership, the Senate passed bipartisan legislation to help Chamber. It is a strong, broad, sensible thrilled all of us with its perfect land- reauthorization bill that I think well ing on Mars this past August, the put the Postal Service back on a more sound financial footing and to ensure deserves consideration and passage by hands of KAY’S legislative leadership the other Chamber. were on the controls. Working with that this institution could endure. He also authored the STOCK Act, the new Second, TVPA, the Trafficking Vic- KAY as a member of the Appropriations tims Protection Act, needs to be reau- Committee, I know how dedicated she law that clearly prohibits insider trad- ing by Members of Congress and their thorized. I was proud last month to is to ensuring that taxpayers’ dollars join with Senator PORTMAN and the are spent wisely and efficiently. She is staff. SCOTT has long been an effective Presiding Officer, Senator a champion for our small business own- champion for our small business own- BLUMENTHAL, as the three of us jointly ers and for policies that promote free ers, working to ensure that entre- founded the Caucus to End Human enterprise and job creation. preneurs and innovators in Massachu- Trafficking. Slavery exists in the world Her complete commitment to the setts and across the country have the today. In this country and around the men and women of our Armed Forces is ability to survive and thrive and, most world, there are victims of human traf- reflected in her years of service on the of all, to create good jobs. He has advo- ficking whose voices demand to be Armed Services Committee as well as cated for our Nation’s veterans heard. By reauthorizing TVPA, this the Military Construction Sub- through the Hiring Our Heroes Act Chamber and this country can make a committee on Appropriations, and her that he coauthored, which provides tax meaningful contribution toward ending unanimous election this year to serve credits to small businesses that hire a trafficking of persons in the United as chairman of the Board of Visitors at returning veteran or member of the States and around the world. West Point. National Guard Reserve. I simply wanted to add today, Human In the afterword to her book, KAY SCOTT has been a devoted advocate in Rights Day, those two simple calls for wrote that as a young girl growing up the Senate for fiscal responsibility and action so this Congress and this coun- in Texas she was so inspired by the a balanced budget amendment. At the try can continue our global leadership. lives of great Americans that by the same time, he kept a firm commitment The House of Representatives needs sixth grade she had exhausted all of the to helping those most in need. He to take up and pass VAWA and the biographies on the school library shelf fought hard for such vital programs as Senate needs to pass the TVPA reau- and had to turn elsewhere for book re- the Low-Income Heating Assistance thorization. Together let us continue port material. I am sure the story of Program, which is so important to get- to make history in America’s leader- her own contributions and accomplish- ting through those cold New England ship on human rights. ments will be avidly read by genera- winters. With that, I yield the floor. tions of girls and boys to come. Equally important to SCOTT’S hard The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. I wish her all the best as she turns a work in the Senate has been the ap- UDALL of New Mexico). The Senator new page in what has truly been a re- proach he has always taken in legis- from Maine. markable life of public service. lating. He studies the issues. He seeks Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I sug- SCOTT BROWN areas where a consensus can be found. gest the absence of a quorum. Mr. President, when SCOTT BROWN, a From the very first day in the Senate, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The fellow New Englander, came to the he demonstrated his belief that com- clerk will call the roll. Senate 2 years ago, I immediately saw promise is not a dirty word but an ab- The legislative clerk proceeded to in him those traits shared by the peo- solute necessity if we are to meet the call the roll. ple of our two New England States: a challenges facing America. SCOTT al- Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I strong work ethic, a determination to ways looked at the issues before Con- ask unanimous consent that the order always do what he thought was right, gress not through the lens of a partisan for the quorum call be rescinded. and a spirit that was independent and politician but, rather, through the lens The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without dedicated to doing what was best for of a pragmatic problem-solver. objection, it is so ordered. his constituents and for his country. SCOTT’S tenure in the Senate has f My initial assessment was confirmed been far too brief but, perhaps more by our time working together on so important, it has been characterized by MORNING BUSINESS many issues. SCOTT conducted his in- a remarkable degree of success in Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I spiring 2010 campaign via his now leg- transforming good ideas into public ask unanimous consent to speak as if endary pickup truck. When he got to laws. Given his Maine roots and strong in morning business. Washington, he kept his foot on the commitment to Massachusetts, I am The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without gas. His work in government at the sure we will remain good friends in the objection, it is so ordered. State and local level in Massachusetts years to come. But, oh, how I will miss f and his distinguished service in the serving with my friend SCOTT BROWN. Army National Guard prepared him I yield the floor. HUMAN RIGHTS DAY with experience that made him a re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I spected and effective legislator from ator from Delaware. rise today on Human Rights Day. Now,

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So many people in motivation for the war that was fought House of Representatives will act in this country have this as a birthright— to make us free. Human Rights Day is the final weeks of this session. without the effort that she will devote about advancing equality, and the U.S. VAWA is a landmark statute aimed to becoming a U.S. citizen. We have Constitution as it has expanded over at combating domestic violence, sexual great citizens born here who value and the years to include new groups of peo- assault, and stalking. It provides bil- prize their citizenship. But Solanlly is ple and strike down barriers of race, lions of dollars to support investiga- one who deserves a path and the ability gender, ethnic background, and na- tions and prosecutions of vicious, hei- to earn it through her deeds and her tional origin. It is about the progress nous acts, and it provides remedies and accomplishments in school and after- of human rights and equality, the no- protection for assaulted women. wards. blest of causes for this Nation. It is On this day, when we celebrate On this Human Rights Day, I thank about what brings us together as human rights, what better way than to this body for giving me the honor of Americans, the fight for freedom, the commemorate the advances that speaking about these issues. It is an ex- search for equality and justice. VAWA made in fighting violence traordinary honor to say how much I want to talk about three specific against women and to broaden its pro- human rights mean in this country. We ways we can advance the cause of visions to protect Native Americans, are the paragon of equality, freedom, human rights in this Chamber, in this immigrants in this country, and the and rights. We are the greatest Nation session, through measures that are now gay and lesbian community. That is in the history of the world, and we are before us. The first concerns human the nature of our democracy: we ad- still a work in progress. We still have trafficking. I have been particularly in- vance human rights, we make them progress to make, and these three terested in the rampant human traf- more inclusive, and we broaden their measures will help us to do it. ficking problems on American military provisions. The reauthorization of this Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I bases abroad in places such as Iraq and legislation is badly needed. note the absence of a quorum. Afghanistan. Victims are recruited Finally, I want to talk about the The assistant legislative clerk pro- from developing countries like Ban- DREAM Act, which should be part of ceeded to call the roll. gladesh and the Philippines. They are immigration reform in this country. I Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I charged exorbitant, illegal fees to trav- think the vast majority of the Mem- ask unanimous consent that the order el to their worksites, often misled bers of the Senate have accepted and for the quorum call be rescinded. about where they are going, what their indeed espoused the need for thorough, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without salaries will be, and what their living comprehensive immigration reform. objection, it is so ordered. conditions will be like. Frequently, That kind of reform should include the f their passports are confiscated so they DREAM Act. I have spoken about it on cannot return home, even if they are many occasions, and on many of those MORNING BUSINESS able to scrape together the money to occasions I have presented to this body Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I make that journey. an individual story as I have, for exam- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- This kind of human trafficking is no ple, about Solanlly Canas. ate proceed to a period of morning less than modern-day slavery, sub- I brought her photograph with me business, with Senators permitted to sidized by our government with tax- today. She is a young woman of enor- speak therein for up to 10 minutes payer money. It is reprehensible. But, mous promise who simply wants to each. for me, the number one issue is the stay in this country, and have a path The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without safety of our American troops on these to citizenship. Having been brought objection, it is so ordered. bases. That safety is compromised if here at the age of 12, she didn’t choose f our bases are filled with unauthorized, to come, she was brought here through TRIBUTE TO BUDDY GUY potentially unsafe foreign workers. no fault or doing of her own, and this is That is why I introduced the End her country. This is where her friends Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, it is my Trafficking in Government Con- are; this is the language she speaks. pleasure today to recognize Buddy tracting Act of 2012, which provides the She lives in East Haven, Connecticut, Guy, who was recently honored here in most comprehensive legislative ap- where she attended school, and she has Washington at the Kennedy Center for proach to solving this problem ever un- thrived there. She became a member of his contribution to the arts. dertaken by the United States Con- the National Honor Society. She is on George ‘‘Buddy’’ Guy was born in 1936 gress. It is bipartisan legislation, the executive board of the student into a Louisiana sharecropper family. which now is included in the Defense council. She is president of the Inter- He first learned to play music on hand- Reauthorization bill that passed the act Club. made instruments. Senate last week, and I am hopeful She was born in Colombia, but her With no money, Guy moved to Chi- that this provision will be retained in roots are in America. She has dreams cago in 1957 at the peak of the Chi- conference committee and signed into and goals for the future like any young cago’s blues era. A stranger introduced law soon with strong bipartisan sup- woman her age, and she is proud of her him at Chicago’s 708 Club, where he port from my colleague, Senator connection, her roots in this country. eventually landed a steady gig. He also PORTMAN of Ohio. She wants to go to college, but for so played at other local venues, and even- In addition, I want to thank Senator long has feared that she would not be tually he signed a record deal. Chicago LEAHY for advancing the Trafficking able to go. connected Guy with legendary artists Victims Protection Reauthorization She is eligible to apply for the De- and allowed him to play guitar with Act, a broader measure known by its ferred Action Program announced by blues greats like Muddy Watters and initials, TVPRA, which takes an even the administration, but that program Howlin’ Wolf. However, it was not until more inclusive view of this problem to would simply give her a reprieve with- his 1991 release of ‘‘Damn Right, I’ve make sure America stands against out the security and certainty that she Got the Blues’’ that his career started human trafficking rather than be needs to advance and continue her making national headlines. The album complicit in it. schooling. That is the path to citizen- earned him his first Grammy Award for The second issue I want to raise is ship that our Dreamers need and de- Best Contemporary Artist and five the VAWA, or the Violence Against serve so that they can go to school, W.C. Handy awards. Women Act, which continues to be serve in our military, give back to this After that, the awards started stalled in the House of Representa- country, and earn their citizenship streaming in. He earned 5 more

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:48 Dec 11, 2012 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10DE6.022 S10DEPT1 PWALKER on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with S7700 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 10, 2012 Grammy Awards and 18 more W.C. Midwest become more frequent and se- league and friend—a demonstration of Handy awards—more than any other vere. brotherhood and solidarity across Con- artist. In 2003, he received the National Dave wore many hats during his time necticut public safety personnel. Medal of Arts for his extraordinary at NRCS. From 2002 to 2008, he served Regarded as family by Chief James contributions to the creation, growth, as the State Conservationist in Mon- M. Girardi and fellow members of the and support in the arts. He was in- tana where he helped farmers and Easton Volunteer Fire Company, Lieu- ducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of ranchers improve agricultural produc- tenant Neary was tearfully mourned Fame in 2005 and the Louisiana Music tion, while at the same time reducing and remembered for days after his Hall of Fame in 2008. Billboard Maga- their impact on the environment. After tragic death as ‘‘a powerful force of zine gave him the Century Award for learning about Dave’s many out- good will and compassion to all who distinguished artistic achievement, standing achievements in Montana, my met him.’’ He was recalled by many as and Rolling Stone ranked him at No. 23 only regret was that we were not able a sincere member of the community on the list of 100 Greatest Guitarists. to add NRCS State Conservationist in who genuinely cared for and enjoyed If that is not impressive enough, Eric Vermont to Chief White’s already ster- helping others. I joined more than 1,000 Clapton once described him as the best ling resume. people—gathered from around Con- guitar player alive. And Guy’s songs Later, in 2007 and 2008, Dave was de- necticut, the Nation, and even Canada have been covered by Led Zeppelin, tailed to Senator HARKIN’s office, to pay tribute to this remarkable pub- Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, where his help in drafting the con- lic servant. His legacy will live on Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayall, servation title of the 2008 farm bill was through this spirit of giving that has touched and inspired so many. Jack Bruce, and others. immeasurable. I am deeply thankful I am honored to salute Lieutenant Although Guy was born in Louisiana, for his assistance on this vital legisla- Neary and invite my Senate colleagues today Chicago, IL, is proud to claim tion, and for his thoughtful consider- to join me in commemorating the life ation of programs that have been so him as one of our own. In 1989 he of this gracious first responder, friend, opened Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chi- vital to Vermont’s conservation ef- and family member, who lost his life cago, and it remains one of the most forts, such as the Environmental Qual- while keeping others safe from harm. successful blues joints in the city. He ity Incentives Program, the Farmland has been called Windy City’s reigning Protection Program, and Regional Eq- f blues artist and the last strand linking uity, which have all contributed to the ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS the immortal Chicago bluesmen of the protection and improvement of Lake 1950s with the contemporary blues Champlain. President Obama then ap- scene. Mayor Rahm Emanuel called pointed Dave to lead NRCS, a role that HONORING DONALD SINGER Guy a ‘‘great Chicago treasure.’’ he has filled admirably for 4 years Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, today I As one of his album titles suggests, working closely with Secretary Vilsack wish to honor of Col. Donald M. Singer, he ‘‘Can’t Quit the Blues.’’ Even well to advance voluntary, incentive-based an airman who fought in Vietnam and into his seventies, he is making music. private land conservation. a hero of America. Guy tours constantly, appearing at I would like to offer my sincere grati- Donald and his wife Elizabeth had blues clubs and festivals around the tude to Chief White for his years of four children. world, and he won his most recent dedicated service to this Nation. I wish He was stationed as an Electronic Grammy in 2012. him well in his retirement and I hope Warfare Officer at Barksdale Air Force President Obama called Guy ‘‘one of he will come visit us soon in Vermont Base in Louisiana. This Nation called the last guardians of the great Amer- to sample our many delicious ‘‘value- Donald Singer to service in Vietnam in ican blues.’’ And on December 2, Guy added’’ agricultural products. April of 1966. After training in Cali- fornia and before his deployment over- was recognized at a White House recep- f seas, Donald got to attend the con- tion as one of the 2012 Kennedy Center REMEMBERING LIEUTENANT firmation of his oldest daughter, 10- honorees for his contribution to the RUSSELL NEARY year-old Susan. That was the last time arts. Susan saw her dad. As Guy said himself, ‘‘From picking Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, today I wish to remember Lieutenant Maj. Donald Singer was selected to cotton in the field to picking a guitar be part of an elite group of airmen Russell Neary, a brave volunteer fire- in the White House, that is a long ways known as the ‘‘Wild Weasels.’’ In Au- fighter who was killed in the line of man.’’ gust of 1966, on a mission north of duty during Hurricane Sandy. He f Hanoi, North Vietnamese forces shot served the Town of Easton as President down his F–105 fighter jet. Both men on TRIBUTE TO DAVE WHITE of the Easton Volunteer Fire Company board ejected. Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, after and volunteer EMT and worked in Nobody knows exactly what hap- nearly four decades of service with the Stamford as a vice president of General pened after that. But reports indicate Natural Resources Conservation Serv- Reinsurance Company. He was deeply Donald’s parachute never fully opened. ice, NRCS, at the U.S. Department of respected as a friendly and compas- And he was never heard from again. Agriculture, last week, Mr. Dave White sionate resident and beloved father and The U.S. Government considered Don- settled into retirement. He will be husband. I know his family well. ald missing in action and despite his missed for his dedication, enthusiasm, When Sandy struck Connecticut the status, promoted him to the rank of and steadfast support of conservation evening of October 29, Lieutenant colonel. causes, as well as his keen sense of Neary responded to a call without hesi- Eleven years later, in 1977, the Singer humor and sharp wit, which kept both tation—one of the many evenings over family got a phone call. Donald’s re- his staff, and Members of Congress, on the past 13 years when he put himself mains had been found. And at last, he their toes. in harm’s way to respond to a resident was coming home to the United States. During his long career, Dave has in need. Tragically, when clearing the Today, Colonel Singer’s remains rest at shown great leadership in conserva- road of a fallen branch, he was fatally Arlington National Cemetery. tion, improving the Nation’s land man- injured. Lieutenant Neary was the first Although Colonel Singer was a deco- agement policies and practices, and en- firefighter in Easton’s history to die in rated airman, his family never received suring that we meet our shared goal for the line of duty. His family has a his- all the honors he earned in service to sustaining agriculture and natural re- tory of public service, including his this Nation. sources. His work has ensured that pri- brother Fire Marshal Peter Neary. It was my honor to present them to vate lands are conserved, restored, and In the following days after this trag- his daughter Susan, on her birthday, more resilient to environmental chal- edy, members of neighboring fire de- December 7, 2012. On behalf of a grate- lenges, a goal that has grown in impor- partments and emergency responders ful nation, I presented Col. Donald tance as weather disasters like Trop- volunteered their time to assist Easton Singer’s Purple Heart, Air Force Com- ical Storm Irene, Hurricane Sandy, and Fire Company firefighters, allowing mendation Medal, and his Presidential the record drought still gripping the them to mourn the death of their col- Unit Citation.

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A bill to provide for debt limit ex- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Bronze Service Star for the National tensions. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Spe- Defense Service Medal, the Republic of f cial Local Regulations; Red Bull Flugtag Miami, Biscayne Bay; Miami, FL’’ ((RIN1625– Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm ENROLLED BILL PRESENTED AA08) (Docket No. USCG–2012–0728)) received Ribbon, and the Bronze Service Star The Secretary of the Senate reported in the Office of the President of the Senate for the Vietnam Service Medal. on December 5, 2012; to the Committee on These decorations are small tokens, that on today, December 10, 2012, she Commerce, Science, and Transportation. but they are powerful symbols of true had presented to the President of the EC–8516. A communication from the Attor- heroism, sacrifice, and dedication to United States the following enrolled ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department service. bill: of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- They are presented on behalf of a na- S. 3486. An act to implement the provisions ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Spe- cial Local Regulations; 2012 Ironman 70.3 tion that will never forget Donald of the Hague Agreement and the Patent Law Treaty. Miami, Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL’’ ((RIN1625– Singer’s heroism. AA08) (Docket No. USCG–2012–0559)) received f f in the Office of the President of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the Committee on MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Messages from the President of the EC–8517. A communication from the Attor- United States were communicated to The following communications were ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department laid before the Senate, together with of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- the Senate by Mr. Pate, one of his sec- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled retaries. accompanying papers, reports, and doc- uments, and were referred as indicated: ‘‘Regulated Navigation Area; Columbus Day f Weekend, Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL’’ EC–8509. A communication from the Chief ((RIN1625–AA11) (Docket No. USCG–2012– EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED of Staff, Media Bureau, Federal Communica- 0191)) received in the Office of the President As in executive session the Presiding tions Commission, transmitting, pursuant to of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the Officer laid before the Senate messages law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Creation Committee on Commerce, Science, and of a Low Power Radio Service’’ (MM Docket from the President of the United Transportation. No. 99–25; FCC 12–144) received in the Office EC–8518. A communication from the Attor- States submitting sundry nominations of the President of the Senate on December ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department which were referred to the appropriate 5, 2012; to the Committee on Commerce, of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- committees. Science, and Transportation. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled (The messages received today are EC–8510. A communication from the Attor- ‘‘Regulated Navigation Area; Thames River printed at the end of the Senate pro- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Degaussing Range Replacement Operations; ceedings.) of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- New London, CT’’ ((RIN1625–AA11) (Docket ant to law, the report of a rule entitled No. USCG–2012–0623)) received in the Office of f ‘‘Shipping and Transportation; Technical, the President of the Senate on December 5, MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Organizational, and Conforming Amend- 2012; to the Committee on Commerce, RECEIVED DURING ADJOURNMENT ments’’ (RIN1625–AB87) received in the Office Science, and Transportation. of the President of the Senate on December EC–8519. A communication from the Attor- ENROLLED BILL SIGNED 5, 2012; to the Committee on Commerce, ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Under the authority of the order of Science, and Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- the Senate of December 6, 2012, the fol- EC–8511. A communication from the Attor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled lowing enrolled bills, previously signed ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ‘‘Regulated Navigation Area; East River, by the Speaker of the House, were of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Flushing and Gowanus Bays, and Red Hook and Buttermilk Channels; New York, NY’’ signed on December 6, 2012, during the ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Schuyl- ((RIN1625–AA11) (Docket No. USCG–2012– adjournment of the Senate, by the Act- kill River, Philadelphia, PA’’ ((RIN1625– 0950)) received in the Office of the President ing President pro tempore (Mr. REID). AA09) (Docket No. USCG–2012–0625)) received of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the S. 3486. An act to implement the provisions in the Office of the President of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and of the Hague Agreement and the Patent Law on December 5, 2012; to the Committee on Transportation. Treaty. Commerce, Science, and Transportation. EC–8520. A communication from the Attor- H.R. 6634. An act to change the effective EC–8512. A communication from the Attor- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department date for the Internet publication of certain ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- financial disclosure forms. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘In- land Waterways Navigation Regulations’’ ENROLLED BILL SIGNED ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Atlantic ((RIN1625–AB84) (Docket No. USCG–2011– Under the authority of the order of 1086)) received in the Office of the President the Senate of January 5, 2011, the Sec- Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW), Newport River, Morehead City, NC’’ ((RIN1625–AA09) of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the retary of the Senate, on December 7, (Docket No. USCG–2012–0628)) received in the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 2012, during the adjournment of the Office of the President of the Senate on De- EC–8521. A communication from the Attor- Senate, received a message from the cember 5, 2012; to the Committee on Com- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department House of Representatives announcing merce, Science, and Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- that the Speaker had signed the fol- EC–8513. A communication from the Attor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Se- lowing enrolled bill: ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department curity Zone; Cruise Ships, Santa Barbara of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- H.R. 6156. An act to authorize the exten- Harbor, Santa Barbara, California’’ ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Spe- sion of nondiscriminatory treatment (nor- ((RIN1625–AA87) (Docket No. USCG–2011– cial Local Regulations; Palm Beach World mal trade relations treatment) to products 0906)) received in the Office of the President Championship, Atlantic Ocean; Jupiter, FL’’ of the Russian Federation and Moldova and of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the ((RIN1625–AA08) (Docket No. USCG–2012– to require reports on the compliance of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 0721)) received in the Office of the President Russian Federation with its obligations as a Transportation. of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the member of the World Trade Organization, EC–8522. A communication from the Attor- Committee on Commerce, Science, and and for other purposes. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Under the authority of the order of EC–8514. A communication from the Attor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Se- the Senate of December 6, 2012, the en- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department curity Zones; USCGC WILLIAM FLORES rolled bill was signed on December 7, of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Commissioning Ceremony, Ybor Channel; 2012, during the adjournment of the ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Spe- Tampa, FL’’ ((RIN1625–AA87) (Docket No. Senate, by the Acting President pro cial Local Regulation Clearwater Super Boat USCG–2012–0885)) received in the Office of the National Championship Race, Gulf of Mex- tempore (Mr. REID). President of the Senate on December 5, 2012; ico; Clearwater, FL’’ ((RIN1625–AA08) (Dock- to the Committee on Commerce, Science, f et No. USCG–2012–0452)) received in the Office and Transportation. MEASURES PLACED ON THE of the President of the Senate on December EC–8523. A communication from the Attor- CALENDAR 5, 2012; to the Committee on Commerce, ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Science, and Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- The following bill was read the sec- EC–8515. A communication from the Attor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Se- ond time, and placed on the calendar: ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department curity Zone; James River, Kingsmill Resort,

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A communication from the Attor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ant to law, the report of a rule entitled of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ‘‘Safety Zone; Research Vessel SIKULIAQ ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Launch, Marinette, Wisconsin’’ ((RIN1625– ‘‘Fixed and Moving Safety Zone; Around the ‘‘Safety Zone; Alliance Road Bridge Demoli- AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012–0896)) received USACE Bank Grading Units, Mat Sinking tion; Black Warrior River, Locust Fork; Bir- in the Office of the President of the Senate Unit, and the M/V Harrison and M/V William mingham, AL’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. on December 5, 2012; to the Committee on James’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG– USCG–2012–0902)) received in the Office of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 2012–0738)) received in the Office of the Presi- President of the Senate on December 5, 2012; EC–8541. A communication from the Attor- dent of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to to the Committee on Commerce, Science, ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department the Committee on Commerce, Science, and and Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Transportation. EC–8533. A communication from the Attor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–8525. A communication from the Attor- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ‘‘Safety Zone; Battle of Queenstown Heights ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Bicentennial, Niagara River, Lewiston, NY’’ of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012– ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Safety Zone; Atlantic Intracoastal Water- 0849)) received in the Office of the President ‘‘Safety Zone; Bridge Demolition Project; In- way; Oak Island, NC’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Dock- of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the diana Harbor Canal, East Chicago, Indiana’’ et No. USCG–2012–0811)) received in the Office Committee on Commerce, Science, and ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012– of the President of the Senate on December Transportation. 0904)) received in the Office of the President 5, 2012; to the Committee on Commerce, EC–8542. A communication from the Attor- of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the Science, and Transportation. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Committee on Commerce, Science, and EC–8534. A communication from the Attor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Transportation. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–8526. A communication from the Attor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ‘‘Safety Zone; America’s Cup World Series ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Finish-line, San Francisco, CA’’ ((RIN1625– of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ‘‘Safety Zone; Atlantic Intracoastal Water- AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012–0884)) received ant to law, the report of a rule entitled way; Carolina Beach, NC’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) in the Office of the President of the Senate ‘‘Safety Zone; 2012 Head of the South Re- (Docket No. USCG–2012–0741)) received in the on December 5, 2012; to the Committee on gatta, Savannah River, Augusta, GA’’ Office of the President of the Senate on De- Commerce, Science, and Transportation. ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012– cember 5, 2012; to the Committee on Com- EC–8543. A communication from the Attor- 0913)) received in the Office of the President merce, Science, and Transportation. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the EC–8535. A communication from the Attor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Committee on Commerce, Science, and ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ‘‘Safety Zone; Atlantic Intracoastal Water- EC–8527. A communication from the Attor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled way; Emerald Isle, NC’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ‘‘Safety Zone; Bridge Demolition Project; In- (Docket No. USCG–2012–0812)) received in the of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- diana Harbor Canal, East Chicago, Indiana’’ Office of the President of the Senate on De- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012– cember 5, 2012; to the Committee on Com- ‘‘Safety Zone; Wounded Warriors Benefit, 0904)) received in the Office of the President merce, Science, and Transportation. Lake Erie, Huron, OH’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the EC–8544. A communication from the Attor- (Docket No. USCG–2012–0889)) received in the Committee on Commerce, Science, and ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Office of the President of the Senate on De- Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- EC–8536. A communication from the Attor- cember 5, 2012; to the Committee on Com- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department merce, Science, and Transportation. ‘‘Safety Zone; Leukemia and Lymphoma EC–8528. A communication from the Attor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Light the Night Walk Fireworks Display; ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Willamette River, Portland, OR’’ ((RIN1625– of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ‘‘Safety Zone; Large Cruise Ships; Lower AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012–0803)) received ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Mississippi River, Southwest Pass Sea Buoy in the Office of the President of the Senate ‘‘Safety Zone; Sea World San Diego Fire- to Mile Marker 96.0; New Orleans, LA’’ on December 5, 2012; to the Committee on works, Mission Bay; San Diego, CA’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2010– Commerce, Science, and Transportation. ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012– 0012)) received in the Office of the President EC–8545. A communication from the Attor- 0874)) received in the Office of the President of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Transportation. EC–8537. A communication from the Attor- EC–8529. A communication from the Attor- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ‘‘Safety Zone; Steam Ship Col. James M. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Schoonmaker Relocation Project, Maumee of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled River, Toledo, OH’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Safety Zone; Coast Guard Exercise, Hood No. USCG–2012–0939)) received in the Office of ‘‘Safety Zone; Submarine Cable Installation Canal, Washington’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket the President of the Senate on December 5, Project; Chicago River, Chicago, Illinois’’ No. USCG–2012–0822)) received in the Office of 2012; to the Committee on Commerce, ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012– the President of the Senate on December 5, Science, and Transportation. 0886)) received in the Office of the President 2012; to the Committee on Commerce, EC–8546. A communication from the Attor- of the Senate on December 5, 2012; to the Science, and Transportation. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Committee on Commerce, Science, and EC–8538. A communication from the Attor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Transportation. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–8530. A communication from the Attor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ‘‘Safety Zone; Cooper T. Smith Fireworks ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Event; Mobile River; Mobile, AL’’ ((RIN1625– of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ‘‘Safety Zone; Oregon City Bridge Grand AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012–0869)) received ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Opening Fireworks Display; Willamette in the Office of the President of the Senate ‘‘Safety Zone, Changes to Original Rule; Bos- River, Oregon City, OR’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) on December 5, 2012; to the Committee on ton Harbor’s Rock Removal Project, Boston (Docket No. USCG–2012–0805)) received in the Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Inner Harbor, Boston, MA’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) Office of the President of the Senate on De- f (Docket No. USCG–2012–0767)) received in the cember 5, 2012; to the Committee on Com- Office of the President of the Senate on De- merce, Science, and Transportation. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND cember 5, 2012; to the Committee on Com- EC–8539. A communication from the Attor- JOINT RESOLUTIONS merce, Science, and Transportation. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department The following bills and joint resolu- EC–8531. A communication from the Attor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- tions were introduced, read the first ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ant to law, the report of a rule entitled of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ‘‘Safety Zone; DeStefano Wedding Fireworks and second times by unanimous con- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Display, Patchogue Bay, Patchogue, NY’’ sent, and referred as indicated: ‘‘Safety Zone; Water Main Crossing; ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2012– By Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself and Mr. Choctawhatchee Bay; Santa Rosa Beach, 0571)) received in the Office of the President CORNYN):

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:48 Dec 11, 2012 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10DE6.020 S10DEPT1 PWALKER on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with December 10, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7703 S. 3667. A bill to rename section 219(c) of RUBIO) was added as a cosponsor of S. of the home because of family respon- the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as the Kay 1880, a bill to repeal the health care sibilities. And women are more likely Bailey Hutchison Spousal IRA; to the Com- law’s job-killing health insurance tax. to work in jobs that don’t have a pen- mittee on Finance. By Mr. TOOMEY (for himself and Mr. S. 3636 sion. CASEY): At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, When Senator HUTCHISON joined the S. 3668. A bill to require a study on the the name of the Senator from Pennsyl- Senate in 1993, she came to me to sign Bradley Fighting Vehicle industrial base; to vania (Mr. CASEY) was added as a co- on as the lead Democratic sponsor for the Committee on Armed Services. sponsor of S. 3636, a bill to provide in- her idea to help women save for retire- f creased consumer protections for gift ment. Together we worked to build SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND cards. support for this bill and after 3 years SENATE RESOLUTIONS f and 62 cosponsors, the Spousal IRA bill became the law of the land. The following concurrent resolutions STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED Suddenly, women weren’t limited to and Senate resolutions were read, and BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS $250, they could put away $2,000. All referred (or acted upon), as indicated: By Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself women—single, married, working out- By Mr. CASEY (for himself, Mr. and Mr. CORNYN): side the home, or working at home— TOOMEY, Mr. REID, Mr. MCCONNELL, S. 3667. A bill to rename section could set aside the same amount for re- Mr. AKAKA, Mr. ALEXANDER, Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BAUCUS, 219(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of tirement. Over time, that amount has Mr. BEGICH, Mr. BENNET, Mr. BINGA- 1986 as the Kay Bailey Hutchison grown, and so it is not $2,000, but it can MAN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BLUNT, Spousal IRA; to the Committee on Fi- be $2,500 or $3,000 or $5,000, depending Mr. BOOZMAN, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. BROWN nance. on a woman’s age. of Massachusetts, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I rise This law is important because it re- Mr. BURR, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. to introduce legislation to rename the flects the values of our nation, it re- CARDIN, Mr. CARPER, Mr. CHAMBLISS, section of the tax code that is cur- wards good parenting and families, and Mr. COATS, Mr. COBURN, Mr. COCHRAN, rently known as the ‘‘Spousal IRA’’ so Ms. COLLINS, Mr. CONRAD, Mr. COONS, it recognizes that not all work is done Mr. CORKER, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. CRAPO, that it carries the name of its cham- in the marketplace. American families Mr. DEMINT, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ENZI, pion—my friend and colleague from feel the pressure from all sides, paying Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. FRANKEN, Mrs. Texas—Senator KAY BAILEY for their children’s education, their GILLIBRAND, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. GRASS- HUTCHISON. homes, taking care of elderly parents, LEY, Mrs. HAGAN, Mr. HARKIN, Mr. Senator HUTCHISON has been an ex- and being prepared for unforeseen HATCH, Mr. HELLER, Mr. HOEVEN, cellent partner to work with on the emergency medical care costs. What Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. Commerce, Justice, and Science sub- INOUYE, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. JOHANNS, the Spousal IRA law finally said was, committee watching over the nation’s Mr. JOHNSON of Wisconsin, Mr. JOHN- ‘‘Moms and dads are struggling to do SON of South Dakota, Mr. KERRY, Mr. checkbook for investments in research, the right thing for their family, and KIRK, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. KOHL, Mr. discovery, innovation, and law enforce- they should not be penalized for stay- KYL, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. LAUTENBERG, ment. We have sought to find the sen- ing at home.’’ Mr. LEAHY, Mr. LEE, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. sible center in addressing issues like Earlier this year, an interviewer on LIEBERMAN, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. MANCHIN, cancer research, building a balanced PBS asked Senator HUTCHISON what Mr. MCCAIN, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. space program at NASA, and most re- she’s most proud of in her Senate ca- MENENDEZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Ms. MIKUL- cently—on legislation to stop inmates SKI, Mr. MORAN, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mrs. reer, and she said the Spousal IRA. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, from using cell phones in prison. Senator HUTCHISON has a lot to be Mr. NELSON of Florida, Mr. PAUL, Mr. Senator HUTCHISON must be recog- proud of, but we must recognize her PORTMAN, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. REED, Mr. nized for her long-standing advocacy work in fixing federal policy to help RISCH, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. ROCKE- for women. Her advocacy has been women save for retirement. We should FELLER, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. steadfast. We have worked together on amend the tax code so that women in SCHUMER, Mr. SESSIONS, Mrs. SHA- the women’s health agenda. We have America know that they’re benefitting HEEN, Mr. SHELBY, Ms. SNOWE, Ms. mammogram standards in this country from the Kay Bailey Hutchison Spousal STABENOW, Mr. TESTER, Mr. THUNE, because of the Hutchison-Mikulski Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. UDALL of IRA. amendment. We have helped with New Mexico, Mr. VITTER, Mr. WAR- f NER, Mr. WEBB, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. breast cancer research funding because WICKER, and Mr. WYDEN): we have worked together, and I could SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS S. Res. 612. A resolution honoring the life give example after example. and legacy of the Honorable Arlen Specter, But what I rise to discuss today is distinguished former Senator for the Com- the very first issue that Senator SENATE RESOLUTION 612—HON- monwealth of Pennsylvania; considered and ORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY agreed to. HUTCHISON and I took on together—ex- panding the availability of Individual OF THE HONORABLE ARLEN f Retirement Accounts, IRAs, for SPECTER, DISTINGUISHED ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS spouses who work at home. Along with FORMER SENATOR FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL- Senator KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, I am S. 82 VANIA At the request of Mr. JOHANNS, the the author of the Spousal IRA bill. name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. I have always said that one of my Mr. CASEY (for himself, Mr. TOOMEY, MORAN) was added as a cosponsor of S. principles is to listen to the people and Mr. REID of Nevada, Mr. MCCONNELL, 82, a bill to repeal the sunset of the the stories of their lives. My best ideas Mr. AKAKA, Mr. ALEXANDER, Ms. Economic Growth and Tax Relief Rec- come from the people. The Spousal IRA AYOTTE, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BAUCUS, onciliation Act of 2001 with respect to bill was one of those kinds of ideas. Mr. BEGICH, Mr. BENNET, Mr. BINGA- the expansion of the adoption credit This bill was a product of Senator MAN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. and adoption assistance programs, to HUTCHISON’s personal experience before BOOZMAN, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. BROWN of repeal the sunset of the Patient Pro- joining the Senate. After putting aside Massachusetts, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. tection and Affordable Care Act with money for her retirement as a single BURR, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. respect to increased dollar limitations working woman, Senator HUTCHISON CARPER, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. COATS, for such credit and programs, and to found that she could only put aside $250 Mr. COBURN, Mr. COCHRAN, Ms. COLLINS, allow the adoption credit to be claimed in an IRA once she married her hus- Mr. CONRAD, Mr. COONS, Mr. CORKER, in the year expenses are incurred, re- band. Mr. CORNYN, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. DEMINT, gardless of when the adoption becomes This kind of policy, that discouraged Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ENZI, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, final. women from saving for retirement, was Mr. FRANKEN, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. S. 1880 completely backwards. Women tend to GRAHAM, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mrs. HAGAN, At the request of Mr. BARRASSO, the live longer than men. Women are more Mr. HARKIN, Mr. HATCH, Mr. HELLER, name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. likely to take years off of work outside Mr. HOEVEN, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr.

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MANCHIN, Mr. MCCAIN, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Whereas Arlen Specter returned to Phila- (5) DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES.—The term ‘‘de- Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Ms. MI- delphia after his Senate career and taught as velopment agencies’’ includes the Depart- KULSKI, Mr. MORAN, Ms. MURKOWSKI, a Visiting Professor of Law at the University ment of State, the United States Agency for Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, of Pennsylvania Law School; and International Development (USAID), the Mr. NELSON of Florida, Mr. PAUL, Mr. Whereas Arlen Specter passed away on Oc- Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), tober 14, 2012, and is survived by his wife the Overseas Private Investment Corpora- PORTMAN, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. REED of Joan, his sister Shirley Kety, his sons Ste- tion (OPIC), the United States Trade and De- Rhode Island, Mr. RISCH, Mr. ROBERTS, phen and Shanin, and 4 grandchildren: Now, velopment Agency (USTDA), the United Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. therefore, be it States Department of Agriculture (USDA), SANDERS, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SESSIONS, Resolved, That— and relevant multilateral development Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. SHELBY, Ms. SNOWE, (1) the Senate— banks. Ms. STABENOW, Mr. TESTER, Mr. THUNE, (A) expresses profound sorrow at the death (6) TRADE POLICY STAFF COMMITTEE.—The Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. UDALL of of the Honorable Arlen Specter, former Sen- term ‘‘Trade Policy Staff Committee’’ means New Mexico, Mr. VITTER, Mr. WARNER, ator for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the Trade Policy Staff Committee estab- (B) conveys the condolences of the Senate lished pursuant to section 2002.2 of title 15, Mr. WEBB, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. to the family of Arlen Specter; and Code of Federal Regulations, and is com- WICKER, and Mr. WYDEN) submitted the (C) respectfully requests the Secretary of posed of representatives of Federal agencies following resolution; which was consid- the Senate to transmit a copy of this resolu- in charge of developing and coordinating ered and agreed to: tion to the House of Representatives and the United States positions on international S. RES. 612 family of Arlen Specter; and trade and trade-related investment issues. Whereas the Honorable Arlen Specter was (2) when the Senate adjourns today, it (7) MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS.— born on February 12, 1930, in Wichita, Kan- stands adjourned as a further mark of re- The term ‘‘multilateral development banks’’ sas; spect to the memory of Arlen Specter. has the meaning given that term in section Whereas Arlen Specter earned a Bachelor f 1701(c)(4) of the International Financial In- of Arts degree in international relations stitutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r(c)(4)) and in- from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND cludes the African Development Foundation. and a Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law PROPOSED (8) SUB-SAHARAN REGION.—The term ‘‘sub- School in 1956; Saharan region’’ refers to the 49 countries SA 3311. Mr. DURBIN submitted an amend- listed in section 107 of the African Growth Whereas Arlen Specter served in the Air ment intended to be proposed by him to the Force during the Korean War, obtaining the and Opportunity Act (19 U.S.C. 3706) and in- bill S. 3637, to temporarily extend the trans- cludes the Republic of South Sudan. rank of Second Lieutenant in the Air Force action account guarantee program, and for Office of Special Investigations; (9) TRADE PROMOTION COORDINATING COM- other purposes; which was ordered to lie on MITTEE.—The term ‘‘Trade Promotion Co- Whereas Arlen Specter served the people of the table. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Assistant ordinating Committee’’ means the Trade District Attorney from 1959 to 1964 and as f Promotion Coordinating Committee estab- lished by Executive Order 12870 (58 Fed. Reg. District Attorney from 1965 to 1974; TEXT OF AMENDMENTS Whereas Arlen Specter was recommended 51753). to serve as assistant counsel on the Presi- SA 3311. Mr. DURBIN submitted an (10) UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COMMER- dent’s Commission on the Assassination of amendment intended to be proposed by CIAL SERVICE.—The term ‘‘United States and President Kennedy in 1964, and he estab- him to the bill S. 3637, to temporarily Foreign Commercial Service’’ means the lished conclusions central to the report of United States and Foreign Commercial Serv- extend the transaction account guar- ice established by section 2301 of the Export the Commission; antee program, and for other purposes; Whereas Arlen Specter served with distinc- Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4721). which was ordered to lie on the table. tion as a Senator from the Commonwealth of SEC. 204. STRATEGY. Pennsylvania for 3 decades, first elected in On page 4, after line 20, add the following: (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 1980, then reelected in 1986, 1992, 1998, and TITLE II—INCREASING AMERICAN JOBS after the date of the enactment of this Act, 2004; THROUGH GREATER EXPORTS TO AFRICA Whereas, as a member and the Chairman of the President shall establish a comprehen- SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE. the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and sive United States strategy for public and This title may be cited as the ‘‘Increasing Human Services, Education, and Related private investment, trade, and development American Jobs Through Greater Exports to Agencies of the Committee on Appropria- in Africa. Africa Act of 2012’’. tions of the Senate, Arlen Specter worked in (b) FOCUS OF STRATEGY.—The strategy re- a bipartisan fashion to highlight the impact SEC. 202. PURPOSE. quired by subsection (a) shall focus on— of specific diseases and to advance support The purpose of this title is to create jobs in (1) increasing exports of United States for medical research and high-quality health the United States by expanding programs goods and services to Africa by 200 percent in care; that will result in increasing United States real dollar value within 10 years from the Whereas, as a member and the Chairman of exports to Africa by 200 percent in real dollar date of the enactment of this Act; the Committee on the Judiciary, Arlen Spec- value within 10 years. (2) promoting the alignment of United ter was recognized for his thorough ques- SEC. 203. DEFINITIONS. States commercial interests with develop- tioning and presided over the confirmation In this title: ment priorities in Africa; hearings of 2 Justices of the Supreme Court; (1) AFRICA.—The term ‘‘Africa’’ refers to (3) developing relationships between the Whereas, as a Senator, Arlen Specter the entire continent of Africa and its 54 governments of countries in Africa and served as the Chairman of the Select Com- countries, including the Republic of South United States businesses that have an exper- mittee on Intelligence of the Senate from Sudan. tise in such issues as infrastructure develop- 1995 to 1997, and as the Chairman of the Com- (2) AFRICAN DIASPORA.—The term ‘‘African ment, technology, telecommunications, en- mittee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate diaspora’’ means the people of African origin ergy, and agriculture; from 1997 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2005; living in the United States, irrespective of (4) improving the competitiveness of Whereas, as a Senator, Arlen Specter fur- their citizenship and nationality, who are United States businesses in Africa, including ther served as a member of the Committee willing to contribute to the development of the role the African diaspora can play in en- on Appropriations of the Senate, the Com- Africa. hancing such competitiveness; mittee on Environment and Public Works of (3) AGOA.—The term ‘‘AGOA’’ means the (5) exploring ways that African diaspora the Senate, and the Special Committee on African Growth and Opportunity Act (19 remittances can help communities in Africa Aging of the Senate; U.S.C. 3701 et seq.). tackle economic, development, and infra- Whereas Arlen Specter was admired for his (4) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT- structure financing needs; independent decisionmaking and willingness TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional (6) promoting economic integration in Af- to cross party lines; committees’’ means— rica through working with the subregional Whereas Arlen Specter introduced the (A) the Committee on Appropriations, the economic communities, supporting efforts Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban for deeper integration through the develop- 2006 (S. 2611, 109th Congress) and achieved bi- Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Rela- ment of customs unions within western and

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TRADE MISSION TO AFRICA. in Africa, to strengthen and expand the pri- among United States business and financial It is the sense of Congress that, not later vate sector in Africa, and to facilitate the communities of the opportunities Africa than 1 year after the date of the enactment general economic development of Africa, holds for United States exports; and of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce and with a particular focus on helping United (8) monitoring— other high-level officials of the United States businesses expand into African mar- (A) market loan rates and the availability States Government with responsibility for kets. of capital for United States business invest- export promotion, financing, and develop- (2) REPORT.—The Corporation shall report ment in Africa; ment should conduct a joint trade mission to to the appropriate congressional committees (B) loan rates offered by the governments Africa. on whether recent technology upgrades have of other countries for investment in Africa; SEC. 207. PERSONNEL. resulted in more effective and efficient proc- and (a) UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COMMER- essing and tracking of applications for fi- (C) the policies of other countries with re- CIAL SERVICE.— nancing received by the Corporation. (d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in spect to export financing for investment in (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Com- Africa that are predatory or distort markets. merce shall ensure that not less than 12 total this section shall be construed as permitting (c) CONSULTATIONS.—In developing the United States and Foreign Commercial Serv- the reduction of Department of Commerce, strategy required by subsection (a), the ice officers are assigned to Africa for each of Department of State, Export Import Bank, President shall consult with— the first 5 fiscal years beginning after the or Overseas Private Investment Corporation (1) Congress; date of the enactment of this Act. personnel or the alteration of planned per- sonnel increases in other regions, except (2) each agency that is a member of the (2) ASSIGNMENT.—The Secretary shall, in Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee; consultation with the Trade Promotion Co- where a personnel decrease was previously (3) the relevant multilateral development ordinating Committee and the Special Africa anticipated or where decreased export oppor- banks, in coordination with the Secretary of Export Strategy Coordinator, assign the tunities justify personnel reductions. the Treasury and the respective United United States and Foreign Commercial Serv- SEC. 208. TRAINING. States Executive Directors of such banks; ice officers described in paragraph (1) to The President shall develop a plan— (4) each agency that participates in the United States embassies in Africa after con- (1) to standardize the training received by Trade Policy Staff Committee; ducting a timely resource allocation anal- United States and Foreign Commercial Serv- (5) the President’s National Export Coun- ysis that represents a forward-looking as- ice officers, economic officers of the Depart- cil; sessment of future United States trade op- ment of State, and economic officers of the (6) each of the development agencies; portunities in Africa. United States Agency for International De- (7) any other Federal agencies with respon- (3) MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS.— velopment with respect to the programs and sibility for export promotion or financing (A) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable procedures of the Export-Import Bank of the and development; and after the date of the enactment of this Act, United States, the Overseas Private Invest- (8) the private sector, including businesses, the Secretary of Commerce shall assign not ment Corporation, the Small Business Ad- nongovernmental organizations, and African less than 1 full-time United States and For- ministration, and the United States Trade diaspora groups. eign Commercial Service officer to the office and Development Agency; and (d) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.— of the United States Executive Director at (2) to ensure that, not later than 1 year (1) STRATEGY.—Not later than 180 days the World Bank and the African Develop- after the date of the enactment of this Act— after the date of the enactment of this Act, ment Bank. (A) all United States and Foreign Commer- the President shall submit to Congress the (B) RESPONSIBILITIES.—Each United States cial Service officers that are stationed over- strategy required by subsection (a). and Foreign Commercial Service officer as- seas receive the training described in para- (2) PROGRESS REPORT.—Not later than 3 signed under subparagraph (A) shall be re- graph (1); and years after the date of the enactment of this sponsible for— (B) in the case of a country to which no Act, the President shall submit to Congress (i) increasing the access of United States United States and Foreign Commercial Serv- a report on the implementation of the strat- businesses to procurement contracts with ice officer is assigned, any economic officer egy required by subsection (a). the multilateral development bank to which of the Department of State stationed in that (3) CONTENT OF REPORT.—The report re- the officer is assigned; and country shall receive that training. quired by paragraph (2) shall include an as- (ii) facilitating the access of United States SEC. 209. EXPORT-IMPORT BANK FINANCING. sessment of the extent to which the strategy businesses to risk insurance, equity invest- (a) FINANCING FOR PROJECTS IN AFRICA.— required by subsection (a)— ments, consulting services, and lending pro- (1) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of (A) has been successful in developing crit- vided by that bank. Congress that foreign export credit agencies ical analyses of policies to increase exports (b) EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED are providing non-OECD arrangement com- to Africa; STATES.—Of the amounts collected by the pliant financing in Africa, and that in order (B) has been successful in increasing the Export-Import Bank that remain after pay- to counter such actions and ensure United competitiveness of United States businesses ing the expenses the Bank is authorized to States jobs, the Export-Import Bank should in Africa; pay from such amounts for administrative provide timely financing to meet such terms, (C) has been successful in creating jobs in expenses, the Bank shall use sufficient funds as appropriate. the United States, including the nature and to do the following: (2) IN GENERAL.—Section 6(a) of the Export- sustainability of such jobs; (1) Increase the number of staff dedicated Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635e(a)) is (D) has provided sufficient United States to expanding business development for Afri- amended by adding at the end the following: Government support to meet third country ca, including increasing the number of busi- ‘‘(4) PERCENT OF FINANCING TO BE USED FOR competition in the region; ness development trips the Bank conducts to PROJECTS IN AFRICA.—The Bank shall, to the (E) has been successful in helping the Afri- Africa and the amount of time staff spends extent that there are acceptable final appli- can diaspora in the United States participate in Africa to meet the goals set forth in sec- cations, increase the amount it finances to in economic growth in Africa; tion 209 and paragraph (4) of section 6(a) of Africa over the prior year’s financing for (F) has been successful in promoting eco- the Export-Import Bank of 1945, as added by each of the first five fiscal years beginning nomic integration in Africa; and section 209(a)(2). after the date of the enactment of the In- (G) has made a meaningful contribution to (2) Maintain an appropriate number of em- creasing American Jobs Through Greater Ex- the transformation of Africa and its full in- ployees of the Bank assigned to United ports to Africa Act of 2012.’’. tegration into the 21st century world econ- States field offices of the Bank to be distrib- (3) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after omy, not only as a supplier of primary prod- uted as geographically appropriate through the date of the enactment of this Act, and ucts but also as full participant in inter- the United States. Such offices shall coordi- annually thereafter for 5 years, the Export- national supply and distribution chains and nate with the related export efforts under- Import Bank shall report to the Committee as a consumer of international goods and taken by the Small Business Administration on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the services. regional field offices. Committee on Foreign Relations, and the SEC. 205. SPECIAL AFRICA STRATEGY COORDI- (3) Upgrade the Bank’s equipment and soft- Committee on Appropriations of the Senate NATOR. ware to more expeditiously, effectively, and and the Committee on Financial Services, The President shall designate an individual efficiently process and track applications for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the to serve as Special Africa Export Strategy financing received by the Bank. Committee on Appropriations of the House Coordinator— (c) OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT COR- of Representatives if the Bank has not used (1) to oversee the development and imple- PORATION.— at least 10 percent of its lending capabilities mentation of the strategy required by sec- (1) STAFFING.—Of the net offsetting collec- for projects in Africa as described in para- tion 204; and tions collected by the Overseas Private In- graph (4) of section 6(a) of the Export-Import

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:48 Dec 11, 2012 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10DE6.026 S10DEPT1 PWALKER on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with S7706 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 10, 2012 Bank of 1945, as added by paragraph (2). The consent that Jeanette Quick, a detailee The assistant legislative clerk read report shall include the reasons why the on his committee staff, be granted the as follows: Bank failed to reach this goal and a descrip- privilege of the floor for the duration A resolution (S. Res. 612) honoring the life tion of all final applications for projects in and legacy of the Honorable Arlen Specter, Africa that were deemed unworthy of Bank of S. 3637. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- distinguished former Senator for the Com- support. monwealth of Pennsylvania. (b) AVAILABILITY OF PORTION OF CAPITAL- pore. Without objection, it is so or- IZATION TO COMPETE AGAINST FOREIGN dered. There being no objection, the Senate CONCESSIONAL LOANS.— f proceeded to consider the resolution. (1) IN GENERAL.—The Bank shall make Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I available annually such amounts as are nec- UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREE- ask unanimous consent that the reso- essary for loans that counter trade dis- MENT—EXECUTIVE CALENDAR lution be agreed to, the preamble be torting non-OECD arrangement compliant fi- Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I agreed to, the motions to reconsider be nancing or preferential, tied aid, or other re- ask unanimous consent that at a time laid upon the table, with no inter- lated non-market loans offered by other na- vening action or debate, and that any tions for which United States companies are to be determined by the majority lead- also competing or interested in competing. er, in consultation with the Republican statements related to the resolution be (2) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after leader, the Senate proceed to executive printed in the RECORD. the date of the enactment of this Act, and session to consider the following nomi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without annually thereafter for 5 years, the Export- nations: Calendar Nos. 762 and 829; that objection, it is so ordered. Import Bank shall report to the Committee there be 30 minutes for debate equally The resolution (S. Res. 612) was on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the divided in the usual form; that fol- agreed to. Committee on Foreign Relations, and the The preamble was agreed to. Committee on Appropriations of the Senate lowing the use or yielding back of The resolution, with its preamble, and the Committee on Financial Services, time, the Senate proceed to vote with- reads as follows: the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the out intervening action or debate on S. RES. 612 Committee on Appropriations of the House Calendar Nos. 762 and 829 in that order; Whereas the Honorable Arlen Specter was of Representatives if the Bank has not used the motions to reconsider be consid- at least $250,000,000 annually for loans that born on February 12, 1930, in Wichita, Kan- ered made and laid upon the table, with sas; counter non-OECD arrangement compliant no intervening action or debate; that financing offered by other nations to its Whereas Arlen Specter earned a Bachelor firms, as described in paragraph (1). The re- no further motions be in order; that of Arts degree in international relations port shall not disclose any information that any related statements be printed in from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 is confidential or business proprietary, or the RECORD; that the President be im- and a Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law that would violate section 1905 of title 18, mediately notified of the Senate’s ac- School in 1956; United States Code (commonly referred to as tion, and that the Senate then resume Whereas Arlen Specter served in the Air Force during the Korean War, obtaining the the ‘‘Trade Secrets Act’’). The report shall legislative session. include— rank of Second Lieutenant in the Air Force The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Office of Special Investigations; (A) a description of trade distorting non- objection, it is so ordered. OECD arrangement compliant financing Whereas Arlen Specter served the people of loans made by other countries during that f Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Assistant fiscal year to firms that competed against District Attorney from 1959 to 1964 and as MARCH OF DIMES COMMEMORA- District Attorney from 1965 to 1974; United States firms; TIVE COIN ACT OF 2012 (B) a description of any similar completed Whereas Arlen Specter was recommended applications from United States firms that Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I to serve as assistant counsel on the Presi- were denied by the Bank and the reason for ask unanimous consent that the Sen- dent’s Commission on the Assassination of such denial; and ate proceed to the immediate consider- President Kennedy in 1964, and he estab- (C) a description of any completed applica- ation of H.R. 3187, which was received lished conclusions central to the report of tions for tied aid that were denied for financ- the Commission; from the House and is at the desk. Whereas Arlen Specter served with distinc- ing by the Bank and an explanation of why The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the applications were denied. tion as a Senator from the Commonwealth of clerk will report the bill by title. Pennsylvania for 3 decades, first elected in SEC. 210. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. The assistant legislative clerk read Section 22(b) of the Small Business Act (15 1980, then reelected in 1986, 1992, 1998, and U.S.C. 649(b)) is amended— as follows: 2004; (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), A bill (H.R. 3187) to require the Secretary Whereas, as a member and the Chairman of by inserting ‘‘the Trade Promotion Coordi- of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and nating Committee,’’ after ‘‘Director of the and celebration of the 75th anniversary of Human Services, Education, and Related United States Trade and Development Agen- the establishment of the March of Dimes Agencies of the Committee on Appropria- cy,’’; and Foundation. tions of the Senate, Arlen Specter worked in (2) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘regional There being no objection, the Senate a bipartisan fashion to highlight the impact offices of the Export-Import Bank,’’ after proceeded to consider the bill. of specific diseases and to advance support ‘‘Retired Executives,’’. for medical research and high-quality health Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I care; SEC. 211. BILATERAL, SUBREGIONAL AND RE- ask unanimous consent that the bill be GIONAL, AND MULTILATERAL Whereas, as a member and the Chairman of AGREEMENTS. read three times and passed, the mo- the Committee on the Judiciary, Arlen Spec- Where applicable, the President shall ex- tion to reconsider be laid upon the ter was recognized for his thorough ques- plore opportunities to negotiate bilateral, table, with no intervening action or de- tioning and presided over the confirmation subregional, and regional agreements that bate, and that any statements related hearings of 2 Justices of the Supreme Court; encourage trade and eliminate nontariff bar- to the bill be printed in the RECORD. Whereas, as a Senator, Arlen Specter riers to trade between countries, such as ne- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without served as the Chairman of the Select Com- gotiating investor friendly double-taxation objection, it is so ordered. mittee on Intelligence of the Senate from treaties and investment promotion agree- 1995 to 1997, and as the Chairman of the Com- ments. United States negotiators in multi- The bill (H.R. 3187) was ordered to a mittee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate lateral forum should take into account the third reading, was read the third time, from 1997 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2005; objectives of this title. To the extent any and passed. Whereas, as a Senator, Arlen Specter fur- such agreements exist between the United f ther served as a member of the Committee States and an African country, the President on Appropriations of the Senate, the Com- shall ensure that the agreement is being im- HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY mittee on Environment and Public Works of plemented in a manner that maximizes the OF THE HONORABLE ARLEN the Senate, and the Special Committee on positive effects for United States trade, ex- SPECTER Aging of the Senate; port, and labor interests as well as the eco- Whereas Arlen Specter was admired for his nomic development of the countries in Afri- Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Sen- independent decisionmaking and willingness ca. to cross party lines; f ate proceed to the consideration of S. Whereas Arlen Specter introduced the Res. 612 submitted earlier today. PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 2006 (S. 2611, 109th Congress) and achieved bi- Mr. REID. Mr. President, on behalf of clerk will report the resolution by partisan support and passage for the bill in Senator TIM JOHNSON, I ask unanimous title. the Senate on May 25, 2006;

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:48 Dec 11, 2012 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10DE6.026 S10DEPT1 PWALKER on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with December 10, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7707 Whereas Arlen Specter advocated both for the late Senator Arlen Specter of DENTAL CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND 3064: strong national security measures and the Pennsylvania. maintenance of civil liberties; There being no objection, the Senate, To be colonel Whereas Arlen Specter valiantly overcame at 6 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, De- DEEPTI S. CHITNIS bouts with brain tumors and cancer during DANIEL J. CONVEY cember 11, 2012, at 10 a.m. ROBERT L. CRONYN his service in the United States Senate; DANIEL D. DUNHAM Whereas Arlen Specter returned to Phila- f ALEX EKE delphia after his Senate career and taught as MARK W. FAGAN NOMINATIONS CHRISTENSEN HSU a Visiting Professor of Law at the University DOUGLAS D. LANCASTER of Pennsylvania Law School; and Executive nominations received by KENNETH L. MARQUARDT Whereas Arlen Specter passed away on Oc- the Senate: GEORGE QUIROA TARNJIT SAINI tober 14, 2012, and is survived by his wife NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES DAVID C. SCHLENKER Joan, his sister Shirley Kety, his sons Ste- TIMOTHY HYUNGROCK HAAHS, OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO STEVEN R. TURNER phen and Shanin, and 4 grandchildren: Now, BE A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NA- STEPHEN WOLPERT therefore, be it TIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES FOR A TERM GIA K. YI EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 7, 2014, VICE MORGAN EDWARDS, THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT Resolved, That— TERM EXPIRED. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY (1) the Senate— HARRY S TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION VETERINARY CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS (A) expresses profound sorrow at the death 624 AND 3064: MICHAEL WAYNE HAIL, OF KENTUCKY, TO BE A MEM- of the Honorable Arlen Specter, former Sen- BER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE HARRY S TRU- To be major ator for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; MAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION FOR A TERM EXPIRING KARIN R. BILYARD (B) conveys the condolences of the Senate DECEMBER 10, 2017, VICE SHARON TUCKER, TERM EX- ERIN E. BROWN PIRED. to the family of Arlen Specter; and DIANE E. COLLETTE MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION JUSTIN C. DEVANNA (C) respectfully requests the Secretary of SARAH L. EASTERSTRAYER the Senate to transmit a copy of this resolu- MORTON H. HALPERIN, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, SARA B. EMANUEL tion to the House of Representatives and the TO BE A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE JAMES E. JOHNSON, JR. MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION FOR A TERM OF REID H. KATAGIHARA family of Arlen Specter; and THREE YEARS, VICE ALAN J. PATRICOF, TERM EXPIRING. RICHARD KELLY III (2) when the Senate adjourns today, it IN THE AIR FORCE SANG H. LEE stands adjourned as a further mark of re- AMANDA MCGUIRE THE FOLLOWING NAMED AIR NATIONAL GUARD OF THE JESSICA L. MOREHOUSE spect to the memory of Arlen Specter. UNITED STATES OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT AS DIREC- REBECCA L. OGDEN f TOR, AIR NATIONAL GUARD, AND FOR APPOINTMENT TO JEAN V. RUBANICK THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR EMILEE C. VENN ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 601 AND 10506: JENNIFER A. VIVIANO To be lieutenant general BETHANY S. ZARNDT DECEMBER 11, 2012 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT LT. GEN. STANLEY E. CLARKE III Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE ARMY MEDICAL SPECIALIST CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., ask unanimous consent that when the SECTIONS 624 AND 3064: THE FOLLOWING ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF THE Senate completes its business today, it UNITED STATES OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE RE- To be major SERVE OF THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED UNDER adjourn until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, De- JAMES E. ANDREWS II TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: cember 11, 2012; that following the NICHOLAS D. BARRINGER To be brigadier general JOHN A. BERG prayer and pledge, the Journal of pro- BENJAMIN P. BLANKS ceedings be approved to date, the COL. MICHAEL L. SCHOLES NICOLAS D. BRADLEY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JERRY A. BRAVERMAN morning hour be deemed expired, and TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY AARON L. CALDWELL the time for the two leaders be re- UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: CHRISTOPHER B. DOMINGUEZ TRACIE T. DOMINGUEZ served for their use later in the day; To be brigadier general JOHN S. DONOUGHE that following any leader remarks, the COLONEL CHRISTOPHER S. BALLARD ERIN E. DRIVER COLONEL DAVID G. BASSETT JOSEPH B. EDDINS III Senate be in a period of morning busi- COLONEL DONALD C. BOLDUC KAREN L. FISH ness for 1 hour, with Senators per- COLONEL EDWARD M. DALY KURT FOSSUM COLONEL MALCOLM B. FROST MAUREEN R. GIORIO mitted to speak therein for up to 10 COLONEL DONALD G. FRYC ALHAMBRO J. GORDON minutes each, with the time equally di- COLONEL ANTHONY C. FUNKHOUSER DANIEL J. HANKES COLONEL PETER A. GALLAGHER CHRISTOPHER L. T. HARRIS vided and controlled between the two COLONEL WILLIAM K. GAYLER JAMES A. HART leaders or their designees, with the ma- COLONEL MARK W. GILLETTE ROBERT S. HELM COLONEL DAVID B. HAIGHT MARIO A. HEREDIABLANCO jority controlling the first half and the COLONEL JOSEPH P. HARRINGTON ALEXANDRA HICKMAN Republicans controlling the final half; COLONEL MICHAEL L. HOWARD SETH R. HOLLAND COLONEL JOHN P. JOHNSON RONALD L. HOLMES, JR. that following morning business, the COLONEL JAMES E. KRAFT, JR. CARRIE W. HOPPES Senate resume consideration of the COLONEL MICHAEL E. KURILLA ERIK S. JOHNSON COLONEL PAUL J. LAUGHLIN II WAYNE M. JOHNSON motion to proceed to S. 3637, the TAG COLONEL JOSEPH M. MARTIN RYAN P. MCGILL extension legislation, with the time COLONEL TERRENCE J. MCKENRICK SHANNON L. MERKLE COLONEL CHRISTOPHER P. MCPADDEN RICHARD L. NEWPORT until 12:30 p.m. equally divided and COLONEL JOHN E. O’NEIL MATTHEW W. PERKINS controlled between the two leaders or COLONEL MARK J. O’NEIL MICHAEL A. RAMOS COLONEL ERIK C. PETERSON JENNIFER L. RIEGER their designees; further, that the Sen- COLONEL ANDREW P. POPPAS ANDREW A. SCHANO ate recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 COLONEL JAMES E. RAINEY JOSHUA H. SHEHAN COLONEL KENT D. SAVRE MICHAEL K. SINGER p.m. to allow for the weekly caucus COLONEL WILSON A. SHOFFNER, JR. TIMOTHY M. SKINNER meetings. COLONEL MARK S. SPINDLER TRINA D. ST ANN COLONEL SEAN P. SWINDELL WILLIAM S. TAYLOR The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without COLONEL RANDY S. TAYLOR LAURIS R. TRIMBLE objection, it is so ordered. COLONEL JOHN C. THOMSON III WILLIAM N. VASIOS COLONEL LEON N. THURGOOD JOHN J. WALKER f COLONEL FLEM B. WALKER, JR. CRAIGREON L. WALLACE COLONEL ROBERT P. WALTERS, JR. PATRICK S. WALSH PROGRAM IN THE MARINE CORPS JOSHUA D. WALTERS RICHARD B. WESTRICK Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT JARED N. WILLIAMSON TO THE GRADE OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL IN THE HAROLD YU at 2:15 p.m. tomorrow, there will be a UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS WHILE ASSIGNED TO A D011597 cloture vote on the motion to proceed POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER D011325 TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: to S. 3637, the TAG extension legisla- D010617 To be lieutenant general THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT tion. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY LT. GEN. RICHARD T. TRYON MEDICAL CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 f IN THE NAVY AND 3064: ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT To be colonel TOMORROW IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED JACOB W. AARONSON UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: EDWARD H. BAILEY Mr. BLUMENTHAL. If there is no To be rear admiral JOHN S. BIRCHFIELD further business to come before the JOHN A. BOJESCUL REAR ADM. (LH) RANDOLPH L. MAHR MARK C. BROWN Senate, I ask unanimous consent that IN THE ARMY CLAUDE A. BURNETT it adjourn under the provisions of S. BENJAMIN B. CABLE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT YONG U. CHOI Res. 612 as a further mark of respect to TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY MICHAEL I. COHEN

VerDate Mar 15 2010 00:48 Dec 11, 2012 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 9801 E:\CR\FM\A10DE6.013 S10DEPT1 PWALKER on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with S7708 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 10, 2012 WILLIAM P. CRUM JEFFREY D. DOMINGUEZ To be major ALAN W. DAVIS SARAH D. ECCLESTON BART M. DIAZ ERICA M. ERICKSON LOVIE L. ABRAHAM KEVIN M. DOUGLAS EMILIANA ESCUETA KIMBERLY D. ALSTON ANDREW E. DOYLE MARIANN R. FARK AARON R. ANDERSON GARY J. DROUILLARD VERONICA S. FAYERWEATHER JASON E. ANDERSON PETER M. DUNAWAY ROBERT A. FERNANDEZ SCOTT M. ANDERSON THOMAS G. ECCLES III RUSSELL T. FIELDS JASON M. ANTHONY JOHN A. EDWARDS CHRISTOPHER G. FREY LISA ARGO KURT D. EDWARDS WARREN S. GAMBINO AMY C. BARNES JAY C. ERICKSON KIRK C. GILES WILLIAM S. BOSLEY MINELA FERNANDEZAPONTE BARBARA A. GIVENS LYNN M. BRECKENRIDGE MICHAEL E. FREY LESLIE D. GONZALEZ DAVIN BRIDGES DONALD A. GAJEWSKI PATRINA GORDON BRUCE W. BROWN DANIEL G. GATES KRISTY L. GOULD TIMOTHY J. BURTON JAMES J. GERACCI CAROLINE E. GOURLEY ANGELA M. CARTER GEORGE R. GOODWIN, JR. KIMBERLY L. GREGORY JOHN W. CARY ANDREW C. GORSKE PATRICIA R. HALLSTEVENS KARA M. CAVE GEOFFREY G. GRAMMER KRISTINE L. HANNAH SANGDO CHOI SHARETTE K. GRAY CRYSTAL L. HANSEN ANDREW W. CHUNG JOHN GREEN III SHAYLA N. HENDERSONYOUNG CHANESE M. CLAYBORN JEFFERY P. GREENE JASMINE D. HOGAN RANDALL C. COBB MICHAEL C. HARNISCH ELIZABETH N. HOLSHOUSER OLEGARIO COSS, JR. BONNIE H. HARTSTEIN DEANNA M. HUTCHINGS DANIEL T. COULTER MATTHEW J. HEPBURN LISA M. JENKINS MICHAEL J. CRIVELLO MICHAEL W. HILLIARD MICHELLE D. JOHNSON BRAD T. CUNNINGHAM NANCY G. HOOVER NATACHA Y. JOHNSON DONALD S. DAIS DANIEL P. HSU BRIAN M. JOHNSTON NIKKI L. DAVIS THOMAS R. HUSTEAD CANDACE J. KADHIM DAVID W. DEGROOT KARIN A. JOHNSON RACHEL E. KARCHER DANIEL P. ERWIN PAUL B. KEISER IMSHIN O. KIM OSCEOLA M. EVANS WILLIAM F. KELLY CAPRICE B. KNIGHTJOHNSON CHRISTOPHER E. EVERETT BOOKER T. KING FAITH E. KULMALA PATRICK A. EVERLEY KEVIN KIRK JENNIFER KUNKEL MICHAEL D. FARJELLAH TONYA M. KRATOVIL KRISTA L. LABBE DWAN E. FIGUEROA MARKIAN G. KUNASZ MICHAEL D. LAFFERTY AARON M. FLAGG ANDREW L. LANDERS RAHUL K. LALL MYIESHA M. FREEMAN ANNA N. LEGASPI JACK E. LEWI RADAMES FUENTES STACEY D. LENT DANNY R. GARRETT KENNETH M. LIEUW MICHAEL B. LIVINGSTON JAMES B. GIDDENS ROBERT B. LIM JASMINE LOUIS CARRIE L. GRAVES CHRISTOPHER T. LITTELL AMANDA B. LOVE FRANK W. GROVER JAMIL A. MALIK BRITTANY J. LOZIER FRANCISCO I. GUMATAOTAO RICHARD G. MALISH SARA K. LUCIDO CHAD W. HALE BRYCE C. MAYS TANYA LUCKADO SARA J. HARMON JOHN P. MAZA BRIAN E. LUTZ CHRISTOPHER L. HATCHER JERRY A. MICHEL TRINA K. LYNCH JENNY R. HAYES ANGELA G. MYSLIWIEC TONYA M. MADDOX BRENT B. HAYWARD VINCENT MYSLIWIEC LOUIS M. MAGYAR MICHAEL B. HENRY JASON D. PARKER BEATRIZ MARTINEZ GLORIA J. HERNANDEZ CHARLES R. PATTAN LORRAINE D. MASSE JENNIFER R. HERNANDEZ MICHAEL A. PELZNER CINDY L. MAY JEREMY R. HERSHFIELD AARON C. PITNEY KEISHA A. MCDANIEL PAUL HESTER SHON A. REMICH CATHERINE T. MCGURK JASON L. HIPPS MATTHEW S. RICE VERONICA B. MCMORRIS SHAUNTA HOLLINGSWORTH JONATHAN D. ROEBUCK SHEILA A. MEDINA SARA J. HORAK SCOTTIE B. ROOFE MICHAEL P. MEISSEL DONOVAN L. HORTON IRENE M. ROSEN FERNANDO M. MENDEZ STEVEN J. JACKSON MICHAEL C. ROYER TONY E. MILLER ADRIAN R. JOHNSON ERIC A. SHRY JASON E. MONTGOMERY ERIK J. JOHNSON NITEN SINGH SONIA MONTIEL SHEILA M. JOHNSON MARSHALL H. SMITH CHRISTINA L. MOORE ERIN J. JOHNSONKANAPATHY CHRISTOPHER B. SOLTIS MICHAEL L. MOORE JACK D. JOHNSTON BRIAN J. SONKA RANDALL J. MURPHY MARK C. JONES THOMAS D. STARKEY DANIELLE D. NICHOLS RICCO A. JONES DEREK J. STOCKER DAVID N. NORMAN CRAIG J. KEECH STEVEN J. SVOBODA MICHELLE L. ONEILL MICHELE M. KEHRLE JOEL T. TANAKA BYRON L. OYLER THOMAS H. KENNEDY STEPHEN J. THOMAS JULIE Y. PARK HEE KIM JULIE A. TULLBERG SAMUEL PEREZ JOHN M. KIRALY JOHN J. VERGHESE JASMINE C. PETERSON BENJAMIN C. KIRKUP NICHOLAS J. VIETRI MARLYN PHILIPS KELLIE L. KNIGHT LORYKAY W. WHEELER JOHN R. REED JASON W. KRANTZ DAVID W. WOLKEN JOHNNIE R. ROBBINS DEXTER O. LAMAR THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT CHARLENE B. ROBINSON JOHN T. LAVOIE TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY LEKEISHA M. RODRIGUEZ CALEB J. LAZARRE NURSE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND SAMUEL SAMA MEGHAN C. LEARY 3064: INES C. SANCHEZ JIM R. J. MANAGBANAG To be major REGINA Y. SANDERS ELIZABETH J. MANGINI DEBORAH E. SARTORI VANESSA N. MAYOAQUINO SILAS C. ABRENICA JESSICA L. SCHWINCK THERESA R. MCDONALD FELICIA ALBRIGHT SEAN W. SHAMLIAN JAMES E. MCLIN LINDA J. ANDERSON STEPHEN A. SHEETS SEAN P. MCLOUGHLIN MARLENE ARIASREYNOSO ROBERT J. SHIPLEY JAMES A. MCWHERTER, JR. CARY J. BARRETT EDWIN N. SIMAZE BRIAN K. MILLER CARL D. BARRINGTON JASON D. SIMMONS PATRICK W. MILLER WALTER S. BAUGH DENISE R. SIMON JESSICA A. MILLOY JANALE A. BENNETT GLENN C. SIMPSON DAVID A. MOORE PRETORIA BENSON JEFFREY D. SMITH SUMMER A. MOORE JOSEPH E. BINGHAM SIMEON G. SMITH KELBY R. MOWERY RACHEL B. BLANTON DOMINIC SOLARI JERRY E. MURPHY BRIAN J. BOLTON ELLA M. STALLINGS DAVID D. NAPPER ELIZABETH M. BOWLES CHRISTINA L. STONER SILVIE L. NAVE BIENVENIDA BRITO MICHAEL J. SWANHART QUI T. NGUY NICHOLAS F. BROOKINS TANEKKIA M. TAYLORCLARK AARON NORTHUP ALLISON L. BRUNSON AUDRY M. TORRES MARK S. NORTON JOHN E. BUONORA MARCIA L. TURLEY STEVEN M. OLIVER COREY D. CAMPBELL JIMMY UDCHACHON DANIEL J. ONEILL MARIE E. CARMONA JOANA UNDERWOOD TAJUDEEN O. OTTUN BALTAZAR G. CATARROJA ALENKA VALEDOMINGUEZ CHRISTOPHER M. PAINE EDNAESTHER P. CAUSAPIN JACK C. VANLUYN LISA M. PAROZ LEILANI CESNEROS MAY J. A. VERTIDO PATRICIA H. PASSMANBEDESTANI MARGUERITTE L. CHANDLERBOONE KARA WAELTI JANET K. PAYNE EBONY C. CHATMAN DANIEL WALL ROBERT D. PETERSON TAMMY M. CHILDS JASON C. WASHINGTON DEMIETRICE L. PITTMAN THOMAS J. CLAYTON STEPHEN E. WEAVER GINGER C. PURPURA SUZANNE W. COBLEIGH LARRY L. WHEAT DONYA D. QUMAD KAITLYN M. COGAN GWENDOLYN A. WHITCOMB KENNETH M. REED LINDSEY L. COLBURN DAVID J. WILLIAMS RUSSELL D. REIZNER CHRISTINE J. CONNER JEAN L. WILLIAMS IGNACIO L. REMOLINA WILLIAM CORONA LAMIN YARBO THOMAS B. REZENTES, JR. THERESA M. CORRIGAN DEBRA M. YOUNG ELIEZEL RIVERA TAMARA D. DAVIS KEVIN M. ZEEB OWEN L. ROBERTS BENARD N. DELOACH THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT DEMECHEL Q. ROBINSON KEITH J. DENNENY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY ERIN C. ROBINSON ROBERT L. DENNIS, JR. MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SEC- LLOYD F. ROESCH III ELIZABETH A. DICAMPLI TIONS 624 AND 3064: DAVID A. ROSS

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